Favorite/least favorite sidekick?

[Plurralbles]

Agro​

Anyone who says anything else is wrong. He's the best sidekick in any game I've ever played. Unquestioningly loyal, and stays by your side even when fighting enemies the size of skyscrapers. He follows you into the face of almost certain death, and is prepared to sacrifice himself to save your life and allow you to complete your quest. Besides being genuinely vital to gameplay, there are few characters to whom I've felt more emotionally attached.

You sir, just made a tear form in my eye.

Agro is the best.

The worst.... navi. Fuck you navi.

 

[sephiroth1991]

I didn't like the partners in Uncharted 2 and Resident Evil 5 last year.

I can't think an1 i liked

 

[oppp7]

My favorite sidekick would be Midna. My least favorite... can't think of one. But an honorable mention goes to Dom from GoW for running at the enemy with a chainsaw when the enemy was the final boss and could kill him in a matter of seconds.

 

[jkklol94]

Favorite: Alyx Vance

Least Favorite: Ashley Graham

 

[Julianking93]

Favorites: Donald and Goofy

Least favorite: Robin

 

[Kelethor]

Favorite: The dog from fable 3. obedient, loyal, and a mirror reflecting my mood, weather it be a justice hungry soul, or murderous Sycophant.

Least favorite: Sheva Alamar from RE 5. All the ***** had too do was stab Wesker with the needle. what does she do? run around with an empty launcher for half an hour shouting "ill find a rocket!" while Wesker proceeds to show me the finer points of his boot to my face.

 

[Layz92]

Sparx from Spiro was kinda cool.
If any of your helpers in Oblivion count as sidekicks I would say them (3 times the same guy ran into lava and died in an oblivion gate, I kid you not, 3 times)

 

[Saargston]

Agro​

Anyone who says anything else is wrong. He's the best sidekick in any game I've ever played. Unquestioningly loyal, and stays by your side even when fighting enemies the size of skyscrapers. He follows you into the face of almost certain death, and is prepared to sacrifice himself to save your life and allow you to complete your quest. Besides being genuinely vital to gameplay, there are few characters to whom I've felt more emotionally attached.

I'd hoof to disagree with you there.
Agro is far, far to badass to be considered a sidekick. You might think I'm mare-brained for thinking this, but he's probably one of the best characters there is, mainly because the only thing that can hurt him is a fall of easily over 1,000 feet, which only left him limp. He was the only character in SotC that I really became attached to and you can bet that my voice was horse from weeping once I thought he died. Of course, I was overjoyed when I saw him still kicking, with only a limp to show that anything ever happened to him.
If he wasn't so awesome, I'd easily agree that he's the whinny here, but he's the mane character in my book.

 

[Cakekey]

Favorite: Ash's Pikachu. Playing through the games, I've always wished that they had the kind of immersion to really make you feel attached to your Pokemon, especially after all the time you spend with them.

Least: Aqualad. No body cared about Aquaman, why would we want another, DC? Supergirl was a good idea. Robin was a good idea before he hopped on the Teen Titans. Aqualad was just a poor idea on your part.

 

[Lazy Kitty]

Favorite: Navi.

Least favorite: All those sidekicks that run in front of you when you're shooting at something...

 

[Klarinette]

Does Short Round count? GOD, I hate that kid!!

Spoiler

 

[FalloutJack]

Okay, I'll have to agree with the Agro-is-awesome line, though I have a few ideas for myself.

THE BEST>>>>>

Agro - See? Told ya I agreed.

The Ghostbusters - Only on rare occasions did the guys not come through on the whole help-me-out thing.

Dogmeat - "Did you SERIOUSLY just kill a man in a powersuit? Or several? Good dog!"

Persona! - Hey, it counts. Supports you the whole way through the game, gives you power, and levels up as you do? Damn right, it's a sidekick.

Dave Davenport - Okay, technically he is a henchman for a mad scientist, but it translates well enough.

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

THE WORST>>>>>

The Entire Cast of FF8 - A bunch of neurotic and ineffectual people reliant on the powers of their summon creatures for an edge...but THEY are responsible for some of their mental problems! ARGH!

Pretty Much Anyone Who Ever Tried To Be Freakazoid's Sidekick, Minus Handman - I couldn't include Handman because he was actually just retired. But yes, anyone who has ever been Freakazoid's sidekick or tried to be one is doomed.

Henchrat, from Earthworm Jim - Well, he's Evil The Cat's inept moron cohort. What's to be said? On a planet of bloodthirty demons, ravenous lawyers, and sharp-edged coffer tables, Evil decides that he will use a cheese-shooting rat as his right-hand minion. Quote Evil The Cat: "A minor setback."

Johnny Wingless, from The Tick comics - He was evil! He used Crazy Blue Rocket's secret moonbase as a strategic point to launch attacks on the Earth with meteors and robots! You don't get much worse than that. Unless...

Fighter McWarrior! - Yes! The red-haired man of 8-Bit Theater himself! Considered to be super-dangerous with his swords and able to drain the intelligence from a given area, Fighter is a threat to anyone around him. Unfortunately, that's his ALLIES who are usually nearby, so gimme a rimshot please. If there was a drinking game for "Fighter does something stupid", we'd be passed out by the third comic. (Unless you're a pro-drinker, in which care you're down by the tenth.)

 

[Riobux]

My favourite would probably be Madison from Heavy Rain (come on, it counts!). She actually contributes to the story beyond a sappy love scene.

My worst is the entire cast of Jericho. Incompetent idiots with the personality that makes you want to kick the hell out of them on the street. No, I do not want to talk about your fucking teddy bear, I don't want to hear the stupid homophobic crap nor do I care to hear about how you've fallen over and need help being picked up; constantly.

 

[Bradd94]

Robin.

Batman is far too badass for a sidekick, seriously.

 

[Kimarous]

Favourite sidekick by far is the Advisor from "Majesty: A Fantasy Kingdom Sim".

"Oh... how can I explain to our Sovereign the news? Um... Majesty? I have good news and bad. The good news is your uncle died! ...no, that won't do. *ahem* Majesty, your late uncle has bequeathed you a town... of sorts. Hmm, maybe more positive. It pleases me to inform you that you've been granted a tremendous opportunity! You can be the first Ardanian sovereign to give the word 'slum' a good name! ...Well that won't work either. *sigh* It's no use. Majesty... look out the window. Rogues, elves, and debauchery as far as the eye can see. It's all yours, no thanks to your dead uncle. Think you can clean up that mess?"

 

[Vrex360]

Probably my overall favourite male sidekick in games would be the Arbiter in Halo 3 who I actually preferred over the main character, my only regret being that he was reduced to a sidekick role... dude deserved better.
Tied for second place would be Garrus and Wrex from Mass Effect and at third is Fawkes from Fallout 3 and his awesome laser gattling gun.

Favourite female sidekick is again a tie between Ashley Williams of Mass Effect (I honestly missed her in ME2) and Cortana in the Halo trilogy. Second place is occupied by Alyx Vance and third place by Bridgett Tenenbaum.

As for worst well.... Chip in Sonic unleashed for male sidekicks and while I could list the others but let's face it, none of the others even come close to my hatred of Chip.

And as for worst female sidekick, probably going to have to go with any female character in a game who cannot for the life of them defend themselves and therefore need your help constantly.

 

[theincurabletragedy]

My least favourite would have to be the Sidekick Slide. piece of shit phone it was.


in all seriousness, does the Companion Cube count? <3

 

[ManaKnightX]

Fave: Diddy Kong, started as a side kick, then just became awesome all on his own.

Least: Navi from Zelda, my ears still have blood in them from her big mouth.

 

[cardinalwiggles]

favourite: marty alencar from far cry 2, he's saved my ass from any number of situations just because he loves me.......