2011-10-26, 10:03 AM
SaptaZapta Wrote:I admit English is not my first language, but in every context I have ever heard or read the term "sidekick" used, it always referred to the inferior of the team, the hero/protagonist/main-char/villain's friend/helper/follower/lackey.
CarrionCrow Wrote:No, you are right. A sidekick is the lesser in a hero-sidekick relationship, hence "side". Just like a sallad can be the sideorder for the main dish, actually.
ShinkuDragon Wrote:i also know of the hero-sidekick relationship, i was just wondering if "sidekick" couldn't be "mutual" so to speak.
Or we could just look in the dictionary and see what it means rather than how we see it used;
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/sidekick
side·kick noun
1. a close friend.
2. a confederate or assistant.
Note the or is neither exclusive nor mandatory. One implication of the word is not the sum of the word's meaning.
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