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** Hikaru/Kaoru is the most popular pairing on fanfiction.net, despite it being the least likely of all the pairings to become canon.
** From the same website, Haruhi/Kyouya is apparently more popular than Haruhi/Hikaru.
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* Fans of ''[[Cowboy Bebop]]'' can't agree on who Spike should be with, but they do seem to agree that it's not his canon love interest, [[Shallow Love Interest|Julia]]. It helps that [[Word of God]] has confirmed Spike and Faye had a thing for each other, but Spike's obsession with his past prevented him from doing anything about it.
* ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]'' has not yet reached its conclusion, but no matter who ends up "winning", ''somebody'' is going to be complaining about it, as there are numerous ships that are extremely popular in the fandom (Negi/Asuna for a start).
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** There's also the fact that Rei [[Netorare|toyed with him]] on purpose, knowing full well what his feelings were.
** Of course, in a post apocalyptic world where the only people you know but aren't undead yet are gendered over 2:1 in favour of women, there's not exactly much in the way of alternatives.
* ''[[One Piece]]'' has a few, despite [[No Hugging, No Kissing]] being heavily hinted at as the author's intent. (Of course, when Oda first made that intent known, he was in his early twenties and single, now he's married and has children, and he could always change his mind.) The fandom heavily prefers pairing Luffy with Nami, citing a unique relationship between the two as evidence, as well as the fact that author Oda's wife apparently cosplays as her. On the Yaoi side, Luffy is often paired with Zoro, or Zoro with Sanji. Other fan-favored pairings include the sorta-obvious Usopp and Kaya, as well as Zoro and Robin.
** A more extensive list includes:
*** Franky/Robin (due to them having been described as the "dad" and "mom" of the Straw Hat crew, numerous scenes of [[Character Development]] they share, and both being strongly connected to the [[Myth Arc]])
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* Tohru/Natsuno and Tatsumi/Ozaki are shipped the most in ''[[Shiki]]'', especially [[Ho Yay|Tohru/Natsuno]].
* In ''[[Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle]]'' Kurogane and Fai are the biggest non canon pairing due to the massive amounts of [[Ho Yay]] between them, and the fact that neither of them have any love interests.
* ''[[Working!!]]'' has Souta/Poplar, as they seem to actually treat each other nicely, as opposed to Souta's almost-[[Official Couple]] Inami, whom he has what can only be called [[Belligerent Sexual Tension]] [[
* ''[[No. 6]]'' has Shion and Nezumi, who are ''by far'' the most shipped couple in the fandom. It helps that they have truly massive amounts of [[Ho Yay]] and [[Ship Tease]] and {{spoiler|go on to have two on-screen kisses}}.
* ''[[Fruits Basket]]'' is a shipping goldmine! While many support the canical Kyo/Tohru, Yuki/Tohru and Kyo/Yuki complete the love triangle with a large fan base.
* ''[[Vampire Knight]]'' has the infamous Zero/Yuuki Kaname/Yuuki Zero/Kaname love triangle. Many fans also support the relationship between minor characters Senri and Rima.
* To be a ''[[Black Butler]]'' fan and not ship Sebastian/Ciel is to be insane.
* ''[[Fairy Tail]]'' has its fair share. A good majority of the fandom ships Natsu/Lucy, partly in due to their ''[[One Piece]]'' parallels and their overall closeness. Jellal/Erza and Gray/Juvia is also abundantly supported, helped in fact by the continuous [[Ship Tease]] for the former and the [[Stalker with a Crush|adorable]] [[Dogged Nice Guy|interactions]] for the latter. [[Beta Couple]] Gajeel/Levy is also unanimously supported by the fandom.
** Also Cobra and Cubelious{{spoiler|Kinana}}
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== Comic Books ==
* A lot of people forget that [[Archie Comics|Archie and Veronica]] were the original [[Official Couple]]; it's only because of Betty being a [[Better Than Canon]] match for him that [[Betty and Veronica]] even became a ''question''. The newspaper comic version does a much better job of emphasizing Archie/Veronica, but this still just doesn't help at all. During the last couple of decades, the writers have tried to make the triangle more even; Betty gets about as many dates with Archie, and Veronica has several other (one-shot) boyfriends.
** How seriously do fans take Archie/Betty? A Dallas comics collector [https://web.archive.org/web/20140927235700/http://www.wiredprnews.com/2009/08/15/archie-comics-collector-sells-issue-to-protest-engagement_200908155186.html sold his copy of Archie Comics #1 at auction], to protest a storyline where ''Archie and Veronica'' get married [[Twenty Minutes Into the Future]]. The joke's on him - that particular storyline was but just one of a pair of [[Alternate Timeline]]s, covering the first half of that storyline. The second half had ''Archie and Betty'' getting married also in the near-future.
** Not actually preferred but Betty x Veronica (and Jughead x Archie to a lesser extent) are pretty popular. Maybe even more popular than Veronica and Archie.
* [[Strange Girl|Lenore]] and [[Our Vampires Are Different|Ragamuffin]] from ''[[Lenore the Cute Little Dead Girl]]'' and ''how''. To the point where most fanart and fanfiction involve the two of them. It doesn't help that they have a bucket filled with [[No Yay]] and [[Relationship Writing Fumble]], especially in the original comics.
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** Kanaan's very existence was an example of [[Real Life Writes the Plot]]. When Teyla's actress became pregnant, it had to be acknowledged onscreen, and then something had to become of the baby. So Teyla's one true love becomes... someone who exists just enough for us to know who's babysitting once Teyla returns to action. The writers felt that retroactively pairing Teyla off with one of her fellow main characters would've been weak, because fans would've wanted to know ''how'' they got together.
* In ''[[The Middleman]]'', the Middleman and Wendy, despite the fact that the [[Word of God]] has stated this pairing would never be allowed as long as the original creator remained in control of the show.
* Most viewers wanted to see Kara and Lee together, but in the [[Grand Finale]] of ''[[Battlestar Galactica
** Speaking of...Billy. Many viewers found the Dee/Lee pairing came out of the blue, and could never like Dee after what she did to Billy.
* Most ''[[Better Off Ted]]'' viewers ship Ted with Veronica over [[Designated Love Interest]] Linda, despite the fact that Veronica is [[The Stoic]] who has no interest in a romantic relationship with Ted. It helps that they have already had sex without it getting weird, plus they get along well even though Veronica is Ted's boss and Veronica gets along well with Ted's daughter Rose.
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* Jack Carter and Nathan Stark are ''the'' Fan-Preferred Couple in ''[[Eureka]]'' and keeps being it even after {{spoiler|Stark dies}}.
* ''[[Victorious]]'' as a Nickelodeon teen comedy is unlikely to end with canon lesbian or gay pairings. This has lead to a handful of Fan-Preferred Couple variations due to the Segregation rule:
** When the show aired the first season, the overall Fan-Preferred Couple was the [[Les Yay]] pairing of Cat Valentine, a perky [[Genki Girl]] [[Cloudcuckoolander]] with [[Goth]] looking, [[Deadpan Snarker|Deadpan Snarking]] Jade. When Tori is added to the Cat/Jade pairing, it becomes the Fan Preferred [[
*** By the end of Season Two the Fan-Preferred Couple shifted to Tori/Jade aka ''Jori''.. to the point where phrases including the name have ''trended worldwide'' on [[Twitter]]. [http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=9060396&l=91c33b5239&id=134265793307 The creator has started teasing the pairing as well.]
** The preferred hetrosexual pairing is the main character Tori with Andre in a [[Just Friends]] romance.
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** Same with Ema/Klavier from ''[[Apollo Justice]]''.
* According to the canon of ''[[Final Fantasy IV]]'', [[The Lancer]] [[Ensemble Darkhorse|Kain]] [[Memetic Badass|Highwind]] is Rosa's [[Unlucky Childhood Friend]] and thus, [[Romantic Runner-Up|second fiddle to]] [[Official Couple|Cecil]]. Instead, many fans pair him up with [[Blow You Away|Elemental]] [[Cute Monster Girl|Archfiend]] [[Evil Is Sexy|Barbariccia]], as she [[Foe Yay|has a rivalry with him and simultaneously harbors feelings for him]] as [[Theme Pairing|"a fellow creature of the sky"]]. What was originally a [[Crack Pairing]] became considerably popular over time, especially [[Ship Tease|thanks to]] ''[[Final Fantasy IV: The After Years|The After Years]]''.<ref>In a bit of irony, it should be noted that in the DS remake of ''IV'', Rosa and Barbariccia [[Acting for Two|share]] [[Talking to Himself|VAs]]: [[Yuko Kaida]] (JPN) and [[Karen Strassman|Kirsty Pape]] (ENG).</ref>
** Cecil/Kain/Rosa is a Fan Preferred ''[[
* In ''[[Final Fantasy VI]]'', a fairly significant portion of the fanbase [[Shipping|ships]] Terra/Locke, despite the fact that Locke/Celes is the [[Official Couple]]. Celes/Edgar is also a fairly common ship, and the Japanese fanbase for Terra/Sabin is quite significant.
** Setzer: Setzer reacts with interest when Terra's name is first mentioned, and Terra is the only person to ask Setzer a personal question during the whole World of Balance; when {{spoiler|the world is destroyed,}}, it's Setzer who grabs Terra {{spoiler|from the split deck of the Blackjack,}}. Setzer will save Celes in the ending instead of Locke if Locke is not present. Celes will also encourage Setzer to fight Kefka and to recover his friends' airship, snapping him out of despair.
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* ''[[Mortal Kombat (video game)|Mortal Kombat]]''. The closest we have to a canon couple would be that of Liu Kang/Kitana (which was shot down in ''4'' when Liu Kang reluctantly denied Kitana's offer to rule by her side in Edenia due to his status as Earthrealm's protector and the champion of Mortal Kombat) and ''maybe'' [[Ship Tease|Younger Sub-Zero/Sareena]], as well as Baraka's [[Stalker with a Crush|one-sided crush]] on Mileena (whether or not the feelings are reciprocated are left ambiguous). [[Shipping Goggles|Believe it or not]], the occasional bouts of [[Ship-to-Ship Combat]], [[Die for Our Ship]], and [[Ships That Pass in the Night]] do come into play among the fandom. However, the ''one'' pairing most fans seem to approve of is [[Belligerent Sexual Tension|Johnny Cage/Sonya Blade]]. It doesn't help that [[Mortal Kombat (film)|the movie]] gave them pretty of [[Ship Tease]] (an aspect that seemed to have been [[Ret Canon|ported over to]] [[Mortal Kombat 9|the 2011 game]]) and Sonya's relationship with her CO Jax Briggs [[She Is Not My Girlfriend|is strictly professional]].
** [[Pair the Spares|Smoke/Jade]] seems to be somewhat popular, stemming almost mainly from the fact that the two were originally seen in ''[[Mortal Kombat 2]]'' peeking out from behind the trees of [[When Trees Attack|the Living Forest]]. The ship is sometimes used as [[Ship Mates|an anchor]] to [[Ships That Pass in the Night|Sub-Zero/Kitana]], but mainly sails independently of the duo's respective [[Heterosexual Life Partners|best buds]].
** Two surprisingly popular [[Crack Pairing]]s involving Mileena are Johnny/Mileena and Scorpion/Mileena. Most fans rationalize that Johnny [[Casanova Wannabe|is the kind of guy who would tap that anyway]] (the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaalCI26XKU ending] to ''[[Mortal Kombat: Shaolin Monks|Shaolin Monks]]'' even has Cage talk about looking for Mileena). The latter has been floating around in the fandom for some time, but came roaring back with a vengeance in ''MK9'' thanks a [[Memetic Mutation|memetically]] popular mission in the Challenge Tower involving Mileena (already reimagined here as a [[Psychopathic Manchild]]) acting [[
** Reptile/Khameleon. When Khameleon made her debut in the [[Nintendo 64|N64]] version of ''[[Mortal Kombat 3|Trilogy]]'', her backstory revealed that Reptile was not the [[Last of His Kind]]; she was the sole renaming female Saurian/Raptor/Zaterran (the race Reptile had agonizingly tried to revive to no avail) and [[Adam and Eve Plot|was searching for him in the hopes of repopulating their once great civilization]]. Since Reptile is one of the biggest [[The Woobie|Woobies]] in the series (mostly because his superiors tend to screw him over and not uphold their deal to restore Zaterra to its former glory, a development that [[Sanity Slippage|slowly drives Reptile further and further into insanity]] until he reverts to his original reptilian form in ''[[Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance|Deadly Alliance]]''), fans believe that '''a)''' Reptile's [[Heel Face Turn]] is ''long'' overdue, '''b)''' his race should be resurrected, and '''c)''' [[Earn Your Happy Ending|he deserves a legitimately happy ending]]. A ''very'' happy ending.
* Despite ''[[Lux-Pain]]'' having a small fanbase, two of the main pairings that everyone can agree on are [[Belligerent Sexual Tension|Shinji/Mika]] and [[Ho Yay|Ryo]]/[[Childhood Friend Romance|Hibiki]]. As for the main character himself, while he is shipped with everyone, the most popular pairing by default is [[Ho Yay|Akira]]/[[Opposites Attract|Atsuki]].
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**** Arguably it was canon for the entire final season, they just didn't ''admit'' it until the last five minutes.
* The ''[[Scooby Doo]]'' fandom is overwhelmed with Fred/Daphne supporters and a sizeable deal of Shaggy/Velma fans, mainly because these are almost always the pairs who end up together during "let's split up, gang" moments. There ''are'' some other shipping groups, but these two are the most popular ones by a huge margin. It also helps that they've become more-or-less official in the [[Scooby Doo Mystery Inc|newest Scooby-Doo series]].
* In spite of the fact that the ''[[Happy Tree Friends]]'' is a show about cute critters that die horribly and painfully, the amount of fanfiction is quite big. Most fans prefer [[Mind Game Ship|Flippy and Flaky]] together, due to the fact that both seem to have mental problems and Flaky appears to be Flippy's closest friend and it has been hinted several times that he may like her, because he stopped killing her in recent episodes, for an unknown reason, even though she has developed a phobia of him. They even have their own [https://web.archive.org/web/20120712224116/http://photobucket.com/images/flippy%20and%20flaky/ very large section of Photobucket images].
* On ''[[Total Drama]],'' [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold|Duncan]]/[[Perky Goth|Gwen]] was this to [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold|Duncan]]/[[Well, Excuse Me, Princess!|Courtney]]. But that dynamic has switched due to canon changes.
** Because ''Total Drama'' has [[Loads and Loads of Characters|so many major characters]] and an active [[Crack Ship]]ping community, this trope happens a lot for the less popular couples—for example, [[Cloudcuckoolander|Izzy]] is paired more with [[Deadpan Snarker|Noah]] or [[Homeschooled Kids|Ezekiel]] than her canon boyfriend [[Big Eater|Owen]], while [[Iron Butt Monkey|Tyler]] gets ignored so [[Dumb Blonde|Lindsay]] can wind up with Trent instead.
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* ''[[Super Robot Monkey Team Hyperforce Go!]]'' has a weird case of this. Hints dropped in the series originally seemed to show Otto/Nova as canon, but it seemed like almost everybody in the fandom shipped Sprx/Nova. Then hints of that started to show and eventually it became the canon. A comment from one of the voice actors mixed with that the creator does pay attention to the fandom seems to hint that the coupling was changed because of this, making the FPC the official couple.
** And ironically, though Sprx/Nova is still the main fandom ship, there are now more Otto/Nova shippers around filling the FPC bill.
▲** Kim/Ron before they became an [[Official Couple]].
* [[Word of God|Rob Renzetti]] confirmed that, had ''[[My Life as a Teenage Robot]]'' continued, Jenny would have ended up with Sheldon...no doubt upsetting a majority of the fandom, who are Jenny/Brad supporters. Though in fairness, Jenny/Sheldon does have a pretty large fanbase too.
* Professor Utonium and Ms. Keene from ''[[The Powerpuff Girls]]'' has a strong fan following. Though it's dwarfed by [[Toy Ship|the pairing of]] the girls with [[Distaff Counterpart|their Rowdyruff Boys counterparts]].
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