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Semi-justifiable if the object in question is an [[Empathic Weapon]].

 

 

Not to confuse with [[Cargo Cult]].

 

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== Advertising ==

* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LQpRQh2KSQ Scott×Toaster.] Gotta love how Quiznos' is sticking with this campaign.

* Skittles: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFGCBC7xXjA Blend the rainbow!]

* 2012 Hyundai Sonata Hybrid: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFhkS5h0dus Baby, baby!]

 

== Allegory ==

* [http://farm1.static.flickr.com/236/462573387_eb88614108.jpg Liberty×Justice]. Frequently seen in political cartoons.

 

* ''[[One Piece]]''

** Zoro x His three swords

** Nami x [[Money Fetish|Money]]

*** Nami x Tangerines

** Sousuke x Weapons

* ''[[Bleach]]'': Aizen x Teacup: [http://browse.deviantart.com/?qh=§ion=&q=aizen++teacup#/d234bcf totally Canon!]

* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGMOeg1-pQU A Mouse and a talking cheese in this independent short.]

** Far more disturbing than the Gundam-on-Gundam action, however, is the human-on-Gundam. (It exists in ''Wing'' and ''00'' fandoms, at least.)

** Setsuna is also paired with his Gundam Exia.

* The EVAs in ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'', too. At least they're {{spoiler|partially organic and intelligent}}.

*** Ranka clearly knows what he likes.

** Along a similar vein, the YF-19 could be seen as one of Isamu's distractions from the ''[[Macross Plus]]'' [[Love Triangle]].

** Notable is the fact that the main mechas in the series all have AIs with female personalities, and all three of them become really close to their (male) pilots. The one exception being ''The 2nd Runner'', where the pilot constantly teases the AI about her friendship with the pilot of the ''first'' game.

* There is a particularly pervasive pairing circulating the ''Bee Train'' fan community: [[Madlax]]/curtain. It was spawned by a single scene near the beginning of the series where the titular [[Action Girl]] sneaks into the apartment of her target and wraps herself in a curtain for no apparent reason, looking both adorably cute and damn hawt at the same time.

** ... And that doesn't count all the [[A Date with Rosie Palms|"Gary and his hand"]] ships.

** Technically unnamed, but amongst ''[[Pokémon Special]]'' readers you have N X Ferris Wheel.

** How about Ed x Automail Arm?

*** That would be [[A Date with Rosie Palms|a date with Metallic Palms]]!

** Also, Winry×Wrench. It's been suggested.

** Kimblee x Philosopher's Stone deserves mention.

*** [[Mad Bomber|Kimblee x KABLOOEY]]

*** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IulHauVGXNM Or Roy x Tiny Miniskirts!]

** [[Bookworm|Sheska / Sciezka]] x Books

** Nina×Table. Technically not canon, just spawned from a masturbation scene. And within fandom, the table is referred to as "Table-kun" (see [[Memetic Mutation]]).

** C.C.×Cheese-kun. Doesn't help any that C.C. is one of the resident [[Ms. Fanservice|Ms Fanservices]].

** You could also make a strong case for Lloyd x Lancelot.

* ''[[Dominion Tank Police]]''. Leona×Bonaparte (her ''tank'') is almost canon, what with how much she obsesses over it. We also see her nearly ''humping'' a motorcycle in ''New Dominion Tank Police'' during a flashback showing her as a motorcycle cop prior to joining the tank police. Her partner even lampshades it, and Leona isn't afraid to admit it.

** Her coworkers certainly seem to think that this is canon, after an incident where after spending the night as Buaku's prisoner, she ignores her partner/would-be boyfriend to embrace Bonaparte.

* ''[[Patlabor]]'': Noah×Alphonse. (Same voice actress as ''Dominion''.)

* In ''[[Burn Up]] Excess'' (and ''W''), Maya Jingu ''loves'' her firearms. In one episode of ''Excess'' in particular, she is shown laying down and holding a rifle at a firing range, stripped to her underwear and getting a lot of...satisfaction from pulling the trigger.

* There's a running gag in the ''[[Katekyo Hitman Reborn]]'' fandom involving Hibari/Namimori. And no, we don't mean the student body, we mean ''the school itself''. Talk about taking school pride a step too far...

** In perhaps an odd case of [[Defeat Means Friendship]], Yamamoto×Wall is rising in popularity.

** Allen Walker/his [[Empathic Weapon|Innocence.]] Yes, there has been fanfic. There's also some Tyki Mikk/Timcanpy.

** The greatest love between man and sword is between Kanda x Mugen.

* From ''After War Gundam X'': Tiffa and Double X Gundam in a very brief one-shot.

** There's at least one fanfic shipping Dio Brando and a steamroller.

** There's also Kakyoin/Cherry, which is practically canon...

* ''[[Death Note]]'' gives us:

** Ryuk×Apple. Don't take our word for it, [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3813222/1/Passion_Juice_and_Apple_Love see for yourself.]

*** [http://dn-kink2.livejournal.com/1491.html?thread=236755#t236755 Or Light×Potato Chip.] (NSFW)

** L×Cake. There is an ''explicit'' picture floating around somewhere.

** There's a group on deviantART for a zebra-striped couch Mello owns, which has been nicknamed Zeb and is often seen paired with Mello by it's fans.

* There's a [[Manga]] called ''The Female Fridge'' about a refrigerator with a human mind who falls in love with her owner. When she finds out he has a girlfriend, she [[Clingy Jealous Girl|murders them both by falling over on them]].

*** Well, he was being [[Incredibly Lame Pun|callously cold]] to the poor fridge...

** You might say the authors [[Dropped a Bridge on Him|Dropped A]] [[Incredibly Lame Pun|Fridge]] [[Dropped a Bridge on Him|On Them]].

* Zig zags all over the place in ''[[Ghost in the Shell]]'', especially since it's almost impossible to tell an android from a fully flesh and blood human at times.

* ''[[Akikan]]'' mostly avoids this by applying [[Moe Anthropomorphism]] to its soda can girls, but Kakeru fully embodies this trope when he decides to flirt with a vending machine that has a female voice programmed in. Twice. And in episode 7 he makes out with a ''chair''.

** And Rachel really ''loves'' trains, in a Freudian way. Due to her daddy issues. It makes sense in context.

* ''[[Ojamajo Doremi]]'': There's Doremi×Steak; Pop×Dolly (when she still thought that Majorika was a doll) and Majorika×Hot Spring. The latter two would pretty much make a love triangle, since Dolly is Majorika.

** And fanart exists for the England×America×Hamburger love triangle.

** Not to mention the brief explosion of affection for [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQdOyhMZOnM Switzerland and his gun] after the anime song preview.

** Recently, there's France×Gazebo fic/art.

** Somehow, this [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5293272/1/Icelands_Fridge Refridgerator×Iceland×Refridgerator fic] (Warning! [[NSFW]]!) hasn't been put here yet.

* ''[[K-On!]]''

** Yui×[[I Call It Vera|Gitaah]] (her guitar).

** Season 2 Episode 6 makes it official.

* ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh (anime)|Yu-Gi-Oh]]''

** The next best thing to [[Word of God]], the designer himself said Yukikaze was a series where the eponymous jet was the heroine.

* ''[[Golden Boy]]'' gives us the lovely ''canonical'' relationship between a [[Rich Bitch]] and her motorbike, one that she straddles naked over and masturbates with until Kintaro beats her in a downhill bike race.

** His [[Super Mode]] makes ''him'' a red sports car. This is best not thought about.

* ''[[Eureka Seven]]'' has the canonical Renton, Eureka, Nirvasch love triangle.

** {{spoiler|1=Debatable, as the Nirvasch, while mecha like in nature, DOES turn out to be a sentient, living being born by the Coral. Note also the many references to LFOs dying in the mine sequence.}}

* ''[[Idolmaster: Xenoglossia]]'' completely runs with it: the only way to pilot the giant robots is to treat them like a boyfriend. Of course, the robots themselves are sentient, so there was one case of a giant robot recording a video of Haruka telling the robot that she wants to "show him everything", and then taking her shirt off.

* Saw a fanfic of [[Naruto|Kyuubi no Kitsune×Hokage Tower]]. And yes, it was indeed as disturbing as it sounds.

** Gaara×Gourd... anyone?

*** Gaara/Gourd, Temari/Fan, Kankuro/Puppets... It runs in the family.

* ''[[Umineko no Naku Koro ni]]'': [[Cool Old Lady|Kumasawa]]×[[Trademark Favorite Food|Mackerel]]. Popular enough that it's frequently seen on the popularity polls for favorite couples.

** Erika x chopsticks x duct tape.

** I believe Celty/Celty's Bike deserves some special mention as well.

** The author, Narita, has proven to be thoroughly amused by the concept of shipping inanimate objects, given some of the things Erika and Walker say. They once argued over who'd top in a Fans/Trolls ship.

** There's also Kida×Hoodie.

* Kino from ''[[Kino's Journey]]'' is often shipped with her talking motorcycle Hermes; not surprising since he is Kino's only companion, and the only sentient being she feels a real bond to.

* In ''[[Sora no Manimani]]'', [[Cloudcuckoolander|Cloud Cuckoo Landers]] Kawamura and Minami have a fetish for ''constellations''.

* ''[[Mushishi]]''. In one case a girl gets... rather attached to a particular swamp. In another episode, a woman begins to visit a white bamboo tree when she and her husband are unable to conceive. She even gets ''pregnant'' from said relationship with bamboo tree. The circumstances surrounding both of them are odd, but I believe that it qualifies for this trope.

* ''[[The World God Only Knows]]'' gives us Keima×[[Dating Sim]] heroine Yokkyun and Elsie×fire trucks.

* ''[[Soul Eater]]'' gives us Marie Mjolnir, who sees herself as such a [[Christmas Cake]] she plans to marry a toilet on the grounds that "It will accept anything she gives it". [[Sarcasm Mode|It's a very classy series]].

* Considering that most of the ''girls'' in ''[[C³|Cubex Cursedx Curious]]'' are inanimate cursed objects, you do the math...

 

* There is probably a decent chunk of fanfic dedicated to shipping Sara Pezzini (or another wielder) with the [[Witchblade (Comic Book)|Witchblade]]. Then again, the Witchblade being a pseudo living/sentient object, it might not count.

* Tony Stark/his sentient ''[[Iron Man]]'' armor. Note that this was ''[[Canon]]'', complete with the jealous armor demanding that Tony "get inside me". The armor even gained the fan nickname "Tony's abusive boyfriend".

** There is many a fan art of Jason Todd being shipped with bread due to a panel of him robbing a bakery after his [[Unexplained Recovery|resurrection]].

* Canonical in ''[[Comic Book]]/Hellboy'' spin-off ''[[BPRD]]'': Roger the [[Artificial Human|homunculus]] falls in love with (a statue of) the Roman goddess Cloacina after a mission in Venice, and goes to have a picnic lunch and wine "with" her. When he {{spoiler|is destroyed and trapped in a fantasy realm in his own mind, he imagines the statue of Cloacina there with him}}.

 

== Fan Works ==

** "Oh giant rock, sometimes I think you're the only one who understands me". Never mind Kaiba, I think Ishtar is the one who needs to get laid.

** Mako and the Ocean. He later breaks up with the sea for the younger aquarium, which 'has its benefits'. He then reunites with the Ocean with Britney Spears music playing in the background.

** Harry Potter x Snitch. My only OTP. Come on, he came with him to the wedding, and he snogs it more than he ever snogged Ginny.

** Lucius Malfoy×The Cane. Yeah, Sneaky is the dominant one. And their love child is [[Final Fantasy VII|Sephiroth]].

*** Brilliantly depicted [http://makani.deviantart.com/art/fanart100-triangle-78381400 here] (Completely Safe for Work).

** And of course, ''[[A Very Potter Musical]]'' gave us the Sorting Hat and the Scarf of Sexual Preference...

** Blackfire is actually a female demon bound in the shape of a sword; the Hunter is horrified to discover this.

* In [[THEPETEPETERSONEXPERIENCE]], there is Murray having sex with his van in the fanfiction, "Murry the Robot".

 

== Films -- Animation ==

* [[Pixar]] loves this trope:

** One of the first Pixar shorts was "Knick Knack", in which a plastic snowman trapped in a snowglobe tries hopelessly to access chicks who live in snowglobes on the shelves near him.

** Robot×robot romance is almost the entire point of ''[[WALL-E]]''. (And [[Green Aesop]].)

* "Baby" Brent×Ceremonial Scissors in ''[[Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs]]''. He keeps them tucked in the back of his pants, plays them like an air guitar, clutches them when worried, and they have to be forcibly ripped from his arms for someone else to use them. Clearly it's love.

* Ray, in ''[[The Princess and the Frog]]'', is a firefly who has fallen in love with a literal star.

** It's worth noting that the Scrat/Acorn 'ship was a ''seriously'' bad case of [[No Accounting for Taste]]. The Acorn is possibly the [[Mad Love|most abusive]] [[Jerkass]] [[Love Interest]] [[Overly Narrow Superlative|in animated film history]], always dangling just out of Scrat's reach and heaping abuse on him. The [[Tragedy]] here is that {{spoiler|by leaving Scratte he has doomed himself to a lifetime of [[Yank the Dog's Chain|having his chain yanked]] by the Acorn.}}

* Tank and his trophies from ''[[Surf's Up]]''. He's named them all and during the scene his mother calls out: "are you polishing your trophies again?" To the camera he mutters: "I'll polish later."

 

== Films -- Live Action ==

** Jack's relationship with his hat could also be considered this.

** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLhNMyD9TL4&feature=related He also has a jar of dirt...]

* ''[[Austin Powers]]'': "Mini Me! Stop humping the laser! Alright, why don't you and the frikking laser get a frikking room."

* Not exactly a pairing ''per se'', but there's a fan-made [[Image Macro]] floating around in which a pair of AT-ATs from ''[[Star Wars]]'' were... well, [[Squick|let's not go there]]...

** But there is Han and the ''Millennium Falcon''.

* ''[[American Pie]]'': "This one time, at band camp..."

* This actually happens in ''My Big Fat Independent Movie'' with {{spoiler|the [[Sickeningly Sweet]] French girl and a foul-mouthed answering machine}}. The sex is '''far''' more than implied.

* ''[[Leon]]'' and his plant.

* Chuck and Wilson in ''[[Cast Away]]''. Try to watch the scene when {{spoiler|Wilson floats away}} and not tear up a little.

* The movie ''[[Christine]]'', based on the Stephen King novel.

* The Bear Jew×his bat from ''[[Inglourious Basterds]]'' if some fanfictions are to be believed.

* ''[[Anchorman]]'': "I love lamp..."

* The drill sergeant in ''[[Full Metal Jacket]]'' tells each of the new recruits to give their rifle a girl's name "because this is the only pussy you will ever get!" Private Pyle, after he goes insane, seems more than a little doting over his rifle (Charlene, if you were wondering).

** But it is way easier to ship them with the White Castle hamburgers from their first movie.

* The second chapter of the Hongkong movie ''[[Red Cliff]]'' depicts the historical straw boat ruse, where a fake invasion of battleships covered in straw, with straw effigies representing soldiers to boot, serves to collect incoming arrows. Tactician Zhuge Liang says nothing of these details, or much of anything for that matter, to his assistant ''as they sail into enemy lines on one of the straw boats'' - [[Crowning Moment of Funny|which leads the assistant to start talking to one of the effigies.]]

* In Frank Miller's gonzo [[The Spirit (film)|adaptation]] of Will Eisner's ''[[The Spirit]]'', the [[One True Pairing]] of the eponymous hero is his own hometown Central City.

* In ''[[The Red Green Show]] [[The Movie|Movie]]'', ''Duct Tape Forever'', Ranger Gord has spent years living alone in his fire watchtower in the woods and has gone more than a little crazy from loneliness. He owns a tree trunk that looks suspiciously like the torso of a naked woman, and when he and Red joke lightheartedly about all the paperwork down at the county records office Gord suddenly breaks into sobs, lamenting "When I think of all the trees that gave their lives for that paperwork! I dated some of those trees, you know!"

* [[Tim Burton]]'s ''[[Alice in Wonderland (film)|Alice in Wonderland]]'' shows the Cheshire Cat as having some sort of unexplained attraction to the Mad Hatter's hat.

* ''[[Sleeper]]'' - Woody Allen's character gets caught by the authorities after he hides in the Orgasmatron, and emerges a shredded, grinning wreck. When he's assimilated and taken to his new home he sees the machine and starts treating it very...affectionately.

* In ''[[The Smurfs (film)|The Smurfs]]'', Grouchy falls in love with a green M&M plushie in a toy store and even has a romantic get-together with one in the end credits.

* Montgomery Scott in the '09 ''[[Star Trek (film)|Star Trek]]'' comes close:

* Jules makes out with a wall-mounted wolf head while playing "Truth or Dare" in ''[[The Cabin in the Woods]]''.

 

== Literature ==

** A more prominent and canon example is Gollum and the Ring? [[Justified Trope|In all fairness]] to Gollum, that ring is pretty seductive and, to say the least, really gets around.

** Or Feanor and his Silmarils? He loves them more than essentially anything else. So does everyone else apparently.

* The car in the [[Stephen King]] novel ''Christine'' developes an unhealthy obsession with her owner.

* Leviathan×FUCKUP in the third book of the ''[[Illuminatus]]''-trilogy is a ''canon'' ship.

* ''[[Discworld]]'': Rincewind×potatoes is pretty much canon.

* 100% canon in [[Thomas Pynchon]]'s ''Vineland'': one minor character fucks his car.

* One of the ''[[Bolo]]'' books has Commander Paul Merril fall in love with Nike, a smarter-than-usual prototype Bolo (a gigantic, self-aware supertank). Nike also falls for him and the develop a sweet little relationship as they patrol their forgotten backwater outpost. {{spoiler|At least until they [[Together in Death|both die]] [[Heroic Sacrifice|defending the planet]] from mercenaries.}}

** A later story, ''Old Soldiers'', gets weird with this. Captain Maneka Trevor develops a very close partnership with her Bolo Lazarus, to the point where her husband eventually describes it as a three person relationship, but since by that point Maneka is an [[Brain Uploading|uploaded personality]] occupying [[Sharing a Body|Lazarus' backup processor]] (and has been since before they were married), is the cargo ship side of the triangle Maneka×Lazarus or Hawthorne×Maneka?

* ''Foundation's Edge'' and ''Foundation and Earth'', two late additions to [[Isaac Asimov]]'s Foundation series, feature the protagonist Golan Trevize forming an oddly emotional bond with the computer of his ship, the ''Far Star''. Nothing comes of it, though.

* ''[[The Three Musketeers (novel)|Twenty Years After]]'' reveals that as a teenager, Athos had a crush on a Greek statue.

* ''Mariel of [[Redwall]]'': Gabool's behaviour towards the stolen bell is decidedly creepy, prior to his devolving into [[No Rest for The Wicked]] mode. "Speak to me, pretty, we must get to know each other ..." He was actually a lot closer to the [[I Have You Now, My Pretty]] routine with the bell than he or any of the other rats ever got with Mariel. (Probably because Mariel was about twelve and the target audience are even younger.)

 

* [[The Muppets]] Valentine Show reveals that grumpy, unapproachable George the janitor does have something he loves; his mop. Even ''George'' is amazed when he realizes this.

* The Winchesters' [[Cool Car|Impala]] from ''[[Supernatural (TV series)|Supernatural]]'' gets paired with a number of other automobiles, including [[Knight Rider|KITT]], various [[Transformers]], [[Good Omens|Crowley's]] Bentley, and John Winchester's truck, and sometimes is written as a cursed object, or cursed person, who occasionally becomes human. With predictable results.

** There is also a highly amusing [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItqH9mzQyo4 Castiel/Hamburger ship] making the rounds.

* ''[[Doctor Who]]'''s a bit crazy with this (though we should point out that the TARDIS is [[Sapient Ship|sentient]], and therefore would go under [[Robo Ship]]).

** Hand×[[Torchwood|Resurrection Glove]].

** The Tissue Compression Eliminator has been paired with the Sonic Screwdriver. It's madness. For added fun, include the Laser Screwdriver as well for that spicy [[Foe Yay]] angle.

** TARDIS/[[Star Trek|Enterprise]] exists. They have a baby, which apparently takes after its mum.

*** Which one would that be?

**** The TARDIS is definitely female.

** The sonic screwdriver has been paired with multiple companions and Torchwood women. If it works by sound, it produces vibrations...

** [http://bloodyyangire.deviantart.com/art/DoctorxFez-169313538?q=1&qo=1 Eleven/Fez].

* ''[[Heroes (TV series)|Heroes]]'':

** Mohinder was once jokingly paired with a smallish ceramic elephant he owns.

** Sylar×Mohinder's brain, if that qualifies.

** Hiro×Waffles!

* ''[[Firefly]]''. Never mind that ''Serenity'' is literally a Cargo Ship, half the cast has been paired with it.

** [[The Captain|Mal]]×''Serenity'', obviously.

*** Heck, Ronny×drills is ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXeYv7VvbhE canon].'' In general, the way Ronny gets around anything technological is a goldmine for such things. [[Memetic Mutation|Zordgasm]]! (You'd think when {{spoiler|Mack turns out to be a robot}} she'd be all over him...)

*** To a certain extent there's a certain level between every Ranger and their Zord (think back to Kimberly's [[Big No]] when the Thunder Zords were destroyed.) The most obvious was Tommy×Dragonzord.

** In another episode, an alien woman comes on board whose tears cause all men (of any race) to fall in love with her on contact. They have no effect on Kirk, because he just loves the ship more.

** For that matter, the novel ''The Wounded Sky'' by [[Diane Duane]] (involving a new experimental FTL drive that turns out to break down the boundaries of reality itself as an unintended side effect) features a short scene/hallucination(?) in which Kirk appears to directly experience what being a starship is like from the ''Enterprise'''s perspective... and that suggests that his feelings may not be unrequited.

** Please to be reading [http://community.livejournal.com/st_xi_kink/379.html?thread=194939#t194939 this fic], which is not the only one of its kind out there. Also, be aware the rest of the [[Kink Meme]] is mostly [[NSFW]].

** As of the [[Star Trek (film)|latest movie]], Scotty×''Enterprise'' also has a legitimate claim.

*** In ''TOS'', Scotty's relationship was more of a proud parent thing. Naturally, this means if you mess with the ''Enterprise''... [[Papa Wolf|Yeah]].

** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLWX3qrtweI#t=02m13s Scotty sure does love his scotch.]

** Fargo has a tendency to create these. Not only was S.A.R.A.H. his creation, he also created an AI (Tabitha) for his car, which also turned into a [[Clingy Jealous Girl]] when he sold her (the car was an ancient Chrysler); she kidnapped him after making him fall into her trunk. As part of some very blatant but still well-done [[Product Placement]], he settles the dispute by transferring Tabitha to his new Subaru.

* One first-season episode of ''[[Fetch! with Ruff Ruffman]]'' seemed to hint at Ruff×Fetch 3000.

* Along with the above quote, ''[[The Daily Show]]'' last year featured a visual representation mocking Rudy Giuliani's seeming obsession with cramming as many "9/11" references as possible in his political speeches, by having a number 9 and number 11 having sex on a bed, complete with erotic music.

* [[Stephen Colbert]] doesn't ''own'' a gun, he shares his life with one. On the overturning of Washington DC's ban on handguns: "[[I Call It Vera|Sweetness]] and I can finally be together!" The Couple has since announced their engagement after a hike on the Appalachian Trail, and Sweetness is now ''pregnant''.

** A ''[[The Colbert Report|Colbert Report]]'' episode had as it "Wørd" "Just Don't Do It". When trying to [[Scare'Em Straight|turn off teenagers]], Colbert came with this:

** It may not be a ''physical'' object, but there's definite Stephen/Wørd potential going on. The Wørd acts almost exactly like [[The Honeymooners|Alice Kramden]], after all.

* ''[[Knight Rider]]'': KITT with Michael Knight, Bonnie, or KARR is not at all uncommon in the Knight Rider fan community.

** In "Flight of the Phoenix" Chief Tyrol runs his hands along the skin of a Viper during a maintenance inspection, while at the same time having flashbacks of caressing his ex-girlfriend Boomer (who turned out to be a "machine"). It's unknown whether this mental association is the reason the Chief labeled the Viper as "[[Break the Cutie|damaged beyond repair]]".

** Boomer herself is seen stroking a Cylon raider in front of Tyrol in an earlier episode. Which he finds somewhat disturbing, though more because he's worried she's a Cylon too.

* ''[[Top Gear]]'' is the embodiment of this trope. Richard Hammond×Oliver the Opel Kadett is pretty much canon, and Jeremy Clarkson has fallen in love with way too many cool cars to list here, his Ford GT and a Bugatti Veyron being the most obvious examples.

** If you can drive and know the first thing about driving and cars, you will be car-sexual for the Bugatti Veyron.

* ''[[Stargate Atlantis]]'' fandom has shipped Atlantis, usually with John (or John with her), and a few threesomes. (Sometimes the city's sentient [or sapient] but never animate, except the one time.)

** There is also a community for Carson×Chair fics.

* ''[[Farscape]]'': Crichton with his gun, Winona. He will often comment that other identical pulse pistols "just don't feel the same", and claim "Winona would never have let me down" when other guns fail to work.

* ''[[Red Dwarf]]''

** Kryten×Washing Machines... Vacuum Cleaners...

* Ryan Stiles on ''[[Whose Line Is It Anyway?|Whose Line Is It Anyway]]'' has been known to be... quite close to one mobile boom cam on stage left (the audience's right). He's kissed it, tried to ride it, gotten into a bullfight with it and according to the deleted outtakes reel, {{spoiler|they've... consummated. Yeah.}}

* James Franco on ''[[30 Rock]]'' was shipped with a body pillow named Kimiko-tan. It's strongly implied that he and Liz Lemon had a threesome with it.

** Spike's duster is shipped most often with Spike or Buffy, while Mr Gordo has been shipped with Buffy and Angel. This Troper can also recall a rather...interesting Anya/Magic Box register fic as well.

* [[Gossip Girl|Chuck Bass]] and his trademark scarf.

* Cody and his calculator in a recent episode of ''[[The Suite Life of Zack and Cody|Suite Life on Deck]]'', although it was in 5th grade. Zack comments that he bought "her" popcorn and took her to the movies.

* In ''[[Are You Being Served?|Are You Being Served]]'', Mr. Mash has a somewhat disturbing attitude towards the female mannequins.

* [[The Tudors|Catherine Howard/Ring.]] And it's CANON too.

* In the ''[[Glee]]'' fandom, Wes/Gavel is incredibly popular.

** Also, Bloor (Blaine/Floor), Blurniture (Blaine/Furniture), Bloffee (Blaine/Coffee), Bloulder (Blaine/Shoulder) and Blocks (Blaine/Socks).

* In ''[[Pushing Daisies]]'' one of their cases involves a man who believes he's in a relationship with a life size doll. After a friend told him that she wasn't alive the doll strangled her, with him working the hands.

* On ''[[The Goodies]]'', Graeme/Computer was very much canon. In one early episode, they went through a [[Meadow Run]], romantic dinners, and near-marriage.

 

== Music ==

** To be fair, Roger Taylor wrote that as a jab at one of their roadies who was obsessed with his car. Not to cargo ship-levels, but pretty obsessed.

*** To be fair to the roadie in question, the '62 Triumph TR4 roadster is one heckuva car. The grip that those rear wheels have from the improved rear suspension, over the 3A, the sound of the dual Webers cross-mounted on the straight-four engine block... Ahem *wipes drool*

** Wouldn't that be incest?

* There's a string of these in the [[They Might Be Giants]] song, "Withered Hope." The Sad Sack loves Withered Hope, who has a soul mate that "thinks about" a picture of a crook in a book, who loves a brand new motorbike that is obsessed with Sad Sack.

* [[Shania Twain|''I can't believe you kiss your car goodnight / Now come on baby tell me, you must be joking, right?'']]

* [[The Police]] have the song "Be My Girl/Sally" on their debut album, the second half of which is Andy Summers' loving ode to a blow-up doll.

And later in a moment that girl became my wife }}

* [[Prince]]'s song "Guitar" features the immortal line 'I love you baby, but not as much as I love my guitar'

* Side three of [[Frank Zappa]]'s ''Joe's Garage'', has cult leader L. Ron Hoover tell Joe that he (Joe) is an "latent appliance fethishist" and needs to go into The Closest to find an appliance to love him. Eventually, Joe hooks up with a piggy bank/vacuum cleaner hybrid named Sy Borg.

* [[Yelle]]'s "Best Friend" in the song "Mon Meilleur Ami" {{spoiler|It's about her vibrator.}}

== Print Media ==

* A [[Mad Magazine]] article commented that Emeril got so excited these days "You think he's about to hump that roast"... and the art shows it, though this being Mad, nothing explicit. Complete with "BAM! BAM! BAM!" dialogue.

 

== Radio ==

* Used in one episode of ''[[Hello Cheeky]]'', when Barry explains his deep attraction to string.

** John sneers in contempt at this, before explaining that a bar of soap is...''different.''

* In one episode of ''[[The Phil Harris-Alice Faye Show]]'', we see that Phil ''loves'' his English roadster:

'''Phil''': Alice, please, I'm talking to the car. }}

 

== Theater ==

* Arguably the entire plot of [[Andrew Lloyd Webber]]'s ''Starlight Express'', in which all the characters are anthropomorphic trains.

* In the ''[[Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (theatre)|Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street]]'' fandom, there's Sweeney×Razors. I don't know how that would work, either. One parody (''The Vengeful Vengeance of Schmenjamin Schmarker'', on fanfiction.net), has Sweeney utter the line, "If I weren't afraid of castrating myself, my friends, I would have sex with you."

* The one act play ''Soap Opera'' is the pure, unadulterated embodiment of this trope, where the main character is in love with a washing machine, [[Hilarity Ensues]].

* ''[[Little Shop of Horrors]]'' brings us Seymour×Audrey II. Might not count since Twoie's sentinet, but still... it's a plant.

** Not to mention Audrey II×Audrey. "[[Terms of Endangerment|Hey little lady, hello...you're lookin' cute as can be...]]"

* In many adaptations of ''[[Othello]]'', Iago rewards Emilia for stealing Desdemona's handkerchief (or belt, or scarf, depending on the update) with sex, usually incorporating the stolen handkerchief into said reward-sex.

* ''[[Two Gentlemen of Verona]]'':

'''Speed:''' True, sir; [[Not a Morning Person|I was in love with my bed]]: I thank you, you swinged me for my love, which makes me the bolder to chide you for yours. }}

 

== Video Games ==

** Fire Extinguisher×Edgeworth. ''With the fire extinguisher topping''.

** No mentions of Ema×Snackoos or Maya×Burgers?

** Edgeworth×Tea set, You do NOT want to break it.

** Gumshoe×Angel Starr's Steak-Lunchbox. He ''sued'' Maya over it in a certain old trailer, and, finally, got Ema a prison sentence because she apparently ate it.

* It's probably easier to find ''[[Devil May Cry]]'' fanfic shipping Dante×Nevan than Dante×Lady. Nevan is one of his ''weapons.'' This, or shipping anyone×any other Devil Arm, is a borderline example though (they're demons transformed into weapons).

** In one of the ''[[Devil May Cry]]'' manga, Dante says that he once got drunk and proposed to a mop.

* ''[[Project Reality]]'' will have [[Middle-Eastern Coalition]] soldiers kiss their rifles on occasion.

* ''[[Kingdom Hearts]]'':

** Also Zexion×[[Throw the Book At Them|Lexicon]], especially among the "snakesonasora" MST fans.

** [[Kid Hero|Sora]]×Keyblade and [[Omnicidal Maniac|Xemnas]]×[[MacGuffin|Kingdom Hearts]]. It exists.

* ''[[Psychonauts]]'': People pair Ford Cruller and his bacon. It's actually rather amusing.

** A canon example is Admiral!Ford Cruller×Canoe.

* ''[[Team Fortress 2]]'':

** Heavy and his minigun [[I Call It Vera|Sasha]]. Though it looks like Natascha might be bringing in some competition...

*** One of the tie-in comics shows that Sasha has her own bed next to the Heavy's bed.

** Heavy×[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8IK8F68VzA Sandvich].

** That Link×Master Sword pairing has become [[Hilarious in Hindsight]] thanks to ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword|The Legend of Zelda Skyward Sword]]'', where Link's [[Exposition Fairy]], and thus his next possible [[Shipping]] candidate, is the ([[Prequel|future]]) Master Sword.

*** On that note, Fi×Scrapper. One's the spirit of the ([[Prequel|future]]) Master Sword, the other's a robot. [[Sarcasm Mode|This will end well.]]

** The reason Zaeed isn't a romance option is because [[I Call It Vera|Jessie]] is [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9-dLzzQuVM the only] rifle for him.

*** It actually became Canon in ''[[Mass Effect 3]]'' when EDI gets, as Joker puts it, a "Sexy new robot body". Naturally Joker has a field day and if Shepard decides to play matchmaker, they eventually ''do'' end up dating.

** The Geth Legion repeatedly avoids the question when Shepard asks why they used a piece of his/her armour to repair themself.

* ''[[Halo]]:'' Master Chief×Cortana, though which one is the person and which is the mindless inanimate object is up for debate.

* There is a whole mess of Cargo Ships for ''[[The World Ends With You]]''. Most of them involve Sho Minamimoto, and are inspired by the line "This mic is zetta sexy!", said after having stolen it from a rock band. Oh, and the giant heaps of garbage he makes and insists on having called art. Not to mention intangibles like the number Pi, which he knows to a million digits, and math in general (Or calculators, text books... I've seen it written he attacked Konishi for insulting one in the kink meme, and it didn't jump out at me as odd at all). This isn't even mentioning the popular crack pairing of Mr. Hanekoma and coffee. On the other hand, [[Empathic Weapon|Mr. Mew]] is debatable. (Conversely, I bet Shiki×Clothes is a ship, too.) Plus Neku×Headphones, Neku×CAT's graffiti, Kariya×Lollipop, Beat×Hat×Skateboard, Joshua×Cellphone, Joshua×Frilly Parasol, {{spoiler|Not to mention him and the gun. The fanfics I've read usually involve him using it on Neku, but then again, at least one request on the big Livejournal kinkmeme says blowjob using the gun, so...}} Shuto or Yammer×Pins, {{spoiler|On that note, AD!Neku×Pins. Also, so long as we're listing everything spoilery, Prince×Ramen, Megumi or Joshua×Shibuya.}} Finally, Beat×Curry, a large chunk of fandom's OTP.

* ''[[Borderlands]]'' gives us Patricia Tannis and her recorder. Please note that this is ''completely canon''. Until they broke up, of course. Tannis thinks the recorder was cheating on her. They remained friends, however.

* In ''[[Tekken]] 6'', newcomer Lars Alexandersson seems to be [[Robo Ship|wee bit close to fellow newcomer]] [[Robot Girl|Alisa Boskonovitch]]...

* Some ''[[Myst]]'' fans enjoy pairing Saavedro with the squee pelt he wears around his arm.

* ''[[Castlevania]]: [[Castlevania: Curse of Darkness|Curse of Darkness]]''. Hector. [[Slouch of Villainy|Chair.]] The Woodman's Chair even ''lampshades'' it, with instructions to "sit carefully, or it may look rather rude".

** How about Letz Shake×Dr.Shake?

*** aren't they the same person/robot/cyborg thing? Dr shake even says he is going to get revenge for his previous efeat from Henry.

* One ''[[Golden Sun]]'' [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5246852/1/A_Roof_Over_His_Heart fanfic] is Isaac×the roof of his house.

* ''[[Star Ocean]] 2'''s Ashton really seems to like barrels...

* [[Half Life|Gordon Freeman]]×[[Weapon of Choice|crowbar]].

* [[Left 4 Dead|Louis×Peelz]]. Not to mention I'm sure Coach×Chocolate is also equally as popular.

** The Dark Carnival campaign also gives us Gnome Chompski, a large garden gnome whom can be carried through most of the level. An achievement is given for loving him enough to carry him all the way to the helicopter at the end. This of course results in some players developing an attachment to him.

** Rochelle×Magnum. Considering what she says when she finds one in-game, this is actually canon.

* [[I.M. Meen]]'s book is made to order, but it isn't to be read.

* For ''[[Super Smash Brothers]]'', there has been a preponderance of Sheik/Teacup fanart ever since the adventure mode in ''Brawl'' had Sheik stop a battle to join Peach for a [[Spot of Tea]].

* ''[[World of Warcraft]]'': Drull and Tog'thar, two orcs who have been held prisoner for six years, have developed unusual attachments to their ball-and-chain shackles. They're in therapy for it, although they insist they are happy with Teddy and Laverne and just want to be left alone.

* ''[[Fire Emblem]]: Radiant Dawn'' gave us [[Chivalrous Pervert|Gatrie]]×Tree-in-a-Skirt, which has become very popular with the fans ever since it was mentioned by [[Jerkass|Shinon]].

** Isabela also gets some of this... also with Bianca.

** Varric x Bianca is actually canon.

* Two such pairings are running gags in ''[[Inazuma Eleven]]'' fandom:

** Endou x Soccer, because he eats and breathes [[The Beautiful Game]].

** Fudou x Bench, after [[Break the Haughty]] leaves Fudou gets stuck as a benchwarmer for all but half a match of the FFI preliminaries arc.

* In at least one sect of the [[Mega Man (video game)|Mega Man]] fandom, we are given [[Mega Man 7|Turbo Man]] x Sonic Formula ([[Mega Man 2|Quick Man]]'s car).

 

== [[Web Comics]] ==

* ''[[Sexy Losers]]'' featured a Prince Charming×Cinderella's shoe scene.

* [http://www.squidi.net/comic/amd/view.php?series=amd&ep=1&id=63 What] [http://www.squidi.net/comic/amd/view.php?series=amd&ep=1&id=64 about] [http://www.squidi.net/comic/amd/view.php?series=amd&ep=1&id=67 Hector?]

* ''[[The Wotch]]'': Cassie×Plant. It's rather one sided, as {{spoiler|Cassie dumped a [[Love Potion]] into the pot,}} making it an in-universe case.

* ''[[A Miracle of Science]]'': Mars likes you, and Brazil thinks you're cute.

* [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0402.html This strip] of ''[[The Order of the Stick|Order of the Stick]]'' gives us Elan×Banjo Puppet and Haley×Sack of Gold. And don't forget about Roy and his sword.

* Knowing ''[[Achewood]]'''s fanbase, there are probably some truly demented pairings. Ray×Ray's AIBO. Cartilege Head×The Rollerskate of Doom. Vlad×Soap. Click Robot×Ultra Peanut even.

* Dave Davenport and [http://www.webcomicsnation.com/shaenongarrity/narbonic/series.php?view=archive&chapter=10185 Lovelace] {{spoiler|the sentient computer}} from ''[[Narbonic]]''.

** Darth Maul even noted that Skull-Fucky would get pissed if he saw Larxene grinding with a toaster.

* ''[[Homestuck]]'': Wayward Vagabond×[[Trademark Favorite Food|TaB]] is practically canon. Just [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=002610 see for yourself.]

*** At least one Bro/Lil Cal fic exists, see the link in [[Troll Fic]].

* [http://www.asofterworld.com/index.php?id=320 This] ''[[A Softer World]]'' strip.

* [[Oglaf]] features this in a few different contexts, including [http://oglaf.com/fairest/ this].

* [[Hanna Is Not a Boy's Name]] with {...}/Paper Crane and Conrad/blood.

* In [[Problem Sleuth]], anyone with the fan. Wifehearst might also count, as she was originally a playing piece in a game of Life.

* ''[[The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage]]'': Ada Lovelace showed a little ''too'' much affection towards the Difference Engine at the end of "The Organist".

 

== Web Original ==

* ''[[Lonelygirl15]]'': P. Monkey×Bree, P. Monkey×Sarah, P. Monkey×Mallory, P. Monkey×Jonas, etc. Although none of those are serious. Hope they're not, anyway.

* [http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/485677 Turtle×Rock in this cute animation.]

* ''[[Twilight the Musical]]'' has spawned a following of Bella×Cactus shipping.

** Not to mention Edward×Edward doll.

*** So is that a [[Love Triangle]] with Evil Edward? And where does Cardboard Edward factor in?

* [[Ask That Guy With The Glasses|Ask That Guy]] ''really'' loves his pipe.

** And [[Mike J]] is really [[Ho Yay|close]] to his [[Bad Movie Beatdown|Film Brain]] puppet.

** [[Brows Held High|Oancitizen]] and his trashcan.

* ''[[Homestar Runner]]'':

** At one point, Strong Bad fell in love with a wagon full of pancakes.

** Homestar inadvertently addresses this trope while running a recruiting booth.

** The Cinder Block×The Stop Sign, though their relationship is [http://www.homestarrunner.com/sbemail85.html allegedly troubled].

** It's the King of Town's fiftieth anniversary with Brunswick Stew.

* ''[[Profound Moments in Left 4 Dead 2]]'' Aovnick ''really'' loves Ramirez the garden gnome.

* [[Ben Drowned|Ryukaki]]/bike is an extremely popular pairing. [[Rule 34|People have actually written porn of it.]]

 

== Western Animation ==

** Cabbage Merchant x Cabbage...I guess he'll have to fight [[Persona 4|Adachi]] over it.

*** [http://doctorpontouf.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d1duhyb Ozai×Comet].

** Mako's Scarf×Everyone. Yes, everyone loves it!

* One of these was canon in ''[[Futurama]]'': Bender×Planet Express Ship. Fry even [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshades]] it: "Wow, Bender, are you and the ship an item? I mean, I know you're both ''items''..."

** Also, Fry once made out with a radiator.

*** Hey, you gotta admit she was hot.

*** Our love is just like yours, only hotter 'cuz I'm in it.

** Scruffy and the wash bucket.

* ''[[Family Guy]]'' has a cutaway gag where Peter tried to marry a blueberry pie. ("Loooove you"). In the amount of time it took for the lawyer to get over his disbelief and retrieve the necessary papers to fill out, Peter had managed to eat the pie.

** Peter and a bag of fat that was sucked out of Lois's body. It was exactly what it looked like.

** And there was also a cutaway gag about a woman catching an STD from a toilet.

** Meg and hot dogs.

** As well as a giant sandwich... let's just say Homer and food.

** "Oh, Television....teacher, mother, secret lover..."

** The psychologist Rocko hires to cure Spunky of the fixation also [[Crowning Moment of Funny|winds up fixated on the mop]], and is shown taking it on a date near the end of the episode.

** Heifer and...a milking machine. Yes, Heifer [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iq_vqDtWRLY gets hooked up to a milking machine] at one point, and ''enjoys'' it. Keep in mind that he is a ''male''. He even gives a tearful goodbye to the machine. There is ''no'' other way to interpret this, but lord knows I've tried.

** Ben×Eunice.

** For some reason, there's Kevin×Car. [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4728221/1/Love_Like_Thisr No, really.] It's not all that crack, considering the events of "Paradox".

** The early episode "Just One Bite" included a montage where Squidward falls in love with, marries, and grows old with a Krabby Patty. It's a [[Dream Sequence]], but still.

** Spongebob×Spatula. How come this hasn't made it here yet? There was practically a whole episode on it!

** Squidward×Clari. He even sleeps with the instrument. "I've got a hot date with a little lady, and her name is Clarinet."

** Plankton and Karen. They're married in canon, and in one chapter they said their relationship started in junior high school or so...when Karen was just a security camera...

* ''[[The Looney Tunes Show]]'' has Elmer Fudd and a <s> grilled</s> gwilled cheese sandwich.

* One episode of ''[[The Venture Brothers]]'' has The Monarch having sex with the broken down remains of Guard-O, the Venture Brothers' non-sentient security robot. This is even weirder in context: its monitor was displaying [[Foe Yay|Dr. Venture's face]], and he said he was trying to give it chlamydia.

* ''[[Perfect Hair Forever]]'': "Can you get this Vacuum cleaner to f*ck this cake?", Uncle Grandfather.

* ''[[Transformers Animated]]'' features canonical Constructicons×nonsentient cars.

* ''[[Thomas the Tank Engine]]'': [[Ho Yay|Edward×James]]. There's fanart. [http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y31/Fffraulein/yaoiThomas.jpg Seriously.] (Warning: Potentially ruined childhood contained within.)

* ''[[Storm Hawks]]'': "The Condor demands an apology!" Stork×Condor is canon, really.

** And let's not forget Kevin and that damn bike. It's practically the only thing in the world that he obsseses over more than foiling Eddy. And that's saying ALOT.

* ''[[Aqua Teen Hunger Force]]:'' "Gentlemen... BEHOLD! I have made LOVE to this MACHINE! And now, in retrospect, I ASK WHY!"

** I'm pretty sure the clown-wig Carl wore did some things to him, sexually.

** Technically, [[Memetic Molester|Handbanana]].

** Then there is the spin-off series ''[[The Penguins of Madagascar]]'' that shows both Rico and Julien showing interest in a large barbie doll. Even Skipper makes a subtle pass at her. Miss the wife already, Mr. Married-man?

** One episode has Kowalski falling in love with the animal control van.

** "Quiet, Maurice! I am wooing the smoothie!"

* In ''[[Courage the Cowardly Dog]]'', a goose god falls in love with Eustace's truck because of the sound of its horn, and eventually ascends with the truck to heaven (they get a new truck). In a later episode there's a quick cameo of the goose god cuddling it on a fluffy cloud.

** You forgot about the Casino slot machine.

** And [[Cool Car|Herbie]]. And a ''bell''.

** Then there is Cosmo/Phillip, i.e. the nickel that Cosmo found and keeps in the goldfish castle, in one episode he is seen sleeping with it in his arms, ''while Wanda was right next to him.''

** In another episode, Mr. Turner {{spoiler|whilst under a spell by Cupid's arrow}} comes very close to marrying a dead rose bush.

* Captain Murphy×Bucket-Head Wendy from ''[[Sealab 2021]]''.

* An episode of ''[[Tiny Toon Adventures]]'' had Montana Max fall in love with a giant gold nugget that he called "Goldie".

* [[Rugrats|Chuckie]] and Boppo. [[Double Entendre|A kid his age should be outside playing with his friends, not sitting alone in his room bopping his Boppo.]]

* The ''[[Veggie Tales]]'' song "His Cheeseburger."

** There was also one episode where Stan ran outside to console his SUV, saying he was going to 'tongue [it's] gas-hole'.

* Dan×Turkey Sub in ''[[Dan Vs.]]'' "The Fancy Restaurant."

** Also Tom x Bloomberg

** There's even parings with Princess Celestia and the door she unlocked by [[Getting Crap Past the Radar|sticking her horn in the "keyhole"]] in "The Return of Harmony Part One".

** And, of course, Trixie×Pinecone.

* In an episode of ''[[The Looney Tunes Show]]'', Lola [[Cloudcuckoolander|gets into an entire conversation with an armoire]], and is seen telling it that she already has a boyfriend.

 

== Real Life ==

* [[Sonichu|Christian Westron Chandler]] and [[Squick|a PS3]]. Pass the [[Brain Bleach]] please.

* Spencer Pratt×creepy flesh colored beard.

* A woman named Jannene Swift married a rock in 1976.

* In another case of Objectum Sexuality, [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/5972632/Woman-getting-married-to-fairground-ride.html Amy Wolfe is getting married to 1001 Nachts] at [[Knoebels]].

* At one point, prostitutes in some part of India used to marry trees. In this way, they would emancipate themselves from parental control without saddling themselves with husbands.

* Many, many musicians are like this with their instruments.

* Apparently, in 1979, a woman was officially married to her fifty-pound pet rock. There were over twenty witnesses.

* [[Gene Roddenberry]]'s ode to his airplane, "Nightingale Woman", which he later reused in the ''[[Star Trek]]'' pilot as "one of the most passionate love sonnets of the past couple of centuries".

* [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1580535/Worker-caught-having-sex-with-Henry-Hoover.html Seriously.]

* The common phrase "I'm married to my job."

* You and your hand. There's a reason it's called [[A Date with Rosie Palms]].

** Don't forget dildos. And they're not just for women.

 

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