Crack Pairing - Television Tropes & Idioms

There's Mac/PC slash out there. Yes, from the Apple commercials. It's John Hodgman and Justin Long having sex, except they have computer ports and plugs instead of human orifices. Aren't you sad you asked now?
- Played for laughs here (scroll down).
Flo (bubbly Progressive Insurance checkout lady) and Erin (Esurance super-agent.) It's destiny.
- It exists. Naturally. (Not pornographic but not remotely worksafe.)
- Throw in the Allstate guy (Dennis Haysbert) for a Insuriffic 3-way!
  - They say he's very good with his hands...
- With all of them, at least you know it's very safe sex.

Shippo/Koga (Shoga?) from Inu-Yasha.
- How about any character with Myouga the flea. Worse if there are people who actually support it and write lemons... *shudders* can anyone say NightmareFuel?
Perhaps one of the most popular Crack Pairings is Eriol/Tomoyo in the Card Captor Sakura fandom. Despite having barely any interaction in Canon, the canonical love they have for other characters, and Eriol being chronologically at least 30 years old and mentally much older when Tomoyo is a regular 12-year-old girl, the pairing has such a huge following that it gets mistaken for canon by underinformed fans.
- Tomoyo/Meiling is common, but if you take the second movie in consideration, it's almost canon.
Naruto - Maybe it comes from similar appearances and personality, maybe it's a backlash to militant Naruto/Sasuke, Naruto/Hinata, Sasuke/Sakura, and Naruto/Sakura fans, or maybe people would've been shipping them if Hinata had not been in the picture. A growing segment of fans like the idea of Naruto hooking up with Ino. Their interaction in canon is limited to the filler episodes, including the one that ended with him peeing off the side of a roof while disguised as her. Its growing popularity has turned it more into an alternative pairing than crack.
- "Initial Offensive" and "An Unforeseen Consquence" are two of the better examples of this. Though the first delves a little too deeply into the sexual side of things and the latter starts with Ino's lifeless body plunging into a dumpster.
- This can also be expanded to Naruto/Any female character. Naruto/Tayuya for instance? (You should see how many reviews those stories get on Fanfiction.net...))
  - Hell, one of those made its way to the Fanfic Rec page here even.
- Ino/Pillow. No, seriously.
- With recent manga chapters, we now have Crow/Naruto. No, I don't mean Kankuro's puppet I mean actual crows.
- Sasori/Moegi is a fan favorite.
- Does Gaara/Rock Lee count?
  - NO.
- How often does Pakkun get to see some action?
  - PakuSaku.
- Sasu Gaa ftw!
- Konoha ninja/Akatsuki pairings are common crack pairings, especially Sakura/Sasori.
- Pain/nail/Kakashi has been played for laughs, but...
- Shikamaru/Hinata. Well she is not very troublesome and it's cute.
- Anko and Gai. Orochimaru in Kabuto's body could show up to give Anko away (completely ignoring that she wants to rend him limb from limb and poke him with many, many pointy things before dumping him in a vat of slightly diluted acid). Before Sasuke kicked his scaly rear, he could've been the flower girl. Then there's the fishnet and green spandex wedding dress...
- SAI/KARIN FOR THE WIN! THEY SHALL TAKE OVER THE WORLD!
  - Karin's dead so no go on that.
- Kakashi/Sakura is mostly crack. But this ship has the best smut out there.
  - Damn straight.
  - See the House of Crows for low-calorie, low-smut (So far...) variation.
- Don't forget the incest. Well, let's see... Gaara/Temari, Gaara/Kankuro, Kankuro/Temari, Naruto/4th Hokage(his father), Hinata/Hanabi (her sister), lots and lots of Sasuke/Itachi and Neji/Hinata (for many fans they're not crack, apparently), Madara/Itachi, Madara/Sasuke (not to mention that Madara is probably their grandfather or something), Hiashi/Hizashi (Hinata and Neji's twin fathers) and probably more.
- Naruto/Kyuubi? Naruto/Naruto clone? Kiba/Akamaru? Sakura/Chiyo?
- And there's Lee/Gai-sensei, but this pairing has support even in canon... If people can see it.
- Hinata/all Akatsuki members at the same time. Sakura/Akatsuki, too.
  - Nine at the same time? Reminds me of something...
  - There's a Hinata/Nagato fic. Yes, the same Nagato who nearly killed her after she confessed to Naruto and fought against him.
- Zetsu/ his flower.
  - White Zetsu/Black Zetsu is a possibility in light of the fact that the two halves can talk to each other and can even separate.
- Sasu/Kishi. Kishi as in Kishimoto. And it so needs more love!
  - Some argue Kishimoto gives it too much love.
  - Whatever could you possibly mean?◊ (Probably not safe for sanity)
- Haku/Sai.
- Sasuke/Hinata is so popular that it's barely considered crack anymore. Also, since Konan is the only woman in Akatsuki...
- After recent events, there is now a three-way between Killer Bee/Kisame/Samehada. Illustrated here in this comic. Not Safe For Sanity.
- Naruto/Karui won a few fans after she beat the crap out of him. And Shikamaru/Sakura has a following based on their intelligence and decent amount of interaction.
- Shino with just about anyone, including Ino, Tenten, Kiba, Kurenai, Anko, Chouji, Hanabi, Neji... He just never gets a break!
- Hinata is sometimes paired with Kou, a branch house member who is assigned to protect her during Pain's invasion of Konoha.
- Hanabi/Deidara had a devout following at one point, despite the former having two lines in all of creation, and hasn't been seen since the Chuunin Exam. The reason for this pairing? Hanabi means ' fireworks'
- Tenten and Kankuro have become a popular pairing among fandom ever since the fanfiction Little Green Leaf. To be fair, that story was ridiculously epic, with a great plot and spot-on characterizations that made you believe the pairing had some major potential. Yet, even when they were in the same story arc, there was little to no interaction between them...
- Okay, let's declare the Naruto shipping fandom as the Most Triumphant Example in Crack Pairings.
  - The Harry Potter fans would like to have a word with you. (Look down.)
  - And Bleach, though their section is rather neglected. (if you name them, there is a Bleach pairing with them in it.) Come to think of it, pretty much any mainstream manga/anime with as many characters as the long-running series (Naruto, OnePiece, Bleach, InuYasha, et cetera) will probably have more crack pairings than you can shake a stick at.
- Naruto/Keyblade/Sora... Yes, there was a fanfic with this, and its as messed up as you'd think it would be.
  - Links. Now.
- A friend of this troper is a fierce supporter of Tobi/Hinata, and has managed to convince others that it's a decent pairing.
- What? Nobody's mentioned Kiba/Hinata yet?
Neon Genesis Evangelion has Rei/Asuka...
- Anytime anyone is ever shipped with an EVA or an an angel.
  - Does that include Gendo/EVA 1? Because that's sorta canon.
  - Lets see. NGE is pretty much the poster child for What Do You Mean It Wasnt Made On Drugs, so.... Yeah, it's included.
- How about Shinji/Hikari? Even though she's got a crush on Touji and barely speaks with Shinji, some fans see her as just what Shinji might need—probably because she's one of the few characters not emotionally damaged.
- Kaworu/Asuka is pretty common between fans, despite their, uh... complete lack of interaction. After all, Kaworu was a replacement for her to pilot the 02, and she was too deep in her Heroic BSOD to ever see him. Shinji And Warhammer40k, being For Want Of A Nail Alternate Universe Fic, actually makes this one work.
- With the Rebuild of Evangelion remake movie tetralogy, there's shipping between Kensuke and ~~Mayumi~~ Mari, since they would be the only ones that would end up alone, somehow or another.
- Although Shinji/Asuka does not fit the above description of a "crack pairing", a recent survey of S/A shippers found that 86% of them were on crack. The remaining 14% were on LSD.
- Rei/Kaworu is considered this, although its more of pairing spares and night passing. People seem to think this is somehow more squicky than Shinji/Rei... even though Shinji and Rei are half-siblings.
  - They're even worse than half-siblings; she's the clone of his mother.
  - Only a half-clone. The other half is from Lilith's DNA. Genetically that equals half-sibling, with the other parent being a nonhuman.
- Speaking of Ships That Pass In The Night: Rei/Rei. How you ask? Instrumentality. Or Rei/Rei/Rei. (sure Rei I is about five years old, but Rei III is only a month or two fresh out of the reiqarium, and Rei II is ten at most, so any ships involving Rei are inherently squicky) They're just so... dynamic together.
  - Wait, Rei II is older than Rei I? Was there an accident with a contraceptive and a time machine?
  - Not to mention there's evidence to suggest Rei I is Unit 00's resident soul, which opens up interesting question about Synchronisation should the OT3 be consumated
  - Really Why would Rei I have such a passsionate hatred for Gendo Ikari? Doesn't it make more sense for the soul to be Rei I's killer, Naoko Akagi? (Which would add a whole new level to the interactions between 00 and Rei II.)
From Suzumiya Haruhi, there's the curiously semi-popular Kyon/Asakura pairing◊. Asakura (a humanoid interface like Nagato) is deleted partway through the first novel, you see, after trying to kill Kyon to provoke a reaction in Haruhi. It gets better. In The Disappearance Of Haruhi Suzumiya, Kyon winds up in an Alternate Universe where everything is "normal" and winds up getting stabbed by her again near the end, this time for trying to return the world to the way it was ("That was the reason why I was created."). Yandere-fandom, anyone?
- Some re-imaginings of the first incident involve her trying a different tactic, If You Know What I Mean. Haruhi nearly remade the world for catching Asahina playfully pushing against Kyon's back; one can hardly imagine what might happen if she caught him doing something more. It is the obvious, sane choice and likely the one she would've made if she'd only thought of it. You can easily imagine Kyon talking her into it out of self-preservation.
  - Hey, just remember that Kyon is the Launcher Of A Thousand Ships, and therefore can be paired up with his sister or his cat. Hell, there has to be a KyonXTaniguchiXKunikida fan fic somewhere...
- Asakura/Nagato is also fairly popular, and in fact semi-implied in Disappearance.
Mai-HiME/Mai-Otome fandom has the odd pairing of Nao/Tomoe. One half's an Anti Hero, the other a Psycho Lesbian. Total interaction between the two characters? Zero. In fact, Nao seems to be a popular target for crack pairings in general, given her aloof nature.
- There is an amount of fanart supporting a Nao/Natsuki/Shizuru threesome in the Mai-Hime timeline, specifically the manga. Seems cute and odd, but not crack until you consider this is Nao involving herself in a threesome with the girl she's always disliked/hated and the other girl who killed her mother before Mashiro resurrected everyone. True, everyone seems to be getting along better in the epilogue, but really...
Margrave Jeremiah Gottwald/Sayoko Shinozaki has lately become kinda popular in the Code Geass fandom. The pretty fanarts also help. It's "A FUCKING STORM OF LOYALTY".
- Fanon is quite clear on how the Grand Finale plays out: Only Anya and Orange are shown in the ORANGE GROVE because of the "fact" that Sayoko is back at the house cooking for her dear husband and their adopted daughter. Or scaring off thieves and birds eating/stealing the fruits with her l33t Ninja Maid skillz and then joining her little family at home for a nice dinner.
- NinaXTable-kun OTP. It even has some basis in canon
- Table-kun/Lelouch's Hat/Kanon's Hat. It's out there. Somewhere.
  - found it unfortunatly I didn't find one that also had Kanon's hat.
- Nunnally/Rolo may very well be the most unlikeliest pair seeing as though Rolo wants Nunnally dead, but the fanart does exist.
The Pokemon fandom made a sport of it, with Loads And Loads Of Characters and fewer canon ships than you can count on one hand. Fans would spend plenty of time thinking up interesting pairings, giving them clever names, and adding them to a large list. ElderShipping (Ash's Mom/Professor Oak) was probably the most popular, until one wondered if they were hitting on each other in canon. And these ships were not just for humans - Pokemon were used frequently, too. At one point, there was even a subsection for shippings with inanimate objects.
- The inanimate object thing makes perfect sense. After all, who HASN'T been inside of Master Ball?
- One fanfiction involved Pikachu getting intimate with a ketchup bottle.
- And let's not even get into Hot Skitty On Wailord Action...
- There is a page with an insanely long list of Pokemon ships. View it at your own risk!
- Pikachu and Pokeball's past is so complicated he won't get into her. Pokeball asks herself what have she done, and Pikachu, in Pika-language, says that she's so overbearing, and suffocates him so much that he just went away. Or something.
- This one doesn't make ANY sense at all: DisguiseDeLimitShipping (PaulxDuplica)
- DoppelgangerShipping - AshxAshley. Just think this over and you'll realize why.
Digimon Adventure has a few memetic crack pairings. Takeru/Holsmon and Iori/BlackWarGreymon come to mind. A very popular crack pairing in the early days of the fandom was Yamato/Mimi (Mimato). Despite their both liking music and occasionally standing next to each other, they have never had an on-screen conversation. Ever since the second season dropped their love-bombs, however, Digimon fans have enjoyed writing crack pairings and seeing how many they can make work.
- Hey, there was damn good evidence for Iori/BlackWarGreymon! And Mimato was largely born out of the need to pair the most beautiful characters of each gender.
Most ships within the Jo Jos Bizarre Adventure fandom would undoubtedly qualify. Most pairings consist of slash, incest, Foe Yay, or any combination of these. It doesn't stop there either. There are pairings like Iggy/Polnareff and Dio/Steamroller.
- Giorno/Jolyne, who not only have never met in canon, but are also blood related.
- CLAMP took the cake when they massively shipped Jotaro/Kakyoin with the creation of Jota: their son who hatched from an egg.
Sailor Moon has many of these. Generally anything involving Sailor Pluto while questioning the paternity of Chibiusa will have you reaching for the Brain Bleach. There's also Minako/Rei, which is based on a manga chapter in which Minako asks Rei if she farts.
- Minako/Rei is not that farfetched. Here is a whole manifesto about it.
- If you also include the Live Action series then you have plenty of Sub Text to go around. It was very blantant.
- There are only something like five canon relationships. This doesn't stop the fanbase from shipping everyone with everyone else—incest, pedophilia, necrophilia (Saturn and enemies) included.
Yu-Gi-Oh is the shonen form of Sailor Moon in twisted ships. There's the so-called "Hikari/Yami" pairing. A frequent ship is Kaiba/Shizuka (Serenity), based on one line that Kaiba may or may not have said to Shizuka. This when Kaiba doesn't even know who Shizuka is; even if he weren't already in love with a card, he'd reject her on principle for being Jonouchi/Joey's sister, someone who he can't stand (Then again...). But probably hands down the weirdest pairing is Asuka/Judai's TOWEL. (A towel he wore in the Hot Springs Episode). It's become a bit of a running gag.
- Saiou/Mizuki is real even if no one sees it.
- Kaiba/Shizuka may also be based on the fact that some people think that Shizuka is the reincarnation of his card girlfriend because they kinda look alike. And then there's Kaiba/Yami.
  - Kaiba/Yami is hardly crack if you consider the popularity and how many Ho Yay moments they share.
  - Kaiba/Shizuka is probably based largely on the fact that Kaiba's canon love is dead, and his limited interactions with Shizuka means she's one of the only girls in the series he doesn't explicitly dislike. And you have to pair him with someone, because he's so darn sexy.
  - He can do his brother. That's the only character he seems to have some affection for, even if it is only brotherly in nature.
  - Wait, what? So brotherly affection is sexual in nature? You don't have any siblings, do you?
  - To clarify, some people support Kaiba/Shizuka because of one scene in the Battle Ship arc, when Kaiba seemed to agree to get treatment for Bakura after Shizuka begged him to do so (which they believed caused him to change his mind because she spoke up, while he was previously unwilling to accept the others' requests).
- Asuka/Judai's towel? There's a fic of Judai/his towel!
- Most random pairings in Yu Gi Oh exist. There's everything from Yami Bakura/Mokuba to Otogi/Isis.
- Don't forget that Yu Gi Oh The Abridged Series gives us Yami Bakura/Zorc.
- You can view most of the ships here
Watari/L in Death Note.
- That's nothing. There is Gevanni/Near doujinshi. And Misa/Takada. *shudder*
  - Light's a lucky man.
  - There's a video out there dedicated to Light's crackpairings...
- You thing Misa/Takada is bad? Try Misa/Sayu (Light's Sister), or Sayu/Mello.
  - For extra brain-breakage, Misa/Sayu is canon on Sayu's part.
- I see your Watari/L, and raise you Watari/Soichiro.
- I can top that. L/Sachiko Yagami (Light's mother), and it was pretty damn convincing.
- Ryuk/Apple, and Light/Death Note. Probably the most canon ships Death Note will ever get.
- L/Beyond Birthday, L/Near, L/Mello, Matt/Near.
- Matsuda/Matt.
- Light/Mikami
- Mikami/Matsuda
- Mello/Light, Misa/Mikami,BB/Light, BB/Near, Naomi/Light
- Misa/Ryuk. Matsuda/Rem. In fact, human/shinigami in general.
  - Except for Misa/Rem. That's canon.
  - And Gelus/Misa.
- In addition, Matt/Misa
- I have ya'll topped. There's an entire website (in Japanese, natch) dedicated to the pairing of Soichiro/Mello.
- Light/Potato Chips. That is all.
  - Nope. Ryuk/Light. THAT is all.
- Don't forget about Ryuk/Rem.
- Potato Chips/Apple. Who else would they turn to after their respective love interests leave them? Oh and we can add the Death Note in there for some threesome action.
- What? Is this troper the only one who's heard of Rem/Misa? And Rem/Light?
Bleach has the Orihime/Ulquiorra ship. It's hard to tell whether some of the works are jokes or serious, as some reinterpret some of their scenes through the lens of shipping the two; for example, having Ulquiorra apologize for his callous talk about Chad's apparent death after Orihime's Armor Piercing Slap.
- There is more canon evidence for this ship than for some others... Ulquiorra spending his last moments asking Orihime if she's afraid of him and trying to touch her hand when she says no and forgives him takes this into plain ol' Subtext.
- Ulquiorra does seem to have some affections for her, this does say a lot considering the nature of his character. Will this lead to anything in the canon? Most likely not. Make that most definitely not. Makes a lot more sensee than most things crazy shippers come up with though.
- Orihime/Ulquiorra is just the tip of a very large iceberg. A quick search on ff.net reveals that Orihime appears to attract this trope, with various stories pairing her with Ulquiorra, Grimmjow, Ulquiorra and Grimmjow (greedy fangirls), Renji, Ishida, Hollow Ichigo (usually disturbing), Byakuya, Starrk (suprisingly cute), Hisagi, Kensei, and Tatsuki, amongst many others.
- There's a small following for Ichigo/Tatsuki. It makes some sense.
  - At least it's not Chad/Tatsuki. Or Lisa/Uryuu (It gets squickier by the fact that there's a moderate chance that she could be his mother)...
  - Really? Where did that come from? She does look a hell of a lot like him but...
  - Huh? Where'd that theory come from? o.0
- There is a Zaraki/Nanao fic (the author said herself it was crack). The weird thing? It was good.
  - You wouldn't happen to be talking about Love and the Art of War, would you?
- Zaraki x Uno hana for Opposites Attract turned Up To Eleven. Though if Unohana really is as strong as it is hinted, it could at least lead to Zaraki getting interested in her.
- Zaraki/Soifon. Foreplay would probably involve her pinning him to the wall with her sword.
- Karin x Keigo seems to have a slight support, as well as Tatsuki x Renji.
  - Can't say about Karin x Keigo, but Tatsuki x Renji has a nice Pair the Spares ring...
- There is one fic which has Chad/The Reader of the fic.
  - What a shame it doesn't include a threesome with Uryuu...
  - Dream Novels. Is there a trope for that?
- Aizen/Kyoka Suigetsu. That is all.
- You think THOSE are bad? There is a Rukia/Aaroniero. The tentacle monster who possessed her mentor. He then pretended to BE said mentor and tried to convince Rukia to kill her friends to make up for the fact that she had to kill her possessed mentor. And when that failed, he tried to kill her and possess HER, while continueing to pay up the fact that he had her mentor's form and memories. I think this wins.
  - That's fairly common, though.
- I raise you Szayel/Nemu and Ishida/Szayel.
- There is a minor yet devoted following to the crack pairing of Soi Fon, possibly due to their relatively similar personalities.
Fullmetal Alchemist: Hawkeye X Original!Greed, a rare pairing. Think about it!
- Is the fact that the most ubiquitous pairing in fanfic and doujinshi is Roy/Ed not enough? Admittedly it's much more popular with fans of the first anime, where it's slightly more justified with the amped up amount of Ho Yay, but the squick and presumable ilegality are still there. Either way, Ed gets paired with anyone and everyone, so when it comes to crack pairings there's a lot to choose from.
- People also love pairing Roy with Hughes, despite both of them having canon (straight) love interests. It's particularly puzzling in Hughes' case, since being affectionate towards his wife and daughter in a ridiculously over-the-top manner is a defining trait of his character.
- Manga-continuity fans have a liking for Ed/Ling. There's little to none canon Ho Yay subtext, but at least they're the same age.
- There's also small amounts of Riza/Edward, despite the fact they don't talk much in the manga.
  - And when you add in the fact that she was the first to openly comment about Ed liking Winry...
Almost anything from Rozen Maiden.
- Jun/Shinku's armpit. Yes, he removes her arm from its socket and... you can guess the rest.
- Enju x Rozen is rather popular, but Rozen was once portrayed as a Japanese version of Bob Ross. Here, Brain Bleach for you, too.
Satoshi/Keiichi from Higurashi No Naku Koro Ni. They never meet. Not once. Even by the end, only three people know the truth about him, and not one of those people is Keiichi. That doesn't stop Slashers from coming up with reasons they are madly in love with each other...
- A few more Crack Pairings: Oishi/Takano, Irie/Takano, Irie/Satoko (nevermind it's been toyed with), Irie/Rika (same logic), Satoshi/Oryou (ew.), Shion/Kasai, Rena/her cleaver/~~Kenta-kun~~ Colonel Sanders, Keiichi/baseball bat to name a few.
  - Hey, Rena/Sanders is arguably Canon. She wants to take him home. And the cleaver is rather enthusiastic to help set her up with so many things; maybe it wants to watch.
- Irie/Satoko is only cracked because its lolicon. Irie stated that he wanted to marry Satoko when she grows up. Point is, there is actually real non-speculated canon material to support it.
"My Jersey Boy." Carl from ATHF and Inu Yasha. Yeah.
BanditKeithXAmericaXStephen Colbert fanart.
- This seriously is screaming for a link.
- "[1]" You can begin with this one.
Marisa stole Suigintou's precious thing.
Gunsmith Cats has possibly the first canon crack pairing ever with the latest volume of Gunsmith Cats Burst having Misty and Iron Goldie Musou end up together by the end. In a threesome with the maid, no less.
There exists a niche fanbase amongst watchers of Gundam Seed Destiny that ship Shinn and Cagalli together, citing that their personalities would have meshed very well if he hadn't blamed Orb for his family's death.
Thanks to the fact that the characters are all countries even the canon pairings in Axis Powers Hetalia could qualify as crack. Then read the history of each nation and it's not too hard to come up with some reason for a romantic pairing for each and every single pairing.
- How about some Interspecies Romance between Tony and Lithuania?
- There's at least one fanart and more than one fic for Canada/Ukraine, and it makes a fair amount of sense when you take their personalities into account.
  - There's a lot of historical evidence for it, and the personalities definitely match. This troper's Hetalia OTP, actually.
- How 'bout England/Mochimerica? It has been done, in accordance with Rule Thirty Four. And then there's China/Shinatty-chan. And that's not even bringing in historical or political figures. Barack Obama/America, Ted Kennedy/America, and Queen Elisabeth/England have been spotted mutiple times in the english-speaking fandom. Then there's Old Fritz(Friedrich II)/Prussia Jeanne D'Arc/France and Maria Theresa/Austria.
  - This troper will see that and raise you Denmark/Lithuania, Iceland/Refridgerator, and Switzerland/Gun. The first two can be found here and here respectively. (The second is NSFW, and the first is working on it.)
  - This troper is thrilled her work (the Denmark/Lithuania) made it here!
  - Um, this troper has seen Scarfx RussiaxBelarus. OT 3, anyone?
- The APH anon meme endorses Bulgaria/Thailand. Keep in mind that Bulgaria only appeared in ONE panel/scene and Thailand has yet to appear outside of sketches.
There's also some "Diva"/Riku. Diva/Riku is canon, but it's rape, Riku's scared to death of her, and Diva's just batshit psycho. Fix Fic usually has her decide for him to be a plaything, which isn't that much of a stretch.
In the Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle Italian fandom, Shaoron/Yuui (the twin brothers of two of the protagonists in the Alternate Universe omakes) started out as this. Then the pairing caught on (with the help of some very willing fanwriters and pretty Japanese fanart◊), and it's now considered on par with the series' main ships- in Italy, of course. We are waiting for the right time to export it and conquer the world.
- It's catching on, in some corners of the English speaking fandom, at least.
Some people pair Viral and Kiyal, from Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann. There are people who pair Leeron and Rossiu, and it's squicky as hell. Unless it's played for laughs, but with an adult Rossiu.
Azumanga Daioh has the obvious TomoxYomi, KaorinxSakaki, YukarixNyamo and Kagura/Sakaki, but also ChiyoxOsaka, YomixOsaka, SakakixOsaka, KaorinxOsaka, ChiyoxSakaki, TomoxSakaki and NyamoxChiyo. That last one was R-rated.
- What's sad is that the Chiyo-Sakaki and Chiyo-Osaka pairings are some of the more logical of these.
- Then there's KaorinxYomi (it will catch on, I tell you!) from two thirds of a line in the last sports festival, and anything involving Chiyo -chichi.
Notably averted by the Love Hina community, where despite the majority of the female cast being canonically in love with Keitaro, 90% of fanfics ship the canon pair.
An entry for a Gundam Wing "Craziest Crack Pairing Lemon" contest was RelenaxRashid. You may now break out the Brain Bleach.
- Gundam 00: There is a Feldt/Ali video out there. Yes.
Most of the popular Mahou Sensei Negima pairings are fairly rational (Negi/Asuna^*
^{At least before...well, you know...}
, Negi/Nodoka, Negi/Yue, Negi/Nodoka/Yue, Negi/Chisame, Konoka/Setsuna), but here exist some odd ones (Negi/Evangeline, Chisame/Asakura, and Chisame/Chachamaru). Then you get to the crack: Natsumi/Leek and Chamo/Chachazero. The most crack-y thing about that last one is that it could quite easily be argued as canon.
- Okay, but how about Konoka/Chibi-Setsuna?
  - Not sure how it would work but it would be incredibly cute. This troper imagines Konoka doing a huge Squee upon discovering Chibi-Setsuna.
Tenchi Muyo. True, it's centred on a Love Dodecahedron and named the Tenchi Solution, but there's the fact that the only ones I know of that he hasn't dated were Yosho/Katsuhito (grandfather), Nobuyuki (father), and Azusa (great-grandfather). This includes a little Cargo Ship one that I saw that paired him with Azaka and Kamidake. Tenchi/Ryo-Ohki is almost canon in comparison (and in some continuities too).
Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha. Most ships are fairly understandable due all the befriending that goes around in both the standard sense and the memetic sense, but then there are those that make more ordinary shippers give pause. For example, there exists Fan Art of Vivio/Hayate, which simply boggles the mind since, not only do the two barely share a word with each other, Hayate's more than twice Vivio's age.
- There is one fic shipping Fate/Hitler.
Every single Ranma 1/2 character has been paired with everyone. Everyone. Two popular ones are Ryoga/Ukyo, which is based entirely on one episode and they rarely interact otherwise, and Male Ranma/Female Ranma, which is just wrong.
- Ryoga/Ukyo was also fanserviced into the 2nd movie, probably due to the popularity of the pairing, which was not canon since it's not in the manga. Male Ranma/Female Ranma was also played with, even in manga.
Revolutionary Girl Utena has Miki/Juri and many, many more.
There are whispers on the internet of Touma/Kuro ko, but no concrete proof.
What, no love for Hellsing yet? There's Alucard/everyone, only fueled by Word of God that declared him genderless. And of course, there's Schrodinger/Incognito here.

Even though the main character of 'Johnny the Homicidal Maniac' despises physical contact of any kind, fangirls have forced him to have sex with virtually every character in his comic universe. There's Nny/Jimmy, Nny/Edgar, Nny/Damned Elise, Nny/Wall Monster, Squee/Shmee, Nny/Squee, Every single one of Nny's head-voices/Any other headvoice, Tess/Krik, and as a joke, Nny/Survey guy.
- The worst part of this being Nny/Squee pairings, since Nny actually saves Squee from a pedophile...
Supergirl and her horse, and it was canon.
- Except, of course, the "horse" (actually a magically transformed centaur — his origin counts as crack all on its own) was in human form at the time and she didn't know who he really was... and he wasn't telling.
Cable/Deadpool would probably count as Foe Yay crack as well, at least at first; it's pretty much canon by the end of the comic.
Then there's Tony Stark/Iron Man armour. It's such glorious crack! What's even crackier is that no-one really consdered it until it was canon. Take That, Rule 34!
- Isn't that technically masturbation?
I'm A Marvel... And I'm A DC ships The Green Goblin and Harley Quinn.
Gobby: I'm just a goblin, standing in front of a clown, asking her to love me. What's so confusing about that?
- Yeah, I gotta say this one makes perfect sense.
- In fact, after watching all the eps, I'm rooting for Gobli Quinn. So what if they're both insane?
Three NSFW words: Goofus. Slash. Gallant. Note that as far as vague canon is concerned, they might as well be Parallel Universe versions of each other. Since they're in the same universe - consider Goofus Gallant's Evil Twin.
Someone in DC must really like the idea of Starfire / Animal Man. This first came about from their relationship in 52 where they really got close (not like that but Starfire was always wearing Buddy's shirt). When they got back to Earth, Star temporarily lost her powers and stayed at Buddy's house (where she remained in Titans and Countdown to Adventure) and they keep teaming up (with Adam Strange) whenever they are needed in space. Buddy was outright asked if he loved Starfire and didn't reply which didn't help matters. With The Last Days of Animal Man Elseworlds comic, Buddy is now officially hooked up with Star. This pairing may indeed by very interesting, but what makes it this trope is that Buddy Baker is happily married with two children.
The Mad Hatter / his hat. Canon. Yet another Squick brought to you by Secret Six.
There was a thread on a comics Imageboard talking about the new JSA All Star book that's coming out, in which the original poster said that two big names stood out, Powergirl, and Magog, and that this would lead to Spotlight Stealing, and eventually shipping. The other posters reacted one of three ways:
1. Saying the very idea is wrong and that they now need Brain Bleach.
2. Getting in arguements over who's sexier, Powergirl or Magog (Magog being that board's Memetic Sex God with more than a bit of Even The Guys Want Him, and Peegee being the main focus of most Rule Thirty Four found there).
3. Flooding the thread with intentionally bad lemon fics, drawings of them together, and drawings of their hypothetical children
There's a staggering amount of Nite Owl/Rorshach pairing in the Watchmen fandom. Considering that Nite Owl already has a straight love interest and Rorshach is a rabidly right-wing zealot this troper was taken aback.

One might consider any pairing in the surprisingly large slash portion of the Tranformers fandom to be crack. However, Sam/Bumblebee in the 2007 movie continuity is popular enough to have a livejournal comm.
Captain Jack Sparrow and the jar of dirt he had in the second movie. There is at least one story with this pairing in Fanfiction.Net's Pirates Of The Caribbean section.
- Jorge Posada and his dirt.
- "...and guess what's inside it!"
- There are people, who are serious about that Will/Davy Jones is the OTP
Indiana Jones/Sallah, set during Raiders of the Lost Ark.
A popular crack pairing in the The Incredibles fandom is Synlet (Syndrome/Violet), also called Vidrome. Despite absolutely no canon evidence, it's extremely popular because the writers believe that they have similar personalities.
- More like making Violet into a Possession Sue.
From Star Wars: General Grievous/Shaak Ti, a pairing whose only justification is... that Shaak Ti wasn't killed by him. Twice, admittedly, but talk about Slap Slap Kiss...
- There's also a writer who's written a lot of Mace/Qui-Gon and some Jaina/Mirta (Boba Fett's granddaughter) among other cracky pairings.
  - Jaina/Mirta is not that crack - after all, they are actually, you know, friends by the end of the Legacy of The Force book series.
- Boba Fett/Dengar, but it was written as humor.
- What about Luke/Han? That's not including the Expanded Universe fanfics, which have the Solo kids in all possible combinations, in addition to Jacen/Ben. Moving out of the incest world (it wouldn't be Star Wars without incest, now would it?), the Skywalkers apparently swing with the Horns in all sorts of ways, so you'll see Luke/Mirax, Corran/Mara, Luke/Corran, and Mara/Mirax. But the strangest, by far, is Luke/Kyp, the primary subtext being that Mara doesn't like Kyp, and your typical Yaoi Fangirl bashes the inconvenient chicks.
  - Han/Chewie should be a crack pairing, but disturbingly isn't at all far fetched.
  - Don't forget Ahsoka/Rex and Rex/Cody.
  - A lot of critics like the idea of Ahsoka and Anakin.
  - In a lot of the Star Wars slash, the chick is a Yaoi Fangirl.
- Marakin. Also Tahiri/Ben, which is canon, but in the fanfic version, he probably agreed to it. Apparently in fanfic world, Skywalker men take after Anakin, only far more.
- My personal favorite is Ben/Vestara. She's barely been mentioned, and there has been no real evidence of a romantic or even Foe Yay pairing with Ben, except they both have their personal angst. (Ves for being scarred in a society that emphasizes physical perfection, Ben for every single word in LOTF.)
The Dread Pirate Roberts and Robin Hood. Cary Elwes can apparently go screw himself.
- Mmmmmmm.
People ship Dug/Kevin.
- "Oh PLEASE be my prisoner, PLEASE ..." Oh god ...
Landa/Shosanna.

The Harry Potter fandom is chock full of them. Doesn't matter how minor the characters are, or how biologically impossible various acts would be. If they exist, they will be shipped. For instance, Hagrid/Dobby and Dobby/Giant Squid.
- Hagrid/Giant Squid.
- Giant Squid/Hogwarts Castle. Ahh, good old Squidwarts. Here's a link.
  - Is there any character that hasn't been shipped with the Giant Squid at some point?
  - There is a Draco/Squid fic in which Harry is ambling down to the lake at the end to take his turn.
- There are at least two fanfics which feature Ron copulating with a teaspoon.
  - And at least one with a teapot.
  - And a giant squid, Or So I Heard.
- Harry Potter/Sirius Black/James Potter's Rotten Corpse.
  - You forgot to mention the worms.
  - You also forgot the giant squid.
- Lucius/Draco's severed head. Top that.
  - Lucius/the hole drilled in Draco's forehead.
  - What has been seen cannot be unseen.
  - It's not called "Lucius fucks Draco's brain" for nothing.
  - For your reading 'pleasure'.
- Whomping Willow/Car. There's fanfiction about it.
  - Well, it is practically canon.
- Harry/Snitch. Well, this at least has some basis since they kissed.
  - Deep-throated too, in the first book.
  - There's also at least one surprisingly good Barty Crouch, Sr./Snitch fic.
- Jesus/Snape. Oh, believe it. It's legendary within the fandom.
  - The most disturbing thing about that one is that it's actually quite well-written. Seriously, it's freaking Shakespeare compared to 90% of the stories posted on fanfiction.net.
- Aberforth Dumbledore/Goat is technically canon. This caused jokes on MuggleCast; Micah Tannenbaum/Aberforth's Goat has sparked many lulz.
  - "Half-goat" is used as shorthand for Dumbledore's niece/nephew Mary Sues and Marty Stus.
- Ferret!Draco/Giant squid. Explicit. Very.
- Harry/Voldemort. And in that fic, Soren was their lovechild. *cries*
  - Harry/Voldemort, both fully human, and their lovechild was a kitten.
  - Tom Riddle/Harry. On the other hand Harry tends to describe Tom in very physically flattering terms...
- Somewhere out there, one can find a J. K. Rowling/Giant Squid fic.
  - For your reading pleasure.
- Luna Lovegood/Lime Green Bowler Hat.
- The girl playing Luna ships Luna/Dumbledore and said so in an interview. And there is good Luna/Dumbledore fic that uses Time Turners.
  - Evanna Lynch said what? Link to source? (And thank God for the Time Turners.)
  - Look, I've heard of method acting, but this is ridiculous.
- Snape/Snape's Nose fanart. (How does that even work?!)
  - And Snape is the receiver.
- Severus Snape/Grima Wormtongue.
- Well, how about Nagini/Harry? Yeah, Nagini is the dominant one. Worst part? She isn't anthropomorphized or anything.
  - Basilisk/hermaphrodite half-snake Harry. Also, oviposition. By Harry. The same author has several works in a... similar vein.
- Trelawney/Snape (another case of dominating female). It seems normal compared to the rest, until you imagine the kids. THE GODDAMN KIDS SUCH A PAIRING WOULD PRODUCE. The worst part is that they interacted, are around the same age, and were members of the Order of The Phoenix, leading to more avid shippers to go squee and ship them like crazy. Even when we present proof that he would simply consider her a loon, they present past "evidences" of Snape's weird way of expressing himself. Icky.
  - It really doesn't help that the actors played a married couple in at least one movie
- Lucius/Dementors. Here!
  - This is well written, but extremely disturbing. Be warned.
- Lucius/His precious little peacocks.
- Draco/Whomping Willow.
- Harry/Fawkes. Part of a larger fanfic called 'Twas Twisted. Link, registration required.
- Snape/Harry, Snape even manages to impregnate Harry in one fic, in a case of failing biology forever.
  - Snarry is almost too popular to be truly cracktastic. And there's LOTS of mpreg
- Snape/Fawkes. That bird gets all the action.
- Tom Riddle/Rudolf Hess. And it's really cute.
- McGonagall/Cooked Turkey Leg. And yes, it was NC-17.
- Hermione/The Troll, Hermione/Fang...
- Hermione/Ginny/Sirius and keep in mind that he's an Animagus so...
- Hermione/Lucius/Giant Squid...Its just frikkin love
- A crackfic panel at a Potter convention produced Hagrid/Aragog bondage, and Snape/Rat!Pettigrew snuff.
- You want canon crack? Here's some Bellatrix/Voldemort for you!
  - It should be noted that Rowling does say that Bellatrix is VERY physically attracted to and infatuated with Voldemort(and Helena Bonham Carter's performance can't hurt; she apparently had to be reminded it IS a children's series and'tone it down' for Half-Blood Prince)
I haven't been fucked like that since Hogwarts...
- Just for the sake of curiosity, are there any Dobby/Grawp fics out there?
  - Unfortunately, yes. (NSFW link)
- Seems utterly rational by comparison to others on this list, but I saw potential for Harry/Narcissa in the books.
- I've seen multiple fanfics featuring Bellatrix/Snape. It kinda works. In a scary, disturbing sort of way.
  - I've seen a few Bellatrix/Harry fanfics in my day...
- I've read a fanfic that pairs up Narcissa and Snape.
- There was a contest in which the ony goal was that the participants had to write a fic featuring Snape/Someone He Hasn't Been Paired With Yet. I understand there were several hundred entries, all featuring canon characters. And this was before the last few books were written, so there were fewer named characters to mix him with.
- Draco/Goblet. Even if it does have more canon evidence than most crack pairings, it's still wrong.
- Dumbledore/Sorting Hat. Haven't found any yet, though.
- Peeves/Buckbeak and Peeves/Umbridge. No. Really.
  - On that note, Peeves/Harry and Umbridge/Harry.
- Fenrir/Harry and Fenrir/Hermione! Considering Fenrir's rather Squicky comments about Hermione...
  - Don't make me think about that!
- The Hogwarts Castle/The Shrieking Shack.
- Ron/Rat!Pettigrew. Evidence from POA?
  Witch in Magical Menagerie (Chapter 4): Bang him on the counter.
  Ron (Chapter 19): I let you sleep in my bed!
- This anon's friend tried to force her to read a Voldemort/Pikachu one-shot once. I resisted, but the unwanted mental images demanded brain bleach.
- Percy/Umbridge - yes its real, and scarier, they had a human lovechild.... ( sorry can't find the link as its a secondary pairing)
For Lord Of The Rings, Legolas/Treebeard. No, really.
- But not as crackful as Gimli/Treebeard. Especially because they're both John Rhys-Davies.
- There's Gollum/Treebeard out there, too (or was last time this troper checked).
- Or Gollum/Witchking. Can you imagine all the BDSM scenes they can fill in during Smeagol's interrogation? If that's not an impossible 'ship, it needs to be.
- None of these being all that out there, considering Gimli/Legolas is arguably fanon...
- Treebeard/Bill the Pony. In horrific detail, at that.
  - I'll raise you a Treebeard/Shelob bdsm scene. It also involves an orc.
- Eye Of Sauron / Mouth of Sauron
  - Reading this list, you can practically feel Tolkien rolling around in his grave here.
- Nobody mentioned Gollum/Frodo yet?!
Some Discworld fan has written Greebo/Rincewind slash. Fortunately with Greebo in human form. While it's only been done once, it keeps being brought up in discussions of Discworld fanfic.
- Of course, now that Twoflower is played by Sean Astin, he'll kill Greebo if he tries anything...
  - Han shot Greebo first.
- A bet on whether it was possible to write Discworld slash resulted in a Death/Librarian pairing. And it was hilarious.
- Death/Vetinari. It's very Victorian and almost in-character.
  - This actually sounds really cute. Links?
  - Never fear, I have found it. Here you are, and it is actually just as cute, in-character (with footnotes as well!), Victorian, and non-squicky as promised. Adorable.
- Vetinari/ Drumknott. That one makes a certain kind of sense, but the specific example this troper read was pure Wall Banger: Vetinari driven by loneliness and desperation, and Drumknott going along out of pity. Gaaaaaaah!
  - There's actually a lot of really good fics for them too! *Despair* Here, read this one.
- Rincewind/Luggage. Oh god... my eyes.
- And somewhere, someone is probably thinking anyone/Great A'Tuin would be a good idea, or even halfway possible.
- The slash pairing Reg Shoe and Constable Visit-the-Infidel-with-Explanatory-Pamphlets. That's a zombie and a Jehovah's witness Expy.
- Dude, start with the basics people! Twoflower/Rincewind.
- There's a decent sized amount of Carcer Dun/Jonathan Teatime slash out there.
  - There's also Susan/Submissive!Teatime.
- Vimes has got a few too. Vimes/Vetinari, anybody?
  - Or Vimes/Carrot. I've seen horrifying things regarding this one.
  - Or Vimes/Angua, which actually would make sense if Vimes wasn't, you know, happily married.
  - Vimes/Carcer. Yes.
  - Well, it's gone so far as Vimes/himself in Night Watch.
  - *Squick shudder*
Kino and her talking motorcycle Hermes. There are fanfics, plural.
Apart from the sudden hook up between Susan and Caspian, at the end of Prince Caspian's movie adaptation, the fans seem to prefer some strange couples. There are many sites dedicated to... Susan/Peter, Edmund/Lucy and Peter/Edmund.
- One of them says "Blame the chemistry between the actors".
- Lucy/Caspian is fairly popular, too.
- Jill/Puddleglum, anyone? She even kisses him in the book!
- Aslan/Edmund/Peter/Susan gangbang with pregnancy resulting.
  - Dares one hope Susan is the only one getting pregnant?
- Neil Gaiman apparently ships Aslan/The White Witch. He's even written a lemon fic about it, called "The Problem Of Susan" which can be found in his Fragile Things anthology. Yeah, Neil Gaiman is weird.
In the A Song Of Ice And Fire fandom, Jon/Dany enjoys sizable following, despite the characters involved having never met, living on different continents, probably being aunt and nephew, and Jon having taken a vow of chastity. The only thing the ship has going for it is that they're the right age.
- Well, there's also some suggestive dreams, and they'd be less closely related than most of the Targaryens...
  - There is a prophetic vision that Dany sees in the House of the Undying "A blue flower grew from a chink in a wall of ice, and filled the air with sweetness." The flower likely refers to Jon. And the air filling with sweetness is speculated to be some kind of romantic feelings. Until the vision gets debunked, I'd say this pairing actually has some legs.
- Dany also gets shiped with Tyrion, who not only has never met her, but is also 15 years her senior. And technically, he's married. Although that does help with the age thing...
- There are Jon/Tyrion fanfics, for that matter.
  - That actually makes sense, if you consider that Dany is allowed to take a Tenchi Solution and marry two husbands.
- Jon/Melisandre also has its supporters.
- Mimi from A Podcast Of Ice And Fire apparently ships Sam/Allister Thorn.
- There's a small portion of the fandom that was ships Ned/Cercei.
- HBO has announced that Jennifer Elhe and Lena Heady will be playing Cat and Cercei in the live action adaptation. Elhe and Heady had previously apeared in the movie Possession, in which they played lesbian lovers. Just something to give the femslashers something to think about...
While the words "pairing" and "HP Lovecraft" might not sound like something that should ever be mentioned together, Lovecraft himself paired Yog-Sothoth with Shub Niggurath. According to one of his letters, the latter is the "wife" of the former. He never extrapolated on the concept of marriage between Eldritch Abominations, but it's still canon!
- Nope, Lovecraft never paired his creations in any of his stories. That was all Derleth who kept using "Lovecraft" as his penname for extra confusion after the man himself had died.
- Lovecraft might not have extrapolated, but August Derleth most certainly did; he paired several Lovecraft's gods with each other and his own creations, creating a convoluted family tree. One particular example stands out: according to Derleth, Cthulhu is the spawn of Yog-Sothoth and Nub, one of Lovecraft's less-known gods. That's not particularly odd, if it weren't for the fact that Nub is a spawn of Shub Niggurath mentioned above. Which presumably makes Yog-Sothoth her father. Yes, you heard me, incestous Eldritch Abominations. You may want to grab the Brain Bleach, lest you Go Mad From The Revelation.
  - Go mad? Not really. Why should the Elder Gods be more decent than the ancient Greek Gods were?
- Clark Ashton Smith, one of Lovecraft's frequent correspondents and another of the original Cthulhu Mythos writers, also produced a "family tree of the gods" (which can be found here). Also, in Lovecraft's story "The Dunwich Horror", Yog-Sothoth (an omnipresent superbeing which appears as a mass of spheres) has two children with a human woman. Squicky.
- Brian Lumley plays in the same universe (and loosely related ones which borrow Mythos elements): in Demogorgon, the hero's mother is implied to have been raped by something unspecified in the past (and around the time her sons were conceived). It is suggested that the father is the son of Satan, or a direct descendant thereof.
The Warriors fandom seems obsessed with creating crack pairings. (Mostly because it's so fun to do.) Every character has been paired with every other character (and there are Loads And Loads Of Characters), regardless of whether they've met or were even alive at the same time. This has recently started to expand to pairings that feature characters together with objects, since virtually everything else has been done.
- One of the most crack: Fire/Tiger. They are MORTAL ENEMIES; Tigerstar has nothing better to do in the afterlife except train each generation of his family to kill Firestar.
- And then there is Spiderleg/Daisy, which was crack until it somehow became canon. Not even the fans came up with this, and some suspect the authors just picked names out of a hat.
- Some people just throw together characters names to make a pairing, eg. Icepaw/Ratscar, One-eye/Fallen Leaves (Fallen Leaves died several years before the series even started, One-eye isn't that old...), and last but not least: White/Lion/Spider/Birch/Shrew/Ash/Rain/Soot/Thorn/Crooked. Yeah.
- Berrynose/Berrynose, Jay/Stick, and Hollyleaf/The Warrior Code are actually nearly canon.
- It seems to have just gotten more disturbing. Rowanclaw, a character who went through a gender change due to a slip-up by the authors, has been paired with the female version of himself.
  - His canon mate, Tawneypelt, has also been paired with the female version of him (aka Fem!Rowanclaw).
  - Wait... Is it even possible to write a fanfic on these!?
  - Oh, God, yes.
  - I demand links.
- It's official: Thunderstar was a crazy leader who would screw anything that moved.
The Good Omens fandom gives us plenty of these, from Crowley/Hastur (who try to kill each other) to Crowley/Pollution (who never speak to each other) to Crowley/Gabriel (the latter not even being in the book and only mentioned once)... Are you noticing a pattern? Poor Crowley has become the fandom's Launcher Of A Thousand Ships. There's also been Michael/Hastur, Aziraphale/the porn shop owner next door, and the Bentley gets more action than a car has any right to.
- There's a hilarious fanfic with Crowley's Bentley and the Weasleys' Ford Anglia. It contains the line, "Angel! Your car is humping my Bentley!"
From Forgotten Realms, there has been fanfiction written pairing Drizzt/Wulfgar and Drizzt/Bruenor. For that matter, there is also Drizzt/Zaknafein fanfiction. Ugh.

Heroes crackships range from the ridiculous to the truly disturbing, and include: Bobhinder (Bob/Mohinder); Chylar (Chandra/Sylar); Chailar (Chai/Sylar); Lyle/West; Lyle/Zach; West/Zach; Moluggles (Mohinder Lizard/Mister Muggles); Mandra (Mohinder/Chandra)(yes, this is the latter); Chandra/Eden; Chandra/HRG and Chandra/Monty. Yes, Monty. Apparently this is because of the portmanteau name "Chonty". Poor Chandra has gained a posthumous reputation as a pervy old man. Also, there are rumours of a Lyle/Sylar fic out there somewhere... (Here it is). There's also Luke/Lyle. Perhaps there's Micah/Wireless.
- The scary thing is you could support that from the canon material. The two were chatting with each other after Hana "Died" and apparently were close enough for Micah to confide his feelings about his father's shooting (the second one, not the third... damn, D.L got shot too much); as Hana was a disembodied spirit inhabiting the Net then, does that make it a cargo ship?
- Taking Cybersex to the next level, clearly
- Mohinder/Sylar is so well known that the actors have made numerous references to it and have expressed interest in making a romantic comedy sitcom. So if Heroes ends after Season 4, there may still be hope for the show's best loved character and its most hated.
  - Um, which is which?
- Claude/Pigeons. Well, he had been alone for seven years with almost no human contact...
- Nathan/zucchini ( inspired by Nathan's quote in Parasite)
- Sylar/Heidi. Disturbing as it is, in season one's Bad Future, this might have actually happened. As of season three's finale, some fans are hoping it still might.
- The Heroes Slash Manual is an authoritative guide to many things slash in the Heroes universe. It should be noted that "one day" every character will maintain a romantic relationship with Kaito Nakamura, and that Sylar is Mr. Muggles' bitch.
- This troper has read a surprisingly fluffy and adorable fic pairing Matt's turtle with Mohinder's lizard. Now if only she could track it down and share it with you...
Hogan/Klink in Hogans Heroes. An example of Foe Yay gone too far? Or a justification of how the POWs had it so easy? You decide.
Star Trek Voyager. Despite having no romantic subtext whatsoever, Seven of Nine was paired up with Chakotay, simply because Robert Beltran (Chakotay) dared Jeri Ryan's then-boyfriend (executive producer Brannon Braga) to do it. This was despite a well-established relationship between Seven and the Doctor.
- The Chakotay/Seven relationship was a follow-up from "Human Error" in which Seven is experimenting with human emotions and relationships on the holodeck and chooses Chakotay for her romantic encounters. This is itself a follow up from "Unimatrix Zero" where Seven learns that she had a romantic relationship, which she has missed since the Unimatrix was destroyed. So despite what the J/C'ers say, this relationship didn't come out of nowhere. That's not to say that she couldn't have ended up with someone else, but Seven's desire for a romantic relationship simply didn't exist until the final season. She herself denied any interest in romance up to that point.
Q/Picard. It needs to be said.
- Kinda justified by Q's line in one episode that if he knew ahead of time what effect a female could have on Picard, he would have appeared as a female.
- Crack pairing? At least one of the writers stated he wrote Q as being in love with Picard, not to mention both actors acknowledging sexual tension between the characters.
At least one Sarah Connor Chronicles fic involves Allison/Cameron.
- Summer Glau and... Summer Glau?
- Allison Cameron? Hmm...
- On the one hand, that concept is disturbing as hell. On the other hand....
- Over at the Ex Isle forums, one person who was involved with the show was questioned about whether Cameron was anatomically correct or not, and implied that she was. Let the fapping commence.
From The A Team - B.A./Murdock.
Ronon Dex/Ryan Ross of Panic at the Disco.
In House, Foreman/Thirteen. As of Christmas episode '08. May be short-term, like each time the writers try to re-pair House and Cuddy.
- They claim it's until the end of season 5, at least. There's stranger in fanfics out there. Chase/Stacy, anyone? Cuddy/Cameron? Tritter raping House?
- Don't forget the surprisingly large smattering of Wilson/Foreman fic that's out there. Or House/Evil Nurse Brenda.
It's possible Frankie Boyle was just making it up, but he claims there's Mock The Week Slash... and it pairs him and Hugh Dennis.
- Such a thing does indeed exist, and while Frankie/Hugh is one of if not the most common pairing (thus not really a crack pairing as far as the fandom are concerned), it's by no means the only one. There's even an LJ community devoted to it.
Eurovision slash fic. From 2006, Mr. Lordi depicted as an actual monster/Dima Bilan.
Most pairings from Generation Kill appear perfectly sane at first glance, with plenty of Ho Yay to make the pairing plausible. Consider, however, that the fandom generally bases itself around the HBO miniseries, which is an adaptation of the book, which was written by a reporter who rode in Sergeant Colbert's Humvee; you have a cracky variation on real-person slash.
Captain John Hart/Poodle. But this is a man who will shag Anything That Moves, So Yeah...
- Hell, he wanted that one
From Doctor Who, Mickey Smith/K-9.
- Doctor/Doctor. Any combination. In theory it could be an OT 13 (14 if you count the Valeyard). Yeah, just try to get 1/2 out of your head right now...
On FanForum.net there is a thread dedicated to the pairing Sandy/Penelope. Not only are these two character incredibly minor, having only been present in less than 5 episodes of Season 1, they never met. The reason they're shipped? They're played by Alexis Denisof (Wesley) and Amy Acker (Fred).
iCarly nearly had a crack pair go into canon. Lewburt (their insane doorman) and Ms Benson. Only saved when Freddie was thrown down the stairs and hurt himself so his mother would go back to caring for him instead of Lewburt. It's so cracky it hasn't even had a single fanfic written about it on the major fanfic sites.
- Spam (Sam/Spencer) is probably just barely a crackship due to their ages, with Sam somewhere around 14, and Spencer around 28. It hasn't stopped the fics though.
- I can top you. Ever heard of Gibby/Shirt? I mean, it's not even canon.
Gonzo and Rizzo. They end up working together ''alot'' in the movies!
- This troper clearly remembers Rizzo kissing Gonzo in their version of A Christmas Carol.
This Troper has seen Spock/Sarek fics. Apparently, she has entered a fandom so slash-obsessed that they think any two characters with the same privates ought to be slashed, no matter whether
- They canonically hate each other
- They both have such good control over their emotions that reading about the two of them in a relationship would be like watching paint dry.
- They are both already in separate, non-cracky pairings with other people.
- They are parent and child.
- Or all of the above.
Recent promos for Psych seem to be teasing Jules/Vick, possibly the single least likely main-five pairing of all ten combinations^*
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Gary Larson once got hatemail because people thought one of his strips indicated that a dog's innermost desire is to hump a car. A unique example in that the pairing is defined by its opponents. He has since admitted he should have left out the crankcase (which is why people assumed the dog was humping it rather than celebrating its defeat of the car).

Real Life subject: This hamster and snake, at the Tokyo zoo, given Owen/Mzee a run for their money.
- Just go on Youtube and look up "[insert animal name] [insert different animal name] sex" and see what pops up. It's mostly dog/cat sex, but rewards await the creative and depraved.

Warhammer40k has an entire fandom based on Taldeer the Eldar and Liivi the human cybernetic assassin. A self-acknowledged blasphemy to the setting of the series, yet a Guilty Pleasure to many.
- The above could still never compare to the Macha/Emperor of Mankind ship that was spawned later, especially considering Macha's existence is based on the Memetic Mutation that she will never get laid, ever.
  - Turns out the "Emperor" was really a Callidus Assassin.
No matter what Battletech fans may come up with, that the canon gave them Cameron St. Jamais/Kali Liao will beat that crack dead.

King Of Fighters: Iori/Kasumi is popular within the fandom, for whatever reason. They've never ever even fought each other.
Chrono Trigger: Lucca/Magus. It's a pairing of the two characters least likely to have a relationship (not with each other, with anyone), and yet it's one of the most popular pairings in the Chrono Trigger community! Their logic is likely based on how Lucca assists Magus in every multiple person technique that he can use- all two of them.
- The appeal of Lucca and Magus together probably stems from their similarities to Bulma and Vegeta.
- That and how often the writers themselves play it for laughs.
  - In Chrono Cross , there's a Shout Out to this particular pairing when it is revealed that Lucca and Magus were apparently on a first-name basis even after their adventure.
    Lucca:Say hello to Janus for me
Samus/Ridley of Metroid (yes, the giant space dragon), made worse as a kind of Foe Yay combined with his being the only constant male (or entity with a name) in her life, not counting her starship computer.
- Read it and cringe (NSFW.
Nel and Albel from Star Ocean: Till the End of Time. It might make some sense if they even hated each other, given they're from opposing countries; but when they're in the same party they just don't care.
- There's also Albel/Sophia, which actually became very popular in the fandom at one point. They never interact in the game.
The Kingdom Hearts Fan Vid Okay, Humor Me parodies this, with Selphie explaining crack pairings to Kairi.
- There are 78 possible pairings within Organization XIII, without throwing Namine into the mix, and there's a legion of fangirls behind every single one.
  - Xion's inclusion into the organization means 13 new pairings. Bringing the total pairing count within the organization to 91.
- There's also Zexion/Iced Tea. I don't know either.
- I once read a g-rated Goofy/Aerith. Yes, it actually worked.
Team Fortress 2 has an astounding amount of slash for a game which consists of guys shooting and blowing each other to bits.
- It tends to fall into Ho Yay (anybody/Medic), Foe Yay (Engineer or Sniper/Spy), Cargo Ship (Heavy/Sasha, but that's almost canon), or gender-bending.
- Made hilarious by this (NSFW!).
From The Legend Of Zelda, there's a small following for Marin/Malon. (Malon being The Ocarina of Time�s version of Marin from the previous game, Link's Awakening, making it Expycest, one degree away from Selfcest.)
- Ever seen Epona/Link? Yeah. And it's more then just one story...
- Epona/Tingle. *shudders*
  - No, no, no. It's gotta be Tingle/Link.
  - Always been quite partial to Tingledorf myself...
- Gauron/Link!
- Poe Collector/Link.
- No matter what, it can't get any sicker than Linebeck/Link. Yeah, lots and lots of fanart exists of this one on Deviant Art.
  - ...please tell me they make Link older? Please?
  - Hell no. <3
  - As for Spirit Tracks, Linebeck x Link shippers are now clenching their teeth due to their inability to kill off Zelda for obvious reasons.
- Redead/Link. Hooo Booooy.
- Navi/Link. Actually confirmed to be canon on Navi's part.
EmblemShipping Marth and either Ike or Roy. Even though, outside of Super Smash Bros, it's impossible.
- Ike/Pit or Marth/Pit is just as weird. What do they have in common? Ike's a badass mercenary who "fights for his friends," while Pit is an angel who battles eggplant humanoids. And Marth's an effeminate male. Yeah... let's just say "any pairing inspired by Super Smash Bros" and leave it at that.
  - Can't say much for the crack factor, but Ike/Pit is too adorable to not be canon.
- Samus/Snake is canon, dammit.
  - No it isn't.
  - Hells yes.
  - It is, at least as far as Snake's half goes, as evidenced by the Codec transmissions on Shadow Moses Island. David Hayter, the voice of Snake, vaguely confirmed it at Anime Expo 2008. (His exact words were "Samus? Oh, yeah, she's hot.")
- Meta Knight/Jigglypuff. AND IT WORKED.
  - Meta Knight/Kirby? Oh, and please link to the Meta Knight/Jigglypuff...
- Samus/Pikachu. There are doujins of this pairing. doujins!
- Any pairing with Mr. Game & Watch, anyone?
- Speaking of doujinshi involving Pikachu in crack pairs, there used to be a series of Final Fantasy VII\Pokemon crossover doujinshi. They involve a gay love triangle between Pikachu, Vincent, and Sephiroth, in which Vincent gets pregnant and isn't sure who the father is. Sephiroth pulls a jerk move and suggests Vincent get an abortion, but Pikachu embraces this and promises to be the best father ever. They marry at the end.
  - Someone actually ***ing DREW THIS CRAP? Not just tapped it out on a keyboard, but spent the time to draw these characters in a doujinshi? *boom*
- Peach/Zelda. It's crack, yes. But damnit, it WORKS.
  - Yes, it does.
- Snake/Luigi is pretty weird.
- I heartily support two Smash OT Ps: Marth/youngLink, and Marth/ch—Toony.
- The unfinished Tier War fanfic video has Ganon/Jigglypuff. It was played for laughs, but...
There's quite a bit of fanart of a Crossover Ship in the form of Link/Amaterasu. Especially disconcerting, as the latter participant of the pairing is a wolf.
- Well, Link is sometimes a wolf, too...
- There's also Ammy/the half-baked prophet Waka, who is at least from her own game.
- And Ammy/Issun.
At the beginning of the Golden Sun fandom, there was a lot of random shipping going around. The most common by far were Isaac/Mia, Garet/Jenna (both of which at least have some basis in canon), and qualifying for this trope, Ivan/Sheba. The two are both Wind Adepts and are somewhat snarky teenagers...That's about all they have in common. They barely say two words to each other over the course of both games. Ivan seems worried for her safety (notably yelling "We won't let you lay a finger on Felix or Sheba!" at one point), but only as much as the rest of the party.
- In the Golden Sun fandom, those aren't crack pairings. These are crack pairings.
  - And what is possibly the crackiest pairing ever conceived.
- Game FAQS's Lost Age forum, in keeping with the "Kraden is the most awesome character ever" fad, has shipped Kraden with himself, stating that Kraden is too awesome to ship with anyone else.
This guy does a Krizalid/~~Hong Meiling~~ China pairing. How an insane pyromaniac genetic experiment and a Chinese redhead butt-monkey youkai can love each other is not mentioned.
- There's more MUGEN Shipping out there. Check out this website for more information.
Have you stepped inside the Ace Attorney fandom lately? There's quite few of these there, too. One of the more interesting ones is SPARTA (Spark Brushel/Lotta Hart) - they never meet in the canon, but there seems to be a rising consensus among the fans that this reporting duo would make a perfect match.
- Then you have the Damon Gant/Everyone pairing. Erm...
- Crossover Ship Lisa Basil/GLaDOS shippers.
- And Godot/Coffee as well.
  - What, you mean Godot/Coffee isn't canon?!
- Maya/Matt. They have never even been in the same room, and Matt hired an assassin who kidapped Maya in order to get Phoenix to defend Matt for the murder he paid the assassin to commit.
- Kristoph Gavin/Dahlia Hawthorne, though they've never met in canon, is fairly popular and always described as "a match made in hell." Probably literally.
- Maximillian Galactica/Acro. There are doujinshi of this.
Colette/Kratos.
- I can so top that. Noishe/Stella. Thankfully, Noishe was human at the time ...
- This troper will mention Genius/Presea. It might be canon in the game at times, but this troper has seen long discussions about how Squick this is considering Presea being 28 years old, stuckin a 12 year old body.
Sync/Arietta, despite them rarely interacting and merely being in one group, is quite popular. Never mind that Arietta is obsessed with Ion only, and Sync is obsessed with being a Nietzsche Wannabe and acting out like a Jerkass whenever possible...
- But isn't Sync Ion's clone? He was able to floor Anise by taking advantage of literally being another Ion. With that in mind, Arietta would probably be thrilled.
Yggdrassil/Dist. They're both rather crazy girly-men who have tons of Ho Yay with their friends and a psychotic need to resurrect a dead lady... which is opposed by a red-eyed person despite them having even more of a reason to resurrect her.
Ahem. Fawful/Mimi, ~~anyone?~~ (Dead Link What's strangest about it is how much it makes sense...
- Doopliss/Mimi, dammit.
Sherry/Claire. Uh-oh, are those sirens?
- Why don't you have a seat over there
- There is a truly bizarre amount of Jill/Nemesis out there. True, Nemesis does spend a majority of the game chasing after Jill. With a rocket launcher. And there's the whole bit about him being a monster.
Megaman/Sera, with hints of Megaman/Yuna. Amazingly, it's reasonably well written. Still, it doesn't get much stranger than that.
There's Sora/Larxene. Yes, THAT Larxene. With THAT Sora. One with Larxene being something of a sadistic stalker, another played with the two genuinely in love, without being idiots, with a completely straight face.
- I need to see a link of this...
- Wish granted. Unintentionally, they're quite amusing. Here's a well written drabble to make up for it, and some Larxene/Olette to go with it. That last one is on the creepy side, and most definitely NSFW.
Teddie/Kanji is one of the more popular ships in the Persona 4 fandom, all because of one scene in which a drunk Teddie kisses Kanji. The latter's ambiguous sexuality probably doesn't help matters either...
- Besides the drunken kiss there is also Kanji's wanting to feel Teddie's fur.
- It's mostly restricted to Japanese fandom, but there's apparently a pretty significant following for Adachi/an aged-up Nanako. For those not in the 'know', Adachi is one of the game's major antagonists, a blatant screaming misogynist, attempted rapist, and a two-time murderer. So pairing Adachi with pretty much anyone would already be a crack pairing... and these people want to pair him with the surrogate baby sister of the man most directly responsible for sending him to prison.
Sonic the Hedgehog: Take any character and pair them with any other character, and there will be fanart of it. NO EXCEPTIONS. There's a club on Deviant ART dedicated to Shadow and Tikal as a pairing. Seriously, what?
- One user is trying to draw as many different Sonic pairings as possible. At the moment she has over 130. Including such pairings as Scratch X Cosmo or Bokkun X Dulcy.
- Tails Doll/Marine!
- One pairing that's really a stretch is Sonic and Metal Sonic. The reason being that Metal Sonic is obsessively programmed to KILL Sonic.
- And let's not forget the thousands of crack pairings that are created when canon characters are shipped with fan characters. The possibilities are just endless. <_<
Fire Emblem doesn't even need wacky fan pairings (though there are certainly plenty of those out there): some of the canon pairing possibilities are downright Crack Pairings. Examples given on the Troper Tales page are: Sylvia/Claude from the 4th game, Harken/Vaida from the 7th game, Kyle/Lute from the 8th game, and Astrid/Malakov from the 10th game.
- Of course, if you take any support as a pairing possibility, it gets even worse. Florina/Serra, anyone?
In "Snake Tale E: External Gazer" (on the Metal Gear Solid 2: Substance disc), the way Snake knows that the Mei Ling he's working with is a warped Alternate Universe counterpart of her real self is that she's married to Solidus. Solidus is as evil and tentacled as ever, and the two seem to be very much in love with each other. Also, the Alternate Universe version of Olga is married to someone, and although we never find out who, the implication (and Word Of God) is that it was Snake.
- The Metal Gear Solid 3 Secret Theater shorts used these for humour a lot, between EVA/The End, EVA/Sigint, and Big Boss/the Director of the CIA (they get married at the end).
- Metal Gear Solid 4 takes four pairings with little to no basis and makes them all canon. Meryl/Johnny is the one with the most prior canon; Roy/Rose never met; Naomi/Otacon got one line in Metal Gear Solid where Otacon says he feels sorry for Naomi but never met; and Naomi/Vamp was just a case of Rule Of Sexy.
- Someone's gonna kill me for this, no doubt, but I've taken to shipping Liquid Snake with... Psycho Mantis. Note that pairing Psycho Mantis with anyone is crack in of itself.
  - Speaking of Liquid, I've taken to shipping him with Otacon. Yes, Otacon. And I'm not alone.
  - Being as I am the person who suggested the above relating to Psycho Mantis, I applaud you and hope you find many wonderful fanworks for your pairing of choice.
  - Let us all take a moment to reflect on Otacon/Drebin. No? ... Yes.
Due to the nature of the game (being mythology), as well as Amaterasu's disturbing tendancey to get LOATS'd thanks to the fandom, most of the pairings in Okami are this. Just look at the more popular pairings with Ammy if want to see how messed up things can become:
- Amaterasu/Oki (A wolf and a half man/half wolf)
- Amaterasu/Waka (A wolf and a man from the moon)
- Amaterasu/Issun (A wolf and a creature who's around an inch high).
- Heck, there's fanart of Blight/Kaguya.
Zoey / the Witch. Actually, not that bad...
- Thanks to a certain parody film series, it's basically Zoey/Everything else in the game... Or So I Heard...
- Hell, how about The Hunter/The Witch?
Colonel Christopher Blair/Ralgha "Hobbes" nar Hhallas was once spotted. The viewer's mind has not been the same sense.
Megaman X has a lot of these, which is to be expected with a series that is 99% male. The most infamous is X/Vile despite the fact that Vile was a hateful killing machine that kept trying to kill X.
- Numerous doujinshi of Alia/Dynamo, despite the fact they have never met, Dynamo is mostly a joke boss and a lackey of Sigma. Which leads to Dynamo/Sigma.
- Lumine/Axl, despite technically being half-brothers. Also Lumine/X. Both sometimes involve Naughty Tentacles.
- Ferham/Zero, due to the fact that she's a sadomasochist and was pretty saucy when she repeatedly whipped Zero. The fact that Zero goes missing for a section of the game and never explains what happens allows ample opportunity for shenanigans.
- There was also smut fanart of Colonel/Signas. Yes, really.
Megaman suffers the same problem. There's a pairing between almost every single Robot Master, Doctor Light or Doctor Wily with one of their creations (or each other), and Roll with practically everyone. Even the pet animal robots like Tango and Rush get in on the action.
Samus/Master Chief.
Dissidia: Final Fantasy opened the way for Terra/Cloud.
- I'll raise you Kuja/Terra.
- Bartz/Squall, Firion/Terra, Tidus/Cloud, Warrior of Light/Firion, Cloud/Squall, Firion/Tidus, Onion Knight/Terra, Squall/Zidane, Firion/Squall, Bartz/Terra, Firion/Cecil... heck, just about ANYTHING in Dissidia can be considered crack. And all the ones just listed have at least SOME kind of a following (in Japan at least).
- To be honest, some of these aren't even that cracky, especially depending on how you read into it (for example, take Cloud/Terra or Onion Knight/Terra and then look at the characters' respective storylines). Oh, and don't forget about Voidshipping, the act of trying to hook up Exdeath and Cloud of Darkness on the basis of VOID alone.
Silent Hill, being what it is, has ships that defy the rules of space/time. James / Harry is the most common cross-game ship, though there is also seen Walter / Heather, and of course Pyramid Head / Everybody.
Touhou is FULL of this. Then again, why not if the entire franchise has over ONE HUNDRED characters? Examples? Youmu/Yuka and Chen/Sikieiki. The latter doesn't make any sense at all because, aside from Shoot the Bullet, THEY NEVER APPEARED IN THE SAME GAME!
This Troper was co-founder of a Knights of the Old Republic "adult" fic list. First rule we put down was that Mission was OFF LIMITS until the second game (I've only see THAT on adultfanfiction.net and avoid it like the plague). That, however, did not prevent such jaw-droppers as Canderous/Zaalbar, and HK-47 acting as a B.O.B. when Juhani got in heat.
While not entirely crack (it's more in the nature of an outside choice), Cloud/Yuffie tends to be treated like one (in other words, it gets dropped to troll the Clerith and Clifa Fan Dumb when they start making it Serious Business).
- Those from VII aren't even approaching crack. Can't find a link, but Sephiroth/Cactuar is crack.

Someone actually wrote up a Order of the Stick crack pairing generator on the forums. Apparently d6 and d20 dice can be just as twisted as we can.
- IT CAN GENERATE SELFCEST!!!
- For all the inherent wrong-ness, some of the fics there are hysterical, and the art can be so hilarious.
  - Vaarsuvius has been named the official bike of the OOTS crack fandom. Everyone gets a ride.
  - Visit The Crack Pairings Thread and Help Spread the Love. (Image of the Crack Pairing). Yes, That kind of Love.
  - Part of the reason Vaarsuvius is so common in crack pairings is that Vaarsuvius does not seem the type to have a successful romantic relationship with anyone. The fact that V is now divorced stands testament to this.
Kimiko and Largo are from Megatokyo don't speak the same language and are romantically involved with each other's best friends, but their scenes together have been noted to be incredible cute all the same. It's actually become a running joke how the normally girl-averse Largo trusts and respects the girl, complementing Piro on his taste in women.
- And as a corollary to the above pairing, Piro/Erika (the canon love interests of the aforementioned Kimiko/Largo).
- Miho and Largo used to be a near canon Foe Yay pairing, but as Largo/Erika and Piro/Miho emerged it seems a lot of fans don't even remember those days and subsquently view their shippers with a mixture of vague confusion and amuzement.
- Ping/Yuki are occasionally shipped for simple Pair The Spares reasoning, and in their defense had a short of vague Sempai Kohai relationship in their one real scene together.
  - Some fans have even suggested Ping/Yuji (Yuki's computer savvy brother), for similar reasons. To date, the two have never met.
- Miho/Tsubasa. Not only have they never met in canon, but the latter hasn't even been in the story for several years.
- Hell, there was a time when the crack pairings were so numerous in the Megatokyo fandom that a person on the forums jokingly suggested shipping Stick Guy Dom/Rent-A-Zilla with the tagline "Why Not?". It actually gained a small following. Eventually a group of forumgoers sick of the entire mess dubbed themselves the "SD(Story Discussion) Pirates" setting out to "Sink ALL Ships" and, uh... "Seize Yer Booty".
There is apparently a small portion of the El Goonish Shive fandom that ships Tedd/Nanase.
- The fact that Tedd habitually refers to her as "ugly cousin" is probably the thing that is least wrong with that.
A popular Meme on the Eight Bit Theater Forums is to mention the semi-non-existant (yeah, semi) Fanfiction "Colors of Magic, Colors of Love" and to jokingly suggest making it Canon. What's this fanfiction about, you ask? The pairing Black Mage/Red Mage. UAGH.
- Co M;Co L is effectively a "project" to see how many Crack Pairings one can throw in a single "book".
A running gag on the College Roomies From Hell!!! fora is to pair April with Margaret or Blue (usually Blue), April being the most prominent character without an attainable love interest.
Come on, I know somebody has shipped Danny and Phantom on Chess Piece.
Homestuck. Hoo boy. Let's just say that anyone/Lil' Cal counts.

In Avatar The Last Airbender fandom, there's a whole community dedicated to the love of Zhao (as in Admiral Zhao) and Hahn (as in Princess Yue's fiance who appears in the S1 finale). Their only interaction was Hahn trying to ambush Zhao after disguising himself as one of Zhao's soldiers, but ruining it by loudly announcing his attempts to kill "Admiral Chow", then being casually thrown off the ship. In their own words:
Q: Why Zhao and Hahn?
A: Because we said. Also, it's hot. And funny. And it makes no sense, always a plus.
- See also the Avatar entry on Portmanteau Couple Name for some "official" Crack Pairings.
- Though there are probably plenty that do it non-humorously, Azula/Ty Lee is inherently hilarious due to the infinite potential for Unfunny.
- Hakoda/Ursa seems to be gaining in popularity, if only for what it would do to Zutara.
  - If you mean that it would make the pairing squicky, you are sadly mistaken. Many Zutarians actually also casually ship Hakoda/Ursa. Being steps isn't all that squicky, especially if they're adults (which they pretty much are given the amount of responsibility they've carried).
  - Hakoda/Ozai is recently catching up, if just for the hot DILF action.
- There's a meme circulating DeviantArt that involves drawing several things, one of which is a Crack Pairing. The best is Sokka/"Enemy Birds".
- A minor running gag on 4chan's Comics and Cartoons board: Foamy Mouth Guy and Freestyle Kid (the kid who danced in his own distinct manner in Season 3 episode The Headband), affectionately named "Foamstyle".
- Some (Not saying any names) Live Journal communities make a goal of finding the biggest crackships in the fandom. So far there's Yue/Chong, Appa/Momo, Appa/Bosco, and so forth. They occasionally even shipped them with members of the production crew... which one of them stumbled onto.
- One epically hilarious (titled A Matter of Honor) fic has a lulzy side of Appa/Nyla. Momo, heart broken but happy that Appa has found love finds comfort in the arms of a Mexican chicken-vulture hybrid thing belonging to a Fire Nation sailor. Momo/El Tuerto even has portmanteau name... El Moerto. BEST SHIP EVER!
- How about Bryke?
- Iroh/Toph is quite popular. A number of shippers don't age the characters, either. Twelve-year-old girl and elderly man. Yum.
- Haru and Ty Lee, who have never met. There is a fanmix for it. Also, Song and the Earth King.
  - In the grand scheme of things, that really isn't that cracky. Haru/Azula however, is, although in a very strange perverse scary way it kind of works.
- Sokka and the Giant Friendly Mushroom Cloud? "Mushy giant friend!"
- And if you can't decide what crack ship to support, consult the wheel of shipping.
- The Earth King/Pakku.
- Sokka/Azula. It's like Zutara with half the drama and twice the funny!
- Foamy/Suki has been declared canon by Bryke.
  That actually happened a few years back. Suki isn't too proud of it.
- There is a Ty Lee/Hahn fanfic that was extremely well written, and not at all cracky actually. Go check out RadiantBeam on ff.net
- Anything involving Jet, since he's supposed to be dead. Jetko (Jet/Zuko) seems to be the most popular, but there is one artist who ships Mai/Jet.
- Sokka's Space Sword and Toph's Rock.
- Mai/Fruit Tart.
- Suki/Azula. Most involving Suki's time in prison. Must have been the way Azula referred to her as "My favorite prisoner."
- Three from the same artist: Hahn/Azula, Mai/Aang, and Iroh/Suki.
- Song/Earth King
- One of the show's producers/artists (Giancarlo Volpe) posted this as an April Fools Day joke.
- This troper ships Zukka. As in Sokka/Zuko. What?
Transformers Animated: Ultra Magnus/Sentinel Prime fic. Then again, it does explain how an incompetent Jerk Ass became second-in-command...
- I'll top you that with Optimus Prime/Sentinel Prime and Bumblebee/Sari. One or both can squick you out, Your Mileage May Vary.
- Also from Animated : Blitzwing Selfcest. Tons of it, even before he had an appearance lasting more than ten seconds.
Transformers fandom in general is made up of crack pairings, often with characters who have had little or no interaction in the show/comics. There are very few individuals who haven't been paired with someone at some point and often in very bizarre combinations. This is probably at least partly the fault of the Transformers Anonymous Kink Meme.
- Starscream, the fandom's Memetic Rape Victim, has a lot of this. The craziest might be Starscream/Devastaor. Hot Skitty On Wailord Action is almost an understatement.
South Park's Kenny/Butters. And Craig/Tweek, which is◊ the◊ most popular couple, after Stan/Kyle and Cartman/Kyle, despite of the fact that Craig and Tweek interact with each other only in one episode. And they are forced by their classmates.
- Damien/Pip, Christophe/Gregory, Wendy/Bebe?
- Craig/Kenny, Craig/Clyde, Craig/Cartman, Curly Goth/Butters, Bebe/Kenny, Damien/Kyle, Stan/Henrietta, Kyle/Ike, Cartman/Heidi.
- Butters/Cartman is technically canon. A least in one episode...
- Towelie/Stan.
- The Canon Cartman/Mr.Jefferson, Cartman/Ben Affleck.
- There's at least one fanfic that pairs Ike with Phillip from Terrence and Phillip.
  - This troper has seen Stan/Ike and Stan/Kyle/Ike. And Kyle/Hitler. YEAH.
- Let's be honest: shipping ANY South Park characters probably seems bizarre to most people (except for Stan/Wendy, which is canon).
- At this point, I think it's safe to assume that every South Park character has been shipped with everyone else.
SpongeBob/Krabby Patty, although it was intended as parody, still seems wrong.
- Even better in the canon episode in which this happened. If memory serves, Sponge Bob ends up murdering a flock of clams to protect "Patty" from being eaten.
- And yet, when handled by the right hands, it still works.
While it can't possibly compete with the Harry Potter or Avatar The Last Airbender fandoms, the Invader Zim fandom is absolutely bonkers about their crack pairings. Even ignoring that the series has no romantic relationships whatsoever, the sheer variety of combinations is staggering, a personal favourite being Dib/GIR. Yes, the arch-nemesis and the robot henchman of the main character. Shut up.
- Some notable pairings: Gir/Mimi, Dib/Mrs. Bitters, Dib/Johnny the Homicidal Maniac, Zim/Dib who grows up to BE Johnny the Homicidal Maniac, Zim/Prof. Membrane, and Dib/Squee (which makes a lot of sense). Johnen Vasquez/Roman Dirge is creepily common, too.
- Anything involving Lenore is automatically and simultaneously both necrophilia and pedophilia. Nightmare Fuel ensues, followed by Brain Bleach.
- Zim and Gaz. *Shivers*
  - Kill me if you wish, but I actually think that's kind of... Well... not cute, per se, because neither character can DO cute, but... When it's done well (which is very, very rarely), it does give me happy little warm feelings that no other IZ ship can. Besides Dib/Me, but that's just crossing the invisible (and, with some people, nonexistent) line.
- There is definitely a certain amount of logic in the popular Zim/Tak pairing; but I'm holding out for a Gaz/Tak/Tak's ship threeway.
  - 20 dollars says the above ship is out there somewhere. There is also seen Bill/Bitters (which was awesome in fact), Membrane/Elliot (aka Gaz's teacher), Elliot/Bitters, Zim/his computer, Gaz/Skoodge, Dib/Dib Ship, Zim/Red/Purple, and more Self-Scest than you can shake a stick at.
- Zim/Cold Unfeeling Robot Arm, and while we are on the subject of Lenore, I vaugely remember Ragamuffin the Vampire Doll getting it on with somebody's Digimon hidden deep in the stinky bowles of the internet.
Some X-Men Evolution fans live off of this. Quicksilver/X-23 is an example of one of the (slightly) more plausible and less brain-scarring ones. There are also Gambit/Shadowcat, Spyke/Rogue, Berzerker/Callisto, Jean Grey/Magma, Jean Grey/Rogue, Jean Grey/Shadowcat, and Toad/Rogue fanfics. Cyclops/Rogue would be a Crack Pairing if it wasn't canon (one-sided, but nevertheless) for the first two or so seasons.
- Is Shadowcat/Nightcrawler canon, then?
  - No, that's Fan Preferred Couple.
- There's an amazingly sweet X-men Evo fanfic pairing Jean Grey and The Blob.
- Gambit/Pyro. There are quite a few fanfics about it. Amazingly, none of them seem to feature Impressive Pyrotechnics or widespread destruction in any way.
Popeye/Bluto. And in an orange juice commercial, no less.
- Olive Oyl's expression at the end says everything. Poor stick figure lady.
- This got more than its fair share of attention. Minute Maid is turning our cartoon sailors gay!
Yivo/The Universe is canon as of the second movie, The Beast With A Billion Backs.
- You tell me Fry and Zapp isn't crack, I dare you
Kim Possible. There are some of the odder ones such as Rufus/Shego (yes, that Rufus) and Ron/Monkey Fist which exist and qualify for this trope. One of the crackiest pairings in the KPverse is Drakken/Kim. We are a varied bunch indeed.
- There was a mention before, but for some reason it vanished. Kim Possible fans seem to delight in finding ever weirder things to do to their favorite characters. Dementor/Yori? Dr. Director/Kim's mother? Kim/All of Shego's brothers? Why not? Very much "I bet I can make this work!"
- Bonnie/Kim? Hell yeah. Dr Possible and Dr Drakken whilst in College? Apparently yes as well!
- Don't forget about the infamous Kim/Roachie pairing...
- DNAmy/Senor Senior Sr.
- There is at least one fic pairing Drakken and a Potato. Yes. The vegetable.
  - And no one did Drakken and his Cocoa Moo yet?
Captain Simian and the Space Monkeys had an episode where Orbitron falls in love with the Bananatron... with reverse phallic/yonic innuendo, no less.
Total Drama Island has Cody/Noah. Based off of one action. That happend as a joke. Even worse, there exists a fan-film, ~~that shall not be named~~ named "William Country", that has Cody/a Palette Swap of him. The only difference is that the swap has black hair (bad by it's own, Cody has brown.), and his hair is messier. Screw Yourself, anyone?
- Oh, you're just scratching the surface! The characters have such diverse and interesting personalities that Total Drama has a rather active community of self-described crack pairing writers. Some other fairly popular ships: Duncan/Leshawna, Izzy/Ezekiel, Noah/Katie, Trent/Lindsay, DJ/Eva...
Some members of the Goof Troop fandom can be really weird when it comes to pairings. Age and blood relations be damned, brother/father/sister/mother pairings are a go go. And Peg is paired off with everyone but Pete.
Heather/Zoey is occasionally posted on the Facepunch (read: Garry's Mod) section.
Any Metalocalypse pairing.
While a hotbed for Slash Fic shipping, already, Swat Kats shippers, when doing fanfic about resident Enforcer Commander Feral, invariably will make it a Crossover Fic by shipping him with, of all characters, Shere Khan from Tale Spin. No one knows why. Somehow, though, the pairing works.
Batman The Animated Series has a canon one in the form of Killer Croc/Baby Doll. Even Batman doesn't wanna think about it.
- Oh, and there's Robin/Sentient Chunk of Clayface.
When designing Dr Facilier for The Princess And The Frog, animator Bruce Smith went through the thought process of what the child of Captain Hook and 101's Cruella Devil would look like.
- That's the best thing I've heard all day.
Danny Phantom-pick a couple, any couple. It's there, including DannyXThermos-it's for parody purposes but tooth-meltingly adorable.

Homestar Runner apparently has a huge, active shipping community for a cartoon with a running gag about having "Only One Girl".
- Alluded to canonicly here, with the pair being Marzipan x The Cheat.
- Actually, there's a valid love triangle between Marzipan, Homestar and The Cheat. Why does a Granola Girl have to choose between a humanoid ditz and a Hypercompetent Sidekick? Because the Brother Chaps said so.
  - Coffeex Chipwich: actually suggested in a cartoon. (They're supposedly Homsar's parents.)
Im A Marvel And Im A Dc - plenty, but mainly Green Goblin/Harley Quinn.
"I'm just a goblin, standing in front of a clown, asking her to love him. What's so complicated about that?"
Crack pairings happen in Livejournal Roleplay nearly as often as pairings based on canon.

Che Guevara/Betty Boop. No, I'm not kidding.
Goku/Anne Frank. Yes, THAT Anne Frank. The real life one that died during the Holocaust. The writer seemed to just want to give her a happy ending, but anything with Hitler turning Super Saiyan is just too insane to not list.
There was an old website where Marilyn Manson and C-ko Kotobuki were paired up.
Golden Sun Realm's forums recently took it upon themselves to create pair after pair after pair. Most of them, predictably, were crack. Real-life characters and forum members in any order? Oh, yes.
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