History LauncherOfAThousandShips / LiveActionTV

** Wednesday Addams herself quickly became a big fandom bicycle after the show aired, due to Creator/JennaOrtega's great chemistry with everyone. The most popular ship is her with roommate Enid, but there's also Wednesday/Tyler, Wednesday/Xavier, Wednesday/Bianca, Wednesday/Ajax, and Wednesday/Yoko, and Wednesday/Eugene. It certainly helps that Wednesday doesn't actually end up with anyone at the end of the first season. Ironically, the least popular pairings were Tyler and Xavier, the ''actual'' romantic leads, as many fans felt that the love triangle was [[RomanticPlotTumour way too forced]] and that Wednesday had more natural chemistry with just about every other character in her age group.

** Wednesday Addams herself quickly became a big fandom bicycle after the show aired, due to Creator/JennaOrtega's great chemistry with everyone. The most popular ship is her with roommate Enid, but there's also Wednesday/Tyler, Wednesday/Xavier, Wednesday/Bianca, Wednesday/Ajax, and Wednesday/Yoko, and Wednesday/Eugene. It certainly helps that Wednesday doesn't actually end up with anyone at the end of the first season. Ironically, the least popular pairings in the first season were Tyler and Xavier, the ''actual'' romantic leads, as many fans felt that the love triangle was [[RomanticPlotTumour way too forced]] and that Wednesday had more natural chemistry with just about every other character in her age group.

** Wednesday Addams herself quickly became a big fandom bicycle after the show aired, due to Creator/JennaOrtega's great chemistry with everyone. The most popular ship is her with roommate Enid, but there's also Wednesday/Tyler, Wednesday/Xavier, Wednesday/Bianca, Wednesday/Ajax, and Wednesday/Yoko, just to name a few. It certainly helps that Wednesday doesn't actually end up with anyone at the end of the first season.

* In ''Series/BlakesSeven'', [=Avon/=]AnythingThatMoves (and [[RoboShip Orac]], who doesn't).

* Morgana from ''{{Series/Merlin 2008}}''. The first season inspired Morgana/Gwen, Morgana/Uther, Morgana/Arthur as well as some Morgana/Merlin, Morgana/(older)Mordred and Morgana/Nimueh, even though those two never even met! Season 2 cut it down a little on the Morgana/Uther and Morgana/Arthur front but also inspired Morgana/Morgause (even though they're half-sisters) and (thanks to some fanmade vids for them) also Morgana/Sir Leon.
** Ironic considering Morgana is part of no OfficialCouple on the show. Seriously though, in this fandom, ''everyone'' gets shipped with ''everyone.'' In a cast this pretty, they're all [[LittleBlackDress Little Black Dresses]].
** Morgana/Mordred!? But--but--but… in original canon he's…

* Emma from ''Series/OnceUponATime'' is commonly paired with her step-grandmother and [[FoeYayShipping archenemy]] [[LesYay Regina]], who also happens to be her biological son's adoptive mom. Also fairly popular are [[OfficialCouple Emma]]/[[KilledOffForReal Graham]], [[ShipTease Emma/August]], [[StalkingIsLove Emma/Jefferson]], and [[FoeYayShipping Emma/Gold]]. You'll also see your vocal minorities of [[LesYay Emma/Ruby]] and Emma/Archie shippers and those who would ship [[ParentalIncest Emma/Mary Margaret]] if Mary Margaret wasn't actually Emma's mom. Or who ship it regardless.
** As of Season 2, you can add Emma/[[JerkWithAHeartOfGold Hook]] and Emma/[[MysteriousParent Neal]] to the list as well [[spoiler: (the second one is synonymous with [[YouAllShareMyStory Emma/Baelfire]])]].
** As of Season 4, Emma/[[spoiler:[[BirdsOfAFeather Elsa]]]] is gaining popularity.

* Malcolm Reed of ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise''. There is a significant amount of fic for: Tucker/Reed, Archer/Reed, Reed/Sato, Reed/Mayweather, and Reed/Hayes. No other character comes close. The reason why can only be guessed at, but it probably has something to do with the whole "shy, reserved, and stoic" thing. And his fondness for [[StuffBlowingUp making things go boom]].

** The introduction of {{Comics/Mockingbird}} in Season 2 opened up the floodgates to Bobbi Morse being shipped with most of the other leads, as well as several other characters from elsewhere in the [[Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse MCU]]. The favourites are usually Hunter (her canonical love interest), Hawkeye (her love interest from the comics), and Simmons (because the two enjoyed some serious LesYay in their first couple of episodes). However, like Simmons, Bobbi will generally get shipped with ''anyone'' else on the team except Coulson, and there's a fair portion of the fandom shipping her with Skye, May, and Ward as well, despite the relative lack of interaction with them, just because she's so well-liked in general.

* ''Series/{{Degrassi}}'' has Sean. It doesn't help that every girl he's shared a scene with (and a few he hasn't) have said how hot he is. For reasoning, Emma, Ellie, and Ashley are canon, Manny talks about how hot he is, Paige and Hazel are popular {{Crack Pairing}}s, and that really leaves Liberty, which goes to show [[IncrediblyLamePun accidents will happen]]. For HoYay, let's see… He's the only person who truly understands Rick, he and Ellie defend Rick before anyone else does, and then he kills Rick; on TV.com, this combines with [[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion speculation about Toby's taste in anime]] to turn the yaoi up some. Then there's Craig; indeed, Sean/Craig is the official couple over at TV.com's ''Degrassi'' forum, complete with a user named Seaig. More relevant, though, is that Craig wanted Sean to run away with him, and attempted suicide when Sean didn't. For Jimmy, there's this rivalry between them at first that is SeriousBusiness, and then Jimmy's girlfriend cheats with Sean and goes on and on about how Sean's the better man, sprinkling in double entendres throughout. JT and Toby think Sean scores a lot, and JT tries to get him to use X. Marco's first crush is actually Sean, complete with MaleGaze shot of Sean's naked torso. Jay is a popular choice because of how mopey Jay gets when Sean isn't around. Peter has a serious obsession with Sean during their episodes. As for Spinner? There's actually a promo pic of Daniel Clark embracing Shane Kippel.

* Blair from ''Series/GossipGirl'' has been shipped with everyone in the show, including men who only love Serena, straight girls, her worst enemy, and her boyfriend's deceased father. Apart from that she's also been paired with [[Literature/{{Twilight}} Edward Cullen]], [[Film/{{Harry Potter}} Draco Malfoy]], [[Series/{{The Vampire Diaries}} Damon Salvatore]], [[Series/{{Supernatural}} Dean Winchester]], and ''[[Series/{{Glee}} Rachel Berry]]''. And many more.

** Regina has been shipped with [[FanPreferredCouple Emma]], [[FoeYayShippingShipping Gold]], David, Snow, Jefferson, Ruby, Archie, Daniel, Hook, Tinkerbell, [[OneTrueLove Robin Hood]], Maleficent, Doctor Facilier, and Ivy. That is not even getting into OT3 pairings with Emma and Ruby or Robin and Maleficent.

** Speaking of Tommy, it's easy to see Tommy with Jason (classic), Goldar (obsessed with Tommy), Zedd (even more obsessed than Goldar), Rita (come on, if you were her, you would), Kim (canon, and it's been said that 45% of Franchise/PowerRangers fics are slash and 54% are Tommy/Kim), [[ScrewYourself his clone]], Kat (canon), and Adam (the two most popular rangers ever). There are also more bizarre fics pairing him with Zack, Trini, and Rocky, to say nothing of ObserveTheViewingGlobe. Fast forward to [[Series/PowerRangersDinoThunder Dino Thunder]], and he's paired with every other cast member: Hayley (despite the inherent {{Scrapp|y}}iness of dating Tommy in canon and not being a Pink Ranger), Anton (they sound like lovers), Mesogog (personal space issues), Elsa (fakes being in love with him), Conner (because heavy is the head that wears the crown), Ethan (apparently on the same grounds as Trini/Billy, that one can understand the other's technobabble), Kira (far too much), and Trent (because they were both evil). There's also a MemeticMutation that sleeping with Tommy is one of the fringe benefits of being a Pink Ranger. No doubt someone's paired him with Andros because they look so much alike. We're just lucky [[WhatMightHaveBeen David never became a ranger]], or we wouldn't have had to wait until [[Series/PowerRangersNinjaStorm Ninja Storm]] for incest slash to come out.

* Hawkeye Pierce from ''Series/{{MASH}}'' has been paired with virtually every other character in the series, though the most popular pairings are BJ/Hawkeye, Margaret/Hawkeye (canon for an episode or so, actually), Trapper/Hawkeye, and Radar/Hawkeye. Justified in that Hawkeye tends to flirt with AnythingThatMoves, though he (apparently) only flirts with men [[GayBravado to make them uncomfortable]].

* For ''Series/{{Gotham}}'' fans, [[EverythingsBetterWithPenguins everything really is better with penguins]] -- the vast majority of ''Gotham'' fanfiction involves shipping the young Oswald Cobblepot with either another one (or more) of the many, many male characters or [[SelfInsertFic the reader]].

* ''Series/StrangerThings '': Steve may be the best example of the show. There is his canon relationship with Nancy and then we have Jonathan, Billy, Robin and Eddie. The fact that the latest three were introduced in different seasons could make a RunningGag that every new character is expected to be shipped with Steve somehow.

** And then there's Franchise/IrisWildthyme, a big old slutty drunken ham of an alleged Time Lady who claims to have "had" the Doctor and who fancies ''all'' his incarnations. In addition to the slew of lovers (men and women alike) and husbands who show up in her own series.

** Clark Kent has been paired with every character on the show. Clark and Lex being the most popular Slash Couple rivaled with Oliver/Clark, then you have your Clark/Lois Shippers, your Clark/Chloe Shippers and a smaller number of Clark/Lana shippers (whose numbers dwindled with each passing season as more fans grew irritated with Lana). They even go far enough to [[KissingCousins pair him with]] [[Comicbook/{{Supergirl}} Kara]] or [[NoYay Jor-El]]. The writers even would paint him as a ChickMagnet on the show, even though he hasn't caught onto it.

** * Chloe Sullivan also served as a Launcher Of A Thousand Ships. The fact that many of her fans seem to use her as their own personal AudienceSurrogate means that Chloe hooking up with virtually any attractive character can be seen as [[PossessionSue wish-fulfillment]]. To that end, the fandom has shipped Chloe with [[Franchise/{{Superman}} Clark]] (Chlark; there are also pairings of her and [[SuperpoweredEvilSide Kal]] and [[EvilTwin Bizarro]]), [[ComicBook/GreenArrow Oliver]] (a ship so popular that ''the showrunners themselves'' became Chlollie shippers in the last couple seasons), [[DracoInLeatherPants Lex]] (Chlex enjoyed a brief but dramatic spike in fanfic popularity around Season 2 for some reason), ''[[MagnificentBastard LIONEL]]'' of all people[[note]]They actually had a bit of WordOfGod-confirmed FoeRomanceSubtext in Season 4[[/note]], and [[CrossoverShip out-of-universe characters from other shows]], like Dean and/or Sam Winchester from ''Series/{{Supernatural}}''. One of the more popular Chloe crossover ships over the years has also been Chloe/Batman.

** Chloe Sullivan also served as a Launcher Of A Thousand Ships. The fact that many of her fans seem to use her as their own personal AudienceSurrogate means that Chloe hooking up with virtually any attractive character can be seen as [[PossessionSue wish-fulfillment]]. To that end, the fandom has shipped Chloe with [[Franchise/{{Superman}} Clark]] (Chlark; there are also pairings of her and [[SuperpoweredEvilSide Kal]] and [[EvilTwin Bizarro]]), [[ComicBook/GreenArrow Oliver]] (a ship so popular that ''the showrunners themselves'' became Chlollie shippers in the last couple seasons), [[DracoInLeatherPants Lex]] (Chlex enjoyed a brief but dramatic spike in fanfic popularity around Season 2 for some reason), ''[[MagnificentBastard LIONEL]]'' of all people[[note]]They actually had a bit of WordOfGod-confirmed FoeRomanceSubtext in Season 4[[/note]], and [[CrossoverShip out-of-universe characters from other shows]], like Dean and/or Sam Winchester from ''Series/{{Supernatural}}''.\\
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One of the more popular Chloe crossover ships over the years has been Chloe/Batman. There have been so many prominent fics that it can be quite reasonably stated there is an entire sub-genre of ''Series/{{Smallville}}'' fanfic that involves Chloe moving to Gotham (often after the writer has Chloe realize that Clark/Oliver/Jimmy/[[LesYay Lana]]/Lionel [[{{SourGrapesTropes}} "isn't good enough for her"]] or something) and then falling in love with Bruce Wayne, and ending up fighting crime alongside him on the Gotham City rooftops. In these fics, she often displays the ability to work the Batcomputer better than Bruce can, learns martial arts at a ridiculously quick pace, and often Alfred will advise Bruce to "open his eyes and see what's right in front of him." This pairing is apparently helped by the fact that Chloe more or less becomes an Oracle {{Expy}} in later seasons due to {{Flanderization}} of her hacking skills.

* Series/TheVampireDiariesUniverse:

** Chloe Sullivan also served as a Launcher Of A Thousand Ships. The fact that many of her fans seem to use her as their own personal AudienceSurrogate means that Chloe hooking up with virtually any attractive character can be seen as [[PossessionSue wish-fulfillment]]. To that end, the fandom has shipped Chloe with [[{{Superman}} Clark]] (Chlark; there are also pairings of her and [[SuperpoweredEvilSide Kal]] and [[EvilTwin Bizarro]]), [[ComicBook/GreenArrow Oliver]] (a ship so popular that ''the showrunners themselves'' became Chlollie shippers in the last couple seasons), [[DracoInLeatherPants Lex]] (Chlex enjoyed a brief but dramatic spike in fanfic popularity around Season 2 for some reason), ''[[MagnificentBastard LIONEL]]'' of all people[[note]]They actually had a bit of WordOfGod-confirmed FoeRomanceSubtext in Season 4[[/note]], and [[CrossoverShip out-of-universe characters from other shows]], like Dean and/or Sam Winchester from ''Series/{{Supernatural}}''.\\

** It gets Jayne Cobb shipped with nearly everyone. Most common shippings include River or Zoe, but there's also plenty of fic involving Kaylee or Inara, as well as ones involving Simon or Mal. Jayne is the token barbarian of the series -- he likes guns, booze and women, and he'll take any that seem available.

* For ''Series/{{Gotham}}'' fans, [[EverythingsBetterWithPenguins everything really is better with penguins]] -- the vast majority of ''Gotham'' fanfiction involves shipping the young Oswald Cobblepot with either another one (or more) of the [[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters many, many male characters]] or [[SelfInsertFic the reader]].

** Oliver Queen is shipped just about everyone in ''canon'', while in fanfic he's shipped with anyone the writers ''don't'' tease him with. As of the second season, he's slept with/dated Huntress, [=McKenna=] Hall, Shado, Isobel Rochev, and both [[ComicBook/BlackCanary Laurel and Sara Lance]], and has been teased heavily with Felicity, and less heavily [[HoYay Diggle, Tommy,]] and [[FoeYayShipping Malcolm and Slade]]. In the fandom, he's shipped with all of the above, ''plus'' more! This only became more prevalent after [[AbandonShipping Felicity/Oliver]] became more hated, as it cause a lot of fans to ship him with just about everyone ''except'' her.

** Speaking of Tommy, it's easy to see Tommy with Jason (classic), Goldar (obsessed with Tommy), Zedd (even more obsessed than Goldar), Rita (come on, if you were her, you would), Kim (canon, and it's been said that 45% of Franchise/PowerRangers fics are slash and 54% are Tommy/Kim), [[ScrewYourself his clone]], Kat (canon), and Adam (the two most popular rangers ever). There are also more bizarre fics pairing him with Zack, Trini, and Rocky, to say nothing of ObserveTheViewingGlobe. Fast forward to [[Series/PowerRangersDinoThunder Dino Thunder]], and he's paired with every other cast member: Hayley (despite the inherent {{Scrapp|y}}iness of dating Tommy in canon and not being a Pink Ranger), Anton (they sound like lovers), Mesogog (personal space issues), Elsa (fakes being in love with him), Conner (because heavy is the head that wears the crown), Ethan (apparently on the same grounds as Trini/Billy, that one can understand the other's technobabble), Kira (far too much), and Trent (because they were both evil). There's also a MemeticMutation that sleeping with Tommy is one of the fringe benefits of being a Pink Ranger. No doubt someone's paired him with Andros

* ''Series/The100'' has Clarke Griffin, who is shipped with every other character in the show, helped by the fact that she is canonically bisexual. Clarke's two biggest ships are with [[OneTrueLove Lexa]] and [[FanPreferredCouple Bellamy]], but she is also often shipped with characters of Murphy, Wells, Raven, Finn, Anya, and Octavia. Both Bellamy and Lexa are also bicycles within the fandom, though not to the same degree as Clarke is.

** Speaking of Tommy, it's easy to see Tommy with Jason (classic), Goldar (obsessed with Tommy), Zedd (even more obsessed than Goldar), Rita (come on, if you were her, you would), Kim (canon, and it's been said that 45% of Franchise/PowerRangers fics are slash and 54% are Tommy/Kim), [[ScrewYourself his clone]], Kat (canon), and Adam (the two most popular rangers ever). There are also more bizarre fics pairing him with Zack, Trini, and Rocky, to say nothing of ObserveTheViewingGlobe. Fast forward to [[Series/PowerRangersDinoThunder Dino Thunder]], and he's paired with every other cast member: Hayley (despite the inherent {{Scrapp|y}}iness of dating Tommy in canon and not being a Pink Ranger), Anton (they sound like lovers), Mesogog (personal space issues), Elsa (fakes being in love with him), Conner (because heavy is the head that wears the crown), Ethan (apparently on the same grounds as Trini/Billy, that one can understand the other's technobabble), Kira (far too much), and Trent (because they were both evil). There's also a MemeticMutation that sleeping with Tommy is one of the fringe benefits of being a Pink Ranger. No doubt someone's paired him with Andros because they look so much alike. We're just lucky [[WhatMightHaveBeen David never became a ranger]], or we wouldn't have had to wait until [[Series/PowerRangersNinjaStorm Ninja Storm]] for incest slash to come out.
** Other male Mighty Morphin' Rangers have their fair share of shipping fanfics, notably Billy since he is considered the [[NerdsAreSexy Lady's Man]] of the team albeit being a nerd. Alongside pair-ups of him and his crushes in the show, some of the favorite fan ships of him include: Billy/Kimberly (affectionately labeled Kimbilly or Billery by fans), Billy/Trini, Billy/Aisha, and Billy/Kat.
** Jason gets this to an extent as well. In addition to his canonical relationship with Emily from [[Series/PowerRangersZeo Zeo]], Jason is often shipped with Tommy, Kimberly, Kat, Trini and Zack. Some fans step outside the Zordon Era and pair Jason with the likes of [[Series/PowerRangersWildForce Cole]], [[Series/PowerRangersNinjaStorm Shane]] or [[Series/PowerRangersDinoThunder Conner]].
* ''Series/ParksAndRecreation''
** A sizable portion of the fandom has most emphatically thrown Ben Wyatt into this role. While he and Leslie are the show's OfficialCouple (and a highly beloved one to boot), there's also fic for Ben/April (and in some cases, combining them with April's canon husband Andy for a OneTrueThreesome), Ben/Chris, Ben/Ann, Ben/Ron... someone out there probably ships him with [[ButtMonkey Jerry]] (even if only for [[IncrediblyLamePun the pun]]).
*** The Ben pairings [[CrossoverShip aren't just confined to within his own series either]]; if the NBC kink meme is anything to go by, people like to pair him up with [[Series/ThirtyRock Liz Lemon]], [[Series/{{Community}} Annie Edison]], and [[Series/PartyDown Casey Klein]].
** Leslie herself has been paired off with Ann (due to the huge heaps of LesYay between them), Andy, Ron, April, and in the case of {{Crossover Ship}}s, Trevor from ''Series/TheGoodPlace'' (due to him sharing [[Creator/AdamScott the same actor]] as her canon husband Ben), [[Series/DoctorWho the Tenth Doctor]], and Liz Lemon (due to the close real life friendship between their actresses).
* Emily from ''Series/{{Pretty Little Liars}}'' seems to get paired up with a lot of people: Ali, Spencer, Aria, Hanna, Maya, Paige, Samara, even Toby (despite being lesbian.)
* Shawn from ''Series/{{Psych}}''. Justified in the case that he has made a pass at everyone of the recurring characters at least once. He's most commonly paired with his [[OfficialCouple canon girlfriend Juliet]], but also with [[FoeYayShipping Lassie]], [[HeterosexualLifePartners Gus]], [[ChildhoodFriendRomance Abigail]], and [[MayDecemberRomance Chief Vick]].
* Sam from ''Series/QuantumLeap''. Not that surprising, as the show itself has a premise specifically designed to allow for any kind of story the writer of the week wants to tell.
* In ''Series/TerminatorTheSarahConnorChronicles'' community, [[RobotGirl Cameron]] tends to get shipped with ''everyone.'' The most common pairings appear to be with John Conner, Sarah Connor and Derek Reese, but even John Henry and [[ScrewYourself Allison Young]] have their supporters.
** Like ''Firefly'' this is probably due in part to Cameron being played by Creator/SummerGlau.
* Sherlock Holmes from, well, ''Series/{{Sherlock}}''. The FanPreferredCouple appears to be him with John, but he's also paired with Molly (who canonically [[AllLoveIsUnrequited has a one-sided crush]] on Sherlock), Irene Adler (a lesbian until Moffat decided to contradict his earlier 'not wired that way' anti-John/Sherlock statement), Anderson and Donovan (both of whom hate Sherlock), Lestrade, his own brother Mycroft (whom Sherlock hates), and nemesis Moriarty. Season 3 added Mary Morstan (John's wife, making for an OT3 situation) and Charles Augustus Milverton (the season's BigBad).
* ''Series/{{Smallville}}'':
** Clark Kent has been paired with every character on the show. Clark and Lex being the most popular Slash Couple rivaled with Oliver/Clark, then you have your Clark/Lois Shippers, your Clark/Chloe Shippers and a smaller number of Clark/Lana shippers (whose numbers dwindled with each passing season as more fans grew irritated with Lana). They even go far enough to [[KissingCousins pair him with]] [[Comicbook/{{Supergirl}} Kara]] or [[NoYay Jor-El]]. The writers even would paint him as a ChickMagnet on the show, even though he hasn't caught onto it.
** Tess Mercer, an original character who is partly based on Mercy Graves, Miss Tessmacher and [[spoiler: the original version of Lena Luthor, the one who was Lex's sister in the Silver Age comics]], has been shipped with just about everybody on the show. This is helped by the fact that the showrunners seem happy to intentionally fuel this with regards to Tess, by having her flirt with just about everybody in the main cast, plus several guest characters.
** Chloe Sullivan also served as a Launcher Of A Thousand Ships. The fact that many of her fans seem to use her as their own personal AudienceSurrogate means that Chloe hooking up with virtually any attractive character can be seen as [[PossessionSue wish-fulfillment]]. To that end, the fandom has shipped Chloe with [[{{Superman}} Clark]] (Chlark; there are also pairings of her and [[SuperpoweredEvilSide Kal]] and [[EvilTwin Bizarro]]), [[ComicBook/GreenArrow Oliver]] (a ship so popular that ''the showrunners themselves'' became Chlollie shippers in the last couple seasons), [[DracoInLeatherPants Lex]] (Chlex enjoyed a brief but dramatic spike in fanfic popularity around Season 2 for some reason), ''[[MagnificentBastard LIONEL]]'' of all people[[note]]They actually had a bit of WordOfGod-confirmed FoeRomanceSubtext in Season 4[[/note]], and [[CrossoverShip out-of-universe characters from other shows]], like Dean and/or Sam Winchester from ''Series/{{Supernatural}}''.\\
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One of the more popular Chloe crossover ships over the years has been Chloe/Batman. There have been so many prominent fics that it can be quite reasonably stated there is an entire sub-genre of ''Series/{{Smallville}}'' fanfic that involves Chloe moving to Gotham (often after the writer has Chloe realize that Clark/Oliver/Jimmy/[[LesYay Lana]]/Lionel [[{{SourGrapesTropes}} "isn't good enough for her"]] or something) and then falling in love with Bruce Wayne, and ending up fighting crime alongside him on the Gotham City rooftops. In these fics, she often displays the ability to work the Batcomputer better than Bruce can, learns martial arts at a ridiculously quick pace, and often Alfred will advise Bruce to "open his eyes and see what's right in front of him." This pairing is apparently helped by the fact that Chloe more or less becomes an Oracle {{Expy}} in later seasons due to {{Flanderization}} of her hacking skills.
** Oliver Queen, aka ComicBook/GreenArrow, is subject to this a lot. Helped by the fact that the show actually does have him embark on relationships with most of the main female characters during his years on the show.
* In the ''Franchise/{{Stargate|Verse}}'' universe:
** Rodney [=McKay=], of all people. People will read ''anything'' that features him as part of a 'ship. If you watch the episode "Tao of Rodney", this makes ''perfect sense''.
-->'''Elizabeth Weir:''' Rodney, you're a good person. Know that we love you.
-->'''Rodney [=McKay=]:''' You love me? Really? All of you?
** Evan Lorne also fulfills this trope.
** So does John Sheppard. More John than even Rodney, since there seems to be the subfandom of Richard Woolsey/John Sheppard. Also, John has spent time with every Atlantis Civilian Head in a 'one on one' scene on a balcony somewhere, and has DARED to fall for an ascended lady (and a near-ascended one). Poor John's reputation is also cemented because Rodney just ''doesn't let it go''. In extreme cases, John's character kind of goes through a [[{{Ukefication}} transformation, and people forget that he's actually the military head of the Atlantis expedition]]. John/Elizabeth, John/Teyla, John/Ronon, John/Rodney, John/Richard, John/Random Evil Alien, John/Random Good Alien, John/his abusive dad, John/the entirety of a hockey team… well. It's been done.
** Daniel Jackson & Cameron Mitchell from ''[[Series/StargateSG1 SG-1]]'' have been paired up in {{fanfic}} not only with each other, but with every main character in the show's history. Sometimes crossing over with ''Series/StargateAtlantis'' and other shows. [[EvenTheGuysWantHim Can you blame]] the other main characters?
* Kotoha of Series/SamuraiSentaiShinkenger. And the writers seem bound to encourage it.
** Her lord, Takeru, has been paired with all five of his vassals, his childhood friend, his rival, [[spoiler:and the true lord, who is now his mother.]]
* ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'':
** Dean Winchester. He's been paired with his little brother, his father, Bobby, Castiel, probably every single male and female character in the show, [=OMC=]s, [=OFC=]s and I'm not even touching the millions of crossovers that he's been in. Possibly justified because he's [[MrFanservice very pretty]] and [[ReallyGetsAround very slutty]] but it's getting ridiculous.
** Castiel has been paired with nearly as many characters as Dean has and appeared in far fewer episodes. It started harmlessly with just Dean/Cas, but then other angels (and demons and humans) appeared, and the rest is history. Cas/Meg remains popular, there's plenty of fics portraying Cas/April and on top of that there's Cas/Sam, Cas/Jimmy Novak, Cas/Casifer, Cas/Claire Novak, Cas/Dean/Anna, Cas/Crowley (which is often a Crossover of Good Omens)...the list goes on. It doesn't hurt that the bad future version of Cas we see in "The End" is running a sex cult.
** Sam Winchester. He might not be in quite as many pairing as his big brother, but writers who ship Destiel love to pair Sam off with someone else. Hence the many stories with Sam/Eileen, Sam/Sarah, Sam/Jess, Sam/Lucifer, Sam/Gadreel. There's also still plenty of Sam/Dean.
** Crowley. It helps that he flirts with most everyone he meets.
* ''Series/TheSuiteLifeOnDeck'' features Zack Martin, a serial dater who seems to be compatible which every girl on the show.
* Malcolm Reed of ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise''. There is a significant amount of fic for: Tucker/Reed, Archer/Reed, Reed/Sato, Reed/Mayweather, and Reed/Hayes. No other character comes close. The reason why can only be guessed at, but it probably has something to do with the whole "shy, reserved, and stoic" thing. And his fondness for [[StuffBlowingUp making things go boom]].
** Captain Janeway seems to be this for ''Series/StarTrekVoyager''. The most popular are the somewhat canon Janeway/Chakotay and the less canon [[SlashFic Janeway/Seven]].
** Downplayed for Hoshi, who's been shipped with Malcolm, Trip, Archer, and T'Pol but not so much Phlox or Mayweather.
* In ''Series/{{Sanctuary}}'', Helen Magnus is paired through fanfic with ''everyone'', including non-canon relationships with [[HistoricalDomainCharacter Amelia Earhart and H.G. Wells]], among many others. Many of the popular ships in fandom include Magnus/[[UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper John Druitt]], Magnus/[[UsefulNotes/NikolaTesla Nikola Tesla]], Magnus/[[Literature/SherlockHolmes James Watson]], Magnus/Will Zimmerman, Magnus/Kate, Magnus/… you get the picture. In canon, Tesla has a long-lived and one-sided flirtation with Magnus, but has gone so far as to sneak into her room at night (unsuccessfully) and has made it clear he would enjoy a relationship with Magnus if given the opportunity. Given that the woman is [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld over 157 years old]], is [[WordOfGod sexually fluid]], and would have chemistry with a flea, it's not hard to see how this trope applies.
* ''Series/{{Supergirl 2015}}'': [[Comicbook/{{Supergirl}} Kara Danvers]] has been shipped with virtually ''everyone'', regardless of age, gender or ''universe'': her co-worker Jimmy, her another co-worker Winn, her boyfriend Mon-El, her boss Cat Grant, her friend Lena, her sister Alex, her friend from another universe [[Series/{{The Flash 2014}} Barry Allen]]...
* ''Series/TeenWolf'' gives us [[{{Adorkable}} Stiles]] [[GeniusDitz Stilinski]], the protagonist's MuggleBestFriend who quickly gained a large fanbase due to his [[DeadpanSnarker witty]] [[MotorMouth remarks and]] [[BuffySpeak comments]] and the actor's good looks, which had loads of fangirls sighing more for him than for the other protagonists (which surprised both the cast and the producers). While the FanPreferredCouple (by a ''very large'' part of the fans) is [[HoYay Stiles]]/[[ShipTease Derek]], there's also [[DoggedNiceGuy Stiles/Lydia]], Stiles/Jackson, Stiles/Danny, [[HeterosexualLifePartners Stiles/Scott]], Stiles/Isaac, Stiles/Allison, Stiles/Peter, Stiles/Erica, Stiles/Cora, Stiles/Boyd... and that's just the tip of the iceberg.
** Stiles has been paired with pretty much every single girl (and guy, mainly due to his AmbiguouslyBi moments) on the show, whether he interacted with him/her or not. And let's not get started with the crossovers…
* Interesting thing on ''Series/TheTudors''. Henry gets paired off the most times in the show (obviously) but as for pairings written or suggested... um, Katherine of Aragon. A popular theory is that people just want her to be happy, considering how things went for her on the show.
* Sookie from ''Series/TrueBlood''. Not only has she dated or had sexual tension with four guys canonically, but fan fic writers don't let silly things like gender or IncompatibleOrientation keep them from pairing her with everyone on the show.
** Sam and Jason as well. Both are tied in having the most onscreen love interests on the show (five, not counting Jason's random floozies), as well as some HoYay with a few male characters, making them ''very'' popular with shippers.
* Series/TheVampireDiariesUniverse:
** ''Series/TheVampireDiaries'': All of the characters in the series fall into this, especially Caroline (who has been paired with everyone even in-universe), the Salvatore brothers, and obviously Elena.
*** In Fanfiction, Caroline has been paired with Klaus, Stefan, Jeremy, (whose actor she dated in real life), Elena, Katherine, Rebekah, Kol, even complete {{Crack Pairing}}s like Alaric ([[HilariousInHindsight which briefly became canon]]), Mason, Jenna, and Vicki.
*** Stefan's biggest ships are with Elena and Caroline. He is also shipped with other characters, including Katherine, Damon, Bonnie, Klaus, Elijah, and Rebekah.
*** Bonnie is shipped with everyone on the show, both male and female characters. In terms of male characters, she is shipped with Damon, Stefan, Jeremy, Klaus, Elijah, Kol, Kai, Enzo, and Matt. She is also shipped with the female characters too such as Elena, Caroline, and Katherine.
** ''Series/{{Legacies}}'':
*** Hope is shipped with [[FanPreferredCouple Josie]], [[OfficialCouple Landon]], Raf, [[CrackShip MG]], [[HoYay Lizzie]] (sometimes [[OT3 both Josie and Lizzie at the same time]]), and [[FoeYayShipping Clarke and Alyssa]].
*** Josie seems to serve as the second example of this trope in the show as [[ShipTease she's naturally shippable with other characters]] like Hope, Penelope, Rafael, Landon, Lizzie, MG or Jade just to name some of them.
* ''Series/{{Victorious}}'' has Tori, Cat, and Jade who, like ''iCarly'''s Sam, are all considered bisexual by the majority of the fandom.
** Tori is shipped in popular pairings with Jade, Cat, and Beck, semi-popular ones like Andre and Robbie, along with {{Crossover Ship}}s with Carly from ''Series/{{iCarly}}'' and James from ''Series/BigTimeRush''. That is not even getting into her {{Crack Pairing}}s with her sister Trina and Rex.
** Cat has popular pairings with Jade, Robbie and Tori, semi-popular pairings with Trina, Beck and Andre and a popular CrossoverShip with Freddie from ''Series/{{iCarly}}'', and with the SpinOff ''Series/SamAndCat'', Sam.
** Jade is perhaps the biggest launcher, being paired with Tori, Cat, and Beck as her most popular pairings, with less popular pairings with Andre and Robbie and a CrossoverShip with Sam from ''Series/{{iCarly}}''.
* ''Series/Warehouse13'' has Myka Berring and Helena "H.G." Wells, who have both been shipped with almost every other character from the show. The most popular is pairing them together, but they have each been shipped with Pete (which became canon for Myka), Claudia, Leena, Sam, Abigail and Emily Lake (H.G. with none of her memories), as well as OT3 pairings that have paired both of them with Claudia and Pete. There has also been crossover fanfiction that paired them with characters from other shows. Helena has been paired with Regina Mills from ''Series/OnceUponATime'' and Helen Magnus from ''Series/{{Sanctuary}}'', just to name a few. Myka has been paired with Adelle [=DeWitt=] from ''Series/{{Dollhouse}}'', Stahma Tarr from ''Series/{{Defiance}}'', Olivia Dunham from ''Series/{{Fringe}}'', and Wynonna Earp from ''Series/WynonnaEarp''.
* Alex in ''Series/WizardsOfWaverlyPlace''. Goes above and beyond the usual fandom bicycle because her most popular pairing is an incest pairing with brother Justin.
* ''Series/TheWorstWitch'': For the Netflix series, Miss Hardbroom, especially in slash fanfiction. She's been shipped with Miss Cackle, Miss Pentangle, Miss Drill, and even [[TeacherStudentRomance Mildred Hubble]] and [[EvilTwin Agatha Cackle]].
* ''Series/TheXFiles'':
** Both Mulder and Scully. There are still whole websites devoted to shipping either of them with half the show's characters.
** Alex Krycek. Do a little fanfic digging and you'll find him paired with almost ''everyone'' from the show. [[SlashFic Krycek/Mulder]] is most common, but his level of shippiness with practically everybody spun off all sorts of other pairings. It's probably impossible to find a fic that doesn't mention his green eyes at least once.

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** Fan discussion around the show and shipping, especially post-Season 1, tends not so much to ask "Which couple do you ship?", rather "Who do you ship Simmons with?". In roughly descending order, the top five seems to be [[ObliviousToLove Fitz]], [[FoeYay Ward]], [[PseudoRomanticFriendship Skye]], [[LesYay May]] and [[LoveTriangle Triplett]] -- leaving only [[TeamDad Coulson]] omitted out of the main cast. The former three also seem to be the most popular ships in the fandom overall.

** Oliver Queen is shipped just about everyone in ''canon'', while in fanfic he's shipped with anyone the writers ''don't'' tease him with. As of the second season, he's slept with/dated Huntress, [=McKenna=] Hall, Shado, Isobel Rochev, and both [[ComicBook/BlackCanary Laurel and Sara Lance]], and has been teased heavily with Felicity, and less heavily [[HoYay Diggle, Tommy,]] and [[FoeYay Malcolm and Slade]]. In the fandom, he's shipped with all of the above, ''plus'' more! This only became more prevalent after [[AbandonShipping Felicity/Oliver]] became more hated, as it cause a lot of fans to ship him with just about everyone ''except'' her.

* ''Series/CriminalMinds''' Reid. Fandom ships him with ''everyone''. Even half the [[FoeYay unsubs]]. And there are also a lot of crossover ships.

* ''Series/{{Degrassi}}'' has Sean. It doesn't help that every girl he's shared a scene with (and a few he hasn't) have said how hot he is. For reasoning, Emma, Ellie, and Ashley are canon, Manny talks about how hot he is, Paige and Hazel are popular {{Crack Pairing}}s, and that really leaves Liberty, which goes to show [[IncrediblyLamePun accidents will happen]]. For HoYay, let's see… He's the only person who truly understands Rick, he and Ellie defend Rick before anyone else does, and then he kills Rick; on TV.com, this combines with [[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion speculation about Toby's taste in anime]] to turn the yaoi up some. Then there's Craig; indeed, Sean/Craig is the official couple over at TV.com's ''Degrassi'' forum, complete with a user named Seaig. More relevant, though, is that Craig wanted Sean to run away with him, and attempted suicide when Sean didn't. For Jimmy, there's this FoeYay between them at first that is SeriousBusiness, and then Jimmy's girlfriend cheats with Sean and goes on and on about how Sean's the better man, sprinkling in double entendres throughout. JT and Toby think Sean scores a lot, and JT tries to get him to use X. Marco's first crush is actually Sean, complete with MaleGaze shot of Sean's naked torso. Jay is a popular choice because of how mopey Jay gets when Sean isn't around. Peter has a serious obsession with Sean during their FoeYay episodes. As for Spinner? There's actually a promo pic of Daniel Clark embracing Shane Kippel.

** Eli seems to have inherited Sean's throne. Canonically, he's been with just Clare and Julia, with hints of him and Imogen becoming an item currently there. However, within the fandom, he's shipped with ''everyone''. Special mention goes to Fitz, Adam, and Fiona, however. The former of whom is a (As far as we've seen) [[HoYayShipping straight male]], as well as his [[FoeYay rival during Season 10]]. And with the latter two Adam is an FTM Straight Transgender, and Fiona a lesbian. And then there's [[CargoShip Eli/Morty the Hearse…]]

** The Doctor themself. Especially since the newer Doctors -- Eight, Nine, Ten and especially Eleven -- are a bit on the slutty side, and the Doctor has been written as bisexual ever since the ''Literature/EighthDoctorAdventures''. While the Doctor/Rose, Doctor/River, Doctor/Clara, Doctor/Fitz and Doctor/Charley shippers are the most vocal (and have the most canonical ships), there's strong support for the Doctor/Martha (who kiss), [[HoYay the Doctor/Jack]] (who kiss), [[FoeYay the Doctor/the Master]] (who kiss), [[RoboShip the Doctor/the TARDIS]] (who kiss), and this is all just from the new series. Even from the old series, there's the Doctor/Romana (he kissed the first in a non-canon special, and the second in the books, and the actors were married in real life), the Doctor/Sarah Jane Smith, and many, many more. Really, you can just say Doctor/X Companion and there's probably someone shipping it.

** River gets paired up with a lot of people. The most common ones are [[BrotherSisterIncest Simon]] (which is nicknamed Crazy Space Incest or Tamcest), the aforementioned Jayne and Mal, but also with Kaylee, Inara, Wash, Book, [[NoYay Jubal Early]], [[FoeYay the Operative]] and [[CrackPairing even Badger]]. The fact that she fits this trope despite being seventeen on a ship whose median age seems to be about thirty is especially disturbing.

** Merlin himself is the fandom bicycle. He is basically shipped with every single character on the show. Canonically, there's Merlin/Freya (and, extremely briefly at the very start of the series, Merlin/Gwen). But add in the [[FanPreferredCouple vast majority]] who ship Merlin/Arthur, another segment who ship [[FoeYay Merlin/Morgana]], some who ship Merlin/Sefa, Merlin/Nimueh, Merlin/Mithian (due to ShipTease photos), a few who even ship Merlin/Uther (yes, it exists!), the growing popularity of the Merlin/adult!Mordred ship, and finish it off with the HoYay-tastic possibilities of Merlin/Lancelot, Merlin/Percival (especially after Percival carried Merlin in 4x02), Merlin/Will, Merlin/Daegal, Merlin/Gilli, Merlin/Gwaine and Merlin/Knights, and you've definitely got this trope. But, as mentioned above, this show itself is this trope embodied. Merlin is also popular in [[CrossoverShip crossover shipping]].

* Emma from ''Series/OnceUponATime'' is commonly paired with her step-grandmother and [[FoeYay archenemy]] [[LesYay Regina]], who also happens to be her biological son's adoptive mom. Also fairly popular are [[OfficialCouple Emma]]/[[KilledOffForReal Graham]], [[ShipTease Emma/August]], [[StalkingIsLove Emma/Jefferson]], and [[FoeYay Emma/Gold]]. You'll also see your vocal minorities of [[LesYay Emma/Ruby]] and Emma/Archie shippers and those who would ship [[ParentalIncest Emma/Mary Margaret]] if Mary Margaret wasn't actually Emma's mom. Or who ship it regardless.

** Regina has been shipped with [[FanPreferredCouple Emma]], [[FoeYayShipping Gold]], David, Snow, Jefferson, Ruby, Archie, Daniel, Hook, Tinkerbell, [[OneTrueLove Robin Hood]], Maleficent, Doctor Facilier, and Ivy. That is not even getting into OT3 pairings with Emma and Ruby or Robin and Maleficent.

* Many characters from ''Series/OneTreeHill'', but ''especially'' Brooke. Other than her canon pairings, including the one night stands (Lucas, Nathan, Chase, Owen, Julian, Chris Keller), she has been paired with [[PlatonicLifePartners Mouth]], Jake, Clay, [[LesYay Peyton]], [[FoeYay Rachel]] and many others. She's also very popular with [[CrossoverShip crossover shipping]].

** And then there's [[Series/PowerRangersRPM Dr. K]], who is being paired up with each member of RPM team ''and'' the [[FoeYay villains]]. And possibly her [[CargoShip violin and keyboards]].

* Shawn from ''Series/{{Psych}}''. Justified in the case that he has made a pass at everyone of the recurring characters at least once. He's most commonly paired with his [[OfficialCouple canon girlfriend Juliet]], but also with [[FoeYay Lassie]], [[HeterosexualLifePartners Gus]], [[ChildhoodFriendRomance Abigail]], and [[MayDecemberRomance Chief Vick]].

** Chloe Sullivan also served as a Launcher Of A Thousand Ships. The fact that many of her fans seem to use her as their own personal AudienceSurrogate means that Chloe hooking up with virtually any attractive character can be seen as [[PossessionSue wish-fulfillment]]. To that end, the fandom has shipped Chloe with [[{{Superman}} Clark]] (Chlark; there are also pairings of her and [[SuperpoweredEvilSide Kal]] and [[EvilTwin Bizarro]]), [[ComicBook/GreenArrow Oliver]] (a ship so popular that ''the showrunners themselves'' became Chlollie shippers in the last couple seasons), [[DracoInLeatherPants Lex]] (Chlex enjoyed a brief but dramatic spike in fanfic popularity around Season 2 for some reason), ''[[MagnificentBastard LIONEL]]'' of all people[[note]]They actually had a bit of WordOfGod-confirmed FoeYay in Season 4[[/note]], and [[CrossoverShip out-of-universe characters from other shows]], like Dean and/or Sam Winchester from ''Series/{{Supernatural}}''.\\

*** Hope is shipped with [[FanPreferredCouple Josie]], [[OfficialCouple Landon]], Raf, [[CrackShip MG]], [[HoYay Lizzie]] (sometimes [[OT3 both Josie and Lizzie at the same time]]), and [[FoeYay Clarke and Alyssa]].

** Alex Krycek. Do a little fanfic digging and you'll find him paired with almost ''everyone'' from the show. [[SlashFic Krycek/Mulder]] is most common, but his level of FoeYay with practically everybody spun off all sorts of other pairings. It's probably impossible to find a fic that doesn't mention his green eyes at least once.

* ''Series/TheMandalorian'' has gone on for multiple seasons without giving the main character an official LoveInterest, but fans like to pair him with various companions he makes during his adventures, regardless of their gender or how long they get to know him.

* ''{{Series/ForeverKnight}}'': The fandom has factions as they’re called for just about every pairing you can think of. Nick in particular has a lot since he’s the lead. There’s Nick/Natalie, Nick/Tracy, Nick/Janette and Nick/[=LaCroix=]. Most ships also have light variants where Nick embraces his humanity and dark, where Nick embraces his vampire side.

* ''Series/The100'' has Clarke Griffin, who is shipped with every other character in the show, helped by the fact that she is canonically bisexual. Clarke's two biggest ships are with [[OneTrueLove Lexa]] and [[FanPreferredCouple Bellamy]], but she is also often shipped with characters of Murphy, Wells, Raven, Finn, and Octavia. Both Bellamy and Lexa are also bicycles within the fandom, though not to the same degree as Clarke is.