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[skygiants]

Also: meme-thieving!

Ask me my fannish Top Five [Whatevers]. Any top fives. Doesn't matter what, really! And I will answer them all in a new post I will probably just answer them in comments in this post, I am lazy.

Also as far as I am concerned 'fannish' translates to 'fictional', I am easy!

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[rymenhild.livejournal.com]

Top five ridiculous snarky sidekicks.

[skygiants]

Picking a top 5 is way, way too hard!

#5: The only reason Wendy Watson is not higher up this list is because, aside from being a sidekick, she is also a series protagonist! But she makes it anyways, because for the moment at least she IS a professional sidekick and because is composed of 100% pure-grade awesome. Her superpower is being totally unflappable in the face of any and every kind of bizarreness! AND AN AWESOME SUPERPOWER IT IS.

#4. Amy Trevelyne, from the Bloody Jack books. A quiet, intellectual, generally disapproving young lady who has somehow found herself BFF with a crossdressing merchant-actress-singer-thief-pirate-spy! And therefore decided to put all her adventures down in print. :D My reaction to most of the latest Bloody Jack books has been "yes, very good, but NEEDS MOAR AMY."

#3: Danny Hislop, from Dorothy Dunnett's Lymond saga. Forget Lymond, DANNY is the hottest character in the books. Basically he follows Our Angsty Superman around for half the series because he finds all his angsty scrapes fascinating and hilarious, like his own personal soap opera! "And the prospect of watching the Crawford family at grips with itself was something that, blissfully, he wanted very much for his birthday."

#2: Even though I prefer to pretend Heroes ended after season 1 these days, I still retain the full force of my love for Ando. He'll do a lot of things for you, Hiro, but he WON'T WEAR TIGHTS.

#1: In conclusion:






(Honorable mention for Joseph from the Company books, who isn't really a sidekick except sometimes, but totally fits the archetype!)