# Who are your 3 favorite sidekicks of all time? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 25, 2016, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-your-3-favorite-sidekicks-of-all-time/758351 "2016-06-25T20:52:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![edwards\_beard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7bcc69/32.png) [@edwards\_beard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/edwards_beard)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2016, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-your-3-favorite-sidekicks-of-all-time/758351/41 "2016-06-27T18:09:07Z")
Chewbacca/Han Solo Vince Vega/Jules Winfield Ed Norton/Ralph Cramden ---
**Author:** ![edwards\_beard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7bcc69/32.png) [@edwards\_beard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/edwards_beard)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2016, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-your-3-favorite-sidekicks-of-all-time/758351/42 "2016-06-27T18:10:12Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > I’ll go with these two, as I like sidekicks who rival the person they’re sidekicking. > > And I’ll go with the Jude Law version of Doctor Watson, a vast improvement over any previous Holmes sidekick I’ve found. I was thinking the same thing with Butch Cassidy/Sundance Kid ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Sam\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Stone)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2016, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-your-3-favorite-sidekicks-of-all-time/758351/43 "2016-06-27T18:16:36Z")
Eddie Murphy (Reggie) to Nick Nolte’s cop (Jack) in 48 hours Tom Arnold was pretty awesome as a sidekick to Arnold Schwarzenegger in “True Lies” ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2016, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-your-3-favorite-sidekicks-of-all-time/758351/44 "2016-06-27T19:51:11Z")
**Jack Burton** , ostensible hero of **Big Trouble In Little China** , but actually sidekick to… **Wang Chi** , the plot’s pivotal character as well as the “invincible action hero who gets the job done.” “Indeed!” ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2016, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-your-3-favorite-sidekicks-of-all-time/758351/45 "2016-06-28T01:11:40Z")
> [@Marvin\_the\_Martian](#): > > Penfeld =\> Danger Mouse Good grief, Penfold. Other two are Spock and Bullwinkle, already mentioned. ---
**Author:** ![Battle\_Pope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@Battle\_Pope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Battle_Pope)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2016, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-your-3-favorite-sidekicks-of-all-time/758351/46 "2016-06-28T01:55:17Z")
> [@TreacherousCretin](#): > > **Jack Burton** , ostensible hero of **Big Trouble In Little China** , but actually sidekick to… > **Wang Chi** , the plot’s pivotal character as well as the “invincible action hero who gets the job done.” > > “Indeed!” My first choice, followed by: [ul] [li] **Sallah** to **Indianna Jones** [/li][li] **Vir** to **Londo Molari** in _Babylon 5_[/li][/ul] ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2016, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-your-3-favorite-sidekicks-of-all-time/758351/47 "2016-06-28T01:59:44Z")
Johnny Staccato and Waldo Gary Hobson and Marissa Clark Gary Hobson and Chuck Fishman ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2016, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-your-3-favorite-sidekicks-of-all-time/758351/48 "2016-06-28T02:01:36Z")
Wallace, sidekick to Gromit ---
**Author:** ![Jim\_s\_Son](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19adc/32.png) [@Jim\_s\_Son](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jim_s_Son)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2016, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-your-3-favorite-sidekicks-of-all-time/758351/49 "2016-06-28T14:42:21Z")
Bob Denver as Maynard G Krebs Nigel Bruce as Doctor Watson Alan Hale Sr as various sidekicks to Errol Flynn ---
**Author:** ![drad\_dog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@drad\_dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drad_dog)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2016, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-your-3-favorite-sidekicks-of-all-time/758351/50 "2016-06-28T16:21:00Z")
No Kato Kaelin fans here I guess. ---
**Author:** ![Sangahyando](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f14d63/32.png) [@Sangahyando](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sangahyando)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2016, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-your-3-favorite-sidekicks-of-all-time/758351/51 "2016-06-28T16:38:28Z")
I’m not into film or TV; so my favourite three are from novels (series, or stand-alone) – perhaps a bit obscure, as against the universal all-time greats. From C.J. Sansom’s _Shardlake_ 16th-century-set thrillers: Matthew Shardlake’s clerk and back-up in the frightening political-type imbroglios which they always seem unwillingly, to get into – Jack Barak. Jack is short-tempered, intolerant, foul-mouthed, and highly impulsive, often unwisely so; but basically good-hearted, very bright, and a physically big and strong “man of his hands” – very useful for the frail and hunchbacked Shardlake, when things get violent. In Lois McMaster Bujold’s “Vorkosigan” novels: Miles Vorkosigan’s cousin Ivan Vorpatril, when they’re on the same planet and Miles is not off huge distances away commanding his freelance mini-space-navy. Miles is brilliant, extremely “driven”, unstoppably energetic, a perfectionist, and given to great highs-and-lows of mood (he’s physically handicapped, much of the foregoing proceeding from that circumstance); Ivan is sharp and intelligent, but essentially an ordinary, rather lazy, unambitious, laid-back guy. His very different perspective on things – and his basic calmness vis-a-vis the frenetic Miles – often prove helpful / corrective for Miles, re the latter’s coping with life and achieving his objectives. In _Watership Down_ by Richard Adams: Campion, second-in-command (and ultimately successor) to General Woundwort, tyrannical ruler of the aggressive, belligerent, very un-rabbit-like warren of Efrafa. Although a member of the hierarchy of a totalitarian state, Campion is – by the standards of such places – sane (unlike his boss), and relatively humane – if that word can be applied to rabbits. He is, as it were, Khrushchev to Woundwort’s Stalin; and after Woundwort’s death, he scales-down Efrafa’s nastiness: his polity, and the Watership warren, are able to become neighbours on fairly good terms with each other. ---
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> [@drad\_dog](#): > > No Kato Kaelin fans here I guess. I came into this thread for the first time, and searched for Kato, thinking how could anyone not have Bruce Lee at the top of the list. Wrong frickin’ Kato, dude. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2016, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-your-3-favorite-sidekicks-of-all-time/758351/53 "2016-06-28T18:48:53Z")
Boltie, from _Super_. ---
**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 29, 2016, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-your-3-favorite-sidekicks-of-all-time/758351/54 "2016-06-29T00:10:15Z")
My three favorite sidekicks are all from the same book, _Castle Hangnail_ by Ursula Vernon. They’re all minions to Molly, a wicked witch: the Majordomo (sort of a cross between Frankenstein’s monster and Igor), the Cook (a Minotaur), and Pins (hard to describe exactly what he is, but he’s Molly’s tailor.) ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2016, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-your-3-favorite-sidekicks-of-all-time/758351/55 "2016-06-29T00:19:03Z")
I’m forced to name 4 in real life. My dogs. Good sidekicks. For TV and movies, I’m going to go outside the box (all the good ones are already mentioned): The Waco Kid from _Blazing Saddles_ Chief Dan George in both _Josey Wales_ and _Little Big Man_ Igor from _Mary Shelly’s Frankenhole__“You got it!”_ ---
**Author:** ![Karen\_Lingel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/karen_lingel/32/18649_2.png) [@Karen\_Lingel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Karen_Lingel)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2016, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-your-3-favorite-sidekicks-of-all-time/758351/56 "2016-06-29T00:45:50Z")
I liked the Joe Pesci character in Lethal Weapon. South African consulate guy: “But, you’re black!” Joe Pesci (to Danny Glover): “You are”. Joe Pesci (to consulate guy): “He is.” ---
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2016, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-your-3-favorite-sidekicks-of-all-time/758351/57 "2016-06-29T01:01:23Z")
In no particular order, W.W. Beauchamp Samwise Gamgee Raul Endymion ---
**Author:** ![movingfinger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@movingfinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/movingfinger)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2016, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-your-3-favorite-sidekicks-of-all-time/758351/58 "2016-06-29T05:37:42Z")
Andy Devine as “JIngles”, but I don’t recall which singing cowboy he sidekicked. Roy Rogers? ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2016, 6:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-your-3-favorite-sidekicks-of-all-time/758351/59 "2016-06-29T06:18:29Z")
> [@movingfinger](#): > > Andy Devine as “JIngles”, but I don’t recall which singing cowboy he sidekicked. Roy Rogers? Wild Bill Hickok. ---
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2016, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-your-3-favorite-sidekicks-of-all-time/758351/60 "2016-06-29T14:35:18Z")
> [@Johanna](#): > > In no particular order, > > W.W. Beauchamp > Samwise Gamgee > Raul Endymion Sorry, I ought to have provided context. W.W. is sidekick to the Duck of Death in _Unforgiven_, played by Saul Rubinek. I just think he’s cute, and it’s endearing how he’s way the hell out of place, out of his element, but attempts to keep pursuing his trade (writing dime novels) anyway. Samwise, sidekick to Frodo, I think needs no introduction. _Raul Endymion_ is the sidekick to architect messiah Aenea in the 3rd and 4th books (_Endymion_ and _The Rise of Endymion_) of the _Hyperion Cantos_ by Dan Simmons (the novels from whence the name Siri was taken for that phone app). Aenea is the heroine of the story, and I think one of the greatest characters in fiction ever. Endymion is just one of her sidekicks, but the story is narrated from his perspective and frames him as the protagonist. I had to think about that one, and realized that some stories have a sidekick as the protagonist with the hero a supporting character. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-your-3-favorite-sidekicks-of-all-time/758351.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-your-3-favorite-sidekicks-of-all-time/758351.md?page=4)