Heron are usually larger than life , but sometimes it ’s the person standing next to them that cast the grown apparition . While main heroes usually get top - billing , but they can often be too boring , too troubled , or even too dim to save the 24-hour interval . Thankfully , here are 11 sidekicks that pick up the slack — often doing a better job than the hero sandwich ever could .
1 ) Kato , The Green Hornet
Let ’s begin with the sidekick who best epitomize this leaning , Kato . Over the course of his career as the Green Hornet ’s sidekick in radio set serials , funnies , the TV show and the movie , Kato is a phenomenal driver , as well as brilliant inventor and grease monkey , designing the Hornet ’s Black Beauty car and his dormancy gun . Of course , what he ’s well known for is his phenomenal warlike arts skill , thanks to being present by the fabled Bruce Lee in the ‘ sixty goggle box series . In fact , Lee ’s Kato overshadow the Hornet then , and Lee ’s enduring popularity cement Kato as the personnel to be feared between the two heroes , which was of the class the main conceit of the late Green Hornet picture starring Seth Rogen and Jay Chou . For all intents and determination , the Green Hornet is just a dude with a dormancy gun ; Kato is a force to be reckoned with .
2 ) Penny and Brain , Inspector Gadget
Inspector Gadget is a combination of a Swiss Army Knife and Robocop , but all those gadgets do n’t leave much elbow room for brains . So you have Gadget ’s niece Penny and her firedog Brain to give thanks for keeping you from being enslave by Dr. Claw and M.A.D. on legion occasions . While Gadget is out bumbling around , take a breath through his mouth , Penny is really solving the crime , albeit it with a shocking disregard for her own safety , which gets her captured by M.A.D. almost constantly . This is where Brain the dog comes in , as its somehow fallen to him to rescue Penny , misrepresent the situation so Gadget unintentionally cross the vicious plot , and somehow keep this little family line alive . To be fair , Penny and Brain frequently get in trouble that only Gadget can get them out of , although he saves them always through hazard and dumb fortune . On the other handwriting , without Penny and Brain , Gadget ’s case closing rate would be 0 % .
3 ) Willow , Buffy the Vampire Slayer
While Buffy was busy moping and make terrible romantic mate decisions in the last four or so seasons of BtVS , Willow was fussy becoming a much more powerful — and interesting — character than her champion . Sure , Buffy ’s a Slayer , but Willow becomes a witch with enough power to destroy the world ( or flay mass awake , as the case may be ) . Sure this — along with the slaying of her partner Tara — go her down a dark path to evil and becoming season 6 ’s Big Bad , but it ’s a much more legitimate and compelling account than all of Buffy ’s nonsense . Also , Willow casts the spell that activates all the Slayers at the remainder of season 7 , making her more creditworthy for saving the world than Buffy in that illustration . Also , Alyson Hannigan ’s Willow is fun , funny , lovably nerdy , smart , a computer whiz , and again , the most powerful hag in the world . Who would you rather hang with , her , or Buffy ? I reckon so .
4 ) Robin , Batman and Robin
First of all , let me assure you that I do n’t have in mind the Batman and Robin movie . And rest assure I do n’t think all Robins . I specifically intend Damian Wayne in Grant Morrison ’s Batman and Robin comic , write during that period when Bruce Wayne was bushed / institutionalize hurtling through the past and Dick Grayson was wearing the cowl as Batman . Honestly , by neglect Bruce Wayne , Morrison created the most interesting dynamical Duo perchance ever — Damian was stern , humorless terrifyingly proficient and always in risk of going too far . Dick Grayson ’s Batman was obviously super - competent , but bring the same light - hearted disposition he did as Robin ; what resulted was a squad where Robin was efficaciously Batman and Batman was effectively Robin . add Grayson ’s account as Robin and Damian ’s green-eyed monster of the life Dick had with his begetter made it even more fascinating . At any rate , what Damian lacked in experience to his Batman he more than made up for in a willingness to split up the rules to get the job done , even if that job involved kick back the asses of all the Robins that preceded him . Without any question , he ’s the most interesting Robin ever .
5 ) Wang , Big Trouble in Little China
The brilliance of self-aggrandising Trouble in Little China — okay , one of the many , many glorious thing about it — is that the protagonist , Jack Burton , has no clue he ’s not really the hoagy . Neither do audience phallus that on’t devote closelipped attention , either . He ’s in reality the sidekick to Wang , his buddy who set off into the Chinese underworld to deliver his fleeceable - eye fiancée from demons with his ridiculous trucker buddy . But since the movie desire to portray Wang as the sidekick — and most masses intend he is — he ’s a shoo - in for this list . Jack has no idea what ’s going on , is obsess with his truck , and care to knock himself unconscious by shoot the ceiling and having a chunk of it hang on his head during the climatic battle . Wang is a skilled fighter , define to rescue his demoiselle in distress , and is n’t a moron . Case closed .
6 ) Riza Hawkeye , Fullmetal Alchemist
It ’s light for Riza Hawkeye to be more competent than her boss when her boss is so phenomenally work-shy ; whether Lt . Colonel Roy Mustang is enquire chimaera or actively plotting a rotation , he still leaves all the planning , paperwork and middling much everything else to Riza , realise her the real savior of the country . Although Mustang ’s flame chemistry is considerable , it ’s not much more so than Riza ’s incredible marksmanship and unlike Mustang ’s chemistry , she can still enkindle guns in the pelting . In the manga and second anime , she ’s the one who discovers that the Fuhrer ’s son Selim is an evil homunculus , and gets the coded news to Mustang thus saving the total revolution , and that ’s while she ’s unwillingly serving the deadly Fuhrer herself . Roy mustang may be a wiz , but Riza Hawkeye is the tangible hero .
7 ) Kid Marvelman , Marvelman
Although Kid Miracleman gentleman is greater than Miracleman in term of powers and interest , rest insure he is not a better hero than his namesake . In Alan Moore ’s germinal take on the definitive character in the early ‘ eighty , after Kid Miracleman — who has Shazam - like powers that do and go when he says the word “ Miracleman ” — get by from the foreign - technical school - created , virtual reality political platform designed by the British government , he stays in his brawny superhuman form for class , not only gaining in great power , but going mad . His original human theatrical role is completely subsume as Kid Miracleman vow vengeance on his wise man , and is willing to kill anyone on a whim , including his secretary and a young nursemaid that was once dainty to him ( just so no one would believe he ’d pop off “ soft ) . Although Miracleman ( with the help of many , many others ) is able to subdue him , countless citizens of London are horrifically murdered in the operation . And when Miracleman sizes ascendency of Earth ’s governments , Kid Miracleman begins inspiring gyration as a tragic anti - Heron . Kid Miracleman is as responsible for for Miracleman ’s fame as much as Alan Moore is .
- Brock Sampson , The Venture Bros.
As the ( former ) bodyguard to Doc Venture and his sons Hank and Dean , Brock is kind of the sidekick to the entire family . He ’s a terrifyingly deadly fighter , incessantly on the observatory for danger , and routinely performs stunts that would make James Bond nauseous to remember about — and between his sexual love - hatred family relationship with the chastity - whang wearing Russian spy Molotov Cocktease and ties to the machination of O.S.I. , he arguably puzzle the better adventures , too . check as the Venture house are pretty uproariously incompetent in all regards , it ’s obvious would be deadened many times over without him ( although Hank and Dean still managed to pall a few time on his sentry ) . There ’s a reason why Venture Bros. fan still bewail the fact that Brock left the Venture household , even though it was two whole seasons ago .
9 ) Tonto , The Lone Ranger
permit ’s forget about Johnny Depp and the late movie and just seem at the fact , all right ? The Lone Ranger is a Texas Ranger who was supposedly stamp out by bandits but now wears a mask to hide his indistinguishability and campaign bad cat . Simple . But Tonto ? He ’s the one who finds John Reid near destruction and nurses him back to wellness ; he ’s the one who joins this random white man on his quest for justice ; he ’s the foreman ’s Word who turn his back on his people . And despite his unfortunate tendency to talk in Pidgin English in most avatar , he ’s also equal to the Ranger in both intelligence and skills . Maybe he ’s not the most compelling buddy on this inclination , but he ’s still a hell of a bunch more interesting than the Lone Ranger .
10 ) Sparky , Steel
Okay , it ’s not like anyone in the 1997 movie base on the DC comics superhero Steel is going to add up off as a chef-d’oeuvre of portrayal . But Annabeth Gish ’s Sparky was a weapons house decorator who turn a loss the utilization of both of her legs , and who ha to overcome that hurt to help Steel get the weapons that caused her chance event off the street . It ’s not to say that Steel handled this story with any sensitivity — or even much competence — but it added commiseration to Gish ’s eccentric that the hero lacked . Of of course , the hoagie was being portrayed by Shaquille O’Neal . Richard Roundtree ’s character ’s cad had more depth .
11 ) Stiles , Teen Wolf
While well sleep together in the 1985 Teen Wolf film for his phenomenal “ What are You Looking at , Dicknose ? ” t - shirt , the Stiles of MTV ’s Teen Wolf TV show is a truly helpful expert ally to new loup-garou Scott McCall as contradict to someone who just gets him into trouble . It ’s good to say that without Stiles , none of the show ’s mysteries would be even close to being solved , even if Scott was cognisant enough to comprehend them as mysteries . It ’s stile who figures out that Scott was burn by a loup-garou , Stiles who is ready to abbreviate Derek ’s arm off with a saw , and Stiles who manages to deal with his werewolf safe supporter attack him and macking on his crushed leather Lydia . Meanwhile , Scott is basically spazzing out . Seriously , the only mode this Stiles could be corking is if he had a “ What are You Looking at , Dicknose ? ” t - shirt .
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