History LauncherOfAThousandShips / ComicBooks

* Back in [[NewMutants New X-Men]] Prodigy had only been shipped with his canonical LoveInterest, Surge, and possibly with Wallflower. Since he joined YoungAvengers however, he has been also paired up with Speed, Hulkling, Miss America, Kate, [[FoeYay Loki]] and [[GenerationHope Transonic]].

* Back in [[NewMutants New X-Men]] Prodigy had only been shipped with his canonical LoveInterest, Surge, and possibly with Wallflower. Since he joined YoungAvengers however, he has been also paired up with Speed, Hulkling, Miss America,[[FoeYay Loki]] and [[GenerationHope Transonic]].

* [[Comicbook/{{Hawkeye}} Clint Barton]] is largely considered the Marvel character who can be with any single other superheroine in the Marvel Universe and it not to come off strange. His current tally includes the first Ronin (Maya Lopez), The Black Widow, Mockingbird, Moonstone, the Scarlet Witch, and the Wasp. Currently in an 'it's complicated' relationship with Spider-Woman.

* Franchise/{{Spider-Man}} is this to an extreme extent - not only is he paired with almost every woman in the MarvelUniverse, including Mary Jane, Betty Brant, Black Cat, Gwen Stacy, [[{{Comicbook/MsMarvel}} Ms. Marvel]], {{She-Hulk}}, [[{{Comicbook/BlackWidow}} Black Widow]], Silver Sable, [[FantasticFour Sue Richards]], Wasp, {{Spider-Woman}} and {{X-23}}, but also dozens of guys, including CaptainAmerica, [[FantasticFour Johnny Storm]], {{Wolverine}}, Harry Osborn, Flash Thompson, all incarnations of {{Venom}} and the symbiote itself, [[ComicBook/TheCloneSaga his own clones]], ComicBook/IronMan, Green Goblin, {{ComicBook/Loki}}, Doctor Octopus, {{Daredevil}} and, as mentioned above, {{Deadpool}}. And that's only the most popular ones.

* Franchise/{{Spider-Man}} is this to an extreme extent - not only is he paired with almost every woman in the MarvelUniverse, including Mary Jane, Betty Brant, Black Cat, Gwen Stacy, [[{{Comicbook/MsMarvel}} Ms. Marvel]], {{She-Hulk}}, [[{{Comicbook/BlackWidow}} Black Widow]], Silver Sable, [[FantasticFour Sue Richards]], Wasp, {{Spider-Woman}} and {{X-23}}, but also dozens of guys, including CaptainAmerica, [[FantasticFour Johnny Storm]], {{Wolverine}}, Harry Osborn, Flash Thompson, all incarnations of {{Venom}} and the symbiote itself, [[ComicBook/TheCloneSaga his own clones]], IronMan, Green Goblin, {{ComicBook/Loki}}, Doctor Octopus, {{Daredevil}} and, as mentioned above, {{Deadpool}}. And that's only the most popular ones.

* Franchise/{{Spider-Man}} is this to an extreme extent - not only is he paired with almost every woman in the MarvelUniverse, including Mary Jane, Betty Brant, Black Cat, Gwen Stacy, [[{{Comicbook/MsMarvel}} Ms. Marvel]], {{She-Hulk}}, [[{{Comicbook/BlackWidow}} Black Widow]], Silver Sable, [[FantasticFour Sue Richards]], Wasp, {{Spider-Woman}} and {{X-23}}, but also dozens of guys, including CaptainAmerica, [[FantasticFour Johnny Storm]], {{Wolverine}}, Harry Osborn, Flash Thompson, all incarnations of {{Venom}} and the symbiote itself, [[CloneSaga his own clones]], IronMan, Green Goblin, {{ComicBook/Loki}}, Doctor Octopus, {{Daredevil}} and, as mentioned above, {{Deadpool}}. And that's only the most popular ones.

** Known exceptions: Dr. Leslie Tompkins (Old enough to be his grandmother), Stephanie Brown (underage, and dating his little brother), Wally West (the so called Straightest Man in DC).
*** As of WesternAnimation/YoungJustice even Wally West is no longer [[DoubleEntendre immune to Dick]].

* {{X-23}} has quite a few pairings, starting with normal ones with guys ([[NewMutants Hellion]], [[AvengersAcademy Juston]]) and [[LesYay girls]] (Jubilee, Dust, Mercury, Finesse) alike, through a few [[CrackPairing a bit more insane]] ({{Spider-Man}}, Comicbook/TheIncredibleHulk), up to downright [[{{Squick}} squicky ones]] ([[BrotherSisterIncest Daken]]).

* You wouldn't think so, but a large number of SinCity FanFics are either slash fics or invovle {{Shipping}} amongst the cast. This often involves [[LesYay the female characters.]]

*** As of ComicBook/YoungJustice even Wally West is no longer [[DoubleEntendre immune to Dick]].

** Bruce. Look at how many love interests he's had in the course of Franchise/{{Batman}} History! Plus how many women have kissed him! Even non-love interests has kissed him! (Harley Quinn) If you think about it, comic book love interests, villainesses, movie love interests, TV show love interests, animated DCU love interests, and that's just the TIP of the iceberg! Plus slash pairings! IN ALL INCARNATIONS!

* [[{{Hawkeye}} Clint Barton]] is largely considered the Marvel character who can be with any single other superheroine in the Marvel Universe and it not to come off strange. His current tally includes the first Ronin (Maya Lopez), The Black Widow, Mockingbird, Moonstone, the Scarlet Witch, and the Wasp. Currently in an 'it's complicated' relationship with Spider-Woman.
* Peter Parker, even in canon; he has attracted the likes of: Liz Allan, Betty Brant, Gwen Stacy, Mary Jane Watson, The Black Cat, Dr. Debra Whitman, Marcy Kane, Michelle Gonzales, Carlie Cooper, and, in the Ultimate universe, Kitty Pryde. That's just the canon.
* {{Wolverine}} is considered to be a sexual stud-muffin given that he has been paired with virtually every other character possible in the X-men in fanfic. The authors sense this too. His canonical love interests have included: Silver Fox, Viper (with a very descriptive honeymoon), Jean Grey (never consumated), Mystique, Storm, the Heather Hudson version of Vindicator, the Silver Samurai's sister Mariko Yashida, his string of female sidekicks like Kitty Pryde, Jubilee, and Pixie, and many more.

** Also, as of The New 52's Suicide Squad, is frequently ship teased with Deadshot.
* {{Daken}}, Wolverine's son and member of the DarkAvengers, is starting to become this, mostly just being paried with male characters though. But then again he's a DepravedBisexual whose powers include super-healing and what amounts to sex-pollen. Common pairings include every member of the Dark Avengers (Bullseye and Mac/Venom in particular), his father Wolverine, Northstar, Deadpool, Anole, Wiccan and Hulkling.

* {{Spider-Man}} is this to extreme extend - not only is he paired with almost every woman in MarvelUniverse, including Mary Jane, Betty Brant, Black Cat, Gwen Stacy, [[{{Comicbook/MsMarvel}} Ms. Marvel]], {{She-Hulk}}, [[{{Comicbook/BlackWidow}} Black Widow]], Silver Sable, [[FantasticFour Sue Richards]], Wasp, {{Spider-Woman}} and {{X-23}}, but also dozens of guys, including CaptainAmerica, [[FantasticFour Johnny Storm]], {{Wolverine}}, Harry Osborn, Flash Thompson, all incarnations of {{Venom}} and the symbiote itself, [[CloneSaga his own clones]], IronMan, Green Goblin, {{ComicBook/Loki}}, Doctor Octopus, {{Daredevil}} and, as mentioned above, {{Deadpool}}. And that's only the most popular ones.
* A comon joke about AvengersAcademy fans is that Mettle is natural ChickMagnet for teenage Asian girls, leading to him being paired with his canonical girlfriend Hazmat, [[ComicBook/{{X-Men}} Armor]], [[NewMutants Surge]], [[{{Runaways}} Nico Minoru]] or all four at the same time.
* {{X-23}} has a quite few pairings, starting with normal ones, even if both with guys ([[NewMutants Hellion]], [[AvengersAcademy Juston]]) and [[LesYay girls]] (Jubilee, Dust, Mercury, Finesse) alike, through few [[CrackPairing a bit more insane]] ({{Spider-Man}}, TheIncredibleHulk) up to downright [[{{Squick}} squicky ones]] ([[BrotherSisterIncest Daken]]).

*** As of ComicBook/YoungJustice even Wally West is no longer immune to Dick.

* A comon joke about AvengersAcademy fans is that Mettle is natural ChickMagnet for teenage Asian girls, leading to him being paired with his canonical girlfriend Hazmat, [[XMen Armor]], [[NewMutants Surge]], [[{{Runaways}} Nico Minoru]] or all four at the same time.

* {{X-23}} has a quite few pairings, starting with normal ones, even if both with guys ([[NewMutants Hellion]], [[AvengersAcademy Juston]]) and [[LesYay girls]] (Jubilee, Dust, Mercury) alike, through few [[CrackPairing a bit more insane]] ({{Spider-Man}}, TheIncredibleHulk) up to downright [[{{Squick}} squicky ones]] ([[BrotherSisterIncest Daken]]).

* {{X-23}} has a quite few pairings, starting with normal ones, even with both guys ([[NewMutants Hellion]], [[AvengersAcademy Juston]]) and [[LesYay girls]] (Jubilee, Dust), through few [[CrackPairing a bit more insane]] ({{Spider-Man}}, TheIncredibleHulk) up to downright [[{{Squick}} squicky ones]] ([[BrotherSisterIncest Daken]]).

* {{Spider-Man}} is this to extreme extend - not only is he paired with almost every woman in MarvelUniverse, including Mary Jane, Betty Brant, Black Cat, Gwen Stacy, [[{{Comicbook/MsMarvel}} Ms. Marvel]], {{She-Hulk}}, [[{{Comicbook/BlackWidow}} Black Widow]], Silver Sable, [[FantasticFour Sue Richards]], Wasp, {{Spider-Woman}}, {{X-23}}, but also dozens of guys, including CaptainAmerica, [[FantasticFour Johnny Storm]], {{Wolverine}}, Harry Osborn, Flash Thompson, all incarnations of {{Venom}} and the symbiote itself, [[CloneSaga his own clones]], IronMan, Green Goblin, {{ComicBook/Loki}}, Doctor Octopus, {{Daredevil}} and, as mentioned above, {{Deadpool}}.
* A comon joke about AvengersAcademy fans is that Mettle is natural ChickMagnet for teenage Asian girls, leading to him being paired with his canonical girlfriend Hazmat, [[XMen Armor]], [[NewMutants Surge]], [[{{Runaways}} Nico Minoru]] or all four at the same time.

* {{Spider-Man}} is this to extreme extend - not only is he paired with almost every woman in Marveluniverse, including Mary Jane, Betty Brant, Black Cat, Gwen Stacy, [[{{Comicbook/MsMarvel}} Ms. Marvel]], {{She-Hulk}}, [[{{Comicbook/BlackWidow}} Black Widow]], Silver Sable, [[FantasticFour Sue Richards]], Wasp, {{Spider-Woman}}, {{X-23}}, but also dozens of guys, including CaptainAmerica, [[FantasticFour Johnny Storm]], {{Wolverine}}, Harry Osborn, Flash Thompson, all incarnations of {{Venom}} and the symbiote itself, [[CloneSaga his own clones]], IronMan, Green Goblin, {{ComicBook/Loki}}, Doctor Octopus, {{Daredevil}} and, as mentioned above, {{Deadpool}}.

* While not getting much love in-universe, {{Deadpool}} fans seem to think he has chemistry with almost anyone who tolerates him for more than 5 minutes. Popular ships include {{Cable}}, Weasel, Bob, Domino, Black Widow, {{Spider-Man}}, Bullseye, and CaptainAmerica.

* [[{{Hawkeye}} Clint Barton]] is largely considered the Marvel character who can be with any single other superheroine in the Marvel Universe and it not to come off strange. His current tally includes the first Ronin (Maya Lopez), The Black Widow, Mockingbird, Moonstone, the Scarlet Witch, and the Wasp.

** Bruce. Look at how many love interests he's had in the course of {{Batman}} History! Plus how many women have kissed him! Even non-love interests has kissed him! (Harley Quinn) I mean if you think about it, comic book love interests, villainess, movie love interests, tv show love interests, animated DCU love interests, and that's just the TIP of the iceburg! Plus slash pairings! IN ALL INCARNATIONS!

* WonderWoman is also considered to be a Launcher of a Thousand Ships for the main heroes of DC comics. It's just that none of the pairings ever stick. They've attempted to pair her up with Comicbook/{{Aquaman}}, {{Batman}}, {{Superman}}, and Nemesis.

* For a long time (and probably to this day) Gambit has fulfilled this role in ''Comicbook/{{X-Men}}'' fandom, being paired with any and every character out there, regardless of whether he likes them, or whether he's even met them in the first place.

* The Comicbook/BlackWidow is the female version of this in Marvel comics. Her relationships include ComicBook/IronMan, Hawkeye, {{Daredevil}}, an attempt by the writers to set her up with {{Deadpool}}(?!), and arguably NickFury. Even her late husband (she's a widow, get it?), the Red Guardian, was a superhero. Yes, Natasha goes with everything.

* Clint Barton is largely considered the Marvel character who can be with any single other superheroine in the Marvel Universe and it not to come off strange. His current tally includes the first Ronin (Maya Lopez), The Black Widow, Mockingbird, Moonstone, the Scarlet Witch, and the Wasp.

* In the Batman fandom, Harley Quinn [[ReallyGetsAround gets paired with lots of different guys]] plus [[LesYay Ivy]]. Which is ironic since in canon she's shown to have SingleTargetSexuality for SelfDemonstrating/TheJoker and some subtext with Ivy. Harley has also had her moments with Batman himself on occasion (see above for all the ships he's launched), at one point kissing him on the lips for being nice to her.
* Daken, Wolverine's son and member of the DarkAvengers, is starting to become this, mostly just being paried with male characters though. But then again he's a DepravedBisexual whose powers include super-healing and what amounts to sex-pollen. Common pairings include every member of the Dark Avengers (Bullseye and Mac/Venom in particular), his father Wolverine, Northstar, Deadpool, Anole, Wiccan and Hulkling.

* Princess Sally from SonicTheHedgehog can be either type. '''[[CanonSue IN CANON]]''', no less.

*** As of ComicBook/{{Young Justice}} even Wally West is no longer immune to Dick.

* In the Batman fandom, Harley Quinn [[ReallyGetsAround gets paired with lots of different guys]] plus [[LesYay Ivy]]. Which is ironic since in canon she's shown to have SingleTargetSexuality for {{the Joker}} and some subtext with Ivy. Harley has also had her moments with Batman himself on occasion (see above for all the ships he's launched), at one point kissing him on the lips for being nice to her.

* While not getting much love in-universe, {{Deadpool}} fans seem to think he has chemistry with almost anyone who tolerates him for more than 5 minutes. Popular ships include {{Cable}}, Weasel, Bob, Domino, Black Widow, {{Spider-Man}}, Bullseye, and {{Captain America}}.

* Who hasn't [[IronMan Tony Stark]] been paired up with? Depending on [[http://i54.tinypic.com/1zh1q4p.jpg how you count it]], no one.

* The Comicbook/BlackWidow is the female version of this in Marvel comics. Her relationships include IronMan, Hawkeye, {{Daredevil}}, an attempt by the writers to set her up with {{Deadpool}}(?!), and arguably NickFury. Even her late husband (she's a widow, get it?), the Red Guardian, was a superhero. Yes, Natasha goes with everything.