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* Karen McCormick and Tricia Tucker, the younger sisters of Kenny and Craig respectively, quite often get shipped together despite how neither of them have shared any screentime together and the only similarities they share being younger sisters with GirlishPigtails.
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* Karen McCormick and Tricia Tucker, the younger sisters of Kenny and Craig respectively, quite often get shipped together despite how neither of them have shared any screentime together and the only similarities they share being younger sisters with GirlishPigtails.
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* Out of the three main fan pairings during the early years of the ''Franchise/Ben10'' fandom, Gwen/Kevin was this in comparison to [[KissingCousins Ben/Gwen]] and [[FoeYayShipping Ben/Kevin]]. The latter two groups had mountains of character interactions to serve as evidence for their plausibility, while the former had the duo barely interact... which is why the entire fanbase called foul when Gwen and Kevin [[StrangledByTheRedString awkwardly]] became the first OfficialCouple in the franchise, in the early episodes of ''WesternAnimation/Ben10AlienForce''. This was seen as [[RomanticPlotTumor so forced]], it had the effect of stopping approximately no one from shipping [[PortmanteauCoupleName Bwen or Bwevin]]. At least until the couple's dynamic solidified as the franchise went on, and even then, support for this ship was arugably helped the most by ''WesternAnimation/Ben10Omniverse'' giving Ben a plethora of more options.
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* Out of the three main fan pairings during the early years of the ''Franchise/Ben10'' fandom, Gwen/Kevin was this in comparison to [[KissingCousins Ben/Gwen]] and [[FoeYayShipping Ben/Kevin]]. The latter two groups had mountains of character interactions to serve as evidence for their plausibility, while the former had the duo barely interact... which is why the entire fanbase called foul when Gwen and Kevin [[StrangledByTheRedString awkwardly]] became the first OfficialCouple in the franchise, in the early episodes of ''WesternAnimation/Ben10AlienForce''. This was seen as [[RomanticPlotTumor so forced]], it had the effect of stopping approximately no one from shipping [[PortmanteauCoupleName Bwen or Bwevin]]. Bevin]]. At least until the couple's dynamic solidified as the franchise went on, and even then, support for this ship was arugably helped the most by ''WesternAnimation/Ben10Omniverse'' giving Ben a plethora of more options.
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** A franchise-wide one would be [[FoeYayShipping Optimus Prime/Starscream]], which has some amount of fans for the extreme OppositesAttract element of TheHero and TheDragon...never mind that for over twenty years and counting of multiple continuities, they still have yet to have any kind of relationship beyond the standard "Autobot and Decepticon trying to kill each other in a fight" enmity.
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** A franchise-wide one would be [[FoeYayShipping Optimus Prime/Starscream]], which has some amount of fans for the extreme OppositesAttract element of TheHero and TheDragon...never mind that for over twenty forty years and counting of multiple continuities, they still have yet to have any kind of relationship beyond the standard "Autobot and Decepticon trying to kill each other in a fight" enmity.
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*** Azula and Toph are starting to gain a small fanbase. The two only talk once, in "The Day of the Black Sun", when Azula proves she can get past Toph's LivingLieDetector ability. After being asked "Who is Lin's father?" one too many times, one of the writers decided that [[http://i.imgur.com/EaMQTMY.jpg it's Azula.]] That caused a boost in fans.
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*** Azula and Toph are starting to gain have a small fanbase. The two only talk once, in "The Day of the Black Sun", when Azula proves she can get past Toph's LivingLieDetector ability. After being asked "Who is Lin's father?" one too many times, one of the writers decided that [[http://i.imgur.com/EaMQTMY.jpg it's Azula.]] That caused a boost in fans.
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* ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda'': Crane and Viper has a shipdom that actually caught the attention of Crane's TV voice actor, who now supports it.
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* ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda'': ''Franchise/KungFuPanda'': Crane and Viper has a shipdom that actually caught the attention of Crane's TV voice actor, who now supports it.
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* ''WesternAnimation/CaptainLaserhawkABloodDragonRemix'': The most popular ship with the most art is by far Rayman and Bullfrog ("Rayfrog"). They only interact a single time the whole show for a couple of minutes, and while Bullfrog was very friendly towards Rayman, nothing about it was romantic.
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** Fans of Milo/Melissa tend to ship Milo's crush [[ThePerfectionist Amanda]] with [[PairTheSpares Zack]], the remainder of [[ThreeAmigos the main trio]]. Ironically, Amanda and Zack don't interact much at all until [[LoveEpiphany Amanda starts crushing on Milo back]] and starts joining the trio on their activities as a result.
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** Fans of Milo/Melissa tend to ship Milo's crush [[ThePerfectionist Amanda]] with [[PairTheSpares Zack]], the remainder of [[ThreeAmigos the main trio]].trio. Ironically, Amanda and Zack don't interact much at all until [[LoveEpiphany Amanda starts crushing on Milo back]] and starts joining the trio on their activities as a result.
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** The finale also somewhat randomly had [[ExtravertedNerd Upchuck]] hook up with EnsembleDarkhorse [[{{Goth}} Andrea]].
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* ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama''
** Especially in the early years, the fandom had a subset that seemed dedicated to crack pairings (including {{Fandom VIP}}s Creator/WinterRae and Creator/TheKoboldNecromancer, though the latter's [[Fanfic/TotalDramaComebackSeries most famous work]] mostly uses canon couples). [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} Izzy]]/[[HomeschooledKids Ezekiel]], [[InsufferableGenius Noah]]/[[GenkiGirl Katie]], [[GentleGiant DJ]]/[[JerkJock Eva]], [[LovableJock Tyler]]/[[PerkyGoth Gwen]], [[ChivalrousPervert Cody]]/[[GranolaGirl Bridgette]], Cody/[[GenkiGirl Sadie]] and DJ/[[LoonyFan Sierra]] all became fairly popular despite having little or no canon basis.
** [[FanNickname Billy the Intern/Emily The Flight Attendant]] from the fourth aftermath of ''Action''.
** [[ChickMagnet Trent]] and [[WellExcuseMePrincess Courtney]] are a popular fanon couple, even though Trent may be the contestant Courtney has talked to ''least'' on the whole show. Originally it was just ShipMates for Duncan/Gwen, but it's developed a small following of its own.
** With the introduction of [[CastHerd new casts]] in later seasons and [[WesternAnimation/TotalDramaPresentsTheRidonculousRace the spin-off]], pairing characters from different "generations" is also fairly popular.
** Especially in the early years, the fandom had a subset that seemed dedicated to crack pairings (including {{Fandom VIP}}s Creator/WinterRae and Creator/TheKoboldNecromancer, though the latter's [[Fanfic/TotalDramaComebackSeries most famous work]] mostly uses canon couples). [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} Izzy]]/[[HomeschooledKids Ezekiel]], [[InsufferableGenius Noah]]/[[GenkiGirl Katie]], [[GentleGiant DJ]]/[[JerkJock Eva]], [[LovableJock Tyler]]/[[PerkyGoth Gwen]], [[ChivalrousPervert Cody]]/[[GranolaGirl Bridgette]], Cody/[[GenkiGirl Sadie]] and DJ/[[LoonyFan Sierra]] all became fairly popular despite having little or no canon basis.
** [[FanNickname Billy the Intern/Emily The Flight Attendant]] from the fourth aftermath of ''Action''.
** [[ChickMagnet Trent]] and [[WellExcuseMePrincess Courtney]] are a popular fanon couple, even though Trent may be the contestant Courtney has talked to ''least'' on the whole show. Originally it was just ShipMates for Duncan/Gwen, but it's developed a small following of its own.
** With the introduction of [[CastHerd new casts]] in later seasons and [[WesternAnimation/TotalDramaPresentsTheRidonculousRace the spin-off]], pairing characters from different "generations" is also fairly popular.
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'': Parodied InUniverse in "The Shippening", when Sarah gets hold of a magic notebook in which anything written comes true, and uses it to ship the most random of characters, including such pairings as Alan/Teri (no proper interactions, and Alan was already in a relationship with Carmen), Richard/Felicity (Felicity hates the Wattersons, and Richard is married to Nicole), and Larry/Mr. Small. Out of universe, Larry/Mr. Small took off as a ship even though outside this episode, they have only interacted with each other twice, one of which was them spending a full two minutes bickering over petty things.
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* ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans2003''
** Robin/Raven used to be this way. Of all the Titans, they interacted the least, yet people liked pairing them up because they liked the aesthetics of it: both were the most serious Titans, both were named after birds so writers could do a contrived "birds of a feather" metaphor, etc. It wasn't until the Trigon StoryArc where Raven started confiding in Robin more and scenes like Robin rescuing a [[MindRape mindraped]] and [[ClothingDamage clothing-torn]] Raven that shippers finally had decent canon stuff to write off of.
** Blackfire and Red X. Never met, but the pairing serves as an EvilCounterpart to the official couple of Robin and Starfire.
** Even more extreme is Slarella -- Slade and Arella. One is an enemy of the Titans living in their dimension, and the other is the mother of a Titan living in an alternate dimension.
** Although they've only met about three or four times throughout the entire series, and all times in a relatively dispassionate skirmish, Raven x Jinx happens to be one of the most popular femslash couples of them all, second only to Raven x Starfire.
** Jericho and Raven are a popular pairing despite never interacting. This is because they had a romance in the source comics.
** Jericho is also commonly shipped with Kole despite them not interacting, again due to their relationship in the comics.
** Robin/Raven used to be this way. Of all the Titans, they interacted the least, yet people liked pairing them up because they liked the aesthetics of it: both were the most serious Titans, both were named after birds so writers could do a contrived "birds of a feather" metaphor, etc. It wasn't until the Trigon StoryArc where Raven started confiding in Robin more and scenes like Robin rescuing a [[MindRape mindraped]] and [[ClothingDamage clothing-torn]] Raven that shippers finally had decent canon stuff to write off of.
** Blackfire and Red X. Never met, but the pairing serves as an EvilCounterpart to the official couple of Robin and Starfire.
** Even more extreme is Slarella -- Slade and Arella. One is an enemy of the Titans living in their dimension, and the other is the mother of a Titan living in an alternate dimension.
** Although they've only met about three or four times throughout the entire series, and all times in a relatively dispassionate skirmish, Raven x Jinx happens to be one of the most popular femslash couples of them all, second only to Raven x Starfire.
** Jericho and Raven are a popular pairing despite never interacting. This is because they had a romance in the source comics.
** Jericho is also commonly shipped with Kole despite them not interacting, again due to their relationship in the comics.
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** Robin/Raven used to be this way. Of all the Titans, they interacted the least, yet people liked pairing them up because they liked the aesthetics of it: both were the most serious Titans, both were named after birds so writers could do a contrived "birds of a feather" metaphor, etc. It wasn't until the Trigon StoryArc where Raven started confiding in Robin more and scenes like Robin rescuing a [[MindRape mindraped]] and [[ClothingDamage clothing-torn]] Raven that shippers finally had decent canon stuff to write off of.
** Blackfire and Red X. Never met, but the pairing serves as an EvilCounterpart to the official couple of Robin and Starfire.
** Even more extreme is Slarella -- Slade and Arella. One is an enemy of the Titans living in their dimension, and the other is the mother of a Titan living in an alternate dimension.
** Although they've only met about three or four times throughout the entire series, and all times in a relatively dispassionate skirmish, Raven x Jinx happens to be one of the most popular femslash couples of them all, second only to Raven x Starfire.
** Jericho and Raven are a popular pairing despite never interacting. This is because they had a romance in the source comics.
** Jericho is also commonly shipped with Kole despite them not interacting, again due to their relationship in the comics.
** Robin/Raven used to be this way. Of all the Titans, they interacted the least, yet people liked pairing them up because they liked the aesthetics of it: both were the most serious Titans, both were named after birds so writers could do a contrived "birds of a feather" metaphor, etc. It wasn't until the Trigon StoryArc where Raven started confiding in Robin more and scenes like Robin rescuing a [[MindRape mindraped]] and [[ClothingDamage clothing-torn]] Raven that shippers finally had decent canon stuff to write off of.
** Blackfire and Red X. Never met, but the pairing serves as an EvilCounterpart to the official couple of Robin and Starfire.
** Even more extreme is Slarella -- Slade and Arella. One is an enemy of the Titans living in their dimension, and the other is the mother of a Titan living in an alternate dimension.
** Although they've only met about three or four times throughout the entire series, and all times in a relatively dispassionate skirmish, Raven x Jinx happens to be one of the most popular femslash couples of them all, second only to Raven x Starfire.
** Jericho and Raven are a popular pairing despite never interacting. This is because they had a romance in the source comics.
** Jericho is also commonly shipped with Kole despite them not interacting, again due to their relationship in the comics.
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** [[AllThereInTheScript Lyra Heartstrings and Bon Bon]] are only seen in the background standing next to each other, but [[http://chzbronies.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/my-little-pony-friendship-is-magic-brony-because-absolutley-all-of-the-fanbase-loves-shipping.jpg it gives the fans ideas]]… to the point that the two are [[OneTruePairing easily the most widely-accepted pairing in the whole show]]. The show has [[FandomNod acknowledged this]] by placing them next to each other on the official posters and purposefully giving them ShipTease-filled {{Funny Background Event}}s in the second season onward, until the ninth season had them just straight up [[AscendedFanon propose marriage to each other in the background]].
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** [[AllThereInTheScript Lyra Heartstrings and Bon Bon]] are only seen in the background standing next to each other, but [[http://chzbronies.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/my-little-pony-friendship-is-magic-brony-because-absolutley-all-of-the-fanbase-loves-shipping.jpg it gives the fans ideas]]… ideas... to the point that the two are [[OneTruePairing easily the most widely-accepted pairing in the whole show]]. The show has [[FandomNod acknowledged this]] by placing them next to each other on the official posters and purposefully giving them ShipTease-filled {{Funny Background Event}}s in the second season onward, until the ninth season had them just straight up [[AscendedFanon propose marriage to each other in the background]].
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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Arcane}}'': Melvika (Mel/Sevika) is surprisingly popular in AlternateUniverse fics despite the two characters having never met in canon. This might have something to do with them being the most prominent women of color in the series. They're often portrayed as having a steady, low-key relationship in contrast to the more dramatic main couple (usually Caitlyn/Vi or Jayce/Viktor).
* ''Franchise/AvatarTheLastAirbender'':
** ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'':
*** [[ToyShip Toph/the Duke]] and Toph/Teo are popular ShipMates for the [[OfficialCouple canon pairings]]. The former's sole interaction is Duke letting Toph use his helmet as a barf bag during "The Day of Black Sun", and a hug in the finale (during the finale commentary, the creators coyly [[TrollingCreator point out the hug]]). There's hardly any at all for the latter.
*** Ursa, meet Hakoda, Hakoda, meet Ursa, I think you'll get along great. Oh yeah, we ship Ursoda. ThemePairing: opposite-gender single parents of two major characters each. Pulled off exceptionally well [[Fanfic/GuideMeHome here]]. Although both have been given different canonical love interests in the post-series comics.
*** Azula and Toph are starting to gain a small fanbase. The two only talk once, in "The Day of the Black Sun", when Azula proves she can get past Toph's LivingLieDetector ability. After being asked "Who is Lin's father?" one too many times, one of the writers decided that [[http://i.imgur.com/EaMQTMY.jpg it's Azula.]] That caused a boost in fans.
*** Some [[FanPreferredCouple Zutarians]] like to ship off [[DeadpanSnarker Mai]] with Jet, despite the fact that they never meet, are on opposite sides of the war(Mai's a Fire Nation noble, while Jet is a [[HeWhoFightsMonsters particularly extreme]] anti-Fire Nation resistance leader), [[spoiler:and Jet dies under Lake Laogai]].
*** Jet/Azula. Despite the fact that they have never met and would almost certainly try to kill each other on sight if they did. [[BelligerentSexualTension Or maybe because of that]].
*** [[http://fc09.deviantart.net/fs23/f/2008/002/0/d/Crack_ship_JunSpark_by_AlisaChristopher.png June/Combustion Man]] anyone?
*** The Zutara (Zuko/Katara) ship started out this way. Yes, they ran into each other half a dozen times in the first season, but with the exception of one scene where Zuko tried to barter Katara's necklace for Aang, he never even spoke to her. The second season was even worse. It wasn't until the season finale that Zuko and Katara had any real interaction with each other, but the Zutara ship was already running strong by then. Helped by the fact that, while WordOfGod was incredulous about the pairing, [[WordOfSaintPaul some people who have worked on the show]] are on record for thinking it could have worked out.
*** June/Piandao is another one that's appeared.
*** Haru/Ty Lee were paired in the Super Deformed Shorts, despite never meeting.
*** A few works feature Mai being married off to Ozai. Mai is friends with Ozai's daughter and the girlfriend of his son, but the two don't interact.
** ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'':
*** There's a surprising amount of [[ToyShip Jinora/Skoochy]] fic. One is Tenzin's CuteBookworm airbender daughter and the other's a street rat who trades information for money, and naturally they've never met; it's just that, for two seasons, he was the only canon boy her age. This pairing has largely died down since the introduction of [[TheArtfulDodger Kai]] since he's ''also'' a sneaky street rat her age, and [[LoveInterest they actually get together]].
*** Bolin and Lin was a semi-popular ship after Book One, in a PairTheSpares kind of way, despite the age difference. They are in a lot of crowd scenes together, but their only interaction with each other was the time Lin busts Bolin and Mako out of jail. However, in that scene, Lin zips up Bolin's fly for him, which caused all manner of reactions from the internet. This died down once Bolin got a LoveInterest in Lin's niece Opal. Bolin and Lin also get more interaction in the fourth season, so they don't count even for those who still ship them.
*** Lin and Kya are kind of an odd example. They are in very few scenes together and never speak directly to each other on screen, but they have to know each other pretty well because, despite Kya being several years older than Lin, they were probably raised together thanks to their parents' friendship, in addition to Lin once being in a serious relationship with Kya's younger brother.
*** There even appear to be those who quietly ship Lin with the acupuncturist from season three, even though he doesn't play a particularly big role. Seems those needles just lend themselves to the imagination.
*** Kya and Izumi have their fans. Izumi only appears in two scenes and speaks in one of those and never interacts with Kya, but due to their parents being close friends, it's likely that they've met. Kya is gay and single but Izumi is presumably married to a man given that she has two kids.
*** Kya’s brother Bumi also gets shipped with Izumi. Once again, they never interacted in the show and while they’ve presumably met, she’s probably married to someone else.
* ''WesternAnimation/DangerMouse'', During the first season of the 2015 reboot of the show, some fans latched onto pairing Danger Mouse with his accident-prone fellow agent Danger Moth despite the fact the characters barely spent less than a few seconds together in some episodes. An even better example would come from the fans who opted to 'ship Danger Moth in a lesbian relationship with Professor Squawkencluck, despite the fact neither character ever interacted at all.
* ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017'':
** Some of the fanbase ships Delpad (Della Duck/Launchpad [=McQuack=]), despite the fact that as far as we know, they've never even met. Reasons range from [[ThemePairing both of them being daring-to-the-point-of-reckless pilots]] to both of them having a close relationship with the Duck/[=McDuck=] family. [[spoiler:When they finally meet, Della's immediate reaction is to angrily yell that he's not taking her job before running out of the room, to Launchpad's brief confusion... followed by him yelling out a cheerfully oblivious "Nice to meet you!" back at her.]]
** A somewhat notable ship in the fanbase is Louna (Louie/Lena) due to both of them being the sarcastic troublemakers of their respective groups. In canon, however, the two rarely interact, and out of all the children, Lena is the only one who Louie never spent time alone with.
** Donald Duck/Fenton Crackshell-Cabrera is another ship that appears pretty frequently in the fandom, despite the two of them never having even said so much as a word to each other during the show's run.
* ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans2003''
** Robin/Raven used to be this way. Of all the Titans, they interacted the least, yet people liked pairing them up because they liked the aesthetics of it: both were the most serious Titans, both were named after birds so writers could do a contrived "birds of a feather" metaphor, etc. It wasn't until the Trigon StoryArc where Raven started confiding in Robin more and scenes like Robin rescuing a [[MindRape mindraped]] and [[ClothingDamage clothing-torn]] Raven that shippers finally had decent canon stuff to write off of.
** Blackfire and Red X. Never met, but the pairing serves as an EvilCounterpart to the official couple of Robin and Starfire.
** Even more extreme is Slarella -- Slade and Arella. One is an enemy of the Titans living in their dimension, and the other is the mother of a Titan living in an alternate dimension.
** Although they've only met about three or four times throughout the entire series, and all times in a relatively dispassionate skirmish, Raven x Jinx happens to be one of the most popular femslash couples of them all, second only to Raven x Starfire.
** Jericho and Raven are a popular pairing despite never interacting. This is because they had a romance in the source comics.
** Jericho is also commonly shipped with Kole despite them not interacting, again due to their relationship in the comics.
* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'':
** [[DeadpanSnarker Craig]]/[[NervousWreck Tweek]] is the most popular pairing after Stan/Kyle and [[FoeYayShipping Cartman/Kyle]]. In the first eighteen seasons, there was only one episode where they directly interacted with dialogue -- "Tweek Vs. Craig", where the other boys trick them into fighting each other. They occasionally appeared in the background within the same friend group in later episodes but never interacted directly in these instances. Eventually, Creator/TreyParkerAndMattStone became aware of this pairing and gave Tweek and Craig their own OhCrapThereAreFanficsOfUs episode, "[[Recap/SouthParkS19E6TweekXCraig Tweek x Craig]]", which [[spoiler:ends with them giving into peer pressure and feigning a relationship]]. However, by the episode "[[Recap/SouthParkS21E2PutItDown Put It Down]]." they seem to have started [[spoiler:to have actually [[OfficialCouple officially dating]], with Craig using pet names in private conversation]]. This was further confirmed by WordOfGod on Twitter.
** There's more than a few shippers for Stan and Ike, despite the interaction between the two being nothing more than Ike being the little brother of Stan's best friend. A similar following for Cartman and Ike also exists.
** Kenny/Butters, or Bunny, is surprisingly popular; while they do both appear among the main characters [[TheFriendsWhoNeverHang they don't actually interact]] -- Butters is almost always played against Cartman, while Kenny usually appears with Stan and Kyle in newer episodes, [[DemotedToExtra if at all]]. The two did receive screentime together during "Going Native," -- when the episode was announced, fan reactions prompted voice actress April Stewart to ask fans on Twitter what "Bunny" was.
** Shelly/Kevin [=McCormick=] has been fairly popular since the show's earliest seasons. This is chiefly based on the fact they appear to be the same age, have braces, and are older siblings of two of the main boys. Shelly is generally OutOfFocus while Kevin is a LivingProp whose spoken lines can be counted on one hand; consequently, they've never interacted and have only shared one scene together.
** Kenny/Bebe is a surprisingly popular straight pairing (for either character), but in the show, the two rarely interact. This is probably because Kenny is a LovableSexManiac while Bebe has a [[NeverLiveItDown fandom reputation]] of being a slut. The biggest interactions they have had is that Bebe has been responsible for [[TheyKilledKennyAgain two of Kenny's deaths]].
** Kevin Stoley and Red were seen together in background scenes extremely frequently in the show's early seasons, and seem to trade one line of dialogue ("Let's trade sandwiches") leading to the implication among fans they were friends, or perhaps more -- but they never interacted in dialogue otherwise, and Red was mentioned dating other boys. During the show's twentieth season, in "Skank Hunt", they are seen breaking up among the show's other canon heterosexual couples, revealing that they did, in fact, have a relationship.
** Some consider Heidi and Cartman's relationship, first developed in Season 20, as an example of this trope. While the two characters have a long list of small, incidental interactions in previous episodes, none of them contributed to the narrative, leading many fans to ignore these as coincidental or only retroactively significant. These smaller interactions, however, also lead to fans shipping them for over ten years before they became linked officially.
* ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama''
** Especially in the early years, the fandom had a subset that seemed dedicated to crack pairings (including {{Fandom VIP}}s Creator/WinterRae and Creator/TheKoboldNecromancer, though the latter's [[Fanfic/TotalDramaComebackSeries most famous work]] mostly uses canon couples). [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} Izzy]]/[[HomeschooledKids Ezekiel]], [[InsufferableGenius Noah]]/[[GenkiGirl Katie]], [[GentleGiant DJ]]/[[JerkJock Eva]], [[LovableJock Tyler]]/[[PerkyGoth Gwen]], [[ChivalrousPervert Cody]]/[[GranolaGirl Bridgette]], Cody/[[GenkiGirl Sadie]] and DJ/[[LoonyFan Sierra]] all became fairly popular despite having little or no canon basis.
** [[FanNickname Billy the Intern/Emily The Flight Attendant]] from the fourth aftermath of ''Action''.
** [[ChickMagnet Trent]] and [[WellExcuseMePrincess Courtney]] are a popular fanon couple, even though Trent may be the contestant Courtney has talked to ''least'' on the whole show. Originally it was just ShipMates for Duncan/Gwen, but it's developed a small following of its own.
** With the introduction of [[CastHerd new casts]] in later seasons and [[WesternAnimation/TotalDramaPresentsTheRidonculousRace the spin-off]], pairing characters from different "generations" is also fairly popular.
* Out of the three main fan pairings during the early years of the ''Franchise/Ben10'' fandom, Gwen/Kevin was this in comparison to [[KissingCousins Ben/Gwen]] and [[FoeYayShipping Ben/Kevin]]. The latter two groups had mountains of character interactions to serve as evidence for their plausibility, while the former had the duo barely interact... which is why the entire fanbase called foul when Gwen and Kevin [[StrangledByTheRedString awkwardly]] became the first OfficialCouple in the franchise, in the early episodes of ''WesternAnimation/Ben10AlienForce''. This was seen as [[RomanticPlotTumor so forced]], it had the effect of stopping approximately no one from shipping [[PortmanteauCoupleName Bwen or Bwevin]]. At least until the couple's dynamic solidified as the franchise went on, and even then, support for this ship was arugably helped the most by ''WesternAnimation/Ben10Omniverse'' giving Ben a plethora of more options.
* ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'' has Ferb and Gretchen (the Fireside Girl who wears glasses). Despite Ferb's PrecociousCrush on Vanessa and their lack of onscreen interaction, it's a very popular ship. It seems to have started just because she was the first girl his age (other than Isabella) to get a name, though it makes sense in a PairTheSmartOnes sort of way.
* Just try to tell some of the ''WesternAnimation/WolverineAndTheXMen2009'' fans that [[DitzyGenius Forge]] and [[UglyCute Toad]] have never so much as been in the same room together. That doesn't stop them from being rather plausible if they ever did meet, or the fact that their ship is hands-down ''the'' cutest one in the fandom.
* You can count on one hand the number of times that Prowl and Jazz, in any version of ''Franchise/TransformersGenerationOne'', interacted in any significant way -- and according to FFN, they're the biggest pairing in the whole franchise. It's at the point where, if one of them exists in a universe and the other doesn't, people will write fics that [[CanonImmigrant add a functionally-identical counterpart of the other one to that universe]] to facilitate maintaining the ship. It seems to arise from a mixture of 90s fandom drama, the idea that Jazz's personality (party animal) and Prowl's (TheSpock) might have some interesting interactions, and from the fact that they're both white cars from the same year. It's even seen as something of an "easy" ship, as it lacks the messier implications of, say, [[FetishizedAbuser Megatron and Starscream]], [[{{Twincest}} Sunstreaker and Sideswipe,]] or any of Prowl's actual canon pairings. For a decent period, the pairing had one of the most fervent listings on the HoYay page for ''Transformers''... despite having literally no actual examples.
** A franchise-wide one would be [[FoeYayShipping Optimus Prime/Starscream]], which has some amount of fans for the extreme OppositesAttract element of TheHero and TheDragon...never mind that for over twenty years and counting of multiple continuities, they still have yet to have any kind of relationship beyond the standard "Autobot and Decepticon trying to kill each other in a fight" enmity.
* ''WesternAnimation/TransformersAnimated'':
** Prowl and Blackarachnia only met once [[spoiler:and all she did was poison him so she could manipulate Optimus]]. But his FriendToAllLivingThings and her self-loathing for her technorganic BodyHorror had a strange appeal for fans.
** Blurr/Longarm [[spoiler: (a.k.a. Shockwave)]] is a very popular ship, despite the only interaction they ever had was when [[spoiler:the former ''was crushed into a cube'' by the latter.]]
** Bumblebee/Blitzwing has also garnered a following, though they only had one significant scene and it was PlayedForLaughs (Bumblebee tricks Blitzwing into triple-changing to a tank so that he falls into ice while flying).
* ''WesternAnimation/TransformersPrime'' has Knock Out and Arcee. The two of them barely spoken and have little interaction with each other, and the little they have is hostile. Yet this seems to be the fan favorite pairing if fanfiction has anything to say about it.
* ''WesternAnimation/InvaderZim'':
** Zim/Gaz have had just a few scenes together, and [[FanPreferredCouple it's the second most popular ship in the entire fandom and the most popular het pairing]], mostly because they're both kind of evil. That’s until it’s revealed that [[{{Squick}} Zim is older than any human alive and Gaz is just about eleven.]]
** [[HeroAntagonist Dib]]/[[OCStandIn Gretchen]] is an odd example. They only interact in about two episodes, and in one of them, Gretchen doesn't even speak. However, that silent appearance makes it very clear that she has a crush on him. It comes nowhere near [[FoeYayShipping Zim/Dib]] or [[DatingCatwoman Dib/Tak]] in popularity, but the ship has its supporters for being the most "normal" and [[NoHuggingNoKissing only real canon]] couple on the show.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'' fandom has Chester and Trixie, and Chester and Veronica. Remy and Trixie never interact but are a popular BetaCouple to Timmy/Tootie
* A fair number of ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'' fans support [[OppositeSexClone Dani]]/[[BrattyHalfPint Youngblood]], even though they never meet, as they're the only two recurring "kid" characters.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Daria}}'' has a few examples--some fans ship [[HomeschooledKids Ted]] with [[TheWoobie Stacy]], for example, because they're both generally kind people. [[HairTriggerTemper Mr. DeMartino]] and [[HippieTeacher Ms. Defoe]], the most notable teachers to still be single at the end of the series, are also sometimes paired together.
** A semi-official example: the WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue implies that [[TheAlcoholic Lindy]] and [[DepravedBisexual Alison]] get together and raise a group of foster kids on a farm. Both are one-off characters and there's no indication that they ever met. WordOfGod says that the epilogue need not be considered canon, though.
** The finale also somewhat randomly had [[ExtravertedNerd Upchuck]] hook up with EnsembleDarkhorse [[{{Goth}} Andrea]].
* A small number of ''WesternAnimation/HeyArnold'' fans pair [[StalkerWithACrush Brainy]]/[[ParodySue Lila]] as a {{Ship Mate|s}} for [[OfficialCouple Helga/Arnold]]. It's PairTheSpares to be sure, but when you consider that Lila liked [[CreepyChild Arnie]], who's possibly even ''weirder'' than Brainy, it actually makes a bit of sense.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Hilda}}'' fans like to ship Johanna (Hilda's mother) with Kaisa (the librarian); so far, in two seasons and a movie, these two characters have never had any on-screen interaction.
* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'':
** Due to the ImprobablyFemaleCast, female/male pairings that don't involve Big Macintosh are very prone to this. It says a lot that even after the show's nine-season run, Soarin'/Applejack remained one of the more plausible ones... and all he did was buy a pie from her back in season one. Meanwhile, ones like Twilight Sparkle/[[AllThereInTheScript Doctor Hooves]] and Pinkie Pie/[[FanNickname Pokey Pierce]] are not uncommon.
** Speaking of which, Big Macintosh [[TheQuietOne hasn't spoken to many ponies]] apart from his sisters, but that doesn't stop anyone. [[TwiceShy Big Macintosh/Fluttershy]] is easily one of the most popular het pairings (behind [[PrecociousCrush Rarity/Spike]] and [[OfficialCouple Cadence/Shining Armor]]) despite them only interacting in one episode... which aired three years ''after'' the ship became popular.
** [[LargeHam The Grrrrreat and powerful Trixie]] demands you ship her with everypony despite having no meaningful interactions with anypony but Twilight, Starlight Glimmer, and Maud! The Great and Powerful Trixie especially demands to be shipped with [[PairTheSpares Luna and Zecora]], two individuals she has never met in the show's entire nine-season run, simply on the basis that all three [[StrangeSyntaxSpeaker speak in a distinctive and unusual manner!]]
** [[AllThereInTheScript Lyra Heartstrings and Bon Bon]] are only seen in the background standing next to each other, but [[http://chzbronies.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/my-little-pony-friendship-is-magic-brony-because-absolutley-all-of-the-fanbase-loves-shipping.jpg it gives the fans ideas]]… to the point that the two are [[OneTruePairing easily the most widely-accepted pairing in the whole show]]. The show has [[FandomNod acknowledged this]] by placing them next to each other on the official posters and purposefully giving them ShipTease-filled {{Funny Background Event}}s in the second season onward, until the ninth season had them just straight up [[AscendedFanon propose marriage to each other in the background]].
** That isn't the only example of shipping background characters, as another popular and widely accepted ship in the community is [[AllThereInTheScript DJ Pon-3 (a.k.a. Vinyl Scratch)]] and [[AllThereInTheScript Octavia Melody]]. It started with fans juxtaposing the two [[{{Foil}} for]] [[StraightManAndWiseGuy humorous]] [[VitriolicBestBuds effect]], since they represent conflicting musical aesthetics. However, the sheer volume of such fan works was enough to [[ShippingGoggles get the gears turning]] for the community's shippers, to the point that a large chunk of fan art, fiction, comics, etc. involving the two is now shipping-based. DJ Pon-3 also has a growing Shipdom with [[FanNickname Neon Lights/EmCee W1SH]], who in popular fanon is seen as another musician who has a friendly rivalry with her. It took until [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS5E9SliceOfLife the 100th episode]], [[AscendedMeme which was explicitly made]] [[FandomNod as a love letter to the fans]], that she and Octavia appeared in the same scene, revealed to be roommates. Meanwhile, DJ Pon-3 only appears in the same episode as Neon Lights in [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E26ACanterlotWeddingPart2 the Season 2 finale]].
** When the fandom decided that the Creator/DavidTennant-looking stallion with an hourglass cutie mark was named [[Series/DoctorWho Doctor Whooves]] (which became AscendedFanon) and made a living of travelling through time and space, the most popular pony to appoint as his companion was [[TheDitz Derpy]] [[TheKlutz Hooves]], thanks to the obvious HilarityEnsues potential; the widespread shipping was the next logical step, despite the two having no discernible relationship in the show. This got a FandomNod when the two were shown [[ShipTease spending the pony equivalent of Valentine's Day together]].
** Invoked in "Hearts and Hooves Day", in which the Cutie Mark Crusaders try and pair up Big Macintosh (of course) and their teacher Cheerilee, two ponies who before this episode never even stood next to each other. It goes about as well as expected, though the episode also reveals that the two were classmates when they were younger.
** For quite some time, Scootaloo and Rumble have been a popular ship, despite Rumble spending most of the series as a background pony with few speaking roles. It wasn't until late season 7 in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS7E22MarksAndRecreation Marks and Recreation]]" that those two directly interacted with one another in any context, and [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicIDWIssue81 issue 81 of the IDW comic]] is the only official work to give them any one-on-one time.
* In ''WesternAnimation/XMenEvolution'' fandom, Pietro/X-23 and Kurt/X-23 are very popular ships. Her and Kurt's closest interaction being off-screen and involving her knocking him out, and her and Pietro's closest interaction only happening in people's imaginations. Kitty and Pietro is slightly more believable but even more jarring as the two have interacted, and by 'interacted' we mean Pietro insults her, she glares at him, and once threatens him.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Recess}}'' fans tend to ship Hustler Kid and Butch, who hardly interact in the series.
* ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice2010'': "Wonder Beetle" (Wonder Girl/Blue Beetle) is a surprisingly popular ship, seeing as the two characters have yet to exchange any dialogue on the show. The tie-in comics though have the Scarab note that seeing Wonder Girl causes [[MySensorsIndicateYouWantToTapThat "bio-chemical changes"]] to him.
* CJ/Thomas from ''WesternAnimation/RegularShow''. They've never met, and Thomas didn't debut until after her first appearance in "Yes Dude Yes".
* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'':
** Ms. Keane and oneshot character Mr. Green from "Substitute Creature." Quite a few fans ship these two together, even though they've never interacted onscreen. Part of the popularity of this pairing may come from the fact that they're both very nice teachers.
** Also Mr. Green and HIM. In fact, any of the characters from the show with Mr. Green since he was only in one episode and the only characters he interacts with are the girls and their classmates.
* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'':
** Lapis/Peridot used to be seen as this before the third season, as until then, the closest they got to interacting was just being in the same scene. This is largely due to them being the only known Homeworld Gems until Jasper showed up at the end of the first season. And even when they do begin interacting, Lapis showcases every negative emotion short of murderous intent towards Peridot. However, by the end of the season, the two are happily cohabitating.
** Fans who prefer Peridot with someone else tend to ship Lapis with Pearl; you'd be hard-pressed to find a point where the two have directly interacted, and they're implied to be not fond of each other. The noticeable parallels between the two and their similar builds seem to have driven this one. Their voice actors once [[https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/070/024/c28.jpg jokingly reenacted]] a piece of Pearlapis fanart.
** Pairing {{fusion|Dance}}s with each other is not only this trope in the usual way, but in some cases, like Opal/Sugilite, it is ''physically impossible'' for the two to exist at the same time (both share Amethyst as one of their components).
** Blue Pearl, Yellow Pearl, and Pearl never interacted -- heck, Blue Pearl doesn't even speak until "Steven's Dream" -- but fans instantly began shipping combinations of them together.
** Greg/Jasper (termed "Grasper") is a somewhat common ship, despite the fact that they've never interacted. It seems to mostly stem from a mix of PairTheSpares and Greg's well-established love of women with Jasper's build.
** Jasper and Pearl has a following despite the extremely minimal interaction between them in Season 1. Many fans enjoy the contrast in their characters and their size difference.
** Kiki Pizza and Ronaldo Fryman. Some of the few scenes where they are together, (dancing next to each other during Steven's song with the Gems, their family restaurants being next door to each other, Ronaldo including Kiki and titling her as a Pizza Heiress in his documentary) along with some comments about Kiki from Ronaldo's blog on Tumblr, provide "proof" for fans of this ship. This ship got a FandomNod in one episode, where the two pretend to be dating as part of a plan to stop their dads from fighting.
** Holly Blue Agate/Andy [=DeMayo=] has fanart for it, despite the fact that the two have never even been on the same planet. This one seems to come from their shared traditionalist mindset and tendency towards jerkishness.
** It didn't take long for fans of the film to start shipping Spinel with Pink Pearl. The color palette, personality contrast, and shared trauma and background all provided some pretty heavy incentives. Though the two have ''probably'' met, they've never shared a scene, and Pink Pearl herself had only had [[OCStandIn one line in the entire first series]] at the time when Spinel was introduced. While shippers had hoped for a scene between the two, ''[[WesternAnimation/StevenUniverseFuture Future]]'' featured both characters, but neither one was in the same episode.
* ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda'': Crane and Viper has a shipdom that actually caught the attention of Crane's TV voice actor, who now supports it.
* Talia/Mephisto is quite a popular ship among the ''WesternAnimation/LoliRock'' fandom, even though they barely interact outside of fight scenes. If anything, Mephisto appears to be more romantically interested in Auriana than Talia, calling her "cute and talented" at one point.
* ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor'': Numbuh 86 and Numbuh 60 is a rather popular ship, despite the fact that they never really had any onscreen interaction. (The closest was Operation: T.R.A.I.N.I.N.G., when Arctic Base got a distress signal from Moonbase. And even that turned out to be just Father disguised as Numbuh 86.)
* ''WesternAnimation/StarVsTheForcesOfEvil'':
** Tom and Janna started out as this, being a case of PairTheSpares for Star/Marco, bolestered by Janna being an occultist and Tom an actual demon, so. Eventually subverted, as by Season 4, the two interact far more frequently (both with each other and as part of the wider friend group).
** A straighter example would be Tom and Jackie, who are also shipped as a PairTheSpares couple, even though the closest the two have come to interacting in canon is Jackie staring at Tom as he walks past her in his debut episode.
* Riyo Chuchi and Commander Fox ("Foxiyo") is a somewhat uncommon ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars'' pairing between two minor characters that has a small, yet fiercely dedicated fanbase, and most likely exists because it offers a different perspective of the war and clone life than more popular pairings involving Clone Troopers on deployment, such as Ahsoka Tano and Captain Rex, or Obi-Wan Kenobi and Marshal Commander Cody. Not only is there is no indication in canon that either character is or has ever been aware at any point that the other exists, Fox has almost nonexistent canon characterization and his face is never even shown, and what little he does have makes him highly unsympathetic. Fanfiction authors see this as an opportunity to recharacterize Fox, creating a personality for him out of whole cloth that not only makes him sympathetic, but attractive to someone like Riyo.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse''
** Clyde/Lynn has a bit of a following for it, even though the two hardly interact and their connection is mainly through Lincoln, who is Clyde’s best friend and Lynn’s brother.
** There are also people who ship Lincoln with Luna’s crush, Sam, even though it has yet to be established if Sam even knows Lincoln.
** The "Luaggie" pairing, consisting of Luan and Maggie, the EmoTeen from "Funny Business". They exchange no lines and Maggie has [[OneShotCharacter yet to appear again]], yet the fanbase loves to ship them.
* The Chase/Kimiko pairing (or [[PortmanteauCoupleName Chamiko)]] is surprisingly popular in the ''WesternAnimation/XiaolinShowdown'' fandom, despite them barely interacting with each other (Chase barely interacts with any other monk beside Omi), as well as being [[FoeYayShipping on opposite sides]]. They do interact more in the [[WesternAnimation/XiaolinChronicles sequel]], however, but their interactions are more hostile than romantic ( [[BelligerentSexualTension or not?]]).
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Jem}}'': Stormer and Riot are paired together in more than a few works, despite having no significant interactions. In canon, Stormer also dislikes Riot. OppositesAttract and PairTheSpares are the reason behind the ship.
* ''WesternAnimation/MiloMurphysLaw'':
** Fans of Milo/Melissa tend to ship Milo's crush [[ThePerfectionist Amanda]] with [[PairTheSpares Zack]], the remainder of [[ThreeAmigos the main trio]]. Ironically, Amanda and Zack don't interact much at all until [[LoveEpiphany Amanda starts crushing on Milo back]] and starts joining the trio on their activities as a result.
** There are also people that ship Bradley with [[ThePollyanna Lydia]] due to OppositesAttract and CastingGag[[note]]Bradley is voiced by Vincent Martella, and Lydia is voiced by Alyson Stoner. These are the voice actors of Phineas and Isabella (respectively), the OfficialCouple of ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'', the show the creators of ''Milo Murphy's Law'' previously worked on[[/note]]. The two never share a single line of dialogue.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheGhostAndMollyMcGee'': Some fans have begun to ship Andrea Davenport with Robyn, despite the two of them never interacting and Robyn being little more than a minor background character who has yet to speak.
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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Arcane}}'': Melvika (Mel/Sevika) is surprisingly popular in AlternateUniverse fics despite the two characters having never met in canon. This might have something to do with them being the most prominent women of color in the series. They're often portrayed as having a steady, low-key relationship in contrast to the more dramatic main couple (usually Caitlyn/Vi or Jayce/Viktor).
* ''Franchise/AvatarTheLastAirbender'':
** ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'':
*** [[ToyShip Toph/the Duke]] and Toph/Teo are popular ShipMates for the [[OfficialCouple canon pairings]]. The former's sole interaction is Duke letting Toph use his helmet as a barf bag during "The Day of Black Sun", and a hug in the finale (during the finale commentary, the creators coyly [[TrollingCreator point out the hug]]). There's hardly any at all for the latter.
*** Ursa, meet Hakoda, Hakoda, meet Ursa, I think you'll get along great. Oh yeah, we ship Ursoda. ThemePairing: opposite-gender single parents of two major characters each. Pulled off exceptionally well [[Fanfic/GuideMeHome here]]. Although both have been given different canonical love interests in the post-series comics.
*** Azula and Toph are starting to gain a small fanbase. The two only talk once, in "The Day of the Black Sun", when Azula proves she can get past Toph's LivingLieDetector ability. After being asked "Who is Lin's father?" one too many times, one of the writers decided that [[http://i.imgur.com/EaMQTMY.jpg it's Azula.]] That caused a boost in fans.
*** Some [[FanPreferredCouple Zutarians]] like to ship off [[DeadpanSnarker Mai]] with Jet, despite the fact that they never meet, are on opposite sides of the war(Mai's a Fire Nation noble, while Jet is a [[HeWhoFightsMonsters particularly extreme]] anti-Fire Nation resistance leader), [[spoiler:and Jet dies under Lake Laogai]].
*** Jet/Azula. Despite the fact that they have never met and would almost certainly try to kill each other on sight if they did. [[BelligerentSexualTension Or maybe because of that]].
*** [[http://fc09.deviantart.net/fs23/f/2008/002/0/d/Crack_ship_JunSpark_by_AlisaChristopher.png June/Combustion Man]] anyone?
*** The Zutara (Zuko/Katara) ship started out this way. Yes, they ran into each other half a dozen times in the first season, but with the exception of one scene where Zuko tried to barter Katara's necklace for Aang, he never even spoke to her. The second season was even worse. It wasn't until the season finale that Zuko and Katara had any real interaction with each other, but the Zutara ship was already running strong by then. Helped by the fact that, while WordOfGod was incredulous about the pairing, [[WordOfSaintPaul some people who have worked on the show]] are on record for thinking it could have worked out.
*** June/Piandao is another one that's appeared.
*** Haru/Ty Lee were paired in the Super Deformed Shorts, despite never meeting.
*** A few works feature Mai being married off to Ozai. Mai is friends with Ozai's daughter and the girlfriend of his son, but the two don't interact.
** ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'':
*** There's a surprising amount of [[ToyShip Jinora/Skoochy]] fic. One is Tenzin's CuteBookworm airbender daughter and the other's a street rat who trades information for money, and naturally they've never met; it's just that, for two seasons, he was the only canon boy her age. This pairing has largely died down since the introduction of [[TheArtfulDodger Kai]] since he's ''also'' a sneaky street rat her age, and [[LoveInterest they actually get together]].
*** Bolin and Lin was a semi-popular ship after Book One, in a PairTheSpares kind of way, despite the age difference. They are in a lot of crowd scenes together, but their only interaction with each other was the time Lin busts Bolin and Mako out of jail. However, in that scene, Lin zips up Bolin's fly for him, which caused all manner of reactions from the internet. This died down once Bolin got a LoveInterest in Lin's niece Opal. Bolin and Lin also get more interaction in the fourth season, so they don't count even for those who still ship them.
*** Lin and Kya are kind of an odd example. They are in very few scenes together and never speak directly to each other on screen, but they have to know each other pretty well because, despite Kya being several years older than Lin, they were probably raised together thanks to their parents' friendship, in addition to Lin once being in a serious relationship with Kya's younger brother.
*** There even appear to be those who quietly ship Lin with the acupuncturist from season three, even though he doesn't play a particularly big role. Seems those needles just lend themselves to the imagination.
*** Kya and Izumi have their fans. Izumi only appears in two scenes and speaks in one of those and never interacts with Kya, but due to their parents being close friends, it's likely that they've met. Kya is gay and single but Izumi is presumably married to a man given that she has two kids.
*** Kya’s brother Bumi also gets shipped with Izumi. Once again, they never interacted in the show and while they’ve presumably met, she’s probably married to someone else.
* ''WesternAnimation/DangerMouse'', During the first season of the 2015 reboot of the show, some fans latched onto pairing Danger Mouse with his accident-prone fellow agent Danger Moth despite the fact the characters barely spent less than a few seconds together in some episodes. An even better example would come from the fans who opted to 'ship Danger Moth in a lesbian relationship with Professor Squawkencluck, despite the fact neither character ever interacted at all.
* ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017'':
** Some of the fanbase ships Delpad (Della Duck/Launchpad [=McQuack=]), despite the fact that as far as we know, they've never even met. Reasons range from [[ThemePairing both of them being daring-to-the-point-of-reckless pilots]] to both of them having a close relationship with the Duck/[=McDuck=] family. [[spoiler:When they finally meet, Della's immediate reaction is to angrily yell that he's not taking her job before running out of the room, to Launchpad's brief confusion... followed by him yelling out a cheerfully oblivious "Nice to meet you!" back at her.]]
** A somewhat notable ship in the fanbase is Louna (Louie/Lena) due to both of them being the sarcastic troublemakers of their respective groups. In canon, however, the two rarely interact, and out of all the children, Lena is the only one who Louie never spent time alone with.
** Donald Duck/Fenton Crackshell-Cabrera is another ship that appears pretty frequently in the fandom, despite the two of them never having even said so much as a word to each other during the show's run.
* ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans2003''
** Robin/Raven used to be this way. Of all the Titans, they interacted the least, yet people liked pairing them up because they liked the aesthetics of it: both were the most serious Titans, both were named after birds so writers could do a contrived "birds of a feather" metaphor, etc. It wasn't until the Trigon StoryArc where Raven started confiding in Robin more and scenes like Robin rescuing a [[MindRape mindraped]] and [[ClothingDamage clothing-torn]] Raven that shippers finally had decent canon stuff to write off of.
** Blackfire and Red X. Never met, but the pairing serves as an EvilCounterpart to the official couple of Robin and Starfire.
** Even more extreme is Slarella -- Slade and Arella. One is an enemy of the Titans living in their dimension, and the other is the mother of a Titan living in an alternate dimension.
** Although they've only met about three or four times throughout the entire series, and all times in a relatively dispassionate skirmish, Raven x Jinx happens to be one of the most popular femslash couples of them all, second only to Raven x Starfire.
** Jericho and Raven are a popular pairing despite never interacting. This is because they had a romance in the source comics.
** Jericho is also commonly shipped with Kole despite them not interacting, again due to their relationship in the comics.
* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'':
** [[DeadpanSnarker Craig]]/[[NervousWreck Tweek]] is the most popular pairing after Stan/Kyle and [[FoeYayShipping Cartman/Kyle]]. In the first eighteen seasons, there was only one episode where they directly interacted with dialogue -- "Tweek Vs. Craig", where the other boys trick them into fighting each other. They occasionally appeared in the background within the same friend group in later episodes but never interacted directly in these instances. Eventually, Creator/TreyParkerAndMattStone became aware of this pairing and gave Tweek and Craig their own OhCrapThereAreFanficsOfUs episode, "[[Recap/SouthParkS19E6TweekXCraig Tweek x Craig]]", which [[spoiler:ends with them giving into peer pressure and feigning a relationship]]. However, by the episode "[[Recap/SouthParkS21E2PutItDown Put It Down]]." they seem to have started [[spoiler:to have actually [[OfficialCouple officially dating]], with Craig using pet names in private conversation]]. This was further confirmed by WordOfGod on Twitter.
** There's more than a few shippers for Stan and Ike, despite the interaction between the two being nothing more than Ike being the little brother of Stan's best friend. A similar following for Cartman and Ike also exists.
** Kenny/Butters, or Bunny, is surprisingly popular; while they do both appear among the main characters [[TheFriendsWhoNeverHang they don't actually interact]] -- Butters is almost always played against Cartman, while Kenny usually appears with Stan and Kyle in newer episodes, [[DemotedToExtra if at all]]. The two did receive screentime together during "Going Native," -- when the episode was announced, fan reactions prompted voice actress April Stewart to ask fans on Twitter what "Bunny" was.
** Shelly/Kevin [=McCormick=] has been fairly popular since the show's earliest seasons. This is chiefly based on the fact they appear to be the same age, have braces, and are older siblings of two of the main boys. Shelly is generally OutOfFocus while Kevin is a LivingProp whose spoken lines can be counted on one hand; consequently, they've never interacted and have only shared one scene together.
** Kenny/Bebe is a surprisingly popular straight pairing (for either character), but in the show, the two rarely interact. This is probably because Kenny is a LovableSexManiac while Bebe has a [[NeverLiveItDown fandom reputation]] of being a slut. The biggest interactions they have had is that Bebe has been responsible for [[TheyKilledKennyAgain two of Kenny's deaths]].
** Kevin Stoley and Red were seen together in background scenes extremely frequently in the show's early seasons, and seem to trade one line of dialogue ("Let's trade sandwiches") leading to the implication among fans they were friends, or perhaps more -- but they never interacted in dialogue otherwise, and Red was mentioned dating other boys. During the show's twentieth season, in "Skank Hunt", they are seen breaking up among the show's other canon heterosexual couples, revealing that they did, in fact, have a relationship.
** Some consider Heidi and Cartman's relationship, first developed in Season 20, as an example of this trope. While the two characters have a long list of small, incidental interactions in previous episodes, none of them contributed to the narrative, leading many fans to ignore these as coincidental or only retroactively significant. These smaller interactions, however, also lead to fans shipping them for over ten years before they became linked officially.
* ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama''
** Especially in the early years, the fandom had a subset that seemed dedicated to crack pairings (including {{Fandom VIP}}s Creator/WinterRae and Creator/TheKoboldNecromancer, though the latter's [[Fanfic/TotalDramaComebackSeries most famous work]] mostly uses canon couples). [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} Izzy]]/[[HomeschooledKids Ezekiel]], [[InsufferableGenius Noah]]/[[GenkiGirl Katie]], [[GentleGiant DJ]]/[[JerkJock Eva]], [[LovableJock Tyler]]/[[PerkyGoth Gwen]], [[ChivalrousPervert Cody]]/[[GranolaGirl Bridgette]], Cody/[[GenkiGirl Sadie]] and DJ/[[LoonyFan Sierra]] all became fairly popular despite having little or no canon basis.
** [[FanNickname Billy the Intern/Emily The Flight Attendant]] from the fourth aftermath of ''Action''.
** [[ChickMagnet Trent]] and [[WellExcuseMePrincess Courtney]] are a popular fanon couple, even though Trent may be the contestant Courtney has talked to ''least'' on the whole show. Originally it was just ShipMates for Duncan/Gwen, but it's developed a small following of its own.
** With the introduction of [[CastHerd new casts]] in later seasons and [[WesternAnimation/TotalDramaPresentsTheRidonculousRace the spin-off]], pairing characters from different "generations" is also fairly popular.
* Out of the three main fan pairings during the early years of the ''Franchise/Ben10'' fandom, Gwen/Kevin was this in comparison to [[KissingCousins Ben/Gwen]] and [[FoeYayShipping Ben/Kevin]]. The latter two groups had mountains of character interactions to serve as evidence for their plausibility, while the former had the duo barely interact... which is why the entire fanbase called foul when Gwen and Kevin [[StrangledByTheRedString awkwardly]] became the first OfficialCouple in the franchise, in the early episodes of ''WesternAnimation/Ben10AlienForce''. This was seen as [[RomanticPlotTumor so forced]], it had the effect of stopping approximately no one from shipping [[PortmanteauCoupleName Bwen or Bwevin]]. At least until the couple's dynamic solidified as the franchise went on, and even then, support for this ship was arugably helped the most by ''WesternAnimation/Ben10Omniverse'' giving Ben a plethora of more options.
* ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'' has Ferb and Gretchen (the Fireside Girl who wears glasses). Despite Ferb's PrecociousCrush on Vanessa and their lack of onscreen interaction, it's a very popular ship. It seems to have started just because she was the first girl his age (other than Isabella) to get a name, though it makes sense in a PairTheSmartOnes sort of way.
* Just try to tell some of the ''WesternAnimation/WolverineAndTheXMen2009'' fans that [[DitzyGenius Forge]] and [[UglyCute Toad]] have never so much as been in the same room together. That doesn't stop them from being rather plausible if they ever did meet, or the fact that their ship is hands-down ''the'' cutest one in the fandom.
* You can count on one hand the number of times that Prowl and Jazz, in any version of ''Franchise/TransformersGenerationOne'', interacted in any significant way -- and according to FFN, they're the biggest pairing in the whole franchise. It's at the point where, if one of them exists in a universe and the other doesn't, people will write fics that [[CanonImmigrant add a functionally-identical counterpart of the other one to that universe]] to facilitate maintaining the ship. It seems to arise from a mixture of 90s fandom drama, the idea that Jazz's personality (party animal) and Prowl's (TheSpock) might have some interesting interactions, and from the fact that they're both white cars from the same year. It's even seen as something of an "easy" ship, as it lacks the messier implications of, say, [[FetishizedAbuser Megatron and Starscream]], [[{{Twincest}} Sunstreaker and Sideswipe,]] or any of Prowl's actual canon pairings. For a decent period, the pairing had one of the most fervent listings on the HoYay page for ''Transformers''... despite having literally no actual examples.
** A franchise-wide one would be [[FoeYayShipping Optimus Prime/Starscream]], which has some amount of fans for the extreme OppositesAttract element of TheHero and TheDragon...never mind that for over twenty years and counting of multiple continuities, they still have yet to have any kind of relationship beyond the standard "Autobot and Decepticon trying to kill each other in a fight" enmity.
* ''WesternAnimation/TransformersAnimated'':
** Prowl and Blackarachnia only met once [[spoiler:and all she did was poison him so she could manipulate Optimus]]. But his FriendToAllLivingThings and her self-loathing for her technorganic BodyHorror had a strange appeal for fans.
** Blurr/Longarm [[spoiler: (a.k.a. Shockwave)]] is a very popular ship, despite the only interaction they ever had was when [[spoiler:the former ''was crushed into a cube'' by the latter.]]
** Bumblebee/Blitzwing has also garnered a following, though they only had one significant scene and it was PlayedForLaughs (Bumblebee tricks Blitzwing into triple-changing to a tank so that he falls into ice while flying).
* ''WesternAnimation/TransformersPrime'' has Knock Out and Arcee. The two of them barely spoken and have little interaction with each other, and the little they have is hostile. Yet this seems to be the fan favorite pairing if fanfiction has anything to say about it.
* ''WesternAnimation/InvaderZim'':
** Zim/Gaz have had just a few scenes together, and [[FanPreferredCouple it's the second most popular ship in the entire fandom and the most popular het pairing]], mostly because they're both kind of evil. That’s until it’s revealed that [[{{Squick}} Zim is older than any human alive and Gaz is just about eleven.]]
** [[HeroAntagonist Dib]]/[[OCStandIn Gretchen]] is an odd example. They only interact in about two episodes, and in one of them, Gretchen doesn't even speak. However, that silent appearance makes it very clear that she has a crush on him. It comes nowhere near [[FoeYayShipping Zim/Dib]] or [[DatingCatwoman Dib/Tak]] in popularity, but the ship has its supporters for being the most "normal" and [[NoHuggingNoKissing only real canon]] couple on the show.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'' fandom has Chester and Trixie, and Chester and Veronica. Remy and Trixie never interact but are a popular BetaCouple to Timmy/Tootie
* A fair number of ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'' fans support [[OppositeSexClone Dani]]/[[BrattyHalfPint Youngblood]], even though they never meet, as they're the only two recurring "kid" characters.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Daria}}'' has a few examples--some fans ship [[HomeschooledKids Ted]] with [[TheWoobie Stacy]], for example, because they're both generally kind people. [[HairTriggerTemper Mr. DeMartino]] and [[HippieTeacher Ms. Defoe]], the most notable teachers to still be single at the end of the series, are also sometimes paired together.
** A semi-official example: the WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue implies that [[TheAlcoholic Lindy]] and [[DepravedBisexual Alison]] get together and raise a group of foster kids on a farm. Both are one-off characters and there's no indication that they ever met. WordOfGod says that the epilogue need not be considered canon, though.
** The finale also somewhat randomly had [[ExtravertedNerd Upchuck]] hook up with EnsembleDarkhorse [[{{Goth}} Andrea]].
* A small number of ''WesternAnimation/HeyArnold'' fans pair [[StalkerWithACrush Brainy]]/[[ParodySue Lila]] as a {{Ship Mate|s}} for [[OfficialCouple Helga/Arnold]]. It's PairTheSpares to be sure, but when you consider that Lila liked [[CreepyChild Arnie]], who's possibly even ''weirder'' than Brainy, it actually makes a bit of sense.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Hilda}}'' fans like to ship Johanna (Hilda's mother) with Kaisa (the librarian); so far, in two seasons and a movie, these two characters have never had any on-screen interaction.
* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'':
** Due to the ImprobablyFemaleCast, female/male pairings that don't involve Big Macintosh are very prone to this. It says a lot that even after the show's nine-season run, Soarin'/Applejack remained one of the more plausible ones... and all he did was buy a pie from her back in season one. Meanwhile, ones like Twilight Sparkle/[[AllThereInTheScript Doctor Hooves]] and Pinkie Pie/[[FanNickname Pokey Pierce]] are not uncommon.
** Speaking of which, Big Macintosh [[TheQuietOne hasn't spoken to many ponies]] apart from his sisters, but that doesn't stop anyone. [[TwiceShy Big Macintosh/Fluttershy]] is easily one of the most popular het pairings (behind [[PrecociousCrush Rarity/Spike]] and [[OfficialCouple Cadence/Shining Armor]]) despite them only interacting in one episode... which aired three years ''after'' the ship became popular.
** [[LargeHam The Grrrrreat and powerful Trixie]] demands you ship her with everypony despite having no meaningful interactions with anypony but Twilight, Starlight Glimmer, and Maud! The Great and Powerful Trixie especially demands to be shipped with [[PairTheSpares Luna and Zecora]], two individuals she has never met in the show's entire nine-season run, simply on the basis that all three [[StrangeSyntaxSpeaker speak in a distinctive and unusual manner!]]
** [[AllThereInTheScript Lyra Heartstrings and Bon Bon]] are only seen in the background standing next to each other, but [[http://chzbronies.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/my-little-pony-friendship-is-magic-brony-because-absolutley-all-of-the-fanbase-loves-shipping.jpg it gives the fans ideas]]… to the point that the two are [[OneTruePairing easily the most widely-accepted pairing in the whole show]]. The show has [[FandomNod acknowledged this]] by placing them next to each other on the official posters and purposefully giving them ShipTease-filled {{Funny Background Event}}s in the second season onward, until the ninth season had them just straight up [[AscendedFanon propose marriage to each other in the background]].
** That isn't the only example of shipping background characters, as another popular and widely accepted ship in the community is [[AllThereInTheScript DJ Pon-3 (a.k.a. Vinyl Scratch)]] and [[AllThereInTheScript Octavia Melody]]. It started with fans juxtaposing the two [[{{Foil}} for]] [[StraightManAndWiseGuy humorous]] [[VitriolicBestBuds effect]], since they represent conflicting musical aesthetics. However, the sheer volume of such fan works was enough to [[ShippingGoggles get the gears turning]] for the community's shippers, to the point that a large chunk of fan art, fiction, comics, etc. involving the two is now shipping-based. DJ Pon-3 also has a growing Shipdom with [[FanNickname Neon Lights/EmCee W1SH]], who in popular fanon is seen as another musician who has a friendly rivalry with her. It took until [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS5E9SliceOfLife the 100th episode]], [[AscendedMeme which was explicitly made]] [[FandomNod as a love letter to the fans]], that she and Octavia appeared in the same scene, revealed to be roommates. Meanwhile, DJ Pon-3 only appears in the same episode as Neon Lights in [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E26ACanterlotWeddingPart2 the Season 2 finale]].
** When the fandom decided that the Creator/DavidTennant-looking stallion with an hourglass cutie mark was named [[Series/DoctorWho Doctor Whooves]] (which became AscendedFanon) and made a living of travelling through time and space, the most popular pony to appoint as his companion was [[TheDitz Derpy]] [[TheKlutz Hooves]], thanks to the obvious HilarityEnsues potential; the widespread shipping was the next logical step, despite the two having no discernible relationship in the show. This got a FandomNod when the two were shown [[ShipTease spending the pony equivalent of Valentine's Day together]].
** Invoked in "Hearts and Hooves Day", in which the Cutie Mark Crusaders try and pair up Big Macintosh (of course) and their teacher Cheerilee, two ponies who before this episode never even stood next to each other. It goes about as well as expected, though the episode also reveals that the two were classmates when they were younger.
** For quite some time, Scootaloo and Rumble have been a popular ship, despite Rumble spending most of the series as a background pony with few speaking roles. It wasn't until late season 7 in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS7E22MarksAndRecreation Marks and Recreation]]" that those two directly interacted with one another in any context, and [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicIDWIssue81 issue 81 of the IDW comic]] is the only official work to give them any one-on-one time.
* In ''WesternAnimation/XMenEvolution'' fandom, Pietro/X-23 and Kurt/X-23 are very popular ships. Her and Kurt's closest interaction being off-screen and involving her knocking him out, and her and Pietro's closest interaction only happening in people's imaginations. Kitty and Pietro is slightly more believable but even more jarring as the two have interacted, and by 'interacted' we mean Pietro insults her, she glares at him, and once threatens him.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Recess}}'' fans tend to ship Hustler Kid and Butch, who hardly interact in the series.
* ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice2010'': "Wonder Beetle" (Wonder Girl/Blue Beetle) is a surprisingly popular ship, seeing as the two characters have yet to exchange any dialogue on the show. The tie-in comics though have the Scarab note that seeing Wonder Girl causes [[MySensorsIndicateYouWantToTapThat "bio-chemical changes"]] to him.
* CJ/Thomas from ''WesternAnimation/RegularShow''. They've never met, and Thomas didn't debut until after her first appearance in "Yes Dude Yes".
* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'':
** Ms. Keane and oneshot character Mr. Green from "Substitute Creature." Quite a few fans ship these two together, even though they've never interacted onscreen. Part of the popularity of this pairing may come from the fact that they're both very nice teachers.
** Also Mr. Green and HIM. In fact, any of the characters from the show with Mr. Green since he was only in one episode and the only characters he interacts with are the girls and their classmates.
* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'':
** Lapis/Peridot used to be seen as this before the third season, as until then, the closest they got to interacting was just being in the same scene. This is largely due to them being the only known Homeworld Gems until Jasper showed up at the end of the first season. And even when they do begin interacting, Lapis showcases every negative emotion short of murderous intent towards Peridot. However, by the end of the season, the two are happily cohabitating.
** Fans who prefer Peridot with someone else tend to ship Lapis with Pearl; you'd be hard-pressed to find a point where the two have directly interacted, and they're implied to be not fond of each other. The noticeable parallels between the two and their similar builds seem to have driven this one. Their voice actors once [[https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/070/024/c28.jpg jokingly reenacted]] a piece of Pearlapis fanart.
** Pairing {{fusion|Dance}}s with each other is not only this trope in the usual way, but in some cases, like Opal/Sugilite, it is ''physically impossible'' for the two to exist at the same time (both share Amethyst as one of their components).
** Blue Pearl, Yellow Pearl, and Pearl never interacted -- heck, Blue Pearl doesn't even speak until "Steven's Dream" -- but fans instantly began shipping combinations of them together.
** Greg/Jasper (termed "Grasper") is a somewhat common ship, despite the fact that they've never interacted. It seems to mostly stem from a mix of PairTheSpares and Greg's well-established love of women with Jasper's build.
** Jasper and Pearl has a following despite the extremely minimal interaction between them in Season 1. Many fans enjoy the contrast in their characters and their size difference.
** Kiki Pizza and Ronaldo Fryman. Some of the few scenes where they are together, (dancing next to each other during Steven's song with the Gems, their family restaurants being next door to each other, Ronaldo including Kiki and titling her as a Pizza Heiress in his documentary) along with some comments about Kiki from Ronaldo's blog on Tumblr, provide "proof" for fans of this ship. This ship got a FandomNod in one episode, where the two pretend to be dating as part of a plan to stop their dads from fighting.
** Holly Blue Agate/Andy [=DeMayo=] has fanart for it, despite the fact that the two have never even been on the same planet. This one seems to come from their shared traditionalist mindset and tendency towards jerkishness.
** It didn't take long for fans of the film to start shipping Spinel with Pink Pearl. The color palette, personality contrast, and shared trauma and background all provided some pretty heavy incentives. Though the two have ''probably'' met, they've never shared a scene, and Pink Pearl herself had only had [[OCStandIn one line in the entire first series]] at the time when Spinel was introduced. While shippers had hoped for a scene between the two, ''[[WesternAnimation/StevenUniverseFuture Future]]'' featured both characters, but neither one was in the same episode.
* ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda'': Crane and Viper has a shipdom that actually caught the attention of Crane's TV voice actor, who now supports it.
* Talia/Mephisto is quite a popular ship among the ''WesternAnimation/LoliRock'' fandom, even though they barely interact outside of fight scenes. If anything, Mephisto appears to be more romantically interested in Auriana than Talia, calling her "cute and talented" at one point.
* ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor'': Numbuh 86 and Numbuh 60 is a rather popular ship, despite the fact that they never really had any onscreen interaction. (The closest was Operation: T.R.A.I.N.I.N.G., when Arctic Base got a distress signal from Moonbase. And even that turned out to be just Father disguised as Numbuh 86.)
* ''WesternAnimation/StarVsTheForcesOfEvil'':
** Tom and Janna started out as this, being a case of PairTheSpares for Star/Marco, bolestered by Janna being an occultist and Tom an actual demon, so. Eventually subverted, as by Season 4, the two interact far more frequently (both with each other and as part of the wider friend group).
** A straighter example would be Tom and Jackie, who are also shipped as a PairTheSpares couple, even though the closest the two have come to interacting in canon is Jackie staring at Tom as he walks past her in his debut episode.
* Riyo Chuchi and Commander Fox ("Foxiyo") is a somewhat uncommon ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars'' pairing between two minor characters that has a small, yet fiercely dedicated fanbase, and most likely exists because it offers a different perspective of the war and clone life than more popular pairings involving Clone Troopers on deployment, such as Ahsoka Tano and Captain Rex, or Obi-Wan Kenobi and Marshal Commander Cody. Not only is there is no indication in canon that either character is or has ever been aware at any point that the other exists, Fox has almost nonexistent canon characterization and his face is never even shown, and what little he does have makes him highly unsympathetic. Fanfiction authors see this as an opportunity to recharacterize Fox, creating a personality for him out of whole cloth that not only makes him sympathetic, but attractive to someone like Riyo.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse''
** Clyde/Lynn has a bit of a following for it, even though the two hardly interact and their connection is mainly through Lincoln, who is Clyde’s best friend and Lynn’s brother.
** There are also people who ship Lincoln with Luna’s crush, Sam, even though it has yet to be established if Sam even knows Lincoln.
** The "Luaggie" pairing, consisting of Luan and Maggie, the EmoTeen from "Funny Business". They exchange no lines and Maggie has [[OneShotCharacter yet to appear again]], yet the fanbase loves to ship them.
* The Chase/Kimiko pairing (or [[PortmanteauCoupleName Chamiko)]] is surprisingly popular in the ''WesternAnimation/XiaolinShowdown'' fandom, despite them barely interacting with each other (Chase barely interacts with any other monk beside Omi), as well as being [[FoeYayShipping on opposite sides]]. They do interact more in the [[WesternAnimation/XiaolinChronicles sequel]], however, but their interactions are more hostile than romantic ( [[BelligerentSexualTension or not?]]).
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Jem}}'': Stormer and Riot are paired together in more than a few works, despite having no significant interactions. In canon, Stormer also dislikes Riot. OppositesAttract and PairTheSpares are the reason behind the ship.
* ''WesternAnimation/MiloMurphysLaw'':
** Fans of Milo/Melissa tend to ship Milo's crush [[ThePerfectionist Amanda]] with [[PairTheSpares Zack]], the remainder of [[ThreeAmigos the main trio]]. Ironically, Amanda and Zack don't interact much at all until [[LoveEpiphany Amanda starts crushing on Milo back]] and starts joining the trio on their activities as a result.
** There are also people that ship Bradley with [[ThePollyanna Lydia]] due to OppositesAttract and CastingGag[[note]]Bradley is voiced by Vincent Martella, and Lydia is voiced by Alyson Stoner. These are the voice actors of Phineas and Isabella (respectively), the OfficialCouple of ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'', the show the creators of ''Milo Murphy's Law'' previously worked on[[/note]]. The two never share a single line of dialogue.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheGhostAndMollyMcGee'': Some fans have begun to ship Andrea Davenport with Robyn, despite the two of them never interacting and Robyn being little more than a minor background character who has yet to speak.
