# What are some famous arch-rivals? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 28, 2008, 9:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-famous-arch-rivals/443031 "2008-03-28T09:32:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2008, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-famous-arch-rivals/443031/41 "2008-03-29T23:07:38Z")
[QUOTE=Zeldar] Auburn and Alabama. [/QUOTE] That reminds me, do sports rivalries count? If so, how about: –the New York Yankees and the Boston Red Sox –(until 1958) the New York Yankees and the Brooklyn Dodgers –the Dallas Cowboys and the Washington Redskins –Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2008, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-famous-arch-rivals/443031/42 "2008-03-29T23:41:01Z")
Hawkeye Pierce and Charles Emerson Winchester. ---
**Author:** ![fachverwirrt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/94ad74/32.png) [@fachverwirrt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fachverwirrt)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2008, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-famous-arch-rivals/443031/43 "2008-03-30T00:41:30Z")
[QUOTE=NDP] That reminds me, do sports rivalries count? If so, how about: –the New York Yankees and the Boston Red Sox –(until 1958) the New York Yankees and the Brooklyn Dodgers –the Dallas Cowboys and the Washington Redskins –Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier [/QUOTE] Cardinals and Cubs. Dodger and Giants, which rivalry followed both teams from NY to CA. ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2008, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-famous-arch-rivals/443031/44 "2008-03-30T20:24:37Z")
[QUOTE=Ronald C. Semone] Sherlock Holmes and his brother, Mycroft [/quote] Except that they got along swimmingly. Mycroft was smarter, Sherlock knew it and admitted it gracefully, and neither one cared, because they weren’t interested in doing the same kind of thing. Mycroft was the sit back, plan, and send someone else to do the dirty work. Sherlock enjoyed the dirty work; it let me be theatrical; he’d have gone crazy–well, crazier–cooped off like his older brother all the time. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2008, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-famous-arch-rivals/443031/45 "2008-03-30T20:32:03Z")
Having just started watching _The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr._ on DVD… Lord Bowler is Brisco’s arch-rival (John Bly is his arch-nemesis). ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2008, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-famous-arch-rivals/443031/46 "2008-03-30T22:48:21Z")
Elaine Benise and Sue Ellen Mishke Snoopy and the Red Baron Jimmy Kimmel and Matt Damon ---
**Author:** ![Starving\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2008, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-famous-arch-rivals/443031/47 "2008-03-30T23:09:15Z")
Perry Mason & Hamilton Burger ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2008, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-famous-arch-rivals/443031/48 "2008-03-31T03:57:29Z")
J.D. and the Janitor ---
**Author:** ![maggenpye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecc23a/32.png) [@maggenpye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/maggenpye)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2008, 8:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-famous-arch-rivals/443031/49 "2008-03-31T08:42:19Z")
Well, the Saint had [Claud Eustace Teal](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claud_Eustace_Teal); > [@](#): > > Teal’s relationship with Templar varies throughout the long-running Saint series. Sometimes they are adversaries, with Teal striving to put Templar behind bars and stop his “law-bending” crimefighting ways. Templar, in return, baits Teal frequently and in The Holy Terror goes so far as to blackmail Teal (an action that earns Templar a rare rebuke from his girlfriend and partner, Patricia Holm, in the later book, Once More the Saint). > > At other times, Teal and Templar maintain a cordial relationship bordering on friendship. Indeed, in several of the early Saint books (including The Holy Terror), Teal states outright that he would consider Templar a friend if they weren’t on the opposite sides of the law. And they both battled the ungodly and brought, or attempted to bring, justice to the masses. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2008, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-famous-arch-rivals/443031/50 "2008-04-01T13:42:54Z")
House & Tritter ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2008, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-famous-arch-rivals/443031/51 "2008-04-01T13:47:25Z")
Would a relationship based on one-sided hostility, like Salieri and Mozart in _Amadeus,_ count as arch-rivalry? ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2008, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-famous-arch-rivals/443031/52 "2008-04-01T15:04:18Z")
[QUOTE=Annie-Xmas] House & Tritter [/QUOTE] I would say House and Cuddy. Though they’re not bitter enemies, they’re constantly sparring, each one trying to get the upper hand. And House never once, as far as I could see, had a shred of respect or admiration for Tritter. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Them](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/898d66/32.png) [@The\_Them](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Them)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2008, 6:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-famous-arch-rivals/443031/53 "2008-04-09T06:16:59Z")
Luke & Darth Vader? Hunter Thompson & Richard Nixon? (yes, they were in RL, but they _expressed_ themselves through fiction) Wonder Wart-Hog & The Masked Meanie? ---
**Author:** ![Myron\_Van\_Horowitzski](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9de053/32.png) [@Myron\_Van\_Horowitzski](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Myron_Van_Horowitzski)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2008, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-famous-arch-rivals/443031/54 "2008-04-10T20:17:12Z")
Cole Richards and Max Power. ---
**Author:** ![Don\_Draper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2008, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-famous-arch-rivals/443031/55 "2008-04-10T20:37:45Z")
**Randall McMurtry** and **Nurse Ratched**. **Dorothy** and **Miss Gulch / the Wicked Witch of the West**. **Flash Gordon** and **Ming the Merciless**. **the Doctor(s)** and **the Master(s)**. **Karen Walker** and **Beverly Leslee**. **Saffy Monsoon** and **Patsy Stone**. **Betty** and **Veronica**. **Homer Simpson** and **Ned Flanders** (at least, according to Homer). **Maggie Simpson** and the **One-eyebrowed baby**. **God** and **the Devil**. ---
**Author:** ![Pazu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pazu/32/15522_2.png) [@Pazu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pazu)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2008, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-famous-arch-rivals/443031/56 "2008-04-10T20:45:29Z")
Ranma Saotome and Ryouga Hibiki in _Ranma 1/2_. OK, maybe not famous… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-famous-arch-rivals/443031.md?page=2)