Sidekick

The term Sidekick (English for sidekick, sidekick ) referred to in the literature and in the performing arts as well as in the film a special type of supporting role.

Meaning and purpose

Often, the Sidekick has the dramaturgical task, to be informed, whose thoughts and plans of the hero, so that the reader or audience learns without omniscient narrator or inner monologue of them. One of the most famous literary figures is Dr. Watson, Sherlock Holmes explains how he has solved the cases.

However, the Sidekick also serves the purpose of highlighting the superior skills of the hero. Besides Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson is a model of the team Kara Ben Nemsi and Hajji Halef Omar.

Those secondary characters that are not the heroes, but the villains aside, are referred to less than Sidekick, but rather as minions, henchmen or minions. The English equivalent of the minions or lackeys is the Henchman (eg, Crabbe and Goyle as Henchmen of Draco Malfoy in the Harry Potter series ).

Since the Sidekick is often depicted as far less talented than the protagonist, he is called in the literature the " idiot friend".

In film and television

In the film, those supporting actors are called Sidekick, whose characters are set out to please the audience. In most cases, these supporting actors are also responsible for the comedy in the film. The Sidekick is also predestined to die effectively throughout the movie, especially in the traditional Western. In the 1930s, the adventure films of Errol Flynn received by his sidekick Alan Hale their comical.

On television, Sidekick designates a representative or agent of the moderator who is actively involved in the process and with the audience to identify you personally, such as the assistant Maren Gilzer Wheel of Fortune, Heinz Eckner in Rudi Carrells show Churning, HIAS in Karl Moiks Musikantenstadl, Herbert Feuerstein in Schmidteinander, Manuel Andrack in the Harald Schmidt Show, Harald Schmidt in Olympia with Waldi & Harry, Karl Dall at Candid Camera? or "Show Intern " Elton in Stefan Raab's TV total.

Some TV series called ( and often even within the fictional world ) the sidekick of the hero " appendage ".

In other media

In the comic, the term refers to a superhero to the side provided workers (eg Batman and Robin or Captain America and Bucky ).