Brotherly rivalries permeate all forms of popular entertainment, and videogames are no exception. All brothers have some degree of rivalry between them, but not nearly to this extent. From male siblings who despise each other to the core, to bitter enemies who don’t even know that they’re related by blood, there are plenty of in-game rivalries between competitive bros.

We’ve collected eight of our favorite fighting brothers for you – and tattling to mother about how “he hit me” won’t do these hermanos any good.

We can’t tell whether Point Man and Paxton Fettel have a tumultuous relationship, or they just plain hate each other. Sure, it wasn’t revealed that the two were related until later in FEAR’s mythos when they were already enemies - but who knows, the shock of their kinship coming to light may have given Point Man a change of heart, who came to the aid of his evil brother. That is, until he shot Fettel in the face at the end of F.E.A.R.

Fettel comes back in ghostly form for FEAR 3 (we're done writing it that other way), serving as a co-op partner for Point Man, but there's never really a time where they actively "like" each other. There’s an interesting back-and-forth between the two, with Fettel explaining past experiences to fill in the holes in Point Man’s memories. As it turns out that, they aren’t that different, making their whole brotherly rivalry all the better.

The almighty Sephiroth had many clones, but none of them managed to survive long enough to be useful - except for Cloud. He was labeled a failure, after falling into a vegetative state following an injection of Jenova cells and exposure to the mysterious Mako energy. He was broken out of the facility by Zack Fair, another clone who died shortly after assisting Cloud.

Cloud wasn’t aware that he was related to Sephiroth, completely oblivious that he’s one of his many clones until later in the story. Cloud joins the militant group, SOLDIER, where they stage an attack on Shinra’s headquarters, eventually encountering Sephiroth for the first time. Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children pit the two against each other in crazy CGI swordfights, with no quarter shown in the name of brotherly love.

Created as part of the Enfants Terribles project, Liquid Snake and Solid Snake are twins. There’s some extreme animosity between the two supersoldiers, though - mostly because it was always said that Solid Snake was the better brother, with blood infused with Big Boss’s superior genes. It’s no surprise that Liquid would despise his sibling, given the circumstances.

Liquid took this as an opportunity to prove that he was the superior one. His plan was to defeat our man Solid and demonstrate that his genes were just as good, if not better. This led to an epic struggle between the two that would shape the events throughout the series.

The Sons of Sparda are two equally badass, white-haired twins, but things went wrong pretty quickly after they took decidedly different paths upon learning of their demonic heritage. Their differences are multiplied by their divergent personalities; Dante is hot-headed and quick to action, while Vergil is ruthless and cold-blooded.

They were born of an extremely powerful father, Sparda, and have different notions of how best to use their lineage’s demonic power. Dante uses his skills to hunt evil demons and find the people responsible for the death of his mother and corruption of his brother, while Vergil uses his power for evil, stopping at nothing to obtain the level of power that his father once had. On top of that, they’re probably the most stylish twins in videogame history.

This relationship is heavily disputed and regarded as non-canonical by diehard Mortal Kombat fans; its first mention was in the dreadful second MK movie, Mortal Kombat: Annihilation. Raiden divulged this knowledge to Shao Kahn and provided proof by showing that they had the same shoulder tattoo… hardly a definitive mark of brotherhood. It was brought up again in Mortal Kombat vs DC Universe, but was hastily dismissed, as fans don’t consider that game to be canonical either.

Shao Kahn and Raiden aren’t the best of friends - mostly because Raiden stops Kahn from conquering Earthrealm time and time again. World domination’s a solid basis for a rivalry if we’ve ever heard of one.

As sons of Zeus, both Kratos and Hercules had a pretty large reputation to live up to. Unfortunately for Hercules, Zeus seemed to favor Kratos - or at least that's what Hercules thought. If that isn’t enough to make Herc hate his brother, then being infected with the “evil of envy” from Pandora’s Box probably didn’t help much either.

Hercules became extremely jealous of his brother and his status as their "father’s favorite." He made it his goal to defeat Kratos and show that he was the better son. But it didn’t work out well for him: Kratos smashed him to death in God of War III’s ultimate face-off. C’mon, dude! Have a heart!

Throughout Mega Man 3, Mega Man encounters the mysterious enemy known as Break Man, who seems to be working for the evil Dr. Wily (and refuses to share pieces of his Kit-Kat bars). It isn’t until the end of the game that Mega Man can convince Break Man that he’s working for the wrong side. Break Man decides to fight alongside Mega Man, but not before revealing that he’s – gasp! - actually Proto Man, Mega Man’s robotic brother. This relationship operates off a very different dynamic: the two brothers were unaware that they’ve been fighting each other the whole time.

Throughout the MM series, Proto Man’s made for the quite the anti-hero, opposing Mega Man in various stages, only to lend him a hand when it really counts. You can tell Proto Man’s the cool cat of the two – those sweet shades are undeniably slick.

Having rigorously studied martial arts growing up, Akuma and Gouken started to slowly veer into different fighting style directions. Gouken wanted to focus on the spiritual aspect of martial arts, only using them when necessary to keep the peace; Akuma was set on becoming the most powerful fighter, even if that meant embracing the darker side of fighting. Akuma believed that their teacher was holding him back because of Gouken, so he murdered their teacher, Goutetsu, and left to continue his training elsewhere. We’ve all thought of snuffing our professor during a boring lecture – Akuma actually went and did it.

This heinous act put quite a strain on their relationship, but Gouken was not deterred and continued to train himself and others – namely Ken and Ryu. Akuma came back to challenge Gouken multiple times, but was sorely defeated, only angering him more. He finally returned a final time and defeated Gouken, supposedly killing him. Little did Akuma know that Gouken’s time spent fostering his primal emotions had allowed him to simply fall into a deep coma, rather than bite the dust. We’d bet that trick would do great at parties.

Those are the bros that had us up in arms; if only they could just reconcile their differences, there’d be a slew of amazing team-up games to capitalize on. Know of any other brotherly rivalries, or sister-versus-sister struggles? Let us know – we’re all about putting the spotlight on bro battles.

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