Fannish 2: Friendships...

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From Fannish Friday Five: Name the five unlikeliest (but successful) canon friendships.

Aren't all - almost all - canon friendships unlikely? The foundation of most fictional friendships (or romances) is attraction of opposites. It works in real life, too. I like a lot of people who aren't in the least like me.

Moreover, what makes a friendship unlikely? Opposite sides of a faction? Age disparity?

So... Fannish friendships. Hmm.

1. X-Men: Wolverine and Jubilee. I miss that one.
   
2. Smallville: Clark and Lex. The low level of likelihood of friendship likelihood between the rich, clever, amoral sophisticate Lex and the simple, honest farm-boy Clark was one of the things that made it so slashy.
   
3. Firefly: River and Kaylee. Again, it's the sophisticated genius and the country girl, but with a twist in River's brain-damage.
   
4. Torchwood: Ianto and Gwen. They're surprisingly lovely together.
   
   
5. Sansa Stark and Sandor Clegane in A Song of Ice and Fire by George R.R. Martin - a pretty young girl and a giant grotesque.