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->"''A fortune-teller predicted that Katara's true love is a very powerful bender. Will it be the Avatar, or will fate lead her in another, more '''fiery''' direction?''"
-->--''Nick Mag Presents: Avatar''

Many fans [[{{Shipping}} 'ship.]] These fans often do it ''all the time'' (context or no) especially in certain {{demographics}}. Producers, especially those who keep their finger on the pulse of the audience, not to mention their eye on the fan {{fora}}, know this. So, they decide to tease the fans with hints about possible romantic entanglements, and thereby build that emotional attachment between the show and the audience as much as they can.

If the writers are particularly impish, they'll tease a relationship that either never comes up or takes a hard right just as it gets going. Like a sudden death.

Probably the cruelest method of Ship Tease is the MomentKiller.

See also: WillTheyOrWontThey, {{Subtext}}, AlternateCharacterInterpretation, {{Fanservice}}, NeverTrustATrailer, TonightSomeoneKisses, BaitAndSwitchLesbians, HoYay.

Contrast ShipSinking.

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[[folder:{{Anime}} and {{Manga}}]]
* ''NeonGenesisEvangelion'': Shinji/Rei. Shinji/Asuka. Shinji/Kaworu. Shinji/Misato. Kaji/Shinji. Kaji/Misato. Kaji/Asuka. Kaji/Ritsuko. Maya/Ritsuko. Toji/Shinji. Toji/Hikari. The list goes on.
* From ''Soul Eater'' we have Maka and Soul. '''HNNNNG.''' [[FanPreferredCouple These two]] are particularly tantalizing for a shipper because most of the ShipTease scenes they frequent in could very well be canon.
** to quote about "Resonance Of Soul" in general has touch some kind of Innuendo...a bit
** Well.....this is Shounen Action, Romance usually not potrayed outright, [[ShakuganNoShana usually...]]
* ''MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha'' season three has Nanoha and Fate, now adult women, as either a [[ShippingBedDeath married couple]] or HeterosexualLifePartners. They share a bed and have even adopted a child together; but have not kissed or stated anything definitive, [[HideYourLesbians at least not on screen.]] On the other hand, we have the Nanoha/Yuuno pairing, which was left open through season three; the only conversation in the third season they have cuts away for maximum ambiguity.
*** They [[http://forums.animesuki.com/showthread.php?p=2478617#post2478617 talk once in the third Sound Stage]], in which Yuuno points out that he's not good at asking people how they are and how worried Fate is about Nanoha, which, if anything, is NanoFei Ship Tease.
** More weight is given to the lesbian lovers argument by the fact that in at least one of the bedroom scenes Nanoha is not wearing any underwear (you'll have to look to find it but she is completely bottomless) and the large collection of [[PortmanteauCoupleName FeiNano]] pictures (harvested from [[FandomNod official artwork]]) prominently placed behind the headboard.
** Nanoha's voice actor YukariTamura has recently stated (or at least hinted) in an interview that ''she'' ships [=FeiNano=]. Take from ''that'' what you will.
** ''[[SpinOffspring ViVid]]'' Memories starts four years after the third season... with Fate still being Vivio's 'other mommy' outright. Let the ShipTease begin anew. Vivio's description of her life has Yuuno nowhere to be seen. The ShipTease now lay in "how domestic can we make Nanoha and Fate; without saying anything definite? They're either lesbians or completely [[{{asexuality}} asexual.]]
** The last Soundstages from C76 Comiket reinforce the Happy Yuri Family with a large amount of its tracks dedicated to Nanoha, Fate and Vivio's family life together as the "Takamachi Family" (also see in the name of one of the tracks, "Takamachi Family Gathering", were Nanoha take care of Fate and Vivio, and share some happy family time together). In the prologue of this same Soundstage, Vivio say she is Nanoha and Fate's child.
** Also in season three is the almost ridiculous amount of teasing between Subaru and Teana, to the point where they're even more obvious than Nanoha and Fate.
*** Subaru openly admits she loves Teana in the Sound Stages. That ''could'' be explained away by LoveYouAndEverybody, but it's hardly worth the effort since everyone knows that [[MemeticMutation Rainbows Are Straighter Than Subaru]].
** Buried amongst all of the yuri ShipTease is the straight ToyShip Tease of Erio and Caro.
* RumikoTakahashi does some Ship Teasing for some popular [[{{Shipping}} alternate pairings]] in ''[[RanmaOneHalf Ranma 1/2]]'' on several occasions:
** In one storyline, Nabiki becomes Ranma's fiance because of one of Akane's bouts of jealousy. Nabiki spends the storyline exploiting Ranma mercilessly, [[TheVamp teasing him to keep him in line]], while trying to persuade Akane to take Ranma back -- [[HonestJohnsDealership for a token fee]].
** The infamous "Koi Fishing Rod / Fishing Rod of Love'' story parodies the pairing of Ryoga and Ranma (either [[SlashFic boy]] or [[JumpingTheGenderBarrier girl type]]). Ryoga accidentally causes Ranma to fall into [[{{Yandere}} obsessive love]] with him by hitting him with a [[LovePotion magic fishing rod]]. HilarityEnsues.
** Then there's the "[[TogetherUmbrella Umbrella of Love]]" chapter with Nabiki and Kuno. A similar pairing happened in the anime, but with a mistaken fortune telling.
** During one of the {{OVA}}s, the characters have to pair up to enter a cave (the goal of every character involved is to break up Ranma and Akane, naturally). However the storyline hints at Ryoga/Ukyo, as the only other pair beside the OfficialCouple to make it through the Cave of Lost Love. The end has EVERYONE believing Ukyo and Ryoga are a pair at the end. ([[ArmedWithCanon Possibly including the anime scriptwriters.]])
*** This story line is actually in the Manga, so it was once again Takahashi who was poking fun at people in her classical style.
** The second movie does this for Shampoo/Mousse, what with Mousse nearly making a HeroicSacrifice to save Shampoo, and Shampoo actually seeming moved by it.
***Takahashi punctures this one all the time, but perhaps most so in the final storyline wherein Mousse frees Shampoo from enslavement and sacrifices his chances to get her devoted to him, and she immediately glomps Ranma and doesn't even care that he's there the following panel.
* ''YoureUnderArrest'' has always been infamous in having "official" posters depicting their main lead HeterosexualLifePartners in various states of undress, hugging, caressing, etc. The new series [=ED=] really amps this up, causing shippers' heads to explode. They know nothing will amount to it, but it's so very pretty...
* ''LuckyStar'' mines a similarly rich seam with Konata and Kagami: the official artwork appearing in Japanese [[TargetAudience bishoujo-centric]] publication ''Megami'' depicts them as being ''very'' close friends. Come to think, a good portion of [[YuriFan yuri ship fuel]] debuted in the same magazine.
* ToeiAnimation is smart about the ''PrettyCure'' franchise's MultipleDemographicAppeal to {{yuri fanboy}}s. While [[FutariWaPrettyCure Nagisa]] and [[FutariWaPrettyCureSplashStar Saki]] had a definite interest in boys, they were never given resolution and had enough screentime for their relationships with Honoka and Mai to be interpreted as RomanticTwoGirlFriendship (and, in Saki's case, there was also some FoeYay with [[DarkMagicalGirl Michiru]]). When ''[[YesPrecure5 Yes! Precure 5]]'' came along, the first {{Official Couple}}s came with it, leaving Karen and Komachi, a pairing supported by a lot of the yuri fanboys, broken up by canon - so, as soon as that was cemented, in came cute shots of the usually standoffish Karen glomping Kurumi in the ending theme. [[spoiler:And if Kurumi turns out to be Milk, there's plenty more where that came from.]]
** Also, from what was seen during episodes 4, 18 and 40 of [[YesPrecure5 YPC5 GoGo]], Syrup and Urara deserve to be mentioned. Their little moments together in those three episodes caused the couple to have a fairly big fanbase, inside and outside of Japan.
* Consider the sheer number of scenes that Nara Shikamaru and Temari have had together over the course of ''{{Naruto}}''. Particularly ship-tease worthy are their scenes in Shippuden, where the only member of the Rookie Nine besides Sakura that Naruto sees before leaving to help Gaara is Shikamaru... and all his appearances are partnered up with Temari. And that's not even getting into the actual interactions the two have in those scenes.
** At one point, he even compares her to his mother, stating that she (Temari) is "scarier". Need I say more? [[FreudWasRight Freud would have a field day.]]
** A recent Omake featured a proposal from Shikamaru to change the name of the show to "Shikamaru Shippuden" upon him [[CharacterFocus more or less becoming the main character for the next plot line]]. The image presented along with this can be found [[http://forum.onemanga.com/showthread.php?t=24498&page=15 here]] (second post, in the spoiler). It really speaks for itself.
** The Bug Arc in the Fillers was built around how to make Naru/Hina more obvious... to everyone that isn't Naruto. All we get from him is declaring the girl he saw dancing on the waterfall was beautiful. I'm not going to bother Spoilertagging it- it was Hinata.
*** The Land of Vegetables Arc has quite a bit of Naruto/Hinata, particularly in Hinata's fight with the magnetic ninja and [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzNco89bMAE&feature=related this scene]], where Hinata defends Naruto to the princess ("Hinata... you're pretty fond of Naruto, aren't you?").
*** And then of course we have the latest manga chapters. While it could have gone '''very''' badly for the Naruto/Hinata shippers, Naruto/Hinata is now a definite possibility, depending on how Naruto responds to [[spoiler:Hinata's AnguishedDeclarationOfLove]].
** In the anime, shortly before Sasuke leaves Konoha, Sakura tells Naruto about the curse mark and Orochimaru's plans for Sasuke while the two are seemingly on a date at Ichiraku Ramen (Sakura entices Naruto to come by suggesting it as the date he's always wanted). By contrast, in the manga, the two sit on a bench in that scene.
* Perhaps in apology for the impending ShipSinking, a late episode of ''{{Clannad}}'' features Kyou getting locked in a gym storage room with Tomoya, instantly turning [[{{Tsundere}} deredere]] to the max, and misinterpreting her conversation with Tomoya into thinking she's about to have her First Time. {{Fanservice}}~
** Exactly why we ended up with ''Tomoyo After''.
** And, inevitably, Kyou's OVA.
* A slight tease was present in ''[[{{IGPXImmortalGrandPrix}} IGPX]]'' concerning Liz and Amy. At one point, just before a race where Amy was getting a little jumpy, Liz calms Amy down by hugging her and pressing her forehead to Amy's in a surprisingly intimate gesture, causing both girls to blush. An earlier clip had Liz hugging Amy from behind, while reassuring her that she wasn't alone, again with both girls blushing. This may have been mostly because of Amy's lack of friends prior to the series and thus an enhanced sense of the newness of it all, but it could have been easily taken as the two growing a bit closer even than that. This troper has even seen photoshopped cels suggesting that the forehead-press was immediately after a kiss. 'Course, by the end of the second season, Liz had confessed her feelings for Takeshi, and Amy unreservedly cheered them on, but one can't help but wonder if Amy might have had a slight crush on Liz after those clips.
* ''SuzumiyaHaruhi'' series: Haruhi's relationship with Kyon is rather obvious, to [[SheIsNotMyGirlfriend everyone but Kyon]] (who can't stop ranting and snarking about her), and Kyon's crush on Mikuru is hilariously explicit. The crush actually ''is'' returned by Mikuru, with occasional flirting between the two, but you know how the time travel-rules are... The teasing comes in with Yuki ([[spoiler:to the point of blatantness in the fourth novel/second season where she temporarily [[BecomeARealBoy becomes a "real" girl]]...''for Kyon'']]) and [[AmbiguouslyGay Itsuki]], who may just be doing it to mess with Kyon, aka Mr. HaveIMentionedIAmHeterosexualToday. Not to mention, if the fifth novel is anything to go by, Mikuru's feelings for ''Haruhi'' and Koizumi's statements on how charming Haruhi is and that he "envies" Kyon. And let's include the return of [[spoiler:Asakura Ryoko]] in ''Disappearance''. One has to ask himself ''why'' she, despite being a normal human, [[spoiler:[[PsychoLesbian stabbed Kyon to protect Yuki]].]]
** [[spoiler:...At 4:00 AM!.]]
*** [[spoiler:[[MemeticMutation WITH A BOX OF SCRAPS!!]]]]
** Perhaps appropriately enough, official parody series ''The Melancholy of Haruhi-chan'' has its own teases, but ''only'' for Kyon/Yuki and Kyon/Itsuki, with some Yuki/[[spoiler:Asakura]] on the side.
* ''DigimonAdventure02'' series: There have been several instances in the show pointing to a pairing between Takeru and Hikari. Both being "veteran" digidestined from the previous series, both having angel digimon, both rediscovering their crests at the same time, both showing outwardly pleasant exteriors to mask past darkness, an entire episode and a movie centered on the duo, and even a Digimon "god" telling them that both their crests were special in comparison to the rest. Despite this, it was shown that both did not end up together in the DistantFinale.
** Which most fans want struck from the {{canon}}. The entire DistantFinale, that is, not just the fact that [[PortmanteauCoupleName Takari]] wasn't involved in it.
** Then there's "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLXDhTYNISY&feature=PlayList&p=8ED0729787FB3916&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=51 Focus]]", one of Takeru's {{image song}}s, wherein he sings about someone that he's known since he was small and who he wants to protect -- even mentioning that "[[http://www.animelyrics.com/anime/digimon/focus.htm you used to cry all the time, but now you're standing in the light]]". Yeah, [[SarcasmMode real subtle]]. He even wonders if he is the focus of that person's heart. Cue a collective {{squee}} from Takari shippers.
*** Except that, conversely, Hikari has an {{image song}} on the Girl's Festival album about a childhood friend she has fond memories of and even perhaps a crush until one line near the end - "[[http://www.megchan.com/lyrics2/digimon/reflection_e.html It's a little too cute to call it love]]", suggesting that any supposed romantic implications from her were just old feelings about a childhood friend. [[ShipSinking Ouch.]] Then again, even that fact won't make the above any less teasing to shippers.
* In ''{{Saiyuki}}'', there's quite a bunch of teases about the Hakkai/Yaone pairing. Whenever the group fights, they get pitted together, they're pretty much counterparts to each other, and most importantly, Yaone herself looked like Hakkai's deceased lover Kanan. Lots of shipping generate from these, but eventually it gets featured less and less for the sake of HoYay, probably the ship has sunk already...
* In the vein of ''YoureUnderArrest'' above, ''official'' art depicts Ban and Ginji of ''{{Getbackers}}'' in [[http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j109/sensory-ghost/Ban_Ginji.jpg several]] [[http://i150.photobucket.com/albums/s108/gerardwayownzmeh/ban_ginji_04.jpg suggestive]] [[http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v147/happyegg/FishnetBanGinji.jpg poses]], one including [[http://img7.imageshack.us/img7/7061/82496bw.jpg bondage]].
* One episode preview for ''{{Pokemon}}'' threw up a storm in the shipping fandom by focusing almost entirely on a romantic scene between Tracey and Misty, despite the latter's long-established crush on the protagonist. As it happened, the whole scene was just made up by one of Misty's sisters who thought that Tracey would made a handsome prince for her upcoming water ballet.
** Then they did it ''again'' in the preview for the next episode both characters appeared in. This time was a blushing scene that turned out to just be over a photograph of the whole group in Team Rocket's latest scheme. It didn't help that Misty was holding her new baby Pokemon that she had received from Tracey.
** While many of Pokemon's pairings are full of shiptease, Appealshipping (Zoey/Dawn) takes the cake. Their scenes together are just tinged with [[RomanticTwoGirlFriendship touchy-feely-blushy moments]].
** How about the time Team Rocket teased Ash and Misty on their [[IncrediblyLamePun airship]]? No? I'll shut up.
* ''HidamariSketch'' [[SliceOfLife of all series]] has Sae x Hiro '''heavily''' implied in both intros. We never see any of it during the actual episodes.
* Tezuka and Fuji got this in both the manga and anime of ''PrinceOfTennis''. Most notable were a couple of flashback episodes of the anime in which they held hands, walked under an umbrella together (usually reserved for lovers in anime/manga) and had CherryBlossoms rain down onto them.
* ''ScienceNinjaTeamGatchaman'' liked to do this with Ken and Jun once every blue moon, but when it came to America as ''BattleOfThePlanets'', the writers did all they could to suggest a romantic connection between Mark and Princess without actually making them an OfficialCouple.
* In ''MahouSenseiNegima'' there's so much ship tease that the series needed its own [[ShipTease/MahouSenseiNegima example page.]]
* ''AxisPowersHetalia'' has lots of HoYay Ship Tease going on between various characters, and even a few for heterosexual pairings as well. See examples [[ShipTease/AxisPowersHetalia here]].
* The infamous "cigarette kiss" at the end of the seventh episode of ''BlackLagoon''. Seriously, the Rock/Revy shipper in me nearly orgasmed.
* Every '''freaking''' [[LesYay scene]] in ''VenusVersusVirus'' between Lucia and Sumire. Especially in the first few volumes.
* ''FullmetalAlchemist'' has Roy Mustang/Riza Hawkeye.
** And Ed/Winry, Lan-Fan/Ling, and Al/Mei. Let's face it, Hiromu Arakawa ''loves'' this trope. The FullMetalAlchemist manga is ''brimming'' with official/near-official couples.
** [[PortmanteauCoupleName Royai]] steals the show, though. [[spoiler:Her grandfather asks Roy what he is waiting for to marry Riza, and he nearly answers "everything in due time"]]. He basically learned alchemy by [[spoiler:seeing her [[SexyBack topless]]]]. She joined the army for him and [[HeroicBSOD "lost her will to live"]] when she thought he was dead. Later, Roy and [[spoiler:his mother]] have a little conversation about a certain "''Elizabeth-chan''", who apparently is good at cheering him up. And then, chapter 94: [[spoiler:"Just kidding".]] Arakawa manages to get to epic lengths without the tiniest RelationshipUpgrade. At least Winry comments out loud [[spoiler:she is in love with Ed]], and they're not on LastNameBasis.
*** And speaking of LastNameBasis, when chapter 100 ended with [[spoiler: Hawkeye getting her throat cut]], Mustang still calls out her RANK. He doesn't even use her last name, [[spoiler: and neither does she in the next chapter as her runs to her]].
* ''FullMetalPanic: The Second Raid''. When Chidori gives Sousuke a haircut, it's almost lovingly intimate. Her fingers are grasping and caressing his hair, carefully snipping one tuft at a time, and the camera lingers over each shot. Then, "Turn your head to the right. No, this way" and he can see ''straight down her top'' (Sousuke's face is a picture). Finally, she announces that she's finished... and he's fallen asleep. Chidori's watching him breathing, her attention is drawn to his parted lips - a slight LuminescentBlush appears on her cheeks, her own lips part slightly - she wouldn't do it [[DudeShesLikeInAComa whilst he's asleep,would she?]] - and [[AlmostKiss she snaps out of it]], says, "Time to rinse!" a little too enthusiastically and puts his head under the tap. Augh! This troper's never wanted a haircut so much in his life.
* ''{{Bleach}}'' endings sometimes hint at Ichigo/Rukia (2, 16, 19), or Ichigo/Orihime (15, 18), but otherwise the anime is heavily biased towards the former. Several scenes from the manga that make Orihime's feelings for Ichigo significantly more obvious than it is in the anime are never adapted or are changed significantly (for example, a NotSoDifferent moment in Chapter 24 is replaced with Orihime saying her epigraph poem from Volume 3, a scene with Orihime's brother complaining about Orihime always talking about Ichigo is changed to her always talking about her friend Tatsuki, and a scene showing the strength of her resolve to go with Ichigo to Soul Society to protect him is cut entirely and the anime has her hesitating whether or not to go); some of Ichigo's lines, such as "If you want to kill Inoue you have to kill me first!" are also cut; moreover, Orihime and her feelings for Ichigo are all but ignored in the filler stories and movies. On the other hand, despite shortening a small subplot in which people at school are spreading rumors about Ichigo being in a relationship with Rukia, there are [[AdaptationExpansion additional]] ShipTease scenes between the two, along with scenes in which characters can be jealous of Rukia for being close to Ichigo (Ririn, Nel). In the anime's version of the Grand Fisher mini-arc an original character whose job would have been taking Rukia back to Soul Society leaves her in the human world because "I don't want to break up such a serious twosome" and "I guess Rukia has come of age..." WordOfGod saying that the relationship between Ichigo and Rukia is [[TheStraightWillAndGrace something more than friendship but not romantic]] hasn't stopped the animators from Ship Teasing them.
* Like the above example, if you ship anything in ''OnePiece'', there's a reasonable chance a good chunk of your evidence comes from filler, specials, or movies. No, seriously, who they're ship teasing with who changes like the phases of the moon.
* ''CardcaptorSakura'' is essentially built on this trope, the manga even moreso than the anime. Sakura and Syaoran and Touya and Yukito have at least one teasing moment every chapter/almost every episode before they become {{Official Couple}}s, with plenty of remaining teasing scattered about between Sakura and Yukito, Syaoran and Meiling, Syaoran and Yukito, Sakura and Tomoyo, and most probably others this troper doesn't remember (CLAMP seems to do this in a lot of their shows).
* The scene late in the second season of ''{{Gundam 00}}'' where Feldt gives Setsuna a flower in a very shy/embarrassed manner is pretty blatantly tease-y, especially when she wonders if it will make Marina mad and he assures her that [[TheStraightWillAndGrace they don't have that kind of relationship]].
* ''DeathNote, DeathNote, DeathNote''. Specifically, the anime. Specifically, the bizarre caring-sharing scene on a rainy rooftop (!) with subsequent foot massages (!!), which happens right before [[spoiler:L's death, which delights Light]].
** As a (former)fan of the manga, this troper was very upset by the above obvious examples
* Filia and Xellos from TheSlayers would be a ''classic'' TakahashiCouple... if weren't for the fact that's he's a Mazoku who feeds on negative emotions and shouldn't have the ability to love. That's not going to stop the shippers, especially considering Slayers Try is filled with moments that were obviously intended to ''look'' shippy, even if that is canonically impossible.
* [[FairyTail Erza used to shower with Gray and Natsu and cares a lot for them, but is made out to have romantic feelings for Gerard that might be returned. Jubia has a stalker crush on Gray. Lucy has all sorts of fantasies. The list goes on.]]
* Putting Keiichi/Mion, and [[strike:[[{{Twincest}} Mion/Shion]]]] Rika/Satoko aside, there's Keiichi/Rena from ''HigurashiNoNakuKoroNi''. Probably the biggest ship tease was in the last episode of Rei, where Rena [[spoiler:confesses to Keiichi.]]
* The ''CodeGeass'' picture books/dramas are full of ShipTease for [[BrotherSisterIncest Lulunana]] fans.
* Hayate and Wataru, the two {{Chick Magnet}}s in the ''HayateTheCombatButler'' manga, get some level of teasing with the main girls who are interested in them. Up to a chapter or so per girl.
* In {{Samurai Champloo}}, either Fuu and Jin, or Fuu and Mugen, or both, depending on your point of view, neither of which actually materialize, to the utter disappointment of fans.
* A huge amount of subtle teasing between Robin and Amon in {{Witch Hunter Robin}} goes unfulfilled, which is like never having Buffy and Angel get together. Preposterous!
* {{Yu-Gi-Oh 5Ds}}: Episode 75. [[http://fc02.deviantart.com/fs22/f/2009/252/e/4/now_THIS_is_FANSERVICE_8D_by_stardustdragonfan.jpg Period.]]
* ''KaleidoStar'', to rather painful levels:
** Sora/Ken: poor Ken has obviously been in love with Sora since episode one and is almost always the one who supports her when things get rough... and her inability to notice his affections becomes a RunningGag.
** [[LesYay Sora/Layla]]: [[spoiler:[[IfYouKnowWhatIMean Sora is the only partner worthy of Layla]]]].
** Yuri/Sora: Yuri has, on at least two occasions, dashed in and saved Sora from serious injury [[spoiler:and once gave her [[KissOfLife mouth-to-mouth]] (off screen) after she almost drowned (which Sora had a pretty... interesting dream sequence about)]], and Sora had a rather obvious crush on Yuri early on; etc.
** Sora/[[WhiteHairedPrettyBoy Leon]]: Well, let's start with the time [[spoiler:he tackled her in a way that at the ''very least'' resembled an attempt to ''rape her'']]...
** Sora/May: Sprinkled here and there, more like FoeYay tho.
** [[LesYay Sora/Rosetta]]: Well, they're [[RomanticTwoGirlFriendship very, very close friends]], to say the least.
** Sora/... [[UnwantedHarem Well, I think you get the idea]].
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[[folder:{{Comic Books}}]]
* IronMan / CaptainAmerica is a fairly popular slash pairing, but there's HoYay, and then there's explicitly showing [[http://asylums.insanejournal.com/scans_daily/162515.html what happens in a universe where Tony Stark was born female]]. Not only are they married, but Earth-3490 ''primarily benefits from their romantic involvement.''
* The final page of the final story in Volume 5 of ''{{Empowered}}'' shows the scantily-clad eponymous character giving the likewise scantily-clad Sister Spooky a big hug. [[LesYay She also appears to be stroking Spooky's hair.]]
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[[folder:{{Literature}}]]
* Overlapping with ShipSinking, ''HarryPotter and the Deathly Hallows'' had Harry/Hermione shippers pretty pointedly teased by the scene in which Ron destroys the Horcrux: it belittles him, saying a lot of the same things that rabid Harmony shippers did (useless next to Harry, not worthy of a girl like Hermione, etc) and then shows him an image of Harry and Hermione passionately kissing. At this point, Ron smashes the thing to bits with the sword of Godric Gryffindor.
** Many Potterfans figured Luna Lovegood was introduced for the purpose of being Harry's intended, especially given the lengths JKR went to to establish their connection as "outsiders". And especially since - in the same book (''Order Of The Phoenix''), it's stated that the reason Ginny could actually talk to him without blushing was that she'd gotten over her crush on him. (The ship was subsequently sunk and eaten by Harry's "[[StrangledByTheRedString Chest Monster]]" in ''Half-Blood Prince'')
* ''ASongOfIceAndFire'' has, in order of descending {{squee}} fuel, Sansa/Sandor, Jaime/Brienne, and Dany/Daario. Tease consists mostly of the aforementioned characters talking about, thinking about, and [[PsychicDreamsForEveryone dreaming about]] each other ''a lot''. There also manages to be hints for Lyanna/Rhaegar, even though both characters were dead long before the start of the story.
** Also, some fans interperate the whole "Blue rose growing from a wall of ice" business as Jon/Dany shiptease. For the uninitiated, the blue rose is what Rhaegar gave to Lyanna when they first met (Rheagar and Lyanna being the most likely candidates for Jon Snow's parent). And the wall of ice thing just speaks for itself.
*PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians has Annabeth/Luke and Thalia/Luke. But especially Thalia/Luke; the readers are teased so badly that it's almost agonizing.
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[[folder:{{Live Action TV}}]]
* In ''TheGuardian'''s first season, Lulu was torn between protagonist Nick Fallin and her fiance, Brian. (Nick and the viewers knew Brian was a jerk, but Lulu didn't.) The preview for the finale showed Lulu telling Nick saying "We called it off... the wedding." Good news for shippers, right? Might have been, if [[NeverTrustATrailer the context in the actual episode]] hadn't been as follows:
-->'''Lulu:''' ...So we called it off.\
'''Nick:''' I think that's good. That's good.\
'''Lulu:''' No. We called off the big wedding and... we went to Atlantic City and got married.
* This troper suspects ''DoctorWho'' writer Russell T. Davies of writing kisses between the Doctor and his companion solely so they can be shown in trailers. Both the last two season openers have done this. [[IntimateHealing Both kisses were for]] AppliedPhlebotinum [[IntimateHealing reasons]]. In season two, another character had taken over Rose's body. The kiss in season three was explained by the Doctor as a "genetic transfer" to help Martha (whom he had only just met) get the attention of the [[MonsterOfTheWeek Judoon]] by showing non-human traces on their scanner. The kiss in the season four trailer was inevitably something similar.
** Similarly, this troper thinks that the character of Romana was invented solely to tease the audience. She was another Time Lord of comparable age, Tom Baker was, at the time, the youngest actor to have played the Doctor, they had brilliant on-screen chemistry (Baker even ended up ''marrying'' one of the actresses who played Romana), but the writers ''just would not'' go the extra distance.
** Let's not forget the kisses from the season one finale! Granted, Rose had absorbed the time vortex prior to her's, but Jack's was very likely thrown in just for the squee factor.
** The season three finale surpassed all of these though with its truly ''epic'' FoeYay teasing between the Doctor and the Master, ranging from the Master's orgasmic "I like it when you use my name" to the Doctor [[spoiler:cradling the Master in his arms, sobbing, as he begs him not to die]].
*** While definitely less blatant, Doctor/Master teasing is hardly a new phenomenon. "A cosmos without the Doctor scarcely bears thinking about", anyone?
** Considering the evolutionary gap between Time Lords and humans, there shouldn't actually be any ShipTease between any character and the Doctor outside of another Time Lord - at the very most, the same amount of chemistry as exists between Matt LeBlanc and the title character in ''Ed''.
* Some fans theorize that Peter Petrelli saving Claire. in ''{{Series/Heroes}}'' was set up so as to appear to be a ship in the making by a particularly creative writer, but then she was revealed to be his niece. Though this revelation hasn't stopped some of the shippers...
** Or the actors, who have allegedly started dating. But then, they presumably ''aren't'' uncle and niece.
*** The latest season definitely seems to be trying to foster this ship. Don't worry about it; if you ignored ships between relatives in this show, you'd have nothing left.
* The constant Ship Teasing between [[LoveTriangle Jack, Kate, and Sawyer]] fueled much of the first two seasons of ''{{Lost}}''.
** Starting in Season Three, you can add Juliet into the mix.
* Our good friend JossWhedon employed the crueler variety in the last season of ''{{Angel}}'', when [[spoiler:after three years' worth of teasing, Fred and Wesley finally hook up... only for Fred to be killed and replaced with a demonic entity in the ''very next episode'']]. But this is Joss. [[DeathBySex Sex and relationships only lead to suffering]].
** For that matter, [[DysfunctionJunction everything leads to suffering]].
*** Theoretically... only ''theoretically'' mind you... this might not have been Joss' original plan. It was around this time that the plot started moving at triple-speed due to impending (and largely mystifying) cancellation.
**** Supposedly the next season was to reveal that there was quite a bit more of [[spoiler: Fred left in the demon that replaced her]] than anyone realized, even (especially?) the demon herself.
***** They began hinting at this in the last issue of After the Fall.
** This Troper ''knows'' she wasn't the only one to notice the massive {{UST}} between Wesley and Faith during the show's 4th season.
* He learned to do this on ''BuffyTheVampireSlayer''. The Xander/Willow ship was hinted at from day one. But then in Season Two, Xander was paired up with Cordelia (taking everyone by surprise, but none more so than Xander and Cordelia), and Willow got together with Oz. The Xander/Willow ship seemed dead... only to rise again in Season 3, where Xander and Willow had to deal with a sudden mutual attraction that eventually destroyed the Xander/Cordelia relationship, and inflicted serious damage on the Willow/Oz one. Joss twisted the dagger with the very next episode, which depicted an AlternateUniverse where Xander and Willow were together... as vampires.
** Shortly after that, he began teasing us with the prospect of pairing up Cordelia with new arrival Wesley. They shared a kiss in the season finale... which was so awkward that it obliterated half a season of mutual infatuation in a single moment.
** And ''then'' Willow was made into a lesbian, thus negating any meaningful relationship with any male character. And then her lesbian girlfriend Tara [[spoiler: got killed off,]] leading to Willow going evil and eventually trying to destroy the world -- and who delivers the CooldownHug that eventually snaps her out of this? Xander.
** In season 6, the episode "Tabula Rasa" goes crazy ship teasing ''[[CrackPairing Giles/Anya]]''
** "Band Candy" ship teased Giles and Joyce, while simultaneously bringing the actual chances of the ship occuring down several notches.
** The season 7 episode "Dirty Girls" teased at Faith and Spike. At the time, Joss was trying to get a Faith spinoff off the ground, and apparently intended to have Spike on it.
** In the season 8 comics, issue 28, Buffy comes to the conclusion she may have romantic feelings for [[spoiler:Xander]], goes to tell him, but catches him kissing [[spoiler:Dawn]]. SoYeah.
* ''CaptainPowerAndTheSoldiersOfTheFuture'' had a Ship Tease going on between Jonathan Power and Jennifer Chase throughout the series, but the [[KilledOffForReal latter's death]] and the show's cancellation ended it just when it really started to develop.
* An early ''{{Farscape}}'' episode has D'Argo hallucinating that Zhaan is his long-dead wife, and making out with her, with Zhaan obliging to protect his fragile mental state. Lots of speculation followed that the writers were building to the two getting together, especially when the makeout session appeared in the opening credits for a while. Nothing ever happened.
** Though Zhaan had to be written off the show early in season three due to the makeup seriously affecting the actress's health, so before that happened pairing the two of them may have been the plan. For that matter, some of the very early episodes hint that Zhaan and Crichton would hook up, which was abandoned pretty quickly in favor of Crichton and Aeryn.
* "Don't Ever Change", the last pre-strike episode of ''{{House}}'', seemed to be taking a nearly unholy glee in teasing as many shippers as possible. In one episode, they managed to tease 13/Cuddy, Wilson/Cuddy, House/Cuddy, House/13, 13/Cameron, and '''House/Wilson'''. There's really no explanation other than that the writers, faced with the strike, decided to go out having as much fun as possible.
** 'Wait a second, this isn't just about the sex. You like her personality. You like that she’s conniving. You like that she has no regard for consequences. You like that she can humiliate someone if it serves…[his eyes widen, long pause] Oh my God! You’re sleeping with me!'
** I think House is too mean, too pessimistic and too much of a jerk for any woman to love him. The series is good ''because'' of this.
** The writers have been doing this with House/Cuddy for ages. By season three it was pretty clear that he has strong feelings for her, but whenever they seem to bring it to a point where it could lead anywhere they drop it and ignore it for a few weeks, before starting it up again.
* In ''{{Greek}}'', the main ship is Cappie/Casey. So in one promo when Cappie wants to talk about dating with Casey, squees are heard far and wide. Then the ep airs, and Cappie tells Casey he's dating her arch-rival (and [=ZBZ=] little) Rebecca. HilarityEnsues.
* Joss Whedon continues his Ship teasing with the ''{{Firefly}}'' comic spin off ''Better Days'', which contains outright indications of, of all things, Simon/Inara.
** Even within the series ''{{Firefly}}'', Joss notably teased Simon/Kaylee and also Mal/Inara. The latter's biggest moment is definitely at the end of "Our Mrs. Reynolds".
** Some fans (including ThisTroper) [[SubText interpreted]] a lot of this within the relationship between [[FoeYay Jayne and both the Tam siblings.]] Jayne does, after all, repeatedly call Simon "pretty" and admits he finds River "cute," and there's quite a bit of playful/mildly malicious teasing going on between them...
*** No need to interpret anything between River and Jayne. "Ariel" and "Trash" both contain out-and-out ship-teasing FoeYay between them. "Copper for a kiss?" anyone?
** A conversation in "Ariel" featured warm golden lighting, and an extremely intimate shot of the two subjects sitting quite near to each other. It's [[BrotherSisterIncest Simon and River]]. Not to mention the scene in "Safe" where River was feeding him berries and it had the exact same candle-lit dinner atmosphere. This was probably done to highlight their platonic closeness, but taken out of context... [[SoYeah Well.]]
*** I think most flans would agree--[[NoJustNo NO. Just NO.]]
** I don't know if it's just my ShippingGoggles permanently glued to my skin, but in the BigDamnMovie I see very subtle hints of Mal/River. Since the movie is kind of told from her POV and the camera spends kind of a lot of time with Mal, especially in the beginning, and then you factor in that ending speech that, if you walked in at the wrong time, would sound [[IfYouKnowWhatIMean interesting]]...well, it's giving me an uncomfortableness.
***There's also the fact that when she's rampaging through the Maidenhead Bar, there's only one person River even ''hesitates'' to attack: Mal. Not to mention the "I aim to misbehave" speech, which ends with Mal stopping to give River one of those long, meaningful looks, which she responds to by looking away, almost as if she's embarassed. While I'm fairly certain it's oly [[OneSidedShipping one-way]], there's subtle hints about it.
* ''{{Smallville}}'' frequently does this with Clark and Chloe and, more recently, Lois.
** And [[HoYay Clark/Lex]] as well.
** But Lois and Clark are the OneTruePairing , since Clark is destined to become Superman, move to Metropolis and marry Lois. Unless DC Comics pulls a Quesada and kills Lois and introduces Chloe to the comics, I don't see Clark/Chole ever happening.
* The second half of [[LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit Alex Cabot]]'s farewell episode throws a bone to the Alex/Olivia shippers in almost ''every scene''.
** A bone? They pretty much tossed us the whole cow. "Stay with me sweetheart. Alex. Alex. ''Alex''." [[OneTruePairing And it was]] '''[[OneTruePairing glorious]]'''.
* The entirely of ''{{Bones}}'''s third season is largely considered a tease for its one and only ship Booth/Brennan, well the whole show's purpose seems like a big tease for the {{OTP}}.
** One and only ship tease, sure, but one and only ship? I think Jack/Angela fans (or hell, even Sweets/Daisy fans) would shank you for saying that.
* ''TheSarahConnorChronicles'' has ''more'' than a few indications of this between John and [[RobotGirl Cameron]], not the least of which is a scene at the end of "Vick's Chip" where John, leaning over Cameron while she is still deactivated, stops to affectionately stroke her hair.
** There's also some Ship Teasing between Future!John Connor and Cameron, as well as some subtle indicators of Future!John and Allison. It does ''not'' help that Cameron and Allison look ''exactly'' alike, and that Cameron can apparently ''become'' Allison in personality...
** And in "Mr. Ferguson Is Ill Today", John and Cameron are shown ''lying side by side in bed.'' And she even tells John, outright, that she knows that "being John Connor can be lonely." If ''that'' is not a ShipTease...
*** And she's extremely scantily clad (deliberately, she sheds her jacket before going to see John). Possibly this was meant to say something about John Connor's willpower...
** Not to mention that Cameron is ''quite'' clearly upset ([[EmotionlessGirl at least, as far as she is capable of being upset]]) when she discovers John kissed Riley in "Self Made Man."
** The exclusive [=WonderCon=] trailer appears to be ''packed'' with this. Among the highlights are John getting extremely mad that Sarah suggests Cameron doesn't "love" him, as well as a scene where John is repairing Cameron's arm, and she holds his hand while doing so. And then there's the ending of the trailer, which shows John ''lying on top'' of Cameron in bed.
** Cameron's little rant in "Samson and Delilah", which John didn't exactly deny at the time. There's been surprisingly little fallout from that, in this troper's humble opinion.
*** [[http://io9.com/5145575/summer-glau-explains-the-nature-of-robot-love In this interview,]] Summer Glau [[IKnewIt pretty much confirms it:]] Cameron ''does'' love John.
*** As of the Season Two finale, I think it's fairly safe to say that it's requited.
** There's also a little bit of teasing with [[FoeYay Derek and Cameron]], such as the scene in "The Demon Hand" where he ends up staring at her for a prolonged time while she does a ballet dance, and in "To The Lighthouse," which has very suggestive shots of Derek shoving Cameron up against a wall in close proximity.
** If you want to head into HighOctaneNightmareFuel territory, "Allision from Palmdale" has some teasing between ''[[ScrewYourself Allision and Cameron]].''
* We're only six episodes into ''{{Fringe}}'' so far and they've already managed to tease the fans insanely with the possibility of Peter/Olivia. Though it can be argued that they just have really really really good character chemistry whenever they're onscreen together.
* ''[[KamenRiderDenO Kamen Rider Den-O]]'' featured the time-traveling hero Ryotaro and his {{tsundere}} sidekick Hana. Over the course of the series, Ryotaro threw a ''lot'' of "my god, you're so sexy" looks at her, resulting in some pretty early shipping for the two. The finale revealing [[spoiler:she was his niece from a destroyed future timeline]] [[AbandonShip sank the ship]] pretty fast, but to this day, people still wonder whether the show writers did that on purpose or whether the actor just couldn't stop himself from drooling over his fellow actress long enough to actually act.
** The fact that Toei included Ship Teases like this in ''KamenRiderKabuto'' and practically every episode of ''MahouSentaiMagiranger'' hints at the former though.
* Pepper Dennis and Curtis Wilson on the tv show ''Pepper Dennis''. It was mostly a tease for obvious reasons.
* The first couple of seasons of ''StarTrekVoyager'' appeared to be building up to a relationship between Captain Janeway and her second-in-command Chakotay, only for nothing to happen. According to the WordOfGod the whole issue was 'resolved' in the end-of-season episode "Resolutions", yet such hints continued throughout the series until the LastMinuteHookup between Chakotay and Seven of Nine.
* ''TheXFiles'', despite having an onscreen chemistry that was practically explosive, the writers ignored the dramatic potential of a Mulder-Scully relationship until just prior to David Duchovny's departure (and, arguably, until long-time fans no longer really cared). And then the second movie basically resorts to cheap {{Handwave}} and ItsTheOnlyWay plot twists to play this aspect of the series down.
** So what, I'm the only ''X Files'' fan that is actually happy that Mulder and Scully finally hooked up?
*** [[OneTruePairing Like hell you are]]. Watching earlier seasons is even more fun knowing that they hook up in the end, because you could make a pretty awesome drinking game out of the signs that they're falling for each other. If you don't know about the eventual hookup by episode six of the first season, you're not only deaf and blind but an idiot as well. Hell, it was obvious in the pilot! By the time she yells at Luther Lee Boggs, they're both so deep in love with each other it would take tweezers the size of the Patronus Towers to extract them.
** Scully's sister goes to Mulder's darkened apartment in "One Breath" (when Scully is comatose in hospital) and has a nice and tense conversation with him. Unsurprisingly the writers later admitted that this was remnants of a possible relationship that had been nixed.
* ''{{NCIS}}'' ship-teases [[HandsomeLech Tony]] and [[ActionGirl Ziva]] at every opportunity, no doubt to capitalize on the characters' massive UnresolvedSexualTension.
** ''Just'' Ziva and Tony? The writers enjoy teasing former canon pairing [[HollywoodNerd McGee]] and [[PerkyGoth Abby]] as well.
* John Sheppard and Elizabeth Weir on ''Stargate Atlantis''.
** Rodney [=McKay=], whilst experiencing a second childhood, is distressed and calls only for John Sheppard in the 'Stargate Atlantis' episode "The Shrine", despite the fact that Jennifer Keller, the woman he supposedly loves, is sitting right in front of him.
* And before ''Atlantis'', there was ''StargateSG1''. WordOfGod says that the writers originally did not intend to create such a massive ShipTease between Jack O'Neill and Samantha Carter, but when they realized the fans were picking up on the impressive on-screen chemistry between Richard Dean Anderson and Amanda Tapping, they changed their minds.
** Later in ''SG-1'', General Landry and Dr. Lam are introduced in the same episode, and have quite a few scenes which seem to imply without explicitly stating that they have a prior relationship. Eventually it's revealed that he's actually her father.
* ''StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' seemed to ship Picard and Dr. Crusher, especially in the PsychicLink episode "Attached".
** Very notably in the episode "The Naked Now", where a virus of sorts makes everyone act as if they are drunk, and Crusher and Picard are very obviously attracted to each other.
** The implied shipping is effectively delivered in "All Good Things", the last episode of the series. It's the future, and it's revealed that [[spoiler:Picard and Crusher not only had a relationship, they eventually married. And then divorced]].
** Uh... seemed to? I submit:
--->'''Crusher''': Why didn't you ever tell me you were in love with me?
* ''iCarly'' has teased multiple ships, the 2 biggest ships in the fandom, [[JustFriends Carly/Freddie]] and [[SlapSlapKiss Sam/Freddie]] ships have both had episodes dedicated to teasing their ship, [[LesYay Carly/Sam]], [[HoYay Freddie/Spencer]] and [[MayDecemberRomance Sam/Spencer]] all have moments. No end is in sight, and since Season 3 started, the level of ship tease has only got worse.
* Given that it was created by JossWhedon, it was pretty much a given that ''{{Dollhouse}}'' would feature quite a bit of this. Probably the most noteable example occurred between Topher and [=DeWitt=] in "Echoes", which had number of fans wanting them to drop everything and have sex right there. "Omega" even teases Topher/Echo, of all things.
** This is made worse with the reveal that Adelle isn't above hiring Dolls for romantic assignments with herself, and is willing to look the other way when other Dollhouse employees do it too. This allows for an extraordinary amount of pairings to be explicitly shown onscreen without any baggage in future episodes.
** The second season premiere ramps this up to a new level. In addition to the expected Ballard/Echo and Victor/Sierra, there's some gratuitious Whiskey/Echo and Ivy/Sierra, as well as a rather disturbing Topher/Claire scene.
***And from some of the promo material, there may very well be some Echo/[[SummerGlau Bennett]] in upcoming episodes....
* Cleverly used by the writers of ''HowIMetYourMother''. Barney and Robin have had a huge fanbase since season one, and in the season three episode ''Sandcastles in the Sand'' Barney offers Robin comfort after a breakup and the two of them get cosy at the bar before Robin asks Barney to come back home with her. Cut to Robin's apartment where Barney asks if she's sure about this and she insists that it is, prompting him to ask "So should I just... put it in?" And it turns out he's talking about her second Robin Sparkles video. Cleverly done because [[spoiler:they actually do hook up in that episode, but when it happens they don't build up to it, it just happens.]]
* ''{{Castle}}'' is, of course, one big, giant, delicious, awesome ship tease for Castle/Beckett.
* Tina Fey has said that her ''[[ThirtyRock 30 Rock]]'' character will never hook up with Jack, but she seems to be going out of her way to imply that they might.
** "The Problem Solvers." Sweet Cthulu, ''"The Problem Solvers."''
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* ''PhoenixWrightAceAttorney'' does this quite a lot.
** There's [[HoYay Phoenix and Edgeworth]] and how concerned Phoenix is with Edgeworth's well-being, even when Maya is in a very dangerous situation. (The concern is very much mutual - Edgeworth [[spoiler:''charters a private jet'' to see Phoenix when he hears that Phoenix is in hospital]].)
** Phoenix and Maya also have a fair bit of this. Phoenix [[spoiler:tried running over a burning bridge to save Maya (and failed when the bridge collapsed under him).]]
** Also Iris in the third game [[spoiler:who once shared a very intimate relationship with Phoenix while impersonating her sister, Dahlia]], and whom Phoenix [[spoiler:once put his life on the line to protect by drinking what might be poison]], is also teased and appears resolved at the end of the game... except that she seems to disappear during the seven-year timeskip between ''Trials and Tribulations'' and ''Apollo Justice''. Then again, so do Maya and Edgeworth, but [[spoiler:the implication of Iris as Phoenix's one true love in the credits makes her lack of even a token reference feel like a plot hole.]]
** Don't forget Apollo and Klavier, "I must say I'm used to being inspected by the ladies... But this is the first time I've felt this way with a man.".
* ''TalesOfSymphonia'''s creators probably knew that that shipping was inevitable, so they made RelationshipValues lead to MultipleEndings. Despite this, there are still scenes that favour the two main female leads more than the others, with the most blatant example being a skit that occurs in Welgaia between Lloyd and Sheena (he tells her to look into his eyes; not very subtle, huh?). To be fair, this skit does occur with Sheena as your closest party member. When someone other than Colette or Sheena is your closest party member, the cutscenes are decidedly nonromantic, exploring various other types of relationships such as admiration and friendship - but [[FreudWasRight a lot of people seemed to think they were all love options]].
** It helps that Presea looks like a young girl around Genis' age or younger ([[spoiler:but is actually a woman who is a decade older than Lloyd]]), and Raine is Genis's teacher. The Genis/Presea and Regal/Presea ships often get teased; when Zelos suggests that Presea could fall in love with a much older man around Regal's age, Genis gets very defensive ([[spoiler:although that would leave the door open for him to go out with her as the junior partner]]).
* ''TalesOfVesperia'', despite never really focusing on romance, does have a lot of fun teasing the fans. Yuri and Judith openly flirt a couple of times, Yuri goes to great lengths to save Estelle [[spoiler:from Alexei]], Karol keeps trying to impress Nan while Nan is very clearly hoping he does, Nan's dialogue when Karol fights her in the Colosseum is also very revealing (and it's implied in the credits they will eventually end up with each other) [[LesYay Judith keeps telling the other girls they look cute... and then there's Rita and Estelle's very, very close friendship.]]
** There's even a skit in Vesperia where Raven and Judith start teasing Estelle because they can tell that Estelle has a small form of romantic feelings towards Yuri, but that's the more attention the game ever gives to that aspect.
** For this troper, the scene Yuri and Estelle have just before setting off to the final battle is pretty blatant:
--->'''Estelle:''' ...and I will be able to remain with everyone... to stay with you.
--->'''Yuri:''' (after short silence looking at Estelle) ...yeah, I feel the same.
* In ''SuperRobotWars'', up until ''Original Generation Gaiden'', most people think that the protagonists of ''SRW Advance'', Axel Almer and Lamia Loveless were two characters that can never unite, as in almost every of their appearances, they're usually enemies. ''Original Generation Gaiden'' gives them a chance to fight under one banner, and even gives them a subplot that may as well link them together romantically, in which Lamia feels indebted on Axel for saving her life. The end of the story also adds that Axel, in attempt to find his own paradise (on Lamia's suggestion) promises to tell her first if he ever finds one. Awww...!
** This is also made a bit more prevalent in one of the screenshots of the ''SRW Advance'' remake in PSP, whereas it is shown that two original units can coexist together (which will probably be the rival, Axel in Lamia's story or Lamia in Axel's story), thus fans have speculated that the ''Advance'' canon may get reworked to support the Axel/Lamia pairing, which never existed/thought before beforehand. Of course, this editor was one who fell victim into such ShipTease... unfortunately... it's a hoax.
** This also adds up the teasing about pairing Axel and Alfimi. There has been a lot of older man-little girl fan pairing in the ''Super Robot Wars'' universe, and Axel traveling with Alfimi in ''Original Generation Gaiden'' all the time attracted the attention of {{Lolicon}} fans, viewing them as a pair (it helps that Alfimi just happens to be a clone of Excellen, who is the Alternate-universe counterpart of Axel's deceased lover Lemon, who also happened to have built Lamia). It's also supported with the way Alfimi said, "I may be the only one that understands Axel". This troper is glad that all these haven't produced some sort of DieForOurShip phenomenons for either Lamia or Alfimi.
** Speaking of {{Lolicon}} pairing, the heavyweight champion of the lolicon fan pairing in the ''SuperRobotWars'' universe is undoubtedly the ''Alpha'' series' Sanger Zonvolt and Irui Gan Eden. It has spawned tons of pairing fan arts, a surprising amount of it non-romantic (or {{squick}}y, for that matter).
*** Hilariously, Ibis Douglas and Irui Gan Eden are infinitely more canon (what with their TearJerker ending in ''Alpha 2'' where they confess their love for each other as Irui Gan Eden dies, and CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming reunion in Alpha 3) but don't see half the fan art. This probably says something about the fandom.
* ''{{Guilty Gear}}'' teased the Ky/Jam with artwork, special intros and stuff. [[spoiler:Their ship got sunk.]] Accent Core plus now teases, surprisingly, Ky/Dizzy.
** And we can't forget all the FoeYay ShipTease between Sol and Ky, either...
* Stealth game ''{{Tenchu}}'' made some massive teasing about the two protagonists Rikimaru and Ayame, most notably during the intro of the ''Wrath of Heaven'' episode.
** And then they [[ShipSinking sunk the ship]] really bad in the ending of "Shadow Assasins".
* ''MortalKombat'' used this massively between [[AnIcePerson Sub-Zero]] and [[NobleDemon Sareena]], even going up to a LoveTriangle-like tease by adding a little subtext with [[TheUndead NoobSaibot]], Sub-Zero's older brother who was the original Sub-Zero.
* The first ''{{Disgaea}}'' has a bit of this between Laharl and Etna. Especially if you read Etna's journal [[spoiler:where it's implied that her crush on the King has at least partially transferred to his son]]. Also teased is Laharl and Flonne, though whether all the talk of love ever moves into romantic love or not is left up in the air.
* In ''WarCraft'', the current strong alliance between Thrall and Jaina Proudmoore has raised some... interesting stuff going on between those two. And the fact that there IS a half-orc named [[MeaningfulName Garona Halforcen]] in the WarCraft universe makes this pairing even more possible.
** Forget Garona, we have White Gnomeregan Punch Card: "Thrall and Jaina sitting in a tree, K-I-S-S-I-N-G." How's that for blatant ShipTease?
* [[FinalFantasyVII Final Fantasy Seven]]'s first disc is full of all sorts of Ship Tease, including a micro-dating sim where one of the three girls (and Barret) can go on a date with Cloud. Excellent examples of the Tease are the [[ChildhoodPromise promise under the stars]] scene in the beginning of the game, the Bodyguard for a Date deal, Cait Sith's 'love prediction' about Cloud and Aerith's happy future together [[spoiler:just before she leaves your party and is killed by Sephiroth]], and Yuffie kissing Cloud during the Gondola ride, more than either or the other Girl's attempts. It even has instances of Ship Tease with random male characters, like Mukki, Don Corneo, and the ability to date party member Barret.
* ''[[KingdomHearts Kingdom Hearts II]].'' Full stop. Hilarious given that it's a NoHuggingNoKissing game - Nomura ([[AndZoidberg and Nojima]]) are screwing with us all, and the shipper wars they have given birth to are rather incredible to behold.
** There ''is'' hugging and kissing in the game. Almost. There's [[spoiler:Sora and Kairi's reunion in II]] and there's also [[spoiler:Mickey and Minnie's "Eskimo kiss"]] in the credits sequence. Granted, that's not actual kissing, but it's still a CrowningMomentofHeartwarming.
** I doubt Nomura realizes or understands the bizarre specifics of shipping, and the ship teases are accidental. I mean, come on, the man's far more obsessed with ''zippers'' than in romance...
*** On the other hand, he does have the rather...annoying habbit of throwing curveballs at his audience and letting them figure it all out on their own, so he might be putting in fake ship tease clues on purpose.
* It just had to be the route of ''FateStayNight'' which has Saber calling Archer and Rin intimate, Archer putting his jacket around Rin to keep her warm, and a lot of other {{Subtext}} that also brings us [[spoiler:Archer's FaceHeelTurn and Rin hooking up with Shirou.]]
* ''TheLegendOfZelda: Twilight Princess'' did its share of Ship Teasing. Between the little come-back-safely speech Ilia gives to Link (complete with appropriate music swelling in the background), the hand-holding scene between Link and Zelda before the final battle, and the heartstring-tugging farewell by [[spoiler:Midna]] in which she almost says something emotional to Link, the shippers had a field day... especially considering that Link's a HeroicMime with no dialogue to offer clues.
* [[MetalGearSolid Solid Snake's]] codec transmissions regarding [[{{Metroid}} Samus Aran]] in ''SuperSmashBros Brawl'' could be regarded as a form of Ship Tease, since it's all one-sided and we have no way of knowing how Samus feels about the matter. Of course, that hasn't stopped them from becoming the game's resident OneTruePairing.
** This troper finds it necessary to state that the pairing's support has less to do with any perceived teasing and more to do with how their combined sex appeal is dense enough to create a singularity.
* Interestingly enough, ''GearsOfWar 2'' has some of this between Marcus and Anya, such as the way Anya asks him to take care of himself when he descends into the Hollow, and Marcus calling repeatedly over the radio at the end to see if Anya is okay, and looking ''extremely'' relieved when he spots her on the next Raven helicopter.
** The first game kind of hinted at an old relationship when they meet up briefly at the start of the game. Of course, [[MissionControl you never saw her again]], so nothing more came of it.
*** Oh come on, it was clearly nothing more than an attempt to distract from the over the top homo-eroticism everone joked about in the first game.
* [[FinalFantasyX Tidus and Auron]] seemed to flirt a bit in Luca during Auron's reappearance. Between Auron saying things like [[IfYouKnowWhatIMean "Come or don't come. It's your decision,"]] and Tidus assuming the position shortly thereafter, the UST was palpable. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAQmzOzh_yA 6:15 and 6:38-7:00]].
** Depending on your [[RelationshipValues affection rating]], you can have Tidus outright tell Lulu or Rikku that he would rather have them in Guadosalam.
* ''PaperMario: The Thousand Year Door'' features Mario getting kissed by each of his female party members (we're assuming that Vivian [[ShesAManinJapan is female]]) and no less than four times by Ms. Mowz (which makes Goombella jealous). Vivian almost makes a love confession to Mario in the ending, but decides that [[ShipperOnDeck he and Peach would be a good couple]], and Goombella is about to tell Mario something she hadn't been able to express to him before in her last email, but decides to save it for later. Peach has an almost romantic bond with TEC, especially when [[WhatIsThisThingYouCallLove educating him about human feelings]], and by the time [[spoiler:Grodus has him deleted for helping her get classified information for Mario, he declares his love for her just before shutting down (he gets better)]].
* ''TeamFortress2'' (surprisingly enough). With a full-male cast leading to much HoYay, the [[OneTruePairing most popular pairing]] tends to be Medic and Heavy. You'd think it would be as simple as the fact that Heavy is strategically very good with Medic (--err, not [[UnusualEuphemism that way]] ), but the fans use everything from Heavy's occasional voice clips ("I LOVE this Doctor!") to the fact that Medic and Heavy's 3-D in-game models are the only ones which have tongues. (...Which, of course, could be AccidentalInnuendo or...[[OfficialCouple well]].)
** ...Wait, what? That's...not really teasing... (And I assure you, this isn't just a case of [[MemeticMutation "Shipping? In MY TF2?!"]])
*** [[GratuitousFrench Au contraire]] --the [[http://www.teamfortress.com/sniper_vs_spy/day01_english.htm Sniper v.s. Spy update]] taught us that if they weren't Ship Teasing then, they [[http://www.teamfortress.com/sniper_vs_spy/day05_english.htm sure as hell]] [[http://www.teamfortress.com/sniper_vs_spy/day07_english.htm are now]].
* ''FireEmblem'' let's you control the amount of ShipTease in your game with its [[RelationshipValues support conversations]]. Each character has 5-7 characters they're compatible with and the ones of the opposite sex can be love interests (the same-sex choices can be regular friendships though you're free to [[HoYay see it another way]]). The conversations for Support Levels C and B are the cute Ship Tease ones with 95% of the A level conversations being the actual declaration of love.
* It's a matter of cut content rather than ShipTease, but the fact the sheer amount of interaction with Bishop and Neeshka in ''NeverwinterNights2'' that never goes anywhere is infuriating... Neeshka's [[RelationshipValues influence goes down]] whenver you [[ClingyJealousGirl agree with another girl]] for instance.
* ''{{Pokemon}}'', [[NoHuggingNoKissing of all rpgs]], had a ship tease, in the fourth generation. One of the villan teams commanders says, "So what is it? Are you some lovey-dovey couple to the rescue?", in a scene where you are with one of your rivals, the one that is the opposite gender's playable character.
** If you play as May, the female character, in Emerald, Brendan will state how he saw a Pokemon, Rayquaza, and wish you were there to see it with him.
* ''SilentHill 2'' has its own expectedly horrible contributions to the trope with James, a surly individual who travelled to the eponymous town to search for his dead wife, and Maria, an extremely flirtatious and slightly {{Tsundere}} woman who reminds James of aforementioned dead wife. For a while it seems as if the two will enter a {{Replacement Goldfish}}- esque relationship, but turns out that not only is [[spoiler:Maria a figment of James' imagination formed from a combination of his [[FreudWasRight sexual frustration]] and refusal to accept his wife's death, but that ''she's'' the one who has been unleashing all the HighOctaneNightmareFuel on James throughout the course of the game. She also has a OneWingedAngel form, and turns out to be the FinalBoss]]. SlapSlapKiss it isn't.
** [[spoiler:Don't forget the Maria ending, and the prison scene.]]
* ''MegaManZero'' has various moments of ShipTease between Zero (yes, ''[[MyHeroZero that Zero]]'') and Ciel (who's ''human'', by the way), not only during the series' run, but in the [[AllThereInTheManual accompanying materials]] as well. Amongst many, there's this little piece of dialogue before the end of the first game:
-->"Zero, I'm happy that I could meet you... If it were not for you, everyone would be gone by now... Promise me that you will come back alive. Even if you cannot destroy Neo Arcadia, I just want you to be able to return safely."
** And another, from Zero's [[CrowningMoment/MegaMan very famous]] WorldOfCardboardSpeech [[supersecretspoiler:that is also his ''FinalSpeech''.]]
--->"I never cared about justice, and I don't recall ever calling myself a hero... I have always only fought for the people I believe in. I won't hesitate... If an enemy appears in front of me, I will destroy it! ''Ciel, believe in me!''"
* For a series that tends to avoid the topic of relationships in the games (except for Amy, who is... rather clingy and it seems one-sided), ''SonicTheHedgehog'' has been known to ship tease a few times. Knuckles and Rouge in ''[=SA2=]'', for starters. Then there's the end of ''Sonic Rush'', where Sonic and Blaze are trying to hold on to each other as long as possible before they get separated - Sonic's holding on with both hands. It's as if they're both reluctant to part ways.
* ''ResidentEvil''. The entire series is filled with YourMileageMayVary for Ship Teases, though there are a few blatant ones that should probably be listed. ''[=RE1=]'', the scene where Jill puts her head on Chris' shoulder. ''[=RE2=]'', Leon screaming her name when Ada 'dies'. ''[=RE4=]'', Leon almost blatantly checks out Ada's ass as she's leaving the boat in the cinematic just before you begin playing the island. ''[=RE5=]'', Jill tackling Wesker through a window to save Chris, or the fact that you get a game over if you kill Jill in the game.
* There are a grand total of two scenes (conveniently, one right after the other) in ''SkiesOfArcadia'' that could be considered as teasing a romance between members of the main trio: the night before the final battle, Vyse talks to both Aika and Fina and can reassure them one way or another - he can put his arm around Fina's shoulders, and if he says the right thing to Aika, she'll kiss his cheek. That's about all the ammo the shippers receive in-game.
** It should be noted, though, that in their cameo appearance in ''ValkyriaChronicles'', Vyse and Aika will call out each other's names when they're killed; also, if they're close enough to provide supporting fire, they can say things like "Let me help, Vyse baby!"
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* ''GunnerkriggCourt'': Certain fans have noted subtext suggesting romantic feelings between Annie and Kat. Other fans have noted text-text that seems to contradict it (namely, that both characters have encouraged the other's crush on some third party). And then there's [[http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=112 this page]], which simultaneously plays up the subtext and undermines it by putting it in the mouth of the resident DeadpanSnarker JerkAss. Whatever Tom Siddell has planned for the characters, he seems to enjoy messing with the fans' heads in the meantime.
** Remember, said JerkAss called Annie "[[GenerationXerox Surma]]" when they first met[[spoiler: , and [[MoralEventHorizon killed a man]] for the chance to be with Surma back in the day]]. And then we get [[http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=599 these]] [[http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=600 two]] strips...
** [[http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=578 Recent]] [[http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=579 strips]] [[http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=586 have]] [[http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=587 gone]] almost beyond teasing for possible BetaCouple Parley/Smitty. It starts with Smitty admitting that he lets Parley push him around because she's hot, followed by both Reynardine and Annie remarking that she does so because she has a thing for him. Cue Smitty's spluttered denial, and Parley's return to the scene and quickly draped all over him.
* ''TheWotch'' had a page supporting a Robin/Cassie pairing [[spoiler:for April Fools day.]]
** Of course, more recently, Robin has [[spoiler:sought Cassie out and is spending a good bit of time with her. All friendly outings, but with just her. Maybe this ship has come in...]]
** Supported more fully by [[http://www.thewotch.com/?epDate=2009-02-17 this strip]]. Perhaps it's not that much of a joke after all.
* ''{{Misfile}}''. Dear god, ''Misfile''. Even if you ship Ash/Missi, you can't deny that the author enjoys teasing Ash/Emily...
** Shouldn't that go the other way around?
* ''SomethingPositive'' has teased fans by having [=PeeJee=] and Davan go through many relationship-like hurdles for years after Randy got sick of being asked the question. They both display forms of jealousy with other potential love interests, they spend a startling amount of time doing warm and fuzzy things together in a comic remarkably devoid of the same, and [=PeeJee=] even moves in with Davan when he moves out of state. Of course, since [=PeeJee=] is based on artist Randy's friend and Davan is an AuthorAvatar, he was encouraged to do this with the condition that [[ShipSinking it never actually happened]], which was finally killed [[http://www.somethingpositive.net/sp05312009.shtml once and for all.]]
* ''LookingForGroup'' has this in the scene where Richard's spirit and Pella have a moment in a parody of the movie ''Ghost''. After which we get the infamous "I thought we agreed no eye contact." and "You violated my spirit!" exchange. Way before all that, Richard had even declared "Can we keep her?" when having first met the dwarf. If you read in between the lines a few pages later on, in the scene right before she throws an axe into his forehead, he almost seems to be throwing a pickup line at her before being shot down. "Id like to see more of that." indeed.
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* ''TheSims 3'' blog AliceAndKev is doing this a lot with Alice and Zedadias. Recently, the creator introduced the character Shirley, who just has to be ThePaolo. Has to be!
* Chapter 21 of ''BrokenSaints'' features a tender moment between Shandala and Oran that can be interpreted this way, although it also has a platonic skew as well, since... well, since she's TheMessiah--she can be tender with whoever she wants.
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* The writers of ''AvatarTheLastAirbender'' apparently love teasing the incessant Zutara (Zuko/Katara) shippers, as traces of hinting can be found in the Avatar-dedicated Nick Mag issue and within various interviews. Most notably, trailers for the second season teased a hookup between the two -- they get LockedInARoom, and [[{{Deconstruction}} they don't go the route most characters go afterwards]]. Followed in the same episode by possibly the most brutal ShipSinking in recent memory.
** Second most brutal. No way running into the arms of TheHero, [[spoiler: or even [[ElementalPowers elemental]] mortal combat]], trumps what happened halfway through the next season.
** The writers teased the [[PortmanteauCoupleName Kataang]] [[OfficialCouple (Katara/Aang)]] shippers in an earlier episode, where they set up a TrueLovesKiss plot - but had the lights go out at the crucial moment, leaving viewers to wonder Did They Or Didn't They?
** And now there's the Season 3, part 2 trailer, which one Katara/Aang shipper described as "a giant kick in the groin," proving the PR staff are still up to their old tricks, and the shippers ''still'' haven't learned [[NeverTrustATrailer their lesson]].
*** Though by a combination of extended hiatus leaving nothing else to talk about and the enthusiastic nature of the ShipToShipCombat among the Avatar fanbase, ''any scene where two characters are on screen together'' now counts as ship teasing to some.
** Lampshaded (like everything else on the show) in "[[WhoWouldWantToWatchUs The Ember Island Players]]".
** And then the four-part finale, which where the ship teasing is as brutally epic as the storyline itself, throwing out more bait to the Zutara fans ''than the entire rest of the series combined''. [[spoiler:It even includes such classics as SheIsNotMyGirlfriend and TakingTheBullet, only to shoot it all down in flames with two heartfelt love scenes (Aang/Katara and Zuko/Mai, of course) in the very last minutes of the last episode]]. And they still have time to start a Toph/Zuko ShipTease...
*** This troper has changed his mind. The finale was not the most brutal ship tease ever. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLI1AvPjUeQ THIS is the most brutal ship tease ever.]]
**** That was a ''tease''? Looked like a WordOfGod ShipSinking to me.
*** The amount of ship tease present in the finale actually confused many casual watchers as to the ending pairings, since [[spoiler:Katara and Aang don't interact except for the start and the very end of the finale.]]
** You think it's bad now? Wait till M. Night Shyalaman offers us his view on the matter...
*** We already had [[TheScrappy Jesse]] give his opinion on the [[{{Lolicon}} attractiveness]] of the actress playing Katara. Thank God [[TheOtherDarrin he's been replaced]]...
** And they're ''doing it again'' with the current marathon of Avatar reruns with pop-up jokes and factoids appearing on the screen. (One pop-up quips "Love at first sight" during Aang and Katara's first meeting and another teases "Zuko was originally going to be a love interest for Katara.") Keep in mind the guy who wrote these is the same one behind Ember Island Players, so the odds of it being unintentional are probably nil.
** This troper can't believe no one mentioned the Sokka/Toph moment in "The Serpent's Pass"... "You can just go ahead and let me drown now" indeed.
* ''KimPossible'' had a Ship Tease going on between Ron and Kim in many third-season episodes, leading up to a literal LastMinuteHookUp in the GrandFinale. Then the show was unexpectedly UnCanceled. Oops.
** The biggest offender was "Emotion Sickness," an episode that's gone on to become a fan favorite and which also teased Drakken/Shego mercilessly. (The latter pair ''also'' got a LastMinuteHookup in the real finale.)
** "Homecoming Upset" had its fair share of Ron/Bonnie teases.
** Then there was "Stop Team Go", which had [[HoYay Kim/]][[FoeYay Shego]] shippers in hysterics.
** From day one of the second season, we have all manner of ship teases. Whether it be Kim worrying about Ron to a scene that mirrors the upside down kiss between Spiderman and Mary Jane. Lampshaded in Bad Boy where Kim hints at Ron bringing her as a date, and context galore throughout even before Emotion Sickness pretty much confirmed it.
* ''CodenameKidsNextDoor'' has teased Kuki and Wally fans repeatedly: for instance, in TheMovie, playing with GoingDownWithTheShip by having one of them infected with TheVirus (and passing it on just in time for KissingUnderTheInfluence). The final episode's DistantFinale framing sequence hints at a LastMinuteHookup between Kuki and Hoagie, before revealing at the last moment that they were just sitting together [[spoiler:and having Wally berate Hoagie to take his hands of Kuki, his wife]].
* In ''JusticeLeague'' Bruce Timm admitted to doing this with {{Batman}} and WonderWoman after shippers misintepreted a gesture of thanks as flirting in "The Brave and the Bold". Of course, anybody who's familiar with the {{DCAU}} (specifically ''BatmanBeyond'') knows that Batman is going to end up bitter and alone...
* ''TeenTitans'' had [[OfficialCouple Robin and Starfire]] ShipTease in spades... and that's not even getting into the PsychicLink between Robin and Raven. Or the constant [[SlapSlapKiss conflict]] between Raven and Beast Boy. For a show that was supposed to be for young boys, there was an ''awful'' lot of emphasis on this...
* ''TheBackyardigans'': Plenty of ship tease, but what crossed the final line was [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pixB4kf_9I the song "I Need a Hand"]] during "Caveman's Best Friend". It's the end of the song, folks. When they're holding hands. Doesn't that screams "LOVE" to you?! I guess it does.
* There are numerous [[RomanticPlotTumor forced and just plain poorly-done]] Ship-Teasing with Gwen and Kevin in ''Ben10AlienForce'' to the point where their [[PortmanteauCoupleName shipping name]] is called "Forceshipping." Compare this to the more subtle (and most likely unintentional} Ship-Teasing in the original ''{{Ben 10}}'' between [[KissingCousins cousins]] Ben and Gwen such as [[SlapSlapKiss flirtatious bickering]], hugging, [[TheGlomp glomping]], [[HandsOnApproach Gwen teaching Ben how to slow dance]] and the many AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther moments. Hell, even ''Alien Force'' manages to sneak a few in with Gwen playfully touching Ben's chest and Gwen describing that Ben is more or less the perfect boyfriend. [[RelationshipWritingFumble The writers seriously can't be that oblivious to how they are writing these two.]]
* The ''DuckTales'' episode "Duck to the Future" was pretty Ship tease-y in the [[FoeYay Magica/Scrooge]] department, what with Magica embracing Scrooge when the two escape from the Hindenburg... and ''reaching down his shirt'' for his NumberOneDime.
* ''SpongebobSquarepants'' has been celebrated, ridiculed and threatened in equal measure due to the gay subtext people find with the eponymous character and his surroundings. For a good example of this, look at "The Two Faces of Squidward", or "Chocolate With Nuts". And don't even get this troper started on [=SpongeBob=]/Sandy...
** Also, see [[ParentsForADay 'Rock a Bye Bivalve']]. "Let's have another."
** The promos for the [[MilestoneCelebration 10th anniversary special]] "Truth Or Square" all focused on a scene where Spongebob and Sandy get married. In the actual episode it turns out [[spoiler:it's all part of a play]]. Fan reaction has not been too hostile, which is good because it would look really foolish considering it wasn't a ShipSinking (besides [[spoiler:[[FridgeLogic since the bishop performing the wedding didn't know it was just a play, doesn't that mean they really]] '''[[FridgeLogic are]]''' [[FridgeLogic married?]]]]).
* While ''{{Fillmore}}'' was mostly a NoHuggingNoKissing series, the writers definitely gave a ToyShip vibe between the two leading characters. Mostly because their dialogue had a tendency to sound flirtatious at times, coupled with all the subtext of a BuddyCopShow.
* ''TheFairlyOddparents'' special "Wishology" seems to finally lean the show in the Timmy/Trixie direction (and at the same time, gives the [[FanPreferredCouple Timmy/Tootie]] shippers [[ShipSinking reason to be very sad]]), but at the end, the ResetButton returns Trixie to her normal self.
** However, in the earlier special "Channel Chasers", there is a portrayal of Timmy's two GenerationXerox children: [[PaletteSwap One who looks exactly like Tootie but has Timmy's brown hair, and the other who looks exactly like Timmy but has Tootie's black hair]]. It was supposed to be unclear whether Timmy's children are Tootie's or Trixie's, Butch Hartman saying it could be either of the two. Given that both of these ships have rabid fans, that was probably a good idea. It didn't stop ''both'' sides from being furious about the outcome of "Wishology", though...
* The ''PhineasAndFerb'' episode "That Sinking Feeling" has the two titular characters try to help their friend impress a girl. Phineas later invites Isabella along, ([[NotWhatItLooksLike But not in the way you'd think]]) providing plenty of this trope. Ironically enough, this episode takes place on a cruise ship.
** Phineas/Isabella gets teased a lot, actually. For example, Isabella spends the whole episode "Out to Launch" trying to ask Phineas to a dance...only to have him misunderstand her and invite Ferb along as a third wheel. In "One Good Scare Ought to Do It," Phineas not only spends the whole episode trying to help her, but holds her hand practically through the entire song. Many smaller examples also exist.
** The episode "Vanessessary Roughness" does this for Ferb/Vanessa, especially given the cheek-kiss at the end.
** Then there's "Phineas and Ferb's Quantumn Boogaloo" which almost confirms the ship while at the same time opening a new can of worms. While 20 years in the future Isabella is ecsatitc to hear Candace's kids comment she looks like thier Aunt Isabella, proving she must marry Phineas. Then Candace points out she could also marry Ferb and still be thier aunt (It's the past Candace not the future one so she doesn't actually know anything about it), prompting a look of shock from Isabella and a point and a wink from Ferb.
* ''{{Arthur}}'' teased Arthur/Francine a few times with a SheIsNotMyGirlfriend episode at one point and a few glimpses into the future (which may or may not be {{Imagine Spot}}s) that imply both will eventually get married.
* Despite their relationship being [[JustFriends explicitly platonic]], ''MyLifeAsATeenageRobot'' threw in some teasing for Brad and Jenny from time to time.
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