# Characters who'll always — or never — get into a fight when they meet

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [January 2, 2009, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/characters-wholl-always-or-never-get-into-a-fight-when-they-meet/479532 "2009-01-02T00:31:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b38774/32.png) [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Attack_from_the_3rd_dimension)\
**Post date:** [January 3, 2009, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/characters-wholl-always-or-never-get-into-a-fight-when-they-meet/479532/21 "2009-01-03T23:02:09Z")

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This is going to yet again demonstrate my dorkiness, but I immediately thought:

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Wesley Crusher and Xander Harris\*\*\*\*

would hate each other, and their meeting would rapidly devolve into a slapfest.

\*(especially from the early, pre-Anyanka years)

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**Author:** ![Dan\_Norder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4af34b/32.png) [@Dan\_Norder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dan_Norder)\
**Post date:** [January 3, 2009, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/characters-wholl-always-or-never-get-into-a-fight-when-they-meet/479532/22 "2009-01-03T23:35:40Z")

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> [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](#):
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> Sort-of happened, in the 90s.
> 
> Brave & Bold Annual.
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> Co-stared Ralph Dibny & a Sam Spade-type detective.

Unless this happened multiple times, I believe you are thinking of Detective Comics, to celebrate some big milestone (big round number anniversary or issue #) of that title, with a plot celebrating when there were more detectives than just Batman in D.C.. Late '80s or early '90s.

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**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\
**Post date:** [January 3, 2009, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/characters-wholl-always-or-never-get-into-a-fight-when-they-meet/479532/23 "2009-01-03T23:59:13Z")

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> [@Miller](#):
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> Did you mean Sauron, or Saruman? Saruman seems a better rival for Elminster. For Sauron, I think you’d have to kick it up a notch to Fizban.

I meant the evil wizard dude that sent the Ring Wraiths after Frodo & Friends. I say Elminster takes him.

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**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\
**Post date:** [January 4, 2009, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/characters-wholl-always-or-never-get-into-a-fight-when-they-meet/479532/24 "2009-01-04T01:50:12Z")

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> [@Dan\_Norder](#):
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> Unless this happened multiple times, I believe you are thinking of Detective Comics, to celebrate some big milestone (big round number anniversary or issue #) of that title, with a plot celebrating when there were more detectives than just Batman in D.C.. Late '80s or early '90s.

:smack:  
Correct.  
2nd Robin also appeared.  
Moriarty descendant was the villain.

Holmes had been/still is living in a monastery in Tibet, lifespan extended by a distillation of royal bee jelly.

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