The Trope Namer is Christopher Marlowe's version of the legend of Faust. It also tends to snowball easily if there's a lot of competing ships for this character, then suddenly more fringe pairings start to look a lot more reasonable. If there are enough of these in one work, it becomes a case of Gotta Ship 'Em All.Ĭommon traits tend to include lack of a canon love interest (or, if they have one, the show delays resolving their romance as long as possible or downplays it in general), interaction with enough of the cast to form some kind of rapport, or just general popularity meaning that most people have some crazy idea of where they should go. This usually has to do with Wish-Fulfillment: either the character is a lusted-after character and everyone likes to pair them with whoever reminds them of themselves, or the character is relatable and the fans see them as some sort of Audience Surrogate and they are paired up with different characters that the fans lust after so they can project themselves onto this character. The last shouldn't be confused with the Little Black Dress trope, which is Exactly What It Says on the Tin. There is also a tendency for the entire fandom to consider a character a Launcher Of A Thousand Ships notably, the Heroes fandom almost always refers to Peter Petrelli this way, given that he's paired up with damn near everybody in the show, including Nathan (his brother), Claire (his niece note not helped by the fact that Milo Ventimiglia, who plays Peter, and Hayden Panettiere, who plays Claire, dated for a while, spurring a Terrance/Philip tribute video ) and even his own future self.Īlso known as the "ship launcher", the "fandom bicycle" (everyone gets a ride), the "cargo container" (gets shipped to everyone), or the "little black dress" (looks good on anyone). Anything goes as long as the Launcher is included. Actually, come to think of it, everything.įor example, if someone in the Harry Potter fandom says their Launcher is Snape, they will happily read Fanfics featuring the Snape/Harry ship as well as fanfics with Snape/Hermione, Snape/Lupin, Snape/Lily, or even exotic pairings such as Snape/ Legolas or Snape/ Megatron. It's the character that goes with everything, or, in this case, everyone. When shipping, some fans have One True Pairing that they cannot bear to break (or several of those), but some have just a Launcher Of A Thousand Ships character.
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