I was so excited about The LEGO Movie last week that I totally forgot it was Valentine’s Day! And I had this romantic comic book list all prepared. Welp, fortunately for me, love is an all-year-round sort of thing, and this list works just as good today as it would have last week! It’s a fun bit of speculation game of the top comic book couples I wish would happen. I love a good romance as much as the next person, but for some reason, comic book writers can’t read my mind.

For example: This = Terrible

On the Internet, this sort of thing is known as ‘shipping’. And as much as I enjoy listing my ideal team lineups or what I’d like to see in a potential movie, I’m also a sucker for true love. So here are the top 6 romantic couples in comics that I wish would hook up. And believe me, if I ever get to write comics, these are going to happen.

I’d love to hear some of your romantic ideas in the comments! Please feel free to share.

6. Batman and Wonder Woman

How I want Man of Steel 2 to end

Was there anything more adorable in the Justice League Unlimited cartoon than the simmering relationship between the dark, brooding Batman and the cheerful, confident Wonder Woman? I argue there was not. But DC Comics seems insistent on forcing Wonder Woman to hook up with Superman, the most obvious coupling in the history of fiction! Granted, a serious, long-term relationship with Wonder Woman would kind of mess up Batman’s whole gothic protector thing, but the couple would be much more entertaining and much more relatable than Wondy and Supes. Just sayin’.

(I’m also just saying that Wonder Woman and Orion should totally be a thing. This Wonder Woman/Superman stuff is pure garbage, whereas writer Brian Azzarello has created a truly touching and meaningful friendship between the Amazon and the New God. Sorry, rant over.)

5. Nightcrawler and Storm

He’s a demon in the sack…probably

Both of these X-Men need somebody to love, and after some flirtation in the most recent issue of Amazing X-Men, I think they would be rather steamy together. I wasn’t reading X-Men back in the 70s, what with that whole ‘not being born yet’ thing. But apparently they were friends when they first joined the X-Men together. Well now both of them are going to be on the team with nothing better to do, and not much else going on in their lives. So why not hook’em up? Love could be in the air!

4. Question and Huntress

Danger hugs

The original Question and the Huntress were an item in the Justice League Unlimited cartoon too (and the comics, I think), but I’m talking about the Renee Montoya version of the Question. Before the big New 52 reboot ruined everything, DC (or at least a few cool writers) seemed to be putting these two together as besties. I thought they would have been a really cute couple. Heck, I still think Renee Montoya and Batwoman was a great couple that never got enough attention from DC. What I’m basically saying is, they need to hurry up and bring Renee Montoya back and find her someone to love!

3. Robin and Supergirl or Wonder Girl

Blondes, amiright?

Tim Drake has almost always been a swinging bachelor, even when the world of superhero teenagers is filled with beautiful young ladies…no wait, I didn’t mean it like that! Uh, I just mean, if Batman isn’t going to get with Wonder Woman (or Superman, for that matter), why not write out those relationships using their sidekicks? There was a period in the early 00s when the pair of Tim Drake and Kara Zor-El would have been pretty cute. And what about now in the New 52? Even though Teen Titans is an abomination, I’d still like to see Tim hook up with Wonder Girl. It would be something new and interesting, which is exactly the point of hooking up unexpected couples.

2. Spider-Man and Captain Marvel

She’s already taking several bullets for him

I’ve written about this at length before, but it bears repeating: Spider-Man and Captain Marvel would be an absolutely adorable relationship, if only Marvel would let it happen. Things are a little complicated right now, what with Otto Octavius posing as Peter Parker, but Pete is on his way back to the land of the living in only a few short months, and he’s still a swinging bachelor. As much as I like Otto’s relationship with Anna Maria, there’s no way Peter can just pick up where they left off. He’s got his own lady troubles to deal with, a classic aspect to his story. Well why has Peter never hooked up with any of his fellow superheroes? It might crush his ‘Parker Luck’ angle, but the Marvel Universe is rarely so connected as it is these days, and Peter and Carol make a very cute couple.

1. Beta Ray Bill and Sif

A match made in Asgard

Poor Sif. She’s Asgard’s version of ‘always a bridesmaid, never the bride’, even the movie version of Sif can’t seem to seal the deal with Thor. And in the comics, where Jane Foster isn’t a factor, Sif still can’t seem to get as much as a kiss from big, beefy and blonde. But why should she even bother when there’s a much better match in Beta Ray Bill, Thor’s best pal and oath-brother! The two shared the spotlight in the final story arc of the recent Journey Into Mystery, where writer Kathryn Immonen wrote them as the most adorable ‘will they/won’t they’ in comics! But for some reason, Marvel decided to give Bill a weird, quasi-robotic girlfriend with whom he doesn’t have an ounce of chemistry. I thought for sure Immonen was going to hook up Bill and Sif, but the story ended with Bill going back to his lady friend and Sif going back into obscurity. Will we never live in a society where the love between an Asgardian warrior woman and a half-horse, cyborg, alien badass is acceptable?

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