Abandon Shipping: Difference between revisions

Some [[Shipping|Shippers]] are [[Die for Our Ship|diehard]]. They'll go through everything, [[Fire Ice Lightning|fire, ice, lightning]], nuclear explosions, you name it, but they're still sticking by their [[One True Pairing]] no matter what.

Then there are the other types, who, when something unexpected is revealed, drop a Ship faster than a hot potato. Maybe it's because a character had a [[Wangst|deep dark secret]] that severely makes people question their ability to even be in a relationship, maybe they're [[Brother Sister Incest|really siblings]], or maybe there's some sort of [[Oedipus Complex|other aspect to their relationship]] that suddenly [[Squick|Squicks]] people. When that happens and it suddenly seems like the former Shippers have dropped off the face of the Earth, they have [[Abandon Shipping|Abandoned Ship]].

{{examples|Examples}}

* ''[[Elf Quest]]'': Ember hooked up with Mender once she reached puberty. The [[Fandom]] generally liked him until he went off to fight in the war and was replaced by Ember's second love interest, Teir - who came literally out of ''nowhere''. Now, the original authors and the guest artists/writers alike all collectively prefer Teir over Mender now... the fandom, predictably, is much more [[Broken Base|split]] on the subject, evenly between forgetting Mender even existed, and seeing Teir as an abhorrent [[Creators Pet]].

* ''[[Star Wars]]'': Despite it coming out of nowhere and being obvious in its intentions, the revelation that [[The Hero|Luke]] and [[The Chick|Leia]] were siblings ''did'' kill off the [[Fandom]] (and there was a [[Fandom]] after the first two movies)...for a while. Since then they've grown up and are [[Brother Sister Incest|letting their freak flags fly on the innerblagospherat00bs]].

*** It also saw the once-popular Percy/Penelope ship (it had the advantage in the early days of being the only [[Canon|canonical]] ship whose characters weren't old, dead or both. For a time, it was probably the largest ship not involving some permutation of [[The Hero|Harry]], [[The Smart Guy|Hermione]], [[The Lancer|Ron]] and [[Anti Villain|Draco]].) dwindle away to virtually nothing, for [[Face Heel Turn|a different reason.]] J.K. Rowling later stated in an interview that {{spoiler|Percy went on to marry a woman who was not seen in the books}}, which killed off a lot of the remaining shippers.

* ''[[I Carly (TV)|I Carly]]'': The Seddie ([[Ambiguously Gay|Sam]]/[[Hollywood Nerd|Freddie]]) ship seems to lose shippers every time [[The McCoy|Sam]] ups the [[Comedic Sociopathy]] against [[The Spock|Freddie]] or she bumps her [[Moral Event Horizon]]. Examples include throwing [[The Spock|Freddie]] out of a treehouse after delivering to him a harsh beating with a tennis racquet in "iMeet Fred" and running a child labor sweatshop during "iSell Penny Tee's."

* ''[[Twenty Four|24]]'': The potential Jack/Nina ship came apart at the end of Season 1 for [[The Mole|very]] [[Its Personal|obvious]] [[Friendly Target|reasons]].

* ''[[Tales of Symphonia (Video Game)|Tales of Symphonia]]'': Kratos/Lloyd was looking good for most of the game. From Lloyd's jealousy of Kratos's strength, and Kratos's efforts at training and defending him, the strengthening of their bond while they traveled together, and Kratos's obvious desire to protect Lloyd (and Lloyd's equally obvious desire to trust him) after {{spoiler|Kratos's [[Face Heel Turn]]}}, the connection was obvious and easily made. ...Then near the end of the game, it turns out that {{spoiler|[[Luke I Am Your Father|Kratos is Lloyd's father]].}}

* ''[[Total Drama World Tour]]'' provides an in-universe example: [[Loony Fan]] Sierra seems to have been a [[Shipper On Deck]] for [[Fan Preferred Couple]] [[Jerk With a Heart of Gold|Duncan]]/[[Perky Goth|Gwen]], at least in part because Cody has a crush on Gwen and ''Sierra'' has a crush on him. ([[All Love Is Unrequited|You following this]]?) However, Duncan was already with [[Well Excuse Me Princess|Courtney]], and when he and Gwen [[Your Cheating Heart|hooked up behind her back]], Sierra turned on Gwen out of principle. (Though the fact that Cody ''[[Subverted Trope|didn't]]'' abandon the himself/Gwen ship probably helped.)