Crossover Ship

Wally and Carmen Sandiego. Image by Bob-rz.

"(playing with action figures) Our love is forbidden by continuity... and yet somehow, it's like it was always meant to happen!"

— Red, Overly Sarcastic Productions, "Blue's College Survival Guide"

As any shipper knows, love conquers all, even in the face of continuity. The logical extreme of this is Intercontinuity Crossover Fan Work.

As a general rule, this is much more light-hearted and less Serious Business than intra-continuity shipping, favoring the Rule of Funny instead of an unironic OTP. These ships are usually labeled as Crack Pairings, but it's not impossible to make some of them seem like they can actually work, depending on various factors.

When you factor in Non Linear Sequels like the Final Fantasy series that have multiple continuities, series with a multiverse and even official Massive Multiplayer Crossover franchises like Super Smash Bros. and Kingdom Hearts, it all turns into Schrodinger's Ship, as it becomes simultaneously impossible and canon-friendly.

Theme Pairing holds a lot of Crossover Ships. Common Crossover may relate. Series where preferred relationships are not possible or unlikely due to Situational Sexuality requires branching out of that Verse. Crossover Couple is for when this appears in semi-canon, canon, and licensed material, as well as specific fan-works.

Since there are infinite possible crossover pairings, don't be surprised if you don't see a crossover pairing that already has fanart, fan videos, and/or fanfiction for it here.

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Examples:

• Western Animation

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Anime & Manga

• Sailor Moon: The Sailor Moon crossover category at Fanfiction.net is all about Crossover Ships.
  • Especially pairing Usagi with some other guy besides Mamoru. There are even two dedicated categories for Gundam Wing and Dragon Ball Z crossovers, mostly because the shows all aired on the Toonami block around the same time.
  • There is a fanfic called Harmony of a Moonlit Sky, a crossover between Reborn! (2004) and Sailor Moon, pairing off Usagi and Belphegor, Ami and Hibari, and the other sailor scouts, sans Uranus and Neptune.
  • There's a Sailor Moon/Urotsukidouji crossover out there with a bunch of original male characters. The author avatar even sneaks in on Rei masturbating, she likes it, and the next day he's complimenting her technique in Lakota, forgetting that he's in Japan. Fan theory? The writer got an online translator.
  • Sailor Moon girls have a frequent habit of getting paired with the Saint Seiya boys. There are reasons, of course-they're roughly equal in number, and there are so few females in Saint Seiya that if you wanted a het ship you'd probably have to use a crossover. Also, if you try you can get characters with matching hair colours to pair up together...
  • There are a surprising number of Sailor Moon/X-Men crossovers that run the gamut of serious to silly but one of the most consistent aspects is the shipping Sailor Mercury/Nightcrawler.
  • The Doctor from Doctor Who/Sailor Pluto from Sailor Moon was a Theme Pairing on numerous counts. The Only One, Time Traveller, Survivor Guilt, Genocide Survivor, etc.
  • Usagi and YuYu Hakusho's Yusuke Urameshi, since the creators are married in real life.
• Ranma ˝:
  • There are numerous Fanfictions featuring Ranma paired with girls from all over fiction, on top of his Unwanted Harem (especially unwanted by the fans). The girls of Sailor Moon are a common choice, if he is not one already.
  • He has been paired off with Brittany Diggers (Of Antarctic Press' Gold Digger comic), despite the fact she's a werecheetah, meaning he could never face her wereform without snapping. Then again, several of them not only acknowledge this fact, but proceed to use it as part of the process to remedy his phobia of felines.
• The authors of Stars Above wrote the fic partly as a vehicle for their Kagami (Lucky Star) x Homura (Puella Magi Madoka Magica) ship.
• Ichigo Kurosaki (Bleach) / Gintoki Sakata (Gintama) has some merit, considering even their voice actors ship-teased and co-hosted during a radio special.
• Death Note:
  • L x Stocking (Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt) is becoming popular. Here's a DeviantArt group.
  • Soujiro Seta (Rurouni Kenshin) x Beyond Birthday is a wonderful example for a very self-destructive and dark Crossover Ship [1]. Still most videos of the creator make it seem differently... and very pink [2] [3].
  • Light Yagami (Death Note) x Lucy (Elfen Lied) [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9].
  • Lelouch Lamperouge (Code Geass) x Light Yagami (Death Note) [10].
• One Piece:
  • A non-romantic kind of pairing for Azula (Avatar: The Last Airbender) and Monkey D. Luffy (One Piece).
  • Fairy Tail and One Piece have a lot of this due to their similar character designs.
• There is a surprisingly large amount of Shinichi (Case Closed) / Kagome (Inuyasha) floating around the internet...
• Pokémon: The Series:
  • Crossover pairings with Ash Ketchum are pretty popular; one famous one is Ash/Sakura Haruno (Naruto).
  • Pairing up cross-canon counterparts, such as Ash with Red from Pokémon Adventures, is not unheard of.
• Lyrical Nanoha:
  • There are some fanart examples of Sakura (Cardcaptor Sakura)/Nanoha (Lyrical Nanoha). Two little, cute, and godlike-powerful girls. Just try to imagine what would happen if Nanoha fires a Starlight Breaker when boosted by Sakura's "The Power" card.
  • Theres also a lot of shipping for Nanoha X Puella Magi Madoka Magica) - A popular series to begin with since both series are highly non-conventional Magical Girl series who turned the genre on its head. Fate x Homura or Kyoko exists but is significantly less popular than MadoNano.
• Saber (Fate/stay night) and Kon (Bleach): She loves stuffed lions, he loves cuddling with anything female, and they would be adorable together.
• Fran (Franken Fran) is paired up with Dr. Stein (Soul Eater) quite a bit. Cuter than it sounds.
• Want a Manipulative Bastard pair? Look no further than Lelouch Lamperouge (Code Geass) / Alex Russo (Wizards of Waverly Place). Since they both have powers (Lelouch has Geass, Alex has Magic), and love to manipulate anyone, they'll manipulate just about everything to oblivion.
• Hei (Darker than Black) x Rin (Mnemosyne) gained some popularity.

• Fullmetal Alchemist:
  • Edward x Maka (Soul Eater). Probably because of this.
  • Fem Edward Elric (Fullmetal Alchemist (2003)) x Soul (Soul Eater) has a fanfic written about it.
• Death The Kid (Soul Eater) and Chiri Kitsu (Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei), since both are known for being highly obsessed with perfection and order. It's possibly the only case where the pairing can be said to be literally perfect for each other.
• Naruto:
  • Naruto/nearly anyone. A couple of examples: Nanoha (Lyrical Nanoha), Asuna, Konoka, Evangeline A.K. MacDowell (Negima! Magister Negi Magi), Orihime, Yoruichi (Bleach), Moka (Rosario + Vampire) and a lot more besides. Or all of them at the same time.
  • Yoruichi (Bleach) X Sakura (Naruto) art exists. As does Kakashi X Yoruichi, and Kakashi X Starfire (Teen Titans (2003)).
  • Mello/Deidara (from Death Note and Naruto respectively) have some fanart floating around and even a fan club. This is likely due to the similarities they happen to have, most notably that they're both feminine-looking blond-haired guys. By extension, their partners in crime, Matt and Sasori, get shipped too, though very rarely.
• Hetalia: Axis Powers:
  • Hetalia: Axis Powers and My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic has developed some popularity. The most common pairings are France/Rarity, Rainbow Dash/America, and Canada/Fluttershy. People will either turn the countries into ponies or turn the ponies into humans.
  • Hetalia: Axis Powers makes another appearance with the growing popularity of England romantically paired up with Alice Liddell from American McGee's Alice and Alice: Madness Returns.
• Our Tapes is a popular Dark Fic crossover Fan Vid featuring Mio from K-On! and Oreki from Hyouka as a couple.
• Mami Tomoe from Puella Magi Madoka Magica and Isaac from Golden Sun are paired up on this video.
• Unsurprisingly, Haru (Free!) x Juvia (Fairy Tail) is a pretty popular pair.
• Attack on Titan:
  • For some odd reason, some artists on Pixiv are fond of pairing Eren with Erika Furudo from Umineko: When They Cry. There's even a tag for the pairing.
  • Various artists on Tumblr have Eren paired up with Peko Pekoyama from Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair. It's listed under the tag #pekoeren.
  • This piece of fanart pairs Eren with Nino Nakano from The Quintessential Quintuplets. Their respective voice actors are married in real life.
• Lum (Urusei Yatsura) and her Expy Shampoo (Ranma ˝) in Lum Sum Purple.
• Linna (Bubblegum Crisis) and Belldandy (Ah! My Goddess), as well as Priss and Urd, and Sylia and Mara in A Goddess Comes to Call.
• The Boy Who Murdered Love is an AMV featuring a love triangle between Houtarou Oreki, Eru Chitanda, and Minori Kushieda. The former two are from Hyouka while the latter is from Toradora!.
• Downplayed in Advice and Trust. Kensuke is dating non-Magical Girl versions of Sayaka and Kyoko from Puella Magi Madoka Magica. However, the author had provided sidestories focusing on them, exploring deeper within the polyamorous trio's relationship from its beginning.
• The AMV "Once Upon a Time in Russia" casts Armstrong from Full Metal Alchemist 2003 as Rasputin and Euphemia from Code Geass as his lover, the Tsarina Alexandra. Several other girls from various anime (most notably the SOS Brigade ( from Haruhi Suzumiya, who play the female Greek Chorus) also show up as Rasputin's girlfriends.
• Kyoto Animation is often accused of having Only Six Faces as many of their series have characters with similar facial designs. This however makes it very easy to crossover characters, because they already look like they share a universe. Take this MEP that ships from Tomoya from CLANNAD with Haruhi from Haruhi Suzumiya, Mochi from Tamako Market with Eru from Hyouka, and Rin from Free! with Reina from Sound! Euphonium.
• Ika Musume (Squid Girl) and Neko Musume (GeGeGe no Kitarō). Why? That's simple: Cats LOVES fish and Ika Musume is a squid.
• Kurama (YuYu Hakusho) / Kagome (Inuyasha) is popular, and actually quite possible.
• Yuki Yuna is a Hero and Puella Magi Madoka Magica are two similar series so crossover ships exist. Togo/Homura is the most common.
• Fans of both series love to pair Izuku Midoriya (My Hero Academia) with Akko Kagari (Little Witch Academia) due to both being enthusiastic and slightly airheaded students with deep passions for becoming like their childhood heroes.
• YuYu Hakusho/Hunter × Hunter crossover ships are fairly common, given that both are drawn by the same mangaka. Kurama/Kurapika is especially popular.
• There is a fic pairing Ichigo Kurosaki (Bleach) and Asuna Kagurazaka (Negima! Magister Negi Magi), after they bonded over their big swords. Both considered a romantic relationship to be too "weird" and instead opted for "friends with benefits". They basically skipped the romance part of settling down.
• "F___ing" Ribbons Almark (Mobile Suit Gundam 00) and "F___ing" Proist Darius (Gaiking: Legend of Daiku Maryu). One is a Magnificent Bastard of a Big Bad in a Real Robot series. The other's one for a Super Robot series.
• Many anime fans pair Lupin III with Carmen Sandiego due to how much they have in common. They're both world class thieves who steal not just for gain but also for the fun and challenge of it, they both treat it as a game and they both like to leave clues for the detectives who are determined to track them down.
• There’s a surprising amount of people who pair Satoru Gojo (Jujutsu Kaisen) with Makima (Chainsaw Man). This mostly comes down to the two of them being very attractive aloof powerhouses who have their eyes emphasised. In actuality, Gojo would likely despise Makima, since he places a lot of importance on young people being allowed to live their lives as they wish, the exact opposite of what Makima is about.

Comic Books

• Watchmen:
  • Ozymandias plus Oscar Wilde. Wouldn't they be perfect for each other?
  • Ozymandias/Alexander the Great/Hephaestion threesome. Enjoy.
• From The Incredible Hulk and X-Men: Evolution: Hulk's Big Damn Heroes moment in Episode 3, Hulk/X-23. This one technically isn't a crossover ship as the two exist in the same continuity. Though it is pure crack, as aside from the age difference (she's 16, Hulk's pushing 40), the one time these two have met involved Hulk beating the hell out of her friends and throwing her through a building.
  • The Spider-X series sees Rogue forming a relationship with Peter Parker (Spider-Man) after he joins the institute; these two loners form a deep and genuinely emotional bond, that later develops a physical dynamic when Peter develops a 'power nullifier' that shuts down Rogue's powers while she's wearing it.
• The Corinthian from The Sandman (1989) and Sheldon Sands (Once Upon a Time in Mexico), and they're having ridiculously good sex.
• Green Goblin (Spider-Man) manages to hook up with Harley Quinn (Batman) in I'm a Marvel, I'm a DC. It's just as messed up as it sounds and twice as funny. And just because the creator loves doing it, he also gave us Poison Ivy and Sandman. Which makes sense if you think about it, except she'll probably cheat on him with Aquaman.
• Possibly the most patriotic ship in all of comics: Captain America and Wonder Woman. It's surprisingly not as common as one might think.
• Cyclops and Velma from Scooby-Doo, because they're both Blind Without Them. No seriously, that is the main reason.
• Harley Quinn and Deadpool is also a rather popular pairing, with reasons ranging from similar colour palette to love of violence. In some circles, it matches Harley's canon ships of Harley/Joker and Harley/Ivy.

Film — Animated

• ParaNorman:
  • Norman and Coraline form an age-appropriate crossover couple. It may have something to do with Coraline having brown eyes and blue hair and Norman having blue eyes and brown hair.
  • Norman and Dipper (from Gravity Falls) are shipped a lot due to them both being young boys involved with supernatural shenanigans. Their ship name is "Parapines".
• There's a group on DeviantArt dedicated to Merida, Jack, Hiccup, and Rapunzel being friends. The group name, depending on who you ask, is either The Big Four or Rise of the Brave Tangled Dragons. And you Gotta Ship 'Em All.
  • Jack (Rise of the Guardians) and Merida (Brave) is Jerida.
  • Jack and Hiccup (How to Train Your Dragon) is Hijack or Jaccup.
  • Jack and Rapunzel (Tangled) is Jackunzel.
  • People pair up Merida and Hiccup. It's usually referred to as Merricup.
  • Merida and Rapunzel have been paired with each other.
  • Rapunzel/Hiccup has been made.
• Frozen:
  • Elsa is very often shipped with Jack Frost from Rise of the Guardians, not just because they're both ice people protective of their younger sisters, but also because Jack's playfulness contrasts interestingly with Elsa's seriousness. The ship's name is "Jelsa" though some people prefer them as siblings and call them "Frost Family". The ship has inspired many fanarts and fanfics and cosplays to the point of attracting backlash from those irritated by its popularity.
  • A small portion of viewers ships Elsa with Pitch, also from Rise of the Guardians, because his life's work is fear and her whole problem is letting fear control her and/or because both are viewed as loners wanting someone to accept them and their strange power.
  • There's a lot of one-sided fanart versions of Elsa and the Ice King from Adventure Time, both for the obvious and because the Ice King has a thing for princesses. As if that wasn't enough, there's also a notable amount of Jack/Elsa fanart that features the Ice King as the heartbroken unrequited love interest of Elsa.
  • Another portion, if little, ships Elsa with Tadashi Hamada from Big Hero 6 , normally explaining that Elsa Somehow Saved Tadashi from the fire that killed him, this ship normally points to how Tadashi's more free personality balances Elsa's more serious personality, also, with both having to deal with watch for a younger sibling. there are even fanmade children of this couple.
  • There's more than a few pictures around the internet shipping Elsa with Arthas Menethil (aka The Lich King from Warcraft). Both are royal heirs. Both are transformed by their powers. Both have an ice fortress in a remote location. And despite Arthas technically having all Death Knight powers, he favors the ice powers.
  • An Elsa pairing that started turning up is Elsa and Mister Freeze (Batman). This may be slightly weird for those who are aware that Elsa's father is also voiced by the same person who voiced Mr. Freeze in Batman: Arkham City.
  • Elsa and Elphaba from Wicked appears platonically and romantically. They have several similarities, the most obvious being that Idina Menzel both voices Elsa and was the original Elphaba. Both characters have an immensely popular signature song about throwing off their limitations and being free to be themselves at last ("Let It Go" and "Defying Gravity").
  • Disney Femslash is very popular but Elsa surprisingly isn't shipped with other Disney Princess' much. People instead prefer to pair Elsa up with her little sister, Anna. When it comes to shipping Elsa with a princess, though, a few tend to come up: Elsa and Merida from Brave, Elsa and Rapunzel from Tangled (also often counts as Incest Yay Shipping as fanon has them as cousins), Elsa and Belle from Beauty and the Beast, and Elsa and Ariel from The Little Mermaid (1989).
  • Cassandra from Tangled: The Series hits all the right criteria for shippers: her tomboyishness plays well with Elsa's femininity, she's a knight, and she's from Tangled (which, due to Rapunzel and Eugene's cameo in Frozen, is considered in a Shared Universe). It's thus not uncommon to have Cass and Elsa hit it off during a visit or have Cass conveniently shipped off to be Elsa's new lady-in-waiting.
  • Another, more infamous Elsa ship is with, of all characters, Spider-Man, courtesy of YouTube kids' channels.
  • Another popular ship is Elsa with Sub Zero from Mortal Kombat.
  • Elsa is also frequently shipped with Shadow the Hedgehog, as taken from the fictional DeviantArt meme game Shadow and the Snow Queen.
• It's very popular to ship Disney characters together, even if they're from different movies:
  • Charlotte LaBouff (The Princess and the Frog) and John Smith (Pocahontas). Have a look.
  • Frollo (The Hunchback of Notre Dame) and Mother Gothell (Tangled), as seen here. The two being abusive, manipulative parental figures works in their favor.
  • Delivered From Frollo pairs Frollo with Chernabog (Fantasia).
  • Ariel (The Little Mermaid (1989)) and Jim (Treasure Planet) is a very popular couple, and it sort of makes sense. The two are adventurous, angsty teenagers who want more from life. Check this art work from Deviant Art. Similarly, Jim is often shipped with Melody, Ariel's daughter.
  • Jack Sparrow (Pirates of the Caribbean) got paired with Ariel (The Little Mermaid (1989)). Pirates and mermaids, eh?
  • Tinker Bell (Peter Pan) and Jiminy Cricket (Pinocchio).
  • The Jiminy Cricket (Pinocchio) and Timothy Mouse (Dumbo) ship has some popularity.
  • Wilbur (Meet the Robinsons) / Violet (The Incredibles) has gained a small, yet growing following. FigmentJedi believes he might have been the first to think of it, in response to seeing Wilbur encountering a Violet look-alike in a storyboard featured in the Art of Meet the Robinsons book.
  • Hiro Hamada (Big Hero 6) and Penny (Bolt) are sometimes shipped in fanart and fanfiction. One also sometimes finds stories that contain this couple grouped with the Wilbur (Meet the Robinsons)/Violet (The Incredibles) pairing, the resulting quartet being referred to as the "Futuristic Four".
  • An age-appropriate example is Oliver (Oliver & Company) and Marie (The Aristocats) who are two of the cutest Disney cats. They both look so cute together especially since they are both kittens. A couple fanfics mostly a Fan Sequel were created over the years that loves shipping the two. Check out this fanart from DeviantArt. One Disney fan, even made a Valentines Day pin of Oliver giving a flower to Marie◊.
  • Wilbur (Meet the Robinsons) gets paired with Penny (Bolt) in several stories... and it kind of works.
  • Macleach (The Rescuers Down Under) and Madame Medusa(The Rescuers) . The two being villains from the same movie series, it's more probable that'd they meet over other pairings.
  • Peter Pan and Alice (Alice in Wonderland) is pretty common. Two adventurous kids who visit fantasy worlds, it was meant to happen.
  • On the villainous side, there is Gaston (Beauty and the Beast) and Vanessa (The Little Mermaid (1989)). Pairing Maleficent (Sleeping Beauty) with either Jafar (Aladdin or Hades (Hercules) is also quite common.
  • Ariel (The Little Mermaid (1989)) and Peter Pan. If you think about it, Disney hasn't had that many redheaded couples and there's a mystique between a mermaid girl and a magical, immortal boy together.
  • Although Pocahontas II: Journey to a New World is usually given Fanon Discontinuity due to the unpopularity of John Rolfe as Pocahontas' new Love Interest, many YouTubers still enjoy using him to pair up with other Disney Princesses, notably Belle and Cinderella.
  • Alice (Alice in Wonderland)/Pinocchio is a ship that exists. It's moderately popular, but not as much as other Disney Crossover Ships.
  • Prince Hans (Frozen (2013)) and Mother Gothell (Tangled) have been shipped by some. The age gap makes some uncomfortable but others don't mind and are drawn to their similarities (both manipulate innocent girls and put on a false facade of a caring person).
  • Maui (Moana) and Luisa (Encanto). Both abnormally large side characters with both super strength and memorable songs yet neither have a canon love interest.
• Disney Femslash is a fandom of its own within the Disney Princess fanbase. There are several ships that pop up often:
  • Ariel (The Little Mermaid (1989)) and Meg (Hercules) are the undeniable queens in Disney Femslash, thanks to a popular artist pairing them up. To consider, in canon, Meg DOES like redheads.
  • Jane (Tarzan) and Captain Amelia (Treasure Planet) have a good amount of fans.
  • An interesting pairing is in the form of Pocahontas and Aurora (Sleeping Beauty). Both are reserved, OutdoorsyGals with a love for nature and animals.
  • More often than not, Jasmine (Aladdin) is paired up with Esmeralda (The Hunchback of Notre Dame) due to their similar designs and the fact their roles mesh well (repressed princess and flamboyant dancer). The two are passionate and fiery and speak their mind, and their movies associates them with fire often.
  • As mentioned, Elsa (Frozen) and Merida (Brave) is probably the most common Elsa/Female-Besides-Anna ship. The two being single in canon probably helps.
  • Rapunzel (Tangled) and Merida (Brave) were quite popular before Frozen (2013) came out. Now Elsa, Anna, Merida, and Rapunzel tend to get platonically paired together as the "Four Seasons".
  • ToyShips are rare; however, when it does occur, Wendy (Peter Pan) and Alice (Alice in Wonderland) are typically shipped due to them both having adventurous personalities.
  • Ariel (The Little Mermaid (1989)) and Belle (Beauty and the Beast) are both outcast teenage girls who enjoy learning, and they were the princesses that began the Disney Renaissance. They get shipped a fair sum.
  • Belle from Beauty and the Beast is probably most popularly shipped with both Aurora from Sleeping Beauty and Elsa from Frozen (known as "Belsa"). Both Aurora and Belle are the Titled Beauties from their stories; and Elsa, like Beast, is a misunderstood outcast due to magical circumstances, later on saved by The Power of Love.
  • Aurora (Sleeping Beauty) and Mulan occasionally get shipped due to it being a thing in Once Upon a Time.
  • Esmeralda (The Hunchback of Notre Dame) and Belle (Beauty and the Beast) are both French and star in "beauty is on the inside" stories; thus, both get shipped together. They don't live in the same period but that's easily worked around.
  • Moana/Ariel is the most popular Moana ship besides Moana/Maui. Ariel (The Little Mermaid (1989)) shares several characteristics with Moana (teenage girl wanting more despite her father's objections) and both stories involve the sea.
  • There is a popular idea of a romance between Nani (Lilo & Stitch) and Ariel (The Little Mermaid (1989)). Nani is a surfer after all and she lives near a beach.
• Ralph (Wreck-It Ralph) and Elsa (Frozen) are often shipped together, mainly on the basis that they're both misunderstood people who were hated or feared for what they are and whose relationships with their siblings/sibling figures are integral parts of their respective films. It helps that Jennifer Lee, screenwriter for both movies, has said that she personally ships Ralph and Elsa, and Rich Moore, director of Wreck-It Ralph, has acknowledged the pairing in this video.
• The fan-comic Disney High School centers on Rapunzel (Tangled) and Quasimodo (The Hunchback of Notre Dame), who are stepsiblings due to Gothel and Frollo being married. The students all seem to be headed toward their Official Couples, but Kuzco (The Emperor's New Groove) playfully flirts with his Vitriolic Best Bud Jasmine (Aladdin), as does Naveen (The Princess and the Frog), while Jim (Treasure Planet) has a crush on Ariel (The Little Mermaid). (Word of God says she doesn't ship the latter, but noticed its popularity and decided to include it.)
  • Hans turns out to be the ex who left Meg so jaded about love.
• Big Hero 6:
  • Tadashi Hamada and Nani Pelekai (Lilo & Stitch).
  • Tadashi is also frequently shipped with MK from Epic (2013).
  • People have taken to shipping Hiro with Tip (Home (2015)). It also counts as a Toy Ship.
  • Hiro and Vanellope (Wreck-It Ralph) are popular.
  • The pairing of Hiro with Riley (Inside Out) is popular.
  • "Hottie 5: Fifty Shades of Epic" ships Aunt Cass and Drax the Destroyer (Guardians of the Galaxy (2014)).
  • With the release of Coco, some have started shipping Hiro with Miguel, and Tadashi with Héctor.
• There are plenty of people who ship Jack Skellington from The Nightmare Before Christmas with Emily, the Corpse Bride from the title. For people who like their fan fic slashed, there is Jack Skellington/Victor Van Dort, Emily's very much alive "husband" for a time. Emily the Corpse Bride gets paired with Sally the Rag Doll from Nightmare, who is a cute rag doll created by a Mad Scientist. For the Jack/Emily shippers who don't want to leave Sally alone, they've paired her with Bonejangles, a skeleton musician from Corpse Bride. The two films just go well together.
• There's a rather disturbing pairing: Jack Skellington of The Nightmare before Christmas and Coraline of Coraline. That's right, an eleven-year-old girl with a fully adult skeleton.
• Olivia Flaversham from The Great Mouse Detective and Fievel Mousekewitz from An American Tail is one of the few age-appropriate shippings Olivia ever gets without being aged up. Fan art and fan fiction tends to play up the pairing's sheer adorableness.
• Young!Once-ler (The Lorax) and Rapunzel (Tangled) is quite popular, if the YouTube videos are accounted for.
• In a piece of Transformers fanart, Genki Girl Anna (Frozen) / The Spock Shockwave. In the piece of art (which serves as a Spiritual Successor to The Decepticon Pub Crawl), the Disney Princesses meet the Decepticons when they all end up in the same bar. In the back of the picture, Anna is attempting to one-sidedly flirt with Shockwave. The same piece of art implied that they had just come from a "Vegas wedding" between Elsa and Soundwave. Ravage was, apparently, their best man. (This was followed three hours later, by a Vegas divorce).
• The Swan Princess's Odette and Dr. Facilier from The Princess and the Frog seems to be pretty popular. Understandable, seeing how her backstory is similar to what Facilier does to the main characters.
• As of The Frollo Show, Frollo is paired with Panty and Stocking from Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt.
• A popular crossover ship for Hades of Hercules on Youtube is with Eris (Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas), which is not at all surprising, considering they are both villain gods from Greek Mythology with a smoky disposition.
• Avatar: The Last Airbender: Azula gets paired with WALL•E. Because there is no better way to help cure Azula of her Villainous Breakdown. This is a friendship pairing, not a romantic one, mostly because if EVE found out, Azula would not survive the night.
• A Treasure Planet ship that's popular on the slash side is Dimitri (Anastasia) and Jim. And to keep this list short lets just say Jim and a lot of other women and some guys.
• Tinkerbell and Crysta (FernGully) is not unheard of.
• Violet (The Incredibles) paired with Raven (Teen Titans (2003)) is quite popular.
• There are two fills for Aqualad of Young Justice (2010) and Ariel (The Little Mermaid (1989)).
• This fan fic "Lioness Abroad" has Vitani (The Lion King 2: Simba's Pride) and Alex (Madagascar), when Vitani gets captured and sent to the Central Park Zoo.
• While it doesn't have a fancy name like the above-mentioned "Rise Of The Brave Tangled Dragons", there is a lot of shipping between Disney Animated Canon and Disney-esque films, in particular: The Swan Princess, Anastasia, Thumbelina, Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas, The Prince of Egypt, and The Road to El Dorado. For example, Odette from The Swan Princess and Marina from Sinbad have more than their fair share of crossover Fan Videos together.
• Beret Girl from An Extremely Goofy Movie and Omar from Rock and Rule get shipped a lot due to both being artistic anthropomorphic dogs.
• Pairing any variation of Lady and the Tramp, All Dogs Go to Heaven, The Fox and the Hound, Oliver & Company, and Balto characters is common in the Furry Fandom side of the Disney fandom. The above-mentioned pairing of Marie from The Aristocats with Oliver from Oliver and Company and Lady from Lady and the Tramp with Duchess from The Aristocats are two of the more popular ships.
• While not as common as most others, Lilo Pelekai from Lilo & Stitch has ocassionally been shipped with Mac from Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends due to a couple of similarities they have (being bullied, having a crazy non-human blue friend, etc.).
• The popular fanvid Golden Blond and Jet Black has led to a lot of shipping Rapunzel from Tangled with Mavis from Hotel Transylvania.
• While not that popular, people seem to overall like the idea of shipping the Lady Amalthea from The Last Unicorn with the Horned King from The Black Cauldron. They're probably drawn to the Death and the Maiden aesthetic of the couple and the similarities/differences the two of them have to one another (the two being proud, arrogant, lonely creatures with a mistrust of humanity; she's beautiful, he's hideous, he rules over the dead, she walks in springtime wherever she goes), plus the callbacks their possible pairing is to classic dark romances like The Phantom of the Opera, Hades and Persephone, and Beauty and the Beast.
• While not as popular as some of the above examples, a good handful of Fanvid makers have paired up Thrax from Osmosis Jones with Odette from The Swan Princess, most likely for similar reasons as Lady Almathea and the Horned King.
• Turning Red: Mei is sometimes shipped with the titular protagonist of Luca, due to both being young protagonists of Pixar movies who can shapeshift between human and animal forms and have complicated but loving relationships with their relatively overbearing mothers. Miriam is also paired with Alberto due to them both acting as laid-back, fun-loving best friends to their respective protagonists.
• The fanfic Bee Shrek Test in the House has led to a lot of Gotta Ship 'Em All between Barry B. Benson, Shrek, Johnny Test, and Cory Baxter.
• A platonic version; thanks to the overlap between their fandoms, there's been a lot of art depicting the titular character of NIMONA (2023) befriending — and subsequently causing chaos with — Hobie Brown from the Spider-Man: Spider-Verse series.
• Taran from The Black Cauldron is often seen shipped with Kayley from Quest for Camelot, due to the two both being Heroic Wannabes in a High Fantasy setting.

Film — Live-Action

• Marvel Cinematic Universe:
  • The High Queen Daenerys Targaryen of Game of Thrones and Physical God Loki Odinson of the Marvel Cinematic Universe movies are a very, very popuar pairing. The name of the ship is Frostdragons. ^note  Very popular ship , with numerous fanarts and videos
  • Loki and Morgana of Merlin are shipped because of their many similarities and because if married, they are the ultimate Unholy Matrimony.
  • Tony Stark and Martin Crieff from Cabin Pressure. It works because the two get along famously when they start talking geeky (which is bound to happen, when an unpaid pilot who wanted to be an airplane as a kid meets a genius who invented a flying suit), and Martin isn't at all interested in Tony's money or influence.
  • Ever since Steve Rogers/Bucky Barnes ("Stucky") exploded in popularity, many fics have been written that pair Steve with other characters played by Bucky's actor Sebastian Stan that play off of the characters' physical resemblance to his best friend, most notably T.J. Hammond from Political Animals.
  • Once Wonder Woman (2017) came out, it is quite common to pair Diana with Captain America, as both are superheroes who fought in a World War setting. The fact that Diana's canon love interest is also named Steve certainly helps.
• There is a fanfic series that pairs up Dr. Frank N. Furter (The Rocky Horror Picture Show) and Captain Jack Sparrow (Pirates of the Caribbean).
• Captain Jack (Pirates of the Caribbean) / Captain Jack (Torchwood).
• Jack (Pirates of the Caribbean) / Jack (The Nightmare Before Christmas) ^note Pirate of a captain Jack Sparrow and skeleton Jack, the Pumpkin King, King of Halloween Town..
• John Blake (The Dark Knight Rises) and Natasha Romanova (The Avengers) Link to a fan fic.
• High School Musical's Ryan Evans and Kurt Hummel of Glee.
• Leatherface (The Texas Chainsaw Massacre) x Flippy (Happy Tree Friends). Oh dear lord...
• Khan (Star Trek Into Darkness) and John Watson (Sherlock) [11].
• Here's an interesting one: Bilbo Baggins (The Hobbit) and Daisy Buchanan (The Great Gatsby). And it kind of makes sense: one is a Humble Hero and the other is a Broken Bird. As long as Gatsby doesn't find out...
• Mary Poppins and Mrs. Frizzle from The Magic School Bus have a fan-following together. It's probably due to them both being Magical Guardians.
• Pennywise from It (2017) and The Babadook have become a surprisingly popular couple.
• Thranduil from The Hobbit and Daenerys Targaryen from Game of Thrones have a fair amount of fanfiction, videos and art dedicated to them. Though it's often hard to tell which video edits are for this ship or just using Dany as a stand-in for Thranduil's canonical wife since she has the stereotypical appearance of a Sindarin elf: which is probably how this ship evolved in the first place.
• Little China Girl from Oz the Great and Powerful gets shipped with the wooden clown Eot Ling from Tales of the Magic Land. Considering the universes aren't entirely unrelated, it works quite prettily.
• Sadako (The Ring) and Jason Voorhees (Friday the 13th) seems to be a somewhat popular ship, particularly among Japanese fanartists. The two of them being horror villains who suffered from tragic childhood deaths, coupled with a Huge Guy, Tiny Girl dynamic, seems to make a for a good bond.
• One's film is set in the middle of The '50s and the other's film is set in 2007, but despite this, many writers have Rhoda Penmark (The Bad Seed (1956)) romance Leena Klammer (Orphan) with Rhoda still the young child that she is in The Bad Seed.
• Some fans of Joker (2019) have taken to shipping Arthur Fleck with one of his cinematic inspirations, Travis Bickle from Taxi Driver. The two characters share a lot of similarities such as their isolation from most of society, and some fans feel they would make a surprisingly good fit for each other and actually help one another. The fan fiction People Like Us is probably the most popular story for this pairing.
• A fairly popular ship for fans of Ophelia and/or Star Wars is shipping Ophelia with Kylo Ren, probably because Rey (also played by Daisy Ridley) has a lot of Foe Romance Subtext with Kylo, and Kylo himself is a conflicted Byronic Hero with Parental Issues, not unlike Hamlet. ^note  Fan videos often include footage of Adam Driver as Toby from The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, because he's dressed up in old-timey clothes and so it fits in with the footage from Ophelia
• On Fanfiction Dot Net there is about 1100 crossovers between Camp Rock and Wizards of Waverly Place. Turns out that it's quite popular to ship Mitchie Torres with Alex Russo. This is due to their actors real life relationship, as well as feeling each of their personalities would play off well with each other. They also feel that they would fill a similar dynamic to that of Alex/Justin.
• A lot of fans ship Miranda Priestly and Andy Sachs (The Devil Wears Prada) with Cruella de Vil (101 Dalmatians (1996)), either individually or together. A lot of this comes from how similar Miranda and Cruella are to each other, so a lot of fans feel they would have good chemistry. They also feel that Andy would have a similar dynamic with Cruella and will often rewrite the film with Cruella in Miranda's role. The fact that both their actresses have appeared opposite Glenn Close before in different films also helps. The threesome pairing has a lot of fanfiction about it and is only topped by the very popular Miranda/Andy/Emily.
• There is a rather large base of fans who ship Wednesday Addams (The Addams Family) and Lydia Deetz (Beetlejuice) around the internet, with it being especially popular on AO3. This is mainly because they are both goths in Black Comedy franchises who have dry senses of humor and a fascination with death.
• Due to the "Barbenheimer" meme, many people have legitimately started shipping Barbie (Barbie (2023)) and J. Robert Oppenheimer (Oppenheimer) together, including writing fanfics and drawing fan art of the characters in a romantic relationship.

Let's Play

• These were eventually teased upon, so they had to have shown up: Chuggaaconroy and Jynx (Pokémon).
• ProtonJon and Wario from Super Mario Bros..
  Chugga: DeviantArt people, ship Jon and Wario!
• Thanks to their LP of Wii Party: "Captain Falcon, why are you dating that horse?" Captain Falcon is from F-Zero and that horse would be Mister Ed.

Literature

• It's only a little exaggeration to say that characters from Harry Potter get shipped with every other available fandom out there. Especially Harry Potter gets paired with female characters, but there is also lots of Slash.
  • There's an awful lot of Harry/Buffy fiction out there.
    • Harry is apparently a Launcher of a Thousand Ships. If it's not Harry/Buffy, it's Harry/Willow. And a lot of Harry/Xander too.
    • Willow/Hermione. Two Cute Witches. Hot Witches, too.
    • There is a crazy person who wrote Willow/Draco.
    • There's a fair bit of Willow/Snape.
    • Hermione/Spike.
    • One story not only shipped Harry/Spike but claimed that the latter had started out in life as one William Malfoy.
  • Harry Potter/Edward Cullen (The Twilight Saga). Probably one of the most shipped crossover couple ever. Contrary to popular belief, fans who like both Harry Potter and Twilight do exist.
  • Luna Lovegood (Harry Potter)/Jacob Black (Twilight) is not uncommon.
  • Harry Potter gets paired with Shinji Ikari from Neon Genesis Evangelion.
  • Harry Potter and Wednesday Addams (The Addams Family).
  • Harry Potter/Chang Wufei from Mobile Suit Gundam Wing... and where he's usually Trowa's cousin. Or brother.
  • Lord Voldemort/Pikachu from Pokémon on FD.net. That sounds disturbing.
  • Threesome Luna Lovegood/Giant Squid/Marvin the Paranoid Android (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy).
  • There's a Greebo (Discworld)/McGonagall fic out there somewhere. It... almost works.
  • Usagi Black. Usagi from Sailor Moon marries Sirius Black.
  • The Girl Who Loved shipped Harry and Usagi from Sailor Moon.
  • Harry Potter is paired up with John Shepard from Stargate Atlantis.
  • Harry Potter is shipped with Jack O'Neill from Stargate SG-1.
  • The Joker from The Dark Knight is shipped with Harry Potter in this fic.
  • Umbridge gets it on with Dr. House of House. Probably inspired by Sense and Sensibility...
  • Hermione Granger/Spencer Reid (Criminal Minds), which this LJ community seems particularly fond of.
  • There are some small, crack-ish parts of the Glee fandom who ship Pavarotti with Hedwig of Harry Potter.
  • Nico/Luna was a thing in most crossovers between Percy Jackson and the Olympians and Harry Potter, until Nico was revealed to be gay in the thrid book of The Heroes of Olympus.
  • Dodgers, Dresses, Teddy Bears and Spot shipped Snape and Marilyn Munster, of all people.
  • There was allegedly a Harry Potter / Animorphs fanfic in which Harry and Tobias hooked up. K.A. Applegate was...startled, to say the least.
• It's definitely a thing in Jane Austen's fandom to pair up people who remained single, and very often cross-novels. It helps that the world of Jane Austen's books is always very similar — pastoral and almost-idyllic version of Regency England. It's not uncommon for characters like good-natured but stupid and extremely wealthy Mr. Rushworth of Mansfield Park, divorced from his cheating wife, to be paired with Miss Bingley from Pride and Prejudice who was always after money, or some ship him with Mary Bennet, who, as some fans believe, deserves more attention and a wealthy husband.
• Some Fan Fiction writers have paired Susan Pevensie from The Chronicles of Narnia with Maglor from The Silmarillion. Both characters are "lost souls" of unknown fates, and the only members of their respective families who are not confirmed to have died. Both are skilled archers, and both have a musical connection (with Susan's horn and Maglor being a great singer). It helps that their respective authors (C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien) were friends and intellectual kindred spirits.
• Vetinari (Discworld) and Rufus Shinra (Final Fantasy VII). Possibly the most softly-spoken fic you'll find.
• There is fanart called "Dethklok-meet-Discworld" for Skwisgaar Skwigelf (Metalocalypse) / Nanny Ogg (Discworld), based around the logic that a rock star who Likes Older Women and a Dirty Old Woman would be a good match.
• One of the most mind-numbing, and downright offensive Troll Fics: Goku from Dragon Ball and famed teenage holocaust victim Anne Frank (The Diary of a Young Girl).
• Artemis/Alex from the Artemis Fowl series and Alex Rider books have a surprisingly large fandom, considering they would probably hate each other.
• Once, every The Kane Chronicles/Percy Jackson and the Olympians crossover had at least some Ship Tease with Sadie and Nico. The fact that he looks like Anubis' human form and is related to death just adds to the fire. Like with the previously mentioned ship paring him with Luna Lovegood (from Harry Potter), it was mostly forgotten when he came out as gay in The House of Hades.
• There are a number of fics where Augustus from The Fault in Our Stars finds a Second Love in the capital-S Something with Alaska Young (Looking for Alaska).
• There's a small amount of people who enjoy the idea of Dr. Henry Jekyll(/Mr. Edward Hyde?) (The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde) and Griffin (The Invisible Man) having chemistry due to their interests in science turning them into something extraordinary that makes their lives difficult in ways they didn't anticipate. It kinda helps that neither has a love interest in their original source material (not that adaptations that give one or both a love interest stops that) and they've both been included in many a Monster Mash together.
• Happens in the Shared Universe of C.T. Phipps with Case from his Agent G books, a Hollywood Cyborg, having a year long relationship with Jane Doe, a weredeer from the Bright Falls Mysteries, in the The Supervillainy Saga.

Live-Action TV

• The characters of Buffy the Vampire Slayer get this a lot. Captain Jack Harkness/Ianto (both from Torchwood/Dawn, Xander/Cortana (Halo), Buffy/Mal (Firefly), Dawn/Jayne, Giles/Captain John Hart and oh so much more.
• One crossover between Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Baldur's Gate had several, including Buffy/Solaufein, Giles/Jaheira, Spike/Viconia, and eventually Buffy/Artemis Enteri.
• Captain Mal Reynolds from Firefly and Buffy the Vampire Slayer's Dawn Summers pairing appears from time to time.
• There is one extremely weird example of, of all things, River Tam (Firefly) being shipped with Heat (Digital Devil Saga). It stemmed from the two encountering one another during a multi-author Mega Crossover, with Heat equating River with Sera. She latched on to him because he was protective of her, he latched onto her because she reminded him of Sera. Things got even weirder from there, with Heat doing his cannibalism thing and River being not-at-all freaked out about it. The thing had a rather powerful and sad Did Not Get the Girl Downer Ending, as there wasn't any sex, just very rough kissing (with biting and some bloodplay involved) and a whole lot of insanity, and the two had to split apart at the end of it because Heat refused to take River back to a world as screwed up as his and had no place in hers. It was really well-done, especially on the part of the author writing Heat's part of the story.
• There are a few Buffy/Firefly crossover fics that ship Spike with River Tam. This works remarkably well as crossovers go. Spike, who spent over a hundred years with Drusilla and was then haunted by the First Evil, has significant experience with people who "see things" and is in a better position to relate to River than anybody in Firefly canon. Spike's immortality makes it easy to rationalize his presence in the Firefly universe: he just lives long enough to leave Earth-That-Was with the rest of humanity. Then there's the fact that having been born in Earth-That-Was makes him an (un)living memory of a time that is seen as legendary by the inhabitants of the 'Verse.
• There's a growing number of River Tam (Firefly) and Riddick (The Chronicles of Riddick) fics.
• Thanks in no small part to a little fanfic called The Way of Things, Rose (Doctor Who)/Peter Carlisle (Blackpool, played by David Tennant) has an impressive following.
• Pairing Rose, the Tenth Doctor's companion (Doctor Who) with other characters played by David Tennant (who played the Tenth Doctor) is a bit of a thing; aside from Carlisle, there's Detective Inspector Alec Hardy (Broadchurch) and Barty Crouch Jr. (Harry Potter).
• There are people out there who ship Abby (NCIS) with Dr. Reid (Criminal Minds). Then again, it kind of makes sense.
• The pairing of Spencer Reid (Criminal Minds) and Zack Addy from Bones is reasonably popular for the Common Crossover thing.
• There was once a movement on LiveJournal to pair Captain Jack Harkness of Torchwood and Doctor Who with every single fictional character ever. Unsurprisingly, it didn't complete its task, and later it lost steam altogether.
• Dean Winchester of Supernatural and the Doctor (Doctor Who) pairing pops up in SuperWho quite a bit.
• Martha/Sam (Doctor Who and Supernatural) has a small, but devoted fandom, complete with a blog.
• Launcher of a Thousand Ships Amy Pond of Doctor Who has two major fanon crossover ships, with Supernatural's Dean Winchester and Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock). The Sherlock ship has two dedicated tumblr blogs.
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer has sometimes been shipped with Dean Winchester of Supernatural, or sometimes with Sam. So has Faith, for that matter, though both Slayers more likely end up with the older brother. In a case of Pair the Spares, if Buffy is with Dean then Dawn will likely be shipped with Sam. The pairing is strengthened by the idea that the two universe actually mesh together rather well, with the metaphysic differences not too hard to Handwave due to having a number of common elements.
• Castiel from Supernatural and animated Korra from The Legend of Korra.
• Castiel for Supernatural often gets paired with Crowley from Good Omens or sometimes the Crowley from Supernatural gets paired with Azaraphel from Good Omens. Since Crowley from Supernatural is an admitted Expy of the Crowley from Good Omens, they are often portrayed as the same.
• There was a LiveJournal community devoted solely to this pairing: Dean from Supernatural and Neal from White Collar.
• Dean (Supernatural) gets around.
  • One of the most popular het ships is Dean and Chloe from Smallville.
  • Dean/Hermione (Harry Potter) is very popular het pairing.
  • Thanks to the crossover episode ''Scoobynatural'' there are fics pairing Dean/Daphne and Sam/Velma, even though canon-wise both pairings were unrequited with Dean crushing on Daphne and Velma crushing on Sam.
  • Dean is already being shipped with Cordell Walker from Walker and sometimes the Walker-verse is portrayed as an AU of Supernatural making it Wincest-y.
• It can be quite safely stated that there is an entire sub-category of Smallville fanfiction devoted to the idea of Chloe moving to Gotham City (often after the author has Chloe realize that Clark/Jimmy/whoever "isn't good enough for her") and then meeting and falling in love with Batman. Usually, Chloe ends up either becoming Mission Control at the Batcave or she undergoes Xenafication and becomes Batgirl or Batwoman (or occassionally Catwoman) and ends up fighting crime alongside Bruce on the Gotham City rooftops. Either way, she can usually work the Batcomputer better than Bruce can, proves to be his match in fighting skills, and if Bruce is still "in denial" about his feelings for her, Alfred will usually advise him to "open his eyes and see what's right in front of him".
• Zoey 101, Drake & Josh, and iCarly have multiple crossover ships. Nevel/Megan is probably the most popular of these.

• Tori Vega from Victorious/James Diamond from Big Time Rush is pretty popular, and their respective actors are dating in real life.
• With the new crossover Spin-Off show Sam & Cat featuring Sam from iCarly and Cat from Victorious, it took all of one episode for people to start shipping them together.
• Chloe (Smallville) is a Launcher of a Thousand Ships (possibly due to the huge amount of fanfic writers who seem to very strongly relate to her personality), and another hugely popular Smallville crossover ship is to pair up Chloe with either Dean or Sam from Supernatural (or, y'know, both). The Chloe/Dean ship seems to be more popular than Chloe/Sam for whatever reason.
• There are fics pairing Xander from Buffy the Vampire Slayer with Wednesday Addams (The Addams Family). It worked well through various devices.
• Then there's the one Harmony/Wednesday fic, which used the common conceit that Harmony is actually Amanda from the Addams Family (both were played by Mercedes McNab).
• Eddie Munster from (The Munsters) is also sometimes shipped with Wednesday.
• Faith, or Buffy, or Dawn (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) are often paired with one or more of the Supernatural's Winchesters. Or Dark Angel Alec.
• There's lots of Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Stargate SG-1 Crossover fic out there, and a lot of it has Crossover Ship, including Jack/Buffy, Clone!Jack/Dawn, Faith/Vala, and many more.
• Ladies and gentlemen, prepare to clean up your brain matter after Your Head Asplode from witnessing the greatest crossover pairing ever conceived: B/ASH, otherwise known as Buffy Summers (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) / Ash Williams (Evil Dead). And here is one such example.
• TV adaptation Hornblower created a delicious red-coated Majorly Awesome Major "My Lord" Edrington. Hornblower fandom has taken a liking to pairing him with Badass Richard Sharpe (Sharpe) despite or perhaps because he's exactly the kind of officer Sharpe would despise if he was incompetent. Major Edrington isn't, so he's precisely the officer Sharpe wishes he was.
• This video ships Lieutenant William Bush (Hornblower) and Miss Molly Gibson (Wives and Daughters). Regency England, a handsome naval officer and a pretty little young lady. It's very adorable and believable. There's a severe lack of ladies in Hornblower, the series being all Wooden Ships and Iron Men, so it's logical that these wonderful sailors would look for love in other book or TV 'verses.
• Jim Kirk from Star Trek: The Original Series and Reaper Bones from Doom have a noticeable fan following.
• Spock (Star Trek) and Vaarsuvius (The Order of the Stick) is common. So is art depicting one cosplaying as the other, or some bizarre merger of the two. It makes sense, given that both are highly-logical pointy-eared beings given to Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness.
• Martin Crieff (Cabin Pressure) / Molly Hooper (Sherlock) has a modest following. Cabin Pressure and Sherlock are Friendly Fandoms that are easily crossed over. Depending on the execution, it can be a combination of Theme Pairing and Throw the Dog a Bone, as both Martin and Molly are rather unfortunate in many aspects of their lives and overdue for something nice to happen to them. (There's also the fact that Molly pines after Sherlock, who's played by Benedict Cumberbatch, the same guy who played Martin Crieff.) There also seems to be a small but steadily increasing number of fans of Martin and one episode character Henry Knight.
• This fic crosses over Stargate SG-1 and Torchwood. Pairings include Jack Harkness/Daniel, Jack O'Neill/Ianto, Owen/Anise/Freya, and Gwen/MALP. Bonus points for the title being abbreviated to CR:ACK.
• Irene Adler (Sherlock) / River Song (Doctor Who). Two badass ladies of questionable morals together at last. And both shows have Steven Moffat as the head writer.
• Sherlock (Sherlock) / The Doctor (Doctor Who). It's surprisingly popular, probably due to a certain photograph of Benedict Cumberbatch and David Tennant that's been circulating the internet, as well as one of he and Matt Smith hugging.
• Here's a snarky pair: Ashley Jeurgens (The Secret Life of the American Teenager) / Flynn Jones (Shake it Up). One is a Little Miss Snarker, the other, a Deadpan Snarker. So what if it's Shotacon on Ashley's part, at least they're happy together. Don't let Amy and CeCe find out...
• Blaine from Glee/Zac Efron. After all No one loves Zefron more than Harry Potter.
• Sort of happened in S.O.L., in which, due to accidentally drinking a pheromone potion, Scully (The X-Files) spends a lot of the story hitting on/making out with Joel (Mystery Science Theater 3000) (Much to Joel's dismay). Even after she's cured and apologizes to Joel, she kisses him at the end of the story, and Mulder teases her about it.
• A surprisingly adorable one is paring of James Nicholls (War Horse) and Gwen Dawson (Downton Abbey).
• Barry Allen from The Flash (2014) and Supergirl from Supergirl (2015) were shipped even before their crossover happened. They're both adorkable superheroes, leaders of their respective teams, and have been through a lot. They also had pretty good chemistry both times they met.
• Captain Jack Harkness of Doctor Who and Torchwood has been shipped (with varying levels of seriousness) with most characters in just about every fandom ever. Justified in that he totally would.
• A One True Threesome example of this occurs in the Lost in Camelot series, which pairs Bo Dennis of Lost Girl with Merlin and Morgana from Merlin (2008). The temporal circumstances required for the three to meet are complicated, but the actual pairing is handled well, with Bo providing Merlin and Morgana with someone who respectively appreciates their desire to protect the innocent and distaste for the establishment, creating hope that they will be able to prevent Morgana's later fall into evil.
• One of Becks Rylynn's favorite pairings is Laurel Lance (Arrow) and Dean Winchester (Supernatural). It works really well, most notably in How the Light Gets In.
• Once Upon a Time:
  • There is a large fandom for Belle and Nicholas Rush (Stargate Universe), mainly due to the fact that Rush is played by Robert Carlyle, who plays Belle's main love interest, Rumplestiltskin. It's to the point that on AO3, the Rush/Belle pairing has the second most fics of any Stargate Universe pairing.
  • Emma/Regina shippers have a habit of trying to ship Emma with any character Lana Parrilla has played on television. The most notable is Trina Decker from Swingtown, for which there is a surprising number of fanfics. There are also some support for Emma/Rita Castillo from Why Women Kill in the wake of that show's second season.
• Alicia Clark (Fear the Walking Dead) getting shipped with Clarke Griffin (The 100), is rather popular due to her actress, Alycia Debnam-Carey, also playing Clarke's love interest, Lexa, and the circumstances of their "break-up" in that show. There's even what-ifs where it's a Reincarnation Romance with Eliza Taylor playing a The Walking Dead universe version of Clarke named Elyza Lex.
• Hannah Montana:
  • Miley Stewart is often shipped with several other Disney Channel characters. On Fanfiction Dot Net, Miley is shipped with Alex Russo from Wizards of Waverly Place, which is possible as they both appeared in a crossover with The Suite Life on Deck, Zack Martin from The Suite Life on Deck, and Mitchie Torres and Nate Grey from Camp Rock.
  • Mikayla has a large number of fanfics that pairs her with Mitchie Torres from Camp Rock, mainly due to the real-life complicated relationship between their actresses, Selena Gomez and Demi Lovato, and feeling they would have good chemistry.
• Sonny Munroe (Sonny with a Chance) has been shipped with Alex Russo from Wizards of Waverly Place, which is strange, as that show exists as a fictional show In-Universe, as Selena Gomez shows up and Sonny is revealed to be a fan of it. This is mainly due to shippers feeling that the two would have great chemistry and the real life friendship of their actress at the time of airing. There are a large number of fanfics for it on Fanfiction Dot Net, with most of these being full AUs where the Russo family just exists as real people and not as characters on a TV show.
• There's a relatively large fanbase for shipping Dana Scully (The X-Files) and Stella Gibson (The Fall (2013)), especially on sites like AO3, mainly due to both being played by Gillian Anderson.

Music

• Vocaloid:
  • Miku and Black★Rock Shooter. What really put BRS into the limelight was the Vocaloid synthesizer band Supercell, and BRS's initial design was basically a recolor of Miku's. A lot of pics emphasis the dark/light duality.
  • Miku and Cherry of the band Studio Killers has popped up due to them both being fictional female singers. It helps that Cherry is canonically bisexual.

Video Games

• Princess Aurora from Child of Light is paired with the boy from Limbo a good deal in fan art. It may be because both of them are young children who wake up in a scary lonely forest and set out to reunite with a family member in an atmospheric game with heavy Light/Darkness Juxtaposition. And both of them died before the start of the game.
• The Batter from Off / Scout from Team Fortress 2 happens to pop up in fanart sometimes, mostly due to their affinity for bats.
• Kirby/Bow (Paper Mario), in the Paper Mario X series. It's kinda cute.
• Jack (BioShock) / Chell from Portal. Both heavily screwed over by amoral science and their increasingly untrustworthy Mission Control- they'd have so much to not talk about!
• Sonic (Sonic the Hedgehog) x Sash Lilac (Freedom Planet) due to the similarities in their games and both characters being speedsters.
• Beat (Jet Set Radio)/Ulala (Space Channel 5) is a somewhat known cross-pairing. It helps that both characters are from Sega games that involve music (JSR isn't a Rhythm Game though, but it does greatly involve music), both of their games take place in the future (well, JSRF does, but the first JSR doesn't), and you can see the two sliding across the room together at the end of the SegaNet commercial (at around the 0:55-0:56 mark, you gotta be quick with the pause button). Many people also liked putting the two on one team together in Sega Superstars Tennis's doubles matches.
• The Dragonborn (The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim) and Doug Rattmann (Portal). Yup.
• Laharl (Disgaea: Hour of Darkness) and Marona (Phantom Brave).
• Klonoa x Cream (Sonic the Hedgehog).
• Tails (Sonic the Hedgehog)/Klonoa seems to be a relatively popular one amongst the Furry Fandom, perhaps inspired by a certain doujinshi featuring the two... ehm, hanging out after work. That the two already looked similar doesn't hurt, either.
• Estelle (Tales of Vesperia) / Jin Kisaragi (BlazBlue) Here.
• Within the Tales Series, Yuri (Tales of Vesperia)/Luke (Tales of the Abyss) has a surprisingly big following and a lot of adorable fanart. Some of the spinoff games and animations have also teased Luca (Tales of Innocence)/Emil (Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World) and Yuri (Vesperia/Guy (Abyss).
• Morrigan (Dragon Age: Origins) and Shepard (Mass Effect). Or really any combination of the characters from the Dragon Age and Mass Effect universes. Or try Shepard and Admiral Thrawn.
• Outside of fellow Nintendo character, Samus from Metroid has Master Chief from Halo, Nicole from Dead or Alive (couresty of Haloid), Iron Man, and even Jango Fett from Star Wars (joked about by Nintendo Power at one point). Even Doomguy gets shipped with her on occasion.
• Bayonetta x Dante (Devil May Cry), as well as their rivals, Jeanne x Vergil.
  • Bayonetta is also frequently paired up with Kratos (God of War) as well. And as for a friendly but not romantic pairing, Bayonetta x Juliet Starling (Lollipop Chainsaw).
  • With her inclusion into Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS and Wii U, she's often shipped with the representatives from Kid Icarus: Uprising, especially Pit and Palutena.
• Video game animal ships: Agro (Shadow of the Colossus) / Epona (The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time). Both are horses that the main character uses to ride throughout their respective games, and the main characters of both games are Bishōnen. And, if you look closely through things like the artbook, you'll find that Agro is in fact female, making this a Ho Yay pairing.
• Nintendo characters have the crossover Mascot Fighter series Super Smash Bros. to aid with this. The fandom has far more crossover shipping than shipping characters from the same franchise.
  • Samus Aran from Metroid gets this a lot. On the het side of things are Solid Snake from Metal Gear Solid, Captain Falcon from F-Zero (as seen in Brawl in the Family), Link from The Legend of Zelda, and Pit from Kid Icarus. On the femslash side of things, we have Zelda (specifically her stoic Twilight Princess persona used in Brawl and 4), followed by Peach from Super Mario Bros. (which came to rival Twilight Princess Zelda in popularity after that version was replaced in Ultimate), and Bayonetta. But overall, you can expect to find fanart and fics of Samus getting romantic (or seductive) with a good amount of the roster, from 'Mega Man to Wii Fit Trainer to Little Mac, with the occasional threesome pairing to make things more fun.
  • Kirby/Jigglypuff have been seen as a Smash couple since Day One, though Meta Knight/Jigglypuff has some popularity.
  • Peach has a lot of ships as well. Outside the aforementioned Samus, there's Twilight Princess Zelda (and sometimes her Sheik persona specifically) thanks to their interesting Lady and Knight dynamic in the story mode, Link (funnily enough, the "princess swap" doesn't go the other way, and Mario/Zelda fics are nonexistent), and even Sonic.
    • One particular case of a ship between Peach and Link without a similar one between Mario and Zelda is a DeviantArt picture where Peach and Link, wearing each other's clothes, are trying to convince Mario and Zelda to do the same. Khaos Omega implemented this one as a way for Link to trigger the loophole to the level 3400 "effect" of Meme Storm via Marth.
  • Marth, Roy, Ike (all from Fire Emblem), and Link (The Legend of Zelda) have been shipped with anyone and everyone (the female characters, each other, etc.) since the Gamecube era.
  • Adding fuel to the great old ship: Sonic the Hedgehog / Mario (Super Mario Bros.).
  • Some people even pair Sonic with either Samus (Metroid), Zelda (The Legend of Zelda) or Peach (Super Mario Bros.).
  • There Will Be Brawl also gives us Captain Falcon (F-Zero) / Pit (Kid Icarus).
  • Bara fans seem to love any combination of Captain Falcon/Snake/Ganondorf.
  • Sometimes, Bowser and Ganondorf are a couple, being the most iconic villains of Nintendo.
  • Less than a day after she was announced as playable in SSB4, the Wii Fit Trainer became a launcher of ships as well, with Link and Samus being the most popular.
  • Thanks to this image◊, Lucina (Fire Emblem: Awakening)/Palutena (Kid Icarus) is giving Zelda/Samus a run for its money as the most popular femslash ship in the fandom.
  • There's at least one person who ships Samus/Dark Pit (Kid Icarus: Uprising).
  • After Ultimate was unveiled at E3 2018, there was Daisy (Super Mario Land) and Ridley (Metroid), both revealed as newcomers that day. It has a lot to do with the incongruous Beast and Beauty set-up along with Memetic Psychopath Daisy being paired with the canon psychopath Ridley.
  • Isabelle and Wolf is also a notable ship as evidenced by this video and a bit of shipping art depicting the couple; the ship itself seems to be based mostly on the Pitbull Dates Puppy trope.
• There's quite a bit of fanart of Link (The Legend of Zelda)/Amaterasu (Ōkami). Understandable given the former is a wolf in The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess.
• Final Fantasy:
  • Pairing Noctis of Final Fantasy XV (formerly known as Final Fantasy versus XIII) and Lightning of Final Fantasy XIII is very popular and has been even before the release of either game.
  • And because she's designed as his distaff counterpart, Lightning is also frequently paired up with Cloud from FFVII.
  • Dissidia Final Fantasy, being a massive in-series crossver, generated far too many crossover ships to list. Among the more prominent are Vaan/Terra (XII and VI), Bartz/Squall/Zidane (or "589"), and Exdeath/Cloud of Darkness (V and III).
  • The thieves, pirates, and otherwise Loveable Rogues from various games are sometimes paired up, like Setzer (VI) and Balthier (XII), or Leila (II) and Faris (V).
  • Garnet (Final Fantasy IX) x Noctis (Final Fantasy XV) has not only developed a following on YouTube, it even has fic now. Yes.
• Kingdom Hearts' setting leaves room for a lot of pairings for crossover romances between Final Fantasy, Disney, and almost anything in-between. An in-series example of Ship Tease would be Zack Fair from Crisis Core asking Original Generation Aqua for a date in Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep, with Aqua becoming visibly flustered.
• From Dead Fantasy: The crossover shipping of Cloud and Yuna.
• Lightning (Final Fantasy XIII) and Raiden (Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty) are shipped somewhat frequently due to their similar personalities and names drawing from the same theme. They even have their own ship name, Rain.
• Anders (Dragon Age II) / Kain (Final Fantasy IV) has been sighted (the fic in question had them meeting in the Fade somehow). Maybe it makes some kind of cracky sense given their common status as party members straddling the hero/villain line, but that's about it.
• There is a surprising following in Japan for Reimu (Touhou Project) and an Elvaan knight from Final Fantasy XI named "Buront" in Japanese Image Boards. Here is worksafe example. And they've apparently adopted Rumia. It is based on a Real Trailer Fake Game on nicovideo called The Iron of Yin and Yang.
• Marvel vs. Capcom:
  • Ever since the Marvel vs. Capcom 3 trailer came out, people have started shipping Iron Man with Morrigan (Darkstalkers). Considering she appears to be seducing him that and trailer and they both have particularly amorous reputations...
  • Morrigan's stabbing Deadpool in the ass with her tentacles and Chris Redfield (Resident Evil) performing a Diving Save to prevent Morrigan from falling to her death after Iron Man gets a sneak attack in on her. These are used as Shipping Goggles "evidence" for Chris/Morrigan and (humorously so) Deadpool/Morrigan.
  • 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 (Ōkami), 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.
  • There's been a boom in Dante (Devil May Cry)/Morrigan (which had been around at least a few years prior to MvC3); it's probably Dante's most popular ship next to/alongside Dante/Bayonetta. In a Mythology Gag to Dante's meeting with Nevan in Devil May Cry 3: Dante's Awakening, the two are seen flirting if they're on point against one another. Dante's also says, "Mmm, baby. I love it when a girl gets violent!" at his win screen should he defeat Morrigan last in battle.
  • In C. Viper's reveal trailer (Street Fighter IV), Iron Man is hitting on C. Viper in the pre-match intro, causing some to ship them as well. Iron Man and Morrigan seem to launch ships left and right.
  • Iron Man hits on every female in this game not named Amaterasu. This includes Tron Bonne (Mega Man Legends) and X-23, who are respectively 14 and 16, as well as Hsien-Ko (Darkstalkers), 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."
  • The above Iron Man examples are all compounded by this web animation.
  • There's Hulk and Felicia. It's rather cute.
  • Felicia (Darkstalkers) and Super Skrull (Fantastic Four) appeared together on one game-affiliated t-shirt. Cue the fans on Capcom's official forums shipping them together.
  • Thanks to the Episode 4 trailer of MvC3, Final Fight's Haggar/Felicia.
  • 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!" How you interpret this one is up to 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 (Street Fighter II) surprisingly has the hots for Thor (The Mighty 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 (Bionic Commando), 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.
  • Crossover Shipping in Marvel vs. Capcom this series actually happened before MvC3. As early as Marvel vs. Capcom 1 did Gambit's ending have him flirting with none other than Morrigan (her total number of ships, excluding a few dubious examples in 3 ^note she has some Ho Yay-ish intros with X-23, Tron, and Phoenix, as well as some ambiguous quotes towards Magneto, is up to eight right now, if you lost count). Before anything can get off of the ground, Rogue swoops in to carry Gambit away, much to Morrigan's displeasure.
  • Shuma-Gorath (Doctor Strange) displays a creepy fondness for Hsien-Ko (Darkstalkers), 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 (Ace Attorney). Blatantly. And then there's Rocket Raccoon having the hots for Ammy... By the way, 95% of the examples 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.
  • A few notables on the Fan Art side of MvC shipping include Dormammu (Doctor Strange)/Trish (Devil May Cry), Iron Man/Morrigan (Darkstalkers), Ghost Rider/Felicia (Darkstalkers), and both Spider-Man/Morrigan and Spider-Man/Chun-Li (Street Fighter). Fan Fiction tends to lag behind in this arena as there are only a few Marvel vs. Capcom stories out there.
  • Morrigan/She-Hulk, with one of the most likely contributors being this piece of Pixiv fan art. (Just look at the buzz it got when posted on the game's Facebook page, for starters.)
  • In the wake of Marvel 3 and Project × Zone, people have commented on pairing Hsien-Ko (Darkstalkers) and Frank West (Dead Rising). It helps that in the latter, they're frequently seen together.
• There's a decent following out there for Russia (Hetalia: Axis Powers) / Yuuka (Touhou Project), seeing as they're non-human psychotics with a mutual thing for flowers.
• Some Touhou Project fans ship Yuyuko and Kirby as a Theme Pairing, because they share a common interest.
  • There's also a small following for Flandre Scarlet and Broly (Dragon Ball Z).
  • The fan community for M.U.G.E.N has spawned an incredible amount of crossover ships. Perhaps the most well known of them is the Crack Ship of Hong Meiling and Krizalid.
  • Most Touhou heterosexual pairings are Crossover Ships due to the setting.
  • Sakuya Izayoi and Dio Brando (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure), due to their time manipulation abilities and extensive use of throwing knives. Certainly helps that Sakuya has a spellcard called "The World", a Shout-Out to Dio Brando's signature Stand.
  • Alice Margatroid and Sasori from Naruto have a small fanbase of their own, specially among Asian fans, due to both being puppeters.
  • These last two sort of lost their popularity thanks to 1 Minute Melee.
  • Some artists had paired Spamton G. Spamton (Deltarune) together with Chimata Tenkyuu. Common traits include patchwork-like clothing, wild color choices, business motifs, and rather eccentric and egotistical personalities.
• Nathan Drake (Uncharted) x Lara Croft (Tomb Raider).
• Order-Sol (Guilty Gear) x Fiona Mayfield (Arcana Heart) is a relatively popular one over on pixiv.
• Heavy Weapons Guy (Team Fortress 2) and Bullet (BlazBlue: Chronophantasma) seems to be catching on thanks to fans combining the latter female with Heavy's famous "I've yet to meet one who can outsmart bullet." line from "Meet the Heavy."
• Heavy and Zarya (Overwatch) have a lot of fans owing to Heavy being a big Russian man and Zarya a big Russian woman, both of whom are patriots from multiplayer FPS team battle arena games that use guns almost as big as they are.
• Heathen Mason (Silent Hill 3) and Paxton Fettel (First Encounter Assault Recon) seems to have gained a rather small following on tumblr, despite the rather strong contrast of moralities.
• There exists a fic of Frost (Mortal Kombat) with Raven (Teen Titans (2003)) that's actually not too bad. Here it is, for those of you who wanna have a gander.
• Davion, the Dragon Knight (Dota 2), meet, Syvana, the Half Dragon (League of Legends). A sweet reminder that both MOBA games can find something common to enjoy together (at the expense of Teemo).
• Due to them being fellow Kickstarter buddies developed by Inti Creates, Beck from Mighty No. 9 and Shantae from... well, Shantae have some fan following.
• There's a few The Last of Us Ellie / The Walking Dead (Telltale)'s Clem shippers out there, with a few fics and one Alternate Universe Tumblr.
• The surprisingly adorable Crossover Shoujo-Ai pairing of Shizuku Osaka (Love Live! School idol festival) X Hilda (Pokémon Black and White) has been gaining a small following on DeviantArt lately.
• Alex Mercer ([PROTOTYPE]) x Desmond Miles (Assassin's Creed), otherwise known as "Protocreed", has a following on Tumblr and a number of fanfics on Archive of Our Own.
• An intra-Capcom pairing, Resident Evil's Leon Kennedy and Haunting Ground's Fiona Belli. Some fans are of the opinion that Fiona's dog Hewie is the same white dog Leon saves outside Pueblo, and who returns to help against El Gigante. She is considerably more popular than Ashort Graham, to the point were Fiona is reskinned into 4 in Ashley's place.
• Saber (Fate/stay night) and Kohaku (Tsukihime). No, really. The couple appears in Doujin game Battle Moon Wars. And they're adorable. Kohaku loves to cook, Saber loves to eat; and they both understand wanting to live their lives over.
• Sakura Saber (Fate/Grand Order), the genderflipped version of Souji Okita, captain of The Shinsengumi, has been often been paired with the Drifters version of the vice-captain Hijikata Toshizou. The fact that Hijikata Toshizou has been added as a Berserker class in Fate/Grand Order makes it even more amusing. Fan artists have now made it a Love Triangle.
  • Kiara Sessyoin from Fate/EXTRA and Belial from Granblue Fantasy too, because the former was rereleased at the same time as the latter was released, and both are extremely amorous.
• BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle has a ton of this, as it features four franchises (BlazBlue, Persona 4, Under Night In-Birth and RWBY) which are all notorious for shipping in a tag-team fighting game. Ragna x Ruby was a popular ship even before the release of the game, even having a ship name and fanart - being both red-and-black-clad scythe-wielders from fantasy-esque settings, as was Jin x Weiss. Probably one of the more interesting ones to stem from the game itself is Makoto x Yosuke; the two show up together in the game's intro, and Makoto is the only character besides Yu to be perfectly nice and respectful to him.
  • Hyde Kido (Under Night In-Birth), surprisingly for a Clueless Chick-Magnet, gets a lot of crossover shipping with several girls he runs into the story, mainly Ruby (who he fights alongside against Yosuke and Chie and also meets again in Episode P4A's ending), Weiss (who he rescues from Azrael and Carmine and then they have a snark-off and finally part ways on quite friendly terms) and Yukiko (who he runs into and rescues from Noel's curry).
• There are fanart of the male Code Vein Protagonist pairing up with Hifumi Togo (Persona 5), in paying homage to vampire/human pairings. One can wonder the Code Vein Protagonist's edgy appearance blends in with Hifumi's Chuunibyou manners.
• Isabelle (Animal Crossing) and Doomguy (Doom), simply because of Animal Crossing: New Horizons and Doom Eternal releasing on the same date.
• On a non-romantic note, DeviantArt has a truly surprising amount of art and stories about Tifa Lockhart adopting Chris Thorndyke. On a romantic side, a lot of those same artworks will also pair him up with Sherry Birkin.
• Lesbian example. There are a lot of people who ship Chun Li from the Street Fighter series with Mai Shiranui from The King of Fighters due to them both being women from fighting games.
• The fusion of Dynasty Warriors and Samurai Warriors, aka Warriors Orochi, played this to the extreme. Now we have Cao Pi/Mitsunari, Ling Tong/Okuni, Sun Shang Xiang/Inahime, Tachibana/XingCai, and so on and so forth. Also, Da Ji regularly hits on Sakon in the second game's Dream Mode levels. Guo Jia/Ina gets some shipping going on in the third game despite the fact that Ina is both canonically and historically married to Yukimura's brother.
• After an incident which involved porn of Tifa being shown at an Italian Senate Meeting. Tifa has been adopted as an Italian icon and has been unsurprisingly paired with fellow Italian icon Mario himself.
• There’s a couple of fanarts out there that ship Pyramid Head from Silent Hill with the Slender Man.

Visual Novels

• Downplayed in Danganronpa. People like to ship characters from different installments of the series, even if they haven't interacted in canon. Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony's bonus mode Ultimate Talent Development Plan and Danganronpa S: Ultimate Summer Camp take place in an official, non-canon AU where the characters all have a normal school life at Hope's Peak, intermingling between games. Their interactions may inspire or fuel some cross-ships.

Webcomics

• Variations between characters of Homestuck, Puella Magi Madoka Magica and Durarara!! thanks to similar plot points.
  • Mami Tomoe (Puella Magi Madoka Magica) X Celty (Durarara!!), after Mami's head is bitten off by a witch in Episode 3 of Madoka.
  • There is popularity to pair Mami Tomoe (Puella Magi Madoka Magica) X Dirk Strider (Homestuck).
  • Celty X Dirk Strider.
  • Celty X Mami X Dirk threesome after an update where Dirk decapitates himself.
• Max (Paranatural) and Baron (Vibe), mainly because of the authors' collaboration and the fact that both involve spirits.
• Several characters from White Dark Life are paired up with several characters from Luigifan's roleplay series. However, only Damien and Dream become canon with most others becoming sunk or not going anywhere.

Web Original

• There's a group on DeviantArt dedicated to Crossover Shipping. It's called Crossover Couples.
• Sassy Gay Friend gives us Boo Radley (To Kill a Mockingbird)/The Giving Tree. Have a look.
• Teen Titans The Abridged Series: Beast Boy is shipped with Sephiroth from Final Fantasy VII.
• Yu-Gi-Oh! The Abridged Series: Pyramid Head (Silent Hill 2) / Nemesis (Resident Evil 3: Nemesis). Their love is so unstoppable.
• Lynching ITP occasionally brings some wacky crossover ships including:
  • Lea Clearwater from The Twilight Saga and Ace from Doctor Who had a mutual crush that never really went anywhere but was enough for the Big Bad to power a Star Sapphire Ring (as in Green Lantern).
  • Kirby from There Will Be Brawl and Sylar from Heroes had a rather squicky relationship that ultimantly resulted in both of them becoming less evil - that is, until Kirby was killed, leading Sylar into a Roaring Rampage of Revenge.
  • Jenny Sparks from The Authority had a one night stand with Intergra from Hellsing at some point previous to the start of the game.
  • Through some Canon Welding, Thanos from the Marvel Universe is in love with DEATH from Discworld, Death from The Sandman (1989), and Death from Castlevania who are all the same person.
  • Briefly through reality warping, Cassandra Cain from Batgirl (2000) was in love with Travis Touchdown from No More Heroes.
  • C.C. from Code Geass was the first wife of Spider Jerusalam from Transmetropolitan until they got divorced for unknown reasons that involve Spider cheating on her, Spider refusing to accept Geass and Spider always wanting caribou eyes on pizza.
  • Molly Carpenter from The Dresden Files was married to Charles Zi Britannia from Code Geass until he was mysteriously murdered and she claimed the throne.
  • Kallen from Code Geass has a bit of a thing for Tsukasa from Kamen Rider Decade.
• From The Massive Multi-Fandom RPG on the TV Tropes Forum:
  • Season 1: Max from Sam & Max: Freelance Police having Mad Love for Selvaria from Valkyria Chronicles and KOS-MOS from Xenosaga.
  • Season 2: Maria Renard from Castlevania / Two-Bit from The Outsiders, Shirou Emiya from Fate/stay night / Subaru Nakajima from Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS, Crona Makenshi from Soul Eater / Sakura Matou from Fate/stay night, Braig from Kingdom Hearts / Medusa from Soul Eater, and friendship between Sayd from Green Lantern and Kamek from Super Mario Bros..
• City of Lost Characters: Cole (Dragon Age: Inquisition) and Sawyer (Black Lagoon) have a lot of chemistry between them (until Sawyer is abruptly yanked out of the game). Later on, Ben Tennyson (Ben 10) ends up with a crush on Eve (Black Cat).
• Deadly Mistakes is a roleplay entirely focused on the children of crossover pairings, whether their parents stayed together or not. These are only a select few that are in there.
  • Jiminy Cricket (Pinocchio) and Timothy Mouse (Dumbo) are heavily in denial about being a couple.
  • Timothy Mouse and Miss Kitty Mouse (The Great Mouse Detective) are married in one universe.
  • And in yet another universe, Timothy Mouse is in a relationship with Basil (The Great Mouse Detective).
  • One character came about as the result of The Ghost Writer (Danny Phantom) getting a crush on Jareth the Goblin King (Labyrinth).
  • There's an alternate universe where Audrey II (Little Shop of Horrors), Pinkamena Pie (Cupcakes (Sergeant Sprinkles)), Oogie Boogie (The Nightmare Before Christmas) and Tamatoa (Moana) are in a polyamorous relationship, although the latter is not a biological parent of any of the characters himself. Or is he?
  • In another universe, Dr. Eggman (Sonic the Hedgehog) blowing up half the moon altered the fate of Peridot (Steven Universe), eventually leading to a series of events where they get married and later create two kids via scientific means.
  • In the same universe as that of Eggman and Peridot, Sandy Cheeks (Spongebob Squarepants) ended up happily marrying The Penguin (The Batman). You Do Not Want To Know. However, they are most definitely not together in any other universe, let alone the main universe the roleplay takes place in.
  • In the same universe as the above two, Blendin Blandin (Gravity Falls) is in a polyamorous relationship with Dos Hunthou (a minor character from one of the books) and Lapis Lazuli (Steven Universe).
• People started shipping Jaune Arc (RWBY) and Jessica Cruz (Green Lantern) because of their interactions in Justice League × RWBY: Super Heroes & Huntsmen, with the close bond the two develop as the former aids the latter in managing their anxiety and regaining confidence over the course of the movie bordering on Crossover Couple. While there was other ship tease in the film, such as Weiss Schnee and Bruce Wayne, Jaune x Jessica was the only one to gain significant popularity.

Unsorted/Other

• There's an indie card game known as "Slash: Romance Without Bounderies," which is essentially Cards Against Humanity with crossover ships. Seen here and here.
• Pale and Polygonal: A Tale of Opposites Attracting. Bill Cipher (Gravity Falls) and Jadis the White Witch (The Chronicles of Narnia).

• GLaDOS (Portal) ships:
  • GLaDOS/HAL 9000 (2001: A Space Odyssey), as illustrated in this xkcd strip.
  • Now, we present GLaDOS/AM (I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream). Apparently, it didn't work out.
  • Here we have the kinda cracky GlaDOS/Sniper (Team Fortress 2) ship. However, it should be noted that their voice actors are married, and Sniper's VA even acknowledged this pairing when in-character as Sniper.

• /co/ loves this. There is Cassandra Cain/Terry McGinnis (Batman Beyond) art floating around. It works so well.

• May Parker (Spider-Girl) / Terry McGinnis (Batman Beyond) is popular◊ too. Scans Daily ships it.

• One popular crossover ship is Anne Marie (the girl from the early Above The Influence ads) and Frankie (Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends).
• Dueling Analogs did Samus/Mega Man. They got married and then it got disturbing.
• There is a pairing for Gwen Tennyson (Ben 10: Ultimate Alien) / Jason Todd (Batman).
• There are quite a few pictures where Rouge the Bat from the Sonic the Hedgehog series and Jewel Man from the Mega Man series are paired up probably due to their similar looks and personality traits.
• Zuttercup (Invader Zim and The Powerpuff Girls).
  • Zim's plans would all be possible once he hooked up with Mandy from The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy.
  • Johnny the Homicidal Maniac/Zim. Or Johnny/Dib. These are quite common, actually. And Lenore (Lenore the Cute Little Dead Girl) / Squee (Johnny the Homicidal Maniac), too.
  • The Powerpuff Girls and The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy ...someone has paired up Bubbles and Nergal Junior... Check Website/Deviantart... [13] and[14].
• Soma Cruz (Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow) / Botan (YuYu Hakusho). Basically, Dracula/Death as heterosexual teenagers.
• Antauri (Super Robot Monkey Team Hyperforce Go!) / Maguro (Sushi Pack).
• The characters of Baccano! seem to lend themselves curiously well to crossover shipping, particularly Luck Gandor, who to all appearances is the fandom's Launcher of a Thousand Ships and has been shipped with characters from D.Gray-Man, Mobile Suit Gundam 00, Persona 3, and more.
  • Claire Stanfield/The Corinthian (The Sandman (1989)). Yes, it exists.
  • Nice Hollystone/Tavish DeGroot (aka the Demoman from Team Fortress 2). Mostly because both love explosives, and both have lost an eye.
• Sephiroth (Final Fantasy VII) / Sydney (Vagrant Story) works surprisingly well. Add Ashley or Aeris for bonus threesomes.
• Ever since the release of Dissidia Final Fantasy, the fandom has exploded with inter-series crossover pairings. Most notable of all: Gabranth (Final Fantasy XII) and Terra (Final Fantasy VI), often adding Kefka (Final Fantasy VI) as part of a Type 7 Love Triangle with Terra as the "Alice".
  • Sephiroth / Kuja (Final Fantasy IX), however, predates Dissidia by several years.
  • Cloud (Final Fantasy VII) / Terra has a following as well, as do Firion (Final Fantasy II)/Terra and Firion/Cloud. Why these three? Besides Cloud's interactions with both of them, Dissidia heavily implies that Firion and Terra remind Cloud of Zack and Aerith, and their personalities are reminiscent of them as well. It didn't take long for shippers to go from there. It helps Terra has no canon love interest.
  • Cloud / Yuna (Final Fantasy X) has been popular for awhile now; a recent boom no thanks to Dead Fantasy.
  • On the Chaos side, there is a large following for pairing up Emperor Mateus (Final Fantasy II) and Ultimecia (Final Fantasy VIII) due to their alliance in-game. They even briefly form a Battle Couple in the intro to lure Terra into one of the Emperor's Death Traps.
  • Also, Exdeath (Final Fantasy V) / Cloud of Darkness (Final Fantasy III). Three guesses why.
  • The prequel, Duodecim, gives us Firion/Lightning (Final Fantasy XIII) due to their mutual bonding over flowers. Comes complete with Ship Tease, as Cecil (Final Fantasy IV) (the only canonically married member of Team Cosmos) plays the role of Firion's wingman and takes his embarrassment over wanting to talk to Lightning as romantic interest.

• Dib (Invader Zim) + Lilo (Lilo & Stitch). OTP.

• Alucard (Hellsing) / Abel Nightroad (Trinity Blood) has somewhat of a following, as evidenced by this (which has over 800 favorites to date), this and this.
• Haruhi Fujioka (Ouran High School Host Club) and Haruhi Suzumiya. People have already thought of it and drawn it (pictures are worksafe, ads on page may not be).
• Konata Izumi (Lucky Star)/Haruhi Suzimiya is also popular, because they're both Kyoto Animation characters voiced by Aya Hirano (and Wendee Lee in English). It helps that Konata is already a big Haruhi Suzumiya fan in spite of the Celebrity Paradox.
• Hiei (YuYu Hakusho) / Hotaru Tomoe a.k.a Sailor Saturn (Sailor Moon). It works. Considering that their series' respective creators are married to each other...

• /m/ had this idea that Shinji (Neon Genesis Evangelion) and Noriko (Gunbuster) would make a good couple.
• JediAnnSolo's Massive Multiplayer Crossover comic series AGENCY seems to be built largely for the purpose of shipping Sandy Cheeks (Spongebob Squarepants) and Shadow the Hedgehog. JediAnnSolo has repeatedly stated that Sandy/Shadow is not Agency canon. However, this hasn't stopped her from admitting that they make a good couple or stopped her and her fans from pairing the two up.
• The Protectors of the Plot Continuum once encountered a Dora/Pyramid Head (Silent Hill 2) squickfic. Just the intelligence report on that fic is enough to give readers nightmares.
• Bec/Amaterasu (Ōkami) gets shipped a bit among the Homestuck fandom. Also counts as a Theme Pairing because they're both dogs/wolves with godlike powers.
• Homestuck fans love crossover ships, especially with the quadrant system allowing for greater shipping potential. Tavros <3 Fluttersy (My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic) seems to be fairly popular, and Tavros <> Fluttershy exists as well.

• There's a few pics off DeviantArt and a fan comic dedicated to Heloise (Jimmy Two-Shoes)/Kick Buttowski.

• Hanako (Katawa Shoujo) / Zuko (Avatar: The Last Airbender). Yes, it's as burn-scarred (and crack-tastic) as it sounds. Here's the link.

• Prussia (Hetalia: Axis Powers) / Izaya (Durarara!!) has quite the following. If you subscribe to some stranger theories it could be seen as selfcest.
• Phoenix's SSBB Case Files gives us Phoenix Wright (Ace Attorney) / Samus (Metroid), as well as Samus/Solid Snake (Metal Gear Solid), and even Pearl/Pit (Kid Icarus).
• Ladies and gentlemen, Azula and the Human Torch. That's one hot pair.

• Sometimes you go for obvious subjects, but sometimes some authors want to make up perverted situations that normally don't exist. How about a hentai fanfic featuring Cecilia (Infinite Stratos) and Noblesse Oblige (Armored Core) or Harken Browning (Endless Frontier) making Cecilia wear Kaguya's stripperific outfit just to bang her in it?
• Another weird crossover pairing is Airi (Queen's Blade) with Ike (Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance) The reason? Maybe because both characters belongs to series with a fantasy setting.
• Nanoha (Lyrical Nanoha) / Setsuna (Mobile Suit Gundam 00). This one... almost makes sense since Setsuna is Gundam and Nanoha is the RX-78; it only really gets explanation when Nanoha's latest upgrade makes her look a lot like Setsuna's first Gundam, the GN-001 Exia◊.
• In this Spider-Man/Danny Phantom crossover [15] the author pairs Valerie Grey and Johnny Storm.
• Starkiller (The Force Unleashed) x Fate Testarossa (Lyrical Nanoha). For some reason, it seems like it just might work.
• The Young Justice (2010) Anonymous Fic Meme gives us Aqualad/Gear (Static Shock) (Kaldur/Richie, or Kalchie).Here, now with a sequel/Coming-Out Story.
• Alexander Anderson (Hellsing) / Ciel (Tsukihime). Bayonet/sword throwing members of a secret Catholic organization dedicated to eradicating Vampires? Comes with awesome fanart◊.
• Young Once-ler (The Lorax) / Marceline (Adventure Time) has received a lot of attention on deviantART.
• Axel or Lea(Kingdom Hearts) / Tsumugi Kotobuki (K-On!). And yes, some fan art does exist.
• The Warden (Superjail!) and Young Once-ler have also been paired off together, most notably on deviantART and Tumblr as "Wardler"/"Warden-ler". This is not without controversy, however, and has lead to much infighting among fans of Superjail!.
• The "credits" of Fantasy of Utter Ridiculousness briefly depicts Megas XLR's Jamie trying to put the moves on Patchouli Knowledge. Her familiar's attempts to spell it out for her crash and burn at the end of the Extra Stage, when she gets her own such Ship in the form of the Jersey City junkman Goat.
• Trixie (My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic) and Cobra Commander (G.I. Joe) as seen here and here. And before you ask, the Commander is a pony in both of them.
• Hanji Zoe (Attack on Titan) and Dr. Newton "Newt" Geiszler (Pacific Rim), discussing Titans and Kaijus.
• Jesse Pinkman from Breaking Bad and Mysta Chimera/Moon Maid II from Dick Tracy in Hottie 3: The Best Fan Fic in the World.
• Kurama (Naruto) and Ahri (League of Legends): Both are nine-tailed foxes, and Hilarity Ensues when both of them are in the same place◊. And while it's technically pairing than shipping, putting Kurama (and by default, Naruto) along with fox-type Pokémon like Vulpix or Ninetails is very popular.
• JesterBells: The pairing of Harley Quinn from the Batman franchise and Clopin from The Hunchback of Notre Dame. Many people have pointed out Clopin and Harley are essentially like the male and female versions of each other, and that Clopin would treat Harley way better than the Joker ever has. It's especially nice now that she's being portrayed as more of an anti-heroine than a villainess. Link to cRoxoverGoddess, the artist who ships the pairing and Bambzilla, another creator of fanart for the ship.
• Sonic fan art pairs together Dave the Intern and Chris Thorndyke. Dave being from the Sonic Boom series, and Chris coming from Sonic X. It helps that Dave is more humanoid looking compared to the other average anthropomorphic characters from the franchise. Gitzyrulz and Cloud-Kitsune, the artists who ship them.
• One NSFW story, On Patrol, pairs the titular hero of SheZow with the titular heroine of Empowered.
• the light of day is fading: Death (Elisabeth) and Victor Nikiforov (Yuri!!! on Ice) A case can be made for Death/Yuuri, or technically Death/Victor/Yuuri.
• Reyna (The Heroes of Olympus) and Ahsoka (Star Wars) as seen here.
• Tony the Tiger and the Grinch. Here's the origin story.
• Leonardo (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles) and Miyamoto Usagi (Usagi Yojimbo). The two series cross over a lot, and whenever they do, these two tend to form a fast friendship that tends to be...very close. While it existed before, it really took off with Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, since Leo in Rise is heavily implied to be gay.
• Lucario (Pokémon)/ Renamon (Digimon) has quite a following, as both are anthropomorphic canine Mons that are ESPECIALLY Popular with Furries; however, this occasionally has a tinge of Foe Yay Shipping due to more hostile fans of either franchise butting heads with each other. They're just as likely to be depicted fighting each other than as a couple, as 1 Minute Melee and DEATH BATTLE! have done.
• Death from Puss in Boots: The Last Wish and Loona from Helluva Boss due to both being sexy wolf people with dark origins, Loona being a hellhound and adopted daughter of an imp and Death being well... Death. When the ship is depicted, Death is often seen getting annoyed by Loona's typical teenage girl antics.

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