History ShipToShipCombat / LiveACtionTV

* ''Series/PrettyLittleLiars'' has two. Aria/Ezra vs Aria/Jason and Emily/Paige vs Emily/Alison (there used to be a third faction of Emily/Maya, but that died off when Maya did). The latter can get really heated. The HateDumb is so extreme that the cast and writers have received death threats. You can't even mention Paige on twitter without getting a barrage of hate and the abuse was so bad that Creator/LindseyShaw, the actress that portrays Paige has quit social media all-together, attempted suicide and retired from acting.

* ''Series/{{Jericho}}'': The fans of Jake/Heather would argue pretty frequently with the also ship teased Jake/Emily fans. Jake/Emily is canon, Emily is a regular to Heather's guest star, and got far more screentime in Season One. Jake/Heather is more popular, Heather is rather well-liked in the fandom as a whole compared to Emily being at least a moderate case of TheScrappy, and Heather got far more screentime in Season Two. Jake/Emily fans say that they have a history together and have fittingly similar personalities, while Jake and Heather are nothing alike and she's naive and annoyingly perky. Jake/Heather fans say that Jake needs someone who's less trigger-happy, impulsive and angsty than he is, while Jake and Emily have a ''bad'' history together, and she's useless, self-entitled and a bit of a FauxActionGirl. There was even conflict amongst The Powers That Be; John Turteltaub supported Jake/Heather while Carol Barbee supported Jake/Emily. Barbee won.

* There are currently three ships fighting it out in the ''Series/AgentCarter'' fandom: [[LesYay Peggy/Angie]], [[NiceGuy Peggy/Sousa]], and [[BelligerentSexualTension Peggy/Thompson]]. Fortunately there hasn't been much violence, as everyone has been more focused on getting the show renewed.
* Although ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'' has several love triangles, it seems like the one causing the biggest divide centers on Jemma Simmons: you have those who prefer her with [[BadassNormal Triplett]] versus those who want her to respond positively if [[NonActionGuy Fitz]] ever manages to admit his feelings to her.
** Come the second season, battle lines are being drawn between Fitz/Simmons and [[HoYay Fitz/Mack]].
** The second and as notable major continuing rivalry also concerning Simmons is Ward/Simmons in the {{Friendly Rivalry}} and {{Foe Yay}} departments and Skye/Simmons for the {{LesYay}} and {{Romantic Two Girl Friendship}}. Both have a snowball effect in terms of fueling material, and chemistry overall.

* ''Series/Daredevil2015'':
** Post season 2 and during ''Series/TheDefenders2017'', there are several ships fighting it out when it comes to Matt Murdock's {{Love Interest}}s: [[HospitalHottie Matt/Claire]], [[OfficeRomance Matt/Karen]], and [[DestructiveRomance Matt/Elektra]]. The latter two are ones present in the comics as well.
** Karen Page is also given a case of this, with combat between the [[OfficialCouple Matt Murdock/Karen Page]] crowd and the [[CrackPairing Karen Page/Frank Castle]] crowd, over whether Matt or Frank would be a better boyfriend for Karen.

* ''Series/JessicaJones2015'' and ''Series/LukeCage2016'' have seen some ship combat between Luke/Jessica and Luke/Claire, both of which are canon pairings at different points in the comics the shows are based on.

* In ''Series/TheVampireDiaries'' fandom, there was always an intense rivalry between Stefan/Elena (Stelena) shippers and Damon/Elena (Delena) shippers. It seems that when Damon/Elena became the OfficialCouple of the series in season 4, it became even more intense. Sometimes the shipper wars between Stelena and Delena fans often turn into Salvatore brother wars, with Stefan fans sparring with Damon fans. As the series draws closer to the end, this particular shipping war predominately mellowed with the introduction of [[spoiler: Damon/Elena and Stefan/Caroline]] as likely endgame.
** Another shipper war taking place in the fandom is Tyler/Caroline (Forwood) shippers vs. Klaus/Caroline (Klaroline) shippers. Forwood shippers seem to be the less vocal fan base while the Klaroline fan base seems to be the more vocal fan base.
** In season 4, there was a minor shipper war between Stefan/Elena fans and Stefan/Rebekah fans. Throw in [[HoYay Stefan/Klaus]] and [[PlatonicLifePartners Stefan/Caroline]] fans as well into the war.
** As of season six, there's a very intense and heated rivalry between Stefan/Caroline fans and Stefan/Elena fans. Although, there are still those pesky and disgruntled Stefan/Katherine and even Stefan/Rebekah fans who don't want Stefan to be with either Elena or Caroline. Adding onto the Stelena vs. Steroline shipper war, there's also a division between those who ship Steroline platonically and those who ship Steroline romantically as well as people who want Caroline to end up with Enzo, Klaus, or Tyler instead of Stefan.
** There's also a shipper war brewing between Damon/Elena fans and Damon/Bonnie fans (not as intense as the SE and SC ship war though).
** A shipper war is beginning to brew between those who ship Damon/Bonnie (Bamon) and those who ship Kai/Bonnie ([=BonKai=]).
** ''Series/{{Legacies}}'': Not to the extent of its parent series, but the fandom still gets in a few shipping wars. These mainly happen between [[OfficialCouple Hope/Landon]] shippers and [[FanPreferredCouple Hope/Josie]] shippers. The two sides will often come to blows when the question of whom Hope should end up with comes up. Hope/Landon shippers will often point out that the show is built around the pair's bond, while Josie and Hope's crushes on each other are very much in the past, and in the present, they have a more sister-like bond. Hope/Josie shippers will often point to their actresses' approval as the reason that their ship should be endgame, while portraying Landon as a toxic influence on Hope, who constantly gives up on her.

** Strangely enough, if you ship Wash/Zoe you're safe from all sides. Probably because they're the only canon ship, and Joss gave them very lovely scenes together which left a lot of viewers pleased with that ship.

* ''Series/{{Glee}}''. Good Lord, where to begin? Thanks to the LoveDodecahedron nature of the show, any given character will have a fair number of onscreen relationships (both actual romances and [[HoYay subtext]]). ALL of which have their diehard supporters who will raise hell if their favorite pairing is broken up (or never started at all in the case of subtext). A particularly nasty ship war that comes to mind was in the second season between [[SchoolgirlLesbians Brittany/Santana]] and [[GiveGeeksAChance Brittany/Artie]], complete with accusations of ButNotTooGay for making Brittany date a boy, ButNotTooBi for making her stay with Santana in the end, and UnfortunateImplications for how Santana convinced Brittany to cheat on Artie with her, and whether or not Artie was justified in lashing out at Brittany which caused her to break up with him. This is but ''one'' example of the bitchfights between shippers. The forum battles get epic.

* ''Series/GirlMeetsWorld'' fandom had seeds of this in the first season, but it's gone off the charts now, to the point where it's been compared to the aforementioned [=iCarly=] shipping wars:
** Riley/Lucas was fairly popular, but the second season had them realize they're BetterAsFriends, dividing fans between those who hoped they would still get together in the end and those who thought them becoming endgame was unlikely and that Lucas/Maya would triumph instead. Even though the ships were finally decided in-show as of "Girl Meets the Ski Lodge Part 2" with Rucas (Riley and Lucas) and Joshaya (Josh and Maya), the ship wars still go on and even spill through ActorShipping too.

* ''Series/ICarly'' has "Creddie" [[JustFriends Carly/Freddie]] vs. "Seddie" [[SlapSlapKiss Sam/Freddie]]. A huge war began in Season 2 when the Sam/Freddie pairing shared their FirstKiss, after Freddie had openly pined for Carly prior to that point. The war grew as big [[WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender Kataang vs. Zutara]] did, while lasting longer. Both sides declared that WordOfGod secretly shipped their OTP, that WordOfGod was [[PanderingToTheBase pandering]] to one side before making the other canon, what color each ship 'owns', timing to the second how long various kisses lasted, thinking too much into freeze-frames and interpretations so involved the ''Series/DoctorWho'' fandom would be proud. The height of the conflict extended over a dozen websites and was notable for the ''entire'' fandom shifting from Website/LiveJournal over to Website/{{tumblr}} and restarting the war there. [[LesYay Carly/Sam also has a significant following]] that is hated on because they're both girls. It was such an integral part of the fandom that it was turned into an actual war, by the writers, in the episode ''iStart A Fan War'', featuring groups of supporters for the named ships fighting each other InUniverse.
** ''[[WhamEpisode iOMG]]'' saw the war continue into 2011 and after the Seddie storyline was indecisive with neither a ShipSinking or them becoming an OfficialCouple it has continued into 2012. For a show which started airing in 2007. Not even the finale of the series could stop the war. Sure, Carly goes out of her way to plant a big romantic kiss on Freddie, which he celebrates. But just prior to that event, Freddie had made a joke about 'wanting to get back together' with Sam. Then the [[Creator/DanSchneider creator]] put in a FlipFlopOfGod onto his blog about the ending, leaving Creddie fans trying to explain why you wouldn't just romantically kiss someone on the lips to say goodbye, while the Seddie fans cling to the creators explanation about it being a 'goodbye kiss' and hope that Freddie wasn't joking about wanting Sam back.
** The war continued '''onto another show'''. After the cancellation of ''Series/{{Victorious}}'' and the end of iCarly, Nickelodeon greenlit a new series, named ''Series/SamAndCat''. A crossover between Sam, and Cat from Victorious. Which has left the Seddie fandom pushing for a reunion to sink Creddie then give Sam & Freddie a RelationshipUpgrade even though Freddie isn't a cast member. Freddie has appeared in two episodes, and attraction was hinted between Sam and Freddie, but they haven't shown any signs of getting back together. It's not inconceivable that with a typical 4 season & Creator/DanSchneider's [[TrollingCreator trolling]], the war might have lasted into 2016 or even ''2017''. A full decade since the original iCarly pilot was filmed.
** However, with the cancellation of Sam & Cat, the Shipping War appears to have ended once and for all. That is, until a potential episode of Series/GameShakers that would threaten the shipping wars again with the typical TrollingCreator question: So who did Freddie pick at the end: Carly or Sam? It didn't help matters when said episode hints at a Game Shakers and iCarly crossover just for that basis alone- which later wasn't the case. Even in the episode alone, the answer never gets revealed. (Then again, this ''is'' Dan Schneider we're talking about.
** ''iCarly'' was [[Series/ICarly2021 revived]] in 2021. However, Sam was written out due to Creator/JennetteMcCurdy not wanting to continue acting, thus likely sinking Seddie for good. Carly and Freddie never got together either, but Creddie fans still have some hope.

** ''Series/{{Legacies}}'': Not to the extent of its parent series, but the fandom still gets in a few shipping wars. These mainly happen between [[OfficialCouple Hope/Landon]] shippers and [[FanPreferredCouple Hope/Josie]] shippers. The two sides will often come to blows when the question of whoever Hope should end up with comes up. Hope/Landon shippers will often point out that the show is built around the two's bond, while Josie and Hope's crushes on each other are very much in the past, and in the present, they have a more sister-like bond. Hope/Josie shippers will often point to their actress' approval as the reason that their ship should be endgame while portraying Landon as a toxic influence on Hope, who constantly gives up on her.

** Averted for a lot of straight pairings. For a show that on its surface is about two straight brothers and provides plenty of female romantic and sexual interests for them, straight pairings have never made a huge impact in the fandom and those who ship them are often just free to do what they want in their own little corner. This wasn't necessarily true in the early days, when slash shippers tended to gang up on anyone who dared ship Dean/Jo or Sam/Ruby, but that dynamic faded. The most popular het ship is probably Castiel/Meg followed by Sam/Eileen and these have crept into the many slash fictions as background or secondary ships.

* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' and ''Series/{{Angel}}'':

** Over time, the most contentious shipping question in the fandom shifted from "Which person is better for/more important to Dean?" to "Does Dean/Castiel stand a chance of becoming canon, or is it just [[BaitAndSwitchLesbians queerbaiting]], or are Destiel fans just delusional and trying to force their ship on other people?" when the ShipTease for Dean/Castiel seemed to increase significantly in later seasons but some comments by the show's writers seemed to indicate that they had no plans to make it canon, which caused such a massive outcry from Destiel fans that it caught the attention of several media outlets and sparked a wider discussion about queerbaiting in general that made some people who didn't ship Dean/Castiel or care about its canonicity grow weary of the ship and accuse Destiel fans of obsessing too much about it over everything else in the series. It didn't help that the actors themselves were divided on this issue, with Dean's actor being dismissive of any questions related to shipping or his character possibly being bisexual but Castiel's actor being an openly enthusiastic advocate of Destiel and it being all but canon. It ''really'' didn't help that the show's final season had [[spoiler:Destiel actually become half-canon with Castiel confessing his love for Dean, only for Castiel to be killed right after and be omitted almost entirely from the last two episodes with the finale focusing heavily on Sam and Dean's bond]].

** To a lesser extent, there's the question for Hawkeye/BJ shippers about what to do with BJ's canon wife Peg, with some saying she 'gets in the way' of Hawkeye/BJ and having her react rather homophobically to their relationship (which, to be fair, [[ValuesDissonance it WAS the fifties]]), and others thinking that she'd be compassionate enough to share BJ with Hawkeye, if not [[OneTrueThreesome join in herself]].

** To a lesser extent, there's the question for Hawkeye/BJ shippers about what to do with BJ's canon wife Peg with some saying she 'gets in the way' of Hawkeye/BJ and some thinking 'why NOT make it a OneTrueThreesome?'.

* ''Series/{{MASH}}'': For a show that ended in the eighties, the Hawkeye/Trapper vs Hawkeye/BJ wars are still going. It doesn't help that the show itself had Trapper leave without a note and the trauma of that lasted until the finale, with BJ jealous any time Trapper is mentioned and Hawkeye feeling like he's worthless when it feels like BJ left without a note too.

* ''Series/{{Victorious}}'': Early on in the fandom, Bori (Beck x Tori) shippers and Bade (Beck x Jade) shippers were known to get to arguments over which ship was better. This did settle down after most of the ShipTease between Beck and Tori was mostly dropped from the show, and Bade apparently won. However when Jori (Jade x Tori) exploded in popularity during season 2, and became just as, if not more, popular than Bade, Bade shippers started to feud with them. Jori shippers often painting Beck as a horrible boyfriend, while pointing out that Tori is usually the one to help Jade when she's upset. Meanwhile Bade shippers like to portray Tori as a BitchInSheepsClothing, who is not talented enough for Jade, and using arguments of how Nickelodeon would never allow it to become canon. Though mellowing out a bit since the show ended, it was somewhat reignited after the show was put on Netflix.

* Not extremely intense in ''{{Series/Highlander}}'' but Duncan/Amanda vs the portion of the fans that like Duncan/Methos paired and some who liked Tessa and think no one can compare. Anne is an exception, many didn’t like her at all, and the less said about Duncan/Kate in ''Film/HighlanderEndgame'' the better.

* ''Series/ForeverKnight'' has had 14 Ship Wars as of November 2011, and each take place as a virtual convention in Fan Fiction format on the fandom's main list, http://forkni-l.psu.edu. There are several "factions", grouped by favorite character or ships of said characters, and each factions name refers to those groups. "Knighties", for example, are fans of Nick Knight, the main character, "Cousins" are fans of "Uncle" Lucien La Croix, the Nick&Nat Pack are those that ship Nick and Natalie, and so on. The authors [[SelfInsertFic write for themselves]] and each faction writes for its character of focus. Each of these wars are meant to be fun, there is very little serious DieForOurShip.

* The problem with ''Franchise/LawAndOrder'' in ''any'' of its incarnations is that no-one ever gets together, ever, so the fans have to run with the subtext. And how. Arguably the best example is the approximate 50/50 split in the SVU fandom between Alex/Olivia and Elliot/Olivia, which, fuelled by the fact that ''both'' ships have had a ''lot'' of ShipTease over the years, can get fairly heated.
** But while the producers have [[ShipSinking sunk]] the Elliot/Olivia ship ''repeatedly'', Stephanie March has made the Alex/Olivia fans very happy. In an interview with After Ellen, not only is she ''not'' freaked the hell out by the LesYay implications, but admitted that she thinks it's possible that Alex and Olivia are in love, and that they may have been having a [[Series/{{CSI}} Grissom/Sara]]-eque quiet, offscreen relationship. [[LGBTFanbase We now have yet another reason to love you, Stephanie March]].
** An odd example has occurred in SVU fandom now that a couple actually ''has'' gotten together: [[spoiler:Detectives Amaro and Rollins]] have been established as having an affair. Some shippers of [[spoiler:Elliot and Olivia are pissed off, not because it's a threat to their ship (because it isn't), but simply because it's not fair that Amaro and Rollins get a hookup when E/O never did.]] What's funny is that a lot of fans whose ships have actually been sunk by this hookup ([[spoiler:Benson/Amaro and Fin/Rollins]]) have so far been a lot more calm about it.
* ''Series/LawAndOrderUK'': Even though both "pairings" were actually just UnresolvedSexualTension, there's a mild Matt/Alesha vs. James/Alesha debate.
* ''Series/TheSecretLifeOfTheAmericanTeenager'' has Ben/Amy vs. Amy/Ricky vs. Ricky/Adrian and even Adrian/Ricky vs. Ricky/Grace vs. Grace/Jack before Ricky and Grace broke up in Season 2 and Grace got back together with Jack. And yes, the writers play with all of these shippings and more. In fact, it's essentially the premise of the entire series. However, the biggest factions seem to be [[FanPreferredCouple Amy/Ricky]] vs. Amy/Anyone else and Ricky/Anyone else.

** Betty/Veronica]] is more popular than ever, encouraged by the pair kissing in the pilot, having a very close, supportive relationship, and Veronica spending a good chunk of the first two episodes trying to get Betty to like and trust her.[[note]]Though [[WordOfDante their actresses]] have stated that they will not be a couple.[[/note]] However, some more zealous shippers will accuse those who don't ship Betty/Veronica of homophobia, despite both girls showing interest in/dating boys.

* Series/{{Bones}}'': Do not try to argue in favor of Brennan/Sully to a Booth/Brennan shipper.

* ''Series/{{Friends}}''' final seasons had Ross/Rachel versus Joey/Rachel with Ross and Rachel fans citing the nine years of history between them, and Joey and Rachel fans arguing their personalities were more compatible. Most fans just rolled their eyes, tired of Rachel's [[{{RomanticPlotTumour}} romantic entanglements]]. There are still arguments today but they're pretty mild considering Ross/Rachel were end game (as most fans expected) and the Joey/Rachel relationship faded into non-existence. There's also a (pretty civil) debate about whether Phoebe should have chosen Mike, David, or Joey.
** One of the oddest ship wars took place between Ross/Rachel and Monica/Chandler. From Season 5 onward, fans argued over not who belonged together (both pairings worked separately) but which couple was "better". Ross/Rachel fans again armed themselves with history, their super couple status, WillTheyOrWontThey plotlines, their illegitimate baby, marriage (...and divorce) and endless pining. Monica/Chandler fans pointed out their couple actually made each other happy and stayed together.
* ''Series/{{Game of Thrones}}'':
** In Season 7, a part of the fandom has entered into a shipping war. In an interesting case of IncestYayShipping by both sides, there is a clash between shippers of [[SurpriseIncest Jonerys]] (Jon/Daenerys), which becomes canon, and shippers of [[KissingCousins Jonsa]] (Jon/Sansa). This Ship to Ship Combat was realized during the [[OvertookTheManga later seasons of the show]] when storylines started merging: Jon and Sansa’s storylines converge in Season 6 upon them [[PuttingTheBandBackTogether being the first of their family to reunite]] in years, whereupon supporters of Jonsa hoped they'd develop into something more, and then, in Season 7, Jon and Daenerys meet and eventually fall in love, with supporters of Jonerys hoping for marriage and kids. Jonerys and Jonsa shippers argue over a variety of points, including which of their ships is more incestuous but when it comes down to it, both involve biological blood ties. Of course, either way, incest isn't new in noble houses of the Seven Kingdoms. Jon and Daenerys are initially unaware [[spoiler:he is the son of Daenerys’s older brother Rhaegar Targaryen]] when they act on [[RelationshipUpgrade their feelings for each other]]. Meanwhile, Jon and Sansa have a familial relationship, viewing one other as half-siblings, [[spoiler:though they are cousins through Jon’s mother and Sansa’s aunt Lyanna Stark]].
** In Season 8, [[spoiler:neither Jonerys or Jonsa wins]][[note]]Jon's parentage complicates the romance between himself and Daenerys when they eventually learn the truth of his hidden identity. While they love one another, Jon is uneasy with their incest and Dany fears others will press Jon's unwanted claim to the Iron Throne over her own. In addition to [[DespairEventHorizon a series of losses and grief]], this leads into Dany's SanitySlippage -- she undergoes a FaceHeelTurn and becomes Westeros's greatest threat, forcing Jon [[KillTheOnesYouLove to reluctantly kill her]] and she dies in his arms as he grieves. Meanwhile, Sansa does survive the series and becomes Queen in the North -- but rules alone as her family members go in different directions (Bran becomes King of the Six Kingdoms, Arya sails west of Westeros, and Jon is exiled).[[/note]] -- [[spoiler:Jonerys ends in [[DownerEnding tragedy]] while Jonsa doesn't develop into romance.]] Jonerys fans clash with Jonsa fans, arguing Sansa had a hand in driving [[spoiler:Dany]] nuts by telling [[spoiler:Tyrion of Jon's parentage -- despite Jon having sworn Sansa to secrecy about his true identity.]] Jonsa fans argue that even without Sansa's interference, Daenerys [[spoiler:always had tyrannical tendancies and this is why much of Westeros wouldn't have followed her,]] opting they would have preferred Jon in any case. Fans of each ship continue to clash: arguing over which character is to blame, reasons why, and speculate what might happen after the end with each ship, and think up alternative-universe scenarios in which things had gone a different way.
* The fans of Jake/Heather (''Series/{{Jericho}}'') would argue pretty frequently with the also ship teased Jake/Emily fans. Jake/Emily is canon, Emily is a regular to Heather's guest star, and got far more screentime in Season One. Jake/Heather is more popular, Heather is rather well-liked in the fandom as a whole compared to Emily being at least a moderate case of TheScrappy, and Heather got far more screentime in Season Two. Jake/Emily fans say that they have a history together and have fittingly similar personalities, while Jake and Heather are nothing alike and she's naive and annoyingly perky. Jake/Heather fans say that Jake needs someone who's less trigger-happy, impulsive and angsty than he is, while Jake and Emily have a ''bad'' history together, and she's useless, self-entitled and a bit of a FauxActionGirl. Oh, there was even conflict amongst The Powers That Be; John Turteltaub supported Jake/Heather while Carol Barbee supported Jake/Emily. Barbee won.
* Rose vs. Martha vs. River bitchfights in ''Series/DoctorWho'' fandom get ''epic'', complete with racism, classism, occasionally ageism and sometimes, hilariously, speciesism -- some fans are actually capable of arguing that other than the Doctor's true love, all other companions are goldfish to him. Or hamsters. And then some fans follow up on this argument and elevate Doctor/Master to somewhat distressing levels. At large, whenever finding any post at all that discusses the Doctor's love life, the only right response is "in before [[http://wiki.fandomwank.com/index.php/Doctor_Who Fandom Wank]]".

** There are often fights between shippers of Whouffle or Whouffaldi (Doctor/Clara) and Yowzah (Doctor/River), over the Doctor's 11th and 12th incarnations.
** The above was cranked UpToEleven when River Song, despite having been BackForTheDead ''and'' PutOnABus ''and'' KilledOffForReal in Series 7, suddenly returned in the 2015 Christmas Special, "The Husbands of River Song", which resulted in a romantic interlude with her husband, the Twelfth Doctor. Which was all fine if not for the fact said episode aired three weeks after the conclusion of an epic and tragic romance - that had played out since River's apparent fadeout - between the Doctor (Eleventh and Twelfth) and Clara Oswald. Coupled with ageism from those who felt that it was more appropriate for 50-something Peter Capaldi to romance 50-something Alex Kingston on screen than late-20s Jenna Coleman, and a bit of speciesism given that River is said to be half Time-Lord and long-lived, whereas Clara was merely human, with a regular life span (well, until the Doctor made her immortal, at least). Not only did the two rival ships' fans go to full-scale war over who the Doctor loved more, this carried over for ''a full year'' and beyond when the 2016 Christmas special invoked River, not Clara. (Despite this being due to the fact the show established that the Doctor had undergone a voluntary MindRape and lost all memory of having been in love with Clara, and both the 2015 and 2016 specials containing subtle hints that Clara's influence carried over into the Doctor's interactions with and regarding River.) The announcement that the series was going to GenderSwap the Thirteenth Doctor appears to have little impact, given that both River and Clara (as Oswin) were established as having attractions to women in the very first episodes they appeared in. Twelve's swansong only fanned the flames when [[spoiler: River was omitted totally and the last person the Doctor saw before he underwent his GenderSwap was Clara, his memories fully restored of her at the end.]]
* ''Series/{{Hannibal}}'': Hannigram vs. Hannibal/Clarice. A one-sided battle as of early season 2, since most of the Hannibal/Will faction has never even heard of the earlier ship much less feels any need to fight over it, while the NMSL crowd is, um, zealous.
** Hannigram vs. Hannibloom now, given how the proceedings have turned out. (Will is the one truly akin to Clarice in his courtship with corruption.)
* ''Series/{{Torchwood}}'' has this for [[{{Canon}} Jack/Ianto]] fans who can get quite vicious toward the [[DieForOurShip Gwen/Jack]] fans. The Owen/Tosh contingent is much saner and calmer.
** After Ianto was [[spoiler: KilledOffForReal]] in Series 3 ([[Series/TorchwoodChildrenOfEarth "Children of Earth"]]), many who felt he and Jack were the OTP of the series didn't take kindly to Jack romancing other men in Series 4 (complete with sex scenes, something not shown between Jack and Ianto during their romance).
* In the ''Series/StargateSG1'' fandom, the two major ship factions were the Sam/Jack faction, and the Daniel/Jack slash faction with Sam/Daniel and Janet/Daniel shippers getting railroaded by both sides.
* ''Series/StargateAtlantis'' tended to split between John/Elizabeth and John/Teyla in Season 1. Come Season 2 John/Teyla supporters also faced Ronon/Teyla. (Either ShipMates of John/Elizabeth or AbandonShipping John/Teyla fans). Oddly enough, there wasn't much of a war between John/Elizabeth and John/Rodney -- the slashers tended to pair her off with Radek Zelenka or Steven Caldwell and portray her as John's BFF ShipperOnDeck instead. Come Season 4, it became more like [[WriterOnBoard McKeller]] ([=McKay=]/Keller) vs The Internet.
* ''Series/StargateUniverse'' manages an aversion in Scott/Chloe vs. [[GiveGeeksAChance Eli/Chloe]]. The rivalry is there, but the two groups are more often united against the [[{{Hatedom}} Chloe/Airlock]] group.
** And these all united against the [[{{hatedom}} Stargate Universe/Seventh Layer of Hell]] group.
** Also, a lot of Eli/Chloe fans jumped ship for [[GeekyTurnOn Eli/Ginn]] when it appeared.
* While not as severe as many examples, there is tension in the ''Series/{{Heroes}}'' {{Fandom}} between Mohinder/Sylar shippers and Mohinder/Matt shippers.
** Peter/Claire versus Sylar/Claire versus the fandom.
** Sylar/Claire versus Sylar/Elle.
* ''Series/VeronicaMars'' is the centre of some refreshingly vitriolic [[FlameWar flame wars]]. The two dominant camps are the Logan/Veronica and Duncan/Veronica ones -- in spite of [[spoiler:Duncan absconding to Australia at the end of season 2]] -- followed up by the progressively-smaller Piz/Veronica, Wallace/Veronica,[[CrackPairing Lamb/Veronica]], [[CrackPairing Mac/Veronica]] and [[{{Squick}} Keith/Veronica]]. You'd think the latter two didn't exist, but they're out there. Oh yes, they're out there. The longer the show went on the more it seemed to be the Logan/Veronica shippers vs the Veronica/Anyone But Logan shippers.
* ''Series/ICarly'' has "Creddie" [[JustFriends Carly/Freddie]] vs. "Seddie" [[SlapSlapKiss Sam/Freddie]]. A huge war began in Season 2 when the Sam/Freddie pairing shared their FirstKiss, after Freddie had openly pined for Carly prior to that point. The war grew as big [[WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender Kataang vs. Zutara]] did, while lasting longer. Both sides declared that WordOfGod secretly shipped their OTP, that WordOfGod was [[PanderingToTheBase pandering]] to one side before making the other canon, what color each ship 'owns', timing to the second how long various kisses lasted, thinking too much into freeze-frames and interpretations so involved the ''Series/DoctorWho'' fandom would be proud. The height of the conflict extended over a dozen websites and was notable for the ''entire'' fandom shifting from Website/LiveJournal over to Website/{{tumblr}} and restarting the war there. [[LesYay Carly/Sam also has a significant following]] that is hated on because they're both girls. It was such an integral part of the fandom that it was turned into an actual war, by the writers, in the episode ''iStart A Fan War'', featuring groups of supporters for the named ships fighting each other InUniverse.
** ''[[WhamEpisode iOMG]]'' saw the war continue into 2011 and after the Seddie storyline was indecisive with neither a ShipSinking or them becoming an OfficialCouple it has continued into 2012. For a show which started airing in 2007. Not even the finale of the series could stop the war. Sure, Carly goes out of her way to plant a big romantic kiss on Freddie, which he celebrates. But just prior to that event, Freddie had made a joke about 'wanting to get back together' with Sam. Then the [[Creator/DanSchneider creator]] put in a FlipFlopOfGod onto his blog about the ending, leaving Creddie fans trying to explain why you wouldn't just romantically kiss someone on the lips to say goodbye, while the Seddie fans cling to the creators explanation about it being a 'goodbye kiss' and hope that Freddie wasn't joking about wanting Sam back.
*** The war continued '''onto another show'''. After the cancellation of ''Series/{{Victorious}}'' and the end of iCarly, Nickelodeon greenlit a new series, named ''Series/SamAndCat''. A crossover between Sam, and Cat from Victorious. Which has left the Seddie fandom pushing for a reunion to sink Creddie then give Sam & Freddie a RelationshipUpgrade even though Freddie isn't a cast member. Freddie has appeared in two episodes, and attraction was hinted between Sam and Freddie, but they haven't shown any signs of getting back together. It's not inconceivable that with a typical 4 season & Creator/DanSchneider's [[TrollingCreator trolling]], the war might have lasted into 2016 or even ''2017''. A full decade since the original iCarly pilot was filmed.
** Not to mention the Carly/Sam shippers vs the Sam/Cat shippers.
*** However, with the cancellation of Sam & Cat, the Shipping War appears to have ended once and for all. That is, until a potential episode of Series/GameShakers that would threaten the shipping wars again with the typical TrollingCreator question: So who did Freddie pick at the end: Carly or Sam? It didn't help matters when said episode hints at a Game Shakers and iCarly crossover just for that basis alone- which later wasn't the case. Even in the episode alone, the answer never gets revealed. (Then again, this ''is'' Dan Schneider we're talking about.)
* ''Series/GirlMeetsWorld'' fandom had seeds of this in the first season, but it's gone off the charts now, to the point someone even compared it to the aforementioned [=iCarly=] shipping wars:
** Riley/Lucas was fairly popular, but the second season had them realize they're BetterAsFriends. While some fans still hold out hope that they'll get together in the end, a lot more think it's unlikely they'll be endgame and that it's a perfect gateway for Maya/Lucas, the number-one FanPreferredCouple. Later jossed below.

*** Lucas/Maya fandom is reaching critical mass, with shippers recently believing more and more that it will be canon, considering more romantic tones to their interactions in recent Season 2 episodes.

** The HoYay fans just want Riley/Maya to be canon both out of love for the ship and for wanting Disney to send a positive, pro-gay message via the show.
** Even though the ships were finally decided in-show as of "Girl Meets the Ski Lodge Part 2" with Rucas (Riley and Lucas) and Joshaya (Josh and Maya), the ship wars still go on and even spill through ActorShipping too.

* ''Series/SamuraiSentaiShinkenger'' has [[ShipMates Takeru/Mako and Chiaki/Kotoha]] vs Takeru/Kotoha vs [[HoYay Takeru/Ryuunosuke]], and Juzo/Dayu vs Doukoku/Dayu. Takeru being a major LauncherOfAThousandShips does not help.
** The first signs of Ship-To-Ship Combat for Franchise/SuperSentai appear to have begun with ''Series/HikariSentaiMaskman'', where more than twenty years on debates are still raging over whether Red Mask (also named Takeru!) should end up with [[OfficialCouple Iyal]], Momoko or Haruka, which neither have much interaction with Takeru.
** Ran/Jan vs Ran/Retsu for ''Series/JukenSentaiGekiranger''.
** And now, ''Series/KaizokuSentaiGokaiger'' has begun to heat up with the ShipMates of Marvelous/Ahim and Joe/Luka vs Marvelous/Luka and Joe/Ahim. [[ButtMonkey Don]] doesn't seem to get a look-in (and if he does, [[PairTheSpares he's usually paired off with]] [[SixthRanger Gai]] instead.)
** ''Series/TokusouSentaiDekaranger'' has an ongoing debate over Hoji/Jasmine vs Tetsu/Jasmine; the former group of shippers trying to push Hoji and Jasmine's positions as the most "pro" and "senior" of the team, the latter group arguing that Hoji is still hung up on his ex, [[StarCrossedLovers Teresa]], whose brother he killed.
** ''Series/ZyudenSentaiKyoryuger'' has Daigo/Amy vs Souji/Amy vs Utsusemimaru/Amy, and Daigo/Amy vs Daigo/Yayoi (the latter of which debate is [[LoveTriangle encouraged in the series itself.]])
*** And in Brave 39, Daigo/Mikoto joined the fray, turning the combat into a LoveDodecahedron.
** ''Series/UchuSentaiKyuranger'' has another "yes versus no" example, with the debates between fans who see Lucky and Garu's relationship as [[HoYay romantic]] and those who simply see it as [[ABoyAndHisX A Boy and His Anthropomorphic Dog]].

** In [[Series/SamuraiSentaiShinkenger the source material]], the ShipToShipCombat between the Chiaki/Kotoha shippers and the Takeru/Kotoha shippers was understandable because there was what could reasonably be interpreted as ShipTease for both pairings in the series. However, Emily has shown no discernable romantic interest in Jayden, nor he in her, so the fact that there are even Jayden/Emily shippers is puzzling to begin with.
*** Many Jayden/Emily shippers insist that, unlike Mike/Emily (who are obviously shown to be attracted to one another and [[spoiler:are holding hands when they leave the Shiba House for Emily's home at series' end]]), Jayden and Emily's "love" [[SubText is supposedly so deep that it isn't immediately obvious]], but ''[[SubText it is there]]''.
*** Some Jayden/Emily shippers admit to being general Red/Yellow shippers (whether or not the SubText even exists) out of their general dislike of the frequent Red/Pink ship (whether or not the SubText even exists). Some of these shippers also cop to being Takeru/Kotoha shippers who hoped that a Jayden/Emily ship would have been a sort of second chance for WordOfGod to give their chosen ship validation. Given that WordOfGod has all but declared Mike/Emily official, it would seem that the Chiaki/Kotoha shippers were the ones who got the second chance.

*** However, looks like the Jason/Kimberly shippers came out in full force again when the teaser for ''Film/PowerRangers2017'' came out which showed them kissing.

* ''Series/TheSecretLifeOfTheAmericanTeenager'' has Ben/Amy vs. Amy/Ricky vs. Ricky/Adrian and even Adrian/Ricky vs. Ricky/Grace vs. Grace/Jack before Ricky and Grace broke up in Season 2 and Grace got back together with Jack.
** And yes, the writers play with all of these shippings and more. In fact, it's essentially the premise of the entire series. However, the biggest factions seem to be [[FanPreferredCouple Amy/Ricky]] vs. Amy/Anyone else and Ricky/Anyone else.
* The ''Series/OnceUponATime'' fandom rocks this trope with the love life of poor Emma Swan. Though Emma herself is most concerned with her son, the fandom battles bloodily over whether she'll end up with [[BelligerentSexualTension Hook]], [[FirstGuyWins Neal]], or [[LesYay Regina]], particularly for the first two. Shippers will go as far as to try and ''boycott'' an episode heavily featuring a rival ship or harassing the writer's twitter if the show doesn't go in the direction they'd like, which has gotten even worse now that the Hook/Emma romance has gotten more media attention than the Neal/Emma romance ever did. It's gotten to the point that practically every third post on any given ship's tag on Tumblr is just telling everyone to calm the fuck down.
** The war between Hook/Emma and Neal/Emma has calmed down somewhat, since Season 3 resolved in favor of [[spoiler:Hook]]/Emma as the OfficialCouple. [[spoiler:Neal being dead also likely has something to do with it, since it's now impossible to pair him with Emma]]. On the other hand, as of Season 4, there's now a truly bloody war between Emma/Regina and [[OneTrueLove Robin/Regina]], with [[spoiler:Hook]]/Emma fans [[ShipMates naturally allying with the latter]].
* The ''Series/{{House}}'' fanbase is a fairly even split between Huddy (House/Cuddy), Hameron (House/Cameron) and Hilson (House/Wilson), all of whom spend a lot of time at each other's throats. All insist their ship is canon, based on purely circumstantial evidence.
** Hameron shippers were rabid over [[spoiler:Chase and Cameron's engagement, and continue to insist that they will DieForOurShip.]]
** It doesn't help that Hugh Laurie himself thinks the show will go through Huddy, Hameron, and Hilson if the show lasts long enough. Or that Robert Sean Leonard (who plays Wilson) has called the House/Cuddy storyline "boring" a number of times.
** When Cuddy started dating Lucas the Huddy fans and the Luddy fans got into some serious fights.
** And now that Cuddy and House have finally hooked up, shipping wars are usually between Huddy fans ("YES! This is SO overdue!), [[HoYay Hilson fans]] ("Ugh, not Cuddy! She sucks! HOUSE/WILSON FOREVER, BITCHES!") and the non-shippers ("I knew this show was going downhill! That's it, season 8 is NOT happening!"), with everyone accusing the other of being losers ("Huddies are brainless fangirls!" "Hilsons are delusional yaoi fanfic writers!" "Non-shippers are romanceless and blind!") And yes, you can expect every group to claim to be the majority.
** House and Thirteen seem too have waaaaay too much chemistry for it to be just a coincidence. Then again, even Chase and Thirteen do. Maybe she is just that way with everyone.
** It appears that [[spoiler:House/Wilson]] may have emerged as the unlikely victor in this shipping war after all, since [[spoiler:House faked his own death and literally rode off with Wilson into the sunset at the end of the series finale]].
** Chase and Foreman receive lots of hate from Cameron/Thirteen shippers for their respective involvement in Chameron and Foreteen. Surprisingly, it goes both ways, with Cameron and Thirteen receiving hate from Chase/Foreman shippers, for their involvement in Chameron and Foreteen.
* ''Series/{{Lost}}'': Jate and Skate shippers continue to be locked in battle.
** And in Season Five, the writers decided to add Suliet into the mix.
*** Everyone always forgets poor Jacket!
** Not to mention the Desmond/Claire vs. Charlie/Claire shipwars that happened in the earlier seasons, and the Michael/Sun vs. Jin/Sun shipwars...in fact, why don't you just go look at the season 1 Lost promo for the UK on Website/YouTube; it's a minute and a half of beautiful ship war dancing.
* ''{{Series/Firefly}}'' shippers of [[MentorShip River/Mal]] and [[FoeYay River/Jayne]] are locked solidly at each others' throats, if only because both of them have about the exact same amount of canon support for their respective ships, and it's probably a good idea to keep both sides isolated from the [[BrotherSisterIncest River/Simon]] shippers.
** For that matter, the Simon/Kaylee and Jayne/Kaylee shippers don't really see eye-to-eye on a lot of things. Can't imagine why.
** Suggesting that Nandi might have been better for Mal than Inara tends to really annoy the Mal/Inara shippers.
** And once you add ShipMates into the mix, the whole thing escalates into a full scale war between the Mal/Inara-Simon/Kaylee-Jayne/River alliance and the Mal/River-Jayne/Kaylee-Simon/Inara faction. And that's without even getting into the rivalries between popular slash pairings like Mal/Simon and Jayne/Simon or River/Kaylee and Inara/Kaylee.
*** And god forbid shipping the crazy underaged broken girl with anyone {{Squick}} you out.
*** If you ship Simon/Inara, Jayne/Kaylee and Mal/Zoe, the Jayne and Wash fangirls will hunt you down.
*** Strangely enough, if you ship Wash/Zoe you're safe from all sides. Probably because they're the only canon ship, and Joss gave them very lovely scenes together which left a lot of viewers pleased with that ship.
* ''Series/OneTreeHill'' fandom has the ongoing Brucas ([[OppositesAttract Brooke/Lucas]]) versus Leyton ([[BirdsOfAFeather Peyton/Lucas]]) ship war. This is despite the Brucas relationship being officially killed in Season 4; Lucas & Peyton getting married & having a baby in the final episodes of Season 6, with Brooke as the godmother & maid of honor; Lucas & Peyton outright leaving the show in Season 6; and Brooke officially becoming a ShipperOnDeck for the duo in Season 5. The war was still going on when the show ended in Season 9, three seasons after Lucas & Peyton left, and hasn't really ended even though the show has been off the air since 2012.
* ''Series/GossipGirl'' fandom has become somewhat of a BrokenBase}} between fans of Chuck and Blair versus Dan and Blair. Chuck and Blair had been declared endgame by WordOfGod but when Dan and Blair was introduced in S4 (romance in S5), many fans immediately loved the pairing.
** This ship war largely centers over perception of Chuck and whether he is a {{Jerkass}} or a {{Woobie}} after he (among other things) traded Blair for a hotel (yes this was a plot) and had a few {{Crazy Jealous Guy}} moments but also a possible redemption arc, depending who you ask.
** Another key issue is that Chuck and Blair are considered by fans BirdsOfAFeather and HighSchoolSweethearts in a DuelOfSeduction. Dan and Blair, by contrast, are considered by fans as a SlapSlapKiss and UptownGirl storyline with WittyBanter.
** Lastly there's the issue of perception of Blair and where she stands between AlphaBitch and LovableAlphaBitch. Is it OOC for the UptownGirl to choose the UnluckyEverydude.
** Less vocal are other smaller shipwars like Nate & Serena versus Dan & Serena (both couples are HighSchoolSweethearts). The Blair pairings however seem to be the most popular in the fandom.
** Don't forget the Nate and Serena vs. Nate and Jenny.
** As of the finale, Blair and Chuck and Dan and Serena each got married with Nate and Jenny single (leading writers to PairTheSpares)
* Back in the early ages of fandoms and fighting, there was the ''Series/{{JAG}}'' Shipping wars. All pairings were argued but beware and prepare if you favoured anyone currently going out with either Harmon Rabb or Sarah Macenzie.
** [[Manga/{{Naruto}} [=NejiHina=]/[=NaruHina=]/[=NaruSaku=]/[=SasuSaku=]]] fandoms seem sane by comparison.
* ''Series/{{Smallville}}''. The Clanaphiles, the Cloisers, and the Chlarkers have all been at each others' throats. More recently, since Clois and Chlollie gradually became the more dominant ships in and out of universe, many of the remaining Chlarkers have been at the Chlolliers' throats as well. The Clexers, on the other hand, are split between enjoying their HoYay while engaging in PassThePopcorn on the other shippers' FlameWar, and rabidly dedicated to the mission to depict all females and non-supervillains within ten miles of Clark Kent as vicious shrieking {{Yandere}}s or total morons. The Cloisers have also largely engaged in PassThePopcorn with one another while the non-canonical ships duke it out.

* ''Series/DarkAngel'' fans are split between [[NotBloodSiblings Max/Alec]] and Max/Logan, the latter being canon in the ExpandedUniverse books.
* ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'' fans argue whether Penny should be dating Leonard or Sheldon. A third faction insists that both pairings detract from the quality of the show. However, since the (majority of) the fans try to maintain a level of civility, it's more of a Cold War than an all-out firefight.
* For the first three seasons of ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'', the main ship war was between Sam/Dean shippers who loved the actors' chemistry enough that they were willing to overlook it being an [[IncestYayShipping incestuous ship]] and anti-Sam/Dean shippers who found the ship too {{squick}}y to support but didn't really have a rival ship to latch onto due to pretty much every other recurring character being either [[HetIsEw a female]] [[DieForOurShip widely hated by fans]] or [[ParentalSubstitute Bobby]]. When [[BreakoutCharacter Castiel]] was introduced in the fourth season, fans finally had a viable alternative m/m ship and the ship war morphed into a Sam/Dean vs. Dean/Castiel one (plus a smaller Sam/Castiel contingent who mostly kept quiet and stayed out of the Wincest vs. Destiel fights) with both sides getting enough ShipTease by the showrunners to keep butting heads for over a decade, all the way up to the final season where [[spoiler:Dean/Castiel became unexpectedly half-canon with Castiel confessing his love to Dean, only for Castiel to be promptly killed off and omitted almost entirely from the final two episodes with the finale focusing heavily on Sam and Dean's bond]], to much heated fan reaction.

** Another shipper war taking place in the fandom are Tyler/Caroline (Forwood) shippers and Klaus/Caroline (Klaroline) shippers. Forwood shippers seem to be the less vocal fan base while the Klaroline fan base seems to be the more vocal fan base.
** In season 4, there was minor shipper war between Stefan/Elena fans and Stefan/Rebekah fans. Throw in [[HoYay Stefan/Klaus]] and [[PlatonicLifePartners Stefan/Caroline]] fans as well into the war.
** As of season six, the season has only begun and there is already a very intense and heated rivalry between Stefan/Caroline fans and Stefan/Elena fans. Although, there are still those pesky and disgruntled Stefan/Katherine and even Stefan/Rebekah fans who don't want Stefan to be with either Elena or Caroline.
** Adding onto the Stelena vs. Steroline shipper war, there's also a division between those who ship Steroline platonically and those who ship Steroline romantically.
** Another shipper war going on in season six is the one between Stefan/Caroline fans and Enzo/Caroline fans.
** Also a shipper war between the Klaus/Caroline and Stefan/Caroline fans with a side of Tyler/Caroline fans.

** A shipper war is beginning to brew between those who ship Damon/Bonnie (Bamon) and Kai/Bonnie ([=BonKai=])
* The re-imagined ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|2003}}'' had some serious Anders/Starbuck vs. Lee/Starbuck wars. Apparently there were a lot of fanfics that depicted Anders being unfaithful to Starbuck whereas in the show, it was the other way. Thankfully most people abandoned it after the obnoxious love square of Season 3 in favor of the more solid and certainly more pleasant Roslin/Adama relationship.
** The finale may be considered a TakeThat to those who kept hanging on to the Lee/Starbuck pairing after Season 3. To summarise: [[spoiler: Starbuck and Anders both AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence to be TogetherInDeath. Lee Adama will live out the rest of his life on [[CrapsackWorld pre-historic Earth]]]].
* ''Series/{{Skins}}'' fans have a bizarre war going on between two completely canon and perfectly compatible ships; Freddie/Effy and Naomi/Emily. The war turns out to be rooted in the amount of screen time and importance the show gives to each (Naomily were the BetaCouple in S3, but Freffy became more Beta-like in S4). [[spoiler:Freddie being murdered by Effy's psychiatrist with a baseball bat]] in Effy's S4 episode has resulted in somewhat of a cease fire, though, as the two camps united against [[WriterOnBoard the common enemy]].
** Effy/Freddie vs. Effy/Cook counts as well.
** Similarly, ''Series/{{Glee}}'' has a war between Finchel and Klaine despite the fact that both work together. It's not a fair fight considering that B outnumbers A at least 3 to 1 and isn't even Rachel's biggest fanbase.
* Try to have any discussion about any character in ''Series/RobinHood'' and you'll probably end up in a Shipping War about whether Marian should have married Guy or Robin. Guy fans argue that Guy/Marian had more chemistry, [[RonTheDeathEater highlight Robin's faults]] (arrogance, impatience, immaturity) and [[DracoInLeatherPants downplay Guy's]] ''indiscretions'' (burning Marian's house down, threatening her with execution, dumping his infant son in the woods, killing innocent peasants, among ''many'' more). Robin fans cite hundreds of years worth of legend, the fact that Marian chose Robin of her own free will, that Guy [[spoiler:'''stabbed her to death with a giant sword''']], that Robin and Marian get a [[spoiler:TogetherInDeath]] scene, and that Guy himself eventually admits to Robin that "she was always yours." And the debate still rages...
* The ''Series/{{Merlin|2008}}'' fandom tends to be divided in [[HoYay slash]] and het camps-- those who think [[HeterosexualLifePartners Merlin and Arthur]] are [[BecauseDestinySaysSo fated to be]], and those who don't. The het camp was mainly comprised (in the beginning) by [[SlapSlapKiss Arthur/Morgana]], [[FoeYay Merlin/Morgana]], and a smaller faction of [[KnightInShiningArmor Lancelot/Gwen]] shippers, and all these factions were relatively civil to each other. However, [[ThePowersThatBe the writers]] did not help matters any by giving the characters' relationships a drastic turn-around in series two and declaring most of these ships DoomedByCanon via the inclusion of the (mostly non-existent in series 1) Arthur/Gwen ship, complete with TrueLovesKiss and everything. This resulted in most of the other shipping camps putting down not only this ship but ''[[TheyChangedItNowItSucks the show as a whole]]'' for reasons varying from "bad writing," to "feels forced," to TPTB [[ItsTheSameNowItSucks not being bold enough to deviate from the original Arthurian myth]]. Arthur/Gwen shippers, not to be deterred, [[ArmedWithCanon arm themselves with canon]] to defend their ship, making the ship debates hark back to times OlderThanPrint.
** With the conclusion of series 3, the shipping war finds itself in a bizarre stalemate. [[BrotherSisterIncest Arthur/Morgana]] was well and truly [[ShipSinking sunk]] with the revelation that the two of them are half-siblings, and Merlin/Morgana took a bit of a battering due to the fact that Morgana is now trying to [[AxeCrazy kill everyone]] (though the two make up for it thanks to the insane amounts of FoeYay between them - [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPTZLIetuGU this scene]] is widely known as "the eye-fucking in the woods"). After what was initally a case of StrangledByTheRedString, the writing of [[OfficialCouple Arthur/Gwen]] significantly improved, leading to a wider acceptance of these two as a couple (as well as a FlashForward to Guinevere's coronation that more or less cemented them as end game). However, the reappearance of [[LoveTriangle Lancelot]] at the end of the season has led to many [[HetIsEw Arthur/Merlin]] shippers hoping that the legendary LoveTriangle will take place so that Arthur turns to Merlin for comfort. However, since this is Saturday night family programming, the odds of that happening are practically nil.
*** End of season four update: Sure enough, the Lancelot/Guinevere liaison was the result of an enchantment and Arthur and Guinevere got married at the end of the season. [[http://merlin-network.livejournal.com/281606.html#cutid1 Latest reports from the set of season five]] have indicated that Guinevere will have a more prominent role in the show now that she's Queen of Camelot, and that she'll be Arthur's main confidant. Merthur fans have ''not'' taken this particularly well, and some are complaining that her presence is going to ruin the bromance dynamic.
* Things got a bit hairy within the fandom of ''Series/TerminatorTheSarahConnorChronicles'' once the John/Cameron ship's popularity became more prevalent. Some fans found the idea of John Connor, the man who smashed Skynet being a {{Robosexual}} to be inherently [[{{Squick}} squicky]]. Detractors would latch on to whatever alternatives they could find, as long as they weren't [[FantasticSlurs metal]]. First it was John/[[ChuckCunninghamSyndrome Cheri]], then it was John/[[TheMole Riley]], finally John/[[MySiblingWillLiveThroughMe Allison]] before the series was [[CliffHanger abruptly canceled]]. You even had some who clung to the idea that [[CanonForeigner Kate Brewster]] would eventually show up and re-establish ''Film/{{Terminator 3|RiseOfTheMachines}}'''s OfficialCouple, despite the fact that in TSCC's contnuity John would be a bit young for her (due to TimeTravel).
* Not quite Ship to Ship, but ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' fandom has been arguing for ''decades'' about whether Kirk and Spock are lovers or just very close friends. Shippers accuse non shippers of ignoring the "glaring" [[HoYay subtext]], non shippers accuse the shippers of "ruining" a great platonic friendship. You'd think people on both sides would've agreed to live and let live by now. (Mind you, the fact several of the earliest original ''Star Trek'' novels contained moments of HoYay didn't help.)
** On the other hand, Kirk/Spock versus Spock/[=McCoy=] tends to be a pretty laid-back argument (which, it must be said, frequently culminates in the agreeable solution of [[OneTrueThreesome having a threesome]]).
* Despite the majority of the [[FanPreferredCouple fandom preferring Jess/Rory]], the fandom still bickers over who is the right boyfriend for [[Series/GilmoreGirls Rory Gilmore]].
** And when Buzzfeed weighed in with their support for Rory/Logan, the comments predictably started fighting over which of the three boyfriends were the best for Rory.
* The problem with ''Franchise/LawAndOrder'' in ''any'' of its incarnations is that no-one ever gets together, ever, so the fans have to run with the subtext. And how. Arguably the best example is the approximate 50/50 split in the SVU fandom between Alex/Olivia and Elliot/Olivia, which, fuelled by the fact that ''both'' ships have had a ''lot'' of ShipTease over the years, can get fairly heated.
** But while the producers have [[ShipSinking sunk]] the Elliot/Olivia ship ''repeatedly'', Stephanie March has made the Alex/Olivia fans very happy. In an interview with After Ellen, not only is she ''not'' freaked the hell out by the LesYay implications, but admitted that she thinks it's possible that Alex and Olivia are in love, and that they may have been having a [[Series/{{CSI}} Grissom/Sara]]-eque quiet, offscreen relationship. [[LGBTFanbase We now have yet another reason to love you, Stephanie March]].
** An odd example has occurred in SVU fandom now that a couple actually ''has'' gotten together: [[spoiler:Detectives Amaro and Rollins]] have been established as having an affair. Some shippers of [[spoiler:Elliot and Olivia are pissed off, not because it's a threat to their ship (because it isn't), but simply because it's not fair that Amaro and Rollins get a hookup when E/O never did.]] What's funny is that a lot of fans whose ships have actually been sunk by this hookup ([[spoiler:Benson/Amaro and Fin/Rollins]]) have so far been a lot more calm about it.
* ''Series/XenaWarriorPrincess'' had some incredibly intense shipping wars between Xena/Gabrielle and Xena/Ares due to its spillover into real-world issues of LGBT rights and representation. In a time when there was virtually no positive LGBT representation on television, the implied relationship between Xena and Gabrielle was all that viewers had. Picking up on this, the writers and actors played up the subtext. Xena/Ares and other shippers denounced this as PanderingToTheBase. Xena/Gabrielle shippers, or "Subbers" often interpreted this as homophobia.
** And it was even worse with Gabrielle/Joxer shippers, as subbers not only hated the ship but hated comedic characters like Joxer.
* With their omnipresent [[LoveTriangle love triangles]] and [[SuperCouple super couples]], [[SoapOpera soaps]] are the source of some of the most heated shipping wars in existence, and the extremes that some shippers go to can get pretty damned creepy:
** ''Series/{{Passions}}'': Do NOT mention Sheridan and Luis to a Fancy and Luis fan and [[SeriousBusiness DEFINITELY DO NOT mention Fancy and Luis]] to a Sheridan and Luis fan.
** ''Series/AsTheWorldTurns'' has the Luke/Noah shippers vs. Luke/Reid shippers. Mention the Nuke's borderline DestructiveRomance or Reid's DrJerk persona and you'll be brutally attacked. [[DieForOurShip It doesn't end well for Reid.]]
** [[Series/TheBoldAndTheBeautiful Brooke/Ridge vs. Taylor/Ridge]] and [[Series/GeneralHospital Brenda/Jax vs. Brenda/Sonny]] have been going on for ''two decades''.
* ''Series/{{Degrassi}}'''s Season 9 movie seemed to spark this, as the canon pairing became Spinner/Emma which annoyed all Sean/Emma and Spinner/Jane fans. Before that, there was Sean/Emma vs. Sean/Ellie, Sean/Ellie vs. Craig/Ellie, Craig/'female character' vs. Craig/'female character' vs. ''[[HoYay Craig/'Male character']]'', Declan/Holly J vs. Spinner/Holly J, Declan/Holly J vs. Declan/Clare, Eli/Clare vs. K.C./Clare vs. Declan/Clare vs. [[LesYay Jenna/Clare]]... I could go onm but I would break the page.
** The anger at Spinner/Emma had less to do with Sean/Emma and Spinner/Jane as it had to do with [[ShipsThatPassInTheNight the fact that Spinner and Emma have had about five minutes total screen time together in nine seasons.]]
** And let's not forget how much ship-to-ship combat Sean/Emma went through before that. ChickMagnet boyfriend + CreatorsPet girlfriend = lots of people shipping Sean/anyone but Emma. To wit, Sean has been paired with [[CreatorsPet Emma]], [[EnsembleDarkhorse Ashley]], [[FanPreferredCouple Ellie]], and Amy in canon; in fanfic, this includes [[CrackPairing Paige]], [[{{Tsundere}} Manny]], [[HoYay Craig]], [[IncestSubtext Tracker]], and [[HoYay Jay]].
** Now part 3 of season 10 has Fiona/Adam vs. Fiona/Holly J. Full. Freaking. Stop.
** And now that Holly J has [[ShipSinking pretty much stated]] that [[IncompatibleOrientation she's straight]] [[UnresolvedSexualTension and probably still in love with Declan]] it's [[SiblingTriangle Declan/Holly J vs. Fiona/Holly J.]]
* ''Series/ForeverKnight'' has had 14 Ship Wars as of November 2011, and each take place as a virtual convention in Fan Fiction format on the fandom's main list, http://forkni-l.psu.edu. There are several "factions", grouped by favorite character or ships of said characters, and each factions name refers to those groups. "Knighties", for example, are fans of Nick Knight, the main character, "Cousins" are fans of "Uncle" Lucien La Croix, the Nick&Nat Pack are those that ship Nick and Natalie, and so on. The authors [[SelfInsertFic write for themselves]] and each faction writes for its character of focus. Each of these wars are meant to be fun, there is very little serious DieForOurShip.
* ''Series/BigWolfOnCampus'' has [[HoYay Tommy/Merton]] VS Tommy/Lori VS Tommy/Stacy VS Merton/Lori VS Tommy/Becky among others.
* In the ''Series/{{NCIS}}'' fandom, Gibbs/Tony slashers and Tony/Ziva shippers ''hate'' each other. Violently. G/T fans also like to make Ziva [[DieForOurShip Die For Their Ship]]. Kate doesn't get ''nearly'' as much flak.
* ''Series/{{Glee}}''. Good Lord, where to begin? Thanks to the LoveDodecahedron nature of the show, any given character will have a fair number of onscreen relationships (both actual romances and [[HoYay subtext]]). ALL of which have their diehard supporters who will raise hell if their favorite pairing is broken up (or never started at all in the case of subtext). A particularly nasty ship war that comes to mind was in the second season between [[SchoolgirlLesbians Brittany/Santana]] and [[GiveGeeksAChance Brittany/Artie]], complete with accusations of ButNotTooGay for making Brittany date a boy, ButNotTooBi for making her stay with Santana in the end, and UnfortunateImplications for how Santana convinced Brittany to cheat on Artie with her, and whether or not Artie was justified in lashing out at Brittany which caused her to break up with him. This is but ''one'' example of the bitchfights between shippers. The forum battles get epic.
* ''Series/{{Tinsel}}'': Team Kwame vs. Team Soji over Telema Duke. The fandom can get quite vicious at times with Team Soji fans labelling Team Kwame fans liars and Team Kwame fans calling their rivals wimps.
* Usually averted in ''Series/CriminalMinds'' fandom, largely due to the fact that since Haley Hotchner was killed there are precisely no canon ships to get invested in. The conflict is, instead, between those who ''want'' ships in canon and those who don't. However, a scene or two that appeared to hint about something shippy possibly developing between Reid and [[TheScrappy Ashley Seaver]] at some point in the future galvanised a certain Anti-Ship Combat from those who specifically didn't want ''that'' ship happening.
* An in-universe example occurs in ''Series/{{Community}}'' episode [[Recap/CommunityS1E25PascalsTriangleRevisited Pascal's Triangle Revisited]] between "Team Britta" and "Team Slater". Out of universe, Jeff/Slater had almost no support, while Jeff/Britta didn't really have much more. The most popular ship by miles was Jeff/Annie, with the (distant) second place being Annie/Abed.

* A fanwar was attempted on Fanfiction.net for ''Series/TheSuiteLifeOnDeck'' between Cody/Bailey (Cailey) and Zailey (Zack/Bailey). It managed to be avoided when initiator was revealed to be a Cailey shipper posing as a Zailey shipper.
* This broke out in ''Series/{{CSINY}}'' fandom, though it was more of a case of "many ships against one ship" in the case of the Danny/Lindsay ship ([[HoYay Danny/Flack]], Danny/Angell, Danny/Rikki, and Danny/anyone-but-Lindsay vs. Danny/Lindsay). Claims of no chemistry, lack of believability, excessive screentime, were among the arguments flung against Danny/Lindsay by the anti-D/L faction, compounded by their general dislike for Lindsay as a character.
** Mac is also in the middle of this, with Mac/Jo vs. Mac/Stella vs. Mac/Christine vs. Mac remaining single, eternally mourning Claire. Mac/Peyton is the exception because Peyton is generally regarded as TheScrappy. There is a Mac/Lindsay faction, plus the inevitable slash ships, but the four previously mentioned groups are the primary combatants.
* ''Series/{{CSI}}'' had conflict over Grissom/Sara, mainly from Grissom/Catherine, Sara/Nick and Sara/Greg at the beginning, but Grissom/Catherine sort of tapered off afterwards, following this, it never narrowed down into one ship against another, it was more another 'many ships against one' thing.
* Series/{{Bones}}. Do not try to argue in favor of Brennan/Sully to a Booth/Brennan shipper.
* ''Series/TheATeam'' has had near-constant conflict between two primary ships - Hannibal/Face and Murdock/Face. While all out ship wars aren’t the norm for this fandom, fans are still extremely defensive about their {{OTP}}s, with a simmering Cold War of sorts stretching back to the mid-80s. The argument, however, usually seems to be mostly concerned with who Face happens to be sleeping with on the team. Both camps tend to cite a plethora of examples from episodes as to which ship [[{{Fanon}} is better supported by canon]], despite the fact that the show contains roughly equal amounts of [[HoYay unintentional innuendo from Hannibal, and inappropriate touching by Murdock]]. [[FanPreferredCouple Murdock/Face]], however, typically wins out as most popular.
** This problem has been further compounded by the [[Film/TheATeam 2010 movie]], which most new fans claim more heavily supports Hannibal/Face, or even B.A./Face or Sosa/Face ([[HetisEw gasp]]!), over Murdock/Face, leading to tensions with the old fans of the show.
** Some fans choose to bypass this conversation altogether, and go for a [[{{Polyamory}} Hannibal/B.A./Murdock/Face]] ship instead, although this, again, is more common in the [[Film/TheATeam movie]] fandom.
* Even a relatively obscure fandom like Series/TheAddamsFamily isn't safe. A ship war that began with the advent of the Broadway musical pits Wednesday's adolescent crush Joel (from the second movie) against her fiance Lucas (from the musical). The factions might as well be re-named "Those Who Haven't Seen The Musical" and "Those Who Have" respectively.
* In the ''Series/{{Hollyoaks}}'' fandom, there is the Stendan VS Stug war which raged on to disturbing levels, where even side ships that didn't take place (Bruglas shippers) got attacked. Now that Stendan won, but Brendan has gone off to prison for the foreseeable and Stug has been pronounced dead (regardless of being married still), the Stendan shippers have turned their hate to anything Doug related, which is his new pairing with John Paul, which sees the end of [=McDean=] and who knows when this will end.
* ''Series/PrettyLittleLiars'' has two. Aria/Ezra vs Aria/Jason and Emily/Paige vs Emily/Alison (there used to be a third faction of Emily/Maya, but that died off when Maya did). The latter can get really heated. The HateDumb is so extreme that the cast and writers have received death threats. You can't even mention Paige on twitter without getting a barrage of hate and the abuse was so bad that Creator/LindseyShaw, the actress that portrays Paige has quit social media all-together, attempted suicide and retired from acting.
* In the ''Series/GilligansIsland'' fandom, as mentioned in the main page's quote, there's ''severe'' rivalry over who Mary Ann belongs with--Gilligan or the Professor. With Ginger, there isn't as much--Mary Ann/Gilligan shippers often favor Professor/Ginger, while Mary Ann/Professor ones may opt for Ginger/Skipper or Ginger/Gilligan.
* After the introduction of Mary Morstan, the ''Series/{{Sherlock}}'' fandom has largely splintered into John/Mary shippers, Johnlock shippers who like Mary and try to calm the more rabid shippers down, and [[OneTrueThreesome Sherlock/John/Mary]] shippers vs. rabid Johnlock shippers who insist that Mary has come between their precious OTP and ruined their friendship and [[DieForOurShip loudly declare their hope that she is killed off, preferably painfully]]. ([[Literature/HarryPotter Does this sound familiar?]])
* Similar conflicts currently plague ''Series/TheWalkingDead'' mainly between shippers of Daryl/Carol and Daryl/Beth (neither of which has gotten beyond ShipTease canon-wise) - and if anything, after [[spoiler:Beth's death turning Daryl/Beth into a GhostShip]] it got ''worse''. The small handfuls of Daryl/Michonne and Daryl/Rick shippers are largely ignored, as are Glenn/Daryl shippers (and anyone with a ship that doesn't include a certain cranky redneck).
** A growing fan base of Daryl/Rosita has been thrown into the mix in recent seasons
* If you are a fan of ''Series/HouseOfAnubis'' who believed that, in the second season, Joy and Fabian were a better pairing than Nina and Fabian were, you would not last long before getting flamed. This ship-war started at the end of the first season, when Joy wasn't even a main character and had not even done anything yet, which Nina/Fabian shippers would often ignore and paint her as a bad guy anyways. The Nina/Fabian shippers had Canon on their side, and argued that Nina and Fabian had always liked each other, that the pairing was too popular to be sunk (season 3 events notwithstanding) and pointed out that everything Joy was doing ruined her chances. On the other side, Joy/Fabian shippers claimed that Nina was abusive and Joy would have been nicer to Fabian in the long run, that Joy and Fabian were best friends before the events of Season One, and that they had better chemistry. Things seemed to have calmed down in the third season, however, just to make way for a new (but less vicious) war between the Patricia/Eddie shippers and the KT/Eddie shippers, which lost some steam on the KT/Eddie side when it became obvious that Eddie still liked Patricia and KT was not going to try and do anything that would hurt Patricia.
* ''Series/{{Arrow}}'' generally has a fairly mellow group of shippers, with Oliver/Felicity and Oliver/[[spoiler: Sara]] shippers generally cool with each other and united in their dislike of the Oliver/Laurel pairing. That being said, smaller segments of all groups (with the pro-Felicity and anti-Laurel contingent in the lead) can get rather nasty at times. Eventually, the Felicity/Oliver pairing got so popular that it was made canon in Season 3. By Season 4, however, "Olicity" had largerly fallen out of favour because of how poorly it was handled: Because of all the relationship drama Felicity had lost the cute and charming nature that made her so popular in the first place while Oliver became increasingly more of a DesignatedHero. Laurel, by contrast, got RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap for a large part of the fanbase, meaning their ship gained a small following again, that only kept growing as Laurel became the CoolBigSis of the group while Felicity and Oliver only went through more relationship drama. [[spoiler:After Laurel was killed off to fulfill the "who's in the grave"-arc, a large part of the fanbase vocally wished that it had been Felicity instead.]]
* Although ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'' has several love triangles, it seems like the one causing the biggest divide centers on Jemma Simmons: you have those who prefer her with [[BadassNormal Triplett]] versus those who want her to respond positively if [[NonActionGuy Fitz]] ever manages to admit his feelings to her.
** Come the second season, battle lines are being drawn between Fitz/Simmons and [[HoYay Fitz/Mack]].
** The second and as notable major continuing rivalry also concerning Simmons is Ward/Simmons in the {{Friendly Rivalry}} and {{Foe Yay}} departments and Skye/Simmons for the {{LesYay}} and {{Romantic Two Girl Friendship}}. Both have a snowball effect in terms of fueling material, and chemistry overall.
* There are currently three ships fighting it out in the ''Series/AgentCarter'' fandom: [[LesYay Peggy/Angie]], [[NiceGuy Peggy/Sousa]], and [[BelligerentSexualTension Peggy/Thompson]]. Fortunately there hasn't been much violence, as everyone has been more focused on getting the show renewed.
* ''Series/Daredevil2015'':
** Post season 2 and during ''Series/TheDefenders2017'', there are several ships fighting it out when it comes to Matt Murdock's {{Love Interest}}s: [[HospitalHottie Matt/Claire]], [[OfficeRomance Matt/Karen]], and [[DestructiveRomance Matt/Elektra]]. The latter two are ones present in the comics as well.
** Karen Page is also given a case of this, with combat between the [[OfficialCouple Matt Murdock/Karen Page]] crowd and the [[CrackPairing Karen Page/Frank Castle]] crowd, over whether Matt or Frank would be a better boyfriend for Karen.
* This sprang up in ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'' with the finale. If you were a fan who believed that, in the series finale, [[spoiler: that Ted deserved to get back together with Robin after the death of the mother]], you would not last long before getting flamed by both Ted/[[spoiler:Tracy(AKA the Mother) and Robin/Barney]] shippers, [[spoiler: both of which were sunk in the finale]]. The latter argue that their pairings had better chemistry, had more canon support, [[spoiler: and were genuinely much more developed, and that the show itself railed against a relationship between Ted and Robin for 9 STRAIGHT YEARS, and as such undos the CharacterDevelopment and key themes for the entire series, and ended up inferring that Ted never loved Tracy at all]][[note]]this has actually gotten to the point where diehard Robin/Barney shippers have accused one of the creators of the show of ''misogyny'' and inability to move on from his own [[UnfortunateImplications childhood men's fantasies]], through there isn't any evidence to either of this[[/note]]. The former argues that [[spoiler: Ted needed to move on after mourning Tracy's death for 6 years, that the final scene never inferred he didn’t love Tracy, and that [[TrueArtIsAngsty that the Ted/Tracy and Robin/Barney shippers wanted a naive and happy sugar-coated unambiguous Disney Ending that goes against the Show's Themes]]]]. Given the reaction to the finale, take a guess which side is the most predominant in the fandom[[note]]and the predominant side actually ended up winning in the long run considering the nature of the official alternate ending[[/note]].
* ''Series/FakingIt'', which - ignoring Liam - is determinedly pitting the Karmy Army against the Reamy Navy.
* Things got really ugly really quickly on the shipper front when it came to Series/SleepyHollow, and didn't get any better by the third season. Ichabod/Abbie shippers don't want to even hear the word 'platonic', and if you dare to bring up Katrina, or any other woman in Ichabod's life (past ''or'' present)...
* Things are getting ''real'' ugly between the Bellarke shippers and Clexa shippers in the ''Series/The100'' fandom. Bellamy/Clarke is the canon ship in the novel, but Clarke/Lexa is the canon ship in the television show. To add even more to this mess, Clarke and Lexa are both girls. This means the opponents (usually "Bellarkers") gets accused of homophobia.
** And yet, the two camps appear to ignore that the producers of the television show ''and'' the writer of the novel have had gone on record, ''multiple times'', that the show and book are two totally different matters. What is canon in one isn't in the other.
** The shippers have now dragged the writers into their shipping war, even including sending ''threats'' to the writers.
** Upon the death of [[spoiler: Lexa]], the shipping war has largely died down. The war on the showrunner seems to just be beginning.
** And now a new war is erupting between the "Bellarkers" and the "Braven" (Bellamy/Raven) and "Becho" (Bellamy/Echo) camps.
*** Put simply, the Braven and Becho camps are fine with each other; they're just more preoccupied with the Bellarkers, who are prone to attacking them... and the character Echo (Raven gets spared)... and the actors... and the show writers.
*** Only got worse upon the death of [[spoiler:Bellamy]] at the hands of [[spoiler:Clarke]].
** It remains to be seen if the series finale has finally put this ship war to rest, with the revelation that Lexa was [[spoiler:Clarke's [[OneTrueLove greatest love]] after all.]]
* ''Series/{{Riverdale}}'', like its source material, is ''rife'' with shipping combat, and things can get pretty ugly:
** There’s the classic BettyAndVeronica LoveTriangle with Archie at the centre, so of course [[ChildhoodFriendRomance Archie/Betty]] and [[LoveAtFirstSight Archie/Veronica]] fans are still prevalent – but [[ThirdOptionLoveInterest Valerie]] also has chemistry with Archie [[spoiler: and the pair have kissed.]] Both Betty and Veronica are extremely likable in this adaptation of ''Archie'', though some of the original comic characters' traits seem to be tacked on to the ''Riverdale'' girls from the ShipToShipCombat in the comic fandom - like Veronica being a RichBitch or Betty being an obsessive {{Yandere}}. Archie is also shipped with his best friend, Jughead, though that fandom seems relatively quiet in comparison. And, luckily, ''every single ship'' is positioned against [[{{Ephebophile}} Miss Grundy]]/[[DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale Archie]].
** Betty/Veronica]] is more popular than ever, encouraged by the pair kissing in the pilot, having a very close, supportive relationship, and Veronica spending a good chunk of the first two episodes trying to get Betty to like and trust her.[[note]]Though [[WordOfDante their actresses]] have stated that they will not be a couple.[[/note]] However, some more zealous shippers will accuse those who don't ship Betty/Veronica of homophobia, despite both girls showing interest in/dating boys.
** Most controversial is [[BroodingBoyGentleGirl Jughead]]/[[OppositesAttract Betty]], which seems to be the generally FanPreferredCouple with both the fandom and the creators/actors. However, it's also the subject of debate because it is “in the way” of other ships, that it is [[StrangledByTheRedString too pushy on the audience]] or because the [[ComicBook/ArchieComics2015 2015 reboot]] explicitly made Jughead asexual (whether or not he is aromantic is hotly debated in fandom, with Chip Zdarsky giving a ShrugOfGod) – leading to fans arguing about whether he is ace-spectrum in ''every'' continuity, if he ''should'' be, with many supporters of the ship arguing that he can remain ace ''and'' have romantic relationships, or that his relationships may lead him to discover he is ace [[note]]Many asexual-spectrum people do date and seek romantic or affectionate companionship, enjoying kissing and cuddling or other forms of romantic affection – they just generally don’t feel ''sexual'' attraction, which is different from ''romantic'' attraction - see the UsefulNotes for {{Asexuality}}[[/note]] With Jughead and Betty's ShipTease ramping up [[spoiler: and their becoming a [[OfficialCouple couple]] midway into the season]], things have gotten more heated, with some particularly venomous anti-fans calling those who enjoy the ship "scum", and taking to [[WhyFandomCantHaveNiceThings sending aggressive messages to the cast and crew]] to delete their accounts or "just die" on Twitter.[[note]]To make things more complicated, the comic that explicitly confirmed Jughead was ace came out ''after'' the CW had ordered the pilot in January 2016, and the show had been in production since 2013-2014, which makes it very probable that they already had all the major story beats written well before and would have had to go back into DevelopmentHell in order to rewrite much of Jughead's plot. And, of course, it's possible that this plot may actually ''be'' in the second half of the first season or may be explored in subsequent seasons, especially since Cole Sprouse himself is very interested in exploring the concept.[[/note]]
* Many fans of ''Series/{{Victoria}}'' fall into either Camp Vicbourne - the MayDecemberRomance / IntergenerationalFriendship bordering on romance between Queen Victoria and Lord Melbourne - or Camp Vicbert, the romance/marriage of Victoria and Prince Albert. What makes this one unusual is the fact it's connected to a biographical TV series based on real events, so Vicbourne has always been [[DoomedByCanon doomed by history]] but that didn't stop some fans from actually circulating an online petition begging the makers of the show to ''change history'' and give Vicbourne a happy ending.
* ''Series/{{Victorious}}'': Early on in the fandom, Bori (Beck x Tori) shippers and Bade (Beck x Jade) shippers were known to get to arguments over which ship was better. This did settle down after most of the ShipTease between Beck and Tori was mostly dropped from the show, and Bade apparently won. However when Jori (Jade x Tori) exploded in popularity during season 2, and became just as, if not more, popular than Bade, Bade shippers started to feud with them. Jori shippers often painting Beck as a horrible boyfriend, while pointing out that Tori is usually the one to help Jade when she's upset. Meanwhile Bade shippers like to portray Tori as a BitchInSheepsClothing, who is not talented enough for Jade, and using arguments of how Nickelodeon would never allow it to become canon. Though mellowing out a bit since the show ended, it was somewhat reignited after the show was put on Netflix.
* ''Series/JessicaJones2015'' and ''Series/LukeCage2016'' have seen some ship combat between Luke/Jessica and Luke/Claire, both of which are canon pairings at different points in the comics the shows are based on.
* ''Series/{{ER}}'' had a decent one of Luka/Abby vs. Carter/Abby.
* ''Series/LawAndOrderUK'': Even though both "pairings" were actually just UnresolvedSexualTension, there's a mild Matt/Alesha vs. James/Alesha debate.
* ''Series/HoratioHornblower'': There are two most popular slash pairings in the fandom: Horatio Hornblower/Archie Kennedy (HeterosexualLifePartners in the first two installments) and Horatio Hornblower/ William Bush (Hornblower's only friend and first mate from the third series). The former pairing is sometimes called "Indy Husbands",[[note]]they served together aboard ''Indifatigable''[[/note]] while the latter pairing is called "Hotspur Husbands.[[note]]after Hornblower's ship ''Hotspur''[[/note]] Hornblower/Bush tends to be more popular with fans of the original book series, since Archie is a CompositeCharacter and an AscendedExtra, but other than that, Hornblower/Kennedy is winning. OneTrueThreesome Hornblower/Kennedy/Bush is also ''very'' strong. Generally, fans are pleased with either, especially if characterization is good and the fic in question is well-written. It doesn't hurt matters either that technically ''both'' are feasible [[spoiler:if Bush is considered Hornblower's SecondLove after Archie's HeroicSacrifice to save Hornblower's career.]]
* ''Series/BlackSails'':
** While shippers usually have a preference for Flint/Thomas or Flint/Silver, most can either tolerate the other pairing or simply ship both, made easier by the fact that Flint knew them at different times in his life. (Some fans have even jumped on Flint/Thomas/Silver as a OneTrueThreesome despite Thomas and Silver never meeting.) A small number of shippers are still combative about which pairing is better, however, with Flint/Thomas shippers eager to point out that their ship is [[spoiler: canon with a bittersweet HappilyEverAfter]]. Flint/Silver fans, on the other hand, argue that their ship was far more fleshed out because Silver wasn't [[spoiler: presumed dead]] for most of the series, and that a large part of the show's plot was dedicated to their developing relationship (romantic or otherwise.) The ambiguous nature of Flint's relationship with Miranda and the third-season introduction of Madi as a love interest for Silver only complicates matters further.
* All one has to say is '[[http://fanlore.org/wiki/The_Ray_Wars The Ray Wars]]' and ''Series/DueSouth'' fans wince: in the show's heyday there was vicious debate on which Ray lead character Fraser should be paired up with: his first partner Ray Vecchio, or Ray Kowalski, who posed as Vecchio while the real Vecchio was undercover. The divide got so bad some fansites and mailing lists would only let people join if they shipped their pairing of choice, leaving those that [[IncrediblyLamePun swung both Rays]], didn't care about shipping, [[TakeAThirdOption Ray/Ray shippers]] and OneTrueThreesome shippers out in the cold. Not helping matters was the finale, which saw [[spoiler:Vecchio run off with Kowalski's ex-wife, and Kowalski sled off into the sunset with Fraser]], nor that there was an alternate unfilmed ending that saw [[spoiler:Fraser return to Canada alone and the two Rays working together]], which fans have argued would not have escalated the Ray Wars as much as the canon ending did. These days, the wars had mostly reached a stalemate and the two sides maintain at least cordial relations.
* For a [[Series/{{MASH}} show]] that ended in the eighties, the Hawkeye/Trapper vs Hawkeye/BJ wars are still going. It doesn't help that the show itself had Trapper leave without a note and the trauma of that last until the finale, with BJ jealous any time Trapper is mentioned and Hawkeye feeling like he's worthless when it feels like BJ left without a note too.

* For the first three seasons of ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'', the main ship war was between Sam/Dean shippers who loved the actors' chemistry enough that they were willing to overlook it being an [[IncestYayShipping incestuous ship]] and anti-Sam/Dean shippers who found the ship too {{squick}}y to support but didn't really have a rival ship to latch onto due to pretty much every other recurring character being either [[HetIsEw a female]] [[DieForOurShip widely hated by fans]] or [[ParentalSubstitute Bobby]]. When [[BreakoutCharacter Castiel]] was introduced in the fourth season, fans finally had a viable alternative m/m ship and the ship war morphed into a Sam/Dean vs. Dean/Castiel one (plus a smaller Sam/Castiel contingent who mostly kept quiet and stayed out of the Wincest vs. Destiel fights) with both sides getting enough ShipTease by the showrunners to keep butting heads for over a decade, all the way up to the final season where [[spoiler:Dean/Castiel
became unexpectedly half-canon with Castiel confessing his love to Dean, only for Castiel to be promptly killed off and omitted almost entirely from the final two episodes with the finale focusing heavily on Sam and Dean's bond]], to much heated fan reaction.

* In ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'' fandom, the Sam/Dean and Dean/Castiel shippers have been butting heads since Cas first showed up at the beginning of Season 4 and introduced possibly the first significant [[HoYay competition]] for Sam/Dean's popularly-held FanPreferredCouple status.
** And then there's the rise of [[PortmanteauCoupleName Sassy]] (Sam/Castiel) as a non-crack ship circa Season 6.
*** Which has only gotten stronger in Season 7, becoming even less of a crack pairing. However, most Sassy shippers have the sense to stay on the fringes of the fandom and avoid the firefight between Wincest and Destiel.

* All one has to say is '[[http://fanlore.org/wiki/The_Ray_Wars The Ray Wars]]' and ''Series/DueSouth'' fans wince: in the show's heyday there was vicious debate on which Ray lead character Fraser should be paired up with: his first partner Ray Vecchio, or Ray Kowalski, who posed as Vecchio while the real Vecchio was undercover. The divide got so bad some fansites and mailing lists would only let people join if they shipped their pairing of choice, leaving those that liked both Rays, didn't care about shipping, [[TakeAThirdOption Ray/Ray shippers]] and OneTrueThreesome shippers out in the cold. Not helping matters was the finale, which saw [[spoiler:Vecchio run off with Kowalski's ex-wife, and Kowalski sled off into the sunset with Fraser]], nor that there was an alternate unfilmed ending that saw [[spoiler:Fraser return to Canada alone and the two Rays working together]], which fans have argued would not have escalated the Ray Wars as much as the canon ending did. These days, the wars had mostly reached a stalemate and the two sides maintain at least cordial relations.

* It remains to be seen if the series finale has finally put this ship war to rest, with the revelation that Lexa was [[spoiler:Clarke's [[OneTrueLove greatest love]] after all.]]

* Things are getting ''real'' ugly between the Bellarke shippers and Clexa shippers in the ''Series/The100'' fandom. Bellamy/Clarke is the canon ship in the novel, but Clarke/Lexa is the canon ship in the television show. To add even more to this mess, Clarke and Lexa are both girls. This means the opponents (usually "Bellarkers") gets accursed of homophobia.

*** Only got worse after the death of [[spoiler:Bellamy]] at the hands of [[spoiler:Clarke]].

** Funnily enough, averted with Willow/Tara vs Willow/Oz shippers who generally tend to get along just fine -- thanks to their mutual hate of the Willow/Kennedy shippers, that is (yes, all 14 of them). There's also the fact that Oz and Tara are possibly the two characters in the fandom who are the least hated. Granted, both received their fair share of vitriol in the early days ([[ReplacementGoldfish especially]] [[SuddenlySexuality Tara]]), but ''nowadays'', they are almost universally-adored by all fans.