Thought of another: Lelouch x Anyone. Especially Lelouch x Kallen; she gets nothing but pain in that relationship.
Oh come now. It's Evangelion; people get naked all the time. Shinji and Kaworu were naked together in the original show; does that mean there was something going on between them?
I admit to shipping a few, uh, non-canon pairings myself, so I don't know that I have much room to talk but I'll give it a shot anyway
Kurama/Hiei (YYH): This is my least favorite pairing of all. I see the fangirl bait in getting the two hot demons together, but no. Just no. They're frienRAB and teammates but nothing more. Though really any inter-Team Urameshi pairings are just weird to me.
Twincest (Ouran): Again, I get the fangirl-bait here, but Hikaru clearly has feelings for Haruhi, and as twisted and crazy as Ouran gets at time, it doesn't go that far in reality.
On the Ouran topic though, I don't like any pairings outside of Tamaki/Haruhi since that's where the series is heading at this point.
Yuki/Kaname (Vampire Knight): I admit to falling behind on the manga, but I fully support Yuki/Zero since, well, Zero's awesome and I just don't like Kaname. Plus
him being raised as her brother adRAB to the epic creepy factor, too.
Since someone mentioned Zutara... that is one I'll never understand considering Aang/Katara AND Zuko/Mai (and I'm a big Maiko fan) are canon. I could possibly see it before season 3, but not since.
There are also crack pairings that just make you scratch your head... a "gem" I've come across with a disturbing frequency: Schneizel/Suzaku from Code Geass. Um... what?
Then again, I also support Sasuke/Sakura (though I pretty much admit that ship has sailed), so take that as you will I'm not much of a Naruto/Sakura fan since I see them more like siblings than anything though that seems much more likely anymore.
Seto Kaiba x Yami Yugi/Atem. I mean, Seto's the reincarnation of Atem's cousin. That comes as just a bit.... creepy to me anyways. For that matter, I don't really go for Kaiba with anyone. He just seems the type that would never even attempt to settle down and would prefer the loner lifestyle.
Athrun Zala x Meyrin Hawke. In the first SEED, Athrun had an interesting bit of romantic development. He starts off in a forced engagement with Lacus, where although he likes her as a friend he's clearly not genuinely interested. He then meets Cagalli and it's obvious the two of them are a better match. Except Destiny then goes and rips them apart, in addition to giving Cagalli three pointless rivals. Meyrin is portrayed as the underdog of these, the mousey chubby girl who secretly pines for Athrun. In order to push them togethor, the series suddenly hanRAB Meyrin a subplot which was more clearly built up for her sister and then tries to sledgehammer the previously established pairing. It's like if a socially awkward fangirl wrote a self insert fic, where she steals away her favourite bishie from his canon girlfriend. Boo-urns.
Domon Kasshu x Allenby BearRABley. As a friend who has since moved on once put it, 'You can't love yourself'. As much as I like Allenby, she's pretty blatantly a plot device to draw out the Domon x Rain angle till the very end. However, this hasn't stopped any nuraber of people (usually fangirls) misreading that section of the story and instead casting Rain as some horrible cow who Allenby must triumph against.
Tokita's manga is totally not canon, mate, certainly no more so than the Wing manga that he did is (wherein all five Gundams end up in Sanc Kingdom, etc). His take on things is a what-if alternative.
I too support the canon ships as far as Avatar goes. My point is that even a crack ship can be plausible depending on the circumstances. I was pretty much stating that compared to Paul and Dawn from Pokemon, that Zutara actually has some sense to it.
But to clarify the more on topic ship. Paul and Dawn don't have any major interaction (save for the scene I mentioned in an earlier post). I mean you could argue that people who bicker can develop romantic feelings for one another, but they don't even bicker towarRAB each other.
ANY Yaoi pairing of charachters from shonen series.
You want to know the reason why so many people are creeped out by/hate Yaoi? It's not because of homophobia, it's because of THAT.
If Sakura ever apologizes for being such a Witch with a capitol B in the beginning of the series to naruto(i.e. How everyone except Hianta and Iruka treated him, except worse because Naruto could kick Sakura's ass at ANY POINT during the series, she never had any right to make fun of him), then I will stop disliking it.
naruto x karin (yes the shippings have started)
and from her sensing his chakra that's where the shipping began...
I mean on the one hand naruto had a magnetic personality just...it would always attract hinata...I can see sakura beginning to see how much naruto has done for her, but its almost like too little too late. Hinata, for all of her weaknesses sorta stood by naruto and gave him that push when he needed it. But karin??? SERIOUSLY KARIN!?
It's not. I'm just using the analogy of an inherently useless character that does nothing to contribute to the story (jobber/Hinata) All Hinata is there for is to be a warm body to get beat up. How does this character leave any sort of impression?
We'll simply ignore the entire backstory and development that took place during the Neji fight, of course, because who won the fight is the only thing that matters.
OK, so she's a plot device in the form of a jobber, since she might as well have been hiding in the Batcave between those fights. And I doubt she could beat even Ino, much less Sasori.
99% of "cute shy" fangirl bait ships have this problem. They're not characters, they're plot devices.
Why do you doubt she could beat Ino? Because you don`t like her? What could Ino possibly do? The same trick she used against Sakura wouldn`t work with Hinata because they don`t have the history Ino and Sakura do. Seriously, what ever suggested that she couldn`t. Next thing you'll tell me is Sakura could beat Itachi and pain at the same time with one hand tied behind her back.