Top 10 Enemies Turned Friends in TV

The friends-turned-enemies trope is common in action movies and (especially) in romantic comedies, but when it happens in a TV show, it’s much more satisfying. You usually get to witness the changing relationship over the course of one or several seasons, and the end result (the friendship) seems much deeper and much more meaningful. Here are 10 enemies that have become friends in TV shows.

BoJack and Mr. Peanutbutter

Calling BoJack and Mr. Peanutbutter enemies might seem like a bit of a stretch, but there is a definitive rivalry between them. They both stared in suspiciously similar TV shows about families, and their personalities couldn’t be any further apart. BoJack is a self-hating pessimist and Mr. Peanutbutter is a chipper, optimistic dog that is absolutely in love with himself. And yet, over the course of the show’s 5 seasons they have managed to develop something akin to a friendship. In a way, it shows that opposites attract.

Jane & Petra

Jane the Virgin is arguably the most underrated TV show on air right now. The premise seems silly, but the end result is hilarious and engaging. And it can’t be denied that one of the show’s most appealing elements is the relationship between Jane and Petra, who started off as enemies because of a medical mishap, but ended up being close friends and partners.

Crowley & Dean

I am very much a sucker for the montages of Crowley and Dean bantering and arguing with each other. And it’s always a pleasure to see how they turn from enemies to friends in those montages. They go from disrespecting each other and being very antagonistic to becoming (almost) best friends!

Buffy & Spike

Is it cheating if the reason enemies become friends is because one of them has a chip inserted into them that prevents them from being violent? Because that’s the case with Spike and Buffy. Over the course of the TV show’s runtime, we saw Spike turn from someone who wanted to kill Buffy, to someone who is obsessed and in love with Buffy. In the later seasons their relationship even developed a more… risqué side to it. All that being said, there’s no chance this story would fly in a romantic comedy.