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| 4 | [[caption-width-right:350:[-''Can [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic we]] pretend that [[Music/BoBRapper airplanes in the night sky are like shooting stars]]?\ |
| 5 | [[WesternAnimation/RegularShow I could]] really use a [[MemeticMutation wish right now, wish right now, wish right now]].''-]\ |
| 6 | [[note]][[https://youtube.com/watch?v=41Lw3PjsbbU Original video]] by [[https://youtube.com/@bensondancing Benson Dancing]][[/note]]]] |
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| 8 | {{Crack Pairing}}s involving characters from Western Animation works. |
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| 10 | * ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'': |
| 11 | ** The ''Adventure Time'' fandom has Gumgrab- Prince Gumball and Lemongrab. Prince Gumball is basically a pink Prince Charming, and Lemongrab is a strident, socially inept jerk who has a completely repellant, obnoxious personality. It all started with a crack comic on deviantART and three fateful words: "THREE HOURS BEDROOM!" Even Rebecca Sugar, a writer on the show, "liked" the original Gumgrab comic on her Tumblr, and commented: "Well aren't ''you'' forward, Lemongrab!" What makes this pairing weirder are the ambiguously incestuous overtones. Prince Gumball is a genderswapped version of Princess Bubblegum- who created Lemongrab in her laboratory- and the prince is also, in-universe, a fictional character created by the [[DirtyOldMan Ice King]] for his fanfiction. People are shipping Lemongrab with his ''father'' from a parallel universe that doesn't even exist. |
| 12 | ** The episode "All the Little People'' has Finn create several of these with tiny duplicates of the series' characters. At the beginning of the episode he and Jake also jokingly discuss Ice King/BMO, and by the end of the episode the tiny duplicates of those very characters hook up on their own. |
| 13 | * ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales1987'': The G-rated fanfic author Stretch Snodgrass bizarrely has [[Series/{{Monk}} Sharona]] go on a date with [[WesternAnimation/DuckTales1987 Launchpad McQuack]] in the strange crossover story ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/3229653/1/Mr-Monk-meets-Mr-McDuck Mr. Monk meets Mr. McDuck]]''. Seems to have led to a WhatHaveIDone moment by Stretch, who minimizes the disturbing implications in advance by assuring the readers it's just "a talk" between Sharona and an adventurer. |
| 14 | * ''Franchise/AvatarTheLastAirbender'': |
| 15 | ** From [[WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender the original series]]: |
| 16 | *** There's a whole [[http://community.livejournal.com/zhahn4ever/profile community]] dedicated to the love of Zhao (as in Admiral Zhao) and Hahn (as in Princess Yue's fiance who appears in the S1 finale). Their only interaction was Hahn trying to ambush Zhao after [[DressingAsTheEnemy disguising himself as one of Zhao's soldiers]], but ruining it by loudly announcing his attempts to kill "Admiral Choy", then being casually thrown off the ship. In their own words: |
| 17 | ---->''Q: Why Zhao and Hahn?''\ |
| 18 | ''A: Because we said. Also, it's hot. And funny.[[ItAmusedMe And it makes no sense, always a plus.]]'' |
| 19 | *** There's a [[http://water-earth-fire-air.deviantart.com/art/Avatar-meme-70214297 meme]] circulating [=DeviantArt=] that involves drawing several things, one of which is a CrackPairing. The best is [[http://ykansaki.deviantart.com/art/Avatar-Meme-74621266 Sokka/"Enemy Birds"]]. |
| 20 | *** Some [[http://community.livejournal.com/capslock_atla/ (Not saying any names)]] Platform/LiveJournal communities make a goal of finding the biggest crackships in the fandom. So far there's Yue/Chong, Appa/Momo, Appa/Bosco, and so forth. They occasionally even shipped them with members of the ''production crew''... which one of them [[http://booter-freak.deviantart.com/art/SRS-BUSINESS-GAIS-78883230 stumbled onto.]] Then there's Ba Sing Se/The Drill, Aang's old glider/Aang's new glider, Roku/Volcano, Mako/Mako's scarf, The Cabbage Merchant/cabbages, the owlcat from "Tales of Ba sing Se"/the owlcat from "The Puppetmaster", Joo Dee/Ozai, Jet/Zhao (although that one kind of makes sense, seeing as how [[spoiler: they're both dead]])... the list goes on and on and ''on''. |
| 21 | *** And if you can't decide what crack ship to support, consult the [[http://alisachristopher.deviantart.com/art/Shipping-Wheel-2-94257735 wheel of shipping]]. |
| 22 | *** [[EnsembleDarkhorse Foamy]]/Suki has been [[WordOfGod declared canon by Bryke]]. |
| 23 | ---->That actually happened a few years back. Suki isn't too proud of it. |
| 24 | *** There is a Ty Lee/Hahn fanfic that was extremely well written, and not at all cracky actually. [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3906140/1/Choice Go check out RadiantBeam on ff.net]] |
| 25 | *** Anything involving Jet, since he's supposed to be [[spoiler: dead]]. Jetko (Jet/Zuko) seems to be the most popular, but there is [[http://sylvacoer.deviantart.com/ one artist]] who ships [[http://sylvacoer.deviantart.com/art/Danger-Deceit-MxJ-quot-Doujin-quot-136698731 Mai]] / [[http://sylvacoer.deviantart.com/art/Sexy-Kissx4-Meme-JetxMai-135656620 Jet]]. |
| 26 | *** [[http://a-new-power.deviantart.com/art/A-Very-Swork-Date-95439994 Sokka's Space Sword and Toph's Rock.]] |
| 27 | *** [[http://trishna87.deviantart.com/art/Avatar-New-OTP-101680013 Mai/Fruit Tart.]] |
| 28 | *** [[http://shibamura-prime.deviantart.com/art/Suzula-XD-43868466 Suki/Azula.]] Most involving Suki's [[PrisonRape time in prison]]. Must have been the way Azula referred to her as "My ''[[LesYay favorite]]'' prisoner." |
| 29 | *** Three from the same artist: [[http://kittyjimjams.deviantart.com/art/Hahnzula-for-Naomi-80886187 Hahn/Azula]], [[http://kittyjimjams.deviantart.com/art/Ship-That-Must-Not-Be-Named-83389609 Mai/Aang]], and [[http://kittyjimjams.deviantart.com/art/The-Dangers-of-Buff-Iroh-71875593 Iroh/Suki]]. |
| 30 | *** [[http://tobuishi.deviantart.com/art/AtLA-Simple-Delights-131333500 Song/Earth King]] |
| 31 | *** [[http://browse.deviantart.com/?qh=§ion=&global=1&q=Jun+Earth+King Earth King/Jun]] is more popular than you might expect. |
| 32 | *** One of the show's producers/artists (Giancarlo Volpe) posted [[http://fierymonk.deviantart.com/art/Avatar-Season-3-Spoiler-Pt-2-81664978 this]] as an April Fools Day joke. |
| 33 | *** Also [[http://browse.deviantart.com/?qh=§ion=&global=1&q=maikoh#/d16f567 Maikoh]]. |
| 34 | *** While probably not the most crackiest pairing in the fandom, Azutara (Azula/Katara) deserves mentioning as it is not as uncommon as you would think. [[http://browse.deviantart.com/?q=Azutara&order=9&offset=72#/d1mp5h2 This]] shows quite well (albeit in a rather funny manner) what fans like about it, y'know, besides the [[GirlOnGirlIsHot 'Two lovely ladies getting it on']] factor. |
| 35 | *** [[HelloSailor Zuko/Lt. Jee]] has a surprisingly devoted fanbase.[[note]]For those who don't remember who Lt. Jee is, he's [[http://piandao.org/screencaps/ep12/ep12-260.png this guy,]] the one who yelled at Zuko for wanting to sail into the storm.[[/note]] Despite the fact that Jee had about four minutes of screen time, there has been [[http://beckyh2112.livejournal.com/tag/ship%20week:%20jeeko a ship week]], one WIP [[http://archiveofourown.org/works/164669/chapters/239418 long fic]] of ''incredible'' quality, and a few other small fics and illustrations scattered across the fandom. This pairing seems to be unusual in that the fanworks for it are all very well-done. |
| 36 | *** [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6320579/1/Unholy_Matrimony Azula/Zhao]] seems to have [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3360712/1/The_Age_of_Consent quite a]] [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3214531/1/Steel_Monsters_In_Glass_Bottles large]] [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4722473/1/Fanning_the_Flames fanbase,]] but they're perfectly matched in [[http://makani.deviantart.com/art/zhaozula-D-85797499?q=boost%3Apopular%20zhao%20azula&qo=6 sadism]] and [[http://psychoe.deviantart.com/art/Water-Tribe-Zhaozula-86088980?q=boost%3Apopular%20zhao%20azula&qo=21 ambition.]] |
| 37 | *** [[http://tobuishi.deviantart.com/art/AtLA-so-much-better-187966277?q=boost%3Apopular%20maitara&qo=20 Maitara.]] |
| 38 | *** Azula/Sokka from ''Webcomic/HowIBecameYours''. Of course, this is helped by, the fic having Azula lose her memories and get her entire personality to be rewritten, and [[spoiler:after almost dying, Azula comes back with white hair that makes her look [[ReplacementGoldfish just like]] [[TheLostLenore Yue]].]] "Sokkla" is also a [[https://www.deviantart.com/laurbits/art/Sketchember-1-Sokkla-188176711 fairly]] [[https://www.deviantart.com/kelly1412/art/sorry-for-what-my-sister-did-257396808 popular]] [[https://www.deviantart.com/0kiwi0/art/SOKKLA-training-380036953 ship]] in its own right, with many fans citing the fact that they're both intelligent and strategic. |
| 39 | ** ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'': The show had crack pairings develop well in advance of airing, in particular, [[https://yamino.tumblr.com/post/17353805695/korra-and-yueby-spadesxqueenx3-i-was-wondering Korra/Yue the Moon Spirit]] with a separation of [[ShipsThatPassInTheNight 70 years]] and a metaphysical plane proving no obstacle to the pairing's MemeticMutation on deviantArt and Tumblr. The progression seems to have been "Avatar rides spirit guide->Spirit guide is usually the thing that taught their culture bending, like dragons for firebenders and bison for airbenders->Moon taught waterbenders->Yue is the moon now->Korra rides on Yue->Korra and Yue ride each other." [[spoiler:This ended up becoming HilariousInHindsight by the GrandFinale, as the voice actress of Korra's endgame LoveInterest Asami played Yue in ''Film/TheLastAirbender''.]] |
| 40 | * ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'' has tons of them. The best one has to be [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4841313/1/My_Screwed_Up_Valentine Danny/Fenton Thermos]]. It was started to poke fun at how ridiculous the ship wars were getting, but it caught on. There are also MANY [[http://dannyxoc-club.deviantart.com/ Danny/OC]] pairings. |
| 41 | * ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'' fandom in general is made up of crack pairings, often with characters who have had little or no interaction in the show/comics. There are very few individuals who haven't been paired with someone at some point and often in very bizarre combinations. This is probably at least partly the fault of the [[http://community.livejournal.com/tfanonkink/ Transformers Anonymous Kink Meme.]] |
| 42 | * ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'': |
| 43 | ** In-universe, there's Tweek and Craig, which had already been a crack pairing in some fandom sectors, even though the two boys only had [[Recap/SouthParkS3E5TweekVsCraig one prior episode]] together. They were upset enough by it to ''stage a breakup'' to get their classmates to stop pairing them, but that didn't go so well either (turns out Tweek had a hidden talent for acting, so for Craig it went from "being annoyed that everyone thought he was gay" to "being annoyed that everyone thought he was gay ''and'' a jerk"). By the end of the episode, they decide to start dating anyway, and in later seasons are depicted as an OfficialCouple. |
| 44 | ** Out of universe, Craig and Tweek are sometimes paired with background girls Esther and Millie, with Craig and Tweek's homosexuality {{Hand Wave}}d by saying they faked their relationship. Kenny is also paired with another background girl: Lola. |
| 45 | * ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'': |
| 46 | ** [=SpongeBob=]/Krabby Patty, [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3300476/1/Spongebob_Loves_Krabby_Patties although it was intended as parody]], still seems wrong. Even better in the ''canon episode in which this happened''. [[spoiler:[=SpongeBob=] ends up murdering a flock of clams to protect "Patty" from being eaten]]. |
| 47 | ** Even earlier, in the episode "Just One Bite", Squidward has a dream/fantasy sequence where he falls in love with and marries a Krabby Patty. |
| 48 | * ComicStrip/{{Popeye}}/Bluto. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCcYyB3OSQc And in an orange juice commercial, no less]]. Olive Oyl's expression at the end says everything. This got [[http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?videoId=130313&title=Fruit-Juice more than its fair share]] [[http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?videoId=130314&title=Fruit-Juice-Pt.-2 of attention.]] Minute Maid is turning our cartoon sailors gay. |
| 49 | * ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama'': |
| 50 | ** There exists a fan-film named ''WebAnimation/WilliamCountry'', that has Cody[=/=]a PaletteSwap '''[[SelfCest of him]]'''. The only difference is that the swap has black hair (bad by its own, Cody has brown), and his hair is messier (well, the hair and the clothes, but still...). ScrewYourself, [[BrainBleach any]][[{{Squick}} o]][[YourHeadAsplode n]][[KillItWithFire e]]? The best part is that the FanFilm is said to be 90 minutes long, and the remaining clips not taken down (see on the page) add up to quite a bit. And it ''has good animation, almost matching the show's style''. Yes, someone put ''that much'' work into a fan fic of Cody being gay with himself. Think about it. |
| 51 | ** The ''Total Drama World Tour'' episode "Anything Yukon Do I Can Do Better" gives us a brief moment teasing a potential (one-sided) ''{{Canon}}'' crack pairing in [[DeadpanSnarker Noah]] / [[GranolaGirl Bridgette]]. Made even more unusual by Noah's lack of interaction with Bridgette and the fact the two never really interact again afterwards. |
| 52 | ** One writer ships [[AlphaBitch Heather]] and [[MotorMouth Staci]]--two characters who have nothing in common and have never met in canon--precisely because it was the most absurd ''Total Drama'' pairing she could think of. For all that, the writer somehow managed to [[http://totaldramaislandfanfiction.wikia.com/wiki/Find_Your_Grail make it work]]. |
| 53 | * ''WesternAnimation/JimmyTwoShoes'' has [[{{Satan}} Lucius]] / [[EnfantTerrible Heloise]]. The scary part is how well written [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5050673/1/Cest_la_Vie the only known fanfic for it is]]. Never mind the fact that Lucius is ReallySevenHundredYearsOld and acts like a middle-aged adult while Heloise is a teenager who looks like a small child. |
| 54 | * ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars'' has an in-universe example in Ziro the Hutt and Sy Snootles. [[DeathByWomanScorned It doesn't end well.]] |
| 55 | * The ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'' fandom has a few favorite ships that can be considered crack. |
| 56 | ** Kim/Rufus had one story written for it, a story so infamous that it was banned in less than a day and still causes some of the older members of the Kimmunity to wince when they hear the line "Oh YES! Rufus, you ARE the Tunnellord!". |
| 57 | ** Tara/Drakken was written in [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2599592/1/ one story]]. Felt more like a ThrowItIn moment but still counts. |
| 58 | ** [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5044859/1/bEnvy_b_and_bAmbition_b Tara/Shego]] |
| 59 | ** [[PortmanteauCoupleName BetViv]] is [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4389521/1/Bubblegum_Flavored strangely]] [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4152384/1/Blood_and_Bondage popular]] [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5799428/1/For_Fame_Fortune_and_Freedom pairing]] even though they are not in the same spheres of influence and never appear together. Especially liked by [[FanPreferredCouple Kigo]] fans as a complimentary pairing. |
| 60 | ** [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5801937/1/Displacement Betty/Gil one-shot]]. The pairing makes no sense and the story itself even alludes to some [[BrotherSisterIncest Betty/Gemini]] affections. |
| 61 | ** The story [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5699169/1/ Attractions, Reactions, and Complications]] has Betty/Monique. |
| 62 | ** The unfortunately likely dead fic [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4638981/1/ Acting Out]] features the unique developments of Bonnie and Joss though it never actually gets to the real shipping. |
| 63 | ** [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4489477/1/ Wrongsick]] is an accurately named well-written story featuring the pairing of [[IKnowMaddenKombat Duff Killigan]] and [[MadScientist 'DNAmy' Hall]]. |
| 64 | ** [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4646553/1/ This story]] has a crack pairing that can't be listed due to ruining the surprise. |
| 65 | ** [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4277585/1/The_Espers_book_one_Angel_and_devil Duff Killigan/Betty Director]]. |
| 66 | ** [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3409716/1/Loose-Lips-Sink-Ships Loose Lips Sink Ships]] features Ron/Kim's mom, though it's mostly comedic and the pairing treated as a brief awkward confusion and only results in a peck on the cheek. [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5598672/1/Loose-Lips-Sink-Ships-Part-2 There's also a continuation by another author.]] |
| 67 | ** ''FanFic/VacationFromTheNorm'' features several crack pairings, but in most cases makes them work in their own weird way. By the end of volume 1, we have; [[{{OT3}} Kim/Ron/Shego]], Drakken/Vivian Porter, [[HugeGuyTinyGirl Motor Ed/Yori]], Joss Possible/Felix Renton and [[BrotherSisterIncest Gemini/Betty Director]] [[spoiler: It's implied early on that Betty Director was replaced by an imposter. It's later confirmed that the imposter is the {{Humanshifting}} villain Camille Leone. The real Betty Director hooks up with Will Du.]] |
| 68 | ** For a canon example, the episode "Stop Team Go" featured Shego/Mr. Barkin. Granted, the former was under the influence of a MirrorMoralityMachine at the time, and she breaks things off (violently) when she returns to normal at the end of the episode. |
| 69 | * [[http://thepaperpusher.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=32847 This thing]]. [[WesternAnimation/{{Daria}} Jane]] / [[WesternAnimation/BeavisAndButthead Beavis]]. |
| 70 | * Included in a possibly {{Squick}} post on Usenet newsgroup is a story which includes a crack pairing of Liono and Snarf of ''WesternAnimation/{{ThunderCats|1985}}'' which is certainly NSFW even though text-only. |
| 71 | * ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' has spawned plenty of these. |
| 72 | ** One of the more notable examples early on was Octavia Melody being shipped with Vinyl Scratch. They had only appeared in the show for a few seconds each, and weren't even in the same episode (or town, for that matter). Despite this, a large number of fans declared them as their OneTruePairing, simply because they both have musically-themed cutie marks and different musical tastes (Octavia is a classical musician and Vinyl is a techno DJ); creating an OddCouple dynamic that was played with in a number of fanfics and videos, most famously [[WebAnimation/EpicPonyTime Epic Wub Time]]. As of Episode 100 [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS5E9SliceOfLife "Slice of Life"]], Vinyl and Octavia were shown living together in the same house, making the ship effectively canon. |
| 73 | ** On the [[ImageBoards Derpibooru]] image board there is a tag called "[[https://derpibooru.org/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&sbq=twilamp Twilamp]]" for art and short fiction depicting the passionate relationship that Twilight Sparkle shares with the lantern that hangs outside one of the windows of the Golden Oaks Library where she lives. |
| 74 | ** [[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/13088/1/The-Great-And-Powerful-Trixie-Falls-In-Love-With-A-Pine-Cone/ The Great and Powerful Trixie Falls in Love with a (sentient) Pine Cone]]. Actually [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] by the description, which offers an internet to anyone who can complete the story without going "[[FlatWhat what]]" at least once. |
| 75 | ** [[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rhRs90erJP0tDZ42StFICFstJLHFUL2M2Zlx3ixRzLE/edit?hl=en_US&pli=1 Gummy/Twist.]] Yep. |
| 76 | ** [[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/21647/...But-the-Kitchen-Sink Rainbow DashxKitchen Sink.]] |
| 77 | ** [[http://mordetwi.deviantart.com/ MordeTwi]] is a ship between Twilight Sparkle and Mordecai from ''WesternAnimation/RegularShow''. It is more popular than you might expect, to the point of [[https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/mordetwi getting its own Know Your Meme page]]. |
| 78 | ** [[Creator/DiscoveryFamily The Hub]] seemed to liked to ship [[http://i.imgur.com/W0eV3hq.jpg Pinkie Pie with]] [[http://i1.ytimg.com/vi/hV8aN2nwCQ8/hqdefault.jpg Dan from]] ''WesternAnimation/DanVs''. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0n1WGHLmCw The relationship began pretty rough.]] |
| 79 | ** ''Invoked'' by the writer of the MLP fanfic FanFic/TheConversionBureauTheOtherSideOfTheSpectrum, in which he pairs Lightning Dust and Rainbow Dash (It's mentioned in chapter 6) together. Apparently, they now work together as leader and wingpony, ([[spoiler: Probably helped along by Bag of Tirek-induced brainwashing, and the fact that Spitfire resigned from the Wonderbolts in disgust.]]) with rumors that their relationship is a bit more than professional. [[OutOfCharacterMoment There]] [[TheSociopath are]] [[BadBoss so]] [[ItsAllAboutMe many]] [[LackOfEmpathy reasons]] [[JerkAss that]] [[TheUnfettered doesn't]] [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS3E7WonderboltsAcademy work]]. Then again, considering the TCB!Ponies, it's not like she'd stand out... |
| 80 | ** The [[ComicBook/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicIDW official comic book]] arc "Reflection" pairs Princess Celestia with ''[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS3E1TheCrystalEmpirePart1 King]] [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS3E2TheCrystalEmpirePart2 Sombra]]'', of all ponies. [[spoiler:Although to be fair, this Sombra is really a doppelgänger from a MirrorUniverse.]] |
| 81 | ** [[http://foudubulbe.tumblr.com/tagged/The-Great-and-Powerful-Trixie-and-Maud The Great and Powerful Trixie and Maud]] manages to be among the most popular ships involving Maud Pie despite the two having very few connections/similiarities, except for being friends with Starlight Glimmer. |
| 82 | ** Pinkie-Pool. Pinkie Pie X ComicBook/{{Deadpool}}. Still a crack pairing, but perhaps not quite as insane as it initially appears to be given that both characters are notorious for breaking the fourth wall. |
| 83 | ** The animation ''WebAnimation/{{Strangers}}'' ships Sweetie Belle and Button Mash together. The two don't have anything in common besides being foals from the same town. Button Mash is little but a background extra. This ship is popular due to ''WebAnimation/ButtonsAdventures'' depicting the two drinking milkshakes together. |
| 84 | ** ''Fanfic/ClaroDeLuna'' pairs together Princess Luna and Octavia as a ThemePairing. At the time of the fic's publishing, Octavia was only a background character in one episode (and an episode that Luna wasn't even in, at that). |
| 85 | ** In ''Blog/TheRoyalSketchbook'', Celestia eventually falls for [[spoiler:Rarity]] and the two begin dating. In canon, they have a near-strictly professional relationship and rarely interact one-on-one. |
| 86 | ** ''Fanfic/UnfamiliarPatterns'' is a fanfic that pairs together Rarity and Zecora. It's considered crackish even in-universe. |
| 87 | ** ''Fanfic/KindnesssReward'' is a HurtComfortFic where Fluttershy takes care of Trixie and the two fall in love. |
| 88 | ** [[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/519116/the-lull-that-comes-after Multiple]] [[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/515082/slice-of-apple-life short]] [[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/518626/new-years-project stories]] pair [[https://www.fimfiction.net/group/215586/the-fiddledust-foundation Lightning Dust]] with [[https://www.fimfiction.net/group/197698/fiddly-faddle-fiddlesticks Fiddlesticks]][[note]]Minor background pony who is basically a PaletteSwap of Octavia Melody with a fiddle instead of a cello, also known as Fiddly Faddle or Fiddly Twang.[[/note]] |
| 89 | %%** [[http://www.ponibooru.org/post/view/141985?search=OTP This one]] is a [[IncrediblyLamePun gem]]. |
| 90 | * There is a segment of ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'' fandom who ships Hunter with one or both of the Blight twins, although they have never even appeared onscreen together. |
| 91 | ** A common crossover pairing is Hooty and the owl from ''VideoGame/{{Duolingo}}'', most likely because they're both owls. |
| 92 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': |
| 93 | ** An InUniverse example with ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': Agnes Skinner (Principal Skinner's mother) dates Comic Book Guy for an episode. |
| 94 | ** In the 2010s, shipping together the neighbors Marge and Maude has become increasingly common. Examples include Creator/RaphaelBobWaksberg's poem ''Fanfic/DoesMargeHaveFriends'' and the webcomic ''Webcomic/MargeSimpsonAnime''. The couple is always treated tragically due to Maude being KilledOffForReal, but that's a part of the appeal of it. |
| 95 | ** ''Webcomic/MargeSimpsonAnime'' not only has Marge falling for Maude, but she leaves Homer for [[spoiler:Abu's wife Manjula]]. |
| 96 | ** [[https://panic-volkushka.tumblr.com/post/142590132565/clients-names-and-personal-information-have-been This comic]] by Panic Volkushka depicts Bart Simpson and [[WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy Chris Griffin]] going to couple's therapy. And it's actually [[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments really damn good]], realistically discussing the baggage they must have from growing up with abusive fathers. |
| 97 | * Due to the [[http://umbuby.tumblr.com/post/23361709104/kaileywashere-my-newest-young-justice recycling]] of an apartment in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice2010'', Red Arrow/[[WesternAnimation/BatmanUnderTheRedHood Red Hood]] was born. |
| 98 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheFoxbusters'': The episode "Winging It" shows some romantic subtext between Todd (a fox) and Jefferies (A chicken). Yes, bizarre and cracky but also completely adorable when you think about it as Todd is a lovable ditz while Jeffries is a comic relief and both are very dorky. |
| 99 | * ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans2003'': |
| 100 | ** The fandom gives us [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2725284/1/A_Man_and_His_Silkworm Robin/Silkie]] |
| 101 | ** In-universe, we have the OfficialCouple of Kid Flash/Jinx. Worked just fine in the cartoon. Odds of it ever happening in the comics are nill to non-existant. |
| 102 | * ''[[WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries The New Batman Adventures]]'' episode "Love is a Croc" gave us a very disturbing pair-up between Killer Croc (an eight-foot-tall BeastMan) and Baby Doll (who CantGrowUp and dresses like a five-year-old). Granted, Croc was just using her, but Baby Doll's affection was entirely genuine. |
| 103 | * There was (actually, it's still online, if you search for it) a Creator/CartoonCartoons online game called the "Cartoon Network Summer Resort." For the fourth part of the game, you had to match up 5 girls with 5 guys for a dance that night. The end pairings were [[spoiler: [[WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory Dexter]]/[[WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls Buttercup]], [[WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy Double D]]/[[WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls Blossom]], [[WesternAnimation/CourageTheCowardlyDog Courage]]/[[WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls Bubbles]], [[WesternAnimation/CowAndChicken Chicken]]/[[WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory Dee Dee]], and [[WesternAnimation/CowAndChicken I.R. Baboon]]/[[WesternAnimation/JohnnyBravo Little Suzie]].]] Keep in mind, this game also featured [[spoiler: WesternAnimation/JohnnyBravo, [[WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory Mandark]], and [[WesternAnimation/MikeLuAndOg Og]], who could have easily been partners for the latter three.]] |
| 104 | * With the amount of characters in ''WesternAnimation/{{Superjail}}'', fans can come up with any sorts of bizarre pairing. The Warden receives some of the strangest options, from [[ScrewYourself himself]] to [[RoboShip his helper]] [[ParentalIncest robot that he treats as a child]]. Lord Stingray gets shipped around as well, even [[InterspeciesRomance with his pet fish]]. |
| 105 | ** This is even played with in the show, when the Mistress hooks up with Lord Stingray on a whim after taking over the jail. Jared and Charise then attempt to get her to sleep with the Warden to fulfill their own chance of being together, but their hopes are shot down when [[spoiler: Alice]] does so instead. Though some Warden/Mistress fans cried foul after the episode, it spawned fans who began to pair Mistress off with the new option (even though in all likelihood, it'd be one-sided on her part). |
| 106 | * Frostbackscat has a thing for [[WesternAnimation/TheMagicSchoolBus Ms. Frizzle]] x humanized Bus, and even has pictures of it on her Tumblr page. |
| 107 | * While it was only for a school play, there still was an episode of ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor'' where the play's main couple was played by Numbuh 3 and the Delightful Children from Down the Lane. As in, ''all five of them''. |
| 108 | * ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'': |
| 109 | ** Edd/Kevin ([[PortmanteauCoupleName Kevedd]]) is incredibly popular, despite that there isn't too much talking between them on the show. True, Kevin seems to like Double D a little more than Ed and Eddy (like ''everyone else'', including Sarah[[note]] Edd used to be paired up with most characters too but now the large majority of the fanfictions pair him only with Kevin[[/note]]), but there are still only ''three'' scenes where he's friendly to him in the entire show, and all their other interactions involve Kevin insulting or bullying Edd. |
| 110 | ** Nazz/Marie, which seems to exist [[GirlOnGirlIsHot to pair two of the prettiest girls in the show]]. Especially since the two of them have never had a non-hostile interaction on screen, and the Kankers in general regard Nazz as a hussie who's out to steal their boyfriends. It should be noted, that the Nazz/Marie pairing was established in the fandom, even before the 2013 Kevedd craze. |
| 111 | ** InUniverse, the conflict in the special "Hanky Panky Hullabaloo" came about because a pair of cupids (that look suspiciously like Jimmy and Sarah) forced Double D and May together. The climax involves the cupids, in an attempt to stop the fighting between the Eds and the Kankers, force other crack pairings: Kevin/Lee, Nazz/Johnny, [[CargoShip Ed/Sandwich]], Eddy/[[CompanionCube Plank]], and a one sided Marie/Rolf. [[spoiler:Rolf, who avoided all the cupid arrows, snaps everyone out of it by throwing dirty mop water on them.]] |
| 112 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'': [[ShipsThatPassInTheNight Carol x Luna]]. [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12815493/1/Carol-Likes-Luna It's actually really well-written.]] |
| 113 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Jem}}'': ''Fanfic/HowStormerGotHerGrooveBack'' ships together Riot and Stormer as OppositesAttract. The two have almost no interactions and the ones they have are negative. |
| 114 | * ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'': |
| 115 | ** ''Fanfic/NoOneSaidLifeWasGonnaBeFair'' is a humanized AlternateUniverseFic that features various couples. Most are mundane ones like Amethyst/Peridot or Lapis/Jasper, but the main pairing is Greg and Jasper. The two haven't even talked in canon. |
| 116 | ** ''Fanfic/BlueswapAU'' is an entire fanverse about pairing together Greg and Blue Diamond. In canon, Blue Diamond sees human as little more than pets. In the AU, Blue Diamond visits Earth one day to mourn Pink Diamond, meets and falls in love with Greg, and eventually has Steven. |
| 117 | * Done InUniverse in ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'' episode "The Shippening". In this episode, Sarah buys a cursed notebook from the Awesome Store that makes whatever she draws therein come to life, unbeknownst to Sarah herself. This being Sarah, she draws numerous Crack Pairing scenarios in the book, unknowingly igniting a wave of bizarre love stories all over Elmore. |
| 118 | * ''WesternAnimation/BeavisAndButthead'': Discussed InUniverse in "Beavis and Butt-Head Meet God, Part 2" while watching Music/{{Bananarama}}'s "Venus" video: |
| 119 | -->'''BUTT-HEAD''': "These chicks should marry Music/{{GWAR}}." |
| 120 | -->'''BEAVIS''': "Yeah, yeah, that would be cool!" |
| 121 | -->'''BUTT-HEAD''': "Their kids would be like the coolest people ever lived." |
| 122 | -->'''BEAVIS''': "Yeah, and they would rule UsefulNotes/{{Antarctica}}." |
| 123 | -->'''BUTT-HEAD''': "They would rule the entire world." |
| 124 | * ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'': The two of them barely interact in canon, and their few interactions so far have been entirely negative, but for whatever reason [[AlphaBitch Chloé]] x [[DefrostingIceQueen Kagami]] has become a popular ship in the fandom. This one has shades of PairTheSpares. Both of them are alternate love interests for Adrien, so pairing them up would remove some obstacles in the path of him hooking up with Marinette. Curiously, it's also common in [[RevengeFic anti-Lila fics,]] where the two are often made into Marinette's allies against Lila's plots. |
| 125 | * ''WesternAnimation/FinalSpace'': Sheryl Goodspeed and Avocato in are often paired up mostly because many see Avocato as a good replacement to John Goodspeed, [[ShipsThatPassInTheNight despite little to no interaction onscreen]]. |
| 126 | * In mid-2021, fans of ''WesternAnimation/TheMrMenShow'' began shipping Mr. Rude and Mr. Stubborn, who not only hate each other, but only appear in two segments together, because they see them as LikeAnOldMarriedCouple. |
| 127 | * ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'': In canon, Dipper Pines and Bill Cypher are TheHero and the BigBad, respectively, but that is the extent of their connection. Dipper is neither Bill's arch-enemy nor the person who plays the biggest part in finally defeating him. They have absolutely zero friendly interactions, and absolutely zero romantic or sexual interactions (not even creepy FoeRomanceSubtext). You wouldn't know that going by Website/ArchiveOfOurOwn, where '''19.6%''' of all Gravity Falls fics are Dipper/Bill. For contrast, the next romantic ship is Dipper/Pacifica (his only real love interest in the show), at 4.1%. |
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