Line #50 Quotes/HypercompetentSidekick


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2	[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
3	->'''Hayasaka:''' But are you sure you'll be okay? Are you sure you can do it by yourself?\
4	'''Kaguya:''' Please don't make it sound like I'm utterly helpless without you, Hayasaka.\
5	''(Not five minutes later)''\
6	'''Kaguya:''' Save me, Hayasaka!
7	-->-- ''Manga/KaguyaSamaLoveIsWar''
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10	[[folder:Film -- Live-Action]]
11	->'''[[ComicBook/IronMan Tony Stark]]''': Am I making you uncomfortable?\
12	'''Pepper Potts''': Oh, no, I always forget to wear deodorant and dance with my boss in a room full of people I work with in a dress with no back.\
13	'''Tony''': Well, you look great, you smell great. But I could fire you if that would take the edge off.\
14	'''Pepper''': I don't think you could tie your shoes without me.\
15	'''Tony''': I'd make it a week.\
16	'''Pepper''': A week, really? What's your social security number?\
17	'''Tony''': Five...\
18	'''Pepper''': "Five?" You're missing just a couple of digits.\
19	'''Tony''': Right, the other eight. Well, I have you for the other eight.
20	-->--''Film/IronMan1''
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23	[[folder:Literature]]
24	->Your job, Jurgen, is to know my needs before I do.
25	-->-- '''Commissar Literature/CiaphasCain'''
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27	->Collot d'Herbois, incredulous, half-contemptuous, did not altogether approve of these schemes, which seemed to him wild and uncanny; he liked the direct simplicity of a summary trial, of the guillotine, or of his own well stage-managed "Noyades." He did not feel that any ridicule or dishonour would necessarily paralyze a man in his efforts at intrigue, and would have liked to set Chauvelin's authority aside, to behead the woman upstairs and then to take his chance of capturing the man later on.
28	-->-- ''[[Literature/TheScarletPimpernel The Elusive Pimpernel]]'', Chapter 24
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30	->''"What the king dreams, the Hand builds."\
31	"The king eats, and the Hand takes the shit."''
32	-->-- Popular sayings about the office of '''Hand of the King''', ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire''
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35	[[folder:Live-action TV]]
36	->'''Crow:''' So, the hero is this guy; I think it's time we faced that fact.
37	-->-- ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'' episode ''Film/ThePumaman'' about the titular hero's sidekick Vadinho.
38
39	->Al is my assistant. ''He'' assists ''me''.
40	-->-- A less-than-honest '''Tim "The Tool Man" Taylor''', ''Series/HomeImprovement''
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42	->''"The advantage of being Leslie's boss is that she does everything herself and there are never any problems. Which means for the next week, I can sit in a lawn chair and read this book about old boats."''
43	-->-- '''Ron''', ''Series/ParksAndRecreation'': "Harvest Festival"
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45	->'''Carlson:''' Jennifer, what's going on?\
46	'''Jennifer:''' I don't know.\
47	'''Carlson:''' Oh, don't you lie to me!
48	-->-- ''Series/WKRPInCincinnati''
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52	[[folder:Video Games]]
53	->''"A good [[TheRoadie roadie]] knows that it's his job to make someone else look good, keep someone else safe, help someone else do what they were put here to do. A good roadie stays out of the spotlight; if he's doing his job right, you don't even know he was there. Once in a while, they might step on stage to fix a problem, to set something right, but then before you realize why he was there, or what he did, he's gone."''
54	-->-- '''Eddie Riggs''', ''VideoGame/BrutalLegend''
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56	->'''Paimon:''' So, uh, Itto, if she's the one that takes care of everything in the gang, then doesn't that kinda make her the gang's real boss?\
57	'''Itto:''' Pff, are you kidding!? Of course I'm the boss. To the four corners of Teyvat, there is only one boss of Hanamizaka's legendary Arataki Gang. Me!\
58	'''Paimon:''' Hmm, okay Paimon gets the dynamic now. A useless boss with an ultra-capable subordinate...
59	-->-- ''VideoGame/GenshinImpact'', on Kuki Shinobu
60
61	->''"Hey, it's Paige Harris. I work with Lester Crest... I basically run things over there while he takes credit."''
62	-->--'''Paige Harris''', ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV''
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64	->''"The tables are set, the room is decorated, the toilets are clean, and the food tastes spectacular if I do say so myself! I also cleaned your windows, mopped your floors, fed your pets, organized your sunglasses collection, and folded your laundry... Oh! And here's your coffee. Just thought you'd enjoy that."''
65	-->-- '''Hero''', ''VideoGame/{{Omori}}''
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68	[[folder:Webcomics]]
69	->'''Balthazar''': Opal, this is just one of the reasons why you'd make a much better general than me.\
70	'''Opal''': [[LowLevelAdvantage I'm fine where I am]]. My hands are already full [[TheManBehindTheMan keeping you on a leash]]!
71	-->-- ''''Webcomic/BasicInstructionsBeforeLeavingEarth''''
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74	[[folder:Web Video]]
75	->Travel alone... or with a [[MadeOfIron nearly immortal]] unmovable teleporting companion, which really makes you wonder why ''you'' are the hero everyone keeps talking about.
76	-->--'''[[WebVideo/HonestTrailers Honest Game Trailers]]''' about ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim''
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78	->"But Steve, you take credit for work that other people do. Did your fat beard Wozniak write these raps for you, too?"
79	-->--'''WebVideo/EpicRapBattlesOfHistory''' -- ''Steve Jobs vs Bill Gates''
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82	[[folder:Western Animation]]
83	->'''Mayor Manx:''' ''That ghost means to kill me!''\
84	'''Callie:''' Yes. And you're the only one who can stop him!\
85	'''Mayor Manx:''' MEEE?!! Then we're ''doomed''. [[DoomyDoomsOfDoom DOOMED]] I tell you!''
86	-->-- ''WesternAnimation/SwatKats'', "The Ghost Kat"
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88	->''"WesternAnimation/PorkyPig had a full-fledged career as a star going, and he really only started doing his best work... as a sidekick! And there's no shame in that."''
89	-->-- '''[[WesternAnimation/{{Superfriends}} Robin]]''', Creator/CartoonNetwork {{Ad Bumper\|s}}
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91	->'''Striga:''' Whatever we achieve, we achieve it together. You and me. Carmilla throws a crazy plan at us, and it's us who make it work.\
92	'''Morana:''' Or, put another way, we make it work despite Carmilla.
93	-->--''WesternAnimation/Castlevania2017'', "Walk Away"
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