Crossover Ship / Live-Action TV

• The characters of Buffy the Vampire Slayer get this a lot. Captain Jack Harkness/Ianto (both from Torchwood)/Dawn, Xander/Cortana (Halo), Buffy/Mal (Firefly), Dawn/Jayne, Giles/Captain John Hart and oh so much more.
• One crossover between Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Baldur's Gate had several, including Buffy/Solaufein, Giles/Jaheira, Spike/Viconia, and eventually Buffy/Artemis Enteri.
• Captain Mal Reynolds from Firefly and Buffy the Vampire Slayer's Dawn Summers pairing appears from time to time.
• There is one extremely weird example of, of all things, River Tam (Firefly) being shipped with Heat (Digital Devil Saga). It stemmed from the two encountering one another during a multi-author Mega Crossover, with Heat equating River with Sera. She latched on to him because he was protective of her, he latched onto her because she reminded him of Sera. Things got even weirder from there, with Heat doing his cannibalism thing and River being not-at-all freaked out about it. The thing had a rather powerful and sad Did Not Get the Girl Downer Ending, as there wasn't any sex, just very rough kissing (with biting and some bloodplay involved) and a whole lot of insanity, and the two had to split apart at the end of it because Heat refused to take River back to a world as screwed up as his and had no place in hers. It was really well-done, especially on the part of the author writing Heat's part of the story.
• There are a few Buffy/Firefly crossover fics that ship Spike with River Tam. This works remarkably well as crossovers go. Spike, who spent over a hundred years with Drusilla and was then haunted by the First Evil, has significant experience with people who "see things" and is in a better position to relate to River than anybody in Firefly canon. Spike's immortality makes it easy to rationalize his presence in the Firefly universe: he just lives long enough to leave Earth-That-Was with the rest of humanity. Then there's the fact that having been born in Earth-That-Was makes him an (un)living memory of a time that is seen as legendary by the inhabitants of the 'Verse.
• There's a growing number of River Tam (Firefly) and Riddick (The Chronicles of Riddick) fics.
• Thanks in no small part to a little fanfic called The Way of Things, Rose (Doctor Who)/Peter Carlisle (Blackpool, played by David Tennant) has an impressive following.
• Pairing Rose, the Tenth Doctor's companion (Doctor Who) with other characters played by David Tennant (who played the Tenth Doctor) is a bit of a thing; aside from Carlisle, there's Detective Inspector Alec Hardy (Broadchurch) and Barty Crouch Jr. (Harry Potter).
• There are people out there who ship Abby (NCIS) with Dr. Reid (Criminal Minds). Then again, it kind of makes sense.
• The pairing of Spencer Reid (Criminal Minds) and Zack Addy from Bones is reasonably popular for the Common Crossover thing.
• There was once a movement on LiveJournal to pair Captain Jack Harkness of Torchwood and Doctor Who with every single fictional character ever. Unsurprisingly, it didn't complete its task, and later it lost steam altogether.
• Dean Winchester of Supernatural and the Doctor (Doctor Who) pairing pops up in SuperWho quite a bit.
• Martha/Sam (Doctor Who and Supernatural) has a small, but devoted fandom, complete with a blog.
• Launcher of a Thousand Ships Amy Pond of Doctor Who has two major fanon crossover ships, with Supernatural's Dean Winchester and Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock). The Sherlock ship has two dedicated tumblr blogs.
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer has sometimes been shipped with Dean Winchester of Supernatural, or sometimes with Sam. So has Faith, for that matter, though both Slayers more likely end up with the older brother. In a case of Pair the Spares, if Buffy is with Dean then Dawn will likely be shipped with Sam. The pairing is strengthened by the idea that the two universe actually mesh together rather well, with the metaphysic differences not too hard to Handwave due to having a number of common elements.
• Castiel from Supernatural and animated Korra from The Legend of Korra.
• Castiel for Supernatural often gets paired with Crowley from Good Omens or sometimes the Crowley from Supernatural gets paired with Azaraphel from Good Omens. Since Crowley from Supernatural is an admitted Expy of the Crowley from Good Omens, they are often portrayed as the same.
• There was a LiveJournal community devoted solely to this pairing: Dean from Supernatural and Neal from White Collar.
• Dean (Supernatural) gets around.
  • One of the most popular het ships is Dean and Chloe from Smallville.
  • Dean/Hermione (Harry Potter) is very popular het pairing.
  • Thanks to the crossover episode ''Scoobynatural'' there are fics pairing Dean/Daphne and Sam/Velma, even though canon-wise both pairings were unrequited with Dean crushing on Daphne and Velma crushing on Sam.
  • Dean is already being shipped with Cordell Walker from Walker and sometimes the Walker-verse is portrayed as an AU of Supernatural making it Wincest-y.
• It can be quite safely stated that there is an entire sub-category of Smallville fanfiction devoted to the idea of Chloe moving to Gotham City (often after the author has Chloe realize that Clark/Jimmy/whoever "isn't good enough for her") and then meeting and falling in love with Batman. Usually, Chloe ends up either becoming Mission Control at the Batcave or she undergoes Xenafication and becomes Batgirl or Batwoman (or occassionally Catwoman) and ends up fighting crime alongside Bruce on the Gotham City rooftops. Either way, she can usually work the Batcomputer better than Bruce can, proves to be his match in fighting skills, and if Bruce is still "in denial" about his feelings for her, Alfred will usually advise him to "open his eyes and see what's right in front of him".
• Zoey 101, Drake & Josh, and iCarly have multiple crossover ships. Nevel/Megan is probably the most popular of these.
• Tori Vega from Victorious/James Diamond from Big Time Rush is pretty popular, and their respective actors are dating in real life.
• With the new crossover Spin-Off show Sam & Cat featuring Sam from iCarly and Cat from Victorious, it took all of one episode for people to start shipping them together.
• Chloe (Smallville) is a Launcher of a Thousand Ships (possibly due to the huge amount of fanfic writers who seem to very strongly relate to her personality), and another hugely popular Smallville crossover ship is to pair up Chloe with either Dean or Sam from Supernatural (or, y'know, both). The Chloe/Dean ship seems to be more popular than Chloe/Sam for whatever reason.
• There are fics pairing Xander from Buffy the Vampire Slayer with Wednesday Addams (The Addams Family). It worked well through various devices.
• Then there's the one Harmony/Wednesday fic, which used the common conceit that Harmony is actually Amanda from the Addams Family (both were played by Mercedes McNab).
• Eddie Munster from (The Munsters) is also sometimes shipped with Wednesday.
• Faith, or Buffy, or Dawn (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) are often paired with one or more of the Supernatural's Winchesters. Or Dark Angel Alec.
• There's lots of Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Stargate SG-1 Crossover fic out there, and a lot of it has Crossover Ship, including Jack/Buffy, Clone!Jack/Dawn, Faith/Vala, and many more.
• Ladies and gentlemen, prepare to clean up your brain matter after Your Head Asplode from witnessing the greatest crossover pairing ever conceived: B/ASH, otherwise known as Buffy Summers (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) / Ash Williams (Evil Dead). And here is one such example.
• TV adaptation Hornblower created a delicious red-coated Majorly Awesome Major "My Lord" Edrington. Hornblower fandom has taken a liking to pairing him with Badass Richard Sharpe (Sharpe) despite or perhaps because he's exactly the kind of officer Sharpe would despise if he was incompetent. Major Edrington isn't, so he's precisely the officer Sharpe wishes he was.
• This video ships Lieutenant William Bush (Hornblower) and Miss Molly Gibson (Wives and Daughters). Regency England, a handsome naval officer and a pretty little young lady. It's very adorable and believable. There's a severe lack of ladies in Hornblower, the series being all Wooden Ships and Iron Men, so it's logical that these wonderful sailors would look for love in other book or TV 'verses.
• Jim Kirk from Star Trek: The Original Series and Reaper Bones from Doom have a noticeable fan following.
• Spock (Star Trek) and Vaarsuvius (The Order of the Stick) is common. So is art depicting one cosplaying as the other, or some bizarre merger of the two. It makes sense, given that both are highly-logical pointy-eared beings given to Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness.
• Martin Crieff (Cabin Pressure) / Molly Hooper (Sherlock) has a modest following. Cabin Pressure and Sherlock are Friendly Fandoms that are easily crossed over. Depending on the execution, it can be a combination of Theme Pairing and Throw the Dog a Bone, as both Martin and Molly are rather unfortunate in many aspects of their lives and overdue for something nice to happen to them. (There's also the fact that Molly pines after Sherlock, who's played by Benedict Cumberbatch, the same guy who played Martin Crieff.) There also seems to be a small but steadily increasing number of fans of Martin and one episode character Henry Knight.
• This fic crosses over Stargate SG-1 and Torchwood. Pairings include Jack Harkness/Daniel, Jack O'Neill/Ianto, Owen/Anise/Freya, and Gwen/MALP. Bonus points for the title being abbreviated to CR:ACK.
• Irene Adler (Sherlock) / River Song (Doctor Who). Two badass ladies of questionable morals together at last. And both shows have Steven Moffat as the head writer.
• Sherlock (Sherlock) / The Doctor (Doctor Who). It's surprisingly popular, probably due to a certain photograph of Benedict Cumberbatch and David Tennant that's been circulating the internet, as well as one of he and Matt Smith hugging.
• Here's a snarky pair: Ashley Jeurgens (The Secret Life of the American Teenager) / Flynn Jones (Shake it Up). One is a Little Miss Snarker, the other, a Deadpan Snarker. So what if it's Shotacon on Ashley's part, at least they're happy together. Don't let Amy and CeCe find out...
• Blaine from Glee/Zac Efron. After all No one loves Zefron more than Harry Potter.
• Sort of happened in S.O.L., in which, due to accidentally drinking a pheromone potion, Scully (The X-Files) spends a lot of the story hitting on/making out with Joel (Mystery Science Theater 3000) (Much to Joel's dismay). Even after she's cured and apologizes to Joel, she kisses him at the end of the story, and Mulder teases her about it.
• A surprisingly adorable one is paring of James Nicholls (War Horse) and Gwen Dawson (Downton Abbey).
• Barry Allen from The Flash (2014) and Supergirl from Supergirl (2015) were shipped even before their crossover happened. They're both adorkable superheroes, leaders of their respective teams, and have been through a lot. They also had pretty good chemistry both times they met.
  • John Constantine and Lucifer Morningstar were shipped since appearing together in Crisis on Infinite Earths, especially since they're well acquainted with each other despite being from different universes. It's pretty clear that something happened between the two of them.
• Captain Jack Harkness of Doctor Who and Torchwood has been shipped (with varying levels of seriousness) with most characters in just about every fandom ever. Justified in that he totally would.
• A One True Threesome example of this occurs in the Lost in Camelot series, which pairs Bo Dennis of Lost Girl with Merlin and Morgana from Merlin (2008). The temporal circumstances required for the three to meet are complicated, but the actual pairing is handled well, with Bo providing Merlin and Morgana with someone who respectively appreciates their desire to protect the innocent and distaste for the establishment, creating hope that they will be able to prevent Morgana's later fall into evil.
• One of Becks Rylynn's favorite pairings is Laurel Lance (Arrow) and Dean Winchester (Supernatural). It works really well, most notably in How the Light Gets In.
• Once Upon a Time:
  • There is a large fandom for Belle and Nicholas Rush (Stargate Universe), mainly due to the fact that Rush is played by Robert Carlyle, who plays Belle's main love interest, Rumplestiltskin. It's to the point that on AO3, the Rush/Belle pairing has the second most fics of any Stargate Universe pairing.
  • Emma/Regina shippers have a habit of trying to ship Emma with any character Lana Parrilla has played on television. The most notable is Trina Decker from Swingtown, for which there is a surprising number of fanfics. There are also some support for Emma/Rita Castillo from Why Women Kill in the wake of that show's second season.
• Alicia Clark (Fear the Walking Dead) getting shipped with Clarke Griffin (The 100), is rather popular due to her actress, Alycia Debnam-Carey, also playing Clarke's love interest, Lexa, and the circumstances of their "break-up" in that show. There's even what-ifs where it's a Reincarnation Romance with Eliza Taylor playing a The Walking Dead universe version of Clarke named Elyza Lex.
• Hannah Montana:
  • Miley Stewart is often shipped with several other Disney Channel characters. On Fanfiction Dot Net, Miley is shipped with Alex Russo from Wizards of Waverly Place, which is possible as they both appeared in a crossover with The Suite Life on Deck, Zack Martin from The Suite Life on Deck, and Mitchie Torres and Nate Grey from Camp Rock.
  • Mikayla has a large number of fanfics that pairs her with Mitchie Torres from Camp Rock, mainly due to the real-life complicated relationship between their actresses, Selena Gomez and Demi Lovato, and feeling they would have good chemistry.
• Sonny Munroe (Sonny with a Chance) has been shipped with Alex Russo from Wizards of Waverly Place, which is strange, as that show exists as a fictional show In-Universe, as Selena Gomez shows up and Sonny is revealed to be a fan of it. This is mainly due to shippers feeling that the two would have great chemistry and the real life friendship of their actress at the time of airing. There are a large number of fanfics for it on Fanfiction Dot Net, with most of these being full AUs where the Russo family just exists as real people and not as characters on a TV show.
• There's a relatively large fanbase for shipping Dana Scully (The X-Files) and Stella Gibson (The Fall (2013)), especially on sites like AO3, mainly due to both being played by Gillian Anderson.

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