This troper always has someone who hates him, never for any reason. Once he ends up with them in an unbreakable lock on the floor, he doesn't quite become friends with them, but they never mess with him again. Ever.

BJJ?

In high school, one kid had something against this troper, and eventually attacked him. After the fight (such as it was), we didn't become friends, but he did become somewhat friendly toward the troper.

An emotional version of this was common in several of this troper's childhood relationships. The new kid gets treated a bit harshly to see how they react, and after the conflict is over (sometimes they fight back, sometimes they don't), they're a friend. Participating in this sort of ribbing is a sign of friendship and goodwill in itself.

Avoided by this troper (rather sociopathically, in hindsight) after a fight in high school by insisting that since his opponent was still alive, the fight was a draw rather than an outright win. Let's just say that this troper's opponent was not the kind of person he wanted hanging around.

In middle school PE, we used to play two ball soccer. All the teams were usually split up with one jock team (school athletes), three teams of average guys, and a team of nerds. I was part of the nerds team most of the time. We'd usually lose, but one day, we started winning. I scored two goals, and unlike the other nerds, I wasn't afraid to play physically. One day, one of the teams of average kids (that me and my team of nerds beat earlier that day) came up to me and told me to stop playing physically. My answer: "If you don't want me to play physically against you, put me on your team". The next day, I joined that average kids team, and we beat the jocks for the first time, and they never defeated us during the rest of the school year.

This troper punched a female friend's ex-boyfriend after he said something particularly nasty. He's now one of her closest male friends. The female friend has grown distant and un-friendly.

This troper choked a girl until she turned blue. The roly-poly-ness of my usual self and my heartfelt apology in my weird stoic-comedian way made her melt. And consider going lesbian, apparently, due to some uncomfortably long hugs. Even to PyroSkittle the Hugglerizor, they were uncomfortable.

This seems to be this troper's strategy game playing style. If he is at war with another civilization, he will mercilessly capture/destroy his opponent's cities until said opponent surrenders. Typically, we usually get along just fine afterwards, maybe even forming a friendly alliance, unless something disrupts this truce into hostility again. Of course, the other option is complete genocide.

This Tropers best friends in a nut shell. When they met they hated each other but liked me. Eventually the friend I had longest pissed off the new friend leading to him chasing the offender down (being the lazy ass I am I didn't bother following) eventually leading to the new friend FLY KICKING THE OTHER IN THE BACK. They've been best mates ever since.

Shit, are you this troper's best friend? I had the same sort of thing. The other guy was unable to walk for the next 30 minutes and stayed home the next day. The teacher came in about 15 minutes after he was kicked, but we both have a WeirdnessCoupon. Although, we were all friends for the previous 3 years, so I suppose it doesn't really apply.

When is troper was a kid he was often bullied by many other boys until he got sick of it and beat them up, eventually most of those bullies ended up becoming my friends.

This troper once dealt with a bully who attempted to invoke this trope by beating him up a second time. As the bully lay bleeding on the floor, this troper said, "We are still enemies. The only difference between then and now is that you are no longer a threat to me."

Inverted: When Yours Truly was still big on UrbanDead, he was once headshotted at a revive point while waiting on a revive. Due to a rather convoluted set of circumstances, he ended up recruiting the guy into the group he was part of.

This Troper, in a game of MaidRPG, my character (A Robot Assassin (long story)) defeats the Russian cross-dresser (longer story) in a match of skeet. The Russian proceeds to shoot her, but is eventualy almost killed, until a third partner intervene. The Russian now considers the robot his rival, and they have had numorous scenes of rivalry, AKA friendly competitive activities.

This silent hellraiser got to know his first friend, John, this way. He is rather tall and broad for a 12-year old boy. Sometimes pretty clumsy, but still hits hard as hell. I'm quite short and scrawny - yet all the more quick-moved and fiercer for it. Throw in an argument and a few stupid slanders. What ensues is one hell of a fight. Ouch, just recalling it makes my body ache all over. Both learned a lesson the hard way... we also got '''six hours of detention''', which is said to be a record in our school. A week later we laugh at the whole thing as we find more and more in common.

My best friend and I started out this way in our Sophomore year of high-school. We hated each other's guts, but we tolerated each other because we were both friends of a girl (Both of us guys, he had a bit of a crush on her, I was already taken.) We never got into an actual fight, I don't think, but there were plenty of the verbal kinds. Now we're practically inseperable; We actively acknowledge each other as brothers.

Sixth grade was an interesting year for me. I fought wayyyy too much, and ended up becoming somewhat friendly with most of the people I fought with.

Not a 'physical' example, but... This troper lost most of her stationery to a girl at school, who would also inflict pain on her every once in a while. Then the teacher announced that she was going to add an art section to the class bulletin board. Both of them were good at drawing. This troper won, and the other girl was impressed. Now we're best friends.

An unorthodox example occured with this troper and Series/DoctorWho. For a while she had been avoiding the show, partly due to HypeAversion and not really thinking why it should appeal to her. Then one day she watched "The Time Of Angels" with a friend and it was the only thing ''ever'' to make her need to sleep with the lights on and generally freak her out so much that nightmares followed. She decided to track down the show and watch it. It is now her favourite show and the Weeping Angels are her favourite monster.

My best friend and I used to work together. On our first night out he was...a bit abrasive and we came to blows. Afterwards, we were inseparable. This is actually quite common in male relationships. Despite society's blanket disapproval of violence, there is evidence that fighting is actually hardwired into male psychology and social interaction...like in most mammalian social groupings. Can't comment on women though.

This troper met his best friend when playing against a rival hockey team in college. He checked me hard and in the process had dislocated my shoulder. I broke four of his ribs. We've been inseparable ever since.

In a PE lesson the teacher jokingly suggested we do sprint training. Completely Missing the Point, I said "That'd be awesome!" He thought I was being a smart-ass and made the whole class run like hell for the whole lesson, people were dropping off and giving up throughout, the teacher saying "Remember to thank [This Troper] for these laps! Because he loves it!]" Everyone got all pissed at me, but by the end I was the only person who hadn't dropped off or even stopped at all. I had earned this teacher's respect after that and now we're all chummy. It's pretty funny when you think about it.

This is how I made most of my friends in school. It's also the story of how me and my soulmate met. I didn't defeat him, but I did end a fight between him and another guy on an internet forum by coming up with a compromise. But if it wasn't for that fight I never would have noticed him.

My best friend in elementary school and I became friends thanks to this. I ended up not being sure about who won that fight (I don't really remember, but she says I lost and started to cry, which made her confort me...that must be bullshit), but the truth is that, after the incident, we were BFF.

In a d20 Modern, Urban Arcana Campaign, our party was ambushed by a gang of kobolds, taking a surprise round and failing initiative. Unfortunately, the DM had drastically overestimated their effectiveness, and every attack on us failed, quickly turning an {{OhCrap}} into {{MyGodYouAreSerious}}. When our turn finally came, the team's girl bruiser, named Sigurd, kicked one in the groin, instantly dropping it to negative HP, threw it in her car and simply left the battlefield with the rest of the party. The Kobold, now her prisoner, mentally declared her to be some sort of warrior goddess and followed the party for the rest of the campaign, leading up to this line: #QUOTE# '''Sigurd:''' "So I kicked him in the groin so hard he passed out, and then I took him home and handcuffed him to my kitchen table. And then I fed him chicken. And now he thinks I'm awesome. I don't know how that works."

This troper got into a fight with a boy who he barely knew in school. Now they are close friends.

This is how things work for this troper's Weapons of the Gods character. All his followers and friends (save the other [=PCs=]) are people he defeated in combat and impressed so much that they swore loyalty to him afterwards.