Type 1 is easily me and my best bud. I help her keep up a 'B' average, keep her from getting yelled at by teachers, and feed her most days. It's pretty much a parasitic relationship, but we've been such good friends for so long it'll probably remain like this even after we graduate...I should tell her mom that she needs to pay me....

This Troper is Type 2 with pretty much any other guy in his middle school that he's friendly with, but especially with his {{Nakama}}. This is most extreme with two particular friends of mine, Patrick and Garrett. The former is a {{Jerkass}} and the latter is more WhiteAndNerdy than I am. I constantly utter the words "I honestly hate you so much" to both of them, I make brutal jabs at Patrick's stupidity, and I frequently attempt to clothesline Garrett whenever he's running behind me (which is frequently, as we have P.E. together and I'm somewhat more athletic than him). But trust me, they return fire. Patrick is constantly making Jew jokes at my expense (he isn't racist, I let him make the jokes and I'm Jewish) and Garrett is just... well, a dick in general. But you know what? Patrick and I are best friends, to the point where we consider being roommates in the future, and Garrett is the only reason why my Drama class (which I got stuck in for forgetting to turn in my elective sheet at the end of 7th grade) is bareable.

This Troper and his best friend are Type 2, no doubt... 'Cept it's evolved into UST and he's pretty sure they're long due a RelationshipUpgrade.

This Troper's Multiple different close friends are pretty much all like this. My school has all mixed grade classes, and while I'm a 10th grade computer nerd, my best friends are two 6th and 8th grade anime-freaks, and a cynical, history buff 9th grader (who's a month older than me). I'm the {{Nice Guy}}, and two of the three are {{Deadpan Snarker}}s. The 6th grader constantly berates me for being too nice, and being so damn nerdy (though her {{Catchphrase}} is pretty much "Oh god, I'm such a nerd" whenever she's drawing {{Naruto}}, {{Death Note}}, {{Vampire Knight}}, etc.). The 9th grader is the physical embodiment of {{The Snark Knight}}. He berates me for being ''too'' nice, and every other of my numerous failings. Despite all this, He's a funny guy, and we have intellectual debates together that are AWESOME. (I like argument.) All in all, my friends and I get along pretty well.

Two of my acquaintances are like this. They are a couple of stoic, gloomy jerk-ass hikikomoris with a short temper. The reason they have managed to remain together so long (15 years and counting) without killig each other is because each knows the other one is the only person who can stand him. When you think about it it's heartwarming.

This Troper and one of my closest, oldest friends are type two. It's a bit one sided, with her being quite a bit more caustic than me, however, this is mainly due to the fact said friend is violently tsundere.

So Type 2 with my friend, the teachers even comment on it. In chemistry: #QUOTE#''Friend and I are yelling at each other about the amount of acid you add t the experiment. Everyone else is laughing.) #QUOTE#'''English Teacher Next Door''': Did anything explode here? #QUOTE# '''Chem Teacher, watching and eating popcorn''': No, just those two again. Popcorn?

Type 2 with so many people for me. We insult each other, know each others weaknesses, compete for grades like it's the Academic Olympics, but I'd definitely save their life if I had too. If only because I'd get bored without those idiots.

This tropers group of friends tends to act like type 2 at times. Especially with two of them. They insult and argue almost the entirety of the time their together yet strangely enough whenever asked about this they say they are best friends...

I suspect we might belong to the same group.

Played with/indecisively deconstructed for this troper. There's one group of people I hang out with who piss me off/insult me for the hell of it, but sometimes they still act like we're friends. Played straight so far, right? Unfortunately, I have really poor social skills and thus I can't really give it back as well as I take it, and I'm usually considered the ButtMonkey. (Although they have another ButtMonkey, so I get less crap than I otherwise would.) So when I come up with something good, their usual reaction is "You got owned by Troper...wow." Also played with/deconstructed in that I don't actually like them that much. Which might be because I have trouble giving it back. In fact, occasionally it borders on outright hate, which is rare for me. On the other hand, it might be because I have a poor sense of humor. Sorry for taking so long.

It took a while for this troper to understand the relationship between two guys from her group of friends. They fight all the time, and sometimes it gets ugly, especially when one of them mentions the other's dead mother. When I first met them, I thought they were just some sort of friendly enemies, since they still hanged out together despite everything. But I soon found out they're best friends since childhood, and it's not a good idea to insult either one in front of the other. Really. Don't.

This troper is a scrawny, timid thing and a JerkWithAHeartOfGold. Her friend is much larger than she is, but still a jerk (though tones it down). The larger one really like pushing this troper around by means of holding her around the neck, squeezing her arms, and generally pushing her weight around. We're still pretty much HeterosexualLifePartners, even with all this violence.

This troper and her best friend ''are'' this trope. They met in 2nd grade, and have been inseparable since, varying between types one and two. We constantly snark at each other, and people who don't know us are surprised that we're even friends.

This troper and his best friend do it to such a degree people around them refuse to talk at all in fear of entering the 'crossfire'

This troper's parents have exactly the same relationship (as the South Park example above) with his mother's old boss. He may not have been a sociopath, but harassed the employees, made everyone do his work, manipulated all those he knew and was completely narcissistic and specious. They were long time friends.

In the Troper Talk page about SadistTeacher, several people write about sadistic, verbally abusive teachers whom their students loved.

This editor noted that the more he likes someone, the snarkier he is to them.

Yep.

This troper theorizes that a casual way to tell how good friends two people are to be proportionate to the lack of outrage from each other as they trade insults.

The extent to which this troper ''constantly'' insults her best friend starts to disturb ''her'' sometimes. Apparently, said friend is okay with it

This troper and someone who she happens to have mutual friends with that won't leave her alone (so not in denial) were once compared to Spongebob and Squidward (oddly enough, this was a rare brilliant relevation by said person). It fits so well, it's scary. However, she (troper) tends to get a tad venomous with her stabs, but as a slight WeirdnessCoupon, she gets away with it because no one else is allowed to be that mean to her (Spongebob-person).

This troper and his like-minded associates can spend hours tossing around various insults about our various inadequacies like footballs.

This troper was friends with A first. Then A introduced me to his other friend B. One of those "we have different personalities, but all of our worst traits overlap" situations. We both valued A's friendship so much that we eventually formed a ceasefire with each other.

This troper's a loudmouthed, foulmouthed, lighthearted and dark humored individual. Lots of his friendships turn into Type B of this. It's all just friendly banter... honest!

This troper's closest friendships are almost all like this. But then, he's a {{Jerkass}}, so it's quite possible he just isn't comfortable with people he can't insult to their faces. (They certainly get theirs back, though.)

Type-B all the way for me!

Oh so much. I use my strongest language, which would probably get me attacked if I tried it with others, on one of my friends. And then we smile.

Update: People say our bickering sounds like we're a married couple. Pretty funny. (We're both male, by the way)

This troper's most durable friendship began on the level 1 with herself (a Daria Tsundere-ish Emotionless Jerkass) hating her current best friend (A Obfuscatingly Stupid Ophelia-esque Genki Girl) to death. She constantly belittled said girl and openly ignored her, when she was in a good mood as in a foul mood, well this troper's snarks are legendary on her Nakama's association--- Said girl actually even made a whole Crusade war-esque strategy to defend this troper from their shared Nemesis. (This guy is currently their Nakama, as well)This situation kept on going until said girl was openly humilliated and this troper's mad anger made her realize she actually cared for said girl. Fourteen years later, this troper still keeps her jerkass tendencies (smiling while she does so) and her friend even worships her for her snarkiness, sometimes those compliments reaching the lesyay level and sometimes reaching an insulting level that is utterly adorable for this troper.

This troper's friendship with three of his best friends is like this, just one-way. This troper hasn't quite figured to what level it's appropriate to insult them so rarely does, but he's known by such designations as "Marvel fag" and "Rush faggot". It's an...interesting relationship.

Type B to the extreme. Questioning the other's sexuality, making "your mom" jokes at every opportunity and then high-fiving people about it, general berating of each other's... well, whole life, basically. And that's just the first hour. We decided that, being meaner than friends but friendlier than enemies, the most logical designation would be "frenemies".

This Troper is totally this with his best friend... If it were in our power, we'd probably be EarthShatteringKabooming things with the level our daily arguments seem to get to.

This troper and one of his friends pretend to be type A, with me being Pete. Me and another friend, on the other hand, are type B completely and utterly, although lately it's come to mind that he may have not been joking.

This troper does this to pretty much all of her friends. Her closest group of friends contains the nicknames Whore, Slut, Bastard, Asshole and Nimrod.

This troper is like this with a lot of her friends (who reciprocate) and is actually is only polite to people she doesn't know or doesn't like. This has led to problems. For instance, I was recently in a situation where I was living and working with two partners for a few weeks. One of my partners and I quickly developed this kind of friendship, with me openly and loudly insulting/abusing him and him getting back at me, usually in more subtle ways. At one point, our boss/supervisor/team mom took me aside and said that I was being too mean to my partner! Puzzled, I later asked him if he was really hurt or offended, and he straight out laughed, and reassured me that the things I say aren't ''nearly'' as bad as some of the crap he pulls. Which I took as a challenge.

This troper's relationship with her best guy friend is most definately a Type 2. We are constantly slinging insults at each other, smacking each other around and bickering in general. But if anyone else tries insulting the other when one of us is around... may god have mercy on their souls.

My high school has its own name for Type A: joke-hate. As in, Oh, Steve doesn't really mean that, we just have this thing, he joke-hates me. At least I thought we did. But y'know, sometimes I can't tell if he ''for real'' hates me...

This troper and his cousin had a one-sided version of this with their friend [[strike:man-wife]] "leader". Either one of us could go on an endless rant about the whole fucked-up situation, but the gist of it is that he was allowed to be as venomous and hateful to the two of us about how we're gay because we make too many penis jokes and don't have girlfriends, or how we're not doing anything with our lives (read: Not actively and obsessively pursuing the opposite sex 24/7), or any number of things we're not doing that could benefit him in some way; but we're only allowed to pick on each other and leave him alone because he's "awesome". If we call him on his behaviour, it's "just another one of your attempts to villainize me". If his feelings get hurt enough, he cuts off all ties and communication with us for several weeks/months/until he gets lonely enough. We really should stop this maddening, snake-eating-its-own-tail cycle of chaos, but he's really a lot of fun to troll (After being falsely accused of malice and spite so many times, we figured we should start doing it for real to at least have ''some'' fun).

This troper hates his friends as much as they hate him. And yet, we're always willing to help each other with schoolwork and make fun of the class Scrappy.

This Troper was once part of a Vitriolic Trio, consisting of dumb but lovable jock, an angsty artist and me, the clown of questionable sanity. Snarking at each other was as natural as breathing and one day when we all went paintballing, a guy we had just met five minutes prior told us that we "Bicker like old women." We wholeheartedly agree.

This troper and his friend actively insult each other at every occasion. Since we're both nerds, the insults can get rather creative, such as referring to my friend as a "piece of thulium."

This Troper has a best nemesis. Actual exchange: "''Why do you do this to me?''" "Because I hate you. Or love you. I can't tell the difference, sometimes."

Me and my friends insult each-other constantly. It's a hobby really. Some of the best insults we have ever wielded were conjured during a normal conversation with a friend. It's always best tested on someone who knows that you would never actually mean to hurt them. It makes their reaction much more funnier too.

A gf told me, "I don't get how you men talk to each other. You sound like you're giving each other fighting words, like you're just about to throw down. I was getting ready for you two to just explode at each other, and then next second you're drinking together."

Basically all of this Troper's early childhood friendships were like this.

This troper was once sitting in science class, minding her own business. Suddenly, a classmate who she considers a friend but who she almost never speaks to walked up and said "Hey, -Troper-! Wouldn't it be awesome if we had an epic rivalry? We could run down the halls hitting each other with battle axes and screaming 'YOU SHALL NEVER DEFEAT ME!'" This troper went "Uhhh, sure..." and walked off. She couldn't think of a good response until quite some time later.

ThisTroper's relationship with two of her best friends involves lots of going out of our way to annoy each other, and me being the foul-mouthed one in the group, everybody loves to make me lose The Game [HA!] to get me to swear at them - although it's somewhat undermined because I get a big grin on my face every single time.

This troper and his best friend like to start absurd argument over ''nothing''. Because it's ''funny''. We disagreed on the exact color of a certain yogurt one day. Hilarity ensued. We exchange insults as greetings. It's almost a game. Whoever runs out of mean names first loses. And then they get called "loser". Yep.

Of course, since she's a girl, she'd probably murder me if I ever tried this trope in the physical sense. Works for me. Getting kicked in the nuts sucks.

This Troper habitually builds these sort of relationships with anyone he befriends. Once while discussing with one of my friends why I'm so patient with my annoying step-brother, I said the following quote:"Around the time I would've punched you in the stomach I'm still answering his damn questions!" He took it in stride and we continued on, concluding that hate is a sign of love and indifference a sign of hate. But we probably concluded that years ago. I might be a closet sadist. There was also the time I got in a fight with one of my friends over something stupid, ending up with a bloody nose and an underlying fear and will to comply with his demands.

This troper (an {{ExtremeDoormat}}) and her best friend fit this trope perfectly.

A rule of thumb with this troper is that the meaner she is to you, the more she cares about you. It's so bad that when I spent a week ''not'' insulting anyone, the friendship group commented that they were bored and wanted me to go back to normal.

This Troper is good friends with the coworker who sits next to him. When another coworker was leaving the company and saying goodbye to each of us, she commented that whenever she heard me and my friend "chat" during work, she was half-expecting us to get up and start beating the crap out of each other any moment.

A lot of people are confused as to how this Troper and his best friend can be friends at all, as we're both highly competitive people who are always seeking to one-up each other.

ThisTroper tends to be a Type B with a friend from the Uni. Deadpan Snarker, Stealth Insulths, Sarcasting Clapping and precision F Strike all lead to an interesting relationship...

This troper and her best friend were like this in high school (separating for college basically put an end to that). We fought like clockwork every couple of weeks. Half the school thought we hated each other; the other half thought we were dating. As it turned out, neither half was right.

I had a Type B friendship almost my entire life with one person, and when she moved away, people stepped up to fill her role of constantly verbally abusing me, people who I had always been nice to, people who I continued to be nothing but nice to. BreakTheCutie ensued, until I snapped, bitched them out for treating me like crap constantly, and then they apologized. Happy to report I refused to accept the apology, and made some friends who were willing to treat me like an actual person.

I have this with a few best friends. I think I summed it up the other day with the words "He's someone who can't be corrupted away from calling me a wanker".

This troper has one. She's female and we cross almost every swear word as possible. But we do treat well each other.

This troper and his roommate. We pile on the lame insults; this troper is a LawfulGood capitalist who nonetheless operates under RuleOfFunny, while his roommate a ChaoticGood socialist with a preference for RuleOfCool. When we compete ''against'' each other, the battles tend to become brutal, and, depending on who's winning, either hilarious, awesome, or sometimes '''both'''. But, as our co-op rounds of SuperMarioBrosWii demonstrate, when we're on the same side, we demonstrate that overkill is both funny ''and'' awesome.

Me and my boyfriend. We'll hurl insults back and forth, but if anyone dares to try to harm one metaphorical hair on his/my head...

This Troper has been called out on the fact that the more he likes someone, the meaner he is to them. He rarely gets physical with his female friends, but that's mostly because they would make him feel like a CompleteMonster. However, friendships with males are rife with "I'm gonna kick your ass!"

This Troper has discovered that she's only violent and abusive to people she likes-to the extent that even she and her parents are type B of this trope

As one of this troper's friends is fond of saying, "I don't have friends, I have walking insult generators."

This troper. With everyone. Generally speaking, the more I like someone, the more I insult them. Yes, I know it's not healthy and yes I have tried therapy. Dammit. Luckily I did get it down to a level to where there are people tolerate me long enough for me to make them aware of this.

This troper and her sister have been friends with this one girl (who will be called M) for several years now. This troper gets along with said friend well enough, but her sister and M have completely different personalities, disagree on pretty much everything, and bicker almost every time they get together. And yet.

This Troper and his best friend. Lawful Good and Chaotic Neutral(Sometimes more Neutral Evil), Chivalrous Pervert and Leisure Suit Larry, Blue Oni and Red Oni, The Super Ego and The Id, The Messiah and Idiot Hero, Knight in Shining Armor and Heroic Sociopath, Honor before Reason and the Combat Pragmatist, I can do this all day. We balanced each other out, were Knight Templar Big Brothers(Little Brother in this Troper's Case), and altogether loved each other like real brothers...with only moderate Ho Yay.

This Troper is in Air Force ROTC as a crosstown student, meaning I go to one school, but take ROTC courses at another. Some of my best friends here are Army ROTC. Let the ribbing commence. Not to mention the ribbing between the actually Air Force cadets.

This Troper and one of her guyfriends have a relationship like this, I'm a Hollywood homely, meganekko and junior hot librarian with some action girl tendencies who is very patient with her hotblooded, jerk with a heart of gold, deadpan snarker guyfriend. We are very different and we will take any oppurtunities to make fun of each other, my friend will make jokes about me more often, but when I do it, I cut him like a knife. But we still get along, and that's the main thing. And if he wasn't homosexual, I swear one of my friends would be shipping us into slap-slap kiss relationship.

ThisTroper was arguing with a co-worker who it is a PhraseCatcher for my volley's of "Shut the Fuck up", when a new boss walked by and told us to "play nice". Another co-worker had to explain that we were playing nice, much to the new boss' surprise. Subverted with another co-worker and myself, who the boss learned from day one have this relationship. Hell, if this troper doesn't have this relationship with someone, they aren't really his friends.

This troper has had both types of this relationships with all of his friends, whenever it's Type A, I'm usually on the {{Jerkass}} side, but when I heard that one of my friends had died, I was one of the first to shed tears.

This Troper has known his friend for almost six years now, and we can't seem to go thirty seconds without making a joke at each other's expense, or just being an outright {{Jerkass}} to each other. Sometimes we need to give each other a WhatTheHellHero talk. However, every time somebody's tried to bring one of us down, the other is the first to come to their aid.

This trope describes this troper's friendship with one of his friends. Every day, he punches my arm at exactly 1 o' clock. During the computer class we both have, we mess with each other's computers, spamming buttons to open Outlook and what not a few bajillion times. Yet we're still friends. I did recently introduce him to this site, though, so he might just become one of us.

I knew a few people like this in high school. Two guys would hang out a lot; one described the other as a facetious douchebag whose wit was his only redeeming quality. The other was a guy who made fun of everything, including himself. My relationship with both of them had some shades of this; I said one looked like a weasel and the other lived on the poor side of town.

The more this troper likes you, the more likely he'll use violence on you. This explains this troper's small group of friends. It helps immensely if you're willing to put up with a ChaoticNeutral, who'll corrupt you just for fun. He'll help you if you need it. And if you ask this troper to get revenge for you, don't complain too much about his methods.

This troper and his brother. We fight a lot, but we're also probably the closest friends either of us has.

This troper and most of his friends fall into this.

This troper used to hang out with one group of friends where "your mom" jokes became so commonplace we actually got far enough to take a joke pointed at you a level further yourself. (for instance "I'll be a while, I have to upload all these naked pictures your mom gave me to my computer". "why? Don't you know the website"?). unfortunately, I'm only in touch with one of them nowadays.

This troper and one good friend have this sort of relationship. He mocks me for looking like I'm four years younger than my actual age and being remarkably absent-minded, and I make fun of him for being manorexic and his musical tastes (he unironically likes Europe. And the genre of grindcore). But at the end of the day, we're still great friends.

This Troper's a nice guy, unless you're friends with him.

This Troper has this sort of relationship with a very close friend. It was bound to happen considering he's a Keet and I'm a SnarkKnight. Typically I riff on his inability to stay still and his speech impediment while he makes fun of my verbal tic (pausing in the middle of any sentence longer than three words). It's actually quite enjoyable.

Most people think that this troper and her best friend hate each other. Said best friend likes to ambush and attack me from the behind,and I usually retaliate with a metal bar.

One of this troper's good friends is a completely egotistical bastard which I regularly remind him of. He then regularly reminds I'm a completely psychotic nutjob. We're theatre majors so it really isn't surprising to anyone. I explain it as "He and I have that special love, the kind where you completely hate each other"

This troper constantly reminds his best friend that he's a womanizing asshole, except in more vulgar terms, and with more violence. He constantly reminds this troper that they're the same, except this troper's short stories and fanfics are usually filled with less idealistic love, and more dark humor.

The more I like someone, the less respectful I am to them. If someone asks me if one of my best friends is one of my friends, I express disgust and start insulting them. People who don't know us will then ask "So why do you even hang out with them if they're such a ?" "Makes me look better."

Me and one of my, uhem, buddies ARE this. We often duel and have playful banter. Insult each other et cetera...Just the way it is...

This troper has a friend who most people, upon first seeing us interact, think she has some sort of arch-nemesis relationship with. We always have to explain that we're actually quite close. I like to call him my "good friend who I can't stand". However, after finding out we actually like each other deep down, they think we're just kidding ourselves and trying to deny sexual attraction to each other. Sigh.

I'm in this sort of friendship with one of my internet buddies. We disagree on multiple fronts, down to how we play TeamFortress2 (he's a career sniper, vs. me being very BruteForce and in-your-face who doubles as a Ninja Pyro). Naturally, when we manage to play on the same team by some sheer amount of luck, we complement each other nicely.

Subverted with this troper... I met this guy, and we had a VitriolicBestBuds thing going on. Later, we thought maybe it was SlapSlapKiss, and we started going out. It didn't end very well...

Happens to this troper and some of her friends. We all snark/insult each other but in the name of good fun and we're there for each other when we need to be.

This troper has a bit of a subverted version of type 2 in that we both actually do share a mutual dislike for each other, and openly admit it to ourselves and others when asked. 'Friends' is quite a stretch, which we happily like to remind people. We'd run each other under the bus quite willingly if given a good enough reason. Yet we're almost never apart because we consider each other the most interesting person around, and to not hang around each other is simply too damn boring... in the end, it's quite an unhealthy relationship. But damned if it isn't fun!

This troper and his brother are this trope, though we seem to be stuck between types 1 and 2. He's usually the one doing the insulting; I'm just too nice to retaliate.

My dad as well. "I only pick on people I like," is practically his CatchPhrase.

This Troper is like this with one of his best online friends, so much so that we consider each other "debate buddies". We're opposites in everything: writing styles, (justified because we met on a fan fiction site in the first place) politics, (he's conservative, I'm liberal, the only thing we agree upon is the legality of abortion: discouraged but legal in case of rape or a similar emergency) and religion. (he's an outspoken Christian, I'm a Unitarian Universalist who draws most of my beliefs from Hinduism and Buddhism, like reincarnation) Despite this though, we're always happy to see each other and we trust each other with everything as far as internet friendships go.

Me and one of my closest fans act like this regularly. Having both partaken of the (non-alcoholic) version of the MyImmortal Drinking Game, we decided that one of our greetings would be "hey bitch, you look kawaii." Or just "bitch" Another two of my BFF Forever/s (redundancy intended) call all of their friends, including me, "hoebag." It's sweet, really! Also, my and a...what is this, 4th on the list? friend had an entire back-and-forth thing cussing the shit out of each other. I love that girl ♥

But yeah. We're all sort of Type 2. I only make fun of your azness Lamson because I love you.

My best friend and I are Type II, oh so much. I'm shorter, louder, and more violent; she's taller and better with the zingers, though infrequent. Insults about fandoms, appearances, and sexuality are fair game. She's an Aspie {{Otaku}}, I'm a spastic AttentionWhore, :Mishmash of Japan--her--and English--my--culture fangirling, I mean this in the most offensive way possible. [[NWordPrivileges Respectively, the terms carry their literal meaning]] so on and so forth. We both know that we'd be friendless losers if we didn't have each other.

This trope fits this editor and her best friend to a T. At first we were more of a type one, with me being more meek and him generally ripping me apart, but now we're on equal terms, so I shamelessly berate him for his bad decisions, and he never hesitates to mock my involuntary celibacy, among other things. People have been literally shocked silent by how badly we rip on one another, especially, when one of us has done something REALLY (i.e. borderline life-threateningly) stupid, but it doesn't change the fact that we're essentially inseperable and those who know us well enough know that most of it is our twisted way of saying "I was worried about you. I care about you. Please be more careful".

In this troper's {{Nakama}}, one of her friends is a jerk with a huge heart of gold. She doesn't like to do her own homework and is always trying to get someone else to do it for her (in fact, she's really just plain lazy). She's a smart-mouthed, sarcastic pain-in-the-butt and she enjoys trying to play Matchmaker, much to all of our dismay. Yet, we still love her as our friend and she'll come to our defense for just about anything. Recently, she choked a person to get them to apologize for saying something very offensive to this troper.

Said troper and her younger sister are also this way. We will fight like animals (physically and verbally) and are at each other's throats practically 24/7. We say the nastiest things to each other (besides cursing) and from the outside, it really just looks like we can't stand each other's presence. At the same time, we're very defensive of each other and genuinely love each other. If anyone deeply offends one of us, the other one will have no problem fixing that person. We're actually pretty alike (don't think we'll admit it, though).

Ohhhhh yeah. I have an online friend who I bicker and argue with a lot (leading to three very large "IT'S OVER" fights between us), but at the end of the day we love each other. She's the Joe Perry to my Steven Tyler. (An in-joke, we are both big Aerosmith fans and roleplay as characters based off Joe and Steven. Guess who plays who.)

This (female) troper is like this pretty much all the time with her (male) best friend. The fact that this troper is kind of a {{Tsundere}} probably doesn't help either. We can insult each other to the point of tears, and the next day he'll be over my house raiding the fridge for snacks. And we wouldn't have it any other way. But he IS NOT MY BOYFRIEND!!!

This (female) troper had a (male) friend in high school, with whom I had a type 1-ish relationship. I had the tendency to tease him about his nerdiness... and social ineptness... and pervertedness... and bizarre, violent anger issues... and... well, basically, the more things I found to tease him about, the more I realized I actually kind of hated him and I REALLY hated getting mistaken as his girlfriend. I still see the guy around and am making it clear that I'm avoiding him at all costs. Yes, I'm a jerkass. No, I don't regret that particular decision.

I have two seperate groups of friends: my work friends who often hang out with me outside of work, and my personal friends. While the closest work buddies all have some shades of this occasionally, every single person in my personal circle are definitely type twos to everyone else. We are all masters of the zinger and doing and saying downright foul things to each other is pretty much our way of having fun together. Heaven help you if you do anything to jeopardize one or our number's health or life.

This Troper and his pansexual best friend are totally like this, we bitch and nag at eachother constantly but when push comes to shove we're the only one the other can count on. Thick as Thieves as it were. Sadly most our friends ship us.

This troper and her HeterosexualLifePartner of almost a decade are the epitome of type 2. In high school, after a spectacular discussion about whether or not she was trespassing (she claimed she wasn't touching my part of the table, I agreed but claimed she was in my airspace), our teacher saw fit to separate us because she thought we were on the verge of physical violence. To be completely honest, we probably were, but that doesn't mean we wouldn't die for each other should it ever come to that.

I was this way with a friend, until I realized he was actually just an asshole.

I was in a similar situation, though she really wasn't a bitch when we were VitriolicBestBuds. We used to fight, insult the other, point out the other's faults and then quickly make up, but when she started being manipulative and cruel instead of merely violent and snarky, we stopped hanging out.

This troper and her twin sister are certainly type 2. Constantly bickering, trading insults and snarking at each other, people tend to assume we're arguing and are going to turn violent, but it's really just how we show our affection. (Even our parents make that mistake. Honestly, though, we'd do anything for each other.)

I'm like this with one of my trio of best friends. We have been volunteering together lately, selling Churros (me) and Pizza (her) right next to each other. So far we have insulted clothing, threatened stabbing, hit each other, insulted intelligence, and a litany of other insults that I just can't be assed to remember. The other volunteers were getting concerned and trying to mediate, so we ended up having to point out that we were best friends and it was perfectly fine. Apparently though, the customers think it's awesome, because they keep tipping us.

My best friend an I are this in spades. We argue all the time to the point that his cousin who often hangs out with us has stated more than once we fight like a married couple (and we're both guys for the record). A good example is that a couple of weeks ago we were both playing {{World Of Warcraft}} and he made a statement about some of our guildies changing class. Any normal player knows that this isn't possible. What followed was a 10 minute argument for the third or fourth time that there is no class change feature. Eventually I bring him undeniable proof if it and he comes back with "Then explain to me how he's a gnome now!?" After a long pause I flip my lid yelling that that was a race change. His response? "Same difference!" At this point I just went nuts and dropped the conversation. Two minutes later we were talking like it never happened.

This Troper has figured out how two of her best friends deliverher abuse. One is the physical while the other is the verbal, and together their emotional. I wouldn't have them any other way. The funny thing is, when i met one(the one that verbally abuses me), I thought he was a complete asshole. Now I know that's just who he is, and he's actually really not that bad at all.

This troper has a relationship like this with her two best male friends (strangely, my best ''female'' friend and I are the exact opposite). We smack, pinch, and hit each other as greetings. Our nicknames for each other? The cynical computer geek is "manipulative/heartless (depends on our moods) bastard", the fun-loving romantic is "stupid asshole", and I (the melodramatic movie buff) am "shrill bitch". Heartwarming, no? Still, we spend a copious amount of time with each other, and have admitted that our lives would suck if we didn't know each other or weren't friends. Also, it should be pointed out that, while the guys have no problems with other people calling ''them'' their nicknames, if anyone calls me mine, they turn into real papa wolves.

This Troper and his PlatonicLifePartner are like this. We constantly tease each other, and wrestle all the time. We're really close and I was there to comfort her during her family's divorce, but then afterwords gave her a wedgie that ripped a hole in her underwear.

This troper and her boyfriend fit this well. Throughout the day, we argue about important stuff, like PC versus Mac, as well as making jokes to each other's expense. This often happens while we're cuddled up together.

Picture, if you will, a rather light-skinned Mexican man, slightly overweight and rather lax and docile in nature. That would be me. Then picture his best friend. If you thought of a black nerd with moderate 'fro with anger issues who insults and hates everything, congrats. You are both correct, and most likely psychic. Get out of my fucking head. In all seriousness, we are far closer than 2 guys like us have any right to be. He's usually the one volleying insults and smartass comments, and depending on my mood, I either take it in stride or strike back rather quickly. Either way, we don't exactly give off the impression of being buddies. ESPECIALLY when playing online games. If you were to see us playing Left4Dead or some shit, you'd think we hated each other. I love the bastard, though. We've actually bought each other gifts over the Internet at least twice now. If it weren't for him, I'd probably have jumped off a bridge by now.

I have this with a lot of people, and they have it with more, because my friends are a bizzare melting pot of {{Deadpan Snarker}}s, {{Cloud Cuckkoo Lander}}s, and the occaisional NiceGuy who tends to end up as our DesignatedMonkey...however, special mention goes to me and Harry. Our relationship can literallly be summed up as "We're so close we have no problem verbally bitchslapping eachother into a wall". He calls me a whore, so I call him a nerd; he has a crack at me for being short (I prefer the term 'fun sized' or 'tallness challenged'), so I remark on how he can't draw- repeat until people wonder why we haven't killed eachother yet.

One of my friends... I think. To be honest, I'm not really sure... We get on each others nerves sufficiently, but we also stick up for each other. Gah, I'm so confused!!!

Type 2 - I regularly have this with a younger friend of mine who has a reputation for being a sarcastic troll online whilst I'm the 'nicey nice' girl. We tend to wind each other up with insults, arguments (that I win) and jibes at each other's age (as he's 14 and I'm 18). Whilst he trolls me and others online, I can easily troll him back in reality which tends to overwhelm him and so our odd friendship works on that basis. But when either of us is having a bad time we both help each other and quit the trolling for a while, which actually surprises him when I offer my shoulder. He's a nice kid when he's not being irritating and we can get on pretty well. But we don't tend to admit in public that we're friends... although I just did.

This troper is a type two with one of her guy friends, although she dishes it out more than he does. We trade insults, and I often threaten to beat him up. Some people don't quite get that it's all in good fun. But we're really tight, and he's sticking by me through some rather tough times and I really appreciate his friendship.

I'm not part of a relationship like this myself, but sweet CrystalDragonJesus, I know a few who ''are'' in the {{Megamind}} fandom. Honestly, they continuously bad-mouth eachother over the net in the most vile and disturbing ways they can manage; just about any outsider would cringe and assume that they utterly despised eachother.

This troper, his little brother and our friends are Type 2, big-time. We figure that anyone who A) is related to us or B) voluntarily tolerates us is stained by association.

This troper and ''every'' female friend he's got. However, this maybe covering some {{UST}} with some said female friends. He's also like this with his best male friend who also has cerebral palsy.

This troper and his younger brother are Type 2. He's an athletic, outgoing rocker, and I'm an introverted, nerdy gamer (but we're both engineers). He thinks most of the stuff I like is crazy, and most of his music gives me a headache. He can't stand my TechnoBabble, and his {{Badass Boast}}s ''really'' get on my nerves. But, we've been the best of friends since we were little, and we each go the other first when we're looking for personal advice.

Me and my oldest friend are a minor type 2 we sometimes tend to just endlessly snip at each other without respite before we start proclaiming how much we love each other. HOWEVER me and the guy who grew up with the two of us are a pure type one. I've spent YEARS berating this guy every change I get until I compliment a performance of his and I'm sweet for a while. By the way yes. Me and him are trying to cover up some INCREDIBLY OBVIOUS {{UST}}.