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Sidekick

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Sidekick	label	Sidekick
Sidekick	page	Sidekick
Sidekick	comment	Sidekick is a Canadian animated television series from Nelvana that was created by Canadian animators Todd Kauffman (co-director of the first two seasons of Total Drama and later co-creator of Grojband) and Joey So.The show is about 12-year-old Eric Needles, the Kid Sidekick of the world's greatest superhero Maxum Man, who has mysteriously gone missing. Eric lives at Maxum Man's mansion (where he is watched over by Maxum Man's supercomputer Maxum Brain) in Splitsboro, a town literally divided between superheroes and supervillains. When not simply messing around in the mansion, Eric is usually attending the Academy for Aspiring Sidekicks, where kids like him are trained by the school's headmaster Professor Pamplemoose to become the sidekicks of Splitsboro's superheroes. Alongside his friends Trevor Troublemeyer, Vana Glama, and Kitty Ko, Eric finds himself in all kinds of misadventures where he must contend with Splitsboro's evildoers (notably Maxum Man's archenemy Master XOX, whose secret identity is Trevor's dad Martin) and rival superheroes, survive his school's intense sidekick training methods, and keep Maxum Man's disappearance secret from the rest of the world. Unfortunately for Eric, his mediocre skills and abilities in virtually everything makes all of this even more difficult than it sounds and frequently cause trouble for him and his friends.Todd Kauffman and Joey So originally created Sidekick and its characters for five 5-minute shorts under the name The Not-So-Superheroic Adventures of Sidekick, which was part of Nelvana's 2004 Animated Anthology project Funpak. It was one of ten miniseries showcased with the purpose of potentially launching new TV shows, and the only one of them to become its own standalone show, having been the winner of a contest held by YTV for viewers to vote on their favorite miniseries.The series premiered on September 3, 2010 on YTV. It came to the United States on Cartoon Network on June 13, 2011 alongside fellow YTV show Almost Naked Animals as part of a general trend of CN relying a lot on Canadian imports at the time. CN would drop the show after its second season, but Qubo picked up the rest of the series a couple years later. The series ended on September 14, 2013, after a 52-episode run split over 3 seasons. In 2021, Nelvana began uploading episodes of the show onto their YouTube channel Keep It Weird. The playlist is here.
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Sidekick / int_121476bd	type	The Millstone
Sidekick / int_121476bd	comment	The Millstone: Trevor in a majority of the episodes he's in, due to his lack of interest in doing anything productive.
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Sidekick / int_1434e55c	type	Amazingly Embarrassing Parents
Sidekick / int_1434e55c	comment	Amazingly Embarrassing Parents: Vana's hippi, dippie mother.
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Sidekick / int_15da4941	type	Badass Adorable
Sidekick / int_15da4941	comment	Badass Adorable: All four of the main characters are small, big-eyed, adorable-looking tweens who've defeated plenty of adult supervillains and saved Splitsboro by themselves on more than one occasion.
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Sidekick / int_1759ff85	type	Four-Philosophy Ensemble
Sidekick / int_1759ff85	comment	Four-Philosophy Ensemble: The four main characters fit into this mold: Eric is a Realist; Trevor is Apathetic; Vana is the Cynic; And Kitty is an Optimist.
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Sidekick / int_1ba8eb64	type	Visual Pun
Sidekick / int_1ba8eb64	comment	Visual Pun The aforementioned "roostabaga" gag is followed by a rooster with a rutabaga for a torso. "The dust bunnies are starting to multiply". Cut to a scene of bunnies doing multiplication on a chalk board. Splitsboro's good and evil sides are separated by a railroad, meaning that the people who live on the evil side are literally born on the wrong side of the tracks.
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Sidekick / int_1dfbbf31	type	Heterosexual Life-Partners
Sidekick / int_1dfbbf31	comment	Heterosexual Life-Partners: Eric and Trevor. Kitty and Vana.
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Sidekick / int_22a27b19	type	Alpha Bitch
Sidekick / int_22a27b19	comment	Alpha Bitch: The most consistent characterization of Vana, with Kitty acting like her Girl Posse.
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Sidekick / int_24321e44	type	Only Sane Man
Sidekick / int_24321e44	comment	Eric gets the worst out of this. He's either the Only Sane Man or just as stupid as Trevor, and he either is shy or unaware of Kitty's crush on him, or treats her like an absolute Jerkass due to her constantly stalking him.
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Sidekick / int_251bbe0e	type	Genre Blindness
Sidekick / int_251bbe0e	comment	Genre Blindness: In "Endless Summer" Eric notices how Trevor's dad and Master XOX bear a striking resemblance to each other and how their RV is full of menacing inventions. He puts two and two together... and figures that XOX is forcing Trevor's dad to build inventions for him.
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Sidekick / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Sidekick / int_260926c3	comment	Failure Is the Only Option Maxum Man will never be found. If he ever appears on screen outside of informational videos, it's always a fake or a duplicate. Even when Eric wins, he usually loses to reinforce what a loser he is.
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Sidekick / int_26ac510e	type	Mythology Gag
Sidekick / int_26ac510e	comment	Mythology Gag: At one point in "Suit of Harms", Eric and Trevor are seen watching one of the original Funpak shorts.
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Sidekick / int_26d1f65f	type	Verbal Tic
Sidekick / int_26d1f65f	comment	Verbal Tic: Master XOX always pronounces "evil" as "evile", like a combination of "evil" and "vile". Maybe he does it to make a point about how evil (and vile) he is. Or maybe he just likes the band.
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Sidekick / int_2848e7d2	type	Oblivious to Love
Sidekick / int_2848e7d2	comment	Oblivious to Love Eric is completely oblivious to the fact that Kitty has a crush on him, although this depends on the episode: in some episodes, he is aware of this but isn't interested in her. Subverted with Vana; she knows Eric has a crush on her, but doesn't return to feeling. Eric is trying hard to change her mind.
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Sidekick / int_28cd01ca	type	Disappeared Dad
Sidekick / int_28cd01ca	comment	Disappeared Dad Maxum Man is Eric's adoptive dad, and no one knows where he is. A less prominent version is Vana's dad. Her mom showed up as a Granola Girl, but her father was suspiciously absent.
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Sidekick / int_290fdc4e	type	Lustful Melt
Sidekick / int_290fdc4e	comment	Lustful Melt: Vana melts like wax when meeting Allan Amazing for the first time.
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Sidekick / int_294ed981	type	Bilingual Bonus
Sidekick / int_294ed981	comment	Bilingual Bonus: "Pampelmoose" is French for 'Grapefruit'. Lampshaded when Eric tastes some of Pampelmoose-turned-evil-plant and notes that it tastes 'Pampelmoosey, with a hint of citrus'.
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Sidekick / int_297ab1b9	type	Parental Abandonment
Sidekick / int_297ab1b9	comment	Parental Abandonment: Eric is orphaned after his parents are killed in an amusement park accident. This goes to extreme levels when Kitty is revealed to be an orphan in "Parent Teacher Night of Doom". This also referenced in the episode "Hello Dolly" when she has a 100 year old little cousin (this indicates that her family left her in the past, are killed or both).
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Sidekick / int_2a6a8e89	type	Sadist Teacher
Sidekick / int_2a6a8e89	comment	Sadist Teacher: Professor Pampelmoose takes joy in torturing his young students, often putting them though hell for the sake of a quick gag.
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Sidekick / int_2a7e7af1	type	Limited Wardrobe
Sidekick / int_2a7e7af1	comment	Limited Wardrobe: Lampshaded in "Supermodels." Eric says he needs the perfect outfit for picture day, and Maxum Brain asks, "Aren't you only having the one outfit?" After a beat and a look to the camera, Eric scoffs, denies it and slams his bedroom door's shut.
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Sidekick / int_2c3a7a97	type	Cast as a Mask
Sidekick / int_2c3a7a97	comment	Cast as a Mask: Trevor's dad Mr. Troublemeyer has a different actor depending on whether he's his normal self or his evil Master XOX form: Scott McCord voices Mr. Troublemeyer while Ron Rubin voices Master XOX.
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Sidekick / int_2d4fa515	type	Ax-Crazy
Sidekick / int_2d4fa515	comment	Ax-Crazy: Master XOX. It becomes blatantly obvious in his first appearance when he says that he created clones and ate them.
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Sidekick / int_326a44a1	type	Create Your Own Villain
Sidekick / int_326a44a1	comment	Create Your Own Villain: The supervillains who hate Maxum Man are villains because Maxum Man was a real jerk to them, or were the reason why they became villains in the first place.
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Sidekick / int_32da548d	type	Arch-Enemy
Sidekick / int_32da548d	comment	Arch-Enemy: Mr. Troublemeyer/Master XOX for Professor Pampelmoose and Maxum Man (though due to the latter being missing, you hardly ever see this).
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Sidekick / int_370aad9	type	Split Personality
Sidekick / int_370aad9	comment	Split Personality: Mr. Troublemeyer, Trevor's effeminate father and Master XOX, the closest thing the show has to a Big Bad. Trevor idolizes Master XOX, unaware he's really his father.
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Sidekick / int_392372f9	type	Actor Allusion
Sidekick / int_392372f9	comment	Actor Allusion: Trevor is voiced by Christian Potenza, who was previously another hyperactive, somewhat lazy, adolescent screwball who liked to go to extremes.
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Sidekick / int_3b79029a	type	Crapsaccharine World
Sidekick / int_3b79029a	comment	Crapsaccharine World: Splitsboro seems like your typical town, if not for the fact it gets destroyed in nearly every episode, and there's a holiday to beat Eric up. Plus, almost every character is mean-spirited, even the so-called "heroes" are not much different than the villains such as Maxum Man is self-righteous jerks, and even the most decent characters have a mean bone in their body.
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Sidekick / int_3f7a958b	type	Secret Test of Character
Sidekick / int_3f7a958b	comment	Secret Test of Character: In "Hullaballoo" Vana learns that her older sister was only mean to her to get Vana to stand up to her and prove herself worthy of being her sidekick. Once she learns she went through all that abuse and could've stopped it anytime, she promptly pummels her sister senseless.
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Sidekick / int_44fc28e8	type	Honor Before Reason
Sidekick / int_44fc28e8	comment	Honor Before Reason: In the episode "The Henchman Challenge" Eric does not want to cheat even though it's ostensibly the only way their team can win. Eventually, he gives in, but Kitty is not happy.
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Sidekick / int_4781adbb	type	Jerk with a Heart of Gold
Sidekick / int_4781adbb	comment	Trevor can be either a wacky guy with some "negative qualities" or an outright sociopath.
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Sidekick / int_48ca7c29	type	Broken Ace
Sidekick / int_48ca7c29	comment	Broken Ace: While Vana is The Ace in terms of skill, personality-wise she's an arrogant, selfish, uncaring jerk with absolutely no redeeming qualities. Same with Maxum Man.
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Sidekick / int_4a0821b4	type	Archnemesis Dad
Sidekick / int_4a0821b4	comment	Archnemesis Dad: Trevor's grandfather is this for Mr. Troublemeyer. If the pictures on the wall are any indication, he definitely qualifies as abusive. Plus he is constantly trying to turn Trevor evil despite Mr. Troublemeyer's continued efforts to get him to be a good boy.
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Sidekick / int_4e3d253b	type	Downer Ending
Sidekick / int_4e3d253b	comment	Downer Ending: Many episodes end with Eric being pummeled (or at least humiliated). The episode with the Maxum Mobile is one example: As Eric and Trevor are driving the Maxum Mobile, which due to plot induced amnesia Eric doesn't remember the car (which was set to evil) destroying half the town, freeing every villain from prison and mutating Vana into a monster. At the end he is cornered by the dozens of villains, the angry mob and the car with hundreds of missiles ready to blow him up, but he manages to (with great difficulty) set the car back to good... only for Trevor to turn it back to evil, as sabotaging Eric was on his to-do list. The episode just ends there.
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Sidekick / int_5300b1de	type	Invincible Hero
Sidekick / int_5300b1de	comment	Invincible Hero: Maxum Man throughout all of his flashback/video appearances seems outright immortal as he is shown to be indestructible and doesn't age.
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Sidekick / int_53c3fa83	type	Granola Girl
Sidekick / int_53c3fa83	comment	A less prominent version is Vana's dad. Her mom showed up as a Granola Girl, but her father was suspiciously absent.
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Sidekick / int_5989e3b6	type	Enemy Mine
Sidekick / int_5989e3b6	comment	Enemy Mine: In "Escape from Razzuma-traz" the main four are forced to team up with Pamplemoose to escape from Ms. Razzuma after she launches the school into space.
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Sidekick / int_5d753b19	type	The Smurfette Principle
Sidekick / int_5d753b19	comment	The Smurfette Principle: The henchwoman with the pigtails at the henchman school.
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Sidekick / int_5e260ea6	type	Conveniently an Orphan
Sidekick / int_5e260ea6	comment	Conveniently an Orphan: Eric is an orphan. He usually brings it up every other episode. Kitty too as seen in "Parent Teacher Night of Doom".
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Sidekick / int_60c90bd5	type	Orphan's Ordeal
Sidekick / int_60c90bd5	comment	Eric is an orphan. He usually brings it up every other episode.
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Sidekick / int_63d861f8	type	Even Evil Has Loved Ones
Sidekick / int_63d861f8	comment	Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Mr. Troublemeyer/Master XOX tries constantly to be a good father, but Trevor makes it very hard to do so.
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Sidekick / int_68a171b6	type	Sadist Show
Sidekick / int_68a171b6	comment	Sadist Show: A show takes place in a world where sidekicks are treated badly, almost everyone is downright cruel, and even Eric himself can be nasty at times. Gee, you think?
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Sidekick / int_68f1088	type	Burping Contest
Sidekick / int_68f1088	comment	Burping Contest: One episode involved Eric and Trevor repeatedly going back in time and changing the present (trying to fix what they screwed up the first time, of course). Upon returning to the present after one of these trips, they find out that Vana and Kitty have become anthropomorphic turtles, who promptly start up a burping contest for no reason. Eric immediately sends him and Trevor back in time again, while Trevor complains that he wants to stay long enough to see who wins. The next time they come back to the present, they find that Vana and Kitty are still turtles, only this time they get into a farting contest instead.
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Sidekick / int_6a6c1f35	type	The Power of Rock
Sidekick / int_6a6c1f35	comment	The Power of Rock: The episode "Virtual Mayhem" starts with the team playing "Rock 'em Roll 'em Zombie Revolution" in the battle simulator, until Trevor crashes the game by playing too fast. When the team is about to be destroyed by an army of monsters (actually other players) at the climax of the episode, Kitty hacks the simulation to give everyone their instruments, leading to an epic rock battle.
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Sidekick / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
Sidekick / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: Splitsboro, as the entire city is split into two halves, one for heroes and one for villains. Trevor's last name sounds a lot like "Troublemaker", which perfectly describes both him and his father.
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Sidekick / int_6d7026fa	type	Punny Name
Sidekick / int_6d7026fa	comment	Punny Name: Pick a villain, any villain. Examples include Man Maid and Drilliam Shakespeare.
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Sidekick / int_6ef9d3fe	type	Christmas Episode
Sidekick / int_6ef9d3fe	comment	Christmas Episode: "Beneath the Missile-Toe" revolves around Eric, Trevor, Vana and Kitty destroying a robot Mega Santa, and their failed attempts to save Christmas. The episode is notable for not ending on a cynical note, as Eric actually got one of the presents he wanted: a pet Gorilla.
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Sidekick / int_720e28a4	type	Bread, Eggs, Breaded Eggs
Sidekick / int_720e28a4	comment	Bread, Eggs, Breaded Eggs: Two examples from "Endless Summer": Eric wonders where the group is going to stop. When Trevor is forced to play I Spy and find a word beginning with R.
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Sidekick / int_7289b368	type	Idiot Hero
Sidekick / int_7289b368	comment	Idiot Hero: Most prominently Trevor. Eric falls into this role depending on the episode.
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Sidekick / int_74811321	type	HerrDoctor
Sidekick / int_74811321	comment	Herr Doctor: Professor Pampelmoose.
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Sidekick / int_75d6bf40	type	Belligerent Sexual Tension
Sidekick / int_75d6bf40	comment	Belligerent Sexual Tension: Vana and Eric, though only from Eric's side. To his credit, she almost occasionally recuperates on her nicer days. Kitty and Eric, on Kitty's side.
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Sidekick / int_766ab9d0	type	Dark Horse Victory
Sidekick / int_766ab9d0	comment	Darkhorse Victory: The winner of the competition to determine who gets to star in a sidekick video in "Lights, Camera, Sidekick Action" turns out to be neither Eric or Alan Amazing, but rather Trevor, who was only trying to act as Eric's agent and wasn't intending to compete. Eric doesn't go home completely empty-handed, however: he gets to be Trevor's stunt double.
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Sidekick / int_78cdd5f6	type	"Fantastic Voyage" Plot
Sidekick / int_78cdd5f6	comment	"Fantastic Voyage" Plot: One episode had Eric acting strangely, only for it to be revealed that a shrunken XOX had entered Eric's body and took control of him. The rest of the group goes in to defeat him. It apparently isn't Trevor's first trip into Eric's body.
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Sidekick / int_7a82c3d2	type	All Love Is Unrequited
Sidekick / int_7a82c3d2	comment	All Love Is Unrequited: Eric wants Vana while Kitty wants Eric.
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Sidekick / int_7d163c9c	type	Dating Catwoman
Sidekick / int_7d163c9c	comment	Dating Catwoman: Eric and Mandy Struction, who happens to be a member of the Splitsboro Crime Syndicate, The Mass Destructions.
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Sidekick / int_7d36715f	type	Gasshole
Sidekick / int_7d36715f	comment	Gasshole: A good chunk of the characters burp and fart from time to time, as part of the show's grossout humor.
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Sidekick / int_7ef728b1	type	Tsundere
Sidekick / int_7ef728b1	comment	Vana and Eric, though only from Eric's side. To his credit, she almost occasionally recuperates on her nicer days.
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Sidekick / int_7f080f98	type	Vague Age
Sidekick / int_7f080f98	comment	Vague Age: Averted by Word of God: Todd Kauffman (one of the creators) confirms them to be in grade 9 — so they're 13-14 years old. Their design makes them look younger although Vana, Kitty and Mandy are under 12 years old.
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Sidekick / int_85ce4a76	type	Scooby-Dooby Doors
Sidekick / int_85ce4a76	comment	Scooby-Dooby Doors Used in "Moustachesquatch" when the gang is chasing/being chased by the mustache monster, though they use caves rather than doors. "Ice to Know You" has the scene where the main group is attempting to run from a yeti in the Maxum Mansion. The mustache monster even makes a brief reappearance! "Teenage Mummies In Love" has a scene where Eric and Trevor are running away from a real mummy, and this trope ensues, albeit with school lockers rather than doors. Played straight in "House of Helmut", followed by Trevor running into a closed door, knocking down the whole wall, and having the others comes out of one of the knocked down doors.
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Sidekick / int_8ae880f7	type	Deconstruction
Sidekick / int_8ae880f7	comment	Deconstruction: The in-world universe treats sidekicks as if they were objects, punching bags, etc., which can lead to making every student masochistic.
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Sidekick / int_8b68d9a7	type	Stalker with a Crush
Sidekick / int_8b68d9a7	comment	Stalker with a Crush: Kitty sometimes takes her crush on Eric to creepy levels. The show's official wiki implies that this is the main reason Eric doesn't seem to reciprocate Kitty's affections.
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Sidekick / int_91697559	type	Half the Man He Used to Be
Sidekick / int_91697559	comment	Half the Man He Used to Be: Trevor suffers a fairly brutal (yet clean) halving in "Gloves on the Run" when the eagles attached to his bird-handling gloves fly in different directions, tearing him in half. Both his halves are stitched together for the remainder of the first third of the episode.
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Sidekick / int_94e4c8ab	type	Betty and Veronica
Sidekick / int_94e4c8ab	comment	Betty and Veronica: Kitty Ko as the Betty and Vana Glama as the Veronica. Only this Veronica doesn't want Archie. Then Mandy Struction comes in as the Cheryl Blossom.
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Sidekick / int_9a279c3d	type	Bollywood Nerd
Sidekick / int_9a279c3d	comment	Bollywood Nerd: Maxum Man's Super Computer, Maxum Brain, has an Indian Accent.
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Sidekick / int_9c464123	type	Saving Christmas
Sidekick / int_9c464123	comment	Saving Christmas: Eric, Trevor, Vana, Kitty and Maxum Brain have to take up Santa duties after destroying a robot Mega Santa in "Beneath the Missile-Toe".
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Sidekick / int_a15af1f3	type	Sugar Bowl
Sidekick / int_a15af1f3	comment	Sugar Bowl: Trevor's dream world in "Sleepless In Splitsboro" is revealed to be filled with candy, leprechauns and kangaroos with afros. The place turns out to be so happy, the gang chooses to banish Nocturna there as it's the happiest place they can think of, preventing him from using any sort of fear whatsoever.
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Sidekick / int_a20ff0b5	type	Bindle Stick
Sidekick / int_a20ff0b5	comment	Bindle Stick: In "Ye Old Sidekick Village" the villain uses his anti-technology ray to turn Kitty's bag into one of these, filled with cans of beans.
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Sidekick / int_a6e8221e	type	Status Quo Is God
Sidekick / int_a6e8221e	comment	Status Quo Is God: The town is usually destroyed once an episode. It recovers by the next one. In the final episode, "Graduation Daze", all the Sidekicks were to graduate from Sidekick School but had to do a final test. They all passed, but the last was Eric, who accidentally disintegrated the diplomas in the process, meaning everyone had to repeat the school all over again.
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Sidekick / int_b7e0c5ff	type	Love Triangle
Sidekick / int_b7e0c5ff	comment	Love Triangle: Kitty loves Eric, who loves Vana, who hates him.
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Sidekick / int_c35d837f	type	Loves My Alter Ego
Sidekick / int_c35d837f	comment	Loves My Alter Ego: Trevor idolizes XOX, but seems to hold nothing but contempt for XOX's civilian identity: his dad.
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Sidekick / int_c4db6423	type	Yank the Dog's Chain
Sidekick / int_c4db6423	comment	Yank the Dog's Chain: One example is in "This Hour Has 22,000 Minutes"; Eric finally manages to stop all the time loops and is about to ask Vana to the dance, but he gets punished for a mocking graffiti drawing of Pamplemoose that Trevor did. Even worse, Vana was so busy planning the dance, that she didn't ask anyone and said she would've even gone with him.
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Sidekick / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Sidekick / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: One episode is called This Hour Has 22,000 Minutes. One of the costumes the owner of the costume shop offers Eric in "Halloweenie" is a "big yellow sea sponge".
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Sidekick / int_ce5bcd44	type	Superhero School
Sidekick / int_ce5bcd44	comment	Superhero School: A variant, the school is for sidekicks.
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Sidekick / int_d442f9d1	type	ToiletHumor
Sidekick / int_d442f9d1	comment	Toilet Humor: As to be expected from a cheap Canadian cartoon. The very first episode has Trevor holding his late hamster's poop, for one.
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Sidekick / int_d748fff8	type	Holographic Disguise
Sidekick / int_d748fff8	comment	Holographic Disguise: "The Maxum Switch-eroo" features several examples thanks to the Man-Of-A-Thousand-Faces' device: Trevor becomes Vana (twice), Eric disguises himself as Maxum Mom to catch the Maxum Man imposter, and Eric, Vana, Kitty and Mayor Swift all turn into Trevor at the end after Vana destroys the device in a fit of rage.
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Sidekick / int_d9e48d0	type	Company Cross References
Sidekick / int_d9e48d0	comment	Company Cross References: In "Master XOX Ray Vision", after Eric puts on the special contact lenses, it intially causes him to see his friends as the characters from fellow YTV/Nelvana series Scaredy Squirrel note Trevor was Dave, Kitty was Scaredy and Vana was Sally.
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Sidekick / int_dae5c997	type	Action Girl
Sidekick / int_dae5c997	comment	Action Girl: Vana. Kitty has her moments as well. Mandy Struction counts too, as well as we can assume Maxum Mom, as she's a retired Superheroine.
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Sidekick / int_db99b292	type	Mondegreen Gag
Sidekick / int_db99b292	comment	Mondegreen Gag: Eric tells Trevor that his old orphanage pal has "abandonment issues", and that you should never say "goodbye" to him. Trevor, however, mishears it as "Banana Mint Shoes". This goes on to be a Running Gag and finally a Brick Joke.
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Sidekick / int_dc057cf3	type	Adaptation Name Change
Sidekick / int_dc057cf3	comment	Adaptation Name Change: Splitsboro was named Splitsville in the Funpak shorts.
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Sidekick / int_e2f13529	type	World of Jerkass
Sidekick / int_e2f13529	comment	World of Jerkass: While there are genuinely good people in Splitsboro like Kitty and Mandy, the vast majority of citizens are utter Jerkasses with very little in the way of redeeming moments and even the comparatively nicer ones like Eric can be pretty dang mean at times.
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Sidekick / int_e43c66bd	type	Art Evolution
Sidekick / int_e43c66bd	comment	Art Evolution: The Funpak shorts differ from the TV series in this way.
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Sidekick / int_e4f5affb	type	The Chew Toy
Sidekick / int_e4f5affb	comment	The Chew Toy: Maxum Man's former sidekick Golly Gee Kid was definitely this.
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Sidekick / int_e899b102	type	Sidekick
Sidekick / int_e899b102	comment	Sidekick: It's in the name, after all.
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Sidekick / int_e8a56ee7	type	Steven Ulysses Perhero
Sidekick / int_e8a56ee7	comment	Steven Ulysses Perhero: Maxum Man's secret identity is Mr. Maxummin.
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Sidekick / int_eb8ec7c8	type	Jerkass
Sidekick / int_eb8ec7c8	comment	Jerkass: Practically the whole cast, even the most decent characters in the show have a mean bone in their body.
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Sidekick / int_fc151e9d	type	Department of Redundancy Department
Sidekick / int_fc151e9d	comment	Department of Redundancy Department: This one doubles as a genius bonus. In "Ain't No Party Like a Maxum Brain Party", Eric suggests pulling out some of Maxum Brain's RAM Memory to lighten him up a bit. RAM stands for Random Access Memory. So he suggested pulling out some Random Access Memory Memory.
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Sidekick / int_fc4f3b4f	type	Friend Versus Lover
Sidekick / int_fc4f3b4f	comment	Friend Versus Lover: According to their biographies on the YTV website, Trevor and Kitty both hate each other's guts, this could be the reason why, although this seems to be an Informed Attribute since they get along pretty well.
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Sidekick / int_fcbcc221	type	Robot Buddy
Sidekick / int_fcbcc221	comment	Robot Buddy: Maxum Brain used to be a super in his own right. As it so happens, Pamplemoose appears to have been his sidekick. Subverted with the Loids; they're so competent, everyone leaves town and builds a new Splitsboro to get away from them.
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Sidekick / int_fdc4fab4	type	Depending on the Writer
Sidekick / int_fdc4fab4	comment	Eric is completely oblivious to the fact that Kitty has a crush on him, although this depends on the episode: in some episodes, he is aware of this but isn't interested in her.
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Sidekick / int_fe1ccea	type	Evil Parents Want Good Kids
Sidekick / int_fe1ccea	comment	Evil Parents Want Good Kids: Mr. Troublemeyer tries to keep Trevor from turning evil and even put him in the Sidekick Academy despite reacting in disgust when that school is even mentioned. Of course, Master XOX is always proud that Trevor inherited his evilness.
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Sidekick	hasFeature	Starboarding / int_50f64209
Sidekick	hasFeature	Super Loser / int_50f64209
Sidekick	hasFeature	Superhero School / int_50f64209
Sidekick	hasFeature	Teens Are Short / int_50f64209
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