History Main / SmallTownRivalry

* ''[[Literature/GulliversTravels Gulliver's Travels]]'': Lilliput and Blefuscu are neighboring islands which are at war with each other over which end of an egg one should open.

-->'''Emma:''' Man, my whole life, my one goal was to avoid dying in [[HatedHometown Hatchetfield]], and... here we are.\\

* ''Podcast/WelcomeToNightVale'': Whenever the narrator talks about Desert Bluffs, he never fails to mention that it's inferior in every way to Night Vale. Even after [[MegaCorp StrexCorp]], which owns Desert Bluffs, [[spoiler: takes over Night Vale, and after Strex is defeated and Mayor Dana annexes Desert Bluffs.]]

* Dimmsdale and Brightburg in ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddparents''.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheGhostAndMollyMcgee'': Molly's hometown of Brighton is shown to have a rivalry with the town of Perfektborg and are always seeking ways to take them down a peg, whether in tourism (as seen in "The Turnip Twist") or sports (as seen in "Let's Play Turnipball!").

* UsefulNotes/{{Houston}} and [[UsefulNotes/DFWMetroplex Dallas]] in UsefulNotes/{{Texas}}.

These towns may have some FeudingFamilies, or in extreme cases, one town's name may be TheScottishTrope in the other. This trope is also commonly used to throw out the ConflictBall for a FeudEpisode.

* ''[[LightNovel/{{Slayers}} Slayers Try]]'' has Alto and Bantone exchange cannon fire every day at the same time. The cause of the war is that the rulers of these countries had a fight when they were kids.

* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kibbutz Kibbutzim]] have a tendency to have long-standing rivalries (albeit often in tongue-in-cheek) with neighbouring kibbutzim, e.g. [[http://www.myhaogen.org.il/index.php?option=com_content&task=category§ionid=24&id=98&Itemid=111 Ha'Ogen]] and [[http://www.maabarot.org.il/English/tabid/312/Default.aspx Ma'abarot]]. There also used to be a rivalry that split up a few kibbutzim based on ideological lines and political party affiliation; ironically, the resulting kibbutzim [[NonIndicativeName called themselves]] "X ''ikhúd''" ('union') and "X ''meukhád''" ('united'), historically supporting (as neither of these parties exists today) [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mapai Mapai]] and [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mapam Mapam]] respectively.

* In ''Mystery Trackers 8: Nightsville Horror'' the towns of Willowsville and Nightsville have a fairly long-standing rivalry. This presents some problems for secondary characters Sam (a Nightsville resident) and Mary (a Willowsville resident), who intend to run off together.

* In ''Series/WelcometoThatch'', the residents of Thatch are pretty appalled that Cheryl would dare date someone from Pocktown and turn her into the town pariah over it.

* Pawnee vs. Eagleton on ''Series/ParksAndRecreation''.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' episode "The Great Divide," the [[FanNickname Gaang]] mediate for two tribes (here used as the nomadic equivalent of towns, not extended families) whose conflict began over either [[KillTheMessenger a ritual courier being attacked]] or a wrongfully accused GoodSamaritan, [[RashomonPlot depending on who you ask]].

** These fictional locales had previously appeared in Spanish TV advertisements where the towns have had their respective fiesta with a huge paella, but Villabajo fails to clean the big paella dish because only Villarriba thought about buying the correct washing liquid.

* UsefulNotes/{{Houston}} and [[UsefulNotes/DFWMetroplex Dallas]] in [[EverythingIsBigInTexas Texas]].

* The two towns on either side of the wall in Creator/DrSeuss's ''The Butter Battle Book'', named so because the conflict began on how the two groups of people have differing ideas on how butter should be eaten with toast.

* ''[[{{LightNovel/Slayers}} Slayers Try]]'' has Alto and Bantone exchange cannon fire every day at the same time. The cause of the war is that the rulers of these countries had a fight when they were kids.

* In ''Bollywood/{{Lagaan}}'', two of the eventual members of the cricket team have a small town rivalry that stems from one's children pestering the other's chickens, and both being too HotBlooded to handle it reasonably. They do end up putting aside their differences for the match.

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* UsefulNotes/{{Cleveland}}, Ohio and UsefulNotes/{{Pittsburgh}}, Pennsylvania