# BEST best friends in literature (open spoilers likely)

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [June 17, 2009, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-best-friends-in-literature-open-spoilers-likely/500074 "2009-06-17T15:08:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\
**Post date:** [June 19, 2009, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-best-friends-in-literature-open-spoilers-likely/500074/41 "2009-06-19T15:02:05Z")

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Rocky and Mickey  
Rocky and Apollo  
Rocky and Bullwinkle

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**Author:** ![Wargamer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/df705f/32.png) [@Wargamer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wargamer)\
**Post date:** [June 19, 2009, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-best-friends-in-literature-open-spoilers-likely/500074/42 "2009-06-19T15:07:26Z")

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Pooh and Piglet.

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**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\
**Post date:** [June 19, 2009, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-best-friends-in-literature-open-spoilers-likely/500074/43 "2009-06-19T15:08:26Z")

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> [@pravnik](#):
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> Rocky and Mickey  
> Rocky and Apollo  
> Rocky and Bullwinkle

Whoops, the title said “literature,” not merely “fiction.” Ah, screw it. Gilgamesh and Enkidu was taken.

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**Author:** ![Sir\_T-Cups](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@Sir\_T-Cups](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_T-Cups)\
**Post date:** [June 20, 2009, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-best-friends-in-literature-open-spoilers-likely/500074/44 "2009-06-20T04:22:17Z")

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If it counts as lit…

Bruce Wayne and Alfred. Mostly the Alfred half.

Yeah he was Bruce’s subordinate, but throughout everything, being Batman and everything that that entailed, he stuck thru it all.

It went beyond employer/employee.

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**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\
**Post date:** [June 20, 2009, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-best-friends-in-literature-open-spoilers-likely/500074/45 "2009-06-20T04:27:01Z")

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> [@Sir\_T-Cups](#):
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> If it counts as lit…

I probably should have written _fiction_. Henceforth, I suggest y’all pretend I did.

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**Author:** ![SciFiSam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/47e85d/32.png) [@SciFiSam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SciFiSam)\
**Post date:** [June 20, 2009, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-best-friends-in-literature-open-spoilers-likely/500074/46 "2009-06-20T04:46:25Z")

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Carlo and Corelli from Captain Corelli’s Mandolin.

> [@KneadToKnow](#):
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> Has anybody said George and Lenny yet?
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> I know it’s not a “storybook” ending, but damn, y’all, that takes a good friend.

Good call.

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