ALL: Best character FEUDS

[Maxim]

I LOOOOVED Shauna... it was the last time the show worked for me. Really the last time. It could have been epic if she had succeeded in destroying Brooke's life. And so fun.

[SteelCity]

Totally! She also had so much potential not being related to EVERYONE on canvas. Imagine a team up with Justin! They could take over.

[Maxim]

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Edited June 3, 2024 by Maxim

[tonymidnight]

You could always rely on a scene worth watching whenever GL's Alexandra and India were in the room together.   McKinsey and Adams were magic together.   

Ditto for McKinsey and Victoria Wyndham ... AW Rachel and Iris are in the Hall of Fame for classic soap enemies. 

AW's Rachel and Alice helped define the bad girl vs good girl relationship.  Even when she turned good girl, Rachel still felt unnerved by Alice's presence through the years.  

GL's Alan and Mike were classic male foils, romantic rivals made worse when Mike became Alan's father-in-law.  That relationship drove much story for years.  

GL's Miss Sally vs Reva was always good for an intriguing story angle ... it's too bad we lost Miss Sally after Kyle was written out.  They kept her around for a while, but I think they wanted to give Alexandra that role of perpetual thorn in Reva's side.  Sally and Reva had much more in common to be natural adversaries.  Reva should have aged into a Miss Sally-type, but Reva Part 2 lost all connection to her roots when she was brought back in the late 90s, a totally different character actually.  

 

 

[Soaplovers]

GL:  Nola vs Vanessa. 

     Made richer when they became sister in laws

ATWT: Susan vs Kim. 

      What I liked about this feud was that there were years when the two had a ceasefire and were even friendly with one another (especially during the Susan/Larry marriage years).  And then something would set off the feud again rather it was something Susan did or comments Kim would make.

AMC: Erica vs Brooke

       I was always team Erica.  Erica was a have not while Brooke was a rich brat.   While Erica was always insecure and seeking admiration from people/men, Brooke always pretended she was better then Erica and everyone else even though she had no problems going for men that Erica no longer was interested in.  Talk about low self-esteem.

GH:  Lucy vs Katherine

       People always say that Bobbie vs Lucy was their favorite of Lucy's feuds.. but I always got a kick out of Lucy and Katherine whenever they sparred.  Sometimes it would carry out during the annual Nurses Ball.  It was a comical feud and it started because of how Lucy viewed Katherine as trying to soil her late friend Dominique's memory and tried to swindle Scotty and Serena out of their inheritance. 

 

[DemetriKane]

@Soaplovers We gonna keep it cute when it comes to Queen Brooke English!

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[AMCOLTLLover]

B&B: Stephanie vs Brooke! Ofc for the obvious reasons. But I really loved it besides the shitty writting that Stephanies character ended with Brooke lol

Y&R: Classic Jack Abbott vs Victor Newman! But I’m tired of it Now. I just wish someday Jack would finally defeat Victor for good! If Eric retired in 100 Years Jack should be there for his ending lol 

Jill vs Katherine! 
 

[Contessa Donatella]

You mean the valentine to KKL & Flannery on Flannery's last day? Wasn't that an absolutely amazing scene? So unusual but so iconic it should be taught in film school!

[Planet Soap]

Best feuds:

B&B: Stephanie vs Sheila: much is made about Steph's feud with Brooke and Sally, but Sheila was her most formidable opponent. It was the only person I ever saw Stephanie be afraid of. By 1998 Stephanie was clearly intimidated by the crazy woman when she threatened Thomas and shot her to take baby Mary. (Forgot I posted that already)

Y&R: Kay vs Jill: enough said. This drove  40 years of story.

Y&R: Nikki vs Diane: their fued drove story from 1997-2002: everything from Victor's marriage, to the vasectomy, to the Veronica Landers shooting, to sperm gate.

OLTL: Viki vs Dorian...enough said. So much back history and RETCONS all revolving around the all consuming ghost of Victor Lord

GL: Reva vs Annie: loved Annie's crazy antics.

GH: Alan vs Monica: these who may have been married, but they were their best opponents. Their toxic yet loving marriage was great television and comic relief.

ATWT: Kim vs Susan: Susan's affair with Bob in 1990 drew me in, it was very compelling to see an upstanding Mid-America do good or character cheat on his wife. But it's even more interesting to learn that both Bob and Kim were cheaters, and the feud goes back further.

Edited April 11 by Planet Soap

[alwaysAMC]

AMC - I would say Erica/Brooke for sure, but Erica's feud with Barbera was great.  Anyone remember this epic Erica Kane slap when Barbara returned many years later?  Talk about TKO!

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And for good measure, a good Brooke slap to Erica at the 6:18 mark.  

Erica:  "I should have you arrested!"

Brooke:  "There's the phone.  911" 

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[tonymidnight]

I may be in the minority, but I hated the full-blown violence and aggression that these feuds usually led to.  I could understand Krystle's need to beat Alexis to a pulp after learning she killed her unborn baby,  but every other cat fight they had after that as an annual season event held zero dramatic impact.  Lily ponds, mudslides, fashion studios ... ridiculous.  Now everyone just slaps someone with no hesitation.  It's lazy writing.  

[Contessa Donatella]

It's funny. For the longest time I didn't care for any catfights or slaps or anything remotely like that. But, last year I discovered the GENERATIONS catfight which I consider to be the best ever, written by Michele Val Jean & those two women almost destroyed an apartment & it took all he could manage for a grown-ass man to pull them apart.

Ever since then I've become a fan. Sometimes a day changes nothing. But sometimes it changes a lot.

[Contessa Donatella]

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[Contessa Donatella]

One thing I don't think many fans realize is that VW and Beverlee were friends. It was VW who advised McKinsey to play hardball on her contracts for TEXAS. Because of it she came away with not only a ton of money but the star billing!

 

[I Am A Swede]

I liked that ending. The Stephanie/Brooke relationship defined that era of B&B, so it felt fitting somehow, as an end to the first 25 years. I just wish that Brad Bell had used that moment to transition Brooke into the next matriarch. Not like Stephanie, but a more grown-up version of Brooke.