History ShipSinking / WesternAnimation

** All ships involving Lillith were stopped dead when Creator/DanaTerrance [[WordOfGod confirmed]] that she was [[CelibateHero aro/ace]].

** In "[[Recap/MiraculousLadybugS04E03GangOfSecrets Gang of Secrets]]", Marinette's [[FairyCompanion kwami]] Tikki tells her that kwamis don't fall in love, which means that the pairing between Tikki and Adrien's kwami Plagg will never happen, nor will any other pairing between kwamis.

* ''WesternAnimation/MaoMaoHeroesOfPureHeart'': WordOfGod sunk Badgerclops and Mao Mao as a possibility with a clumsily worded post on tumblr explaining how they're supposed to just be friends, not in love. The reasons why people did not like his post vary[[note]]For most people it read like an awkward "I'm not racist, but..." style of post[[/note]], but several people dropped the show in protest and backlash was strong enough that this lone event caused show creator Parker to delete the post, then promptly leave tumblr and move to twitter.

* ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'': The two RomanticFalseLead subplots ended quickly in season four, as Kagami breakup with Adrien in the second episode. In the fourth, ''Mr Pigeon 72'', Kagami insist numerous times that she doesn't want to get back with Adrien, [[ShipperOnDeck but claims that Marinette is a better match for him]], meaning Kagami and Adrien are over for good. Similarly, Marinette breakup with Luka as soon as the first episode, then shows no regret about it since ''Mr Pigeon 72''. In the twelfth episode, ''Crocoduel'', Marinette is reluctant to see him again, states she does not feels the same for him, and loves Adrien (which was the case from the very beginning). To emphasize this, Luka plays the ShipperOnDeck in the very end, asking Marinette if she [[LoveConfession confessed to Adrien yet.]]
** In ''Elation'', A strange example occurs, in which "Ladynoir" is technically sunk when Adrien/ Chat Noir realizes that he loves Marinette more than Ladybug, so he decides to give up Ladybug in order to pursue a relationship with Marinette. (He doesn't know that both women are the same person)

* Charles E. Bastien, the director of ''WesternAnimation/PAWPatrol'', confirmed to a fan on Twitter that Chase does NOT have a crush on Skye or vice versa, and that they are only good friends, ultimately breaking the fanon that has been going on between the two since "Pups Save the Sea Turtles." He has also denied any romance going on between Marshall and Everest, too.

* We'll never know for certain what the writers for ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'' thought about the fans clamoring for a relationship between Professor Utonium and Miss Keane. What ''is'' certain is that they were determined not to let romance take over the show. Utonium and Keane did hit it off, but proceeded to spend nearly the entire episode doing nothing at all but exchange baby talk. Worse, they did it over the PPG emergency line, meaning that the girls couldn't respond to crises (which quickly made the city an extremely unpleasant place to live). They finally broke it off because Keane owns a cat, and Utonium, thanks to a harrowing encounter with one in the past, can't tolerate the presence of one.

** The episode "Emotion Sickness" could've been interpreted as a mockery of both Kim/Ron shippers and Drakken/Shego shippers -- until Kim and Ron actually ''do'' get together in ''[[WesternAnimation/KimPossibleMovieSoTheDrama So the Drama]]''. WordOfGod states that the two getting together was part of the show as far back as the initial pitch, and that the series finale is also a confirmation that Drakken/Shego also end up together eventually.

* The creator of ''WesternAnimation/{{Doug}}'', Jim Jinkins, sunk the show's main ship when discussing his ideas for a revival in a 2016 interview. He said Doug and Patti won’t become a couple, saying most of people don’t end up with their first love. Although, Jinkins defended this by saying that not [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome all couples end with a first crush]] and said a [[ReplacementGoldfish new female friend could be Doug’s new love]]. Regardless, fans continue shipping Doug/Patti and pretend Jim never committed shipping blasphemy.

* The ''WesternAnimation/RegularShow'' episode "Steak Me Amadeus" sunk the Mordecai/Margaret ship after four seasons of WillTheyOrWontThey.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfJimmyNeutronBoyGenius'', Sheen/Libby was made official near the end of the series, but in the spin-off ''WesternAnimation/PlanetSheen'' they gave him a new love interest, [[GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe Blue Skinned Space Babe]] Aseefa. He never even mentions Libby. Of course, according to the fans, the spin-off [[FanonDiscontinuity never happened]].

* On ''WesternAnimation/AdventuresOfJimmyNeutron'', Sheen/Libby was made official near the end of the series, but in the spin-off ''WesternAnimation/PlanetSheen'' they gave him a new love interest, [[GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe Blue Skinned Space Babe]] Aseefa. He never even mentions Libby. Of course, according to the fans, the spin-off [[FanonDiscontinuity never happened]].

* On ''WesternAnimation/JimmyNeutron'', Sheen/Libby was made official near the end of the series, but in the spin-off ''WesternAnimation/PlanetSheen'' they gave him a new love interest, [[GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe Blue Skinned Space Babe]] Aseefa. He never even mentions Libby. Of course, according to the fans, the spin-off [[FanonDiscontinuity never happened]].

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Kaeloo}}'': There were very few Stumpy/Quack Quack shippers in the first place, but the fifteenth episode of the series had Stumpy explicitly state that he would never get in a relationship with Quack Quack and they will always be HeterosexualLifePartners.

* Franchise/{{DCAU}}:

* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'':
** Big Mac gets a RelationshipUpgrade with Sugar Belle in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS7E8HardToSayAnything Hard To Say Anything]]", sinking Big Mac x Cheerilee which the episode makes clear was only a thing due to them being under the influence of a LovePotion and Big Mac x Marble Pie as ''[[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyBestGiftEver Best Gift Ever]]'' shows Marble's heartbroken reaction to the pairing.
** Rainbow Dash and fellow Daring Do fan Quibble Pants got some ShipTease in the Season 6 episode "Stranger Than Fanfiction", but Season 9's "Common Ground" shows that Quibble has a girlfriend, and Rainbow Dash ''[[ShipperOnDeck enthusiastically approves]]'', to the point where she [[ParentWithNewParamour helps his connect with his girlfriend's young daughter.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'': Big Mac gets a RelationshipUpgrade with Sugar Belle in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS7E8HardToSayAnything Hard To Say Anything]]", sinking Big Mac x Cheerilee which the episode makes clear was only a thing due to them being under the influence of a LovePotion and Big Mac x Marble Pie as ''[[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyBestGiftEver Best Gift Ever]]'' shows Marble's heartbroken reaction to the pairing.

* The creators of ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017'' flat out stated that they had zero intention of pairing Webby with any of the triplets, but the ship was officially sunk in the series finale, [[spoiler:when it's revealed that she is actually a clone made with Scrooge's [=DNA=], meaning she's their cousin.]]

* Many ''WesternAnimation/Ben10AlienForce'' viewers suspect that Ben/[[SatelliteLoveInterest Julie]] and [[StrangledByTheRedString Gwen/Kevin]] were designed to drown the oddly popular [[KissingCousins Ben/Gwen]] pairing from [[WesternAnimation/{{Ben 10}} the original series]].

* ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'':

* ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice'':

* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'': Big Mac gets a RelationshipUpgrade with Sugar Belle in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS7E8HardToSayAnything Hard To Say Anything]]", sinking Big Mac x Cheerilee which the episode makes clear was only a thing due to them being under the influence of LovePotion and Big Mac x Marble Pie as ''[[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyBestGiftEver Best Gift Ever]]'' show Marble's heartbroken reaction to the pairing.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'': During Season 2A and the hiatus, Hunter/Edric and Hunter/Emira became moderately popular ships, despite him never appearing on screen with them. In Season 2B, they finally encounter each other and both Blight twins are distinctly unimpressed by him. "''That's'' the Golden Guard?" By that point, Huntlow had eclipsed them in popularity, so nobody really minded.