Citations:Clexa

Proper noun: "(fandom slang) the ship of characters Clarke Griffin and Lexa from the television series The 100"

 * 2016, Vidya Srinivasan, "Reshop, Heda", The Tufts Daily (Tufts University), 9 March 2016, page 6:
 * This year, in the truly perfect hour of television that was 3.03, Clexa progressed from adversaries to unbreakable partners.
 * 2016, Amber Appel, "Summer Book Reviews", The Independent (Rollins College), Spring 2016, page 30:
 * For those who have also seen it, long live Clexa.
 * 2016, Shelby Slifer, "Popular television show concerns LGBTQA+ community", The Keystone (Kutztown University), 7 April 2016, page 7:
 * It is unlikely the writers had intentions of such a horrific doing, however, the facts were there of the limited representation as well as how much this character and the relationship, which fans have dubbed as "Clexa," meant for this community.
 * 2016, Hazel Tyler, "Lexa Deserved Better", WORLDY Magazine (Deakin University), Issue 3 (2016), page 12:
 * This relationship became known as 'Clexa' in the fandom, where the pairing was received mostly positively.
 * 2016, Aoife Downey, "Bury the Trope: LGBT Fans Deserve Better", The QUAB (Trinity College, Dublin), pages 10-11:
 * The reason Lexa's death hurt so much was because of the way the showrunner of the 100, Jason Rothenberg, had used this much-loved couple (affectionately given the moniker "Clexa") as an advertising stunt, to gain a large LGBT fan base which did wonders for the show's ratings only to arbitrarily kill off this fan favourite character.
 * 2017, Sabrina Da Mata, "The 100 Has a Bisexual Female Protagonist and Promotes LGBT", Gigue (Parklands Secondary College), 14 September 2017, page 8:
 * With Clarke and Lexa later becoming closer together many fans immediately started a ship for them called Clexa which was a large community.
 * 2017, Nanna Dam Petersen & Line Boye Danielsen, "'Lexa was me': A Case study of Clexa fandom grieving", paper submitted to Aalborg University, page 7:
 * In choosing to investigate the aftermath of Lexa’s death within Clexa fandom we had some initial thoughts and research questions.
 * 2018, Mélanie Bourdaa, "A Strong Social Bond: Discussion, Debates and Friendship", in A Companion to Media Fandom and Fan Studies (ed. Paul Booth), page 394:
 * Many fan videos in the Clexa fandom put the emphasis on the relationship between the two characters, aggregating scenes from different episodes.
 * 2018, Michael Khordoc, "ClexaCon: The Largest Convention For LGBTQ+ Women And Allies", The Standard, March 2018, page 17:
 * The name ClexaCon was born from the fan favorite ship 'Clexa' (Clarke & Lexa) on the show The 100.
 * 2018, Thomasina Rogers, "The Gay Agenda", Mr. Ma'am (Emory University), Issue 2 (2018), page 65:
 * You try to stop thinking about Karen by going on Tumblr and obsessing over Clexa—the soul mates of all soul mates, the sky and the ground meeting in a fiery world of passion and danger only to have such a brief yet wondrous love
 * 2019, Erin Kenny, "'Ship Wars' and the OTP: Narrating Desire, Literate Agency, and Emerging Sexualities in Fanfiction of The 100", in Child and Youth Agency in Science Fiction: Travel, Technology, Time (eds. Ingrid E. Castro & Jessica Clark), page 195:
 * Two distinct communities coalesce around fans of Clexa and fans of Bellarke.
 * 2019, Charlie Luen, "Signed, Your Stereo Atypical Lesbian Poet", in The Edge of Sex: Navigating a Sexually Confusing Culture from the Margins (eds. Lisa Speidel & Micah Jones), unnumbered page:
 * Representation has grown so much since the days of Clexa—we're not dying AND getting happy endings!
 * 2019, Ange Hall, "More Than Survival", Honi Soit (University of Sydney), Week 8, Semester 1 (2019), page 16:
 * The real world reaction to her death was wild; billboards being raised in her honour, a worldwide trending hashtag that still revives three years later, and a still active fanbase not only of the show itself, but of "Clexa".