You have good OTPs. I agree, film Tony and Pepper are wonderful together. Robert Downey Jr. does a great job at showing an arrogant, over the top guy in love and not utterly changed by it. He's still arrogant and over the top, he's just slightly softened by his love. (And persistent, I enjoyed that. That he never STOPS chasing Pepper once he realizes he likes her but it's never forceful either. It's just like "Hey, just reminding you, I'm an option. You know. If you want some.") Plus, they did a good job with Pepper making her still feel human, weak but not helpless. She is smart and able to get out of situations but still needs reasonably rescuing. I bet Lois when written well is like that.

As for the Rose/Doctor. I am still shipping that but it's more of a Rose/Nine ship than anything. I did enjoy it as like a deep friendship with romantic undertones. As for why she was special though, I always figured it's because she brought him back from the brink. Like Nine was so tortured and cold but Rose helped him rediscovery his "humanity", for lack of better word. Still, like I said, I've only seen a handful of Ten episodes and haven't seen her leave yet so...yeah. I know that his obsessing over her after she left did ruin her in a lot of fans eyes.

Those sound interesting, especially the sci-fi manga, I might check it out.