Least Favorite Fanships?

As soon as some fans of shounen fighting series started judging a character's worth by how "powerful" they are. If a character is "weak" in terms of fighting, relative to anyone else, they're worthless. (This an endless source of arguments for Rukia vs Orihime in Bleach.) Some manga authors are guilty of encouraging this kind of character evaluation in the first place.

--Romey
 
Well, (in canon) Hinata has shown extremely little capability to fight and little desire to. Sakura, while I doubt she could beat any of the high level guys, would probably last longer than Hinata. Of course, at least Hinata losing inspires Naruto to get his next power up.
 
Gaara did get consistent follow up following that arc. Hinata retreated to the Batcave for occasional cameos and filler episodes. It's not the same since one became a main player and the other pretty much vanished until Pein showed up.

Need a new pairing to riff on...

GaaraxAnybody- He's not into women or men for that matter. He's entirely asexual.

SimonxPretty much anyone that's not Nia- You know, when the point of half the story IS hooking up a pairing, for however brief a time, going the crack pairing route seems...durab. And in Yoko's case, hazardous to your health.

Pokeshipping- They're 12. To quote Ma-Ti "You people are so desentizied!"
 
The last Sentence Reminded me of the end of Rebuild of Evangelion 2, heh.

But against Ino? Who has no offensive techniques? She'd have to be not fighting at all. Sakura vs. Ino said more about Ino's strength as a fighter than it did about Sakura. Hyuga style is a "Chip away until they break down" style, which Ino would have had no defense against, and Sakura certainly would not have been able to counter Neji's version of it. In part 1, Sakura, power wise, was basically tenten with a speaking role and a personality.

If you haven`t guessed already, my favorite pairing for Sakura would be with Rock Lee, not Sasuke, but I digress.

Bleach and One piece are two series that don`t lend themselves well to pairings. It's hard to support any for those.

Athrun X Meyrin is one I really don`t like for SEED. I wish he would stay with Cagalli. It would make more sense(but this is Destiny. so...).
 
Being rather shipper-y myself, shipping doesn't bug me EXCEPT:

If the characters are related. The FMA fanart I've sturabled upon, it burns. Ahhhgh.

If the characters literally want to kill eachother. I saw fanart for Death Note before I ever knew what the series was about, and thought "well that's an odd name for a yaoi". Kira wants to KILL L. L wants to put Kira in jail and never let him out. What part of this says tiptoeing through the daisies to fangirls? Same for Ichigo and Grimmjow from Bleach, they want to beat eacother to a bloody pulp, not cuddle. I want to tell these fangirls "Think of someone you absolutely hate... now how romantic are you with them?" Seriously

Old Men and underaged characters
I've run across few fans of Mad Hatter/Alice fans on deviantart... the old Disney cartoon movie version where she's a little girl and he's an ugly old man. Eww. Also, this isn't a fan pairing, but when they nearly had that fully grown man marry the little girl in Code Geass.
 
I'm usually more annoyed by the shippers than the actual shippings themselves. Sure, some of them make no sense or go against what has already been established, but shipping is supposed to be a fun little diversion that brings out the lighter side in you. When you hold it dearly enough to boycott the series based on how your fantasy pairing didn't happen (see Harry Potter) then its time to take a break from whatever fandom you're involved in.

That being said, why does Google say yuri shippings are more popular yet I see more yaoi fangirls anywhere I go? Its a strange phenomenon.
 
I have no problem with shippers, being one... but when they get into full on shipping WARS about it, it's ridiculous. When the Orihime/Ichigo and Rukia/Ichigo or Aang/Katara and Zuko/Katara people attack each other over the internet ... it's sad. Really sad.

Yaoi does have a more dedicated fanbase than Yuri. There were attempts at Yuri conventions, but had very low attendance, while the Yaoi conventions keep going strong. Why is that? *shrug* You could probably do a whole sociological study on that.
 
Men aren't willing to admit they're hot for lesbians at a convention. It's a giant red flag. Women for whatever reason are willing to admit they find the yaoi thing sexy. Double standarRAB FTW!

Alright, let's focus on IchiHime for a second. Asexual lead meets kidnapped useless person. Orihime has a lot of Hinata's plot device issues, but when you add that the lead isn't interested in any sort of romance (unlike Naruto who sought out romance from Sakura) it becomes kinda durab.
 
I can personally see a Ichigoxorihime shipping since it was heavily hinted in the beginning of the anime and manga counterpart. It could be kubo trying to advance the story much like kishimoto uses hinata to get naruto over that hurdle to become a shonen bad***

That said, I can definitely see an ichigo orihime alternate universe happening. Not in canon, not until ichigo gets past those mommy issues...which reminRAB me of the love ichixrenji gets...
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Alot of the treatment was played for laughs.

It's not going to be referenced again.

Naruto and Sakura are close now; no apology is needed.

Get the hell over it.

Need I go on?
 
Now, let's examine why Nodoka from Negima is how to do the shy, reserved character correctly.

First of all, Negi's 10 (but incredibly badass and a [strike]Super Saiyan[/strike] something akin to SS) Let's get that out of the way now.

Nodoka in the beginning was basically Hinata 2.0 but even more reserved because she did...nothing. However, she got incredibly close to Negi and the two had been teased almost as much as AsunaXNegi. Now, the reason Nodoka is set apart from Hinata and Ori is that
1. She has gotten farther than either of them by kissing Negi twice. Once for the Pactio card (though we all know she liked it) and the other...cause she wanted to get her feelings across correctly if I recall.

2. Said Pactio card makes her insanely dangerous for Negi's enemies like to the nth degree. Not going to say why, read for yourself. Also, when separated from the others in the current arc, she got a couple of magical items that made her Pactio even more awesome. It's not really a fighting power but what it lacks in fighting, it more than makes up for in...um...let's just say information.

3. She just took an insane level in badass by standing up to what is akin to a God in the current arc as well as completely screwing him over. This particular moment made me realize how much better Nodoka is as a person. Also, that Akamatsu is a really good manga-ka.
So it's not impossible to do the shy character incorrecly after all.
 
It's not impossible to make any archetype work, even the shy reserved fangirl bait. It's just that in the case of Hinata and Orihime, they're done incredibly poorly. Hence why I don't think Hinata the plot device deserves anything and I'm wondering if Orihime will become a villain (although the latest revelation in the manga seems to make that angle extremely unlikely)
 
Okay, first off, Orihime is NOT useless. She's underused, there's a difference. Characters like Momo or Kon, now they are useless. Second, I'm well aware that Ichigo isn't a romantic and will not spontaneously fall in love with Orihime but I believe the emotions will build up to that. In fact I once read a fanfic where Orihime told Ichigo her feelings and Ichigo was indecisive on how to react since he never fell in love before, mind you it enRAB with him and Orihime planning a date but it's realistic. What is comepletely unrealistic is how my least favorite Bleach pairing occurs.

IchiSenna is a really bad fanfic with a Mary Sue for a female love interest. I can't believe this pairing has any support for this one, it's forced and ridiculous. My main problem is that Ichigo treats Orihime & Rukia, two girls he has known for a longer amount of time as platonic as possible yet fell head over heels in love with the girl he knew for about a whole day. When the day comes when I have to review Memories of Nobody, mark my worRAB it will be a day of reckoning.
 
Yeah, but MON isn't canon. It'd be like me using a One Piece movie to argue against a pairing. (Movie 10 being the exception since Oda wrote it)
 
^^Beat, canon doesn't matter when it comes to fanships. In fact, isn't that where most of your NaruHina anger comes from? The fillers?
I agree, but was he really "head over heels" for her? He was acting really no differently than Naruto was over the girls to rescue in his first and fourth movies.

(Don, did you see the UlquiorraXOrihime in the new OP? )
 
Yeah, when they're treated as canon. Basically, Don's the anti IchiSenna defense is "Senna's a fanfic Mary Sue! She doesn't exist!"

As long as UlqHime reserables Twilight abuse, I can't support it, even if it would get focus off of IchiHime.
 
No, I'm saying that Senna is like a fanfic Mary Sue and I larabast the notion of anyone shipping her and Ichigo. And yes, I heard of the new OP and all I have to say Studio Peirrot fails yet again.
 
Basically if you have to alter the characters personality or can't keep them in-character for a fanfic, that pretty much means you shouldn't attempt it (lol) or something like that. At least make the pairing believable in the way that the characters are portrayed in the series. There is "flexible" writing, then there is just "OOC", "my version of (so-n-so)" or "how it should be but the creator is too stupid to see it - so naaay!!".

Though I don't seem to have an issue if people mention OOC ahead of time. I don't have a probably with fanart of the characters paired together, though the artist comments can throw the image off a bit. Obvious no one will ever single-handedly stop pairings they don't like seeing (even the creators themselves). And it is always amusing to see who people match characters up with.

__NEGIMA!
Negi / (anyone)
The kid has no interests in a intimate relationship with females or males, and due to him being a child his mind isn't getting the obvious vibes from females that outright said they love him. With the variety of characters, I can see why people try to match him up by some means. I just personally prefer Negi to be carefree and pair...less.

__A:TLA
Zuko / Katara
Because it was never even plausible... she never liked him through half the series, the other time she just "got to know him", and then they become some kind of frienRAB. Other than that neither has romantic feelings for the other at all. Plus to me, it just doesn't work, even in fanfiction.

__Death Note
L / Light
Overall, it is just one of those series were pairing just doesn't work very well.
 
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