Five sidekicks...

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fannish5: Who are your five favorite sidekicks?

Sidekicks? Do I like anything with sidekicks? Can I call Captain Jack Harkness the Doctor's sidekick? Maybe not, considering that they haven't even seen each other since "The Parting of the Ways". Let's give it a serious try here ...

1. Legolas: Faithful Elf to Aragorn son of Arathorn. (The Lord of the Rings)

2. Horatio: Faithful friend to Hamlet. (Hamlet)

3. Eugene Wrayburn: Faithful roommate of Mortimer Lightwood. (Our Mutual Friend) - Though which of the two is the 'sidekick' would be hard to say, maybe it should be the other way around, since Eugene is the more significant character.

4. Jos Musey: Maybe-not-so-faithful assistant to Captain Cairo Azarcon. (Warchild, Burndive, Cagebird)

5. Lewis: Faithful Detective Sargent to Inspector Morse. (Inspector Morse mysteries)

That was hard. Just about everyone I could think of who might even remotely fit the bill was from novels, not TV or movies or comics; is it my perception, or is sidekicking out of fashion these days? Morse is the only one of the above that I got from TV.

I can think of one other sidekick I sort of liked, from a movie that was marginal, and I can't remember anyone's names in it: the pilot/buddy in Sky Captain and the City of Tomorrow.

And wait a minute - I didn't say anything about Bush, faithful lieutenant to Captain Horatio Hornblower! He ought to be in there somewhere.