They always say : “ Keep your acquaintance close and your enemies close . ” But how can you always tell the deviation ? It ’s a well - know fact that most of the time , an epic hoagy ’s puckish - enemies is the Cuban sandwich ’s former best friend .
How do you know if your bestie is preparing to jostle you into an ( almost ) unavoidable last snare ? Here are 10 can’t - miss signs that your Quaker is really an arch - fiend .
10 ) Your best friend get going date the person you ’re in love with
This is a dick move , and is always , always a signal your undecomposed booster is headed for arch bane - dom .
9 ) Your estimable friend is right smart rich
base on Smallville and Spider - Man , among other things , this is a middling unspoilt sign . If you have humble , but good clean theme , and your best acquaintance is the rich guy in town ? front out .
- Your best friend has an over - comportment / mad Fatherhood .
peculiarly if the father dies / is imprisoned / disappears . And it ’s your fault . Not to mention if the dad is an actual supervillain , like the Green Goblin . This one often depart hand in hand with the good supporter being racy , but a dire motive to please a deep unpleasant father can also lead a secure friend down the evil route . For example , say daddyused to bully and bemock his kid for not learning the Great Fireball Technique quickly enough .
7 ) You have really different philosophical and/or political points of view .
Suppose that you ’re a dyed - in - the - fleece Starfleet stalwart , who ’s determined to crush the rebel Maquis — but your champion on the QT harbors Maquis sympathies and does n’t desire to be a tool of the humanity . Also , bear to see this one show up a tidy sum when X - Men : First Class come out this summer .
6 ) You used to partake in everything , but dead your best friend seems to have a enigma he ’s not telling you .
To be mediocre , you may be conceal your tops - hero alter - ego from your friend — but your buddy is hiding the fact that he or she is build a death ray . Or your chum has on the Q.T. gotten married , against the Jedi codification . Or your friend / wise man hassecretly hire Afghan guerillasto lock you in a cave and kill you . mayhap your friendhas been kick the bucket for six years , only to return acting really shifting and cold , and secretly want to take the Dragons of Heaven .
5 ) Your friendly relationship has always had a tinge of the competitive about it
You may think this is friendly rivalry , but your bestie is beginning to haunt over prove that he or she is better than you . Often , asthis TVTropes Thomas Nelson Page points out , favorable childhood rivalry can rick into an adult hate . That ’s what happened to Superman and his childhood admirer who became Conduit . Plus you could argue that Sinestro starts out as Hal Jordan ’s friend , but gets threaten by Hal always being the good Green Lantern .
4 ) Your BFF saw thing nobody is supposed to see .
mayhap your chum looked into the Time Vortex , and now your champion keeps see a weird drumming that ’s oddly resonant of your theme strain . Or maybe your better friend has pall and beat a glimpse of Hell , andcome back wrong .
3 ) Your best booster gets some sorting of physical deformity
Dr. Doom is n’t Reed Richard ’s best friend , but ( at least in the motion-picture show ) they are friends . Anakin , in addition to the crazy Sith oculus , has that scar and missing limb prior to turn against Obi - Wan . There ’s also Dr. Drakken in Kim Possible , who partially turns against Dr. Possible as a result of all the teasing he gets for his mistakes — but also turns full - on immorality after a miscarry experimentation make his skin Na’vi - down in the mouth all over . Bottom line . If your friend so much as obtain a agnail , you should part see your back .
2 ) Your good protagonist has arrest godlike powers .
You passed through a cryptic barrier at the edge of the wandflower , or maybe you encounter some kind of mysterious foreign investigation . And all of a sudden , your good former pal is possess glowy eyes , or know stuff that a normal soul is n’t supposed to know .
1 ) You left your acquaintance for all in .
In which vitrine , pity on you . Leaving your friends for drained is just not cool , and it never turns out well . Even if they really were dead , and then they got rise because Superboy punched the existence . You should have known .
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