Cargo Ship / Video Games

Cargo Ships in Video Games.

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• Portal:
  • Anything with the Companion Cube. In the game, the evil AI running everything gives it to you, makes several bizarre comments seemingly meant to increase your emotional attachment to it, then forces you to destroy it. This was meant to show the antagonist's poor understanding of humans—regardless of what GLaDOS tells you, the Cube is just an inert metal box with hearts on it—and the antagonist intended for this scheme to make you reluctant to destroy its computing cores, a process similar to "killing" the Cube. Fans playing along with loving the Cube is mostly tongue-in-cheek... or is it?
  • Space Sphere×Space. Which, let's face it, is basically canon.
• Speaking of System Shock, SHODAN's true crossover love is Marathon's Durandal.
• Both Klavier×massage chair and Office Plant×Edgeworth (with the plant topping, but still being an ordinary office plant) exist in short fics in Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney fandom among a host of others. If it exists and it is in the Gyakuten universe, it will be shipped.
• Final Fantasy VIII fandom has an inordinate amount of fanfic featuring Seifer×Seifer's trenchcoat.
  • Thanks to Dissidia Final Fantasy, we now have the possibly canon shipping of Exdeath and the Void.
    • Ditto with Cloud of Darkness/Void. Hell, some fans just make this all into an OT3.
  • Then there's Buster Sword×Nail Bat, Tseng×Coffee, and most infamous of all...
  • Cactuar×Sephiroth.
• There's an alarming amount of Metal Gear fanfic and art for Snake×the Cardboard Box. It's actually arguably generally better than the stuff for the serious ships.
  • Big Boss×Cardboard Box is practically canon if one listens to the right radio broadcasts, which may explain why Eva had to resort to cloning and genetic engineering to bear his children. Hard to convince a man to impregnate you when he's sexually attracted to packaging. And not that kind of packaging. (The more obvious solution would be bubble wrap lingerie.)
    • Taken to an extreme in The Phantom Pain, where posters of models and an anime idol can be collected and attached to boxes, which will actually attract guards who act like they're looking at the real deal.
  • Big Boss and his Custom 1911 as well, to the point that he immediately forgets about Eva baring her cleavage right in front of him to admire several different modifications to the gun.
• In Persona 4, Adachi×Cabbage. You know it's true.
  • Which was made canon for the sake of a joke in The Anime of the Game, in one scene Adachi can be seen leaving the mall with a cart full of cabbage and nothing else.
• Persona 5 have Akechi×Pancakes, thanks to the fact that the crew found out that Akechi is the betrayer due to Akechi accidentally responding to Morgana's remark about pancakes several months before he claimed to have gotten his Persona.
  • There's also Yusuke×Lobsters, after what he did throughout the beach trip.
• There's a character in Knights of the Old Republic where this trope is taken to its logical conclusion. Enjoy the discussions you, Carth, Bastila and Canderous have over it.
  C8-42: Please kill me.
  Carth: I don't think I've ever felt so bad for a droid before.
  T3-M4: [sad beeping]]
  Player: I agree. Completely.
  Canderous: Ha! I guess that droid is really gonna serve his master tonight!
  • The second game has an Echani love poem... written to an energy shield.
    Echani Poem: Personal shields, I love you so.. crafting and fighting with you… exhilarates me. You are the MAIN focus of my life… (except for my melee weapons and armor)… I love you so.
• It's probably easier to find Devil May Cry fanfic shipping Dante×Nevan than Dante×Lady. Nevan is one of his weapons. This, or shipping anyone×any other Devil Arm, is a borderline example though (they're demons transformed into weapons).
  • In one of the DMC manga, Dante says that he once got drunk and proposed to a mop.
• Sonic the Hedgehog:
  • Knuckles and the Master Emerald. What's even more squicky about it is that when you go across continuities, Knuckles seems to go back and forth between this and thinking the damn thing is his mother...
  • Fan art has a habit of pairing up Sonic with Caliburn from Sonic and the Black Knight, which is exacerbated by Caliburn being something of a Tsundere towards Sonic as time progresses.
  • Shadow×the damn fourth Chaos Emerald
  • Sonic and Chili Dogs.
  • From Sonic Boom we have Knuckles×the pause button^ExplanationIt triggers a glitch giving him ultimate jumps.
  • Tails often gets jokingly shipped with the Tornado.
• Project Reality will have Middle Eastern Coalition soldiers kiss their rifles on occasion.
• Kingdom Hearts:
  • Zexion×Peach Iced Tea.
  • Also Zexion×Lexicon, especially among the "snakesonasora" MST fans.
  • Sora×Keyblade and Xemnas×Kingdom Hearts. It exists.
  • Sea-salt ice cream is the biggest pimp of all. It gets shipped with Sora, Roxas, Axel, Xion, and DiZ. Especially Roxas. He cares about the ice cream more than his best friend dying.
• Psychonauts: People pair Ford Cruller and his bacon. It's actually rather amusing.
  • A canon example is Admiral!Ford Cruller×Canoe.
• Super Robot Wars has Ryusei and his bizarre Canon crushes on feminine-styled Humongous Mecha, especially Valsione. See also the above mention of Humongous Mecha-on-Humongous Mecha Fan Art (Weissritter's about as much of a floozy as its pilot would indicate).
  • Anything paired with Lamia Loveless will be this. Suuuure, she's Just a Machine, but she's slowly learning many human emotions, love might be one of them. That, and the recent events provides some Ship Tease with her human ,now half-Einst, commander Axel Almer... (Axel-Lamia is in fact one of the more recent Fan-Preferred Couple)
  • Achieve a "Dynamic Kill" with the Grungust using its "G Combination" attack with Charlotte Hasting as the pilot in Super Robot Wars V, and there might be a chance where she'll exclaim that she thinks she's in love with the machine.
• From Guilty Gear, there's A.B.A and Paracelsus, her giant weaponized key, to the point that I-No mean-spiritedly cracks jokes about A.B.A using Paracelsus to masturbate with.
  • Although I-No has no room to talk, given a bevy of official artwork found in the in-game galleries that show her being a wee bit too comfortable with her killer guitar.
• After being subjected to Amane's Astral Heat, Nu-13 of BlazBlue can be seen hugging a paper doll made in the image of "Ragna~! <3" All of the love, none of the blood.
• Team Fortress 2:
  • Heavy and his minigun Sasha. Though it looks like Natascha might be bringing in some competition...
    • OT3?
    • One of the tie-in comics shows that Sasha has her own bed next to the Heavy's bed.
    • Another tie-in comic reveals that Heavy came up with names for all of his miniguns. He basically has a harem at this point.
  • Heavy×Sandvich.
  • Scout×Sasha? Also, Heavy looks pretty cool in those glasses.
  • Scout×Dispenser exists. You have no idea how much he needs a dispenser here.
  • Sasha×Natascha.
  • Engineer×Sentry Gun. In his own words : "I love that cute little gun."
  • Soldier×Shovel, usually with Shovel being a bit of Yandere.
  • The short film Expiration Date gives us Spy×the Eiffel Tower (courtesy of Scout's doodles), as well as Soldier×a bucket.
    Spy: "Here you've drawn me having sexual congress with the Eiffel Tower, the Eiffel Tower having sexual congress with me, both of us relaxing post-coitus..."
• The Legend of Zelda: Link×Master Sword. There's also at least one fic that pairs Sheik with a mailbox.
  • That Link×Master Sword pairing has become Hilarious in Hindsight thanks to The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword, where Link's Exposition Fairy, and thus his next possible Shipping candidate, is the (future) Master Sword.
    • On that note, Fi×Scrapper. One's the spirit of the (future) Master Sword, the other's a robot. This will end well.
  • The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild has an NPC named Loone who's obsessed with one of the Shiekah Orbs, to the point of naming it.
• Mass Effect:
  • Among the many fans clamoring for more and more varied Romance Sidequests there is a small but enthusiastic faction in favor of being able to romance Mira, one of the Virtual Intelligence programs that appears in the first game. This in spite of the fact that VIs are essentially glorified Clippits.
  • That's okay though, the Shepard VI mentioned in the second game appears in the third, and s/he can actually hit on you. Even roboShepard wants to sleep with Shepard.
  • Garrus×calibrations (what he is calibrating, usually the Normandy's guns)
  • The reason Zaeed isn't a romance option is because Jessie is the only rifle for him.
  • People ship Joker×Normandy. The Robo Ship with EDI was inevitable. It has the potential to become canon in Mass Effect 3 when EDI gets, as Joker puts it, a "sexy new robot body". Naturally, Joker has a field day and if Shepard decides to play matchmaker, they eventually do end up dating.
  • The Geth Legion repeatedly avoids the question when Shepard asks why they used a piece of his/her armour to repair themself.
    Legion: [long pause] No data available.
• Halo: Master Chief×Cortana, though which one is the person and which is the mindless inanimate object is up for debate.
• There's a whole mess of Cargo Ships for The World Ends with You. Most of them involve Sho Minamimoto, and are inspired by the line "This mic is zetta sexy!", said after having stolen it from a rock band. Oh, and the giant heaps of garbage he makes and insists on having called art. Not to mention intangibles like the number Pi, which he knows to a million digits, and math in general. This isn't even mentioning the popular crack pairing of Mr. Hanekoma and coffee. On the other hand, Mr. Mew is debatable. Plus Neku×Headphones, Neku×CAT's graffiti, Kariya×Lollipop, Beat×Hat×Skateboard, Joshua×Cellphone, Joshua×Frilly Parasol, Not to mention him and the gun Shuto or Yammer×Pins, On that note, AD!Neku×Pins. Also, so long as we're listing everything spoilery, Prince×Ramen, Megumi or Joshua×Shibuya. Finally, Beat×Curry, a large chunk of fandom's OTP.
• Xenoblade Chronicles X has Lin / skells, thanks to an early game cutscene where Lin catcalls a skell walking past and admits to writing skell fanfiction.
• Valkyria Chronicles: Salinas Milton, already a bit of a Handsome Lech, gets extremely defensive whenever someone tries to get close to tanks.
  • And from Valkyria Chronicles II, there's Marion Siegbahn, a shocktrooper with an extreme weapon fetish, as in she gets orgasmic with them. She mentions that one of her motivations for entering Lanseal was to get access to its armory.
• Lunar 2: Eternal Blue. Ronfar/His Twig. Oh yeah.
• Metroid: Samus×her armor
  • Hilariously, in Metroid Fusion, the armor has Baby Metroid's DNA.
• The Tales of the Abyss fandom has Mohs×the Score and Guy×fontech, of course.
  • Tales of Symphonia: Raine/Ruins
• Borderlands gives us Patricia Tannis and her recorder. Please note that this is completely canon. Until they broke up, of course. Tannis thinks the recorder was cheating on her. They remained friends, however.
  • Borderlands 2 gives us Axton, a Turret Master who loves his turret just as much, if not more than his ex-wife. He acts very affectionate towards it, and outright calls it his girlfriend or "the missus" on occasion.
    Axton: [after deploying his turret] Let's get to killing, Sweetheart!
  • There's also Tiny Tina. She seems to rather admire the "Badonkadonks" of her "Female companions". Said companions are stuffed bunnies, and their "badonkadonks" are huge missiles strapped to their backs.
  • The sequel also has Tannis mention she was in a polyamorous relationship with two ceiling chairs (who were brothers). The fact that one of them was destroyed when Hyperion tortured her is why she wants vengeance against Handsome Jack.
  • Gaige occasionally flirts with loot.
• In Tekken 6, newcomer Lars Alexandersson seems to be wee bit close to fellow newcomer Alisa Bosconovitch...
• Scrin Mothership AI×Foreman 371 in Command & Conquer Tiberium Wars. What? It could happen! The AI even disobeyed orders from the Supervisor to make sure the Foreman escaped Earth alive.
• Some Myst III: Exile fans enjoy pairing Saavedro with the squee pelt he wears around his arm.
• No More Heroes: Diane from Beef Head Video practically confirms Travis×Bizarre Jelly pillow as canon in the first game.
  • How about Letz Shake×Dr.Shake?
    Letz Shake: Oh, that's good undulation. I think I'm going to lose the BOWEL CONTROL!!
• Star Ocean: The Second Story's Ashton is obsessed with barrels and is always hanging around them in towns, even talking to one at one point. In the anime, he seems practically infatuated with a barrel he comes across, which his dragons find rather disturbing. This understandably has become a subject of shipping.
• Half-Life: Gordon Freeman×crowbar.
• BioShock: Jack×Radio has been thrown around the livejournal anon meme, as well as El Ammo Bandito×Circus of Values Clown machines.
• StarCraft II: Tychus and the Odin. Files have shown that when an Odin is built, Tychus will say "Love at first sight."
• Left 4 Dead: Louis×Peelz. Not to mention I'm sure Coach×Chocolate is also equally as popular.
  • The Dark Carnival campaign in the sequel also gives us Gnome Chompski, a large garden gnome found early in the second level who can be carried all the way to the helicopter at the end of the campaign. An achievement is given for loving him enough to do just that; this of course results in some players developing an attachment to him.
  • Rochelle×Magnum. This is presumably actually canon, considering one of her lines upon acquiring said Magnum has her outright proclaiming that she's in love with it.
  • There's also Ellis and Jimmy Gibbs Jr.'s car.
    Ellis: You are the most beautiful thing I have ever sat between... I love you...
• I. M. Meen's book is made to order, but it isn't to be read.
  • His appearance in the ending of the sequel, Chill Manor, has him briefly kneeling on a chair turned to the back. Youtube Poop often reinterprets this scene as him humping the chair.
• For Super Smash Bros.., there has been a preponderance of Sheik/Teacup fanart ever since the adventure mode in Brawl had Sheik stop a battle to join Peach for tea.
• Among others, Touhou Project fandom has Alice×her dolls (probably canon, as she spends all her time with them and is attempting to make them sentient), Suika×her gourd (also probably canon, as she also spends all her time with it and as a result is never, ever sober), Suwako/her hat (with the hat topping), as well as various pairings involving either Kanako's onabashiri or Yukari's gaps (sometimes both!).
• World of Warcraft: Drull and Tog'thar, two orcs who have been held prisoner for six years, have developed unusual attachments to their ball-and-chain shackles. They're in therapy for it, although they insist they are happy with Teddy and Laverne and just want to be left alone.
• Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn gave us Gatrie×Tree-in-a-Skirt, which has become very popular with the fans ever since it was mentioned by Shinon.
  • Fire Emblem Fates gives us Hisame×Pickle. (NSFW)
  • Also Leo×Tomatoes; this one actually got a Fandom Nod in the localisation, where the line "[Leo] loves tomatoes the most [in the army]" was changed to "objectively loves tomatoes more than anyone else could".
  • Fire Emblem: The Binding Blade also gives us Karel×Wo Dao. (NFSW)
• Suikoden V has Georg Prime×Cheesecake.
• Dragon Age:
  • Dragon Age: Origins fans occasionally ship Sten/Asala, perhaps as an explanation for why he's not a romance option.
  • In Dragon Age II, Varric & Bianca, his custom crossbow, is for all intents and purposes a canon example; in fact, Bioware specifically made her level up with him so the player would never want to separate them. Gets lampshaded several times.
    • He gets very protective when Isabela suggests Bianca "deserves to feel a woman's touch on her trigger", and again when Sebastian asks if he can examine Bianca's cocking ring, even though Sebastian's intentions were pure (he wanted to see if she was firing off to the side because of a mechanical fault). In a form of Hypocritical Humor, he may turn down advances from fem!Hawke on the grounds of Bianca being "the jealous type".
      Varric: Bianca responds to my touch. She'd never give it up for you.
      Isabela: That's what they always say, and I always prove them wrong.
      Varric: Stop it. You're confusing her! And me.
    • When Merrill asks Sebastian if his bow has a name like Varric's, Sebastian notes wryly that he can't compete with Varric's "relationship" to his weapon.
    • Fenris grunts that the way Varric fondles his weapon is disgusting. Varric claims he's a perfect gentleman... in public.
    • In Dragon Age: Inquisition, the Iron Bull notes that Bianca would never work as a Safe Word for Varric since a safe word has to be something you wouldn't normally yell during sex. The same game also reveals that Bianca is named after his old girlfriend, which just adds even more to it. And at one point, when Varric asks the Iron Bull what the deal is with Qunari and their swords, Bull points out that Varric named his weapon after a woman; Varric concedes the point.
    • In keeping with some of the tarot themes in Dragon Age: Inquisition, the Limited Special Collector's Ultimate Edition had a real tarot deck as one of the included items. The fact that card for The Lovers in that deck is a picture of Varric holding Bianca pretty much means that this ship is canon.
• Tira/Soul Edge. This Yandere has it bad for Nightmare and wants nothing more than to be Mrs. Inferno. Nightmare plans to Devour the Dragon when Tira's soul is ripe enough (or she becomes a liability), but whether or not that counts as Kick the Dog or Pet the Dog is up in the air, seeing as she wants Nightmare to take her soul so she can become one with the sword. This is even lampshaded in Broken Destiny's Gauntlet mode, where she's shown to be Nightmare's Stalker with a Crush (much to his chagrin).
• Two such pairings are running gags in Inazuma Eleven fandom:
  • Endou×Soccer, because he eats and breathes Association Football.
    Coach Hibiki: [Endou] is the world's number one—no, the universe's number one soccer freak.
  • Fudou×Bench, after Break the Haughty leaves Fudou gets stuck as a benchwarmer for all but half a match of the FFI preliminaries arc.
• In at least one sect of the Mega Man (Classic) fandom, we are given Turbo Man×Sonic Formula (Quick Man's car).
• Examining the computer screens in Ninth Rock reveals an ode to the humble moon brick from a man who is "more than just bicurious".
• In-universe in Assault on Dark Athena. Towards Riddick's escape from the Athena, one of the mercs can be heard describing the ship as a beautiful dame who lit up his life, and that she's serenading him. His partner laments being saddled with a weirdo on his last shift.
• As of Hyperdimension Neptunia V, fans ship Neptune×Eggplants. Though fans treat this as a Cargo Foe Yay Shipping as Neptune hates eggplants.
• Kid Icarus: Uprising: Pit×Hot Spring is not unheard of in the fandom, due to how excitedly he reacts whenever he finds one.
• Golden Sun: The fandom is known to ship anyone and anything. They have ship names for Isaac/his roof and Kraken/Tolbi-bound ship. Yes, the fandom even ships literal ships.
  • Golden Sun: Dark Dawn had a new weapon system, where characters would develop proficiency with and master weapons that they used. "Karis has mastered Wooden Stick ^note her starting weapon" spawned a new shipping name.
• The Boss in Saints Row IV seems actively turned on upon learning that the surviving Saints have access to a Mini-Mecha.
  Boss: You're beautiful.
  Kinzie: Uh, thank you?
  Boss: I was talking to the robot.
• The less said about where the Five Nights at Freddy's fandom have gone with this trope the better.
• Lufia II: Rise of the Sinistrals has self-professed World's Best Warrior Dekar proclaim his love to be... his sword. Guy is understandably a little worried about a thought like that.
• Bloodborne has a special case, while the Hunter×Plain Doll is often a regular basis in the fanbase, Gehrman, an in-universe Shipper on Deck, actively insists you to "use" the Doll. the Squick moment comes when you meet Lady Maria, the woman Gehrman was in love with and whose likeness he crafted the Doll in. However, despite being in love with Maria, Gehrman has nothing but contempt for the Doll. Most likely because she is nothing like Maria in terms of personality.
• From Bloodborne's predecessor, Dark Souls, the male Undead Merchant is in love with "Yulia", a large wooden basket that he strokes affectionately, and seems to think is a living creature of some kind ("Be careful, she'll bite your fingers off!"). If you kill him, he dies calling out her name.
• The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel has Rean shipped with his sentient robot Valimar, his orbal bike, and by Cold Steel IV, has a profound love for hot springs in general that he ends up being a connoisseur. Meanwhile Gaius is shipped with the wind due to him and his clan revering the wind a lot.
• It’s common for Overwatch fans to ship characters with their weapons and accessories, leading to such fun pairings as McCree/cowboy hat, Symmetra/teleporters, Reinhardt/rocket hammer, and Torbjorn/turrets. The last one is disturbingly close to being canon.
• Hero of the Kingdom 3 has a canon example with Princess Amelia×ruby. The ruby is actually a Hypno Trinket tossed in her path by the game's Big Bad, but she doesn't know that for a long time; she just knows that the ruby talks to her and loves her and she loves it in return.
• Ys has Adol Christin shipped with either sinking ships or adventure. Never mind the numerous women that he ends up leaving to go on another adventure. His partner Dogi also is shipped with walls and breaking walls.
• A semi-canon example is Stanley and the bucket in The Stanley Parable Ultra Deluxe, if the bucket being suggestively placed on Stanley's bed surrounded by candles is any indication. The Narrator even gets jealous, admitting to "having feelings" for the bucket.

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