# Most devoted, fictional friends **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 10, 2013, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-devoted-fictional-friends/660661 "2013-06-10T21:43:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Southern\_Yankee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/southern_yankee/32/2800_2.png) [@Southern\_Yankee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Southern_Yankee)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2013, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-devoted-fictional-friends/660661/1 "2013-06-10T21:43:56Z")
Watching _Adventure Time_ with the kiddos and it struck me that what I like about this show is how loyal **Jake and Finn** are to each other. I know there are plenty of other characters who stick by each other through thick and thin; put their lives on the line for each other; and generally stick up for each other without question. Other examples? ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2013, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-devoted-fictional-friends/660661/2 "2013-06-10T21:55:08Z")
Frodo and Sam. Batman and Robin. ---
**Author:** ![Southern\_Yankee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/southern_yankee/32/2800_2.png) [@Southern\_Yankee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Southern_Yankee)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2013, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-devoted-fictional-friends/660661/3 "2013-06-10T21:59:48Z")
> [@Ethilrist](#): > > Frodo and Sam. > > Batman and Robin. We all know Batman and Robin were more than friends… ---
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2013, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-devoted-fictional-friends/660661/4 "2013-06-10T22:01:29Z")
Pikachu and Ash Ketchum. ---
**Author:** ![SpoilerVirgin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4491bb/32.png) [@SpoilerVirgin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpoilerVirgin)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2013, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-devoted-fictional-friends/660661/5 "2013-06-10T22:03:02Z")
Holmes and Watson in all their incarnations, including House and Wilson. ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2013, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-devoted-fictional-friends/660661/6 "2013-06-10T22:08:42Z")
Alacrity Fitzhugh and Hobart Floyt. ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2013, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-devoted-fictional-friends/660661/7 "2013-06-10T22:20:00Z")
Modesty Blaise and Willie Garvin. Blue Beetle and Booster Gold. ---
**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 10, 2013, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-devoted-fictional-friends/660661/8 "2013-06-10T22:29:27Z")
> [@Ethilrist](#): > > Frodo and Sam. > > Batman and Robin. Even ignoring the gay jokes, I’d not call Batman & Robin friends, exactly. They’re mentor & protege; they’re adoptive father and son; sometimes they’re abusive adoptive father & son. But the power imbalance between them is even greater than that between Frodo & Sam–too great, I think, for the word friend to be appropriate. Spenser & Hawk from Robert B. Parker’s novels are a good example, I think. Their relationship is close enough that it overrides even their honor codes. About the only thing either of them loves more than the other is Susan Silverman, and maybe Paul. ---
**Author:** ![Southern\_Yankee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/southern_yankee/32/2800_2.png) [@Southern\_Yankee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Southern_Yankee)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2013, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-devoted-fictional-friends/660661/9 "2013-06-10T22:33:26Z")
> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > … > > Spenser & Hawk from Robert B. Parker’s novels are a good example, I think. Their relationship is close enough that it overrides even their honor codes. About the only thing either of them loves more than the other is Susan Silverman, and maybe Paul. Excellent one! ---
**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 10, 2013, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-devoted-fictional-friends/660661/10 "2013-06-10T22:38:55Z")
> [@Southern\_Yankee](#): > > Excellent one! I thought so too. 😃 And I’m specifically thinking of _Cold Service_, which is basically a Hawk novel in which Spenser is more Watson than anything else. Hawk’s roaring rampage of revenge in that story requires Spenser to do tons of stuff he believes to be immoral, and Susan comments on it. It was a nice comment on the years Hawk has been doing things for love of Spenser even when he thinks they’re terribly stupid. ---
**Author:** ![Suburban\_Plankton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suburban_plankton/32/219_2.png) [@Suburban\_Plankton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suburban_Plankton)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2013, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-devoted-fictional-friends/660661/11 "2013-06-10T22:48:36Z")
Charlie Brown and Linus Van Pelt ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2013, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-devoted-fictional-friends/660661/12 "2013-06-10T23:36:35Z")
Kirk & Spock ---
**Author:** ![It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/it_s_not_rocket_surgery/32/312_2.png) [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/It_s_Not_Rocket_Surgery)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2013, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-devoted-fictional-friends/660661/13 "2013-06-10T23:50:26Z")
Harry, Hermione, and Ron. ---
**Author:** ![Gagundathar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a183cd/32.png) [@Gagundathar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gagundathar)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2013, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-devoted-fictional-friends/660661/14 "2013-06-10T23:51:44Z")
Tony Stark and James Rhodes ---
**Author:** ![The\_Peyote\_Coyote](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/5f8ce5/32.png) [@The\_Peyote\_Coyote](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Peyote_Coyote)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2013, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-devoted-fictional-friends/660661/15 "2013-06-10T23:53:08Z")
Fafhrd the Barbarian and the Grey Mouser Elric of Melnibone and Moonglum Kinsey Milhone and her landlord Henry ---
**Author:** ![Southern\_Yankee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/southern_yankee/32/2800_2.png) [@Southern\_Yankee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Southern_Yankee)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2013, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-devoted-fictional-friends/660661/16 "2013-06-10T23:59:05Z")
> [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](#): > > Harry, Hermione, and Ron. I was thiking of them as well. ---
**Author:** ![amarinth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3be4f8/32.png) [@amarinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarinth)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2013, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-devoted-fictional-friends/660661/17 "2013-06-11T00:08:33Z")
Anne Shirley & Diana Barry ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2013, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-devoted-fictional-friends/660661/18 "2013-06-11T00:10:39Z")
Jennings & Darbishire Asterix & Obelix Norm & Cliff Ritchie & The Fonz Sam Beckett & Al Oscar & Felix ---
**Author:** ![Southern\_Yankee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/southern_yankee/32/2800_2.png) [@Southern\_Yankee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Southern_Yankee)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2013, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-devoted-fictional-friends/660661/19 "2013-06-11T00:23:47Z")
Now you’re just naming famous friends. Would Norm risk his life for Cliff? ---
**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 11, 2013, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-devoted-fictional-friends/660661/20 "2013-06-11T00:29:55Z")
> [@Southern\_Yankee](#): > > Now you’re just naming famous friends. Would Norm risk his life for Cliff? I had the same thought. A lot of these are legitimate. The kids from Harry Potter are quite devloved to one another. Kirk demonstrates on at least two occasions that he’ll throw his career away for Spock, if it comes to it. (60s!Kirk, I mean; I don’t know about the new version). But Oscar and Felix don’t reach that level, and Norm & Cliff don’t even approach it. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-devoted-fictional-friends/660661.md?page=2)