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6	[[quoteright:250:[[Webcomic/WarAndPeas https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/i_ship_it_3.png]]]]
7	[[caption-width-right:250:I ship it. Both figuratively and [[VisualPun literally]].]]
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10	->''"When I was six, my Franchise/PowerRangers were married and divorced in more combinations than Music/FleetwoodMac!"''
11	-->--'''Kurt''', ''Series/{{Glee}}''
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13	These tropes are about people getting involved in characters' romantic relationships. Since real-life people are infinitely more into pairing fictional people than fictional people are, most of these are AudienceReactions. For tropes actually dealing with shipping vessels, [[TropesAtSea please look here]]. For the shipping ''of'' tropes, consult the TropeCo/TropeCo catalog. Warning: [[HurricaneOfPuns loads of puns]] [[JustForFun/PunnyTropeNames ahead!]]
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15	!!Tropes:
16	[[index]]
17	* AbandonShipping: An event that leads to the fandom abandoning a pairing.
18	* ActorShipping: Shippers who ship the actors instead of the characters.
19	* AnchoredShip: When two characters aren't in a relationship/can't be paired, but it's only for now and can theoretically be reversed.
20	* AngelDevilShipping: Shipping an innocent and pure character with a dark and cruel character.
21	* AlternateSelfShipping: Shipping two alternate versions of the same character.
22	* CargoShip: Shipping a sentient being with an object.
23	* CrackPairing: Shipping a pair that would be ''insane'' as a couple.
24	* CrossoverShip: Shipping two characters from different works.
25	* DieForOurShip: A character is TheScrappy, but only because of reasons related to shipping.
26	* DryDockedShip: Characters who are not together, but the fans like to think that they used to be together.
27	* DryDocking: The opposite of shipping. When fans break apart an OfficialCouple.
28	* FanPreferredCouple: The fans prefer an unofficial pairing over the OfficialCouple.
29	* FauxYay: Characters pretend to be gay.
30	* FoeYayShipping: Shipping a pair of enemies.
31	* GhostShipping: Shipping a live character with a dead character.
32	* GottaShipEmAll: ''Everyone'' is shipped with one another.
33	* {{Het}}: Straightness. Being sexually attracted to the other gender.
34	* HetIsEw: The disapproval of heterosexual ships.
35	* HoYay: Fans interpret things with homoerotic subtext.
36	* IdiosyncraticShipNaming: Using an actual word to refer to a pairing.
37	* IncestYayShipping: Shipping people who are related.
38	* LauncherOfAThousandShips: Character is shipped with everyone.
39	* TheMatchmaker: Someone tells someone else to pair up with a third person.
40	* MatchmakerCrush: The matchmaker ends up with a crush on one side of the pair they wanted to happen.
41	* MatchmakerFailure: TheMatchmaker fails to set two people up with each other.
42	* MatchmakerQuest: Character A sends Character B on a quest so they can impress Character C, who they are in love with.
43	* MentorShip: Character shipped with their mentor.
44	* MindGameShip: Person shipped with the character they mess with mentally.
45	* MinionShipping: Two minor villains who are shipped.
46	* NoYay: A {{Squick}}y or scary pairing.
47	* OfficialCouple: Two characters are canonically a couple.
48	* OfficialCoupleOrdealSyndrome: The Official Couple have a bad life.
49	* OneTruePairing (usually abbreviated {{OTP}}): A group of fans' preferred ship.
50	* OneTrueThreesome (usually abbreviated {{OT3}}): When a group of fans ship three characters together. A form of {{Polyamory}}.
51	* ParentPreferredSuitor: When a parent supports a particular LoveInterest of their offspring in winning their offspring's heart.
52	* PortmanteauCoupleName: Referring to a couple as a portmanteau of the peoples' names.
53	* PreemptiveShipping: Shipping characters together before the work they're in has introduced them properly.
54	* RoboShip: Shipping a machine with a non-machine.
55	* ShipMates: When a fan supports pairings that don't interfere with their favourite pairing.
56	* ShipperOnDeck: A character ships two other characters in-story.
57	* ShipperOnSet: An actor ships two characters in a work they star in.
58	* ShipperWithAnAgenda: Shipping with a reason beyond thinking the couple is cute.
59	* {{Shipping}}: Pairing characters up in FanWorks.
60	* ShippingBedDeath: Two characters get together and then the fans lose interest in shipping them.
61	* ShippingGoggles: Person reads ''everything'' as romantic/sexual subtext.
62	* ShippingTorpedo: The opposite of a Shipper on Deck. A character who tries to break up a couple.
63	* ShipSinking: A moment which means that two characters ''can't'' logically be shipped.
64	* TheShipsMotor: A piece of fanon which helps a ship happen.
65	* ShipsThatPassInTheNight: Shipping two characters who have very little on-screen interaction.
66	* ShipTease: Two characters are teased as a couple in-universe but don't actually get together.
67	* ShipToShipCombat: Fans arguing about who should be shipped to whom.
68	* JustForFun/TheShipYard: Non-tropes with punny ship-related names.
69	* SlashFic: A fanfic pairing two characters of the same sex together.
70	* SleepingWithTheBoss: Person has sex with someone they're in authority over.
71	* {{Starboarding}}: One-sided shipping.
72	* SuperCouple: A pairing which intrigues everybody.
73	* ThemePairing: Couple is chosen due to their similarities.
74	* ToyShip: Shipping children.
75	* {{Ukefication}}: Character is subjected to OOC amounts of BadassDecay for the sake of shipping.
76	* UndercoverAsLovers: AliceAndBob are in disguise, pretending to be lovers.
77	* UnequalPairing: A romantic/sexual relationship where one has more power over the other.
78	* WarShip: Shipping two characters who are on different sides of a war.
79	* YaoiFangirl: A woman or girl who watches male anime characters making out.
80	* YuriFan: Character who ships females.
81	[[/index]]

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