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** Some fairly well-known ships are between characters who never speak '''at all'''. Sasuke/Hinata (pictured above) is one such example, even though Hinata only talked about Sasuke once in the manga. Of course, a fair potion of that ship's popularity might stem from the fact that it [[Pair the Spares|removes the two competing love interests]] for the the Naruto/Sakura pairing.
** Also, Naruto with ''[[Launcher of a Thousand Ships|nearly every female and male character]]''.
** '''[[Toy Ship|Konohamaru/Hanabi]]''' seems growing ''too'' well [[Pair the Spares|as side pairing]] in the Naruto [[Ficdom]] mostly for the sake of [[Generation Xerox]] ([[Ship
** Although Sakura gets shipped with [[Launcher of a Thousand Ships|pretty much everyone]], the new favorite person seem to be ''Itachi'', of all people. This probably has to do with [[The Reveal]] that {{spoiler|he was actually a good guy all along... [[Knight Templar|sort]] [[Draco in Leather Pants|of]] }} and the fact that {{spoiler|Sasuke has become an evil bastard ([[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero|ironically... thanks to Itachi]]).}}
*** Of course, Sakura gets a lot of [[Ship Tease]] in canon, too. Naruto and Lee have or used to have crushes on her, while she was drooling over Sasuke. More recently, {{spoiler|a wounded soldier [[Florence Nightingale Effect|confessed he'd fallen in love with her after she treated his wounds.]] Given that she's one of the top medics, it's unlikely that was the only time that happened.}} There's a reason she's a [[Launcher of a Thousand Ships]].
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* ''[[Hayate the Combat Butler (Manga)|Hayate the Combat Butler]]'' fandom now has Athena/Ikusa, Hayate's older brother.... although this would probably be considered parody, as it was invented mainly to annoy supporters of a certain other pairing.
** That one ''does'' at least make sense, considering that {{spoiler|Ikusa was the one who released Athena from her [[Gilded Cage]].}}
* Back in the day, Matt and Mimi from ''[[Digimon Adventure|Digimon]]''. They never interacted at all. They ''did'' stand next to each other a few times, though. The reason they were such a popular ship was because everyone paired all the characters according to "hierarchy": Tai and Sora because they were the male and female leads (and because they had actual [[Fan
** They both digged music as well. Or at least had something to do with music. Matt with his harmonica and Mimi with her singing. Not sure if any fanwork took advantage of it, but there's that.
*** They ''did'' get a single interaction scene in the original series, with Yamato defending Mimi from an impatient Taichi when he thought she was [[Wangst|wangsting]] over {{spoiler|the death of some friendly Digimon}}. Still not enough to make it a super couple, tho.
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* In ''[[Phantom of the Opera]]'' fanfiction, Erik/Meg is one of the more popular pairings. In the book he arranges her advancement in the ballet chorus (mostly to ensure the loyalty of her mother), and she finds his mask at the end of the musical, but they never meet and theories of any sort of attraction on either side are [[Wild Mass Guessing]] at best. (Meg does have a thing for him in the musical sequel ''Love Never Dies'', but the [[Internet Backdraft|less]] [[Broken Base|said of]] [[Die for Our Ship|this]], the better.)
* Molly Carpenter/Carlos Ramirez is a fairly popular pairing in the ''[[The Dresden Files]]'' fandom. The sum total of their interactions consist of Carlos offering Molly a hand grenade.
** 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|squickey]] crush on him is over, but it ''is'' there.
* [[Atlanta Nights]] does this to itself. One chapter features two characters who have never spoken before or since running away to get married, and another has a character contemplating suicide over his unrequited love for a character he has never shared a scene with.
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** A slightly more extreme example is Blackfire and Red X. Never met, but each is the [[Evil Counterpart]] to the official couple of Robin and Starfire.
** Even more extreme is Slarella - Slade and Arella. One is an enemy of the Titans living in their dimensions, and the other is the mother of a Titan living in an alternate dimension.
* [[Ho Yay|Flippy/Splendid]] from the ''[[Happy Tree Friends]]'' has a surprising following, especially in the japanese fandom, in spite of the fact that the two have never met. One of the reasons may be that people always wanted them [[Foe Yay|to fight each other]], so that they could see who would win, which earned them a lot of popularity. In Japan, it is probably the most popular pairing after [[Fan
** Nutty/Flaky is quite popular as well, even though they've probably interacted only once and that was when Nutty acted like a complete [[Jerkass|jerk]] to her.
** Pop/Disco Bear is also surprisingly popular, which is weird because they've never even been in the same episode.
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