Are there any examples of close opposite-gender friends in animation where there's ZERO romantic interest between them? This appears to be very rare
Are there any examples of close opposite-gender friends in animation where there's ZERO romantic interest between them?
Modern cartoons try to do this with their main characters without realizing that fandoms will always ship the main characters
I think that was the joke. that Daffy and this Lola were perfect for each other.
But that is fricking weird. A duck and rabbit dating?
Also this . Shipping and Avatar ruined everything about character interactions as even same gender characters interacting is some how 'confirmation' of being gay.
Now that you mention it…Daffys gf(can’t remember name) also shared similar personalities. They do say opposites attract though.
It’s honestly bad writing and it only started because sad losers complained about it. Like I can understand people not wanting to always see the two mains together romantically but if that’s the case you can’t make them literally perfect for each other too. Make them antagonistic towards one another, it still won’t stop shipping but it’ll make more sense if they clearly don’t get along well enough
Shared similar personalities to bugs I mean
>Make them antagonistic
Ah yes, the classic 'they get along too well to be platonic' cope. Because people who don't hate each other totally must be at least friends with benefits (and if not, they hatefrick). This attitude applies to incestgays especially - siblings simply must be bitter enemies or else. Shippers are a menace.
I hate when they go as far as to give them other romantic interest just as a frick you to the fans. The worst part its those other characters don't have even an apiece of the chemistry the main characters have. Like just let people have it's fun. I you don't want people to pair two characters don't make them to be so close and work so well together
I don't know. Maybe Fillmore? It's been literal ages since I've watched it, so maybe there were some romantic implications there that I can't remember.
Wander and Sylvia are the first characters that come to my mind.
I was gonna say it's because Wander is too child-like but even Spongebob has crushes
for some reason I remember Lola having a bigger bust
must be my coom fried brain
Your mind is thinking about her appearance in Space Jam
Nah she had bigger jugs in the second season
The Patricia genes were starting to kick in
Banjo and Kazooie
Zootopia
The shipping is pure cope moronation
>The shipping is pure cope moronation
This is true of almost all shipping. Fricking characters in a kid's show will make eye contact once and suddenly they're lovers as far as shiptards are concerned. Frickin nauseating.
Which show kicked this off? I wasn't interacting with fandoms in the early internet years to give a solid answer myself
Tons. Futurama with Bender, Hermes, Professor & Leela/Amy. Basically think about secondary Male characters
Nerd girls having access to an internet community
The earliest instances of shipping that I've heard of were from Star Trek fanzines printed when the original series was running. Kirk/Spock was an infamous pairing, but there were hetero ships and self-insert ships too. For instance the term "Mary Sue" originates from Star Trek fanzine released in the early 1970s.
Out of the more modern fandoms, I think the Harry Potter fandom might've been the most influential one. There were some big ship wars and people were shipping everyone with everyone.
Superwholock, too.
I thought modern shipping was mostly started by anime fans
While you aren't wrong for the moment they did say they love each other and I believe some of the creators shipped them so it seems to be leaning into them dating
If they stay platonic in Zootopia 2 then this will be a prime example but now it's technically correct but hinting towards going into a Dipper/Pac situation where they cave in
The fact people unironically think that scene was a love confession will never not be embarrassing
Sadly, unfortunately, Zutara
Xandra and 2/3 of the Caballeros.
I mean most cartoons that do have the main female mc have a romance with the guy mc, all the other guys she interacts with won’t have any romantic undertones. Get the girl love interest and the guy sidekick from most shows and they’re platonic
I've seen it in Canadian series mostly, and the girls tend to be somewhat tomboyish or otherwise chill around guys. Supernoobs comes to mind.
Spongebob and Sandy
I remember how some people found Star and Marco's early companionship refreshing, back when each had a different crush and they weren't into each other. They said it would be boring and cliched to have the two main characters fall for each other...
This show is what adult animated comedy should've been: likeable and complex characters, appealing art/animation, clever humor, relatable issues - I guess it also had a decent budget. If something like this was made for older viewers today, it would be obnoxiously edgy, profane, violent, political, and intentionally ugly.
Just have them be more suggestive and curse a few times and you got a pretty swell TV-14 show as well, it was close to that level
This type of format is just more appealing then the traditional "adult" cartoons