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1	That is, un-{{Shipping}}.
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3	When fans are absolutely opposed to any canonical hookups by a certain character, because they harbor so much PerverseSexualLust that they insist on that character being "available" in their fantasies.
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5	May lead to DieForOurShip attitudes if there's a perceived chance that the character might hook up.
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7	There is also a trend of pretend killing the {{Love Interest\|s}} regardless of whether it's a {{canon}} character or OriginalCharacter. [[http://werewaflinatorofdoom.deviantart.com/art/Lily-The-Genie-Profile-Stuff-84063935 Here is a good example (look in the reviews of the artwork, not the artwork itself or its summary)]].
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9	Probably lies behind at least some instances of SelfInsertFic. May lead to FanonDiscontinuity. Not really related to DryDockedShip, which is about fans believing that two characters ''were'' together, but only in the past rather than the present.
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16	* More than one ''Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers'' fan has admitted to shipping England with other characters so that they can have America all to themselves. Or wanting to be the one to make [[JerkassWoobie Russia]] feel better. Or pretending that [[ChivalrousPervert Greece]] and/or [[BoisterousBruiser Turkey]] aren't interested in Japan. And since virtually every APH character is the target of PerverseSexualLust for a number of fans, these cases are almost certainly not the only ones out there in the fandom.
17	* ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'': Some Team Rocket fangirls have developed crushes on James to the point where they'd sic their Mary Sues on Jessie in fanfic, either killing her or driving her into the arms of another man to get her out of the way so ''they'' could have James.
18	* Happens a ''lot'' in ''Manga/SoulEater'' fanfic, usually with Kid and Dr. Stein fangirls.
19	* The reveal of [[spoiler:Kayo getting married and having a kid with Hiromi]] near the end of ''Manga/{{Erased}}'' was a major sore spot for fans, resulting in them often ignoring this part of the ending and keeping the pair single in rewrites.
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23	* Franchise/WonderWoman is the poster child for this trope. Every attempt by writers to introduce a LoveInterest for her - from traditional love interest ComicBook/SteveTrevor all the way up to Franchise/{{Superman}} himself - results in backlash from the fanbase.
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27	* Note that the [=YKTTW=] was originally called "Stay Away From [[Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean Jack Sparrow]]".
28	* Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse: Loki. Once, Creator/TomHiddleston commented that he'd like to see comic character Amora added to the movie cast. He didn't particularly put a romantic angle on it (though some articles quoting him tried to add one), but there was still fan outrage.
29	* ''WesternAnimation/Frozen2013'': Elsa, and to a lesser extent, her younger sister Anna. You don't need to go far into the fandom to find fans proclaiming "Elsa/me OTP" and doing more disturbing things that...will not be discussed further here. Part of the reason for her adoration is the movie's long DevelopmentHell and production leaks making her a long-awaited waifu of sorts for many fans. As she's also an icon for the LGBTFanbase (especially the aromantic community) due to her story arcs resonating with those fans and the fact that she has no canonical love interest, any interactions she has with guys tend to be looked down upon.
30	* With ''WesternAnimation/AnAmericanTail'', those who can't stand the [[InterspeciesRomance Tanya/Waul]] ship tend to rather keep Tanya single, possibly because she is never given a real love interest in any of the movies.
31	* ''Film/DarkShadows'': One look at [=AO3=] and Tumblr will show that a lot of the film's fandom refuse to pair Angelique with any character and instead prefer to write fanfics where she ends up with their AuthorAvatar. This is mainly due to the charisma Creator/EvaGreen brings to the role.
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35	* People of both sexes did not want Ross and Rachel on ''Series/{{Friends}}'' to be together, so they could have that couple for themselves.
36	* ''Series/TheXFiles'': Why do you think people were so happy that Mulder and Scully held out for so long?
37	* The ''Series/DoctorWho'' fandom has "Stay away from the Doctor!", with a vocal contingent of fans who hate the idea of the Doctor being with anyone. Some make them available in a romantic sense but usually make them available in a distant, idol sense. For much of the series run, there was no romance or love interest for the Doctor, as it was a family show in a chaste era. This eventually meant people felt the Doctor was above love and sex and even got to the point where one writer introduced a non-sexual way for Time Lords to reproduce--by "spinning" a fully grown adult into existence by the use of "looms". When the show was revived, this--or at least parts of it--were disregarded when it was clear there were Time Lord children and infants.
38	* In ''Series/MacGyver1985'', Nikki Carpenter (ShooOutTheNewGuy of the series) was introduced as a possible love interest for Mac. However, the producers soon discovered that female fans did not want Mac to be permanently attached and Nikki was quietly PutOnABus.
39	* ''Series/QuantumLeap'': [[FanonDiscontinuity Sam did not have a wife waiting for him in the event that he ever returned home. No, he didn't!]]
40	** It doesn't help that in the last season he meets a female leaper [[spoiler: [[LoveRedeems that started as evil but has a heel face turn because of him]]]] and he even has a daughter with a woman when he leapt into her fiance's body while they were making love.
41	* Each of the trio from ''Series/{{iCarly}}'' get this treatment. Creator/NathanKress especially, although Creator/MirandaCosgrove and Creator/JennetteMcCurdy get their fair share.
42	* For the first few seasons of ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'', a good number of fans were extremely against the idea of any female character displaying romantic interest in Sam or Dean or vice versa. Part of this was because some of these fans [[IncestYayShipping shipped the two brothers with each other]], but part of this was this trope from fans who thought any form of romance would negatively affect the show's focus on the brothers' relationship or wanted Sam and/or Dean all to themselves. This attitude lessened over time after the show gained other recurring characters like the angels who became popular shipping options for the brothers, but to this day there still exists a vocal portion of ''Supernatural'' fans who remain staunchly against shipping Sam and Dean with anyone at all.
43	* Many ''Franchise/StarTrek'' fans cannot abide by any sort of canonical shipping between characters. Some of the more controversial ones (often controversial because they weren't the ships some fans wanted) include:
44	** Odo and Kira on ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' (fans expected Kira and Sisko)
45	** Trip and T'Pol on ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise'' (fans expected Archer and T'Pol)
46	** Chakotay and Seven of Nine on ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' (fans expected Janeway and Chakotay and the series itself spent a lot of time establishing Seven and The Doctor before pulling AbandonShip).
47	** ''Film/StarTrek2009'': Definitely Spock and Uhura (some fans had been pushing for Kirk and Spock for decades)
48	* ''Series/{{Victorious}}'': Jade West has a legion of fangirls who refuse to ship her with anyone, canon or fanon, mainly so they can imagine/write fanfiction that pairs her with themselves. This happens with a lot of the other characters (mainly Cat, Tori, or Beck) as well, but Jade is the main target of this non-shipping.
49	* ''Series/{{Wednesday}}'': There exists a very large part of the fandom that refuses to ship Weems with any character, mainly a very large queer female fanbase that prefer to write fanfics where Weems ends up with them or some [[SelfInsertFic insert character]].
50	* ''Series/AbbottElementary'': One look at [[Website/ArchiveOfOurOwn AO3]] or Website/{{Tumblr}} will show that a large part of the fandom refuses to ship Melissa with anyone, canon or fanon, mainly so they can imagine or write fics where they or a reader insert ends up with her.
51	* ''Series/FateTheWinxSaga'': On sites like Tumblr and [=AO3=], the headmistress of Alfea, Farah Dowling, has a large group of fans (both male and female) who refuse to ship her with anyone mainly so that they write fanfics where she ends up with their AuthorAvatar instead.
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55	* ''VideoGame/AdvancedVariableGeo'': You'd think an [[WorldOfActionGirls all-girl fighting game series]] about single hot waitresses would be a shipper's dream come true. Yet, aside from the [[MentorShip Tamao/Yuka]] [[FanPreferredCouple fan pairing]], which is popular in Japan, shipping is virtually nonexistent among the fandom.
56	* This is somewhat inevitable in Creator/BioWare fandoms, considering the huge role {{Romance Sidequest}}s play in their games, and players' often deep attachments to their created characters. Any suggestion that one of the canonical love interests hooks up with someone other than their own PC tends to drive [[{{Fanboy}} certain]] [[EstrogenBrigade people]] insane.
57	** ''Franchise/DragonAge'' fandom is especially rife with this. Just a mere throwaway mention in a non-canonical AlternateUniverse ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins'' {{DLC}} that suggested Alistair and Leliana were rumored to be lovers in that timeline caused backlash from the rabid portion of Alistair fangirls, and to this day also sparks ire from Leliana fans who prefer her to be in a WLW relationship no matter what.
58	** Similarly in ''VideoGame/DragonAgeII'', Fenris and Isabela can develop a friends-with-benefits relationship in Act 3, provided that Hawke has shut down both their romances by that point (either by picking the broken heart option or by romancing Merrill/Anders/Sebastian instead). Needless to say, this led to a lot of hate for Isabela from certain crazed Fenris fans.
59	** While it's only prevalent within the hardcore shippers of these ''Franchise/MassEffect'' pairings, there ''are'' people out there who are ''vehemently'' opposed to pairing Garrus, Tali, Thane, and Liara with anyone else besides Shepard (fitting the trope, as Shepard--male and female--is a vehicle for the player). Garrus and Tali actually do pair up in the ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'' if both are still available; unsurprisingly, this gained both characters hate from certain fans of the other ship.
60	* The author of ''FanFic/MyInnerLife'' strongly opposed [[Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda Link's]] hookups with any other girl in the series, relegating the girls to her personal servants and cheerleaders instead.
61	* It ''cannot'' be happenstance that [[Franchise/TombRaider Lara Croft]] has never had a notable love interest. The creators are probably well aware of fans wanting her for themselves.
62	* Given that the game allows players to pair their own [[AudienceSurrogate Avatar]] with any one character (thus effectively making self-insert romance ''canon''), the ''VideoGame/FireEmblemAwakening'' fandom is ''full'' of this. [[TheHero Chrom]] gets it the most out of any character, resulting in his various love interests (especially Sumia) being the biggest DieForOurShip magnets in the fandom.
63	* ''Franchise/MortalKombat'' character Kung Lao (especially his ''VideoGame/MortalKombatX'' and ''VideoGame/MortalKombat11'' iterations) have recently been receiving this. Due to him in those two games being more attractive than his last iterations, Jade (his most popular female pairing) being paired with Kotal and also the excessive dog-piling he gets in [=MK11=], his fangirl/boys have taken it upon themselves to ship themselves (or their OCs) with him. Heck, some take it a step forward and have themselves (or their character) have a kid with him, so that child can be put into the Kombat Kids.
64	* The UsefulNotes/FurryFandom normally assumes that [[Franchise/StarFox Fox McCloud]] is not taken and [[MsFanservice Krystal]] is [[ReallyGetsAround definitely available]]. On the other hand, it isn't uncommon for the fandom to want Krystal out of the way so that ''Fox'' is available. There are a number of artists and authors who take the ''VideoGame/StarFoxCommand'' route and put Krystal and [[ChivalrousPervert Panther Caroso]] together so that Fox is single once again and on the rebound to boot.
65	* ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'' misfired this. After ''Expiration Date'' hinted at a budding relationship between the Scout and Miss Pauling (though with Scout being much more interested in her than her in him), [[https://mobile.twitter.com/jaypinkerton/status/612113790750961664 a fan yelled out to one of the writers on]] {{Website/Twitter}}: "better not make Scout x Miss Pauling canon bc she's MINE". Said writer then completely flipped Scout's (and the fans') chances [[WordOfGay by revealing Pauling is actually a lesbian]].
66	** Unfortunately for the writer, though, Creator/{{Valve}} doesn't agree and has her shifting between ShipTease with Scout and being asexual.
67	* A not-insignificant portion of ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}'' fandom wants Sans shipped with only themselves. The most popular relationship tag for ''Undertale'' fics on [[Website/ArchiveOfOurOwn AO3]] is Sans/[[SelfInsertFic Reader]], which says it all.
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71	* ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'': Many fans don't ship Ruby's parents Taiyang and Summer together, preferring Summer with Qrow. In such fics, Ruby is often depicted as being Qrow's daughter, with Taiyang acting as either her step-father or [[FamilyRelationshipSwitcheroo adopted father]]. This was actually a popular fan theory early in the show's run due to how little Ruby resembles her father Taiyang while having a stronger bond and taking more cues in fighting style and dress from Qrow, though it would be explicitly {{jossed}} on several instances. At the bare minimum, even fics that have nothing to do with the pairing will often imply that Qrow at least had an unrequited love for Summer, if they weren't exes.
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75	* Lora Innes, the creator of ''WebComic/TheDreamer'', probably left Nathan Hale single precisely because of this.
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79	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Daria}}:'' Back in the day there were a lot of fans opposed to [[TheSnarkKnight Daria]] getting into a relationship, [[RealWomenDontWearDresses feeling that it would undermine her status as a strong, unique female character]]. It doesn't help that her main love interest {{T\|allDarkAndSnarky}}om is kind of TheScrappy for most fans, and that their relationship really was developed kind of awkwardly.
80	* An InUniverse example occurs in ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse:'' Peridot is obsessed with ShowWithinAShow ''Camp Pining Hearts,'' and opposes the relationship between Pierre and Paulette. [[DieForOurShip And Paulette's existence in general]].
81	* This is part the reason Flash Sentry gets [[TheScrappy a lot of flak]] in ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirls'', as his role of being Twilight Sparkle's love interest set some fans on fire, going as far as calling Flash the "Waifu Stealer."
82	* The series finale of ''WesternAnimation/TheLionGuard'' showed that [[spoiler:Rani became Kion's queen when he stepped up to be with her in the Night Pride]]. Fans who shipped him with other characters up to that point were ''not'' pleased.
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