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** Also, anime-only Matilda Simons is [[CompletelyMissingThePoint called a whore]] by YaoiFangirls because [[spoiler:ItsNotRapeIfYouEnjoyedIt:Sebastian raped her to get information.]]

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** Also, anime-only Matilda Simons is [[CompletelyMissingThePoint called a whore]] by YaoiFangirls because [[spoiler:ItsNotRapeIfYouEnjoyedIt:Sebastian [[spoiler:[[ItsNotRapeIfYouEnjoyedIt Sebastian raped her to get information.]] ]]
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** Also, anime-only Matilda Simons is [[CompletelyMissingThePoint called a whore]] by YaoiFangirls because [[spoiler:ItsNotRapeIfYouEnjoyedIt:Sebastian raped her to get information.]]
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* ''NeonGenesisEvangelion'' has a disturbingly large number of [[ShrinkingViolet Shinji]]/[[AmbiguouslyGay Kaworu]] fics; almost as much as [[BelligerentSexualTension Shinji/Asuka]] and [[IncestYay Shinji/Rei]]. There's a smaller amount of [[BlueOniRedOni Asuka/Rei]] (canonically impossible) and an even smaller amount of [[SempaiKohai Maya/Ritsuko]] (canonically one-sided on the part of Maya) but that's basically it when it comes to plausible slash.
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* [[ProfessionalWrestling Wrestling]] fandom is almost entirely slash-centric. This has a large part to do with the fact that wrestling itself is 90% nearly-all-attractive, athletic, almost-naked males getting all over each other in a ring. This would be understandable if the large majority of the internet fandom ''didn't'' shriek in horror whenever a het fic popped up. The only even remotely accepted het ship for a very long time in wrestling fandom was ChrisJericho/StephanieMcMahon, and that was because of a mix of BelligerentSexualTension and even the ''commentators'' shipping it.

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* [[ProfessionalWrestling Wrestling]] fandom is almost entirely slash-centric. This has a large part to do with the fact that wrestling itself is 90% nearly-all-attractive, athletic, almost-naked males getting all over each other in a ring. This would be understandable if the large majority of the internet fandom ''didn't'' shriek in horror whenever a het fic popped up. The only even remotely accepted het ship for a very long time in wrestling fandom was ChrisJericho/StephanieMcMahon, ChrisJericho / StephanieMcMahon, and that was because of a mix of BelligerentSexualTension and even the ''commentators'' shipping it.
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* [[ProfessionalWrestling Wrestling]] fandom is almost entirely slash-centric. This has a large part to do with the fact that wrestling itself is 90% nearly-all-attractive, athletic, almost-naked males getting all over each other in a ring. This would be understandable if the large majority of the internet fandom ''didn't'' shriek in horror whenever a het fic popped up. The only even remotely accepted het ship for a very long time in wrestling fandom was ChrisJericho/StephanieMcMahon, and that was because of a mix of BelligerentSexualTension and even the ''commentators'' shipping it.

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* As mentioned in the trope description, ''HarryPotter'' has a lot of slashers. So many that they have acted ''personally offended'' when some of their favorite ships have been (ostensibly) {{Jossed}}. And when JKR said Dumbledore had been gay and in love with Grindlewald, [[{{Fanon}} the immediate assumption]] was that they were shagging like bunnies.

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* As mentioned in the trope description, ''HarryPotter'' has a lot of slashers. So many that they have acted ''personally offended'' when some of their favorite ships have been (ostensibly) {{Jossed}}. And when JKR said Dumbledore had been gay and in love with Grindlewald, [[{{Fanon}} the immediate assumption]] was that they were shagging like bunnies.bunnies even though she doesn't say anything about Grindlewald's own sexuality.
* Sherlock Holmes. Even though it's canon that Watson married possibly up to three times, most of fanon believed that Holmes and Watson were a couple. The backlash against Irene Adler's character in the 2009 movie reduced the role of Rachel MacAdams in the sequels.
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* ''StarTrek'' What would you expect from the fandom that ''invented'' (or at least named) slash?

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* ''StarTrek'' ''StarTrek''. What would you expect from the fandom that ''invented'' (or at least named) slash?
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* ''StarTrek''

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* ''StarTrek''''StarTrek'' What would you expect from the fandom that ''invented'' (or at least named) slash?
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The extreme versions are the kind who write [[JKRowling J.K. Rowling]] hate mail for daring to give Remus Lupin a wife. They also don't seem to want to listen when many real gay people point out the fanfiction they're writing is highly stereotypical and doesn't really reflect reality (not that all [[HetFic Het Fic]] does this either, but there you go). Mind you, more extreme typical {{Yaoi Fangirl}}s might engage in this sort of flaming as well. There are also those who are just tired of the ubiquity of het romance plots in all variety of fiction and the tropes that go with them, particularly the stereotyping of everyone involved.

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The extreme versions are the kind who write [[JKRowling J.K. Rowling]] hate mail for daring to give Remus Lupin a wife. They also don't seem to want to listen when many real gay people point out the fanfiction they're writing is highly stereotypical and doesn't really reflect reality (not that all [[HetFic Het Fic]] Fic does this either, but there you go). Mind you, more extreme typical {{Yaoi Fangirl}}s might engage in this sort of flaming as well. There are also those who are just tired of the ubiquity of het romance plots in all variety of fiction and the tropes that go with them, particularly the stereotyping of everyone involved.
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The extreme versions are the kind who write [[JKRowling J.K. Rowling]] hate mail for daring to give Remus Lupin a wife. They also don't seem to want to listen when many real gay people point out the fanfiction they're writing is highly stereotypical and doesn't really reflect reality (not that all Het Fic does this either, but there you go). Mind you, more extreme typical {{Yaoi Fangirl}}s might engage in this sort of flaming as well. There are also those who are just tired of the ubiquity of het romance plots in all variety of fiction and the tropes that go with them, particularly the stereotyping of everyone involved.

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The extreme versions are the kind who write [[JKRowling J.K. Rowling]] hate mail for daring to give Remus Lupin a wife. They also don't seem to want to listen when many real gay people point out the fanfiction they're writing is highly stereotypical and doesn't really reflect reality (not that all [[HetFic Het Fic Fic]] does this either, but there you go). Mind you, more extreme typical {{Yaoi Fangirl}}s might engage in this sort of flaming as well. There are also those who are just tired of the ubiquity of het romance plots in all variety of fiction and the tropes that go with them, particularly the stereotyping of everyone involved.
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Counterintuitively, there may be a homophobic element to HetIsEw in some cases; straight women (and straight men) who subscribe to the notion may feel that their own sexuality is threatened if they find a work that includes a member of their own sex arousing. This is one of the reasons for the [[GirlOnGirlIsHot prevalence of lesbian porn aimed at straight men]]; viewers don't need to worry about being turned on by another guy.
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* ''{{iCarly}}'' has this, with Carly/Sam shippers.
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* {{Victorious}}, where the biggest FanPreferredCouple is Cat/Jade, other popular ships are Beck/Robbie, Cat/Tori and Jade/Tori, along side Cat/Robbie, Jade/Beck and Tori/Andre as the het pairings.
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** What's more surprising? Thinking Brian is gay in canon or that people pair a dog with a human baby?
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** [[AnyThingThatMoves Orgy?]]
** Nothing that can't also be done with [[NoodleImplements three transexual aliens and a flying unicorn]].
*** But where are we going to find an orangutan at this time of night?
**** What does an orangutan have to do with anything here?!
***** The orangutan ''watches''.
****** They're not called [[DirtyOldMan "the old man of the forest"]] for nothing.
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** However, there do exist a few fangirls who ship every canon-based or canon-implied pairing ''except'' for Austria/Hungary solely because it's not yaoi, or hate Hungary solely because she "gets in the way" of Prussia/Austria (which is ironic because, as one fan pointed out, Prussia and Austria are the two Hetalia males most likely to be straight). They're considerably quieter and less numerous than in other fandoms because of Hetalia fandom liking the canon female characters a lot more than other yaoi-heavy fandoms generally do, but they're still there.

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** However, there do exist a few fangirls who ship every canon-based or canon-implied pairing ''except'' for Austria/Hungary solely because it's not yaoi, or hate Hungary solely because she "gets in the way" of Prussia/Austria (which is ironic because, as one fan pointed out, Prussia and Austria are the two Hetalia males most likely to be straight).straight, and also, Hungary's just as much a YaoiFangirl as the fangirls are, ''especially'' with Austria). They're considerably quieter and less numerous than in other fandoms because of Hetalia fandom liking the canon female characters a lot more than other yaoi-heavy fandoms generally do, but they're still there.
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** Strongly rumored to be one of the reasons behind Mamoru's CharacterDerailment ''and'' BadassDecay in the anime. The fact that series director KunihikoIkuhara (from {{Utena}} fame) ''hates'' Mamoru and openly admits it alongside his preference of [[LesYayShipping Usagi/Rei]] doesn't help.

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* Unsurprisingly, [[FamilyGuy Brian is often paired with Stewie in fanfiction]]. However, what it is surprisingly is the number of people who think that Brian is gay ''in canon'', despite being absolutely no evidence of this.

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* Unsurprisingly, [[FamilyGuy ''FamilyGuy''[==]'s Brian is often paired with Stewie in fanfiction]].fanfiction. However, what it is surprisingly is the number of people who think that Brian is gay ''in canon'', despite being absolutely no evidence of this.

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* Fans of Merlin/Arthur in {{Merlin}} often pair Gwen with Morgana on the side.

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* Fans of Merlin/Arthur in {{Merlin}} often pair Gwen with Morgana on the side. side.
* {{House}}[=/Wilson=] is the main ship in the former's fandom, with [=House/Cuddy=] being a distant second.
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** Also, two LostForever fansites had absolutely ridiculous levels of het hate as well as [[DieforOurShip Relena bashing.]] One of them absolutely prohibited any het fics that weren't Zechs/Noin or Wufei/Sally and openly claimed that "yaoi love" [[WallBanger was "the only true love in the world"]], alongside stating that [[RealWomenNeverWearDresses "girls who don't act like men are all bitches"]]; the other openly accused all [=1xR=] shippers [[InsaneTrollLogic of being homophobic just because they preferred to ship Heero with Relena instead of Duo.]]

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** Also, two LostForever fansites had absolutely ridiculous levels of het hate as well as [[DieforOurShip Relena bashing.]] One of them absolutely prohibited any het fics that weren't Zechs/Noin or Wufei/Sally and openly claimed that "yaoi love" [[WallBanger was "the only true love in the world"]], world", alongside stating that [[RealWomenNeverWearDresses "girls who don't act like men are all bitches"]]; the other openly accused all [=1xR=] shippers [[InsaneTrollLogic of being homophobic just because they preferred to ship Heero with Relena instead of Duo.]]
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****** They're not called [[DirtyOldMan "the old man of the forest"]] for nothing.
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** Oh, [[ItGotWorse it gets much worse than that.]] When they're not pairing Zoey with the still-mostly-normal Witch, they're pairing her or - to fit with this trope - the other survivors with [[{{Squick}} the rest of the hideously mutated Special Infected]].
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* Fans of Merlin/Arthur in {{Merlin}} often pair Gwen with Morgana on the side.
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* {{Glee}} has quite a bit of this going on.

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* ''WeissKreuz'': Seriously - HOW many female characters are there? Almost every time a male character (say, Omi and Yohji) go and start liking a girl - say, Ouka or Maki (...or Asuka, or Neu...) - said girl ends up dead. The supreme lack of female characters has, in some fan-circles, created the line "At least it's not Tot" implying that any partner would be better than a female.
** Nagi and Ken have (slightly) better luck: Tot and Yuriko don't die, they just get [[PutOnABus Put On A Bus]].
** Sally is the only really notable exception in the entire series, and jealous fangirls promptly accused her of being a MarySue [[http://community.livejournal.com/hated_character/140901.html#cutid1 because of her]] MadLove [[http://community.livejournal.com/hated_character/140901.html#cutid1 with Farfarello.]]

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* ''WeissKreuz'': Seriously - HOW many An outside observer may be forgiven from assuming, based on the overwhelming majority of fanworks for the series, that ''WeissKreuz'' is a yaoi drama instead of an action series about CareerKillers. This is not helped by the bad case of CartwrightCurse that all four of the male leads suffer from; while there are a fair number of female characters are there? Almost every time supporting characters, anyone a male main character (say, Omi and Yohji) go and start liking a girl - say, Ouka or Maki (...or Asuka, or Neu...) - said girl ends up dead. The supreme lack of female characters has, in some fan-circles, created the line "At least it's not Tot" implying that develops any partner would be better than a female.
** Nagi and Ken have (slightly) better luck: Tot and Yuriko don't die, they just get [[PutOnABus Put On A Bus]].
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interest in is almost guaranteed to end up StuffedIntoTheFridge or, if they're lucky, PutOnABus. Sally is the only really notable exception in the entire series, and jealous fangirls promptly accused her of being a MarySue [[http://community.livejournal.com/hated_character/140901.html#cutid1 because of her]] MadLove [[http://community.livejournal.com/hated_character/140901.html#cutid1 with Farfarello.]]
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** Also, two LostForeer fansites had absolutely ridiculous levels of het hate as well as Relena bashing. One of them absolutely prohibited any kind of het fics that weren't Zechs/Noin or Wufei/Sally and openly claimed that "yaoi love" [[WallBanger (yup, yaoi, not even Real Life homosexuality)]] was "the only true love in the world", alongside saying that [[RealWomenNeverWearDresses "girls who don't act like men are all bitches"]]; the other openly accused all Heero/Relena shippers [[InsaneTrollLogic of being inherently homophobic just because they preferred to ship Heero with Relena instead of Duo.]]

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** Also, two LostForeer LostForever fansites had absolutely ridiculous levels of het hate as well as [[DieforOurShip Relena bashing. bashing.]] One of them absolutely prohibited any kind of het fics that weren't Zechs/Noin or Wufei/Sally and openly claimed that "yaoi love" [[WallBanger (yup, yaoi, not even Real Life homosexuality)]] was "the only true love in the world", world"]], alongside saying stating that [[RealWomenNeverWearDresses "girls who don't act like men are all bitches"]]; the other openly accused all Heero/Relena [=1xR=] shippers [[InsaneTrollLogic of being inherently homophobic just because they preferred to ship Heero with Relena instead of Duo.]]
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** Also, two LostForeer fansites had absolutely ridiculous levels of het hate as well as Relena bashing. One of them absolutely prohibited any kind of het fics that weren't Zechs/Noin or Wufei/Sally and openly claimed that "yaoi love" [[WallBanger (yup, yaoi, not even Real Life homosexuality)]] was "the only true love in the world", alongside saying that [[RealWomenNeverWearDresses "girls who don't act like men are all bitches"]]; the other openly accused all Heero/Relena shippers [[InsaneTrollLogic of being inherently homophobic just because they preferred to ship Heero with Relena instead of Duo.]]
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** ''MaiOtome'' is even worse. Sergey Wang is a target of DieForOurShip from almost everyone even if they're not currently doing anything with Arika or Nina.
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** To be fair to SailorMoon there ''is'' more than one recurring guy (especially in the anime) This information doesn't ''stop'' anyone though.

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