Friendly and Spiky

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Friendly adjective - Having or showing kindly feeling and sincere interest.

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Spiky is an antonym for friendly.

Nearby Words: friend, friendliness, friendship

Spiky adjective - Having or as if having especially high-pitched spots.

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Friendly is an antonym for spiky in wanting to quarrel topic.

Nearby Words: spike, spiked, spiking

Godzilla both uses and subverts this one: the man himself is fairly spiky, and ranges from Bad Ass villain to Bad Ass Anti-Hero to child-friendly Super Hero.

Source: Spikes of Villainy
Where Steve is spiky and aloof, Rob is friendly and ingratiating.

Source: Series / The Trip
Dinosaurs Are Dragons: Terrordactyl subverts this trope due to his friendly nature, but V-Wrex, a savage, spiky Tyrannosaurus rex who isn't afraid to kill and eat the soldiers who antagonize her, plays it so straight, it's scary.

Source: Fanfic / Rise of the Galeforces

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