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On the other hand, these kinds of shows often have a pair of characters who are a little more overtly paired off, usually two people the other characters admire. (This makes [[The Hero]] and [[The Chick]] the usual suspects, but any combination may prove valid.) They might [[No Hugging, No Kissing|never kiss on screen]] or even flirt with other characters, but it's [[Everyone Can See It|understood by the cast that the two are an item]]. Naturally, this does absolutely nothing to offset [[Shipping]], as there seems an [[Shipping Bed Death|inexplicable inverse relationship]] between the officiality of a couple and the actual fervent fan interest in it.
Extremely common in [[
Sometimes, there's another couple that sometimes serves as a [[Foil]] and/or companion to the "official" couple that involves [[The Hero]]. This other couple usually involves [[The Lancer]] and a minor female. This couple is called the [[Beta Couple]].
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▲== Anime & Manga ==
* ''[[Sukisho]]'' has Sora and Sunao (or Yoru and Ran) and [[Beta Couple|Nanami and Shinichirou]].
* ''[[My-HiME]]'' has a few of these: there's {{spoiler|Mai and Yuuichi}} (though they're both in heavy denial), {{spoiler|Akira and Takumi}}, and Akane and Kazuya (who are the [[Beta Couple]]). [[All There in the Manual|The artbooks]] also canonize {{spoiler|[[Word of Gay|Natsuki and Shizuru]]}}.
** ''[[Mai-Otome]]'' switches things around a bit (thanks in part to [[
* Haruka (Sailor Uranus) and Michiru (Sailor Neptune) from ''[[Sailor Moon]]''. A rarity in that unlike the show's main couple, they're quite popular and shipping either of them with men usually leads to an extreme backlash.
** More importantly is the main character Usagi and her boyfriend Mamoru. Each has upwards of five people lusting after them, depending on the canon, but they are ''literal'' destined lovers. This doesn't stop the fanon, though.
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** Similarly to Touya and Yukito, Gingetsu and Ran in ''[[Clover]]'', though they are slightly more canon as Ran is referred to several times as 'Gingetsu's partner', and [[Word of God]] states that they were written as an old married couple.
*** Eriol/Kaho is official too, though they never showed up in Tsubasa. There's always a chance they might later show up as a couple in ''xxxHolic'' though.
**** In both ''[[Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle]]'' and ''[[
** Official [[I Want My Beloved to Be Happy]] unrequited love is Tomoyo for Sakura. While most pronounced in ''[[Cardcaptor Sakura]]'', it seems that every Tomoyo in TRC has an immediate attraction to Sakura...
* Chi and Hideki in ''[[Chobits]]''.
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** Yamato/Sora and Miyako/Ken are however official
* ''[[Digimon Tamers]]'' has [[Toy Ship|Takato and Jeri]]
* Dan ([[Gonk|short and acorn-headed]]) and Miyako Miyazaki in ''[[Bamboo Blade]]''. The cast is still trying to figure out how this one works, although it helps Miya Miya is also a gag character who flips between sweet and [[
* Yusuke and Keiko, Sensui and Itsuki in ''[[Yu Yu Hakusho]]''.
** [[Word of God|Yoshihiro Togashi]] originally did plan for Hiei and {{spoiler|Mukuro}} to be an official item, but severe fan backlash prevented him from doing so.
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* ''Sket Dance'': Himeko and Bossun.
** Unique in some respect among Shonen because of how much attention it actually gets in the canon, and how even though Himeko is a [[Tsundere]], the two are rather openly affectionate (in a non-sappy way, promise) for any manga period.
* ''[[X 1999]]'' has Sorata and Arashi, [[
** Kamui and [[The Ingenue|Kotori]] also count as an Official Couple, even though {{spoiler|she dies later on}}. In fact, rather than any of the other couples already mentioned, these two appear on the 'the Lovers' tarot card included with the tankoubon version [https://web.archive.org/web/20180222145411/http://ryen.net/tarot/x/]
* ''[[Mirai Nikki]]'' has Yukiteru and Yuno, a [[The Ship Yard|Loose Cannon Ship]].
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* Shiki and Mikiya of ''[[Kara no Kyoukai:]]''. Not very surprising, considering it's essentially a romance. Well, there's some stuff in there about the nature of personalities and murder too, but the romance is the important bit. [[Brother-Sister Incest|Azaka is really kind of unhappy about it.]]
* By ''[[When They Cry]]'''s [[Mind Screw|standards]], a few of the couples from ''[[Umineko no Naku Koro ni]]'' look to be set in stone (unless it turns out someone's hiding something... [[Unreliable Narrator|again]]). Among those are: George/Shannon, Jessica/Kanon, Battler/{{spoiler|Beatrice}} (However, these three couples become very messy due to the fact that {{spoiler|all three cousins are in fact in love with the same person}}), and Bernkastel/Lambdadelta.
* In ''[[Durarara!!]]'', the only couples that are together are [[
** Unless they break up at some point due to obvious complications that may arise in such a relationship or unless the light novels are different (though I don't see why it would be), Celty and Shinra are pretty much official.
* ''[[Hellsing]]'' has [[Officer and a Gentleman|Pip Bernadotte]] and Seras Victoria. Though [[Word of God]] states that "if Seras wasn't a vampire and Pip wasn't a mercenary, they would be the perfect couple that everybody would be envious of."
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* ''[[Katekyo Hitman Reborn]]'': In the future Ryohei and Hana are a canon couple.
* Caesar and Nakaba in ''[[Reimei no Arcana]]''.
* Louise and Saito of ''[[
* [[Ho Yay|Nezumi and Shion]] of ''[[No. 6]]'' were confirmed by the end.
* Akira and Koharu of ''[[Koharu no Hibi]]''.
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==
* Mr. Fantastic and the Invisible Woman in the ''[[Fantastic Four (Comic Book)|Fantastic Four]]''.
* Jean Grey and Cyclops (a.k.a Scott Summers) in ''[[X-Men (Comic Book)|X-Men]]''. Many consider Emma Frost coming in to be, well...
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== Live
* Dr. Brennan and Agent Booth, and Jack Hodgins and Angela Montanegro, in ''[[Bones]]''.
* Sydney and Vaughn in ''[[Alias (TV series)|Alias]]''.
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** Daniel/Vala was this in the last couple seasons.
** ''[[Stargate Universe]]'' has Scott/Chloe, much to the consternation of Eli/Chloe shippers.
* The new ''[[Battlestar Galactica
{{quote|'''Roslin:''' I love you.
'''Adama:''' 'Bout time.
|"The Hub", 4x9}}
* Chuck and Sarah in ''[[Chuck]]''.
** Also Ellie and Captain Awesome.
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** Certain games seem to push the Link/Zelda relationship angle more than others. For instance, they're definitely implied to become a couple in ''Wind Waker'' while the ones in ''Twilight Princess'' don't even interact that much, appear to have a significant age difference between them, and Link seems way more interested in Ilia. This is likely for the best as all Zeldas are related to each other and at least some Links are, making it incest if they ''always'' paired up.
** {{spoiler|Seemingly become a couple at the end of Skyward Sword, where they decide to remain on the surface, renaming it Hyrule and found the royal family.}}
** Potential evidence of Zelda’s affection for Link comes in ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild|Breath of the Wild]]'' Kas, a Rito musician whose song was written by his teacher, who (Kas claims) had a crush on Zelda, but the song seeming to show he knows she is in love with Link:<ref>Two stanzas are omitted here as they simply relate Link’s actions and do not relate to this Trope.<ref>
{{quote|''An ancient hero, a Calamity appears,''
''Now resurrected after 10,000 years''
''Her appointed Knight gives his life''
''Shields her figure and pays the price''
''The princess’ love for her fallen Knight awakens her power''
''And within the Castle, the Calamity is forced to cower.''
''The hero, the Princess hand-in-hand''
''Must bring the Light back to this land.''}}
** While not officially confirmed, {{spoiler|in ''Tears of the Kingdom'', if Link enters his old house in Hateno Village, a diary (Zelda's) implies they were living together after the events of ''Breath of the Wild'', Zelda helping build a school in the village. The cavern in the well behind the house seems to have been a secret redevous place for them, with children's crayon drawings of Link and Zelda (''presumably'' students in said school, but you never know...) and even a Well-Worn Head Braid that Link can use to switch his hair to his old style.}}
* ''[[Super Robot Wars]]'', largely due to reveling in [[The Power of Love]], generally has one set per game/route when it comes to their [[Original Generation]] characters:
** The first set comes from ''[[Super Robot Wars 4]]'' with Irmgult "Irm" Kazahara and Ring Mao, who were later given cameo appearances in ''[[Super Robot Wars Alpha]]''.
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* Mario and Princess Peach from ''[[Super Mario Bros. (video game)|Super Mario Bros]].'' and all of its sequels and spinoffs. For all the times he's had to go to "another castle" to go after her, you'd figure the poor guy would get ''[[Smooch of Victory|some]]'' [[Smooch of Victory|sort of reward]].
** "Unusually", Peach has a ring on her middle finger in ''Brawl''.
** [[Super Mario Odyssey]] takes this concept further. At the end of the main story, after rescuing her from being forcibly married to Bowser, Mario tries to propose; unfortunately, due to Mario and Bowser fighting over her, [[Dump Them All|Peach decides she doesn't want either of them]], leaving the two old enemies to console each other.
** Given how much the two appear together in side games, Luigi and Daisy may be moving in this direction as well.
* The ''[[Mega Man Battle Network]]'' series has Lan Hikari and Mayl Sakurai, who are revealed to be married with a kid during the post-series epilogue. The sequel, ''[[Mega Man Star Force]]'', equally leans towards Geo/Sonia and Geo/Luna, so it has [[Love Triangle]] fun every now and then.
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** Enrique and Moegi is more official. {{spoiler|The first scene of the ending is their marriage.}}
* Arguably in ''[[BlazBlue]]'', this seems to be the case of Litchi Faye-Ling X Lotte Carmine/Arakune. However, Litchi never once referred him as her 'love' (nor declared her love), but more like a really close friend she's desperate to save.
== Visual Novels ==
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