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Yaoi & shonen ai love relationships are in my opinion, the only TRUE LOVE that remains untouch in this crazy world of us.
Some people are fans of Slash - the Shipping of two same-sex characters from a fandom together. Some people take this is a little further though; they don't just like Slash but also dislike the idea of Shipping two opposite sex people together, even when it is clear that these characters are 100% straight, and even if these shippers themselves are.
This is a subculture-within-a-subculture; these people are usually both a Yaoi fan and a Yuri fan and while they may favor one of these over the other they engage in both. This can range from people who merely prefer to pair off every character they like with another of the same sex to the more extreme people who appear to argue that writing slash is a politically liberating act. Occasionally it can be an unexpected by-product of backlash against the addition of Mary Sue Original Characters just to pair off canonical characters.
The extreme versions are the kind who write J.K. Rowling hate mail for daring to give Remus Lupin a girlfriend. They also don't seem to want to listen when many real gay people point out the fanfiction they're writing is highly stereotypical and doesn't really reflect reality (not that all Het Fic does this either, but there you go). Mind you more extreme typical Yaoi Fangirls and Yuri Fanboys might engage in this sort of flaming as well.
One thing about people who think Het Is Ew is that they may not engage in Die For Our Ship as much; instead they Ship the person "in the way" with a different person in the cast who is the same sex as them - i.e. if they Ship Bob and Dave, but Alice is Bob's Canon girlfriend, they write fics about Alice realizing she actually loved her best friend Carol all along, rather than about Alice dying in a house fire. This isn't universally true, but not uncommon either. Basically, when these fans write Fan Fic, Everyone Is Gay.
Depending on what circles you run in, this can actually be a joke, usually about why they don't write "gen" fic.
Fandoms this trope is especially prevalent in:
- D Gray Man
- Inuyasha not so much as the other examples, as The Shippers usually leave Kagome and Sango or Kagome and Kikyo to be paired with each other.
- Peacemaker Kurogane
- Twilight (Ironically enough)
- Gundam Wing
- Gundam 00
- Final Fantasy
- Monster
- Nabari No Ou where even the suggestion that Yoite might be actually female when he was revealed to be intersexed caused a panic that spread like wildfire in the fandom. (Never mind that Yoite would still be the same person - the BL is in danger!)
- Pandora Hearts
- Neon Genesis Evangelion
- Code Geass
- Kingdom Hearts
- Bleach - although this fandom is a curious subversion in that the het fans are responsible for most of the ship wars and Fan Wank.
- Sailor Moon
- Fushigi Yuugi
- Katekyo Hitman Reborn while 4/5 of then fandom is yaoi this is only partially true as most fans don't mind het couples such as Colo/Lal or Mukuro/Chrome
- CLAMP
- Gravitation actually has quite a few canonical het couples (Tohma/Mika, Hiro/Ayaka, Tetsuya/Noriko, K/Judy). Of course, the female characters are virtually AWOL in fanfic, leaving Hiro free to go after Suguru or K and Tohma after Eiri or Sakano (wife? What wife?).
- The Prince Of Tennis
- Death Note, though it's almost completely on the Yaoi end; the females don't get paired up, they get written out.
- Mai Hime. Yes, the fandom for this series really does bash/overlook the few het couplings in it that much. Akira/Takumi is pretty much the sole exception. Although, granted, they do have a very good case with Yukariko/Ishigami.
- Legend Of Zelda (what other fandom can you find where the girl is told to Die For Our Ship...in favor of her own "male" alter-ego)
- Buffy The Vampire Slayer and Angel fandom had this all over the place right after Willow came out. The tendency has shrunk in subsequent years, however, as the fandom has gotten both smaller and older since the shows were cancelled.
- ImageBoards offer a variation of this: Many imageboard regulars feel that the absolutely squickiest form of intercourse is consensual marital sex in the missionary position.
- See also (NSFW! (well, that strip is fine. It's just everything else on the site that's the problem)) http://www.ghastlycomic.com/d/20040502.html
 , about a sponsor's reaction to the above, after years of tentacle sex, furry sex, threesomes, children wearing bondage gear for fun, various forms of bestiality, gay sex, various acts with a shemale, S&M (including Jesus reenacting the crucifixion), numerous jokes about pedophilia, and a few about bukkake. And that's just what I remember from skimming through the archives to find the strip.
- Tends to appear on 4chan whenever the main topic of a thread is, or has drifted to, "I'd Double Entendre her Double Entendre, If You Know What I Mean."
- X-Men
- Naruto
- Yu-Gi-Oh
- Bully
- Harry Potter
- Ranma 1/2, the irony being that fan writers will go to monumental lengths to pair up male Ranma with one of his rivals (usually Ryouga,) and then go just as far to keep Ranma's female side out of the picture.
- South Park
- Kim Possible (start off with Kim/Shego and Drakken/Ron and work from there)
- Some writers take it further than most. So Yeah
- From the author: "I really do agree with the argument that comic book movies are filled with misogyny, and this is an interesting concept of how to get around the issue of misogyny." Exactly HOW is this gonna be solved (or something) by replacing the canon female with a male escapes me. Fan Dumb, indeed.
- StarTrek
- Heroes
- Prevalent in the Fruits Basket fandom, which exploded fabulously with the revelation that the fangirls' oft-shipped beloved bishounen Akito was actually female.
- Actually applies to almost any male character; many Yaoi Fangirls are very bitter that assorted Bishonen like Ayame, Shigure, Hatori and Haru turned out to be in loving long-term heterosexual relationships, thus exploding any hopes that Ayame and Shigure's "We're lovers!" gag would be the truth.
- Fullmetal Alchemist. It's much more prominent in the (also much bigger) fanbase for the first anime adaptation. Actually, much of the time you can tell if someone is a fan of the anime or the manga depending on wether they like Winry or they wish her an awful demise (or, if they're more benevolent, ignore her existence altogether or pair her off with Al. Or Sheska, or Riza).
- Supernatural, with full on Die For Our Ship for, oh, any moderately attractive woman in the entire show who gets near our boys. A disturbing amount of Real Person Fic'ers make this also apply to the actors' real-life girlfriends, some making up conspiracy theories about how marketing is forcing the boys to pretend to be straight.
- Batman. The fangirls have a lot of fun pairing Batman, Nightwing and Robin, in every possible combination, but the vast majority of them also like Catwoman and Stephanie Brown a lot. Just not involved with their canon love interests, it would seem.
- That's what yuri is for! Helped by the canon examples of Harley and Ivy.
- Azumanga Daioh, though as much out of distaste for Gary Stus as for love of Schoolgirl Lesbians Shipping. (if not more so)
- Not helped by the fact that there's only 5 named male characters in the show (and they're a creepy middle-aged man, two cats, a dog, and some sort of imaginary magical cat man... thing).
- Lucky Star: See above.
- Weiss Kreuz: Seriously - HOW many female characters are there? Everytime a male character (say, Omi and Nagi) go and start liking a girl (say, Ouka and Tot), said girl ends up dead. The supreme lack of female characters has, in some fan-circles, created the line "At least it's not Tot" implying that any partner would be better than a female.
- Axis Powers Hetalia is an odd example. On one hand, 80% of all Hetalia fics are about slashing the Blue Bishonen Ghetto of nation-tans with each other. On the other hand, the number of fics about genderbending one half of a m/m pairing or featuring a pairing involving Hungary or another female character (including ones that have not yet shown up in canon) is substantial enough to prevent that percentage from reaching 99%, and what little Die For Our Ship there exists is not concentrated on the female characters. More like a case of Het Is Fine But Slash Is Just More Obvious.
- What little Shipping goes on in the X Wing Series fandom tends to be het canon, but there are of course slashers. "I like Winter, but she's... you know... female," wrote one Tycho/Thrawn shipper.
- Kuroshitsuji seems to get this — poor little Elizabeth has been made to Die For Our Ship, forced through Character Derailment, and otherwise been the victim of massive Fan Dumb...
- It's not just Elizabeth, either — the other series females, aside from Rachel, the main character's dead mother, and sometimes Mey-Rin, the adorable (and sexy) maid, seem outright ignored. Name ONE instance in a Grell/Sebastian story in which it is mentioned that Madame Red is canonically the closest thing to love that Grell has ever felt. And of course, if you look at Kuroshitsuji's main page, looking for the example of FanDisservice will reveal that the yaoi fangirls' favorite pairing being slightly derailed by Sebastian's sex scene with a woman (if only to get information, because Sebastian had no feelings for her whatsoever) and has caused squick to some. It ought to be noted with Mey-Rin, as well, is canonically getting nosebleeds all over the place when Sebastian flirts with Ciel, even though she has a crush on Sebastian.
- Transformers. Yes, the giant alien robots. The case is not helped by the fact that there are very few, if any, female characters in each incarnation.
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