'sidekick' is a correct and usable word in written English.
It is an informal word used to describe a close companion or helper to a more important person, especially in a story or movie. For example, "Robin is Batman's loyal sidekick."
At that time I was the chief sidekick on Danny Baker's Radio 1 show and some BBC bigwig had decided that it would be a good idea if we did one show from America, where the World Cup was in full swing.
The most rational of the characters, Scott, by now pushing 25, plays Mary Astor's rebellious 19-year-old daughter who has run away from finishing school and fallen for a psychotic gambler (John Hodiak), who is obsessed with her mother, while his sidekick (Wendell Corey) is obsessed with him.
The Singularge Experience of Miss Anne Duffield, published as part of A Spaniard in the Works, is a send-up of Sherlock Holmes featuring the sleuth Shamrock Womlbs and his trusty sidekick Doctored Whopper.
To me it proved that being a sidekick was not an issue.
Often a sidekick for the human protagonist, these characters provided assistance, comic relief, and an abundance of cuteness.
With two sets of teeth and an abundance of hair, Fizzgig proves to be a useful, if occasionally annoying sidekick to The Dark Crystal's two heroes.
How they rate 1 Bournemouth 2 Brentford 3 Norwich 4 Watford 5 Ipswich 6 Derby 7 Middlesbrough Considering he has won the Dutch League and the English League Cup, reached the Uefa Cup final and managed England, McClaren – recently rejoined by his talented old Middlesbrough sidekick Steve Round – should have a head start.
It's a template quite common in homegrown comedies: the frustrated middle-aged man both encouraged and unwittingly sabotaged by a younger, dumber sidekick.
In 1953, he made his professional debut as Eustace Smell, the town crier and comic sidekick, in Jack and the Beanstalk at Sydney's Capitol theatre.
The kidnapped air hostess turned sidekick, feistily played by Rae Dawn Chong, gets some good lines, wisely puncturing one scene with "I can't believe this macho bullshit" – but she's underused.
Or try Nelson's young sidekick, James Forsyth, or the Telegraph's tireless Benedict Brogan whose morning briefing makes the same point today: namely what is the chancellor going to do in his March budget to revive the prospects for GROWTH in the UK economy?
