History DieForOurShip / VideoGames

*** In a similar vein, the small [[RomanticTwoGirlFriendship Adeleine/Ribbon]] ship is trashed by Kirby/Ribbon shippers for [[EntitledToHaveYou trying to "steal" Ribbon away from Kirby.]]

** And sometimes, it's even more, with these fans, they would shove away how Arakune used to be human and might deserve a second chance, to these fans, the fact that he's an amorphous blob that ate Kaka clans for his dietary means that he really should be killed ForGreatJustice for all, and that Litchi insists that he can be saved means that she's a fool, and is constantly being blamed for trying to dissuade her own grief like someone who was never a good person to begin with ([[spoiler:goining NOL and aiding Relius in his would-be genocidal plan, despite unwilling, [[FanDumb will do such thing for this fandom]]]]), people would rather pity Bang for not getting the girl and would think that she no longer deserves Bang (so now she's pegged to "die" because of refusing the ship! [[FlatWhat What]]). Never mind that [[HumansAreFlawed Bang himself]] [[WrongGenreSavvy also has a very flawed view on Litchi]], thinking of her like a perfect MarySue that can do no wrong and [[BreakTheCutie being shocked when she turns out to be a person with deep issues]], but apparently for these fans, Bang's manliness overrode all.

** Vocal Valvatorez/Fenrich shippers aren't exactly thrilled with Artina since she possesses some Mary Sue traits and, initially at least, a rather sharp tongue. On the flip side, some of the people who ship Val/Artina are not exactly fond of Fenrich's JerkSue traits.

** Lilly herself gets some of this trope from fans of the other route, who resent her for being the most popular girl. She is also sometimes accused of being a MarySue, [[spoiler:although this, like other tropes, is [[DeconstructedTrope deconstructed]], when Hisao finds himself relying on her too much, doesn't challenge her decision to go to Scotland until almost literally the last second, and realizes that she has flaws of her own, such as hiding her emotions]].

** There isn't a lot of bashing, but the majority of what there is is thrown against Iris, for ''daring'' to be [[spoiler: the twin sister of the CuteAndPsycho Dahlia Hawthorne ''and'' Phoenix's ex-girlfriend who dated him to save him from her evil sister]]. To some extreme Phoenix/Edgeworth shippers, this means Iris is "an evil, hypocritical, stupid CanonSue whore who keeps Phoenix and Miles away from each other." To make things worse, the case that introduced Iris also gave fuel for both Phoenix/Maya and Phoenix/Edgeworth shippers, making her something of a ThirdOptionLoveInterest. Fortunately, the series never resolves potential romances between the main characters, which keeps bashing to a minimum.

** Probably the worst flak is given to Spyro/Cynder, although [[WordOfGod Sierra]] themselves pretty much showed that they were the one true pairing. Many claims hold Cynder as [[MarySue a cliched character with a generic dark past]], leading to ridiculous flame wars with fans and non-fans. For added insanity, keep in mind that Cynder ''doesn't even exist in the same continuity'' as pretty much ''all'' of other dragons/beings Spyro gets paired with by fans.

* ''VideoGame/AceAttorney'':
** Maya Fey used to be seen as a threat by Phoenix/Miles shippers before the original trilogy finished. Her cousin, Pearl Fey also gets a ton of flack from them because she is a ShipperOnDeck for Phoenix and Maya. Pearl often dies in fan cases (due to nearly every case involving murder) or gives up on her shipping preferences to match the author's tastes. [[spoiler: Even though her reason for shipping Phoenix and Maya is because she witnessed nothing but unhappy marriages due to growing up as a daughter of Kurain.]] This is in spite of the fact that in-story, she eventually denounces said shipping of her own accord.
** Following ''Trials and Tribulations'', [[TheAtoner Iris]] has taken Maya's place as the biggest threat to shippers. Only this time, she has the dubious honour of uniting ''both'' Phoenix/Miles and Phoenix/Maya shippers in their hatred. And their grievances are far more justified. [[spoiler: Iris impersonated her sister, Dahlia, and entered a relationship with Phoenix to keep her EvilTwin from committing more crimes. Phoenix believed that his ex-girlfriend was a deceitful killer, but in reality the nice girl and the deceitful killer were two different people. Iris, throughout ''Trials and Tribulations'' wants to atone for being an accomplice in her sister's schemes and still loves Phoenix in spite of knowing they [[IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy can't be together]]]]. Even though she is never seen again after the original trilogy, she left a strong enough impression to be deeply disliked by her detractors long afterwards. If she isn't written out of the narrative entirely, most fanfiction has Iris gracefully step aside upon knowing about Phoenix' new relationship, be an ExtremeDoormat who can only do what [[spoiler: Dahlia]] tells her to do, or at absolute worst, be just as [[RonTheDeathEater evil]] as [[spoiler: her sister]].
** Phoenix himself is subject to this treatment by Miles/Gumshoe and Miles/Lang shippers. The fact that Miles was his motivation to become an attorney to begin with is used as grounds to twist him into a StalkerWithACrush, a DoggedNiceGuy who can't stand that Miles is dating a bad boy (Lang) or moron (Gumshoe) instead of him, or in more extreme cases, as an [[CrazyJealousGuy obsessive]] {{Yandere}} who sees Miles as his [[EntitledToHaveYou property]] due to their childhood friendship. This is done in order to prop up Gumshoe and/or Lang as a healthier and more wholesome option for Miles, who should date someone who was "always there for him" instead of a "creep" like Phoenix.
** Diego Armando, aka Godot, is also given this treatment by [[ExperimentedInCollege Mia/Lana]] shippers, who often distort him into a StrawMisogynist who wanted Mia solely for her looks. This is because he defaults to calling her pet names except in [[YouCalledMeXItMustBeSerious dramatic]] moments, and because he called Franziska a "filly who needs to be put in her place". This is in spite of the fact that in-canon, his love for Mia is part of his villainous motivation, and multiple characters have called out Franziska for her InferioritySuperiorityComplex.

** Phoenix himself is subject to this treatment by Miles/Gumshoe and Miles/Lang shippers. The fact that Miles was his motivation to become an attorney to begin with is used as grounds to twist him into a StalkerWithACrush, a DoggedNiceGuy who can't stand that Miles is dating a bad boy (Lang) or moron (Gumshoe) of him, or in more extreme cases, as an [[CrazyJealousGuy obsessive]] {{Yandere}} who sees Miles as his [[EntitledToHaveYou property]] due to their childhood friendship. This is done in order to prop up Gumshoe and/or Lang as a healthier and more wholesome option for Miles, who should date someone who was "always there for him" instead of a "creep" like Phoenix.

** Phoenix himself is subject to this treatment by Miles/Gumshoe and Miles/Lang shippers. The fact that Miles was his motivation to become an attorney to begin with is used as grounds to twist him into a StalkerWithACrush, a DoggedNiceGuy who can't stand that Miles is dating a bad boy (Lang) or moron (Gumshoe) instead of a "[[DoggedNiceGuy nice guy]]" like him, or in more extreme cases, as an [[CrazyJealousGuy obsessive]] {{Yandere}} who sees Miles as his [[EntitledToHaveYou property]] due to their childhood friendship. This is done in order to prop up Gumshoe and/or Lang as a healthier and more wholesome option for Miles, who should date someone who was "always there for him" instead of a "creep" like Phoenix.

** Phoenix himself is subject to this treatment by Miles/Gumshoe and Miles/Lang shippers. The fact that Miles was his motivation to become an attorney to begin with is used as grounds to twist him into a StalkerWithACrush, a DoggedNiceGuy who can't stand that Miles is dating a bad boy/moron like Lang/Gumshoe instead of a "[[DoggedNiceGuy nice guy]]" like him, or in more extreme cases, as an [[CrazyJealousGuy obsessive]] {{Yandere}} who sees Miles as his [[EntitledToHaveYou property]] due to their childhood friendship. This is done in order to prop up Gumshoe and/or Lang as a healthier and more wholesome option for Miles, who should date someone who was "always there for him" instead of a "creep" like Phoenix.

** Phoenix himself is subject to this treatment by Miles/Gumshoe and Miles/Lang shippers. The fact that Miles was his motivation to become an attorney to begin with is used as grounds to twist him into a StalkerWithACrush, a DoggedNiceGuy who can't stand that Miles is dating a bad boy like Lang instead of a "[[DoggedNiceGuy nice guy]]" like him, or in more extreme cases, as an [[CrazyJealousGuy obsessive]] {{Yandere}} who sees Miles as his [[EntitledToHaveYou property]] due to their childhood friendship. This is done in order to prop up Gumshoe and/or Lang as a healthier and more wholesome option for Miles, who should date someone who was "always there for him" instead of a "creep" like Phoenix.

** Phoenix himself is subject to this treatment by Miles/Gumshoe and Miles/Lang shippers. The fact that Miles was his motivation to become an attorney to begin with is used as grounds to twist him into a StalkerWithACrush, a DoggedNiceGuy who can't stand that Miles is dating a bad boy like Lang instead of a "[[DoggedNiceGuy nice guy like him]]", or in more extreme cases, as an [[CrazyJealousGuy obsessive]] {{Yandere}} who sees Miles as his [[EntitledToHaveYou property]] due to their childhood friendship. This is done in order to prop up Gumshoe and/or Lang as a healthier and more wholesome option for Miles, who should date someone who was "always there for him" instead of a "creep" like Phoenix.

* VideoGame/{{Ace Attorney}}:

** Maya Fey used to be seen as a threat by Phoenix/Miles shippers before the original trilogy finished. Her cousin, Pearl Fey also gets a ton of flack because she is a ShipperOnDeck for Phoenix and Maya. Pearl often dies in fan cases (due to nearly every case involving murder) or gives up on her shipping preferences to match the author's tastes. [[spoiler: Even though her reason for shipping Phoenix and Maya is because she witnessed nothing but unhappy marriages due to growing up as a daughter of Kurain.]] This is in spite of the fact that in-story, she eventually denounces said shipping of her own accord.

** Maya Fey used to get heat from Phoenix/Miles shippers before the original trilogy finished. Her cousin, Pearl Fey also gets a ton of flack because she is a ShipperOnDeck for Phoenix and Maya. Pearl often dies in fan cases (due to nearly every case involving murder) or gives up on her shipping preferences to match the author's tastes. [[spoiler: Even though her reason for shipping Phoenix and Maya is because she witnessed nothing but unhappy marriages due to growing up as a daughter of Kurain.]] This is in spite of the fact that in-story, she eventually denounces said shipping of her own accord.
** Following ''Trials and Tribulations'', [[TheAtoner Iris]] has taken Maya's place as the female character to take the most heat from Phoenix/Miles shippers. Only this time, their grievances are far more justified. [[spoiler: Iris impersonated her sister, Dahlia, and entered a relationship with Phoenix to keep her EvilTwin from committing more crimes. Phoenix believed that his ex-girlfriend was a deceitful killer, but in reality the nice girl and the deceitful killer were two different people. Iris, throughout ''Trials and Tribulations'' wants to atone for being an accomplice in her sister's schemes and still loves Phoenix in spite of knowing they [[IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy can't be together.]]]]. Even though she is never seen again after the original trilogy, she left a strong enough impression to be deeply disliked by Phoenix/Miles shippers long afterwards. Most fanfiction has Iris gracefully step aside upon knowing about Phoenix and Miles' relationship, be an ExtremeDoormat who can only do what [[spoiler: Dahlia]] tells her to do, or at absolute worst, be just as [[RonTheDeathEater evil]] as [[spoiler: her sister]].

* Goro Akechi from ''VideoGame/Persona5'' is outright despised by fans who pair Joker with either Makoto or Futaba in part to his fondness for Joker, Joker/Akechi being a very popular pairing among the fanbase [[spoiler:and Akechi being responsible for the mental shutdown and psychotic breakdown incidents, as well as killing Joker in the game's bad ending,]] resulting in those fans warping Akechi into an idiot or AxCrazy psychopath who outright despises Joker and/or his partner.

** Following ''Trials and Tribulations'', [[TheAtoner Iris]] has taken Maya's place as the female character to take the most heat from Phoenix/Miles shippers. Only this time, their grievances are far more justified. [[spoiler: Iris impersonated her sister, Dahlia, and entered a relationship with Phoenix to keep her EvilTwin from committing more crimes. Phoenix believed that his ex-girlfriend was a deceitful killer, but in reality the nice girl and the deceitful killer were two different people. Iris, throughout ''Trials and Tribulations'' wants to atone for being an accomplice in her sister's schemes and still loves Phoenix in spite of knowing they [[IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy can't be together.]]]]. Even though she is never seen again after the original trilogy, she left a strong enough impression to be deeply disliked by Phoenix/Miles shippers long afterwards. Most fanfiction has Iris, at best, gracefully step aside upon knowing about Phoenix and Miles' relationship, and at worst, is portrayed as [[RonTheDeathEater just as bad as]] [[spoiler: Dahlia]].

* In ''VideoGame/{{Ace Attorney}}:
* Maya Fey used to get heat from Phoenix/Miles shippers before the original trilogy finished. Her cousin, Pearl Fey also gets a ton of flack because she is a ShipperOnDeck for Phoenix and Maya. Pearl often dies in fan cases (due to nearly every case involving murder) or gives up on her shipping preferences to match the author's tastes. [[spoiler: Even though her reason for shipping Phoenix and Maya is because she witnessed nothing but unhappy marriages due to growing up as a daughter of Kurain.]] This is in spite of the fact that in-story, she eventually denounces said shipping of her own accord.
* Following ''Trials and Tribulations'', [[TheAtoner Iris]] has taken Maya's place as the female character to take the most heat from Phoenix/Miles shippers. Only this time, their grievances are far more justified. [[spoiler: Iris impersonated her sister, Dahlia, and entered a relationship with Phoenix to keep her EvilTwin from committing more crimes. Phoenix believed that his ex-girlfriend was a deceitful killer, but in reality the nice girl and the deceitful killer were two different people. Iris, throughout ''Trials and Tribulations'' wants to atone for being an accomplice in her sister's schemes and still loves Phoenix in spite of knowing they [[IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy can't be together.]]]]. Even though she is never seen again after the original trilogy, she left a strong enough impression to be deeply disliked by Phoenix/Miles shippers long afterwards. Most fanfiction has Iris, at best, gracefully step aside upon knowing about Phoenix and Miles' relationship, and at worst, is portrayed as [[RonTheDeathEater just as bad as]] [[spoiler: Dahlia]].

* In ''VideoGame/{{Ace Attorney}}, some fans of the pairing between Miles Edgeworth and Phoenix Wright will throw Maya Fey under the bus due to her being often shipped with Phoenix Wright. Additionally, and often much more commonly, Pearl Fey recieves this treatment because, in canon, she ships her cousin Maya with Phoenix Wright. Pearl often dies in fancases (due to nearly every case involving murder) or does a HeelFaceTurn with her shipping preferences to match the author's tastes, [[spoiler:despite her reason behind her vehement shipping being both an integral part of her early character, having seen all these unhappy marriages around her growing up, and]] despite having said shipping that gets her the bad treatment ultimately being denounced by both parties multiple times in canon.

Some sections have gotten so big that they were moved to their own pages:

* DieForOurShip/FinalFantasy
* DieForOurShip/FireEmblem
* DieForOurShip/{{Pokemon}}
* DieForOurShip/TalesSeries

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* ''VideoGame/{{Drakengard}}'' fandom falls into this habit as well, with both [[OfficialCouple Nowe/Manah]] and [[FanPreferredCouple Nowe/Eris]] fans blasting the third side of the LoveTriangle for getting in the way on their OTP. Usually, it is Manah who gets the brunt of the hatred (which probably has something to do with the fact that she was the BigBad in the first game), but there are quite a few Eris-haters out there, too.
* In ''VideoGame/GanbareGoemon'' fandom, Omitsu is the favored punching bag for bitter shippers, as she is the sole love interest of the main series - a matter exacerbated by her lack of screen time outside of [[DistressedDamsel kidnapping plots]], leading her to be denounced as a useless cuckoldress or simply ignored as a result. To rub more salt into the wound, Konami has been making Goemon and Omitsu's romance more overt in recent times, and even threw in a couple of moments to [[ShipSinking sink]] the more popular [=GoeYae=] couple. (The fans of the aforementioned couple have the manga and ''Bouken Jidai Katsugeki'' to go on, but they're AlternateContinuity, so they "don't count.")

* ''VideoGame/Left4Dead2'' has shipping wars between Ellis/Zoey shippers and Ellis/Nick shippers. The game sometimes has a teasing between Ellis and Zoey but nothing ever comes out of it. On the other side of the spectrum, Nick constantly makes fun of Ellis and gives him grief while Ellis takes it in stride and sometimes mildly quips back. Due to the linear and fast paced nature of the game, there's little to no character development, but that hasn't stopped shippers from trying to add more to the survivors.

* ''Franchise/{{Kirby}}'' [[NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer (yes, there are shippers in]] ''[[NoHuggingNoKissing the Kirby fandom)]]'' suffers from this quite a bit, usually towards the main character's female companions and Meta Knight.
** [[VideoGame/KirbysDreamLand3 Chuchu]] and [[VideoGame/Kirby64TheCrystalShards Ribbon]] are at each other's throats 24/7, with the author's personal preference winning out and the other girl getting depicted as being a ClingyJealousGirl and [[DerailingLoveInterests an idiot.]] [[VideoGame/KirbyAndTheRainbowCurse Elline]] and Adeleine, despite being rarer shipmates, are treated just about the same. Mercifully, many fics have them [[PairTheSpares paired up with someone else]] if Kirby doesn't choose them. But worst of all, [[Anime/KirbyRightBackAtYa Tiff]] is usually made into a hyper-controlling and emotionally abusive bitch to Kirby, or [[FantasticRacism a racist]] towards Meta Knight. [[CanonForeigner And she isn't even in the games!]]
*** In a similar vein, the small [[RomanticTwoGirlFriendship Adeleine/Ribbon]] ship is trashed by Kirby/Ribbon shippers for [[EntitledToHaveYou trying to "steal" Ribbon away from Kirby.]]
** Dark Meta Knight and Marx are often depicted as {{Yandere}} [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil rapists]] in Meta/Kirby and Meta/Galacta fic. In fact, pretty much all [[LauncherOfAThousandShips Meta Knight shipping fics]] follow the same premise: Meta Knight falls in love with someone, someone else gets jealous of their love and tries to ruin it, Meta Knight saves them and defeats the villain, roll credits!
* ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'':
** As quoted above, Kairi is rabidly hated by many [[HoYay Sora/Riku]] shippers despite being a kind-hearted princess type of [[TwoGuysAndAGirl a trio of friends]] without much overt romantic interest. Generally, she's portrayed by the shippers as a selfish homophobic bitch who hates Riku (usually due to one scene in which she expressed distrust toward him, which [[RivalTurnedEvil was eventually justified]]) and wants Sora for herself, and usually ends up dying in some over-the-top fashion. This is despite the fact that the significance of the interest in Kairi has absolutely nothing to do with who ends up with whom. The importance of both boys crushing on Kairi is that it binds the three friends to a child-like atmosphere in their otherwise dark experiences, and it's ultimately Kairi who reunites Sora and Riku after a long period of them being seperated from one another.
** There also exists a cult following for Sora/Namine that are positively vicious toward Kairi, making her out to be [[RonTheDeathEater dumb, selfish, and evil]] while insisting that Naminé is [[CreatorsPet perfectly wonderful in every way,]] so she deserves to be with Sora. On the flip side, whenever Sora/Kairi shippers actually turn up, half of them seem to demonize Naminé, saying that she messed with Sora's memories and tried to steal him away from Kairi, which she actually did do... under the orders of her [[AbusiveParents evil, abusive guardians]], and once they were defeated, she set things right with Sora. The big kicker to all of this? Kairi and Naminé [[spoiler:[[LiteralSplitPersonality are the SAME BEING anyway]]!]] Honestly, thinking about it too long is enough to give one a brain tumor.
** Naminé even gets hate from rabid Roxas/Xion shippers, especially after the 2.8 HD collection implied Roxas/Naminé as an OfficialCouple in the special credits.
** Speaking of Xion, nearly every Axel/Roxas shipper hated her before the game was even released, and at least 75% of them ''still'' hate her now for getting in the way of their pairing.
** The Sora/Riku shippers are just as bonkers where Xion is concerned. The moment screenshots appeared of Xion and Riku sharing the same breathing space, the shippers went nuts and started vilifying her for getting in the way of the ship. The best part? Xion [[spoiler:is Sora's OppositeSexClone]].
** The members of Organization XIII (or the "ORGY-nization" if you see all the pairings) are all either hated or loved for various reasons in terms of fandom, but Larxene is often depicted as more of an evil, violent, and sadistic bitch than necessary or just forgotten altogether in order to advance any of the [[HoYay yaoi pairings]]. Note that the ''[[VideoGame/KingdomHeartsChainOfMemories Chain of Memories]]'' half of the Organization hasn't even really canonically interacted with the ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsII'' half on screen. This only ''encourages'' it by leading to [[ShipsThatPassInTheNight shipping at near-random]] and therefore, bashing of [[ShipToShipCombat rival ships]]. When you have people loathing Zexion for getting in the way of Xigbar/Demyx, who doesn't even appear in the same game as either of them, you know something is seriously wrong...
** Lexeaus to any ship. Save for [[PairTheSpares pairing him up with Zexion]], [[LauncherOfAThousandShips which is unlikely]], he might as well not exist as far as shipping is concerned.
** Subject X being Isa and Lea's friend they joined the Organization to search for made her receive hate from Isa/Lea shippers before we even knew for sure who she was.
* ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'':
** ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime Ocarina of Time]]'', which arguably added multiple love interests, depending on who you ask. Saria, Malon, Zelda, and Ruto all suffer. The older Nabooru, who has the most overt interest in him but also the least dialogue, gets much less negative attention, mostly because fans interpret her as being just a flirt with no romantic interest. Princess Ruto, who finagled a ChildhoodMarriagePromise on the other hand, is ''the'' most loathed girl by the shippers. [[EscortMission Lord Jabu-Jabu's Belly doesn't help.]] The hatred of Ruto doesn't even make a whole lot of sense, considering that Link clearly isn't interested and the ending makes it impossible for them to be together even if he were.
*** While she doesn't get NEARLY as much hate as Princess Ruto, if you ship Link with Zelda or Saria, you must bash Malon. Malon-bashing increased much more when they revealed the series timeline in ''[[AllThereInTheManual Hyrule Historia]]'', which soft-confirmed that Link/Malon as the OfficialCouple for this game.[[note]]The Link of ''Twilight Princess'' is confirmed to be a descendant of the ''Ocarina of Time'' Link ([[IKnewIt who appears in-game as the Hero's Spirit/Shade]]), is a farmer, starts with a horse, and knows "Epona's Song" (a song taught to Malon by her mother), and obviously isn't a prince nor part-Zora/Kokiri/Gerudo.[[/note]] [[ShipToShipCombat Of course, the other shippers hated that.]]
*** Oddly, original FairyCompanion Navi is mostly left out of ''[=OoT=]'' shipping wars despite WordOfGod stating that she was in love with Link and was jealous of Zelda (though she didn't ''hate'' her by any means). Might have something to do with her [[TheScrappy scrappy status]] and being only three inches tall.
*** An especially ironic example is Princess Zelda, who is frequently [[InsaneTrollLogic bashed and vilified in]] {{Slash Fic}}s wherein Link is paired up with Sheik... who canonically happens to be [[{{Bifauxnen}} her male-looking ninja alter ego]]. Said fics tend to [[CanonDefilement retcon him into being a separate character]] in order to make this work.
** ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTheWindWaker Wind Waker]]'' had only three significant female characters: Tetra/[[ReallyRoyaltyReveal Princess Zelda]], Medli (who was blatantly attracted to another boy), and Link's younger sister Aryll. (There's also a fairy queen who has a crush on Link, but hardly anyone ever remembers her.) As such, it only really came down to Tetra and Medli, and the number of fanfictions involving Link escaping Tetra's fan-overblown controlling bitch personality and heading off to be with Medli are astronomical. (They, however, almost never kill off Komali. They rather pretend that he [[FanonDiscontinuity never existed]].) Also, the only ones the {{Yaoi Fangirl}}s pair Toon Link up with are... [[ScrewYourself pretty much all of the other Links]].
** ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess Twilight Princess]]'' had a fair amount of this:
*** Link/Midna fics occasionally had its own share of Zelda bashing, though most Zelda/Link and Midna/Link fans get along (or even [[OneTrueThreesome outright ship all three characters together]]). Depending on the fic, this may simply involve Zelda turning out to be a controlling shrew who feels like she's entitled to Link because of ReincarnationRomance, escalate to Zelda being the first victim of whatever violent conflict arises from the reopening of the portal, or have her be banished to live in the Twilight Realm while Midna gets to reside in Hyrule. The last of which is an odd punishment considering that Midna views Zelda as a friend, and even if she didn't, favorably sees the Twilight Realm as her home and resents the idea of it continuing to be used as a prison for Hyrule's worst.
*** On the other side of the equation, some Link/Zelda fans tended to be threatened by the fact that Midna spends most of the game with Link and is possibly implied to have feelings for him, while Zelda is a prisoner for most of the game. As such, they like to pretend Midna never underwent any character development, painting her as a manipulative, ungrateful brat who treats Link as a pet.
*** Poor, poor Ilia absolutely gets the worst of this though. Since she's the game's main ImpliedLoveInterest, she gets bashed to hell and back by ''both'' Zelda/Link and Midna/Link shippers, [[NeverLiveItDown usually focusing on her]] scolding Link for accidentally hurting Epona's leg (even though she apologizes later and Link had clearly shrugged the moment off anyway).
** With ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaSkywardSword Skyward Sword]]'', you now have three pairings that involve having to get rid of Zelda: the Item Check Girl, Peatrice (with whom you can actually end up dating at the end of your sidequest, to which Fi suggests to ''never'' tell Zelda); your new companion, Fi (i.e., the spirit of the Master Sword), who canonically does became emotionally attached to Link; and, of course, [[FoeYay Ghira]][[HoYay him]], whose lines in the game practically ooze with desire on what he [[SexIsViolence wants to do to Link]].
** ''VideoGame/HyruleWarriors'' resulted in Zelda/Link and Midna/Link fans joining forces against the game's villainess, who [[VillainessesWantHeroes has a thing for Link]]. The [[VocalMinority immature sections]] of these groups hated her upon announcement, though this ebbed after the game released and we learned her backstory and final fate at the end of the game. [[spoiler:As it turns out, the villainess in question, Cia, was once the Guardian of Time tasked with protecting the Triforce whose interest in the Hero of Legend slowly turned into an obsessive love that was capitalized on by Ganondorf, corrupting her into the character she is today. She ends up ''actually dying'' when all's said and done, having a brief heart-to-heart on her deathbed with [[LiteralSplitPersonality her good half]] and [[EnemyWithout discarded light]], Lana, where they come to accept the fact that Link doesn't choose either of them over Zelda, [[IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy something that Lana can live with]] [[LoveHurts despite her heartbreak]]. The sad nature of this scene, Cia's tragic StartOfDarkness, and Lana's farewell to Link and Zelda in the ending managed to quell most of the shipping debates, and the 3DS port/expansion, ''Hyrule Warriors Legends'', features a post-game campaign where Cia is brought BackFromTheDead to live a happier life with Lana as they resume their original role as the Guardian of Time.]]

* ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'':
** Amy Rose (and to a lesser extent, Sally Acorn in the [[Creator/ArchieComics Archie]] ''[[ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogArchieComics Sonic]]'' comics) is forever reviled by Sonic/Shadow slash shippers, a prospect made easier due to her StalkerWithACrush status. The Sally and Amy fans also hate each other's characters, each blaming the other's chosen character for making the series JumpTheShark and {{Flanderization}} destroying theirs.
** Elise, Sonic's love interest in ''[[VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog2006 Sonic '06]]''. She's widely hated by Sonamy fans. But then again, [[TheScrappy she's pretty much hated by everyone]].
** Depending on what is supported, Shadow, Knuckles, and Rouge are subjected to this treatment, with Rouge being portrayed as an evil seductress trying to lure Knuckles and Shadow away from each other by the Shadow/Knuckles shippers, Shadow being portrayed as a gun-toting manic by the Knuckles/Rouge shippers, and Knuckles being portrayed as abusive and [[StalkerWithACrush obsessive]] by the Rouge/Shadow shippers. (And for the latter, this is if Knuckles isn't portrayed as wanting Rouge ''dead'' so that she won't be able to try to steal the Master Emerald anymore.)
** This is also the case with the Shadamy shippers, who usually portray Sonic as a {{Jerkass}} who doesn't want Amy until she's off with someone else. The default in fanfics is for Sonic to spurn Amy one too many times, resulting in her seeing the much nicer Shadow in a better light and falling for him.
** Many fanfics kill Sonic off in order to pair Amy up with... [[EvilKnockoff Metal Sonic]]. The real irony is that the first time Metal and Amy met, Metal kidnapped her.
** In the case of ''Anime/SonicX'', there is mutual hatred between fans of Cosmo/Tails and Cream/Tails. [[spoiler: Cosmo dies in the final episode anyways.]]
** Also in ''Anime/SonicX'', Molly is bashed for trying to steal Shadow away from Maria. The ironic thing is that Maria is already long dead by the time Molly is introduced.
** Within the [[ComicBook/SonicTheComic Fleetway]] fandom there's a joke that Tekno and Amy are more then best friends. Cybernik is already TheScrappy due to his annoying behavior, but WordOfGod saying there's a romantic connection between Tekno and Cybernik just dug his grave even more.
** The ''VideoGame/SonicBoom'' iteration of Amy has her Sonic {{stalker|WithACrush}} tendencies strongly dialed down. Of course, this doesn't stop her from spending a stage with Sonic (and another with Tails and a third with Knuckles), nor does it stop her from befriending [[WildChild Sticks]]. We could be dealing with a new cold war, folks.
* ''VideoGame/StarFox'':
** ''Star Fox'', with its predominantly male cast, naturally gets this, especially in the form of [[MsFanservice Krystal]] the blue vixen, who is both Fox's [[SatelliteLoveInterest love interest]] and the BaseBreakingCharacter of the series as a whole. A portion of fans shunt her aside in favor of [[HoYay Fox/Falco]] and [[FoeYay Fox/Wolf]]; there's also [[FauxActionGirl Fara Phoenix]] from the 1993 Nintendo Power comics based off of the SNES game as a replacement, even though she and Fox have little chemistry between them. [[{{Irony}} More precisely: As much as Fox and Krystal do.]]
** On the flip side, just about no one will even ''dare'' ship [[LatinLover Panther]] with Krystal: lo and behold, rabid fans burst like crazy.
** Fara's and Krystal's fans are constantly at each others' throats.
** And even the HoYay shippers as mentioned can go crazy on one another, especially with [[AntiHero Wolf]], who is often a victim of ShipToShipCombat with [[AxCrazy Leon,]] or even ''James.''

* ''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorney'':
** There isn't a lot of bashing, but the majority of what there is is thrown against Iris, for ''daring'' to be [[spoiler: the twin sister of the CuteAndPsycho Dahlia Hawthorne ''and'' Phoenix's ex-girlfriend who dated him to save him from her evil sister]]. To some extreme Phoenix/Edgeworth shippers, this means Iris is "an evil, hypocritical, stupid CanonSue whore who keeps Phoenix and Miles away from each other." To make things worse, the case that introduced Iris also gave fuel for both Phoenix/Maya and Phoenix/Edgeworth shippers, making her something of a ThirdOptionLoveInterest. Fortunately, the series never resolves potential romances between the main characters, which keeps bashing to a minimum.
** Leona Clyde from the Takarazuka musical gets a ''lot'' of hate for taking the place of several canon characters in Phoenix's life and being his love interest to boot. Of course, much of the shipper hate is mitigated by the wonderful HoYay number with Phoenix dancing with/being assaulted by Edgeworth's backup dancer clones.
** In-universe example: Pearl Fey. Having seen many members of her family (including her mother) deal with broken marriages due to the matriarchal nature of Kurain, she's desperate for her beloved cousin "Mystic Maya" to have a happy and secure marriage with Phoenix Wright. This leads to her flipping out and slapping Nick on occasion if he so much as stands next to other women (including Iris, Pearl's own sister), despite the pair's constant recital of SheIsNotMyGirlfriend.
* Omitsu is the favored punching bag for bitter shippers in the ''VideoGame/GanbareGoemon'' fandom, as she is the sole love interest of the main series - a matter exacerbated by her lack of screen time outside of [[DistressedDamsel kidnapping plots]], leading her to be denounced as a useless cuckoldress or simply ignored as a result. To rub more salt into the wound, Konami has been making Goemon and Omitsu's romance more overt in recent times, and even threw in a couple of moments to [[ShipSinking sink]] the more popular [=GoeYae=] couple. (The fans of the aforementioned couple have the manga and ''Bouken Jidai Katsugeki'' to go on, but they're AlternateContinuity, so they "don't count.")

* Even the ''[[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Mario]]'' fandom suffers from this:
** Mario himself has been bashed and demonized in fanfiction for the sake of pairing Peach with Bowser or Luigi. Bowser/Peach fans in particular like to write off him as a {{Jerkass}} who doesn't like Peach, only the thrill of the chase that comes with saving her from Bowser. The opposite happens with Mario/Peach fans, and while more of a JustifiedTrope [[BigBad in that case]], it still ignores his JerkWithAHeartOfGold side.
** If Mario gets paired with anyone who's ''not'' Peach, and PairTheSpares is not in effect, expect Peach's [[TheDitz ditzy]] traits to be [[{{Flanderization}} played up a lot]].
** Tomboyish Princess Daisy is bashed by people who want to pair Luigi with Peach or Rosalina and [[YaoiFangirl those hung up on Luigi being gay]].
** In the anime film ''Anime/TheGreatMissionToSavePrincessPeach'', Prince Haru from the Flower Kingdom comes under fire from this due to him being Peach's fiancé. In other words, messing up the [=MarioxPeach=] ending. Thankfully for them, Hal is a CanonForeigner who will never show up in the games.
** Rosalina is a huge BaseBreakingCharacter already, never mind shipping. Many Mario/Peach fans and Luigi/Daisy fans are very wary of her because she has no love interest, the assumed ShipTease between her and the Bros., and the fact that that Mario/Rosalina and Luigi/Rosalina are fairly popular.
** Pauline quite possibly gets the worst of this of all. She gets bashed horribly by Mario/Peach fans. She's his ''ex''-girlfriend and they're just friends now but shippers act like she's constantly trying to seduce Mario. There's also a great deal of SlutShaming due to Pauline's attire and makeup in comparison to Peach's PrincessClassic style.
** It's not unknown for fans of Captain Syrup and Wario together to be hostile towards Mona of ''VideoGame/WarioWare'' for having a PrecociousCrush on Wario.
** ''Odyssey'' caused Pauline to get a huge amount of fans, which caused a flip on the Peach vs Pauline war. Peach has been demonized for [[spoiler:turning down Mario when he tried to force a proposal on her]] and for having no RelationshipUpgrade with Mario despite him constantly saving her. Pauline, on the other hand, gets praised for throwing a festival and singing a song dedicated to Mario.
* There are countless ''VideoGame/{{Soul|Series}}'' series fanfics where the non-playable character [[TheBlacksmith Rothion]] gets killed off so they can pair his wife [[ActionMom Sophitia]] off with someone else, usually [[TheAtoner Siegfried]] or [[{{Ninja}} Taki]]. In [[http://darth.wikia.com/wiki/Sophitia_Alexandra one case,]] she's been paired up with ''[[Franchise/StarWars Darth]] [[GuestFighter Vader]]''.
** The degree of negative treatment Rothion gets is just ridiculous. In one fiction, he was killed, sent to [[FireAndBrimstoneHell Hades]], locked up in a bone cage, [[FateWorseThanDeath tortured for eternity]], and given regular, vicious {{Hannibal Lecture}}s by the gods. Why? [[LogicBomb Because he helped the injured Sophitia when Taki brought her home]], thus seducing her into marrying him and disrupting what was apparently THE GODS' OneTruePairing. Sophitia then admitted [[WhatTheHellHero she never truly loved him anyways]] and goes off to have a three-way with Taki and [[IncestIsRelative Cassandra]]. That isn't even the WORST of the fic... This encompasses ALL aspects of fic-hood, from Western written ones to Eastern {{doujinshi}}. Why is this? Well, the answer's quite simple: Sophitia is widely considered one of the most attractive women in a series full of attractive women, and her husband's some guy you don't see much, and who, therefore, [[http://www.cracked.com/article_14990_what-monkeysphere.html according to the worst parts of human nature,]] is less of a person. ShowDontTell may be in effect.
** [[AloofBigBrother Hwang]]/[[ActionGirl Mi-na]] and [[CanonForeigner Link]]/Talim shippers who bash the hell out of [[HotBlooded Hong Yun-seong]], either, though part of that is in reaction to the [[TheScrappy character's many other faults]].
* Even ''VideoGame/MegaManBattleNetwork'' suffers from this. [[TheChick Mayl]], in particular, gets all the hatred of the yaoi fans (not to mention a humiliating FanNickname) for daring to stand in the way of Lan/Chaud... never mind that [[spoiler:Lan/Mayl is the OfficialCouple, as the sixth game shows in the ending]]. And the ever-shrinking Lan/Mayl fandom tends to demean Dex, who has a huge crush on the pink-haired girl... Then there's the feud between Chaud/Yai and Chaud/Anetta fans.
* ''VideoGame/MegaManStarForce''. Two het pairings (Geo/Sonia and Geo/Luna) are all but canon and the first game has some heavy HoYay between Geo and Pat. Throw in any other oddball pairings implied from the anime or whatever and you start to see the problem. It's mostly contained to the two big het pairings, though -- G/S shippers say Luna's too much of a ClingyJealousGirl and G/L shippers say Sonia and Geo are LikeBrotherAndSister.
** The third game even seems to acknowledge the ShipToShipCombat by giving Geo (during [[BeachEpisode the trip to Alohaha]]) the chance to recover a valuable keepsake of one (and ''only'' one) of his three close friends: [[BettyAndVeronica Sonia, Luna]], or Bud. While all three options result in rather tender moments, picking one of the girls has the other fuming, whereas picking Bud has Zack remark (much to Sonia and Luna's mutual ire) that Geo was essentially picking the lesser of three evils.
* ''VideoGame/{{Drakengard}}'' fandom falls into this habit as well, with both [[OfficialCouple Nowe/Manah]] and [[FanPreferredCouple Nowe/Eris]] fans blasting the third side of the LoveTriangle for getting in the way on their OTP. Usually, it is Manah who gets the brunt of the hatred (which probably has something to do with the fact that she was the BigBad in the first game), but there are quite a few Eris-haters out there, too.
* Lili from ''VideoGame/{{Tekken}}'' is often portrayed as a full-blown RichBitch or AlphaBitch, in order to accommodate relationships with people ''she's not even closely related with'' (e.g: Steve and Christie). And here, she's just being a normal {{Ojou}} who happens to like fighting... However, the idea of Lili/Asuka seems to be almost universally unopposed, if only because [[FoeYay the]] [[HoYay hints]] are laid on so thick by canon (especially from [[AmbiguouslyBi Lili's]] side) it's rather hard to go against it.
** Xiaoyu, [[DoggedNiceGuy Dogged Nice Girl]] to Jin and one of his only friends from his otherwise pitiable life, hasn't been unfortunate enough to actually be killed off in fandom works, but she does tend to be {{derail|ingLoveInterests}}ed from "supportive, [[TheDitz ditzy]], {{genki|Girl}} gal pal of Jin who wants to save his soul from evil" to something worse to make way for [[FoeYay his rival Hwoarang]], [[KissingCousins his cousin Asuka]], his [[TheDragon Dragon]] Nina, or even [[ShipsThatPassInTheNight characters with no ties to Jin in-canon]] such as Julia. This is in spite of [[WordOfGod Harada]] stating that Jin is [[CelibateHero as celibate as they come]] [[CantHaveSexEver since he has cursed blood]] and doesn't want ''anyone'' else (Xiao included) to suffer what he's had to live through.
* ''Franchise/SpyroTheDragon''. Yes, even this fandom has some nasty eruptions:
** Probably the worst flak is given to Spyro/Cynder, although [[WordOfGod Sierra]] themselves pretty much showed that they were the one true pairing. Many claims hold Cynder as [[MarySue a cliched character with a generic dark past]], leading to ridiculous flame wars with fans and non-fans. For added insanity, keep in mind that Cynder ''doesn't even exist in the same continuity'' as pretty much ''all'' of other dragons/beings Spyro gets paired with by fans.
** Then there are those who will fight about Flame/Ember and Spyro/Ember. (Despite the fact that, at the end of the final game in the classic series, Ember hooks up with [[InterspeciesRomance an armadilo named Bandit.]] Who, oddly enough, ''doesn't'' follow victim to this trope... Provided people even remember he ''exists''.)
** The ones who prefer [[InterspeciesRomance Spyro/Elora]] or that Spyro not be paired with anyone, period.
** Spyro/Cynder fans take Ember's crush on Spyro and crank it up to obsessed stalker levels so that Spyro can run to Cynder.
* ''VideoGame/BreathOfFireII'' saw a rather one-sided attack on Nina by fans of the Ryu/Katt pairing. And, yes, in fanfiction, her personality generally takes one on the noggin.
** Although they're less guilty of it, fans of Ryu/Nina aren't completely innocent of this sort of thing, either, as they tend to completely {{Flanderiz|ation}}e Katt into a brainless, unrefined, and violent idiot. The game's BlindIdiotTranslation doesn't help much in either case, giving very little canon insight into their personalities to begin with.

* ''Franchise/TouhouProject'' fandom has a lot of choices to work with, what with the main characters being virtual [[LauncherOfAThousandShips launchers of a thousand ships]] and no OfficialCouple in sight, so there tends not to be much in the way of hard feelings towards the other non-shipped characters... except [[{{Tsundere}} Alice]]. The [[CuteWitch Marisa]]/Alice ship being one of the [[FanPreferredCouple most popular]], some [[{{Miko}} Reimu]]/Marisa shippers have the tendency to portray Alice in the most negative light possible to drive Marisa away from her. For example, the "Touhou Seasons" quartet of {{doujinshi}} has Reimu and Alice both fawning over Marisa; while Reimu can be a little annoying, Alice is portrayed as barely being tolerated, with massive and bothersome {{nosebleed}}ing whenever she interacts in the slightest with Marisa.[[note]]If there's any doubt that the circle is Reimu/Marisa, compare their doujins "Touhou Kotatsu Gakari" and "Touhou [=AliMari=] Medical": "Kotatsu" has no Alice, and Reimu and Marisa being gently romantic; whereas "Medical" centers around Marisa trying to stop Alice's nosebleeds (because, again, it's annoying) and then fending her off when it goes wrong, with Reimu only showing up at the end to misunderstand the situation. The artist claims to like both pairings, but [[CopycatZero this troper]] doesn't buy it.[[/note]] Another doujin has, as its entire plot, Alice soiling and then embarrassing herself in front of Reimu and Marisa. And then there's the AlternateCharacterInterpretation of Alice as a creepy {{yandere}} doll {{otaku}}...
** It doesn't help that the series is pretty much devoid of men, which allows the yuri fanboys and fangirls to go '''wild'''.
* In the ''VisualNovel/TokimekiMemorial'' Japanese fandom, there was back in the time of the Classic Kirameki Saga's boom in 1996 quite a backlash concerning [[BromanticFoil Yoshio Saotome]]'s pairing in the wake of the ''Motto! Tokimeki Memorial'' Radio Drama series, which is one of the pillars of the Classic Kirameki Saga's mythos: near the end of this Radio Drama series, a whole chapter (Chapter 9) was dedicated on how Yoshio and [[spoiler: [[{{Meganekko}} Mio]] [[IllGirl Kisaragi]]]] hook up. Since in the original game, aside from his best friend of a main protagonist [[CanonName Naoto]], and his little sister [[{{Kawaiiko}} Yumi]], the person Yoshio had the most interaction with was his friend [[spoiler: since Junior High [[GenkiGirl Yuko Asahina]]]], a good number of people took that pairing as granted ([[spoiler: despite the fact Yuko considers Yoshio as a ''kusare-sen'' friend, aka a person she doesn't really want to have as a friend but is inevitably a friend anyways]]) and were ''not amused'' at this shipping course change. The whole thing, of course, evolved as well into ShipToShipCombat with those who liked the new course. The mess has fortunately died down nowadays.
* ''VideoGame/PrinceOfPersiaTheTwoThrones'' actually provides a ''canon'' example of this when [[spoiler:Kaileena is killed by the Vizier and becomes the Sands of Time, and isn't revived until the end (whereupon she declares that she will be leaving the planet so that no one can abuse her power again). This opens up the way for the Prince to court Farah again without having to worry about competition. Of course, since most fans liked Farah better, this was actually very well received.]]
* Not even ''Franchise/MortalKombat'' is free of this. ActionGirl Sareena gets ShipTease with Sub-Zero and Noob Saibot... Guess what happens to her.
** Wait, there's incestuous necrophiliac ''MK'' fanfic out there? Did ''not'' need to know that.
** No, it's usually not with Noob, [[{{Squick}} thank]] [[BrainBleach God]]. Sub-Zero usually tends to be paired with [[FoeYay Scorpion]], [[LadyOfWar Kitana]], and [[DarkActionGirl Mileena]]. And of course, a het ship involving the MrFanservice EnsembleDarkHorse tends to come under ''[[HetIsEw heavy]]'' fire from {{yaoi fangirl}}s.
* ''VideoGame/Disgaea3AbsenceOfJustice'': Most Mao/Almaz shippers tend to use the Almaz ending for fanfictions, because Almaz's love interest, Sapphire, ends up [[spoiler:''wanting to kill him'', thinking he is going to kidnap her if she doesn't strike back]], automatically getting her out of the way, and making her a pretty nice target. Never mind that [[spoiler:''Mao also wants to kill him for his title'']] in this ending.
* ''VideoGame/Disgaea4APromiseUnforgotten'':
** Vocal Valvatorez/Fenrich shippers aren't exactly thrilled with Artina since she possesses some Mary Sue traits and, initially at least, a rather sharp tongue. On the flip side, some of the people who ship Val/Artina are not exactly fond of Fenrich's JerkSue traits.
** Then there's the, thankfully very small, minority of Val/Fuka shippers who hate both of the other ships. This is in spite of the fact that FUKA ships both of them herself and even chooses to ''[[ShipSinking sink her own ship]]'' in her epilogue because she doesn't want to get in the way of Artina and Fenrich!
* Flora gets treated this way by some members of the ''VideoGame/ProfessorLayton'' fandom, because she's seen as an obstacle to hooking up Layton with his apprentice Luke. This is a particularly ''odd'' example, because 1) Layton's only known canonical romance was with a woman, 2) Flora is Layton's adopted daughter (though there are Layton/Flora shippers too), and 3) Luke is ''[[NoYay thirteen]]'' to Layton's [[{{Squick}} 37]].
* ''VideoGame/StarOceanTheSecondStory'' gets a lot of this between Claude, Rena and Dias; Rena/Dias shippers tend to turn Claude from a good-hearted but very lost teenager into a [[JerkAss weak, whiny jerk]] whose only purpose is to drive Rena into the arms of Dias, who is suddenly smooth, tender and [[ThePornomancer incredibly good in bed]]. In canon, Dias is [[IneffectualLoner very aloof]] and awkward with emotions, and he and Rena spend most of the game thinking of each other as surrogate big brother/little sister despite not being related. But most of the shippers never acknowledge that and go straight for the romance.
** The fan attitude towards Claude isn't helped by the fact that Dias only joins the party if you play as Rena, and the impression when playing as Claude is that Dias doesn't join due to Claude being a jerkass to him.
** Or else they make Rena into the whiny [[StalkerWithACrush jealous borderline-stalker,]] so that [[HoYay Claude can run off with Dias...]] or Ashton, in some cases, which usually involves bashing Precis the same way.
** The worst part of the ship wars in this fandom? [[MultipleEndings You can choose who ends up with who in this game!]] There is absolutely no reason for anyone to die for anyone's ship! Just pair them with someone else in the party, or have them end up alone if you prefer, and it's just as canon as everyone else's ship!
** The game's shipping wars died down over the years, to the point that there was little reaction when the fifth game all but canonized Claude and Rena's relationship by featuring one of their descendants.
* While not ''as'' vicious as other fandoms, ''VideoGame/GuiltyGear'' has its share of charabashing based on pairings, and ''specially'' after some rounds of ShipSinking. The main victim is [[ChefOfIron Kuradoberi Jam]] who is perceived as a shrill bitch who wants to keep Sol and Ky away due to her flirting with Ky in canon). Moreover, a scene in ''AC+'' where she tried to ''poison'' Ky become another reason to increase the hate. Curiously, Dizzy gets much ''less'' hate than expected after [[spoiler:becoming the Maiden of the Grove, ''marrying'' Ky and being the mother of his child, Sin.]] On the other hand, a small number of [[BrokenBase TestamentxDizzy fans are sour]] with [[TheCharmer Ky Kiske]]. They think that Ky stole Dizzy, the only person left in Testament's world.

* Feron of ''Franchise/MassEffect'' fame is slowly becoming a target amongst the hardcore fans of Any!Shepard/Liara (particularly Female Shepard), especially after WordOfGod suggested that Liara ''may'' have had feelings for the drell during the prequel comic tie-in to ''Mass Effect 2'' (regardless of her relationship status with Shepard). Because it's totally [[SarcasmMode healthy to not move on even a little after your S/O supposedly died right before your eyes]], right? It ''is'' worth noting that Liara never acts upon those supposed feelings: if you continue the romance, Liara says she only saw Feron as a good, platonic friend and nothing more. It doesn't stop the more hardcore fans from invoking this trope on him.
** If asked about how she feels in ''Lair of the Shadow Broker'', Liara says that Feron is too emotionally damaged after his torture for a relationship, and if Shepard romanced her, she will say she pointed out that she was "taken." Interestingly enough, it is possible to indirectly kill him by not completing ''Lair of the Shadow Broker''.
** Despite there being no overt references or hints of romance between Kal'Reegar and Tali ([[ShippingGoggles not that it's ever stopped anyone]]) in game, Kal'Reegar fares no better with the hardcore Tali/Male Shepard fans. While [[spoiler:he can die in-game, most just kill him off on Haestrom anyways]], this doesn't mean this trope plus RonTheDeathEater doesn't seep in from time to time, too. The hate has gone down somewhat, seeing as how [[spoiler:the poor guy gets [[DroppedABridgeOnHim killed off-screen]] if he ''did'' survive the second game]]. Somewhat.
** Some people don't like that [[spoiler:Tali and Garrus]] can hook up, this is completely ignoring that [[spoiler:it only happens if neither party is romanced or dead]]. Then again, this is the reason why [[spoiler:you cannot start a romantic relationship with either in ''3'']]. It's worth noting that virtually no one who hates this pairing bashes [[spoiler:Garrus]] over this, even Male!Shepard fans (the ostensible "competition"). [[spoiler:Tali]] seems to fare much worse among Female!Shepard fans who hate the pairing.
** Can also be invoked in the first game; Want to romance Ashley as Male!Shep, or Kaidan as Fem!Shep? [[spoiler:Well, then the SadisticChoice on Virmire just got significantly easier... but don't tell the [[KilledOffForReal one you're not dating]].]]
** Then there's Kaidan who gets blasted by the more rabid Fem!Shep/Garrus (or Shakarian) shippers for either being an abusive asshole who emotionally manipulates Shepard into staying with him and very viciously blasts Garrus for siding with Cerberus alongside Shepard or the complete reverse, being generally just a bland and boring guy. Some shippers have even gone so far as to write fanfiction wherein the entire Normandy crew emotionally or physically abuse Kaidan simply for being there and daring to show interest in Fem!Shep.
** Liara is hit with this from people who ship Shepard with pretty much anyone else, largely due to perceived creator favoritism, treating her as a StalkerWithACrush and a {{Yandere}}. It didn't help that Liara, among other things, pulls Shepard's armor from his body and enshrines it in her apartment. Liara faces particular ire from fans of Kaidan or Ashley who blame Liara for all of their distrust of Shepard. While that was a [[PoorCommunicationKills severe communications failure]] on Liara's part (a communications failure [[NeverMyFault she blames on the Virmire Survivor despite being the only person who could have actually told the truth.]]), some have interpreted it as Liara deliberately keeping them in the dark so that she could have Shepard all to herself. The fact that Liara canonically kept quiet about Tali's feelings for Shepard to improve her own chances with him isn't exactly a point in her favor.
* ''Franchise/DragonAge'':
** The [[VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins first game]] had a zig-zagged exaemple of this with the ''Darkspawn Chronicles'' DLC, in which [[PairTheSpares Alistair/Leliana]] was mentioned as being a rumor. (The conceit of the DLC is that the Warden didn't survive the Joining.) While there was a ''massive'' backlash, Leliana doesn't seem to have received much hate (or it didn't last).
** Before the [[spoiler: Garrus/Tali]] pairing in ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'', a significant number of Fenris fangirls similarly lost their minds over [[PairTheSpares Fenris and Isabela hooking up]] in ''VideoGame/DragonAgeII'', despite the fact that, similar to the ''Mass Effect'' example, it only happens if neither party is romanced by the player. Isabela is frequently trashed as being slutty and amoral (being canonically promiscuous doesn't help) and not good enough for Fenris. Some go as far as to take the option to give her up to the qunari at the end of Act 2. As an interesting contrast, fans who don't bash the pairing have a tendency to TakeAThirdOption and ship Hawke/Fenris/Isabela instead.
** Fans are so used to this, some of them were preemptively worried for ''Inquisition'' newcomer Josephine after rumours emerged that she and Cullen might hook up. Nothing actually came of it; in fact, all of the non-player romances ([[spoiler:Iron Bull/Dorian, Sera/Dagna, and implied Josephine/Blackwall]]) seem to have avoided it this go around. If anything, [[spoiler: Iron Bull/Dorian]] is notable for how frequently [[OneTrueThreesome it goes in the opposite direction]].
*** Bianca Davri suffered on her introduction due to her still having an amicable relationship with her old boyfriend Varric. Depending on your interpretation of their dialogue, she can be seen as stringing him along despite being married to someone else, and some fans - whether they ship Varric with someone else or not - resent her for it. (The fact that she makes an overt threat to the player character as her final line of dialogue does not help.)
* In ''VideoGame/{{Aveyond}}'', the Dameon hate is extremely strong due to fans preferring [[FanPreferredCouple Rhen/Lars]] to [[OfficialCouple Rhen/Dameon]].
* The ''VideoGame/StoryOfSeasons'' fandom is completely dedicated to shipping; the games are more-or-less {{Dating Sim}}s with farm elements to most fans. Of course there's going to be shipping wars, usually related to TheRival of certain characters.
** In ''[[VideoGame/HarvestMoonBackToNature More Friends of Mineral Town]]'' fanfics related to Claire/Kai, Popuri's already flanderized in-canon ([[VideoGame/HarvestMoon64 compare her in 64 to BTN]]) personality gets flanderized into having no redeeming factors and just being a ClingyJealousGirl to Kai. Also Mary, for being the rival of the most popular bachelor, Gray.
** Sabrina from ''VideoGame/HarvestMoonIslandOfHappiness''[=/=]''VideoGame/HarvestMoonSunshineIslands'' seems to get the worst of this from her massive Hatedom, especially when it comes to the Vaughn/Chelsea pairing.
** In ''VideoGame/HarvestMoonTreeOfTranquility''/''VideoGame/HarvestMoonAnimalParade'', the three most popular guys to marry are [[{{Tsundere}} Gill]], [[DeadpanSnarker Chase]], and [[TheFool Luke]] (and the fourth would be Wizard but he has no love rival). Their love interests [[TokenMiniMoe Luna]], [[BigEater Maya]], and [[AttentionWhore Selena]] ARE NOT liked at all. Special mention to Luna and Selena though as in ''Animal Parade'', if you tell them you like Gill or Luke, their worse personalty comes out and to be fair, Luna and Gill ''aren't really a good match''... and neither are [[FourthDateMarriage Luke and Selena]]. At worse, Luna is seen as a stupid brat that doesn't understand Gill's feelings at all even during their rival scenes and Selena is seen as a whore who basically seduced Luke in the first place. Maya gets the least amount of flak out of the three but she's bashed for getting a hot guy like Chase.
** And in ''VideoGame/HarvestMoonAWonderfulLife'', hardly any shipper likes Muffy. Fanfics that pair up [[PlayerCharacter Jack]] with one of the other bachelorettes (usually Celia) often derail [[LookingForLoveInAllTheWrongPlaces Muffy]] into being a [[SlutShaming slut]] just because she is flirty towards the protagonist and wears less conservative clothes than the others. And then you have people who dismiss Celia as being [[RealWomenNeverWearDresses "a boring housewife."]]
*** Another example in the ''Wonderful Life'' fandom is Marlin. In canon, he has a tendency of being a little overprotective of the people he cares about. However, in just about every Jack/Celia fic, Marlin's protectiveness gets Flanderized to StalkerWithACrush levels.
** In the spin-off game ''VideoGame/RuneFactory'', The main heroines of the franchise receive a lot of heat for the way that the game favors them and tries to nudge you in their direction. Mist is much more regularly involved in the plot, images of Kyle and Mana hanging out hog the mass majority of Rune Factory 2's first OP, the second OP of ''Rune Factory 3'' shows Micah running up to Shara in her wedding dress and twirling around with her while holding hands regardless of who you actually married, they get flirty dialogue very early, etc.
* ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2:''
** The Medic's wife gets this from slash ficcers, despite the fact ''she's only mentioned in one line'' (where an enemy Demoman claims that [[IBangedYourMom he is sleeping with her]]).
** Then there's the case of the BLU Scout's Mother/RED Spy (and possibly RED Scout's Mother/BLU Spy) pairing, which at best gets ignored or at worse turned into a pretense so Spy can have his way with one of the other classes (usually Sniper).
** Heavy's sister Zhanna is getting some hate for hooking up with Soldier (who is usually paired with Demoman, Medic, or Engineer).
* Shizune Hakamichi from the VisualNovel ''VisualNovel/KatawaShoujo'' seems to have suffered the misfortune of being practically set up of this. First, her route is very much an acquired taste, relying more on intellectual nuance, {{Foreshadowing}} and subtext than the "[[CatharsisFactor feels]]" that are common in other routes. Meaning that [[RewatchBonus you need to play it a few times in order to truly get it]]. (The fact that it is the most linear route, [[spoiler:with only one choice]], as well as a SliceOfLife narrative structure that not everyone appreciates, doesn't help matters.) Second, she is a SpiritedCompetitor to a degree that one either finds charming and endearing or obnoxious and annoying; she can also can be rather blunt (justified in part because she is deaf-mute). Thirdly she is TheRival to Lilly who is by far one of the most adored characters in the game and whose route is seen as much smoother and sweeter [[spoiler: except for the end, but that one also ends up well]]. Lastly, her best friend Misha is an EnsembleDarkHorse who doesn't have a route of her own [[spoiler:and is, in fact, in unrequited love with Shizune herself -- which is what triggers THE single choice in the Shizune route]]. You'd think people would not be able to pour so much hate at an eighteen year old deaf girl.
** Interestingly enough, in Lilly's route, Shizune [[spoiler:reconciles with Lilly, and initiates the process]]. And instead of competing with the other girls over Hisao, Shizune, along with Misha, is a ShipperOnDeck.
** Lilly herself gets some of this trope from fans of the other route, who resent her for being the most popular girl. She is also sometimes accused of being a MarySue, [[spoiler:although this, like other tropes, is [[DeconstructedTrope deconstructed]], when Hisao finds himself relying on her too much, doesn't challenge her decision to go to Scotland until almost literally the last second, and realizes that she has flaws of her own, such as hiding her emotions]].
* ''VideoGame/GoldenSun'' has had a very strong shipping base since the first game, but it was the third game when people really got violent about it. When it was made cannon that Isaac and Jenna got married, and were the main protagonists parents, the hate fics began to flow like water. Many fans had been a fan of shipping Isaac and Mia, as well as Garet and Jenna. The takes of these fics have been from Isaac being detached and a jerk, Jenna cheating on him with someone else (freeing him up), or simply stating that one half of the couple is dead already.
** The second game caused an odd inversion of this. [[HeroicMime Felix]] is often paired, not with the [[DeadpanSnarker girl he jumped off of a tower for]], but the [[WellIntentionedExtremist antagonist]] that he actually killed in the late game. Sheba doesn't tend to get killed off, just paired with [[BrattyHalfPint Ivan]], but the reasons for reviving Karst jump around.

** Ada Wong often gets this treatment from more militant "Cleon" fans. This is in stark contrast to how Raymond Vester is treated. To wit, they both save people who showed them kindness, both [[spoiler:steal viruses and sell them off in some extremely morally questionable dealings]], and possibly [[spoiler: work for the same organization]]. This may be due to how Ada has a kiss with Leon in ''2'' and their interactions throughout ''4'', which could then interfere with Claire/Leon as a pairing, whereas the one Raymond is shipped with on a regular basis is Parker, who himself isn't paired off with other characters in the game by the fans.

* ''VideoGame/AzureStrikerGunvolt'': There is at least one Gunvolt/Elise fanfiction which portrays [[IncorruptiblePurePureness Joule]] as a [[SmittenTeenageGirl horny]] [[PrecociousCrush 8 year old]] who threatens to [[{{Yandere}} kill Gunvolt in her sleep]]. Her [[AstralProjection alternate]] [[LiteralSplitPersonality self]] Lumen is also reduced to a one note character who will do nothing but [[NeverLiveItDown tease Gunvolt about not wearing a shirt]]. Her character is actually meant to be a social commentary on the J-POP industry, with Joule being the objectified 13-year old and Lumen the pseudo-VirtualCelebrity, so portraying her as blatantly sexual instead of just trying to live up to an ideal she can't fulfill is completely missing the point.
* Poor Bastila in ''Knights of the Old Republic'' gets a lot of undeserved hate from the Carth/FemRevan shippers.
* Regarding ''VideoGame/InazumaEleven'', there were rather... bloody wars regarding which of the Raimon managers would become Mamoru Endou's girlfriend/wife. The anime and the ''Go LIGHT'' games went for [[spoiler: Natsumi Raimon]], whereas the ''Go DARK'' games favoured [[spoiler: Fuyuka Kudou]]; this did NOT sit well with the fans who supported [[spoiler: Aki Kino]] instead...

* The ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}'' fandom and shippers of Sans/Toriel in particular love bashing [[spoiler: Toriel's ex husband]] Asgore, due to the in-universe fallout from Asgore's actions that he still hasn't been forgiven for, plus simply for ''being'' [[spoiler: Toriel's ex husband.]]
* The ''VideoGame/{{Overwatch}}'' fandom has entered this trope when it was revealed that not only is Tracer a lesbian, but she has a canonical girlfriend named Emily. The fans who [[FoeYay ship Tracer with Widowmaker]] have easily taken the initiative with this trope, depicting her as a selfish bitch who only likes Tracer because she's a member of Overwatch and feels [[EntitledToHaveYou entitled to her,]] culminating in treating Widowmaker like crap [[ContrivedCoincidence conveniently where Tracer can see]] the ''real'' her.
** Gency fans had a nuclear meltdown when a Genji/Mercy interaction was pulled from the Valentines patch and viciously blamed any other Genji shipper ([=McCree=]/Genji, Genji/Zenyattta) for "forcing their ship down the writer's throats" despite a few other interactions, shippy or not, have also been pulled for various reasons.
*** The above was actually rather tame compared to what happened when those lines were still teased for White Day in January 2017. As one of the most popular ships in the fandom is Phara/Mercy, Pharamercy fans started aping on Genji and Overwatch writer Michael Chu on Tumblr and Twitter. Plenty of TakeThat pictures to Genji started appearing from Pharamercy fans on Tumblr, Reddit and other relevant sites. Ditto for when the lines were released on White Day.
** With the inclusion of Soldier: 76's ex-boyfriend, Vincent, shippers have been thinking of all sorts of ways to either kill him off or write him out of 76's life, despite the fact that they've been exes for 30 years and that Vincent is HappilyMarried to someone else now.
* In ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfHeroesTrailsOfColdSteel'', Alisa Reinford usually gets this from fans who would rather pair [[LauncherOfAThousandShips Rean]] with [[BirdsOfAFeather Laura]], [[LikeBrotherAndSister Fie]], or [[BadassTeacher Sara]]. It's mostly thanks to a NeverLiveItDown [[ThanksForTheMammary incident]] where it ends with Alisa overreacting towards Rean, slapping him despite him trying to save her from a trapdoor and not apologizing to him for three weeks despite clearly knowing it was an accident. Being pushed by Creator/{{Falcom}} as the official love interest wasn't exactly helping things.
* Though ''[[Franchise/TouhouProject Touhou]]'' plots feature NoHuggingNoKissing element in {{Canon}}, if you dig deep enough, you can still find romance-based FanWorks that {{Flanderiz|ation}}e the main character's bad traits (usually Reimu or Marisa) and leading to their respective partner[[note]]from either Imperishable Night or Subterranean Animism[[/note]] ditching them and fall for other character, ignoring whether they are canonically close or not. The opposite (main character ditched her partner) can happen at times, as well. Some doujin artists went as far as [[KilledOffForReal killing off some characters in adding the dramatic effect]].
* ''VideoGame/Left4Dead2'' has shipping wars between Ellis/Zoey shippers and Ellis/Nick shippers. The game sometimes has a teasing between Ellis and Zoey but nothing ever comes out of it. On the other side of the spectrum, Nick constantly makes fun of Ellis and gives him grief while Ellis takes it in stride and sometimes mildly quips back. Due to the linear and fast paced nature of the game, there's little to no character development, but that hasn't stopped shippers from trying to add more to the survivors.

** Fans are so used to this, some of them were preemptively worried for ''Inquisition'' newcomer Josephine after rumours emerged that she and Cullen might hook up. Nothing actually came of it; in fact, all of the non-player romances ([[spoiler:Iron Bull/Dorian, Sera/Dagna, and implied Josephine/Blackwall]]) seem to have avoided it this go around.

* ''VideoGame/{{Touhou}}'' fandom has a lot of choices to work with, what with the main characters being virtual [[LauncherOfAThousandShips launchers of a thousand ships]] and no OfficialCouple in sight, so there tends not to be much in the way of hard feelings towards the other non-shipped characters... except [[{{Tsundere}} Alice]]. The [[CuteWitch Marisa]]/Alice ship being one of the [[FanPreferredCouple most popular]], some [[{{Miko}} Reimu]]/Marisa shippers have the tendency to portray Alice in the most negative light possible to drive Marisa away from her. For example, the "Touhou Seasons" quartet of {{doujinshi}} has Reimu and Alice both fawning over Marisa; while Reimu can be a little annoying, Alice is portrayed as barely being tolerated, with massive and bothersome {{nosebleed}}ing whenever she interacts in the slightest with Marisa.[[note]]If there's any doubt that the circle is Reimu/Marisa, compare their doujins "Touhou Kotatsu Gakari" and "Touhou [=AliMari=] Medical": "Kotatsu" has no Alice, and Reimu and Marisa being gently romantic; whereas "Medical" centers around Marisa trying to stop Alice's nosebleeds (because, again, it's annoying) and then fending her off when it goes wrong, with Reimu only showing up at the end to misunderstand the situation. The artist claims to like both pairings, but [[CopycatZero this troper]] doesn't buy it.[[/note]] Another doujin has, as its entire plot, Alice soiling and then embarrassing herself in front of Reimu and Marisa. And then there's the AlternateCharacterInterpretation of Alice as a creepy {{yandere}} doll {{otaku}}...

* Though [[Franchise/TouhouProject Touhou]] plots feature NoHuggingNoKissing element in [[{{Canon}} Canon]], if you dig deep enough, you can still find romance-based FanWorks that [[{{Flanderization}} flanderize]] the main character's bad traits (usually Reimu or Marisa) and leading to their respective partner[[note]]from either Imperishable Night or Subterranean Animism[[/note]] ditching them and fall for other character, ignoring whether they are canonically close or not. The opposite (main character ditched her partner) can happen at times, as well. Some doujin artists went as far as [[KilledOffForReal killing off some characters in adding the dramatic effect]].

** Amy Rose (and to a lesser extent, Sally Acorn in the [[Creator/ArchieComics Archie]] ''[[ComicBook/ArchieComicsSonicTheHedgehog Sonic]]'' comics) is forever reviled by Sonic/Shadow slash shippers, a prospect made easier due to her StalkerWithACrush status. The Sally and Amy fans also hate each other's characters, each blaming the other's chosen character for making the series JumpTheShark and {{Flanderization}} destroying theirs.

*** While she doesn't get NEARLY as much hate as Princess Ruto, for a good long while, if you shipped Link with Zelda or Saria, you must bash Malon. Malon-bashing increased much more when they revealed the series timeline in ''[[AllThereInTheManual Hyrule Historia]]'', which soft-confirmed that Link/Malon is the OfficialCouple for this game.[[note]]The Link of ''Twilight Princess'' is confirmed to be a descendant of the ''Ocarina of Time'' Link ([[IKnewIt who appears in-game as the Hero's Spirit/Shade]]), is a farmer, starts with a horse, and knows "Epona's Song" (a song taught to Malon by her mother), and obviously isn't a prince nor part-Zora/Kokiri/Gerudo.[[/note]] [[ShipToShipCombat Of course, the other shippers hated that.]]

** On the other side of the equation, some Link/Zelda fans tended to be threatened by the fact that Midna spends most of the game with Link and is possibly implied to have feelings for him, while Zelda is a prisoner for most of the game. As such, they like to pretend Midna never underwent any character development, painting her as a manipulative, ungrateful brat who treats Link as a pet.
** Poor, poor Ilia absolutely gets the worst of this though. Since she's the game's main ImpliedLoveInterest, she gets bashed to hell and back by ''both'' Zelda/Link and Midna/Link shippers, [[NeverLiveItDown usually focusing on her]] scolding Link for accidentally hurting Epona's leg (even though she apologizes later and Link had clearly shrugged the moment off anyway).

** ''VideoGame/HyruleWarriors'' resulted in Zelda/Link and Midna/Link fans joining forces against the game's villainess, who [[VillainessesWantHeroes has a thing for Link]]. The [[VocalMinority immature sections]] of Midna/Link and Zelda/Link shippers hated her upon announcement. [[spoiler:As it turns out, the villainess in question, Cia, was once the Guardian of Time tasked with protecting the Triforce whose interest in the Hero of Legend slowly turned into an obsessive love that was capitalized on by Ganondorf, corrupting her into the character she is today. She ends up ''actually dying'' when all's said and done, having a brief heart-to-heart on her deathbed with [[LiteralSplitPersonality her good half]] and [[EnemyWithout discarded light]], Lana, where they come to accept the fact that Link doesn't choose either of them over Zelda, [[IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy something that Lana can live with]] [[LoveHurts despite her heartbreak]]. The sad nature of this scene, Cia's tragic StartOfDarkness, and Lana's farewell to Link and Zelda in the ending managed to quell most of the shipping debates, and the 3DS port/expansion, ''Hyrule Warriors Legends'', features a post-game campaign where Cia is brought BackFromTheDead to live a happier life with Lana as they resume their original role as the Guardian of Time.]]

** An especially ironic example would be Princess Zelda, who is frequently [[InsaneTrollLogic bashed and vilified in]] {{Slash Fic}}s [[FanDumb wherein Link is paired up with]] [[{{Bifauxnen}} her male-looking ninja alter ego]] (who is promptly [[CanonDefilement retconned to actually BE male]]), Sheik.
** This tendency toward Zelda-bashing has continued with the release of ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess Twilight Princess]]'', where the Link/Midna shippers keep creating ways to reopen access to the Twilight Realm, chuck Zelda through it, and bring Midna back (particularly absurd since Midna and Zelda are very close by game's end and that outcome would ''not'' be desirable to Midna at all)--if not outright have the sovereign Princess of Hyrule be the first victim of the next conflict
** While most Zelda/Link and Midna/Link fans get along (or even [[OneTrueThreesome outright ship all three characters together]]), there is that immature minority who would make you think otherwise. There were some very vocal sections who didn't take kindly to Midna, feeling very threatened by the fact that Midna spends most of the game with Link and is possibly implied to have feelings for him. (Meanwhile Zelda is a prisoner for most of the game.)
** Poor, poor Ilia just happens to be Link's ImpliedLoveInterest but gets bashed to hell and back by both Zelda/Link and Midna/Link shippers, [[NeverLiveItDown usually focusing on her]] scolding Link for accidentally hurting Epona's leg (even though she apologizes later).
** ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime Ocarina of Time]]'', which arguably added multiple love interests, depending on who you ask. Saria, Malon, Zelda, and Ruto all suffer. The older Nabooru, who has the most overt interest in him but also the least dialogue, gets much less negative attention, mostly because fans interpret her as being just a flirt with no romantic interest. Princess Ruto, who finagled a ChildhoodMarriagePromise, is ''the'' most loathed girl by the shippers. The hatred of Ruto doesn't even make a whole lot of sense, considering that Link clearly isn't interested and the ending makes it impossible for them to be together even if he were.
** While she doesn't get NEARLY as much hate as Princess Ruto, apparently if you ship Link with Zelda or Saria you must bash Malon. Malon bashing increased much more when they revealed the timelines in ''[[AllThereInTheManual Hyrule Historia]]''. The Link of ''Twilight Princess'', confirmed to be a descendant of the ''Ocarina of Time'' Link ([[IKnewIt who appears in-game as the Hero's Spirit/Shade]]), is a farmer, starts with a horse, and knows "Epona's Song" (a song taught to Malon by her mother), and since he isn't a prince nor part Zora/Kokiri/Gerudo, it made the idea of Link/Malon much more likable as canon. [[ShipToShipCombat Of course, the other shippers hated that.]]
** Oddly, original FairyCompanion Navi is mostly left out of ''[=OoT=]'' shipping wars despite WordOfGod stating that she was in love with Link and was jealous of Zelda (though she didn't ''hate'' her by any means), and even despite her [[TheScrappy scrappy status]]. Might have something to do with her being only three inches tall.
** ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTheWindWaker Wind Waker]]'' had only three significant female characters: One was Princess Zelda, the next (Medli) showed obvious attraction to another boy, and the third was... Link's sister. (There's also this weird fairy queen with the crush on Link, but hardly anyone ever remembers her.) Also, making Tetra an actual girl, instead of a girl pretending to be a boy, was probably a wise choice as well... At least, there are little to no ''Wind Waker'' [[ShipToShipCombat shipping wars]] out there, but even without them, the number of fanfictions involving Link escaping Tetra's fan-overblown controlling bitch personality and heading off to be with Medli are astronomical. (They, however, almost never kill off Komali. They rather pretend that he [[FanonDiscontinuity never existed]].) Also, the only ones the {{Yaoi Fangirl}}s pair Toon Link up with are... [[ScrewYourself pretty much all of the other Links]].
** With ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaSkywardSword Skyward Sword]]'', you now have three pairings that involve having to get rid of Zelda. The romance sidequest Link can start with the Item Check Girl, Peatrice. The new companion, Fi, who canonically does became emotionally attached to Link and, of course, [[FoeYay Ghira]][[HoYay him]], whose lines in the game practically ooze with desire on what he [[SexIsViolence wants to do to Link]].
** And now we have ''VideoGame/HyruleWarriors''. Before the game even came out, the claws were out. With the news that revealed Zelda and Midna are playable characters, naturally the Zelda/Link and Midna/Link fans prepare their attack. Oh, but not at each other, no. There is a new female villain on the block, [[VillainessesWantHeroes and she has a thing for Link]]. The [[VocalMinority immature sections]] of Midna/Link and Zelda/Link shippers hate her already. [[spoiler:As it turns out, the villainess in question, Cia, was once the Guardian of Time tasked with protecting the Triforce whose interest in the Hero of Legend slowly turned into an obsessive love that was capitalized on by Ganondorf, corrupting her into the character she is today. She ends up ''actually dying'' when all's said and done, having a brief heart-to-heart on her deathbed with [[LiteralSplitPersonality her good half]] and [[EnemyWithout discarded light]], Lana, where they come to accept the fact that Link doesn't choose either of them over Zelda, [[IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy something that Lana can live with]] [[LoveHurts despite her heartbreak]]. The sad nature of this scene, Cia's tragic StartOfDarkness, and Lana's farewell to Link and Zelda in the ending managed to quell most of the shipping debates, and the 3DS port/expansion, ''Hyrule Warriors Legends'', features a post-game campaign where Cia is brought BackFromTheDead to live a happier life with Lana as they resume their original role as the Guardian of Time.]]

* Though [[Franchise/TouhouProject Touhou]] plots feature NoHuggingNoKissing element in [[{{Canon}} Canon]], if you dig deep enough, you can still find romance-based FanWorks that [[{{Flanderization}} flanderize]] the main character's bad traits (usually Reimu or Marisa) and leading to their respective partner[[note]]from either Imperishable Night or Subterranean Animism[[/note]] ditching them and fall for other character, ignoring whether they are canonically close or not. The opposite (main character ditched her partner) can happen at times, as well. Some doujin artists went as far as [[KilledOffForReal killing off some characters in adding the dramatic effect]].

* ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'': Rabid [[TheFightingNarcissist Gilgamesh]]/[[LadyOfWar Saber]] shippers bash the crap out of [[{{Determinator}} Shirou]] for his supposed "sexism" in initially not wanting Saber to fight, never mind the fact that it's made blindingly clear that Shirou doesn't want Saber fighting due to [[ChronicHeroSyndrome his hero complex]] and because he doesn't want to see the girl he loves hurt or killed. [[SarcasmMode Apparently, a socially awkward, impulsive teenager with a tendency of putting his foot in his mouth is much more horrible than a guy trying to kill a girl, trying to force her to marry him, and all but saying he wants to rape her.]]
** Rin gets plenty of hatred from Shirou/Sakura shippers for "stealing" Shirou from Sakura in Unlimited Blade Works. Saber also gets some bashing, mostly because she's the most popular heroine and Shirou and Saber are [[FlipFlopOfGod more or less]] considered the OfficialCouple by Type-Moon, but not nearly as much as Rin.
** And let's not forget the ''massive'' hate that Sakura tends to get from both Rin/Shirou and Saber/Shirou fans, who tend to see her as a prospect SympatheticSue as well as [[WhatMeasureIsANonBadass "girly]] [[RealWomenDontWearDresses and thus weak."]] In addition to the whole [[spoiler:"Shirou abandoning his ideals for Sakura's sake."]]

** The [[VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins first game]] had a zig-zagged exaemple of this with the ''Darkspawn Chronicles'' DLC, in which [[PairTheSpares Alistair/Leliana]] was hinted at. While there was a ''massive'' backlash, Leliana doesn't seem to have received much hate (or it didn't last).
** Before the [[spoiler: Garrus/Tali]] pairing in ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'', a significant number of Fenris fangirls similarly lost their minds over [[PairTheSpares Fenris and Isabela hooking up]] in ''VideoGame/DragonAgeII'', despite the fact that, similar to the ''Mass Effect'' example, it only happens if neither party is romanced by the player. Isabela is frequently trashed as being slutty and amoral (being canonically promiscuous doesn't help) and not good enough for Fenris. Some go as far as to take the option to give her up to the qunari at the end of Act 2. As an interesting contrast, fans that don't bash the pairing have a tendency to TakeAThirdOption and ship Hawke/Fenris/Isabela instead.

** Bianca Davri suffered on her introduction due to her still having an amicable relationship with Varric. Depending on your interpretation of their dialogue, she can be seen as stringing him along despite being married to someone else, and some fans - whether they ship Varric with someone else or not - resent her for it.

* The ''VideoGame/StoryOfSeasons'' fandom is completely dedicated to shipping; the games are more-or-less DatingSim's with farm elements to most fans. Of course there's going to be shipping wars, usually related to TheRival of certain characters.

* Though [[Franchise/TouhouProject Touhou]] plots feature NoHuggingNoKissing element in [[{{Canon}} Canon]], if you dig deep enough, you can still find romance-based FanWorks that [[{{Flanderization}} flanderize]] the main character's bad traits (usually Reimu or Marisa) and leading to their respective partner[[note]]from either Imperishable Night or Subterranean Animism[[/note]] ditching them and fall for other character, ignoring whether they are canonically close or not. The opposite (main character ditched her partner) can happen at times, as well. Some doujin artists went as far as [[KilledOffForReal killing off some characters in adding the dramatic effect]].
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