25 Wild Times in History That Unlikely Allies Came Together to Fight a Common Enemy
‘The allied forces and Hitler successfully joined forces to kill Hitler’
There might not be a plotline that’s propped up more movies than unlikely allies joining together in pursuit of a common goal. An ex-baddie, our hero, a strong handshake and a greater enemy make for an easy action movie backbone.
It’s not all fiction, obviously. You can see the same sort of thing happen in situations all the way out to the animal kingdom. If you play board games regularly, you’ve likely participated in one of these tenuous alliances. History, too, has plenty of such cases, and Redditors listed some of the most interesting, collected below.
