Clawdget

Clawdget is the SLASH ship between Claw and Gadget from the Inspector Gadget fandom.

Canon
They don't have much face-to-face interaction nor do they interact at all unless it's Claw trying to dispose of Gadget permamently or Gadget not realizing he's talking to Claw when he's unknowingly helping him, or the Live Action Movies and Biggest Caper(Maybe even Last Case if you count Claw's Debonaire ruse). The one thing they have in similarities is getting each other. Like Claw wanting to get rid of Gadget, and Gadget wanting Claw behind. But both have failed in their goals which ends up in a long-term Cat and Mouse chase. Although there are some times where Claw does manage to get Gadget, but Gadget ends up escaping.

Original Series
During Season 1, Episode 5 "the Amazon" of the OG series, Claw tells Annie and his men to "save Gadget" (in the context of him wanting Gadget alive just to transfer his brainwaves into the numerous robot Gadget clones.

In the Season 1, Episode 54 "Smelderado" Claw says "My Dear Gadget" as he attempts to get rid of him again, which of course fails

In Season 2, Episode 8 "The Incredible Shrinking Gadget" Dr Claw tries to employ a ray gun to shrink Inspector Gadget down to the size of a mouse so he could put him in a mouse-sized cage for whatever reasons that has to do with his plan to get rid of Gadget. There's also the fact that he had tiny Gadget figurines and cameras around Gadget's house(and anywhere Gadget would be) which shows Claw having somewhat of an unhealthy obsession with Gadget.

2015 Series
In Season 2, Episode 4 "Double O' Penny/We Heart Gadget", Claw gets matched up with Gadget at the end of the episode, he got upset about it.

In Season 2, Episode 8 "Gadget and Oatsfunkle Metro City's Sinking" Claw devises a plan to blow up a volcano to destroy Metro City by making Gadget create more albums with Talon dressed up at Oatsfunkle. Gadget and Oatsfunkle’s music were the "sounds of his childhood" He gets defensive about Gadget's music when Talon makes a remark about if it sounded as bad as it looks, but, Claw quickly stops himself and says "Yes". Before starting to compliment Gadget's music after Talon said that he sounded like a Gadget Groupie. At the end of the episode Claw is seen listening to it, saying how it was “so good.”

1999 Movie
In the movie there would have been what people would see as "Homoerotic tension" considering with how Claw talks to to others and Gadget. Especially when blowing cigar smoke in Gadget's face right after Gadget lit it up for him, which would be read as a mocking thing but ended up having subtext for some viewers. Plus making a whole robot Gadget clone(and a Robobrenda) and saying "Imitation is the sincerest from of flattery" as a response Kramer when he said that the prometheus has been completed per his specifications. Claw was pleased to see the robot work and said "Very saucy" as response to RoboGadget's "I'm gonna kick some butt." to which he does, wreaking mayhem and almost ruining Gadget's reputation. When he captured Gadget he showed him a video of his clone causing havok, before trying to get Kramer to get rid of the chip. When Kramer faints, Claw says "I'm sorry Gadget. Good help is so hard to find these days. Would you mind if I do the honors?" not waiting for a reply Claw removes N.S.A chip and destroys it.

Gadget's Last Case
One hour into the movie Claw(Debonaire) gives Gadget his number(presumebly his actual one), of course it was in a mocking way. "All those gadgets, I could use a man like you. For a janitor" Of course, giving Gadget his number led to his arrest. Since Penny had found out that it was infact, Claw's number.

Fanon
The ship is either protrayed as romantic or dark among shippers, sometimes with a bit of "Good Guy joining the Bad Guys" or "Bad Guy joinig the Good Guys" trope.

People love the idea of tragic Lovers to Enemies or just the idea of Hero/Villain ships. Sure, Claw has tried to off Gadget multiple times, but hey, it'a ship for those who like old men trying to take each other down, plus it appeals to people who love Good/Bad ships like Valvert.

It's more of a popular ship on Ao3 as of today with only 25 works, on other platforms it's a more smaller ship with only 100+ posts on Instagram

Fandom
Doctor Claw/Inspector Gadget on Ao3

Clawdget on Tumblr

Clawdget on Instagram

Trivia

 * In both the OG series and the 1999 movie, Claw made evil robot Gadget clones
 * Claw made a face of grimance when Sykes said "Hey, that looks like the guy we almost killed!" in the 1999 movie
 * In the 1999 movie Claw is not suprised when Gadget comes back to life