#21 violence, pillage/plunder, extortion

It all started when she made all his Marvel Action figures kiss DC Comics heroes. It took him hours to sort them all back to their respective universes, stories, and villains. He plotted furiously.

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She came home to find her Care Bears had been hidden all over her house. It took her three hours to find them in her refrigerator, cabinets, under bed storage containers, and her closet. The final straw was when she ruined four of them because she turned the shower on before checking the bathtub.

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She called him in sick at the University one day and he lost his appointment with the particle fission ray. Next opening? Four months later.

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He disconnected her stereo. They had both forgotten what this fight was about but he felt like this had some kind of symbolic importance.

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She sent him LOLCATS.

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He disconnected her from their Wi-Fi.

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She stole his laptop and rearranged all the files.

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He erased "America's Next Top Model" from their TiVo.

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She changed all the discs in their DVD collection to be in the wrong case.

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"Sheldon," Leonard said as Sheldon tried to fix the Movie Case Debacle, "what is this fight even over?"

"It's a power struggle, Leonard. It's over power and who has it."

"Sheldon, can you just tell her she's won and make up?"

"No, because then I would be ceding power," he intoned, letting Leonard know that that was a stupid question.

"Sheldon, there's something you have to learn about woman. You only have as much power as they give you." His phone rang and he glanced at the text message. "Leslie says I'm late and I have to hurry my ass up if I want anything tonight."

"Yes, well, you have a date with death and Madame Black Widow. Let me know how that goes."

"You let me know how it ends with Ms. Preying Mantis." Sheldon shot him a dirty look but Leonard left before he could attempt to blow up his brain.

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When Leonard came home at three a.m., Sheldor and sitting on the floor, his laptop blazing in front of him while Queen Penelope was laying on the couch, sounds of war coming from her own laptop. He learned that, since he had left, Sheldon had added her back to the Wi-Fi and they had sacked seven villages and had stolen Wolowitz's tiger as a prank. Apparently they had made up and no one's mother had been called and no power had been ceded from either side.