# 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:** 5
**Author:** ![vontsira](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/51bf81/32.png) [@vontsira](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vontsira)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2013, 7:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-devoted-fictional-friends/660661/81 "2013-06-12T07:13:29Z")
Martin Chuzzlewit and Mark Tapley, in their unlucky American venture – though if I’d been Martin, I’d probably have bashed Mark’s head in when he came out with his “we need to be cheerful” thing for about the thousandth time. ---
**Author:** ![AtomicDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ac91a4/32.png) [@AtomicDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AtomicDog)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2013, 12:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-devoted-fictional-friends/660661/82 "2013-06-12T12:08:37Z")
I’m surprised that no one has mentioned: Tom and Huck Huck and Jim Huck had made up his mind that he would literally go to Hell to save Jim. ---
**Author:** ![April\_R](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@April\_R](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/April_R)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2013, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-devoted-fictional-friends/660661/83 "2013-06-12T12:35:59Z")
Three pages and no Calvin and Hobbes? ---
**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, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-devoted-fictional-friends/660661/84 "2013-06-12T12:45:02Z")
> [@AngelSoft](#): > > 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. > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > 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. You took the words out of my mouth as I was reading the post. Well, you said it better then would have. I was just going to say something like “That’s only because Patrick’s an idiot, he’s not hurting Spongebob on purpose, he’s being the best friend he can be to him”. ---
**Author:** ![si\_blakely](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d9b06d/32.png) [@si\_blakely](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/si_blakely)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2013, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-devoted-fictional-friends/660661/85 "2013-06-12T14:25:23Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > Granny Weatherwax and Nanny Ogg Fred Colon and Nobby Nobbs ---
**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 12, 2013, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-devoted-fictional-friends/660661/86 "2013-06-12T16:09:02Z")
John Alpha & Wulf. ---
**Author:** ![JuliaSqueezer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/82dd89/32.png) [@JuliaSqueezer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JuliaSqueezer)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2013, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-devoted-fictional-friends/660661/87 "2013-06-12T18:07:00Z")
Walt Longmire and Henry Standing Bear ---
**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 12, 2013, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-devoted-fictional-friends/660661/88 "2013-06-12T19:12:30Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > Good point. How about Silver Age Batman and Superman? Yep. But the DiniVerse, Justice-League Bats & Supes also work. That Bruce loves Clark while simultaneously thinking he’s an idiot. Or even Bats & Supes of – let me think – that storyline when Bruce Wayne was on the run for a murder he didn’t commit. Batman essentially abandoned the Wayne identity (having long since made preparations for since an eventuality), and Superman comes to Gotham to call him on not working to clear his name. Their conversation on the issue makes it clear that Clark loves Bruce, even though he thinks Bruce is all kinds of fucked in the head. ---
**Author:** ![Werekoala](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/7993a0/32.png) [@Werekoala](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Werekoala)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2013, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-devoted-fictional-friends/660661/89 "2013-06-12T19:25:30Z")
Will and Grace. ---
**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 12, 2013, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-devoted-fictional-friends/660661/90 "2013-06-12T19:31:30Z")
> [@April\_R](#): > > Three pages and no Calvin and Hobbes? It’s complicated. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2013, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-devoted-fictional-friends/660661/91 "2013-06-13T01:34:26Z")
[Viola and Cesario](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cesario_(Kiddy_Grade)#Viola_and_Cesario). ---
**Author:** ![Wolf333](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolf333/32/3460_2.png) [@Wolf333](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wolf333)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2013, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-devoted-fictional-friends/660661/92 "2013-06-13T02:25:35Z")
> [@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. > [@Southern\_Yankee](#): > > Excellent one! This is kind of a trope in modern crime fiction. You have the detective (who is kind of badass), and there is the enigmatic friend (who is a total badass) who can: A:) Do the things that the main character can’t or won’t do B:) Assist the main character in things that may or may not be legal c:) Talk the main character into doing things that they normally would not do So, along with Spencer and Hawk, we end up with: Hap Collins and Leonard Pine Elvis Cole and Joe Pike Myron Bolitar and Windsor Horne Lockwood III Patrick Kenzie, Angie Gennaro and Bubba ---
**Author:** ![AtomicDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ac91a4/32.png) [@AtomicDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AtomicDog)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2013, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-devoted-fictional-friends/660661/93 "2013-06-13T03:23:51Z")
“I’m getting too old for this shit!” ---
**Author:** ![Ranger\_Jeff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranger_jeff/32/2065_2.png) [@Ranger\_Jeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranger_Jeff)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2013, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-devoted-fictional-friends/660661/94 "2013-06-13T05:39:00Z")
Dusty and Lefty ---
**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 13, 2013, 5:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-devoted-fictional-friends/660661/95 "2013-06-13T05:52:27Z")
Dead-Eye Dick and Mexican Pete Belkar and the Scruffinator ---
**Author:** ![vontsira](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/51bf81/32.png) [@vontsira](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vontsira)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2013, 11:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-devoted-fictional-friends/660661/96 "2013-06-13T11:36:57Z")
> [@Wolf333](#): > > This is kind of a trope in modern crime fiction. You have the detective (who is kind of badass), and there is the enigmatic friend (who is a total badass) who can: > > A:) Do the things that the main character can’t or won’t do > B:) Assist the main character in things that may or may not be legal > c:) Talk the main character into doing things that they normally would not do > > So, along with Spencer and Hawk, we end up with: > > Hap Collins and Leonard Pine > Elvis Cole and Joe Pike > Myron Bolitar and Windsor Horne Lockwood III > Patrick Kenzie, Angie Gennaro and Bubba Possibly another pair in that category – Matt Scudder and Mick Ballou? – the majority of their interaction, admittedly, is chatting together and bouncing ideas off each other, but at times it involves extra-legal doings. ---
**Author:** ![Simplicio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c37758/32.png) [@Simplicio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simplicio)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2013, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-devoted-fictional-friends/660661/97 "2013-06-13T12:54:19Z")
No villains? Most villains are such jerks they don’t get close friends, but I always like the occasional trophe of the super devoted henchman. It’s one thing to be buddies with a guy that’s trying to save the world, but to go through thick and thin with a nutcase that’s up to no good and constantly getting his butt kicked by the hero?, that’s love. Michaletto and Cesare Borgias, Joker and Harley Quinn (granted they’re more then friends), Orochimaru and Kabuto, Zanatos and…err…his henchmans name escapes me, but the main villains from Gargoyles. ---
**Author:** ![dotchan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9d8465/32.png) [@dotchan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dotchan)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2013, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-devoted-fictional-friends/660661/98 "2013-06-13T13:34:36Z")
The RED Demoman and the BLU Soldier from Team Fortress 2, at least before the Administrator ruined their friendship. Though hopefully they’re reconciled now that RED and BLU have teamed up to fight robots. …yes, I think the auxiliary comics/videos/blog posts that get released with the updates are totally canon unless Valve explicitly says otherwise, why do you ask? 😛 ---
**Author:** ![vislor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/vislor/32/5933_2.png) [@vislor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vislor)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2013, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-devoted-fictional-friends/660661/99 "2013-06-13T14:09:57Z")
Scully and Mulder? Caliban and Niko Dresden and Murphy were mentioned but I would also say Dresden and Carpenters. Brisco and Lord Bowler (I want to put the horse but that would be one sided!) Pete and Myka? ---
**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2013, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-devoted-fictional-friends/660661/100 "2013-06-13T14:28:38Z")
Nat and Dan from _Little Men_. They are directly compared to Damon and Pythias. Luvvy and Agatha from _Luvvy and the Girls._ In the Forest and Little Bear from _The Indians of New Jersey: Dickon Among the Lenapes_. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-devoted-fictional-friends/660661.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-devoted-fictional-friends/660661.md?page=6)