# 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:** 4
**Author:** ![gracer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8e7dd6/32.png) [@gracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gracer)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2013, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-devoted-fictional-friends/660661/61 "2013-06-11T20:53:42Z")
Pooh and Piglet Ratty and Mole Vladimir and Estragon I’ve currently got this written on the white board in the loo: _“I wonder what Piglet is doing,” thought Pooh “I wish I were there to be doing it too.”_ ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2013, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-devoted-fictional-friends/660661/62 "2013-06-11T21:02:58Z")
Seth and Evan. ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2013, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-devoted-fictional-friends/660661/63 "2013-06-11T21:05:58Z")
Oooh, although they existed in real life I will go with the fictionalized versions of Doc Holliday and Wyatt Earp in _Tombstone_ **Turkey Creek Jack Johnson:** Why you doin’ this, Doc? **Doc Holliday:** Because Wyatt Earp is my friend. **Turkey Creek Jack Johnson:** Friend? Hell, I got lots of friends. **Doc Holliday:** …I don’t ---
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2013, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-devoted-fictional-friends/660661/64 "2013-06-11T21:29:21Z")
Andy and Red ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2013, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-devoted-fictional-friends/660661/65 "2013-06-11T21:32:14Z")
> [@Shoeless](#): > > Shawn and Gus I didn’t read the thread, just searched it for Shawn and Gus, that was my first thought. Shawn and his dad would be up there too. ---
**Author:** ![Mauvaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mauvaise/32/11084_2.png) [@Mauvaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mauvaise)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2013, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-devoted-fictional-friends/660661/66 "2013-06-11T21:36:06Z")
Ivy, Jenks, & Rachel From The Hollows Series by Kim Harrison. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2013, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-devoted-fictional-friends/660661/67 "2013-06-11T21:49:15Z")
Kirk, Spock, Bones - it was a trinity. Kirk/Spock was the strongest pairing, Bones/Spock the weakest, but each of the three brought out the most in the other two. Or any two brought out the most in any other one. Or all three were so strong that empires would fall before them. C3PO and R2D2 ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2013, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-devoted-fictional-friends/660661/68 "2013-06-11T21:51:47Z")
The Doctor Yeah, whenever he met himself or multiples of said person. Lots of harumphing, sure, but loyal to each other and what they/he stood for. ---
**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2013, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-devoted-fictional-friends/660661/69 "2013-06-11T22:36:13Z")
The Hazel/Fiver/Bigwig three-way. ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2013, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-devoted-fictional-friends/660661/70 "2013-06-11T22:59:40Z")
Harry Dresden and Karrin Murphy ---
**Author:** ![orderfire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/orderfire/32/10908_2.png) [@orderfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/orderfire)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2013, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-devoted-fictional-friends/660661/71 "2013-06-12T00:19:27Z")
Meyer and Travis McGee. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2013, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-devoted-fictional-friends/660661/72 "2013-06-12T00:32:44Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > Spongebob and Squidward. > [@cmkeller](#): > > Elvis: > > Is that meant as a joke? Squidward HATES Spongebob. Occasionally, he’ll feel guilty about treating him badly, but he’s certainly not a “devoted friend.” I think it’s save to assume ElvisL1ves meant Spongebob and Patrick. Spongebob might think that Squidward is one of his best friends, but it’s pretty one sided. ---
**Author:** ![AngelSoft](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/angelsoft/32/440_2.png) [@AngelSoft](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AngelSoft)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2013, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-devoted-fictional-friends/660661/73 "2013-06-12T01:16:49Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > I think it’s save to assume ElvisL1ves meant Spongebob and Patrick. Spongebob might think that Squidward is one of his best friends, but it’s pretty one sided. I’d have to argue against Spongebob and Patrick. Yes, they are good friends but I think the level and intensity of the friendship is pretty imbalanced in Patrick’s favor. Spongebob is a much better, more thoughtful friend who really would do anything he could for Patrick. It’s been evidenced multiple times that he will do whatever he needs to to help Patrick, even at his own expense. However, it has also been evidenced multiple times that Patrick is horribly self centered and an awful friend. He often hurts Spongebob emotionally and has no regards for his ‘friend’s’ feelings or even his possessions. In fact, it might even be argued that Squidward is a much better friend to Spongebob in that, while he is often verbally abusive, he doesn’t really do much to outright hurt him and has even come to help and appreciate him at times. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2013, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-devoted-fictional-friends/660661/74 "2013-06-12T01:49:23Z")
SpongeBob and Patrick are close, and I agree that SpongeBob is more emotionally invested in the friendship than the starfish, but it’s more because Patrick is so astonishingly, earth-shatteringly stupid than because he doesn’t care about SpongeBob. He doesn’t know - he _can’t_ know - what is really expected of a true friend when the chips are down. ---
**Author:** ![Ibn\_Warraq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e19b73/32.png) [@Ibn\_Warraq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ibn_Warraq)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2013, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-devoted-fictional-friends/660661/75 "2013-06-12T01:58:48Z")
> [@Sailboat](#): > > It’s closer to a Frodo-and-Sam relationship than a partnership of equals, but: > > Taran Wanderer and Gurgi from the Chronicles of Prydain > > While Gurgi quickly latches onto Taran and repeatedly expresses his loyalty, it takes a while for Taran to recognize that he himself owes Gurgi the same unshakable commitment. Yes! That’s a great one. I loved that series and would love it if they ever made it into a movie or miniseries a la Lord of the Rings or Game of Thrones. ---
**Author:** ![Renifer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/71c47a/32.png) [@Renifer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Renifer)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2013, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-devoted-fictional-friends/660661/76 "2013-06-12T02:18:59Z")
Daria and Jane House and Wilson Rizzoli and Isles Harry, Ron, and Hermione Cher and Dionne ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2013, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-devoted-fictional-friends/660661/77 "2013-06-12T02:40:19Z")
Captain Augustus McCrae and Captain Woodrow Call, Lonesome Dove. ---
**Author:** ![zoogirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b9bd4f/32.png) [@zoogirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoogirl)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2013, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-devoted-fictional-friends/660661/78 "2013-06-12T03:02:08Z")
Robin Hood and Little John ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2013, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-devoted-fictional-friends/660661/79 "2013-06-12T04:06:53Z")
Pancho & Cisco. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2013, 6:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-devoted-fictional-friends/660661/80 "2013-06-12T06:17:23Z")
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