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* ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha (anime)|Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]]'': Bardiche/Raising Heart. It's only fair; everyone else on that show gets shipped with someone. Plus, given that they happen to be intelligent [[Empathic Weapon|empathic weapons]] whose owners are more or less canon, it is more probable than most of the choices here.

* ''[[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.

** 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.

* 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.

* ''[[The Maiden Heist]]'' is about three museum security guards so obsessed with their respective favourite artpieces, they attempt the titular heist to save them from being relocated to a Copenhagen museum.

* 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!"

* 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]]''.

** 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.]

* [[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.

* ''[[Sledge Hammer]]!'' Fans don't even ''need'' to engage in any Cargo Shipping for this show. Hammer and his gun are clearly the [[Official Couple]]!

* [[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'

== 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. }}

* [[Pee Wee Herman]] and Chairy have a...special relationship. The less said about it, the better.

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

'''Valentine:''' Belike, boy, then, you are in love; for last morning you could not see to wipe my shoes.<br />

'''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. }}

*** 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.

** 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...

* 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).

** 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.

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

** Scruffy and the wash bucket.

* The ''[[American Dragon Jake Long]]'' episode "Ski Trip" had Spud x Ski Lift chair, complete with a fantasy montage in which Spud marries the device and they have half-human, half-ski lift cheerleader. The relationship ends by the end of the episode, with Spud claiming "''I'' broke up with ''you''!")

* ''[[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.

** Not to be outdone, [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/98910-Korean-Otaku-Marries-Anime-Body-Pillow a Korean otaku] married his [[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha|Fate Testarossa]] body pillow.

* [[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."