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== Anime and Manga ==

* ''[[D.Gray-man]]'': Allen has been paired with just about [[Launcher of a Thousand Ships|every other guy in the series]]. Especially with Lavi and Kanda.

* [[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann|Simon/Viral.]] Both pre- and post-[[Time Skip]]. [[Squick|Oh God no.]]

* ''[[Harukanaru Toki no Naka de]]'', a [[Dating Sim]]-originated [[Cast Full of Pretty Boys]] where this was ''completely unavoidable''. That is, it involves eight guys who are [[The Four Gods|already paired up with each other]] due to the way their powers work. The Genbu pair (Eisen/Yasuaki) seems to be one of the most popular choices<ref>mainly because of the possibility of exploring the plot about [[The Stoic]] [[Artificial Human]] Yasuaki developing emotions (out of love for Eisen, naturally)</ref>; the Byakko pair (Takamichi/Tomomasa) also pops up often in fanfics<ref>as if they didn't have enough [[Ho Yay]] moments in canon already</ref>. And you can always make an original pairing if you want to (speaking of which, Tomomasa/Yasuaki fanfics definitely ''do'' exist out there...). Or, if you don't think that [[Het Is Ew]], just pair the main girl with you favourite guy.

** The same, of course, applies to the sequels, which have different characters but with the same... eh, bonds.<ref>If that ''still'' isn't enough, you can try crossover fics with all four games -- that's 32+ guys and a few girls.</ref>

** Wufei/Duo, Treiz/Wufei, Zechs/Wufei, and Treiz/Zechs/Wufei are all really popular too. In fact, the fandom seems to assume that being gay for one another is a prerequisite for being a Gundam Pilot.

** For the girls you get Relena/Dorothy, Relena/Hilde, Relena/Noine, and Sally/Une. That last one is mostly set in Endless Waltz/Preventers.

* ''[[X-Men (Comic Book)|X-Men]]''. Ohsoverymuch. Wolverine, Gambit, and Iceman are far and away the three [[Launcher of a Thousand Ships|biggest sluts on the team]], if the fics are to be believed. But you could probably play the [[Heroes (TV series)|Heroes]] dartboard game with any of guys on the team. Even the villains get to ride quite a bit, namely the "sexier" ones like Sabretooth and Magneto, though I'm sure Apocalypse joined the party at least once.

** Nightcrawler also has his share of fangirls, and as such does end up in a lot of pairing fanfiction. The most common slash fics he ends up in tend to be with Wolverine, since they are often portrayed as best friends.

** [[Hawkeye]]/[[Canon Immigrant|Phil Coulson]] (based mostly on the movieverse) is not ''quite'' as popular, but they ''do'' have [http://fuckyeahclintcoulson.tumblr.com/ their own Tumblr].

* [[Batman]]/[[Superman]] has its fandom. Possibly influenced by the DC title Superman/Batman, which "explores the camaraderie, antagonism, and friendship between its eponymous characters," to quote [[The Other Wiki]]. Preceded by The Batman/Superman Hour in 1968, which merely aired episodes of either show back-to-back.

* ''[[Hot Fuzz]]''. Considering that the writers and actors acknowledged the [[Ho Yay]] themselves (including fake makeouts in the bloopers!), and that some of Danny's lines in the movie were originally written for a love interest for Nicholas, who was then cut - but the lines stayed the same - it's not surprising that the fandom, though small, pretty much universally ships Nicholas/Danny. And then there was that time the writers [http://edgarwrighthere.com/2009/10/the-steamy-hot-fuzz-slash-fiction-tweets-october-19th-2009/ gave it their] [[Word of God]] approval, and actually called the movie itself "Nicholas Angel and Danny Butterman slash fiction."

* Arthur/Eames is one of the more popular pairings in the ''[[Inception]]'' fandom. [[Launcher of a Thousand Ships|Then again, Arthur gets paired with everyone.]] There's also Arthur/Cobb and even some Mal/Ariadne.

** Chris/Dustin and Tyler/Cameron are also pretty popular.

* 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.

 

 

** There is a [[Crack Pairing|Harry/Sirius/James Potter's Rotten Corpse]] pairing.

** The most infamous is "Rubber Duck", a Snape/Giant Squid fic.

*** 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.

** Nowadays Ginny/Hermione is very popular, particularly with both Ginny AND Hermione realizing that their boyfriends at the end of book 7 are not adequate and choosing to leave Harry and Ron for each other.

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

** No love for [[Ho Yay|Peter/Caspian]]?

** Edmund/Caspian: for the thinking slash fan.

* Even though it has a smaller following then most pairings, [[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy|Arthur/Ford]] is surprisingly popular within the fandom(And some of it's not that [http://imperfectcircle.livejournal.com/13417.html bad]).

* ''[[Twilight (novel)|Twilight]]'' has the infamous [[Foe Yay|Edward/Jacob]], the incestous([[Not Blood Siblings|or not]]) Edward/Jasper and the almost canon Edward/Carlisle (Carlisle chose Edward as his first companion). It doesn't matter the fact that Edward is a vampire, Jacob is a werewolf and that they cannot even stand each other's smell. And that they hate each other's guts, because they are both obsessed with [[Mary Sue]] [[Launcher of a Thousand Ships|Bella]].

* [[Wicked Lovely]] fandom has a bit of it, most commonly of [[The Woobie|Niall]] and [[Dark Is Edgy|Irial]]. Otherwise known as [[Portamaneau Couple Nickname|Nirial]]. Mind you, that technically at least used to be [[Bi the Way|Canon]].

** Other ships, such as Niall/Seth, Keenan/Seth, Keenan/Niall, Donia/Seth, and [[Les Yay|Donia/Aislinn]] definitely aren't however.

** It doesn't help that the series had a built-in slash base... One of the authors is [http://www.fanfiction.net/u/72605/Lady_Jaida Lady Jaida], well known for the Harry Potter Sirius/Remus epic [http://community.livejournal.com/shoebox_project/ The Shoebox Project].

* Tamora Pierce's ''[[Tortall Universe]]'' books have quite a few of these, especially for those who frequent the forum [http://fiefgoldenlake.proboards.com/ Goldenlake]. A particularly popular one which has evolved into something of a fandom joke is The Contes And Their Squires. Due to their fanfiction drives - most notably their multi-month SMACKDOWN competition - many slash pairings have become more and more popular in the wider fandom.

** There's also McCoy/Spock, probably the second most popular slash pairing in the ''[[Star Trek: The Original Series]]'' fandom.

** Another highly popular Slash pairing is Garak/Bashir, from ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]]''. This could be because the the actors and writers played up the [[Ho Yay]] possibilities, and at least one of the actors is on record as having asked that the relationship be shown in canon, in 1995.

*** Then a blatant [[Ms. Fanservice]] joins the crew in the shapely shape of Seven of Nine, whose ongoing mother/daughter relationship was [[Ho Yay/Live Action TV|open to interpretation]] by lesbian fans...

*** Some of them, such as [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3726342/1/My_BuffyStar_Trek_Voyager_Crossover this J/7 shipper] (which is also a crossover with [[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]) make the idea work.

* [[Babylon 5]] has one, too. Since the show had [[Subtext]] between Ivanova and Talia, they would be the most obvious pairing.

* ''[[Farscape]]'' also has a sizable slash fandom. One of the biggest pairings was John/D'argo, which actually got a [[Shout-Out]] during a body-switching episode (I think D'Argo's body was inhabited by Chiana at the time, I don't know who was in John's body). Other pairings included: Zhaan/Chiana, Aeryn/Other Female; even John/Crais for the [[Foe Yay]] fan. Also, stories where D'Argo actually went off with Staanz (The Zenetan Pirate, not the [[Ghostbusters]] guy).

** ''[[Stargate Atlantis]]'' has a lot too: McKay/Sheppard is predominant, but there's plenty of Ronon/Sheppard, McKay/Zelenka, Teyla/Weir, and the list goes on. The show has not been shy about providing plenty of slashfic fodder.

*** Stargate SG-1 goes further to play with this [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzWpCcKIMVc&feature=related in their goofy episode 200].

'''Frankie:''' [[I Take Offense to That Last One|And the most offensive part of it is when they describe my pubes as being ginger.]] }}

** Must say it begs the question of how he managed to find out about this...

* Slash writers of ''[[The X-Files]]'' fan fiction like various combos of Mulder, Skinner, and Krycek (including throwing all three together, with Doggett occasionally getting shuffled into the mix somewhere). There's also a not-insignificant amount of Scully/Reyes, and even some slashing of the Lone Gunmen in various combinations.

* ''[[Gilmore Girls]]'': [[Schoolgirl Lesbians|Rory/Paris]].

* ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' fanfic has plenty of slash, but has the added complication of a canonical lesbian couple (Willow/Tara). Other popular pairings include Willow/Buffy (based on the characters being [[Heterosexual Life Partners|extremely close]]), Buffy/Faith (based on the Slayer bond and significant subtext in season 3), and Spike/Angel (based on both actors being extremely hot).

** Spike/Angel happened at least once. As Whedon put it, they were horny vampires who happened to be around each other a lot. These things happen. ("They're open-minded guys!")

** Spike/Xander is very popular. There is also a small following for Angel/Xander, Oz/Xander, and Lance/Xander. The writers deliberately put in [[Ho Yay]] for Spike and Xander, though, and Joss originally wasn't sure if he would make Xander or Willow gay.

** Really, Spike/anyone male, or Angelus/anyone male.

** Fiona/Holly J started to get some fans during season 9 and exploded in popularity with the beginning of season 10.

* ''[[Criminal Minds]]'' has Morgan/Reid.

* ''[[The Man from U.N.C.L.E.]]'' has Illya Kuryakin/Napoleon Solo, aka the other K/S.

** Star Trek fanficcers sometimes pair up Shatner's and Nimoy's characters from ''The Project Strigas Affair'', the episode they were both in, even though the characters barely meet.

* Perplexingly popular in ''[[Power Rangers]]''. Less perplexing when you remember that it's pretty much tradition to have varying amounts of [[Ho Yay]] between the Red Ranger and the [[Sixth Ranger]], particularly in ''[[Power Rangers in Space]]'' and ''[[Power Rangers Time Force]]''.

** A lot of the slash is split between two couples: [[Mighty Morphin Power Rangers|Jason and Tommy]] and [[Power Rangers SPD|Bridge and Sky]]. David Yost, who played Billy, coming out of the closet has added to the slash fuel.

** For girls, one of the most popular pairings is [[Power Rangers in Space|Ashley/Karone]]. This can be fueled by the fact that Ashley seems to be very touchy around Karone.

* ''[[The Sentinel (TV series)|The Sentinel]]'' overwhelmingly pairs Jim/Blair with daubs of Jim/Simon and Blair/Simon and cases of Jim/Blair/Simon. Richard Burgi (Jim) and Garett Maggart (Blair) sometimes played up the Jim/Blair in out takes, notably in the campfire kiss tape.

* If you skim quickly over a selection of [[SVU]] fic, two things will become clear. First, that the vast majority of the fans ship either Elliot/Olivia or Alex/Olivia. Second, that Alex/Olivia is ''huge''.

* Being as its four main characters are all women, ''Women's Murder Club'' tends to generate a fair bit of femslash. Lindsay / Cindy and Jill / Cindy seem to be popular pairings.

* You will lose any bet to find a ''[[Rizzoli and Isles]]'' fic that does not consist of solely those women together romantically; once again Angie Harmon makes it very easy to slash her characters despite being a real-life Republican.

* Within ''minutes'' of its first broadcast ''[[Sherlock]]'' generated a load of [[First-Name Basis|Sherlock/John]] Slash fics. Most Slashed characters of all time indeed.

** Not to mention the exceedingly slash-friendly Granada TV series.

* ''[[The West Wing]]'', usually involving Josh, either with Sam or Toby. Any reluctance to include President Bartlet in this sort of thing, out of respect for the office, is probably a lot less likely following the real-life exploits of Bill Clinton.

* In ''[[The Sarah Connor Chronicles]]'' fandom, there's a surprising amount of shipping between [[Robot Girl|Cameron]] and any female character on the show, particularly Sarah.

* [[Heroes]] has a dominant slash pairing for each gender. Sylar (whose actor is gay in real life)/Peter and Elle/Claire. Both pairings rely heavily on [[Foe Yay]] but do have legitimate moments that can be used

** Guns N' Roses fandom is absolutely full of it, most of it being Izzy Stradlin/Axl Rose, Duff McKagan/Slash, or [[Foe Yay|Slash/Axl]].

* [[X Japan]] attracted a lot of this for a while. The situation has changed somewhat now in that while the band is still high in regard to [[Ho Yay]] and [[Heterosexual Life Partners]] and more, the slash writers abandoned the fandom, so slash for the band for a while was pretty much abandoned fic and old fic.

** Ironically there is quite a fandom for a straight involving Adam and Allison Iraheta.

* There's quite a lot of [[Emilie Autumn]]/Veronica Varlow fics out there.(for the record, their stage characters are pretty much a couple, but while Emilie is actually a panromantic asexual, Veronica is straight and married, only playing up the [[Les Yay]] when she's performing) There's also Emilie/Courtney Love and Captain Maggots/Contessa.

** There's also [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3829563/1/Love_Of_The_Game Tetris piece/Player] slash fictions.

** [[Flat What|What]].

* The writers of ''[[Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney]]'' and sequels left themselves wide open for this one. Phoenix/Edgeworth is considered virtually canon by many fans, but there's also random dart-throwing going on here too.

** Franziska/Adrian seems also to be considered virtually canon.

** [http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=221 Some take both]

** My eyes. MY EEEEEEEEYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS.

* Thanks to ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog]]'' having a heaping helping of cute male characters and a shortage of females, there's quite a lot of it with [[Foe Yay|Sonadow]] being probably the most popular slash pairing. Sonurge is now on the rise with Archie's creation of a badass Evil Sonic in a nifty leather jacket. [[Heterosexual Life Partners|Sontails]] and Knuxails are pretty prevalent, too.

* Too many in ''[[Metal Gear]] Solid'' to count, Snake/Otacon and Big Boss/Ocelot being the most popular, but since MGS4 Vamp/Raiden has gained a disturbing amount of popularity...

** There's even the traumatizing (spoiler cut for brain salvage) {{spoiler|Dr. Wily/Dr. Light}}, and the slightly less brainbreaking Bass/Megaman and Protoman/Megaman. Not to mention all the Robot Masters, which are all male, save one. But what's unforgiveable is that all the Bass/Protoman around is sickeningly sweet or a collection of old boring rape cliches.

*** Try to find a pairing between Robot Masters that isn't shipped. I dare you. More random dart-throwing! It gets even worse when you add in the Stardroids.

* ''[[Team Fortress 2]]'' has 18 primary male characters, numerous male secondary characters, and a single female announcer. There are no unique pairings left.

** Technically there's her assistant. And Scout's Mom.

** If you search the term "yaoi" then it comes up with 3,800 fics with the word just in the summary.

* ''[[Mass Effect]]'' has Female Shepard/Liara and Female Shepard/Kelly. Kaiden, Ashley, Thane and Tali were originally romance options for both genders, but this was [[Dummied Out]]. And those are just the ones that are actually ''in game'': pretty much everyone has been shipped with everyone else by this point. The [[Mass Effect/Fanfic Recs|fanfiction]] page has Shepard/Mordin, Shepard/Joker, and Miranda/Jack, just as an example.

** This doesn't have to stop at twos. Sephiroth/Zack/Cloud is very popular, too. I've also seen Rufus/Tseng/Reno.

** With the new movie you have Cloud/Kadaj, Kadaj/Rufus, Yazoo/Loz, and Kadaj/Yazoo/Loz.

** Tossing Crisis Core in the mix gives us Zack/Angeal, Angeal/Genesis, Zack/Genesis, and Genesis and/or Angeal with Sephiroth.

** Femmeslash gives you Quistis/Selphie, Quistis/Rinoa, and Selphie/Rinoa.

* Final Fantasy X had especially homo-erotic imagery, and thus created pairings of pretty much any combination of main male characters. Most common were Tidus/Wakka, Tidus/Auron, Tidus/Kimahri, Kimahri/Wakka, Kimahri/Auron, Tidus/Kihmari/Auron. Non-main characters also got drawn into this, specifically with Auron/Jecht/Braska (Which is canon as [[Heterosexual Life Partners]]), Tidus/Jecht, and Wakka/Letty (One of the Besaid Aurochs Blitzball players, which Wakka was originally the captain of). On the girls side we have Rikku/Yuna.

* ''[[Half Life]]'' has [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4696753/1/The_bDiary_b_of_bGMan_b parodies] with Gordon/G-Man, but then you get into the serious stuff. Fanfiction.net gladly offers up Barney/Gordon and Magnusson/Gordon, among... other things.

* Lampshaded in ''[[Disgaea 4: A Promise Unforgotten]]'' - creating an Android will reveal that there are Valvatorez/Fenrich slashfic writers in the Netherworld.

* Disney's ''[[Gargoyles]]'' has a sizable slash fanbase. For those pairings that normally wouldn't happen because the characters involved are heterosexuals. a common trick is to [[A Wizard Did It|cast a spell on one or both]](Since magic is very clearly a part of this 'verse). Since the show also has [[Word of God|a lesbian police captain, and Lexington has been hinted outside the show as possibly gay]], this has only fueled the fire. Some paring include: [[Foe Yay|Elisa/Demona]], Elisa/Angela, Brooklyn/Other Male, etc.

* ''[[Happy Tree Friends]]''. ''Oh God''. [[Ho Yay|Flippy/Splendid]] is probably the most popular pairing after [[Fan-Preferred Couple|Flippy/Flaky]]. Note that Flippy and Splendid have ''never'' met.

* ''[[Transformers]]'' fandom has been rife with Megatron/Starscream (often portrayed as abusive or repressed) pretty much since the beginning. The [[Enemy Mine]] nature of Megatron and Optimus Prime's relationship also lends itself to slash.

** Then ''[[Transformers Animated]]'' came along and now you'll be hard pressed to find a fic featuring both Prowl and Lockdown in the same scene that ''isn't'' slash.

*** Actually, Tweek is shown hanging out with Craig's gang in some later episodes, implying that they eventually became friends, so it sorta kinda makes sense. However, in the only episode where Damian actually has lines (talk about an [[Ensemble Darkhorse]]!), he gains the other boys' respect by ''setting Pip on fire''.

* ''[[Ben 10]]'' has the popular [[Kissing Cousins|Ben/Gwen]] and [[Foe Yay|Ben/Kevin]]. [[Relationship Writing Fumble|Too much fumble, folks]].

* Surprising thing number 1 about the shipping in ''[[Invader Zim]]'' is the fact that there IS shipping at all. Surprising thing number 2 is just how truly horrible some of the pairings are. The most prominent slash-pairing is ZADR (ZIM/Dib), but it's another one of those shows where [[Crack Pairing|people write character names on dartboards and pick their ships that way]]. (There's ZIM/Dib, ZIM/GIR hell, GIR gets paired with practically everyone, TAK/Gaz... The list goes on. And on. And on. And on.

** [[Brother-Sister Incest|Dib/Gaz]].

* ''[[Ed, Edd 'n' Eddy]]'''s fandom is made out of yaoi. The most popular pairings being Eddy/Edd, Rolf/Kevin, Ed/Edd, Kevin/Edd and Kevin/Eddy.

** It goes further than the fans. A.k.a Cartoon has a history of [[Promoted Fanboy|hiring animators and storyboarders from fandom]]. At least a few of their storyboarders were [[Yaoi Fangirl|slash fans]] (you can still see some of the shippy fanart on their [[Deviant ART]] pages) who intentionally slipped [[Ho Yay|homoerotic overtones and in-between frames]] into the 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]].

* 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.

* [[Phineas and Ferb]]: ''Way'' too much, [[Ho Yay|Phineas/Ferb]] and [[Interspecies Romance|Perry/Doof]] among the most popular shippings. C'mon, people, this is a [[Disney]] show!

* ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'' is practically made of this but since the vast majority of the cast made up of females it was unavoidable. To quote Cereal Velocity: "Straight Dash shipping? Is that even allowed?" This doesn't stop fic writers from pairing up the guys, just ask Big Mac/Caramel.

* [[Regular Show|Mordecai/Rigby]]. Nuff' said.