On a much cruder note, in Warhammer 40K, the closest the Orks come to the concept of "friend" is "Skumgrod", or "favorite enemy".
They've been known to utterly defeat a skumgrod, and then let them go, so they can have the pleasure of fighting them again later.
Very much like duush in you list above.
For my all time pairing here, I have to go with Batman/Joker. It's been kind of screwed up by the endless continuity*, but Bob Kane tapped into something very, very powerful when he came up with the Joker, and no matter how goofy they try to make him, it still always comes through.
*As they mention at the link, even with the reboots, after 70 years, it gets kind of ridiculous that neither of them has gotten killed or crippled. But that's how Myths and Archetypes roll.
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Date: 2012-08-12 06:03 pm (UTC)They've been known to utterly defeat a skumgrod, and then let them go, so they can have the pleasure of fighting them again later.
Very much like duush in you list above.
For my all time pairing here, I have to go with Batman/Joker. It's been kind of screwed up by the endless continuity*, but Bob Kane tapped into something very, very powerful when he came up with the Joker, and no matter how goofy they try to make him, it still always comes through.
*As they mention at the link, even with the reboots, after 70 years, it gets kind of ridiculous that neither of them has gotten killed or crippled. But that's how Myths and Archetypes roll.