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* In ''[[War Craft]]'', the strong alliance between Thrall and Jaina Proudmoore has raised some... interesting stuff going on between those two. The White Gnomeregan Punch Card also contains "Thrall and Jaina sitting in a tree, K-I-S-S-I-N-G." (in binary, but still), and Jaina happens to resemble Thrall's {{spoiler|[[Dead Little Sister|Dead Surrogate Big Sister]] Taretha from ''[[Lord of the Clans]]''}}. ''[[World of Warcraft]]'' even gives them nearly identical character models.
** As of ''World of Warcraft: Cataclysm''. Thrall has met a nice lady named Aggra, and [[Word of God|Chris Metzen confirmed them to be mates at Blizzcon]]. (Chris Metzen '''despised''' the [[Fan Preferred Couple|incredibly popular Thrall/Jaina ship]] and seemingly invented Aggra just for the purpose of [[Ship Sinking|making Thrall committed]] and has even gone on to say "Thrall/Jaina will never happen. EVER!")
** [[Well -Intentioned Extremist|Varian]] [[The Brigadier|Wrynn]] and [[The Heart|Jaina]] [[Technical Pacifist|Proudmoore]] get a bit too, particularly in Icecrown Citadel after his [[Pet the Dog]] moment toward Saurfang the Elder.
{{quote| '''Jaina''': [sobs]<br />
'''Varian''': Jaina...Why are you crying?<br />
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*** It helps that he grew up as the [[Heterosexual Life Partners|best friend/near-brother]] of her only past lover and retains a lot of similarities, while she looks scarily like his [[Dead Little Sister|dead]] [[The Lost Lenore|wife]] and acts as a sort of surrogate mother to [[Papa Wolf|his]] son.
* ''[[Final Fantasy VII (Video Game)|Final Fantasy VII]]'''s first disc is full of all sorts of [[Ship Tease]], including a micro-dating sim where one of the three girls (and Barret) can go on a date with Cloud. Excellent examples are Cloud's and Tifa's [[The Promise|promise under the stars]] scene in the beginning of the game, the Bodyguard for a Date deal, Cait Sith's 'love prediction' about Cloud and Aerith's happy future together {{spoiler|just before she leaves your party and is killed by Sephiroth}}, and Yuffie kissing Cloud during the Gondola ride. It even has instances of [[Ship Tease]] with random male characters, like Mukki, Don Corneo, and the ability to date party member Barret.
* ''[[Kingdom Hearts II (Video Game)|Kingdom Hearts II]]''. Full stop. Hilarious given that it's a [[No Hugging, No Kissing]] game - Nomura (and Nojima) are screwing with us all, and the shipper wars they have given birth to are incredible to behold.
** The most famous and cited instance of teasing occurs when {{spoiler|[[Ho Yay|Sora held Riku's hand]] (who at the time took the form of an older man due to events in the [[Prequel|Prequels]]), kneeled before him, and began crying.}} In context though it's [[Not What It Looks Like]].
** There's the numerous scenes between [[Official Couple|Kairi and Sora]]. At one point Sora imagines himself dancing with her, and towards the end they share a heartfelt hug.
* ''[[The Legend of Zelda Twilight Princess (Video Game)|The Legend of Zelda Twilight Princess]]'' did its share of Ship Teasing. Between the little come-back-safely speech Ilia gives to Link (complete with appropriate music swelling in the background), the hand-holding scene between Link and Zelda before the final battle, and the heartstring-tugging farewell by {{spoiler|Midna}} in which she almost says something emotional to Link, the shippers had a field day...especially considering that Link's a [[Heroic Mime]] with no dialogue to offer clues.
** ''[[The Legend of Zelda Spirit Tracks (Video Game)|The Legend of Zelda Spirit Tracks]]'' is dripping with this for Link and Zelda.
** ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword (Video Game)|The Legend of Zelda Skyward Sword]]'' also seems to be heading in the Link/Zelda direction, to the point of ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mR6tYh4IL9w an official trailer]'' detailing their romantic chemistry. They even somewhat trick shippers into thinking a kiss is a part of a ceremony.
** ''[[The Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time (Video Game)|The Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time]]'' was the game that first got the shippers into a frenzy:
*** Nabooru's "Promise" to Young Link, which gets a sight less ambiguous when she muses that she should have kept it in light of how handsome he grew up to be.
*** Talon asking Link if he wants to marry Malon and the Gossip Stone which says she wishes for a knight in shining armor to sweep her off her feet.
*** Both of Saria's goodbyes to Link.
*** Ruto actually [[Childhood Marriage Promise|getting engaged to Link]], the scene in which it happens dripping with [[Does This Remind You of Anything?|subtext]].
*** There tends to be an underlying vibe to any scene with Link and Zelda in it, and he's shown (and implied via dialogue) to be quite motivated to protect her. In particular, there's a great deal of unspoken emotion in their last scene together, to be interpreted as the player wills.
* [[Metal Gear Solid|Solid Snake's]] codec transmissions regarding [[Metroid|Samus Aran]] in ''[[Super Smash Bros]] Brawl'' could be regarded as a form of Ship Tease, since it's all one-sided and we have no way of knowing how Samus feels about the matter. That hasn't stopped them from becoming the game's resident [[One True Pairing]]...though the pairing's support has less to do with any perceived teasing and more to do with how their combined sex appeal is dense enough to create a singularity.
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* In ''[[Final Fantasy X (Video Game)|Final Fantasy X]]'', Tidus and Auron seemed to flirt a bit in Luca during Auron's reappearance. Between Auron saying things like [[Double Entendre|"Come or don't come. It's your decision,"]] and Tidus assuming the position shortly thereafter, the UST was palpable. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAQmzOzh_yA 6:15 and 6:38-7:00].
** Depending on your [[Relationship Values|affection rating]], you can have Tidus outright tell Lulu or Rikku that he would rather have them in Guadosalam.
* ''[[Paper Mario the Thousand Year Door (Video Game)|Paper Mario the Thousand Year Door]]'' features Mario getting kissed by each of his female party members (we're assuming that Vivian [[She's a Man In Japan|is female]]) and no less than four times by Ms. Mowz (which makes Goombella jealous).<ref>Ms. Mowz can also learn a special skill that allows her to kiss Mario ''at any time'' for [[Intimate Healing|HP recovery]].</ref> Vivian almost makes a love confession to Mario in the ending, but decides that [[Shipper On Deck|he and Peach would be a good couple]], and Goombella is about to tell Mario something she hadn't been able to express to him before in her last email, but decides to save it for later. Peach has an almost romantic bond with TEC, especially when [[What Is This Thing You Call Love?|educating him about human feelings]], and by the time {{spoiler|Grodus has him deleted for helping her get classified information for Mario, he declares his love for her just before shutting down (he gets better)}}.
** ''[[Super Paper Mario (Video Game)|Super Paper Mario]]'' is a gigantic ship tease for Bowser/Peach fans. They get married in the opening and Bowser constantly declares his love for her throughout the game. Then there's the scene near the end {{spoiler|where Bowser stays behind to hold up the ceiling, Peach stays a little longer than Mario and Luigi, and later on falls on top of him offscreen. Considering Bowser is covered in spikes, he probably caught her in his arms or on his chest.}} Their marriage is never really annulled either.
* After [[The Big Guy|Heavy]]/[[Mad Doctor|Medic]] grew to prominence amongst ''[[Team Fortress 2 (Video Game)|Team Fortress 2]]'' fans, hints about their relationship began to be sprinkled about the various supplementary material, such as the Sniper's "Beaux and Arrows" achievement (kill a Heavy/Medic pair) and their strangely intimate interactions during open-heart surgery in the "Meet the Medic" video. Though, the WAR update [[Ship Sinking|attempted to torpedo]] it with the Demoman's Medic-specific taunt that suggests the Medic is married.
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** Some dialogue with Kaelyn in Mask of the Betrayer could potentially be interpreted as this, but not blatantly.
* In ''[[Knights of the Old Republic]] 2'', if a male player character tells Mira that they just want to get to know her better, her immediate assumption is that he wants to get her into bed. Her immediate refusal ruins it, though.
* ''[[Pokémon]]'', [[No Hugging, No Kissing|of all RPGs]], had a ship tease, in the [[Pokémon Diamond and Pearl (Video Game)|fourth generation]]. One of the villain team's commanders says, "So what is it? Are you some lovey-dovey couple to the rescue?", in a scene where you are with one of your rivals, the one that is the opposite gender's playable character.
** Playing as May, the female character, in ''[[Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire (Video Game)|Pokémon Emerald]]'', Brendan will state how he saw a Pokemon, Rayquaza, and wish you were there to see it with him.
** The ''[[Pokémon Gold and Silver (Video Game)|Pokémon Gold and Silver]]'' remakes, ''HeartGold'' and ''SoulSilver'', offer two instances, one intentional and one with severely [[Unfortunate Implications]]. The intentional occasion takes place when the player reaches the day care couple for the first time and are greeted by either Gold/Ethan or Lyra (depending on player gender) after a brief conversation, their grandfather will comment about them having a crush on thje player character. Naturally they'll force their grandparents to change the topic then run out in embarrassment. The unintentional instance occurs when trying to infiltrate Team Rocket's radio tower in disguise only for Silver (the rival) to run in and forcefully strip the player character. Granted he's only trying to remove the Rocket uniform since he despises the organization and can't see his rival among their ranks, still this scene alone has managed to generate hundreds of [[Foe Yay|Silver/Lyra]] and [[Ho Yay|Silver/Gold]] drawings.
** The scene in ''HeartGold'' where resident [[Memetic Sex God|Memetic Sex Goddess]] Cynthia mentions that your eyes remind her of someone from Sinnoh.
** In ''[[Pokémon Black and White (Video Game)|Pokémon Black and White]]'', there is a [[Ferris Wheel Date Moment|ferris wheel]] on which you ride with a different NPC each season. The NPC choices vary with gender (including one that is [[Gay Option|your own gender]]), and the conversations on the ride are loaded with [[Double Entendre|Double Entendres]]. Oh, and {{spoiler|[[Foe Yay|at one point you have to ride with]] [[Unwitting Pawn|supposed]] [[Big Bad]] [[Anti -Villain|N]] [[Foe Yay|on the ride.]]}}
*** N's dialogue toward the player can be taken as very ship-teasing as well, if in a [[Stalker With a Crush]] way. {{spoiler|This is thrown out the window at the end when N states that he by this late point 'was starting to like you', either [[Ship Sinking]] or a new start of more direct Ship Tease. Either way, by this point we've learned N probably isn't [[Adult Child|mental-emotionally mature enough]] for a serious relationship anyway.}}
** ''[[Pokémon Colosseum]]'' has Eagun, an [[Old Master]] who started off with a Pikachu. His granddaughter bears a rather striking resemblence to Misty. A possible nod to the anime, perhaps?
** ''[[Pokémon Ranger]]'' does this. Quite a bit, actually. For [[Ranger Shipping]] (Solana x Lunick) fans, you've got not only the various little hints throughout the game, you've also got the Groudon mission. Same with the Kyogre mission for Solana/Lunick x Aria fans. ''Guardian Signs'' dabbles in a bit of [[Oblivia Shipping]] (Ben x Summer) too. And ''Shadows of Almia'' has a bit of [[Vatonage Shipping/Ranger School Shipping|Ranger School Shipping]] (Kate x Keith and Kellyn x Keith) too.
* ''[[Silent Hill 2]]'' has its own expectedly horrible contributions to the trope with James, a surly individual who travelled to the eponymous town to search for his dead wife, and Maria, an extremely flirtatious and slightly [[Tsundere]] woman who reminds James of aforementioned dead wife. For a while it seems as if the two will enter a [[Replacement Goldfish]]- esque relationship, but turns out that not only is {{spoiler|Maria a figment of James' imagination formed from a combination of his [[Freud Was Right|sexual frustration]] and refusal to accept his wife's death, but that ''she's'' the one who has been unleashing all the [[Nightmare Fuel]] on James throughout the course of the game. She also has a [[One -Winged Angel]] form, and turns out to be the [[Final Boss]]}}. [[Slap Slap Kiss]] it isn't.
** {{spoiler|The Maria ending, and the prison scene.}}
** Then there's ''[[Silent Hill Shattered Memories]]'', where Cheryl recounts the adventures of her daddy, whom she loves very, very much.
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* ''[[Solatorobo]]'' teases Red x Elh enough during the main game, but the DLC quests take it [[Up to Eleven]]. In #5, {{spoiler|they both act embarrassed when Red sees Elh in her cheerleader outfit, and she's disappointed if Red doesn't manage to beat the track record (which is the condition she agreed to in order to wear that outfit in the first place).}} In #7, {{spoiler|she gets extremely upset when Red has Princess Terria and Toffee fangirling over him, and in the end Red admits he wanted to give her the tournament prize as they make up.}} #8 {{spoiler|borders on "[[They Do]] with the [[Serial Numbers Filed Off]]", as it eventually turns into an [[Interrupted Declaration of Love]].}} It also teases Béluga x Merveille a couple times, with him {{spoiler|giving her a hologram of flowers}} and {{spoiler|losing an arena match because he was trying to show off too much.}}
* Shale in [[Dragon Age]] gets a telling remark about how attractive Sten's body looks in battle, while he affectionately calls her 'kadan', a term that means something like 'close to the heart'. And then there's all of Zevran's leering at Wynne in particular. In the Awakening expansion, which features no romances, Nathaniel and Velanna, and Anders and Female!Warden have a fair bit of flirting. In [[Dragon Age 2]], Bethany gets flustered around Sebastian, who happily flirts with her when not romanced, whilst Carver has a very obvious crush on Merrill. Fenris and Isabela are also revealed to have a friends with benefits relationship when not romanced, while Aveline can be flirted with repeatedly by Hawke, only for it not to go anywhere. Hawke can even throw a couple of flirty comments Varric's way.
* [[Final Fantasy XIII (Video Game)|Final Fantasy XIII]]: Aside from [[Official Couple|Serah and Snow]], the rest is all up to interpretation, the biggest source of tease coming from [[Token Mini -Moe|Vanille]] and [[Tall Dark and Bishojo|Fang]], whose relationship is so laiden with [[Les Yay]] their [[Ambiguously Gay]] status is barely ambiguous at all.
 
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