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Kid Sidekick
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A character, often an adult or sometimes teenager, has a considerably younger Sidekick. Traditionally the kid will often act as The Watson for the main character, and/or as someone for younger audiences to identify with. Sometimes the kid acts as a Morality Pet or as a Wish-Fulfillment personification, which goes some way to explaining the implausibility of a responsible adult putting a young child in dangerous situations. Sometimes the sidekick will be a Teen Genius or Child Prodigy in an attempt to justify their presence, or even a Cute Bruiser. Other times, they're The Load and a Damsel in Distress. May overlap with Junior Counterpart. Usually the result of Must Have Lots of Free Time. Compare Tagalong Kid, Kid-Appeal Character, Bratty Half-Pint, and Baker Street Regular. Contrast Older Sidekick. |
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Lirio from El Cazador de la Bruja is a loli sidekick to Badass Normal Ricardo. | |
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German detective Nick Knatterton had Toni Knatter, in one story. The Meaningful Name was lampshaded by our hero. | |
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Discussed extensively for laughs in the How to Be a Superhero chapter "The Problem With Boy Wonders". Not that Girl Wonders aren't without their own problems... | |
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Hawkeye: Played with in Hawkeye (2012), as Clint Barton's teen sidekick Kate Bishop is also Hawkeye. Aside from sharing the same superhero monicker, Kate is actually the better Hawkeye of the two. | |
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The Shield: In the 1940s, the Shield had a sidekick named Dusty. Joe adopted Dusty after his father was killed by foreign agents. Dusty later teamed up with the Wizard's sidekick, Roy, as the "Boy-Buddies". | |
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The titular protagonist of Miss Melee has a kid sidekick who happens to be her own kid. | |
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Johnny Bates, a.k.a. Kid Miracleman, from the comic Miracleman. (Originally known in the UK as Kid Marvelman and Marvelman.) Alan Moore's 1980s revival of the series not only aged the character to adulthood but gave him one of the most horrific Face Heel Turns in comic book history. There was also the Teen Sidekick Young Marvelman. | |
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Doc Black Jack's sidekick, nurse, and surrogate daughter Pinoko. | |
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TaleSpin has Kit Cloudkicker, with whom Baloo often brings along on his missions, some of which are very dangerous. | |
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Wonder Girl only ended up being an example of this through retcon. She was originally introduced in the Wonder Woman Vol 1 comic as Diana herself as a teenager, in flashback stories set during her youth. Because of her popularity, there were then a few "Impossible Stories" written in which both versions of Diana teamed up. When the Teen Titans comic was created as a team book featuring the Kid Sidekicks of the main Justice League of America members, the original writers assumed that Wonder Girl was an ordinary kid sidekick to Diana, and treated her as such. The attempts to sort this out and give Wonder Girl a separate identity and backstory as "Donna Troy" ended up creating one of the most notorious Continuity Snarls in superhero comics history. Other than that, Cassie Sandsmark, the second Wonder Girl, has had the most tenure of being a sidekick to Diana. | |
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Black Canary: Roy and Mia have acted as this to her as much as they did to Oliver. Later Dinah took in Sin, though she wasn't really a sidekick so much as a girl Dinah planned to raise as her daughter. | |
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Miles 'Tails' Prower, sidekick of Sonic The Hedgehog, is of the Gadgeteer Genius variety and has abilities that complement Sonic's. Later games introduced Cream the Rabbit (who has her own Sidekick, the Chao named Cheese), who serves as more or less the female counterpart to Tails (hence why they are often shipped together, despite almost never interacting). She started as a sidekick to Amy, but in Sonic Rush she acted in this capacity to Blaze. In Sonic Rush Adventure, Blaze gets her own sidekick in Marine the Raccoon. | |
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In The Simpsons, Bart Simpson frequently serves as this to his father Homer by helping him with his Get Rich Quick Schemes. | |
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Unwanted Houseguest: Melody fills the role for the Houseguest in the Comic-Book Adaptation. She's eager to investigate the villains, but as a small child doesn't have the physical strength to overpower them and has to rely on the Houseguest. | |
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Rather bizarrely on Heroes, Sylar temporarily gained one of these in the form of Luke, a troubled teen with the inexplicable desire to go on a road trip with a super-powered serial killer. And keep annoying him. His survival is something of a miracle. The series implied that Luke could potentially be Sylar's brother, but this was never confirmed. | |
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The Hulk also had Jim Wilson, the nephew of The Falcon. | |
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In the Justice League episode "Patriot Act" when Speedy shows up, Green Arrow refers to him as "my ex-sidekick" prompting Speedy to immediately retort, "Ex-partner." | |
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Wearing the Cape: Hope (18 years old) becomes Atlas' sidekick in order to learn the butt-kicking ways of Atlas-type heroes. The whole mentor/sidekick angle is played up for the media (her costume is even color-coordinated to match his), but it's clearly understood to be a temporary arrangement, more like an apprenticeship. The Sentinels end up with a team of pre-eighteen heroes called the Young Sentinels (led by Astra), which delves into the concept more. In particular, it is illegal to intentionally send a minor into any combat situation, so they are exclusively used for disaster relief—though since supervillains sometimes decide to take advantage of disasters, they do have to fight more than a little. Astra also had problems with this law in early books, because she's a tiny little waif of a girl and a lot of people refused to believe that she was of legal age. The government knew her true identity and age of course, so she didn't actually get in trouble, but there was a media storm over it. |
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In the Silver Age, Supergirl played it straight at the beginning, but she eventually subverted it. She was Superman's sidekick and emergency secret weapon while he was training her, but when he revealed her existence to the world, he made clear that she was his partner. Before that, in Action Comics #288, Kara becomes invulnerable to Kryptonite for a while, and Superman seriously regards her as superior to him, and wonders if he should become her sidekick. During the Silver and Bronze Ages both cousins interacted as equals, but in the Post-Crisis universe, teen Kara became his sidekick again. In Supergirl: Cosmic Adventures in the 8th Grade, she dislikes being called Superman’s sidekick because she is supposed to be his partner. | |
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In the Disney pre-Marvel buy-out superhero film, Sky High (2005), the students are divided abitrarily between trainee super-hero and trainee hero support (the preferred term for which "sidekick" is a derogatory nickname). As such, half the student body are technically child sidekicks, or at least student hero support. The villain's original motivation was actually anger at being assigned to hero support, despite her potent ability to spontaneously create and control super-powered gadgets. | |
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Kid Flash and Impulse (Wally West, Bart Allen, Wallace West, Irey West) to The Flash. | |
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Played with in Darkwing Duck. Darkwing would rather his adopted daughter Gosalyn stay at home (mostly for her safety, but also because it ruins the "cool loner" shtick he's going for). But she always tags along and gets involved anyway, and has occasionally created her own superhero identity to complement his. | |
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The two users of the Speedy identity (Roy Harper and Mia Dearden) and Red Arrow (Emiko Queen) to Green Arrow. | |
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Lin and Bat in Fist of the North Star are this to Kenshiro (especially the latter who’s a Guile Hero) and they are also strongly implied to be ones who kept him going after he lost Yuria. One of the most heartwarming moments in the series is after the Time Skip Ken embraces the grown up and more competent Lin and Bat and giving them a So Proud of You speech. | |
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Also played with in Morbius' Marvel NOW! series with the teenager Becky, who keeps saying she's his sidekick but Morbius insists she's not. | |
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Stuff, the Chinatown Kid to the original Vigilante. | |
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Tween superheroine Sparky of Lady Spectra & Sparky. | |
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Dragon Ball: Gohan did much of the series was this for Piccolo his mentor (to point of them wearing matching outfits), though he’s also played this straight with his own father Goku on occasion. On the flip side Trunks from the Bad Future is the kid sidekick to Gohan himself in the Dragon Ball Z: The History of Trunks special while in the present Goten is this for his older brother Gohan early in the Buu Saga and in Broly the Second Coming. Dende was this for Nail in the Namek Saga with their bond being reminiscent of Gohan and Piccolo’s. In the original series technically Goku himself was this to Bulma being 11 while she was 16 although of course unlike other examples he was vastly more competent than her and soon set on his own adventure. |
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Morty is this to Rick in Rick and Morty although he's often there unwillingly. | |
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In Animaniacs, Slappy Squirrel is often accompanied by her young nephew Skippy, who's not afraid to help with her usual mischief on occasion. | |
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The original Red Tornado, Ma Hunkel, was accompanied by the Cyclone Kids, her own daughter and the neighbor's kid brother. | |
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Bucky Barnes was this to Captain America in World War II, following Robin's debut less than a year earlier. He served with Cap in The Invaders as well; the latter also introduced the first Human Torch sidekick Toro, with near identical powers. The character, as depicted in that era, has become The Artifact for Cap as essentially a Child Soldier in modern eyes, which requires some convoluted justifications from the writers. | |
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Gordito Delgado from The Adventures of Dr. McNinja. The Doctor even compares himself to Batman when he decides to take Gordito in. Of course, the Doctor compares himself to Batman regardless. Note that Gordito's origins — a child of a family of circus performers who was orphaned mid-show — is a tribute to Dick Grayson's. | |
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On Sidekick, the four main characters are all children attending a school for superhero sidekicks. Protagonist Eric is himself already the sidekick of the superhero, Maxum Man. | |
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In Poison Ivy Gulch, Professional Gambler Lotta Doler has Ace, a child who is both her sidekick and good luck charm. | |
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Played with on Atomic Puppet. Joey seems like one at first to AP, and is treated by the egotistical superhero-turned-Hand Puppet as one, despite Joey being the key to unlocking AP's former superpowers. As the series progresses though, AP starts to treat Joey as more of a partner-in-crimefighting than a kid sidekick. | |
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In Metal Gear Sunny in Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots is this for both old Snake and Raiden, she’s joined by George in Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance who is also a kid sidekick to Raiden. Not to mention Chico from Peace Walker and Phantom Pain who is Big Boss’s kid sidekick. | |
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Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker: Timothy Drake deconstructs the Kid Sidekick as a "Well Done, Son" Guy pathetically trying to please The Hero because He Just Want to Be Him. When that doesn't happen, there comes the Fan Disillusionment: | |
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Wolverine's various sidekicks, usually of the young girl type (Kitty Pryde, Rogue, Jubilee). | |
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Sherry in Resident Evil 2 manages to play this straight with Claire and Leon to a smaller degree, though she certainly becomes a badass Action Girl in her own right by the sixth mainline game. There’s also little Natalie who aids Barry in Resident Evil: Revelations. | |
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Robin, sidekick of Batman, is the Ur-Example, and is retained in almost every incarnation of Batman, no matter how Darker and Edgier, simply because of tradition. These days the concept is subject to Reimagining the Artifact, justifying Robin's presence by saying that either the kid is so psychologically damaged that he'd become self-destructive (or just plain destructive) without Batman supervising his crimefighting (probably the case with Jason and definitely for Damian), or that Batman is the damaged one and needs a surrogate son to keep him grounded (all but said was the case for Tim). In Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, when the new police commissioner tangles with Batman and spots the young Carrie Kelly as Robin with him, she adds Child Endangerment on the warrant for him. Other kid sidekicks to Batman: Spoiler (sometimes), some Batgirls more than others. The original Bat-Girl (Betty Kane) was originally the kid sidekick of Batwoman (Kathy Kane), until Kathy was retconned away and Betty became Bette Kane, a Robin fangirl who called herself Flamebird. Then in Batman (Grant Morrison) Kathy was reintroduced, and so was Bette's time as Bat-Girl. She was last seen as the sidekick to her cousin, the Kate Kane Batwoman, as Hawkfire. |
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Atlee (the third? Terra) to Power Girl. | |
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Wendy Garret of GUN×SWORD is a teenage example of this. She very rarely helps out in battle, but she's better at thinking than Van is. She functions as a manager, handling the money and making travel arrangements. | |
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In Dr. Blink: Superhero Shrink, the Wonder Boys are this for Nocturne. He even has a rule for when they are replaced: "Once your voice breaks, so do you." | |
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Mutants & Masterminds has rules for a variety of minions/henchmen/sidekicks, and a popular supplement: "Hero High" gives you rules for playing a whole team of youngsters studying to transition from hero support into actual hero work. There are also a few in the Freedom City setting, most notably Arrow (Speedy to the Bowman's Green Arrow, in several incarnations). | |
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In the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Spider-Man becomes Iron Man's sidekick, with him assisting the seasoned hero and being mentored by him on many occasions. After Tony’s death, Spidey becomes independent though he has go through a Trauma Conga Line to get there. | |
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Played with by Jade from Jackie Chan Adventures. Jackie doesn't even want to go on adventures, much less let his young niece accompany him. But he can't keep himself or Jade out of trouble — often times she's the one who drags them into it. | |
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Isidro from Berserk in spite of the how dark the series is, plays this straight to Guts being very much the lighthearted Robin to his dark and brooding Batman. He’s the only character Guts has personally taught but the Black Swordsman still has to painfully explain to the kid (who’s desperate to be as badass as his idol) that it’ll take years for Isidro to become anywhere as formidable as he is in combat — something that stings Isidro but he keeps at it. Schierke can also be seen as this though to a less obvious extent. | |
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Nina is this for Dr. Theo and later on Nicolas in Gangsta., threatening or hurting her is the quickest way to set both of them off. | |
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Subverted in Power Girl story A Force of Four. Fury wants to fight crime alongside her mother, the Golden Age Wonder Woman, but Diana makes clear she's NOT taking a sidekick. | |
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Hayate's partner, Reinforce Zwei in Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS. Her non-Fun Size form looks around ten, with her actual age being younger. | |
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Our Miss Brooks: Walter Denton usually drives Miss Brooks to school. He often sees her at lunch in the cafeteria, and will play a major part or even instigate the Zany Scheme of the week. | |
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Subverted in Chrono Crusade with Chrono and Rosette. Chrono looks like (and sometimes acts like) a twelve-year-old, but it's soon revealed that he's really a demon that's probably at least a century old, making him actually Rosette's Older Sidekick. Also played somewhat straight with Azmaria, a 12-year-old apprentice in the Order who is assigned to work with Chrono and Rosette. | |
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The Adventures of Aero-Girl: Aero-Girl served this role for Battle Jack until his death. A visiting superhero in issue #4 had one of these as well. |
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Deconstructed in Titans (2018) where Bruce Wayne's training of his various Robins is suggested to be manipulative and abusive. | |
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Wonder Woman: Princess Drusilla, a.k.a. Wonder Girl played by Debra Winger. | |
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Other kid sidekicks to Batman: Spoiler (sometimes), some Batgirls more than others. The original Bat-Girl (Betty Kane) was originally the kid sidekick of Batwoman (Kathy Kane), until Kathy was retconned away and Betty became Bette Kane, a Robin fangirl who called herself Flamebird. Then in Batman (Grant Morrison) Kathy was reintroduced, and so was Bette's time as Bat-Girl. She was last seen as the sidekick to her cousin, the Kate Kane Batwoman, as Hawkfire. | |
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Initially averted in Batman: The Animated Series, which is only notable because Batman and Robin are, as noted above, the Ur-Example of this trope. The series implies that Robin was a Kid Sidekick for some time, but the series begins with him already college-aged and away at school for most of the week. Later played straight after the series was uncancelled, with Tim Drake brought in as a Kid Sidekick to shake things up and let them explore that aspect. | |
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Some stagings of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street depict Tobias Ragg as this to Pirelli and subsequently to Mrs. Lovett, though Toby can also be played as an intellectually disabled adult. | |
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The Cadets in Voltron Force are a fairly good example. They bring considerable talents to the team - Vince's Technopathy, Larmina's martial arts talent and Daniel's piloting skills and agility (both physical and mental) complement, rather than overshadowing, the rest of the Voltron Force. | |
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In Please Don't Tell My Parents I'm a Supervillain, Miss A is sidekick to the Original, who is probably her father. She's also a complete Jerkass, with the Original apparently being just as bad, and Penny's parents don't think most other heroes with sidekicks are much better. Not that there's something wrong with sidekicks, it's just that for some reason it attracts all the jackasses. In the prequel novel, I Did NOT Give That Spider Superhuman Intelligence!, several younger sidekicks appear in the book, all of whom are fairly competent. Psychopomp (who is immortal but has a ten-year-old body) and mortal teenagers Bluejay (although she only heals people and doesn't fight in the field) and Mish-Mosh assist Goodnight and Spider in their quest to protect the innocent. Corporate-Sponsored Superhero Palooka Joe (an implied relative of the Original and Miss A)’s new sidekick is a teenager named Accessorizer who mentions that she only does hero work on weekends or after school and shows some discomfort at Joe's Escalating War with Bismuth. She is presumably a senior in high school or a college freshman, though, as Goodnight is shocked when an unnamed magic-using hero who backs up Palooka Joe and Accessorizer in one fight is clearly younger than eighteen. |
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My Hero Academia actually has a rather creative use of this. Sidekicks are actually interns for heroes who run organizations such as Best Jeanist or Nighteye. It's both used as training for upcoming superheroes as well as providing employment for some of them as well. | |
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Doc Wilde, a Doc Savage parody, has his two kids who he's been raising to be badasses like himself come up with him on his adventures. | |
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On the other hand, Miles Morales serves as Peter's in Spider-Men, though this consists mostly of Peter watching his back and saving his life and Miles occasionally doing something awesome to make up for it. | |
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In Welcome to Our Village, Please Invade Carefully, The Resistance consists of 34-year-old Katrina and her 17-year-old sidekick Lucy (who turns 18 in the penultimate episode). At various times their relationship can be catgeorized as being either a (very small) Ragtag Bunch of Misfits, Big Sister Mentor and her mentee, or Odd Couple. | |
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One Piece: Ninjin, Piiman and Tamanegi from Syrup Village were this for Usopp (their Trickster Mentor) and were willingly to give their lives on his orders to protect Kaya. Luffy often has a knack for finding these: Coby in the first two arcs (before he Took a Level in Badass), Aisa in Skypeia, Chimney in Enies Lobby, Mommonosuke in Punk Hazard and Wano and Tama as well. That’s not even counting the various anime, movie TV special-only kids he teams up with like Apis or Mobambi. Similarly Zoro and Sanji both in the anime and manga often find themselves with kid partners they have look after or in the case of Sanji and aspiring chef Tajio, mentor. More consistently the young Chopper plays this straight with them, especially with Zoro. Shanks was once the Kid Sidekick to Gold. D Roger the Pirate King himself, he obviously Took a Level in Badass since then. Toko from Wano is this for Hiyori aka Komurasaki serving as the kamuro to her courtesan. Hiyori even slaps Orochi to protect her. Inuarashi, Nekomamushi and Kawamatsu as well Kiku and Izou were all once the kiddie allies of Oden before taking many levels in badassery thanks to a Time Skip. |
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Lone Wolf and Cub is the epitome of this trope. Ogami Ittou's sidekick is three years young. | |
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The The Venture Bros. themselves are to some extent a deconstruction of this trope, Dean being intelligent and eager-to-please but timid, Hank energetic but rebellious and invincibly stupid. Their father, an ex-sidekick, blames his seemingly inexhaustible supply of character flaws on the experience. His participation in a support group for "ex-Boy-Adventurers" doesn't seem to have helped him much, but it has introduced us to the likes of an ex-Wonderboy (one of Captain Sunshine's multiple such dropped at eighteen years of age) who memorably claims that it left him unable to get an erection unless he were 'tied to a chair with a bomb strapped to [his] chest'. | |
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In The Fairly OddParents!, The Crimson Chin's sidekick, Cleft the Boy Chin Wonder, is a ten-year old. Makes sense, because his alter ego is actually none other than Timmy Turner himself. | |
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Jim Hawking in Outlaw Star is this to Gene Starwind being the Child Prodigy who is ironically the voice of maturity and reason compared to the impulsive and swashbuckling Gene. | |
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In the words of How to Hero "a child is the worst thing you can bring to a gun fight, even worse than a knife!" the guide in general is very against the concept of bringing children with you to fight supervillains. Despite that there's an entry on them here. |
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Spider-Man started as a deliberate subversion of this trope. Stan Lee had grown sick of teen sidekicks, so he decided to create a series that featured a teenager as the main star, rather than as support to an adult hero. Everyone thought that It Will Never Catch On... but it did. Marvel eventually gave him his own teen sidekick, "Alpha", for a Milestone Celebration storyline. It didn't last, as the powers went to the kid's head and Spidey had to depower him before he became a threat. | |
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Darkly parodied with Kid Devil, whose adult counterpart and idol Blue Devil was barely aware of his existence, despite having made a Deal with the Devil to be a superhero with him. | |
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Young Justice (2010) has the main characters being sidekicks to members of the Justice League (Robin to Batman, Aqualad to Aquaman, Kid Flash to The Flash and Speedy/Red Arrow to Green Arrow). Other characters who aren't sidekicks in the comics canon are reimagined as such here, such as Miss Martian being Martian Manhunter's niece and Bumblebee being the Atom's student, while Beast Boy is linked to Miss Martian. The only character who doesn't have a mentor is Blue Beetle... because the previous Blue Beetle was killed. | |
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In The Incredibles, a little kid named Buddy really wants to be Mr. Incredible's sidekick. When Mr. Incredible declines the offer due to his lack of formal training and refusal to take "no" for answer and just listen, Buddy does not take it well. In fact, he takes it so badly that he eventually becomes the Supervillain known as Syndrome just to try and become a Fake Ultimate Hero. | |
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Spoofed with Barnacle Boy, Mermaid Man's sidekick on SpongeBob SquarePants, who is still treated as a child even though both of them are now old men. One episode has him doing a Face–Heel Turn because of it. | |
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Last Action Hero even has the Kid Sidekick refer to himself as the 'Comedy Sidekick', which should be a sub-trope of sidekick. | |
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Aqualad (Garth of Shayeris, Jackson Hyde), Aquagirl (Tula Marinus and Lorena Marquez) and Aqualass (Andy Curry) to Aquaman. | |
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Kid Sidekick | |
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On Doctor Who, Adric filled this role. Susan and Vickie were likewise younger and less mature than most. Of course, given the Doctor's full age, almost every companion is a kid to him, unless they're Timelords too. Word of God has it that they deliberately went out of their way to avoid straight examples of this trope because "children don't want to watch any child character who's younger than themselves", so companions are almost never any younger than their mid-teens and most often in their late 20s or early 30s. | |
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Nip and Tuck has an arc that shows a Serenity-inspired movie featuring a kid sidekick. | |
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The title character of Henry Danger gets a job as the sidekick to the superhero Captain Man under the identity of Kid Danger. | |
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In the prequel novel, I Did NOT Give That Spider Superhuman Intelligence!, several younger sidekicks appear in the book, all of whom are fairly competent. Psychopomp (who is immortal but has a ten-year-old body) and mortal teenagers Bluejay (although she only heals people and doesn't fight in the field) and Mish-Mosh assist Goodnight and Spider in their quest to protect the innocent. Corporate-Sponsored Superhero Palooka Joe (an implied relative of the Original and Miss A)’s new sidekick is a teenager named Accessorizer who mentions that she only does hero work on weekends or after school and shows some discomfort at Joe's Escalating War with Bismuth. She is presumably a senior in high school or a college freshman, though, as Goodnight is shocked when an unnamed magic-using hero who backs up Palooka Joe and Accessorizer in one fight is clearly younger than eighteen. |
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It's tradition for the protagonist of the Ace Attorney games to have a cute young girl for a sidekick. Or Gumshoe. Even Edgeworth teams up with Kay Faraday... and then it gets sent up when he's helped by Franziska von Karma. (who also briefly and hilariously becomes Phoenix's sidekick in the third game). | |
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In the original series technically Goku himself was this to Bulma being 11 while she was 16 although of course unlike other examples he was vastly more competent than her and soon set on his own adventure. | |
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Lex and Tim Murphy from Jurassic Park for Dr. Alan Grant who initially found children insufferable but grows to deeply care for Lex and Tim. | |
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In Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, when the new police commissioner tangles with Batman and spots the young Carrie Kelly as Robin with him, she adds Child Endangerment on the warrant for him. | |
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In The Adventures of Gyno-Star, Gyno-Star's sidekick is a teenager named Little Sappho. | |
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Okay, Jimmy Olsen is more of a Teen Sidekick for most of his appearances, but he's still much younger than his hero. In the Silver Age, Supergirl played it straight at the beginning, but she eventually subverted it. She was Superman's sidekick and emergency secret weapon while he was training her, but when he revealed her existence to the world, he made clear that she was his partner. Before that, in Action Comics #288, Kara becomes invulnerable to Kryptonite for a while, and Superman seriously regards her as superior to him, and wonders if he should become her sidekick. During the Silver and Bronze Ages both cousins interacted as equals, but in the Post-Crisis universe, teen Kara became his sidekick again. In Supergirl: Cosmic Adventures in the 8th Grade, she dislikes being called Superman’s sidekick because she is supposed to be his partner. |
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Henry Hatsworth in the Puzzling Adventure: Cole, for Henry Hatsworth. He's later revealed to be a "Well Done, Son" Guy and in actuality the Big Bad in disguise. | |
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Astro City has this fairly frequently, being a reconstruction of comic book tropes: The original Honor Guard member Leopardman had Kitkat. Altar Boy is this for the Confessor. The second Confessor has the Choirboys, a small group of teens who do surveillance work. The All-American had Slugger. The Hispanic-themed El Hombre had his trusty partner Bravo. The unnamed Master-Apprentice Chain of bird heroines adopt a new Kid Sidekick when the eldest retires. Known members have included Nightflyer, Sunshrike, Nightingale, and Sunbird. In The '50s, the Gentleman often worked with the Young Gentleman. For a while Starfight had Quark, until he proved unsuitable for the power. The Jayhawks were a team composed entirely of Kid Sidekicks — Kid Corsair, Buster, Teen Genie, Beachboy, and Rally. Bugleboy and Majorette were male- and female-sidekicks to Music Man. |
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Mindy Macready/Hit-Girl from Kick-Ass. Subverted by the fact that she is much more competent than the protagonist. | |
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Oddly enough, Moon Knight had an adult sidekick (or at least young adult) who was temporarily killed off and rebuilt as an evil cyborg named Midnight. | |
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Eve of Black Cat is one, but she hardly has trouble keeping up. | |
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Rooster Fighter: Impressed by Keiji's justice, a little chick decides to follow him, who is initially not happy for dragging a kid along, but changes his mind and gives her a name Piyoko without thinking (meaning Chick). | |
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Street Fighter has multiple of these. Most prominently there’s Sakura for Ryu followed by Sean for Ken, Li-Fen for Chun-Li, Ed for Balrog (before Ed leaves him) and Menat for Rose. Luke appears to have been this for Guile his Colonel before setting out on his own, though Luke still shows Guile a great amount of respect something everyone else doesn’t get from him. | |
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The Batman has Barbara Gordon (a highschool girl in this continuity), and then later Dick Grayson. Joker gets his own in one episode, although this being Joker it doesn't take long before he's trying to throw said sidekick into a vat of acid. | |
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Katie the Catsitter has Katie, who babysits the cats of an eccentric woman who turns out to secretly be a superhero who fights crime with the help of her cats, and thinks this is so cool that Katie asks her to become her sidekick. She agrees. | |
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They even tried to give Catwoman a sidekick named Catgirl. It didn't take. | |
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Professor Layton has Luke his ward, surrogate son and self-proclaimed apprentice. Though a Actual Pacifist Layton won’t tolerate Luke getting hurt. To a lesser extent there’s Flora who the localisation says is a “protégé and devoted follower", though this is a pragmatic change as in the original Japanese version she’s the self-proclaimed “bride candidate� of the older Layton. | |
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Sailor Chibi Moon of Sailor Moon can be seen as this to the Senshi in general as The Baby of the Bunch but is really this to Usagi in particular. | |
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Mark Hollander to the titular Ace Lightning (albeit sometimes reluctantly). | |
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The Transformers have a bad habit of dragging young humans into their battles — young humans who tend to have no powers or skills that make letting them within a mile of Decepticons anything less than criminal negligence. Giving them a reason to be around at all is relatively new to the franchise. | |
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In Jeramey Kraatz's The Cloak Society, Amp was Lone Star's sidekick when younger. | |
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Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. Short Round is Indiana Jones's partner, friend and nag. Indiana met him when he was a street orphan trying to pick Indy's pocket. His parents were killed during the Japanese bombing of Shanghai in 1932. He even gets to wear Indy’s hat. | |
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