History Main / GottaShipEmAll

* ''{{Series/Firefly}}'' is one of these. Fics exist for pretty much every pairing imaginable, with Book, who’s part of a celibate order, being pretty much the only exception.

* The ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'' fandom is wide and voracious where ships are concerned. The sheer number of ships is mind-boggling, with characters that have had next-to-no screen time already being shipped with other characters. [[note]]For example: Sage 'appeared' in the background corner of one shot, and there's already a ship named 'Wise Dragons' that pairs him with Yang.[[/note]] Every protagonist has several other people they are commonly shipped with, along with a number of somewhat less popular ships, as well as admittedly crack pairings. [[note]] Blake alone is very popularly paired with Yang and Weiss, as well as Ruby, Sun, Adam, Velvet, Pyrrha, and even Torchwick. Art and fics can easily be found for Yang with Blake, Weiss, Ruby, both Malachite sisters, Junior, Pyrrha, Sage, and Yatsuhashi.[[/note]] There's even a huge [[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1JpinKp5XW6htsPAri0kRMGKrxQwi458YU6HY734wuwE/edit#gid=0 spreadsheet of ships]], although some seem to be only there so the fans can create funny names. The saving grace is that, apart from a few very divisive pairings, the fandom hasn't really devolved into shipping wars... [[SeriousBusiness Until they did]].

* ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'''s fandom has shipped almost every possible combination of characters, up to and including [[UpToEleven everyone with everyone else simultaneously.]]

* Within the ''WesternAnimation/{{Frozen|2013}}'' fandom, fanfiction can be found pairing any combination of characters including [[OfficialCouple Anna/Kristoff]], [[IncestYayShipping Anna]]/[[RelationshipWritingFumble Elsa]], [[ShipsThatPassInTheNight Hans/Kristoff who never met]], either [[FoeYayShipping Anna/Hans or Elsa/Hans]], [[LesYay Elsa/Honeymaren]] and even some involving Olaf, Sven, or Marshmallow. The Anna/Elsa/Kristoff, Anna/Elsa/Hans, and Anna/Hans/Kristoff [[OneTrueThreesome threesomes]] are also not unheard of.

* ''Series/{{Yellowjackets}}'': The plane crash survivors are shipped in almost every which way, particularly the titular team, due to the younger cast having chemistry with everyone. The most common combinations are Jackie/Shauna, Taissa/Van, Lottie/Laura Lee, Misty/Natalie and Akilah/Mari, but there are also fans for Natalie/Lottie, Taissa/Shauna, Natalie/Jackie, and Natalie/Travis. Outside of the plane survivors, there are fans that ship the characters with their present day love interests like Jeff/Shauna and Taissa/Simone, but for the most part the shipping is mainly focused on the younger cast.

* Similarly, ''Literature/PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians'', in large part due to the author's love of [[ShipTease messing with the fans' minds]] and the {{loads and loads of characters}}. And the fact that so many of the mains are sympathetic and charismatic -- take a look at their entry in LauncherOfAThousandShips.

* ''Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers'': Pick two characters, ''any'' two characters from the comic, and there'll be at least one fanwork of them as a couple somewhere no matter how implausible that pairing seems. The LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters all being anthropomorphic personifications of nations who have pretty much all interacted with each other at ''some'' point in their histories means that virtually every pairing can be justified through a historical lens, especially ones involving [[LauncherOfAThousandShips Launchers of a Thousand Ships]] extraordinaries America and England.

* ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'' has this due to LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters and a LauncherOfAThousandShips Main Character; there are 20 recurring characters of which at least half can be paired with Midoriya without putting it in CrackShip territory, and that's completely ignoring the ships that can be created without Midoriya such as Bakugo/Ochaco, Ochaco/Tsuyu, Yaoyorozu/Jiro, Hagakure/Ojiro, Aizawa/Toshinori, Todoroki/Yaoyorozu, Iida/Mei and so on. The manga/anime itself enforces NoHuggingNoKissing, which only encourages the rampant shipping, since there are no official relationships to get in the way other than ''[[CrushBlush maybe]]'' Midoriya/Ochaco (and don't bring that up in front of anyone who ships either of them with someone else).

* ''VideoGame/PuyoPuyo'' has an [[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters especially large cast]] for a FallingBlocks game series, with a number of pairings (such as Amitie x Sig and Schezo x Witch, to name only a small number) getting significant ShipTease in canon, so it's no wonder that it attracts shippers. In fact, it has enough of a shipping fanbase that most of the theoretical couples that are possible with the series have probably received fanart and fanfiction somewhere or other, including ones like Sig x Serilly that consist of characters who [[ShipsThatPassInTheNight rarely, if ever, interact in canon]].

* ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'' has a ''huge'' number of ships, due both to the canon LoveDodecahedron and LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters, almost all of whom have a large number of associated elements and hobbies that make it easy to find commonalities between them. For a good example, take the Shipping Olympics, a popular fandom challenge where people sign up for their favourite ship and then compete with other ships through creating themed fanart. Most fandoms get less than ten teams to represent the main ships. One year, the ''Homestuck'' Shipping Olympics had ''well over 50 teams'', including an 'other' team who were allowed to write about any ship not already covered by a team. To make things worse (or better, depending on your opinions), this series' version of Trolls canonically have four different kinds of romance, and people commonly like to apply those to their ships, often with very strong opinions about why they ship pairings in one quadrant but not another.

* ''Franchise/AceAttorney'': '''EVERYONE''' has been shipped with everyone else, and each pairing has a loyal following. It doesn't matter if [[ShipsThatPassInTheNight they've never met]], [[FoeYayShipping they're bitter rivals]], [[HoYay they're the same gender]], [[IncestIsRelative they're closely related]], [[GhostShipping one of them isn't alive]] (or [[CargoShip one of them isn't alive]]), [[MayDecemberRomance there's a huge age gap between them]], [[SheIsNotMyGirlfriend they've explicitly denied being in a relationship]], [[HeterosexualLifePartners they're clearly just]] [[PlatonicLifePartners best friends]], or [[CrackPairing it doesn't make sense in some other way]], someone has shipped them.

Requires the fandom to collectively adopt an EveryoneIsBi mentality (or gay, in mono-gender casts). A variation on the LauncherOfAThousandShips where almost ''every'' character is the launcher of a thousand ships. May cause, be caused by--or both--HoYay, often FoeYay, and sometimes {{Incest Yay|Shipping}}. This can also lead to TriangRelations, OneTrueThreesome, and even LoveDodecahedron discussions among the fanbase. Compare DatingDoSiDo, which is the InUniverse version where nearly everyone in the cast ''canonically dates'' everyone at one point.

* Within the ''WesternAnimation/{{Frozen|2013}}'' fandom, fanfiction can be found pairing any combination of characters including [[OfficialCouple Anna/Kristoff]], [[IncestYayShipping Anna]]/[[RelationshipWritingFumble Elsa]], [[ShipsThatPassInTheNight Hans/Kristoff who never met]], either [[FoeYay Anna/Hans or Elsa/Hans]], [[LesYay Elsa/Honeymaren]] and even some involving Olaf, Sven, or Marshmallow. The Anna/Elsa/Kristoff, Anna/Elsa/Hans, and Anna/Hans/Kristoff [[OneTrueThreesome threesomes]] are also not unheard of.

* In the ''Literature/HarryPotter'' series, most of the central characters (Harry, Ron, Hermione, Ginny, Draco, Neville, Luna, etc.) are shipped with ''a lot'' of other characters, including [[FoeYay all of their mortal enemies]], [[TeacherStudentRomance teachers]], [[IncestYayShipping siblings]], parents of their classmates, and characters who are only mentioned by name a couple of times within the series. For instance, Hermione is sometimes shipped with Theodore Nott, whose name is mentioned less than 12 times throughout all seven books, and Blaise Zabini, who was a minor enough character in the first five books that many readers mistook him for a girl. Additionally, a lot of minor characters, such as Ernie Macmillan and Hannah Abbott, are also shipped together.

* ''Franchise/AceAttorney'': '''EVERYONE''' has been shipped with everyone else, and each pairing has a loyal following. It doesn't matter if [[ShipsThatPassInTheNight they've never met]], [[FoeYay they're bitter rivals]], [[HoYay they're the same gender]], [[IncestIsRelative they're closely related]], [[GhostShipping one of them isn't alive]] (or [[CargoShip one of them isn't alive]]), [[MayDecemberRomance there's a huge age gap between them]], [[SheIsNotMyGirlfriend they've explicitly denied being in a relationship]], [[HeterosexualLifePartners they're clearly just]] [[PlatonicLifePartners best friends]], or [[CrackPairing it doesn't make sense in some other way]], someone has shipped them.

* ''Franchise/TouhouProject''. With one or two exceptions, the extremely large cast is entirely female, and just about everyone has been shipped with someone else. And while none are canon, the fandom has accepted most of them as Fanon, so there's at least one pairing per shipping trope (FoeYay, BodyguardCrush, OneTrueThreesome...).

Compare the in-universe variant EveryoneMustBePaired.

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Requires the fandom to collectively adopt an EveryoneIsBi mentality (or EveryoneIsGay in mono-gender casts). A variation on the LauncherOfAThousandShips where almost ''every'' character is the launcher of a thousand ships. May cause, be caused by--or both--HoYay, often FoeYay, and sometimes {{Incest Yay|Shipping}}. This can also lead to TriangRelations, OneTrueThreesome, and even LoveDodecahedron discussions among the fanbase. Compare DatingDoSiDo, which is the InUniverse version where nearly everyone in the cast ''canonically dates'' everyone at one point.

* ''VisualNovel/DanganronpaV3KillingHarmony'' had this situation pre release. Since the characters hadn't had their personalities established and neither their relationships with each others, with this, fans randomly decided to pair characters off with anyone they felt like it, causing ships that would come to be forgotten when the actual game showed several of their guesses incorrect.

Occasionally, you'll come across a show where every character is shipped--by a significantly-sized and active fanbase--with just about every other character. '''That''' is this trope.

This situation is most common stories with an EnsembleCast, particularly television shows. If it is unclear at the beginning which characters will be the OfficialCouple, this can result from WildMassGuessing. If this is the case, even once it does become clear which characters are on their way to being paired off, a significant number of the non-canon ships that emerged maintain a following. It can also result from PairTheSpares when the fandom can't agree on which spares should be paired. Usually, a small handful of these ships will exhibit UnresolvedSexualTension and receive meaningful ShipTease, while the vast majority will simply be ShipsThatPassInTheNight, and the result of viewers wearing ShippingGoggles. In these fandoms, if two characters have been in a scene together, it's a safe bet that people are shipping them. This often results in some pretty vicious ShipToShipCombat.

* ''Manga/MahouSenseiNegima'' has a few large core ships, but even beyond those, the fandom has experienced pretty much any variation between the relevant characters.

* ''{{Series/CSI}}'' and its spinoffs are full of this. Pick any character and you can probably find fics paring them with every other character if you look hard enough. And a few crossing between franchise members.

* The fandom of ''Videogame/CorpseParty'' can get pretty rampant with pairings involving the 9 main characters (from class 2-9) , as the fans almost always try not to leave anybody alone except [[TheScrappy Yuka]]; for example, if there's [=SeikoxNaomi=], there must also be [=AyumixYoshiki=], [=YuixTsukasa=], [=MayuxMorishige=], Satoshi with somebody of other school (or with an OC if needed) and Yuka either is usually left alone (a ton of people won't ever pair her with her brother Satoshi, but some do) or shipped with Satsuki, a close friend of hers.

* ''VideoGame/{{Touhou}}''. With one or two exceptions, the extremely large cast is entirely female, and just about everyone has been shipped with someone else. And while none are canon, the fandom has accepted most of them as Fanon, so there's at least one pairing per shipping trope (FoeYay, BodyguardCrush, OneTrueThreesome...).

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* ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'': Every main character is frequently shipped with every other main character, and the fandom is bullish on the idea of a full-cast polyamorous puppy pile.

* The ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'' fandom is wide and voracious where ships are concerned. The sheer number of ships is mind-boggling, with characters that have had next-to-no screen time already being shipped with other characters. [[note]]For example: Sage 'appeared' in the background corner of one shot, and there's already a ship named 'Wise Dragons' that pairs him with Yang.[[/note]] Every protagonist has several other people they are commonly shipped with, along with a number of somewhat less popular ships, as well as admittedly crack pairings. [[note]] Blake alone is very popularly paired with Yang and Weiss, as well as Ruby, Sun, Adam, Velvet, Pyrrha, and even Torchwick. Art and fics can easily be found for Yang with Blake, Weiss, Ruby, both Malachite sisters, Junior, Pyrrha, Sage, and Yatsuhashi.[[/note]] There's even a huge [[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1JpinKp5XW6htsPAri0kRMGKrxQwi458YU6HY734wuwE/edit#gid=0 spreadsheet of ships]], although some seem to be only there so the fans can create funny names. The saving grace is that, apart from a few very divisive pairings, the fandom hasn't really devolved into shipping wars.

Requires the fandom to collectively adopt an EveryoneIsBi mentality. A variation on the LauncherOfAThousandShips where almost ''every'' character is the launcher of a thousand ships. May cause, be caused by--or both--HoYay, often FoeYay, and sometimes {{Incest Yay|Shipping}}. This can also lead to TriangRelations, OneTrueThreesome, and even LoveDodecahedron discussions among the fanbase. Compare DatingDoSiDo, which is the InUniverse version where nearly everyone in the cast ''canonically dates'' everyone at one point.

* ''VisualNovel/NewDanganRonpaV3'' had this situation pre release. Since the characters hadn't had their personalities established and neither their relationships with each others, with this, fans randomly decided to pair characters off with anyone they felt like it, causing ships that would come to be forgotten when the actual game showed several of their guesses incorrect.

* ''Webcomic/AxisPowersHetalia'' has more than 80 ships with their own wiki page. Out of five characters you can get around 75 ships (with the other four and themselves, with everyone's GenderFlip version and with everyone's Dark version).

* [[HoYay/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica For the same reason as Nanoha]], ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'' has [[http://wiki.puella-magi.net/Yuri_undertones every pairing]] of the main 5 characters covered, with the possible exception of Mami/Sayaka because they never have a private moment together without Madoka. (Though [[OneTrueThreesome Mami/Sayaka/Madoka]] is pretty common.) TheMovie bolstered some previously unpopular ones like Homura/Mami, Homura/Sayaka, and [[CrackPairing Mami/Charlotte]]. Even Hitomi, a minor character, gets dragged into a few pairings. The only [[AmbiguouslyGay unambiguous]] OfficialCouple (not counting [[HappilyMarried Madoka's parents]]) is Hitomi/Kyousuke, and that's probably the ''least'' popular pairing in the fandom.[[labelnote:*]]Partly because [[HetIsEw it's not a gay couple]], but both characters have shades of TheScrappy, and people who ''do'' like either of them generally want to pair them with someone else.[[/labelnote]]

Requires the fandom to collectively adopt an EveryoneIsBi mentality. A variation on the LauncherOfAThousandShips where almost ''every'' character is the launcher of a thousand ships. May cause, be caused by--or both--HoYay, often FoeYay, and sometimes {{Incest Yay|Shipping}}. This can also lead to TriangRelations or OneTrueThreesome discussions among the fanbase. Compare DatingDoSiDo, which is the InUniverse version where nearly everyone in the cast ''canonically dates'' everyone at one point.

Requires the fandom to collectively adopt an EveryoneIsBi mentality. A variation on the LauncherOfAThousandShips where almost ''every'' character is the launcher of a thousand ships. May cause, be caused by--or both--HoYay, often FoeYay, and sometimes {{Incest Yay|Shipping}}. Compare DatingDoSiDo, which is the InUniverse version where nearly everyone in the cast ''canonically dates'' everyone at one point.

* Within the ''WesternAnimation/{{Frozen|2013}}'' fandom, fanfiction can be found pairing any combination of characters including [[OfficialCouple Anna/Kristoff]], [[IncestYayShipping Anna]]/[[RelationshipWritingFumble Elsa]], [[ShipsThatPassInTheNight Hans/Kristoff who never met]], either [[FoeYay Anna/Hans or Elsa/Hans]], and even some involving Olaf, Sven, or Marshmallow. The Anna/Elsa/Kristoff, Anna/Elsa/Hans, and Anna/Hans/Kristoff [[OneTrueThreesome threesomes]] are also not unheard of.