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fannish5: Name five non-canonical couples that you would like - or would have liked - to see get together in canon.

You ask this of a slash fan? Can I call Bodie and Doyle "a non-canonical couple"? That's not exactly how I think of them. Watching "Hunter, Hunted" the other day, I kept thinking how beautifully canonical they were.

And though I want Jack to 'get together' with just about everyone, I don't want to think of him as part of a couple: though to be honest, following the spirit of the question, my #1 answer to this might well be "Jack and the Doctor". (Even if I don't particularly want to exclude Rose or Martha from the relationship. See? It's never easy, with Jack. The problem is the limitation of the question.)

But that aside - here's an attempt to answer the question:

Mal Reynolds and Inara Serra in Firefly. I can't imagine any way those two could get together without compromising too much of their own personalities, but they make a gorram fine couple and I love their relationship.
Spike and Buffy in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Despite the fact that I haven't actually seen them together in the show yet.
Clark and Lex from seasons 1 to 3 of Smallville. Perfect.
Francis Crawford of Lymond and Kate Somerville in the Lymond books by Dorothy Dunnett. Yes, I loved Philippa. But I loved Kate more.
Kitty Pryde and Pete Wisdom in Excalibur and X-Men. Yeah, they got together. I loved that. And they broke up. Faugh.

There's another related category (if I may follow a line of thought) of characters who did in some way get paired in canon and I'd rather they hadn't. Romances I don't like:

Gambit and Rogue in X-Men - yes, I know, this is taking a loose interpretation of the word 'together', but their impossible love became such a central focus of their story that it overshadowed what makes each character so wonderful in their own right. I can only hope some writer comes along and cuts that bond. I am not holding my breath.
Fox Mulder and Dana Scully on X-Files, who were much better as friends and colleagues than lovers or spouses.
Remington Steele and Laura Holt. I loved the unresolved sexual tension between them.
Toshiko Sato's unrequited love for Owen Harper on Torchwood. Yeah, I know, they didn't get together, though they did become friends. But. I hated that theme.
Superman (or Clark Kent) and Lois Lane in any source you care to name, in any medium. The best verion of their relationship was Lois and Clark. The worst... well, best not to go there, though I hate all those 1960 comics where the theme was Lois trying to trick Superman into marriage while he was trying to trick her into believing his lies.