The lucky gent is a version of Hugo Weaving who had been fated to die in a car accident, but instead ended up in the equivalent of multi-verse's train stop cafe. Starfire found a lover in one of these off-shoot realities and brought him home. The universe started as a varient strand of Hypertime (the old DC concept of a multi-verse) that kept attracting variences and it was easy for characters to find themselves in alternate realities. In DC Nation, Word of God states the entire in-game universe came about due to a crack ship.The fact that it has good reviews and multiple chapters is even more disturbing. There is an in-verse explanation for why Sam is there, but this is still completely cracktastic. Loki from the Thor comics/movie rapes and tortures Sam Winchester from Supernatural.◊ Based on a story where she defeated him by mobbing him with her squirrels, ever since giving Doom pause when faced with her again and becoming an Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain in her presence. Since they're in the same universe - consider Goofus Gallant's Evil Twin. Note that as far as vague canon is concerned, they might as well be Parallel Universe versions of each other. Have some Brain Bleach handy, just in case, and don't say we didn't warn you. Warning! There is a strong possibility that you may feel disturbed when reading these examples. Generally, a Crack Pairing is one that makes no sense even if you assume they do know each other.Įxamples should be limited to specific stories, preferably with links, lest the page be overrun with every pairing that has ever crossed anybody's mind. Compare with Ships That Pass in the Night, which is closely related but isn't quite a subtrope, as it's not at all uncommon for ships that have little basis to be played seriously, due to fans filling in holes or reading into subtext to guess that they'd hit it off. See Crossover Ship for shipping characters who don't belong to the same verse. If one wants to create his/her own Crack pairing (or just wants to see some pairings that may not yet have been added to this page), use the Brain-Hurting Pairer Generator. Contrast with Ho Yay, Foe Yay Shipping, No Yay, May–December Romance, Old Man Marrying a Child, Interspecies Romance, Did You Just Romance Cthulhu?, Twincest, Brother–Sister Incest, and even Parental Incest for examples of ships which you may find weird but which are not crack pairings as long as they have basis in canon.įor an entire LJ community dedicated to particularly squicky crack pairings, behold VeryWrongSlash, which needs no further explanation. Note that when characters are given some kind of relationship, no matter how unhealthy, insane, or weird their relationship is, it's no longer a true crack pairing. A Crack Pairing could very well be treated in a dead serious and realistic way, just like a Crack Fic can be gen, or only about traditional pairings. While crack pairings may show up in crack fics, the two are not necessarily related. It's even been known to influence The Powers That Be. Occasionally, when a fanfic writer gets hold of a crack pairing and makes it convincing enough, that ship gains a following and can even become very popular. like they actually believe it could happen. Most often, though, the insanity itself is its own justification, especially to poke fun at more hardcore fans. Perhaps they took it on as a challenge to prove they could make it work. A good number are the results of freeform roleplaying. They might be the result of people genuinely searching for a good personality match, or drawing parallels between two characters for whatever reason. It might be in order to clean up romantic loose ends by bringing together characters left alone, or to erase the memory of a particularly squicky canon pairing. Reasons for writing crack pairing fan works varies. This can be down to a small cast, or any pairing seeming plausible by now. But they always leave you asking "WHY WOULD ANYBODY THINK THESE TWO BELONGED TOGETHER?!" But interestingly, some fandoms don't have genuine crack pairings - it's true that they end up with Foe Yay Shipping and weirdness, but none of their pairings seem to freak people out. Sometimes they aren't even both carbon-based lifeforms.Ĭrack pairings range from the making-you-scratch-your-head-in-puzzlement weird, to the gouging-your-own-eyes-out-with-a-fork weird. Sometimes they don't even belong to the same 'verse (that's what Crossovers are for, after all) or to the same species. Sometimes they haven't even met in canon. and then there are pairings that make you go "What?" Characters who are shipped together despite barely even having a relationship in Canon. There are official couples, there are couples drawn from more-or-less subjective subtext, and there are clearly non-canon pairings that still kind of make sense.
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