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**** Supplementary materials like the short stories that came with the collectors' editions establish that the humans had indeed earned the grudging respect of the Elites, because they were doing comparatively well in the war despite inferior numbers and technology (turning what should have been a speedbump for the Covenant into a pyrrhic victory). Further, these materials establish that the Elites are very confused why the Prophets are strictly pursuing a genocidal war of annihilation against the humans (which is secretly because the humans are the ''real'' successors to the Forerunners, not the Prophets). It turns out that, if this were just a normal Covenant war of expansion, after so many years of impressive fighting, if the Elites were in charge they would have offered humanity the option to surrender by now, and join the Covenant. They'd be slave-soldiers, but it wouldn't be the genocide the Prophets were planning. Further, the Elites think humans would be a huge step up from their current frontline soldiers, the Grunts.

** Speaking of Bungie, while it isn't exactly an example of this trope, you do join forces with the Pfhor in ''[[Marathon Trilogy|Marathon]]'', and you do so because if you do, [[Big Bad|Tycho]] will decide to keep T'fear from killing all of the humans. It doesn't really matter, since you just go to an alternate reality after he tries to kill you for trying to escape slavery.

* In ''[[Devil May Cry]] 3'', hero Dante teams up with his brother and enemy Vergil to fight the penultimate boss. It's barely cold when Vergil challenges Dante for ownership of the [[Infinity+1 Sword|Force Edge]].

* ''[[StarCraft]]'' is full of those, especially in the [[Expansion Pack]]. It starts with Raynor being forced to team up with the Sons of Korhal to evacuate his [[Doomed Hometown|Doomed Homeplanet]] and ends up with a three-way alliance between the Terrans, Protoss ''and'' Zerg against the Earth Directorate and immature Overmind they were trying to control.