Shipper On Deck / Comic Books

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Shippers on Deck in comic books.

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• In Age of Bronze, Pandarus is eager to get his niece Cressida together with Priam's son Troilus, in part because his brother Kalchas' betrayal is making things difficult for her.
• Alt★Hero: Rebel, for Hammer and Ryu No Seishin. At one point she gets so playfully zealous that she and Hammer draw the attention of the police and consequently the Superhuman Protection Council, who are pursuing them. Tragedy ensues.
• In Archie Comics, Jughead for Betty and Archie. He doesn't like Arch's obsession with the ladies, but Betty is a friend and the least-bad option in his mind.
• Batman
  • Alfred sometimes takes this role in certain incarnations of Batman. Thinking that a good woman might help Bruce find a better, safer purpose in life, he encourages Bruce to try and go on dates or at least try meeting with women.
  • This was one of Harley Quinn's schticks in her solo comic series - every once in a while she would latch onto a budding couple and become obsessed with bringing them together. She always succeeded, but since her methods for bringing together include kidnapping, armed robbery, shootouts and blackmail, the journey wasn't always great for the people she helped get together. And if you got in the way of what she saw as true love, it could prove a costly - even fatal - mistake, though she may not always be aware she killed you...
  • Pre-Flashpoint, there was no shortage of friends and allies who support Nightwing and Barbara Gordon together. The list includes, but is not limited to, Black Canary, Tim Drake, Cassandra Cain, Donna Troy, and Helena Bertinelli. Bonus to the last one on the list for getting on board immediately after having a one-night stand with Nightwing.
  • In Batgirl (Rebirth), Black Canary tells Batgirl point blank she's always looking for excuses to dump prospective boyfriends because neither of them measure up to Dick Grayson in Barbara's mind.
  • In Batgirl and the Birds of Prey, Gus teases Barbara heavily over her relationship with Nightwing.
  • Though, based on frequent comments, Grace Choi, who worked with Nightwing in The Outsiders, seems to ship him with a different redhead — Roy Harper.
  • In Adventures of the Super Sons, Future!Damian Wayne's comments about his father and Catwoman and the fact that he's a product of a Lotus-Eater Machine implies that Damian wants the two of them to get together, on a subconscious level at least.
  • Catwoman herself ships Poison Ivy and Harley Quinn; she often tries to get the two to admit their feelings for one another or voice jealousy.
  • For a villainous version, Ra's al Ghul has been a longtime supporter of Bruce's relationship with his daughter Talia, Damian's mother, mostly because he wanted Bruce as his heir. While this has been phased out in recent years due to a combination Talia becoming more villainous and Ra's already getting what he wanted out of Bruce with Damian, it nonetheless was an important aspect of the character's earlier years.
• The Disney Ducks Comic Universe has a few:
  • The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck and other stories show Donald wants Scrooge with Goldie... And, knowing Brigitta is in love with his uncle, sometimes tries to get her with someone else.
  • The nephews are vocal supporters of their uncle's relationship with Daisy, that they openly call "aunt".
  • In the Reginella stories, Scrooge is openly a supporter of Donald's relationship with Reginella (Daisy's only serious rival).
  • The two times Goldie has met Brigitta, she has helped her with Scrooge, as Goldie already had some happiness from him (and possibly a daughter) and Brigitta deserves a break.
• Empowered: Caged Demonwolf has some very strong opinions regarding how the Emp/Ninjette/ThugBoy Love Triangle should be resolved.
• Green Lantern: Star Sapphire Mirri Riam ships Kyle Rayner and Soranik Natu. This was fine for a while, but when they broke up it went badly. She was so dedicated to her OTP that she ravaged a planet to force them to work together and rekindle their romance. When she told Kyle and Soranik her reasons they understandably thought she was insane.
• Hound: Farrell says that he thinks his daughter, Emer, likes Cú Cullan. He is proven right as she falls in love at first sight with him even though he's been tasked to escort her to marry his uncle.
• The Legend of Wonder Woman (2016): Once Etta realizes Steve Trevor has a crush on Diana she starts shipping them hard and does everything she can to get Diana to notice and reciprocate Steve's feelings, especially since she has an inkling long before that Diana liked him too.
• In Issue 22 of Mega Man (Archie Comics) Roll attempted to hook Quake Woman up with Mega Man. Mega Man and Quake Woman don't want to have an intimate relationship, though.
• In Marvel's The Mighty Thor Thor's dad Odin shipped - and probably continues to ship - Thor with Sif, to the point that he set up a contest to prove to Thor that his mortal love interest, Jane Foster, simply couldn't keep up with the pantheon of Norse gods and goddesses.
• Rivers of London: In the "Tales from the Folly" bonus strip from issue #2 of Action at a Distance, it is revealed that Molly is writing stories about Peter and Nightingale being romantic towards each other.
• Runaways:
  • Nico briefly ships Victor and Lillie, a New York girl from the 1800s.
  • Pretty much all of the earlier Runaways shipped Gert and Chase.
  • Molly seemed to ship Xavin and Karolina first. The other Runaways seemed to join her once they realized that Xavin really wasn't going to kidnap or enslave Karolina.
• In Scott Pilgrim, Scott's roommate Wallace seems to be fond of Scott/Ramona.
• A side comic in issue 58 of Sonic Universe has Marine shipping Blaze with Silver. Blaze responds by sinking it with fire.
• Spider-Man: Spider-Man has had many a people shipping him with any woman he has had Ship Tease with.
  • Aunt May always was very vocal about wanting Peter to end up with Mary Jane Watson. You could say that May started out as The Matchmaker, as she and MJ's Aunt Anna set up Peter and MJ's first blind date and at the time, Stan Lee did not yet intend for Peter and MJ to become the Official Couple. When they finally did, during the original Clone Saga, May gave Mary Jane a pep talk to fight for her man when Gwen Stacy apparently returned from the dead.
  • Although Roger Stern has gone on record as disliking the Watson-Parker romance, when he brought back Mary Jane to Peter's life in Amazing Spider-Man #242 as "just a friend", he immediately showed Aunt May, Aunt Anna, Peter's first love Betty Brant, her husband Ned Leeds, and Liz Osborn all doing their best to bring the two back together as a couple. Peter (then busy with his romance with the Black Cat) and Mary Jane reacted with a mixture of annoyance and amusement, but what do you know? Not that long after, they did get back together and four years after MJ's return, they got married.
  • Later Spider-Man stories have had Mary Jane become a Peter/Carlie shipper, despite her own feelings for Peter.
  • Kamala Khan ships her idol, the previous heroine to bear the title of Ms. Marvel, Carol Danvers, with Peter. She pestered him with questions about them on a date. The two did have a date and some mild flirting. Venom, after the symbiote briefly took control of Carol, acted as one when he turns on Spidey's Berserk Button of hurting his loved ones by suggesting Carol has feelings for him. She never denied it, but they ended up as just friends, though Peter seems to wish it went all the way.
  • Anna Marconi tells a clueless Peter that Mockingbird, aka Bobbi Morse, seems to be interested in him. She decides to wrap her arm around him to get Bobbi jealous.
• In the Star Trek (IDW) comics, Kirk is shown to be quite supportive of Spock and Uhura's relationship, ordering them to spend some time together after Spock risked his life on a mission, and asking Spock how badly Uhura took of Spock shaving his head bald for another mission.
• A few people are this for Katchoo and Francine at various points in Strangers in Paradise; the moment where David and Casey handcuff the two together to hash out their differences is probably the most extreme occasion.
• Superman:
  • During a period in The '90s when Superman and Lois Lane had split up, Mr. Mxyzptlk of all people, tried to push them back together. Being an annoying trickster, this was not appreciated and he was firmly told that they'd resolve their problems in their own time.
  • The Elseworlds story Superman: Red Son briefly had Josef Stalin of all people ship Superman/Wonder Woman.
  • Kara also ships her cousin with Lois. She even tried to get her and him together once without showing her hand in Pre-Crisis continuity.
  • Back when he was a member of the Legion of Super-Heroes, Superboy approved of the relationship between Brainiac 5 and Supergirl and wasn't at all subtle about it, openly encouraging Querl Dox to romance his cousin more proactively.
  • In Superman: Secret Origin, General Lane wants Lois to give up her career and marry John Corben, but not because he cares about her marrying a good man, but because he sees Corben as the son he never had.
• Ultimate Spider-Man
  • Gwen Stacy supported Peter and Mary Jane, proving MJ's insecurities about Gwen and Peter's relationship to be unfounded.
  • In his first appearance, Uncle Ben ships Peter and Mary Jane together.
  • Spider-Men II
    • Ganke called Barbara Rodriguez and forced Miles Morales to overcome his doubts and talk to her.
    • Similarily, Wilson Fisk helped the adult Miles with his own Barbara in their first date, when she was surprised by his huge scar.
• Wonder Woman (1942): In the Golden Age Etta Candy was a bit annoyed that Wonder Woman refused to even consider Steve Trevor's proposals, given her two pals were already in a relationship and it was no secret they loved each other. She didn't try to push them, but given Di's abilities and Steve's spy status they both end up overhearing her complaints about their stalled relationship anyway.
• X-Men:
  • The majority of the X-Men supported Gambit and Rogue's relationship especially Storm, Pyslocke, Jubilee, Kitty, Iceman and Nightcrawler. Even X-23 got emotional when Gambit and Rogue exchanged vows. Lampshaded by Pixie in a earlier issue when Gambit and Rogue had a Suggestive Collision in the Training Room
    Armor: Uh. Should we leave? This feels five kinds of inappropriate.
    Pixie: No way. This is amazing.
    Armor: Are they even dating?
    Pixie: God I hope so. So hot.
  • Wolverine generally tends to stay out of the romantic lives of his fellow X-Men, but when Peter Rasputin and Kitty Pryde came downstairs for breakfast the morning after they finally did the deed, he could smell it on them. His two-word reaction: "'Bout time."
  • Weapon X has Domino shipping Sabretooth & Monet St. Croix. When she hears Deathstrike call Monet Victor's ex-girlfriend, she instantly replies with an "Awww!" She found it adorable & even stuck around for the mission to find Monet simply for that reason, despite being ready to quit the team earlier. The following chapter, Creed sheepishly tells Monet it really is good to see her, and Domino again responds with an excited "Awww!" Then she tells Monet about how Victor wanted to save her, and how none of them believed him when he was talking about her only being a "friend."
  • In X-Men: First Class Iceman (Bobby Drake) and his then Heterosexual Life-Partner Beast (Henry "Hank" McCoy) actually debated who they believed Jean Grey should be shipped with, or at least who she shipped herself with. Beast believed Jean liked Warren Worthington III/Angel, while Iceman believed (correctly) that she preferred Scott Summers/Cyclops.
  • Mister Sinister in a strange and twisted way has to be the most die-hard Scott/Jean shipper in the whole MU, in X-Men '92 upon meeting them again he says that Scott and Jean are "a spotless canvas for genetic perfection". In the main universe, Sinister wanted Scott and Jean to have a powerful baby together (so he could defeat Apocalypse in the Bad Future) and wasn't even deterred by Jean being dead at that point, as he just cloned Jean, creating the Evil Knock Off Madelyne Prior who gave birth to Cable.
  • In New X-Men: Academy X, once Hellion finds out his teammate Mercury has a crush on Wither, he immediately becomes very supportive of it (despite distrusting Wither seconds ago), and even makes a few subtle moves to encourage Wither to return her feelings.
  • Mercury later returned the favour, shipping Hellion with X-23 (though he didn't quite appreciate that at the time). Dust feels the same way.
    Dust: (watching the two from afar) They're beautiful...

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