Contest: ENTER SF&F Avatar Contest: Sidekicks

[JD]

Everybody always loves the hero, but I say their sidekicks deserve some attention too, so let's give it to them. If you want to include other characters that's fine, but the sidekick should be the focus, and if they evolved into a solo role feel to include that as long as they started out as a sidekick.
Usually rules, apply so 200x200, and I believe it's 1MB, but I'm but positive, so please correct me if I'm wrong.
2 entries per person.

My entries:
Batman's sidekick Robin

Sonic The Hedgehog's sidekick Tails

 

[Aragorn]

How about a sidekick who believes he's the hero?

 

[JD]

I had always assumed he was the hero, but I've recently seen other references to him actually being the sidekick, so it works for me. I admit, I'm pretty easy going with this kind of thing, so as long as you can give a compelling reason why they are the sidekick rather than the hero, I'll probably go along with it.

 

[od0_ital]

Roy Harper, aka Arsenal, CW's Arrow

Colonel James Rhodes, aka War Machine, Marvel's Iron Man 2

 

[Kai "the spy"]

Samwise Gamgee

Obelix

 

[Orac]

Space Cadet Stimpy

Jake the Dog

 

[auntiehill]

Chewy

R2D2

 

[JD]

Is Stimpy a sidekick? I thought they were an equal focus of the show?

 

[Orac]

He is according to the irrefutable source of all knowledge; Wikipedia --> link

 

[JD]

Works for me.
I never really noticed, how long do you guys usually let the entry threads go before you switch over to the poll?

 

[Orac]

I like to leave contests open for entries for about a week, but it's up to you as the contest runner how long you leave it open.

 

[JD]

A week sounds good, so it'll be open til Thursday.

 

[Avro Arrow]

- Al Calavicci

- Twiki

 

[dahj]

Harry Kim as Buster Kincaid, Captain Proton's sidekick

Donna Troy, Wonder Girl, Wonder Woman's sidekick

 

[JD]

Is Titans the first time Donna Troy has appeared in live action? I know the Lynda Carter Wonder Woman series kind of had a Wonder Girl, but I believe she was a different character.

 

[dahj]

Is Titans the first time Donna Troy has appeared in live action?

Yes.

I know the Lynda Carter Wonder Woman series kind of had a Wonder Girl, but I believe she was a different character

Yeah, that one was Drusilla, daughter of Hippolyta, Diana's younger sister (played by Debra Winger).

 

[od0_ital]

- Al Calavicci

That's a vote.

 

[Kai "the spy"]

It could be argued that the comics' Donna Troy isn't and never has been a sidekick of Wonder Woman. She started out because the editor of Teen Titans mistook the Wonder Girl appearing in the Wonder Woman comics as a seperate character, when she actually was the young Wonder Woman (kinda like the original Superboy was just Superman as a kid), when he added Wonder Girl to the Teen Titans. When the TT editorial team noticed their mistake, they created the background and secret identity of Wonder Girl as Donna Troy themselves.

When Crisis Of Infinite Earths happened, things got even worse, as Wonder Woman was rebooted, but Teen Titans (being DC's most popular title at the time) kept going as before, creating a situation where Donna Troy took on the hero identity of Wonder Girl years before Wonder Woman first left Themyscira, and it was made a big deal when they first met. That, plus Donna being a grown woman by that time meant they never had a mentor/sidekick relationship the way Batman and Robin have. Also, the Titans editorial team wanted to stay in charge of the character, so Donna only turned up for occasional guest appearances in the Wonder Woman title.

That said, @dodge obviously used the "Titans" live action version of Donna Troy, who on that show was clearly introduced as Wonder Woman's former sidekick.

 

[Avro Arrow]

When the TT editorial team noticed their mistake, they created the background and secret identity of Wonder Girl as Donna Troy themselves.

Just out of curiosity, what was the timeframe for this? I've never heard of the character before this thread, but of course the first thing that struck me is the similarity of the name to TNG's Deanna Troi, so I just wondered if there was any kind of homage or anything going on?

 

[Kai "the spy"]

Just out of curiosity, what was the timeframe for this? I've never heard of the character before this thread, but of course the first thing that struck me is the similarity of the name to TNG's Deanna Troi, so I just wondered if there was any kind of homage or anything going on?

To be more specific than in my previous post, Wonder Girl's backstory and secret identity name of Donna Troy was established by writer Marv Wolfman (who would keep writing the chracter in Titans books up into the 90s) and artist Gil Kane in "Teen Titans" #22 from 1969. I doubt there was any homage involved, as the characters don't have that much in common.