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[skygiants]

First post for that December requested posts thing!

So bookblather asked me about my favorite crime-fighting duos, and the one that always jumps first into my head is not actually really much of a crime-fighting duo at all, except for one or two glorious episodes: Olive Snook and Emerson Cod from Pushing Daisies.

If you do not remember Pushing Daisies, it was that Brian Fuller show about a singing ex-jockey pie waitress and a cynical knitting detective who made pop-up books, and also a dude who raised people from the dead and his star-crossed love affair, I guess. I mean, look, we all loved Ned and Chuck, and I also loved Ned and Chuck, but would I have been just as happy -- or perhaps even happier -- with the Olive And Emerson Detective Agency Show? YES. YES I WOULD HAVE. And was I secretly enraged that the hasty wrap-up when the show was cancelled made it canonical that Olive did . . . something that I can't remember but that tragically was not partnering up with Emerson for the Olive And Emerson Detective Agency Show? YES. YES I WAS. Sorry, Brian Fuller, but your vision was INFERIOR.

Ummmm. What other crime-fighting duos do I love? I am not gonna talk about Elementary's Holmes and Watson because I feel like that's too obvious, and also though I still love Elementary I'm currently cranky at it for spending way too much time on Holmes Brother Drama that I don't care about. I just did a search for 'together they fight crime!' in my gmail to see what comes up, and I get:

Kyoko and Kanna from 20th Century Boys, who didn't actually do much crime-fighting together either, but whom I would desperately love to see fight crime together in future

Scar and Marcoh from Fullmetal Alchemist, who do not fight crime so much as fight . . . genocide . . . after Marcoh helped to commit it . . . and then tried to commit suicide-by-Scar and had his face melted instead . . . AND YES I DO WANT TO READ ABOUT THEIR CRIME-FIGHTING ADVENTURES, THANK YOU

Eva and Dieter from Monster, who I had totally forgotten until just now fought crime together for one SHINING MOMENT

Livia Levesque and Abishag Shaw from the Benjamin January books, who are never actually a crime-fighting duo in the Benjamin January books yet, but if they were it would be my FAVORITE Benjamin January book

Molly and Mohinder from Heroes, which, aww, sometimes I forget that once I cared about that tragically-canceled-after-a-first-season show

Harth Fray and Mary Lennox . . . about which it is probably better not to ask

Comments

[esmenet]

I was going to suggest Yankumi & Shin, and then I remembered that they do not fight actual crime so much as LACK OF MANLY SPIRIT. And by 'fight' I mean 'Yankumi fights and Shin sort of follows her around hoping he can help out at some point'.

I forgot Eva and Dieter actually fought (a) crime! CLEARLY A RE-READ IS IN ORDER.

[skygiants]

Yes, I feel a 'crime fighter and loyal sidekick!' dynamic is slightly different than a 'together, they fight crime!' dynamic. Shin is the support force for Yankumi's one-woman whirlwind crime-fighting dynamo. That said: YES I DEARLY LOVE THEM WHENEVER THEY FIGHT CRIME TOGETHER. Man, I need to reread all of Gokusen at some point soon.

[shati]

I'm upset that Hiro and Ando don't make it in from tragic first season cancellation Heroes. THEY HAD SUCH A BEAUTIFUL ICON.

[skygiants]

Hiro and Ando did not fight crime so much as ... amble adorably in the general vicinity of crime ... no, I malign them, Ando's Heroic Stand was one of my ALL-TIME FAVORITE THINGS about that too-short enjoyable season.

However, I am pretty sure that the icon takes place in the alternate universe where they FIGHT THE LAW instead. (I mean, I guess they also fight the crime. But not as much.)

[umadoshi]

Hiro and Ando did not fight crime so much as ... amble adorably in the general vicinity of crime

*dies* I would so have stuck with the Hiro and Ando show.

Olive Snook and Emerson Cod FTW!!!

[musesfool]

SNOOK AND COD: KNITTING, SINGING DETECTIVES. YES PLEASE.

[skygiants]

BEST DETECTIVE AGENCY OF ALL TIME. OF ALL TIME.

[aberration]

Olive opened a macaroni and cheese restaurant with the taxidermist, which I'm pretty sure happened solely so they could make the pun joke of the restaurant's name that I don't actually remember. Um. But they'll always have adorable food raincoats?

And really, I'm still sad that the big Joan-related-reveal was that she slept with Mycroft and not that she was bi.

[jinian]

That doesn't disallow her being bi. My hopes remain!

[skygiants]

MINE TOO ;___;

[skygiants]

I mean I do love macaroni and cheese restaurants a lot . . . but I love the Olive And Emerson Detective Agency EVEN MORE.

I was also really sad about that. I am deeply meh about everything to do with Mycroft at this point, and about Joan's role in facilitating Holes Brothers Reunions. Let's have Holmes being used as a factor in Joan's family drama!

[agonistes]

Livia Levesque and Abishag Shaw from the Benjamin January books

...congratulations, you just found me a yuletide request for next year *________*

[skygiants]

That particular iteration of 'together, they fight crime' was actually from a comment that you left me once upon a time! CLEARLY THIS IDEA'S TIME HAS COME. >:D

[kate_nepveu]

Wendy and the Middleman?!

[skygiants]

AHHHH HOW DID I FORGET WENDY AND THE MIDDLEMAN?!?!

I mean, I know the answer, it's because I apparently only ever deploy the phrase 'together, they fight crime!' in comments and emails when the people in question do not actually fight crime together. BUT STILL.

[esmenet]

They don't fight crime, though! They fight COMIC BOOK EVIL.

[genarti]

Peter and Harriet? They do fight crime together! Alternately, Miss Climpson and ANYONE EVER.

I feel like I ought to have at least one other obvious answer, but it's not springing to mind. (Although now I am yet again wanting the All Old Lady Detectives And/Or Spies team-up.)

[skygiants]

It's true, they do! I mean I'm always onboard with Little Old Lady Detectives and whomever they choose to fight crime with, really. OH and I totally forgot to talk about Aunt Lil!

[hebethen]

I must tell you that someone over at Mark Watches has just proposed a 1930s Baccano!verse FMA crossover with various factions being gangs and mafias and so forth. If I did not do so with alacrity (ahhhhhh that's the word I was looking for this morning) it would have weighed terribly on my soul.