* ''Webcomic/{{Nodwick}}'', on a good day, is this rather than a BeleagueredAssistant. [[SarcasticDevotee Don't expect him to stop with the snark, however]].
* Disney Comics have recurring stories featuring Sherlock Holmes parody "The Sleuth" with Mickey fulfilling the role of Watson. Seeing as The Sleuth seems to have the same investigative capabilities as WesternAnimation/InspectorGadget, it's not hard to guess who fulfills this trope...
* Lieutenant Pamela Mae Snap in ''ComicStrip/BrewsterRockitSpaceGuy''.
* Jenkins from ''Comicbook/AtomicRobo'', who is entirely human but a complete OneManArmy. WordOfGod even jokingly declares that Robo is ''Jenkins''' sidekick.
* {{Iznogoud}}'s sidekick, Dilat Larat, is absolutely loyal to his evil master, but is otherwise a sensible and pleasant person, being much wiser than nearly everyone in the series.
* For {{Deadpool}}, it's [[PlayfulHacker Weasel]] and [[NeverMessWithGranny Al]] who play this role. Weasel does pretty much everything but the actual grunt work while Al tends to provide some helpful insight in between tormenting her captor by doing things like telling him the salt is sugar (which Pool then proceeds to heap on his cereal, making for a funny spit-take).
* Poor, poor Arthur from ''TheTick''. Then again, he might not be ''hyper''competent, just far more competent than his boss, which isn't [[CloudCuckoolander exactly]] [[FearlessFool difficult.]]
** See also the animated version.
* To those who don't know better, Lucius Fox is this to [[Franchise/{{Batman}} Bruce Wayne]].
** Alfred is often this to both Bruce Wayne and Batman. And most of the other members of the Batfamily too, [[{{Nightwing}} Dick Grayson]], [[Comicbook/{{Batgirl2000}} Cassandra Cain]], Tim Drake, Damian... they all turn to Alfred for help on not-so-rare occasions.
* For a while, ''Franchise/GreenLantern'' Alan Scott was sidekick to... ''a dog''[[labelnote:Note]] (Streak the Wonder Dog, not to be confused with RexTheWonderDog, though both were Creator/DCComics characters, and Rex was largely based on the earlier canine star.)[[/labelnote]]
* FrankMiller's ''Comicbook/TheBigGuyAndRustyTheBoyRobot'' ([[WesternAnimation/BigGuyAndRustyTheBoyRobot later made into an animated series]]). The titular big guy was the result of research to create an autonomous robot to protect the USA against the USSR, however while the body was functional, no one could code a proper AI for it, and thus the government converted the big guy into a piloted robot, keeping the fact that it had a human pilot rather than an AI secret. Two decades later, the corporation that built the big guy has a break-through in AI research. The trick is however that the AI can only be coded to be of a similar mentality as a child, and that it needs to learn like a child to that it can grow into the adult, soldier-like mind the US government wants. Equipped with energy weapons, Rusty, the boy robot, is paired with The Big Guy (whom he is led to believe to be a real robot, so that Rusty will try to emulate him and model himself on him). Thing is, despite being an eighth of the big guy's size, Rusty has more firepower than the big guy, only his immaturity keeps him in line and acting as sidekick to the Big Guy, whom he's supposed to replace eventually. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wU_ljMDJ4uk Really, the theme song says it all]].
* Johnny Thunder was like this, being in possession of a basically omnipotent genie who will do whatever he says. Unfortunately, he can do ''only'' what Johnny says, and Johnny isn't the brightest guy around. His LegacyCharacter Jakeem Thunder is brighter (and Johnny himself has merged with the genie), but also thirteen years old and lacking in maturity.
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