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Sidekicks. Always there to lend a helping hand, or sword, or wand, as the case may be. A hero is nothing without his or her sidekick, but these companions rarely get. Watch full movie online Science Fiction Volume One: The Osiris Child (2016) for free Set in the future in a time of interplanetary colonization, an unlikely. Large fan site providing reviews of science fiction, horror and fantasy films. Editors provide a star rating system.

Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature's Top 1. Sidekicks. Sidekicks. Always there to lend a helping hand, or sword, or wand, as the case may be. A hero is nothing without his or her sidekick, but these companions rarely get the recognition they deserve.

A few second bananas may get the spotlight on occasion—your Robins, your Chewbaccas, your Igors—but they all originated in comics, films, or on TV. This list is for the truly forgotten, the most overlooked of the overlooked.

Here is a ranking of the top 1. NOTE: Hermione Granger is not on this list because she is not a sidekick, in the same way that Princess Leia is not a sidekick. She is not merely there in support of the hero or as a foil; she has her own arc, goals, and priorities. Weena, The Time Traveller. Some sidekicks do more in death than they ever could in life. In H. G. Wells’ classic novel, Weena is an Eloi, a member of a seemingly defenseless race that humans have evolved into by the year 8. Weena’s relationship to Wells’ Traveller on the surface seems to be merely as a damsel in distress—the Traveller successfully saves her from drowning in a pool, and then fails to rescue her when the Morlocks (the other, much nastier race humans evolved into) take her for food.

While she might seem useless, she does slip two flowers into the Traveller’s pocket, which serve as the only proof of the Traveller’s adventures when he returns to a Victorian era skeptical of his exploits. The Luggage, Discworld Series. Who says a sidekick has to be a person to be effective? The Luggage is a trunk made from sapient pearwood and bound to protect its owner. It was originally the property of Twoflower, an ignorant tourist to the magical land of Discworld, but ownership soon transferred to unlikely hero and lazy wizard Rincewind.

The Luggage is impervious to magic, can follow its owner anywhere (including other dimensions), and shuffles around on hundreds of adorable little legs. But the Luggage’s true power is its mouth. The trunk has a habit of eating people, literally hundreds throughout the Discworld series, without ever once filling up. Indestructible, over- protective, and always hungry, the Luggage may be the toughest piece of furniture in the history of literature. Sir Kay, Arthurian legend. Sometimes the best of friends were once the worst of enemies.

This sidekick began his career as King Arthur’s older foster brother. Watch Old Wives For New Online Free 2016. While accounts of Arthurian legend differ, all agree Sir Kay would have been a rough guy to grow up with.

He’s loud, rude, and quick to fight, and in some versions of the story, bullies his brother, but after Arthur draws the sword from the stone, Kay pledges loyalty to his king and becomes one of the first knights of the round table. In some legends, Kay can change size at will, shoot fire from his hands, deal an incurable wound, and go nine days without sleeping or BREATHING. He’s not easy to deal with, and on occasion abandons Camelot, but when something goes down, he’s the first guy you want on your side. Gillian Boardman, Stranger in a Strange Land. Heinlein’s novel centers around a man from Mars making his way through our strange Earth customs, and the first thing he needs is someone to show him around. Luckily for Mike the Martian, Gillian is that someone.

Gillian becomes the first woman Mike ever sees, and after sharing a glass of water (trust me, it’s a big deal on Mars), she helps him escape a fate as a government science project. Later, when Mike becomes Earth’s biggest celebrity and starts the wildly popular Church of All Worlds, Gillian becomes a key figure in the religion. Not every sidekick needs to fight. Sometimes, they just need to be there for a hero when no one else will. TIE) Inigo Montoya and Fezzik, The Princess Bride. I thought long and hard about which of Wesley’s sidekicks to include on this list, but in the end, I couldn’t decide.

Whether you prefer the gentle giant Fezzik or master swordsman Inigo Montoya, both were key in Wesley’s mostly- revival and eventual rescue of Princess Buttercup. After falling in with the villain Vizzini, Wesley recruits the duo after defeating them, and their boss, in contests of their greatest skills. Though both were exposed to violence at an early age (in Inigo’s case, watching his father’s murder; in Fezzik’s case, a childhood of being forced to fight) they never let the harshness of the world taint their honor, and proved themselves true heroes by their defeat of Prince Humperdink and the six- fingered Count Rugen.

Ford Prefect, The Hitchiker’s Guide to the Galaxy series. Possibly the best thing sidekicks can do is save their hero’s life, so when Ford Prefect saved Arthur Dent from an Earth scheduled for demolition, he cemented himself as a companion for the ages. Ford is a absurdist, 2. Earth’s dominant species. This makes him a perfect balance for Arthur’s cautious, high- strung demeanor. He introduces Arthur to the crew of the Heart of Gold, and starts him on his adventures.

Though Arthur may not always be on board with everything that Ford gets him into, another one of a sidekick’s many duties is to continue the mission, even when the hero doesn’t want to. Molly Millions, Sprawl trilogy. I’m gonna say it, Molly Millions shouldn’t be a sidekick. She’s far more capable than any of the so- called heroes she finds herself partnered with in William Gibson’s Sprawl series (Johnny Mnemonic in the eponymous short story and Henry Case in Neuromancer). As a badass, super- strong cyborg with knives hidden under her fingernails, she should have better things to do than babysit a living hard drive and a drug- addicted computer hacker, but the only thing tougher than Molly’s cybernetic implants is her code of honor.

Though she may be a mercenary, whenever she takes a job, she doesn’t stop until it’s finished, and more often than not, gets attached—in one way or another—to whoever she’s sworn to protect. Ser Bronn of the Blackwater, A Song of Ice and Fire series. Bronn usually seconds the wily Tyrion Lannister, though as of late, he’s on loan to his brother Jaime.

While Bronn began as a sellsword of little renown, he at one time served as the Commander of the City Watch at King’s Landing, and was eventually knighted for his bravery at the battle of Blackwater. How could Tyrion refuse to promote him, though, when Bronn has saved his life on many occasions—including acting as his champion soon after meeting him, in that trial by combat in the Eyrie?