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* Mio from ''Manga/KOn'' tends to be paired up with anyone in fanworks.
** Azusa also nearly fits this, since she's approaching levels of being a Mio clone.
** Yui fits within the actual canon, where you can find valid reasons to pair her with half the named cast.
** Tsumugi could arguably be the the most exploitable ship launcher, what with her ever entertaining excitement of RomanticTwoGirlFriendship.
** Ritsu...
** [[{{APartyAlsoKnownAsAnOrgy}} Anybody has the potential to be with everybody.]]
* The eponymous character from ''SailorMoon'' and her canon love interest are paired with nearly everyone and a huge group even in canon. Depending on the version, Usagi is somehow connected romantically with Mamoru, Ali, Demand, Haruka, possibly Rei, Manga!Galaxia and Seiya. Mamoru has Rei, Beryl, Hina, En, Black Lady. That's not even counting the crushes and fandom pairings.
** Being the daughter of said couple, Chibi-Usa has quite a few love interests as well. Helios and Perle are canon, Kyuusuke is implied to have a crush on her before he got together with her best friend Momoko (similar to Umino and Naru in relation to Usagi), and there are quite a few who think she has something more than friendship with Hotaru.
** Motoki would also count in his anime and manga incarnations as Usagi, Makoto, and Minako all have crushes on him in both canons, while Ami has a crush on him in the manga and Rei has a crush on him in the anime. Plus his fiance, Reika.
* Pick a character in ''ShugoChara'', any character other than perhaps Yukari Sanjou, The Director, a gaurdian character and Amu's family. That character has been shipped with [[TheProtagonist Amu]] at some point or another. She is shipped with everyone.
* Allen Walker from the ''DGrayMan'' fandom -- protagonists, [[FoeYay antagonists]], side characters, [[HoYay men]], women, robots, you name it.
* The most extreme of these is easily Kagome from ''InuYasha'', who gets crossed over and paired up with so many characters from so many different fandoms that it would be impossible to list them all (usually the character the author wants to hook up with), due to her being the character easiest for a teenage girl to relate to. Then again, she can travel through time, so one's WillingSuspensionOfDisbelief can be stretched just a ''wee'' bit here.
** Ditto for Sesshomaru, due to him being the most lusted-after male character, girls tend to pair him with whichever female character reminds them of themselves (usually Kagome).
** About half of the SonicTheHedgehog-InuYasha crossovers on Fanfiction.net ship Shadow and Kagome. [[InterspeciesRomance Never mind that he's a]] [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot genetically engineered super-hedgehog from space. And part alien.]]
* Surprisingly enough, Al from ''FullmetalAlchemist''. He's been shipped with [[IncestIsRelative Ed]], Winry, Elicia, Gracia, Marta/Martel, Rose, Mei, Ran Fan, and ''[[{{ParentalIncest}} Hohenheim]]''.
** Ed himself has also been shipped with Al, Winry, Rose, Mustang, Hawkeye, Ling, Greed, Ran Fan, Hohenheim, Envy...
** ''Lust'', because of [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin her high intelligence and good looks which makes lusting after her incredibly easy.]] and, because with the exception of Scar in the first anime, and Jean Havoc in the second anime, she has had no romantic interests with the cast, and the latter was for intelligence gathering and not even a real relationship. With these [[EvilIsSexy two factors]] Lust can, and will go with anything in the fandom. [[PerverseSexualLust Plus anything x Lust is just plain hot]].
* ''[[RanmaOneHalf Ranma 1/2]]'': Ranma has this [[GenderBender problem]] and is shipped with EVERYBODY. And not even that, when he's a girl with a male heart you can expect the [[LesYay obvious.]]
** Shipping Ranma with everybody isn't even restricted to his own universe! Ranma 1/2 is crossovered ''a lot'' in fanfiction. That means more characters to use which in turn means more characters to ship Ranma with, regardless of gender. He's the ultimate fandom bicycle. Everyone and we do mean ''everyone'' gets a ride.
* ''{{Bleach}}'' has [[EnsembleDarkhorse Toushirou Hitsugaya]], [[ActionGirl Rukia Kuchiki]], [[TheMedic Orihime Inoue]], and [[TheHero Ichigo Kurosaki]]. There are fics pairing them with [[BrotherSisterIncest their siblings]], [[HoYay their friends]], [[FoeYay their mortal enemies]], [[ShipsThatPassInTheNight and people they've never even meet.]] While they do have areas they specialize in, (Ichigo: HoYay, Orihime: FoeYay, Rukia: CrackPairing, etc.) the consensus is: if a character exists, sooner or later they will be paired with one of these guys.
* ''ThePrinceOfTennis'' has Keigo Atobe, Tezuka Kunimitsu and Shuusuke Fuji for this purpose, and to a lesser extent, main character Ryoma Echizen. Among the [[CastFullOfPrettyBoys small pool of female characters]], Sakuno Ryuzaki (that is, when she's not [[DieForOurShip being shoved aside]] to allow the boys to "do their thing" or being used as an author's PossessionSue).
** Akaya Kirihara from Rikkai can be paired up with ANYONE from Rikkai and have it work.
* From ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEED''...Athrun Zala. He even has ''five'' girls after crushing on him in ''canon'' ([[ArrangedMarriage Lacus]], [[RebelliousPrincess Cagalli]], [[{{Shorttank}} Lunamaria]], [[NaiveEverygirl Meyrin]] (these two are sisters) and [[IdolSinger Meer]]). And if we count fanwork of all kinds, you can add Kira, Nicol, Miguel, Yzak, Heine...
** [[http://img186.imageshack.us/img186/8852/1250154449992.jpg Athrun would like to offer you some advice.]] (this is not exactly how it works in canon ; Lacus and him were definitely JustFriends when he meet Meer).
* ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam00'''s Tieria Erde, another SamuelVincent voiced character, gets this treatment too. It is believed [[HoYay he have feelings]] for [[spoiler:the first]] [[StupidSexyFlanders Lockon Stratos]], but you can see him getting paired with [[TheHero Setsuna]], [[spoiler:[[BackupTwin the second Lockon]]]], [[SuperpoweredEvilSide H/]][[SuperSoldier Allelujah]], [[GenkiGirl Mileina]], [[EnsembleDarkhorse Feldt]], [[TheStrategist Sumeragi]], [[FoeYay Ribbons]], [[{{Twincest}} Regene]], [[CargoShip Veda]]...
** Same goes for Setsuna. Apparently he has three {{canon}}ical love interests ([[TallDarkAndBishoujo Marina]], [[CuteAndPsycho Nena]] and [[ShipTease Feldt]]), and is very vocal that he always thinks about his [[CargoShip Gundams]]. But if you go to forums, you'll see him paired with his [[HoYay fellow meisters]], [[BashBrothers Saji]], [[CrackPairing Louise, Sumeragi]], [[FoeYay Graham, Ali]]...
* ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamWing'': While most popular pairings happen to be Heero/Duo (and to a lesser extent Heero/Relena) and Trowa/Quatre, you won't have much trouble finding a rather large amount of any combination of pairings amongst the pilots, with another smaller subset involving the other characters. There is a good chunk of stories about ''all five of them'' that aren't crackfics. [[TheLancer Duo Maxwell]] is often decpited as "uke" or a playboy in fanfiction and in addition, or perhaps subsequently, happens to be on the [[IncrediblyLamePun receiving end]] of this trope fairly often. You will see Heero often paired off with characters outside the Gundam Wing universe.
* Shizuru of ''Anime/{{Mai-HiME}}'' and ''Anime/{{Mai-Otome}}'' leads the way in a fandom filled to the brim with [[GirlsLove yuri]] fanfic and fan art, having been paired up with the likes of Natsuki, Nao, Mai, Haruka, Arika, and Tomoe.
** While Shizuru tends to have the most diversity in pairing options, Natsuki has her outdone in terms of volume of fanfic/fanart running away (most of it ''with'' Shizuru, though Nao and Mai are also [[LesYay viable candidates]]).
* Sakura and Hinata from ''{{Naruto}}'' appear to have this ability to be shipped with anyone. Besides the usual Sasuke/Sakura and Naruto/Hinata pairings, you also have stuff like Kakashi/Sakura, Itachi/Sakura, Sai/Sakura, Neji/Hinata, Sasuke/Hinata, Shikamaru/Hinata...and they have even been shipped ''together''.'
** On the male side, in non-yaoi pairings, there are many fanfics and Doujin putting Shikamaru with Ino, Sakura, Hinata, Temari, Shiho, his teachers's [[{{Squick}} lover]] along with many others. Sometimes, all at once. There probably isn't a single person in the entire show with whom this guy hasn't been paired.
** Naruto himself has been shipped with nearly every named female in the series (and a lot of the males, too), sometimes all at once. Like ships that include the [[InterspeciesRomance Nine-Tailed Fox!]] And then there's [[AttractiveBentGender FemNaruto]] who ends up paired with most of the male AND female cast. Or gets paired with people from other series.
** Kakashi seems to get paired with everyone in the show too.
** Sasuke occasionally gets this treatment as well. Besides the normal Naruto/Sasuke and Sakura/Sasuke, there are too many Sasuke ships to count. [[EvenTheGuysWantHim Although most Sasuke pairings tend to be yaoi.]]
** One might believe the Akatsuki was one big orgy. Can't decide which combination of Deidara, Sasori, Itachi, Hidan, and Pein works? Why not pair them all together!
** It should probably just be said that absolutely nothing in Naruto is sacred. At all. there are even crack fics floating out there pairing Naruto with ''Jesus''.
* In ''MahouSenseiNegima'': Negi. Although the majority are justified as [[ChickMagnet roughly 90% of females he meets develop crushes on him]].
** And when we say 90%, we're talking about a series that introduced over [[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters 30 characters in ''chapter one'']]. At this point, he's kissed ''half'' of them.
** Somewhat lampshaded by Chamo, who appears to see Negi as a LauncherOfAThousandShips. He's somewhat biased, as he has financial incentive to ''make'' Negi go for as many as possible; he earns several thousand Ermine Dollars every time Negi kisses a new girl.
** Invoked by Paru describing Yue's situation, gaining a respectable [[LesYay female]] harem. Yue is not amused by this commentary.
** A Troper specific Launcher is Chisame
* Tsuna from ''KatekyoHitmanReborn''. There was Spanner/Tsuna doujinshi on sale merely ''weeks'' after Spanner's introduction. Japan moves in mysterious ways.
** And Tsuna is joked to be the fandom bicycle as well.
** Funnily enough, it's actually rare to see fan merchandise of Tsuna with any of the canon love interests (the four girls, to be precise). The magical Tsuna bicycle starts getting more outrageous when one realizes that there are fandoms that support Squalo x Tsuna and Bel x Tsuna.
** [[TroubledButCute Gokudera Hayato]] gets paired with not only every guardian, but with the TYL!Guardians as well (oh parallel world sex), and with multiple enemies AND paired with the girls. (Including his sister. Disturbing yes?)
** Chrome's paired with freakin' everyone: Mukuro for obvious reasons, Tsuna cus she kissed him when they first met (that still hasn't been explained), Hibari cus he saved her life once or twice, Ken cus he's {{Tsundere}} towards her, Chikusa cus he's on the same team as her, MM cus of the FoeYay, Mammon cus of his NaughtyTentacles, and [[spoiler: Julie on account of the [[RapeIsLove kidnapping]]]], etc etc. These all make some sense and at least have had vague screentime. It starts getting weird when it starts being characters she's [[CrackPairing never talked to or even talked about]]. Prime examples include Enma, Genkishi, Bel and for some reason Levi...
** Haru, who even has a fanclub on deviantArt specifically titled the "AnyonexHaru-Club"
* Every female lead from the ''{{Anime/Pokemon}}'' anime (Misty, May, Dawn, and Iris) has been subject to this. While the most common candidate for each is Ash, they've all been paired with ''everyone'' at one point or another.
** Ash has been paired with everything from every [[UnwantedHarem female]] lead, to every [[HoYay male]] lead, to [[InterspeciesRomance Pikachu]], to [[InterspeciesRomance Bay]][[ClingyJealousGirl le]][[WhenTreesAttack ef]], to ''[[OlympusMons Latias]]'' (who if you want to get technical, is actually tied for the furthest anyone's ever gotten with him.) Have some actual numbers: As of October 2011, the list referenced below contains 495 named ships involving Ash. Plus 11 involving Ashley (Ash as a WholesomeCrossdresser). Plus 13 involving Ashachu (Ash as a Pikachu (it's canon)).
** Name any two characters -- Pokémon included -- in the anime, and not only will there be a shipping fanbase, it will ''have a [[http://www.freewebs.com/incompletelove/listaz.htm name!]]'' And it's not just limited to living characters! There is one called [[IdiosyncraticShipNaming DownBoyShipping]] that consists of ''Misty's hand and Brock's ear!''
** HotSkittyOnWailordAction is inevitable really.
** Ash's mother Delia also gets this treatment. (Just look at all of the "Who is Ash's Father" theories in WMG) The two most popular choices are [[TheProfessor Professor Oak]] and [[BigBad Giovanni]], but there are lots of other possible candidates.
* Meiling and Touya of ''Manga/CardcaptorSakura'', while mild examples compared to other fandoms, get treated this way in fanfiction; especially Touya, who is most often targeted for the fandom's few common {{crack pairing}}s.
* [[ChivalrousPervert Sanji]] from ''OnePiece'' [[http://community.livejournal.com/sanji_is_a_slut/ There's even a livejournal community dedicated to writing Sanji romance fic with any character.]]
** Happens to Usopp, Zoro, and Ace as well.
** Nami and Robin are also subject to this.
** Luffy is the very [[http://fc04.deviantart.net/fs40/f/2009/051/c/0/Luffy_Harem_by_Hapuriainen.jpg definition]] [[http://fc06.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2009/352/a/a/Luffy_Harem_v__3_by_Hapuriainen.jpg of]] [[http://fc09.deviantart.net/fs10/i/2006/158/d/a/captain__s_harem_by_VRikilopez.jpg this]] [[http://fc03.deviantart.net/fs47/f/2009/235/5/8/60k_hits_Luffy_harem_v2_by_Hapuriainen.png trope!]]
** Zoro himself is beginning to get a harem of his own. Not only is he commonly shipped with Nami, Robin, Sanji, Luffy, Ace, Mihawk, and Tashigi, but you can also add in now Bonney and Perona!
** Shanks gets shipped around a bit too, just not as much as the other listed characters.
* Alviss from ''[[{{MAR}} Märchen Awakens Romance]]''. The fandom isn't huge, but the boy has been paired not only with every kind of MarySue imaginable but with his teammates and the villains from the show. Especially because every single pairing has been hinted in canon. Even the evil overlord has attempted to kiss him in the anime, and it was a kids' show, with not even a drop of blood.
* You have five seconds after finishing this sentence to name a female character from ''Manga/HayateTheCombatButler'' with whom Hayate ''isn't'' paired.......That's what I thought. Doesn't hurt that most of them are [[http://img-a.onemanga.com/mangas/00000057/000319802/11.jpg canon]]. And the guys aren't always [[{{even the guys want him}} exempt]] from that.
* There are fanfics pairing Jolyne Kujo from Part 6 of ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'' with nearly every character in her arc (including Jotaro ([[{{squick}} her father]]), Emporio ([[{{Shotacon}} an 11-year old boy]]), and Pucci ([[FoeYay the villain]])). She's also paired with characters from other arcs.
** "Helps" that she's one of the only female protagonists in a [[CastFullOfPrettyBoys cast full of]] err...[[AvertedTrope not so pretty boys]].
* ''AxisPowersHetalia''...oh, where to ''begin''? Its fandom thrives on the immense potential for [[RealitySubtext historically justified]] and just plain [[CrackPairing cracktastic]] pairings amongst the [[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters Loads and Loads of]] {{Moe Anthropomorphism}}s to such an extent that nearly every character gets ''at least'' three popular ships. And then there are the true Launchers of a Thousand Ships who have ''at least'' three times that number of ships:
** Russia, who wants to [[MemeticMutation become one with everybody]] in canon. He's shipped with [[MadLove Lithuania]], [[FoeYay America]], [[BrotherSisterIncest Belarus, Ukraine]], [[UnequalPairing Latvia, Estonia]], [[RedScare China]] and lately [[LadyOfWar Vietnam]] and [[BetterAsFriends Thailand]] and [[{{Tsundere}} Netherland]]...and that's not even remotely all of the "historical" pairings.
** [[AnythingThatMoves France]]: He gets some with ''[[DepravedBisexual everyone]]'', and some fanworks just list France/Everybody as one of the included pairings.
** In Japanese fandom, Japan gets paired with everyone. 'Everyone' including the "well, that does make a fair amount of sense" ones like [[LonelyTogether England]], [[HeterosexualLifePartners America]], [[BirdsOfAFeather Greece]] (which might actually be the most canon one on this list), [[AccidentalMarriage Italy]], [[BigBrotherAttraction Chi]][[FoeYay na]], and the "[[ShipsThatPassInTheNight where did THAT come from?!]]" ones like Switzerland, Norway, etc. He's not nearly as much of one in the English fandom, where England and Greece are the only ones he's paired up with any regularity, but he ''has'' definitely gotten fics with America and [insert any other Asian nation here]. For an idea of how much this trope applies to him, [[http://img709.imageshack.us/img709/6623/japanthefandombicycle.jpg this Japanese fanart]] shows only the more plausible ships with him. It still takes a while to get through all of them.
** The English-speaking fandom does the same with America to a slightly lesser extent. 'Slightly lesser' meaning that there's more of a tendency to pair him with select characters that have the most canon/historical basis with him ([[BelligerentSexualTension England]], [[FoeYay Russia]], and [[{{Twincest}} Canada]]) than with apparently random characters. Keyword being ''slightly'': you still see him being paired every now and then with the likes of [[AnythingThatMoves France]], [[HeterosexualLifePartners Japan]], [[{{Badass}} Prussia]], [[OCStandIn Vietnam]], etc. He's not as much of one in the Japanese fandom, naturally, but considering that there are tags on Pixiv for pairings like America/Spain, America/Taiwan, and America/Seychelles...
** Even [[TheUnfavorite Canada]] qualifies. He's most commonly shipped with [[HandsomeLech France]], [[{{Twincest}} America]], and [[OppositesAttract Prussia]] but is also frequently shipped with Cuba, England, and [[MindGameShip Russia]] (and [[ShrinkingViolet Ukraine]] is rising in popularity as a het option for him), and there's more than one fic for {{crack pairing}}s like Canada/Poland and Canada/Switzerland. There's fic for Canada/''Turkey'', and fanart for Canada/''Taiwan''. One fic takes Canada's Launcher Of A Thousand Ships status to its logical extreme, [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5316501/1/Je_taime_Canada shipping him with the entire cast, one at a time]].
** England...well, he's shipped regularly with [[BelligerentSexualTension America]] and [[FriendlyEnemy France]]. And repeatedly with [[FoeYay Spain]], [[HotBlooded Prussia]], [[TheUnfavorite Canada]], and [[LonelyTogether Japan]]. With [[OCStandIn Hong Kong]], [[SailorEarth India, and Portugal]]. The only reason he isn't higher up on this list is that he isn't really paired with everyone, just with nations he's got substantial historical basis with. Which admittedly [[TheBritishEmpire isn't hard to find at all]], but places him only a cut above nations like China (paired with [[MindGameShip Russia]], [[BigBrotherAttraction Japan, Taiwan]], and [[DoggedNiceGuy Korea]]) and Austria (paired with [[BodyguardCrush Hungary]], [[UnluckyChildhoodFriend Prussia, Switzerland]], and [[SubordinateExcuse Germany]]) who get a normal number of ships by ''Hetalia'' standards.
** Lithuania gets shipped with [[NotBloodSiblings Estonia]],[[CrackPairing Cuba]], [[MindGameShip Australia]], [[UnwantedSpouse Holland]] [[StockholmShnozzing Russia]], [[HeterosexualLifePartners Poland]], [[SubordinateExcuse America]], [[MadLove Belarus]]...he's europe's bicycle. He also tends to be {{Uke}} a lot, which is part of the reason.
* Having [[DefeatMeansFriendship befriended many people]], Nanoha has this distinction in ''MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha'' fandom, though Fate is pretty up there too in amount of pairings.
** Erio Mondial [[MemeticSexGod will lay all the women]] to compensate for [[ImprobablyFemaleCast the failures of every other guy in the series]]. On the other hand, Yuuno Scrya, the resident [[DemotedToExtra Demoted Extra]], [[CrackPairing is very flexible as long as it isn't]] [[ShipToShipCombat Nanoha or Fate]]. [[{{OT3}} Nanoha ''and'' Fate, on the other hand, are okay.]]
** Similarly, Vivio enjoys love from all sides as well. It is particularly ironic that, as the daughter of the greatest shipwar trigger in the show, so far there have been no shipwars regarding Vivio. Though this may partially be because Vivio lacks any pairing fanservice, and thus is still fair game for even the most hardy of shippers.
** With Vivid Memories ongoing, shippers are mostly aiming for the girls in Vivio's age group. Two of which are the same as her: reincarnates of ancient Belkan Lords.
** The only qualification for you to be shipped with [[HaremHero Hayate]] is that you must be female and you must exist in-universe. The former depends on how much you want to stick with the LesYay theme of the show (though even if you do, [[{{Familiar}} Zafira]] is still one of her knights), and the latter depends on your opinion on [[CrossOver Cross Overs]].
* In ''CodeGeass'', Lelouch is paired up with everybody, including [[BrotherSisterIncest his siblings]], [[HoYay best friends]], [[FoeYay enemies]], acquaintances, and people he's probably never even met. And sometimes with more than one at a time.
** Occasionally one comes across selfcest for poor Lelouch, where he's paired up with Zero.
* Revy from ''BlackLagoon''. In addition to her [[OfficialCouple semi-canonical love interest]] Rock, she's also paired with [[SubordinateExcuse Dutch]], [[MissionControl Benny]], [[LesYay Eda, Shenhua]], [[UnequalPairing Balalaika, Chang]], [[FoeYay Roberta, Ginji]] and [[CrackPairing Boris]].
** Rock is also guilty here. There are fics of him getting it on for at more than one night with Revy, Eda (both at once at one point), Shenhua, Balalaika, and Roberta. Who knew a scrawny former office drone could be such a {{badass}} ''and'' a {{chick magnet}}?
* From ''{{Digimon}}'', [[DigimonAdventure Mimi]] seems to be a perennial. [[DigimonAdventure02 Miyako]]'s frequent crushes and infamous "Mimi fantasy" have turned her into something of one. ''DigimonFrontier'', on the other hand, has TheSmurfettePrinciple firmly in place, which means that Izumi is a LauncherOfAThousandShips almost out of necessity, since any other pairings among the heroes are {{Yaoi}} or {{Twincest}}; if that's your {{squick}}, you can't participate in [[ShipToShipCombat ship wars]] (which doesn't exempt her from FoeYay with the QuirkyMinibossSquad's only girl)!
** Hikari as well; she's been shipped with Daisuke, Takeru, Taichi, Yamato, Ken, Koushiro, and characters from other series. In a Digimon crossover, whenever there's a major male character in the other series who will be shipped with a Digimon character, said latter character is probably going to be Hikari.
** According to other pages, ''everyone'' in the [[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters rather extended cast]] of the original 'verse became a free-for-all after DigimonAdventure02 completely messed with the [[FanPreferredCouple fan expectations for hookups]].
** In ''DigimonTamers,'' there is Rika Nonaka/Ruki Makino. Every single possibility has a fanbase. Rika/Takato, hotblooded girl and sweet boy who can help each other soften/toughen up, respectively (this is the one with the most character derailment, as Rika often becomes a backboneless DistressedDamsel for Takato to save in fanfic. Most popular evidence: Takato's dream of her in the premiere.) Rika/Henry (Jenrya, Jianliang, [[SpellMyNameWithAnS et cetera]]), hotblooded girl and calm, levelheaded boy (most popular evidence: any of the brief moments where she'd try to properly butt heads with him and it didn't work. The balance would do them - mostly her - some good, it's held.) Rika/Jeri (Juri), not just 'cause GirlOnGirlIsHot: Jeri makes a good damsel in distress for Rika, and could be someone she'd take under her wing (the one softens/one toughens dymanic is present in almost ''every'' ship for her.) Rika and Renamon - between Renamon's sultry voice and CuteMonsterGirl-ness, GirlOnGirlIsHot ''definitely'' applies with the two even if Renamon's not humanoid. There's also Renamon's total devotion to Rika, and it clearly going both ways (Rika not being the type to constantly ''state'' it, but it's just as obviously there.) Now, as a Digimon and human partner this is expected, but Renamon is by far the most fleshed-out Digimon partner character, so it shows with her that it's every bit as voluntary as it would be with two humans, and not just "the critter follows the human around 'cause that's how an ABoyAndHisX series goes." (It's considered to be ''true'' with all partners in all series, but with Renamon it shows in every episode.) Finally, Ryo Akiyama, only person ever to beat her at the card game, and with a great love of flirtatious banter usually directed at her, with her being annoyed by it all - the best in SlapSlapKiss, every scene in which the two are together are considered evidence; unlike so many of the others, there's no one scene you can remove and ''many'' an OfficialCouple starts out the way they started; Digimon was just never as romance-oriented a series as fandom wants it to be. About the only pairings for her without a fanbase are her and Kazu or Kenta (ThoseTwoGuys, paired with each other or no one.)
** Henry himself is shipped with Rika (see above), Takato (they've got one ''really'' good HoYay moment, in addition to the two male leads being the easiest choice for SlashFic in any series), and Renamon (they have ''two'' really good InterspeciesRomance-yay moments.) Three seems small, but this cast is smaller than DigimonAdventure. ''Not'' shipped with him are only Jeri (Takato's canon love interest who has limited interaction with Henry), Ryo (Rika's arguably-canon love interest who has limited interaction with Henry), ThoseTwoGuys (see above), and the {{Mons}} with childlike personalities, or physical characteristics that would make them harder for most to see as a 'ship (''maybe'' he'd get along with deliberately-{{Zeerust}} TinCanRobot Gardromon, but the question isn't often asked.)
* From ''Manga/DeathNote'', Mello has been paired with quite a lot of people, from his [[HeterosexualLifePartners heterosexual life partner]] (Matt), to his rival (Near), to a woman in whose shower he hid (Lidner), to people he's never actually met (Light), to just the downright creepy (Light's ''dad'').
** Near too. Both Matt and Mello, occasionally Linda, the SPK (Gevanni most of the time), Light, Mikami and L.
** In Death Note-verse, Genius IQ = Launcher of a Thousand Ships. The three exceptions are A and BB, who despite being geniuses have been paired with three or four people at most, and Matsuda, who isn't a genius but has been paired up with everyone of importance in Death Note. [[NoYay Including old men and shinigami]].
* Does ''TheMelancholyOfHaruhiSuzumiya'''s Kyon ring a bell? It should. Every character in the SS Brigade is paired with him- including honorary member Tsuruya! The fact that most of them like him back doesn't help...
** Then there's [[GenderFlip Kyonko]] who gets anyone and everyone paired with her from ''both versions'', including her [[ScrewYourself alternate self]], [[CrossoverShip and then some]].
** Also the girl who tried to kill him ''twice'' before getting booted out of the story both times. When the last book comes out, he'll be getting shipped with the anti SOS brigade too. Urgh.
* Sousuke from ''FullMetalPanic'' can be paired with every main-ish character (and quite a few side characters). Pairings include: [[OfficialCouple Kaname]], [[UnequalPairing Tessa]], [[FoeYay Gauron]], [[VitriolicBestBuds Kurz]], [[CoolBigSis Mao]], [[CoolOldGuy Kalinin]], [[UnknownRival Tsubaki]], Nami, [[MentorShip Clouseau]], Kyoko, [[InterserviceRivalry Wraith]], [[AlphaBitch Mizuki]], Zaied, and the insane Police Lady. The story writers [[EvenTheGuysWantHim didn't make it hard]]. He's a ''canon'' case of a MemeticSexGod.
* Simon appears to be one for the ''TengenToppaGurrenLagann'' fandom. The most common pairings include [[OfficialCouple Nia]], [[BigBrotherMentor Kamina]], [[CoolBigSis Yoko]], [[FoeYay Viral]], [[NecessarilyEvil Rossiu]], [[ScrewYourself himself]], and [[TenchiSolution any combination thereof]].
** The cast must be having one big, hot-blooded orgy behind the scenes...even amongst the heterosexual options, for example, a notable solution to the Kamina/Yoko vs. Kittan/Yoko dilemma is to just [[OT3 let her have both of them]]. As far as solutions to ShippingWars go, this fandom seems to take the route laden with the most FetishFuel and the least nitpicking.
* [[RurouniKenshin Kenshin]], given the levels of HoYay and FoeYay, gets this treatment in fandom; ditto [[TheLancer Sano]].
* Even though ''PandoraHearts'' is still not an immensely popular series, the fandom somehow already figured that everybody is hot for [[CuteShotaroBoy Oz]] and/or [[ButtMonkey Gilbert]]. Pairings like Oz/[[BodyguardCrush Gil]], [[MagicallyBindingContract Alice/Oz]], Shalon/Oz, [[EmotionlessGirl Echo]]/Oz, [[CannotStandThemCannotLiveWithoutThem Gil/Alice]] don't surprise anybody anymore, so the fandom went a step further. And so pairings like [[{{Squick}} Oz/Oscar]], Gil/Break, [[BigBrotherAttraction Gil/Vincent]] (it's actually almost canon - at least on Vincent's side; also, trope inverted, as Vincent is the one to obsess over his older brother Gil), [[BelligerentSexualTension Oz/Elliot]], Gil/Jack, Gil/Oscar and [[PowerTrio Oz/Gil/Alice]] came to life.
** At this point it's safe to say that everybody can be paired with anybody with how connected the plot is becoming. Luckily, the abyss can [[spoiler:send people through time]] to quell most fandom issues of age difference if they want to be moral about everything.
** In general, the author seems to try for this with the series overall. If two characters have spoken, there is almost always shipping material for them. (Some may need thicker ShippingGoggles than others, but you can really find a fic for anything anymore.) If there hasn't been enough, it's coming. Couldn't see where Gil/Break was coming from? Cue Gil leaving his beloved master to be Break's left eye. They don't even have to have had real interaction. Wondering where the fair-sized fandom for Break/Elliot could come from? The character guide makes specific note about the latter deeply admiring the prior.
** Moreover, Break is easily at least as much a Launcher as Oz or Gil anymore, if not moreso. It isn't too uncommon to see Break paired with Sharon, Reim, Gil, Oz, Alice, Alyss, Cheshire, Vincent, Lotti, Elliot, Rufus, Shelly, Cheryl, or even [[CargoShip Emily]]; and a few others are rare but also present.
* The ''DarkerThanBlack'' fandom has seen to shipping Hei with anything that has a pulse, up to and including the ''cat''. Studio BONES did practically bait them into it -- you know you've got a ship-magnet on your hands when he's written into slash fics in ''canon''.
* ''{{Yu-Gi-Oh}}'': [[EnsembleDarkhorse Kaiba]].
** Yugi!
** More importantly Atem.
** This is the ''Yu-Gi-Oh'' fandom, the things in it are Launchers of a Thousand Ships aimed towards each other.
-->'''Kaiba:''' [[WebVideo/YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries This is sounding dangerously close to a slashfic.]]
** Name ONE guy from ''YuGiOh5Ds'' that [[EvenTheGuysWantHim Yusei]] isn't paired with in fanfiction.
* Despite it being the poster child for harem comedies, I'd have to say that Tenchi in ''TenchiMuyo'' ends up getting this treatment from fans. This is in a genre that named the TenchiSolution and he STILL ends up with pairings outside it?
* Of all the girls in ''Manga/AzumangaDaioh'', it seems like Sakaki ends up taking this role.
* Since Tamahome is the one who usually [[DieForOurShip dies for the ship]], Miaka ends up becoming this trope's representation in ''FushigiYuugi'' fan fiction.
* Since {{CLAMP}} apparently likes to ShipTease left and right, it's no wonder Kamui (''{{X1999}}'') gets paired with everybody and their cousin. Most often he's paired with his [[WordOfGod canon]] love interest Fuuma, his (according to CLAMP) [[strike: brother]] sister figure Subaru and his classmate Keiichi, but the {{crack pairing}}s are practically endless. The fandom [[HetIsEw isn't that interested in his explicitly stated romantic interest in Kotori]].
** Well, maybe he's just not into [[spoiler: dead people.]]
** Speaking of {{CLAMP}}, I believe Fai from [[TsubasaReservoirChronicle Tsubasa]] deserves mention. He's been paired with everyone from [[OfficialCouple Kurogane]], [[TheCutie Sakura]], [[IncestSubtext Yuui]], Chi, [[ParentalSubstitute Ashura]], [[TheProtagonist Syouran]], Seishiro, Kamui and...Mokona??? Believe me, it's out there.
* ''SoulEater'' has five, depending on your tastes:
** If you [[LoliCon want to launch ships including a young girl]], it involves Maka Albarn.
** If you [[ShotaCon want a young boy ship instead]] [[HoYay and don't care about that straight issue he has]], you probably employ Death The Kid.
** If you [[FoeYay are more into the villain-on-hero]], RapeAsDrama deal, you probably are very happy they introduced Noah.
** If you like the concept of having an AmbiguousGender, then you would probably like [[SpellMyNameWithAnS Crona/Chrona/Kurona]].
** If you are squicked by the young ages of the above mentioned, you probably go for Stein.
** For those of you confused, [[TheCollector Noah]] is more often than not paired [[ShotaCon with his targets]], though [[ClingyJealousGirl Gopher]] and [[spoiler: [[AxCrazy Justin Law]]]] seem to be popular choices as well.
* Tohru in FruitsBasket has been paired with everyone- sometimes at the same time.
* [[NeonGenesisEvangelion Shinji Ikari]] has been shipped with every available member of the cast in an attempt by fans to make him happy by putting him in a stable, loving relationship, including Asuka, Rei, Misato, Kaworu, Hikari, Kaji, and Pen-Pen.
** Actually, most major character's can be shipped with almost any other character in the right situations. Rei can be shipped with Kaworu/Asuka/Gendo Ikari/Ritsuko although the last two are sorta...uhh...disturbing. Asuka can be shipped with Kaworu/Touji/Kensuke/Hikari/Misato/Kaji though the last two of those are also kinda awkward.
** [[UpToEleven And then we have the]] {{Alternate Universe}}s. In particular, [[Anime/RebuildOfEvangelion Mari Illustrious Makinami]] and [[EnsembleDarkhorse Mana]] [[CanonForeigner Kirishima]] also get paired with Shinji frequently.
* ''HigurashiNoNakuKoroNi'''s [[ButtMonkey Keiichi]] has been paired with all of the girls: [[CuteBruiser Rena]], [[MafiaPrincess Mion]], [[BrattyHalfPint Satoko]], [[TokenMiniMoe Rika]], [[{{Yandere}} Shion]] (despite the latter being in love with Satoshi), and occasionally even [[AGodAmI Hanyuu]]. He's also been paired with [[ShipsThatPassInTheNight Satoshi]] and [[ReasonableAuthorityFigure Irie]].
** In one episode of Kira he ends up getting paired with Shion and Mion's Grandmother!
** In its sort-of [[UminekoNoNakuKoroNi sequel]], we have [[OnlySaneMan Battler]]. Most commonly paired with [[TheBaroness Beatrice]] [[spoiler:which, to be fair, is the OfficialCouple]], but has also been paired with [[QuirkyMinibossSquad Lucifer]], [[BrotherSisterIncest Ange]], [[ParentalIncest Rudolf]], [[BattleButler Ronove]], [[FoeYay Erika]], [[AxCrazy Dlanor]], [[TheStoic Kanon]], [[KissingCousins Jessica]], [[{{Meido}} Shannon]], [[CreepyChild Maria]], [[TheWoobie Natsuhi]], [[CargoShip a hat stand]], and [[ChivalrousPervert Amakusa]], despite the latter being a time paradox.
*** This is only reinforced by the in-game TIPS: Virgilla ships Battler with everyone.
-->'''Ronove:''' If you wish for us to dictate, of course we will undertake that task. However, we will add our own demands to the scenario as well.
-->'''Battler:''' I'll agree to anything!...Huh? Why are you giving me those creepy looks?
-->'''Virgilla:''' ...[=RudoBato=]. [=GohBato=]. [=AmaBato=].
-->'''Ronove:''' Pukuku! You mustn't forget [=RonoBato=].
* ''ShamanKing'': Yoh, Anna, Ren and Hao are the center of all ships.
** Also Ren, Hao, and Horohoro are always the ones you see get shipped with every type of OC/Mary Sue known to man.
* The [[WolfsRain Wolf's Rain]] fandom has Tsume, who's been shipped with everyone but the lady in a coma and the drunk old man, [[HellBentForLeather but]] [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold who]] [[BareYourMidriff can]] [[LickedByTheDog really]] [[EstrogenBrigadeBait blame]] [[HoYay them?]] Kiba also gets around in the fanfics...often [[{{Wimpification}} painfully so...]]
* Izaya Orihara of ''{{Durarara}}!!''. It helps that he professes to be in a MindGameShip situation ''with the entire human race.'' Izaya/Shizuo seems to be the most popular, though Izaya/Mikado, Izaya/Masaomi, and Izaya/Namie also seem to have a degree of popularity, while Izaya/Anri, Izaya/Shinra, Izaya/Dotachin, Izaya/Rio, Izaya/Either or both of his sisters, Izaya/fem!Izaya, Izaya/Celty and Izaya/Celty's Severed Head (yes, those are two completely separate pairings) are not unknown.
** There's also a small minority of people who ship [[CrossoverShip Izaya]]/[[AxisPowersHetalia Prussia]].
** Shizuo too. Apart from aforementioned [[HoYay Shizuo/Izaya]], [[FoeYay Shizuo/Vorona]] also is gaining more and more popularity. Other ships include: [[BodyguardCrush Shizuo/Tom]], [[IncestYayShipping Shizuo/Kasuka]], [[ShipsThatPassInTheNight Shizuo/Masaomi]], [[ShipsThatPassInTheNight Shizuo/Mikado]], [[{{Lolicon}} Shizuo/Akane]], [[OT3 Shizuo/Celty/Shinra]] and [[WordOFGod Narita]] himself confessed that initially he planned to pair Shizuo with [[CrackPairing Namie]].
** In canon, Kadota (aka "Dotachin") seems to have near-constant presence in both Erika and Walker's fanfics. Kadota is not amused.
-->'''Erika:''' But wasn't Yumacchi talking about writing me and Dotachin in a master-slave relationship? How about this - Dotachin [[AttractiveBentGender somehow becomes a girl when he gets up one morning]], and [[UnwantedHarem finds himself in an all-girls boarding school...]]
-->'''Kadota:''' [[PunctuatedForEmphasis SHUT. UP. YOU. TWO.]] ''AHHHHHHHH!''
*** To be quite honest [[FanGirl Erika]] and Walker are responsible for perpetuating a lot of the ships with their own otaku fangirl/boy squealings, particularly Shizaya.
-->'''Shizuo:''' I'm off to Shinjuku to kill Izaya...I'll be back
-->'''Erika:''' Oh man this is so cool! Shizu~chan totally has the hots for Izaya! [[BoysLove Boy on boy love]] is so much fun, I love it!
-->'''Rest of Cast:''' NOT HAPPENING!
** Mikado has his fair share of ships too. Despite his timid demeanour, he is paired with every cast member too. His [[EveryoneCanSeeIt canonical love interest]], Anri, and his [[LoveTriangle best friend ]],[[OneTrueThreesome Kida]], are the two most prominent, but there is also a strong following for Mikado/Celty and Mikado/Izaya. The latter is especially focused on by [[WhatAnIdiot readers of the light novels ]] which also leads to a strong following of Mikado/Aoba and Mikado/Orihara Twins.
* Minamoto is this ''in canon'' in ''ZettaiKarenChildren''. His utterly {{Moe}} charm is an absolute magnet for girls (even though he's really clueless when it comes to dating) and the males in the cast can't keep their eyes off him. The fangirls [[EstrogenBrigadeBait are absolutely gaga over him.]]
* The entire main cast of ''OuranHighSchoolHostClub''. To the point that there are [=EveryoneXEveryone=] fics that ''aren't'' crack.
* Kuran Kaname from ''{{Vampire Knight}}'' has been shipped with Yuuki, [[{{Foe Yay}} Zero]], Aidou, Ichijou, [[IncestIsRelative Haruka]], Ruka, Rido, [[{{Foe Yay}} Shizuka]], [[{{Mysterious Past}} an unnamed woman]] and [[{{Anything That Moves}} more]]. The ''canon'' [[IncestIsRelative Incest]] makes this even more easy to do.
* Madoka Kaname from ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'': she's been shipped with Mami, Homura, Sayaka, [[ScrewYourself her long-haired self from the opening animation...]]
** Just to put this into perspective: this is before even half the show's (12-episode) run has passed. Shippers work quickly nowadays.
** It's not particularly surprising or weird, given that Madoka/Sayaka's joked about in-show, Homura is very strongly implied to be in love with Madoka, and the ending is [[GainaxEnding screwy enough]] for Madoka/Madoka to be FoeYay.
* If the character has a pulse, chances are ''Manga/BlackButler'' fans have shipped them with one, [[BattleButler Sebastian Michaelis.]] You can find him paired with [[KidWithTheLeash Ciel]], [[CampGay Grell,]] [[CreepyChild Alois,]] [[BattleButler Claude]], [[{{Meganekko}} Maylene,]] [[{{Keet}} Finnian,]] Bardroy, ''Tanaka...''
** And if the character is [[BoysLove male]] and has a pulse, [[CampGay Grell]] will be shipped with them due to his own {{FanGirl}} tendencies. The exception being Madame Red, who is even stated by Grell to be [[IfItsYouItsOkay the only woman he ever loved]]
** Ciel himself has been shipped with many characters (the fact that he generates a lot of Hoyay with people like Sebastian, the Undertaker, Lau, Sohma, Snake, Arthur, Alois, Claude, McMillan, and Edgar most definitely helped with this). He's not a slacker in the heterosexual department either (usually Elizabeth, Ran-Mao, or Doll).
* ''TigerAndBunny'' fans are fond of these ships; Antonio/Ivan, Keith/Ivan, Pao-Lin/Ivan, Barnaby/Ivan, Yuri/Ivan, [[FanNickname Scarf-tan]]/Ivan...Guess which one of them is the launcher here?
* ''Manga/BlueExorcist'''s Rin Okumura is frequently shipped with his twin Yukio, Bon, Shima and his brothers, Mephisto and Amaimon by Pixiv users. Incidentally he is voiced by NobuhikoOkamoto who also voiced the aforementioned [[TigerandBunny Ivan]]...
* From Manga/BlackCat, there's Train Heartnett. Three women with canon crushes on him, (Saya, [[ClassyCatBurglar Rinslet,]] [[spoiler: Kyoko.]]) one [[FoeYay man,]] (Creed.) FanPreferredCouple with Eve, and if he's not paired with one of them, he's usually with [[HeterosexualLifePartner Sven.]]
* Kuroko from Manga/KurokonoBasuke is paired up with everyone. Besides the obvious 7 (Kagami, Kise, Midorima, Aomine, Momoi, Murasakibara, and Akashi), he's been paired up with Taro and even Himuro.
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[[folder:Comic Books]]
* For a long time (and probably to this day) Gambit has fulfilled this role in ''Comicbook/{{X-Men}}'' fandom, being paired with any and every character out there, regardless of whether he likes them, or whether he's even met them in the first place.
** Iceman gets this treatment too, but for a different reason. He's easy to identify with and thus is a good AudienceSurrogate, so making him slutty and pairing him with absolutely everyone [[WishFulfillment makes much of the X-Men fandom happy]].
** Mystique, a bisexual shapeshifter who's taken on both male and female forms. She's usually a villain, but has spent time as a hero, so she can be paired with anyone of any CharacterAlignment, gender, or sexual orientation.
* It's a running gag in the DCUniverse that virtually every female that comes in contact with {{Nightwing}} falls in love with him. And that's not even getting into the FoeYay...
** Known exceptions: Dr. Leslie Tompkins (Old enough to be his grandmother), Stephanie Brown (underage, and dating his little brother), Wally West (the so called Straightest Man in DC).
*** As of ComicBook/{{Young Justice}} even Wally West is no longer immune to Dick.
** Dick's "bicycliness" doesn't stop with the females he meets, at least in the fandom. Popular {{slash}} pairings fix him up with Bruce, Roy, Wally, Tim, Jason, Terry...
** Bruce. Look at how many love interests he's had in the course of {{Batman}} History! Plus how many women have kissed him! Even non-love interests has kissed him! (Harley Quinn) I mean if you think about it, comic book love interests, villainess, movie love interests, tv show love interests, animated DCU love interests, and that's just the TIP of the iceburg! Plus slash pairings! IN ALL INCARNATIONS!
** Tim Drake! He stays mostly to the batfamily side of things, but popular ships include: Dick/Tim, Jason/Tim, Bruce/Tim, Damian/Tim, Kon/Tim, Bart/Tim, Kon/Bart/Tim, Steph/Tim, Tim/Tam, Cassie/Tim, Cass/Tim, Ra's/Tim and Tim/Bernard. Canonically, he is a gorgeous woman as Caroline Hill (one of his many undercover disguises), and there are several fics pairing other characters with "her." It also helps that Marcus To's drawings of Tim brought him into the ranks of a {{Bishonen}} with pretty hair.
* Who hasn't [[IronMan Tony Stark]] been paired up with? Depending on [[http://i54.tinypic.com/1zh1q4p.jpg how you count it]], no one.
* Clint Barton is largely considered the Marvel character who can be with any single other superheroine in the Marvel Universe and it not to come off strange. His current tally includes the first Ronin (Maya Lopez), The Black Widow, Mockingbird, Moonstone, the Scarlet Witch, and the Wasp.
* {{Wolverine}} is considered to be a sexual stud-muffin given that he has been paired with virtually every other character possible in the X-men in fanfic. The authors sense this too. His canonical love interests have included: Silver Fox, Viper (with a very descriptive honeymoon), Jean Grey (never consumated), Mystique, Storm, the Heather Hudson version of Vindicator, the Silver Samurai's sister Mariko Yashida, his string of female sidekicks like Kitty Pryde, Jubilee, and Pixie, and many more.
* The Comicbook/BlackWidow is the female version of this in Marvel comics. Her relationships include IronMan, Hawkeye, {{Daredevil}}, an attempt by the writers to set her up with {{Deadpool}}(?!), and arguably NickFury. Even her late husband (she's a widow, get it?), the Red Guardian, was a superhero. Yes, Natasha goes with everything.
* WonderWoman is also considered to be a Launcher of a Thousand Ships for the main heroes of DC comics. It's just that none of the pairings ever stick. They've attempted to pair her up with Comicbook/{{Aquaman}}, {{Batman}}, {{Superman}}, and Nemesis.
* In the Batman fandom, Harley Quinn [[ReallyGetsAround gets paired with lots of different guys]] plus [[LesYay Ivy]]. Which is ironic since in canon she's shown to have SingleTargetSexuality for {{the Joker}} and some subtext with Ivy. Harley has also had her moments with Batman himself on occasion (see above for all the ships he's launched), at one point kissing him on the lips for being nice to her.
* Daken, Wolverine's son and member of the DarkAvengers, is starting to become this, mostly just being paried with male characters though. But then again he's a DepravedBisexual whose powers include super-healing and what amounts to sex-pollen. Common pairings include every member of the Dark Avengers (Bullseye and Mac/Venom in particular), his father Wolverine, Northstar, Deadpool, Anole, Wiccan and Hulkling.
* You wouldn't think so, but a large number of SinCity FanFics are either slash fics or invovle {{Shipping}} amongst the cast. This often involves [[LesYay the female characters.]]
* Princess Sally from SonicTheHedgehog can be either type. '''[[CanonSue IN CANON]]''', no less.
* While not getting much love in-universe, {{Deadpool}} fans seem to think he has chemistry with almost anyone who tolerates him for more than 5 minutes. Popular ships include {{Cable}}, Weasel, Bob, Domino, Black Widow, {{Spider-Man}}, Bullseye, and {{Captain America}}.
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[[folder:Film -- Animation]]
* ''[[WesternAnimation/{{Nine}} 9]]'' has [[TheWoobie 5]], because he's VERY [[NoSenseOfPersonalSpace touchy-feely]] with the other characters, and [[ActionGirl 7]], because she's the [[TheSmurfettePrinciple only girl]].
* [[Disney/SleepingBeauty Maleficent]] seems to be this for the Disney Villains, having been paired with [[{{Fantasia}} Chernabog]], [[{{Disney/Hercules}} Hades]], [[{{Disney/Aladdin}} Jafar]], and [[PeterPan Captain Hook]] in works such as House of Mouse or DisneyThemeParks shows or related media.
** Just take a look around [[http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=jim+%20hawkins+%20crossover&aq=f YouTube]] or DeviantART for [[TreasurePlanet Jim Hawkins]]; the poor kid's been paired with nearly every heroine in theatrical animation (and some of the guys); among them, [[TheLittleMermaid Ariel]], [[AtlantisTheLostEmpire Audrey]] and [[QuestForCamelot Kayley]], the three most popular crossover girlfriends for him. Which is not even getting into [[RelationshipSue the OCs]].
** Poor [[Disney/AliceInWonderland Alice]] is the FanVid community's {{Lolita}}.
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[[folder:Film-- Live Action]]
* ''{{Pirates of the Caribbean}}'': Captain Jack Sparrow. Not at all helped by Jack himself [[AnythingThatMoves flirting with almost everyone]].
* ''[[Film/StarTrek The 2009 Star Trek film]]'' gives us [[http://kittyjimjams.deviantart.com/art/Fandom-Bicycle-127313360 Pavel Chekov]], aka Ensign Jailbait. Along with Captain Kirk, naturally, but not to the same degree. (Pavel is becoming something of a MemeticSexGod, if not the inverse of a MemeticMolester. Even Nero's been getting in on the action.)
* DeviantArt is filled with fanfiction and fanart pairing HeathLedger's Joker with CillianMurphy's Scarecrow, GaryOldman's Gordon, ChristianBale's Batman, Ramirez, as of yet unintroduced Harley and the Riddler, random Mary Sues, Aaron Eckhart's Two-Face, MaggieGyllenhaal ''and'' Katie Holmes's Rachel, and anything in the Nolanverse that moves. I haven't found a Joker/Alfred one yet, but I wouldn't be shocked. And that's ''nothing'' compared to what they do to poor Scarecrow...
** And that's just the in-universe examples. Outside of that, he's paired with everyone, including [[http://bloodmermaid.deviantart.com/art/Nurse-Joker-And-Rorschach-124452012 Rorschach]] from ''{{Watchmen}}''.
* Kate from ''AKnightsTale'' is paired with every guy character in fandom, especially since she doesn't hook up with anyone in canon and is perfect for both FanPreferredCouple and PairTheSpares.
* Pretty [[Film/SherlockHolmes himself]]. He's got [[HoYay Watson]], [[DatingCatwoman Irene]] and matches up with [[FoeYay Blackwood]].
* {{Inception}} gives us Arthur, who is paired with everyone, the most popular being Arthur/Eames, Arthur/Ariadne and Arthur/Cobb.
** [[OneTrueThreesome Arthur/Eames/Ariadne]].
** Ariadne serves this function for het pairings. The most popular pairings for her are the aforementioned Arthur/Ariadne, Dom/Ariadne, and Ariadne/Fischer.
* TheRockyHorrorPictureShow has [[AnythingThatMoves Dr. Frank N. Furter]], who has been paired with [[strike:nearly]] everyone.
* Look at the DVD cover for {{Megamind}}. He has slept with all of them. [[ScrewYourself Including himself]].
* Charlie Dalton from [[DeadPoetsSociety Dead Poets Society]].
* Probably a combination of being portrayed by Tom Hiddleston and how sad his StartOfDarkness is, but Loki has become this from {{Thor}}
** On a similar note, [[IronMan Tony Stark]], who, due to his relationships with all of them in TheAvengers, has been shipped, not only with his LoveInterest Pepper Potts, but [[CaptainAmerica Steve Rogers]], [[{{Thor}} Loki]], [[TheIncredibleHulk Bruce Banner]]...
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[[folder:Literature]]
* While ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'' fandom has a tendency to pair off all the characters, Marco gets it more than any other. I've seen him paired with every single Animorph plus some side characters. (And if Ax is paired with anyone at all, it's generally Marco. Unless it's Tobias, which is ''{{squick}}'', for [[IncestIsRelative several]] [[HotSkittyOnWailordAction reasons]].)
* Edmund Pevensie, from the ''ChroniclesOfNarnia'', is the EnsembleDarkhorse from all the protagonists and also the TroubledButCute - DracoInLeatherPants AntiHero, with a [[RavenHairIvorySkin pale skinned - dark hair]] complexion, hence he is shipped with practically ''[[LauncherOfAThousandShips everyone]]'', plus various made-up fan characters. By the way, the characters he is probably most shipped with are [[BrotherSisterIncest Lucy]] and [[IncestSubtext Peter]]. [[{{Squick}} Yeah]].
* Daenerys Targaryen fills this role in ''ASongOfIceAndFire''. Common pairings include [[ShipsThatPassInTheNight Jon/Dany]], [[BrotherSisterIncest Viserys/Dany]], [[UnequalPairing Drogo/Dany]], [[BodyguardCrush Daario/Dany, Jorah/Dany]], [[CrackPairing Tyrion/Dany]], [[OT3 Dany/Jon/Tyrion]], [[IncestIsRelative Dany/Aegon]] and [[LesYay Dany/any-of-her-handmaidens]]. To be fair, most of those have basis in canon. Viserys feels Dany up at least once, and their family has a good old tradition of incest, while one of the handmaids (Irri) takes it upon herself to [[spoiler:sexually service Dany when she's having a restless night]]. There are several foreshadows (Valyrian polygamy and the three-headed dragon) indicating that Dany could take two husbands in the future (although and she would find Tyrion completely repulsive). As for Khal Drogo, [[HappilyMarried well...]]
** Her nephew Aegon comes in a close second, with possible matches including Dany, Sansa, Arianne Martell, Margaery Tyrell, or even Arya. As a young man with a solid claim to the Iron Throne, Aegon is easily Westeros' most eligible bachelor.
** Sansa Stark seems to be one of the most commonly shipped, despite being no older than thirteen at the end of the last book. The most popular ship is [[BodyguardCrush Sansa/Sandor]], but there's also [[LoveFatherLoveSon Sansa/Petyr]], [[ArrangedMarriage Sansa/Tyrion]], [[LesYay Sansa/Margaery]], [[CrackPairing Sansa/Jaime]], [[IncestIsRelative Sansa/Jon]], [[NotBloodSiblings Sansa/Theon]] etc.
* Hermione Granger from ''HarryPotter'' has been paired with characters of every [[MayDecemberRomance age]], [[DracoInLeatherPants allegiance]], [[LesYay gender]], and [[CrossoverShip other realities and worlds]].
** Harry is frequently given a [[TenchiSolution harem]], while most girls at Hogwarts seem to be HotForTeacher when it comes to Snape...and Bellatrix will fuck AnythingThatMoves, even her own sister or nephew!
** Speaking of Harry, Harry has also been shipped with almost every character imaginable, especially [[DracoInLeatherPants Draco Malfoy]], [[HoYay Snape]], and [[HoYay Cedric]].
** The Giant Squid is a joking example--any discussion of {{Crack Pairing}}s is bound to have somebody claim they ship Squid/the first character that comes into their head.
* Bella Swan from ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' is a huge example of this. There are pairings of her with practically every character, including those of lesser importance.
** There's even [[CargoShip Bella/Tyler's Van]]
* Percy Jackson from ''PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians'' has been shipped with every character in his titular series, including very minor characters. Especially since WordOfGod says that even though demigods' parents may be related, demigods themselves, even if they share the same divine parent, [[IncestIsRelative can fall in love and have kids]] [[IncestYayShipping with no issues]].
* [[NobleDemon Crowley]] from ''Literature/GoodOmens'' fandom along with the FanPreferredCouple [[{{OTP}} Aziraphale/Crowley]] he is also shipped with [[FoeYay Hastur]], [[CrackPairing Pollution, adult Adam Young, the angel Gabriel]], [[CargoShip his Bentley]], and in CrossoverShip [[ComicBook/{{Hellblazer}} John Constantine]], JamesBond, HarryPotter, [[{{Squick}} Olympia Black]]...and anyone else. Being mistaken for an [[HornyDevils incubus]] seems to be a [[FandomSpecificPlot common plot thread]]. {{Lampshaded}} in one fic [[http://library.good-omens.com/viewstory.php?sid=179&chapter=1 ?Do I look like a sodding *** toy to you??]] DontAnswerThat.
* Although everyone in ''Literature/WarriorCats'' has had this to a certain degree, Firestar probably takes the cake. He has been paired with Sandstorm, Spottedleaf, Cinderpelt, Tigerstar, Scourge, Graystripe, Mistyfoot, Bluestar, Silverstream, Ashfur, Echosong, Leafstar, Cinderheart, Morningflower, Onestar, Blackstar, Brackenfur, and a ''[[CompanionCube stick]]'' ([[CargoShip though most of the fandom seems to think the stick is a better match for]] [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold Jayfeather]]). This list is riddled with HoYay, FoeYay, and [[CrackPairing crackships]].
** ...and ''three'' that are actually canon.
** His grandson Lionblaze is the same. He's been shipped with Heathertail, Cinderheart (both canon), Icecloud, Hazeltail, Honeyfern (who already has a canon mate), Twist, and Whitewing.
* [[http://dozerfleetwiki2.wiki-site.com/index.php/Stationery_Voyagers Liquidon Ethereteel and Neone Delft]] of ''Stationery Voyagers'' seem to be headed towards this, made worse by the fact that they get a lot more {{backstory}} and CharacterDevelopment than anyone else. Then again, the Mystery Wanderer is an even bigger whore about it, [[spoiler: as that's part of ThePlan.]]
* The ''LeftBehind'' {{hatedom}}, in their exquisite BileFascination, has chosen [[TheAntichrist Nicolae Carpathia]] for this role. This comes most directly from Fred Clark's famous weekly blog detailing just how bad these books are, the comments section for which has officially branded Carpathia a MemeticSexGod who has canon chemistry with EVERYONE -- and they've set out to prove it too!
* [[LordoftheRings Frodo Baggins]]. Especially in the wake of the 2001-3 films, Frodo got paired with every conceivable hobbit, many big strong Men, and an Elf from time to time. Oh, and Gollum. Most of this was generated by women who found Elijah Wood's portrayal seriously attractive. Then again, he is the protagonist.
** And Legolas, oh so much. Because he is pretty and an elf, and Fan-Girl-Authors really like those things. Legolas/Aragorn, Legolas/Every male elf (including his father Thranduil), Legolas/Gimli, Legolas/Faramir, Legolas/Most of the self-insert characters, Legolas/Sauron, Legolas/Gandalf, and so on and so forth.
* Roose Bolton from {{A Song of Ice and Fire}} seems on his way of becoming this in the LJ and Tumblr communities.
* The StarWarsExpandedUniverse tends to have one per era.
** In the prequel era, Anakin's SingleTargetSexuality doesn't stop all the Anakin/Obi-Wan, [[{{lolicon}} Anakin/Ahsoka]], Anakin/anybody who's not Padmé fics.
** In the Rebellion and New Republic eras, it's Luke. It would be Han (because he's sexy), but everyone likes the Han/Leia ship too much. This doesn't stop Luke/Han slash, though it's overshadowed in the fandom by Anakin/Obi-Wan.
** In the NewJediOrder era, it's Jacen and Jaina. Not together. Usually. (They're also sometimes paired, or even {{OT3}}, with [[DeadGuyJunior Anakin]].) But Jacen and Jaina are paired with anybody who isn't related to them.
** In the Legacy era, Cade. He'll do AnythingThatMoves, so...
** As the LegacyOfTheForce / FateOfTheJedi era goes through, it's turning into Ben. Oh, so much.
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* Among the corner of the ''BattlestarGalactica'' fandom that has special love for Lt. Felix Gaeta, he has been happily paired with every character (male, female, human, [[RidiculouslyHumanRobot Cylon]]) you can think of. Including quite a few he has no real interaction with on the show.
** And there's no possible way of counting the Kara "Starbuck" Thrace pairings. Or threesomes. Or...''That'' was bound to happen because in the show itself she ReallyGetsAround. Gaius Baltar and Ellen Tigh also have a number of pairings. Even Lee has a collection.
* In ''Series/BlakesSeven'', [=Avon/=]AnythingThatMoves (and [[CargoShip Orac]], which doesn't).
* Faith Lehane from ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' is a LauncherOfAThousandShips not just for her own fandom, but for many, many others. Just in fandom there's been Faith/Cordelia, Faith/Dawn, Faith/Buffy, Faith/Willow, Faith/Dawn/Buffy/Willow, Faith/Spike, Faith/Angel, Faith/Wesley, Faith/Xander, Faith/Tara (who she met once, in Buffy's body), Faith/Tara/Willow, Faith/Robin Wood (canon, but they broke up between Seasons 7 and 8), Faith/Giles, Faith/Joyce, Faith/Anya, Faith/Harmony, Faith/Lilah Morgan (admittedly, Faith did hit on her the one time they met) and a few Faith/Everyone fics. And that's just in fandom.
** Spike is another lucky one that has been paired endlessly with every imaginable character, including ones he never met. Like Ampata, the Inca mummy girl, who was only in one episode. Spike wasn't in it.
* ''Series/CriminalMinds''' Reid. Fandom ships him with ''everyone''. Even half the [[FoeYay unsubs]]. And there are also a lot of crossover ships.
* Annie Edison is this in ''Series/{{Community}}'', evidently. About half of the speculations have been hinted at in canon.
** More than half really. She's had (some admittedly small amounts, but still) ShipTease with Jeff, Britta, Abed, Troy and a canon relationship with Vaughn (along with multiple minor characters, such as Starburns and Professor British Guy pointing out how smoking hot she is). That really only leaves Shirley and Pierce.
** The episode featuring the CrackPairing description features pairing of most possible characters. Abed is very into every possible pairing.
* ''{{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 [[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.
** Not even Liberty was immune to it. In Season 3, she had a very blatant- if ''only'' for one episode- crush on Sean. On top of that, there's Ashley, too, which is sort of Canon.
** For slash-alone, Marco. Some fans just aren't that original.
** 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....]]
* Jack Harkness of ''Series/DoctorWho'' and ''Series/{{Torchwood}}''. Of course, he'd almost certainly flirt with these characters at a minimum. There is a ImageMacro series out there pairing him with (among others) [[TheWestWing CJ Cregg]], of all people.
** This one has both been artificially inflated and taken to the next level by a fic challenge on a very popular ''Doctor Who'' community, called [[http://sarkastic.livejournal.com/283926.html "Jack Harkness Sexes Everyone in Every Fandom Ever"]], which has at its core the absolutely impossible goal of writing enough fics to achieve just that.
** The Doctor himself. While the Doctor/Rose and Doctor/River shippers are the most vocal (and have the most canonical ships), there's strong support for the Doctor/Martha, [[HoYay the Doctor/Jack]], [[FoeYay the Doctor/the Master]], [[RoboShip the Doctor/the TARDIS]], and this is all just from the new series. Even from the old series, there's the Doctor/Romana, the Doctor/Sarah Jane Smith, and many, many more. Really, you can just say Doctor/X Companion and there's probably someone shipping it.
*** [[ScrewYourself The Doctor/the Doctor]]...in all 169[[hottip:*: 196 if you also count either the Valeyard or Metacrisis Tenth Doctor, 225 if you count both of 'em]] combinations thereof.
** Flipped and reversed with the Brigadier who, because of his insanely long tenure, can logically be paired with each of the first seven Doctors in turn without any stretch in continuity.
** Amy Pond is ''extremely'' popular in [[CrossoverShip crossover shipping]].
* ''Series/{{Firefly}}'' 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.
** Additionally, River gets paired up with a lot of people. The most common ones are [[BrotherSisterIncest Simon]] (which is nicknamed Crazy Space Incest), 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.
** But really, just every damn character. Seriously, pick any combination of the show's [[strike: nine]] eleven regulars, and it won't be too hard to find a fanfic pairing them up.
* Rachel from 'Series/'{{Friends}}''. Helped by the fact she was roomates with Monica (up until early season 6), Phoebe (season 6), Joey (seasons 6 to 10, intermittently) and Ross (briefly during 8 and 9). Several subtle (and not so subtle) ship teasing between her and the other girls (notably in some fights and "what if?" instances), some with Chandler (especially in early seasons) and she dated the remaining regulars. The character also, at some point, [[spoiler: kissed every other person in the main cast, including the girls]]. Joey also qualifies ([[spoiler: he also kissed all of them]]).
* Both Puck and Rachel on ''Series/{{Glee}}''.
** Kurt isn't quite as popular because he mostly doesn't get shipped with girls, but he has been shipped with EVERY male character to appear on the show, and as the series continues there's been more and more Kurt/Various Girls fic. Apparently [[MostFanFicWritersAreGirls fangirls]] like a challenge almost as much as they like canon gayness.
* Blair from ''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]], [[Film/{{Harry Potter}} Draco Malfoy]], [[{{The Vampire Diaries}} Damon Salvatore]], [[Series/{{Supernatural}} Dean Winchester]], and ''[[Series/{{Glee}} Rachel Berry]]''. And many more.
* In addition to Peter Petrelli, Sylar is also a Launcher Of A Thousand Ships in the ''Series/{{Heroes}}'' fandom. Check out this LJ ''Series/{{Heroes}}'' community: [[http://community.livejournal.com/rare_heroes/ Rare Heroes]]. Look at the pairing tags list; Peter and Sylar have the most pairings. Peter actually comes in as a close ''second'' to Sylar, when you count them up.
** Every Heroes fanfic is about Peter, Sylar, Claire, or Elle, usually a combination of two...or more
** [[http://fantasticpants.livejournal.com/35297.html This Livejournal]], "The Heroes Slash Manual", applies this quality to Kaito Nakamura...after a fashion.
* Barney in ''Series/HowIMetYourMother''. The most popular pairing is Barney/Robin, but it is by no means the only one.
** Barney/Lily is ''HIMYM'''s biggest UC ship. He's also shipped with [[HoYay Marshall]] and [[HoYay Ted]]. Or Stella and Victoria. Plus the crossovers...
* As it's his show, Series/{{House}} obviously gets treated like the fandom bicycle by fic writers. He's been paired up with everyone, from Wilson, Cuddy, Chase, Foreman and Cameron to Vogler, Tritter and, um, a giant squid. Which clearly hasn't been on the show but still...
** Chase too. I've seen Chase/House, Chase/Foreman, Chase/Cameron, Chase/Stacy, Chase/Wilson, Chase/Cuddy, Chase/Kutner and Chase/Lucas.
** Thirteen also probably qualifies as this. While the most popular pairings continue to be [[OfficialCouple Thirteen/Foreman]], [[ShipSinking Thirteen/Kutner]], [[PairTheSpares Thirteen/Chase]], and [[LesYay Thirteen/Cameron]], Thirteen/House, Thirteen/Wilson, Thirteen/Cuddy, and Thirteen/Taub all have followings.
* Sam in ''Series/{{iCarly}}''. She has fanbases (although small in some cases) for pairings with Freddie, Carly, Spencer, Gibby, Griffin, Missy, Principal Franklin, Wendy, Brad, Shelby, Jade from {{Victorious}} and Alex from ''WizardsOfWaverlyPlace''. The prevalent fandom interpretation of her is that she is bi.
** The male version is Freddie. He has been paired with Carly, Sam, Spencer, Gibby, Wendy, Melanie, Shelby, along with several girls of the week, and two reasonably popular CrossoverShip pairings, one with Megan from DrakeAndJosh, and the more recent one with Cat from {{Victorious}}.
* Zev/Xev from ''{{Lexx}}'' for [[ReallyGetsAround obvious reasons]].
* It's a ''Series/LawAndOrder'', so it isn't that obvious, but in the (admittedly small) [[Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit L&O:SVU]] fandom, Olivia Benson is this. Probably because she's Mariska flippin' Hargitay.
* On ''Series/{{Lost}}'' Claire Littleton tends to get paired with anyone she has any sort of contact with. There’s Claire/Locke, Claire/Sawyer, Claire/Ethan, Claire/Boone, Claire/Hurley, Claire/Eko and Claire/Shannon from earlier Seasons and Claire/Miles, Claire/Richard, Claire/Jacob, Claire/Man in Black, Claire/Sayid, Claire/Kate, Claire/Juliet and yes [[BrotherSisterIncest Claire/Jack]] brought on by later ones.
* 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]].
* Morgana from ''{{Series/Merlin}}''. 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 Two 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...
* In ''PowerRangers'', Tommy got paired with an inordinate amount of {{Mary Sue}}s over the years, but Sky from S.P.D. really takes the cake here, ending up with every single one of his teammates in fic (all at the same time on occasion), and some of his enemies.
** And then there's [[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]].
** Speaking of Tommy, it's easy to see pair 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 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 [[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 NinjaStorm for incest slash to come out.
* The growing ''Series/ParksAndRecreation'' fandom has most emphatically thrown Ben Wyatt into this role. While he and Leslie are the FanPreferredCouple (as well as the show's OfficialCouple in canon - a rarity?), there's also fic for Ben/April, Ben/Chris, Ben/Ann, Ben/Ron...someone out there probably ships him with [[ButtMonkey Jerry]]. Probably helps that this is [[http://www2.pictures.gi.zimbio.com/Vicious+Kind+2009+Sundance+Screening+1fkf7kjMVNsl.jpg Adam Scott]] we're talking about here...
** The Ben pairings aren't just confined to ''within'' the [[ParksandRecreation Parks and Recreation]] series either; if the NBC kink meme is anything to go by, people like to pair him up with Liz Lemon (Series/ThirtyRock), Annie Edison ([[Series/{{Community}} Community]]), and Casey Klein ([[PartyDown Party Down]]).
* Emily from ''{{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.)
* 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 ''TheSarahConnorChronicles'' 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 SummerGlau.
* Clark Kent of ''Series/{{Smallville}}'' 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 Chloe/Clark Shippers and your Lois/Clark Shippers. They even go far enough to pair him with Jor-El. The writers even would paint him as a chick magnet 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 {{AudienceAvatar}} means that Chloe hooking up with virtually any attractive character can be seen as wish-fulfillment. To that end, the fandom has shipped Chloe with [[{{Superman}} Clark]] (Chlark), [[{{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, 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 been Chloe/Batman. There have been so many prominent fics, that there it can be quite reasonably stated that there is a sub-genre of ''Series/{{Smallville}}'' fanfic that involves Chloe moving to Gotham (often after the writer has Chloe realize that Clark/Oliver/Jimmy/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."
* Rodney [=McKay=], of all people, in the ''{{Stargate}}'' universe. 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 fulfils 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 [[{{Wimpification}} 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/{{Stargate SG-1}} 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 ''StargateAtlantis'' and other shows.
*** [[EvenTheGuysWantHim Can you blame]] the other main characters?
* Kotoha of 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.]]
* Dean Winchester from ''Series/{{Supernatural}}''. 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 very pretty and very slutty but it's getting ridiculous.
** Castiel may count too. It started harmlessly with just Dean, but then other angels (and demons and humans) appeared, and the rest is history.
* SuiteLifeOnDeck 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]].
* 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/[[JackTheRipper John Druitt]], Magnus/[[NikolaTesla Nikola Tesla]], Magnus/[[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]] [[BiTheWay fluid]], and would have chemistry with a flea, it's not hard to see how this trope applies. Plus, it's [[MemeticSexGod Amanda]] [[http://www.amandatapping.com/Scripts/Photos/d/40000-2/4f04e_Shahel_Amanda_Tapping_02011609_0006.jpg Tapping]].
* Interesting thing on ''TheTudors''. Henry gets paired off the most times in the show (obviously) but as for pairings written or suggested...Um, Katherine of Aragon. The theory I heard was that people just want her to be happy, considering how things went for her on the show.
* Sookie from ''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.
* ''TheVampireDiaries'' has Elena Gilbert who started innocently with love interest [[OfficialCouple Stephen Salvatore]], [[UnluckyChildhoodFriend Matt Donavin]], and [[HopelessSuitor Damon Salvatore]]. The longer the series got and the more male characters were introduced the longer the list became. Now do a search on Youtube and you will find Elena/[[{{True Blood}} Eric]], Elena/[[{{Teen Wolf}} Derek]], Elena/[[{{Supernatural}} Dean]], Elena/[[{{Supernatural}} Sam]] and Elena/[[Literature/{{Twilight}} Edward]], and Elena/[[Literature/{{Twilight}} Jacob]]
** It doesn't help she is the Doppelgänger of canon LauncherOfAThousandShips Katherine Pierce whose conquests among others include Stephen and Damon Salvatore, Mason Lockwood, and Trevor.
** Caroline is definitely catching up to Elena.
* Cat in ''Series/{{Victorious}}'', like Sam is considered bisexual by the majority of the fandom. She has popular pairings with Jade, Robbie and Tori, semi-popular pairings with Trina, Beck and Andre and a popular CrossoverShip with Freddie from ''{{iCarly}}''.
** Jade is the secondary 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 ''{{iCarly}}''. Again, like Cat most people assume that she is bisexual and that Beck has come to terms with her sexual needs as part of their canon relationship.
* Alex in ''WizardsOfWaverlyPlace''. Goes above and beyond the usual fandom bicycle because her most popular pairing is an incest pairing with brother Justin.
* Alex Krycek from ''Series/TheXFiles''. 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. He also wound up something of a MemeticSexGod, and it's probably impossible to find a fic that doesn't mention his GreenEyes at least once.
** For that matter, Mulder and Scully themselves. There are still whole websites devoted to shipping either of them with half the show's characters.
* 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 cannon girlfriend Juliet]], but also with [[FoeYay Lassie]], [[HoYay Gus]], [[ChildhoodFriendRomance Abigal]], and [[MayDecemberRomance Chief Vick]].
* 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.
** Ruby/Red is also shipped with quite a few characters--Emma (as mentioned above), [[MayDecemberRomance Archie]] (due to both characters' popularity with fans and lack of canon love interests), Gold (especially before the introduction of his canon love interest [[BeautyAndTheBeast Belle]])), [[LesYay Snow White]], and Graham by fans who like Graham's character too much to take the convenient KilledOffForReal exit to further their preferred Emma ship. Jefferson and Regina, too, even though they (and Gold and Archie, come to think of it) have never actually interacted with Ruby. August and Ruby had one conversation of ShipTease and gained a small-but-loyal fanbase. And then there are those who liked Red's original love interest [[KilledOffForReal Peter]] from her tragic backstory...

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* In any band with exactly one female, you can bet that she will get shipped with most or all of her bandmates. Examples include:
** Tarja of Music/{{Nightwish}} (later replaced by Anette).
*** Tuomas has been paired up with every other man in the band. In all fairness, he DOES make a really [[TroubledButCute lovely and cute]] {{Uke}}.
* [[PanicAtTheDisco Brendon Urie]]. He's generally characterized as so sweet and loving and openhearted and completely faily, it's hard ''not'' to pair him with anyone. Especially anyone male. In fairness, [[http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_jXkJHbMbKzs/SaYquX6yqPI/AAAAAAAAzt4/uFSJbsLwLB4/s320/brendon+%20urie009.jpg this]], [[http://img.buzznet.com/assets/imgx/3/2/2/7/3/2/1/orig-3227321.jpg this]], and [[http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b359/gerardslasthope/a_cute_pic_of_brendon_urie--large-m.jpg this]] would just be wasted otherwise.
* The disputed rumored bisexuality of [[TheBeatles John Lennon]] has made him the focus (and fan bicycle) of about 99.9% of slashy fanfiction in the [[{{Squick}} squickier]] areas of the Beatles fandom.
* [[MyChemicalRomance Gerard Way]]. He's been paired with: all the members of his band, Bert Mccracken of The Used, [[GreenDay Billie Joe Armstrong]], [[PanicAtTheDisco Brendon Urie and Ryan Ross]], and even [[Series/DoctorWho the Tenth Doctor]]. The fandom either doesn't know or doesn't care about his marriage with [[MindlessSelfIndulgence Lyn-Z Ballato]].
* {{Miley Cyrus}} has been paired with everyone who has shared a photo with her and possibly some who haven't.
* Subverted and played straight with [[FallOutBoy Patrick Stump]]. Subverted in the slash end of bandom in that he's paired with Pete Wentz [[OneTruePairing 95% of the time]], played straight in that in het circles, he's paired with nearly every female in the bandom scene with any level of significance (even [[AshleeSimpson the ex]] of the guy he's paired up with the most)
** On the other hand, Pete Wentz is arguably ''the'' de facto bandom slash shipping bicycle.
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[[folder:Professional Wrestling]]
* JeffHardy is '''the''' Launcher Of A Thousand Ships of pro wrestling. Male, female, giant, midget, relative, he apparently does (or far more likely, is done by) everyone. He's "extreme" and grown up into quite a manly specimen, but is still remembered and seen by many as a sweet little fresh-faced kid who does gymnastics, and also the fact that he's a raving CloudCuckooLander, means he can pretty well go any direction you need him to without him being out of character.
* Considering the fact that professional wrestling is filled with [[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters loads and loads of]] mostly [[WalkingShirtlessScene often-shirtless guys]] and [[MsFanservice often scantily clad girls]], maybe the best answer would've been "Just professional wrestling."
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''Cats'': Mr. Mistoffelees, though usually paired with Rum Tum Tugger, has been placed with every single male and female character in the show.

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[[folder:Video Games]]
* EVERYONE in ''KingdomHearts'' has been a Launcher Of A Thousand Ships at some point. EVERYONE. It probably helps given ''KingdomHearts''' universe where any crossover has at least the slightest bit of plausibility.
** Axel is the fandom bicycle: everybody gets a ride!
** And then there's Demyx. [[http://i454.photobucket.com/albums/qq266/negima_hyuuga/Demyx_pairings___KH2_comic_by_Keysh.jpg He's the Organization's bitch.]]
** Roxas get the most hetero pairings out of everyone, especially with Namine, Xion, Olette, and Kairi. Then there's the HoYay...
*** Let's see...Axel, Hayner, Seifer, Sora, Riku, members of the Organization XIII...am I missing any?
* ''FinalFantasy''
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI'' fans can throw Edgar together with anyone and everyone despite the fact that the poor guy couldn't get a date in-game, though he ''does'' have the best pick-up line in video game history.
** In the ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'' fandom, you've got Cloud, Tifa, Sephiroth and Vincent. If one adds in the endless flood of [[RelationshipSue Relationship Sues]], a thousand ships is a very lowball estimate of Sephiroth and Vincent's fleets.
** In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIII'', Squall seems to be pretty paired with everyone [[YaoiFangirl who isn't]] [[DieForOurShip Rinoa]]. It's not like the game's entire plot revolves around them falling in love with each other or anything.
** One word, [[{{FinalFantasyXII}} Balthier]].
** In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII'', we have Lightning. Two major reasons for this are the fact that she has no canon love interest, and the game has a not-inconsiderable amount of [[HoYay Les Yay]] between her and [[EvenTheGirlsWantHer Fang]]. Then there's her "motherly" relationship with [[{{Shotacon}} Hope]]. If you want to go into {{Crossover Ship}}s, there's [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVersusXIII Noctis]], and being a DistaffCounterpart of Cloud Strife you can pair her up with him or any of his love interests. With Lightning scheduled to appear in the upcoming ''Dissidia 012'', her status as ship-launcher can only grow.
** ''VideoGame/DissidiaFinalFantasy'':
*** It has [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI Terra]], [[TheSmurfettePrinciple the only default female hero in the group]], as its biggest LauncherOfAThousandShips.
*** Following somewhat close behind her, there's [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIII Squall]], who for some reason seems to be paired a lot with several characters.
*** And in Japanese fandom, the one who stands head and shoulders above ALL of them is [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyII Firion]], for some inexplicable reason. He is paired with ''everyone''. It's the Rose. That rose has been in the hands of at least nine characters throughout the course of the two games. In fanshipping land this automatically means he is paired with everyone who has obtained it. People even ship him with Aerith for their mutual love of flowers, even though the two have never canonically met! However perhaps the only pairing that has any real basis in the events of the games is Lightning, due to their undeniably [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IiBng6ju4mQ&playnext=1&list=PLE2A507B0C217B42F cute scene in the reports]] [[spoiler: turns out he just wants that pesky flower back but still who wants to crush a shippers dreams!]]
*** Lightning's paired with a fair amount of men in ''Dissidia''[='s=] sequel (technically prequel), too. Mainly, Kain Highwind, Firion, and the Warrior of Light.
* ''VideoGame/TheWorldEndsWithYou'' is still a new fandom, but already Neku's being paired with everyone. ''Minamimoto''/Neku? Where'd that come from?
** It came from [[ShipperOnDeck Josh]].
--> "Think he's got a thing for you, Neku? (...) Oh, please! The way he follows you around?"
** Minamimoto himself is paired with everyone. Neku, Beat, Konishi, Megumi, Joshua...''Especially'' [[AmbiguouslyGay Joshua]].
*** Every''one''? [[CargoShip MinamimotoxMicrophone]] is a popular pairing...unsurprisingly.
---->'''Minamimoto''': Why, hello there! This mic is zetta sexy!
**** Also calculators and math books.
** Joshua too. Although Neku is by ''far'' his most popular option, he regularly gets shipped with Hanekoma, Minamimoto, Kitaniji, and [[ShipsThatPassInTheNight Rhyme]]. Shiki and Beat are rarer but also exist, and he's a favorite for crossover ships.
* [[FanNickname Yuu Narukami]] of ''VideoGame/{{Persona 4}}'' has been paired with every conceivable cast member of the series at one point or another.
** As was his predecessor in ''VideoGame/{{Persona 3}}'', [[FanNickname Minato Arisato]] (and his DistaffCounterpart,Hamuko)
* ''[[HarvestMoon Rune Factory 2]]'' has an ''official'' LauncherOfAThousandShips candidate in the form of Yue. When the main character marries a girl who was destined for another guy, that guy will automatically end up with Yue.
* Lloyd Irving from ''VideoGame/TalesOfSymphonia''. Seriously, he's paired with everyone in the game, although he's frequently shipped [[VictoriousChildhoodFriend with Colette]], [[FanPreferredCouple and Sheena]]. There are many who pair him with Raine or Presea. [[HoYay Maybe even Zelos]]. Or even [[FoeYay paired with Yggdrasill]].
** He has been paired with ''his own father''. Granted it's usually before TheReveal, but some even have the relationship continue ''afterward.''
** Because of the MultipleEndings, Lloyd is a ''canonical'' Launcher of a Thousand Ships.
*** It even continues in the sequel! ''Dawn of the New World'' confirms that Lloyd scores with whoever you want him to.
* [[VideoGame/TalesOfSymphoniaDawnOfTheNewWorld Emil]] seems to be this, too--he's been paired with a good chunk of the new cast [[spoiler:including [[SuperPoweredEvilSide Ratatosk]] and Aster (who Ratatosk killed about ''a year and a half before Emil even came into existance''.)]] Plus several of the original cast.
* As far as ''VideoGame/TalesOfTheAbyss'' goes, Luke/Everyone might as well be canon. ...well, everyone important. At the very least you cannot deny that Luke/[[FiveManBand The Party]] (or [[FiveManBand The Party]]/Luke, as it is...) is very nearly canon.
** Guy gets this treatment too.
* Another canon LauncherOfAThousandShips is Vayne of ManaKhemiaAlchemistsOfAlRevis, who has an [[MultipleEndings ending]] with each of the other party members. The ones that aren't clearly romantic are laden with subtext.
* ''FireEmblem'' has Roy. He has 6 possible wives, and can support with 4 other males, one of which is his milk brother (or male maid for you people who are too lazy to look in a dictionary), and is obviously a target for Ho Yay/Bodyguard Crush. Roy was playable in Smash Bros. Melee...
** Roy's got some brutal competition for the "Pimp Lord of ''FireEmblem''" from Celice in [[FireEmblemJugdral Genealogy]]-- Celice can take to his side one of 15 possible wives. (7 female children and 7 replacements, and then [[BrotherSisterIncest Yuria]]).
** Lyndis from ''FireEmblem 7'' already has 4 ''canon'' love interests (5 if you count [[LesYay Florina]] as one), Sain and Wil are considered extremely plausible, Karel/Lyn and Lyn/Ninian have niche followings in the fandom, and one author even managed to pair her with ''Renault'' and make it plausible. There's the infamous [[GaryStu Lyn/Tactician]] fics.
*** We can probably just go ahead and comment that most of the cast is canonically a LauncherOfAThousandShips, and the fandom just goes ahead and takes this {{up to eleven}}.
** My Unit (or Chris) in the remake of ''Mystery of the Emblem'' is an '''in-universe''' Launcher, capable of supporting with ''the entire cast of the game''. They don't have as many potential love interests as Roy or Celice, though; male MU has 3, and female MU has 5.
** The My Unit from ''FireEmblemAwakening'' takes this one step further. S/he can marry - '''any''' (As in, any character who isn't directly obtained thru Spotpass or DLC, including Bonus Units like [[spoiler: [[TheCaligula Gangrel]], Valhart, [[EvilSorcerer Inverse]], [[DeadLittleSister Emelina]], or Mystery Man Paris]] and Child characters like [[spoiler: Lucina, n_n, or Chambray]]... and yes, s/he can have a kid with them) - player character, providing they're of the opposite gender, and have support conversations with those of their own (or anyone else left over).
* [[Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda Link]] is easily the VideoGame town bicycle; he's paired with everyone from the eponymous Princess Zelda to...well, to the Shinto goddess Amaterasu as seen in {{Okami}}, given that both were wolves recently. (If there were a Shinto Hell, whoever first did that would be going there. Nor is this the only strange ship involving Amaterasu, in [[CrossoverShip or out]] of ''Okami'' itself.) Link gains a new harem within each big game. [[http://fc03.deviantart.net/fs8/i/2005/322/d/3/Link__s_Harem_by_Scribbles02.png Ocarina of Time Harem]], [[http://fc02.deviantart.net/fs41/i/2009/011/1/8/Links_Harem_by_Slush_A.jpg Wind Waker Harem]], [[http://th06.deviantart.net/fs38/300W/i/2008/366/b/8/Twilight_Girls_by_justmeandmypencil.jpg Twilight Princess Harem]], and much much more!
* In ''VideoGame/GoldenSun'', ''everyone'' is a Launcher of a Thousand Ships.
** And then the '''Lighthouses''' are jokingly considered as such in both the phrase's literal and other metaphorical sense, thanks to the fact that more than a half of the non-crackpairings (and a few crack ones) get their biggest ShipTease in them.
*** And God said: "LET THERE BE DARK DAWN!!!"
* ''WorldOfWarcraft'' fan fiction's poster girl is Lady Jaina Proudmoore by far. She's often shipped with Arthas (pre- and post-undeath), Warchief Thrall (a pairing once characterized on the official Blizzard [=WoW=] General Discussion Forum as "Bow-Chikca-Lok'Tar"), a triangle between the three (and I'm sure a [[OT3 ménage à trois]] has been done at least once)...every fan fic writer who writes about his own [=PCs=] will have them meet Jaina at some point.
** Jaina/Arthas (pre-undeath) actually ''is'' canon: they used to date when they were both teenagers.
** Kael'thas Sunstrider! He canonically had a crush on her (although it was apparently unrequited).
*** Jaina ''was'' heiress to the throne of Kul Tiras before the fall of Lordaeron, and Arthas and Kael'thas were both crown princes of their respective allied kingdoms. Given how royalty is often married off to allied royalty, its not surprising that she'd have been socially introduced to every male heir in her age group from every ally Kul Tiras had.
** Thrall and Sylvanas fit this trope for Horde aficionados.
** Outside of canon characters, elves in general seem to fill this role. ''Especially'' [[{{Bishonen}} blood elves]].
* [[{{Miko}} Reimu]] and [[BlackMagicianGirl Marisa]] from the ''{{Touhou}}'' games tend to have [[http://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/Relationshipping#Main_Character_Harems their own mini-harems]], most of their pairing options being {{youkai}}s [[DefeatMeansFriendship they've defeated in previous battles]].
** [[MarionetteMaster Alice Margatroid]] is also subject to almost as much pairing-off as Marisa. There's a notable fanartist who paired the dollmaker off to [[http://gelbooru.com/index.php?page=post&s=view&id=568241 nearly]] ''[[http://moe.imouto.org/post/show/64468 everyone]]'', and did fanart of ''[[http://gelbooru.com/index.php?page=post&s=view&id=396427 herself]]'' {{glomp}}ing Alice!
** Rinnosuke Morichika, being TheOneGuy, seems to get this treatment by default unless he's being portrayed as the MemeticMolester.
*** Actually, his most common pairing is with the never-seen only other male (half-)human character.
*** Not true - his two most popular pairings are with Marisa (by a significant margin), then Reimu, as a [[http://www.pixiv.net/tags.php?tag=%E6%A3%AE%E8%BF%91%E9%9C%96%E4%B9%8B%E5%8A%A9 quick search on Pixiv]] or similar will show. This is largely thanks to [[http://touhou.wikia.com/wiki/Curiosities_of_Lotus_Asia Curiosities of Lotus Asia]], [[AllThereInTheManual the novel that introduces Rinnosuke]], where Marisa is shown to have [[ChildhoodFriends known Rinnosuke since childhood]], and Reimu is also shown to be quite familiar with him, [[ClothingSwitch wearing his spare clothes]] while he fixes her Miko outfit. If you scroll down [[http://dic.pixiv.net/a/%E6%A3%AE%E8%BF%91%E9%9C%96%E4%B9%8B%E5%8A%A9 this page]], you will see a chart that breaks down his ships with [[MemeticSexGod every character]] in the series by source material.
** Though specially Marisa, with more than seven ''frequent'' pairings, is who stands out in this trope. In some works to MemeticSexGod and [[{{Badass}} GAR]] [[http://genso.ws/post?tags=cho_marisa levels]].
** Yuuka has quite a few ships too.
* ''MetalGearSolid'''s Snake tends to be paired up with almost everyone in the series, and outside of it - even before his appearance in ''[[SuperSmashBros Brawl]]''. It really doesn't help that he's the Prince of the EvenTheGuysWantHim trope ([[MemeticSexGod Big Boss]] being the king).
** In the ''[=MGS=]'' fandom itself, Otacon's probably earned this. He's been paired with Snake, Mei Ling, Raiden, Liquid, Grey Fox, Big Boss, Mantis, and [[{{Fanfic/Stray}} young Ocelot]], time paradoxes and plausibility be damned.
* Sonic and Tails in the ''SonicTheHedgehog'' series go with everyone...even though they show the ''least'' romantic interest of the entire cast.
** [[AllGirlsWantBadBoys Shadow]]. Although he's more commonly shipped with Sonic, Rouge and Amy (and occasionally Maria), he has gotten shipped with [[CrackShip plenty of characters you wouldn't expect]].
** Really, almost ''everyone'' has been paired with everyone else in Sonic, regardless of gender, [[MayDecemberRomance age]], or [[InterSpeciesRomance species]].
* ''VideoGame/MegaManStarForce'': Geo goes with everyone, mostly because the game and anime each drop plenty of scenes for him that could be interpreted as {{ship tease}}s - with several different characters. LoveTriangle with {{BettyAndVeronica Luna and Sonia}}, HoYay with Pat and Ace, FoeYay with Solo and Jack.(And perhap maybe with "imagination"!)
* ''[[AceAttorney Phoenix Wright]]'' gets paired up with everybody, including [[ScrewYourself himself]]. There's the friendly neighborhood {{memetic molester}}s Gant and [[NaughtyTentacles Gourdy]] (that's the [[TheCatfish Lake Monster]] in case you're wondering).
** Phoenix isn't alone. As one fan put it, "If it's breathing and in the Gyakuten series, it'll get shipped with [[StoicWoobie Edgeworth]]. [[EstrogenBrigadeBait It's inevitable]]."
** Apollo's working his way up to reaching his mentor's status.
* Rudy Roughnight from ''VideoGame/{{Wild ARMs 1}}''. In addition to all the females he gets paired with, ''{{Wild ARMs}}'' shippers also put him together with Jack and, [[CrackPairing for some reason]], Zed. This even gets referenced in ''VideoGame/{{Wild ARMs 5}}'', where the main ''VideoGame/{{Wild ARMs 1}}'' related sidequest has Dean resolving which one amongst [[{{Tsundere}} Jane]], [[EverythingsBetterWithPrincesses Cecilia]], and [[ShrinkingViolet Mariel]] does Rudy eventually end up with.
* ''{{Disgaea}}'' has a rather small shipping base, in that most of its characters are only commonly shipped in one or two pairings each...the second pairing usually being with [[LittleMissSnarker Etna.]] Seriously, Etna gets paired with ''everybody'', including but not limited to: [[BelligerentSexualTension Laharl]], [[HoYay Flonne]], [[MayDecemberRomance Mid-Boss]], [[DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale Adell]], [[GirlOnGirlIsHot Rozalin]], [[ShipsThatPassInTheNight Axel]]...even ''[[EverythingsBetterWithPenguins the Prinnies.]]''
** ''Especially'' the Prinnies, given the release of [[PrinnyCanIReallyBetheHero a certain game.]]
* ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'' - The poor Scout doesn't get a break when paired up with any of the other classes, not even [[ScrewYourself his own]]. There's also the Pyro, who [[AmbiguousGender may be female]]. The Medic (usually a MemeticMolester) occasionally gets this kind of characterization due to his status as a Support class and the fact that he racks up points the fastest via assisting other classes, as well as the fact that his gameplay role is that of the WhiteMage and therefore {{Yaoi Fangirl}}s designate him as the de facto {{Uke}} when Scout's not filling that role.
* Poor, poor [[VideoGame/MegaMan Splash Woman]]. It doesn't help that she's one of the only two lady bots in a cast nearing 100.
** Looking at the fan art, Metal Man gets this treatment too.
** In general, ANY Robot Master, including the Rockman Killers and the Stardroids. Each of them have launched enough ships to make a tangled love web. Perhaps the most common: little Mega Man himself!
* [[HeavyRain Norman Jayden]], the only one of the four heroes without a canonical love interest, is consequentially paired with everyone in the game, from [[HoYay Ethan Mars]] to [[FoeYay Carter Blake]].
* Leon Kennedy, of ''ResidentEvil'' fame, has been shipped with everyone. His canon lover is Ada, but I've also seen him paired with Sherry, Ashley, Claire, Rebecca, Jill, Steve, Chris, Wesker, Alfred, Luis, Krauser, Saddler, Salazar, Mendez, Mike the Helicopter Guy, Billy, Kevin from ''Outbreak'', a group of Lickers, Ganados, and in one slightly disturbing story, Mr. X.
** The fact that he's cannonically interested in Ada but has hit on Hunnigan and had a relationship with Angela, plus the fact that he repeatedly partners with Claire, plus Manuela and Ashley's also cannonical crushes on him, probably helps in this regard.
* As mentioned above in the discussion on Link, ''{{Okami}}'''s Amaterasu gets shipped with far, far more characters than a non-talking BigBadassWolf should ever be. Most of these rely on Ammy having a human form that we just never see.
* This happened to Dawn and Lyra from ''Pokémon''. ''Especially'' [[{{Moe}} Lyra]]. The most popular characters to pair Lyra with (in Japan, at least) are [[TheRival Silver]], [[MysteriousProtector Lance]], and ''[[MasterOfDisguise PETREL]]''. These are just the ''popular'' ones.
** In the west (and East at that), Morty and [[PsychoForHire Proton]] are also often shipped with her.
*** Silver himself is a shipping magnet, too, especially when you factor in Special.
** With ''VideoGame/PokemonBlackAndWhite'', we have the male protagonist Hilbert (more commonly referred to as Touya or Black), who's being paired with practically every female in the game.
*** [[MostFanficWritersAreGirls Only]] [[BoysLove females?]]
** N.
** Red gets shipped with everyone, Pokemon and people outside the Kanto-Johto games included.
** In-game, a lot of players ship [[{{Shapeshifter}} Ditto]] with everyone, due to its ability to [[HotSkittyOnWailordAction mate with (almost) any Pokémon]] and produce eggs.
*** There's a reason a why a lot of players name their Ditto "pimp".
* Haseo of ''[[DotHackGU .hack//G.U.]]'', poor guy, virtually has a harbor reserved for him. From Atoli to Shino to Ovan to Endrance to Skeith to even the Grunties, he's been stuck with EVERYONE. Find someone that he HASN'T been shipped with.
** Like Lloyd in ''VideoGame/TalesOfSymphonia'', Haseo is an actual canon launcher, since at the end of the third game, you can choose to "marry" ([[ItMakesSenseInContext the characters are playing an an MMORPG]]) any party member, regardless of gender or even age. When trying to do it with a man, usually it leds to a "best buddy" scene rather than marriage, but there are a few exceptions like [[EvenTheGuysWantHim Endrance]] or even [[spoiler: Azure Kite]] who want a little more than being friends...
* For some obscure reason, ''DynastyWarriors'' Sun Shang Xiang is fair game with everyone in Wu [[BrotherSisterIncest including her brothers]], half the folks in Shu, and ''[[CrackPairing Sima Yi]]'' if you look hard enough. Although she may have to compete with her husband Liu Bei, honored with the [[http://community.livejournal.com/capslock_koei/profile Capslock_Koei]] tag "Shu mourns the loss of its bicycle". Bei's epic {{shiptease}}ry is [[RomanceOfTheThreeKingdoms completely historical]].
* Chun-Li from the ''StreetFighter'' series is also a fairly infamous case of this as well as she has been paired with Charlie, Ryu, Ken, and Guile (and to a lesser extent [[LesYay Cammy]]).
** Ryu gets his share, too, despite his [[ChasteHero lack of interest]] in love life, being paired with Chun-Li, Cammy, Sakura, Juri Han, Rose, Ibuki (?), Makoto (??), Ken ([[HoYay oh boy]])...and [[CrackPairing Bison]]? And maybe [[FoeYay Sagat]], that is, if he's not busy with his [[MemeticMutation cornflakes]].
*** Juri Han, being the [[DepravedBisexual depraved]] [[PsychoLesbian psycho]] that she is, gets this treatment too. It doesn't help that Juri [[MemeticMolester might be trying to make it canon from her side]] ([[FetishFuelStationAttendant the fans]] [[EvilIsSexy don't seem]] [[MemeticSexGod to mind]]).
*** Add [[FinalFight Guy]] to that list. While it's been established that Guy already has a fiancee, Rena (the DistressedDamsel of ''Final Fight 2''), he has (to date) ''three'' additional partners according to the fandom. The first is Maki, Rena's younger sister who displays a very curious {{Tsundere}}-like complex towards her brother-in-law [[hottip:*:this [[FoeYay "Rival Yay"]] is actually her desire to beat Guy and become the 40th Bushin Master; [[TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou if she doesn't, someone else could come up and steal the chance to do so away from her]]]]. ''Super Street Fighter IV'' then added [[VideoGame/StreetFighterIII Ibuki]] and [[VideoGame/StreetFighterAlpha Rose]]. Whereas the former is more centered around the basis that [[ThemePairing both characters are]] {{ninja}}s, the latter is pretty damn close to a RelationshipWritingFumble. Most fans who have seen Guy's [[FightingYourFriend Rival Battle]] and [[ShipTease both his and Rose's ending cutscenes]] in ''SSFIV'' [[ShippingGoggles have been subsequently unable to see them as anything other than]] lovers or (at the very least) two very, ''very'' [[TrueCompanions close friends]] with a lot of [[UnresolvedSexualTension UST]]. Guy/Rose is shaping up to be a FanPreferredCouple.
* Ellis from ''Left4Dead2'' ends up with everyone. Although 90% of the time it's with [[YaoiFangirl Nick]], you can find him with his canon love interest Zoey, teammate Rochelle, [[{{Squick}} Coach]], the Hunter, the Witch, the Smoker and his friends that don't even appear in the game like Keith. Ellis will also usually be the target of any fanfic writer's OriginalCharacter.
* Dante of ''DevilMayCry'' fame gets this, mainly due to his status as an ActionHero. Not only is he paired with his {{implied love interest}}s from the first three games (i.e. [[FreudWasRight Trish]], [[EverythingSoundsSexierInFrench Lucia]], and [[BelligerentSexualTension Lady]]), but {{Yaoi Fangirl}}s just love to pair him up with [[CainAndAbel Vergil]] (''[[{{Twincest}} his own brother]]''), [[WorthyOpponent Nelo Angelo]] ([[spoiler:who ''is'' Vergil]]), and [[RedOniBlueOni Nero]] ([[spoiler:who may or may not be Vergil's son, and thus, ''his nephew'']]). People also love to CargoShip Dante with his Devil Arms (''especially'' [[HornyDevils Nevan]]). Very few notable characters are excluded from Dante's "harem"; [[ParentalIncest Sparda and Eva]], [[WomanInWhite Kyrie]] (Nero's VictoriousChildhoodFriend), the side characters from the second game and novels, [[MagnificentBastard Arkham]], [[HeroAntagonist Credo]], [[CrystalDragonJesus Sanctus]], and [[{{Satan}} Mundus]] seem to be untouched, but it would be no surprise if said pairings had their own niche. Finally, there's the FanPreferredCouple of Dante and his DistaffCounterpart (and FetishFuelStationAttendant) {{Bayonetta}}. Naturally, some ''epic'' ShipToShipCombat ensues.
* Just try to find someone from ''VideoGame/MassEffect'' who Shepard ''hasn't'' been paired up with yet...
** Liara and Garrus also get ships to plenty of directions.
** Mordin is slowly becoming a ship launcher too. He's been paired with both Female ''and'' Male Shepards, Samara, Zaeed, Captain Kirrahe (from the first game), Maelon and Doctor Chakwas, just to name a few. Knowing this makes a [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gq0cOBKaCxg later conversation]] you have with him [[HilariousInHindsight all the funnier]].
** Female Shepard seems to be the fandom's little black dress. She's been shipped with all the crew members, most of the alien council, prominent enemies, a whole range of obscure side mission characters, Male Shepard, non-sentient creatures, as well as some things that don't move.
* Kasumi from ''{{Dead or Alive}}'' has ships for every base, ranging from the fairly mainstream [[NinjaGaiden Ryu Hayabusa]], the more [[YuriFan yurilicious]] Hitomi or Christie, all the way to straight up [[BrotherSisterIncest incest]] with her half sister Ayane or her brother Hayate. It would seem that whoever the favorite character is, shippers generally feel they go nicely with [[HeroesWantRedheads the cute redhead ninja]].
* Jin Kisaragi from ''BlazBlue''. Aside from him being coupled with his Older Brother/Rival [[YaoiFangirl Ragna the Bloodedge]] and Childhood Friend [[OfficialCouple Tsubaki]], Jin has been coupled with almost every character from the series even if it's almost impossible to happen. Despite him being a total [[{{Jerkass}} asshole]], this must be just a huge turn-on for the fandom.
** He has never been coupled with [[ChineseGirl Litchi Faye-Ling]], though. [[FanFic/BlazBlue3RP A Web Works made it happen instead, though not in a romantic way]].
** Ragna himself enjoys a fairly substantial shipping base as well, having, in addition to Jin, been paired with Noel, Rachel, Taokaka, and several characters who aren't even from the same franchise.
** Carl Clover also enjoys a fair amount of popularity amongst shippers as well, ranging from Noel and Makoto, to Litchi and his own sister, Ada, and, like Ragna, with several characters who aren't even from the same franchise.
* Atsuki Saijo from ''VisualNovel/LuxPain'' has a good amount of ShipTease with everyone.
* [[NintendoWars Advance Wars]] has three. You have Eagle who gets all the good guys, Hawke who gets all the bad guys and some of the good guys, and Andy who gets it up the butt from everyone. ESPECIALLY Eagle and Hawke.
* Endou from ''InazumaEleven'' seems to get paired up with every other major character in the series, both male and female, most likely because he [[TheMessiah can and does become good friends with anyone and everyone]]. Then there's a bunch of {{Starboarding}} with Endou on the receiving end, since he's a [[ObliviousToLove completely oblivious]] ChasteHero. Plus there are some fans who jokingly ship Endou x Soccer (yes, as in TheBeautifulGame).
* Hawke as either gender in DragonAge2 bounces from person to person in fanfics like a ping pong ball.
* Despite the {{Meme|ticMutation}} "Everyone is [[FurryFandom furry]] for Krystal,"[[hottip:*:(the BerserkButton of all who are not, especially those who have gone furry for [[Magazine/NintendoPower Fara]])]] Krystal from VideoGame/StarFox is not the most prominent example of this trope from the series. Instead Fox tends to be paired with most of the other characters, [[HoYay yet he is rarely paired with any of the female characters aside from Krystal.]]
** While Krystal is being shipped with AnythingThatMoves.
* [[SuperMario Mario]] goes with everybody. It's not just limited to female characters, either. [[IncestSubtext Luigi]] is sometimes paired with him, and so is [[FoeYay Bowser]].
* [[MortalKombat Sub-Zero]]. [[VideoGame/MortalKombat2 The younger one, anyway.]] Canonically, the closest thing he has to a girlfriend/partner/lover is [[VideoGame/MortalKombatMythologiesSubZero Sareena]], whom he enjoys a hefty amount of ShipTease with. But thanks to the magic of ShippingGoggles, all of his friendships and rivalries are misconstrued as possible ships. HeterosexualLifePartners with Smoke and [[VideoGame/MortalKombatDeadlyAlliance Kenshi]]? HoYay. Former archnemesis of Scorpion? FoeYay. [[DeceptiveDisciple Former pupil]] Frost is [[FoeYay eerily-obsessed with him?]] MentorShip. Not even his older brother, Elder Sub-Zero/Noob Saibot [[IncestIsRelative is safe from being paired up with Subby]] (it doesn't help that there's a LoveTriangle-esque relationship between them and Sareena, as Sareena also had feelings for the original Sub-Zero). [[ShipsThatPassInTheNight He also tends to be paired up with females he's only acquaintances with at best.]] Sub-Zero/Kitana, Sub-Zero/Jade, and Sub-Zero/Mileena have all popped up before on several occasions, and all are popular in their own right. Smoke (in most titles) [[RoboShip is a cyborg]], whereas Scorpion and Noob [[GhostShipping are undead]] and Sareena is [[InterspeciesRomance a demon]] [[HotSkittyOnWailordAction in human guise.]] It doesn't hurt that he's also EstrogenBrigadeBait, so expect the female fans to create [=OC=]s to jump Sub-Zero's bones as well.
** Reptile seems to be working his way up, too. Although the only character that shows romantic interest in him is probably [[VideoGame/MortalKombat3 Khameleon]] (due to the whole AdamAndEvePlot thing), he's additionally paired with [[VideoGame/MortalKombat2 Mileena]] and [[VideoGame/MortalKombatDeadlyAlliance Nitara]] on a somewhat regular basis. Apparently, the lizard man has moxie.
* Chell has been paired up with nearly every character in {{VideoGame/Portal}}. Wheatley is paired with almost as many. And Chell/Wheatley is the most popular ship in the fandom.
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* ''OrderOfTheStick'' fans will ship [[CrackPairing anyone with anything]], but the [[http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=111631 Crack Pairings thread]] keeps coming back to Vaarsuvius for [[TheWoobie some]] [[HurtComfortFic reason]].
** In fan art (and in fic to a lesser extent) [[LawfulStupid Miko]] [[HotChickWithASword Miyazaki]] is frequently drawn, written, or requested, despite her status as TheScrappy with a large portion of the fandom and cast - and again, she's paired with everyone (including [[EldritchAbomination The Snarl]]).
* As far as shipping is concerned, ''Website/ThatGuyWithTheGlasses'' has [[{{Keet}} Benzaie]], [[{{Casanova}} Spoony]], [[HollywoodNerd the Nostalgia Chick]], [[StoicSpectacles Linkara]] and [[NerdsAreSexy the Nostalgia Critic]].
** In KinkMeme news, while everyone's had a lot of action, probably the ultimate fandom mattress is now the [[WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic Critic]]. A fair assumption, seeing as how apart from his usual pairings, as of writing he's had a gangbang on his desk, been shipped with an [[WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}} animated gargoyle]], been the recipent of [[NaughtyTentacles tentacle-lovin']] and got kissed by the LadyGaga from the Bad Romance video. Yes, really.
*** His actor, Doug Walker, is doing pretty well for himself too. Mostly because he's flirted with nearly everyone on the site for funsies.
** It doesn't help matters that Spoony/Chick, Spoony/Googles, Spoony/Benzaie, Spoony/Critic, Spoony/Joe and Spoony/Sage are ''all'' canon.
* ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'' has Tedd. He has a canon romance with Grace, and more than a little subtext with Elliot (including them dating in at least two alternate universes) which also frees up Ellen. Tedd's had plenty of moments with Susan and Sarah (with a decent amount of shippers for each of them with him), and there has been more than one HoYay bit with [[JerkJock Tony]]. Some stretching on his former anxieties around Justin and a BiTheWay interpretation of his moments with Catalina is all it really takes to put Tedd with almost anyone his age in the cast. Except [[IncestIsRelative Nanase]]. Usually.
* In {{Red vs Blue}} fandom, it's [[{{Jerkass}} Chu]][[DeadpanSnarker rch]] and [[ButtMonkey Grif]] ([[FoeYay Church/Grif]] is fairly popular), and to a lesser extent, [[TheDitz Caboose]].
* Rosa Fiametta of ''SurvivalOfTheFittest'' falls into the 'fandom bicycle' category, as in recent times, pairings bandied about have included: Bounce, Ilario and Frankie Fiametta ({{Twincest}}, yay!), Alexia Morgan, Princess Cerberus (a joke character), Adam Tenser, Blood Boy and Bobby Jacks. This isn't even counting the several ''canonical'' relationships she's had.
** Naturally, the most requested character on the (relatively new) [=SOTF=] KinkMeme is Rosa. It's reached the point where there's now a ''rule'' about requesting Rosa, because she had a truckload of requests compared to other characters.
* Hannelore "Hanners" Elliot Chatham from ''QuestionableContent'' gets paired with...oh, you know the drill (a lot of her cast members new and old gets this treatment, too. Hanners isn't the main character).
* [[VegetarianVampire Conrad Achenleck]] from ''[[HannaIsNotABoysName Hanna Is Not a Boy's Name]]'' has strong FoeYay with [[DrJerk Doc Worth]], but also gets paired up with werewolf girl Toni, main character Hanna, and vampire hunter Abner who hasn't even appeared in the comic yet.
** ''Also'' paired with HalfHumanHybrid Veser and with EnsembleDarkhorse Ples who, in all fairness, actually is a StraightGay.
* Marzipan is the only female of the ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner'' cast (not counting the WebAnimation/TeenGirlSquad). Do the math.
* In the webcomic ''TheDreamer'', we have Bea. Officially with Alan in the 18th - century and with Ben in the 21st - century, may have had [[NewOldFlame a past]] with Alex, could be paired up with her cousin John, and also with Freddy, just for the hell of it.
* John from ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}''. John/[[SesquipedalianLoquaciousness Rose]], John/[[GenkiGirl Jade]] ([[spoiler:Even though it's been revealed that that pairing is BrotherSisterIncest]]), [[HoYay John/Dave]], [[BelligerentSexualTension John/Karkat]], John/[[MagnificentBastard Terezi]], and John/[[TokenEvilTeammate Vriska]] are just a few of his pairings.
** Many of the characters have many ships to their names. Resident ShipperOnDeck [[BadAssAdorable Nepeta]] maintains a shipping wall, keeping track of the relationships between every single possible pairing between her friends.
*** Because the Trolls are naturally bisexual and have [[BizarreAlienReproduction four different kinds of romance]], by nature they tend to get shipped around more than most of the other characters.
** Karkat as well; though he is most commonly shipped with John or Terezi, Karkat/Sollux, Karkat/Gamzee, Karkat/Tavros, Karkat/Nepeta, Karkat/Jade and Karkat/[[MyFutureSelfAndMe future]]![[{{Selfcest}} Karkat]] also have their supporters.
* Evan from EverymanHYBRID gets this treatment. He's also the show's EstrogenBrigadeBait despite being what would, on network television, be HollywoodHomely. His [[KnifeNut obsession with knives]] probably [[FetishFuel attracts more fans]] to him despite his constant teetering on the edge of going AxCrazy. Kicking it up a notch, Evan is quite aware, in-character, that {{Slash}} FanFiction gets written about him; he and the rest of the cast find it flattering on some level.
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* Katara is the LauncherOfAThousandShips for the ''[[WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'' fandom. Think of any character that has ever appeared in the series (yes, ''including'' [[BrotherSisterIncest Sokka]] and [[ParentalIncest Hakoda]]), and Katara has been shipped with them. May be due to do Katara [[TheSmurfettePrinciple being the only female character for a whole season]]. Satirized expertly [[http://fc06.deviantart.com/fs13/f/2007/030/c/8/Save_our_Kataras_by_alexds1.jpg here]].
** In case you are wondering, [[http://sylvacoer.deviantart.com/art/Zu-ships-OF-D00M-63564095 she is not alone]]. In fact, Zuko's probably even more of a LauncherOfAThousandShips than Katara. Maybe that's one of the reasons why Zutara is so [[FanPreferredCouple popular]] in the fandom?
*** [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] in [[TheRant the comments]], with this gem:
--> Ty Lee is exempt from universal laws such as [[GravityIsOnlyATheory gravity]] and being shipped with Zuko.
** The above comment is sadly false. There is a considerable number of Ty Lee/Zuko fics and fanart out there.
** Zuko's sister Azula also gets shipped with everyone she's ever met, as well as many she hasn't. The most common seem to be with [[LesYay Ty Lee, Mai]], [[BrotherSisterIncest Zuko]], [[FoeYay Sokka]], [[PrisonRape Suki]] and Zhao, but there are many, many more. The idea of Azula [[MindGameShip having her way]] with [[DepravedBisexual both sides]] of the Sokka/Suki pairing (sometimes simultaneously) is also fairly common.
** Sokka, Fandom Pimp. Forget water- or firebending, he's the ''pheromone'' bender.
*** He also has the benefit of the most in-universe romances--he's {{Official Couple}}s with [[HeroicSacrifice Yue]] and [[SecondLove Suki]], an [[{{Starboarding}} infatuation]] of [[GenkiGirl Ty Lee]]'s, [[{{Tomboy}} Toph]] crushes on him to the point that she [[AccidentalKiss Accidentally Kisses]] ''Suki'' thinking she's him, and arguably has FoeYay with [[PsychoElectro Azula]].
** Aang. [[UnusualEuphemism He's the master of all your elements]].
** DeviantArt user Mutenroushi points out in "[[http://mutenroushi.deviantart.com/art/Water-Tribe-Charm-73792602 Water Tribe Charm]]" how popular Katara and Sokka are.
** Looking at some fanart, it seems [[WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra Korra's]] been shipped with almost every character introduced before the show even premiered.
* Danny from ''DannyPhantom'' paired with not only almost every single cast in the show ([[OfficialCouple Sam]], [[DatingCatwoman Valerie]], [[FoeYay Vlad]], [[HoYay Dash]], etc.), but even [[CargoShip with inanimate items]]: Danny/Fenton Thermos anyone? Apparently, he's just ''that'' compatible. He's paired with characters that don't even ''exist''. Danny/Wes, anyone?
* There can't be many other characters that ''KimPossible'' (And to a lesser extent her EvilCounterpart Shego) ''isn't'' [[{{Shipping}} shipped]] with. [[VictoriousChildhoodFriend Ron]], [[SassyBlackWoman Monique]], [[MissionControl Wade]], [[DisabilitySuperpower Felix]], [[DieForOurShip Mankey]], [[BigManOnCampus Brick]], [[AlphaBitch Bonnie]], [[AllGuysWantCheerleaders Tara]], [[ParentalIncest James, Anne]], [[SternTeacher Mr. Barkin]], [[ScienceFair Justine Flanner]], [[TagTeamTwins The]] [[BrotherSisterIncest Tweebs]], [[BurgerFool Ned]], [[UglyGuyHotWife Ron's Dad]], [[HotMom Ron's Mom]], [[FoeYay Drakken]], [[EverythingIsBetterWithMonkeys Monkey Fist]], [[AmbiguouslyGay Sr. Sr. Junior]], [[LegoGenetics DN-Amy]], [[BonnieScotland Killigan]], [[HotTeacher Miss]] [[SplitPersonality Go]], [[BadassFamily all of Team Go]], [[DistaffCounterpart Will Du]], [[YamatoNadeshiko Yori]], and finally [[EyepatchOfPower Dr. Director]]. Oh, [[LesYay and Kim]] [[FoeYay with Shego?]] [[SarcasmMode Just]] a [[FanPreferredCouple little]].
* Raven in ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'', commonly seen shipped with Robin, Beast Boy, Cyborg, Red X, Starfire, Terra, Slade, or others.
** Raven/Everyone is hilariously parodied in [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2364981/1/bEverybody_b_bLoves_b_bRaven_b this fanfiction]].
** Also, Robin, who is frequently shipped with Raven and Starfire, but also shipped commonly with Slade, Red X, Beast Boy, and most other guys in the series.
** To go a little further, he's the Launcher of a Thousand Ships for most if not all of the DC universe. See Nightwing in the Comic Book section.
* Kyle from ''SouthPark'' is paired with everybody.
** Kenny is paired with...anything that lives.
** Cartman's no slouch in the LauncherOfAThousandShips department either. Considering the sheer amount of HoYay / FoeYay he generates in the show it isn't surprising.
** There is Craig/Tweek, Craig/Stan, Craig/Kyle, Craig/Kenny, Craig/Cartman, Craig/Clyde, Craig/Wendy, Craig/Mark, etc. Lots and lots.
* Xandir from ''DrawnTogether''. More often than not, he's paired with Captain Hero, but ships with each of the other male characters are not uncommon. In fact, despite him being firmly identified as homosexual, he's often paired in fanfics with the show's ''female'' characters.
** ''DrawnTogether'' can be summed up as Everyone X Everyone.
* ''FairlyOddParents'', Norm the Genie seems to have started becoming this. Well, he has got paired with a lot of Original Characters, which are either [[MarsNeedsWomen human]] or genies. An idea that ships him with Wanda has been mentioned on a TV.com messageboard. There is a discussion on [=FanFiction.Net=] about whether he's better with Crocker or Imaginary Gary. Also, about him and Princess [[GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe ManDIE]]. He has even been paired with Head Pixie. I also have a few original Ships for him, including [[HarryPotter Merope]].
** Both Cosmo and Anti-Cosmo seem to get a lot of this too, even with both of them being happily married in the show.
* Riven of ''WinxClub'' is the most pair-able character in the whole show.
* [[{{Transformers}} Starscream]]. All of them. This may be mildly connected to the fact that he's one of the more effeminate characters in a mostly male show in nearly every Transformers series.
** [[TheStoic Prowl]] seems to have reached this status in the ''TransformersAnimated'' fandom. Probably because, frankly, he's ''hot''. Also, he has chemistry with most of his team, and [[BountyHunter Lock]][[FoeYay down]].
** On a lesser-known scale, [[PairTheSpares Team Rodimus member]] [[TheMedic Red Alert]] is paired with Brawn, Hot Shot, Perceptor, Wheeljack, Rodimus Prime, and Inferno (who barely even ''exists''). There are no doubt countless others.
** Arcee in ''TransformersPrime'', she is shipped with almost every Autobot and Decepticon in the show.
* The ''[[WesternAnimation/TotalDramaIsland Total Drama]]'' series has quite a few people in the cast that qualify. But, most notworthy, there's:
** Bad-boy Duncan. He's paired up with [[{{Tsundere}} Courtney]] ([[OfficialCouple canon]] first season -> [[spoiler:FanPreferredCouple third season]]), [[PerkyGoth Gwen]] ([[ShipTease semi canon]] FanPreferredCouple first season ->[[spoiler:[[OfficialCouple canon]] third season]]), [[AlphaBitch Heather]] ([[ShipTease semi canon]]), [[SassyBlackWoman Leshawna]], [[GenkiGirl Izzy]], [[GranolaGirl Bridgette]], [[DumbBlonde Lindsay]], [[LisaNeedsBraces Beth]], [[FoeYay Harold, Trent, Noah]], [[EvenTheGuysWantHim Justin]], even [[FlatCharacter Ezekiel]] and [[EvenTheGuysWantHim Alejandro]]. The OC characters. What's next, an unhealthy obsession with the [[CargoShip axes and chainsaws]]? [[BrainBleach OH PLEASE!! NO!]]
** Bridgette has been paired up with more than half of the boys at some time or another, though these are less common.
** Cody also seems to fit with anyone (though Gwen and [[YaoiGuys Noah]] are the most common), and his CasanovaWannabe status means that he can believably be paired with any of the female contestants, even the [[HollywoodHomely "appearance challenged"]] ones like Beth, Eva, and Sadie.
** Noah also fits in, he's paired with [[FanPreferredCouple Izzy, Heather, Katie]], [[HoYay Cody, Trent, Tyler]], [[ShipsThatPassInTheNight Gwen, Beth, Ezekiel]], [[FoeYay Alejandro, Justin, Duncan]], [[OppositesAttract Lindsay, Eva]], [[ShipTease Bridgette, Courtney]], and [[MayDecemberRomance adults]] like [[BadBoss Chris]] and [[MrsRobinson Blaineley]].
** Gwen. She's been paired with [[OfficialCouple Trent, Duncan]], [[FanPreferredCouple Cody]], [[ShipsThatPassInTheNight Noah, Ezekiel, Harold, Tyler]], [[FoeYay Courtney, Heather]], [[LesYay Bridgette, Eva...]]
* Mr. Quiet, Mr. Grumpy and Miss Chatterbox from ''TheMrMenShow'' have each been paired with more then a few characters. Miss Calamity's been paired with a lot of characters. Besides Mr. Bump, she's been paired with Mr. Strong, Mr. Happy, Mr. Tickle, Mr. Quiet, and Mr. Scatterbrain.
* ''SuperRobotMonkeyTeamHyperforceGo'' has Nova. She has sizable shipping fanbases with every single member of the team, Chiro included. Plus the crack.
* [[WesternAnimation/JackieChanAdventures Jade Chan]]. Considering she's the only regular female character, she was bound to fill this role.
* Not only is Chuckie Finster from ''{{Rugrats}}'' a big example of this in the fandom, he is also a pretty good example of this in the show. He has had some ShipTease moments with Lil, Susie and Angelica along with a slightly more than occasional one-shot female character. Tommy Pickles did make an effort to catch up with him in the show (even though it was mainly in AllGrownUp) but Chuckie Finster is still probably one of the more known cases of this in Nickelodean history.
* TheFlash from the [[{{DCAU}} animated version]] of the JusticeLeague gets this, though granted [[{{Batman}} Bat]][[TheFlash Flash]] is one of the most popular, he's also been paired with Green Lantern, Wonder Woman, Martian Manhunter, Superman, Supergirl, Harley Quinn, Lex Luthor (though generally not reciprocating any feelings), the [=Lords!Flash=] (even though he's, ya know, [[spoiler: dead]], Fire, Linda Park, {{Spider-Man}}...In fact, one of the ''only'' ones he doesn't really get paired with is Hawkgirl- probably because canonically they're "LikeBrotherAndSister".
* [[EdEddNEddy Double D]]. Though usually shipped with either [[StalkerWithACrush Marie]], Kevin, or [[TedBaxter Eddy]], he's been shipped with the vast majority of the cast at least once. Yes, even [[spoiler: [[{{Squick}} Eddy's Brother.]]]]
** Nazz has a bit of this too. Gets shipped with Kevin, Edd, Eddy, [[LesYay Sarah, and Marie]].
* King Julien from ''ThePenguinsOfMadagascar'' has been shipped with nearly the entire rest of the cast: Maurice, Mort and all four penguins. It helps immensely that the show is loaded with HoYay and FoeYay, and that King Julien himself is AmbiguouslyGay. On the flip side, he ''did'' show interest in the sole leading female, Marlene the otter.
* [[PhineasAndFerb Ferb]] gets paired with '''everyone.''' [[MadScientistsBeautifulDaughter Vanessa]] (his canonical PrecociousCrush), [[TheChick Isabella]] ([[ShipTease Ship Teased]]), [[{{Meganekko}} Gretchen]] (ShipsThatPassInTheNight), ''[[CheerfulChild Phineas]] and [[AntiHero Candace]] ([[NotBloodSiblings his step-siblings]])'' plus about a hundred MarySue {{OC}}s (though [[http://pffanon.wikia.com/wiki/Emily_Kinney this one]] is the most popular) and probably [[AnythingThatMoves every other citizen in]] [[WhereTheHellIsSpringfield Danville]]. He's also been paired with half of the Fireside Girls (excluding Milly, Katie, and Ginger, in most cases).
** Baljeet, but oddly enough, the majority of his are ''actually canon'''; in fact, the only non-canon ship of his is with Isabella. But even then, [[ShipTease they have their moments]].
** Also Dr. Heinz Doofenshmirtz. The obvious [[FoeYay Perry]] aside, he dated several women on the show. Even ignoring the canon, he has several {{Fan Girl}}s and {{OC}}s after him.
* According to {{fanon}}, this is [[TheMagicSchoolbus Arnold's]] job, as he has a habit of being shipped with EVERYONE. Seriously, EVERYONE. Even ''[[AvatarTheLastAirbender Az]][[CrackShip u]][[CrossoverShip la]].'' Yay Arnold?
* WordGirl. Let's see, who shall Becky (or [=WordGirl=]) be paired with today? This troper's seen all of the following: [[OneSidedShipping Becky/Scoops]], [[VillainousCrush Becky/Tobey]], [[DatingCatwoman Becky/Two Brains]], [[NotBloodSiblings Becky/TJ]], [[LesYay Becky/Violet]], [[CrackPairing Becky/Chuck]], [[ShipsThatPassInTheNight Becky/that one guy who's always trying to find the police station]]...and the list goes on.
* Rainbow Dash from ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' has been paired up with everyone, [[KitchenSinkIncluded including]] [[http://ponibooru.org/post/view/30385 the kitchen sink]] and [[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/3711/Special-Delivery shipping itself]]!
** Here is [[http://ciscoql.deviantart.com/art/Ship-png-296471905 a shipping chart]]. Note that the four most common pairings all involve Rainbow Dash. And they point to her like an arrow.
** Twilight Sparkle also qualifies. In fact it's entirely possible that this trope fits Twilight more than Rainbow Dash! A lot of pics are drawn and a lot of fanfics are written involving Rainbow Dash pairings, but Twilight may possibly have more actual pairings.
** Equestria Daily has actually graphed the shipping fanfics it's received on two separate occasions. Dash is currently winning on ''quantity'', while Twilight is winning on ''variety'', having been shipped with every one of her friends, [[ScrewYourself herself (twice)]], her ParentalSubstitute and mentor Celestia, Big Macintosh, Spike, Luna, Derpy, Trixie, a huge variety of OC's, and on her more "open-minded" days several ''crossover characters''.
** As for colts, Big Macintosh seems to be one of the only males the fandom will touch, so he gets shipped with just about everypony at some point...including [[BrotherSisterIncest Applejack]]...and ''[[{{Squick}} Applebloom]]''!
*** Soarin is the closest thing to a pegasus equivalent to Big Macintosh (though to a lesser degree), being paired up frequently with Rainbow Dash, Applejack, Spitfire, and miscellaneous background ponies (but not to the same degree of Big Macintosh). Fancy Pants is the most popular Unicorn bachelor, although he is usually only shipped with Rarity and Fleur De Lis (that should give you some idea about how disproportionately the shippers within the fandom prefer slash pairings).
*** Caramel is the second most shipped stallion next to Big Macintosh, being much more attractive than Big Mac, he has been shipped with everypony in Equestria, and I mean everypony. 
** Because he's the only male main character Spike is slowly becoming this. He has been paired with each of the Mane 6 at least once, plus the Cutie Mark Crusaders, both Princesses, Little Strongheart, and even [[HoYay Big Macintosh]].
** He doesn't suffer from this as the aforementioned characters, but [[RealityWarper Discord]] has a surprising number of characters he's been shipped with. Most of the time he's shipped with either [[FoeYay Celestia]], [[MindGameShip Twilight]], or Pinkie Pie. However, he's also been shipped with [[UnholyMatrimony Chrysalis]], Luna, Nightmare Moon, Fluttershy, and even [[OneSceneWonder Steven]] [[CrackPairing Magnet]].
** The fans seem to like shipping within the Mane 6. If one of the Mane 6 is in a shipping story, it's probably with one of the other 5.
*** Or more than one...
* ''StarWarsTheCloneWars'' gave us Ahsoka. She's been paired at least with Anakin, Obi-Wan, Padme, Chuchi, Shaak Ti, Yoda, Barriss, Rex, Cad Bane, Boba Fett, Lux, anyone.
* '' {{X-Men Evolution}}'' has Kitty and Rogue. Kitty has her canon pairing with Lance, but also gets shipped with Kurt, Pietro(!), Scott, Piotr, Dani Moonstar, and Rogue. While Rogue has her more common Scott and Gambit pairings, she also is paired with Lance, Pietro, Kitty, and even Wolverine despite the huge age difference in this universe.
** Interestingly, Jean almost never ends up with anyone other than Scott. Scott/someone else fans generally ignore her or make her RonTheDeathEater. Thought, the ocasional Jean/Lance fic and Jean/Logan fics still pop up now and again, so some people like her.
** Kurt himself has been shipped with everyone in the cast. Kitty, Wanda, Amanda, Jubilee, Amara, Rahne, Scott, Evan, Logan, Toad, Storm, Lance, and then there's the fact he gets the most fangirls, so there's millions of OCs. [[ChickMagnet Chicks really do dig the fuzzy dude]] (And [[EvenTheGuysWantHim apparenly the dudes as well]]). Just say that if you have a name and one line of dialog, someone's going to ship you with Kurt.
** Also Scott and Pietro, to a lesser extent than Kurt, has been shipped with a lot of people. As mentioned above, Scott has been shipped with both Rogue and Kitty, than there's his cannon love of Jean, then there's Kurt, and Lance, even ocasionally Logan (Seriously, [[{{Squick}} Why does everyone feel the need to ship unerage characters with a hundred year old instructor!?]]), Storm, even Emma, AND SHE DIDN'T EVEN APPEAR IN THE SERIES!. Than Pietro's got every girl, plus Lance and Kurt, and ocasionally Toad, god, is there anyone who doesn't get shipped with more than five other characters!? [[MyFriendsAndZoidberg Oh right, Jean.]]
* As with all other versions of him, Dick is still a shipping bicycle in ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice''. This is despite him being a CuteShotaroBoy (he's thirteen) and WordOfGod saying he'll have no romance. To the same extent, Conner (Superboy) is very popular with the shippers. [[LyingCreator But]], when {{Zatanna}} showed up that [[ShipTease blew the whole "no romance" thing]] out of the water, and [[WordOfGod Word Of]] [[GregWeisman A Higher God]] [[http://www.s8.org/gargoyles/askgreg/search.php?qid=13727 has]] [[http://www.s8.org/gargoyles/askgreg/search.php?qid=13818 suggested]] that the Dick/Barbara shippers may be onto something too...
* In a rather odd occurrence, ''everyone'' on ''{{Metalocalypse}}'' tends to be shipped with everyone ''else'', making them ''all'' the FandomBicycle. Though it doesn't hurt that the {{Fandom}} is relatively laid back when it comes to shipping.
* {{Hawkeye}} from ''WesternAnimation/AvengersEarthsMightiestHeroes'' might become one eventually. Fans don't have trouble imagining him with Comicbook/BlackWidow, Mockingbird, [[Comicbook/IncredibleHulk Hulk]], BlackPanther, or even Bruce Banner. Of those five, [[spoiler: Black Widow]] became the first to steal a kiss from Hawkeye.
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