“Superladies, they’re always trying to tell you their secret identity. Think it’ll strengthen the relationship, or something like that. I say: girl, I don’t want to know about your mild-mannered alter ego. You say that you’re a… Ultra Mega Lightning Babe or something like that, that’s all right with me. I’m good. I’m good.”
Frozone

Yeah I’m getting carried away with the lists, but I’m trying to get some quick posts. Work with me people…nobody minds Letterman’s.

These are the unsung heros. The people you kill when you want things to get serious. They get kidnapped, beaten up and treated bad when the hero can’t get his emotions together. Sometimes they’re silly, others they’re very noble. Sometimes they’re just comic relief, but holy homosexual undertones Batman…we sure do love them.

Peanut:
Assistant to Harvey Birdman (Attorney at Law) Peanut is the man. His first question upon being hired was “Can I have a gun?” When he met Daphney from Scooby Doo he asked “Spricken Zee sexy?” He basically hits on every female that walks into the office. Instead of running an errand he’s out at a strip club. Certainly smarter than Birdman (even if he’s in his own world), Peanut is a sidekick for the new millenium.

Arthur
Sidekick/Account, once again the brains of the operation. Since the Tick only concentrates on fighting crime, Arthur is forced to gather resources. Meaning the Tick sleeps on his couch and makes him borrow his sisters car when they need to travel some distance to fight crime…or go to the Super Hero’s club. Arthur isn’t much of a fighter…but he does have an apartment.

Chewbacca(1977 - 1999)
You want this dude rolling with you. He’s like 7 and a half feet tall, he can fix things and he will rip someone’s arm out of the socket when pissed. As Han Solo’s sidekick he sits among the upper echelon of sidekickdom. The one who is intelligent, strong, has morals and really keeps people off of the hero. Despite the fact that he doesn’t speak Basic (english to the non-geeks), he remains one of the most expressive characters. He even has a style of legal defense named after him. On a sad note Chewbacca fell victim to the fate of many sidekicks. Often when people want to heighten the seriousness of a situation the sidekick…kicks the bucket. Since he was so strong they couldn’t just have someone shoot him, instead an alien force dropped a moon on the planet he was on. We will all mourn you Chewie…I need a moment.

Scrappy Doo
Despite the fact he wasn’t always around, Scrappy rocks. The nephew of one of the “so called” heroes, scrappy was the one who wanted to follow his namesake. When everyone else was ready to run Scrappy wanted to…scrap. He will throw his dukes up in a second. I do seem to recall that one time he broke out when it looked like the bad guy was going to fight. Think about this, he’s the only sidekick with a battle cry..”Puppy Power!”

And one of my favorites:

Kato
Played by Bruce Lee he was great in and out of character. Kato was the sidekick to The Green Hornet, a kinda lame superhero IMHO. Kato however was spectacular, he graced the screen with Bruce Lee’s fighting prowess and was often in a role reversal, bursting in to save the hero when he was cornered. Sadly America was full of bigoted jerks and they didn’t even want Lee removing his mask on T.V. The show became a cult hit in China called by fans “The Kato Show”.

Any good ones you know of?