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* ''Series/TwoUpTwoDown'': Stan and Sheila couldn't be any more different from Jimmy and Flo if they tried: Stan is strait-laced and holds on to conventional concepts of property, whereas Jimmy is a free-spirited Anarchist-Leninist who has no problem with squatting or shoplifting; Sheila is content with a typical life in the kitchen, while Flo is more "out there" and makes her own smocks out of "special Third World material, all hand-woven, all organic, all recycled".
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* ''Series/WildCards2024'': Max is an energetic, impulsive, cheerful con artist who gets caught by the police robbing a bank but gets off with a PleaBargain to help catch other criminals. She and Col, who's a disgraced police detective, are forced to work together. Col is a more laidback, staid and dour man who's often annoyed by Max's antics, but increasingly charmed as well.
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* ''Webcomic/NoHeroes'': The two main protagonists, Katharina and Shara. The first is a mage and a scholar, comes from a rich background, tries to always keep things civil and doesn't like violence. The second was a street criminal from the big city, swears a lot, is quite confrontational and actively dislikes mages. At the start they are openly antagonistic to each other, but over time and after facing many dangers together, they grow quite close, while still being very different personalities.
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* Richard Series/{{Castle}} and Kate Beckett. He's a flippant, playboy ManChild mystery writer, she's a [[ByTheBookCop no-nonsense workaholic]] [[FairCop NYPD homicide detective]] [[BrokenBird with an unhappy past]]. They fight crime and have {{UST}}. Played with, however, in that [[HiddenDepths they're gradually revealed to have a bit more in common than they first let on]], something which only helps with the {{UST}}.

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* Richard Series/{{Castle}} Series/{{Castle|2009}} and Kate Beckett. He's a flippant, playboy ManChild mystery writer, she's a [[ByTheBookCop no-nonsense workaholic]] [[FairCop NYPD homicide detective]] [[BrokenBird with an unhappy past]]. They fight crime and have {{UST}}. Played with, however, in that [[HiddenDepths they're gradually revealed to have a bit more in common than they first let on]], something which only helps with the {{UST}}.
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* ''Manga/GoodDayToYouHowAboutAGame'': The series is about an extroverted ClassPrincess, Chise, befriending a friendless introvert, Sae, over the game of mahjong.
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** There was a two-issue arc in Franchise/SpiderMan where he was forced to team up with Loki to save the world [[spoiler: and Loki's mostly-mortal kid, who the person trying to destroy the world was possessing]]. It involved a lot of wordplay between the two masters of IShallTauntYou and despite being a hero and a villain-just-doing-something-good, it was so well-written that a lot of fans remember and like it (and post it all over the web, particularly the "chili dog scene").

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** ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'': There was a two-issue arc in Franchise/SpiderMan ''ComicBook/TheAmazingSpiderManJMichaelStraczynski'' where he was forced to team up with Loki to save the world [[spoiler: and Loki's mostly-mortal kid, who the person trying to destroy the world was possessing]]. It involved a lot of wordplay between the two masters of IShallTauntYou and despite being a hero and a villain-just-doing-something-good, it was so well-written that a lot of fans remember and like it (and post it all over the web, particularly the "chili dog scene").



** Franchise/{{Superman}} and Franchise/{{Batman}}. Superman is an alien with almost godlike powers, raised under generally modest circumstances, inspired by the strong morals taught to him by his parents, believes in setting a good example for all of mankind, and is also HappilyMarried. Batman is a badass human, a tycoon who was inspired to be a hero by the murder of his parents, believes in creating a nightmare image to scare criminals straight, and he's got relationship issues out the wazoo. They're practically the superhero GoodCopBadCop scenario, and yet they still acknowledge the other as their best friend.\\

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** Franchise/{{Superman}} ComicBook/{{Superman}} and Franchise/{{Batman}}.ComicBook/{{Batman}}. Superman is an alien with almost godlike powers, raised under generally modest circumstances, inspired by the strong morals taught to him by his parents, believes in setting a good example for all of mankind, and is also HappilyMarried. Batman is a badass human, a tycoon who was inspired to be a hero by the murder of his parents, believes in creating a nightmare image to scare criminals straight, and he's got relationship issues out the wazoo. They're practically the superhero GoodCopBadCop scenario, and yet they still acknowledge the other as their best friend.\\



** ''Franchise/GreenLantern:'' The Green Lantern Corps seems to run on this, with nearly every partnership being an odd couple of some kind. For example, the cocky follow-your-guts Hal Jordan is partnered with the methodical and analytical John Stewart, and the BoisterousBruiser Guy Gardner is partnered with either the sensitive artist Kyle Rayner or the ColdSniper John Stewart. Or there's the example of the living planet Mogo, and his partner Bzzd, a wasp.

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** ''Franchise/GreenLantern:'' ''ComicBook/GreenLantern:'' The Green Lantern Corps seems to run on this, with nearly every partnership being an odd couple of some kind. For example, the cocky follow-your-guts Hal Jordan is partnered with the methodical and analytical John Stewart, and the BoisterousBruiser Guy Gardner is partnered with either the sensitive artist Kyle Rayner or the ColdSniper John Stewart. Or there's the example of the living planet Mogo, and his partner Bzzd, a wasp.

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See also: SaltAndPepper, SiblingYinYang, PolarOppositeTwins, TomboyAndGirlyGirl, SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan, RedOniBlueOni, OppositesAttract, TwoGamersOnACouch, BadassAndChildDuo, MonsterAndTheMaiden and GleefulAndGrumpyPairing. Compare HeterosexualLifePartners. May be part of a WunzaPlot. A movie centered on their relationship is often a BuddyPicture.

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See also: SaltAndPepper, SiblingYinYang, PolarOppositeTwins, TomboyAndGirlyGirl, SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan, RedOniBlueOni, OppositesAttract, TwoGamersOnACouch, BadassAndChildDuo, MonsterAndTheMaiden and GleefulAndGrumpyPairing. Compare HeterosexualLifePartners. May be part of a WunzaPlot. A movie centered on their relationship is often a BuddyPicture.



* ''Anime/DarkerThanBlack'': The two Contractors, November 11 and April have this dynamic, especially in the dub. He is [[AnIcePerson cool]] and kind of fastidious (at least in respect to smoking) and always wears a [[BadassInANiceSuit suit]]. She is a HardDrinkingPartyGirl who dresses the part and has dyed hair. They kill people.\\
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They are also SaltAndPepper; November is currently the page picture for PhenotypeStereotype while April is black, albeit with blue hair and yellow eyes. On the other hand, they're both [[MoralityPet rather attached]] to July.

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* ''Anime/DarkerThanBlack'': The two Contractors, November 11 and April have this dynamic, especially in the dub. He is [[AnIcePerson cool]] and kind of fastidious (at least in respect to smoking) and always wears a [[BadassInANiceSuit suit]]. She is a HardDrinkingPartyGirl who dresses the part and has dyed hair. They kill people.\\
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They are also SaltAndPepper; November is currently the page picture for PhenotypeStereotype while April is black, albeit with blue hair and yellow eyes. On the other hand, they're both [[MoralityPet rather attached]] to July.



* ''Recap/BlackMirrorSanJunipero'': The brash and groovy HardDrinkingPartyGirl Kelly and the painfully awkward and shy ShrinkingViolet Yorkie become this, SaltAndPepper, TomboyAndGirlyGirl, and RedOniBlueOni all wrapped in one.

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* ''Recap/BlackMirrorSanJunipero'': The brash and groovy HardDrinkingPartyGirl Kelly and the painfully awkward and shy ShrinkingViolet Yorkie become this, SaltAndPepper, TomboyAndGirlyGirl, and RedOniBlueOni all wrapped in one.
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** ''ComicBook/RobinSeries'': Kevin Hudman is the most serious, logically minded, and academically gifted of Tim's friends, and is always with Hudson who is the most impulsive, emotionally driven, hot-headed, and least focused on his studies of Tim's friends. Their relationship is never expounded upon but the two are so joined at the hip that Ives generally introduces them to people as "Hudster" like they're inseparable enough to be introduced as a unit, and they don't contradict him.

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** ''ComicBook/RobinSeries'': ''ComicBook/{{Robin|1993}}'': Kevin Hudman is the most serious, logically minded, and academically gifted of Tim's friends, and is always with Hudson who is the most impulsive, emotionally driven, hot-headed, and least focused on his studies of Tim's friends. Their relationship is never expounded upon but the two are so joined at the hip that Ives generally introduces them to people as "Hudster" like they're inseparable enough to be introduced as a unit, and they don't contradict him.
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* ''Series/TopGear'': Jeremy Clarkson (loud, brash, and confident) and James May (quiet, pragmatic, and orderly), whose [[VitriolicBestBuds on-screen bickering]] has frequently been compared to an unhappy marriage. They're good friends, however. And when you add Richard "Hamster" Hammond to Jezza and Captain Slow on the UK version of ''Top Gear'' you have one of the greatest Odd Trios ''[[CatchPhrase ...in the world]]''.

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* ''Series/TopGear'': Jeremy Clarkson (loud, brash, and confident) and James May (quiet, pragmatic, and orderly), whose [[VitriolicBestBuds on-screen bickering]] has frequently been compared to an unhappy marriage. They're good friends, however. And when you add Richard "Hamster" Hammond to Jezza and Captain Slow on the UK version of ''Top Gear'' you have one of the greatest Odd Trios ''[[CatchPhrase ...''...in the world]]''.world''.

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* Quiet, serious, intense and usually calm Eraser Head and loud, boisterous, energetic with LargeHam shades Present Mic in ''{{Franchise/MyHeroAcademia''
* Takeo and Sunakawa from ''Manga/MyLoveStory''. Sunakawa is the typical {{Bishonen}} high schooler you hear about and see in all sorts of manga, Takeo is a big, squarely built guy whose appearance would usually be used as {{gonk}} in other manga. And those two have been friends for over 10 years. Their personalities also contrast each other, with Takeo being boisterous but naive and Suna being quiet but more perceptive.

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* Quiet, serious, intense and usually calm Eraser Head and loud, boisterous, energetic with LargeHam shades Present Mic in ''{{Franchise/MyHeroAcademia''
* Takeo and Sunakawa from
''Manga/MyLoveStory''. Sunakawa is the typical {{Bishonen}} high schooler you hear about and see in all sorts of manga, Takeo is a big, squarely built guy whose appearance would usually be used as {{gonk}} in other manga. And those two have been friends for over 10 years. Their personalities also contrast each other, with Takeo being boisterous but naive and Suna being quiet but more perceptive.

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