Clark/Diana
Am I the only one who gets really bad fanfic vibes off of pairings like Clark/Diana or Bruce/Diana? I mean, sure they're published by the same company and all, but they really weren't at all designed with one another in mind and squashing them together just feels wrong to me. Even the JLA itself has something of an "official crossover" feel to it for me, even though I'm better with that idea than I am most of the major pairing ideas to come from it.
It's much like the Black Panther/Storm relationship in Marvel, it feels forced and inorganic and artificial and wrong. Sure, I like crossover (when done well) as much as anyone, but things like that just stink too badly of metafiction for me. Especially considering they're almost always rushed and awkwardly slapped together without a speck of honest characterization in sight.
Can anyone explain to me what the real chemistry they would have? Any real reason for them to logically get together beyond some author or editor thinking it'd be cool? Is there real substance behind it after all that I'm just not seeing and it's just the execution that's off, or is it really as bad an idea as it seems to me?