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Reckless Sidekick
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The Hero / Sidekick dynamic is a very interesting one, with a lot of parallels between that of the hero and The Lancer. Usually, the Hero is older and calmer, while also being a stronger and better combatant than their Hot-Blooded young charge. For these or other reasons, the hero will instruct the sidekick to hang back and observe events, or leave a particularly dangerous fight to him alone. They never do. The Reckless Sidekick will rush in headlong regardless of the danger and get captured or otherwise get himself into serious trouble, forcing the hero to choose whether to stop the bad guys or risk rescuing the sidekick. Even if the sidekick manages to mop the floor with the mooks, the hero will gruffly explain he wanted to wait to discover who their buyer/supplier was, and now they'll never find out. On the positive side, if they trail an overly self-reliant or self-sacrificing hero they may well rescue them when they're caught or in danger (though he might not be very grateful). Some shows like to mess with viewers by having them get captured even if they stay put — sometimes you just can't win. Expect the hero to be justifiably infuriated by this behaviour. The reasons run the gamut of insubordination, recklessly endangering himself and others, and just plain stupidity, though occasionally there are ulterior motives. The sidekick will counter that they aren't a kid (well, a helpless one anyway) and can handle it, or that the hero is overcautious and always has to do things "his way". Expect the sidekick (and hero) to learn An Aesop about how trusting others doesn't just mean blind obedience, but also giving them responsibility and listening to them. The Reckless Sidekick runs the risk of becoming The Scrappy if his sole contribution to the action is acting stupid and getting himself captured all the time and never learns from his mistakes. Compare Going for the Big Scoop. Related to Kid-Appeal Character, Damsel Scrappy, and Leeroy Jenkins. |
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In Nurse Angel Ririka SOS, Ririka's lifelong friend Seiya does not know the meaning of "in over your head" and has a penchant for attacking large monsters armed with conveniently placed mops and brooms. | |
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Rocket from Icon, whose tendency to rush into situations and shake things up went hand-in-hand with a tendency to save the day. Unlike other examples, she was shown as justified most of the time. | |
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Chuck from Chuck, as he's not a real spy while the other two are trained spies. He's not usually particularly reckless though, and he generally tries to run away from danger unless it threatens someone he cares about. | |
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Zack in the 1987 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles wants so badly to be a Turtle that he was the source of much of the conflict in his first appearance. His second one gave him some restraint, but not much. | |
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Loudmouse is this to Undercover Elephant, usually blowing the hero's disguises or covers in front of the villain. | |
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Richie in Highlander. He did improve a little in the later seasons before he got axed, but early on, he was always getting himself into trouble-or sometimes getting Duncan in trouble. | |
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The appropriately named "Scrappy Lad" from Ink Pen. | |
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Gordito in The Adventures of Dr. McNinja tends to act this way, though he also shows signs of being very thoughtful and clever. For example, after catching "Plumber" Victor trying to install cameras in the Doctor's office, he sets off on trying to get rid of him... by hiring another plumber and firing Victor. | |
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Gabrielle of Xena: Warrior Princess, especially in the earlier seasons of epitomized this trope. | |
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Subverted in Batman: The Brave and the Bold; Robin is now a solo hero in his own right, but Batman still expects him to hold back and fight the Mooks. So it's quite justified for him to object to this. | |
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He's by no means a sidekick, but ex-00 Agent Jack Hunter from Goldeneye Rogue Agent is heavily implied to have been this. It's what gets him dismissed from MI6 and hired by Goldfinger. | |
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Chie and Naoto show signs of this in Persona 4 before they get their personas. Chie rushes right into a shadow infested castle to find Yukiko, ignoring the advice of the two guys who have been here before, have a better understanding of the danger at hand, and have the means to fight it. Naoto, on the other hand, was a tad smarter but still very reckless. Her idea was to make herself the next major target for the serial killer. All of the members of the gang were almost entirely past victims who lived, so the plan was to find the truth herself and let the gang save her since she knew enough that they had been doing so for a while. However, she had no concrete facts and was only lucky that her theory was in the right ballpark. Even then, it didn't prepare her for meeting her inner shadow... | |
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Penny from Inspector Gadget averts this. She is the competent one and the main hero is Inspector Oblivious. | |
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Wendy Watson, sidekick Middleman-In-Training in The Middleman starts out with serious concerns about becoming Robin, the Boy Hostage. Early in the series, she does end up as the hostage of a gun-totting psychologist alien-hunter and a gorilla army wielding government scientist, but she ends up saving The Middleman from a troop of evil Mexican wrestlers (before her training with Sensi Ping) and a melt ray soon enough to at least avoid the trope's more negative connotations. | |
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While not an official sidekick, Max Gibson fills this role on occasion for Terry's Batman in Batman Beyond. Used most egregiously in the episode "Final Cut", where her recklessness almost gets her killed by an assassin. | |
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Freedom Force devotes a couple missions to one of these. A fanboy of the game's Captain America Expy, he gets shot instead of him by a machinegun-toting baddie and is saved only by an emergency blood transfusion from his hero. The transfusion gives him superpowers of his own, so he goes off on his own to find the villains' hideout (against orders to remain in safety and recover), and nearly gets himself killed again before he gets saved by another hero. | |
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Jade in Jackie Chan Adventures. While she does prove invaluable, and in most cases, her quick thinking is what saves the day, her insistence on ignoring any order of Jackie's, no matter how sensible and life-extending, makes her an avid Idiot Ball juggler. | |
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Intentionally inverted in the Batman storyline A Lonely Place of Dying: Batman, who has sworn to no longer take in a sidekick after the death of Jason Todd, has started becoming brash and impulsive without "someone to look after." Standing right outside a building he is about to investigate, Nightwing, the original Robin now all grown up, shows up to assist him. When Nightwing asks for a plan, Batman shrugs him off and jumps right into the building, walking right into a trap. Tim Drake chose to become Robin precisely because he believed Batman needed a sidekick to keep him on the right path. |
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Miko Mai of Transformers: Prime, quite infamously, is always hankering to charging off into action, especially if that means combat, alongside her friends and has directly endangered them at least half a dozen times as a result of this. The kicker? Miko is a 15-16-year-old Japanese schoolgirl. Her friends — and their enemies — are giant alien robot killing machines, all of which are armed to the teeth, covered in armor that resists most conventional Earth firearms, nevermind the improvised weapons Miko tries to use, and big enough that they could easily squish her underfoot like a bug. Despite this, Miko just never seems to learn that she has no place in the actual combat. Though she does holds her own in season three with the help of the Apex Armor. | |
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Quinn from Demo Reel. He's more of a partner to Karl than a sidekick, but he's still younger, more passionate and Karl looks after him when he's sick. | |
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Godzooky in The Godzilla Power Hour had the habit of flying around Godzilla's head and trying to fight the evil Monster of the Week WHILE Godzilla himself was trying to stop said evil monster. | |
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Dick Grayson acted like a Reckless Sidekick in Batman & Robin. In the first major action sequence, Dick's insistence on going after Mr. Freeze led to him getting frozen and Batman having to choose between going after Freeze or thawing Robin. Dick receives an ass-chewing from Bruce afterward, and the conflict between the two continues for the good part of the movie. Later on, when he confronts Poison Ivy in her lair, he tricks her into telling him her plan by pretending to still be in love with her, and survives her kiss by wearing rubber lips. But, once Ivy taunts Robin over this, he removes his rubber lips to one-up her and show he stole a kiss from her, instead of keeping them for protection and tackling Ivy when she doesn't expect it. Ivy becomes enraged and shoves him into her pond, where he is almost drowned by her vines. | |
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Scooby-Doo: Scrappy-Doo. Considering all of the monsters of the week were old men in costumes, Scrappy might have been able to take them. | |
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"Incrediboy" in The Incredibles. Leading to Hero Harasses Helper, leading to Motive Decay... leading to Big Bad. | |
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My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: Rainbow Dash tends to fill this role compared to the rest of the Mane Six, especially in the first season. This trope is inverted in the episode "Wonderbolt Academy", where Lightning Dust is a reckless leader and Rainbow Dash is her more sensible wingpony. |
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The companions in Doctor Who are often like this. In one spin-off novel, the Tenth Doctor speculates that he has a sign on his head saying "Ignore this man and any sensible thing he tells you". Canonically, the Eleventh Doctor asked: "Do I just have a face that nobody listens to?" in ''The Eleventh Hour" when new Companion Amy Pond walked into a room that Eleven knew was dangerous and warned her away from. |
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The Non-Adventures of Wonderella: Wonderita tends to get like this, simply because she's The Ditz and doesn't necessarily realize she's in a dangerous situation. | |
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Batman: The Dark Knight Returns: The new Robin, Carrie Kelley, is this for issue #3 until she nearly gets herself blown up and fired. | |
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Ace Lightning has the stereotypically fiery red-headed Sparx. | |
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Blair, sometimes, in The Sentinel. | |
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In the backstory of Kamen Rider Double, protagonist Shotaro was this to his boss Sokichi Narumi. Which resulted in Sokichi's death. | |
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