Sonic Shipping, Logically Speaking; ShadowXOmega
Characters involved: Shadow the Hedgehog and E-123 "Omega".
Most well known nickname: Shadega. Which sounds like a dance.
Original date of ship: 2006/2008.
Analysis of chemistry (aka why people do/don't ship it): In all honestly, this should be a crack ship. Yes, they get along as friends and comrades. And yes, they are similar in that they're both originally weapons looking to do something else with themselves. And yes, I'm sure there was a handful of shippers following the story in Sonic the Hedgehog (2006) because of the whole thing about Omega being turned on Shadow in the future and them being sad (as far as unemotional beings are) about it.
This ship is more a testament to Sonic Chronicles, if anything, showing off that marmite-filled characterisation and dialogue to the Nth degree. In it, Omega is a pretty big bad-ass. He's optional, but it'd be worth your time to pick him up if you like him being robotically snarky or just like BioWare references in general. Shadow...let's say that this is about the only ship where he's 100% bottom. He was obsessed with Omega to a degree that even brotherly characters like Sonic and Tails have never shown. Such is the degree that here, Omega is comparable to Sonic and Shadow is comparable to Amy. Amy freakin' Rose! That's....something.
Detractors of the ship really have nothing to detract on, because I don't think the majority of people who ship it actually ship it.
Personal Opinion: If this was a serious ship, I would probably dislike it. To me, mutual love between organic creatures and robots/AIs is still a sensitive area due to all the red tape that comes with it. Thus, I don't like any ship in the Sonic series with that sort of dynamic in. No exceptions.
But it's not supposed to be serious, it's just some ribbing at Chronicles and how daft the characterisation could be at times. With that in mind, it's funny.
Likelihood in the games: None. And I don't think anyone realistically wants it to be. After the next couple, the posts after will be a bit hard to write due to either needing extra context or just being outright controversial, so it's nice to have a bit of fun before dealing with the meaty stuff.
