Juggernaut Ship
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| Synonyms: | Juggernaut Pairing |
| See also: | OTP, The Fandom That Ate Fandom |
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A Juggernaut Ship is a relationship that is so extremely popular within a fandom that it dwarfs all other pairings in the amount of fanworks produced. It could also be considered the majority pairing within a fandom.
In LiveJournal fandom in recent years, the juggernaut ship is likely to be a white male/male (slash) one.[1] This phenomenon is also known as White Cock. Sometimes the predominance of a particular ship makes other fans feel left out and bitter, leading to wank.
An extremely popular fandom (aka The Fandom That Ate Fandom) may also be a juggernaut; for example Harry Potter.
Juggernaut Pairings
Slash Examples
- Holmes/Watson in (probably?) all incarnations of Sherlock Holmes fandom
- Kirk/Spock in Star Trek: The Original Series fandom
- Clark/Lex in Smallville fandom. Clark/Lex was very popular in slash fandom during the early seasons of SV. Clark/Lana was very popular in het fandom and with mainstream viewers. Later the show switched the canon OTP of the narrative to Clark/Lois, leading to viewers in general liking this pairing. After the end of the show the most active pairing for fanworks is Chloe/Ollie.
- McKay/Sheppard in Stargate Atlantis fandom
- Jared/Jensen in Supernatural RPF fandom
- Sam/Dean and Dean/Castiel in Supernatural fandom. When SPN first became The Fandom That Ate Fandom the prevalence of Wincest and J2 caused much wank and helped make both incest and RPS less taboo and more accepted in slash fandom at wide. (Although the show also caused many long-term slashers to expand their reading to include gen and het.) Starting in season 4 Dean/Castiel became a new and competing juggernaut pairing that took over both SPN and slash fandom (leading to more wank).
- Merlin/Arthur in Merlin fandom, and Bradley/Colin in Merlin RPF
- Steve/Tony and later on Steve/Bucky in The Avengers fandom
- Charles/Erik in X-Men: First Class fandom
- Arthur/Eames in Inception fandom
- Steve/Danny in Hawaii Five-0 (2010) fandom
- Frank/Gerard in My Chemical Romance fandom
- Sterek in Teen Wolf fandom
- Harry/Louis in One Direction fandom
- Phoenix/Edgeworth in Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney fandom
- Hector/Eliwood in Fire Emblem: The Blazing Blade fandom
- Ike/Soren in Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance fandom and Radiant Dawn fandom
- Chrom/Male Robin in Fire Emblem Awakening fandom
- Leo/Takumi in Fire Emblem Fates fandom
- Python/Forsyth in Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia fandom
- Sylvain/Felix in Fire Emblem: Three Houses fandom
- Heero/Duo in Gundam Wing fandom
- Tweek/Craig in South Park fandom
- Lance McClain/Keith in the Voltron: Legendary Defender fandom
- Mark/Eduardo in The Social Network
- Altaïr/Malik and Ezio/Leo in Assassin's Creed fandom
- Yuuri Katsuki/Victor Nikiforov in Yuri!!! on Ice fandom
- Sokka/Zuko in Avatar: The Last Airbender fandom
- Bachelor/Garuspix in Pathologic fandom
Het Examples
- Catherine/Vincent in Beauty and the Beast fandom
- John/Aeryn in Farscape fandom
- Seth/Eirika in Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones fandom
- Chrom/Female Robin in Fire Emblem Awakening fandom
- Xander/Female Corrin in Fire Emblem Fates fandom
- Alm/Celica in Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia fandom
- Dimitri/Female Byleth in Fire Emblem: Three Houses fandom
- Zuko/Katara in Avatar: The Last Airbender fandom
- RocketShipping in the Pokemon anime fandom
- Ichigo/Rukia in Bleach fandom
- Helga/Arnold in Hey Arnold! fandom
- Maya/Lucas in Girl Meets World fandom
- Phoenix/Maya in Ace Attorney fandom
- Ten/Rose in Doctor Who fandom
- Jaime Lannister/Brienne of Tarth in A Song of Ice and Fire/Game of Thrones fandom
- Cullen/Female Inquisitor in Dragon Age fandom
- Sam Puckett/Freddie Benson in iCarly fandom
- Beck Oliver/Jade West in Victorious fandom
- Ash/Misty in Pokémon fandom
- Spike/Buffy in Buffy the Vampire Slayer fandom
- Erik/Christine in Phantom of the Opera fandom
Femslash Examples
- Xena/Gabrielle in Xena: Warrior Princess fandom
- Haruka/Michiru in Sailor Moon fandom
- Max Caulfield/Chloe Price in Life is Strange fandom
- Chloe/Beca in Pitch Perfect fandom
- Erin/Holtzman in Ghostbusters fandom
- Korrasami in Legend of Korra fandom
- Root/Shaw in Person of Interest fandom
- Clexa in The 100 fandom
- Emma/Regina in Once Upon A Time fandom
- Kara/Cat and later Kara/Lena & Alex/Maggie in the Supergirl
- Riley/Maya in Girl Meets World fandom
- Edelgard/Female Byleth in Fire Emblem: Three Houses fandom
- Adora/Catra in She-Ra and the Princesses of Power fandom
- Thirteen/Yazmin in Doctor Who fandom (most popular ship for the Thirteenth Doctor)
- Anthy/Utena in Revolutionary Girl Utena
- Tori Vega/Jade West in Victorious fandom
- Lapis Lazuli/Peridot in Steven Universe fandom
- Willow/Tara in Buffy the Vampire Slayer fandom
- Bumbleby in RWBY fandom
References
- ^ meta by skalja: "But in almost every single Western fandom I’ve been in, the most popular pairing is two white-presenting guys; the few exceptions pair a white-presenting man and a white-presenting woman."
