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moonyazu9 asked me for my Top Five Sidekicks.

. . . which turned out to be harder than I thought. I mean - what exactly defines a sidekick? If you're talking about superheroes it's easy enough, but after that things get foggy. In a way, I think 'sidekick' is more of a headspace than anything else. If you have a character who thinks of themselves, their primary role, as follower/helper to another character, okay, they're a sidekick. But the stories I tend to have the most respect for are the ones where you can tell that everyone's a protagonist in their own head - you know, the way most people are.

So for this one I've tried to pick characters where their sidekick status is both pretty incontestable, and says something interesting about the trope.

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So those are some of my thoughts on sidekicks! I would be extremely interested to hear any of your thoughts on the topic.

Ahhhh these are all ridiculous and I don't know why I'm even reposting them, but: icon drabbles from here!



( For aamalie - Capital Scandal )



( For futuresoon - Gokusen )

( For izilen - Gokusen )



( For dictator_duck - Washington rap )



( For blacksheep91 - Javert/Rent crossover )



( For shati the terrifying - Utena/Middleman crossover )



( For hafl - Junichiro Koizumi RPF I don't even )



( For ceitfianna - Nellie Bly RPF )



( For genarti - Pumpkin Scissors )




( For pseudo_tsuga - Doctor Who )

So I finally got my hands on the comic version of The Middleman: The Doomsday Armageddon Apocalypse! And ( spoilers )

However that does not mean I love the show overall any less, and, to prove it, a poll:

[Poll #1576252]

It's IBARW! When it comes to deep and thoughtful posts - of which I have seen a ton of awesome ones this year already - I think it is probably better for me to shut up and listen and read, and which I am very much doing.

Fangirling, however, is something I am always happy to do - so without further ado, I present to you some TV ladies who are both a.) completely awesome and b.) not white. I am not even saying 'top five' because there are no rankings, just the first ones I could think of and easily find images of.

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That is a whole lot of awesome up in there, right? SO MUCH awesome, one post cannot contain it! (No, really, it can't - I had to cut off at five because I'm at work and can't do this all day, much as I would like to, but there are so many more not even contained here. Martha Jones, Jessie from SCC, all of the Ugly Betty ladies - the list goes on and on. And that's only the shows I know, without delving into Sun from Lost or Cam and Angela from Bones or anyone from any of the five million police procedurals I am not watching. My point is, they're out there. And they're amazing.)

One more thing, however, to point out: almost all of these ladies are the only woman of color on their main casts. Some of them are in fact the only person of color in their entire cast.

Now take a moment to imagine the sheer awesome that would be two of these ladies in the same show together.

Better yet: imagine a whole show with this cast.

Whitewashing fiction doesn't make it stronger - it does the opposite. Obviously many, many people have said this before, and said it better than me. But it bears repeating anyways.