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{{trope}}
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{{quote|'''Casey Jones:''' Not even close, Zip-neck. [[
'''Donatello:''' Heh! No way, Atomic Mouth. Gilligan was her main man. They'd be married and have six kids by now.
'''Casey Jones:''' Gilligan was a geek, Barfarooni!
'''Donatello:''' ''You're'' the geek, Camel Breath.
'''Casey Jones:''' Dome Head.
'''Donatello:''' [''feels his head for a bit''] Elf Lips.
|''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (film)|Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]''}}
Many fans [[Shipping|ship]]. Some of them have [[One True Pairing|a distinct ship that they like over all others]], while some of them support several, sometimes contradictory, pairings. Some of them like to debate a pairing while keeping in mind its status in canon, while some of them discuss it believing their pairing ''is'' [[Canon]] (or will inevitably be). Now throw in the power of the Internet to connect everybody (and everybody's opinions) with everybody else...
[[Serious Business|Shippers tend to become emotionally invested in their pairings]], and Internet shipping discussions can be quite difficult to keep peaceful. All too often, they can't help but devolve into heated quarrels where preferences are insulted, [[Flame War|ad hominem attacks are thrown]], and [[Godwin's Law|comparisons to Nazis are made]] (though, to be sure, the latter aspect is just as capable of arising from ''any'' subject of disagreement currently known to exist).
These [[Flame War]]s are known as Shipping Wars: [[Fan Dumb|verbal arguments between people with different opinions about romantic relationships between fictional characters]]. There are those who bash whoever doesn't like their ship of choice, those who bash whoever likes a certain ship, and those who do both, usually basing their attacks on how [[Canon/Fanon|Fanon]] the discussed ship is. The fact that most ships really aren't canon and will never be is usually ignored. Particular hatred for a pairing or a character who gets in the way of a pairing manifests in the form of [[Die for Our Ship]]. Alternatively, fans might pair that character with another character, getting him or her out of the way of their favorite ship. This creates "alliances" between different shippers called [[Ship Mates]].
Common victims include [[Platonic Life Partners]], [[Heterosexual Life Partners]], and [[Lovely Angels]]. On one hand, [[Shipping Goggles|lots of fans see]] [[Subtext]], hints, and evidence [[Accidental Innuendo|where there really isn't]]; on the other, if there ''is'' some degree of subtext, other fans will adamantly refuse to see it and insult those who do. The [[Draco in Leather Pants]] also tends to be [[Launcher of a Thousand Ships|paired up a lot, and Shipping Wars erupt when deciding to whom he belongs.]]
Please note: someone just simply stating their opinion about whether they like a pairing or whether they think it's canon or not isn't Ship To Ship Combat or a ship war, that's just having a discussion. Or even when someone makes fun of a pairing. It's when the fans of a certain pairing start actually attacking and insulting the ''fans'' of another pairing that it becomes Ship To Ship Combat, such as if someone says they don't like a certain pairing or doesn't think it's canon and the fans of that pairing become enraged and start attacking that person for their opinion.
AKA Shipping Wars. Nothing to do with naval warfare ([[Space Is an Ocean|or space warfare for that matter]]). [[A Worldwide Punomenon|Or UPS vs. FedEx.]]
[[Trope Co]], we'd like to order an emergency supply of [[MST3K Mantra]], please.
{{noreallife|this is firmly in [[People Sit on Chairs]] territory in fandom.}}
{{examples}}
== Anime and Manga ==
* A shipping war has sprung up in ''[[Sonic X]]'', centered around Tails/Cosmo vs Tails/Cream. Fans are prepared to [[Die for Our Ship|kill the characters off]] to get their ship. In Tails/Cream's case, this isn't necessary; {{spoiler|Cosmo died in the last episode}}. However, Tails/Cosmo fans find ways to return her to life, often via the seed Sonic found. This is illustrated in a somewhat disturbing manner [http://ozz-the-wanderer.deviantart.com/gallery/?q=Snack#/d1t046d here].
* ''[[Bakugan]]'' is somewhat a curious case, as the main target is not [[The Hero|Dan]], but '''[[The Stoic|Shun]]''', his [[Lancer]] and [[Foil]]. The first season teased [[Proper Lady|Alice]], while third season teased [[Badass Princess|Fabia]]. Surprisingly, the shipwar is '''notably''' low on bashing and cursing too, with each sides prefer to piling ''evidences'' trying to top each other.
** The fans' general agreement about Fabia's striking resemblance to Shun's deceased mom can be used to support her or against her.
* What is generally considered the bloodiest ship war ever took place in the ''[[Pokémon (
** The main war was between Pokéshippers (pairing up Ash/Satoshi and Misty/Kasumi) and Palletshippers (Ash/Satoshi and Gary/Shigeru).
*** The "official" [https://web.archive.org/web/20120618135959/http://www.freewebs.com/incompletelove/listaz.htm list of named ships] for the fandom ''literally'' has [[Over Nine Thousand]] entries.
*** Perhaps the fanatical nature of Ship-to-Ship Combat is best exemplified by the fact that the [
* Considering the core cast contains no less then ten main characters, there are literally dozens of one-season villains and one-shot "best friends", and the two members of the most official couple have five or more suitors
* ''[[Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle]]'' fans tend to pick a side between Kurogane/Fay and Kurogane/Tomoyo. All of this is based on subtext (this is ''[[CLAMP]]'', after all), but [[Die for Our Ship]] is common.
** There was also Kurogane/Fay and Chi/Fay, although the latter ship pretty much [[Abandon Shipping|died out]] later on.
* Spike/Julia vs. Spike/Faye for ''[[Cowboy Bebop]]''. Many Spike/Julia fans insist Faye is a slutty, obnoxious bitch who's too immature and whiny for Spike, while Spike/Faye fans often believe Julia's a fickle syndicate whore who destroyed Spike's relationship with his former best friend and ultimately {{spoiler|got him killed}}.
** Which is kind of silly, because Spike never showed any interest for Faye in the first place. Throughout the entire series, Spike's motivation was Julia. If anything, as shown from the last few episodes, Faye has one-sided feelings for Spike. The point of the series is that Spike is living entirely in the past, to the point where he's not even really experiencing the present.
* [[Childhood Friend Romance|Shinichi]]/[[Action Girl|Ran]] and [[Deadpan Snarker|Conan]]/[[A Shared Suffering|Ai]] for the ''[[Detective Conan]]'' fandom. Some boards even ban threads discussing either pairing. Though the English-speaking fandom is fairly peaceful, [[Internet Backdraft|you still need to tread carefully...]]
* ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!
* Many ''[[
** The ''Naruto'' fandom's version is Naruto/Sakura fans versus Naruto/Hinata and Sasuke/Sakura fans. Starting a shipping thread on any of these couples, on any anime/manga message board, is tantamount to [[Internet Backdraft|throwing a live hand grenade]].
** Apparently, a new group is forming that's against all three big and popular ships, mostly out of disgust for the canon portrayals of the relationships and the years-long ship war over them.
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** And never, '''ever''' get yaoi involved, because then hell really has broken loose. Most yaoi shippers will stay out, but [[Troll|the ones out for more amusement/blood]] will insert themselves into the argument by saying their ship is better/more canon than the others being "discussed".
*** Heck, even people on the ''same side'' of shipping can be incredibly vicious. [[Ho Yay|Sasuke/Naruto vs. Naruto/Sasuke]], anyone? And don't you ''dare'' say these are the ''same'' pairing deep down. For those of you who are understandably confused, the order apparently indicates who the [[Seme|dominant person]] in the relationship is...
** [[Kissing Cousins|Neji/Hinata]] vs. [[Fan
** Anything involving the Akatsuki, particularly Deidara.
* ''[[Bleach]]'': The Ship-To-Ship Combat between fans of Ichigo/Orihime versus fans of Ichigo/Rukia is particularly bloody.
** Most of the existing Bleach forums (including the default named one) out there were established during the Soul Society arc, a period of time when the fandom considered Ichigo/Rukia to be [[Fan
*** A famous incident was a case of [https://web.archive.org/web/20131101193205/http://www.journalfen.net/community/fandom_wank/1009473.html Ichigo/Rukia vs Wikipedia editors], wherein the wank was sparked over [[Serious Business|alphabetical order]] of the characters' names.
*** [https://web.archive.org/web/20120510081517/http://www.journalfen.net/community/fandom_wank/1238187.html?thread=211092139#t211092139 Something like this happened in Japan as well].
*** Interestingly, this Ship-To-Ship Combat and the [[Die for Our Ship]] effect seem to be one-sided: rabid Ichigo/Rukia fans display vicious hatred of Orihime and tend to troll Ichigo/Orihime fans, but Ichigo/Orihime fans usually like Rukia and they rarely fight back. This can both be seen in Japanese fandom, [http://tanabotadays.web.fc2.com/tanabota_0.html where some fansites that focus on Orihime contain warnings that yes, Orihime hate is not welcome] (if you can't read Japanese, a rough summary would be, "This is a place owned by an Orihime fan. If you're not one, please go away"; the others state somewhere along the lines of [http://naruhina.ojiji.net/ "Ichi/Ori is the pairing on this site, otherwise, don't enter"] ), ''and'' in Western fandom too, where the aforementioned Ichigo/Orihime forum (which has an international membership), strictly forbids bashing Rukia and Ichigo/Rukia as some members are not only multi-shippers but most of the members actually ''like'' Rukia (these are clearly stated in the rules section of the forum, visible when you log-in and quoted in this particular [http://crystaldawn.livejournal.com/423635.html post]).
** Rabid Ulquiorra/Orihime fans have also joined in the Ship-To-Ship Combat against Ichigo/Orihime. Interestingly some of them seem to fight only on behalf of Ichigo/Rukia while still bashing Orihime for "being weak" and "not going off with Ulquiorra", [https://web.archive.org/web/20131101124847/http://www.journalfen.net/community/fandom_wank/1260435.html and at least some] [https://web.archive.org/web/20131101131527/http://www.journalfen.net/community/fandom_wank/1256639.html of those people] [https://web.archive.org/web/20131101131541/http://www.journalfen.net/community/fandom_wank/1252826.html have become] [https://web.archive.org/web/20131101130037/http://www.journalfen.net/community/fandom_wank/1238187.html infamous in fandom] [https://web.archive.org/web/20131101130041/http://www.journalfen.net/community/fandom_wank/1239563.html for just] [https://web.archive.org/web/20131101130034/http://www.journalfen.net/community/fandom_wank/1228513.html this].
*** Adding to that, some rabid yaoi and Ichigo/Orihime fans have jumped into the Ship-To-Ship Combat by bashing on Ulquiorra/Orihime and a tad on Rukia [http://ulquihime-sucks.deviantart.com/ with accounts dedicated to it], and
*** Funnily enough, declaring oneself an [[Underdogs Never Lose|Ishida/Orihime]] fan will usually make shippers of any of the "main" Orihime pairings look at you like you just said something really odd and give you the internet equivalent of a pat on the head and a "right, you go on along, dear." (Unless you're an Ishida/Orihime fan who's associated with... a rather polemic BNF and her cohorts: ''then'' you'll be completely damned.)
** It gets even worse when both [[Masakazu Morita|Japanese]] and [[Johnny Yong Bosch|American]] voice-actors for Ichigo [https://web.archive.org/web/20131101130027/http://www.journalfen.net/community/fandom_wank/1245336.html offer their opinion on the shipping issue, and one side of the war switch from fangirling to instant hate.]
* ''[[
** Aside from the most common pairings of Master/Butler, Ciel/Sebastian and Alois/Claude, the circus arc opened a new possibility of a Heterosexual Pairing with Ciel. Yes, it's possible. You now have the option of supporting Ciel/Lizzy, or Ciel/Doll aka Freckles. You can find a couple forums with wars about this. A lot of it is troll logic about how if Ciel really loved Doll, she'd be in the anime, or if he loved Lizzy, insert whatever reason you like. Oh, and if you think you're safe just sticking to Alois/Ciel, which is practically [[Axis Powers Hetalia|Belarus/Russia]] based on certain fansubs, you're ''not''.
** Actually, the only pairing that doesn't get too fought over is Lau and RanMao. It's rarely shipped, but no one fights over it. Probably because it's pretty undeniable that it's hot.
** Ciel/Lizzie ([[Rescued
* ''[[Rurouni Kenshin]]'' fandom has no shortage of shipping wars to decide who was/would be be better for Kenshin: Kaoru or Tomoe. Though they're usually one-sided: Tomoe wasn't introduced till the final arc of the manga and doesn't even show up in the anime (only the Tsuiokuhen OVA) {{spoiler|and is the tiniest bit ''dead'' by the time the main story starts}}. Guess who has the bigger fanbase.
** Don't forget Shura, the Pirate Lady Kenshin meets. A smaller fanbase desperately wanted her to be with Kenshin.
** In regards to Megumi/Kenshin... Megumi actually became quite [[Die for Our Ship|the victim of ship-based bashing]]. Kaoru/Kenshin shippers did ''not'' take her [[The Tease|teasing]] personality in stride as well as her open interest in Kenshin (which she didn't relinquish until the Kyoto arc), and accused her of being a whore who only wanted to get into Kenshin's hakama and hated Kaoru (despite Megumi being a [[Cool Big Sis]] to Kaoru and doing what she could to help her when she had an [[Heroic BSOD]]). They mellowed out later and [[Ship Mates|started shipping her]] [[Belligerent Sexual Tension|with]] [[Boisterous Bruiser|Sanosuke]] instead, and then Tomoe took her place as "Kaoru's love rival".
* ''[[Digimon]]'' fandom suffered from a terminal case of [[Pair the Spares]] in its early years that went something like this: "Digidestined must be paired up in descending order by importance." Thus, Taichi/Sora, Mimi with either Koushiro, Yamato, or Jyou (despite that she rarely even ''speaks'' to the first two) and Takeru/Hikari. Then Hikari was bumped up to female lead in the next season opposite newcomer Daisuke, and a whole new pairing sprang up. Which wasn't helped at all by the continued and increased [[Ship Tease]] of Takeru/Hikari. Then everybody stopped keeping track when the [[Distant Finale]] paired [[Ships That Pass in
** The flame wars between Takeru/Hikari and Daisuke/Hikari fans got so bad that both sides eventually agreed to a peace treaty.
** Taichi/Sora and Yamato/Sora fans still have it out once in a while. Taichi/Sora fans rationalize that Yamato comes off as a huge douche for part of the second season, and therefore can't stand the thought of him ending up with Sora, or that Taichi and Sora were "obviously" flirting/in love with each other for the entire first season and that Sora ending up with Yamato instead was a giant cop-out. Yamato/Sora fans just use the [[Distant Finale]] for rationalization, with some of them pointing out that many people end up with someone other than their oldest friend/first crush. And in the middle, the Taichi/Yamato fans- often considered the most populous shippers in Digimon fandom- are very bitter because of the constant [[Ship Tease]] between Taichi/Yamato in the first season, including official Taichi/Yamato art published in a magazine. The whole debate over whether Yamato and Sora were [[Strangled
* On the flip-side, in some series, [[Het Is Ew|you must beware any pairing that blasphemes against the]] [[Ho Yay]]. There's a reason that ''[[Final Fantasy]]'', ''[[Kingdom Hearts]]'', ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]'', and ''[[
** "But [[Yu-Gi-Oh!:
* The ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]]'' franchise has the battles between the Nanoha/Fate and Nanoha/Yuuno factions, which is not helped by the creators [[Genre Savvy|knowing about it and fueling both sides]] with loads of [[Ship Tease]] to keep the flames burning. There even seems to be a division in the lesser ranks of the production themselves; for example the [[Fourth Wall Mail Slot|Megami Sound Stages]] seem to support Nanoha/Yuuno; while the actresses who play [[Yukari Tamura|Nanoha]] and [[Nana Mizuki|Fate]] are convinced they're a couple. These flames, however, while apparently violent, tend to be pretty friendly overall (perhaps due to the theme of the show itself), and people who take it as [[Serious Business]] are routinely mocked in the fandom.
** Nanoha/Chrono was a third fleet in the running for a long time, too. You should have ''seen'' the looks of disbelief when the authors [[Ship Sinking|sank]] the possibility of Chrono/Nanoha or Chrono/Fate by pairing him up with [[Bridge Bunnies|Amy]] and making his mother [[Like Brother and Sister|adopt Fate]] (not that this last one [[Not Blood Siblings|would stop some people]], of course). At least the shippers of that have ''some'' comfort: it's canon in ''[[Triangle Heart 3
** Anyone who spends time on the AnimeSuki Forum learns about the historic and brutal [[Memetic Mutation|300 vs. Legion]] [[Flame War]]. The supporters of NanoFate shipping called themselves Legion due to their [[Yuri Fanboy|sheer numbers]], while YuuNano shippers called themselves 300 [[Self Explanatory|since]] they're so few.
** Recently, there's been a massive but short-lived second war between the Moderate ([[Shaped Like Itself|Which is moderate-sized]]) and Militant Faction ([[The Legions of Hell|which is growing in size beyond recognition]]). Militant Faction (in their own words) forced everyone to bow down and [[Fan Dumb|hail NanoFate as absolute canon, killing any other ship between one of the two character with another suitor]] and [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|bash Yuuno for trivial/unclear reasons]]. Nowadays, Animesuki consists almost solely of the aforementioned Moderate faction ([[Noodle Incident|somehow being able to constantly repel invaders swiftly and decisively and bolster their numbers in the process]]), while the Militants flock to Nanofate.us and Nanochan.
* ''[[The Prince of Tennis]]'' fandom is FULL of passive-aggressive fights because of its [[Ho Yay]] and [[Foe Yay]]. The Tezuka x Fuji pairing is often bashed by fans who ship them with others, specially Fujicest and Atobe x Tezuka fans ( {{spoiler|And it's made worse after Fuji and Tezuka DO get [[Ship Tease]] in the ''manga'' itself}}), the few Ryoma x Sakuno and An x Momoshiro fans are often automatically accused of being "homophobic" or "having the [[Het Is Ew|icky, useless girls take Ryoma away from Momo]]" by slash shippers (even if they ''do'' ship some slash couples alongside the het ones), Inui x Kaidoh fans bash Yanagi and the Inui x Yanagi pairing and fans, Sanada x Yukimura do the same with Atobe and Atobe x Sanada and vice-versa (Atobe x Sanada peeps retort by bashing Yukimura)...
* ''[[Macross Frontier]]'' fandom has fighting between those who want Alto to end up with Sheryl Nome (the accomplished star), or with Ranka Lee (the [[Moe]] starlet). Naturally, this irks the fans who are in it for the [[Humongous Mecha]], the story or the music, or some combination thereof, as one anonymous 4Chan user put it: "This kind of ship-to-ship combat doesn't belong on /m/!"
** More interesting is that while all ''Macross'' series have love triangles, this one is especially complicated since there is some subtext between [[Les Yay|Ranka and Sheryl]] and even some scenes that can imply a [[
** This is mostly a redux version of the shipwars in the original [[Macross]] fandom. Replace "the accomplished star" with "the [[Broken Bird]] [[Bridge Bunny]]" (Misa), and the "moe starlet" with "the [[Chinese Girl]] that became a rising [[Idol Singer]]" (Minmay) and BRACE YOURSELF for the Hikaru/Misa fans going absolutely BERSERK at the mere mention of Minmay, bashing her and falsely accusing her of being a slut who played with Hikaru's feelings since the beginning (despite how she dealed with problems of her own) and who is oh-so inferior to the Ultra Mature And Powerful Strong Woman Misa (despite Misa being much more complex than that.)
* The ''[[Inuyasha]]'' fandom is more or less evenly divided between fans who think that Kagome is an abusive [[The Scrappy|Scrappy]] whose love for InuYasha isn't nearly as true as that of tragic paragon Kikyo, and fans who think that Kikyo is a psycho ex standing in the way of InuYasha and Kagome's true redeeming love. Never mind that one is the reincarnation of the other, and thus the question is less "who" than it is "when".
** Also, [[Wife Husbandry|Sesshomaru/Rin]] vs. [[Implied Love Interest|Sesshomaru/Kagura]] vs.[[Toy Ship|Kohaku/Rin]] and Sesshomaru/Kagome vs. InuYasha/Kagome.
* Tamao and Yaya didn't have it easy despite a good army of shippers for their side for ''[[Strawberry Panic
* ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'' is rife with this, though of a more subtle and insidious brand than any of those above. Although there is the usual mutual enmity between the [[Incest Is Relative|Rei/Shinji]] shippers, the [[Slap Slap Kiss|Asuka/Shinji]] shippers, the more controversial Misato/Shinji shippers, the [[Ho Yay|Kaworu/Shinji]] shippers, and (God forbid) the occasional vicious fans of Mana Kirishima, the worst offender is the [[We ARE Struggling Together!|internal strife]] amongst the [[One True Pairing|most devoted]] Asuka/Shinji shippers. These are typically
** The fact that there are several [[Alternate Continuity]] settings to work with can complicate matters even further. The ''[[Rebuild of Evangelion]]'' films have also helped reignite the debate by giving a new continuity to work with and, as of the second movie, indicating that Shinji/Rei is an [[Official Couple]]. Militant Shinji/Asuka shippers and fans of the original series believe that their hook-up "doesn't count" because Rei will "inevitably" be revealed to {{spoiler|have been built with the DNA of Shinji's mother Yui}} just like in the original series and that she and Shinji are simply confused about the type of love they have for each other, whereas Shinji/Rei shippers argue that their love for each other is obviously romantic with Asuka herself acknowledging it and that ''Rebuild'' is an [[Alternate Continuity]] that has already made changes to the plot and characterizations and is not obliged to make Rei exactly like her NGE self. It's safe to say that you pretty much do '''not''' want to bring this up in a forum if you value your life.
** Yes, ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'' deconstructs shipping, too! Or at least [[Mind Screw|makes it utterly incomprehensible]]. Either way, in true Eva fashion. [[Teasing Creator|Anno]] has taught us well...
* Back in the early days of the Internet, the large and prolific ''[[Ranma
** Mid-nineties Usenet group rec.arts.anime was once victim of the "Who is [http://groups.google.com/group/alt.fan.r-takahashi/browse_frm/thread/48dd0d525f95c918/a197adb5bbee7a8a Ranma's Best Babe]" thread, debating the merits of ''Ranma ½''{{'}}s rivals for the title. [[GRIT|Eventually it degenerated into an actual, role-playing trench war that became a fixture on the newsgroup for over eight years]].
*** It got so silly that people actually accused a group called "The Defenders of the True Fiancée" of spreading viruses and hacking websites. One particularly notorious shipper even accused the animators of [[Fan Dumb|conspiring against his favorite character.]]
* For ''[[Black Cat (
* Amongst ''[[Shugo Chara]]'' fans, there is definitely animosity between the Tadase/Amu and Ikuto/Amu factions, with the expected [[Die for Our Ship]] mentalities.
* The Konata/Kagami vs. Konata/Miyuki camps in ''[[Lucky Star]]'', even though this anime spends much of its time ''satirizing'' anime tropes and conventions. Oh, the irony.
* Among ''[[Code Geass]]'' fans, the pairing wars between Lelouch/Kallen and Lelouch/C.C. shippers can get pretty vicious at times. And they're ''hardly'' the only two ships out there: there's also [[Foe Yay|Lelouch/Suzaku]], [[Brother
** It's too bad that so few accept Kaguya's point of view: "If I can't have him all to myself, ''[[Tenchi Solution|let's share him!]]''"
* ''[[
** Generally, ''Ai Ai Asa-senpai'' members are the targets of an [[Enemy Mine]] by all the other fanclubs, even going as far as to call [[Genki Girl|Asa]] a "selfish bitch." [[Your Mileage May Vary]] on Asa in general.
* Oddly averted in the ''[[Katekyo Hitman Reborn]]'' fandom. Everyone is free to ship whatever they like, and very few people would have a serious debate about it, since most people are multi-shippers. Considering [[Launcher of a Thousand Ships|Tsuna]] and the [[Loads and Loads of Characters]], it's not hard to see why. Although there seems to be opposition between Gokudera/Tsuna shippers and Yamamoto/Gokudera shippers.
* If you ever see the name "''[[Haruhi Suzumiya]]''" used in conjunction with the word "[[Shipping]]", ''get out while you still have the chance.'' [[Internet Backdraft|Someone is going to get flamed. Odds are, everyone will]]. In other words, never discuss your favorite pair with [[Launcher of a Thousand Ships|Kyon]] involved. Side pairings aren't exempt either; Haruhi/Mikuru is particularly divisive even when Kyon ''isn't'' in the discussion.
* ''[[X 1999]]'': [http://www.moonpants.org/comics/fangirl.jpg Seishirou/Subaru vs. Subaru/Kamui]{{Dead link}}, [https://web.archive.org/web/20120502050342/http://www.fanfiction.net/s/583537/1/XMail anyone]? In addition, Fuma/Kamui vs. Subaru/Kamui is a bloodbath in its own right.
* ''[[Fruits Basket]]'' fandom has had many a pairing war between [[Official Couple|Kyo/Tohru]] and [[Fan
* ''[[Higurashi no Naku Koro
** Post-Kai anime [[OVA
* ''[[
* ''[[Axis Powers Hetalia]]'' used to be not as bad as some other fandoms about this, as shippers can find foundation for virtually any ship if they're good at Wiki-fu, and multishipping and [[Ship Mates]] are common practices in the fandom. Key word: '''''used to be.'''''
** The most prominent example is the struggle between America/England fans and anti-fans. America/England is easily the most popular ship in fandom, but its massive popularity has caused many fans to attack it as "[[Fan Dumb|too popular]]" and "taking attention away from the much more interesting ships" (which usually means "gets more attention than MY ship", considering that Russia/America and France/England fans tend to be the loudest about this) and the APH [[Hatedom]] and [[Fan Hater
*** In regards to Russia/America, France/England and America/England, it isn't uncommon to see one of [[Die for Our Ship|the characters portrayed as a 'villain' of sorts]] to give the shipper's OTP that 'push'. Examples include turning the 'potential threat' into a rapist or [[Domestic Abuser]], [[Ron the Death Eater|bloodying up the character]] or taking negative stereotypes and using them to their advantage.
*** You just know a fandom has a serious case of Ship-To-Ship Combat when the ''very first reaction'' to Portugal's prospect appearance is people using the character to attack America/England, claiming that Portugal is England's "true partner" and the pairing will "take down" America/England. Poor Portugal only exists as ''experimental sketches'' and ''doesn't even have a personality yet'', and people are already gearing up for a shipping war, much to the annoyance of those who just want to ship in peace.
*** There are even some ''explicitly'' anti-America/England fanfics out there that are essentially [[Writer
*** Let's not forget how the anti-America/England fringe try to cash on the [[Incest Subtext]] betwen them, falsely claiming that their relationship would be [[Parental Incest]]. This is despite how England refers to himself as "this child's older brother" in the "Battle for America" strips, and America saying "I'm not your little brother" anymore in "Cleaning Out the Storage", thus making this relative squick lower as they do ''not'' consider themselves as adoptive father and child.
** Rabid Poland/Lithuania and Russia/Lithuania shippers engage in [[Die for Our Ship]] against the other's preferred Liet suitor regularly. The former camp cashing in on Russia's status as the local [[Psychopathic Manchild]] ''and'' [[Memetic Molester]] to turn him into a [[Complete Monster]] and ignore his tragic backstory as well as his [[Despair Event Horizon]]; the latter camp [[Character Exaggeration|exaggerates Poland's]] [[Spoiled Brat|initial selfishness]] to [[Jerkass]] levels and accuse him of being [[Dumb Blonde|too shallow and brainless]] for Lithuania, erasing Poland's [[Character Development]]. (In case you're wondering what happens to Belarus in all this, she's usually just ignored completely because of her not being a major character and the Belarus/Russia and Belarus/Lithuania camps being much smaller and less vocal than the other, more popular rival ships like Russia/America, Russia/China, etc. But yes, STSC between the latter group of ships and Russia/Lithuania has been spotted from time to time, with Russia/Liet fans either making Belarus a [[Complete Monster]] who would rape Liet to make him too "impure" for Russia, or blaming '''her''' for Russia's inability to make friends.)
** In Japan where England/Japan is one of the most popular pairings, there was a huge conflict between ''rabid'' shippers (most of them were actually trolls) of Japan/England and America/England that involved trolling, personal attacks, deleting each other's videos in Nico Nico Douga under false accusations, etc. Note, though, that it was essentially a 2ch shipwar getting out of hand and the majority of shippers (the sane ones) on both sides were dismayed by it. (In fact, America/England shippers on both fandoms generally either regard Japan as a best friend to both America and England or having one-sided feelings for England that he's not planning to act on; and England/Japan fans either ignore America altogether or use England's America-related angst as great opportunity for some [[Hurt
** Poor Italy and the pairing Germany/Italy are also targets of much hatred by rabid Prussia/Germany and Austria/Germany shippers. The former are especially loud about it, with some of these fans becoming notorious for whining about how their ship is so "oppressed" or how Germany/Italy is so "unfairly popular", even in communities where Prussia/Germany gets as much attention and fanworks as Germany/Italy does, if not more. In fact, there was an '''''epic''''' event when a mod in the Germancest comm tried to go [[Playing the Victim Card]] by [[Wounded Gazelle Gambit|framing people who had called her out on her rabidness and then claiming they had hacked into the comm]]. [http://www.mediafire.com/?ed4cni94ynciwh8 Screencaps are here!]
** And there's the ongoing feud between rabid Austria/Hungary and Prussia/Hungary fans. Apparently, you either think that Austria and Hungary's love [[Happily Married|is so ultra]] [[Sickeningly Sweethearts|sacred]] that they should not even be allowed to ''think'' of looking at other potential partners lest rabid fangirl dreams will be [[Ruined FOREVER]] and True Love will not survive ([[Insane Troll Logic|eeeeeh?]]), or you think that Austria [[Domestic Abuser|is a snobbish, boring, abusive, rapist asshole]] whom Hungary got "[[Strangled
*** Let's not forget the rabid Prussia/Austria fans who insist that Prussia and Austria are obviously passionately in love with each other in canon and that Hungary is a second thought to them at best and an [[Die for Our Ship|annoying obstacle]]/[[Het Is Ew|woman]] at worst.
*** There's also the potential of a ''third'' faction in this war: [[Cheryl Blossom|the Hungary/Romania shippers]]. Up until now they seem to be [[True Neutral|content with staying in their their currently-small-but-constantly-growing corner]], shipping the Eastern-european [[Hot Amazon]] Hungary with the [[Black Magic|spell-casting]] [[Our Vampires Are Different|possible-vampire]] Romania in a [[Foe Yay]]-tastic way, but should they decide to pick bones with Aus/Hun and/or Pru/Hun supporters...
** Fans are divided on whether Greece should be with his rival Turkey or his friend Japan, with the respective viewpoints boiling down to "[[Tsundere|Greece]] and Turkey obviously have [[Belligerent Sexual Tension]] in canon and they make for a [[Foe Yay|far hotter and more interesting]] ship than [[The Stoic|Japan]] ever could with Greece" vs. "Greece and Turkey obviously [[Sitcom Arch Nemesis|hate each other's guts]] in canon and [[Yamato Nadeshiko|Japan]] is the [[Birds of a Feather|perfect match]] for [[Kindhearted Cat Lover|Greece]]." Though it's really just the [[Vocal Minority]] of Turkey/Greece shippers who look down on Greece/Japan as "boring and non-historical" and Greece/Japan shippers who look down on Turkey/Greece as "abusive and non-canonical" who can get a bit snarky at times.
*** The worst by a mile, however, are the militant Turkey/Greece fans who attack Japan as a [[Relationship Sue]] with little to no evidence, the anime as promoting a "historically unimportant" pairing over a "historically important" one (but never the webcomic or manga, funnily enough), and/or the Greece/Japan ship as "unfairly popular" (even though Greece/Japan, while somewhat more popular than Turkey/Greece, gets ''nowhere'' near the popularity of the F/A/C/E ships, which makes the "gets more attention than my ship" sentiment behind this claim even more obvious). The majority of Turkey/Greece fans are not like this, of course, with many of them even shipping ''both'' Turkey/Greece and Greece/Japan, and the [[Vocal Minority]] is at least merciful enough to leave Japan alone in their fanworks, but that doesn't make the minority's accusations any less embarrassing.
*** Regarding Japan ships in general, there's some division between those who think Greece/Japan is a [[Moe Couplet]] and those who think it's just a snoozefest, those who think England/Japan is the true [[Moe Couplet]] and those who think it really isn't, and those who find China/Japan or Japan/Taiwan more interesting and "historically canon" than the aforementioned ships and those who find them [[
**** Japan/Taiwan seems to have a pretty bad reputation in the West, however. As it's the most popular pairing for Taiwan in J-Fandom and pretty much the only het choice for Japan that is mildly aknowledged by canon, many W-fans side-eye it hard and extrapolate their issues with Taiwan's characterization in many artworks ''to their real opinion on Taiwan the character'', accusing her of being a [[Mary Sue]] and sometimes being harsh to everyone who ships it, saying that the Japan/Taiwan shippers are "creeps who ignore the issues of the Japanese colonization to imagine themselves as Taiwan" among other things.
** Spain/Romano has also been under fire lately, as they're often accused of pushing their couple into other shippers' faces due to some Himaruya notes, or hating on America/England shippers and accusing England of being a pedophile. Of course this isn't always the case and the latter accusation was actually exaggerated and used in propaganda by some anti-fans to discredit the
*** Spain/Romano vs. Romano/Belgium has started to become this trope, due to a few fans on both sides having tendencies to tear down the rival pairing and invalidate it as "incestuous and sick". Anti-Shipping Goggles also play heavily into the debates of who Romano ''really'' likes. To some, a third option doesn't even exist [[Sarcasm Mode|because there's just no possibility]] [[No Bisexuals|of him being bisexual]]
*** Some France/Spain fans do not take too kindly to Romano's abrasive personality and the idea that Spain would be more attached to a "historically insignificant" colony of his than a "healthier" relationship with [[Loveable Sex Maniac|France]], who he was said to have an [[With Friends Like These...|undesirable yet inseparable]] relationship with. Though it's still yet to reach a toxic level like with America/England's involvement in shipping combat, a vocal group of fans have thrown potshots at Romano and accuse him of being in the way of Spain's happiness with France or any male that's not "[[Die for Our Ship|an abusive, heartless psychopath]]" that Spain is too dumb to see the bad in. Oh, and don't forget the Romano bashers who insist on Romano being a bigot and an homophobe '''in canon''' too.
** The biggest victim of these ship wars, ATM? Seychelles, the local [[Nubile Savage]] and [[Plucky Girl]]. She was a minor character with a mere cameo in the comics... then she became an [[Ascended Extra]] in [[High School AU|Gakuen Hetalia]] (both the original script and the PSP game), and then the poor girl started getting shit from ''everyone'' coming from ''everywhere''. The [[Het Is Ew]] camp called her a [[Relationship Sue]], the "fandom feminists" accused her of being "offensive" and "submissive to males", and the USUK and FRUK rabidshippers accused her of standing in between their beaus because she had some degree of [[Ship Tease]] with both England and France. (Nevermind that France is after [[Anything That Moves]], that Gakuen Hetalia isn't that centered in romance but more in [[The Power of Friendship]], that Seychelles [[Plucky Girl|isn't exactly shown as submissive or an]] [[Extreme Doormat]] to either France or England, and that in the PSP game itself {{spoiler|Sey actually ''helps'' America to gain England's attention after a fight, which can easily be interpreted as her [[Playing Cyrano]] for them.}})
** Prussia/Canada gets [[Fan Dumb]] from both sides, thanks to garnering both rabid fans who tout it as indisputably canon and interpret ''everything'' remotely related to either character as ironclad proof that Himaruya is shipping the two together and rabid haters who attack it as an insultingly baseless pairing that only shallow fangirls who don't give a whit about history or canon would think is remotely plausible. The first camp ''is'' definitely annoying considering that they've done things like declare that Prussia's character song was obviously a love song to Canada on absolutely no evidence or applying [[Die for Our Ship]] treatment to [[Big Fun|Cuba]] and [[Lovable Sex Maniac]] for no other reason than feeling "threatened" by their bonds with Canada, [[Not So Different|but so is the second camp]] who often acts as if the mere popularity of Prussia/Canada is an affront to the entire fandom in spite of it being far from the only Hetalia pairing that gets little support in canon or history.
* ''[[
* ''[[
** There's also a minor shipwar between Light/Misa and L/Misa shippers. Needless to say, neither get on well with the Light/L shippers who were as much of an inspiration for the [[Het Is Ew]] trope as [[Mobile Suit Gundam Wing
* Back in the early years of the ''[[Slayers]]'' fandom, there were some pretty heated ship wars between Lina/Gourry and Lina/Zel shippers, made even more fun by ''[[Lost Universe]]'' with shared voice actors and character archetypes, not to mention [[Fanon]] shared continuity. It's calmed down considerably since.
* ''[[
** And then Shinn and Lunamaria's Japanese voice actors got married. I guess that's a solution, too?
* ''[[
** Of course some ship him with [[Foe Yay|Graham]] and [[Cargo Ship|Gundam]] as well.
* Although not as bad as it used to be, the ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist]]'' anime fandom fought hard over the classic trio of [[Childhood Friend Romance|Ed/Winry]], Ed/Rose and [[Ho Yay|Ed/Roy]]. Poor Rose herself was on the receiving end of [[Die for Our Ship]] quite a bit, to the point that even mentioning her name on a Ed/Winry forum is ... [[Internet Backdraft|discouraged]].
** Even more discouraged is throwing Armony and Sophie's names out as Ed pairings. The people who actually have played the games and know what you're talking about will either love/appreciate you, or want you dead. Even though Armony and Ed are pretty canon ''solely'' for ''Broken Angel'', it's a small fanbase on the webs.
*** And now{{when}} that we'll get a new movie for ''FMA'' after the canon series has ended, the new female character is ''already'' getting [[Mary Sue]] calls and "she better not break up my OTP" shit. We don't know
** Possibly the craziest section is the one who ships Ed/Fangirl (or Anyone/Fangirl). Yes, you read that right; wherever you go in the FMA fandom, you're going to find at least a couple crazies who are completely convinced that they are married to Ed or Al, or at least dating them, and that the fictional characters hate the rest of the fanbase for even suggesting other pairings. It's sadly some [[Serious Business]] when these folks come out, because at least 70% of the time, they ''aren't'' trolling.
** The manga fandom itself has had better luck, but wars have arisen between fans who insist that Roy/Riza and/or Al/Mei are [[Official Couple
* ''[[Vampire Knight]]'', with Zero/Yuuki vs. Kaname/Yuuki in particular. Is Kaname a creepy {{spoiler|and incestuous}} [[Bastard Boyfriend]] who wants to dominate Yuuki's life? Is Zero a wangsty moron who gets in between Kaname and Yuuki's True Love? Is Yuuki a "[[Canon Sue]]", thus "undeserving" of both guys? This whole ship war between both ships is the reason some fans stopped reading the manga altogether.
* The ''[[Ouran High School Host Club]]'' fandom has conflict between the canon pairing Tamaki/Haruhi and other pairings, particularly Hikaru/Haruhi, but Kyoya/Haruhi is also popular. Some even support the twincest Hikaru/Kaoru pairing.
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** There's also Soul/Maka VS Soul/Black*Star VS Soul/Blair.
** And, while we're on the subject of Maka, the most popular people to pair her up with are Kidd, Soul, and Chrona. Fans often disagree over which one is the true OTP.
* Mocked in ''Goku [[Sayonara, Zetsubou
* Ship [[Yu-Gi-Oh!|Yami and Yugi?]] Anzu is a brainless harridan. Ship [[Foe Yay|Kaiba and Yugi?]] Joey is a Token Homophobe for some [[Fan Wank|stupid reason.]] Ship [[Foe Yay|Kaiba and Joey?]] Mai is a heartless slut. (Yes, this is a gross oversimplification.) The Yami/Yugi and Yugi/Anzu fans in particular seem to have it in for each other. [[
* It's still pretty quiet for now but shipping wars are pretty common in ''[[Amagami SS]].'' Even though every single girl gets 4 episodes an arc. It's gotten to the point that the shippers are ''getting withdrawals'' due to the fact that they can't bash somebody due to the fact that they're not the love interest of that arc.
* The Ship-To-Ship Combat in ''[[Ore no Imouto ga Konna
* As a series with a boy with 31 girls as his harem, ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]'' is bound to have this. Even though Asuna/Negi and Nodoka/Negi are the two favorites, Chisame/Negi is getting more popular, having at least one in-universe endorser and rabid fans who tout it as if it was already canon. However, the actual fights do get ameliorated, mainly because there is one shipping that everyone can agree on: [[Schoolgirl Lesbians|Setsuna-Konoka]]. God help those who go against this sacred pairing.
* The combat for the ''[[Slayers]]'' franchise has ''thankfully'' died down over the years, but it's still looming about. The main contenders: Zelgadis/Amelia vs. Zelgadis/Xellos vs. [[Rule of Three|Zelgadis/Lina]]; the third pairing is also pitted against [[Official Couple|Lina/Gourry]], which is ''also'' sporadically pitted against Gourry/Sylphiel. Strangely, no one bashes Xellos/Filia.
* ''[[Yu Yu Hakusho]]'': Hiei/Kurama vs. Hiei/ {{spoiler|Mukuro}}. The former wins half the time through ranting and fangirlism, while the latter calmly explains why they should be together (and they generally do a good job in doing so. {{spoiler|It helps considering that Yoshihiro Togashi initially ''was'' going to have Hiei and Mukuro get together...}}) Also, [[Official Couple|Yusuke/Keiko]] vs. Yusuke/Anyone else. And let's ''not'' get started on how many [[Mary Sue
* ''[[
** After episodes 7 and 8, a possible secondary ship war started among the Sayaka/Kyouko, Sayaka/Kamijou and Sayaka/Madoka groups. {{spoiler|With a huge side dish of Hitomi/Kamijou, or better said, [[Die for Our Ship|"HITOMI YOU WHORE, GET AWAY FROM SAYAKA'S MAN!"]].}}
** The STSC is notably absent between Mami/Kyouko and Mami/Madoka. {{spoiler|Even with the official description of Mami's hypothetical witch-form having representation of both Kyouko and Madoka in it.}}
* Want to start [[Flame War|an argument]], you know, [[Troll|just to spice things up a little?]] Get a bunch of ''[[
** You don't even need to pit 2/1 and 1/R fans against each other. Go to the "correct" fandom corner and say that Duo should top Heero. Watch the fangirls in that corner tearing each other down about that.
* ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam
* ''[[Tiger and Bunny]]'' is mostly a peaceful fandom, but it's starting to show early symptoms of this since [[Hot Dad|Kotetsu]]/[[Ordinary High School Student|Karina]] and Kotetsu/[[Ice King|Barnaby]] fans have been spotted fighting it out. Is Karina a [[What Measure Is a Non
* ''[[Elfen Lied]]'' is notable for two reasons. First, the main [[Love Triangle]] is between the [[Unlucky Childhood Friend]] [[Clingy Jealous Girl]] and a psychopathic, [[Slasher Smile|sadistic]] [[Yandere]] [[Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds|with a tragic backstory]], which was engineered from the ground up to drive the fanboys into frothing ''hate'' on both sides, up to and including ''cheering on mass murder and genocide'' because "[[Insane Troll Logic|everyone deserved it]]." Second, because [[Armed
* ''[[Saint Seiya]]'': in the countries where the anime/manga is popular, there's usually ship wars that go way beyond the levels of verbal hate and acrimoniousness, often expanding itself into [[Real Life]] bashing.
** The more remarkable examples are the Saint Seiya ship wars of [[Het|Het Yay]] fans (fueled by the massive creation of [[Relationship Sue
*** Not to mention how the fanatical [[Yaoi Fangirl|Yaoi fangirls]] mixed this with [[What Measure Is a Non
** To mention: also the pure [[Ho Yay]] fandom of Saint Seiya get involved in several bitter ship wars into itself, most noticeably motivated by the debates of [[Fanon|"what should be the "right" guys to ship according to what we see"]] and "what guys are never acceptable to ship together". These can get very, very bloody: i.e. you do NOT go into the path of a Shiryu/Seiya fangirl and tell her Shiryu should go with Mu instead without expecting at least some snark, and at worst nonstop flames.
** And last but not least? The purely het side wasn't much better, to be honest. The Shaina/Seiya and Saori/Seiya shippers were horrifyingly cruel to each other and their characters: Shaina was "a stalker and a slutty bitch", Saori was "pathetic, a coward, and not feminist enough". They also liked to bash the crap out of Miho despite how she, in practice, was put firmly in the [[Unlucky Childhood Friend]] role.
* In the ''[[Da Capo]]'' anime, Nemu is officially the winner of Junichi {{spoiler|with the exception of Da Capo If, in which Kotori wins, mainly because Nemu's [[Killed Off for Real|dead]]}}, since the sequel, [[Da Capo II]], follows their grandkids. However, a lot of fans support some of the other girls since Nemu is usually seen as [[The Scrappy]]. Of the other remaining girls, Kotori often gets the most support, since she has some decent characterization and seems to get along very well with Junichi in the anime.
* ''[[Durarara!!]]'': Some Shizaya fans will rip out the throats of anyone who mentions Namie or Vorona, while Mikado is just torn to pieces between everyone who wants him as their [[One True Pairing|OTP]] [[Uke]].
* After episode 19 of ''[[
* While the ''[[Shin Megami Tensei]]'' franchise as a whole hasn't been totally devoid of this, [[Persona 4: The
** And then it was massively subverted. At least on a certain [[Image Board
== Comic Books ==
* During the time when [[Sonic the Hedgehog (comics)|Sonic]] was trying to decide between Mina and Sally, there were flame wars over which was better for him. Things died down a bit when Mina got her own boyfriend and Sonic and Sally got engaged. (Of course, then they went and broke the engagement off...) The fact that Sally was going through her [[Chickification]] didn't help, and resulted in numerous ''hate pages'' dedicated to what a horrible bitch she was while Mina was clearly the only girl for Sonic.
** The British counterpart, ''[[Sonic the Comic]]'', has some mild ship-to-ship combat. It mostly centers around Tekno's and Amy's [[Romantic Two-Girl Friendship]], and [[The Scrappy]] Shortfuse. [[Word of God]] is Tekno and Shortfuse have a "thing" for each other, though it wasn't shown much in the comics (the [[Sonic the Comic Online|fan-continuation]] tries to make up for it with mixed results). Shortfuse is [[The Scrappy]] due to his annoying insistence of saying [[As You Know|backstory everytime he appeared]], and there was already a train of thought in the fandom that Amy and Tekno were "too" friendly.
* [[Batgirl]]/[[Nightwing]] vs. [[Teen Titans (Comic Book)|Starfire]]/Nightwing. That's all. Really not helped by the writers who go [[Running the Asylum]] and favoring their own pet pairing while derailing the other. (in example, there's Devin Grayson's ''canon'' DFOS against Kory to favor Babs.)
** There's still a Terra/Beast Boy vs Raven/Beast Boy war, fueled mainly by Terra 2 and the fans of the cartoon who came to enjoy the comics. {{spoiler|Terra died, for good this time, but that hasn't made the war go down}}.
* There's also [[Batman]]/[[Catwoman (
* Carlie Cooper is ''not'' popular with supporters of the [[Spider
** But, for a more even footed warground, try Spidey/MJ vs Spidey/Gwen. Usually, Spidey/Gwen is spared by the others due to her death, but the Spidey/Gwen fans seem to just plain hate Spidey/MJ for happening, since its been cited as the (unconfirmed) reason for Gwen's death. Apparantly, that Gwen was becoming boring to the writers and that the suits in charge wanted a major death isn't usually taken into consideration, and some cite OMD as something that needed to happen. However, some MJ/Spidey fans seem to be rather unsympathetic towards the death of Gwen, or will try to rationalize it as ''a good thing'', either because it kickstarted the bronze age, it allowed Marvel to step away from bright eyed idealistic stories, or that Gwen was getting boring.
*** Now, neither side is helped by the fact [[Stan Lee]] has stated he envisioned Gwen Stacy as Spidey's true love, then he goes and has Spidey and MJ get maried in his personal comic strip, or how he showed support for [[Joe Quesada]] breaking up the couple, only to then put the two back together in his aforementioned comic strip. The guy likes trolling the fans, don't he?
== Film ==
* Back in its heyday, ''[[Pirates of the Caribbean]]'' fandom was split into approximately three groups: the people who wanted Will/Elizabeth ([[Portmanteau Couple Name|Willabeth]]) to happen, the people who wanted Jack/Elizabeth ([[Portmanteau Couple Name|Sparrabeth]]) to happen, and the ''tiny'' group who completely stayed out of it and just watched the madness, usually complete with pointing and laughing. On one forum, these "debates" got to be ''so'' bad that the administrators ''completely'' shut down all "shipping debates", and had to relegate the respective shippers to their own discussion threads
** And it wasn't just that forum either... fans on a [http://www.imdb.com/ certain website's message board] did it too. To extreme levels. There was a point where there was ''nothing'' on said forum but shipping "team" threads, and bashing of X character.
** And when you add in the [[Ho Yay]] shippers, things just go nuts. Team Jack/Will and Team [[Portmanteau Couple Name|Sparrington]] are the major players here; the latter often aligned itself with Willabeth shippers, while the former [[Die for Our Ship|just wanted Elizabeth to die horribly]].
* The ''[[Star Trek (
** ''[[
* Not even [[Pixar]] is safe anymore. Ever since ''[[Toy Story (franchise)||Toy Story 3]]'' came out and the amount of Buzz/Jessie shippers increased tenfold, shipping "debates" have sprang up. More extreme Woody/Jessie shippers defend their side till the end, some seemingly convinced that Pixar is intentionally toying with them (no [[Pun]] intended). Still, Buzz/Jessie shippers aren't innocent either, as some will jump on any Woody/Jessie piece and decry it non-canon. Then you bring Buzz/Woody into the mix...no wonder people like the idea of a Toy Story [[
* ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (
== Literature ==
* [[Older Than They Think]]: Russian author [[
* ''[[Harry Potter (
** Notable in this ship war were the "[[Portmanteau Couple Name|Harmonians]]," the Harry/Hermione ship's [[Vocal Minority|lunatic fringe]], who were probably responsible for most of the wank with their conspiracy theories, insistence on seeing symbolism that didn't exist, and invocation of [[Death of the Author]] when it was pointed out to them that said symbolism didn't exist. They're mostly gone now, though.
* ''[[Twilight (
** With the release of ''Breaking Dawn'' and {{spoiler|Bella choosing Edward and marrying him, and Jacob imprinting on Bella and Edward's half-human, half-vampire hybrid daughter, Renesmee, despite author Stephenie Meyer's writing suggesting a possible romance developing between Jacob and Leah}}, shipping wars continue, albeit over Jacob/Leah [[Portmanteau Couple Name|(or "Blackwater")]] and {{spoiler|Jacob/Renesmee}}. Meyer herself has rebuffed any indication in her writing of Jacob/Leah suggestions, saying Leah has "absolutely no romantic interest in Jacob". Despite this, Meyer's stated interest in writing a possible sequel series to the ''Twilight'' Saga, featuring {{spoiler|Renesmee's}} or Leah's POV, and likely featuring Jacob heavily, has served to ignite further flame wars between Blackwater and {{spoiler|Jacob/Renesmee}} shippers.
** Of course, the Saga's multitude of minor characters also has ignited smaller shipping wars, including Edward/Bella vs. Jasper/Bella vs. Alice/Bella vs. Alice/Jacob vs. Jacob/Rosalie vs...well, you get the picture. Even anti-''Twilight'' forums like [https://web.archive.org/web/20121009061800/http://tsdcv3.proboards.com/index.cgi Twilight Sucks] [[Hate Dumb|debate over which ''Twilight'' couple is the "best" and "worst".]]
* ''[[The Hunger Games]]'': Team Peeta vs. Team Gale. Even with the release of ''Mockingjay'', and {{spoiler|Katniss ultimately choosing Peeta, marrying him, and having kids with him}}, the epic war over whether Peeta or Gale is better for, or "deserves", Katniss more has reached staggering proportions.
* Perhaps the oddest fandom to have this going on is ''[[Les Misérables]]'' of all things, vis, Marius/Eponine vs. Marius/Cosette. The stupidest arguments from each side are that Marius/Cosette reeks of boringness and that Marius/Eponine shippers are so socially locked out that they feel better looking up to a street urchin. Try not to trip on the [[Possession Sue|Eppie Sues]] and avoid any variations on the phrases "[[First Girl Wins]]" or "[[Stalker
* [[Hilarity Ensues]] when Ship-To-Ship Combat breaks out [[Armed
** Timothy Zahn may have initially written Mara Jade as a [[Love Interest]] for Luke Skywalker; at any rate, his ending of [[The Thrawn Trilogy]] certain set the foundation for a relationship. Other writers had other ideas (including one who wanted Luke to be with Callista Ming instead), and Mara ended up not-quite paired with Lando Calrissian. On Zahn's return, he [[
** In the ''New Jedi Order'' cycle, which of [[Action Girl|Jaina Solo's]] suitors she prefers (if any) is strongly dependent on who's writing this month's novel. Even after that, Troy Denning broke up her and the "winner" in his trilogy of very silly novels taking place immediately afterwards, reportedly because he doesn't like the couple. Hilariously, though, ''Dark Horse Comics'' seems to have gotten in the last word by setting up an Empire run by a dynasty with the New Jedi Order winner's last name... and Force-sensitivity.
* The biggest pity in the world is that ''[[Little Women]]'' wasn't written 150 years later. It would have been grand to watch the Jo/Laurie and Amy/Laurie Ship Wars unfold, the outrage when the author deliberately [[Ship Sinking|sunk]] the [[Fan
** What evidence remains suggests it was a ship war for the ages, with poor Professor Baeher and Amy taking the worst of it. Now if someone only found some nineteenth-century fan fic in a trunk somewhere...
** Actually, the STSC ''still'' lives. The Jo/Laurie "essay" in the Ship Manifesto LJ comm is '''full''' of Amy bashing, [[Relationship Sue]] calls and "Jo/Laurie OTP!" bitching from both the rant's author and the commenters.
* Probably the most vicious ship war of the 2000s (or at least the most [[Merchandise
** Twilight is open season when it comes to pairings. And whenever you show the sliiiiightest support for ANY pairing in this fandom, bam. 600 fangirls, usually gramatically challenged, are all on top of you. It's like the Zombie Apocalypse but scarier, complete with the sizeable [[Hatedom]] eagerly egging both sides on, quietly changing their backgrounds to [https://web.archive.org/web/20101003045902/http://verydemotivational.com/2010/03/17/demotivational-posters-edward-watches-bella/ Team Raptor.]
* ''[[Warrior Cats|Warriors]]'': Apart from having an extremely divided fanbase on the basis of favourite characters, you can find a ton of fanfic for pretty much all pairings you can think of ([[Crack Pairing|and also for some that you can't]]).
* [[Sherlock Holmes]] and John Watson: lovers or just "[[Heterosexual Life Partners|blood brothers]]"? A classic question. Ask it to any serious fan of the books and they will enthusiastically
* ''[[The Chronicles of Narnia]]'' - Don't mention Susan/Caspian to people who ship Caspian/Ramandu's Daughter (aka Lilliandil) or Susan/anybody but Caspian. Just don't.
* [[
* Team Rebecca got so vocal in the 19th century ''[[
* Within the ''[[Wicked (
* ''[[A Song of Ice and Fire]]'' sees Ship To Ship Combat not between individual ships, but between ''philosophies'' of how shipping should work. On one hand you have the traditional shippers, who focus on chemistry and how hot a given pairing would be. On the other hand you have political shippers, who pair people up based on political advantage. The political shippers generally concern themselves only with prominent noble characters.
** An example is the potential pairings for Sansa Stark. The romantics love to match her up with Sandor "The Hound" Clegane, the only living character, as many shippers claim, with whom she had mutual chemistry. The politicals point out that the Hound has no political influence, having deserted his own liege lord, and therefore a match with Sansa would be of no value. {{spoiler|Also the living part may or may not still be the case.}} They prefer to match her up with people who could offer her power, typically Harry the Heir or {{spoiler|Aegon Targaryen}}. [[Ships That Pass in
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* In ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer|Buffy]]'' fandom, if you suggest that Angel is Buffy's true love and their relationship is tragic and believable compared to the [[Masochism Tango]] of Spike and Buffy, the Spuffy 'shippers will hit you. If you suggest that Spike is Buffy's true love and their relationship was gritty and realistic compared to the hopeless and boring idealism of Buffy/Angel, the Bangel 'shippers will hit you. If you suggest that Angel and Spike had no interest in Buffy at all except for fighting over her because they're really in love with each other, the het 'shippers will hit you. If you suggest that neither Spike nor Angel had interest in each other and they both love Buffy more than anything else in the universe (including beer, pizza, chocolate and any ex-girlfriends they might have had long commitments with), the slashers (and a lot of people who prefer ''Angel'' as a series) will hit you. If you admit to 'shipping anyone with Riley Finn, they'll all hit you.
** This was entertainingly summarised on fandom_wank as: Buffy spent nearly a hundred hours slaying vampires and around 30 minutes shagging two of them. Guess which caused more wank?
* As for ''[[Angel]]'', it's probably not wise to bring up Buffy's name when there are Angel/Cordelia shippers about. [[Replacement Love Interest|Nina]] doesn't fare much better- not since Cordelia was effectively [[Put
** Then there's all the fun that goes on between [[Nerds Are Sexy|Wesley/Fred]] vs. [[Bald of Awesome|Gunn]]/[[Hot Librarian|Fred]] vs. [[Ho Yay|Wesley/Gunn]] vs. [[Dating Catwoman|Wesley/Lilah]] shippers. It is not helped that by the fifth season, {{spoiler|EVERYONE WAS FRIKKIN' IN LOVE WITH FRED.}} Seriously, rewatch the episodes surrounding {{spoiler|her death}}. You will understand.
*** And then when Fred was {{spoiler|permanently possessed by Illyria}}, and you had Fred/Wes fans versus Illyria/Wes fans arguing over which was better. Which is kind of... weird, when you think about it, what with Illyria being a millenia-old demon-god-thingy.
* The fans of Jake/Heather (''[[Jericho]]'') would argue pretty frequently with the also ship teased Jake/Emily fans. Jake/Emily is canon, Emily is a regular to Heather's guest star, and got far more screentime in Season One. Jake/Heather is more popular, Heather is rather well-liked in the fandom as a whole compared to Emily being at least a moderate case of [[The Scrappy]], and Heather got far more screentime in Season Two. Jake/Emily fans say that they have a history together and have fittingly similar personalities, while Jake and Heather are nothing alike and she's naive and annoyingly perky. Jake/Heather fans say that Jake needs someone who's less trigger-happy, impulsive and angsty than he is, while Jake and Emily have a ''bad'' history together, and she's useless, self-entitled and a bit of a [[Faux Action Girl]]. Oh, there was even conflict amongst The Powers That Be; John Turteltaub supported Jake/Heather while Carol Barbee supported Jake/Emily. Barbee won.
* Rose vs. Martha and Rose vs. River bitchfights in ''[[
** There are also Doctor/Donna, and Doctor/Jack fans who can get quite loud about things. Then, of course, there are all of the people who think that the Doctor is [[Asexual]], never mind that there was an one shot [[Love Interest]] as early as in the episode "The Aztecs" in first season ever back in 1963. There have also been a few arguments between fans of Nine/Rose and Ten/Rose (and yes, even Eleven/Rose). Daleks? Aim for the eyestalk. Sontarans? Back of the neck. Shippers? Run. Just run.
** It almost seemed like they were trying to encourage this in the new series with Amy being torn between the Doctor and Rory. Unfortunately, it hasn't gotten any better even now that {{spoiler|Rory and Amy have gotten married}}. You'd think that would settle the debate, but no-- {{spoiler|some Doctor/Amy shippers are convinced she only married Rory out of pity or a sense of obligation and that she doesn't really love him, despite all canon evidence to the contrary}}. Fanfiction contains an almost disturbing amount of making Rory [[Die for
** Many fans ship Doctor/Companion no matter what, and god forbid anyone who dares to disrupt this. Mickey Smith, Joan Redfern (to a small degree), River Song, and Rory Williams are often victims of this, along with any companion who is not Rose.
* ''[[
* In the ''[[Stargate SG-1]]'' fandom, the two major ship factions were the Sam/Jack faction, and the Daniel/Jack slash faction with Sam/Daniel and Janet/Daniel shippers getting railroaded by both sides.
* ''[[
* ''[[
** And these all united against the [[Hatedom|Stargate Universe/Seventh Layer of Hell]] group.
** Also, a lot of Eli/Chloe fans jumped ship for [[Geeky Turn On|Eli/Ginn]] when it appeared.
* While not as severe as many examples, there is tension in the ''[[Heroes (TV series)|Heroes]]'' [[Fandom]] between Mohinder/Sylar shippers and Mohinder/Matt shippers.
* ''[[Veronica Mars]]'' is the centre of some refreshingly vitriolic [[Flame War|flame wars]]. The two dominant camps are the Logan/Veronica and Duncan/Veronica
* ''[[
** [[Les Yay|Carly/Sam also has a significant following]]. Said following frequently gets ranted on due to the simple fact that they're both girls.
*** Turned into an actual war, by the writers, in the episode ''iStart A Fan War''.
** ''[[Wham! Episode|iOMG]]'' saw the war continue into 2011 and after the Seddie storyline was indecisive with neither a [[Ship Sinking]] or them becoming an [[Official Couple]] it has continued into 2012. For a show which started airing in 2007.
* The ''[[House MD]]'' fanbase is a fairly even split between Huddy (House/Cuddy), Hameron (House/Cameron) and Hilson (House/Wilson) all of whom spend a lot of time at each other's throats. All insist their ship is canon, based on purely circumstantial evidance.
** Hameron shippers were rabid over {{spoiler|Chase and Cameron's engagement, and continue to insist that they will [[Die for Our Ship]].}} See [[Unpleasable Fanbase]].
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** When Cuddy started dating Lucas the Huddy fans and the Luddy fans got into some serious fights.
** And now that Cuddy and House have finally hooked up, shipping wars are usually between Huddy fans ("YES! This is SO overdue!), [[Ho Yay|Hilson fans]] ("Ugh, not Cuddy! She sucks! HOUSE/WILSON FOREVER, BITCHES!") and the non-shippers ([[Ruined FOREVER|"I knew this show was going downhill! That's it, season 8 is NOT happening!"]]), with everyone accusing the other of being losers ("Huddies are brainless fangirls!" "Hilsons are delusional yaoi fanfic writers!" "Non-shippers are romanceless and blind!") And yes, you can expect every group to claim to be the majority.
** What about us Hirteeners? Is that even the right term? House and Thirteen seem too have waaaaay too much chemistry for it to be just a coincidence. Then again, even Chase and Thirteen do. Maybe she is just that way with everyone. She is this troper's favorite female on the show, but all other tropers seem to hate her here, so maybe I'm delusional.
** It appears that {{spoiler|House/Wilson}} may have emerged as the unlikely victor in this shipping war after all, since {{spoiler|House faked his own death and literally rode off with Wilson into the sunset at the end of the series finale}}.
* ''[[Lost]]'': Jate and Skate shippers continue to be locked in battle.
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*** Everyone always forgets poor Jacket!
** Not to mention the Desmond/Claire vs. Charlie/Claire shipwars that happened in the earlier seasons, and the Michael/Sun vs. Jin/Sun shipwars...in fact, why don't you just go look at the season 1 Lost promo for the UK on [[YouTube]]; it's a minute and a half of beautiful ship war dancing.
* ''[[Firefly]]'' shippers of [[Mentor Ship|River/Mal]] and [[Foe Yay|River/Jayne]] are locked solidly at each others' throats, if only because both of them have about the exact same amount of canon support for their respective ships, and it's probably a good idea to keep both sides isolated from the [[Brother
** For that matter, the Simon/Kaylee and Jayne/Kaylee shippers don't really see eye-to-eye on a lot of things. Can't imagine why.
** Suggesting that Nandi might have been better for Mal than Inara tends to really annoy the Mal/Inara shippers.
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*** If you ship Simon/Inara, Jayne/Kaylee and Mal/Zoe, the Jayne and Wash fangirls will hunt you down.
*** Strangely enough, if you ship Wash/Zoe you're safe from all sides. Probably because they're the only canon ship, and Joss gave them very lovely scenes together which left a lot of viewers pleased with that ship.
* While most of the time the ''[[One Tree Hill]]'' fandom passes under the radar, if they really want to, they can make
* Back in the early ages of fandoms and fighting, there was the [[JAG]] Shipping wars. All pairings were argued but beware and prepare if you favoured anyone currently going out with either Harmon Rabb or Sarah Macenzie.
** [[Naruto|NejiHina/NaruHina/NaruSaku/SasuSaku]] fandoms seem sane by comparison.
* ''[[Smallville]]''. The Clanaphiles, the Cloisers, and the Chlarkers have all been at each others' throats, and now they're all at the Chlolliers' throats.
** The Clexers, on the other hand, are split between enjoying their [[Ho Yay]] while engaging in [[Pass the Popcorn]] on the other shippers' [[Flame War]], and rabidly dedicated to the mission to depict all females and non-supervillains within ten miles of Clark Kent as vicious shrieking [[Yandere
*** The various shipper groups in the [[Smallville]] fandom have also been known to fight in proxy wars on behalf of ships that serve as [[Ship Mates]] to their own [[One True Pairing]]. For instance, Clois shippers were often allies with the Chimmy shippers from Seasons 6 through 8 because it kept Chloe away from Clark, so it felt right to support Chimmy (the Chimmy shippers didn't always reciprocate the good will though. Some shipped Chimmy because they felt that Clark didn't "deserve" Chloe). Similarly, some Chlark shippers supported Lollie because it got Lois away from Clark.
*** The
* ''[[Dark Angel]]'' fans are split between [[Not Blood Siblings|Max/Alec]] and Max/Logan, the latter being canon in the [[Expanded Universe]] books.
* ''[[Big Bang Theory]]'' fans argue whether Penny should be dating Leonard or Sheldon. A third faction insists that both pairings detract from the quality of the show. However, since the (majority of) the fans try to maintain a level of civility, it's more of a Cold War than an all-out firefight.
* In ''[[Supernatural]]'' fandom, the Sam/Dean and Dean/Castiel shippers have been butting heads since Cas first showed up at the beginning of Season 4 and introduced possibly the first significant [[Ho Yay|competition]] for Sam/Dean's popularly-held [[Fan
** And then there's the rise of [[Portmanteau Couple Name|Sassy]] (Sam/Castiel) as a non-crack ship circa Season 6.
*** Which has only gotten stronger in Season 7, becoming even less of a crack pairing. However, most Sassy shippers have the sense to stay on the fringes of the fandom and avoid the firefight between Wincest and Destiel.
* ''[[The Secret Life of the American Teenager]]'' has Ben/Amy vs. Amy/Ricky vs. Ricky/Adrian and even Adrian/Ricky vs. Ricky/Grace vs. Grace/Jack before Ricky and Grace broke up in Season 2 and Grace got back together with Jack.
** And yes, the writers play with all of these shippings and more. In fact, it's essentially the premise of the entire series. However, the biggest factions seem to be [[Fan
* The re-imagined ''[[Battlestar Galactica]]'' had some serious Anders/Starbuck vs. Lee/Starbuck wars. Apparently there were a lot of fanfics that depicted Anders being unfaithful to Starbuck whereas in the show, it was the other way. Thankfully most people abandoned it after the obnoxious love square of Season 3 in favor of the more solid and certainly more pleasant Roslin/Adama relationship.
** The finale may be considered a [[Take That]] to those who kept hanging on to Lee/Starbuck pairing after Season 3. To summarise: {{spoiler|Starbuck and Anders both [[Ascend to
* ''[[Skins]]'' fans have a bizarre war going on between two completely canon and perfectly compatible ships; Freddie/Effy and Naomi/Emily. The war turns out to be rooted in the amount of screen time and importance the show gives to each (Naomily were the [[Beta Couple]] in S3, but Freffy became more Beta-like in S4). {{spoiler|Freddie being murdered by Effy's psychiatrist with a baseball bat}} in Effy's S4 episode has resulted in somewhat of a cease fire, though, as the two camps united against [[Writer
** Effy/Freddie vs. Effy/Cook counts as well.
** Similarly, [[Glee]] has a war between Finchel and Klaine despite the fact that both work together. It's not a fair fight considering thst B outnumbers A at least 3 to 1 and isn't even Rachel's biggest fanbase
* Try to have any discussion about any character in ''[[Robin Hood (TV series)|Robin Hood]]'' and you'll probably end up in a Shipping War about whether Marian should have married Guy or Robin. Guy fans argue that Guy/Marian had more chemistry, [[Ron the Death Eater|highlight Robin's faults]] (arrogance, impatience, immaturity) and [[Draco in Leather Pants|downplay Guy's]] ''indiscretions'' (burning Marian's house down, threatening her with execution, dumping his infant son in the woods, killing innocent peasants, among ''many'' more). Robin fans cite hundreds of years worth of legend, the fact that Marian chose Robin of her own free will, that Guy {{spoiler|'''stabbed her to death with a giant sword'''}}, that Robin and Marian get a {{spoiler|[[Together in Death]]}} scene, and that Guy himself eventually admits to Robin that "she was always yours." And the debate still rages...
* The ''[[Merlin (TV series)|Merlin]]'' fandom tends to be divided in [[Ho Yay|slash]] and het
** With the conclusion of series 3, the shipping war finds itself in a bizarre stalemate. [[Brother
*** End of season four update: Sure enough, the Lancelot/Guinevere liason was the result of an enchantment and Arthur and Guinevere got married at the end of the season. [http://merlin-network.livejournal.com/281606.html#cutid1 Latest reports from the set of season five] have indicated that Guinevere will have a more prominent role in the show now that she's Queen of Camelot, and that she'll be Arthur's main confidant. Merthur fans have ''not'' taken this particularly well, and some are complaining that her presence is going to ruin the bromance dynamic.
* Things got a bit hairy within the fandom of ''[[The Sarah Connor Chronicles]]'' once the John / Cameron ship's popularity became more prevailant. Some fans found the idea of John Connor, the man who smashed Skynet being a [[Robosexual]] to be inherently [[
* Not quite Ship to Ship, but ''[[Star Trek:
** On the other hand, Kirk/Spock versus Spock/McCoy tends to be a pretty laid-back argument (which, it must be said, frequently culminates in the agreeable solution of [[One True Threesome|having a threesome]]).
* Despite the majority of the [[Fan
* The problem with ''[[Law and Order]]'' in ''any'' of its incarnations is that no-one ever gets together, ever, so the fans have to run with the subtext. And how. Arguably the best example is the approximate 50/50 split in the SVU fandom between Alex/Olivia and Elliot/Olivia, which, fuelled by the fact that ''both'' ships have had a ''lot'' of [[Ship Tease]] over the years, can get fairly heated.
** But while the producers have [[Ship Sinking|sunk]] the Elliot/Olivia ship ''repeatedly'', Stephanie March has recently made the Alex/Olivia fans very happy. In an interview with After Ellen, not only is she ''not'' freaked the hell out by the [[Les Yay]] implications, but admitted that she thinks it's possibile that Alex and Olivia are in love, and that they may have been having a [[CSI|Grissom/Sara]]-eque quiet, offscreen relationship. [[Fan Yay|We now have yet another reason to love you, Stephanie March]].
* ''[[Xena]]'' had some incredibly intense shipping wars between Xena/Gabrielle and Xena/Ares due to its spillover into real-world issues of LGBT rights and representation. In a time when there was virtually no positive LGBT representation on television, the implied relationship between Xena and Gabrielle was all that viewers had. Picking up on this, the writers and actors played up the subtext. Xena/Ares and other shippers denounced this as [[Pandering to
* ''[[Passions]]'': Do NOT mention Sheridan and Luis to a Fancy and Luis fan and [[Serious Business|DEFINITELY DO NOT mention Fancy and Luis]] to a Sheridan and Luis fan.
* ''[[Degrassi]]'''s Season 9 movie seemed to spark this, as the canon pairing became Spinner/Emma which annoyed all Sean/Emma and Spinner/Jane fans. And that's only the most recent one; before that, there was Sean/Emma vs. Sean/Ellie, Sean/Ellie vs. Craig/Ellie, Craig/'female character' vs. Craig/'female character' vs. ''[[Ho Yay|Craig/'Male character']]'', Declan/Holly J vs. Spinner/Holly J, Declan/Holly J vs. Declan/Clare, Eli/Clare vs. K.C./Clare vs. Declan/Clare vs. [[Les Yay|Jenna/Clare]]... I could go onm but I would break the page.
** The anger at Spinner/Emma had less to do with Sean/Emma and Spinner/Jane as it had to do with [[Ships That Pass in
** And let's not forget how much ship-to-ship combat Sean/Emma went through before that. [[Chick Magnet]] boyfriend + [[
** Now part 3 of season 10 has Fiona/Adam vs. Fiona/Holly J. Full. Freaking. Stop.
** And now that Holly J has [[Ship Sinking|pretty much stated]] that [[Incompatible Orientation|she's straight]] [[Unresolved Sexual Tension|and probably still in love with Declan]] it's [[Sibling Triangle|Declan/Holly J vs. Fiona/Holly J.]]
* ''[[
* [[Big Wolf
* ''[[Samurai Sentai Shinkenger]]'' has [[Ship Mates|Takeru/Mako and Chiaki/Kotoha]] vs Takeru/Kotoha vs [[Ho Yay|Takeru/Ryuunosuke]], and Juzo/Dayu vs Doukoku/Dayu. Takeru being a major [[Launcher of a Thousand Ships]] does not help.
** The first signs of Ship-To-Ship Combat for [[Super Sentai]] appear to have begun with ''[[Hikari Sentai Maskman]]'', where more than twenty years on debates are still raging over whether Red Mask (also named Takeru!) should end up with [[Official Couple|Iyal]], Momoko or Haruka.
** Ran/Jan vs Ran/Retsu for ''[[Juken Sentai Gekiranger]]''
** And now, ''[[
** ''[[Tokusou Sentai Dekaranger]]'' has an ongoing debate over Hoji/Jasmine vs Tetsu/Jasmine; the former group of shippers trying to push Hoji and Jasmine's positions as the most "pro" and "senior" of the team, the latter group arguing that Hoji is still hung up on his ex, [[Star
* ''[[Kamen Rider]]'':
** ''[[Kamen Rider 555]]'': Takumi/Mari vs Kusaka/Mari
** ''[[Kamen Rider Kiva]]'': Otoya/Yuri vs Otoya/Maya and Wataru/Mio vs Taiga/Mio. The show encouraged this, since both [[Love Triangle
** ''[[Kamen Rider Double]]'': [[Belligerent Sexual Tension|Shotaro/Akiko]] vs [[Ho Yay|Shotaro/Philip]], Shotaro/Philip vs [[Incest Subtext|Philip/Wakana]], Shotaro/Akiko vs [[Official Couple|Terui/Akiko]], Terui/Akiko vs [[Ensemble Darkhorse|Terui/Lily]]. The debate never ends.
** ''[[Kamen Rider OOO]]'': Eiji/Hina vs [[Foe Yay|Ankh/Hina]] vs [[Vitriolic Best Buds|Ankh/Eiji]]. There's also some conflict between those who think [[Creepy Child|Mezool]]/[[Psychopathic Manchild|Gamel]] would be adorable, and those who find it creepy since Mezool is a pre-teen girl in her human form.
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* ''[[Tinsel]]'': Team Kwame vs. Team Soji over Telema Duke. The fandom can get quite vicious at times with Team Soji fans labelling Team Kwame fans liars and Team Kwame fans calling their rivals wimps.
* Usually averted in ''[[Criminal Minds]]'' fandom, largely due to the fact that since Haley Hotchner was killed there are precisely no canon ships to get invested in. The conflict is, instead, between those who ''want'' ships in canon and those who don't. However, a scene or two that appeared to hint about something shippy possibly developing between Reid and [[The Scrappy|Ashley Seaver]] at some point in the future galvanised a certain Anti-Ship Combat from those who specifically didn't want ''that'' ship happening.
* In-universe example occurs in ''[[Community]]'' episode [[Community
* [[Soap Opera
* ''[[The X
** Then there were the noromos (short for 'no romance') who objected to shipping in general, especially as the series went on and it became more blatant between Mulder and Scully. Their chief complaint was that they felt it got to the point where it detracted from the plot. They went to war with absolutely ''everybody''.
* A fanwar was attempted on Fanfiction.net for [[Suite Life On Deck]] between Cody/Bailey (Cailey) and Zailey (Zack/Bailey). It managed to be avoided when initiator was revealed to be a Cailey shipper posing as a Zailey shipper.
* This has broken out in [[CSI: NY]] fandom, although it's often more "many ships against one ship" where Danny and Lindsay are concerned. "No chemistry" assertions are hurled and it's often compounded by a general dislike for Lindsay as a character.
* [[CSI]] had conflict over Grissom/Sara to some extent, but it never narrowed down into one ship against another, it was more another 'many ships against one' thing.
* [[Bones]] Do not try to argue in favor of Brennan/Sully to a Booth/Brennan shipper.
== Music Videos ==
* Not even the [[Vocaloid
** The most obvious arguments being
== Theatre ==
* In the [[Wicked (
** Oh I don't know, this troper's experience is that both types of shippers just pretend the other doesn't exist. On fanfiction.net at least shippers just make sure they label their fics "Fiyeraba" or "Gelphie" and make sure they don't read the paring they don't ship. For all intents and purposes they're two different fandoms sharing the same archive; Gelphie shippers only read and review Gelphie fics and vice versa and, very occasionally, a fic that isn't shippy will get reviews from both types of shippers (but still normally mostly from the members of the ship they write for) - in my experience it's all very civil.
== Video Games ==
* ''[[
* In what is probably the most wide-spread example of this trope, the ''[[
** [[Your Mileage May Vary]]. Most fans often have preferred ships but realize that in the world of Touhou, [[Brave New World (
* Sheena/Lloyd vs. Colette/Lloyd in ''[[
** Oddly enough, the [[Yaoi Fangirl
** Kratos/{{spoiler|Anna}} and Kratos/Raine shippers were also pretty nasty to each other a few years back. And let's not get started on what Kratos/Yuan is to either of them...
** ''[[
** The ''[[
* ''[[Fire Emblem]]'' fandom is ''stuffed'' with this, especially the 4th and 7th installments. Word of advice to forum newbies? ''Do not'', under any circumstances, bring up the subject of Roy and Lilina's mothers. Or Wolt's father. Heck, don't question or mention the parentage of any kid whose name isn't Klein, Clarine, Hugh, Igrene, Rei/Ray/Lleu, Lugh, or Fir. You'll be sucked into a neverending stream of arguments and namecalling.
** The FE6 discussion is insane. Rebecca was Wolt's canon mother, but the father had to be either Wil (Guy Next Door, [[Nice Guy]]), Lowen (fellow cook, [[Nice Guy]] too, saved Rebecca from bandits so she adores him ever since then) or Sain ([[Chivalrous Pervert]]). Lyn is the prime core of the battles, due to her 4 romantic options (or 5, if you're a Les Yay fangirl for Lyn/Florina): Kent ([[Bodyguard Crush]], Eliwood (The protagonist. What else needs to be said?), Hector (the bickering they have every other chapter in Hector Mode, along with their conversation in 29x/31x if they have an A support), and Rath (due to the existence of Sue in FE6, who looks like both of them). Hector is also madness, with 3 wives: Florina ([[Bi the Way]] [[Shrinking Violet]], really wants to thank him for saving her and might have a crush on him), Lyn (explained earlier), and Farina (Florina's middle sister, exclusive to Hector Mode, recruitable in chapter 25). Eliwood has 3 wives as well: Ninian (according to the Marcus/Lilina supports in FE6), Lyn (STILL explained earlier), and Fiora (most lords of Fire Emblem are paired with Pegasus Knights, this is merely tradition, also possible canon from the Marcus/Lilina supports in FE6 since they involve her homeland Ilia).
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** There have been more than a few terse words over who Ike might possibly end up with, though it tends to be divided between people who ship [[Ho Yay|Ike/Soren]], and those who deny that Ike could be anything other than 100% heterosexual. It's usually not TOO bad, unless someone happens to mention that Ike shows [[Chaste Hero|zero romantic/sexual interest in women]] and that Ike/Soren is very strongly hinted canon. Then things can get ugly. Oddly enough Ike/Ranulf gets a pass, probably because it's not nearly as popular and neither side has as much "evidence" for their case.
*** As of now, the biggest fight leaves Ike/Soren aside and get behind Ike/Elincia and Elincia/Geoffrey shippers. Some Ike/Elincia shippers are simply ''brutal'' to Geoffrey, and one of them brought up a massive wank when she wrote a fic in which Geoffrey burned museums and killed innocent people because Ike and Elincia were together. Not helped by her ''using mental illness'' as an "explanation" of Geoffrey's "issues".
** [[Fire Emblem: Awakening|Awakening]] marks the return of the Lover/Inheritance System from [[Fire Emblem Jugdral|Genealogy]]... the cannons are already firing. Tip: Don't mention "Nono" or "Sumia" in regards to pairings- unless you want to have your brain melted... violently. (Furthermore, don't mention n_n in any given situation, or you'll cause an [[Internet Backdraft]])
*** Hell hath no fury like this trope scorned should Paris turn out to be Ike. If that happens, [[It Got Worse|expect fire. Lots of it.]]
* Not the worst problem of the immensely [[Broken Base]] of ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog]]'', but it pops up from time to time. See [[Toy Ship|Tails/Cream versus Tails/Cosmo]] for the tip of the iceberg, along with the mixed consensus on Sonic/Amy.
** There's quite a bit of animosity between fans of Sonic/Amy and Sonic/Sally. Somewhat odd because Sally and Amy mostly don't exist within the same
** And then there are the fans who question Sonic's sexuality. Sonic/Amy vs. Sonic/Sally is nothing compared to the [[Foe Yay|Sonadow]] (Sonic and Shadow) vs. other female character shipping.
** And don't get them started on the question of who Rouge is into. Just...don't. It isn't helped at all by the [[Ship Tease]] she's gotten in canon with [[Foe Yay|Knuckles]], [[Shotacon|Tails]], [[Ineffectual Loner|Shadow]], and that's not even getting into ''[[Sonic Chronicles]]''... [[Ms. Fanservice|or the fans...]]
** It is not well known and the groups are not very big, but after the ''[[Sonic Rush
* The ''[[
* In ''[[
* It may be a [[
** ''[[Dragon Age]]'' fandom was relatively quiet on this front, with some minor exceptions (do not mention the Darkspawn Chronicles DLC if you value your life, and there's some backlash against [[Player Character|Female!Cousland]]/[[The Lancer|Alistair]] simply because it's the most frequently shipped pairing). The sequel, OTOH, has an ugly ship war going on between Hawke/Anders vs. Hawke/Fenris, which is fueled by the fact that the two characters represent the game's diametrically opposing views on mages, itself an endless hotbed of wank in the fandom. Hawke/Merrill is fairly safe, and Hawke/Isabella is also smooth sailing.
* The ''[[Kingdom Hearts]]'' fandom, especially as of the second installment, seems to be comprised of two groups: those who regard shipping as [[Serious Business]], and those that ship for fun or to point at and laugh at the first group. The introduction of Organization XIII basically just gave the former group license to spark flame wars over the relative merits of the #### ship of the day (12 males that hang out in a castle all day? Why, it's like shooting fish in a barrel!). Oh, and never mention AkuRoku if you value your head.
** [[Ho Yay|Riku/Sora]], [[Official Couple|Kairi/Sora]], and [[Fan
** Roxas/Namine and Roxas/Xion fans have gone haywire. Beware of [[Fan Dumb|deviantART]].
* Pick a ''[[Final Fantasy]]'' pairing, ANY [[Final Fantasy]] pairing, but in particular, '''BEWARE''' of ''[[Final Fantasy VII]]'', and ''especially'' any pairing with the words [[Die for Our Ship|'Aerith']] or [[Childhood Friend Romance|'Tifa']] involved anywhere at all.
** EVERY ''Final Fantasy'' game gets this, to some degree. There is a reason why [[
** ''[[
* ''[[
** The third game is set to star the descendants of the heroes from the first two games. Things are already getting ugly.
*** [[It Got Worse]]. It got SO MUCH FUCKING WORSE. From the beginning, Soulshippers(Matthew/Sveta supporters) and Dawnshippers(Matthew/Karis supporters, including me!) were at eachother's throats. Then came Newwindshipping or Galeshipping or some other shit, which is a KARIS/SVETA FEMSLASH.
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* Don't get started on ''[[Ace Attorney|Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney]]''. There's '''LOTS''' of Phoenix/Edgeworth shipping and lots of Phoenix/Maya shipping, both of which are hostile to other ships (Phoenix/Iris for starters) and ''each other.'' In fact, yaoi is the main ship, the figurehead being P x E. If you don't ship that or if you don't ship yaoi and instead ship a hetro that isn't P x M, you are totally in for a nightmare of harassment and ridicule. Also beware of Mia/Diego shippers, though most are friendly enough if you don't question the canonicity of their ship.
** Now it's going on between Edgeworth X Franziska and Edgeworth X Kay shippers in the Japanese fandom.
* Go to any forum about ''[[The Legend of Zelda]]'' and you'll find ample discussion about which woman ([[Ho Yay|or man]]) Link should end up with. Given that Link has
** One game where it's particularly noticeable is ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess|Twilight Princess]]'', with Link alternatively paired with the traditional ([[
** Between Zelda, Malon, Saria, and Ruto, ''[[Ocarina of Time]]'' was an open invitation for Ship-To-Ship Combat. ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
* ''[[Devil May Cry]]'' is vicious for this. To begin with, there's already a canonical division for the first three games in Trish, Lady, and Lucia (in order of general popularity). Some people are [[Squick|squicked out]] by the fact that Trish looks like Dante's mom, even if she does appear in the most supplementary material, so they go with Lady. Pairing Dante with Lucia is not as common due to Devil May Cry 2 not being all that popular. However, a vocal minority points to the [[Cargo Ship|Devil Arm Nevan]], a succubus, as a possible [[Take a Third Option|choice for Dante]]. Another vocal minority points to [[Launcher of a Thousand Ships|Dante's obvious Action Hero origins and that he HAS no canonical love interest]]. Then the [[Yaoi Fangirl|disturbing chicks]] point out that [[Twincest|Dante and Vergil together is hot times two]] and so come up with as many excuses as they can for that. The only relationship which has remained untouched is Kyrie/Nero...
** And now, we have Dante/[[Bayonetta]].
** Kyrie/Nero is hardly untouched. Perhaps a minority, but the Dante/Nero shippers can be quite vocal, especially if you so much as mention Kyrie.
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* While this is mostly avoided in the ''[[Spyro]]'' series due to the existence of [[Continuity Reboot|three continuities]], there are still [[Stalker
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* Should [[Resident Evil|Leon S. Kennedy]] be with Claire Redfield? [[Mad
** Speaking of Claire, fans are torn on whether to pair her with Leon, [[The Scrappy|Steve Burnside]] or [[Squick|Sherry]].
** It's best not to ask the William Birkin/Annette Birkin shippers what they think of [[Ho Yay|Wesker/Birkin]] and vice versa.
** Chris Redfield/Sheva VS Chris/Jill Valentine...and mentioning [[Foe Yay|Chris/Wesker]] is pretty much [[Internet Backdraft|a nuclear explosion waiting to happen]].
* [[World of Warcraft|Thrall]]'s new bride (or at least fiancée) [[Heroes Want Redheads|Aggra]] is apparently the [[Die for Our Ship|target]] of many a [[Revenge Fic]] from Thrall/Jaina shippers. Now, she ''did'' kind of [[Designated Love Interest|come out of nowhere]], apparently for the express ''purpose'' of [[Ship Sinking]]...but even with ''that'' in mind, it gets pretty vicious.
** Even before Aggra existed, there was already a bit of a ship war between Arthas/Jaina and Thrall/Jaina.
* The ''[[Disgaea]]'' fandom fights over whether Laharl should end up with Etna or Flonne, or if the latter two end up with each other.
** In the [[Disgaea 3: Absence of Justice|third game]], Mao/Beryl VS Mao/Almaz fights are common.
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** However, the "shipping war" aspect is generally absent, especially on the ''Portal'' [[Kink Meme]], where they even discussed what fun it might be to get into raging arguments about whether Chell should be with [[
* As mentioned above, [[Shin Megami Tensei]] has its share of this:
** [[Persona 2]] has mostly the rabid [[Ho Yay|Tatsuya/Jun]] shippers, who don't seem to take the existence of Tatsuya/Maya shippers kindly.
** [[Persona 3]] gives us all of
** [[Persona 4]] has a particularly bloody war between those who ship the MC with either [[Kick Chick|Chie]], [[Lady of Black Magic|Yukiko]], [[Mission Control|Rise]] or {{spoiler|[[The Gunslinger|Naoto]].}} The latter is specially... complicated, ''[[Internet Backdraft|and this is all we'll say about it]]''. As mentioned above, it has sorta died down (at least on /a/) after [[Persona 4:
* Pretty much comes with territory, in regards to [[Katawa Shoujo]]. While [[Yamato Nadeshiko|Lilly]] and [[Shrinking Violet|Hanako]] have the largest camps, every girl has a strong following. [[Student Council President|Shizune]] fans in particular can be downright militant in their support, largely as a result of having to constantly battle the [[Hatedom]] the character has developed since release due to the [[Base Breaker]] nature of her route, and [[The Rival|her rivalry]] with [[Die for Our Ship|the much adored Lilly.]]
** On the forums, it's fairly common for posters to rank the routes/girls in their signatures with ">" or "=" signs. For example, Favorite>Second favorite>Tied for third=Tied for third>Least favorite
* There is quite a significant number of people in the [[Halo]] fandom who point out that no relationships between Spartans can happen, but somehow there still seem to be fan pairings. [[Childhood Friends|John/Kelly]], [[Cargo Ship|John/Cortana]], [[Killed Off for Real|John/Miranda]], and [[Interspecies Romance|John/Thel]] being the most dominant in the fandom. The first three are easily the most popular, but the last one seems to be growing at a snail's pace. John/Miranda supporters were not held back by the fact that Miranda died in Halo3, they just change the outcome of the battle to say that she survived. Really, ''none'' of these pairings could happen, because Spartans are engineered to have no sex drive. [[Fan Dumb|But the fans don't listen.]]
* ''[[Fate/EXTELLA: The Umbral Star]]'': While previous games in the series kept their routes and heroines entirely separate, ''Extella'' features Nero and Tamamo as rivals for Hakuno's affections. Although the game favors Nero in this regard, there isn't a clear resolution. As such, Nero x Hakuno and Tamano x Hakuno shippers frequently accuse the other character of being a [[Clingy Jealous Girl]]. It also doesn't help that while Tamano has made clear her dream to marry Hakuno, Nero's ending in CCC is the only in which Hakuno weds. And that's not even getting into how Fate GO writes an alternative timeline Nero to ship with the protagonist of that game, rather than doing so with the Nero who remembers Hakuno - while Tamano is given no such similar treatment.
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*''[[Misfile]]'' contains a rare example of a ship fighting itself. Ash/Emily shippers all want to see Ash and Emily hook up, but because Ash is a [[Gender Bender|boy turned into a girl]] they can't agree on how the comic should end. One side desperately wants Ash to decide to stay a girl, the other wants to see Ash back as a guy. The fighting hasn't yet reached [[Internet Backdraft|dangerous levels]], but the arguments crop up with regularity.
*While the ''[[Megatokyo]]'' fandom as a general rule tends to be quite civil, there does seem to be a distinct undercurrent of dislike between fans who think Piro should stay with his current girlfriend, Nanasawa Kimiko, and those who would like to see him get back together with his previous girlfriend, Tohya Miho. One can generally tell which girl a particular fan supports by whether he refers to Kimiko by her given name, or by her familly name (Nanasawa).
*''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'' has a number of [[One True Pairing]]s. Torg is most often paired with Zoë, Gwynn, Sasha, or Aylee (the alien), and Riff with Gwynn, Sasha, or various insane ladies. Currently,{{when}} Zoë is dead and Torg is working closely with Sasha, but he is working with her to get Zoë back and Sasha may be his sister anyway, so who knows. Then there's [[Base Breaker|Oasis]]...
*''[[Homestuck]]'' still suffers from this, although considering the series' romance is [[Love Dodecahedron]] it's not all that much, fandom attitude having finally given in to Ship All The Things, Fill All The Buckets, and Threeway Fixes Everything. For the most part, it was much worse in the past. Since most major pairing factions have stopped caring, the main two locked standing in an eternal bloodbath are Dave/Terezi and Karkat/Terezi. It doesn't help they've both convinced their side is solid, set-in-stone canon when neither one actually is. Dave/Jade has tried to make the fight three-way and is subsequently ignored by both sides, because even though it's arguably just as canon as the other two, the fans aren't really out for blood and simply cannot compete with the escalating violence. The rest of the fandom suffers small skirmishes, (John/Karkat vs Dave/John or John/Vriska, PBJ vs anything that stands in its way, Karkat/Jade vs whoever feels like kicking them around today) but nothing touches the epic bitchfight of Terezi's flushed quadrent. It's enough that it's become an increasingly popular trend to [[Take a Third Option]] and ship Dave/Karket, who have spoken once in the entire comic. Surprisingly enough for the sub-[[Love Dodecahedron]] of Aradia-Sollux-Eridan-Feferi-Equius, there isn't all that much infighting and most combinations are acceptable in fandom eyes. Sollux/Aradia and Sollux/Fereri still skirmish some, but seemed to have stopped actively trying to kill each other.
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*''[[Teen Titans (animation)|Teen Titans]]'' was famous for ship wars during its run. Most notably, [[Fan-Preferred Couple|Beast Boy/Raven]] shippers vs. Beast Boy/Terra shippers, [[Slap Slap Kiss|Beast Boy/Raven]] shippers vs. Robin/Raven shippers and [[Official Couple|Robin/Starfire]] shippers vs. Robin/Raven shippers. All they need is a Starfire/Terra ship, and the [[Mexican Standoff]] will be complete.
**Cyborg was completely left out of this. Apparently shippers either liked him too much or hated him too much to ship him. We may never know.
***Actually, there was a quick Cyborg/Raven vs. Cyborg/Jinx ship battle, but it didn't last long, as most accepted that he's best paired with Bubblebee.
*Oh, be thankful that the shipping wars of ''[[Daria]]'' are over! There are ''STILL'' Daria/Trent shippers out there—the biggest contingent, who were set to declare holy war when the [[Word of God]] ''[[Jossed]]'' that pairing in the third season finale by showing that reality would never support the pairing. Still, that's '''NOTHING''' compared to what happened a season later. Want to start a war in Daria fandom? Two words: ''"The Kiss."'' Daria/Tom shipping has caused heated arguments the way the Sun provides heat and light for the Earth. And the real irony is that in the end of the show, they ''broke up'' and Daria stayed single, so ''neither'' pairing is is [[One True Pairing]].
**Then don't forget those who still cling desperately to [[Les Yay|Daria/Jane]].
*Where to start with the convoluted ''[[Ben 10]]'' fandom? Said fandom has three major ships, [[Romantic Plot Tumor|Gwen/Kevin]], [[Kissing Cousins|Ben/Gwen]] and [[Ho Yay|Ben/Kevin]]. During the air of the original series, the Ben/Gwen and Ben/Kevin shippers were the most common (Gwen/Kevin was still a [[Crack Pairing]])...
**...but during ''[[Ben 10: Alien Force|Ben 10 Alien Force]]'', all hell broke loose when Gwen/Kevin became canon. Ben/Gwen shippers still protest about [[Die for Our Ship|how much discontinuity problems this causes for the series]], while Gwen/Kevin shippers bask in the light of their newly canon ship and Ben/Kevin shippers stay well out of the way, enjoying the [[Subtext]] the [[Relationship Writing Fumble|writers seem to be handing out]].
**There seems to be attempted [[Ship Sinking]] in Season 2, what with the added emphasis on Ben's Canon girlfriend Julie. The primary effect of this has been to make Ben/Gwen shippers and Ben/Kevin shippers [[Enemy Mine|ally against their common foe]].
*The ''[[Code Lyoko]]'' fandom features a large group of people who ship Aelita and Odd and are combated vigorously by the people who support Aelita and Jeremie, the show's [[Official Couple]]. But of course this is nothing when it comes to the Ulrich/Yumi/William/Sissi debates.
*As [http://trurotaketwo.deviantart.com/art/The-Fat-Controllers-problem-110937810 this fanart] will demonstrate, not even ''[[Thomas the Tank Engine]]'' fandom is safe from shipping wars. It does not help however that that some of the episodes have hinted towards crushes between the engines (such as Rosie trying to follow Thomas everywhere in her introductory episode, or Thomas blushing on seeing Flora in her introductory episode). [[Brain Bleach]] is on offer [[Media:Th brain bleach.jpg|here.]]
*The ''[[Kim Possible]]'' fans of the [[Canon|Kim/Ron]] pairing will viciously attack any fans of [[Ho Yay|Kim/Shego]] like a piranha-feeding frenzy. Any sign of Kigo [[Fan Art]] will invariably get several negative comments from a Kim/Ron supporter; the same can be said of any [[Fanfic|Fan Fiction]].
**And of course, Kigo shippers will invariably call the Kim/Ron pairing"mainstream" or "not gritty enough" or accuse the Kim/Ron shippers of homophobia.
**There was a major fight that occurred between the [[Die for Our Ship|Kigo and K/R shippers]] a while back. Nowadays, the topic is kept out of most forums for [[Internet Backdraft|obvious reasons]]. Most enjoy both shipping sides nowadays and there are some that even enjoy [[Triang Relations|mixing the ships]].
*The ''[[Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers (animation)|Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers]]'' Ship-To-Ship Combat is actually about only one pairing, namely Chip/Gadget. Those who favor that pairing oppose those who do not want to see Chip and Gadget together, regardless of alternatives. This led to two flame wars on the Usenet in 1997 and at the fan forum [http://www.theacorncafe.org Acorn Cafe] in 1998. Further flame wars could only be prevented by the experience gained during 1998's St. Valentine's Day Massacre and by "agreeing to disagree". A third, rather small faction among them call themselves the Neutrals and dislike the wary ways of both Pro and Anti fundamentalists. Mind you that there has never been a canonical pairing in this show.
*''[[South Park]]'' has a lot of this, especially since ''You're Getting Old'' aired, where Kyle didn't want to be Stan's friend anymore, and was seen playing with Cartman and smiling at him at the end of the episode, implying that the whole [[Foe Yay]] between Cartman and Kyle is slowly replaced with a building friendship. The rabid [[Heterosexual Life Partners|Stan/Kyle]] and [[Foe Yay|Cartman/Kyle]] fans went crazy, especially since there was a war between the ships even before the episode.
**Then there are smaller battles in the fandom, between Cartman/Butters fans and Kenny/Butters fans, Cartman/Wendy vs. Stan/Wendy and Craig/Tweek vs. Craig/Thomas vs. Craig/Clyde.
**As of season sixteen, especially on sites like Tumblr, Stan/Kyle fangirls have begun widdling down or switching in favor of Cartman/Kyle, which in ''Cartman Finds Love'' becomes [[Gossip Evolution|some]][[Everyone Can See It|what]] [[Official Couple|canon]].
*''[[Total Drama]]'': A complicated situation, due to [[Loads and Loads of Characters]] and lots of [[Ship Tease]]. The biggest one is between the original [[Official Couple]], [[Slap Slap Kiss|Duncan/Courtney]], and the new canon, former [[Fan-Preferred Couple]] [[Relationship Upgrade|Duncan/Gwen]]. The fact that the latter got together [[Your Cheating Heart|thanks to Duncan cheating on Courtney]] doesn't help.
**[[Defrosting Ice Queen|Gwen]]/[[Single Woman Seeks Good Man|Trent]], also originally canon, used to be heavily involved in this fray too before being [[Ship Sinking|sunk]]. They still tend to side with Duncan/Courtney as a [[Ship Mates|Ship Mate]], though, as do [[Dogged Nice Guy|Cody]]/[[Just Friends|Gwen]] supporters.
**[[Loony Fan]] Sierra, Cody's [[Stalker with a Crush]], is the perfect ''casus belli'' of Shipping Wars. Many [[Ho Yay|Noah/Cody]] and Cody/Gwen supporters despise her, though the more forgiving ones are willing to tolerate her after season three ends with her and Cody as [[Just Friends]] (and the resulting fact that she no longer makes his life a living hell).
*Strangely, the ''[[Happy Tree Friends]]'' fandom engages in this. The wars often revolve around who Flaky will end up with (the most noteworthy pairing is Flaky x Flippy). Never mind that Flaky is a character who is never romantically involved ''and'' her [[Viewer Gender Confusion|gender]] is still [[Serious Business|quite the subject of debate]].
**And then, there's [[Fan-Preferred Couple|Flippy/Flaky]] vs. [[Ho Yay|Flippy/Splendid]], as well.
*The ''[[Invader Zim]]'' fandom has little fighting, probably because the show only focuses on a few main characters and Dib/Gaz is unpopular for [[Brother-Sister Incest|obvious reasons]]. The biggest ship war is actually just between those who like [[Foe Yay|ZADR]] and those who despise it, especially since [[Jhonen Vasquez]] [[Word of God|says]] it makes him "sick to his ill-prone belly." Building on that, there is a small collection of anti-shippers who are [[No Hugging, No Kissing|against pairings]] in general, but ZADR is where they direct most of their ire.
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**And let's not forget [[Foe Yay|Zim/Tak]] and Dib/Tak. Or [[Les Yay|Gaz/Tak]].
*A ''completely'' [[Inverted Trope]] in ''[[Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers]]'' where out of the four main characters, Zach is [[Happily Married]] and unquestionably devoted to Eliza and his children. Shane and Niko are shipped together (despite his tendency to acquire a mostly-[[Unwanted Harem]]), and [[Word of God|Robert Mandell]] admits he was planning to marry them off. Walter manages to charm a [[Recurring Character]] who left Shane's [[Unwanted Harem]] when she saw that Walter [[Took a Level in Badass|wasn't the useless goof she initially thought he was]].
*In ''[[Phineas and Ferb]]'' the biggest question is with whom Isabella should end up with. Fans usually ship her with the two principal brothers. That's because she's the only one female character of their age with a important role.
***Recently a joke in "Quantum Boogaloo" [[Ship Tease]]d Ferb/Isabella (Ferbella), but this pair was never developed in the series.
***Isabella has a crush on [[Oblivious to Love|Phineas]]. Because of this, Phineas/Isabella (Phinbella) simply has much more canon evidence and a significantly larger fanbase.
**That's also a rather controversial question of who Ferb should wind up with. Canonically, he has a [[Precocious Crush]] on [[Mad Scientist's Beautiful Daughter|Vanessa]], who at sixteen is about [[Vague Age|two-to-six]] years older than him. Many fans, however, decided to pair him with [[Meganekko|Gretchen]], who originally seems to be chosen simply because she was the first girl his age (other than Isabella) to [[Nominal Importance|have a name]]; [[Ships That Pass in the Night|They have never interacted]], though, despite how many times the [[Scout Out|Fireside Girls]] have helped in Phineas and Ferb's projects. And of course, some fans [[Take a Third Option]] and just invent an [[Original Character]], pair Ferb with somebody else in the show, or [[One True Threesome|have a threesome]].
**Another possible war that could break out is between the [[Not Blood Siblings|Phineas/Ferb]] shippers and...well, like the ''Invader Zim'' example above, just the people who ''hate'' that pairing.
**An upcoming episode reveals that Johnny, who fans had generally written off as a [[Girl of the Week|Boy Of The Week]], [[Official Couple|is now Vanessa's boyfriend.]] It won't be long now before Johnny gets subjected to [[Die for Our Ship|the madness]] [[Fan Dumb|of the rabid Ferbnessa shippers.]]
**And now Vannesa broke up with Johnny...but got a thing for Monty Monogram. here we go...
**This was mostly averted between [[Official Couple|Jeremy/Candace]] and [[Les Yay|Candace/Stacy]] shippers. Most of the later also support the former. And there isn't any reported sighting on any debate between the two thus far.
*''[[Metalocalypse]]'', despite its veritable buffet of pairings and a fandom that just loves the [[Ho Yay]], has thus far avoided this. Every possible pairing has its supporters, some quite staunch, but as a whole the fandom is laid back enough to live and let live, with the Skwisgaar/Toki, Toki/Nathan, and Nathan/Charles supporters sharing forums and communities in relative harmony.
*While not as extreme as some of the others mentioned on this page, there's the [[Green Lantern]]/Hawkgirl shippers vs. the Green Lantern/Vixen shippers for ''[[Justice League Unlimited]]'', even though both are canon, and there was a big reveal about {{spoiler|Warhawk being Green Lantern and Hawkgirl's son in the future}}, and [[Word of God]] has pretty much said the Green Lantern/Hawkgirl shippers have reason to be victorious in this fight. And yet there's still friction between them.
*The "Shipping Wars" within the ''[[Danny Phantom]]'' fandom. It became (in)famously known as the "True-Fan VS Anti-Fan" wars, and ran rampant throughout sites like [[Deviant ART]]. The wars pretty much boil down to Canon (Danny/Sam) VS Fanon (Danny/Valerie) and/or Heterosexual Parings (Danny/Sam, Danny/Valerie) VS Slash (Danny/Vlad, Danny/Dash, and even Danny/Himself *Don't ask*).
**How bad was it, you ask? Well, anyone who supported "Fanon" parings was considered an "Anti-Fan" whom the "True-Fans" disregarded as "filth and pornography" (Even if artwork/fanfic of said "Fanon" pairing was completely "G" rated). Likewise, the supporters of "Canon" pairings were called "Canon Nazis" whom the "Anti-Fans" would often accuse of "not understanding artistic freedom". Not to mention that simply being friends or liking the artwork of someone on one side of the battlefield automatically made you enemies with the other. Thankfully, these days, the war seems to have died down a bit.
*''[[The Fairly OddParents]]'' has its own, with the main combatants seeming to be Timmy/Tootie and Timmy/Trixie. However, Veronica/Timmy also has its own devoted fanbase (even though Veronica was only shown to like Timmy in two episodes and she expressed it in a very... interesting way. There is also a minority of Timmy/Vicky shippers, who seem to be in it mostly for the 'straight shota'.
**The Tootie/Timmy shippers won out in the end, as the Fairly Odd Movie reveals that {{spoiler|Timmy gives up his fairies for Tootie, but a loophole in the rules allows him to keep his fairies, so long as he uses them for unselfish purposes. Tootie also is allowed to learn of the fairies.}} Although the movie is not the finale of the series itself, it seems to set the events of the future in stone. Despite this word coming from the [[Word of God|creator himself]], fans against this couple are ''still'' trying to claim it is not part of the canon series. Yeah, you heard that right, [[Negative Continuity]] Nicktoons have non-canon and alternate timelines now.
*''[[Codename: Kids Next Door]]''. Say one shipping, and you'll have shippers SWARMING YOU WITH FURY. For example - 4/86 - You'll have 2/86 after you and 4/3 after you, and 2/86 will have 2/5 after them, which will have 1/5 after them, and [[Overly Long Gag|will have]] 1/Lizzie AND 1/362 after them, and so on and so forth. You may want to wear [[Fun with Acronyms|battle ready armor]] for this.
*''[[Gargoyles]]'' fandom has had this going on for over a decade after Goliath's daughter Angela hooked up with Broadway over Brooklyn (and [[I Want My Beloved to Be Happy|Brooklyn himself was very graceful about his "loss"]]). While most fans understood that Broadway was the correct choice, even if not the obvious choice, there are still fans who believe she should have hooked up with Brooklyn, and it intensified after Greg Weisman came out and said that Brooklyn's attraction to her was shallow and superficial. The recent arrival of Brooklyn's true love, Katana, seems to have finally laid this to rest... however there are still some hold outs because "Katana is not hot." ([http://gargwiki.net/Katana This is what Katana looks like], by the way.)
**For a period, several years back, there were militant shippers who believed that Demona and Elisa Maza should be a couple. While some were doing it just for the fun, there was a rising faction who was dead serious about it. They even denounced Greg Weisman as a writer, and attacked him for not writing "realistic relationships." So, according to these people, Demona and Elisa were meant for each other. One is a human, and one wants to commit mass genocide upon humanity, and both despise the other.
*''[[X-Men: Evolution|X-Men Evolution]]'' has a few interesting ones. [[All Girls Want Bad Boys|Lancitty(Lance/Kitty)]] vs. [[Platonic Life Partners|Kurtty(Kurt/Kitty)]] is the biggest one and dates back to the start of the fandom. Some Kurtty fans like to bash [[Base Breaker|Lance]] as a violent bad boy who is all wrong for the innocent and sweet Kitty and should be with someone like Wanda or Tabitha, while [[Dogged Nice Guy]] Kurt is the one for her (Sometimes depicting him alot more violently than usual and being rather immature about it). Lancitty fans will point out that Kitty is attracted to Lance, and never showed the slightest romantic interest in Kurt. who is in a relationship with Amanda (Sometimes agressively saying 'ITS NEVER GOING TO HAPPEN' and be rather immature about the matter as well). They are also quick to remind anyone they have [[Canon]] behind them as the [[Official Couple]] since Lance and Kitty are hinted to get back together at the end.
**And, that's not even mentioning the Piotr/Kitty fans. Usually, they're spared by the other fans due to Piotr's little screentime, but due to the fact he's Kitty's comic love interest and in a few scenes at the end of the third season Kitty and him proved to work well together he's just as much up for grabs by the [[Fan Dumb|less tollerable fans]]. Sometimes, he'll get off light with just a casual 'It didn't happen', sometimes he'll get a 'he was too old for her' (Which is funny, since his age wasn't ever stated, but he appeared to be only around Scott's age, the same as Lance), but, sometimes he'll just get treated like garbage, or [[Out of Character]] Moments from the comics will be given as 'evidense' to him being wrong for Kitty.
**Another one is Scogue(Scott/Rogue) vs. Romy(Gambit/Rogue). Rogue had a crush on Scott that last for three seasons of the show; this pairing proved very popular, much more so than Scott's always inevitable hookup with Jean. But it was challenged when Rogue's longtime comic boyfriend Gambit appeared on the show. Now, every detail about Scogue is bashed (Including its name, seriously, some cite that 'Scogue or Rott sounds terrible') by the Romy fans.
***And, lets not forget how Jott (Scott/Jean) is treated by Scogue fans. Or Jean herself, who apparently is a slutty evil [[Alpha Bitch]] in the view of eabid Scogue fans who think [[Popular Is Dumb]] despite how Jean was portrayed sympathetically in the show, or creepily overproject their own teenage experiences on the [[Love Triangle]]: Rogue the Misfit is automatically good, Jean the [[Spoiled Sweet]] is automatically bad, Scott is Rogue's "prize penis" for being the Cool Girl, etc.
*''[[Adventure Time]]'' had a quick little shipping war between fans of which girl they thought was better for Finn. [[Ensemble Darkhorse|Marceline]] [[Our Vampires Are Different|the Vampire Queen]] or [[Everything's Better with Princesses|Princess]] [[The Smart Guy|Bubblegum]]. The war was ended when {{spoiler|Marceline/Finn [[Ship Sinking|was sunk]] by Marceline herself}} and "Mortal Recoil" has {{spoiler|given Bubblegum an age regression, turning her 13, and making her a compatible [[Toy Ship]] with Finn}}.
**Finn {{spoiler|dates Princess Bubblegum in her age-regressed state}} but it doesn't last. In the episode "Too Young," PB returns to her proper age to evict a "friendly" usurper.
**In the episode "What Was Missing," Bubbline (Marceline/Bubblegum) took off big time. The episode itself seems loaded by the writers with slashy tinder.
**Finn has a new love interest in the Flame Princess. Shippers are already starting to get into combat mode.
*''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'': There are ships that pair Rainbow Dash with Applejack, but there are others that pair her with Pinkie Pie. Fans of one ship will immediatly (upon realization) state they don't like the ''shipping'', while stating however, that the story is [X] ([X] being their humble, critical opinion on the author's writing) and so living on to their promise of "loving and tolerating the $#¡+ out of you".
**[[Your Mileage May Vary]]. While many fans promote "love and tolerance", many still start ship wars.
***Flutterdashers and Appledashers in particular.
**If you pair Lyra or Bon Bon with anypony other than each other, you can expect to at least a few times be called either A) a troll, B) a homophobe, C) an idiot, or D) all three. Many Lyrabon fans are perfectly normal, but a lot of them are so possessive of both characters that if you don't accept the shipping of them as "almost canon," you'll soon meet a lot of people who neither love or tolerate your opinion.
**Some plot points to the [[Valentine's Day Episodes|Valentines Day episode]], [[You Mean "Xmas"|Hearts and Hooves Day]], were revealed early. It was revealed that the [[Desperately Looking for a Purpose In Life|Cutie Mark Crusaders]] try to hook up [[Gentle Giant|Big Macintosh]] and [[Schoolmarm|Cheerilee]]. Big Mac and [[Shrinking Violet|Fluttershy]] is one of the most popular ships in bronydom, so naturally, the Fluttemac shippers [[Die for Our Ship|took exception]] - before the episode had even '''aired''' and before it was established that [[Status Quo Is God|anything had changed in the first place]].
***And a lot of people found the episode a [[Crowning Moment of Funny]] because in a way it said "shipping is bad" since the plot was about making two people fall in love because you think they'll work. Cue a bunch of teasing fanart all around.
*In-universe example: Gargamel starts one of these in the Season 1 episode of ''[[The Smurfs]]'' "Romeo and Smurfette" when he has a [[Mind Control]]led Smurfette say that she's decided to marry either Hefty or Handy. All the other smurfs take sides, and things get so violent that Papa Smurf has to divide the village with a [[This Is My Side|This-Is-My-Side line]] to keep Team Hefty and Team Handy from killing each other. We couldn't make this stuff up.
*In the ''[[Young Justice (animation)|Young Justice]]'' fandom there are many ship wars, but the main ship war being Spitfire (ArtemisXWally) and Traught (ArtemisXRobin). BirdFlash (WallyXRobin), Chalant (RobinXZatanna), and BabsXRobin often get caught in the crossfire.
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