History Main / HoYayShipping

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%%->''"Wha? You are giving the {{slash fic}}-ers [[FanficFuel material]]!"''
%%--> -- '''[[AtopTheFourthWall Linkara]]''', ''TheSpoonyExperiment'' [[http://spoonyexperiment.com/2010/05/29/atop-the-fourth-wall-warrior-2-and-3/ review of "Warrior" #2-3]]
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%%%%Adding folders, because we're going to need them and it would be great if everything was organized from the start instead of us having to sort through it all later. Also, alphabetize.
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%%The result of HoYay's interpretation in an open-minded fandom, the belief that all same sex characters can be {{shipp|ing}}ed together, even when they are [[WordOfGod stated by their creators]] to be straight. [[RuleThirtyFour This should not come as a surprise]] to those aware of the "textual poaching" nature of fandom. Fandom/fanfiction uses several tropes of its own -- some of which are fairly well grounded in the actual closeting/coming out experience, some of which are confined to fiction -- to justify [[SuddenlySexuality altering]] canon sexual orientations or interpolating where none are specified.
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%%One can argue that fans have a habit of arbitrarily slapping this label on ''any'' same-sex friendship. It is essentially a truism of fandom that any homosocial behavior, from AirHugging to FauxYay to actual homosexual relations, frees the characters who did it to [[SlashFic be slashed together]] by someone in some corner of the Internet.
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%%Of course, on the other side of the fandom we have those who ''very'' vocally deny that two characters of the same gender are anything more than HeterosexualLifePartners, BashBrothers or a RomanticTwoGirlFriendship -- even when the subtext is glaringly intentional, so this is a subjective audience reaction trope, unlike HoYay itself, that's just the scene itself that can be used as fuel for shipping wars.
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%%See also FoeYayShipping, ShippingGoggles, SlashFic, YaoiFan, and YuriFan.
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%%!!Examples (Please help in transporting examples from HoYay that fit here.)
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%%[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
%%* As a general rule, anything with an ImprobablyFemaleCast or a CastFullOfPrettyBoys will radiate this trope in varying degrees. Some extremely so, others more subtle. In either case, there will usually be a lot of it.
%%* One show that feeds into this kind of shipping is ''PuellaMagiMadokaMagica''. With the exception of Mami Tomoe, ever other girl that is central into the story is paired off to one other, especially [[RescueRomance Madoka with Homura]] and [[FoeYay Sayaka with Kyouko]].
%%** Even some of the staff take part; UmeAoki even drew an unofficial doujinshi.
%%** With the case of [[FoeYay Sayaka and Kyouko]], you could be excused for mistaking the paring as the show's OfficialCouple if you are going by depictions of them outside of the show itself. Yes, on a matter of pure volume, those manage to out number Madoka and Homura(which, to be fair, they get a lot of attention as well)... and are considered the show's {{OTP}} by quite a few of its fans.
%%* ''SailorMoon'' has a legacy of Ho Yay Shipping so large that that is permeates almost '''every''' part of the series outside of the show/movies and it's [[OfficialCouple resident lesbian couple]] [[ButchLesbian Haruka Tenoh/Amara (Sailor Uranus)]] and [[LipstickLesbian Michiru Kaioh/Michelle (Sailor Neptune)]].
%%* ''CodeGeass''. Male, female... it doesn't matter since there is a rather large LoveDodecahedron at play in the story. It wouldn't take much for nearly every main character to be ship with someone of the same sex.
%%* There are two show in the ''{{Gundam}}'' franchise that fall into the "trap" of a CastFullOfPrettyBoys. They are ''[[Anime/MobileSuitGundamWing New Mobile Report Gundam Wing]]'' and ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam00'' respectively.
%%** In the case of ''[[Anime/MobileSuitGundamWing New Mobile Report Gundam Wing]]'', the legacy of HoYayShipping that surrounds the show is legendary. It has extended far outside the time of the show and continues to this day. Nearly sixteen years after the original showing of ''[[Anime/MobileSuitGundamWing Gundam Wing]]'', shippers ''still'' have [[ShipToShipCombat debates]] over it. As you can guess, DieForOurShip runs rampant.
%%** ''[[Anime/MobileSuitGundamWing Gundam Wing]]'''s status as a bastion of HoYayShipping has had a rather large effect on the franchise, to the point where shows after it have tried to invoke the same PeripheryDemographic at least in part to every other target. The only exceptions to this are ''[[Anime/AfterWarGundamX Gundam X]]'', ''Anime/TurnAGundam'', and anything that predates ''[[Anime/MobileSuitGundamWing Gundam Wing]]'' (so ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam'' to ''[[Anime/MobileFighterGGundam G Gundam]]''). In the case of anything that predates ''Wing'', it's not so much as they have no Ho Yay Shipping; it's the fact that they are not quite as loud nor as large.
%%* ''OuranHighSchoolHostClub'' is a rather unique case since; they invoke this, in-universe, [[LampshadeHanging on purpose]].
%%* ''{{No 6}}'' fandom has Sion and Nezumi. It's difficult to find a discussion of the series without people asking if it's in the BoysLoveGenre.
%%* SlashFic is pretty much ubiquitous in the ''DeathNote'' fandom.
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%%[[folder:Comic Books]]
%%* The awkward handshake scene in ''{{Watchmen}}'' have led some fans to ship Nite Owl and Rorschach. The rest of the fandom tends not to approve.
%%* {{Batman}} and {{Nightwing}} have been popular ever since the latter was the original Robin.
%%* {{Wolverine}} gets this with just about every male [[{{X-Men}} X-Man]]. '''No exceptions'''.
%%* {{Tintin}} and Captain Haddock.
%%* {{Asterix}} and Obelix.
%%* CaptainAmerica and IronMan are ''very'' popular, to the point where it can be hard to find ''[[ComicBook/TheAvengers Avengers]]'' SlashFic that ''isn't'' about the two of them.
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%%[[folder:Literature]]
%%* ''TheLordOfTheRings'' is famous for the EveryoneIsGay interpretation, due to the fact that the main cast is formed of four {{hobbits}}, one elf, a dwarf, two humans and a wizard, and they are all ''male''
%%** Frodo and Sam are probably the most popular pairing. [[WordOfGod Tolkien himself apparently stated that they were not in love with each other]], and it didn't slow the fandom down a bit. Given that Tolkien specifically compares Sam's defence of Frodo from Shelob to a small furry animal defending its ''mate'' against a mountain of horn and hide, it's not hard to see why. It's much more likely that Tolkien was aiming for a [[FireForgedFriends purely platonic reading]], or that the characters being gay/bi never crossed his mind, the relationships being influenced by his experiences in the FirstWorldWar and [[ValuesDissonance an all male cast not automatically drawing gay rumours back in the first half of the 20th century]].
%%* Despite the series being primarily about heterosexual romance, ''{{Twilight}}'' Ho Yay Shipping is common among fans and [[{{Hatedom}} anti-fans]] alike (Alice's tendency to show HoYay-ish affection for Bella helps to encourage it).
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%%[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
%%* {{House}} and Wilson are a common target for SlashFic, supported by massive amounts of HoYay in the show.
%%* In the glory days of ''{{Heroes}}'', you could pick two male characters more or less at random and find SlashFic for them. Popular pairings were:
%%** [[IncestIsRelative Peter/Nathan]]. One of the show's writers attempted to HandWave their touchy-feely conversations and general lack of personal space by explaining "They're Italian!", which swiftly became a RunningGag in the fandom.
%%** Sylar/Mohinder, a sort of BeastAndBeauty / FoeYay pairing which was fueled by a rather kinky torture sequence in which Mohinder tied down Sylar and breathily whispered threats in his ear.
%%* Kirk and Spock of ''StarTrek'' were the joint {{trope namer}}s for SlashFic, notable in that this predated the modern Internet by decades.
%%** Sulu/Chekov benefit from the general ''lack'' of attention to their personal lives; the few female love interests who have shown up tend to get a HandWave from fans or a "What? NoBisexuals?" Sulu's daughter has been seen as proof that he's straight, [[DidNotDoTheResearch ignoring the fact that even in the 21st century plenty of gay and bisexual men have biological children]], and some shippers have even seen Chekov's affectionate introduction of Demora in ''Generations'' as a hint that maybe she [[HasTwoMommies has two daddies]]. [[WordOfGod George Takei has said]] that he played Sulu as straight, for what it's worth.
%%** On ''StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'', the actors playing Garak and Bashir have both acknowledged and supported the interpretation that their characters were flirting with each other, to the joy of their slashers everywhere.
%%* ''{{iCarly}}'', with the main pairing being Carly/Sam(antha).
%%* In the ''{{Supernatural}}'' fandom, Sam/Dean is so popular there are ''canon'' shippers, thanks to an {{in-universe}} series of books about Sam and Dean (the author is a prophet who didn't realise he was writing about real people). This, it should be noted, is an ''[[SiblingIncest incest pairing]]''.
%%-->'''Dean''': There's Sam girls and Dean girls and... What's a slash fan?\\
%%'''Sam''': As in Sam slash Dean. Together.\\
%%'''Dean''': Like together, together? They do know we're brothers, right?\\
%%'''Sam''': Doesn't seem to matter.\\
%%'''Dean''': Well, that's just sick!
%%** Other notable ships are Dean/Castiel and (more rarely) Sam/Gabriel and [[FoeYay Sam/Lucifer]]. Fans of Dean/Castiel especially like to point out that if the writers are aware enough of the slashers in their fandom to write them into the show, it's entirely possible that the Dean/Cas subtext (suggestive lines, intense staring etc.) is intentional. Whether it is, or just ShipTeasing is debatable, but a fair argument can actually be made for Dean being canonically bisexual, so it's entirely possible that it is. [[hottip:*:To clarify, Dean appears to have a massive crush on a male TV character in one episode, and is targeted by a male siren in another (the siren was previously established as taking the shape of the other, male, targets' dream women). The siren claims to have been Dean's ideal younger brother, but its relationship with the other targets had been explicitly sexual, and no one seems all that surprised by the siren being male. Of course, that could be taken to say a lot about Dean's ideal relationship with his actual brother (though judging from Dean's subconscious where his idealized version of Sam is when the latter is a child and still dependent on him, it might not).]]
%%* The most popular pairing in ''StargateAtlantis'' fandom is [=McKay=]/Shepard.
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%%[[folder:Video Games]]
%%* The ''MetalGearSolid'' series is full of HoYay with lots of candidates for shipping.
%%** Snake/Otacon is basically the main couple of the series.
%%** Big Boss/Ocelot is also a prime example. Throughout all the games Ocelot makes it very clear that he admires Big Boss above everything. And with all the HoYay going on, not strictly in a platonic way.
%%** And Vamp/Com. Dolph. It's pretty much {{canon}} that the two had some kind of sexual relationship, but the exact circumstances are left open.
%%** There's also Boss/EVA in the girls camp.
%%* Every bit of HoYay that has ever occurred in any ''SonicTheHedgehog'' game ever has a matching ship, because [[CrackPairing nearly every possible pairing has been shipped]].
%%* Falox (Falco Lombardi and Fox [=McCloud=]) is the dominant ''VideoGame/StarFox'' ship in Japan overall, ''gay or straight''. Wolox (Wolf O'Donnell and Fox [=McCloud=]) comes second. [[TheScrappy Krystal]]... not so much. In the West where [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff Krystal]] has [[BrokenBase broken the base]], Falox and Wolox are common in the anti-Krystal factions.
%%* Taken to the [[BeyondTheImpossible most extreme degree possible]] in ''{{Touhou}}''. If two characters have even the faintest connection, someone on the internet [[CrackFic will ship them]]. A glaring example of this is Wriggle/Yuuka, by the virtue of being an insect and a flower, respectively. ''They didn't even appear in the same game''
%%* The ''DragonAgeII'' fandom has seen an increase in Fenders (Fenris/Anders) shippers, despite -- or possibly because of -- how much they hate each other.
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%%[[folder:Web Original]]
%%* [[AtoptheFourthWall Linkara]] and [[TheSpoonyExperiment Spoony]] (or Dr. Insano) tend to get written together due to this, as the page quote suggests.
%%* The ''{{Homestuck}}'' fandom is full of this thanks to {{Word of God}} claiming that all trolls are bi. Especially evident in the John/Karkat fans, despite John stating that he's not a homosexual.
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%%[[folder:Western Animation]]
%%* This is very, very, ''very'' common in the ''{{Transformers}}'' fandom, probably due to the [[TheSmurfettePrinciple lack of female characters]]. It's similarly common in the ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' fandom for [[ImprobablyFemaleCast the opposite reason]].
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%% In case you aren't convinced, check here: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=1305224217090311800
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[[caption-width-right:300:[[http://cosmicduckling.com/spirk/i-night.html By "this simple feeling," do you mean love?]]]]

->''"Wha? You are giving the {{slash fic}}-ers [[FanficFuel material]]!"''
--> -- '''[[AtopTheFourthWall Linkara]]''', ''TheSpoonyExperiment'' [[http://spoonyexperiment.com/2010/05/29/atop-the-fourth-wall-warrior-2-and-3/ review of "Warrior" #2-3]]

%%Adding folders, because we're going to need them and it would be great if everything was organized from the start instead of us having to sort through it all later. Also, alphabetize.

The result of HoYay's interpretation in an open-minded fandom, the belief that all same sex characters can be {{shipp|ing}}ed together, even when they are [[WordOfGod stated by their creators]] to be straight. [[RuleThirtyFour This should not come as a surprise]] to those aware of the "textual poaching" nature of fandom. Fandom/fanfiction uses several tropes of its own -- some of which are fairly well grounded in the actual closeting/coming out experience, some of which are confined to fiction -- to justify [[SuddenlySexuality altering]] canon sexual orientations or interpolating where none are specified.

One can argue that fans have a habit of arbitrarily slapping this label on ''any'' same-sex friendship. It is essentially a truism of fandom that any homosocial behavior, from AirHugging to FauxYay to actual homosexual relations, frees the characters who did it to [[SlashFic be slashed together]] by someone in some corner of the Internet.

Of course, on the other side of the fandom we have those who ''very'' vocally deny that two characters of the same gender are anything more than HeterosexualLifePartners, BashBrothers or a RomanticTwoGirlFriendship -- even when the subtext is glaringly intentional, so this is a subjective audience reaction trope, unlike HoYay itself, that's just the scene itself that can be used as fuel for shipping wars.

See also FoeYayShipping, ShippingGoggles, SlashFic, YaoiFan, and YuriFan.
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!!Examples (Please help in transporting examples from HoYay that fit here.)

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[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
* As a general rule, anything with an ImprobablyFemaleCast or a CastFullOfPrettyBoys will radiate this trope in varying degrees. Some extremely so, others more subtle. In either case, there will usually be a lot of it.
* One show that feeds into this kind of shipping is ''PuellaMagiMadokaMagica''. With the exception of Mami Tomoe, ever other girl that is central into the story is paired off to one other, especially [[RescueRomance Madoka with Homura]] and [[FoeYay Sayaka with Kyouko]].
** Even some of the staff take part; UmeAoki even drew an unofficial doujinshi.
** With the case of [[FoeYay Sayaka and Kyouko]], you could be excused for mistaking the paring as the show's OfficialCouple if you are going by depictions of them outside of the show itself. Yes, on a matter of pure volume, those manage to out number Madoka and Homura(which, to be fair, they get a lot of attention as well)... and are considered the show's {{OTP}} by quite a few of its fans.
* ''SailorMoon'' has a legacy of Ho Yay Shipping so large that that is permeates almost '''every''' part of the series outside of the show/movies and it's [[OfficialCouple resident lesbian couple]] [[ButchLesbian Haruka Tenoh/Amara (Sailor Uranus)]] and [[LipstickLesbian Michiru Kaioh/Michelle (Sailor Neptune)]].
* ''CodeGeass''. Male, female... it doesn't matter since there is a rather large LoveDodecahedron at play in the story. It wouldn't take much for nearly every main character to be ship with someone of the same sex.
* There are two show in the ''{{Gundam}}'' franchise that fall into the "trap" of a CastFullOfPrettyBoys. They are ''[[Anime/MobileSuitGundamWing New Mobile Report Gundam Wing]]'' and ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam00'' respectively.
** In the case of ''[[Anime/MobileSuitGundamWing New Mobile Report Gundam Wing]]'', the legacy of HoYayShipping that surrounds the show is legendary. It has extended far outside the time of the show and continues to this day. Nearly sixteen years after the original showing of ''[[Anime/MobileSuitGundamWing Gundam Wing]]'', shippers ''still'' have [[ShipToShipCombat debates]] over it. As you can guess, DieForOurShip runs rampant.
** ''[[Anime/MobileSuitGundamWing Gundam Wing]]'''s status as a bastion of HoYayShipping has had a rather large effect on the franchise, to the point where shows after it have tried to invoke the same PeripheryDemographic at least in part to every other target. The only exceptions to this are ''[[Anime/AfterWarGundamX Gundam X]]'', ''Anime/TurnAGundam'', and anything that predates ''[[Anime/MobileSuitGundamWing Gundam Wing]]'' (so ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam'' to ''[[Anime/MobileFighterGGundam G Gundam]]''). In the case of anything that predates ''Wing'', it's not so much as they have no Ho Yay Shipping; it's the fact that they are not quite as loud nor as large.
* ''OuranHighSchoolHostClub'' is a rather unique case since; they invoke this, in-universe, [[LampshadeHanging on purpose]].
* ''{{No 6}}'' fandom has Sion and Nezumi. It's difficult to find a discussion of the series without people asking if it's in the BoysLoveGenre.
* SlashFic is pretty much ubiquitous in the ''DeathNote'' fandom.
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[[folder:Comic Books]]
* The awkward handshake scene in ''{{Watchmen}}'' have led some fans to ship Nite Owl and Rorschach. The rest of the fandom tends not to approve.
* {{Batman}} and {{Nightwing}} have been popular ever since the latter was the original Robin.
* {{Wolverine}} gets this with just about every male [[{{X-Men}} X-Man]]. '''No exceptions'''.
* {{Tintin}} and Captain Haddock.
* {{Asterix}} and Obelix.
* CaptainAmerica and IronMan are ''very'' popular, to the point where it can be hard to find ''[[ComicBook/TheAvengers Avengers]]'' SlashFic that ''isn't'' about the two of them.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Literature]]
* ''TheLordOfTheRings'' is famous for the EveryoneIsGay interpretation, due to the fact that the main cast is formed of four {{hobbits}}, one elf, a dwarf, two humans and a wizard, and they are all ''male''
** Frodo and Sam are probably the most popular pairing. [[WordOfGod Tolkien himself apparently stated that they were not in love with each other]], and it didn't slow the fandom down a bit. Given that Tolkien specifically compares Sam's defence of Frodo from Shelob to a small furry animal defending its ''mate'' against a mountain of horn and hide, it's not hard to see why. It's much more likely that Tolkien was aiming for a [[FireForgedFriends purely platonic reading]], or that the characters being gay/bi never crossed his mind, the relationships being influenced by his experiences in the FirstWorldWar and [[ValuesDissonance an all male cast not automatically drawing gay rumours back in the first half of the 20th century]].
* Despite the series being primarily about heterosexual romance, ''{{Twilight}}'' Ho Yay Shipping is common among fans and [[{{Hatedom}} anti-fans]] alike (Alice's tendency to show HoYay-ish affection for Bella helps to encourage it).
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
* {{House}} and Wilson are a common target for SlashFic, supported by massive amounts of HoYay in the show.
* In the glory days of ''{{Heroes}}'', you could pick two male characters more or less at random and find SlashFic for them. Popular pairings were:
** [[IncestIsRelative Peter/Nathan]]. One of the show's writers attempted to HandWave their touchy-feely conversations and general lack of personal space by explaining "They're Italian!", which swiftly became a RunningGag in the fandom.
** Sylar/Mohinder, a sort of BeastAndBeauty / FoeYay pairing which was fueled by a rather kinky torture sequence in which Mohinder tied down Sylar and breathily whispered threats in his ear.
* Kirk and Spock of ''StarTrek'' were the joint {{trope namer}}s for SlashFic, notable in that this predated the modern Internet by decades.
** Sulu/Chekov benefit from the general ''lack'' of attention to their personal lives; the few female love interests who have shown up tend to get a HandWave from fans or a "What? NoBisexuals?" Sulu's daughter has been seen as proof that he's straight, [[DidNotDoTheResearch ignoring the fact that even in the 21st century plenty of gay and bisexual men have biological children]], and some shippers have even seen Chekov's affectionate introduction of Demora in ''Generations'' as a hint that maybe she [[HasTwoMommies has two daddies]]. [[WordOfGod George Takei has said]] that he played Sulu as straight, for what it's worth.
** On ''StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'', the actors playing Garak and Bashir have both acknowledged and supported the interpretation that their characters were flirting with each other, to the joy of their slashers everywhere.
* ''{{iCarly}}'', with the main pairing being Carly/Sam(antha).
* In the ''{{Supernatural}}'' fandom, Sam/Dean is so popular there are ''canon'' shippers, thanks to an {{in-universe}} series of books about Sam and Dean (the author is a prophet who didn't realise he was writing about real people). This, it should be noted, is an ''[[SiblingIncest incest pairing]]''.
-->'''Dean''': There's Sam girls and Dean girls and... What's a slash fan?\\
'''Sam''': As in Sam slash Dean. Together.\\
'''Dean''': Like together, together? They do know we're brothers, right?\\
'''Sam''': Doesn't seem to matter.\\
'''Dean''': Well, that's just sick!
** Other notable ships are Dean/Castiel and (more rarely) Sam/Gabriel and [[FoeYay Sam/Lucifer]]. Fans of Dean/Castiel especially like to point out that if the writers are aware enough of the slashers in their fandom to write them into the show, it's entirely possible that the Dean/Cas subtext (suggestive lines, intense staring etc.) is intentional. Whether it is, or just ShipTeasing is debatable, but a fair argument can actually be made for Dean being canonically bisexual, so it's entirely possible that it is. [[hottip:*:To clarify, Dean appears to have a massive crush on a male TV character in one episode, and is targeted by a male siren in another (the siren was previously established as taking the shape of the other, male, targets' dream women). The siren claims to have been Dean's ideal younger brother, but its relationship with the other targets had been explicitly sexual, and no one seems all that surprised by the siren being male. Of course, that could be taken to say a lot about Dean's ideal relationship with his actual brother (though judging from Dean's subconscious where his idealized version of Sam is when the latter is a child and still dependent on him, it might not).]]
* The most popular pairing in ''StargateAtlantis'' fandom is [=McKay=]/Shepard.
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[[folder:Video Games]]
* The ''MetalGearSolid'' series is full of HoYay with lots of candidates for shipping.
** Snake/Otacon is basically the main couple of the series.
** Big Boss/Ocelot is also a prime example. Throughout all the games Ocelot makes it very clear that he admires Big Boss above everything. And with all the HoYay going on, not strictly in a platonic way.
** And Vamp/Com. Dolph. It's pretty much {{canon}} that the two had some kind of sexual relationship, but the exact circumstances are left open.
** There's also Boss/EVA in the girls camp.
* Every bit of HoYay that has ever occurred in any ''SonicTheHedgehog'' game ever has a matching ship, because [[CrackPairing nearly every possible pairing has been shipped]].
* Falox (Falco Lombardi and Fox [=McCloud=]) is the dominant ''VideoGame/StarFox'' ship in Japan overall, ''gay or straight''. Wolox (Wolf O'Donnell and Fox [=McCloud=]) comes second. [[TheScrappy Krystal]]... not so much. In the West where [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff Krystal]] has [[BrokenBase broken the base]], Falox and Wolox are common in the anti-Krystal factions.
* Taken to the [[BeyondTheImpossible most extreme degree possible]] in ''{{Touhou}}''. If two characters have even the faintest connection, someone on the internet [[CrackFic will ship them]]. A glaring example of this is Wriggle/Yuuka, by the virtue of being an insect and a flower, respectively. ''They didn't even appear in the same game''
* The ''DragonAgeII'' fandom has seen an increase in Fenders (Fenris/Anders) shippers, despite -- or possibly because of -- how much they hate each other.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Web Original]]
* [[AtoptheFourthWall Linkara]] and [[TheSpoonyExperiment Spoony]] (or Dr. Insano) tend to get written together due to this, as the page quote suggests.
* The ''{{Homestuck}}'' fandom is full of this thanks to {{Word of God}} claiming that all trolls are bi. Especially evident in the John/Karkat fans, despite John stating that he's not a homosexual.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Western Animation]]
* This is very, very, ''very'' common in the ''{{Transformers}}'' fandom, probably due to the [[TheSmurfettePrinciple lack of female characters]]. It's similarly common in the ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' fandom for [[ImprobablyFemaleCast the opposite reason]].
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[[folder:Real Life]]
* MirandaCosgrove is shipped mainly with her shows' female co-stars like Allison Scagliotti, {{Jennette McCurdy}} and VictoriaJustice.
* DemiLovato has been shipped with SelenaGomez, MileyCyrus, and TaylorSwift (that last one also counts as FoeYayShipping).
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See also ShippingGoggles, SlashFic, YaoiFan, YuriFan.

* There are two show in the ''{{Gundam}}'' franchise that fall into the "trap" of a CastFullOfPrettyBoys. They are ''[[GundamWing New Mobile Report Gundam Wing]]'' and ''MobileSuitGundam00'' respectively.
** In the case of ''[[GundamWing New Mobile Report Gundam Wing]]'', the legacy of HoYayShipping that surrounds the show is legendary. It has extended far outside the time of the show and continues to this day. Nearly sixteen years after the original showing of ''GundamWing'', shippers ''still'' have [[ShipToShipCombat debates]] over it. As you can guess, DieForOurShip runs rampant.
** ''GundamWing'''s status as a bastion of HoYayShipping has had a rather large effect on the franchise, to the point where shows after it have tried to invoke the same PeripheryDemographic at least in part to every other target. The only exceptions to this are ''GundamX'', ''TurnAGundam'', and anything that predates ''GundamWing'' (so ''MobileSuitGundam'' to ''GGundam''). In the case of anything that predates ''Wing'', it's not so much as they have no Ho Yay Shipping; it's the fact that they are not quite as loud nor as large.

->"Wha? You are giving the {{slash fic}}-ers [[FanficFuel material]]!"

->"Wha? You are giving the {{slash fic}}-ers [[FanficFuel material]]!"\\
-- '''[[AtopTheFourthWall Linkara]]''', ''TheSpoonyExperiment'' [[http://spoonyexperiment.com/2010/05/29/atop-the-fourth-wall-warrior-2-and-3/ review of "Warrior" #2-3]]

* Given that, one of recent memory (i.e. 2011) that feeds into this kind of shipping is ''PuellaMagiMadokaMagica''. With the exception of Mami Tomoe, ever other girl that is central into the story is paired off to one other, especially [[RescueRomance Madoka with Homura]] and [[FoeYay Sayaka with Kyouko]].

* ''SailorMoon'' has a legacy of HoYay-involved shipping so large that that is permeates almost '''every''' part of the series outside of the show/movies and it's [[OfficialCouple resident lesbian couple]] [[ButchLesbian Haruka Tenoh/Amara (Sailor Uranus)]] and [[LipstickLesbian Michiru Kaioh/Michelle (Sailor Neptune)]].
* CodeGeass... Male, Female... it doesn't matter since there is a rather large LoveDodecahedron at play in the story. It would not take much for nearly every main character to be ship with someone of the same sex. And so...
* {{Gundam}}
** There are two cases in the {{Gundam}} franchise where they fall into the "trap" of a CastFullOfPrettyBoys. They are [[GundamWing New Mobile Report Gundam Wing]] and MobileSuitGundam00 respectively.
*** In the case of [[GundamWing New Mobile Report Gundam Wing]], the legacy of HoYayShipping that surrounds the show is legendary. It has extended far outside the time of the show that rampantly continues, unabated, to this day. Nearly sixteen years after the original showing of GundamWing, Shipping fans still debate (at times, rabidly) which gundam pilot is set up with another gundam pilot despite every gundam pilot being set up with an female companion by the end of it. As you can guess, DieForOurShip runs about as equally rampant.
*** In the case of {{Gundam00}}, it something of a case of FollowTheLeader. Why, to be blunt... 00 is clearly trying to invoke the same PeripheryDemographic that lead GundamWing to it's legendary status. And despite the fact that it simply could not match it, a contingent of shippers among Gundam 00 fans remains rather large.
** GundamWing's status within HoYay shipping has a rather large effect to it. To the point where shows after it try to invoke the same PeripheryDemographic at least in part to every other target. The only exceptions to this are GundamX, TurnAGundam, and anything that predates GundamWing (so MobileSuitGundam to GGundam). In the case of anything that predates Wing, it's not so much as they have no HoYayShipping... it's the fact that they are not quite as loud nor as large.
* OuranHighSchoolHostClub... Ouran is a rather unique case since; they invoke this, in-universe, [[LampshadeHanging on purpose]].
* ''{{No6}}'': Sion and Nezumi. You can't find a discussion on the series without people asking if it's a Shounen-ai.

* {{Wolverine}} gets this with just about any male [[{{X-Men}} X-Man]]. '''No exceptions.'''
* {{Tintin}} / Captain Haddock. Although Haddock never quite gives up the bottle, it's the reporter who changes him from a pathetic, drunken wreck into a guy who can at least get his act together when it matters. They go everywhere together, and Tintin moves in with him halfway through the series. There are few moments in any comic series as heartbreakingly beautiful as when the Captain is prepared to make the ultimate sacrifice in ''Tintin in Tibet''. Tintin refuses - "Either we both live or we die together!"
** And then there's Thompson and Thom(p)son. In ''Tintin and the Picaros'' when they have to face execution: "How about some famous last words?" "Er..."Kiss me, Thompson", will that do?" If that isn't Ho Yay, ''nothing'' is.
** Tintin and Chang. Tintin didn't even know the kid for more than a few weeks, yet the whole premise of ''Tintin in Tibet'' was him risking his life to search for him in the icy Nepalese wastelands where a plane Chang had been in had crashed. And it's heavily implied that had it not been for the persuasion of his companions, Tintin would have kept up the hunt until he dropped dead from cold, exhaustion and exposure.
* {{Asterix}} and Obelix. The pair are almost inseparable, and even though Asterix constantly berates Obelix for being an idiot and obsessed with eating - and Obelix even punches him on one occasion (given Obelix's SuperStrength, this is quite something) - they're still the best of friends. There's at least one moment in the comics, possibly more, where the two gave each other a big manly hug after a fight. Not to mention that Asterix's lack of a girlfriend is commented on by the villagers at least once, and Obelix can be quite fiercely devoted to Asterix...
** At one point, Obelix bawls: "You don't love me, Asterix!" His response? To pat his arm and say, "Of course I love you". Even in context it's kind of suspect. And has anyone noticed how often he sleeps over at Asterix's, despite having a house of his own?
** Another sterling example would be Obelix refusing to leave Asterix even when the former is banished from their village in ''Asterix and the Cauldron'', [[http://i36.tinypic.com/10376ol.png willingly following him into exile]].

* Frodo and Sam from ''TheLordOfTheRings'' are a popular pairing. [[WordOfGod Tolkien himself apparently stated that they were not in love with each other]], and it didn't slow the fandom down a bit. Given that Tolkien specifically compares Sam's defence of Frodo from Shelob to a small furry animal defending its ''mate'' against a mountain of horn and hide, it's not hard to see why.
** The book is one of the most famous for the EveryoneIsGay interpretation, due to the fact that the main cast is formed of four {{hobbits}}, one elf, a dwarf, two humans and a wizard, and they are all ''male''. But Frodo is the king of this {{trope}}. Sam is the master of the [[BiTheWay ambiguously bisexual]] one. At least Sam gets married at the end; Frodo never does.
** It's much more likely that Tolkien was aiming for a [[FireForgedFriends purely platonic reading]], or that the characters being gay/bi never crossed his mind, the relationships being influenced by his experiences in the FirstWorldWar and an all male cast not automatically drawing gay rumours back in the first half of the 20th century.
* Although [[{{Twilight}} Stephenie Meyer]] no doubt did not intend Alice to appear bisexual, being a devout Mormon, there are several scenes where Alice displays quite an . . . affection for Bella. The movie makes it even better.

* {{House}} and Wilson are a common target for SlashFic, supported by massive amounts of HoYay in the show. (Did anyone else notice that the way House said "You're sleeping with ''me''" to Wilson made it sound more like a command than an observational statement?)

** Sulu/Chekov benefit from the general ''lack'' of attention to their personal lives; the few female love interests who have shown up tend to get a HandWave from fans or a "What? NoBisexuals?" Sulu's daughter has been seen as proof that he's straight, [[DidNotDoTheResearch ignoring the fact that even in the 21st century plenty of gay and bisexual men have biological children]], and some shippers have even seen Chekov's affectionate introduction of Demora in ''Generations'' as a hint that maybe she [[HasTwoMommies has two daddies]].
*** [[WordOfGod George Takei has said]] that he played Sulu as straight, for what it's worth.

* ''{{iCarly}}'', with the main pairing being the LesYay Carly/Sam(antha), but with other episodes slanting heavily towards LesYay {{UST}} when a girl is part of a plot involving Carly or Sam, such as Carly/Shelby, and an episode about Carly's old friend Missy coming back turns into what is basically a {{UST}} Missy/Carly/Sam LoveTriangle.

** Other notable ships are Dean/Castiel and (more rarely) Sam/Gabriel and [[FoeYay Sam/Lucifer]]. Fans of Dean/Castiel especially like to point out that if the writers are aware enough of the slashers in their fandom to write them into the show, it's entirely possible that the Dean/Cas subtext (suggestive lines, intense staring etc.) is intentional. Whether it is, or just ShipTeasing is debatable, but a fair argument can actually be made for Dean being canonically bisexual, so it's entirely possible that it is.
** To clarify the Dean thing, he appears to have a massive crush on a male TV character in one episode, and is targeted by a male siren in another (the siren was previously established as taking the shape of the other, male, targets' dream women). The siren claims to have been Dean's ideal younger brother, but its relationship with the other targets had been explicitly sexual, and no one seems all that surprised by the siren being male. Of course, that could be taken to say a lot about Dean's ideal relationship with his actual brother...
*** ...though judging from Dean's subconscious where his idealized version of Sam is when the latter is a child and still dependent on him, it might not.
* The most popular pairing in ''StargateAtlantis'' fandom is McKay/Shepard.

* Oh Snake... The ''MetalGearSolid'' series full of HoYay with lots of candidates for shipping.

** And Vamp/Com. Dolph. It's pretty much cannon that the two had some kind of sexual relationship, but the exact circumstances are left open.
** And then we have also Boss/EVA in the girls camp. EVA ignored her order to [[spoiler:kill all witnesses]] because the Boss ''asked her to''. What exactly happened between the two while Naked Snake was away is not mentioned, but [=EVAs=] admiring of her is similar to that of Ocelot for Naked Snake. But then, it's '''the Boss''', everyone admires her.

* Falox (Falco Lombardi and Fox [=McCloud=]) is the dominant ''VideoGame/StarFox'' {{Ship}} in Japan overall, ''gay or straight''. Wolox (Wolf O'Donnell and Fox [=McCloud=]) comes second. [[TheScrappy Krystal]]... not so much. In the West where [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff Krystal]] has [[BrokenBase broken the base]], Falox and Wolox are common in the anti-Krystal factions.
* Taken to the [[BeyondTheImpossible most extreme degree possible]] in ''{{Touhou}}''. If two characters have even the faintest connection, someone on the internet [[CrackFic will ship them]]. A glaring example of this is Wriggle x Yuuka, by the virtue of being an insect and a flower, respectively. ''They didn't even appear in the same game''
* There are bunches of same-gender couples in the ''WorldOfWarcraft'', including but certainly not limited to: two women who live together, one of whom teaches skinning while the other teaches leatherworking; and two women who run a barrow in Menethil, one of whom is a bowyer while the other is a fletcher.
*** The skinning/leatherworking couple has been recently joined by two men, a botanist and a druid, who are colleagues and friends.
** Try playing through the death knight starting sequence and telling me there's no Ho Yay between Thassarian and Koltira Deathweaver. Just try. Doesn't help that the latter is a blood elf, and hence {{Bishonen}}...
*** Thassarian's comic makes it even more blatant. Koltira was willing to follow him in joining the Alliance, and looked as if he took Thass's "we each have to figure this out in our own way" as a rejection. When he leaves, Thassarian muses over "this puzzling feeling" of missing him.
*** In Cataclysm they are shown to be leading opposing armies in Andorhal. [[spoiler:It is revealed later on the Horde side of that chain that Koltira is just pretending to be Thassarian's enemy; they have an "understanding" that neither will openly attack the other. After a failed Alliance assault, Sylvanas meets up with Koltira to berate him for being weak. She kidnaps him and plans to brainwash him, starting with getting rid of his attachment to Thassarian, who managed to escape and is now trying to find out what happened to his friend]].
** Ditto Asric and Jadaar, [[VitriolicBestBuds two former Shattrath cops]] currently camped out at the Argent Tournament grounds (after having lived in the [[AbsurdlySpaciousSewer Dalaran Underbelly]] for a while). Especially seeing as Asric is also a [[OurElvesAreBetter blood elf]]. (Jadaar is a draenei... [[HugeGuyTinyGirl Huge Guy, Much Smaller Bishonen]]?)
*** They bicker, they drink together, they claim to hate each other yet we haven't seen them apart yet. And lately, their arguments and namecalling have been less serious and more affectionate. It's only a matter of time...
** Kil'jaeden, Archimonde, and Velen, anyone? The first two immediately run to comfort Velen after his vision of the destruction of Argus, responding to the emotion in his mental plea; he is shocked when they don't listen to him. They are, paraphrased, "the ones whom he had once regarded as extensions of his own soul". Velen and Kil'jaeden were said to be exceptionally close. This has much potential for FoeYay.
*** Well, Kil'jaeden was certainly ''acting'' like a [[PsychoExGirlfriend jilted lover]] in ''RiseOfTheHorde''...
**** Clarification: he spent 25,000 years alternating between stalking and cutting himself over Velen, then when Archimonde confronts him about wasting his time he brushes it off, but thinks "You don't understand you never loved him like I did!" And while Velen counted Archimonde as one of his closet friends, Kil'jaeden downplays their relationship as something between colleagues. Which makes him either jealous or trying to justify his actions to himself. Or both. It's a wonder the slash fangirls aren't all over it.
***** Trust me. [[RuleThirtyFour We are]].
** Kinelory (night elf druid) and Quae (human warrior) in Arathi Highlands are ''very'' close friends.
** King Varian Wrynn and his advisor Highlord Bolvar Fordragon, anyone? According to Lady Jaina Proudmoore, ThoseTwoGuys were like brothers to each other and had become very close since the Queen died. Bolvar stood as a regent and father figure for little Prince Anduin when Varian was kidnapped. And [[spoiler:when Bolvar was killed in the betrayal at the Wrathgate, Varian went into an UnstoppableRage and decided to raid one of the biggest settlements of the Horde just to find and kill the guy who murdered his "pal"]].
*** He then [[spoiler:declared war on the Horde]].
** Ner'zhul and Gul'dan's fawning over Kil'jaeden in ''RiseOfTheHorde'' went a little too far for simple respect and admiration.
*** Ditto [[VillainSue Dar'Khan]] [[SmugSnake Drathir]] toward his "Blessed Lord Arthas" in the ''Sunwell Trilogy'' manga. When he's ChewingTheScenery, he basically sounds indistinguishable from a fangirl on the forums.
** And now there are Fiona's "boys", Gidwin "Giddy" Goldbraids and Tarenar Sunstrike. The HoYay really kicks in at the end half of their quest chain, when [[spoiler:Gidwin is captured by Scourge. Fiona is visibly upset (she is the TeamMom after all), but Tarenar flat-out [[UnstoppableRage flips]]]].
*** Considering they're a dwarf and a blood elf respectively, chances are they're a ShoutOut to another famous slashtastic [[LordOfTheRings dwarf/elf duo]]. Especially considering the way they compete with each other over fighting the Scourge.
** The RTS games had their share of HoYay, but Illidan Stormrage and Prince Kael'thas Sunstrider in ''[[WarcraftIII Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne]]'' was especially blatant. Illidan is one of the only characters in game to call the Prince by his shortened name, was so impressed by Kael that he rather inexplicably promoted him to NumberTwo within about five minutes of their formal introduction (despite Lady Vashj's seniority in their Nakama), and has a tendency to flip out when he's in danger. For Kael's part, he's... [[HappinessInSlavery enthused]] to call Illidan "Master", and is literally willing to follow him into the ends of the world. The tender tones they take when they speak to each other, even in mid-battle, do nothing to help matters.
* The DragonAgeII fandom has seen an increase in Fenders ([=FenrisXAnders=]) fans, despite-or possibly because of-how much they hate each other.
* SengokuBasara is infamous for the sheer amount of FoeYay that goes on, specifically between Masamune and Yukimura. It's taken further to the point of lampshading in the anime itself.

* The {{Homestuck}} fandom is full of this thanks to WordOfGod claiming that all trolls are bi. Especially evident in the John/Karkat fans, despite John stating that he's not a homosexual.

* ''{{Thundercats 2011}}'' In "Omens Part One", there's an exchange between [[NotBloodSiblings adoptive brothers]] Tygra and Lion-O, as they ready themselves for a ChaseFight racing competition to ring a bell at the top of a tree: AccidentalInnuendo or IncestSubtext?
--> '''Lion-O''': "I'm going to ring that bell."
--> '''Tygra''': "And I'm going to [[UnusualEuphemism ring yours]]." *wink*
** It does not help that a previous instance of Tygra's winking was explicitly (and baldly) flirtatious. With a female priest, ''during'' a ceremony. That's how Tygra rolls.
** They're later LockedInTheDungeon in a cell with [[ThereIsOnlyOneBed Only One Bed]].
** Thundera's King Claudus and his general Grune certainly seemed ''close''.
** Likewise Claudus rushed to his dear friend [[spoiler:and general, Panthro]]'s [[RoaringRampageOfRescue rescue]] with somewhat foolhardy fervor. (He [[DitchTheBodyguards ditched his bodyguards]].)
** In "Old Friends" {{flashback}}s depicting the friendship between Panthro and Grune are full of this,
--> '''Panthro''': "Grune, we've been ''[[HeterosexualLifePartners inseparable]]'' ever since that first day we met on the battlefield"

* MirandaCosgrove is shipped by fans mainly with her shows' female co-stars like Allison Scagliotti, {{Jennette McCurdy}} and VictoriaJustice.
* DemiLovato has been paired with SelenaGomez, MileyCyrus, and TaylorSwift by fans.
** The TaylorSwift pairing is more FoeYay to some.

* {{Wolverine}} gets this with just about any male [[{{X-Men}} X-Man.]] '''No exceptions.'''

* ''{{House}}'': Did anyone else notice that the way House said "You're sleeping with ''me''" to Wilson made it sound more like a command than an observational statement?
** During the last episode of Season 4, when [[spoiler:Amber was dying]], House seemed to exert a whole lot of energy trying to keep Wilson happy. As in, more than you would for a good friend. It was more like a man looking after his mentally unstable wife.
*** Not to mention the fact he started ''crying'' when he told Wilson that [[spoiler:he couldn't save Amber's life.]]
** Once again, very end of Season 4. House tells [[spoiler:dream!Amber that he wants to die]], because he doesn't want ''him'' (meaning Wilson) to hate him.
** Hell, in terms of Ho Yay in a TV show, it's kinda hard to beat the House/Wilson interactions. Nearly every scene involving Wilson will have some kind of flirting, innuendo, jealousy, angst, or couple-ish bickering. Especially now that they live together in a huge loft that Wilson out-bid Cuddy for. Which he did to punish her for hurting House.
** Houses reasoning for not wanting to attend Wilson's liver-donation surgery.
-->'''Wilson:''' The operation is in two hours and I'd like you to be there with me.\\
'''House:''' No.\\
'''Wilson:''' *close to tears* ...why?\\
'''House:''' Because if you die, I'm alone.
** And yet he shows up anyway, without explanation, and patiently sits beside Wilson's bed throughout his post-op recovery. Because it's Wilson.
** In the Season 6 episode, Wilson gets a new girlfriend: [[spoiler:Sam, his first ex-wife that divorced him before he met House]]. Wilson tried to keep her a secret, but then House found out, realized who she was, and, like he does with all of Wilson's girlfriends, immediately starts trying to break them up.
*** In House's defense, he wasn't trying to break them up because he didn't want to share Wilson, as he had with Amber. This time he wanted to break them up because he was certain that Sam would hurt Wilson again. Either way, it's wonderfully HoYay-tastic.
** House constantly treats Wilson like crap, stealing his food and his money and mocking him at every possible occasion, yet House is still there. Wilson can get into House's head better than anyone, dissecting him and forcing him to face things that House would ''really'' prefer were left alone, yet Wilson is still there. Wilson has been through three marriages and who knows how many other relationships, yet House is still there. Both deliberately and unintentionally, House forces away ''everyone'', from his family to random strangers, yet ''Wilson is still there''. That they deeply love each other is beyond debate; the only uncertainty is whether it is romantic love.
** In the same episode, when House gets stuck babysitting Cuddy's kid and tricks Wilson into coming over for a [[HoYay "boys' night in,"]] actually intending to leave Wilson with the kid while he goes home. Wilson actually looks shocked to see Rachel, which means he hadn't figured out that House was roping him into babysitting duty. So, this begs the question, what did Wilson initially think House was inviting him over to [[OT3 Cuddy's place for?]]
** In episode 7x8, Wilson [[spoiler:proposes to Sam]] which prompts her to ask him what it was that he loved most about her. His response is that he found out she's secretly performing mercy killings, and she lied about it. So the thing he loves most about her, that inspired him to [[spoiler:propose to her]], is lying to do the right thing. ''Something that House does all the time''. And that Cuddy's currently mad at him for doing. And House is not backing down and apologizing to her about it, either.
** An episode in Season 6, in which House and Wilson go to a medical convention, House read out a controversial paper about euthanasia that Wilson wrote (having left Wilson drugged in their hotel room) so that Wilson's point would be made, but he wouldn't risk losing his job. Awwwwwww.
** In ''Birthmarks'', House and Wilson get into an argument over Wilson leaving PPTH. House insists that "You're scared to death of losing anyone that matters so you dump the person that matters the most to you." Wilson denies it at first, but eventually agrees.
** Remember the episode when Chase walks past House's office soon after [[spoiler:having been fired]], in slo-mo and accompanied by a LonelyPianoPiece?
** There's Tritter and House, as well. Ever since their first meeting, where House anally inserted a thermometer into Tritter and just walked away and left him there ([[KickTheDog because Tritter tripped his cane out from under him, making him slam into the door]]), Tritter becomes [[FoeYay completely obsessed with House]]. He pretty much spends all his time [[StalkerWithACrush stalking House]], questioning all of House's friends trying to find things on him, and searching his house. He also actively seeked out arresting House, and did a body search on him, which consisted of him groping House and lifting up his shirt (which exposed House's abdomen).

-->'''Dean:''' There's Sam girls and Dean girls and... What's a slash fan?\\
'''Sam:''' As in Sam slash Dean. Together.\\
'''Dean:''' Like together, together? They do know we're brothers, right?\\
'''Sam:''' Doesn't seem to matter.\\
'''Dean:''' Well, that's just sick!

*** In Cataclysm they are shown to be leading opposing armies in Andorhal. [[spoiler:It is revealed later on the Horde side of that chain that Koltira is just pretending to be Thassarian's enemy; they have an "understanding" that neither will openly attack the other. After a failed Alliance assault, Sylvanas meets up with Koltira to berate him for being weak. She kidnaps him and plans to brainwash him, starting with getting rid of his attachment to Thassarian, who managed to escape and is now trying to find out what happened to his friend.]]

** King Varian Wrynn and his advisor Highlord Bolvar Fordragon, anyone? According to Lady Jaina Proudmoore, ThoseTwoGuys were like brothers to each other and had become very close since the Queen died. Bolvar stood as a regent and father figure for little Prince Anduin when Varian was kidnapped. And [[spoiler:when Bolvar was killed in the betrayal at the Wrathgate, Varian went into an UnstoppableRage and decided to raid one of the biggest settlements of the Horde just to find and kill the guy who murdered his "pal".]]
*** He then [[spoiler:declared war on the Horde.]]

** And now there are Fiona's "boys", Gidwin "Giddy" Goldbraids and Tarenar Sunstrike. The HoYay really kicks in at the end half of their quest chain, when [[spoiler:Gidwin is captured by Scourge. Fiona is visibly upset (she is the TeamMom after all), but Tarenar flat-out [[UnstoppableRage flips]].]]

** They're later LockedInTheDungeon in a cell with [[ThereIsOnlyOneBed Only One Bed.]]

* This is very, very, ''very'' common in the ''{{Transformers}}'' fandom, probably due to the [[TheSmurfettePrinciple lack of female characters]]. It's similarly common in the ''MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' fandom for [[ImprobablyFemaleCast the opposite reason]].

* As a general rule, any BishoujoSeries or anything with a CastFullOfPrettyBoys will radiate this trope in varying degrees. Some extremely so, others more subtle. In either case, there will usually be a lot of it.

* This is very, very, ''very'' common in the ''{{Transformers}}'' fandom, probably due to the [[TheSmurfettePrinciple lack of female characters]]. It's similarly common in the ''MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' fandom for [[PinkBishoujoGhetto the opposite reason]].

** Although [[{{Twilight}} Stephenie Meyer]] no doubt did not intend Alice to appear bisexual, being a devout Mormon, there are several scenes where Alice displays quite an . . . affection for Bella. The movie makes it even better.

** Although [[{{Twilight}}Meyer]] no doubt did not intend Alice to appear bisexual, being a devout Mormon, there are several scenes where Alice displays quite an . . . affection for Bella. The movie makes it even better.

** Even some of the staff take part, UmeAoki has even drew an unofficial doujinshi.

* As a general rule, anything that resides in the PinkBishoujoGhetto or BlueBishonenGhetto with radiate this trope in varying degrees. Some extremely so, others more subtle. In either case, there will usually be a lot of it.

** There are two cased in the {{Gundam}} franchise where they fall into the "trap" of a BlueBishonenGhetto. They are [[GundamWing New Mobile Report Gundam Wing]] and MobileSuitGundam00 respectively.

** To clarify the Dean thing, he appears to have a massive crush on a male TV character in one episode, and is targeted by a male siren in another (the siren was previously established as taking the shape of the other, male, targets' dream women). The siren claims to have been Dean's ideal younger brother, but its relationship with the other targets had been explicitly sexual, and no one seems all that surprised by the siren being male. Of course, that could be taken to say a lot about Dean's [[IfYouKnowWhatIMean ideal relationship]] with his actual brother...

* And then there's Thompson and Thom(p)son, in ''Tintin and the Picaros'' when they have to face execution: "How about some famous last words?" "Er..."Kiss me, Thompson", will that do?" If that isn't Ho Yay, ''nothing'' is.

** At one point (can't remember which comic it is, sadly), Obelix bawls: "You don't love me, Asterix!" His response? To pat his arm and say, "Of course I love you." Even in context it's kind of suspect. And has anyone noticed how often he sleeps over at Asterix's, despite having a house of his own?
** And another sterling example would be Obelix refusing to leave Asterix even when the former is banished from their village in ''Asterix and the Cauldron'', [[http://i36.tinypic.com/10376ol.png willingly following him into exile]].

** It does not help that a previous instance of Tygra's winking was explicitly (and baldly) flirtatious.

** It does not help that a previous instance of Tygra's winking was explicitly flirtatious.

the flashback when Panthro and Grune meet each other is full of this, starting with this phrase by Panthro: [[spoiler:"Grune, we've been inseparable ever since that first day we met on the battlefield" ]]
** In the first episode [[spoiler:the king got himself killed trying to save Panthro (it was Mumm-Ra in disguise)]], what kind of relationship does he have with his general for doing this.

* ''{{Thundercats 2011}}'' In "Omens Part One", there's an exchange between [[NotReallySiblings adoptive brothers]] Tygra and Lion-O, as they ready themselves for a ChaseFight racing competition to ring a bell at the top of a tree: AccidentalInnuendo or IncestSubtext?

** In "Old Friends" {{flashbacks}} depicting the friendship between Panthro and Grune are full of this,