There are plenty of heroes who have gotten their start as a sidekick, an apprenticeship of sorts that enables the young hero to learn on the job while having a more experienced hero to bail him or her out of a jam when the need arises.
While there are a multitude of shining examples, there are some sidekicks that you wouldn’t necessarily want to socialize with. Even if you do find them entertainintg, there might be situations and pairings that you would like to avoid, especially at a social gathering.
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With that in mind, here are the 5 sidekicks you want to leave off the invite list to a party.
Doiby Dickles
There’s always that person at a party who likes to recall the golden years, and never seems to leave the era in which they succeeded. That would be Doiby Dickles, former sidekick of Alan Scott, the Green Lantern.
On top of having a name that inspires immediate smirks, he has a completely over the top Brooklyn accent, and says things like “Soivice that don’t make youse novice” and refers to his taxi cab as “Goitrude”. Not only that, but at one time he was part of a group that captured younger heroes, feeling that there was no place for them in the hero landscape.
Get a few drinks in him and that will quickly escalate, and before you know it he’ll be calling everyone Goitrude as he sits on your back deck driving his imaginary cab.
Yeah, it’s that bad.
Any Robin
No one wants drama at their get-togethers, and inviting the entire roster of Robins will just about kill your party immediately.
No. 1, a few of them have died already, and that’s always a wonderful conversation starter. No. 2, as soon as they sit down to talk, the bickering begins, alienating the rest of your guests. Here’s how that would go.
Dick Grayson: It’s good to see you again Tim.
Jason Todd: Wow, walks right past me like I’m not even here.
Grayson: I did not, not everything’s about you!
Damian: What a bunch of self-involved idiots, no wonder all of you left father’s side.
Tim: Really with the father crap? I’m so sick of you CRASH
…and the fight begins. Yeah, no invitations for you guys.
Lockheed
Normally Dragons are cool, and you can’t find anyone more loyal than Kitty Pryde’s buddy Lockheed.
He’s quite agreeable to, and would be delightful to have around unless you happen to approach Pryde for a possible date. At that point, Lockheed becomes, we’ll say aggressively protective.
Seriously, if you decided to put your arm around her, don’t be surprised to see your sleeve on fire, and parties and smoke alarms don’t get along. Granted, it’s an honorable act, but for the sake of your gathering it might be better to leave him at home.
Arthur
Ahh Arthur. Arthur always seemed better suited for casting in a commercial for anti depressants than he did for superhero work, and that rather subdued demeanor is not necessarily what you want in a party guest.
Also, he shows up in costume everywhere he goes, and of course, immediately sticks out because of it. Also to his detriment, he really only has the ability to fly with his moth wings, and he typically does so above The Tick, who is mostly the one actually stopping crime. It creates an able spot for jealousy and resentment, and neither of those bode well for your social gathering.
Scrappy Doo
Scrappy Doo is perhaps the Roman Reigns of cartoons. The studio thought he would go over with audiences so well, and they pushed him accordingly.
Unfortunately for them, no one seemed to get the memo that they were supposed to like him, and thus he was the receipient of a blacklisted label from holywood. When Scrappy does show up to a party, it immediately brings down the mood, as it won’t take him long to have a few too many mai tai’s and launch into a rant about how he was wronged by Hollywood and the masses at large.
And he wonders why his invitations always get “lost in the mail”.
