I don’t have any good examples that I know of, but I am very curious. To me though, a rivalry is a rivalry when two or more of people are closely competitive. But is it really a rivalry anymore when someone has more victories over the other? I don’t think so.
Kendrick Lamar vs. Drake is a good example of “stop! stop! he’s already dead!”
A diss track that calls you out as a pedophile is the most-awarded song in Grammys history, became a theme song of the DNC, was the hit of the Superbowl. And at said Superbowl, he twisted the knife by inviting Serena Williams, someone who you stalked, to dance as a lil fuck you.
I don’t follow hip hop or much pop culture, and even I know this. I know there’s way more instances of absolute murder that haven’t bubbled up to people like me knowing. Time to wave the flag, Drake.
If we’re talking football ⚽, a rivalry is usually a long term thing, that transcends temporary factors like winning records.
You only have to look at Liverpool and Everton, or Man City and Man United, or Aston Villa and Birmingham City, to see that rivalry can be fierce and lasting even when one side enjoys a long period of dominance over the other.
As long as it matters more than most games to both sets of fans, it’s a rivalry IMO.
The Kansas City Chiefs vs the rest of the NFL.
I’m glad I lived to see my team’s villain era.
Spoken like someone who hasn’t actually looked at the stats for accepted penalties in the NFL. If you had, you’d know the Bills and Vikings are actually getting much more help than the Chiefs.
But that’s okay.
You can be wrong. :) The rest of us know your team sucks of their own accord.
I think manga/anime covers mostly one sided rivalry better than a lot of other media. I think it’s that drive for perfection that pushes many characters. One is already shown to be near perfect, and the other is always trying to catch up.
Examples would be Bakugo and Midoria from My Hero Academia. Midoria is by far the most powerful and sees Bakugo as a friend, not a rival, but Bakugo is obsessed to outdo him and keeps pressing himself to find a way to do something Midoria cannot.
I also think of Ippo and Miyata from Hajime no Ippo. There is a bit more 2 sidedness here, but it is mostly Ippo. Miyata sees they are becoming closer in skill, so he leaves the gym to build himself up on his own away from Ippo, and though Ippo beats people that would outclass Miyata, Miyata is still the one Ippo wants to beat since he set him on the start to his success but still was usually one step ahead of where he wanted to be. Miyata wanted to stay that one step ahead, but wasn’t constantly using Ippo to do that after a point, he knew he had to keep looking for greater challenges if he didn’t want to be surpassed.
Especially if you also consider the abridged version but gokou and vegeta also a good example.
Kakarot just treats Vegeta like a freind, and Vegeta will never think of Gokou as someone he has to surpass and maintain some kind of supremecy over
In US college football: Washington State University vs. University of Washington. WSU cares about it a lot. UW… has bigger fish to fry.
