History Main / IncestYayShipping

Incest is a serious taboo among human beings--most cultures have an incest taboo.[[note]]While some definitions of incest may be relative (cousins count in some cultures but not in others), sex between siblings or between a parent and child is almost universally abhorrent.[[/note]] Despite this, [[ForbiddenFruit or perhaps because of it]], there is a significant amount of people interested in it, [[RuleThirtyFour and this being]] {{the Internet|IsForPorn}}, they can't wait to share their {{shipping}} theories with you.

* '' WesternAnimation/{{Encanto}}'': Because the film focuses mainly on the Madrigal family with a limited glimpse of the villagers, a segment of the fandom ships the Madrigals with each other, which is often collected under the tag "Madrigalcest". Bruno's rat telenova, with its SurpriseIncest story where an amnesiac aunt falls in love with her nephew, is something the aforementioned shippers have gotten a lot of mileage from, making jokes about it and working it into their own fan-fics.

* Nate Grey a.k.a. ComicBook/XMan had this with [[Characters/MarvelComicsMadelynePryor Madelyne Pryor]], clone of his mother, Jean Grey. Their relationship was... complicated. The narrative fuelled a lot of {{UST}} between them, and while Nate backed off ''hard'' once he worked out their relationship, they remained the FanPreferredCouple (and writer preferred, going by the amount of suggestive writing). Certainly, Maddie didn't seem bothered, as the infamously suggestive cover of ''X-Man #41'' [[https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/marveldatabase/images/7/75/X-Man_Vol_1_41.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20080519172859 shows]] - it literally says [[IfICantHaveYou "If Maddie can't have Nate... no one can!"]]. She flitted in and out of Nate's life in classic {{Tsundere}} fashion; sometimes nursing him back to health and sharing a slow dance with him, sometimes getting him into trouble for the hell of it, and rarely giving him any warning. Really, it's no wonder that when Nate created [[ComicBook/AgeOfXMan his own reality]], the first rule was 'No Relationships'.

* ''Film/DunePartTwo'': A lot of fans walked away from this film shipping Paul and Feyd-Rautha, despite the reveal that they are cousins, partially due to their fight at the end where Feyd-Rautha congratulated Paul on killing him. It also crosses over with FoeYayShipping due to them being enemies as well.

* ''Film/DunePartTwo'': A lot of fans walked away from this film shipping Paul and Feyd-Rautha, despite the reveal that they are cousins, partly do their fight at the end where Feyd-Rautha congratulated Paul on killing him. It also crosses over with FoeYayShipping due to them being enemies as well.

** From ''Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron'' we have Wanda and Pietro Maximoff, following in their comic counterparts' footsteps. The fact that their actors played husband and wife in ''Film/Godzilla2014'' just adds more fan video material.

Even with the taboo, they might have an easier job than the HoYay {{Shipp|ing}}ers, since normal family members are often so close to each other, both physically and emotionally, that with any other partner it can easily be interpreted as romantic and/or sexual. Just pick up any dialogue between relatives, [[ShippingGoggles ignore the intended meaning]], and Ta-da! you have subtext. There's also a good chance that you have [[NoYay repelled, or otherwise alienated a good part of the fandom]] -- but if the fandom is big enough, there's a chance you'll find like-minded company anyway.

* Despite them being mortal enemies and having strong canon pairings with people of no blood-relation to them, Sam and Caine have been shipped together in the ''Literature/{{GONE}}'' fandom, and it's actually pretty popular. The ship is known as "Saine"... or "{{twincest}}".
* A strict NoHuggingNoKissing policy during the original run of ''Literature/TheHardyBoys'' (alongside the stressful adventures giving the boys a very powerful brotherly bond) led a lot of people to acknowledge that Frank and Joe seemed very indifferent to their respective girlfriends Callie and Iola and way more interested in each other.

* ''Literature/PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians'': Since shipping any demigods together is both incest and not. The books say that the only people in camp who are off-limits incest-wise are those with whom you share a godly parent--though these seems kind of contrived. If you take a broader view, the gods are related somehow, so all campers are part of the same family, usually cousins or something--and since the Greek gods didn’t let incest stop them, why should their kids?

* ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'' has this in abundance, not exactly helped by the canon being quite bold about incest -- such as cousin marriage being quite common in Westeros, a certain royal family marrying siblings together, and there being a well-known {{twincest}}uous pairing in another family. Many fans ship characters the same way:
** In addition to shipping Jon Snow with girls who aren't related to him (Val, Ygritte) and a ''distant'' cousin (Alys Karstark), fans also ship Jon with Daenerys Targaryen, Sansa Stark, and even Arya Stark. Sansa and Arya are both Jon's half-sisters and if the popular theory of [[spoiler:Jon's parentage]] is true in the books (as it is in the [[Series/GameOfThrones television adaptation]]), [[spoiler:Daenerys would be Jon's paternal aunt, and Sansa and Arya would be Jon's blood cousins but raised as his sisters.]] These pairings may be due to Jon being a LauncherOfAThousandShips, but he gets shipped with his relatives quite a bit. The Arya one is not helped by an initial draft of the books that had Arya and Jon falling in love with each other to their mutual horror (although, this same outline also included Catelyn being killed by the Others, Tyrion falling in love with Arya as well, Benjen being Lord Commander of the Night's Watch, etc.).

* A number of Franchise/{{Superman}} and Comicbook/{{Supergirl}} fans ship both characters together despite being first cousins, either because they think there's no getting around the "[[ManOfSteelWomanOfKleenex Kryptonian of Steel, Human of Kleenex]]" trouble or because they genuinely think Clark/Kal and Linda/Kara make a good couple. To be fair, Silver and Bronze stories provide plenty of fuel, accidental innuendo and subtext if you know where to look [[labelnote:places to look]][[http://www.orgamesmic.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/superman-supergirl-kiss.jpg Action Comics #260]], [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/actioncomics270_page027.jpg Action Comics #270]], [[http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_pScx8BN4h3s/SMkfbsSeQCI/AAAAAAAAA_c/_XIlCBhpesg/s1600-h/action+289+pan+5.jpg the infamous Action Comics #289]], [[https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-42hj4CP59UU/TW0EOjbIjyI/AAAAAAAALSk/MyJ0VPlDuGo/s1600/sm+309-04.jpg Superman #309]] during the ''Comicbook/KryptonNoMore'' story arc, [[http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lvzhjklUch1r2ntbyo1_500.png this panel]] from ''Literature/TheSuperdictionary'')[[/labelnote]]. Fanfic writers such as [[https://archiveofourown.org/users/megamatt09/pseuds/megamatt09 Megamatt09]] have penned long tales featuring them together.

** All four Turtles get paired up with each other sometimes all [[OneTrueThreesome at once]]. You would think the 2007 film wouldn't inspire [[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments Leo/Don]] or [[HypocriticalHeartwarming Raph/Mikey]] fanworks but... Sometimes fans write them as [[NotBloodSiblings adopted brothers]] due to the franchise not clarifying if they are from the same parents, but most keep them blood siblings.
** The franchise also has a history of people involved with the series shipping, or encouraging shipping the Turtles as well, from artists, to voice actors, and even the rather infamous comic[[PornParody The Birds, the Bees, and the Turtles]] by Mirage artists featuring Donnie and Mikey in an explicitly sexual relationship.

* ''Franchise/{{Frozen}}'' fans love [[https://imgur.com/noilb7T.jpg shipping the sisters Elsa and Anna]]. Even though she has a male love interest, Anna spends the entire [[WesternAnimation/Frozen2013 first film]] wanting to see Elsa, wanting to spend time with Elsa, worrying about Elsa more than anyone else, and risking her life to save Elsa, fulfilling the "prince rescuing the princess" role. For her part, Elsa's fear of showing off her ice powers to anyone and hurting her sister has an [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything "in the closet" subtext thing]] going on. And in the end, the movie subverts the trope of [[spoiler:TrueLovesKiss by having the love that saves Anna being her sisterly love for Elsa]]. Many fanfics work around this by making them UnrelatedInTheAdaptation. ''WesternAnimation/FrozenII'' and the shorts ''WesternAnimation/FrozenFever'' and ''WesternAnimation/OlafsFrozenAdventure'' have all provided ''much'' material to keep this going.

** All four Turtles get paired up with each other. You would think the 2007 film wouldn't inspire [[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments Leo/Don]] or [[HypocriticalHeartwarming Raph/Mikey]] fanworks but... Sometimes fans write them as [[NotBloodSiblings adopted brothers]] due to the franchise not clarifying if they are from the same parents, but most keep them blood siblings.

** Makoto and Komaru Naegi have a following as well, despite (or perhaps helped by) their small amount of onscreen interaction.

->''I know that they are siblings but I think there's something more\\

* ''Film/BackToTheFuture'': There are quite a few fans who like to pair Marty up with the past version of his mother Lorraine. There are a few fanfics about it and some sites even discuss how they would (in their opinions) work as a couple.

* In ''VisualNovel/DanganronpaTriggerHappyHavoc'', [[spoiler:[[{{Twincest}} Junko Enoshima/Mukuro Ikusaba]]]] is a rather popular ship, [[IdiosyncraticShipNaming which is nicknamed]] [[spoiler:"Despaircest"]]. ''Literature/DanganronpaTriggerHappyHavocIf'' and ''Anime/Danganronpa3TheEndOfHopesPeakHighSchool'' upgrade this to one-sided IncestSubtext, especially in ''Danganronpa 3'' where [[spoiler:Junko slaps Mukuro on her ass, knocking her to the ground, and then stomps and pushes on a very specific spot from behind at Mukuro blushes, looking quite pleased.]]

* ComicBook/{{Daken}}'s private thoughts about little "sister", ComicBook/{{X 23}}, upon seeing her in action once their various conflicts, double-crossings, and manipulations are put aside so they can focus on dealing with Colcord are out of the way, can easily be read with a romantic subtext. And considering this ''is'' [[AnythingThatMoves Daken]] we're talking about... it certainly puts fuel into the fire among some of the fans and makes Daken one of Laura's [[LauncherOfAThousandShips many fandom pairings]].

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* ''VideoGame/BioShockInfinite'':
** It's near impossible to find a Lutece fan who doesn't ship them together. In fairness they're not really siblings, but [[spoiler:ScrewYourself]] isn't much better.
** [[spoiler:Booker and Elizabeth]] have an enormous fandom despite the whole [[spoiler:father and daughter]] thing that was kind of an important revelation.
* ''VideoGame/BlazBlue'':
** Brothers Ragna the Bloodedge and Jin Kisaragi are possibly the most popular yaoi pairing, and doubly supported by the two's fierce rivalry. What really sells it is Jin's rather unhealthy obsession with killing Ragna, and the creators' tendency to play with it in the various Gag Reels.
** Ragna and Noel Vermillion, whose fandom weren't impeded at all by the revelation [[spoiler:Noel is a clone of Ragna and Jin's sister Saya]].
** Ragna/Nu ([[spoiler:who is also a clone, like Noel]]). Nu is a full blown {{Yandere}} for Ragna, and all of her interactions with him have very [[InterplayOfSexAndViolence overt overtones]].
* Magus and Schala of ''VideoGame/ChronoTrigger'' are often a target of this by some fanfic writers, building off of some perceived implication that the siblings were attracted to each other when they lived in Zeal. Note that Magus was about 9 or 10 at the time, while Schala was in her late teens.
* ''VideoGame/{{Cuphead}}'' and his pal Mugman are occasionally interpreted as this. Whether this also qualifies as a ToyShip depends on how you interpret the clashing definitions of their VagueAge[[labelnote:elaboration]]writer Evan Skolnick, [[https://twitter.com/EvanSkolnick/status/953431259161673728 considers them adolescents,]] while [=StudioMDHR=]'s official twitter has [[https://twitter.com/studiomdhr/status/949297839594704896 describes them both as "kidults"]][[/labelnote]].
* ''VideoGame/DeadOrAlive'':
** There's a large [[YuriFan yuri fandom]] sect dedicated to shipping Kasumi with her aloof half-sister/[[ChildByRape cousin]], Ayane. Most often seen on Rule34 and various "booru" sites where Kasumi and Ayane are frequently paired with each other.
** Kasumi-Hayate is also fairly popular, mostly in fanfiction. Mainly due to Kasumi's [[IncestSubtext fierce loyalty and dedication]] her brother. She even went so far as to flee her home village to seek vengeance on her uncle, Raidou, for crippling her brother. A decision which made her an outcast, thus she can never return to Hayate's side. Which has lead some to interpret their relationship as that of StarCrossedLovers, rather than siblings.
* In ''VideoGame/DevilSurvivor'', the second most popular pairing for the protagonist his cousin Naoya. Most of this comes from Naoya's strange obsession with him, but, interestingly, the revelation that [[spoiler:Naoya and the protagonist are also brothers, and in fact the reincarnations of the original Cain and Abel, respectively]] only seems to have made the pairing ''more appealing'' to the fangirls.
* Considering that ''VideoGame/DragaliaLost'' is about the relationship between the Alberian Royal Family, this was inevitable. The most obvious paring would have to be Euden and Zethia, mainly because Zethia is a DamselInDistress and Euden is a [[KnightInShiningArmor Knight (actually, prince) in Shining Armor]]. They have an incredibly close bond together, and, despite being separated for most of the game, it strengthens even further as the game progresses. Many see their relationship as paralleling that of [[WesternAnimation/{{Amphibia}} Anne and Marcy]], whom are ''very'' commonly shipped together for similar reasons. With that said, Euden is implied to be UsefulNotes/{{Asexual}}, so some have tried shipping Zethia with [[EvilTwin Nedrick]] instead. There’s also [[MyFutureSelfAndMe Zena]], whom is also shipped with both Nedrick ''and'' [[ScrewYourself Zethia]]. Safe to say, between the four of them, they’ve been paired up together every which way. While not as popular as the more central characters, some also like to ship Leonidas with Chelle.
* Hawke/Bethany has a surprisingly strong following in ''VideoGame/DragonAgeII.'' Isabela and Merrill weren't everyone's cup of tea, and Aveline wasn't a love interest. Cue a large amount of people shipping Hawke with his/her younger sister. There's also a considerably smaller, but still noticeable amount of shipping for Carver/Hawke.
* Fraternal twins Anna and Mihael in ''VideoGame/DragonValor''.
* ''VideoGame/FarCry5'': There are fans who ship at least two of the three Seed brothers together, or even as a OneTrueThreesome. The most popular seems to be John/Joseph, as John is shown to be highly obsessed with and clingy towards Joseph.
* While it's likely that some degree of IncestSubtext was intentional in ''VideoGame/FatalFrameII'', especially when it comes to Mio and Mayu, [[spoiler:the latter being portrayed in the [[VideoGameRemake remake]] as more or less being a {{yandere}} for for the former]], all the [[{{Twincest}} twins]] in the game get shipped to some extent. Itsuki and Mutsuki are an especially popular pair, as their [[OneTwinMustDie Crimson Sacrifice Ritual]] failed apparently due to there being too much love between them.
* ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'':
** Faris/Lenna from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyV'' has some popularity. The general interpretation for this pairing is that Faris's BigBrotherInstinct[[note]]technically ''sister'', but this is Faris[[/note]] towards Lenna is actually romantic interest.
** From ''[[VideoGame/FinalFantasyX2 FFX-2]]'' we have [[KissingCousins Yuna and Rikku]]. There's canon IncestSubtext - Brother towards his cousin Yuna - but exploring it is not particularly popular.
** Due to the nature of "[[{{Subtext}} Subtle Romance]]" of ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXII'', some fans decided to assume that Basch has no eyes for anyone but his twin brother Noah/Gabranth and vice versa.
** And in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII'', there is Lightning and Serah.
* ''Franchise/FireEmblem'':
** The king and queen of this trope would be half-siblings [[VideoGame/FireEmblemGenealogyOfTheHolyWar Eldigan and Lachesis]], while the prince and princess would be fraternal ''twins'' [[VideoGame/FireEmblemTheSacredStones Eirika and Ephraim]].
** The romance system in ''VideoGame/FireEmblemGenealogyOfTheHolyWar'' allows for KissingCousins, of which two pairings are actually half-sibling incest[[note]]Because Aideen and Briggid are identical twins, any children they have are genetic half-siblings. This does not preclude the pairings of Lana/Faval and Lester/Patty[[/note]].
** The romance system in ''VideoGame/FireEmblemAwakening'' allows for cousin marriages as well, although the NA/PAL releases {{Bowdlerize}}d this slightly by referring to such pairings as "[[PlatonicLifePartners companions]]" rather than husband and wife. However, they failed to do this for the ''aunt/nephew or uncle/niece'' pairings that are possible by pairing Chrom with either Maribelle or Olivia and then pairing one of the resulting children with Robin and the other with Morgan.
** ''VideoGame/FireEmblemFates'':
*** It seems the most popular pairings involve pairing Corrin with his/her relatives (to be fair, the Nohrian siblings are [[NotBloodSiblings adoptive]], [[spoiler:and the Hoshidan siblings are all revealed to be adoptive as well]]). For example, Female!Corrin is commonly shipped with her adoptive brothers Xander and Leo, and with her ''actual'' brother Takumi ([[spoiler:while they're actually NotBloodRelated, they ''think'' they are until their S-Support]]). Meanwhile, Male!Corrin is commonly shipped with his adopted sister Camilla and [[spoiler:Azura]], who ''looks'' to not be related to him [[SurpriseIncest but is actually]] [[KissingCousins his long-lost cousin]]. And yes, the game ''actually lets you'' marry any of these characters, even in the West.
*** Velouria is very clingy towards her parents, especially her father Keaton. Though this is explained by her parents leaving her months at a time because they have to fight in a war, it doesn't stop certain fans from seeing Velouria's attachment as something far less wholesome.
* ''VideoGame/GoldenSun'':
** The most obvious is Felix and Jenna, who are siblings (and appropriately dubbed "[[SurpriseIncest Oopsie-shipping]]" by the fans).
** Fans also like to pair up Alex and Mia, who were confirmed to be cousins by ''Dark Dawn''. This one however is a special case, as the reveal only happened years after the first games, when the ship was firmly installed. Like the 4koma example below, this is a rather meta case of SurpriseIncest.
** A 4koma doujinshi, ''Golden Sun Gag Battle'', has Ivan [[PowerPerversionPotential trying out his new Reveal power]] on [[spoiler: Hama and Feizhi's clothes.]] To be fair, ''Gag Battle'' was published before ''The Lost Age'' outed [[spoiler:Hama as Ivan's sister]], making this a rather meta case of SurpriseIncest.
** ''VideoGame/GoldenSunDarkDawn'' brought several new sets of relatives to the table, with the (in)appropriate reaction from the {{Shipping}} fans. Nowell and Rief are treated as a joke couple in most cases, but shipping either of them with [[spoiler:Amiti]] is fair game... and, technically speaking, a distant enough relationship to be legal even by American standards.
* ''VideoGame/GreedFall'' has the protagonist De Sardet and their cousin and childhood friend Constantin D'Orsay. Constantin cannot be romanced and is strictly a GuestStarPartyMember, but De Sardet is repeatedly shown to be the most important person to him, and [[spoiler:after he pulls a FaceHeelTurn, De Sardet can accept his WeCanRuleTogether offer. The fact that [[NotBloodSiblings De Sardet turns out to be adopted]] likely helps too]]. As a result, a not insignificant part of fandom latched onto the ship and the relationship was given a FandomNod in the [=DLC=] episode.
* The popular and [[FanPreferredCouple fan-preferred]] pairing of the Playable Character (sometimes called Knight or Ghost) and Hornet from ''VideoGame/HollowKnight''. Might veer into this, [[spoiler:because they may or may not be siblings because of their nature]].
* A small subset of ''[[VideoGame/LifeIsStrange2 Life Is Strange 2]]'' ship Sean & Daniel Diaz, due to the game's heavy focus on their close relationship. Others avoid it, not necessarily due to the incest, but due to their age gap (Sean is sixteen, Daniel is ''nine'').
* [[ThemeNaming Rock and Roll]] (or Franchise/MegaMan and Roll in the West), whose actual connection varies in their [[VideoGame/MegaManLegends various]] [[VideoGame/MegaManBattleNetwork incarnations]]. The same applies to [[HoYay Rock and Blues]] ([[MarketBasedTitle Mega Man and Proto Man]] in the west).
* ''VideoGame/MetalGear'': Solid Snake and Liquid Snake. It only gets worse once Liquid possesses Ocelot, who had a big gay crush on their father, especially since Big Boss is a TrulySingleParent.
* ''VideoGame/{{OMORI}}'': Sunny is sometimes shipped with his sister, Mari, because of the latter's [[CoolBigSis kindly demeanor]] and [[TheGadfly sense of humor]] playing to his [[TheQuietOne quietness]] and their time joined at the hip, which fleshes out their bond more than Mari's with Hero. %%as well as Hero/Kel, although Sunny is more commonly shipped with Basil or Aubrey.
* ''VideoGame/{{Onmyoji}}'' has this going on between Kuromujō and Shiromujō thanks to the former's huge BigBrotherInstinct and the (amnesiac) latter's stating that he has some sort of feelings toward Kuromujō in his in-game autobiography.
* ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'':
** Within hours of being leaked, the Striation triplets were subject to this. Even after the reveal that they were brothers, fans still shipped them together in all combinations or all three at once.
** Lusamine from ''VideoGame/PokemonSunAndMoon'' sometimes gets shipped with her children [[spoiler:Gladion and Lillie]]. Her children getting shipped together isn't unheard of, either.
* ''Franchise/ResidentEvil'':
** Alfred and Alexia Ashford in ''VideoGame/ResidentEvilCodeVeronica''. A case where the IncestSubtext is strongly implied to have been intentional from the developers' part. The two Ashford siblings lovingly gaze at each other during the footage Claire watches of them killing a dragonfly. Alfred through the notes/journals found throughout the game indicates having an obsessive infatuation with Alexia as if she was his fiancé, when [[spoiler: he dies after releasing Alexia from her hibernation chamber]] his nude sister is seen patting his hair.
** Some fans in recent years have said that they've felt romantic undertones from [[https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/residentevil/images/a/ae/Chrisclairecvx.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20120130013706 this picture]] of Chris and Claire Redfield that appears after finishing Code Veronica (which displays your playthrough rank). The picture depicts the two Redfield siblings walking very close together past a row of shops, with Claire holding her brother's arm with both looking at each other with a loving and almost dreamy gaze,which some have felt is an unusual way of two adult siblings expressing affection and more typical of two unrelated adults on a date. This is probably [[Main/ValuesDissonance a misinterpretation]] on the part of the fans (and possibly on the part of the artist). (Though the fact that implied incest between the Ashfords was a theme throughout the game probably doesn't help when it comes to avoiding the presumably unintentional vibe since fans who finished the game and saw the picture had the memory of sibling romance fresh in their mind).
* Shadow The Hedgehog and Maria Robotnik from ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog'' have a strong shipping base despite treated like siblings, along with the fact Maria is a little girl [[PosthumousCharacter who has been dead for]] ''[[PosthumousCharacter decades]]'' [[PosthumousCharacter by the start of the series]]. Admittedly many of the works at least age Maria into an adult and transform her into a hedgehog.
* The "Squid Sisters", Callie and Marie, from ''Franchise/{{Splatoon}}'' get shipped a lot. It helps that they are actually [[KissingCousins cousins]], which makes it more acceptable to [[ValuesDissonance varying degrees.]]
* Too much to count from ''VideoGame/SummertimeSaga''. While all incest storylines, of which there are many, were (officially) removed from the game in later updates, players continue to ship them. This even extends to characters who've ''never'' shown any canon interest in each other, such as Mia and her dad.
* ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'':
** The Mario Bros. themselves have quite a few shippers. The reasons given vary from them being among the very few human males in the canon that aren't outright {{Gonk}}s, to their canonically ''very'' close sibling-like friendship; living together well into adulthood, also doing most activities together out of the house, a tendency for {{Man Hug}}s especially in the ''VideoGame/MarioAndLuigi'' series, and most of Luigi's lines about or aimed at Mario throughout the series being full of [[BigBrotherWorship open admiration]].
** Nintendo [[FlipFlopOfGod can't make up their minds]] about whether Toad and Toadette are siblings, friends, or what. As a result, it is hard to tell how many of their shippers are unaware that they could be relatives, and how many that consider this possibility another reason to ship them.
* ''VideoGame/TheTaleOfFood'': That there are siblings and parents but [[NotBloodSiblings no such thing as biological relation]] among the foodsouls as they don't reproduce only adds fuel to the incest shipping fire. One of the major ships in this fandom is Dézhōu × Ah-Fú.
* In ''VideoGame/TalesOfSymphonia'', [[spoiler:Kratos and Lloyd]] seemed awful subtexty to a lot of people. Some of them didn't {{Abandon Ship|ping}} after [[spoiler:it was revealed that [[LukeIAmYourFather Kratos is actually Lloyd's real father]]]].
* ''VideoGame/TalesOfXillia2'':
** One of the protagonist Ludger Kresnik's most popular ships is with Julius, his brother, termed as "Kresnikcest" after their surname. Adding layers to the incest is that Julius [[PromotionToParent raised Ludger since the latter was five years old]] and they are also [[spoiler:first cousins, sharing the same father with their mothers being sisters.]]
** Rarer is shipping either brother with [[spoiler:their [[ParentalIncest father]], Bisley Bakur]], though it doesn't use the same ship name and tends to be PlayedForHorror.
* In the ''Franchise/TouhouProject'' fandom, every pair (or trio, in the case of the Prismrivers) of sisters is paired with each other to some degree. The Scarlet sisters are by far the most popular target, with the Komeiji sisters being second and working down from there. That said, shipping the Aki sisters with each other may simply be because they have such a small fandom and they don't have enough character interactions (or even [[ShipsThatPassInTheNight potential for interactions]]) to get shipped with anyone else.
* ''VideoGame/ToukenRanbu'': Though the phenomenon of siblings in this game doesn't have a 100% concrete rule behind it since the characters are personified inanimate objects, the rule of thumb is that swords forged by the same smith are almost always brothers. With that in mind:
** Swords forged by Awataguchi Yoshimitsu get shipped with each other a lot, with the most frequent being Ichigo Hitofuri with any of his younger brothers and Namazuo and Honebami with each other.
** Swords in the Sanjō school, as in ''all of them'' as they were all forged by one person, if viewed under the rule of thumb above. Examples include Mikazuki/Kogitsunemaru and Iwatōshi/Imanotsurugi.
** Hachisuka and Nagasone Kotetsu, who are ''[[NotBloodSiblings adoptive]]'' brothers.
** Kasen and Izuminokami Kanesada, while not forged by the same person, have the same surname and belong to the same school. Their ship is nearly as big as massively popular Izuminokami/Horikawa.
* ''VideoGame/TwistedWonderland'':
** [[PolarOppositeTwins Jade and Floyd Leech]] are a popular {{Twincest}} ship, ''especially'' within the Japanese fandom. It doesn't help that both twins are somewhat wild and mischievous, or that Jade is known to spoil Floyd and indulge his childish behaviour due to wanting Floyd's happiness more than anything.
** While almost entirely within the Japanese fandom, Leona is sometimes shipped with his young nephew Cheka, as Cheka adores him as a CoolUncle and demands his attention despite Leona being less than fond of him. However, due to {{Squick}} implications arising from Cheka's age (plus child pornography being banned on sites like pixiv), most doujin, fanarts and fics for this ship drastically [[AgeLift age him up]] or are set in the future.
** Leona has also been shipped with older brother Falena, who's never appeared in the present and doesn't even have a design.
** Lilia has been shipped with Malleus, Silver and/or Sebek, all his godsons.
* ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}'':
** Sans/Papyrus (aka [[IdiosyncraticShipNaming Fontcest]]) is one of the more popular pairings of the game (despite Sans also having undergone the LauncherOfAThousandShips treatment).
** Parts of the fandom also ship [[spoiler: Asriel Dreemur]] with his [[NotBloodSiblings adoptive sibling]], [[spoiler: The First Fallen Child/Chara]], due to his actions throughout the game being borderline {{Yandere}} and the implication that [[spoiler: Asriel]] is the [[MoralityPet one thing]] [[spoiler: Chara]] [[MoralityPet genuinely loves and cares about]]. Not to mention, that as [[spoiler: Flowey]], he comes off a bit as a StalkerWithACrush [[spoiler: towards the player character [[WishfulProjection that may stem from him mistaking them as Chara]]]].
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[[folder:Western Animation]]
* Lemongrab and his clone, Lemongrab 2, from ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'' are one of the most popular ships in the fandom, even after the two actually referred to each other as "brother" in the episode "Another Five Short Graybles". Alternatively, some shippers see this simply as clones and relationship companions, but not necessarily siblings.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'' has Gumball mostly being shipped with his family especially his adoptive brother Darwin and his mother Nicole. Although other members of the Watterson family aren't excempt, even Nicole's own parents too. The former is referenced in "The Shippening," in which [[StrawFan Sarah]] draws a genderbent, human Gumball marrying a human Darwin, which comes to life. However, Gumball being paired up with his mother, especially in Rule34 art is so abundant, it can reach FanPreferredPairing levels.
* ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'':
** Steve Smith is often shipped with Francine (his mother) and Hayley (his sister). It doesn't help that he has canonically expressed incestuous attraction to both of them.
** Hayley is sometimes shipped with her father Stan. Similar to Steve, there are some implications that she has incestuous feelings for Stan (she once dated a man who looks and sounds exactly like Stan) and the episode "The Kidney Stays in the Picture" reveals that Stan might not be Hayley's biological father.
* Occurs in some segments of the ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'' fandom, though probably more because there aren't very many other shipping options.
* ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'':
** The Azula/Zuko shipper fandom was always significant, but the creators surely aren't making it too difficult with certain scenes. They have even (jokingly?) shipped Zuko's alter ego with Azula at a convention. On the flip side, Azula acts that way toward [[TheVamp just about everyone]].
** A lot of people give Zuko [[ParentalIncest incestuous feelings]], especially after ''[[ComicBook/AvatarTheLastAirbenderTheSearch The Search]]'', often with the idea that their familial affection doesn't overpower any sexual attraction due to years of separation.
* Cousins Ben and Gwen from ''WesternAnimation/{{Ben 10}}'', thanks to many AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther moments and meeting many of the requirements for BelligerentSexualTension. Indeed, the pairing is so popular that it's widely speculated that getting StrangledByTheRedString (with Julie and Kevin, respectively) in the first SequelSeries was an attempt at ShipSinking.
* Brothers Huey and Riley from ''WesternAnimation/TheBoondocks'' get shipped a lot. It's probably due to them being the only two young males in the cartoon and due to their constant bickering.
* For ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory'' fans, [[HugeGirlTinyGuy Dexter and his mother]] are the subject of much RuleThirtyFour art. Same with Dexter and Dee Dee, though it appears less frequently than Dexter and his mother.
* The ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017'' fandom's ships between Webby and the triplets became a borderline example as of the series finale, where [[spoiler:Webby is revealed to be the daughter of their great-uncle Scrooge [=McDuck=] and, thus, their first cousin once removed. Their hometown Duckburg is located in the United States, where this relationship is not even considered incestuous in 44 of the 50 states.]]
* ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'': The Pines family has not one, but ''two'' pairs of rather widely shipped twins.
** "Pinecest" refers to the Dipper/Mabel pairing. Being PolarOppositeTwins, they're a BrotherSisterTeam who have a dynamic similar to a SavvyGuyEnergeticGirl romance, and they are TheNotLoveInterest for each other (frequently sacrificing for/defending one another); Mabel's AbhorrentAdmirer Gideon even sees Dipper as "coming between" him and Mabel's happiness and tries to MurderTheHypotenuse. Their Grunkle Stan also outright claims it's "unnatural" for siblings to get along as well as Dipper and Mabel do. The twins are also HeterosexualLifePartners and TrueCompanions (to the point where Mabel [[spoiler:basically has a mental breakdown in the lead-up to the SeriesFinale when she learns that her brother is planning on staying in Gravity Falls instead of coming home with her when the summer ends]]), and they are basically each other's best friends. Dipper and Mabel also share a bedroom and are pretty physically affectionate with one another (i.e., just ''try'' to count the number of times Dipper and Mabel either hold hands or pull the other out of the way of danger in only a single episode). Perhaps the clearest example of the unintentional ShipTease between the Mystery Twins is in the series' penultimate episode, where [[spoiler:Dipper's RousingSpeech to Mabel urging her to come with him out of [[LotusEaterMachine Mabeland]] and [[GrowOldWithMe grow up with him]] sounds pretty similar to a LoveConfession of the romantic variety, and for a brief moment the two twins even look like they're about to kiss before they instead perform a [[CallBack "sincere sibling hug"]] as a PlatonicDeclarationOfLove]]. They're so established in fandom they have a {{Recurring Fanon|Character}} FanCreatedOffspring, a daughter named Cassie (short for Cassiopeia).
*** [[invoked]]Series creator Creator/AlexHirsch [[RuleThirtyFourCreatorReactions has poked fun at it]] on the official Gravi-Team Falls Website/{{Tumblr}}. His {{Squick}}ed-out reaction is also pretty understandable considering how Dipper and Mabel are [[WriteWhoYouKnow based on]] him and his own twin sister, Ariel.
---->'''Alex Hirsch:''' For ages now I have lurked in anonymity, hiding in the shadows of the internet, watching as you've GIF'ed our jokes and shipped our characters and done unspeakable things to my dear Pines Twins. You... you've got some issues, Tumblr. We're all worried about you.
** Once it was [[TheReveal revealed]] that [[spoiler:Grunkle Stan]] has a twin, they received similar treatment, with their ship name being [[spoiler: "Stancest"]].
* While the [[BrotherSisterIncest Dib/Gaz]] ship isn't as popular as the Dib/Zim ship in the ''WesternAnimation/InvaderZim'' fandom. It still has quite a bit of fans, with most lewd art of this ship, mostly having the two be aged-up and given a heaping dose of SelfFanservice, especially Gaz. Whom is usually portrayed as a busty and curvy Goth Gamer Girl. It even has a dedicated [[TheShipsMotor motor]] that helps the ship running, for those who ''do'' like the pairing.[[note]]According to a WordOfGod statemenb, Dib is an experiment created by Membrane, suggesting that maybe Dib and Gaz [[NotBloodSiblings aren't really related]]. That said, creator Jhonen Vasquez spews out [[TrollingCreator tongue-in-cheek statements and sardonic jokes]] as though its a biological necessity, so whether this actually is the case is up in the air. Beyond that, he notably never mentioned how Dib's sister Gaz fits into that scenario; since {{Fanon}} often makes Dib [[TrulySingleParent Membrane's clone]], some extend this theory to make Gaz a clone of Membrane's dead wife in a weirdly literal case of GenerationXerox.[[/note]]
* ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'':
** There's a Mako/Bolin fandom. Fans shipped them when they were revealed though the revelation that they're brothers caused most shippers to jump ship. Korra is ''usually'' in the [[{{OT3}} tangle]], but not always.
** [[spoiler:Tarrlok and Amon/Noatak]] became very popular after the season 1 finale, thanks to the buckets and buckets of angst. Who cares if [[spoiler:they both died]]? That's what {{Fix Fic}}s are for.
** Desna and Eska are a pair of CreepyTwins, so this comes into play naturally (again, Bolin is usually in the tangle, but not always). There's even an in-series joke about how ThereIsOnlyOneBed in their hotel suite, though Desna apparently sleeps in the bathtub.
** Tenzin's daughter, Jinora, is the center of [[LauncherOfAThousandShips multiple fan pairings]]: including with her kid sister, Ikki, and the 14 year old version of her grandmother, Katara. Most often seen [[Rule34 in H-art.]]
* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'':
** Not only were Twilight Sparkle and her brother Shining Armor very close when they were younger, but people have noted that one of the few males who Twilight has ever shown attraction to on screen has the same hair colour and profession as her brother. Shining Armor is also introduced in the episode where he is getting married, and Twilight takes the news... poorly.
--->'''Twilight Sparkle''': [[DoubleEntendre Like two peas in a pod, we did everything together.]]
** Though the exact nature of their relationship was ambiguous for most of the show's run, Spike being revealed as Twilight's adopted brother in latter seasons has turned that pairing into this.
** One {{Wild Mass Guess|ing}} was that Applebloom is the ''daughter'' of Applejack and Big Macintosh instead of their sister. This was not helped by the packaging of one toy declaring that Applejack lives on Sweet Apple Acres with her husband, Big Macintosh (and her daughters, Apple Bloom and Granny Smith).
** Celestia/Luna, a.k.a. [[IdiosyncraticShipNaming "Princest"]], is the third most popular ship involving the princesses[[note]]The first and second being [[MentorShip Celestia/Twilight]] and Luna/[[LauncherOfAThousandShips Twilight]][[/note]]. Granted, they're [[PhysicalGod goddesses]]--incest is pretty common no matter [[Myth/ClassicalMythology what]] [[Myth/NorseMythology pantheon]] you're looking at. [[note]]It also doesn't help that there's no one else around who's even remotely close to them in age.[[/note]] Occasionally Celestia/Cadence pops up as a Princest ship, though in their case at least they're canonically not blood relatives (Celestia adopted Cadence as her niece).
** The fans wasted no time pairing up Marble Pie with Big Macintosh as soon as she'd had her first speaking ([[TheQuietOne sort of]]) appearance, despite the fact that they may or may not be cousins, albeit distant ones.[[note]]"fourth cousin twice removed by a fifth cousin", allegedly[[/note]]. It even turned up in one of the show's Christmas specials, where Marble stumbles upon [[OfficialCouple Big Mac and Sugar Belle]] nuzzling affectionately, and immediately cringes and looks heartbroken.
** Everypony is gay for Braeburn according to the fandom, including his cousin Big Macintosh.
** Pinkie is very close to her sister Maud. Shippers haven't missed this. It helps that OppositesAttract.
** Due to her parents being super fans of her, fans have shipped Rainbow Dash with both of them.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'': [[ExaggeratedTrope Taken up to eleven]] (no pun intended) with Loudcest, which has fans shipping Lincoln with any or all of his ten sisters crazier than the Jaime and Cersei Lannister shipping. Even Lily, a baby, is not safe. Then, there's a canon scene where the girls are acting all crazy over Lincoln not having a girlfriend promotes this shipping even more. That's not even going into the ships where the sisters are paired with each other, [[Rule63 their genderbent counterparts]] [[AlternateSelfShipping from the mirror universe]], or Lincoln's GenderBender self Linka from that universe either. Lincoln and Lynn together is the most popular pair, to the point where it goes [[ShipToShipCombat head-to-head]] with Lincoln and his canon love interest Ronnie.
* Even though they're siblings, Miles and Loretta on ''WesternAnimation/MilesFromTomorrowland'' tend to be shipped ''a lot'' in fan art and fan fiction, interpreting their intimate moments as BelligerentSexualTension. The fact that they're the only members of the family to be on Mission Force One in season 3 adds to this.
* It's been a common joke that the ComicBook/WonderTwins are incestuous. This was referenced to in one of the ''WesternAnimation/TheNewAdventuresOfTheWonderTwins'' shorts by Creator/AdultSwim, where Marvin mistakes them for watching porn together.
* ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'':
** In the early days, the title characters seemed to be the most popular ship, though that's ''mostly'' died down. Pairing one of them with their older sister Candace (biological for Phineas) is rarer but still done. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U872E53BnOk "Gitchee Gitchee Goo means 'I love you'"]]. Riiiiiiiiiiight...
** Suzy's attitude towards her ''much'' older brother is absolutely creepy, even for fans of this trope.
* ''Franchise/ThePowerpuffGirls'':
** The most popular ship for Blossom, besides her and her SpearCounterpart Brick, is her and Mojo Jojo (which is also FoeYayShipping). Mojo was raised by Blossom's father and he was the one who accidentally [[ArtificialHuman created]] the girls, so depending on who you ask Mojo Jojo is either Blossom's older brother or her [[HasTwoMommies second father]].
** Considering the lack of characters to ship, the titular triplets get shipped in various combinations more than any other LesYay pairing.
** The Rowdyruff Boys can be seen as related to the Powerpuff Girls. They're {{Spear Counterpart}}s who were raised by Mojo Jojo, who is more-or-less related to the Powerpuff Girls himself.
* A in a rare adoptive family example, Riley and her adoptive mother, Agent K Daring of Creator/{{Disney}}'s ''WesternAnimation/TheReplacements'' are often shipped.
* ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty''
** A fair amount of Rick/Morty fanfiction exists for some inexplicable reason. It might be a result of the original video, where "Doc" repeatedly asked "Mharti" to give him a blowjob, or the fact that [[NoYay they showered together in the show]]. But then again, "Doc" wasn't "Mharti's" grandfather in the original video (as far as we know), and the nudity thing was a result of avoiding nudity-squeamish aliens. Roiland himself has even stated that due to the nature of the series, there may indeed exist a timeline where Rick and Morty are in a loving relationship. The face-huggers that fall in love while possessing Rick and Morty's bodies in "Promortyus" may be the closest thing so far.
** Alongside that, Morty/Summer isn't far behind when it comes to incestuous pairings. [[spoiler:Becomes borderline canon in a completely bizarre way as of "[[Recap/RickAndMortyS5E4RickdependenceSpray Rickdependence Spray]]", in which they accidentally conceive a son together as a result of [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext Morty's giant rampaging sperm inseminating one of Summer's enlarged eggs.]]]]
* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Robotboy}}'', pairing the titular character with Robotgirl is pretty much BrotherSisterIncest, if we take in account the "robots with the same creator=siblings" rule. It's worth noting, though, that Robotgirl is never referred as "sister", only "friend", and Moshimo intended her to be a [[TrueCompanions "companion"]] to Robotboy. Maybe the ship exists because Robotboy's previous crush was [[FemmeFatale Mona Lethal]]...
* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'' and ''WesternAnimation/AllGrownUp'', some people ship step-siblings Chuckie and Kimi together. On the other hand, Phil and Lil probably have more shippers and they're {{twin|cest}}s.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': Considering that part of the show’s premise is about the different dynamics between Bart and Lisa (who are brother and sister), it should be surprising to absolutely nobody that they get shipped together ''a lot''.
* Papa Smurf and Smurfette in ''WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs1981'', while not biologically related, get constantly shipped together in this fashion. It doesn't really help that [[{{Ephebophile}} Papa Smurf even has]] [[PervertDad that type of interest in Smurfette]]. This is fortunately averted in Sony Pictures' ''Film/TheSmurfs'' film series, as Papa Smurf treats Smurfette like a daughter.
* A lot of ''WesternAnimation/SofiaTheFirst'' shipping involves pairing Sofia with either of her step-siblings, Amber or James.
* The ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars'' fandom has many minor "Clonecest" ships, or romantic pairings between two or more Clone Troopers, all of whom are clones of the same man, and thus genetically identical twins. The most common ones are Cody/Rex (who already have a close friendship in canon) and [[ThoseTwoGuys Boil/Waxer]]. It's worth noting that being fully engineered soldiers from birth, none of the Clone Troopers were raised in any way resembling traditional family dynamics and may never have been exposed to them even after deployment into the wider galaxy, and thus it's unlikely that they even see each other the way normal siblings raised together do.
* The Twins from ''WesternAnimation/{{Superjail}}'' have somewhat of a fanbase that interpret them as incestuous, based off their narcissism and closeness to each other. Certain lines (such as their "date" joke from an early episode) fueled the shipping, although the vague [[RapeAsComedy porn incident that traumatized them]] has been used by supporters ''and'' detractors of the ship to prove or disprove the dynamic being canon.
* Unsurprisingly, in ''WesternAnimation/{{Unikitty}}'' show, many fans pair up Unikitty with her little brother Puppycorn.
* Most ''WesternAnimation/WeBareBears'' ships are between the bears, as there [[MinimalistCast aren't]] many characters in the first place and they (obviously) spend a lot of time together. They seem to be not blood related but are still clearly each other's brothers.
* Yin and Yang from ''WesternAnimation/YinYangYo'' have a lot of this going on, especially since they're, you know, [[OppositesAttract opposites]].
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