History ShipTease / VideoGames

* ''[=~Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards~=]'' teases Kirby/[[FairyCompanion Ribbon]] (who has yet to make a reappearance anywhere else in the {{Kirby}} series) - the very first cutscene features a CrashIntoHello, and [[spoiler:the true ending]] has her kiss him and give him a LuminescentBlush.

* ''[=~Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood~=]'' teases at Lucy and Desmond. In the first game, they were simply working together, with only vague hints that she was on his side up until the end. The sequel had a little bit of ship teasing, but not a lot. By the time of ''Brotherhood'', though, it's quite clear there's some unspoken mutual attraction there, especially in one of the out-of-Animus sequences where Desmond and Lucy have a brief, heartfelt conversation while looking up at the moon. Then there's [[spoiler: the ending...]]

** IIRC, even if it doesn't come up in the games themselves there's some spinoff media (comicbooks, etc) that explicitly states they are either now or had in the past been in a relationship.

* ''{{Half-Life}} 2'' has some subtle moments of affection between [[HeroicMime Gordon]] and [[ActionGirl Alyx]]. Then ''Episode One'' and ''Episode Two'' went nuts with it, up to and including Alyx's father being a ShipperOnDeck for them. One can only imagine what ''Episode Three'' will have for these two.

* ''SnowSakura'' has this one at the end of Kozue's route with the BromanticFoil Sumoyoshi and your resident {{Tsundere}} Saki who compliments him on a nice rousing speech to Kozue while blushing noticeably. There were a few fans quite disappointed with Digital Objet not doing more with it.

* You'd think the VideoGame/StreetFighter series would be exempt from this trope, but the chemistry series leads Ryu and Chun-Li share invoke this hard. Ryu respects her abilities greatly and considers her to be a good friend, while Chun-Li has a lot of admiration for him and enjoys fighting him every chance she gets. The fact that they're in [[WolverinePublicity every]] [[CapcomVsWhatever crossover]] title together only encourages things.

** Multiple games have nods towards Sonic/Blaze, including VideoGame/SonicGenerations and {{Sonic And The Black Knight}}. At this point it's possible both of them are suffering from {{Cannot Spit It Out}}. Although due to Sonic's characterization as a {{Chaste Hero}}, the implications of romance aren't as simple in this series. But taking into account how some of their interactions fit right into {{Rule of Romantic}}. Blaze seems to be what is actually an {{Implied Love Interest}} for him.

** Silver's story in VideoGame/SonictheHedgehog2006 is one big Silver Blaze ship tease. Especially Silver's Story ending that shows to the player how much they actually cared for each other right before Blaze's sacrifice to seal Iblis and save the future.

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* For a series that tends to avoid the topic of relationships in the games (except for Amy, who is...[[ClingyJealousGirl rather clingy]] and it seems one-sided), ''SonicTheHedgehog'' has been known to ship tease a few times. Knuckles and Rouge in ''[=SA2=]'', for starters. Then there's the end of ''VideoGame/{{Sonic Rush|Series}}'', where Sonic and Blaze are trying to hold on to each other as long as possible before they get separated - Sonic's holding on with both hands. It's as if they're both reluctant to part ways.

** Multiple games have nods towards Sonic/Blaze, including VideoGame/SonicGenerations and {{Sonic And The Black Knight}}. At this point it's possible both of them are suffering from {{Cannot Spit It Out}}. Although due to Sonic's characterization as a {{Chaste Hero}}, the implications of romance aren't as simple in this series. But taking into account how some of their interactions fit right into {{Rule of Romantic}}. Blaze seems to be what is actually an {{Implied Love Interest}}.

** Multiple games have nods towards Sonic/Blaze, including VideoGame/SonicGenerations and {{Sonic And The Black Knight}}. At this point it's possible both of them are suffering from {{Cannot Spit It Out}}.

** Silver's story in VideoGame/SonictheHedgehog2006 is one big Silver Blaze ship tease. Especially the end.

* ''ResidentEvil''. The entire series is filled with YourMileageMayVary for Ship Teases, though there are a few blatant ones that should probably be listed. ''[[ResidentEvil1 RE1]]'', the scene where [[SleepCute Jill puts her head on Chris's shoulder]]. ''[[ResidentEvil2 RE2]]'', Leon screaming her name when Ada "dies". ''[[ResidentEvil4 RE4]]'', Leon almost blatantly checks out Ada's ass as she's leaving the boat in the cinematic just before you begin playing the island. ''[[ResidentEvil5 RE5]]'', Jill tackling Wesker through a window to save Chris, or the fact that you get a game over if you kill Jill in the game.

* ''TheLegendOfZelda: [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess Twilight Princess]]'' did its share of Ship Teasing. Between the little come-back-safely speech Ilia gives to Link (complete with appropriate music swelling in the background), the hand-holding scene between Link and Zelda before the final battle, and the heartstring-tugging farewell by [[spoiler:Midna]] in which she almost says something emotional to Link, the shippers had a field day...especially considering that Link's a HeroicMime with no dialogue to offer clues.
** ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaSpiritTracks Spirit Tracks]]'' is dripping with this for Link and Zelda.
** ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaSkywardSword Skyward Sword]]'' also seems to be heading in the Link/Zelda direction, to the point of ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mR6tYh4IL9w an official trailer]]'' detailing their romantic chemistry. They even somewhat trick shippers into thinking a kiss is a part of a ceremony.
** ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime Ocarina of Time]]'' was the game that first got the shippers into a frenzy:

* ''VideoGame/TalesOfSymphonia'''s creators probably knew that that shipping was inevitable, so they made RelationshipValues lead to MultipleEndings. Despite this, there are still scenes that favour the two main female leads more than the others; with the most blatant example being a skit that occurs in Welgaia between Lloyd and Sheena. When someone other than Colette or Sheena is your closest party member, the cutscenes are generally nonromantic, exploring various other types of relationships such as admiration and friendship; but [[FreudWasRight a lot of people seemed to think they were all love options]]. It should be noted that in the sequel, the Raine and Presea options ''are'' promoted to full romantic levels.

** A lot of people also consider Zelos the closest thing this game has to a GayOption due to how...[[HoYay friendly]] he is with Lloyd. Overall, Zelos seems to be [[LauncherOfAThousandShips the most shipped character,]] being paired off with basically everyone, male or female.

* ''VideoGame/TalesOfGraces'' has Asbel and Sophie. Seven years before the game's events, they start by vowing to protect each other. Then after they reunite seven years later, there is a scene that has Asbel kneeling in front of Sophie, letting out his regrets for his failing her. Then, after Sophie regained her memories they [[strike: have a date]] have a little chit-chat at the place where they first met. And remember the 125th entry of TheGrandListOfConsoleRolePlayingGameCliches, "If any character in the game ever meets any other character standing alone at night looking at the moon, those two will eventually fall in love"? Despite this, Asbel still ends up with Cheria, his childhood friend. Of course, this is justified with the fact that [[spoiler: Sophie is not human.]] [[FanPreferredCouple Doesn't stop the shippers, though.]]
* Up to ''[[SuperRobotWarsOriginalGeneration Super Robot Wars Original Generation 2]]'', most people think that [[spoiler:[[SuperRobotWarsAdvance Axel Almer and Lamia Loveless]]]] could never get along, as almost every appearance they have, they're usually enemies/rivals. The sequel ''Original Generation Gaiden'' gives them a chance to fight under one banner, and even gives them a subplot that might have linked them together romantically, where the latter feels indebted to the former for saving her life. The end of the story also adds [[spoiler:Axel]], in attempt to find his own paradise (on [[spoiler:Lamia's]] suggestion), promises to tell her first if he ever finds one. Awww...!

** As of ''World of Warcraft: Cataclysm''. Thrall has met a nice lady named Aggra, and [[WordOfGod Chris Metzen confirmed them to be mates at Blizzcon]]. (It should also be noted that Chris Metzen '''despised''' the [[FanPreferredCouple incredibly popular Thrall/Jaina ship]] and seemingly invented Aggra just for the purpose of [[ShipSinking making Thrall committed]] and has even gone on to say "Thrall/Jaina will never happen. EVER!")

** And of course, there's also the numerous scenes between [[OfficialCouple Kairi and Sora]]. At one point Sora imagines himself dancing with her, and towards the end they share a heartfelt hug.

* [[MetalGearSolid Solid Snake's]] codec transmissions regarding [[{{Metroid}} Samus Aran]] in ''SuperSmashBros Brawl'' could be regarded as a form of Ship Tease, since it's all one-sided and we have no way of knowing how Samus feels about the matter. Of course, that hasn't stopped them from becoming the game's resident OneTruePairing...though the pairing's support has less to do with any perceived teasing and more to do with how their combined sex appeal is dense enough to create a singularity.

** The first game kind of hinted at an old relationship when they meet up briefly at the start of the game. Of course, [[MissionControl you never saw her again]], so nothing more came of it.

** ''VideoGame/SuperPaperMario'' is pretty much a gigantic ship tease for Bowser/Peach fans. They get married in the opening and Bowser constantly declares his love for her throughout the game. Then there's the scene near the end [[spoiler: where Bowser stays behind to hold up the ceiling, Peach stays a little longer than Mario and Luigi, and later on falls on top of him offscreen. Considering Bowser is covered in spikes, he probably caught her in his arms or on his chest.]] Their marriage is never really annulled either.

*** N's dialogue toward the player can be taken as very ship-teasing as well, if in a StalkerWithACrush way. Of course, [[spoiler:this is totally thrown out the window at the end when N states that he by this late point 'was starting to like you', either ShipSinking or a new start of more direct Ship Tease. Either way, by this point we've learned N probably isn't [[AdultChild mental-emotionally mature enough]] for a serious relationship anyway.]]

** [[spoiler:Don't forget the Maria ending, and the prison scene.]]

** Silver's story in VideoGame/SonictheHedgehog2006 is pretty much one big Silver Blaze ship tease. Especially the end.

** ''Forget'' Ada. In the closing scene of ''[=RE4=]'', Ashley all but invites Leon into her pants; he politely declines.
*** So the hero picks the FemmeFatale over the "nice" girl? Let the Leon/Ada [[{{Squee}} squeeing]] begin.
** Let us not forget all the [[MaleGaze ass-staring]] in ''[[ResidentEvilDarksideChronicles Darkside Chronicles]]''.

* There are a grand total of two scenes (conveniently, one right after the other) in ''VideoGame/SkiesOfArcadia'' that could be considered as teasing a romance between members of the main trio (any two or all three at once): the night before the final battle, Vyse talks to both Aika and Fina and can reassure them one way or another - he can put his arm around Fina's shoulders, and if he says the right thing to Aika, she'll kiss his cheek. That's about all the ammo the shippers receive in-game.
** The only two? Don't forget the scene on Clara's ship, where Aika and Fina wake up in bed together with no apparent awkwardness at all (it's not what it sounds like, to be fair), and when they both mention him to Clara, she promptly assumes they like both him that way. Or the part where Aika is holding Fina after she's badly injured on Crescent Isle, while Vyse confronts Ramirez. Or the time where Aika glomps Vyse after they're reunited in Daccat's tomb, where Fina hugs Vyse after he Aika, and Glider rescue her from Valua's palace, and where Aika basically glomps Fina out of sheer happiness in the ending. All of these are about as ship-teasing as the aforementioned scenes.
** It should be noted, though, that in their cameo appearance in ''ValkyriaChronicles'', Vyse and Aika will call out each other's names if they're killed; also, if they're close enough to provide supporting fire, they can say things like "Let me help, Vyse baby!"
* It's subtle, but there is a little shipteasing between [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyXII Balthier and Fran]] in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIIRevenantWings''. When Tomas is trying to woo Fran, she mentions that Balthier's methods were different. You might also count the scene in the Pharos when the Sun Cryst explodes from the original game as rather shippy. And let's not forget that Balthier's lines regarding Fran always have some kind of sexual undertone to them (but hey, don't all his lines?)

* ''[=~Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood~=]'' teases at Lucy and Desmond. In the first game, they were simply working together, with only vague hints that she was on his side up until the end. The sequel had a little bit of ship teasing, but not a lot. By the time of ''Brotherhood'', though, it's quite clear there's some unspoken mutual attraction there, especially in one of the out-of-Animus sequences where Desmond and Lucy have a brief, heartfelt conversation while looking up at the moon.
** And then there's [[spoiler: the ending...]]
* Largely lampshaded with Mordin Solus in [[MassEffect Mass Effect 2]], but only if you speak to him enough times and you're either in no current romance or are loyal to one from the first game. It could be assumed this is a playful jab from the writers at those who ship their player character with [[AnythingThatMoves just about everyone]], but it certainly hasn't stopped people from assuming that Mordin might actually be serious about the possibility of him [[UnusualEuphemism "trying Shepard"]]...

* ''{{Solatorobo}}'' teases Red x Elh enough during the main game, but the DLC quests take it UpToEleven. In #5, [[spoiler:they both act embarrassed when Red sees Elh in her cheerleader outfit, not to mention the fact she's disappointed if Red doesn't manage to beat the track record (which is the condition she agreed to in order to wear that outfit in the first place).]] In #7, [[spoiler:she gets extremely upset when Red has Princess Terria and Toffee fangirling over him, and in the end Red admits he wanted to give her the tournament prize as they make up.]] #8 [[spoiler:borders on "TheyDo with the SerialNumbersFiledOff", as it eventually turns into an InterruptedDeclarationOfLove.]] It also teases Béluga x Merveille a couple times, with him [[spoiler:giving her a hologram of flowers]] and [[spoiler:losing an arena match because he was trying to show off too much.]]

* ''KingdomHeartsII''. Full stop. Hilarious given that it's a NoHuggingNoKissing game - Nomura (and Nojima) are screwing with us all, and the shipper wars they have given birth to are incredible to behold.

** In ''BirthBySleep'', the protagonists get teased with three Princesses of Heart; there's Terra/Aurora, Terra/Cinderella, Ventus/Snow White and [[LesYay Aqua/Cinderella]].

* ''SilentHill2'' has its own expectedly horrible contributions to the trope with James, a surly individual who travelled to the eponymous town to search for his dead wife, and Maria, an extremely flirtatious and slightly {{Tsundere}} woman who reminds James of aforementioned dead wife. For a while it seems as if the two will enter a {{Replacement Goldfish}}- esque relationship, but turns out that not only is [[spoiler:Maria a figment of James' imagination formed from a combination of his [[FreudWasRight sexual frustration]] and refusal to accept his wife's death, but that ''she's'' the one who has been unleashing all the HighOctaneNightmareFuel on James throughout the course of the game. She also has a OneWingedAngel form, and turns out to be the FinalBoss]]. SlapSlapKiss it isn't.

* Some ''ChronoTrigger'' fans have latched on to Crono and Lucca, in large part due to Lucca [[spoiler: being the only other character to embrace Crono in a cutscene on his revival]] if Marle isn't in the party.

** [[FinalFantasyVI Terra]] gets Ship Tease with Onion Knight, Cloud and Vaan. Vaan and Onion Knight appoint themselves her protectors, worrying about her safety and councilling her on following her heart to find out what she truly wants. Cloud meanwhile waxes poetic with her about their dreams for the future in spite of their self-doubts.

* For a series that tends to avoid the topic of relationships in the games (except for Amy, who is...rather clingy and it seems one-sided), ''SonicTheHedgehog'' has been known to ship tease a few times. Knuckles and Rouge in ''[=SA2=]'', for starters. Then there's the end of ''Sonic Rush'', where Sonic and Blaze are trying to hold on to each other as long as possible before they get separated - Sonic's holding on with both hands. It's as if they're both reluctant to part ways.

** Multiple games have nods towards Sonic/Blaze, including {{Sonic Generations}} and {{Sonic And The Black Knight}}. At this point it's possible both of them are suffering from {{Cannot Spit It Out}}.
* ''SonicUnleashed'' has Sonic feeling depressed after Amy didn't recognize him as a werehog, thinking she mistook him for someone else again.

* [[{{Psychonauts}} Sasha Nein (Yes, he is a male) and Milla Vodello]]. Despite being complete polar opposites, in-game bonuses like characters' memories and concept art hint that there might be some more going on than being just co-workers. [[WordOfGod Psychopedia]] seems to confirm that yes, Milla has a crush on Sasha, but whether or not he reciprocates is up for debate.