History ShipToShipCombat / ComicBooks

** During the time when Sonic was trying to decide between Mina and Sally, there were flame wars over which was better for him. Things died down a bit when Mina got her own boyfriend and Sonic and Sally got engaged. (Of course, then they went and broke the engagement off...) The fact that Sally was going through her {{Chickification}} didn't help, and resulted in numerous ''hate pages'' dedicated to what a horrible bitch she was while Mina was clearly the only girl for Sonic. The shipping wars resulted in the Sonic/Sally pairing being discontinued after the comic went through its reboot... and Mina to be {{Retgone}} as well.

* While it never got as heated as the Cyclops and Jean vs Wolverine and Jean, the debates between ComicBook/{{Rogue}} choosing ComicBook/{{Gambit}} or ComicBook/{{Magneto}} got quite fierce. To be fair to latter ship Magneto did meet and have MentorShip with Rogue before she met Gambit and they even got married in the ''ComicBook/AgeOfApocalypse'' universe but due to ''immense'' popularity of Rogue and Gambit, her relationship with Magneto is often seen as a CrackPairing due to Magneto's AntiVillain nature. Marvel eventually settled matters as Gambit and Rogue [[TheyDo got married]] in the main continuity and Magneto who was previously portrayed as jealous of Gambit and Rogue now supports their union [[note]]Technically it was [[{{Retcon}} actually]] Magneto's young clone Joseph who had a CockFight with Gambit over Rogue not the real Magneto himself [[/note]].

** [[OppositeSexClone Just like her daddy]], ComicBook/{{X 23}} gets a fair bit of this, mainly between Helix (Hellion/Laura) fans, [[LesYay Laura/Jubilee]] fans, and fans who don't see her as having interest in relationships whatsoever. Also toss in [[FoeYay Kimura]], Gambit, Finesse, Mercury, Dust, Elixir, Fantomex, and more crack pairings such as Wither, Spidey, Hulk, and even Deadpool. There's even more than a few fans who [[IncestYayShipping ship her with Daken]]. And now {{Rule 63}} and time travel is enabling the Scott/Logan CrackPairing to live vicariously through [[ComicBook/AllNewXMen Laura and Teen Cyke]] (not that it stops anyone from shipping her with the ''adult'' Scott, too). To a lesser extent, [[spoiler: the cover preview for ''ANXM'' #30 showing Laura and Teen!Warren locked in a passionate in-flight kiss]] has sparked shipping for ''that'' pairing, as well (and more than a few jokes over the idea of Laura moving through the ''entire'' O5. Yes, even [[LesYay Jean]]). In fact it's amazing Quentin Quire's Stepford Cuckoo-induced ImagineSpot of himself flirting with her in ''ComicBook/WolverineAndTheXMenMarvelComics'' #4 hasn't created ''that'' pairing ([[{{Rule34}} yet]]).

* The British counterpart to ''Archie's Sonic'', ''Comicbook/SonicTheComic'', has some mild ship-to-ship combat. It mostly centers around Amy's and Tekno's RomanticTwoGirlFriendship versus Shortfuse's and Tekno's relationship. WordOfGod is Tekno and Shortfuse have a "thing" for each other, though it wasn't shown much in the comics (the [[Webcomic/SonicTheComicOnline fan-continuation]] tries to make up for it with mixed results). Shortfuse is TheScrappy due to his annoying insistence of saying his [[AsYouKnow backstory everytime he appeared]], and there was already a train of thought in the fandom that Amy and Tekno were "too" friendly. For the most part, ship-to-ship combat is subverted in the fandom. Even though WordOfGod is that Johnny Lightfoot likes Amy, Sonic/Amy fans don't care. This could because Amy's crush on Sonic was dialed down ''extremely'' to almost nonexistent extents (bar CharacterizationMarchesOn) and [[spoiler:the fact that Johnny was KilledOffForReal.]]

** [[OppositeSexClone Just like her daddy]], ComicBook/{{X 23}} gets a fair bit of this, mainly between Helix (Hellion/Laura) fans, [[LesYay Laura/Jubilee]] fans, and fans who don't see her as having interest in relationships whatsoever. Also toss in [[FoeYay Kimura]], Gambit, Finesse, Mercury, Dust, Elixir, Fantomex, and more crack pairings such as Wither, Spidey, Hulk, and even Deadpool. There's even more than a few fans who [[IncestYayShipping ship her with Daken]]. And now {{Rule 63}} and time travel is enabling the Scott/Logan CrackPairing to live vicariously through [[ComicBook/AllNewXMen Laura and Teen Cyke]] (not that it stops anyone from shipping her with the ''adult'' Scott, too). To a lesser extent, [[spoiler: the cover preview for ''ANXM'' #30 showing Laura and Teen!Warren locked in a passionate in-flight kiss]] has sparked shipping for ''that'' pairing, as well (and more than a few jokes over the idea of Laura moving through the ''entire'' O5. Yes, even [[LesYay Jean]]). In fact it's amazing Quentin Quire's Stepford Cuckoo-induced ImagineSpot of himself flirting with her in ''ComicBook/WolverineAndTheXMen'' #4 hasn't created ''that'' pairing ([[{{Rule34}} yet]]).

** Actually thanks to Tom King’s Batman #39 Bruce and Diana’s {{UST}} from the cartoon became canon in the main continuity as Batman (whose engaged to Selina) has an AlmostKiss with Wonder Woman to the ire of Batman/Catwoman shippers. [[spoiler: After [[TheRunawayBride Selina left Bruce at the altar]] in Batman #50, Batman/Wonder Woman fans were quick to tear Catwoman a new one]].

* ''ComicBook/ArchieComicsSonicTheHedgehog'':

* Franchise/{{Superman}} and Lois Lane are a watershed fictional couple in popular culture, so in-and-of-itself the ComicBook/New52 reboot turning back the clock so they were just friends drew some ire, but then pairing him with WonderWoman it hit a certain BerserkButton for many fans.

* ComicBook/{{Batgirl}}[=/=]Comicbook/{{Nightwing}} vs. Comicbook/{{Starfire}}/Nightwing. That's all. Really not helped by the writers who go RunningTheAsylum and favoring their own pet pairing while derailing the other. Amazingly, ''ComicBook/{{Convergence}}'' managed to satisfy both sides by having Pre-Crisis Dick marry Kori and Pre-Flashpoint Dick marry Babs.
** For example, there's Devin Grayson's ''canon'' DFOS against Kory to favor Babs. Funny enough, because Devin had previously written Barbara as a ClingyJealousGirl in the Nightwing/Comicbook/{{Huntress}} mini-series and in the first Nightwing Annual.
** During the late 90s, the writers of the Bat office were having their own ship war regarding. Chuck Dixon had been setting up a Dick and Barbara relationship, only for that ship to get derailed when Devin Grayson wrote her Nightwing/Huntress mini-series, in which Barbara reacted jealously to Dick and Helena having a one-night stand. Later on, Dixon seemingly retaliated by having Dick say that he wished he stayed away from Helena in the first place. This eventually culminated in the No Man's Land storyline, in which Dick and Barbara had seemed to start their relationship, only for Dick to kiss Helena on New Year's.

* Franchise/{{Superman}} and Lois Lane are a watershed fictional couple in popular culture, so in-and-of-itself, turning back the clock so they were just friends drew some ire, but then pairing him with WonderWoman it hit a certain BerserkButton for many fans.
** Before that, there was a component of fandom who seemed to prefer Lana as Superman's love interest, though it seems to have been localized into FanFic. Except that ''Man of Steel'' (the comic, not the movie) mastermind Creator/JohnByrne actually said he wished he could have had Superman and Lana end up together.

** [[Disney/{{Aladdin}} The ever impressive, the long contained, often imitated, but never duplicated]]: Spidey/MJ vs Spidey/Gwen. Usually, Spidey/Gwen is spared by the others due to her death, but the Spidey/Gwen fans seem to just plain hate Spidey/MJ for happening, since it's been cited openly by Creator/GerryConway as the reason for Gwen's death. Gwen was boring to the writers and was generally unpopular with most of the regular readers (except for the vocal fanboys who read the comics near the end of the run and decided that Gwen was Peter's true love). MJ/Spidey fans tend to be respectful to Gwen though they also roll their eyes at Spidey/Gwen shippers by pointing out that Gwen was ''the'' DesignatedLoveInterest whose personality kept shifting multiple times before her death (starting out as an AlphaBitch under Ditko and then being softened into a whiny DaddysGirl twenty issues later) and that Lee and Romita Sr. largely shilled her by downplaying and denigrating the scene-stealing MJ, and giving Gwen aspects based on her and more recent fans point out that if not for her death, Gwen would probably be remembered as the Carlie Cooper of her day, as Conway has repeatedly pointed out though not in so many words. However, after OMD, many MJ fans have bonded with Gwen fans, feeling that killing Gwen in a classic story was nonetheless the FranchiseOriginalSin of the series and many have called for Gwen to return if only to bring back the classic love triangle and to allow somewhere down the line a chance for Peter and MJ to have a relationship without Gwen's death between them.

* There is a great deal of tension between those who ship Character/HarleyQuinn and Character/TheJoker and those who, well, don't. At all. Because their relationship is psychotic and abusive. Those who do ship the pair argue that shipping a pairing is not the same thing as condoning it. On actual ships, there is a thick tension between Joker/Harley and Ivy/Harley fans.

** Post-Comicbook/{{Flashpoint}}, there's a fan following who prefer Dick's UnresolvedSexualTension with the new version of [[Comicbook/{{Huntress}} Helena Bertinelli]] over the WillTheyOrWontThey relationship he has with Babs.

* ComicBook/{{Batgirl}}[=/=]Comicbook/{{Nightwing}} vs. Comicbook/{{Starfire}}/Nightwing. That's all. Really not helped by the writers who go RunningTheAsylum and favoring their own pet pairing while derailing the other.

** Actually thanks to Tom King’s Batman #39 Bruce and Diana’s {{UST}} from the cartoon became canon in the main continuity as Batman (whose engaged to Selina) and Wonder Woman have a AlmostKiss to the ire of Batman/Catwoman shippers. [[spoiler: After [[TheRunawayBride Selina left Bruce at the altar]] in Batman #50, Batman/Wonder Woman fans were quick to tear Catwoman a new one]].

** But, for a more even footed warground, try Spidey/MJ vs Spidey/Gwen. Usually, Spidey/Gwen is spared by the others due to her death, but the Spidey/Gwen fans seem to just plain hate Spidey/MJ for happening, since it's been cited as the (unconfirmed) reason for Gwen's death. Apparently, that Gwen was becoming boring to the writers and that the suits in charge wanted a major death isn't usually taken into consideration, and some cite OMD as something that needed to happen. However, some MJ/Spidey fans seem to be rather unsympathetic towards the death of Gwen, or will try to rationalize it as ''a good thing'', either because it kickstarted the Bronze Age, it allowed Marvel to step away from bright eyed idealistic stories, or that Gwen was getting boring.
** Don't forget Spidey/MJ Vs. Spidey/Black Cat either.
*** Now, neither side is helped by the fact Creator/StanLee has stated he envisioned Gwen Stacy as Spidey's true love, then he goes and has Spidey and MJ get married in his personal comic strip, or how he showed support for Creator/JoeQuesada breaking up the couple, only to then put the two back together in his aforementioned comic strip. The guy likes trolling the fans, don't he?
*** There's also plenty of people who wish his relationship with Ms. Marvel (Carol Danvers) had continued past a first date.

* There is a great deal of tension between those who ship Character/HarleyQuinn and Character/TheJoker and those who, well, don't. At all. Because their relationship is psychotic and abusive. Those who do ship the pair argue that shipping a pairing is not the same thing as condoning it.

* ''Franchise/ArchieComics'' lives on this trope, featuring quite possibly the [[BettyAndVeronica most well-known love triangle]] in American pop-culture. Archie/Betty versus Archie/Veronica are the main debate and it frequently gets milked by the comic itself. Most fans lean towards Betty but Veronica has her fans too. Occasionally Archie's ([[ChickMagnet many]]) {{Third Option Love Interest}}s, such as Cheryl and Valerie, get dragged into the arguments. On the non-canon route, Jughead/Betty and Reggie/Betty are two common couples ([[ShipMates especially with Archie/Veronica fans]]) and is tossed into the issue. Even Archie/Jughead and Betty/Veronica sometimes get debated. ''Series/{{Riverdale}}'' brought the ship-to-ship combat to a new level, and it has subsequently leaked into the comic fandom.