History Main / AbandonShipping

** A promotional [[http://ohnotheydidnt.livejournal.com/61387742.html poster]] for the show distributed at [=ComicCon=] 2011 featured Korra with an Earthbender boy and a Firebender boy. Naturally, some fans started HoYayShipping them right away. Later, during the panel for the show, it was revealed that the boys were siblings, and everyone not into IncestSubtext jumped ship.

** A poster for the show distributed at [=ComicCon=] 2011 featured Korra with an Earthbender boy and a Firebender boy. Naturally, some fans started HoYayShipping them right away. Later, during the panel for the show, it was revealed that the boys were siblings, and everyone not into IncestSubtext jumped ship.

** [[http://sexylosers.com/002.html Sexy Losers to the rescue!]] (Link is NSFW)

* ''WarriorCats'': Many shippers abandoned Whitestorm/Bluestar when it was revealed that he was her nephew. The ship was even dubbed 'Denialshipping'.

* The point was OneMoreDay was to invoke this in fans of the Peter/Mary Jane pairing. It didn't work. Actually it ended up being AN INVERSION. The shippers hung onto the pairing harder than ever, casting them as Starcrossed Lovers unfairly torn apart by a [[JoeQuesada by order of a manchild editor]], and even some fans that weren't huge fans of the pairings decided they rather ship Peter with MJ than his new post-Brand New Day girlfriend Carlie Cooper.
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'' might set a record for turnaround time for a ship being created, then abandoned: A poster for the show distributed at [=ComicCon=] 2011 featured Korra with an Earthbender boy and a Firebender boy. Naturally, some fans started shipping them right away. Later, during the panel for the show, it was revealed that the boys were siblings, and everyone not into IncestSubtext jumped ship.

* ''ParadiseKiss'': During the first volumes, Arashi Nagase and Miwako Sakurada attracted massive amounts of {{shipping}}. However, as the series progressed, readers tended to gradually back away from the (''{{canon}}'') ship, as Arashi's attitude towards Miwako started to become aggressive and sometimes violent, [[spoiler:and then came TheReveal that he [[RapeIsLove raped her]] during their first time]]. Even though Miwako doesn't hold it against him, [[TheAtoner Arashi feels]] ''[[TheAtoner very]]'' [[TheAtoner guilty]] about his behaviour, [[MustMakeAmends and tries to correct what he has done]]. Despite this, [[spoiler:the fact that they end up together and even have a child]] has proven too {{squick}}y for many fans to overcome.

* ''AceAttorney'' ''Apollo Justice'', Trucy and Apollo tend to gather shippers early on in the game due to their [[SheIsNotMyGirlfriend quirky antics]] and how they [[BattleCouple team up to solve cases]]. However, [[spoiler:at the very end of the [[VideoGame game]] it is [[TheReveal revealed that Trucy and Apollo are in fact SIBLINGS]], thus causing many fans to reject the pairing. To add insult to injury, there's also the fact that Trucy and Apollo are never seen learning the truth of their heritage, leading some to worry that they NEVER find out, and maybe DO attempt a relationship anyways!]]

* ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLegendOfKorra'' might set a record for turnaround time for a ship being created, then abandoned: A poster for the show distributed at [=ComicCon=] 2011 featured Korra with an Earthbender boy and a Firebender boy. Naturally, some fans started shipping them right away. Later, during the panel for the show, it was revealed that the boys were siblings, and everyone not into IncestSubtext jumped ship.

* ''FullmetalAlchemist'': Unbelievably this happened to a dozen of Roy/Riza doujin circles during the Briggs Arc, when their OTP went {{out of focus}} after the Ishval memories chapters; while said chapters also had their own effect in driving away some of the fans who were more for the standard office romance. [[spoiler:Recently, the series finale didn't help, either.]]

* Although there was ShipTease between Arthur and Morgana in the first series of ''Series/{{Merlin}}'' many shippers soon lost interest simply because they barely interacted in series two, and were then revealed to be half-siblings in series three (and ''still'' didn't interact in any meaningful way).

* ''{{iCarly}}'': The Seddie ([[AmbiguouslyGay Sam]]/[[HollywoodNerd Freddie]]) ship seems to lose shippers every time [[TheMcCoy Sam]] ups the ComedicSociopathy against [[TheSpock Freddie]] or she bumps her MoralEventHorizon. Examples include throwing [[TheSpock Freddie]] out of a treehouse after delivering to him a harsh beating with a tennis racquet in "iMeet Fred" and running a child labor sweatshop during "iSell Penny Tee's."

* ''TalesOfSymphonia'': Kratos/Lloyd was looking good for most of the game. From Lloyd's jealousy of Kratos's strength, and Kratos's efforts at training and defending him, the strengthening of their bond while they traveled together, and Kratos's obvious desire to protect Lloyd (and Lloyd's equally obvious desire to trust him) after [[spoiler:Kratos's FaceHeelTurn]], the connection was obvious and easily made. ...Then near the end of the game, it turns out that [[spoiler: [[LukeIAmYourFather Kratos is Lloyd's father]].]]

* ''AvatarTheLegendOfKorra'' might set a record for turnaround time for a ship being created, then abandoned: A poster for the show distributed at [=ComicCon=] 2011 featured Korra with an Earthbender boy and a Firebender boy. Naturally, some fans started shipping them right away. Later, during the panel for the show, it was revealed that the boys were siblings, and everyone not into IncestSubtext jumped ship.

NotToBeConfusedWith AbandonShip, which used to be the name of this {{trope}}.

There are also notable subversions, when what would seem like a cause to AbandonShipping not only doesn't work, but makes the Shippers fight ''harder'' for it, especially in cases where theories about who will end up with who are {{Jossed}} or declared invalid by WordOfGod.

* ''ZeroNoTsukaima'': More than one Louise/Saitou fan [[AbandonShipping abandoned the ship]] when, in the second light novel, Louise's beatings of Saitou went from RunningGag to downright DomesticAbuse. Seriously, Louise, using a ''real whip'' on Saitou and making him pass out from the pain? ''After you beat him last night''? That's not being a {{Tsundere}}, that's just being a [[JerkAss bitch]].

* ''ElfQuest'': Ember hooked up with Mender once she reached puberty. The {{fandom}} generally liked him until he went off to fight in the war and was replaced by Ember's second love interest, Teir - who came literally out of ''nowhere''. Somehow, the original authors, the guest artists/writers ''and'' the {{fandom}} all collectively prefer Teir over Mender now.

** While admittedly it was because he tried to molest her in her sleep the previous night, it still went way too far for the characters in story as well as the audience.
*** Note also that it was the Gandalfr runes messing with his head that made him try that anyways.

** [[YourMileageMayVary On the other hand]], there are people who ''got'' into the pairing after the aforementioned fact. Especially the [[FetishFuel scene]] in the [[FoeYay second season premiere]].

** It's worth pointing out that perhaps the only one who didn't [[AngstWhatAngst was Buffy.]] And that's including ''Spike,'' who actually felt like shit afterwards.

* ''TheWorldEndsWithYou'': Some people began to ship Beat and Rhyme due to their close interactions at the beginning. This was quickly dropped by most when we found out that they are siblings. And that Rhyme is SUBSTANTIALLY younger than Beat. [[YourMileageMayVary But...]]

* ''ParadiseKiss'': During the first volumes, Arashi Nagase and Miwako Sakurada atract massive amounts of {{shipping}}. However, as the series progresses the readers tend to gradually back away slowly from the (''{{canon}}'') ship, as his attitude towards her starts to become aggressive and sometimes violent towards her, [[spoiler:and TheReveal that he [[RapeIsLove raped her]] during their first time]]. Even though Miwako doesn't hold it against him, [[TheAtoner Arashi feels]] ''[[TheAtoner very]]'' [[TheAtoner guilty]] about his behaviour, [[MustMakeAmends tries to correct what he has done]], and [[spoiler:they end up together and have a child]], many find the {{squick}} hard to overcome.