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[[File:sasuhina1 8485.png|link=Naruto|frame|[http://megaminoeien.deviantart.com/art/Hinata-Pairing-Guide-Pg-1-61683451 Perfect strangers], indeed.]]

 

''Can't help it, I just think that they would make such a good pair.''

''In canon they have never met—''

 

So you like to ship Bob and Alice. The only problem you have is the fact that Bob and Alice have exchanged little more than a few lines with one another and there seems to be little to no interaction between the two.

 

 

It's especially [[Mood Whiplash]] if no transition period is shown and the couple is suddenly [[Strangled by the Red String]].

== Comic Books ==

* You would probably be surprised at how many people ship [[Blue Beetle|Ted Kord]] with Michelle Carter, his [[Booster Gold|best friend's]] twin sister. Despite the fact that they've never met, because [[Death Is Cheap|one of them was usually dead at the time]].

 

== Film ==

*** Which is nothing compared to her being frequently shipped with [[Captain America: The First Avenger|Steve Rogers]].

**** Darcy has been shipped with pretty much every Avenger save Natasha and Tony. Including the Norse demigod that her best gal pal is dating. As well as supporting cast members, OCs, and threesomes. None of which, save Thor and Coulson, that she's ever actually met. There is a reason that one of the meta tags at AO3 is "Darcy Is The Fandom Bicycle".

 

== Literature ==

** The most popular example might be Draco/Ginny, which was ''insanely'' popular for a while and still has a decent sized following, even though they only spoke twice in seven books, way back in Book 2, when Ginny told him "Leave him alone, he didn't want all that!" and later when Draco made fun of her Valentine to Harry. Though apparently the actual actors dated in real life.

*** Draco/Ginny is also used as a [[Beta Couple]] in [[One True Pairing|Harry/Hermione]] stories, if the writer isn't [[Die for Our Ship|feeling]] [[Ron the Death Eater|vindictive.]] As is Blaise/Ginny, which has even less canon to stand on as, except for being at the same parties during HBP, they don't interact at all.

** It should be noted, though, that after Pansy Parkinson suggests that Blaise finds Ginny attractive, Blaise says that he wouldn't touch a filthy blood traitor like her whatever she looked like."

** Sirius Black and Lucius Malfoy didn't exchange a single word in the novels. The sum total of their conversations in the films was "Get away from my godson!" "Black!" There's a pretty solid body of slash devoted to them, [[Sarcasm Mode|because a loving godfather and a man who wants to kill his godson have so much in common.]] (Of course, the popularity of this pairing is actually because they are played by [[Mr. Fanservice]] [[Gary Oldman]] and [[Jason Isaacs]].)

* Jon/Dany is probably one of the most popular ships in the ''[[A Song of Ice and Fire]]'' series, despite the fact they live on different continents and that the former [[Celibate Hero|has taken a vow of celibacy]]. It helps that they're probably the closest that the series has to protagonists, and may well be the "Ice" and "Fire" referred to in the title.

** It's also expected that they'll have lots of interaction later on in the series considering that Jon has essentially dedicated his life to defending the realm against the Others and the popular theory that Dany is destined to fight them also.

** One possible factor is Carlos having expressed his appreciation of Molly's looks to Harry and goes on about what he'd like to do with her. Though bear in mind that Carlos [[Casanova Wannabe|fancies himself a ladies' man]] and Molly [[Hello, Nurse!|is just that hot]].

** We never see them interact, sure, but we do see Harry's inner monologue, in which ''he'' suspects that they have a thing for each other. It's just as likely that Harry is only trying to believe this so he can believe that Molly's [[squick]]ey crush on him is over, but it ''is'' there.

 

== Live Action TV ==

** Speaking of ''[[The X-Files]]'', one popular fanfic pairing is Skinner with Scully's mother.

* On ''[[Heroes (TV series)|Heroes]]'', Sylar and Heidi make for an interesting ship. They've never been seen to meet in the series, but the ship bears a [[Unfortunate Implications|dubiously canon odor]] due to two timelines in which Sylar murdered and impersonated Heidi's husband.

== Theatre ==

* ''[[The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee]]'''s fandom ships Leaf/Logainne and Chip/Marcy, despite the fact that they don't really talk.

 

== Video Games ==

* ''[[Fire Emblem]]: Rekka no Ken'' fandom was quite fond of Wil/Florina for a while.

* ''[[Star Ocean: Till the End of Time]]'' has Albel and Nel, two soldiers from warring kingdoms. Plenty of opportunities for [[Foe Yay]], but they mostly ignore each other in the script. Doesn't stop the shippers from using Albel as the [[Gay Option|Straight Option]] for Nel.

** Pop/Disco Bear is also surprisingly popular, which is weird because they've never even been in the same episode.

* ''[[South Park]]'' has many strange couples in fandom and some of them are really popular. For example, [[Ho Yay|Craig/Tweek]] is the most popular crack pairing and the most popular pairing after Stan/Kyle and [[Foe Yay|Cartman/Kyle]], even though they have interacted only in one episode.

** Another fairly popular crack pairing is [[The Antichrist|Damien]]/Pip. The two only appeared in an episode together, for a few moments, during Damien bullied Pip and set him on fire. [[No Yay|Guess why they are shipped together]].

** One that there's more than a few shippers for is Stan and Ike despite the interaction between the two being nothing more than Ike being the little brother of Stan's best friend. Can get into Squick territory thanks to a 6 year age difference.

* Out of the three main fan pairings in ''[[Ben 10]]'', only Gwen/Kevin was like this ''at first'', as the [[Kissing Cousins|Ben/Gwen]] and [[Foe Yay|Ben/Kevin]] shippers had ''plenty'' of evidence to back themselves up. The writers may have caught on to this, and paired Gwen and Kevin off [[Strangled by the Red String|awkwardly]] in [[Ben 10: Alien Force|Ben 10 Alien Force]] to [[Ship Sinking|sink]] the [[Portmanteau Couple Name|Bwen and Bwevin]] shippers. This was [[Romantic Plot Tumor|so forced]] it had the effect of stopping approximately no-one.

* In the case of ''[[Phineas and Ferb]]'', this likely would apply to Ferb & Gretchen (the Fireside Girl who [[Meganekko|wears glasses]]). Despite Ferb's [[Precocious Crush]] on Vanessa and the fact that he and Gretchen have never truly interacted onscreen, it's a very popular ship in the fandom

* Just try to tell some of the [[Wolverine and the X-Men]] fans that [[Ditzy Genius|Forge]] and [[Ugly Cute|Toad]] have never so much as been in the same room together. That doesn't stop them from being rather plausible if they ever did meet, or the fact that their ship is hands-down ''the'' cutest one in the fandom.

** Their ship is so popular, it has a [[LiveJournal]] community dedicated to it now.