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If the author has much exposure to the Japanese [[Boys Love]] at all, expect characters to be [[Wimpification|noticeably shoehorned]] into dominant [[Seme]] and submissive [[Uke]] roles.

 

 

The origin of the term predates the World Wide Web, going back to 1960s fanfic writers, specifically those interested in ''[[Star Trek]]'', who wrote "Kirk/Spock" fiction, pronounced "Kirk Slash Spock". In some communities, the ordering of the names is used to indicate a [[Seme|power]] [[Uke|relationship]].

 

 

Incidentally, in Great Britain, "taking a slash" is a slightly coarse way of describing urination, so the innocent Brit who's never heard of the concept is likely to be even more squicked at the term...

** Ichigo/Renji orignated shortly after the infamous "take it off" scene shortly before the Bount Arc and has only intensified over the course of the anime, as fillers, sentences and even official artwork which did nothing to stop the fangirls or fanboys.

** Other pairings include Renji/Byakuya, Grimmjow/Ulquiorra, etc.

 

== Comic Books ==

* [[Doctor Doom]] and [[Fantastic Four|Reed Richards]] have a lot of fandom speculation, although pretty much all their slashfic is either tragic stuff that posits that Reed and Doom were more than just classmates in college before the accident that turned them into arch enemies, or disturbing rapefics revolving around Doom's...er...[[Foe Yay|really, really,]] ''[[Squick|really]]'' obsessive hatred of Reed. [[Evil Former Friend|Or both.]]

* spider-man/human torch have their own [[LiveJournal]] community.

 

== Film ==

* Ryan/Chad is pretty popular in the [[High School Musical]] fandom, mostly due to the sexy musical baseball scene in the second movie, which included lyrics such as, "I'll show you how I swing" from Chad. After the game we see them eating [[Does This Remind You of Anything?|hotdogs]] with each other. To top it all off, they have switched clothes.

* After ''[[X-Men (film)|X-Men First Class]]'' got released, the entire internet exploded with Magneto/Professor X fics. It doesn't help that the actors, [[James McAvoy]] and Michael Fassbender, got on board as well and teased about it in interviews.

 

== Literature ==

*** You think that's bad? "Whomped" is a Draco/Whomping Willow fic! [[Epileptic Trees|That tree wasn't having seizures...]]

*** And I'd certainly avoid googling the term "Dobby stretches, sir" if you are easily sickened - the Dobby/Hagrid pairing is worse than it sounds.

** Also ever popular is Bellatrix/Narcissa or either or both of the two with Andromeda, sometimes even "punishing her" for becoming a blood traitor.

*** Lily seems to be shipped with some female characters such as Alice, Bellatrix, Narcissa, and even Ginny.

* ''[[A Song of Ice and Fire]]'' has a few popular slash pairings, like the canonical Renly/Loras or more subtextual pairings like Theon/Robb, Robb/Jon, or Stannis/Davos. ''A Dance With Dragons'' has also opened the floodgates for Jon Connington/Rhaegar Targaryen. Margaery/Sansa is fairly popular on the lady front.

 

** So would their [[Portmanteau Couple Name]] be "Spirk" or...

*** There are some that call it "Spork".

* [[The Beatles]] have a disturbingly large slash community with Lennon/McCartney being the most popular for [[Yoko Oh No|certain reasons]].<ref>Hey, you've got to hide your love away.</ref>

 

* That many fans of ''[[Wicked (theatre)|Wicked]]'' are also "Gelphie" supporters shouldn't surprise you, seeing as the musical (and the novel to a lesser extent) invests so much in Glinda and Elphaba's friendship and closeness. What may surprise you is that there's also a subgroup of fans who are huge "Chenzel" supporters - that is, fans who like to romantically pair Kristen Chenoweth and Idina Menzel, the ''actresses who originally portrayed those characters on Broadway''. Despite the fact that both women are heterosexual and Idina Menzel has been happily married to actor Taye Diggs since they met on ''[[Rent]]''.

* ''Cats''. It's usually Rum Tum Tugger/Mr Mistofelees, but Munkustrap usually falls in there somewhere. Never mind the fact that Tugger is shown flirting with half the girls in the show. Ah, what the heck, it's enjoyable anyway.

* Mark/Roger from ''[[Rent]]''. Collins/Benny and Angel/Mark as well, strangely enough. But the Mark/Roger practically dominates the fanfiction.

 

== Video Games ==

* From ''[[Assassin's Creed (video game)|Assassin's Creed I]]'', Ezio Auditore and Leonardo da Vinci are frequently shipped. It is implied that Leo is gay anyway, so it only needs some [[Alternate Character Interpretation]] to make Ezio bisexual.

* ''Jak and Daxter'' fans like to ship Jak with Torn, Jinx, Razer (who is implied to be gay anyway), and Erol ([[Fan Wank|who some fans speculate]] actually [[Prison Rape|did rape Jak while he was in prison]]). [[Heterosexual Life Partners|Jak and Daxter are also shipped]], but some people find that squicky.

 

== Web Comics ==

* ''[[Hark! A Vagrant]]'' parodies this with the robotic [[Inspector Javert|Javert]] being rather unaffected by Valjean.

* In ''[[El Goonish Shive]]'', Justin mentions Superman/Batman fan fiction [http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2007-10-24 here].

* ''[[Homestuck]]'', thanks to its [[Loads and Loads of Characters]] and fourfold shipping system, has quite an abundance of these. It's another contender for the ''Heroes'' dartboard game.

 

== Web Original ==

** [[Word of God]] has indicated that Grif/Simmons may actually be canon.

* [[That Guy With The Glasses]]. According to the archives, seven out of the ten most popular pairings are slash and there's almost twice as much slash stories than het.

 

== Western Animation ==

* [[Biker Mice From Mars]] Gets a bit of this. Given the series premise and its [[Fan Yay|Fans]] It's rather a foregone conclusion.

* ''[[Swat Kats]]'' Is Similar to ''[[Biker Mice From Mars]]'', Two macho, presumably [[Heterosexual Life Partners]], explosions, and buckets of [[Fan Yay]].

** Helps that we have [[Word of Gay]] about Richie, and even before that his counterpart in the [[Static (comics)|original comics]], Rick, was canonically gay.

* Good luck finding a romance fic of Bender that doesn't involve Fry for the ''[[Futurama]]'' fandom. It's quite surprising, considering the [[The Casanova|Casanova]] that Bender is in the series. Bender/Calculon and Bender/Beelzebot are also quite popular, but in the minority compared to the [[Portmanteau Couple Name|Fender]] fics.

* ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'': Chances are, if Zuko and Jet are listed as the main characters of a story, it's a slash fic. Sokka/Zuko and Zuko/Aang are also pretty popular. Zuko being the fandom's male [[Launcher of a Thousand Ships]] (with Katara as the female), he naturally gets paired up with ''every'' character with whom he has any screen time, male or female.

* In the ''[[Young Justice (animation)|Young Justice]]'' yj anon meme (found [http://yj-anon-meme.livejournal.com/ here]) contains a lot of Kid Flash/Robin and Kid Flash/Red Arrow fics. Dueling for popularity is Robin/Superboy and Superboy/Aqualad. Artemis and M'gann get shipped, too, though more often with Kid Flash and Superboy than with one another. Conversation threads have revealed that a disproportionate number of active Anons are gay, which [[Author Appeal|may]] or [[Most Fanfic Writers Are Girls|may not]] be significant contributing factor.

** That never stopped the [[Kim Possible]] fanbase.

 

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