FOES

Them, to us

• 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 and McCoys, for example

• 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

• 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