Most Overrated Fictional Couples

The Top Ten
1 Harry and Hermione (Harry Potter)

I thought they'd get together when I first saw Sorcerer's Stone (this was before all the books came out mind you) but I never 'shipped' them. I just thought they would happen because he was main boy and she was the main girl. I'm glad JKR chose a different route, but the movies really ruined people's perception of their relationship. They should never have been a thing. The movies gave them way too many moments. I blame the writers (plus Dan and Emma had some chemistry and that's not really their fault but I digress)

They weren't even canon, but their fans suck. They were never even attracted to each other. I can understand why people ship them a little in the movies (to some extent) but in the book? Come on. Dan and Emma have chemistry but book! Harry and book! Hermione have nothing at all.

Man, I'd rather like the idea of Harry, Ron, Hermione and Ginny nothing more than only just friends and that's it. Them as couples are more like siblings ever since both Harry and Hermione are equally sibling-less while Ron and Ginny are siblings.

I will never understand why people shipped this pairing, at least in the last books. It was so obvious they saw each other as just close friends, and that Hermione had romantic feelings for Ron since the fourth book

2 Zuko and Katara (Avatar: The Last Airbender)

They hardly had any interaction until the last season and even so their fanbase shipped them since the start of the series.
It's a couple mostly based on the look of the characters. They wanted that Katara, their self-insert, was with a cool and attractive boy and not with Aang, who looks too young, even though he is only 2 years younger than Katara. I'm not an Aang x Katara shipper, I don't mind at all that pairing, but at least Aang relationship with Katara is a meanigful one, and not the superficial Zuko and Katara, that probably was given more screen time in the last season to pandering the fanbase. I detest the ships that become so popular when they are based on practically anything.

No. Just no. Aang and Katara were meant to be since the beginning! Their relationship grew as the series went on, and I could see Katara and Zuko as friends, but not a couple... Zuko was meant to be with the girl who crushed hard on him since childhood (I can’t remember her name...) also, why would you ship them? They barely interacted until the later seasons...

I see the huge amount of fans that still ship this pairing, and that they even really thought that it was going to be canon (how on earth could they have come to think this? ) and I'm astonished, and, again, I'm amazed at the self-deception of fans.

Makorra in the sequel series seemed to be the creators' way of "making up" for Kataang, and that didn't work either (and thankfully the creators came to their senses).

3 Edward Cullen & Bella Swan (Twilight Saga)

Still to this day,I fail to see why this couple (and Twilight Saga) is so damn popular. It's abusive. Edward is not romantic,he's an obssesive,creepy stalker and Bella is a stupid fangirl.

Twilight hate is irrelevant.
The books are finished.

Terrible couple.

This ship is so bad. It’s abusive, and every time I see Malachite on Steven Universe it reminds me of Bella X Edward.

4 Ichigo and Rukia (Bleach)

Ichigo and Rukia, Zuko and Katara, Harry and Hermione, all of them popular pairings that were only in their fans's imagination, all of them with rabid fans who only mind about their pairing, all of them in the topten of overrated pairings, as expected. I would include Naruto and Sakura, but here at least Naruto had romantic feelings for Sakura.

They are just friends... And they've had their own families and children as well.

Their fans really believe that Bleach is Ichigo and Rukia's love story, what

To know that its fandom is going to be salty forever is a very great satisfaction

5 Jack Frost and Queen Elsa (Rise of the Guardians and Frozen)

You know this is going to pick back up again with "Frozen II", especially with Elsa becoming a "spirit" (a contrived reason to force Anna and Elsa apart, of course- just like Slaughter Race existing solely to force Ralph and Vanellope apart).

One proof more that people don't care how is a relationship, as this pairing, where they aren't even in the same series. They only need looks to ship a pairing.

Having similar power doesn't mean they'll become a couple. Plus, they came from two company which are rivals. (Disney and Dreamworks)

6 Samus and Snake (Super Smash Bros)

That Zero Suit Samus represents most of the female characters from Metal Gear in Smash Ultimate's spirit battles doesn't help

Nobody cares what your favorite fanfic about them is and it's not going to change anyone's mind, or at least people's minds SHOULDN'T be influence by fanfic over the actual thing.

No fanfiction or fanart is going to change my mind on this one. If the unfortunately countless others haven't, why should one in particular be so special?

7 Sasuke and Sakura (Naruto)

Kishimoto should have avoided romance all together. Sakura was already a negatively flawed character in which a majority of the fan base already dislike. Not to mention Sasuke Uchiha is not protagonist material due to his "I hate everyone attitude" which pisses me & a lot of people off quite frankly. But making her obsess over a jerk who doesn't even care about her & tried to kill her multiple times, that's effed up Kishimoto! Maybe the Sasuke Uchiha dik-riding fanboys & fangirls need to stop defending Kishimoto & his bad habit of bad ships that serve no purpose other than to inconvenience the audience & waste their time! Sasuke Uchiha is a bad person unworthy of sympathy & redeemption, that is on Kishimoto! Sakura Haruno is a hypocrite who can't control her temper, has very few character development, always punches Naruto for no damn reason, & her Stockholm syndrome lovey-dovey obsession for Sasuke Uchiha is one of the main reasons Sakura is not a favorite character for a vast ...more

Sasuke: I'm going to call you annoying twice, try to destroy your home, try to kill your friends, try to kill you and I'll leave you with my child for such a long time that I won't even recognize her.
Sakura: Kay.

I don't ship it but I wouldn't call it overrated... I'm pretty sure most of the fandom hates this couple

The only reason this ship has supporters is a few silly instances, that forehead tap and a fangirl's obsession.

8 Severus Snape & Lily Evans-Potter (Harry Potter)

Snape never loved Lily as:
1. He never accepted that she's happy with James & be happy that she was happy
2. Called her & her kind slurs
3. Treated her own child the worst out of anyone in the entirety of Hogwarts when he was a teacher for no reason

9 Remus Lupin and Nymphadora Tonks (Harry Potter)

What's really annoying is that THIS is the fictional canon het pair EVERYONE is quick to defend and intent on defending. Even people within the "Harry Potter" fandom who decry Ron/Hermione or Lily/James.

If one more person insists this is true love I will get really violent

10 Ash Ketchum and Serena (Pokemon)

This ship is nothing but complete retarded garbage. I swear, I hope those writers who made Serena kiss Ash in the final episode get sent to the Land of the Forgotten from the movie The Book of Life.

Ash is a huge idiot, since he can't take a hint. You expect him to have a girlfriend? He doesn't need one right now; he's happy enough as a Pokemon trainer.

Question: would she be stuck at her current age for two decades plus just like Ash if they stayed together?

This is totally one-sided. In the end, Ash is too dense to be shipped with anyone.

The Contenders
11 Spencer & Maeve (Criminal Minds)

The only difference between that whole waste of half a season and the average "Mary Sue" romance fanfics was that it ended with her much-too-overblown "tragic" death instead of a lavish wedding or the birth of a baby girl/twins/quadruplets.

Watched them and I just thought it okay. If we got more interaction out of them, maybe I would have liked them more. But we didn't.

Didn't even cry when they killed her off and cringe every time she's been brought up since

12 Eren Jaeger and Levi Ackerman (Attack on Titan)

Eren and Levi could NEVER be a perfect couple. I really don't know why exactly why they're so popular with fangirls but for whatever reason they have for this, they could possibly be wrong. This is illogical, and I bet a majority of people could agree.

Why is this so popular?! There was never anything remotely romantic between them. Makes zero sense. And the fact some fangirls can ACTUALLY believe this can ever be canon is just absurd.

Why can Ereri be so popular? I've watched Attack on Titan and I just don't get why anyone could like this ship. I don't like yaoi in general, furthermore, this ship makes literally NO sense. Like, at all.

I have nothing against yaoi, but the Ereri shippers annoy me (or fangirls).. This is nowhere near to canon, it's just Levi physically abusing Eren moment that you see as love. Plus, the age difference...

13 Carmen Sandiego & Waldo/Wally

Doesn't Waldo already have a girlfriend in his own series? As for Ms. Sandiego, awesome character though she may be I don't really see her getting romantically involved with anybody- and she wasn't.

Yeah, they were the people every '90s kid was always trying to find and just happen to be the opposite gender. But once you get past that, it's even harder to find any real basis for a relationship.

14 Draco & Harry (Harry Potter)

Apparently, people have an obsession with ships which includes people trying to kill each other or who hate each other

People ship this?

15 Bowser and Princess Peach (Mario)

Peach would have instantly bled to death had she been Bowser Jr's mom

16 Anakin Skywalker and Padme Amidala (Star Wars)

Most people don't like this couple.

17 Ace Grit and Mira Clay (Bakugan)
18 Ariel (The Little Mermaid) and Jim Hawkins (Treasure Planet)
19 Kirby and Jigglypuff (Super Smash Bros)

Wait. Why is this a ship? I don't get it.
Can someone explain?

Please let it die...

20 Naruto Uzumaki and Sakura Haruno (Naruto)

Hate this! No-one deserves to be shipped with Sakura. They would have to suffer their whole lives.

She's hit him so many times, even though he's saved her so many times. And he saved her from the man she 'loves'.

He alwayd deserved someone better, not sure why someone would ship sakura with anyone

Get this bad couple to the top 3 where it belongs

21 Samus and Ike (Super Smash Bros.)

Ike is gay. And I don't mean "gay" as in "lame", I mean "gay" as in "prefers the company of men".

A homosexual guy and an asexual woman? No way.

22 Alphys and Undyne (Undertale)
23 Draco & Hermione (Harry Potter)

For some ilogical reason they are a really popular couple in fandom, I was really surprised when I found out it. It doesn't make any sense.

It's just because the actors had a relationship.

They barely interact.

Lol why so salty

24 Ryu and Chun-Li (Street Fighter)

Like Harry/Hermione, there's nothing there other than "let's pair the main character with the most prominent character of the opposite sex)

25 Artemis Fowl and Holly Short (Artemis Fowl)
8Load More
PSearch List