History Main / ShipSinking

** He also seems to have issues with the Zoro/Nami ship's popularity in Japan. The ship's main basis is the so-called "sexual tension" [[BelligerentSexualTension indicated by their fighting]], yet it's shown that he's not even attracted to her, to the point that his lack of interest is almost a running gag.

* In ''Series/{{Heroes}}'', TheReveal of Peter and Claire being related came almost immediately after the Peter/Claire ship was reaching full-steam.

* The [[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer Buffyverse]] as a whole has a weird relationship with Buffy/Angel in that it keeps pulling out things to get in the way of Buffy/Angel and make it seem more and more likely that they will never end up together, but still maintains that the two of them have a frankly invincible mutual attraction when in close proximity to each other. First, they have sex and Angel turns evil. Then Buffy kills evil!Angel and sends him to hell, just as he's transformed back into good!Angel. Then he comes back but can't stay with her because he feels like she'd be wasting her life with him, and so leaves town. Then, on ''Angel'', the two come to a very serious (almost physical) confrontation over what to do about Faith when she escapes to LA, seriously hurting any kind of lingering friendship. Over the next few years they barely interact and are paired off with other love interests. Despite all this, Joss teases the possibility of future Buffy/Angel in the Season 7 finale with a funny cookie metaphor. And finally, in the GrandFinale of the Season Eight comics, [[spoiler: they are both endowed with superpowers by the universe so that they can have crazy, flying sex in order to create a new, "better" universe, which they then abandon to save their friends, but which comes back after them with a vengeance, possesses Angel, and makes him murder Giles right in front of Buffy's eyes. Now an un-possessed Angel is being rehabilitated by Faith, and Buffy can't even bring herself to look at him anymore.]] You'd think this would kill the ship forever, but who can tell with this series.

* ''Series/{{House}}'': Even though they still tease the pairing, the House/Cameron fans were crushed when "Kids" and "Love Hurts" happened. In the former, Cameron telling House that she would only come back to work if he would go out on a date with her was seen as blackmail, and in the latter their distastrous date consists of small talk, an extremely misguided Cameron and House eventually telling her that she doesn't love him -- only pities him because he's crippled and emotionally damaged.

** Considering that Yuriko Shiratori * was* Hana, who wouldn't have shipped them at first?

* In the first episode of ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'', after playing up the Ted/Robin romance, they revealed that Robin would be the [[HonoraryUncle honorary aunt]] of Ted's children, thus killing any future relationship before it begins.
** This ship was finally sunk in the episode Symphony of Illumination (Season 7), where it is revealed that Robin cannot be the mother of Ted's children.
* From ''Series/RobinHood.'' Poor Guy/Marian shippers. It was always doomed considering that the show was called ''Robin Hood'', but then Guy went and [[spoiler:killed her]]. If that wasn't enough, [[spoiler: after his HeelFaceTurn]] he eventually admits to Robin that: "she was always yours." ''Then'' Robin [[spoiler:dies and]] is [[TogetherInDeath reunited with Marian]] [[spoiler:in Heaven]], at which point she tells him that she's his wife: "now and forever." So Guy is presumably parted from Marian [[spoiler:''even in death'']]. Could a ship possibly ''get'' more sunk than this?

* ''{{Chuck}}'' did this with Sarah and Shaw. [[spoiler: First, it was revealed that Sarah killed Shaw's wife for her "red test" to become a member of the CIA. Then, when Shaw decided to betray the CIA and tried to kill Sarah, Chuck killed Shaw with three bullets to the chest. [[UnexplainedRecovery It didn't take,]] but still...]]

* Sheldon/Penny on ''TheBigBangTheory'' has never been anything but a 'fandom' ship. This hasn't stopped the cast and crew trying to sink it through WordOfGod. Actress Kaley Cuoco was asked about the Sheldon/Penny ship, and replied that if they ever did date, she'd end up killing him. Jim Parsons commented that he would be confused if the writers went for Sheldon/Penny and that he didn't see it happening EVER. When [[OfficialCouple Leonard and Penny]] broke up briefly it brought hope to the Sheldon/Penny shippers, but the third season finale and especially when [[RomanticFalseLead Priya]] came along showed that Penny's romantic interest would only be with Leonard.

* A small version of this may have just occurred on the FX show ''Series/{{Justified}}'' between Raylan and his ex-wife Winona in "Hatless": Winona's husband gets into trouble with some bad men over land and Raylan comes to her rescue to ensure she won't be hurt. The potential for BigDamnHeroes is completely averted since Winona doesn't want to leave the house, especially since her husband is MIA. Later, she explains why she chose her new husband over Raylan (even though Raylan is tougher, funnier, and better looking) and still goes back to him at the end of the episode despite his bad decisions that endangered her. If there were any Winona/Raylan shippers, they're probably feeling pretty bad right about now.
** Happily, the ship has been temporarily unsunk as of "Father and Sons", but the two still have loads and loads of problems to deal with in the meantime.

* Naomi and Cook's bantering in ''Series/{{Skins}}'' developed into an OddFriendship, but some Nookie shippers (mainly those on the EveryoneIsBi horse) saw plenty of UST there, despite the fact that [[spoiler:Naomi's SingleTargetSexuality is firmly pointed in Emily's direction]]. The book tried to sink it with some very impassioned statements from Naomi; the show finally managed it.

** Cook tries to cling to the himself/Effy ship, but Effy kills that one in her S4 episode when she addresses Cook as "a friend".
* Everyone's ship has been sunk over on ''LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit'': the producers continue to insist that Elliot and Olivia are PlatonicLifePartners /LikeBrotherAndSister /TheNotLoveInterest (which there is ''plenty'' of evidence for within the show), which pisses off the [[PortmanteauCoupleName Bensler]] nuts; on the LesYay side of the fence, Olivia has said that she's straight, thus pissing off the Alex/Olivia shippers.

* {{Passions}} : The producers decided to pair Luis with Fancy and then they decided to Sheridan with Luis' lackluster brother Antonio. Needless to say, Sheridan and Luis fans were NOT happy .
* Late Series 2 of ''Series/{{Merlin}}'' effectively killed any and all ships with Morgana, but given the legend [[ForegoneConclusion this shouldn't have come as any surprise]]. Just to hammer some nails into the coffin of Arthur/Morgana, season 3 has established that [[spoiler:they are in fact half-siblings]].

* ''KamenRiderDouble'' sank the [[BelligerentSexualTension Shotaro/Akiko]] ship by making Akiko and [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold Ryu]] the OfficialCouple in episode 44, although by then she had [[BettyAndVeronica started getting ship tease with both.]] Fully sunk as of ''Movie War 2011'', where Akiko and Ryu marry.

* ''Series/TrueBlood'': Tara and Jason has been sunk ''twice''.

* ''Series/WizardsOfWaverlyPlace'' sunk the Justin x Juliet ship by turning her into an old lady. Then they [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverKill dropped depth charges]] on it by having Harper pretend to be Juilet and tell him to move on, Alex repeating 'Juilet's never coming back', Justin dating an OCStandIn at the last minute, ''and'' Old Lady Juliet looking on and approving of this. The Icing on the Cake? The plot was used up in 15 minutes, so the second half was nothing but the first half repeated. The episode served no further point than to make fans forget about Juliet. (Then [[BackFromTheDead Juliet returns AND is a young girl again in "Wizards Vs. Everyone"]], with no logical explanation what-so-ever. Huh?)

* On ''Series/{{Smallville}}'', Chloe Sullivan[=/=]LexLuthor used to be fairly popular, until an episode where [[spoiler:after it's revealed that Chloe is a mutant, Lex kidnaps her and has his scientists perform sadistic experiments on her]]. Naturally, the ship became noticeably less popular after that.

* Series/StargateUniverse: If Eli being symbolically shown as Chloe's 'brother' in [[AdventuresInComaLand ''Cloverdale'']] didn't do enough to convince viewers that pairing was sunk, ''Epilogue'' torpedoed it then dropped some depth charges on the wreck just to be sure.
** The killing blow may have been Eli entering a relationship with Ginn. Most Eli/Chloe fans had long given up any real hope of seeing them together, so when Eli did find someone, they jumped ship.
* ''Series/{{Lost}}'' took [[TrollingCreator perverse delight]] in zig-zagging this trope, long after the majority of its fandom had stopped caring about [[ShipToShipCombat Jack/Kate vs Sawyer/Kate]]. If Kate was interested in one of them, it was only a matter of episodes before a plot twist drove them apart and seemingly killed off the ship for good... only for it to be resurrected next season when Kate fled the other one's arms. The rival {{Fan Dumb}}s fell for it every time, going both sides through a cycle of gloating and trolling the supposedly dead/sunk ship, only to retreat and grumble about "endgame" when their own ship was pushed aside. [[spoiler:Jack/Kate ended up as endgame, but Sawyer/Kate fans seemed angrier about Sawyer/Juliet.]]

* ''GameOfThrones'' has created certain pairings that are exclusive to the show rather than the book. One such pairing is Irri and Rakharo, two background Dothraki characters who shared plenty of BelligerentSexualTension despite not really interacting in the books. Promotional material for the second season confirmed that Irri had a thing for him. The season two premiere also had a heartfelt scene that inspired quite a lot of shipping between Daenerys and Rakharo. The second episode [[spoiler: just as quickly crushed any hopes for both ships by killing off Rakharo, who is still alive in the books.]]

* The pairing of Joy and Fabian on ''House of Anubis'' seemed to be doomed to be the titanic. No matter how much Joy tried, Fabian kept rejecting her advances as he loved Nina. Then Joy went kind of crazy to get his attention and temporarily became the most hated person in the house and [[TheScrappy arguably to viewers of the show]] [[DieForOurShip as well for the duration of season 2]]. In season three, when Nina was finally out of the way, she still got rejected and Fabian didn't even attempt to sugar coat it. So, basically, if you shipped Joy and Fabian, there was really no chance to set sail. Which is alright, with the addition of Joy and Jerome's pairing, which is wildly popular and has managed to stay afloat.

** And not to mention [[TheBadGuyWins what]] [[BadFuture leads to]] ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaALinkToThePast''.

** And not to mention [[BadFuture what]] [[TheBadGuyWins leads to]] ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaALinkToThePast.

* In an interview with some magazine, ''TheBigBangTheory'' actress Kaley Cuoco was asked about the Sheldon/Penny ship, and replied that if they ever did date, she'd end up killing him (and I don't think she meant with sex). Jim Parsons has made similar comments, that he'd actually be confused if the writers suddenly went for Sheldon/Penny and that he just didn't see it happening EVER. The fact [[OfficialCouple Leonard and Penny]] broke up briefly brought hope to the shippers, but the third season finale and especially when [[RomanticFalseLead Priya]] came along showed that Penny's romantic interest would only be with Leonard.
** Sheldon eventually got his own "[[SheIsNotMyGirlfriend girlfriend]]" in Amy Farrah Fowler almost seeming to disrupt the Sheldon/Penny ship. In the same episode that Sheldon and Amy [[RelationshipUpgrade made their relationship official]] Sheldon tried to ask Penny out on a date to make Amy jealous. The resulting conversation has Penny shoot down any concept of romantic feelings between them.

* Archie Comics's adaptation of ''ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehog'' has about as much shipping (and [[ShipTease ship teasing]]) as your typical SoapOpera; one of the first ships, early in the comic's run, involved Tails and an Australian Freedom Fighter named Barby Koala. Despite the fact that Barby was a minor character and significantly older than Tails, who was canonically [[ComicBookTime 10 or 11]], fans of the ship carried a torch for her for years because she was one of only two love interests Tails ever had in almost 20 years of publication (the other one [[RobotGirl turned out to be a robot]]). In a recent forum post, [[WordOfGod writer]] Ian Flynn torpedoed the ship with this statement: ''[[WriterRevolt "Okay, let's stop the Barby/Tails wagon right here... There is no Barby/Tails. Barby's affections were entirely one-sided and ]][[{{Squick}} extremely creepy. ]][[WriterRevolt I'll find a way to write that one into the ground to bury and kill it later, but for now, there is no Barby/Tails. And there won't be so long as I'm on the book. Seriously... ugh."]]''

** Beast Boy and Raven was sunk before it really got started. Fans had been shipping the couple almost as soon as the animated series got off and running. Not long after Geoff Johns took over the Titan comic book, he made it pretty clear he was a Gar and Raven fanboy and after a year of teasing, put them together in 2005. InfiniteCrisis and ''52'' came and went, and one timeskip later courtesy of ''One Year Later'', and Gar and Raven were broken up. Once Johns left, other writers teased the two getting back together for a few more years, and eventually they DID get back together in Teen Titans #100...but then the "New 52" wave happened, rebooting the timeline and placing Gar on "The Ravagers", another team entirely (alongside his most infamous love interest Terra of all people)

* A recent issue of Hawkeye seems to do this to all three of his most prominent romantic relationships: he cheats on Jessica who breaks up with him, finally signs divorce papers for his marriage with Bobbi, and Natasha is thought of as his work wife.

Ship Sinking is a scene that, whether deliberate or not, seems to kill any reasonable chance of a relationship occurring between two characters. It can be a [[EtTuBrute betrayal]], [[LukeIAmYourFather a sudden familial connection]] ([[BrotherSisterIncest not like that]] [[ParentalIncest will stop]] [[{{Twincest}} anyone]]), hooking up with someone else, [[DeathOfTheHypotenuse having the respective love interest kick the bucket]], or maybe [[WordOfGay they just bring them out of the closet]] (or rarely, put them ''in''). If well done, this can actually cause the fans to {{abandon ship|ping}}, but [[FanDisillusionment don't always count on that]]; some ships refuse to sink, with the help of ludicrous amounts of ShippingGoggles or outright FanonDiscontinuity.

** For years, a rather vocal contingent of fans wanted Clark to end up with Chloe. Chloe eventually moved on to other relationships, and many former Clark/Chloe shippers got on board with these new ships. Then the GrandFinale finally showed, in no uncertain terms, that [[ItWasHisSled Clark married Lois]], and Chloe got married to someone else and had a son, as seen in the final scene DistantFinale.

** ''Batman Beyond'' also sunk the Dick Grayson/Barbra Gordon ship. She ended up married to some guy who had never even been mentioned before this series. ''After she dated Bruce''. Ew.

** Season four's "Stop Team Go" features Shego being turned good by a MirrorMoralityMachine and immediately becoming best friends with Kim. It's like a gift to [=KiGo=] shippers for their support and promotion of the show, and even has the ShipTease-baiting line of Shego saying "You know, Kimmie, I couldn't tell you this when I was evil, but--" Right then, she's flipped back, flies away crowing with her partner in crime, the machine is smashed to pieces and and Kim and Ron pretty much say "Shame, but maybe it's for the best". It's as if the WordOfGod was saying "Well, wasn't that fun? But no. No, it's just not going to happen".

** ''Batman Beyond'' also sunk the Dick Grayson/Barbra Gordon ship. She ended up married to some guy who had never even been mentioned before this series. ''After she dated Bruce''.

** Kanaya's hatred of Gamzee was speculated by some to be a Blackrom (in-spite of the IncompatibleOrientation). When asked Kanaya confirms her hatred is not romantically linked, and Gamzee states "[he wouldn't] even give that dayglow chainsaw bitch - [his] time of day in any quadrant."

** ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEEDDestiny'': One reason why it's reviled by some fans of the original ''[[Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEED GundamSEED]]'' was the sinking of the (canon, rings and all) [[LauncherOfAThousandShips Athrun]] / [[{{Tsundere}} Cagalli]] ship. Matters probably weren't helped by the pervading ([[ScapegoatCreator and never proved]]) rumour that it was partially brought about by the storyboarder's [[ExecutiveMeddling personal grudges]]. The consequence? [[DieForOurShip Absolutely * venomous* and misogynistic bashing]] of [[NaiveEverygirl Meyrin Hawke]] and [[{{Stripperiffic}} Meer Campbell]] coming from enraged Athrun/Cagalli fans, [[VocalMinority some of them]] going as far as ''bragging and flaming'' when [[spoiler: poor Meer was tragically killed in front of Athrun]] in the blogs and fansites of some vocal Meer fans who were also more or less known [=BNFs=], and later [[http://community.livejournal.com/asumey/8632.html bitching AsuMey out in the Athrun/Meyrin LJ comm]] and other sites, giving the [=AsuCaga=] fans ''as a whole'' [[http://community.livejournal.com/asucaga/156077.html?thread=2420141#t2420141 a horrible reputation that took years to cleanse.]]

** And this trope was the ultimate fate of the after-mentioned Fabina/Nina ship due to a major case of RealLifeWritesThePlot two episodes within Season 3 in a manner [[DearJohnLetter eerily similar]] to the end of Tommy/Kimberley on PowerRangers. Showing that even the OfficialCouple in any show is not immune to complications originating from RealLife events.

* Mommy and Hunter are two points of a LoveTriangle in {{The Fire-us Trilogy}}, but are so incredibly [[{{Squick}} squicked out]] after receiving TheTalk that they can hardly even bear to look at each other for most of the third book. In spite of this, by the end it appears that their freindship, at least, is almost certainly salvageable.

* It almost seems like Louisa May Alcott wrote the first sequel to ''LittleWomen'' deliberately to sink the Jo/Laurie ship ("I won't marry Jo to Laurie to please anybody," she wrote in her diary); Jo March's marriage to Professor Bhaer in ''LittleWomen'' is a confirmed Authorial Take That to Jo/Laurie shippers. Alcott showed NO mercy to her fans' demands of having Jo marry Laurie -- a LikeBrotherAndSister speech, an IllGirl who chases all thoughts of other love from Jo's mind, Jo marrying her ''other'' best male friend and beta-reader when she's "back", and a LastMinuteHookUp for Laurie with Jo's ''[[TheGloriousWarOfSisterlyRivalry little sister]]'' Amy. According to the Introduction to the Penguin Classics edition of the book, Louisa May Alcott wrote to a friend, Alf Whitman, "Jo should have remained a literary spinster, but so many enthusiastic young ladies wrote to me clamorously demanding that she marry Laurie, or somebody, that I didn't dare refuse & out of perversity went & made a funny match for her. I expect vials of wrath to be poured out upon my head, but rather enjoy the prospect." Where's the Internet when you need it?

** Draco Malfoy and his fellow Slytherin girlfriend, [[AlphaBitch Pansy Parkinson]]. Rowling stated that Draco went on to marry Astoria Greengrass, a Slytherin girl two years his junior who never appeared in the books. Pansy Parkinson, after all, represented all of high-school mean girls and Rowling wouldn't inflict that even on Draco Malfoy.

** The films tried to sink H/Hr a lot sooner and more explicitly than the books [[hottip:*from the awkward handshake between Ron and Hermione at the end of ''Chamber'' to Hermione grabbing Ron's hand during the "Harry with Buckbeak" sequence in ''Prisoner'']], but it was made hard by the screenwriter Steve Kloves being a confessed Harmonian. The aforementioned LikeBrotherAndSister speech gets an awkward mention in ''Half-Blood Prince'', but is ''nowhere to be found'' in ''Deathly Hallows''. This, summed to the fact that Ginny's character was completely destroyed in the later movies, and many of Ron's (and other people's) heroic scenes were given to Hermione, left much of the movie-only audience thinking Hermione and Harry were being set up as a couple.

* Aragorn/Eowyn got torpedoed in ''[[TheLordOfTheRings The Return of the King]]''. Eowyn's LadyOfWar and [[DoggedNiceGuy Dogged Nice Girl]] qualities are no match for Arwen - DesignatedLoveInterest, WorldsMostBeautifulWoman, and InterspeciesRomance. Unlike most modern ShipSinking, this torpedo is vital to the plot.

* From ''Series/RobinHood.'' Poor Guy/Marian shippers. It was always doomed considering that the show was called ''Robin Hood'', but then Guy went and [[spoiler:killed her]]. If that wasn't enough, he eventually admits to Robin that: "she was always yours." ''Then'' Robin [[spoiler:dies and]] is [[TogetherInDeath reunited with Marian]] [[spoiler:in Heaven]], at which point she tells him that she's his wife: "now and forever." So Guy is presumably parted from Marian [[spoiler:''even in death'']]. Could a ship possibly ''get'' more sunk than this?

** Not long after [[spoiler:stabbing Karin, Sasuke tried to kill Sakura in cold blood not once, but twice. Both within about five minutes of each other.]] So this ship has basically gotten a couple of good sized torpedoes.

* ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'': The manga devotes quite a bit of time to readjusting his status with the rest of the cast. Namely, Shinji makes it vocally clear he can't stand Kaworu (as opposed to [[HoYay latching onto him]]), while Rei instantly susses out what he is and tells him to stay far away from her.

* In ''Manga/AirGear'' The Ikki Minami/Kururu Sumeragi ship was hit by Oh!Great and took on water fast as of Chapter 327.

** Ships of Orihime with Grimmjow and Ulquiorra have officially been sunk. Orihime's (currently onesided) feelings for Ichigo are still there and have remained there all the time, [[spoiler: and Ulquiorra [[AlasPoorVillain has been dead]] for a while already. Grimmjow is still missing, though according to Kubo there's a chance he'll be back in the last manga arc.]]

** In ''Manga/TsubasaReservoirChronicle'', Fay D Flourite/Chii gathered a small but vocal fanbase. While this ship was pretty much doomed from the start in canon, due to Chii already having a canon soulmate in Hideki from ''Manga/{{Chobits}}'', the ship was mostly based on a very misleading episode in the notorious {{Canon Discontinuity}} anime, 'Date With a Magician', in which Fay takes Chii out on a 'date' and Chii appears quite infatuated with him by the end of the episode. Also the two's affectionate behaviour at the very beginning of the manga. The ship was officially sunk by CLAMP in the manga, however, when it was revealed that Fay had purposefully created Chii to look just like his deceased mother [[spoiler:for her to protect and watch over his dead twin brother's body]].

* ''GunslingerGirl''. Despite ShipTease comments from cyborg Triela on [[LoveEpiphany how she feels]] for her handler Hilshire, the latter hooking up with prosecutor Roberta Guellfi appears to have killed off even a strictly platonic romance, with them instead reverting to their surrogate father/daughter dynamic.

** ''[[Anime/MazingerZ Sayaka / Boss]]'': Early on Boss was ''very'' infatuated with Sayaka who was totally smitten with Kouji. However, Sayaka's reaction during one of the finalr arcs of the manga suggests ''maybe'' Boss had one chance... but he did not take it. So he cared no longer or he valued his friendship with Kouji too for trying anything with Sayaka.

** ''[[Anime/UFORoboGrendizer Kouji / Hikaru]]'': In one episode it was told Kouji was infatuated with Hikaru but he never tried anything with her out of respect for his friend Duke. Cue [[spoiler:Maria]] showing up in the next episode (and keep in mind it was Sayaka who was meant to show up instead of her).

* ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'': Apparently out of disgust for Kaworu's MisaimedFandom, the manga devotes quite a bit of time to readjusting his status with the rest of the cast. Namely, Shinji makes it vocally clear he can't stand Kaworu (as opposed to [[HoYay latching onto him]]), while Rei instantly susses out what he is and tells him to stay far away from her.
** ''[[Anime/RebuildOfEvangelion Rebuild 3.0]]'' sinks ''pretty much every single ship involving Shinji''. [[spoiler: Rei is long-gone, Misato hates him, Asuka says he is just a kid, (due to now being technically twice his age), Mari has absolutely zero interest, and Kaworu dies rather horrifically.]]
* ''Manga/OnePiece'': Creator/EiichiroOda must be a least somewhat aware of fandom's shipping tendencies since he apparently had the foresight to launch a couple of good sized torpedoes at the potential Luffy/Hancock ship.
** Special note needs to be taken of [[spoiler:Luffy explicitly rejecting her proposal of marriage after the time skip.]] You really can't get much more straightforward than that.

* ''Anime/PrincessTutu'': Are you still waiting for Ahiru to end up with the Prince, [[SlidingScaleOfCynicismVersusIdealism despite how dark the series has gotten since]] [[ShipTease the end of episode 13]]? You'll change your tune come episode 24. A lot.

** While the sources are somewhat unproven, in the prototype of ''[[VideoGame/FireEmblemJugdral Genealogy]]'', Celice/Yuria was a hard-lined OfficialCouple, but in the release, it was given a "490 -5t" love growth, making it practically impossible... [[GoodBadBugs unless you've got some mad skills and LOTS of patience]].
** Ike/Soren took a hit thanks to the CanonWelding [[VideoGame/FireEmblemAwakening Awakening]]... [[spoiler:Priam is in some fashion a descendant of Ike.]] Then again, given that his sister ''does'' have an option to marry at the end, it allows Intelligent Systems to use Ike's popularity while still giving some level of Fanservice.
** ''Awakening'' also has Chrom/Cordelia, which has the sad, sad honour of being sunk by ''the game mechanics themselves.'' Cordelia is all but stated to have an unrequited crush on Chrom, but she's one of the few women he ''can't'' marry and in fact, ''they can't even support!''
*** And it got even worse in the DLC, where the developers [[ThrowTheDogABone finally gave Cordelia a conversation with Chrom]], which is filled with awkward moments... [[spoiler: and ends with ''Cordelia sinking the ship herself!'']]

* ''Series/Supernatural'' sunk Sam/Dean when the two of them reacted with disgust at [[OhCrapThereAreFanficsOfUs the fanfics of them]] that shipped them with each other.

** In Chapter 481 [[spoiler:Sasuke [[ShootTheHostage shoots a Chidori Blade through Karin to get to Danzo]], coldly denouncing her as worthless. Karin later thinks to herself that she's done with Sasuke]].
** Not long after the aforementioned [[spoiler:stabbing of Karin, Sasuke tried to kill Sakura in cold blood not once, but twice. Both within about five minutes of each other.]] So this ship has basically gotten a couple of good sized torpedoes.

** ''[[Anime/RebuildOfEvangelion Rebuild 3.0]]'' sinks ''pretty much every single ship involving Shinji''. [[spoiler: Rei is long-gone, Asuka does not return any feelings Shinji has for her (due to now being technically twice his age), Mari has absolutely zero interest, and Kaworu dies rather horrifically.]] The only option remaining is [[spoiler:[[GodCreatedCanonForeigner Sakura Suzuhara]].]]

* The pairing of Joy and Fabian on ''House of Anubis'' seemed to be doomed to be the titanic. No matter how much Joy tried, Fabian kept rejecting her advances as he loved Nina. Then Joy went kind of crazy to get his attention and temporarily became the most hated person in the house and [[TheScrappy arguably to viewers of the show as well for the duration of season 2]]. In season three, when Nina was finally out of the way, she still got rejected and Fabian didn't even attempt to sugar coat it. So, basically, if you shipped Joy and Fabian, there was really no chance to set sail. Which is alright, with the addition of Joy and Jerome's pairing, which is wildly popular and has managed to stay afloat.
** And this trope was the ultimate fate of the after-mentioned Fabina/Nina due to a major case of RealLifeWritesThePlot two episodes within Season 3. Showing that even the OfficialCouple in any show is not immune to complications originating from RealLife events.

* The pairing of Joy and Fabian on ''House of Anubis'' seemed to be doomed to be the titanic. No matter how much Joy tried, Fabian kept rejecting her advances as he loved Nina. Then Joy went kind of crazy to get his attention and temporarily became the most hated person in the house. In season three, when Nina was finally out of the way, she still got rejected and Fabian didn't even attempt to sugar coat it. So, basically, if you shipped Joy and Fabian, there was really no chance to set sail. Which is alright, with the addition of Joy and Jerome's pairing, which is wildly popular and has managed to stay afloat.

** Actually, Lucas did not have the story made yet, and the brother/sister relationship was not even a thing until after the first movie. It was a romance. Also, Darth Vader was supposed to have actually killed Luke's father. George did not think ahead, and he is constantly pretending he had a vision. He did not have a vision. He makes it up as he goes.

* ''KashimashiGirlMeetsGirl'' anime adaptation did this in a rather cruel way. After Hazumu gets her girl, and the final episode had aired, an {{OVA}} came out. [[spoiler:Hazumu and Yasuna had broken up, because the latter wanted to be independent; which makes no sense since that didn't mean she had to break up with Hazumu]]. At the end of the episode, [[spoiler:Hazumu and Tomari gain a RelationShipUpgrade and ''get married'']]. The {{OVA}} seems to be pure fanservice for the shippers, since most strings had been tied and the ending did nothing.

* ''[[WesternAnimation/AvengersEarthsMightiestHeroes The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes]]'' apparently dashed all hope of Comicbook/TheMightyThor and Dr. Jane Foster becoming a couple after TheVision attacked Jane and TheWasp while searching Avengers Mansion for Comicbook/CaptainAmerica's shield. Jane and Wasp barely survived, but Wasp subsequently advised Jane that continuing to date a superhero might prove too dangerous for her.