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Message: <blockquote data-quote="fba827" data-source="post: 4831211" data-attributes="member: 807">Agreed, at least for this movie franchise setting, a sidekick wouldn't work well.  He definitely needs to be the loner with allies to provide support, not someone running around with him.Also, another argument against a sidekick for this movie setting, so far (at least it appears) that this setting it trying to maintain continuity from one movie to the next; the second had many references back to the first.For a sidekick, once you put it in, it would require a recurring role.  And once you tell the crux of the secondary story character, it is often dificult to make an exciting continuing story for them because they can't steal the spotlight away from the title character (they are just secondary characters after all).  Thus, they often become damsels in distress so that they have a reason to be there, or they become the angsty talk-backer or 'that guy' with all the jokes, or some other exaggerated personality just to keep them somewhat interesting, or they just become personality-less figures on the screen that just follow the main guy around.Note I said "difficult" to do, I didn't say "impossible."  but at the moment I can't think of any 'secondary recurring character' that didn't fall in to such a trap - the previous movie robin because the wisecracker, MJ Watson and Aunt May always seemed to be the damsels in distress, Harry Osborne is always the angsty guy full of hate, several of the xmen in the later movies really just became onscreen figures with little personality or character development, etc etc.all my opinion anyway.</blockquote>

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