Lynda Barry

When you learn about stories in school, you get it backward. You start to think 'Oh, the reason these things are in stories is because a book said I need to put these things in there.' You need a death, as my husband says, and you need a little sidekick with a saying like 'Skivel-dee-doo!

American Cartoonist

Willie Garson

TV deals in very broad strokes. Like, 'Oh, that's my dumb friend', or, 'That's my funny friend.' A true best friend, a sidekick, has to be a little deeper then that. You have to feel like there's nothing either character won't do. That someone really, really has their back.

American Actor

Yotam Ottolenghi

I now understand how varied the world of cultivated rice is; that rice can play the lead or be a sidekick; that brown rice is as valuable as white; and that short-grain rice is the bee's knees.

Israeli Chef

Curtis Armstrong

As an actor I'm part of a long line of character people you can take back to the silent movies. There's always the little guy who's the sidekick to the tall, good-looking guy who gets the girl.

Lexi Underwood

Growing up, usually when I saw a black female on television, she was either a broken character or sidekick.

American Actress

Kevin Whately

It always staggers me when series don't use their sidekicks.

English Actor

Sam Riley

I'm Angelina Jolie's sidekick in 'Maleficent'. It's cool.

Jacob Batalon

I think the sidekick makes the number one look good.

Filipino Actor

Sean Astin

The sidekick business has been good to me.

Patton Oswalt

American Comedian

Don't confuse 'sidekick' with 'partner'; sidekicks have a more supporting role.

Not Interchangeable

'Sidekick' sometimes implies a less skilled individual, not just a helper.

Less Capable Implication

Though 'sidekick' can suggest inferiority, it's often used affectionately.

Affectionate Tone

'Sidekick' indicates someone who experiences events alongside another.

Shared Experiences

A sidekick supports the main character but doesn't take the lead.

Support Role

'Sidekick' often conveys a sense of unwavering loyalty to the principal person.

Strong Loyalty

In literature, a sidekick helps to develop or complement the main character's story.

Literary Companion

A sidekick in stories isn't the focus but still crucial to the narrative.

Secondary Role

Sidekicks can contrast with main characters, highlighting their traits.

Narrative Contrast

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 The wise bartender questions the purpose of Gilgamesh’s quest— setting the stage for the final, more nuanced resolution. You can use comic relief not only to create contrast with graver moments, but to comment on them. Sidekicks are one of the most common and direct ways to do

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 exactly two of them will have female solo leads. Two. Now, there will be females in the rest of these movies, but they will be sidekicks, they will be love interests, they will be members of teams. They will not be the main character. And if what we learn, what we know

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 no one says, "Elementary, my dear Watson," and the detective and his sidekick live apart for much of the time. Moriarty, the grand villain, only appears in two stories, the detective's drug use is infrequent after the first two novels,

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 with one as the grounded realist to the other’s idealism. Their lively, evolving friendship is often credited as the original hero and sidekick duo, inspiring centuries of fictional partnerships. Don Quixote was a huge success.

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 of personal robots. And as a little girl, I loved the idea of a robot that interacted with us much more like a helpful, trusted sidekick -- something that would delight us, enrich our lives and help us save a galaxy or two.

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 The support staff, the friends and family, people who lifted our spirits, and never let us give up on our ambitious endeavors. The best kind of sidekicks we could have asked for.

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 Picture your friend and you are watching a sitcom and a sassy sidekick walks into a room, carrying a four-tiered wedding cake. He trips, falls, and face-plants into the cake.

Situational irony: The...

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