History Main / GhostShipping

** It's unclear whether he is a dead person or a spirit who just happens to appear like a traditional BedsheetGhost, though.

* Kikyo from InuYasha is this, which brings up a fun love triangle. Especially since at the other end of the triangle is [[ReincarnationRomance her own reincarnation]]. Yep, [[CharacterTitle InuYasha]] is shipped with two characters who are technically the same person.

GhostShipping is what happens when a character is put into a relationship with a member of the undead. This can happen in either {{canon}} or {{fanon}}. Bonus points if it involves a LoveTriangle. Due to the nature of the relationship, it will usually end with a BittersweetEnding where the dead side decides, "IJustWantMyBelovedToBeHappy" and will move on.

* ''MyLovelyGhostKana''

* Quite a literal example with FanPreferredCouple Annie/Mitchell from ''BeingHuman'' (Mitchell is a vampire, while Annie is actually a ghost).

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* Pretty much a stock in trade when it comes to {{Shipping}} in the ''{{Bleach}}'' fandom. Is also canon in at least one instance, with three characters actually being the result of this trope.

* Kikyo from InuYasha is this, which brings up a fun love triangle.

* [[{{Spider-Man}} Peter Parker/Gwen Stacy]] shippers, since Gwen is dead.

* ''{{Durarara}}''. Celty/Shinra is canon.

* In ''GunnerkriggCourt'', Mort (a ghost) has a barely-concealed crush on Antimony (still alive). She does not reciprocate.

* There was this Canadian book, where the protagonist fell in love with a boy during her vacation in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and it wasn't until the end of the book that she realized he was actually a ghost.
It's called The Gravesavers

* It's called The Gravesavers

--> ''Don't be afraid, oh my love//
--> I'll be watching you from above//
--> And I'd give all the world tonight,//
--> to be with you//
--> Because I'm on your side,//
--> And I still care//
--> I may have died,//
--> but I've gone nowhere//
--> Just think of me,//

* ''Too Much Information''. Ace (who is also TheAce) has a lot of girls gunning for him, but the first one who actually gets with him is noncorporeal. The details of how, exactly, it works, is left mostly to imagination, with only the comment of "It's... messy."

* ''{{Danny Phantom}}'' As Danny is half-ghost, pretty much any ship with him (or Vlad or any of the other ghosts/human) is this.

* Let's not forget ''{{Twilight}}'', although YourMileageMayVary if you don't really consider these vampires to be real vampires.
** But Jacob's still a werewolf!

* The song "Mi novio es un zombi" ("My boyfriend is a zombie") by Alaska y Dinarama.

* ''[[WorldOfWarcraft WoW]]'' has Thassarian/Koltira shippers, and a canonical example in Marcus/Ah'tusa.

* ''[[{{FEAR}} Project Origin]]'' has a rather horrific, brutal, and ''deeply disturbing'' example of this between Alma and Beckett.

* No love for ''{{Danny Phantom}}''? As Danny is half-ghost, pretty much any ship with him (or Vlad or any of the other ghosts/human) is this.

GhostShipping is what happens when a character is put into a relationship with a member of the supernatural. This can happen in either {{canon}} or {{fanon}}. Bonus points if it involves a LoveTriangle. Due to the nature of the relationship, it will usually end with a BittersweetEnding where the dead side decides, "IJustWantMyBelovedToBeHappy" and will move on.

* Pretty much a stock in trade when it comes to {{Shipping}} in the {{Bleach}} fandom. Is also canon in at least one instance, with three characters actually being the result of this trope.

* Truly Madly Deeply is another example
* Zombie Lover - book in the {{Xanth}} series.
* ReturnOfTheLivingDead part 3 has a romance between a boy and his zombified girlfriend.
* And let's not forget {{Twilight}} although YourMileageMayVary if you don't really consider these vampires to be real vampires.

* Jim/Sam and Melinda in {{Ghost Whisperer}}.
* [[{{Spider-Man}} Peter Parker/Gwen Stacy]] shippers, since Gwen is dead.
* Happens with Mia/Godot (and to a lesser extent other dead/alive pairings) in ''AceAttorney''. The justification is that spirit mediums like Maya and Pearl can channel the souls of the dead, to the point of taking on their physical forms. [[PowerPerversionPotential And then just about anything could happen.]]

* Zombie Honeymoon
* An odd one appears in the internet FlashGame GuardianRock in which the titular rock is said to hook up with a hot spirit rock chick and they live together with numerous flower filled baths and occasional quarreling for the rest of their eternal lives.
* I think Gos and that one ghost girl are pretty common in [[RanmaOneHalf Ranma]] fanfiction. (Sorry I don't remember the details very well).
* ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Boyfriend%27s_Back_(film) My Boyfriend's Back]]'' is about a boy who is killed, and just before he dies the girl he's in love with tells him that she'd go on a date with him if he recovered. So he comes back as a zombie in order to get that date.

* In ''Labyrinths of Echo'' TheAce of the series once mentioned that for most people the touch of a ghost is very unpleasant, but he must disagree and offhandedly added "if i'll ever want to vary my life with a dalliance, living lasses have no chance". That's from a wizard who once enchanted a deck of cards so that ghosts can handle it without problems and non-enspelled humans can't touch it. [[ForScience Just to see if he can]] turn into "ghost" a thing that never lived to begin with.
* ''{{Lost}}'' fandom appears to be rife with this.
* ''GreysAnatomy'', infamously.
* ''CorpseBride'', naturally.
* The song "Mi novio es un zombi" ("My boyfriend is a zombie") by Alaska y Dinarama.

* {{Buffy}} and {{Angel}}. Or Buffy & Spike. Or Angel & Cordelia. Or Cordelia & "Phantom Dennis," the ghost who haunts her apartment.
* Vampires are ''supposed to'' have a decadently sexual air about them, at least from some moment of the legend evolution. TheVamp, FemmeFatalons, and so on. Ghosts ''aren't''.

* There was this Canadian book (can't remember the title or author at the moment), where the protagonist fell in love with a boy during her vacation in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and it wasn't until the end of the book that she realized he was actually a ghost.
* This happens with the main character and a ghost named Jesse in TheMediator series.
* ''{{Durarara}}''. Celty/Shinra is canon.
* ''[[{{FEAR}} Project Origin]]'' has a rather horrific, brutal, and ''deeply disturbing'' example of this between Alma and Beckett.
* No love for {{Danny Phantom}}? As Danny is half-ghost, pretty much any ship with him (or Vlad or any of the other ghosts/human) is this.
* ''MyLovelyGhostKana''
* Ahem... [[FinalFantasyVII Aerith]] still gets shipped with Cloud, despite the fact that Sephiroth killed her.
* RealityWarper Yukari and CuteGhostGirl Yuyuko from ''{{Touhou}}'' is one of the more common ships in the series. Yuyuko and her bodyguard Youmu also half counts, since Youmu is [[HalfHumanHybrid half-ghost]]. No, the fandom has no idea how that happened either. This trope being taken to its logical extreme, perhaps?
* WoW has Thassarian/Koltira shippers, and a canonical example in Marcus/Ah'tusa.
* Quite a literal example with FanPreferredCouple Annie/Mitchell from BeingHuman (Mitchell is a vampire, while Annie is actaully a ghost).
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* ZombieLover - book in the {{Xanth}} series.

* Peter Parker/Gwen Stacy shippers, since Gwen is dead.

* Odd one appears in the internet FlashGame GuardianRock in which the titular rock is said to hook up with a hot spirit rock chick and they lived together with numerous flower filled baths and occasional quarreling for the rest of their eternal lives.
* I think Gos and that one ghost girl are pretty common in Ranma fanfiction. (Sorry I don't remember the details very well).

* In ''Labyrinths of Echo'' TheAce of series once mentioned that for most people the touch of a ghost is very unpleasant, but he must disagree and offhandedly added "if i'll ever want to vary my life with a dalliance, living lasses have no chance". That's from a wizard who once enchanted a deck of cards so that ghosts can handle it without problems and non-enspelled humans can't touch it. [[ForScience Just to see if he can]] turn into "ghost" a thing that never lived to begin with.

* ''TooMuchInformation''. Ace (who is also TheAce) has a lot of girls gunning for him, but the first one who actually gets with him is noncorporeal. The details of how, exactly, it works, is left mostly to imagination, with only the comment of "It's... messy."

* Vampires are ''supposed to'' have decadently sexual air about them, at least from some moment of the legend evolution. TheVamp, FemmeFatalons, and so on. Ghosts ''aren't''.

* Features prominently in Meg Cabot's ''Mediator'' book series.

* RealityWarper Yukari and CuteGhostGirl Yuyuko from ''{{Touhou}}'' is one of the more common ships in the series. Yuyuko and her bodyguard Youmu also half counts, since Youmu is [[HalfHumanHybrid half-ghost]]. No, the fandom has no idea how that happened either. This trope being taken to its logicsl extreme, perhaps?