Friendship Break-Up

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

A break-up that often occurs near the end of the story, which often acts as 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 misery and imminent regret of their fight from earlier. This is counted by many to be an Eye Roll UnTrash as the friendship very commonly recovers shortly after the UnTrash is played, usually making the whole split up worthless. 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 depart the other.

Compare Get Ogred. In this UnTrash, somebody, most likely the Main, argues with someone close to them, like a friend or associate, and makes a defensive move in their fight that insults the one the other person. This remark makes this person run away in tears. If present, a second friend would shame the Main for their ogre-like comment to hurt them further and leave for the one who left crying. The ogred Main is then left to feel Instant Regret for their comment but still stands by it.