History CrackPairing / WesternAnimation

* ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'':
** The ''Adventure Time'' fandom has Gumgrab- Prince Gumball and Lemongrab. Prince Gumball is basically a pink Prince Charming, and Lemongrab is a strident, socially retarded jerk who has a completely repellant, obnoxious personality. It all started with a crack comic on deviantART and three fateful words: "THREE HOURS BEDROOM!" Even Rebecca Sugar, a writer on the show, "liked" the original Gumgrab comic on her Tumblr, and commented: "Well aren't ''you'' forward, Lemongrab!" What makes this pairing weirder are the ambiguously incestuous overtones. Prince Gumball is a genderswapped version of Princess Bubblegum- who created Lemongrab in her laboratory- and the prince is also, in-universe, a fictional character created by the [[DirtyOldMan Ice King]] for his fanfiction. People are shipping Lemongrab with his ''father'' from a parallel universe that doesn't even exist.
** The episode "All the Little People'' has Finn create several of these with tiny duplicates of the series' characters. At the beginning of the episode he and Jake also jokingly discuss Ice King/BMO, and by the end of the episode the tiny duplicates of those very characters hook up on their own.

*** Some [[http://community.livejournal.com/capslock_atla/ (Not saying any names)]] Website/LiveJournal 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 [[http://booter-freak.deviantart.com/art/SRS-BUSINESS-GAIS-78883230 stumbled onto.]] Then there's Ba Sing Se/The Drill, Aang's old glider/Aang's new glider, Roku/Volcano, Mako/Mako's scarf, The Cabbage Merchant/cabbages, the owlcat from "Tales of Ba sing Se"/the owlcat from "The Puppetmaster", Joo Dee/Ozai, Jet/Zhao (although that one kind of makes sense, seeing as how [[spoiler: they're both dead]])... the list goes on and on and ''on''.

* ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'': InUniverse, the conflict in the special "Hanky Panky Hullabaloo" came about because a pair of cupids (that look suspiciously like Jimmy and Sarah) forced Double D and May together. The climax involves the cupids, in an attempt to stop the fighting between the Eds and the Kankers, force other crack pairings: Kevin/Lee, Nazz/Johnny, [[CargoShip Ed/Sandwich]], Eddy/[[CompanionCube Plank]], and a one sided Marie/Rolf. [[spoiler: Rolf, who avoided all the cupid arrows, snaps everyone out of it by throwing dirty mop water on them.]]

[[caption-width-right:350:[-''Can [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic we]] pretend that [[Music/BoB airplanes in the night sky are like shooting stars]]?\\

** ''Fanfic/BlueswapAU'' is an entire fanverse about pairing together Greg and Blue Diamond. In canon, Blue Diamond sees human as little more than pets and doesn't interact with Greg. The closest thing to an interaction they had is Greg joking in one episode at her arrival that he'd manage to subdue her with "the old Universe charm" (which led to quite a few fandom jokes about [[HasAType his reported fondness for tall women]]. In the AU, Blue Diamond visits Earth one day to mourn Pink Diamond, meets and falls in love with Greg, and eventually has Steven.

* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' has quite a few of these.

%%** [[http://www.ponibooru.org/post/view/141985?search=OTP This one]] is a [[IncrediblyLamePun gem]].

* ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'': In canon, Dipper Pines and Bill Cypher are TheHero and the BigBad, respectively, but that is the extent of their connection. Dipper is neither Bill's arch-enemy nor the person who plays the biggest part in finally defeating him. They have absolutely zero friendly interactions, and absolutely zero romantic or sexual interactions (not even creepy FoeRomanceSubtext). You wouldn't know that going by Website/ArchiveOfOurOwn, where '''19.6%''' of all Gravity Falls fics are Dipper/Bill. For contrast, the next romantic ship is Dipper/Pacifica (his only real love interest in the show), at 4.1%.

--->''Q: Why Zhao and Hahn?''\\

--->That actually happened a few years back. Suki isn't too proud of it.

** ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'':
*** The show had crack pairings develop well in advance of airing, in particular, [[https://yamino.tumblr.com/post/17353805695/korra-and-yueby-spadesxqueenx3-i-was-wondering Korra/Yue the Moon Spirit]] with a separation of [[ShipsThatPassInTheNight 70 years]] and a metaphysical plane proving no obstacle to the pairing's MemeticMutation on deviantArt and Tumblr. The progression seems to have been "Avatar rides spirit guide->Spirit guide is usually the thing that taught their culture bending, like dragons for firebenders and bison for airbenders->Moon taught waterbenders->Yue is the moon now->Korra rides on Yue->Korra and Yue ride each other." [[spoiler:This ended up becoming HilariousInHindsight by the GrandFinale, as the voice actress of Korra's endgame LoveInterest Asami played Yue in ''Film/TheLastAirbender''.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'':

* ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'': In canon, Dipper Pines and Bill Cypher are TheHero and the BigBad, respectively, but that is the extent of their connection. Dipper is neither Bill's arch-enemy nor the person who plays the biggest part in finally defeating him. They have absolutely zero friendly interactions, and absolutely zero romantic or sexual interactions (not even creepy FoeYay). You wouldn't know that going by Website/ArchiveOfOurOwn, where '''19.6%''' of all Gravity Falls fics are Dipper/Bill. For contrast, the next romantic ship is Dipper/Pacifica (his only real love interest in the show), at 4.1%.

* In mid-2021, fans of ''WesternAnimation/TheMrMenShow'' began shipping Mr. Rude and Mr. Stubborn, who not only hate each other, but only appear in two segments together, because they see them as LikeAnOldMarriedCouple.

** ''Fanfic/BlueswapAU'' is an entire fanverse about pairing together Greg and Blue Diamond. In canon, Blue Diamond sees human as little more than pets and doesn't interact with Greg. In the AU, Blue Diamond visits Earth one day to mourn Pink Diamond, meets and falls in love with Greg, and eventually has Steven.

* ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales1987'': The G-rated fanfic author Stretch Snodgrass bizarrely has [[Series/{{Monk}} Sharona]] go on a date with [[WesternAnimation/DuckTales1987 Launchpad McQuack]] in the strange crossover story [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/3229653/1/Mr-Monk-meets-Mr-McDuck Mr. Monk meets Mr. McDuck]]. Seems to have led to a WhatHaveIDone moment by Stretch, who minimizes the disturbing implications in advance by assuring the readers it's just "a talk" between Sharona and an adventurer.

* ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants'':

* ''Franchise/AvatarTheLastAirbender'':
** ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'':

** In-Universe, there's Tweek and Craig, which had already been a crack pairing in some fandom sectors even the two boys only had [[Recap/SouthParkS3E5TweekVsCraig one prior episode]] together. They were upset enough by it to ''stage a breakup'' to get their classmates to stop pairing them, but that didn't go so well either (turns out Tweek had a hidden talent for acting, so for Craig it went from "being annoyed that everyone thought he was gay" to "being annoyed that everyone thought he was gay ''and'' a jerk"). By the end of the episode, they decide to start dating anyway, and in later seasons are depicted as an OfficialCouple.