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| A '''nevermetship''', while the specific term might be a lesser used alternative for {{s|ThirdWheel|Brock and Tracey}}, in the general sense is a denotation of a couple who have not canonically met each other (interaction-wise, or even simply being on-scene together) in a specific medium, be it game, {{pkmn|anime}}, or {{pkmn|manga}}.
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| ==History and Recent Connotations==
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| The very Ship it was originally named for was one of the best examples of a true nevermetship back in the day, when there hadn't been any main characters that hadn't met prior to the [[Orange Archipelago|Orange Islands]]. However, by the end of the third season, the application of the term was nullified (Brock and Tracey did then meet), but never stopped being about how people could 'ship two people together if they hadn't been acquainted (in relation to people 'shipping Brock and Tracey, when there was little to go by). It's notable that this was early in the series by today's standards, when the likes of {{s|Poké}}, {{s|Pallet}}, and {{s|Rocket}} were the three biggest Ships of the time, and even the lesser Ships that ultimately mattered (such as {{s|Ego}}, {{s|League}}, and {{s|Elder}}) were still based on something in the minds of its fans, and romantically pairing two people who hadn't had that chance likely seemed strange.
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| People 'ship nevermets for various reasons, and mostly comes down to one excuse: "Because they'd be cute together." Little else is seldom expanded upon past answering why, basing their decisions on looks or how personality might affect the other character they wish to involve. It's this mindset that does divide the fandom sometimes, with people who don't like nevermetships because of what they are and people who don't think of them as a problem.
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| There are isolated cases where nevermets are created solely to appease one or a small group of people's love for one character wishing to pair them with everyone (or simply as many people as possible). This can actually result in a major influx of pairings with names that only a few people enjoy, which others occasionally see as a waste toward a coined name that could be "better used" for an actual met pairing.
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| Nevertheless, there are also cases similar to ThirdWheelShipping, of Ships that eventually stop being nevermets in the long run, but these are predictably few. {{s|SapphirePearl}} had a moderate fan-following before {{an|May}}'s three-episode excursion in [[Sinnoh]], where she finally meets {{an|Dawn}} and creates evidence of believed mutual attraction in one go.
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| Nevermetships that are crafted around related-version game characters with inevitable anime counterparts are not considered true nevermets, such as {{s|Hoenn}} and {{s|Fortune}}. This is because the characters interact on occasion through-out their game storyline, and serve as undistinguished terms for both the game and anime counterparts.
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| Ships involving members of the Pokémon League (Gym Leaders, Elites, and Brains) are also not majorly considered nevermets by the fandom as a whole, but if they aren't shown to have met in the games, anime, or even the mangas (examples of Ships that aren't are {{s|Ignition}}, {{s|Graceful}}, and {{s|Origin}}), they are technically so. Regardless, Ships involving League members are generally not called out on being nevermets, so aren't usually included within the bounds of what "purists" consider to be fangirl whim.
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| ==List of nevermetships==
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| ===In general===
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| ====RubyShipping====
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| {{shipping|color=dark|{{ga|Lucas}}|{{an|May}}|jap=コウハル|rom=KouHaru|'''Similarities'''
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| :* They are both main characters in the Pokémon games ({{ga|May}} is the female playable character from {{game2|Ruby|Sapphire|Emerald}}, while Lucas is the male playable character from {{game2|Diamond|Pearl|Platinum}}).
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| :* Both wear red headgear branded with the [[Poké Ball]] logo (Lucas' cap, May's bandana).
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| :* Both sport predominantly red tennis shoes (in DP only, for Lucas).
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| :* Both wear other red items of clothing (though Lucas only wore a red scarf in DP).
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| :* Both use yellow packs to store their belongings.(RS/DP only)
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| '''Name origins'''
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| :*''Ruby'' comes from their debut color schemes of both {{ga|Lucas}} and {{an|May}}'s outfits, as both wear some amount of red in their first publicized game versions.
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| '''Trivia'''
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| :* Lucas makes a cameo appearance in ''[[M11|Giratina and the Sky Warrior]]'', in a {{pkmn|battle}} against {{ga|Brendan}}, May's rival in {{3v2|Ruby|Sapphire|Emerald}}.
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| }}
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| ===In the anime===
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| ====AdvanceCloneShipping====
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| {{shipping|color=dark|[[Ritchie]]|{{an|May}}|jap=ヒロハル|rom=HiroHaru|'''Similarities'''
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| :*Both {{an|May}} and [[Ritchie]] own a {{type2|Fire}} [[starter Pokémon]]: {{TP|May|Blaziken}} and [[Zippo|Charmeleon]], respectively. However, it is still unknown if Ritchie actually started with Charmeleon. Also, they both own {{2t|Bug|Flying}} [[Pokémon]] that happen to be based on [[List of Pokémon by body style|butterflies]]: {{TP|May|Beautifly}} and [[Happy|Butterfree]], respectively.
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| :*Both traveled through time and changed the course of the future and for someone else by altering the past.
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| :**Interestingly, both met an elderly female character in the present time who had lost a male love interest in the past because of an accident that happened when they left the female characters. Both went back in time and saved the males' lives and they were able to live and have a relationship with the females they had left behind in the past. In a sense, they helped turn tragic love stories into happy endings.
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| }}
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| ====BeamShipping====
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| {{shipping|color=dark|{{Tracey}}|{{an|Dawn}}|jap=ケンヒカ|rom=KenHika|'''Similarities'''
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| :*Both are big fans of [[Professor Oak]], albeit for different reasons.
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| :*They are the only ones of {{Ash}}'s {{ashfr|friends}} who are only children*.
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| :*They are the only ones of Ash's friends not to be part of a [[Gym Leader]] family*.
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| :*Both have been shown to have artistic skills: Tracey draws Pokémon while Dawn designs clothes.
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| :*Both have used a {{p|Dodrio}} at one point.
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| :<nowiki>*</nowiki><small>''This is only an assumption as there is no information on Tracey's family.''</small>
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| '''Alternate names'''
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| :*OrangepearlShipping (unofficial)
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| '''Name origins'''
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| :*''Beam'' is derived from Dawn's Japanese name and Tracey's personality. ''Hikari'' means light, relative to the term "beam of light," and Tracey is a positive person who smiles to the point that he often [http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/beams 'beams'].
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| }}
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| ====BrunettShipping====
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| {{shipping|color=dark|{{Gary}}|{{an|May}}|jap=シゲハル|rom=ShigeHaru|'''Similarities'''
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| :*Both Gary and May received a {{p|Squirtle}} from [[Professor Oak]], although Gary received it as his [[starter Pokémon|initial Pokémon]] while May didn't.
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| :*Both have each obtained an {{p|Eevee}} along their journeys. Following, both Eevee [[Evolution|evolved]] into an evolution that would debut the generation after its {{pkmn|Trainer}} did. Gary ({{gen|I}}) evolved his {{p|Eevee}} into {{TP|Gary|Umbreon}} ({{gen|II}}) and May ({{gen|III}}) evolved her {{p|Eevee}} into {{TP|May|Glaceon}} ({{gen|IV}}).
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| '''Alternate names'''
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| :*ShellShipping (unofficial; official name for Blastoise/Wartortle/Squirtle)
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| '''Name origins'''
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| :*''Brunett'' is a misspelling of both 'brunet' and 'brunette', disallowed to be corrected to the latter when it was pointed out it wasn't spelled correctly, because ''BrunetteShipping'' was listed as [[Delia Ketchum]] and [[Jasmine]] prior, and the acknowledged misspelling went through. <!--Delia/Jasmine was submitted as of early June '04 and Gary/May submitted as of Dec 14th '05, with after-the-fact-knowledge of its misspelling by the submitter, as noted by moderator MondoTR in the List thread in BMGf's Shipper's section.-->
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| :*''Shell'' is the prefix used for the shipping of Squirtle/Wartortle/Blastoise. In connection but not relation, all three were shown in the on-screen ownership of both Gary and May as of [[DP077]]: {{TP|Gary|Blastoise}} for Gary and {{TP|May|Wartortle}} for May.
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| '''Trivia'''
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| :*In the Japanese opening ''[[High Touch!]]'', Gary and May are standing near each other.
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| }}
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| ====CheekyShipping====
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| {{shipping|color=dark|[[Max]]|[[Mira]]|'''Similarities'''
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| :* Both appear to have an affinity for {{type|Psychic}} [[Pokémon]]: four of the Pokémon Max befriends are either Psychic-types themselves or are capable of Psychic attacks, and Mira not only owns the entire {{p|Abra}} line between the anime and games, but more than not, the Pokémon she uses in the games fall under the same specialties.
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| :* Both initially tricked {{Ash}} when he first met them: into thinking Max was the [[Petalburg City]] [[Gym Leader]], and to helping Mira out for something that was essentially a fib.
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| '''Name origins'''
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| :*''Cheeky'' is derived from both having a mischievous personality trait.
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| }}
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| ====EgoCentricShipping====
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| {{shipping|color=dark|[[Harley]]|[[Ursula]] |'''Similarities'''
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| :*Both are {{pkmn|Coordinators}} and hold grudges against their rivals.
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| :*Both own a member of the {{p|Jigglypuff}} line.
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| :*Both used a traumatic event from their rival's past involving a Pokémon against them.
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| :*Both were defeated in their episode debut where their rival earned their fourth Ribbon in their home region. They were also both were defeated by their rivals' Pokémon that had stage fright in a previous Contest, as well as during the first Double Performance round of a Grand Festival.
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| '''Name origins'''
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| :*''EgoCentric'' is derived from both being self-centered.
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| }}
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| ====NovelShipping====
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| {{shipping|color=dark|[[Paul]]|[[Misty]]|jap=シンカス|rom=ShinKasu|'''Information'''
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| :A surprisingly popular nevermet of moderate following, NovelShipping appears to have the same charm as {{s|Ego}} without the hints, or {{Gary}}'s suave arrogance, when it comes to its support. Misty's temper in the face of stubborn obstacles is key to her character, and where Gary and Paul are the types that make Ash mad (demonstrating their affect on him), it's theorized by supporters that Paul is the unmovable type (unlike Gary, who has shown to be capable of setting aside hard feelings early on in the series) that would incite the same kind of reaction in Misty that Ash often times does to her. Triggering that sort of response is also part of the {{s|Poké}} appeal as well, rather leaving a fine line between particulars with the interconnections.
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| '''Name origins'''
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| :''Novel'' comes from the belief of the coiner that the couple was, at the time, a "novel idea". Retroactively from the coiner, one can say the characterizations between Misty and Paul are some of the same types to be found in romance novels, and would take a similar plot to get them together.
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| }}
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| ====OutcryShipping====
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| {{shipping|color=dark|[[Paul]]|{{an|May}}|jap=シンハル|rom=ShinHaru|'''Information'''
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| :Another surprisingly popular nevermet, seemingly more so than NovelShipping, OutcryShipping is heavily seen in AMVs and artwork across the net. Otherwise, there is little basis aside from, "They're so cute together," or they're the "ideal couple" from supporters.
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| '''Alternate names'''
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| :*FarawayShipping (unofficial; the majority name)
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| '''Name origins'''
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| :''Faraway'' is likely derived from the two either coming from distant regions compared to Johto or Kanto, or it refers to the two characters being far away: Paul in Sinnoh and May in Johto.
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| }}
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| ====OysterShipping====
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| {{shipping|color=light|[[Misty]]|{{an|Dawn}}|jap=カスヒカ|rom=KasuHika|jap2=ヒカカス|rom2=HikaKasu|'''Similarities'''
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| :*In the beginning of the Diamond and Pearl series, two of Dawn's Pokémon were {{type2|Water}} Pokémon. Also for a while, she was the only one in the group who owned Water-types. Misty's Pokémon are mostly Water-type and she was the first of the original group to have them.
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| :* Both have owned a member of the {{p|Togepi}} evolution family.
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| '''Hints'''
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| :*In ''[[DP034|Buizel Your Way out of This!]]'', Dawn was interested in Misty and [[Misty's special lure|her lure]] and seemed annoyed when {{Ash}} didn't let her use it.
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| '''Name origins'''
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| :''Oyster'' is derived from the fact that, not only are {{wp|oyster}}s aquatic creatures, akin to the [[Water (type)|type]] Misty trains, but oysters produce {{wp|pearl}}s, a word that is related to Dawn throughout the Shipping fandom, instigated by the christening of {{s|Pearl}}.
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| }}
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| ====TeenrocketShipping====
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| {{shipping|color=dark|[[Mondo]]|[[Domino]]|'''Similarities'''
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| :*They are both members of Team Rocket.
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| :*They have both met [[Jessie]], [[James]] and {{MTR}}.
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| '''Alternate names'''
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| :*TeenagerocketShipping (derivative)
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| :*NeoNeoRocketShipping
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| '''Name origins'''
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| :*''Teenrocket'' and ''Teenagerocket'' are from the original belief that both Domino and Mondo are in their teens.
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| :*''NeoNeoRocket'' is the newer-newer version of RocketShipping, following {{tt|NeoRocketShipping|Butch and Cassidy}}.
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| }}
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| {{Project Shipping notice}}
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| [[Category:Shipping|*3]]
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| [[Category:Anime ships|*]]
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| [[Category:Cross-storyline game ships|*]]
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| == Kuroshipping ==
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| Paul and Shooti '''Bold text'''
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