# The Greatest Slash Pairings of All Time **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 13, 2009, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-slash-pairings-of-all-time/509870 "2009-09-13T00:51:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2009, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-slash-pairings-of-all-time/509870/81 "2009-09-15T02:17:44Z")
Personally, I’m astonished that it’s taken this long for Kim Possible/Shego (aka “Kigo”) to be mentioned. ---
**Author:** ![pepperlandgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f17d59/32.png) [@pepperlandgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pepperlandgirl)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2009, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-slash-pairings-of-all-time/509870/82 "2009-09-15T03:44:31Z")
> [@ErinPuff](#): > > Geordi and Data. Seconded. ---
**Author:** ![Kyla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/eada6e/32.png) [@Kyla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyla)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2009, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-slash-pairings-of-all-time/509870/83 "2009-09-15T04:04:55Z")
> [@Unauthorized\_Cinnamon](#): > > Waitwaitwait. Page 2 and no mention of the gayest non-gay relationship on TV? Clark and Lex (Smallville) have ridiculous amounts of hoyay, at least they did when I stopped watching 62 years ago or however long it’s been since season 3. Seriously, I always thought there was much more chemistry between the boys than with the supposed love interest Lana. Michael Rosenbaum left the show a few years ago, making it pretty much irrelevant. Irrelevanter. You’re right, though, that was some serious hoyay while it lasted. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Fight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/90ced4/32.png) [@Cat\_Fight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Fight)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2009, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-slash-pairings-of-all-time/509870/84 "2009-09-15T04:28:27Z")
Oh yeah. “Clex.” I’m pretty sure that entire show was based on marketing surveys of slash fiction writers. ---
**Author:** ![Small\_Hen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ad7895/32.png) [@Small\_Hen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Small_Hen)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2009, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-slash-pairings-of-all-time/509870/85 "2009-09-15T05:10:51Z")
> [@Cat\_Fight](#): > > Oh yeah. “Clex.” I’m pretty sure that entire show was based on marketing surveys of slash fiction writers. Much like Supernatural, actually. Supernatural. The slash isn’t canon, but the slashers are. ---
**Author:** ![Kyla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/eada6e/32.png) [@Kyla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyla)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2009, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-slash-pairings-of-all-time/509870/86 "2009-09-15T06:02:14Z")
> [@Small\_Hen](#): > > Supernatural. The slash isn’t canon, but the slashers are. I can’t decide whether or not the people behind the show intentionally set up their ships to be, um, repulsive. I mean, slashers are kinda sick in the head, they might have said “let’s make sure there are no socially acceptable feasible relationships in this show! You know our twisted fangirls will love it.” The slashers’ favorite ship? Incestuous. Second favorite? Actually _blasphemous_. WTF Kripke. ---
**Author:** ![Petrobey\_Mavromihalis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/bcef8e/32.png) [@Petrobey\_Mavromihalis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Petrobey_Mavromihalis)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2009, 7:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-slash-pairings-of-all-time/509870/87 "2009-09-15T07:39:10Z")
> [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](#): > > What? When did that happen? I think I missed that one. Read the whole thread. ::p: ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2009, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-slash-pairings-of-all-time/509870/88 "2009-09-15T12:47:30Z")
> [@Idlewild](#): > > [http://www.quillsandink.com/fiction/viewstory.php?sid=1048](http://www.quillsandink.com/fiction/viewstory.php?sid=1048) E-mailed it to myself at home; I’ll be back later. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Uosdwis\_R.Dewoh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Uosdwis\_R.Dewoh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uosdwis_R.Dewoh)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2009, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-slash-pairings-of-all-time/509870/89 "2009-09-15T13:59:52Z")
> [@Unauthorized\_Cinnamon](#): > > Waitwaitwait. Page 2 and no mention of the gayest non-gay relationship on TV? Clark and Lex (Smallville) have ridiculous amounts of hoyay, at least they did when I stopped watching 62 years ago or however long it’s been since season 3. Seriously, I always thought there was much more chemistry between the boys than with the supposed love interest Lana. Not surprising as the actress who played Lana had all the range of a two-by-four with boobs attached. The actress who plays Lois has lot more chemistry with Clarkie boy, relatively speaking. I’m surprised no one mentioned Xena/Gabrielle. They’re the reason femslash exists in the first place. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Falling\_Reverend](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/aca169/32.png) [@The\_Falling\_Reverend](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Falling_Reverend)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2009, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-slash-pairings-of-all-time/509870/90 "2009-09-16T20:10:02Z")
> [@Unauthorized\_Cinnamon](#): > > Waitwaitwait. Page 2 and no mention of the gayest non-gay relationship on TV? Clark and Lex (Smallville) have ridiculous amounts of hoyay, at least they did when I stopped watching 62 years ago or however long it’s been since season 3. Seriously, I always thought there was much more chemistry between the boys than with the supposed love interest Lana. I’ve been watching a bunch of Smallville recently & the show is filled with all sorts of slash fodder Lex/Clark-natch Lana/Cloe- they are roomates in season 2 plus it almost happened with the shapeshifter girl. Clark/Pete and then you could go for the hatesex triangle of Lionel/Lex/Jonathan Kent. Or for later seasons theres Clark/Green Arrow. Damn I watch entirely too much tv. ---
**Author:** ![Giles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giles/32/60_2.png) [@Giles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giles)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2009, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-slash-pairings-of-all-time/509870/91 "2009-09-16T20:28:44Z")
> [@parthenokinesis](#): > > Hamlet/Horatio would be my pick. Better if the can get all brokeback in iambic pentameter Rosencrantz and Guildenstern is too obvious, of course – though they could have a three-way with Prince Hamlet. But what would be interesting would be to continue after the last act with the two surviving characters: Horatio and Fortinbras. ---
**Author:** ![pepperlandgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f17d59/32.png) [@pepperlandgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pepperlandgirl)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2009, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-slash-pairings-of-all-time/509870/92 "2009-09-17T00:18:15Z")
When it comes to Shakespeare, my favorite slash couple is Antonio/Sebastian in **Twelfth Night**. Antonio loved him so much ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Plastic\_Ninja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f07891/32.png) [@Little\_Plastic\_Ninja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Plastic_Ninja)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2009, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-slash-pairings-of-all-time/509870/93 "2009-09-17T00:57:14Z")
The thread is making me really want to reread Hamlet with a bottle of wine and write some iambic pentameter’d Hamlet/Horatio. I’ll need the bottle of wine, though… I’m not a natural slasher, but I love dorking with Shakespeare. I also think the idea of Jeeves/Wooster is really kind of charming. On a related note… slash from the Ultima games because incredibly weird and surreal when you know the guys on whom the characters are based. Just sayin’. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2009, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-slash-pairings-of-all-time/509870/94 "2009-09-17T01:51:36Z")
The top headline on the local paper’s website: “House Punishes Wilson”. And I was all, yeah, baby. And then I realized, and then, ew. ---
**Author:** ![Kyla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/eada6e/32.png) [@Kyla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyla)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2009, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-slash-pairings-of-all-time/509870/95 "2009-09-17T05:02:51Z")
> [@Zsofia](#): > > The top headline on the local paper’s website: “House Punishes Wilson”. And I was all, yeah, baby. > > And then I realized, and then, ew. That took me an embarrassing amount of time. My brain just went _right there_. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-slash-pairings-of-all-time/509870.md?page=4)