Hatfields and McCoys, for example
Else clues• From forth the fatal loins of these two ___ / A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life: Shakespeare
• Them
• Achilles and Hector
• Adversaries
• Antagonists
• Batman and the Joker, e.g.
• Blue and Gray
• Clashing partisans
• Combatants
• Competitors
• Contenders
• David and Goliath, e.g.
• Duelers, e.g.
• Enemies
• Face-off figures
• Far from friends
• Gates and Burgoyne
• Grendel and Beowulf
• Hatfields and McCoys
• Hatfields and McCoys, e.g.
• Hatfields, to McCoys
• Hostile parties
• Hutus and Tutsis, e.g.
• Ill-wishers
• Jackson and Clay, e.g.
• Montagues, to Capulets
• Montcalm and Wolfe
• Montgomery and Rommel
• Nemeses
• North and South Korea, e.g.
• Ones to beat
• Opponents
• Opponents, as in the World Series
• Opposing sides
• Opposite sides of a fight
• Opposition
• Oppositionists
• Outside forces!
• Plaintiffs, to defendants
• Rivals
• Romans, to Gauls
• Sparta and Athens, e.g.
• Sparta and Thebes, e.g.
• The bad guys
• The Blue and the Gray
• The Blue and the Gray, once
• The enemy
• The Hatfields and the McCoys, e.g.
• The North and South, in the Civil War
• The opposing team
• The opposition
• The other team
• Them, to us
• They aren't behind you
• They aren't with you
• They don't get along
• They're against each other
• They're against you
• They're not for you
• They're not on your side
• They're on the other side
• Unfriendly types
• Us and them, maybe
• You try to beat them
• You want to beat them