Friendly Rivalry

Not all rivalries are bitter. Some are actually quite friendly with both parties getting along very well. The rivalry usually manifests in a competitive drive to one up each other with both parties developing their talents.

Example

 * Superman and Batman went through a lengthy phase of this in roughly the middle third of their friendship.


 * Sonic the Hedgehog tries to invoke this on Shadow in the hero path, but Shadow is rather annoyed about it.


 * Sora and Riku start off like this in Kingdom Hearts. The two would actually keep score of how many wins they had in their competition. But then Riku's jealousy of Sora and his own ambition for strength serves at the catalyst of him falling to the darkside. After his Heel-Face Turn, the rivalry in general started to die down and the two were more Bash Brothers.
 * Naruto Uzumaki and Sasuke Uchiha originally this, and it's obvious that Naruto prefer this way, but things became worse when out of revenge against Itachi, Sasuke ended up turned to the dark side,
 * Tai Kamiya tries to convince Matt Ishida that they should go back to Infinity Mountain, but Matt chooses to find the others and their rivalry becomes rough as the two fight.