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Ghost Shipping is what happens when fans of a work Ship an active character with a canonically dead character. By dead, we mean really dead, not Only Mostly Dead or The Undead.
We do make some exceptions, of course. If the shipping is set before the character dies, it isn't an example. If the shipping is set after the character is raised in canon, it isn't an example. This trope only has examples for when fans have a character currently dead by canon shipped with an active character.
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Ginban Kaleidoscope: Tazusa gets paired up with Pete in the fandom, and it is one of the most convincing ghost ships.
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In the ParaNorman fandom, the Fan-Preferred Couple is easily Norman/Agatha.
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In The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Mipha being Dead to Begin With has not stopped certain factions of the fanbase from shipping her with Link upon the revelation that she fell in love with him before she was killed by Waterblight Ganon and was even planning on proposing to him.
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In The Hobbit film fandom, Thorin/Bilbo is the biggest ship but has the tiny problem of Thorin canonically dying at the end of the Battle of Five Armies. Fanfic writers solve this by either setting their fics in an Everybody Lives alternate timeline or writing an afterlife reunion between the two after Bilbo's death.
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Stand Still, Stay Silent: Any pairing involving Tuuri. The fact that the work gives every sign of involving a Crossover Cosmology of two mythologies in which Back from the Dead isn't completely unheared of doesn't help matters.
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Another Code: Ashley tends to get shipped with D, the ghost she met on Blood Edward Island.
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Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: Thanks to the episode "Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow" fans ship La'an and the alternative timeline James T. Kirk she traveled to twenty-first century tomorrow with. They fell in love, he dies tragically and she even reached out his counterpart in her timeline, only to realize it wasn't her James T. Kirk. Normally The Stoic, La'an bursts into tears. Multiple fan fics or this pairing appeared within weeks of the episodes premiere, as well as some where she eventually makes a connection with her timeline's Kirk, but that wouldn't be this trope.
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Akai Ito has two possible routes that qualify: Yumei or Nozomi. Nozomi becomes human again in the Happy Ending, though.
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Supernatural: Since Sam has a bad case of Cartwright Curse and the two characters who are the closest to him and actually stay alive for any length of time are 1) his brother and 2) an angel who's shipped with his brother 90% of the time, many people have taken to shipping him with Jess or Gabriel despite Jess dying in the first episode and (unlike most other characters on the show) never being brought back to life and Gabriel dying in season 5 after only a couple of interactions with him (he does make a couple of reappearances in later seasons, but many Sam/Gabriel fics were written long before these reappearances that ignored or handwaved away his death).
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Yu-Gi-Oh!: Any shipping of Priest Seto and Kisara after the latter's Heroic Sacrifice. (Kisara is the spirit who made the Blue-Eyes White Dragon). This includes most forms of Seto Kaiba/Kisara, unless it's presented as a Reincarnation Romance instead.
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Final Fantasy VII: Aerith infamously dies midway through the story and the ending suggests that Cloud and Tifa hook up shortly before the final battle. These facts have done little to defuse the Ship-to-Ship Combat between the Cloud/Aerith and Cloud/Tifa shippers.
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My Hero Academia: Aizawa/Oboro has a following as does various Rooftop Squad (the group of Aizawa,Present Mic,Midnight, Oboro and sometimes Tensei Iida ) polycule ships. Aizawa/Midnight counts too after the Paranormal Liberation War arc.
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Inuyasha: The titular character is still in love with dead priestess Kikyo. He then meets her reincarnation, Kagome. So regardless of when fans ship him with Kikyo or Kagome, he gets shipped with two characters who are technically the same person. Later in the story, Kikyo is resurrected, negating this trope during that time.
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Robin (1993): People kept shipping the very popular couple of Tim Drake and Stephanie Brown even after she was brutally murdered by Black Mask, partially because there was a lot of anger about the way she was killed off. Eventually she was retconned as having had her death faked by Dr. Thompkins for her protection and she and Tim make no secret they're still attracted to each other when she returns to Gotham.
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Homestuck: Almost any pairing with Aradia post mortem is this trope, with the canon example of Aradia/Equius.
There's also shipping living characters with those in the dreambubbles, the pseudo-afterlife filled with "dream ghosts."
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Casper the Friendly Ghost and Wendy the Good Little Witch has a sizable amount of fans who pair them though it helps that they're relatively close in age and best friends.
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In PJO Facebook Shenanigans, which is based on Percy Jackson and the Olympians, one pairing that formed was Hades/Maria.
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Kagerou Project: Shintarou was hinted to have feelings for Ayano, but she was Driven to Suicide early in the story. The pairing is one of the popular ships in the fandom.
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Maria Robotnik has been dead for decades at the start of Sonic the Hedgehog but there is a strong shipper base for her and Shadow. This is despite the fact that canon essentially depicts Maria as Shadow's surrogate sister.
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During some runs in NTWF Mafia, deaths and shipping go hand in hand between players. The first run has Meowington/Ariana and Robyn/Icon. The Aifam run had Kylie/Lucille and Prof. Bardsley/Diana Pallada.
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In Dear Evan Hansen and the play it associated from, many in the fandom ship Evan and Connor despite the fact that Connor is dead. The fact that Connor's ghost saves Evan's life late in the novel certainly helps.
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Big Hero 6:
Hiro and his older brother Tadashi are probably the most shipped couple in the fandom despite the fact Tadashi dies early into the film.
Due to her maternal treatment of Hiro, many viewers assumed that Honey Lemon was Tadashi’s girlfriend.
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Steven Universe has both Rose/Pearl and Rose/Greg. Rose Quartz is the deceased mother of the titular character. Both couples are some level of canon, with Greg having been Rose's lover and Pearl and Rose having been romantically linked for millennia (with overlap between the two).
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Green Lantern: The Animated Series ended on a cliffhanger that left it ambiguous whether Razer could revive Aya. The fan consensus is a firm "Yes", with some fanworks going as far as to turn Aya organic upon her coming back to life, and shippers continue to ship them.
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Two of the most shipped couples in Fullmetal Alchemist (2003) anime are this. Ignoring the official couples, Hughes/Roy and Alfons/Edward are both popular despite the fact Hughes dies early in the series and Alfons dies at the end of Fullmetal Alchemist: The Conqueror of Shamballa.
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It: Chapter Two spawned a ton of Richie/Eddie fics that did their best to work around the obstacle of one member of the pairing (Eddie) being killed off in the film.
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When Marnie Was There has Anna and Marnie, who is not only dead but is also her maternal grandmother as a Cute Ghost Girl.
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Mia Fey dies near the start of Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney, but that has not stopped shippers one bit. She is most commonly shipped with Phoenix Wright, her sister, or her former boyfriend, Godot. The whole "spirit medium" thing probably helps.
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Yellowjackets: One of the most popular season one ships is Shauna/Jackie. It continued to have a fanbase even after the season finale killed off Jackie. So instead, a lot of fans have taken to writing Fix Fics where she never died and instead got together with Shauna or even just shipping Shauna with Jackie's literal ghost. This is helped by the fact that the present day Shauna hallucinates a vision of Jackie's ghost.
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In Good Omens fandom, Hastur/Ligur has a number of fans in spite of Ligur being graphically melted into nonexistence by Crowley's holy water bucket trap. Some fics try to justify bringing Ligur back to life with the reasoning that Adam restoring the Earth back to the way it was before the almost-Apocalypse might have meant undoing the deaths of everyone who died during it, but others don't bother with an explanation.
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Death Note: While originally not even possible given the series' definitive, hard-line stance on death, supplementary material and OVAS has allowed fans a way to ship those who used the Death Note.
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In Hatoful Boyfriend, one of the potential candidates is Nageki, a quiet dove who has died prior to the story. He inhabits the library as a ghost.
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Spider-Man continues to be shipped with Gwen Stacy after she was killed in 1972 story The Night Gwen Stacy Died and, astonishingly, managed to stay dead. Her biggest supporters are people who dislike Mary Jane in the Peter-Gwen-MJ love triangle decades after the subplot was dropped and Peter settled into a stable relationship with MJ.
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Fans of Sonic X love to ship Tails with Cosmo, who dies in the final episode. After being killed by Tails, while confessing his love for her, well, at least in the Japanese version.
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Beetlejuice and Lydia in the animated series despite the fact that he's a grown man and she's a twelve year old.
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In Warrior Cats, the StarClan and the Dark Forest cats can still interact with the living, so many fans have made pairings based on this. Examples include Firestar/Spottedleaf, Ivypool/Hawkfrost, and Jayfeather/Brightspirit. And then there's Hollyleaf/Fallen Leaves, which is borderline canon, partially because Hollyleaf doesn't know that Fallen Leaves is actually dead.
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Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba: Even though Kanae died a few years prior to the start of the series, a few supplementary materials have suggested that Sanemi had a crush on her, such as the second fanbook having Gyomei say he likes her (in addition to him making a similar assumption about Mitsuri and Obanai) and revealing that he frequently talks to Shinobu due to her being Kanae’s sister. Needless to say, the shippers were pleased to hear this.
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One of the many ships that crop up in The Legend of Korra is P'heer (P'Li/Zaheer), which was canon on the show... but P'Li didn't survive the Book in which she was introduced. Most of the fanbase is in agreement that even if Zaheer weren't chained to the floor of an oubliette, P'Li would still be his Lost Lenore.
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School-Live!:
Yuki and her Living Emotional Crutch Megu-nee have a following despite the fact the latter is a Posthumous Character who has already turned into a zombie by the start of the manga and is Killed Off for Real within twenty chapters. It helps that Yuki hallucinates Megu-nee is alive for much of the series.
Miki and Kei get shipped a lot by anime fans due to the adaptation having a stronger emphasis on their Pseudo-Romantic Friendship. Kei is eventually shown to have turned into a zombie.
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