Crossover Couple

Bart Simpson and Sakura Haruno.

"I hear he's nothing but Gotham trash: rich, spoiled, and ... absolutely gorgeous."

— Lois Lane (when she sees Bruce Wayne for the first time), Superman: The Animated Series, "World's Finest"

Two people from separate universes (or at least different towns) meet in a crossover work. They fall for each other, or at least have a fling, but more likely than not they'll split up in the end. They are from different works, after all.

Crossover Couples occur when characters from separate works, be they in a Shared Universe or different universes, are paired up. This is usually a gag at best and is rarely taken seriously, with even more serious attempts rarely getting mentioned outside of the crossover itself.

For simplicity's sake, this trope refers to non-canon and semi-canon material as long as they're official. Fanworks, licensed works, and parodies also apply if they ship characters during crossovers.

Contrast with Crossover Ship for more generalized fan couples. Compare with Crossover Relatives.

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Examples:

Advertising

• This Coca-Cola commercial from 1992 had a triple-whammy of it, digitally inserting Gene Kelly, Cary Grant, and Groucho Marx into a dance scene with Paula Abdul.
• Cartoon Network:
  • Cartoon Network has shipped Johnny Bravo with Velma Dinkley (Scooby-Doo) in three promotions, in an unexpectedly sweet example of Opposites Attract. (Oddly enough, the first time they met, Velma's crush on him was unrequited, just as his crush on Daphne was rejected.) He even proposed to her (he claimed), but she turned him down, saying that her career came first. However another ad years later showed them going to dinner, implied heavily to be romantic, while another showed them dating "off the set", much to Dexter's dismay.
  • Cartoon Network also shipped Race Bannon (Jonny Quest) with Betty Rubble (The Flintstones), teasing it in one early commercial and painting a full sordid romance in another. She stayed with Barney, though. Another commercial around the same time teased this ship, with Betty calling up Race and telling him to watch Cartoon Network.
  • In one of the Johnny/Velma shorts, Johnny sees Melody from Josie and the Pussycats at the end and hits on her.
  • The short "Toon Dates" paired up Daphne from Scooby-Doo with Ed from Ed, Edd n Eddy using a fictional dating show. Their date turns out pretty crummy and Daphne is turned off by Ed's blue tongue. Ed even mistakes that Daphne for Ariel from The Little Mermaid (1989). He also also ends up talking about how he loves Edd and seems pretty disinterested in the date (in the series he is the least interested in romance anyway).

Comic Books

• One of the one-issue "giant crossovers" from the 1980s teased the readers with hints of Beast Boy (then "Changeling")/Kitty Pryde.
• A crossover played with the concept, possibly to parody it, by having Spider-Man ask Wonder Woman if she thought it was too early in their relationship to consider marriage (they had met, and briefly fought, only a few minutes earlier).
• A Wolverine/Witchblade crossover licensed by Marvel and Top Cow started with Logan and Sarah Pezzini getting married. Obviously it didn't last.
• JLA/Avengers:
  • The plot is set in motion by Kismet and Eternity, the avatars of the DC and Marvel Universes respectively, falling in love. In the end, they're forcefully torn apart.
  • Hawkeye and Black Canary get together, but only briefly and for the sake of a gag. A shift in the multiverse quickly puts her back together with Green Arrow.
• Marvel vs. DC: Jubilee and Robin (Tim Drake) meet each other shortly after the DC and Marvel universes start merging, and the two quickly begin to fall in love with each other. They later learn that they have to fight to help decide which of the two universes will survive the merger, and share a Last Kiss before battling. Robin defeats her, and the two are separated again when the anthropomorphic universes decide to remain Friendly Rivals.
• In the Image Comics-published third volume of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Michelangelo hooked up with Horridus from Savage Dragon.
• Cassie Hack and Evil Ernie in Hack/Slash: The Final Revenge of Evil Ernie. Bomb Queen also hits on her in their crossover, but she would screw anyone.
• One of the Third-Option Love Interest's for Archie of Archie Comics has been him and Valerie, from Josie and the Pussycats.
• When the Runaways first crossed over with the Young Avengers, there was a bit of Ship Tease between Victor and Cassie.
• Subverted in the The Punisher/Painkiller Jane crossover. While the cover of the first issue suggests the two characters will become lovers, in reality only Jane feels anything approaching sexual attraction. Poor Frank spends much of the crossover trying desperately to fend off her advances, while she does crazy stalker-esque things as sneaking into his apartment and trying on his Punisher shirts.
• The Simpsons Futurama Crossover Crisis:
  • On the final page of the first miniseries, Zapp Brannigan is shown flirting with Edna Krabbapel.
  • That same final page also shows Mr. Burns and Mom greeting each other, which then leads to a romance between the two in the second miniseries.
• In Batman/Elmer Fudd, Elmer had been in a relationship with Batman's old love interest Silver St. Cloud before she was killed by a hitman that he's sworn vengeance on. She'd actually been Faking The Death since she found out Elmer was a bounty hunter and sent him to kill Bruce Wayne to distract him from his vendetta.

Comic Strips

• From The Wizard of Id; the Wizard's ex-wife is Daenerys Targaryen. Seriously, see here.

Fan Works

• Basil's American Tail (The Great Mouse Detective/An American Tail): Basil and Nellie Brie, eventually.
  • Olivia Goes West (sequel to the above) has Olivia and Fievel, and returning from the prequel, Basil and Nellie.
• Ben 10: Unlimited shows the relationship between Ben Tennyson and Supergirl.
• Coreline: This kind of relationships are a common event in this setting. As an example, one of the recurring couples are an Alternate version of Misato Katsuragi and Ranma Saotome that met in college and married.
• Dark Titans (Teen Titans (2003), Ranma ½): Jinx/Ryouga, Raven/Ryouga, Starfire/Ryouga.
• The Dark Lords of Nerima (Sailor Moon, Ranma ½): Hotaru and Ryouga, eventually.
• The Dragon and the Butterfly: Hiccup and Toothless escaped Berk and crashed into the Encanto, leading to Hiccup eventually becoming Mirabel's boyfriend. ^note  This troper thinks that his romance with Mirabel is healthier than his canon one with Astrid.

• The fic Empathy establishes early on that Hiro Hamada and Riley Anderson have a mutual attraction. They start dating shortly after Riley turns twelve, and remain a fairly healthy couple (minus a bump or two) throughout the fic and it's sequel.
  • Said sequel also includes two more of these romances: Fred with Violet Parr and potential couple Susan Murphy/Ginormica and Honey Lemon.
• If Wishes Were Ponies features several of these, with the most prominent one being Harry, the CMC, Hermione, and Ginny (because polyamory is okay in Equestria). Sirius also gets in on this when he develops a crush (and possibly starts a relationship with) the disguised Starlight Glimmer. It's all but stated that Dumbledore has a crush on Sunburst, but nothing comes of it.
• JoJo New Universe: The Series Fic is full of them as a Massive Multiplayer Crossover, though the most prominent pairings are between the characters from My Little Pony and JoJo's Bizarre Adventure. The humanized ponies will mostly get together with the leading Joestar of the part^note Jotaro and Fluttershy in Stardust Crusaders, Josuke and Pinkie Pie in Diamond is Unbreakable, Giorno and Rarity in Golden Wind, and Starlight Glimmer and George III in Spirit Tracks or, if the Joestar has a prominent canon Love Interest, one of their True Companions^note Twilight Sparkle and Speedwagon in Phantom Blood, Applejack and Caesar Zeppeli in Battle Tendency, Rainbow Dash and Weather Report in Stone Ocean, and Trixie and Joshu Higashikata in Jojolion.
• Lovehammer Inc (Sailor Moon, Warhammer 40,000): Which gets into a Cain and Hotaru Couple. Not that Cain isn't actively avoiding this as much as he can, or that any ambuguity about his affections is left once Amberley shows up, but given Hotaru's actions and much of the rest of the thread...
• Ponyville goes to the...dragons?? (My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic and Spyro the Dragon): Spike and Ember. Needless to say, Twilight wasn't exactly happy about this when she found out, though she warms up a bit more to the idea when Spyro points out that Spike isn't really a baby, and actually rather close to their age. Rarity, however, has a much harder time accepting it...
• Rick and Morty New Drama Adventures (crossover with Total Drama and Rick and Morty): Morty’s primary romantic interest is Kitty, but he also finds himself involved in a love triangle with Zoey.
• Supernatural Taisen (Massive Multiplayer Crossover): Signum seems to have a soft spot for Harry.
• The Ketsueki Quadrilogy (Mortal Kombat, Street Fighter, Tekken, Soul Series): Ryu/Julia, Lei/Chun-Li, Jin/Cammy, Siegfried/Kitana, Anna/Vega and Raiden/Rose.
• This fanvid crosses over Studio Ghibli and Disney Animated Canon works. One of the crossovers is Belle from Beauty and the Beast with Howl from Howl's Moving Castle. Another possibly Toy Ship one is Alice from Alice in Wonderland with Haku from Spirited Away.
• Crowns of the Kingdom pairs the elephants from Dumbo with the elephants from The Jungle Book (1967).
• Golden Blond and Jet Black revolves around the Theme Pairing of Rapunzel from Tangled and Mavis from Hotel Transylvania.
• Ariel & Belle is a Beauty and the Beast/The Little Mermaid Slash Fic that ships together Ariel and Belle.
• Lost in Camelot focuses on the triad relationship of Bo (Lost Girl) with Merlin and Morgana (Merlin (2008)).
• Avengers: Infinite Wars sees various characters from the Marvel Cinematic Universe arrive in the Star Wars galaxy during the Clone Wars, which leads to various characters at least demonstrating an attraction for each other; Pietro Maximoff is dating Senator Riyo Chuchi, Steve Rogers has shown an attraction to Jedi Knight Aayla Secura, Bucky Barnes is dating Jedi Shadow Celeste Morne,Mantis has bee seen flirting with Fenn Shysa, and Peter Parker, Ahsoka Tano and Bariss Offee are strongly implied to each be equally attracted to the other two.
• Crossed Wires has Dean Winchester (Supernatural) and Sydney Bristow (Alias) develop such strong feelings for each other that there's actually a prophecy linking them together.
• The Interventions series has couples including Spike/NikkiJessica, Faith/Peter Petrelli, and Xander/Elle Bishop, while Angela Petrelli/Colonel Mace is hinted at; there are also the 'lesser' examples of Dawn Summers/Connor and Anya/David Nabbit.
• Harry Potter and the Ice Princess pairs Harry Potter with Elsa (Frozen) in a reality where Elsa is Harry's contemporary and attends Hogwarts with him.
• Justice League: The Spider ends up with Spider-Man/Peter Parker dating Supergirl.
• Once Upon a Supernatural Time has Dean and Sam Winchester (Supernatural) arrive in Storeybrooke (Once Upon a Time), which eventually leads to Dean falling for Emma Swan while Sam forms a tentative relationship with Ruby (AKA 'Little Red Riding Hood').
• The Resurgence Series focuses on Peter Petrelli (Heroes) meeting and falling for Bella Swan (The Twilight Saga) after Edward leaves her, with Bella eventually choosing Peter over Edward even after he returns to her life.
• The Dragon and the Bow(Brave, How to Train Your Dragon): The whole premise is a Perfectly Arranged Marriage between Merida and Hiccup.
• Harbinger (Finmonster) (Danny Phantom, ParaNorman): Dash Baxter and Courtney Babcock. Also, an implied case between Mike Penderghast and Lydia Deetz.
  • In later chapters, Mabel Pines gets some Ship Tease with Norman Babcock, and Danny briefly gets Distracted by the Sexy when he meets up with Wendy Corduroy in a cafe.
• Love Worth Waiting For is a Soulmate AU Fic where Elsa (Frozen) and Mulan (Mulan) are each other's One True Love.
• Avatar: The Last Puppet Bender: The skit A "Very Special" Episode of Puppetbenders subverts this. It ends with Toph and Naruto falling for one another, but then Toph gets mad when Naruto mispronounces her name.
• Infinity Verse:
  • The Ninja (Randy Cunningham)/Rena Rouge (Alya Césaire) is the main one. Neither knows the other's identity.
  • Also includes, Heidi Weinerman/SheZow.
• The Infinite Loops: Considering all the Fused Loops between the infinitely-old loopers, this is inevitable.
  • Leman Russ (Primarch of the Space Wolves) ends up in a relationship with Nyx Sparkle (Nightmare Moon's power separated from Luna and adopted by Twilight). The fact that the looping iteration of Leman is Fluttershy's adoptive son just makes it weirder.
  • On the less permanent side, Fluttershy hooked up with Link.
    Fluttershy: [blushing] Link and I did more than just howl out in the woods.
    Applejack: Ah knew it! Pay up Rarity!
  • When Sweetie Belle looped into Arda, she ended up adopted by Melkor (who she had redeemed by helping to sing the world into existence) and hooking up with his son. Yes, Sweetie Belle had sex with Sauron.
    Sweetie Belle: It was a great four thousand years, I still treasure his gifts. He had a talent for those.
  • Another famous example of this trope includes Naoki Kashima and Slaanesh, who, in spite of being one of the stranger relationships to come out of the loops, has worked out rather well.
• In Another Life 2010 (Crossover between Buffy the Vampire Slayer and NUMB3RS) Don and Willow, added with Amnesiac Lover as Willow lost her memory after the Battle of Sunnydale.
• Hunters of Justice: It's implied that Damian Wayne has a crush on Ruby Rose.
• Total Drama Infinite: being a Total Drama fanfic featuring contestants from various universes, there are unsurprisingly a lot of multiversal hookups:
  • The first season features two hookups over the course of the competition: Charlotte Katakuri/Charlie Magne and Tari/Edward Elric. DIO and Cinder Fall also get some Belligerent Sexual Tension near the end of the season, which only escalates by the following one.
  • In addition to the couples from the first season, 2 features Terry Bogard/Aqua and Waluigi/Isabelle. Tenya Iida/Susie also gets copious amounts of Ship Tease.
• Being the precursor to the above fic, Total Drama Everything has several.
  • The first season has Sam hooking up with a younger Snake over their shared love of espionage and Lammy getting together with Yusei because he was nice to her.
  • The second season has Sonic the Hedgehog getting together with Ruby Rose over their shared interests and Edd surprisingly getting with Gaz. Julie also gets with Leo after her breakup with Ben.
• Stars Above is a Yuri Genre romance about the almost impossible relationship between Lucky Star's Kagami Hiiragi and Madoka Magica's Homura Akemi, the latter of whom has made a one-way jump back in time and into Kagami's universe.
  • An intercontinuity example by the same author occurs in Shattered Skies: The Morning Lights, in which Yayoi Kise, from the Precure franchise's Smile PreCure! continuity, forms a close relationship with Yui Nanase from Go! Princess Pretty Cure which ultimately leads to the two of them falling in love.
• The main premise of Temporal Anomaly (Kamen Rider Zi-O and Drakengard 3) is Oma Zi-O romancing and courting the Intoners one by one and in various ways, with the main pairings being Sougo/Zero, Sougo/One, Sougo/Two, Sougo/Three, Sougo/Four, and Sougo/Five.
• A Thing of Vikings has Camicazi and Merida in a relationship, as well as Ruffnut in a relationship with Historical Domain Character King Magnus the Good.
• Vow of Nudity: Kay'la (protagonist of spinoff series The Naked Adventures of Kay'la) meets and sleeps with Spectra (protagonist of spinoff series Curse of Nudity) in one chapter of her serial.

Films — Animation

• It has never been released to the public, however many animators at Disney have confirmed that a few animators at Disney made a dirty animation of Tinkerbell from Peter Pan and Jiminy Cricket from Pinocchio together. The clip has been lost since the 1960s though, and its whereabouts are currently unknown.
• Tom Thumb and Thumbelina is an actual film built around a Crossover Ship of Public Domain Characters.

Films — Live-Action

• Descendants 3 actually follows up on the below-mentioned Maleficent/Hades pairing from House of Mouse by revealing that main character Mal (previously only established as Maleficent's daughter) is their child.

Literature

• There's a semi-canon example in the Star Trek: The Next Generation/X-Men novel Planet X, where Captain Picard and Storm express interest in one another, but decide not to pursue it since they're...y'know...from different universes. She has a thing for Professor X, and the two do look similar.
• In a spin-off series in the Eighties and Nineties, it was implied that Nancy Drew and Frank Hardy had a crush on each other (Poor Ned and Callie). Similarly, there was a much more faint flirtation between Bess Marvin and Joe Hardy.

Live-Action TV

• The Syfy channel has embraced this trope, pairing up Claudia and Fargo in their Warehouse13 / Eureka crossover episodes. At first, it just seems like a mutual crush that won't go anywhere, but then, Claudia's boyfriend breaks up with her. Then, Claudia comes to Eureka. As they search for what's causing that week's problems, there is some flirting, and after being saved from a minefield, we get a full-blown makeout.
• In The Wizards On Deck with Hannah Montana crossover, Justin/London, Max/London and Zack/Alex are teased.
• When Power Rangers Wild Force teamed up with the previous Time Force team, they teased Eric and Taylor.
• There's a Crossover Punchline at the end of the Boy Meets World episode "The Witches of Pennbrook" in which Eric is on a date with Sabrina (Sabrina the Teenage Witch).
• Arrowverse:
  • Subverted in The Flash (2014) episode, “Going Rogue", in which Felicity Smoak from Arrow visits Central City. Both Felicity and Barry recognize that on paper they would make a great couple, since both are science nerds, but both admit they cannot get past their unrequited loves for characters on their own shows.
  • Played With in The Flash (2014) / Supergirl (2015) crossover episode "Duet", where alternate-dimension equivalents of the main protagonists' Love Interests are Star-Crossed Lovers in Barry and Kara's shared Dream Land. Note that it's treated as Crack Pairing In-Universe.
  • The Crisis Crossover Crisis on Earth-X has Alex Danvers from Supergirl (2015) and Sara Lance from Legends of Tomorrow have a one night stand together. Since the crossover ends with Alex returning to a different universe and Sara flying off to a different era in history, nothing more came of it. By the time they ended up on the same Earth, Sara was in a committed relationship with another woman.
• The Supernatural crossover "Scoobynatural" has Dean wooing Daphne while Velma displays interest in Sam.
• The end of the Magnum, P.I. / Murder, She Wrote crossover teased Jonathan Higgins and Jessica Fletcher, although it never went past Higgins quite obviously crushing on Jessica, to her amusement.
• Jarod from The Pretender and Rachel Burke from Profiler. On the fourth season on both shows, they add a relationship arc spread over three crossover episodes.
• In Crusade, protagonist Captain Matthew Gideon of EAS Excalibur has a small Romance Arc with Captain Elizabeth Lochley, base commander of Babylon 5 (debuting in the parent show's final season and continuing to command in the movies).
• Michaela from How to Get Away with Murder and Marcus from Scandal work together on a case and ultimately hook up in Marcus’s car.
• In the first Law & Order / Homicide: Life on the Street crossover "Charm City" and "For God and Country", Tim Bayliss has a crush on Claire Kincaid but it doesn't go anywhere.
• There is an immediate attraction between J.R. Ewing from Dallas and his future sister-in-law Abby Cunningham from Knots Landing from their first meeting in the Knots Landing episode "A Family Matter". Each sees the other as a kindred spirit due to their shared love of money and power and their tendency to use blackmail and manipulation to achieve them. However, it is based more on lust than love. After the two of them have sex in "Designs", J.R. wishes that they could patent what they just invented.
• In the Saved by the Bell: The New Class episode "The Kiss", Ryan Parker and Hang Time character Mary Beth Pepperton are immediately attracted to each other when they meet at Space Camp. They kiss after they are stranded alone on a country road. This causes complications in Ryan and Mary Beth's respective relationships with Rachel Meyers and Vince D'Amata but they are both eventually forgiven: Ryan in that very episode and Mary Beth in the Hang Time episode "Team Captain". Also in "The Kiss", Amy Wright, another Hang Time character, develops a crush on Screech Powers as she is attracted to the way that his mind works.
• The Henry Danger and Game Shakers crossovers put Babe and Henry together, even having them go on a date. The Game Shakers finale even ends with Henry showing up to Game Shakers to see Babe.

Print Media

• For a few years, Nickelodeon Magazine (pictured) wrote a fake magazine called "Toon People" which focused on the social aspects of characters from various shows and networks. Pairings that were shown in said magazine included Naruto/Lisa Simpson, Aqualad / Katara, Zuko/ Kim Possible and for some odd reason, Snow White and Belle getting a makeover from Flapjack.

Myths & Religion

• Maid Marian and Robin Hood's romance started out this way. She is thought to have originated as the originally unnamed May Queen or Queen of the Shepherds, a popular figure of the May festivities, and she gained her name from a series unrelated plays in which a Marian has a shepherd boyfriend who just happens to be named Robin. When Robin Hood plays became a fad, someone did a crossover and it eventually stuck.

Video Games

• An old Cartoonnetwork.com game, Cartoon Cartoons Summer Resort Part 4, has you playing matchmaker by pairing up some of the Cartoon Cartoons guys with the right girls. Said pairings as are follows: Buttercup with Dexter, Blossom with Edd, Bubbles with Courage, Dee-Dee with Chicken, and Suzy with I.R. Baboon.
• The now defunct FusionFall was a Massive Multiplayer Crossover MMORPG featuring Cartoon Network characters. It had some Ship Tease between characters. For example, Dexter's computer from Dexter's Laboratory had an unrequited crush on Professor Utonium from The Powerpuff Girls. Princess from The Powerpuff Girls also had an unrequited crush on Ben from Ben 10: Alien Force.
• Namco High involves you playing as a cousin from Katamari Damacy. You're capable of dating 18 characters in the game, from a Homestuck troll to Richard Miller from Time Crisis to the spaceship from Galaga.
• The opening of J-Stars Victory VS gives us Lala Satalin Deviluke and Chitoge Kirisaki.
• Sonic the Hedgehog/Hello Kitty, at least where Japan is concerned. They even have merchandise offspring which was first revealed by Sanrio for Sonic 25th Anniversary event.
• Starting first as a Dream Match Game for characters from various SNK games, including its other fighting game series, The King of Fighters has Athena Asamiya (then from Psycho Soldier) getting a crush on Kyo Kusanagi (unrequited since he already has a girlfriend, but that doesn't stop fans from shipping them).
• Marvel vs. Capcom:
  • Morrigan seems to be switch-hitting between Tony and Chris in the openings. In the Episode 2 trailer, after Iron Man saves Viewtiful Joe but fails to do the same for Amaterasu, Morrigan saves Ammy and then blows a kiss to Iron Man. In the Episode 4 trailer, the last shot is a still showing all of heroes and villains duking it out... except for Morrigan, who is seen lovingly wrapping her arms around a flustered Chris, perhaps as a way of saying thanks for saving her in Episode 1.
  • Iron Man hits on every female in this game not named Amaterasu. This includes Tron Bonne and X-23, who are respectively 14 and 16, as well as Hsien-Ko, who is (technically speaking) dead. Fans jokingly suggest that the only reason he doesn't go after Ammy is because he doesn't know that Ammy is a she. Should he win against any of them, he muses, "Told you... a nice candlelight dinner would've been better." Should he win against Morrigan, his quote at the win screen reads as such:
    "I think we can sort out our differences over dinner. I'll have the best chefs flown in."
  • Felicia has a humorous win quote against Deadpool: "No, I don't care how much catnip you have, I'm not getting into the car with you!"
  • Morrigan apparently has a fancy for Wolverine (her quote at the win screen reads, "You have a beastly charm I just find so, so intriguing"). She also cameos in his ending as an exotic dancer trying to seduce him. Wolverine relents to her whimsy... but not before he finishes his drink.
  • Chun-Li surprisingly has the hots for Thor.
    "Tall, blond, and handsome—you're my type of guy... But do you have to carry that hammer everywhere?"
  • In his quote at the win screen, Viewtiful Joe finds She-Hulk to be attractive. The same could be same for Spencer, who goes on a sort-of-but-not-quite-date with her in his ending.
  • Morrigan's ending has her openly flirting with Mephisto and Sattanish.
  • Shuma-Gorath displays a creepy fondness for Hsien-Ko, going as far as to propose to make her his bride. Also, Morrigan herself shows an interest in Shuma's tentacles.
  • In Ultimate, Morrigan blatantly hits on Phoenix Wright. Blatantly. And then there's Rocket Raccoon having the hots for Ammy... By the way, all of the above come from the game itself. This isn't even getting into Fan Art. Marvel vs. Capcom 3: If it breathes, this game will ship it.
• The Super Robot Wars series is a mecha crossover game so by default, there will be lots of pairings that end up helping the other characters from their original selves.
  • Super Robot Wars Z has Shinn Asuka paired up with Setsuko Ohara and is one of the many reasons why Shinn mellows down considerably.
  • Chirico Cuvie is paired up with Kallen Kouzuki from the second Z all the way to the finale.
  • Ange of all people, gets paired up with Wataru Ikusabe and is one of the reasons why Ange is more of a Cool Big Sis with Wataru and Nadia. Ange is also sometimes paired up with Lelouch mainly due to their similarities that even in-game, Lelouch is referred to as "Boy-Ange" and Ange sometimes referred to as "Girl-Lelouch".
• Namco × Capcom has mentions of a pairing consisting of Toby Masuyo and Taizo Hori. Apparently, they broke up sometime before the game began (with Suzumu and Ataru Hori being thr results of that coupling), but other works related to Namco often see them making up for it.
• Summitsphere (developers of Antonball Deluxe and Antonblast) and Tour de Pizza (developers of Pizza Tower) regularly joke about the leads of their respective games, Anton and Peppino, being in a relationship.
• Friday Night Funkin': Pico being the ex-boyfriend of Boyfriend started out as a gag explanation for why he initially showed up in Week 3, before eventually becoming a plot point in the game itself. Tom Fulp, Pico's creator, returned the favor by featuring Boyfriend as Pico's boyfriend during the time Pico's School: Love Conquers All takes place.

Web Comics

• Jeph Jacques (Questionable Content) and Aaron Diaz (Dresden Codak) have drawn Hannerlore/Kimiko slash.
• Roommates has many examples:
  • Erik (The Phantom of the Opera ) X Mag (Repo! The Genetic Opera)
  • Norrington (Pirates of the Caribbean) X Eponine (Les Misérables)
  • For nightmare fuel The Erlking (The Erl-King) X Jadis the White Witch (The Chronicles of Narnia).
• Spin-Off to Roommates, Girls Next Door, brought Jadis (The Chronicles of Narnia) X Darkness (Legend) into our nightmares.
• Spin-Off to Roommates Superintendent gave us Morgan (Arthurian Legend) X Clopin (The Hunchback of Notre Dame) who are strangely cute.
• Cheshire Crossing introduced the villainous pairing of Captain Hook (Peter Pan) / Wicked Witch of the West (The Wizard of Oz), whose romance doesn't seem to have got terribly far before their Villain Team-Up went pear-shaped. An honourable mention must also go to a pairing enabled by the crossover despite featuring two characters from the same 'verse, even though it acknowledges the popular Peter/Alice ship mentioned below: Alice is not at all interested, and gets rid of her unwanted suitor by dosing him with shrinking potion and presenting him to Tinkerbell, who very much is. Peter doesn't mind.
• The Order of the Stick: One of the strips implied that apparently celestial administration ships Cruella De Vil (101 Dalmatians) and Sauron (The Lord of the Rings).
• Discovery (Neo Yi) has Skywarp and Princess Luna.
• Forge (Paranatural) × Nightmare Knight (Cucumber Quest) started as a joke between the comics' authors and their friends, and has since received art by both creators and their fandoms.
• Brawl in the Family has some of these.
  • Kirby/Jigglypuff and Samus/Captain Falcon are two major pairings in the comic.
  • There's also Mother Brain/Lakitu's cloud. And MB gives birth to... Kracko.
  • In the "Holiday Vacation" mini-arc, King Dedede develops a one-sided crush on a Pokémon trainer's Prinplup when it uses Attract on him.
  • "Megacrush" has Mega Man develop a crush on Samus Aran, thinking she's a fellow robot. When she takes off her helmet, he's... shocked, to say the least.
  Alt Text: Don't you just hate it when the steely, robotic bounty hunter you loved turns out to be a beautiful woman?

Western Animation

• The crossover episode between Totally Spies! and Martin Mystery teased Martin/Alex and M.O.M./Jerry.
• In a crossover with American Dragon: Jake Long and Lilo & Stitch: The Series, Grandpa ends up with Mrs. Hasagawa, a Hawaiian fruit seller.
• Johnny Bravo: In the Scooby-Doo crossover "Bravo-Dooby-Doo" Johnny has a brief romance with Velma.
• MAD:
  • One issue had a crossover romance of Eeyore (Winnie the Pooh) and Twilight Sparkle (My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic) in a parody of The Adjustment Bureau.
  • Also, in their parody of The Hunchback of Notre Dame, they had Belle fall for Quasimodo in the end. (Why? She claimed her relationship with the Beast fell apart when he turned handsome, so she went looking for someone just as ugly as he had been before.)
• House of Mouse provides a lot of these:
  • A throwaway panel showed Jafar (Aladdin) and Maleficent (Sleeping Beauty) at the same table — with Mickey whispering that the two were on a date. Disney fanatics instantly took a shine to the two as a couple.
  • If that doesn't work out, House of Villains and The Kingdom Keepers suggest that Maleficent and Chernabog of Fantasia would be great (and dark) together.
  • House of Mouse also gave us Hades from Hercules having a bit of a crush on Maleficent. There's also potential in Black Pete, given his servant-like relationship to her in Kingdom Hearts II.
• In the Batman Beyond Required Spinoff Crossover episode "Countdown", there was a bit of Ship Tease between Terry and Ro of The Zeta Project, culminating in her kissing him on the cheek.
• Steven Universe's Say Uncle briefly teased Lion and Uncle Grandpa's Giant Realistic Flying Tiger.
• The Fleischer Brothers once made a fully animated short of Betty Boop and Popeye (both properties were theirs at the time) having sex for a celebration involving several of their animators. It's unknown what happened to the short.
• A recurring theme in The Jimmy Timmy Power Hour series was a love triangle between Jimmy and Timmy over Cindy Vortex, Jimmy's longtime rival and love interest.
• In "World's Finest", a crossover episode of Superman: The Animated Series with Batman: The Animated Series, Batman pursues the Joker to Metropolis, and while there Bruce Wayne and Lois Lane fall in love. They go so far as to discuss marriage and Lois moving to Gotham City, but when she learns Bruce’s Secret Identity, she decides to stay in Metropolis.
• In the Milo Murphy's Law/Phineas and Ferb crossover "The Phineas and Ferb Effect," Baljeet appears to have a little crush on Melissa.
• One Cartoon Network ad block called "Toon Dates" paired Ed from Ed, Edd n Eddy with Daphne from Scooby-Doo.
• A downplayed example, in the OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes Halloween Episode Monster Party, a flashback shows Phantasma swooning over Grim while reading a monster teen magazine.
• In The Simpsons' crossover with The Critic, "A Star is Burns", Homer is jealous of Jay Sherman's ability to one-up him at everything, including impressing Marge.
  Homer: That's it, Marge. He knows the whole [Oscar Mayer] hot dog song. Go ahead, sleep with him. I'll just take a lock of your hair to remember you by.

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