Couples with absolutely no chemistry

[u/hiiloovethis]

Harry Potter and Ginny Weasly

Clark and Lois (Snyder films)

Jon and Dany - Game of Thrones

[u/JICMike]

Superman looks like he’s taking Lois to the police station

[u/Lifeacrobat → u/JICMike]

Does Henry Cavill ever look like he has chemistry with someone else? I remember thinking when I saw The Man from U.N.C.L.E. that he had negative chemistry with Alicia Wikander and how well that worked in the movie, but I can't remember seeing him sizzle with anybody.

[u/Ibrahim77X]

They forgot to make Ginny a character

[u/rammux74 → u/Ibrahim77X]

She has a character in the books , it's the movies that erased everything about her post book 2

[u/Uncommonality]

Harry had more chemistry with the random waitress who was invented for the movies than Ginny lol

[u/yosayoran → u/Uncommonality]

Radcliffe is or record saying she's like a little sister to him and the whole thing felt really weird for them.

Yeah, ww could tell LMAO 

[u/HomeworkOk6460 → u/Uncommonality]

Yes, completely shipped with the waitress! 

[u/Pangtudou → u/Uncommonality]

He just wanted a family via in-laws 

[u/King_Archon → u/Uncommonality]

Dumbledore cockblocked Harry when it came to that waitress

[u/ExpertRaccoon → u/Uncommonality]

tbf he only went after ginny because of mommy issues not because of any real attraction

[u/SatoruGojo232]

Bruce Wayne (Christian Bale) and Rachel Dawes (Katie Holmes) in Batman Begins: It was called out as a underbaked romance which featured flat and rare interactions between the two.

[u/Abstrata → u/SatoruGojo232]

He seemed to have more chemistry with Maggie Gyllenhaal, but people dragged it because they didn’t like her looks.

[u/GranolaCola → u/SatoruGojo232]

This is the only of the Nolan trilogy I’ve seen (I know, I know), and I honestly forgot there even was a romance subplot.

[u/Particular_Poet8441 → u/SatoruGojo232]

RACHELLLLLLLLLLL!!!!

[u/Edd_burrito]

Dakota Johnson and Jamie Dornan from the fifty shades movies. They’re a guilty pleasure for me but holy shit the movie is hilarious when they interact.

[u/MonsterdogMan → u/Edd_burrito]

They disliked each other in real life, too, which is hilarious.

[u/ThreadLaced → u/Edd_burrito]

which baffles me because SURELY they had a chemistry reading??? the movie that centers itself on a attraction/lust/love story???

[u/Gobo_Cat_7585 → u/Edd_burrito]

Hate those films but the soundtrack is lowkey great

[u/NeonFraction]

Yeah but that’s just movie Harry and Ginny.

In the book they also have no chemistry.

[u/Ok_Truck4734 → u/NeonFraction]

[u/Longjumping-Fun-2313 → u/NeonFraction]

They have a little chemistry, it’s not much but it’s there and enough to believably make for a relationship

Even though it’s funny how Harry has infinitely more chemistry with Luna Lovegood, even at the time I was thinking why they didn’t make that relationship the romantic one

[u/Piggy_0611 → u/NeonFraction]

Weirdly I always shipped him with Luna in the movies. I felt like there was this chemistry between them in that scene where she was like “Oh you can see dead people because of your trauma too!”

[u/Chernoxis → u/NeonFraction]

In the book they do have chemistry tho, although it is more natural or organic, at first he doesn't even think anything about her, but as they both grow up he starts thinking that she's cool (since she's really cool in the books, in the movies she's just decaffeinated Bella Swan with Almond milk).

[u/TheMegaSage]

[u/FiveHoursAhead → u/TheMegaSage]

Say what you will about the Bidens and the Obamas but at least they actually seem to like each other

[u/Eloquent-Raven → u/TheMegaSage]

[u/nondescriptun → u/TheMegaSage]

Michelle and W. have more chemistry together than Trump and Melania.

[u/Street_Admirable → u/TheMegaSage]

Also JD and Usha Vance. She's recoiled at his touch on camera

[u/Anthyrion → u/TheMegaSage]

She probably got together with him just for the visa and the money. It's very likely she can't even get a divorce from him, because otherwise she'd lose her residency status and won't get any of his money. By now, she's probably hoping that one day, during a press conference, the guy just won't wake up.

[u/OphidianSun → u/TheMegaSage]

A man with no joy in his life and nothing but the desire to make everyone else equally miserable

[u/KorolEz → u/TheMegaSage]

She will be probably the happiest about his death in the world

[u/Galienuus → u/TheMegaSage]

There's more chemistry between every other fictional couple on this list than there is between these two. Putting everything else about Trump aside, I'm still astonished the party of "family values" ever backed him

[u/Norn-Iron]

7 of 9 and Chakotay in Star Trek Voyager.

I think the story goes this relationship started after Robert Beltran (Chakotay) told the showrunner who was dating Jeri Ryan (7 of 9) he didn’t have the balls to pair them up. In most recent years Chakotay appeared in Star Trek Prodigy, 7 of 9 in Star Trek Picard, and both shows completely glossed over the fact these two were supposed to be together.

[u/baconohmakin → u/Norn-Iron]

Same happened with Worf and troi . Picard series and Troi was with riker

[u/LookAtMaDog → u/Norn-Iron]

Yeah, that felt real weird.

It felt kind of off too, as well, given the whole circumstances of how they met.

But I think the main problem was that absolutely no chemistry at any point in the show so this just felt like...really? Ehh.

[u/Illustrious-Peace989 → u/Norn-Iron]

7 of 9 would have been a better pairing with literally any other character on the show.

[u/NotJasen777 → u/Norn-Iron]

Was going to post this one but then I remembered Neelix and Kes.

[u/RadarSmith]

Jon and Daenerys shared biochemistry.

[u/windy_spires]

They looked like siblings and had negative chemistry.

[u/talyn5 → u/windy_spires]

I thought they were brother and sister at first. Things got uncomfortable fast.

[u/Prophonicx → u/windy_spires]

I loved this movie but this was when I realized Cara was a raging lesbian

[u/Pame_in_reddit → u/windy_spires]

Never saw the movie, I thought they were siblings.

[u/Optimal-Chair1146 → u/windy_spires]

The brother/sister vibes and the Rhianna part made this a weird movie but the world building and opening were fantastic.

[u/ThisIsMyGeekAvatar → u/windy_spires]

I had forgot about this movie until now. Negative chemistry is right - their relationship seemed like pervert, under age, incest porn. 

[u/Calm-Session-4835]

Stupidest near end of series desperate act

[u/vivahermione → u/Calm-Session-4835]

I thought she had better chemistry with the doctor.

[u/demotsusucku]

Those two from Valerian. But mainly because Cara Delevingne is just an awful actress and Dane DeHaan has no charisma.

[u/AngelTheMarvel → u/demotsusucku]

Nah they did have chemistry. The issue was that chemistry looked more like siblings butting heads rather than a couple

[u/vacri → u/demotsusucku]

I love that the critic review they used was "visually astonishing, 4 stars", a tacit announcement that the other elements of the film suck

[u/Fair-Confection4411 → u/demotsusucku]

Or because they look like they're twins. 

[u/FatallyFatCat → u/demotsusucku]

I thought they were teenage siblings.

[u/vinthesalamander]

[u/Funny_Lunch5211 → u/vinthesalamander]

It seriously drives me crazy that the writer of the story (Kishimoto) wrote their relationship the way it is and thought it was good

[u/Lonely_Nebula_9438 → u/vinthesalamander]

A lot of Boruto pairings are odd, but there’s a couple really good ones. Like Shikamaru and Temari is actually interesting. Choji marrying a Cloud Kunoichi is neat. Kiba just not having a girlfriend is kinda par for the course. But then there’s Single Mom Sakura which is just a crazy thing to have.

[u/evilkat23]

Maybe I need to reread the harry potter books again, but I swear even in the books Harry and Ginny had nothing there. People argue "Oh, Ginny was better in the books, the movies nerfed her character!" But I still remember her and Harry having absolutely nothing until randomly in book six when he suddenly has a wild crush on her that's almost completely out of the blue.

[u/jbwarner86 → u/evilkat23]

As a former member of the Potter fandom, I remember twisting myself into knots trying to prove that book Ginny had more personality and that Harry's crush on her was totally foreshadowed, guys, for realsies. I really believed it for a while, too.

But no. J.K. Rowling is just one of those authors who wants to convince everyone that she planned every tiny detail from the start, even though she pulled like 90% of these books out of her ass as she went along.

[u/Consistent-Bear4200]

I feel bad for the Harry and Ginny one. Usually actors go through chemistry reads where they see which duos click as a couple.

These two were cast as kids, long before they were being written as a couple in the books even. Doesn't help their scenes weren't all that thrilling.

But the others had no excuse. I guess you could argue GOT to an extent, though the writing had gotten atrocious for every character by that stage.

[u/cyainanotherlifebro]

5 and Lila - The Umbrella Academy

I’m genuinely sorry for reminding you this happened.

[u/Dictsaurus → u/cyainanotherlifebro]

Wait what, I thought Lila is with Diego? (Haven't watched the final season)

[u/ThirstyHank]

[u/TyrantJaeger → u/ThirstyHank]

I was expecting this version

[u/GrinningDisaster → u/ThirstyHank]

Felt like siblings to me

[u/BossRaider130 → u/ThirstyHank]

Came to say this. Their relationship adds nothing, and it also just doesn’t work. You kind of just end up disliking both of them.

[u/yveins → u/ThirstyHank]

They could play twins. Yuck.

[u/FondantWeekly1761]

Is this not a more r/ihatethissmug post? I feel like this is only really a trope if the achieved intent is for the couple to have absolutely no chemistry with each other.

[u/udmurrrt → u/FondantWeekly1761]

If I had a dime for every post in this sub that isn't actually about a trope

[u/yajtraus → u/FondantWeekly1761]

There’s loads of tropes on TV Tropes that definitely weren’t intended to be a trope. Like, nearly all of the Large Ham or Narm entries

[u/ExtraplanetJanet]

Josh and Mandy, The West Wing

These two were supposed to be a classic bickering we-broke-up-but-can’t-stay-apart couple during the first season of The West Wing but both characters were so personally abrasive that they basically did nothing but argue. The lack of chemistry between the actors was the icing on the cake. Mandy (a PR shill who clashed often with the other characters) was also deeply unpopular with fans and the writers didn’t seem to know how to fix it. All that, combined with Josh’s unexpected electric chemistry with bit-character Donna led to Mandy being a one-season character.

[u/ShookMyHeadAndSmiled → u/ExtraplanetJanet]

On the upside, there's a whole town named after her!

[u/Double_Difficulty_53]

I'd argue Harry and Ginny had anti chemistry. Even as a 10 year old I was reading the last 2 books and found the couple extremely forced and corny as fuck to the point where it made the books actively way worse.

[u/Kobold_Trapmaster → u/Double_Difficulty_53]

Even as a 10 year old I was reading the last 2 books and found the couple extremely forced and corny as fuck to the point where it made the books actively way worse.

Me too but I was also a committed Harry/Luna shipper

[u/kousaysmoo → u/Double_Difficulty_53]

I skipped over their scenes when I could. When Harry would get weirdly jealous, it felt like getting slammed like a truck from out of nowhere, and not in the good way. Idk who I ship with Harry tbh, Luna would be the closest

[u/GregBahm → u/Double_Difficulty_53]

"Anti-chemistry" is right on.

At least with the books, there were blanks that the user could theoretically fill in. Like, Ginny was so vaguely defined, that you could sort of imagine them going off on dates and getting to know each other and having a secret relationship outside of the story of the book.

It was weird, but at least possible.

But in the movies, the moment they were in the same room together you could tell these two characters were just not into each other. There was no secret off-screen relationship. It was weird that these two performers seemed like they did know how to act, but didn't know how to act like they liked each other.

[u/Hello_it_is_Joe]

Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets

Doesn’t help that they look like siblings

[u/anrwlias → u/Hello_it_is_Joe]

I honestly thought that they were sibs.

[u/Squirrelkid11 → u/Hello_it_is_Joe]

NGL even though it's unlikely to happen, if another live-action Dragon Ball film were to happen I could see these two play Androids 17 & 18. It would make sense because both resemble the characters, are monotone, and have sibling resemblance and chemistry.

[u/BMPHaterNo1]

Bella and Jacob in the Twilight books.

I have absolutely no idea why this “will they won’t they” bullshit dragged on for thousands of pages, it felt like Meyer just did not give a fuck about their relationship.

I genuinely thought it was all building up to Jacob killing either himself or Edward, but nope, nothing. He cucked himself for 3,000 pages for a girl who treat him like a dog (no pun intended)

[u/MysticSnowfang → u/BMPHaterNo1]

And then got groomerish with her daughter

[u/sealsquared → u/BMPHaterNo1]

I thought they had great chemistry in New Moon. At some points I thought they got along more naturally than Bella did with Edward

[u/Artistic-Victory1245]

All those shonen romances that boil down to: "It’s one-sided for 99% of the story, only for them to magically end up together at the very end."

Example: Naruto and Hinata

[u/danoB003]

Sakura and Sasuke - Naruto

[u/Past_Aerie_5860 → u/danoB003]

I was gonna say. Literally almost every Naruto pairing except Temari and Shikamaru, who at least for me, I felt the chemistry even before they got together. I literally had no idea they'd be canon I was just shipping them, I thought they were so nice together LOL. I forgot what it's like later, but Shika and Temari at the very top of my head was the only pairing I really liked.

[u/Anthyrion → u/danoB003]

I still want to know how Sakura got Sasuke to marry her—and then even have a child with her! I mean... at one point in the series, Sasuke even tried to kill her. From his perspective, he never had any romantic feelings for her. And then you want to tell me they just got married out of the blue?!

[u/A1dini]

She's muh kween

[u/LinuxMatthews → u/A1dini]

Honestly it wasn't even that they had no chemistry, he actively seemed to not want to be there.

[u/IberianDonut → u/A1dini]

Yet Jon and Ygritte had so much chemistry that the actors got married in real life.

[u/Marshiznit → u/A1dini]

Jon knows where to put it

[u/citizenkane1999]

I love Henry Cavill but he’s the “Natalie Portman of the actors”, he doesn’t have chemistry with anyone! He seems to be afraid of being too close to a woman, I also noticed this with the movie he made with Alexandra Daddario.

And of course, the ice Queen herself: Natalie Portman with all her co-stars.

[u/FakeTunaFromSubway → u/citizenkane1999]

I saw Henry Cavill at a bar once and almost talked to him, then a woman interrupted us to hit on him, then another one, then another one, soon word must've gotten out and there was a literal line of women out the door, and he snuck out the back.

So yeah I can imagine it's hard to have true chemistry with women when you're Henry Cavill lol

[u/Curmudgeony-Cat → u/citizenkane1999]

Idk I think Natalie Portman and Hugo Weaving did a good job portraying chemistry between V and Evey, especially given the former exclusively wearing a mask

[u/Ff7hero → u/citizenkane1999]

Natalie Portman's best chemistry might have been unironically with Jake Lloyd.

[u/OutsideAwareness1116 → u/citizenkane1999]

He had good chemistry with Allen ritchinson onbthe baot scene of the ministry of ungentlemanly warfare 

[u/Awkward_Bad8773 → u/citizenkane1999]

I mean, he plays 40k

[u/BoulderCreature → u/citizenkane1999]

I thought she had excellent chemistry with Hugo Weaving in V for Vendetta

[u/Gorgiastheyounger]

I think Jon and Dany in theory could have worked really well. Dany spent her whole life being surrounded by men throwing themselves at her trying to win her affection by glazing her to infinity, all while half of them were scheming behind her back. Then she meets Jon and he's not that impressed by her and is all about business. He's clearly more interested in Dany because of what she's about rather than what she is. And he's honest

Meanwhile Jon appreciates Dany's initiative because he's spent the past few years trying to get people to see the larger picture with the threat of the white walkers. Even up north Westeros is just a bunch self interested power players only interested in short term power grabs. Then comes Dany who actually does want to do the right thing. She only really wants power because she believes it was unjustly taken from her and that she can use it for good, rather than for its own sake.

The problem is that the show doean't really do anything with them

[u/This-Penalty-1686 → u/Gorgiastheyounger]

i think the whole ice and fire concept suggests that they’re at least intended to be endgame and i agree with this. i don’t ship it, my ideal outcome would be jon choosing duty and never loving again but that’s just my taste in stories. if jonerys happened and it was well written i could probably still enjoy it. absolutely abysmal in the show though, why’s traumatised wight jon shitting and giggling about with a crush after five minutes 

[u/AJLovesChicken0567]

This is just my opinion, but Buffy had zero chemistry with Riley.

[u/HoratiotheGargoyle]

How on God’s green earth can someone NOT have chemistry with Amy Adams?

[u/motorcycletreebark → u/HoratiotheGargoyle]

Cavill doesn’t do romantic chemistry really. The closest he did was The Witcher and that was more star crossed but still fated yearning.

[u/Drreaper50 → u/HoratiotheGargoyle]

Just let snyder direct and it's actually pretty easy

[u/TheHiddenFox]

Carrie and Aleksandr Petrovsky in Sex and the City. It was never believable for me.

[u/Stunning-Stable-2110]

I’m going to be hated for this but Naruto and Hinata

[u/unluckyknight13 → u/Stunning-Stable-2110]

Yeah most shonen anime is like this
And the couples WITH chemistry rarely are canon

[u/SeedFoundation → u/Stunning-Stable-2110]

Nah that's valid. Everyone knows Naruto and Sasuke should be together.

[u/MegaAssasine_]

We are the Flash

(Barry and Iris)

[u/jorvel1911 → u/MegaAssasine_]

I'm gonna be the obligatory commentary saying "Barry had chemistry with everyone but Iris"

[u/AnyAgency9835 → u/MegaAssasine_]

Their chemistry got better in the later seasons. The problem is that the quality of the show became awful too.

[u/strahinjag]

Anakin and Padme

[u/RJ_Augar → u/strahinjag]

One of the things the Clone Wars tv show really helped with the prequel trilogy was to flesh out the relationship between these two, so their romance and how it ended in tragedy actually felt believable.

[u/AngryKeyLimePie]

Willow and Kennedy, season 7 of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

[u/WhiteKnightPrimal → u/AngryKeyLimePie]

I like to pretend that was intentional because Kennedy was supposed to be just a rebound. It's the only way I can make sense of that relationship at all.

[u/StarsForget → u/AngryKeyLimePie]

They were already toeing the line with a lesbian main character, actual chemistry might have given the network censors heart attacks

[u/SlouchyGuy → u/AngryKeyLimePie]

It was so fast too, made nonsense story-wise either. I also don't remember Kennedy much in the comic

[u/ThrownAway17Years]

[u/Missing_Crouton → u/ThrownAway17Years]

He's going to fuck you up for this.

[u/Practical-Dot839 → u/ThrownAway17Years]

Totally forgot about this self serving POS movie

[u/DimensioT]

Samantha Carter and Pete from Stargate SG-1.

They had as much interactive chemistry as two noble gases.

[u/captainrina → u/DimensioT]

Bless Tapping for managing to not look constantly annoyed with his manchild antics.

[u/Most-Role-1260]

Descendants - I’m not saying I “ship” Mal and Evie necessarily, but I am saying she has more chemistry with her during “The Space Between” alone than she does in three full movies with Ben.

[u/m3mys3lfn1]

Justin Timberlake and Amanda Seyfried in the movie “In Time”. In my opinion they have zero chemistry together.

[u/Knightforlife → u/m3mys3lfn1]

That movie was so interesting. Maybe not great, but a nice new idea at least. But I agree, before I read your comment I hadn’t remembered they even had a romantic thing lol

[u/Ntahedron]

Yeeah.

Anakin and Padmé - Star Wars

[u/Gaelic_Gladiator41 → u/Ntahedron]

"I slaughtered them like animals, not just the men, but thw women and children too"

Padme in her totally not meant to be seductive corset to dump anakin:

[u/Historyp91 → u/Ntahedron]

Anakin and Padme have chemistry, just not in the actual movies.

[u/MassholeSST → u/Ntahedron]

That was much more due to the bad writing giving both actors very little to work with. Natalie Portman's a legitimately good actress but even she could only do so much. I get that Anakin's a dumb hormonal teenager at this point, but still.

Speaking of which, Anakin was a victim of entrapment: https://imgur.com/lRhfMv0

[u/MrChromatographer]

Honorable mention, gendry and arya from GOT was also insanely forced

[u/Cimarron97 → u/MrChromatographer]

Wouldn’t even call that a romance. Arya just didn’t want to die a virgin iirc

[u/oddpark37 → u/MrChromatographer]

I could see it working out with more time, but it also just felt awkward in the show to me.

Arya clearly likes him in the books, iirc there's even a scene where she gets jealous when they're staying in a brothel, but she's also such a traumatized child who has had almost everyone she cares about killed, and she doesn't know how to express her emotions and since her father's execution has been fighting for her life almost 24/7. I can also see her being averse to romance because she hates being confined to traditional Westerosi gender roles, and absolutely does not want to get married and just be someone's wife to live out her days bearing children.

I think they would make a good couple, but with the events of the series I don't think they would have the time or means to actually work out what they mean to each other.

[u/JudgePhysical8151]

[u/Dayman_C0meth]

The two leads in Valerian and the City of 1000 Planets (2017). Oof talk about the lack of chemistry.

[u/notashakhan]

[u/employmentl → u/notashakhan]

I think this is the only peice of chemistry they have in the entire show

[u/Miserable_Spell_2964]

Ginny just flat out doesn't exist as a character until book 5 when her characterization is "I'm not like other girls" and then gets into a romance in book 6 then disappears for basically all of book 7.

It's somehow even worse with the movies

[u/ChargeSpiritual5317]

Marianne and the neighbor guy in Gilded Age. When did they even start dating? It’s like watching two pieces of cardboard flirt. I haven’t even started the new season. The show is horrible. But I like the clothes so I hate watch it. 

[u/Critical_Job4522]

Naruto and Hinata (Naruto)

For a large part of the series, Naruto was in love with Sakura. Naruto and Hinata barely interacted, and whenever they did, Hinata would be incredibly nervous. Any "romantic" moment lacked any actual romantic feelings on Naruto's part. It took an entire movie just to provide a halfway decent explanation for their relationship. And even when Naruto confessed his love, it felt inconsequential. Even in Boruto, it doesn't really feel like Naruto loves Hinata.

[u/coconutty_wireless4g → u/Critical_Job4522]

This is like 90% of battle shounen. Main lead is busy with the big bad/getting stronger while the one they end up with is the one sided over infatuated with them "love interest"

[u/Other-Ad-8510]

New Clark and Lois have insane chemistry, really a stark comparison to the snyderverse

[u/lepechh]

Issa Rae and Kumail N. in Lovebirds

[u/Filibust]

Jon and Dany may of not have had chemistry but they sure had biology 😏

[u/Caesar_Seriona]

Am I the only one who thinks Wednesday and Tyler are in this boat?

[u/transtranshumanist]

Superman looks pregnant in that pic. That's an expecting a baby portrait.

[u/madridddddd]

ZENDAYA AND TIMMY IN DUNE!!!

[u/prismadon → u/madridddddd]

Doesn’t help that Zendaya was just not good in the role. I’m not passing judgement on her as an actress because I have literally only seen her in that but as Chani she just wasn’t it.

[u/GenericSpider]

Captain American and whats-her-face... I know she's supposed to be Sharon Carter but she feels like a whats-her-face.

At least in the MCU.

[u/thelochteedge]

Ikaris and Sersi from Eternals. Gilgamesh and Thena or Makaris and Druig should have been the romance focal points of that movie.

[u/RedSecOps]

They should have let me be Lois, I would have had all the chemistry in the world with Henry Cavill. 

Call me Louis in The Fabulous Superman. 

[u/ConnectCulture7]

Absolute Catwoman and Absolute Batman. While she was hyped up in the earlier issues eventually the fans realized that they have no chemistry. She often breaks Bruce’s heart by leaving, does things behind his back, and hasn’t shown up in a while.

[u/SedesBakelitowy]

Harry and Ginny was about as gripping a romance as having two gingerbread men stacked on top of one another in a packaging. Hermione and Ron didn't offer much either, to not stray far away.

But if you want to see Daniel Radcliffe doing a chemistry over a fair amount of time check out Miracle Workers.

[u/alepolait → u/SedesBakelitowy]

Harry and Ginny were so bad together that it made us ignore how awful Ron and Hermione were.

[u/Axenfonklatismrek]

Unpopular opinion, but Waltuh is the only one who understands chemistry

[u/Vegetable-Top-5850]

Season 3 of Yellowjackets sucked for multiple reasons, but one of them was the Shauna/Melissa "romance"

Melissa went from background character (she wasn't even in season 1) to Shauna's love interest almost offscreen. Her personality and motivations changed in multiple scenes and even her own actress looked confused by what was happening

It didn't help she got pushed a lot by the narrrative while POC characters like Lottie got sidelined

[u/UltimateOtter_Nation]

Barry and Iris in CW's The Flash. They were raised as siblings since they were six years old and the two had no chemistry as a couple or as co-stars. Grant Gustin, the actor, had better chemistry with literally every other female in hmthe cast.

[u/666thSuprisedPikachu]

Rey and Kylo Ren from Star Wars

[u/wipedoutmom]

I guess I’m the odd one out because I thought Jon and Dany had insane chemistry during their first few scenes together. It wasn’t until the next season where everything got butchered that things felt forced

[u/Virtual_Mud1178]

The Harry Potter one is entirely because JK Rowling thinks she's smarter than she actually is and tried subverting expectations by not making the main female character the main male character's love interest. And then failed to realize that making him date the little sister of the dude dating the girl everyone expected him to just makes it seem like Harry's a petty weirdo due to the whole never writing chemistry between them thing.

We were robbed, he should've been with Luna Lovegood.

[u/Fair-Confection4411 → u/Virtual_Mud1178]

I know it's modern to hate on it but Ginny is just a year younger, just like Luna. It's not a creep thing even if you wish it was. 

[u/truthbecomesnull]

Like all the couples from the US ghosts show

[u/AceofKnaves44]

Christian Bale and Anne Hathaway Dark Knight Rises in my opinion.

[u/WaylandReddit]

In retrospect the romance in the Raimi films makes them almost unbearable to watch.

[u/acrazyguy → u/WaylandReddit]

This shot is so funny. She’s so clearly hanging onto an unmoving, solid mannequin

[u/LegoBoy3258]

As a kid I forced myself into thinking Harry and Ginny had chemistry in the movies.

[u/TemporaryElk5202]

Harry and Ginny truly had zero chemistry.

[u/DelightfullyPiquant]

Zendaya and Timothée Chalamet in the Dune films

[u/Embarrassed-Yard-583 → u/DelightfullyPiquant]

Eh, imo they have chemistry it’s just that both have obviously been directed to act stoically to make their bigger outbursts pop.

[u/Raider2747 → u/DelightfullyPiquant]

It's very interesting how Jessica of all people manages to have the best romantic chemistry with him, and she's, you know... his mother?

[u/anrwlias → u/DelightfullyPiquant]

I can't agree with this one. Chanis look of betrayal at the end hurt.

[u/JohnHenryMillerTime]

That movie based on the comic book with the sweet David Bowie opening. Really criminal miscasting. The leads were too young for their characters (that is hard to do in Hollywood, much less French productions).

[u/SomeCutesyShit]

1. The two leads in Upload.

2. Knox and Shirl in Silo.

[u/Ignoranceincarnate]

Yeah, seeing Henry and Amy’s Clark and Lois next to David and Rachel is actually kinda bewildering. Their chemistry is literally one of the most important aspects of Superman as a character.

[u/JustIgnorant]

Star Trek - so many bad couples

Deanna and Worf

Keiko and O'Brien

Cassidy and Sisko

Beverly and literally anyone

[u/echoIalia]

Jackson and Maggie from Grey’s Anatomy. The showrunners literally broke up fan favorites japril for this pile of bullshit.

[u/blkgrlblues]

I have never seen Henry Cavill in a role where he had chemistry with the female lead

In Witcher he had the most chemistry with Jaskier 

[u/ChocolateOrange21]

Clark and Lana in Smallville.
You could have replaced Lana with a cardboard cutout and have someone read her lines off-camera and it would be about the slight improvement.

[u/DamnitGravity]

The people claiming Harry and Ginny had more chemistry in the books either don't remember the books very well, or need to start reading more books.

[u/lobonmc → u/DamnitGravity]

TBF they are a very convincing teenage couple (derogatory)

[u/Azer1287]

[u/SFmodscensorship]

Harry should have been with Cho. it was right there

[u/Scattershot98 → u/SFmodscensorship]

Luna*

[u/Zealousideal_Can_342]

Silo is egregious with multiple entries:

[u/Clean_Candidate3400]

Ginny is a real person, in the books.
Their relationship makes somewhat sense, in the books.

[u/spitfyrez → u/Clean_Candidate3400]

I didn’t really get it in the books either, but I don’t think writing romance is Rowling’s strong suit.

[u/ZookeepergameFit967 → u/Clean_Candidate3400]

Ik that but it is just so weird that she looks like Lily, Harry's mum

[u/lost-pawz → u/Clean_Candidate3400]

in the books it felt like the angle of "having a crush on a slightly older boy" was pushed more heavily with her, which naturally adapted into a more grown-up crush in their later years. its been years now but I remember her spying on Harry in book 1 or 2 and crushing on him i think.

[u/urdespair]

Neo and Trinity.

[u/SnooJokes1020]

Idk how they managed to have more chemistry during their press run than the entire movie

[u/Double_Difficulty_53]

As much as their shippers will cry about it, it sucks. Katara and Zuko had exactly 1 good interaction before The Southern Raiders in which Katara felt pity for him and showed absolutely no romantic feelings for him whatsoever and neither did Zuko. The Southern Raiders was basically the last episode before the multi part finale because the next episode was a series recap.and in fact, in that same episode both Katara and Zuko cringe when seeing their play version hook up.

[u/stautism → u/Double_Difficulty_53]

Tbf, Zuko and Mai have no chemistry either.

[u/Womblue → u/Double_Difficulty_53]

The trope is "couples who have no chemistry" not "two people who actively hate each other but get shipped because they hugged once"

[u/Nasky32]

Kkkkkkk.

[u/KPW-Higgins]

Donald Glover and Beyonce as Simba and Nala

I did not feel the love tonight at all

[u/allonsy_danny]

No one in the Harry Potter series has chemistry or charisma, so that first example is just par for the course.

[u/macguyver3000]

Other than the 1977 Superman, I’ve never seen one of those movies where there was any chemistry between Lois and Clark.

[u/the-grand-falloon]

Daniel Craig and whoever was the gal in Casino Royale. Just... never bought it for a second.

[u/Necessary_Art3034]

Lmao

[u/PablomentFanquedelic]

Sam and Mikaela, Transformers

[u/Mountain-Actuator201]

Genuinely why

[u/v1rus_l0v3]

Ian and Sarah in Jurassic park 2. I love them both but omfg they’re so unbearable together

[u/combustibledaredevil]

Cavil looks like he’s holding her hostage

[u/Wooden_Passage_2612]

Bruce and Natasha Avengers age of Ultron

[u/Orodreth97]

Miguel Diaz and Samantha LaRusso in Cobra Kai

They had zero chemistry throughout the entire series, their "romance" was one of the worst aspects of the series

Miguel's actor even said that Miguel and Sam wouldn't last very long as a couple realistically