Hannigram

English

Etymology

Blend of Hannibal +‎ Graham.

Proper noun

Hannigram

1. (fandom slang) The ship of characters Hannibal Lecter and Will Graham from the television series Hannibal.

   Synonym: Murder Husbands

   • 2019, Kara M. French, “Bedelia Du Maurier: Hannibal's Femme Fatale and Final Girl”, in EJ Nielsen, Kavita Mudan Finn, editors, Becoming: Genre, Queerness, and Transformation in NBC’s Hannibal‎^[1], page 189:

     Indeed, "Fannibals" have already crossed the line from observation to active participation with online campaigns to save the show and even the production of two bound volumes of "Hannigram" fanfiction.

   • 2021, Kirsty Worrow, “My Darling Cannibal: The Mechanics of Perverse Allegiance in Hannibal”, in Kyle A. Moody, Nicholas A. Yanes, editors, Hannibal for Dinner: Essays on America's Favorite Cannibal on Television‎^[2], page 41:

     Hannibal went further though, elevating the subtext into text by making Hannigram arguably canon by the end of season 3.

   • 2024, Jamie MacGregor, “"'This is all I ever wanted for You, Will. For both of us.' 'It's beautiful.': Hannibal Post-Canon Fics and Queer Futurity”, in Katlin Tonti, editor, Fix-It Fics: Challenging the Status Quo through Fan Fiction‎^[3], page 116:

     At the time of writing, the most popular Hannibal fic, by a large margin, describes itself as "a post-canon Hannigram fix-it fic."

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Hannigram.