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* ''Series/StarTrekStrangeNewWorlds'': Thanks to the episode "Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow" fans ship La'an and [[spoiler: the alternative timeline James T. Kirk she traveled to twenty-first century tomorrow with. They fell in love, he dies tragically and she even reached out his counterpart in her timeline, only to realize it wasn't ''her'' James T. Kirk. Normally TheStoic, La'an bursts into tears.]] Multiple fan fics or this pairing appeared within weeks of the episodes premiere, as well as some [[spoiler: where she eventually makes a connection with her timeline's Kirk, but that wouldn't be this trope.]]
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* Maria Robotnik has been dead for decades at the start of ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog'' but there is a strong shipper base for her and [[InterspeciesRomance Shadow]]. This is despite the fact that canon essentially depicts Maria as Shadow's surrogate sister.

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* Maria Robotnik has been dead for decades at the start of ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog'' ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog1'' but there is a strong shipper base for her and [[InterspeciesRomance Shadow]]. This is despite the fact that canon essentially depicts Maria as Shadow's surrogate sister.
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* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'': Aerith [[ItWasHisSled infamously]] [[DeathOfTheHypotenuse dies]] midway through the story and the ending suggests that Cloud and Tifa [[LastMinuteHookup hook up shortly before the final battle]]. These facts have done little to defuse the ShipToShipCombat between the CloudxAerith and CloudxTifa shippers.

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* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'': Aerith [[ItWasHisSled infamously]] [[DeathOfTheHypotenuse dies]] midway through the story and the ending suggests that Cloud and Tifa [[LastMinuteHookup hook up shortly before the final battle]]. These facts have done little to defuse the ShipToShipCombat between the CloudxAerith Cloud/Aerith and CloudxTifa Cloud/Tifa shippers.

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* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'': Aerith [[ItWasHisSled infamously]] [[DeathOfTheHypotenuse dies]] midway through the story and the ending suggests that Cloud and Tifa [[LastMinuteHookup hook up shortly before the final battle]]. These facts have done little to defuse the ShipToShipCombat between the CloudxAerith and CloudxTifa shippers.
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* ''LightNovel/GinbanKaleidoscope'': Tazusa gets paired up with Pete in the fandom, and it is one of the most convincing ghost ships.

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* ''LightNovel/GinbanKaleidoscope'': ''Literature/GinbanKaleidoscope'': Tazusa gets paired up with Pete in the fandom, and it is one of the most convincing ghost ships.
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* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'' has both Rose/Pearl and Rose/Greg. Rose Quartz is the deceased mother of the titular character. Both couples are some level of canon, with Greg having been Rose's lover and Pearl and Rose having been romantically linked for millennia (with [[Polyamory overlap between the two]]).

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* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'' has both Rose/Pearl and Rose/Greg. Rose Quartz is the deceased mother of the titular character. Both couples are some level of canon, with Greg having been Rose's lover and Pearl and Rose having been romantically linked for millennia (with [[Polyamory overlap between the two]]).two).
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* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'' has both Rose/Pearl and Rose/Greg. Rose Quartz is the deceased mother of the titular character. Both couples are some level of canon, with Greg having been Rose's lover and Pearl having been in love with Rose Quartz (though it's uncertain if she loved her back).

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* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'' has both Rose/Pearl and Rose/Greg. Rose Quartz is the deceased mother of the titular character. Both couples are some level of canon, with Greg having been Rose's lover and Pearl and Rose having been in love with Rose Quartz (though it's uncertain if she loved her back).romantically linked for millennia (with [[Polyamory overlap between the two]]).
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* ''VideoGame/AnotherCode'': Ashley tends to get shipped with D, the ghost she met on Blood Edward Island.
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* Two of the most shipped couples in the 2003 ''Anime/FullmetalAlchemist'' anime are this. Ignoring the official couples, Hughes/Roy and [[spoiler:Alfons]]/Edward are both popular despite the fact Hughes dies early in the series and [[spoiler:Alfons]] dies at the end of ''Anime/FullmetalAlchemistTheConquerorOfShamballa''.

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* Two of the most shipped couples in the 2003 ''Anime/FullmetalAlchemist'' ''Anime/FullmetalAlchemist2003'' anime are this. Ignoring the official couples, Hughes/Roy and [[spoiler:Alfons]]/Edward are both popular despite the fact Hughes dies early in the series and [[spoiler:Alfons]] dies at the end of ''Anime/FullmetalAlchemistTheConquerorOfShamballa''.
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* ''Anime/DemonSlayerKimetsuNoYaiba'': Even though Kanae died a few years prior to the start of the series, a few supplementary materials have suggested that Sanemi had a crush on her, such as the second fanbook having [[ShipperOnDeck Gyomei]] say he likes her (in addition to him making a similar assumption about [[EveryoneCanSeeIt Mitsuri and Obanai]]) and revealing that he frequently talks to Shinobu due to her being Kanae’s sister. Needless to say, the shippers were pleased to hear this.

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* ''Anime/DemonSlayerKimetsuNoYaiba'': ''Manga/DemonSlayerKimetsuNoYaiba'': Even though Kanae died a few years prior to the start of the series, a few supplementary materials have suggested that Sanemi had a crush on her, such as the second fanbook having [[ShipperOnDeck Gyomei]] say he likes her (in addition to him making a similar assumption about [[EveryoneCanSeeIt Mitsuri and Obanai]]) and revealing that he frequently talks to Shinobu due to her being Kanae’s sister. Needless to say, the shippers were pleased to hear this.
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* ''Anime/DemonSlayerKimetsuNoYaiba'': Even though Kanae died a few years prior to the start of the series, a few supplementary materials have suggested that Sanemi had a crush on her, such as the second fanbook having [[ShipperOnDeck Gyomei]] say he likes her (in addition to him making a similar assumption about [[EveryoneCanSeeIt Mitsuri and Obanai]]) and revealing that he frequently talks to Shinobu due to her being Kanae’s sister. Needless to say, the shippers were pleased to hear this.
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* [[{{WesternAnimation/CasperTheFriendlyGhost}} Casper the Friendly Ghost]] and Wendy the Good Little Witch had a sizable amount of fans who pair them though it helps that they're relatively close in age and best friends.

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* [[{{WesternAnimation/CasperTheFriendlyGhost}} Casper the Friendly Ghost]] and Wendy the Good Little Witch had has a sizable amount of fans who pair them though it helps that they're relatively close in age and best friends.
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* [[{{WesternAnimation/CasperTheFriendlyGhost}} Casper the Friendly Ghost]] and Wendy the Good Little Witch had a sizable amount of fans who pair them though it helps that they're relatively close in age and best friends.
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* ''Series/{{Yellowjackets}}'': One of the most popular season one ships is Shauna/Jackie. It continued to have a fanbase even after the season finale killed off Jackie. So instead, a lot of fans have taken to writing {{Fix Fic}}s where she never died and instead got together with Shauna or even just shipping Shauna with Jackie's literal ghost. This is helped by the fact that the present day Shauna hallucinates a vision of Jackie's ghost.
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Neither Thorin nor Bilbo have a Canon love interest which is needed to count as a Fan Preferred Couple.


* In ''Film/TheHobbit'' film fandom, Thorin/Bilbo is the FanPreferredCouple but has the tiny problem of Thorin canonically dying at the end of the Battle of Five Armies. Fanfic writers solve this by either setting their fics in an EverybodyLives alternate timeline or writing an [[TogetherInDeath afterlife reunion]] between the two after Bilbo's death.

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* In ''Film/TheHobbit'' film fandom, Thorin/Bilbo is the FanPreferredCouple biggest ship but has the tiny problem of Thorin canonically dying at the end of the Battle of Five Armies. Fanfic writers solve this by either setting their fics in an EverybodyLives alternate timeline or writing an [[TogetherInDeath afterlife reunion]] between the two after Bilbo's death.
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* The titular ''Manga/InuYasha'' is [[TheLostLenore still in love with dead priestess Kikyo]]. He then meets [[ReincarnationRomance her reincarnation, Kagome]]. So regardless of when fans ship him with Kikyo or Kagome, he gets shipped with two characters who are technically the same person. Later in the story, Kikyo is resurrected, negating this trope during that time.

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* ''Manga/{{Inuyasha}}'': The titular ''Manga/InuYasha'' character is [[TheLostLenore still in love with dead priestess Kikyo]]. He then meets [[ReincarnationRomance her reincarnation, Kagome]]. So regardless of when fans ship him with Kikyo or Kagome, he gets shipped with two characters who are technically the same person. Later in the story, Kikyo is resurrected, negating this trope during that time.



* ComicBook/SpiderMan continues to be shipped with ComicBook/GwenStacy after [[ComicBook/TheNightGwenStacyDied she was killed off]] in 1972 and, astonishingly, managed to stay dead. Her biggest supporters are people who dislike ComicBook/{{Mary Jane|Watson}} in the Peter-Gwen-MJ love triangle decades after the subplot was dropped and Peter settled into a stable relationship with MJ.
* ''[[ComicBook/RobinSeries Robin]]'': People kept shipping the very popular couple of Tim and Stephanie even after she was brutally murdered by Black Mask, partially because there was a ''lot'' of anger about the way she was killed off. Eventually she was retconned as having had her death faked by Dr. Thompkins for her protection and she and Tim make no secret they're still attracted to each other when she returns to Gotham. Comicbook/{{Convergence}} shows her and Tim finally getting back together.

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* ComicBook/SpiderMan continues to be shipped with ComicBook/GwenStacy after [[ComicBook/TheNightGwenStacyDied she was killed off]] in 1972 story ''ComicBook/TheNightGwenStacyDied'' and, astonishingly, managed to stay dead. Her biggest supporters are people who dislike ComicBook/{{Mary Jane|Watson}} in the Peter-Gwen-MJ love triangle decades after the subplot was dropped and Peter settled into a stable relationship with MJ.
* ''[[ComicBook/RobinSeries Robin]]'': ''ComicBook/Robin1993'': People kept shipping the very popular couple of Tim Drake and Stephanie Brown even after she was brutally murdered by Black Mask, partially because there was a ''lot'' of anger about the way she was killed off. Eventually she was retconned as having had her death faked by Dr. Thompkins for her protection and she and Tim make no secret they're still attracted to each other when she returns to Gotham. Comicbook/{{Convergence}} shows her and Tim finally getting back together.
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Romantic Two Girl Friendship has been renamed to Pseudo Romantic Friendship. All misuse and ZC Es will be deleted and all other examples will be changed to the correct trope.


** [[spoiler:Miki]] and [[spoiler:Kei]] get shipped a lot by anime fans due to the adaptation having a stronger emphasis on their RomanticTwoGirlFriendship. [[spoiler:Kei]] is eventually shown to have turned into a zombie.

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** [[spoiler:Miki]] and [[spoiler:Kei]] get shipped a lot by anime fans due to the adaptation having a stronger emphasis on their RomanticTwoGirlFriendship.PseudoRomanticFriendship. [[spoiler:Kei]] is eventually shown to have turned into a zombie.
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* In ''Film/TheHobbit'' film fandom, Thorin/Bilbo is the FanPreferredCouple but has the tiny problem of Thorin canonically dying at the end of the Battle of Five Armies. Fanfic writers solve this by either setting their fics in an EverybodyLives alternate timeline or writing an [[TogetherInDeath afterlife reunion]] between the two after Bilbo's death.
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* ''Film/ItChapterTwo'' spawned a ton of Richie/Eddie fics that did their best to [[FixFic work around]] the obstacle of one member of the pairing ([[spoiler:Eddie]]) being killed off in the film.
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