History JustForFun / TheShipYard

** Gigayacht: A Yacht that exists only to trump other Yachts, no matter how ridiculously over the top it has to be to achieve that, such as [[Franchise/LyricalNanoha Adult Nanoha]]x[[Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann Kamina]].

* Ship-to-Shore Calls: When fans send messages to the WordOfGod supporting a non-canon ship to try to convince him [[DieForOurShip he's doing]] [[RelationshipWritingFumble it wrong]].

* Ship of the Damned: A ship long thought wrecked but comes back with vengeance anyway, despite one of the characters being dead or foretold to die.
## Alternatively, a ship between dead bad guys.

* Anti-Ship Missile (also called Air-to-Sea Missile): when WordOfGod simply states that a particular ship isn't going to happen (Compare ShipSinking), but can come from other shippers and anti-shippers.

## ny ship involving a certain Film/JamesBond character.

** Imperial Fleet: A series where multiple such possibilities are [[ShipTease made/suggested in canon]]. Examples: ''Anime/MyHime'' and ''Anime/MyOtome'', which makes/implies connections with Shizuru×Natsuki, Haruka×Yukino, Chie×Aoi, Arika×Mashiro, and Mai×Mikoto. [[GirlsLove Notice a pattern?]]

* Anti-Shipping Aircraft: Someone or something that fires a lot of Anti-Ship Missiles.
** Alternatively, a Torpedo Bomber, when dealing with older companies that are less up to date.

* The Argo: A ship of mythological heroes, especially Greek ones.
** Alternatively, a ship that takes place in the background story, ''before'' the main action of the film/series.

* Bull Ship: [[CrackPairing Not going to happen]].
** Or a ship where one or both of the shipped is a bull/are bulls.
*** Or vaguely bull-like creatures, such as [[OurMinotaursAreDifferent minotaurs]], [[spoiler: Ichigo's Hollow transformation]] in ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'', and random people wearing horns on their head.

* The Catamaran: A pair that is shipped because they end up captive together a lot.
** Alternatively, a ship where one or both involved are cats or part-cat.

* Champion Ship: Pairing two top-ranked and decorated athletes/martial artists/soldiers/[[UsefulNotes/ProfessionalGaming gamers]], possibly from [[FoeYayShipping rivaling schools/dojos/armies]].
** Or pairing a woman with the knight who carries TheLadysFavour.

** A ship that moves along very quickly, but is highly precarious.
** A ship with at least one member being from the Ninteenth Century.

** Alternative name for CrackPairing.
** A ship where no one's in a band.

* [[BlackComedy Costa Concordia]]: Someone [[IncrediblyLamePun gets laid quickly]] with catastrophic consequences.

** In collaborative works, a ship that fires Torpedoes at other ships.
** A ship skilled at defending itself from Submarine attacks.
** A ship so radical that it carelessly wrecks the whole setting.
** A ship (seemingly) designed to sink lots of smaller ships, for instance between the two most shipped characters (or their parents).

** A ship jam-packed with master/servant relationships and the like.
** Alternately, how you'd categorise [[UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler Hitler]][=/=][[UsefulNotes/JosefStalin Stalin]] slashfic.

* Dreadnought: The most powerful ship. Slow, but capable of destroying huge ships with a single volley, and capable as well of resisting ''many'' Air-to-Sea Missiles. Or alternately, a very bold shipping effort (i.e. [[IncrediblyLamePun dreads nought]]).

* Ekranoplan: The ship of all ships, even more than the Dreadnought. Hard, tough, powerful and with all the speed and sneakiness of the Hydrofoil. Using conventional naval warfare, this ship ''will not go down'', no matter how much {{Canon}} fire you throw at it, and it's pretty much vulnerable only to Flak Artilleries pointed at the ship.
** Or: Seems a pretty silly ship at first, but then takes off.

** Pairs thrown together in a big hurry in response to canon developments or the introduction of new characters.
** Or a pairing that fall in love ''very'' quickly.

* Flag Ship: An OfficialCouple that the series revolves around, or is otherwise heavily promoted by official sources.
** Or any pairing between characters from ''Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers''.
** Or a romance between two patriots.
*** Or between a patriot and their flag (eg. [[Literature/LesMiserables Enjolras/Flag]])

## Shipping [[IncestYayShipping a parent and child.]]

## A pairing with the minor obstacle of one side being dead (or [[HesJustHiding "just hiding"]]) at the time. Can also refer to a pairing where both members die in canon, typically at or near the same time, not just one dying/dead while the other remains alive.

### [[Theatre/TheFlyingDutchman A ship that exists at least in part to redeem a character.]]

* Going Down With The Ship: [[DrivenToSuicide An extreme reaction]] to seeing one's favourite ship sunk. In other words, taking DieForOurShip rather too literally.
** Or, slightly more reasonably, to stop watching the show when one's ship is sunk.

* Horseman Ship: Shipping people who spend a lot of time riding together.
** Alternatively, one involving [[WesternAnimation/BoJackHorseman BoJack]].

** Shipping characters in a house together.
** Alternatively, shipping {{Sapient House}}s.
** Or [[CargoShip shipping a character with their house]].
** Or shipping characters from ''Series/{{House}}''.

* Hydrofoil: Very evasive ship with a low radar profile known for being extremely difficult to sink with Torpedoes, but seldom lasts long in ShipToShipCombat. Basically, a weaker Ekranoplane.
** Alternatively, a ship where one of the characters is the {{foil}} of the other.

* Ice Breaker: A ship between two {{Yandere}}s, breaking through everything that get in their way.
** Alternatively, a ship that requires a DefrostingIceQueen.
* [[Music/TheLonelyIsland I'm On a Boat]]
** A ship that is meant to parody shipping.
** A ship between two [[ShipsThatPassInTheNight unimportant characters]] that is [[MundaneMadeAwesome played up to be The Yacht]].
** When [[SelfInsertFic the shipper]] is [[PerverseSexualLust part of the ship]] or is a ShipperOnDeck or a Navigator.
** Shipping Advertising/TheManYourManCouldSmellLike.

* Intelligence Ship: Shipping secret agents.
** Also an alternative name for PairTheSmartOnes.
** "Okean" class trawler -- a ship involving Soviet agents.

* I Saw These Ships Come Sailing In
** What you can say when [[IKnewIt you knew]] that somebody was going to ship a certain pair, and it happens.
** A {{Christmas}} themed ship.

* The Junk: A ship that results from all the other characters being shipped already so the fans decide they should just PairTheSpares.
** Alternately:

** [[Creator/RudyardKipling The Junk and the Dhow]]: Shipping a Chinese character with an Arab.

** A character who is never or almost never shipped with anyone.
** Someone who doesn't participate in Shipping communities or discussions. (If you don't understand what half the jargon on this page means, that means ''you''.)

* Life Ship: When real-life actors who play the characters involved in a popular ship get together, such as the romance that briefly appeared to be brewing between Daniel Radcliffe (Film/HarryPotter) and Emma Watson (Hermione Granger) in early 2008.
** Another example would be the confirmed relationship between Milo Ventimiglia ([[Series/{{Heroes}} Peter Petrelli]]) and Hayden Panettiere (Claire Bennet). Somewhat creepy, because they play uncle and niece on the show.

** Lightship: Shipping two characters who both [[IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy want their beloveds to be happy]].
*** Or any ship involving [[Manga/DeathNote Light]] [[IncrediblyLamePun Yagami]]

* Lost in Shipping: CharacterDerailment by the fans in favor of their personal ship. A whole shipping crate full of [[DracoInLeatherPants leather pants]] for the EnsembleDarkHorse and/or WhiteHairBlackHeart.

* Mary Rose: A previously-stable ship that, upon one or both of its characters being {{Retool}}ed, sinks due to flaws created when new features fail to mesh with the original design(s).
** Alternatively, another name for [[Webcomic/{{Homestuck}} the Rosemary ship]].

* Micro Ship: When one of the partners is small. Examples: [[Literature/ToraDora Taiga]], [[Literautre/ShakuganNoShana Shana]], [[Anime/MacrossFrontier Klan Klein]], [[Manga/LovelyComplex Ohtani Atsushi]], and the protagonist of ''Yotsunoha''. Compare Tall Ship.
** Or alternately, a very rare, unpopular non-crack ship that none the less has support

* MileLongShip: An extremely popular ship.
** Alternatively, a ship between two characters with a large physical distance between them.

** Shipping two current or former models or fashionistas together, e.g. [[WesternAnimation/MyLittleponyFriendshipIsMagic shipping Fluttershy or Rarity and Fleur de Lis together]].
** A pairing used to show how shipping works, with little (if any) serious support from the author and fanbase.
* Mother Ship: The Mother of All Ships in the respective franchise, such that sinking the Mother Ship simultaneously destroys the stability of the shipping fandom (generally by ruining delicate PairTheSpares and ShipMates permutations).
** Alternatively, any pairing involving a mom.
** Or shipping characters from [[VideoGame/EarthboundBeginnings the]] ''[[VideoGame/{{Earthbound1994}} Mother]]'' [[VideoGame/Mother3 series]] together.
* Mutiny: Supporters of the same ship have [[AlternateCharacterInterpretation different ideas]] on how the ship should be handled and portrayed, leading to infighting within the ship's fan base.
** Alternatively, ShipToShipCombat between different writers of a collaborative work.

* Obra Dinn: A [[ShipSinking Sunken Ship]] that [[VideoGame/ReturnOfTheObraDinn was never real in the first place.]]

* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q_ship Q-Ship]]: A ship dismissed as unlikely and therefore harmless by the rest of a fandom busy with ShipToShipCombat that suddenly deploys the massive firepower of [[WordOfGod Authorial approval]] from seemingly nowhere.
** Alternatively, any ship involving a character played by John de Lancie.
** Or any ship involving a certain Film/JamesBond character.
** [[CrackPairing Or both.]]
** Another option: a ship involving a [[VideoGame/GuiltyGear Bridget-type character]].

* Reefer Ship: Cooler than a Cool Ship.
** Shipping involving marijuana.

* {{Reporting Name|s}}: What you call a ship when you don't know what the fandom calls it.
** Or, if you're like me and just refuse to memorize all those stupid names that the shippers think up for these things. I mean, it's one thing if it's just the names jammed together, but the "(insert-something-here)shipping" ones get annoying fast...
*** ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' shipping community refugee, I assume?
*** Either that or ''Franchise/YuGiOh'' Have you ''seen'' their Registry?
* Rocket Ship: Er, a ship involving rockets...
** Or [[Franchise/{{Pokemon}} Team Rocket]]!
** Or involving astronauts. Most of the RealLife ones end up well (although only one is widely considered to have ever actually ended up in the [[ZeroGSpot logical conclusion]]), and then there was that incident with the diaper...
** Maybe a ship that is so Canon and mammothly obvious that nobody bothers to touch it. It's out of their league. Then both characters are put on bus out and we can only assume they are living out their happily married days on the moon.

* Sailing Ship: When old people get shipped.
** Alternatively: A ship that's been around too long already.
** Self-Addressed Stamped Envelope: Preliminary materials that provide support for such a ship.

## PluckyComicRelief×{{Cloudcuckoolander}}, a match made in heaven. Like [[Manga/{{Beelzebub}} Hanazawa and Kanzaki.]]

* Shipping Crate: The [[CargoShip container]] in which you ship your [[CompanionCube cargo]].
** Or LockedInAFreezer with romantic overtones. Like the time Tony and Ziva got locked in a shipping container in ''Series/{{NCIS}}''.

* Ship Shape: the current state of a ship, both in canon and among the fandom.
** Alternatively, a work where every character is dating exactly who you think they should.

* Smuggling Ship: Carries a whole lot of [[CrackPairing illegal drugs.]]

* The Spanish Armada: A ship that's notable for [[AddedAlliterativeAppeal flopping flat on its face.]]

* Stealth Ship: A ship you don't see coming until it becomes canon. More a concept than a reality at this present time, owing to to the fact that any canon ship is inevitably already being shipped by someone, somewhere.
** Meagan and Prof. Fleinhardt in ''{{Series/Numb3rs}}'' probably count as an example. Seriously, who saw that coming?
* Steamboat: A ship whose primary audience appeal lies in the fact that both (or all) participants are ''extremely'' sexy. Similar but not identical to The Yacht.
** A romance between elderly characters.
** A pairing in [[{{Steampunk}} Victorian England]].
* Strength: A ship involving a [[Main/FunnyAnimal funny animal]] and a human.
* Stripped Of Their Epaulets: What happens to the Canon love interest when fans dump them for someone else.

* Time Ship: When two characters, one of which lived earlier than the other, are shipped. E.G.: [[Literature/HarryPotter Hermione×Young!Remus]]
* The Titanic: Alternative name for a ship that's a FanPreferredCouple. Appropriately, it gets [[ShipSinking sunk]] by an Iceberg.
** Or it could refer to a seemingly unsinkable 'ship which is suddenly and decisively sunk with no way to bring it back.

* Trireme: A ship that [[IncrediblyLamePun works on several levels]].

* Wor Ship: When the fandom abides by one specific set of ships and any other pairings are considered heresy.
** Alternately, shipping two gods/divine beings.
* The Yacht: The CoolShip of shipping. A ship running on the RuleOfCool, like the hypothetical Wolverine×Shego pairing suggested elsewhere on this wiki.
** Or, a pairing between two rich people.

The Ship Yard contains JustForPun entries that probably wouldn't fit the Administrivia/ThreeRulesOfThree, and thus aren't exactly tropes.

* The Submarine:
An [[WordOfGod Author]] or [[ExecutiveMeddling company]] that is particularly aggressive towards ships in general, or ships that don't fit canon. [[Literature/HarryPotter J.K. Rowling]], Creator/AlexHirsch, and Creator/RumikoTakahashi are good examples of the Author Version.

* Suez Canal: An often handwaved plot device that allows for otherwise highly unlikely shippings to work.

## A character that's been [[LauncherOfAThousandShips shipped with every member of the cast, gender, orientation, age and views notwithstanding]]. And don't think they'll [[AnythingThatMoves stop with the show's character cast]]. Often overlaps with TheSmurfettePrinciple in that the lone female member of an ensemble will inevitably be shipped with all members of her FiveManBand (and then some).

## [[Series/{{Degrassi}} A teen couple whose divorced parents are also dating each other]].

## A furious barrage of counter-arguments that support/defend one's ship - only effective against one or two attacks not multiple (See Backfire Raid).

* Ehime Maru: A Ship that is sunk by a Submarine, but [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ehime_Maru_and_USS_Greeneville_collision not in the usual way and not on purpose]].

## An [[WordOfGod Author]] or
## A [[ExecutiveMeddling company]] that is particularly aggressive towards ships in general, or ships that don't fit canon. [[Literature/HarryPotter J.K. Rowling]], Creator/AlexHirsch, and Creator/RumikoTakahashi are good examples of the Author Version.

* Micro Ship: When one of the partners is small. Examples: [[LightNovel/ToraDora Taiga]], [[LightNovel/ShakuganNoShana Shana]], [[Anime/MacrossFrontier Klan Klein]], [[Manga/LovelyComplex Ohtani Atsushi]], and the protagonist of ''Yotsunoha''. Compare Tall Ship.

## Shipping [[StarWars anyone on Tatooine]].

## Anything that involves at least one member of Music/{{Rush}}.

* ReportingName: What you call a ship when you don't know what the fandom calls it.

** Like if [[Manga/{{Naruto}} NaruHina]] and [[Manga/{{Bleach}} Ichigo×Rukia]] became canon. [[note]]The former is now canon[[/note]]

* Dreadnought: The most powerful ship. Slow, but capable of destroying huge ships with a single volley, and capable as well of resisting ''many'' Air-to-Sea Missiles. Or alternately, a very bold shipping effort (i.e., [[IncrediblyLamePun dreads nought]]).

* Escape Raft: A back-up ship to support in case the shipper's {{OTP}} is destroyed, e.g., "If Bob/Lucy doesn't work out, Bob/Jessica is my Escape Raft."

* Express Shipping: Pairs thrown together in a big hurry in response to canon developments or the introduction of new characters.

## A character that's been [[LauncherOfAThousandShips shipped with every member of the cast, gender, orientation, age and views notwithstanding]]. And don't think they'll [[AnythingThatMoves stop with the show's character cast]]. Often overlaps with TheSmurfettePrinciple in that the [[TheChick lone female member]] of an ensemble will inevitably be shipped with all members of her FiveManBand (and then some).

* Flak Artillery: A segment of the fandom that insists in the possibility of a ship regardless of the WordOfGod; i.e., something that fires against Torpedo Bombers. Also known as SAM Battery or AA Battery.

* Merchant Ship: A ship promoted metatextually in order to [[MerchandiseDriven sell more licensed merchandise]]; e.g., because it appeals to a PeripheryDemographic with more money than the core audience.

* Clipper Ship: A ship that moves along very quickly, but is highly precarious
** Alternativly, a ship with at least one member being from the Ninteenth Century.

* Contraband Shipping: Alternative name for CrackPairing.
** Or a ship where no one's in a band?

## One with [[CrackPairing Tom Cruise involved.]]

* Destroyer: In collaborative works, a ship that fires Torpedoes at other ships.
** Alternatively, a ship skilled at defending itself from Submarine attacks.
** Or a ship so radical that it carelessly wrecks the whole setting.
** Or a ship (seemingly) designed to sink lots of smaller ships, for instance between the two most shipped characters (or their parents).
* Dictator Ship: A ship jam-packed with master/servant relationships and the like.
** Alternately, how you'd categorise [[UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler Hitler]] / [[UsefulNotes/JosefStalin Stalin]] slashfic.
* Dinghy: The pairing of two {{Ensemble Darkhorse}}s. For example, [[WebAnimation/HappyTreeFriends Flippy x Flaky]].

** Distress Beacon, a.k.a. [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_Position-Indicating_Radio_Beacon EPIRB]]: What is usually sent out if a ship sinks so quickly that there's very little time to AbandonShipping.

** Or shipping characters from [[VideoGame/MOTHER1 the]] ''[[VideoGame/{{Earthbound}} Mother]]'' [[VideoGame/{{Mother 3}} series]] together.

## Shipping one or both members of Music/{{Air}}.

## A ship that happens to TastesLikeDiabetes.