This Troper averts getting in a mental war with himself over who he ships in regards to Buffy, Faith, Willow and Dawn. This is because I support every combination in it. What do I do? I ship Buffy/Dawn/Faith/Willow.

It can be awfully fun, if you're with the right people. This troper had a group of friends on a message board once who were all fans of TeenTitans, and represented nearly every possible conflicting ship that could ever be thought up. We were all great friends, and derived great amusement from mentally scarring the others.

This Troper has never been involved in a shipping war and is quite happy to have avoided all of the drama going down with it. This is a combination of luck, avoidance, shipping pairings usually left out of the war, and just being very mellow about the entire thing. Some of her friends, on the other hand, continually try to tell her she's wrong and get frustrated when she just shrugs them off and goes back to it after telling them that she doesn't care what they ship, why should they care about what she does? This has sparked some issues between her and a friend who is moderately homophobic.

This Yuno/Yukki shipper has yet to come across a Akise/Yukki shipper. He's actually disappointed about that.

Have one here. The twist? ''I ship Yuno/Yukki too.'' LOL?

There's another one right here. Oh yeah...and if you look at the Manga Fox Forum, it's just a huge flame war with who Yukki ends up with. My solution? Akise/Yukki/Yuko {{OT3}} FTW!

This troper's cousins-in-laws are currently in a battle of who {{Naruto}} will end up with. One is in favor of Naruto/Hinata while the other says Naruto/Sakura. It has even gone so far that they signed a contract that said that whoever loses has to pay the winner $30. ''They even laminated it.''

What do they do if neither happens?

They don't get anything.

This troper and his sister used to engage in this over who Sakura would end up with. I thought Syaoran and Sakura would get together, while she thought that Yue and Sakura made a better paring, although we never got to see who was right because the butchered English dub we watched was canceled mid-series. To this day, we still haven't looked up online to see who was right; waiting until one of us gets the box set of the uncut, subtitled Japanese version to see who was right.

This one has read the manga online, and all he gained from it was membership of the Sakura/Tomoyo ship. '''HOWEVER''', WordOfGod says Sakura/Syaoran, which was the pairing at the end, was the OfficialCouple before the idea of relationships even came into play. CLAMP has said that Sakura and Syaoran are 100% soulmates, and would have wound up together even if Sakura had been born a boy, or Syaoran a girl, or if there had even been an age gap. Syaoran could have been an old man, and Sakura a toddler, and '''''THEY STILL WOULD HAVE GOTTEN TOGETHER''''', according to CLAMP.

I forget the details, but my ''incredibly geeky'' friends and I would do this in RealLife in high school.

Before Christmas break this troper's English teacher posed the question of if we were The Last Airbender}} Kataang or Zutara.

This troper would say Kataang, but only because she doesn't really care and found the canon ships to be good. She prefers Zukka.

This troper enjoys debates and tries to bring peace an clarity to any shipping discussion. Instead of flaming, the threads he's involved in tend to end up with pages filled with numbered lists and carefully structured arguments. Might have something to do with learning to debate on religion forums.

When it comes to {{Shuffle}}! shipping wars, Kitto Kitto Kaede is my droid army, Ai Ai Asa are my clones, and I am Emperor Palpatine.

This troper is a fan of the CrackPairing VolknerxMaylene She even has her own notebook that she fills with things only related to the pairing. When her friend noticed, she showed her an even bigger notebook of [=VolknerxFlint=]. The war has been on a few months now.

This troper and her ex-boyfriend had a brief fight over Harley x Scarecrow vs. Harley x Joker. The argument ended when this troper pretended she didn't really care and hid the fact that she was hurt by the really personal level he took it to, which is completely silly since the fight was over the love lives of ''fictional characters.'' (We broke up later that month, but that fight didn't have anything to do with it.) Within the fandom itself, the shippers tend to get along pretty well other than some Die for Our Ship stuff, but every now and then, as is inevitable with all fandoms, somebody pops up to inform Harley x Random Character shippers that they are ''wrong'' for not shipping her with the Joker, or vice versa.

This troper had friends who ship every possible pairing in the Axis Powers Hetalia fandom. It's quite fun; history class often has us pointing at each other and mouthing "See?!" excitedly, then debating it after class.

SunnyV and her {{nakama}} all seem to have different opinions on every possible 'ship in existence. Debates are always in fun, though (unless someone starts taking it too seriously.)

My friend unfortunately won't take the leather pants off of Sasuke and feverishly believes he's secretly in love with Sakura, despite the fact I keep telling her he tried to shove a fistful of lightning through her head. The way I see canon going, they're both going to end up ultimately alone.

This troperette survived the GundamWing, GGundam and ThePrinceOfTennis pairing wars. She's currently involved in the {{Bleach}}, FireEmblem and AxisPowersHetalia ones. Wish her luck. ;-;

@/{{Mack}}: I spent enough time 'fighting' the Creddie vs Seddie war in {{iCarly}} that as soon as it looked one one was going to start between Jeff/Annie and Jeff/Britta shippers in {{Community}}, I ditched the fandom completely. I ship Annie/Abed, and really liked the community of community for the fun of the show itself.

This troper gets along with her best friend's older sister very well... until it comes to shipping.

There's a big shipping war occurring over Duncan/Courtney and Duncan/Gwen on the TotalDramaIsland fandom.

(different troper than above) And the things that have been occurring in the latest episodes are just adding more fuel to the fire.

This troper has never participated in ShipToShipCombat because he believes that what you ship is your own thing, and no one or nothing (not even Canon) should stop you from shipping it. Even so, he seriously wants to write a fanfic called ''"All's Quiet on the Kanto Front"'' as a parody of ShipToShipCombat, particularly the Pokemon fandom and its hundreds of ships. It would involve trench fights in forum threads, armored assaults across image boards, the Yaoi Guard, and kunoichi.

This troper started shipping Lily/Snape (or rather, that he had strong feelings for her, whether or not she returned them) immediately after the 5th book was published and even made a bet on it. Years later, when the 7th book finally came out, the friend she made the bet with paid up.

Now, however, I avoid ShipToShipCombat because some people take it WAY too seriously. Especially when it involves Slash. I did have fun ruining the childhood of my somewhat-conservative-mildly-homophobic-acquaintance who was raised on StarTrek explaining the Kirk slash Spock phenomenon. Blew. His. Mind.

This troper rejoiced when Kataang won. He even gloated in the Zutara fans' faces.

And from then on vowed to only sit back and grab the popcorn whenever there was a ShipToShipCombat.

This troper did the same thing, but was more gleeful about Maiko maiking it than Kataang.

This troper is currently witnessing a ShipToShipCombat between Oswald x Ortensia (aka Sadie) and Oswald x Fanny (his first girlfriend). She doesn't know what's stranger... the fact that characters from nearly 90 years ago aren't safe from this, or that the 'solution' was to give Ortensia to Felix... yes, that Felix.

The first Sentai I followed while it aired was {{Samurai Sentai Shinkenger}}. Originally everyone was Pink and Red, and Green and Yellow--until, evidence stated otherwise. I am an avid Red and Yellow shipper, but even I was stunned by some of the ridiculousness on the fanboards. Depending on the episode, and based off of a single clip or even still, they would jump to conclusions. This would usually erupt, die down, and then, until a red and yellow focus, or a pink and red focus, it would erupt again. I decided to not to register on any of these boards for fear that I would get too sucked in, and trust me, both Pink and Red shippers and Yellow and Red shippers can be brutal.

This troper doesn't care who ships what, and certainly doesn't care about canon. But that certainly doesn't stop him from engaging in this frequently. My sister and I almost always agree about ships, but it gets ugly when you bring up Mudshipping and Valeshipping. This troper even wrote a college essay on that ship war, and his sister still won't let him live down Valeshipping becoming canon in Dark Dawn.

This troper and her fellow BlackButler fan friends get into this on a regular basis. It's Sebastian/Ciel, Claude/Hannah and Grell/Madam Red versus Ciel/Alois, Sebastian/Claude and Grell/William versus Claude/Alois, Sebastian/William and Ciel/Doll. Admittedly, this troper is fine with the other pairings too, but she engages in ShipToShipCombat for fun and because she likes debates.

This troper and her friend are both fans of ''FullmetalAlchemist.'' We do not quite see eye to eye on shipping. I keep trying to start a war, just for the fun of it, but she's not up for it. Rats.

This troper acedently got into one with a Naru/Hina fan on an RP forum. The joke of it all? I am a Saku/Naru/Hina fan.