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{{quote|''"Gentlemen...'''behold'''! I have made '''love''' to this '''machine!''' And now, upon retrospect, I ask '''why'''?"''|'''Dr. Weird''' (while gesturing to a lawnmower), ''[[Aqua Teen Hunger Force]]''}}

{{quote|''"Wow, Bender, are you and the ship an item? I mean, I know you're both items, but how can you date a ship anyway? It'd be like me dating a really fat lady, and living inside her, and she'd be all like: *makes airplane noises*"''|'''Philip J. Fry''', ''[[Futurama|Love and Rocket]]''}}

 

 

Semi-justifiable if the object in question is an [[Empathic Weapon]].

* ''[[Mazinger Z]]'': A mind-screwing example, overlapping with [[Robo Ship]]. Minerva-X was a [[FemBot]] was programmed to be Mazinger-Z's [[Battle Couple]]. So she was in love with it. However, she ALSO was a [[Humongous Mecha]], only unlike Mazinger she was sentient, had her own mind and could feel, think and act on her own. [[Action Girl]] Sayaka declaring only HER [[FemBot]] Aphrodite-A was Mazinger-Z's true [[Battle Couple]] did not help matters...

* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGMOeg1-pQU A Mouse and a talking cheese in this independent short.]

** Far more disturbing than the Gundam-on-Gundam action, however, is the human-on-Gundam. (It exists in ''Wing'' and ''00'' fandoms, at least.)

** Setsuna is also paired with his Gundam Exia.

* The EVAs in ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'', too. At least they're {{spoiler|partially organic and intelligent}}.

*** Ranka clearly knows what he likes.

** Along a similar vein, the YF-19 could be seen as one of Isamu's distractions from the ''[[Macross Plus]]'' [[Love Triangle]].

** Notable is the fact that the main mechas in the series all have AIs with female personalities, and all three of them become really close to their (male) pilots. The one exception being ''The 2nd Runner'', where the pilot constantly teases the AI about her friendship with the pilot of the ''first'' game.

* There is a particularly pervasive pairing circulating the ''Bee Train'' fan community: [[Madlax]]/curtain. It was spawned by a single scene near the beginning of the series where the titular [[Action Girl]] sneaks into the apartment of her target and wraps herself in a curtain for no apparent reason, looking both adorably cute and damn hawt at the same time.

** ... And that doesn't count all the [[A Date with Rosie Palms|"Gary and his hand"]] ships.

** Technically unnamed, but amongst ''[[Pokémon Special]]'' readers you have N X Ferris Wheel.

** How about Ed x Automail Arm?

*** That would be [[A Date with Rosie Palms|a date with Metallic Palms]]!

** Also, Winry×Wrench. It's been suggested.

** Kimblee x Philosopher's Stone deserves mention.

*** [[Mad Bomber|Kimblee x KABLOOEY]]

* ''[[K-On!]]''

** Yui×[[I Call It Vera|Gitaah]] (her guitar).

** Season 2 Episode 6 makes it official.

* ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh (anime)|Yu-Gi-Oh]]''

** The next best thing to [[Word of God]], the designer himself said Yukikaze was a series where the eponymous jet was the heroine.

* ''[[Golden Boy]]'' gives us the lovely ''canonical'' relationship between a [[Rich Bitch]] and her motorbike, one that she straddles naked over and masturbates with until Kintaro beats her in a downhill bike race.

** His [[Super Mode]] makes ''him'' a red sports car. This is best not thought about.

* ''[[Eureka Seven]]'' has the canonical Renton, Eureka, Nirvasch love triangle.

** {{spoiler|1=Debatable, as the Nirvasch, while mecha like in nature, DOES turn out to be a sentient, living being born by the Coral. Note also the many references to LFOs dying in the mine sequence.}}

* ''[[Idolmaster: Xenoglossia]]'' completely runs with it: the only way to pilot the giant robots is to treat them like a boyfriend. Of course, the robots themselves are sentient, so there was one case of a giant robot recording a video of Haruka telling the robot that she wants to "show him everything", and then taking her shirt off.

* Saw a fanfic of [[Naruto|Kyuubi no Kitsune×Hokage Tower]]. And yes, it was indeed as disturbing as it sounds.

** Erika x chopsticks x duct tape.

* ''[[Durarara!!]]'': There is growing support among the fandom for Shizuo×"[[Fan Nickname|Vending Machine-chan]]".

** I believe Celty/Celty's Bike deserves some special mention as well.

** The author, Narita, has proven to be thoroughly amused by the concept of shipping inanimate objects, given some of the things Erika and Walker say. They once argued over who'd top in a Fans/Trolls ship.

* In ''[[Sora no Manimani]]'', [[Cloudcuckoolander|Cloud Cuckoo Landers]] Kawamura and Minami have a fetish for ''constellations''.

* ''[[Mushishi]]''. In one case a girl gets... rather attached to a particular swamp. In another episode, a woman begins to visit a white bamboo tree when she and her husband are unable to conceive. She even gets ''pregnant'' from said relationship with bamboo tree. The circumstances surrounding both of them are odd, but I believe that it qualifies for this trope.

* ''[[The World God Only Knows]]'' gives us Keima×[[Dating Sim]] heroine Yokkyun and Elsie×fire trucks.

* ''[[Soul Eater]]'' gives us Marie Mjolnir, who sees herself as such a [[Christmas Cake]] she plans to marry a toilet on the grounds that "It will accept anything she gives it". [[Sarcasm Mode|It's a very classy series]].

* [[Pixar]] loves this trope:

** One of the first Pixar shorts was "Knick Knack", in which a plastic snowman trapped in a snowglobe tries hopelessly to access chicks who live in snowglobes on the shelves near him.

** Robot×robot romance is almost the entire point of ''[[WALL-E]]''. (And [[Green Aesop]].)

* "Baby" Brent×Ceremonial Scissors in ''[[Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs]]''. He keeps them tucked in the back of his pants, plays them like an air guitar, clutches them when worried, and they have to be forcibly ripped from his arms for someone else to use them. Clearly it's love.

* Ray, in ''[[The Princess and the Frog]]'', is a firefly who has fallen in love with a literal star.

** It's worth noting that the Scrat/Acorn 'ship was a ''seriously'' bad case of [[No Accounting for Taste]]. The Acorn is possibly the [[Mad Love|most abusive]] [[Jerkass]] [[Love Interest]] [[Overly Narrow Superlative|in animated film history]], always dangling just out of Scrat's reach and heaping abuse on him. The [[Tragedy]] here is that {{spoiler|by leaving Scratte he has doomed himself to a lifetime of [[Yank the Dog's Chain|having his chain yanked]] by the Acorn.}}

* Tank and his trophies from ''[[Surf's Up]]''. He's named them all and during the scene his mother calls out: "are you polishing your trophies again?" To the camera he mutters: "I'll polish later."

* In ''[[The Red Green Show]] [[The Movie|Movie]]'', ''Duct Tape Forever'', Ranger Gord has spent years living alone in his fire watchtower in the woods and has gone more than a little crazy from loneliness. He owns a tree trunk that looks suspiciously like the torso of a naked woman, and when he and Red joke lightheartedly about all the paperwork down at the county records office Gord suddenly breaks into sobs, lamenting "When I think of all the trees that gave their lives for that paperwork! I dated some of those trees, you know!"

* [[Tim Burton]]'s ''[[Alice in Wonderland (film)|Alice in Wonderland]]'' shows the Cheshire Cat as having some sort of unexplained attraction to the Mad Hatter's hat.

* ''[[Sleeper]]'' - Woody Allen's character gets caught by the authorities after he hides in the Orgasmatron, and emerges a shredded, grinning wreck. When he's assimilated and taken to his new home he sees the machine and starts treating it very...affectionately.

* In ''[[The Smurfs (film)|The Smurfs]]'', Grouchy falls in love with a green M&M plushie in a toy store and even has a romantic get-together with one in the end credits.

**** The TARDIS is definitely female.

** The sonic screwdriver has been paired with multiple companions and Torchwood women. If it works by sound, it produces vibrations...

** [http://bloodyyangire.deviantart.com/art/DoctorxFez-169313538?q=1&qo=1 Eleven/Fez].

* ''[[Heroes (TV series)|Heroes]]'':

** In another episode, an alien woman comes on board whose tears cause all men (of any race) to fall in love with her on contact. They have no effect on Kirk, because he just loves the ship more.

** In "[[Star Trek/Recap/S1/E04 The Naked Time|The Naked Time]]", he even starts going on about how she won't let him date anyone else.

** For that matter, the novel ''The Wounded Sky'' by [[Diane Duane]] (involving a new experimental FTL drive that turns out to break down the boundaries of reality itself as an unintended side effect) features a short scene/hallucination(?) in which Kirk appears to directly experience what being a starship is like from the ''Enterprise'''s perspective... and that suggests that his feelings may not be unrequited.

** This is the subject of Leslie Fish's [[Filk Song]] "[http://www.geocities.com/antitrades/i.html Iron Mistress]".

* In the TV series ''[[Eureka]]'', the AI that runs Sheriff Jack Carter's house, S.A.R.A.H., seems to act a lot like a [[Clingy Jealous Girl]] and a [[Incredibly Lame Pun|housewife]] ([[Pungeon Master|pun very much intended]]) toward him.

** Fargo has a tendency to create these. Not only was S.A.R.A.H. his creation, he also created an AI (Tabitha) for his car, which also turned into a [[Clingy Jealous Girl]] when he sold her (the car was an ancient Chrysler); she kidnapped him after making him fall into her trunk. As part of some very blatant but still well-done [[Product Placement]], he settles the dispute by transferring Tabitha to his new Subaru.

* One first-season episode of ''[[Fetch! with Ruff Ruffman]]'' seemed to hint at Ruff×Fetch 3000.

* Along with the above quote, ''[[The Daily Show]]'' last year featured a visual representation mocking Rudy Giuliani's seeming obsession with cramming as many "9/11" references as possible in his political speeches, by having a number 9 and number 11 having sex on a bed, complete with erotic music.

* ''[[Top Gear]]'' is the embodiment of this trope. Richard Hammond×Oliver the Opel Kadett is pretty much canon, and Jeremy Clarkson has fallen in love with way too many cool cars to list here, his Ford GT and a Bugatti Veyron being the most obvious examples.

** If you can drive and know the first thing about driving and cars, you will be car-sexual for the Bugatti Veyron.

* Jeremy Clarkson waxing lyrical about the Lockheed SR-71 in his 2001 series, Speed. See [http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7210015627953212186#docid=-6689729805171588113 this video] from about fifteen minutes in. His expression. And the way he STROKES it.

* ''[[Stargate Atlantis]]'' fandom has shipped Atlantis, usually with John (or John with her), and a few threesomes. (Sometimes the city's sentient [or sapient] but never animate, except the one time.)

* [[Drake and Josh|She's a WOODCHIPPER! And her name is SALLY!]]

* [[The Tudors|Catherine Howard/Ring.]] And it's CANON too.

* In the ''[[Glee]]'' fandom, Wes/Gavel is incredibly popular.

** Also, Bloor (Blaine/Floor), Blurniture (Blaine/Furniture), Bloffee (Blaine/Coffee), Bloulder (Blaine/Shoulder) and Blocks (Blaine/Socks).

* Arguably the entire plot of [[Andrew Lloyd Webber]]'s ''Starlight Express'', in which all the characters are anthropomorphic trains.

* In the ''[[Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (theatre)|Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street]]'' fandom, there's Sweeney×Razors. I don't know how that would work, either. One parody (''The Vengeful Vengeance of Schmenjamin Schmarker'', on fanfiction.net), has Sweeney utter the line, "If I weren't afraid of castrating myself, my friends, I would have sex with you."

* The one act play ''Soap Opera'' is the pure, unadulterated embodiment of this trope, where the main character is in love with a washing machine, [[Hilarity Ensues]].

* ''[[Little Shop of Horrors]]'' brings us Seymour×Audrey II. Might not count since Twoie's sentinet, but still... it's a plant.

* It's probably easier to find ''[[Devil May Cry]]'' fanfic shipping Dante×Nevan than Dante×Lady. Nevan is one of his ''weapons.'' This, or shipping anyone×any other Devil Arm, is a borderline example though (they're demons transformed into weapons).

** In one of the ''[[Devil May Cry]]'' manga, Dante says that he once got drunk and proposed to a mop.

* ''[[Project Reality]]'' will have [[Middle-Eastern Coalition]] soldiers kiss their rifles on occasion.

* ''[[Kingdom Hearts]]'':

** That Link×Master Sword pairing has become [[Hilarious in Hindsight]] thanks to ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword|The Legend of Zelda Skyward Sword]]'', where Link's [[Exposition Fairy]], and thus his next possible [[Shipping]] candidate, is the ([[Prequel|future]]) Master Sword.

*** On that note, Fi×Scrapper. One's the spirit of the ([[Prequel|future]]) Master Sword, the other's a robot. [[Sarcasm Mode|This will end well.]]

** The reason Zaeed isn't a romance option is because [[I Call It Vera|Jessie]] is [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9-dLzzQuVM the only] rifle for him.

** People [[Incredibly Lame Pun|ship]] Joker×Normandy. If you did not expect this, a mental asylum awaits you. The [[Robo Ship]] with EDI was inevitable.

** Korra×Fighting is catching on quite a bit.

* One of these was canon in ''[[Futurama]]'': Bender×Planet Express Ship. Fry even [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshades]] it: "Wow, Bender, are you and the ship an item? I mean, I know you're both ''items''..."

** Also, Fry once made out with a radiator.

*** Hey, you gotta admit she was hot.

** The psychologist Rocko hires to cure Spunky of the fixation also [[Crowning Moment of Funny|winds up fixated on the mop]], and is shown taking it on a date near the end of the episode.

** Heifer and...a milking machine. Yes, Heifer [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iq_vqDtWRLY gets hooked up to a milking machine] at one point, and ''enjoys'' it. Keep in mind that he is a ''male''. He even gives a tearful goodbye to the machine. There is ''no'' other way to interpret this, but lord knows I've tried.

** Ben×Eunice.

** For some reason, there's Kevin×Car. [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4728221/1/Love_Like_Thisr No, really.] It's not all that crack, considering the events of "Paradox".

** Also, Tucker and his PDA.

** Vlad and his Ray Nitsche Football. That's hot.

** The early episode "Just One Bite" included a montage where Squidward falls in love with, marries, and grows old with a Krabby Patty. It's a [[Dream Sequence]], but still.

** Spongebob×Spatula. How come this hasn't made it here yet? There was practically a whole episode on it!

** Then there is the spin-off series ''[[The Penguins of Madagascar]]'' that shows both Rico and Julien showing interest in a large barbie doll. Even Skipper makes a subtle pass at her. Miss the wife already, Mr. Married-man?

** One episode has Kowalski falling in love with the animal control van.

** "Quiet, Maurice! I am wooing the smoothie!"

* In ''[[Courage the Cowardly Dog]]'', a goose god falls in love with Eustace's truck because of the sound of its horn, and eventually ascends with the truck to heaven (they get a new truck). In a later episode there's a quick cameo of the goose god cuddling it on a fluffy cloud.

== Real Life ==

* [[Sonichu|Christian Westron Chandler]] and [[Squick|a PS3]]. Pass the [[Brain Bleach]] please.

* [http://www.berlinermauer.se/BerlinWall/ Mrs. Berlin Wall], who coined the term "[[wikipedia:Objectum-sexuality|objectum sexual]]" for this phenomenon.

* [http://www.independent.co.uk/extras/sunday-review/living/i-married-the-eiffel-tower-832519.html Erika La Tour Eiffel], not to mention her "exes" [http://www.cracked.com/article_18624_5-people-who-turned-awful-disabilities-into-superpowers.html a bow, a katana, and *an F-15*].

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