History Main / ShipToShipCombat

* ''WebAnimation/MurderDrones'': Shipping wars aren’t uncommon, especially between Nuzi (N/Uzi) and Envy (N/V) shippers. Some people have added either one to their list of do-not-interacts, and Nuzi has been notoriously called a proship on the basis of Uzi being assumed to be a minor and N being assumed to be an adult (in reality, how old they are is debatable, as things in Episode 3 and Episode 4, like the “missing” posters in the former and N referring to everyone, including himself, as “kids” the latter, only give very vague indicators about their ages). However, with N and V seemingly drifting apart to some extent, combined with some of N and Uzi’s interactions (which have a very wide array of interpretations, ranging from simply being platonic to possibly being romantic), some people point to Nuzi being more likely to happen in canon.

These {{Flame War}}s are known as Shipping Wars: [[FanDumb verbal arguments between people with different opinions about romantic relationships between fictional characters]], though sometimes it can include real person fiction. There are those who bash whoever doesn't like their ship of choice, those who bash whoever likes a certain ship, and those who do both, usually basing their attacks on how {{canon}}[=/=]{{Fanon}} the discussed ship is. The fact that most ships really aren't canon and will never be [[ShippingGoggles is usually ignored]]. Particular hatred for a pairing or a character who gets in the way of a pairing manifests in the form of DieForOurShip in fic, or accusations of CanonSue status in analysis. Alternatively, fans might pair that character with another character, getting him or her out of the way of their favorite ship. This creates "alliances" between different shippers called ShipMates.

** Blake has three main ships that complete with each other: "Bumblebee" (Blake/Yang), "Black Sun" (Blake/Sun) and "Changing Colours" (Blake/Ilia). While the friction with Changing Colours is milder because Ilia's feelings are unrequited, Bumblebee/Black Sun is the most divisive ship in the fandom. Both the show and the soundtracks have included ShipTease for both pairings. Every interaction, line of dialogue and song lyric gets dissected, analysed, and debated by the two sides to such an extreme, both the creators and composers have weighed in several times to try and cool things down. The ship war has only increased since Volume 6, where Sun was PutOnABus and ShipTease increased so much between Yang and Blake that other characters begin lampshading it from Volume 7. The ship wars finally emerged with a victor in Volume 9 [[spoiler:in which Blake and Yang confess their feelings for each other and seal their love with a BigDamnKiss halfway through the volume, thereby upgrading their ShipTease to OfficialCouple status]] and ultimately ShipSinking all other rival ships involving Blake... though of course the fighting continues over whether or not this was the correct decision from an artistic standpoint.

** For the fans, Baeubien suggest to insult and harass the supporters of the rival ship. If that doesn't work, then harass the author until the shippers get their way. If that somehow doesn't work, then write fanfiction.

* ''WebAnimation/TerribleWritingAdvice'': Shipping wars reaction is discussed in "Shipping" episode. Baeubien suggests that when the author doesn't want to explain why shipping is bad or commit to ShipSinking, then the best option is to embrace the shipping war. According to him, the authors should play all sides of the shipping debate for a free press...and then resolve things anticlimactically. JP also says there is no way this can be a dangerous thing to do.

** Blake has three main ships that complete with each other: "Bumblebee" (Blake/Yang), "Black Sun" (Blake/Sun) and "Changing Colours" (Blake/Ilia). While the friction with Changing Colours is milder because Ilia's feelings are unrequited, Bumblebee/Black Sun is the most divisive ship in the fandom. Both the show and the soundtracks have included ShipTease for both pairings. Every interaction, line of dialogue and song lyric gets dissected, analysed, and debated by the two sides to such an extreme, both the creators and composers have weighed in several times to try and cool things down. The ship war has only increased since Volume 6, where Sun was PutOnABus and ShipTease increased so much between Yang and Blake that other characters begin lampshading it from Volume 7. The ship wars finally emerged with a victor in Volume 9 [[spoiler:in which Blake and Yang confess their feelings for each other and seal their love with a BigDamnKiss halfway through the volume, thereby upgrading their ShipTease to OfficialCouple status]] and ultimately ShipSinking all other rival ships involving Blake.

* ''WebAnimation/MurderDrones'': Shipping wars aren’t uncommon, especially between Nuzi (N/Uzi) and Envy (N/V) shippers. Some people have added either one to their list of do-not-interacts, and Nuzi has been notoriously called a proship on the basis of Uzi being assumed to be a minor and N being assumed to be an adult (in reality, how old they are is debatable, as things in Episode 3 and Episode 4, like the “missing” posters in the former and N referring to everyone, including himself, as “kids” the latter, only give very vague indicators about their ages). However, with N and V seemingly drifting apart to some extent, combined with some of N and Uzi’s interactions, some people point to Nuzi being more likely to happen in canon.

* ''WebAnimation/MurderDrones'': Shipping wars aren’t uncommon, especially between Nuzi (N x Uzi) and Envy (N x V) shippers. Some people have added either one to their list of do-not-interacts, and Nuzi has been notoriously labeled as a proship on the basis of Uzi being assumed to be a minor and N being assumed to be an adult (in reality, how old they are is debatable, as certain things in Episode 3 and Episode 4 only give very vague indicators about their ages). However, with N and V seemingly drifting apart to some extent, combined with some of N and Uzi’s interactions, some people point to Nuzi being more likely to happen in canon.

* ''WebAnimation/MurderDrones'': Shipping wars aren’t uncommon, especially between Nuzi (N x Uzi) and Envy (N x V) shippers. Some people have added either one to their list of do-not-interacts, and Nuzi has been notoriously labeled as a proship on the basis of Uzi being assumed to be a minor and N being assumed to be an adult (in reality, how old they are is debatable, as certain things in Episode 3 and Episode 4 only give very vague indicators about their ages).

* ''WebAnimation/MurderDrones'': Shipping wars aren’t uncommon, especially between Nuzi (N x Uzi) and Envy (N x V) shippers. Some people have added either one to their list of do-not-interacts, and Nuzi has been notoriously labeled as a proship on the basis of Uzi being assumed to be a minor and N being assumed to be an adult.

* ''WebAnimation/MurderDrones'': Shipping wars aren’t uncommon, especially between Nuzi (N x Uzi) and Envy (N x V) shippers. Some people have added either one to their list of DNIs, and Nuzi has been notoriously labeled as a proship on the basis of Uzi being assumed to be a minor and N being assumed to be an adult.

* ''WebAnimation/MurderDrones'': Shipping wars aren’t uncommon, especially between Nuzi (N x Uzi) and Envy (N x V) shippers.

** Blake has three main ships that complete with each other: "Bumblebee" (Blake/Yang), "Black Sun" (Blake/Sun) and "Changing Colours" (Blake/Ilia). While the friction with Changing Colours is milder because Ilia's feelings are unrequited, Bumblebee/Black Sun is the most divisive ship in the fandom. Both the show and the soundtracks have included ShipTease for both pairings. Every interaction, line of dialogue and song lyric gets dissected, analysed, and debated by the two sides to such an extreme, both the creators and composers have weighed in several times to try and cool things down. The ship war has only increased since Volume 6, where Sun was PutOnABus and ShipTease increased so much between Yang and Blake that other characters begin lampshading it from Volume 7.

** Blake has three main ships that complete with each other: "Bumblebee" (Blake/Yang), "Black Sun" (Blake/Sun) and "Changing Colours" (Blake/Ilia). While the friction with Changing Colours is milder because Ilia's feelings are unrequited, Bumblebee/Black Sun is the most divisive ship in the fandom. Both the show and the soundtracks have included ShipTease for both pairings. Every interaction, line of dialogue and song lyric gets dissected, analysed, and debated by the two sides to such an extreme, both the creators and composers have weighed in several times to try and cool things down. The ship war has calmed down since Volume 6, where Sun was PutOnABus and ShipTease increased so much between Yang and Blake that other characters begin lampshading it from Volume 7.

Many fans {{ship|ping}}. Some of them have [[{{OTP}} a distinct ship that they like over all others]], while some of them are torn between contradictory pairings. Some of them like to debate a pairing while keeping in mind its status in {{canon}}, while some of them discuss it [[ShippingGoggles believing their pairing]] ''is'' {{canon}} (or, in the case of those who argue over what's going to happen like they think they're pooling money for a bet, will inevitably be). [[InternetJerk Now throw in the power of the Internet to connect everybody (and everybody's opinions) with everybody else…]]

** Lancaster competes with three other very popular Ruby-related ships: "White Rose" (Ruby/Weiss), "Nuts and Dolts" (Ruby/Penny) and Rose Garden (Ruby/Oscar). Unlike with Arkos, Season 3's events had no effect on Nuts and Dolts, largely because everyone believes the situation is temporary. [[spoiler:As a RobotGirl, Penny was never expected to stay dead.]] [[spoiler:Then she [[BecomeARealBoy became a flesh and blood girl]] in Volume 8 and was killed soon after.]]
** Blake has three main ships that complete with each other: "Bumblebee" (Blake/Yang), "Black Sun" (Blake/Sun) and "Changing Colours" (Blake/Ilia). While the friction with Changing Colours is milder because Ilia's feelings are unrequited, Bumblebee/Black Sun is the most divisive ship in the fandom. Both the show and the soundtracks have included ShipTease for both pairings. Every interaction, line of dialogue and song lyric gets dissected, analysed, and debated by the two sides to such an extreme, both the creators and composers have weighed in several times to try and cool things down. This ship war has died down in recent years due to Sun being PutOnABus for several volumes. In his absence, the notable increase of Blake/Yang moments has lead many to believe it will end up as the OfficialCouple. However, tensions will likely rise again from both sides if Sun should ever return in the future and reunite with Blake.
** A relatively common trend post Volume Seven is for members of various factions to make peace and propose OneTrueThreesome as a compromise. The White Rose and Nuts and Dolts have joined forces to become Frosensteel, the Flour Power (Ren/Nora) and Martial Arcs (Jaune/Ren) groups are perfectly fine with Juniper Berries (especially if Pyrrha is factored in), and it's not uncommon for people to remind everyone that Blake has two hands. In general, the polyshippers and multishippers are much calmer about the whole thing, accepting that all the characters are FoundFamily no matter their exact romantic leanings.

** Blake has three main ships that complete with each other: "Bumblebee" (Blake/Yang), "Black Sun" (Blake/Sun) and "Changing Colours" (Blake/Ilia). While the friction with Changing Colours is milder because Ilia's feelings are unrequited, Bumblebee/Black Sun is the most divisive ship in the fandom. Both the show and the soundtracks have included ShipTease for both pairings. Every interaction, line of dialogue and song lyric gets dissected, analysed, and debated by the two sides to such an extreme, both the creators and composers have weighed in several times to try and cool things down.

[[caption-width-right:350:[[https://www.deviantart.com/sora-ko/art/Avatar-The-true-showdown-41464296 'Tis what you get]] when ''Avatar'' fans [[VisualPun go mad]].]]

** Lancaster competes with three other very popular Ruby-related ships: "White Rose" (Ruby/Weiss), "Nuts and Dolts" (Ruby/Penny) and Rose Garden (Ruby/Oscar). Unlike with Arkos, Season 3's events had no effect on Nuts and Dolts, largely because everyone believes the situation is temporary. [[spoiler:As a RobotGirl, Penny was never expected to stay dead.]]

** Blake has three main ships that complete with each other: "Bumblebee" (Blake/Yang), "Black Sun" (Blake/Sun) and "Changing Colours" (Blake/Ilia). While the friction with Changing Colours is milder because Ilia's feelings are unrequited, the Bumblebee/Black Sun is the most divisive ship in the fandom. Both the show and the soundtracks have included ShipTease for both pairings. Every interaction, line of dialogue and song lyric gets dissected, analysed, and debated by the two sides to such an extreme, that both the creators and composers have weighed in several times to try and cool things down.

** Less brutally, Lancaster is generally targeted by every other Ruby-related ship, most notably the popular "White Rose" (Ruby/Weiss) and "Nuts and Dolts" (Ruby/Penny). Unlike with Arkos, Season 3's events had no effect on Nuts and Dolts, largely because ''nobody'' believes that [[spoiler: Penny's dead for keeps]].
** There is also a Shipping War between "Bumblebee" (Yang Xiao Long/Blake Belladonna) and "Eclipse" or "Black Sun" (Sun Wukong/Blake Belladonna) after the Volume 3 finale [[spoiler:had Adam refer to Yang as someone Blake loves and Yang act heartbroken after being abandoned by Blake]]. This gave hope to the shippers of Bumblebee, one of the most popular fan pairings, that they could actually beat out the seemingly obvious canon of Black Sun. Unfortunately, this lead to fans on both sides getting very defensive over their ship's chances and absolutely hating the other. Tensions rose when a volume 4 song "Like Morning follows Night" was released with the focus on Blake and Sun's relationship. Things get worse when the Volume 4's soundtrack contains a love song called "Bmblb", which is clearly titled with Blake and Yang's ship in mind, that hints to be written from Yang's perspective about Blake. However, the song was not originally intended for the show or soundtrack, but was added last minute as an injury delayed the release of Volume 4's soundtrack, allowing time to compose the song. Unsurprisingly this clarification has only poured more fuel into the fire. With [[spoiler:Sun's departure]] shortly after volume 5, this ship war has become even more heated. The events of the later volumes doing nothing to calm tensions and hardened the attitudes on both sides of the debate.
*** Unfortunately, as the years went on this ship war intensified. The fandom is now notorious for this. With each volume's release, shippers immediately dissect every character interaction in search of evidence supporting or refuting a ship. Even the creators weighing in and blatantly stating which ship had been planned from the beginning didn't completely cool matters.
** There is a mild shipping war between "Bumblebee" (Yang/Blake) and "White Rose" (Ruby/Weiss) vs "Monochrome" (Blake/Weiss) and "Freezerburn" (Weiss/Yang). The former two are much more popular.
** And now, from the first episode of Volume 5, we have two new ships: "Rose Garden", (Oscar/Ruby), and "Changing Colours" or "Reading Rainbow", (Blake/Ilia). Meaning that the two people most subject to shipping, Ruby and Blake, now are ''both'' involved in a three way ship war. Dear Lord, this fandom has very little in the way of sanity...
** There is some friction between shippers of "Flour Power" (Ren/Nora) and "Martial Arcs" (Jaune/Ren). Though it is a bit one-sided as Flour Power massively beats Martial Arcs in popularity.
** A relatively common trend post Volume Seven is for members of various factions to make peace and propose OneTrueThreesome as a compromise. The Whiterose and Nuts and Dolts have joined forces to become Frosensteel, the Flour Power and Martial Arcs groups are perfectly fine with Juniper Berries (even/especially if Pyrrha comes back from the dead to join them), and it's not uncommon for people to remind everyone that Blake has two hands. In general, the polyshippers and multishippers are much calmer about the whole thing, accepting that all the characters are FoundFamily no matter their exact romantic leanings.

Many fans {{ship|ping}}. Some of them have [[{{OTP}} a distinct ship that they like over all others]], while some of them are torn between contradictory pairings. Some of them like to debate a pairing while keeping in mind its status in {{canon}}, while some of them discuss it [[ShippingGoggles believing their pairing]] ''is'' {{canon}} (or, in the case of those who argue over what's going to happen like they think they're pooling money for a bet, will inevitably be). [[{{GIFT}} Now throw in the power of the Internet to connect everybody (and everybody's opinions) with everybody else…]]