Friendship Break-Up

"The power of friendship wears thin between these two. I am... not surprised."

A Factitious Friend Break-Up is a break-up type UnTrash that can be seen near the end of the story that is a sign of the arrival of The Climax. It's when two or more friends (but most typically limited to just two) have a fight that eventually leads to the involved friends splitting up out of anger. This can trigger an Angry Montage to play showing the friends leaving each other, going home, destroying or discarding anything that resembles their "dead" friendship (like photos of the friends or the Friendship Token), and sitting, resting, or doing something else (in a relaxed position) in misery and imminent regret of their fight from earlier. This is counted by many to be an Eye Roll UnTrash as the friendship almost always recovered in less than fifteen minutes, making the whole split up worthless, hence the name "Factitious Friend Break-Up". To draw a mental picture of such a scene, read the example below.

After going through so many good times and being at each other's sides for so long, Guy and Hugo have started to form a solid friendship. But then one day, they have an argument about how they should carry out The Day-Saving Plan. Guy says they should use full-on brute force to take the Villain down, but then Hugo says they need to use actual strategies to effectively and intelligently defeat the Villain. After a bit of back-and-forth, they then angrily decide that they'd be better off if not for the other and go down their own separate paths.

A related UnTrash is The Main Gets Ogred in which the Main argues with someone close to them, like a friend or associate, and says something in their own defense, something that insults the one they're fighting. This makes this person run away in tears. If present, a friend of the Main would shame them for their ogre-like comment to hurt them further and leave after the one who left crying. The ogred Main is then left to feel Instant Regret for their comment, but stands by it.