Ever since the dawn of the Golden Age, there have been the sidekicks, with names like Robin, Speedy, Dusty, Fly-Girl and… Tim. (Not just ONE Tim, mind you, but TWO, as both The Black Terror and Captain Wonder had sidekicks who went by that epic superheroic nomenclature.) What’s rarer is the true duet act, where two heroes of equal status work together as a pair, rather than in a parent/child or boss/subordinate role. Off the top of my head, I can think of Hawk & Dove, the World’s Finest team of Superman & Batman, as well as the bulbous and leotarded team of Ace & Gary who… What are you all looking at?
The MS-QOTD (pronounced, as always, “misquoted”) quickly looks away and blurts out, “NOTHING!” asking:
What is your favorite pairing of super-hero equals?
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I’m going to go for my go tos: Ralph & Sue, Mr. Miracle & Big Barda. Under the right writer, Black Canary & Green Arrow. Power Girl & Terra seemed to be a bit more sidekick relationship, just based on experience, though still a great team.
Buffy and Willow :)
Power Man & Iron Fist, Cloak & Dagger, Booster Gold & Blue Beetle, Nite Owl & Rorshach, Rockslide & Anole, Fire & Ice, Archer & Armstrong,
Oh come on! Gotta go with Power-Man & Iron Fist!!
Tho Cable & Deadpool might be my all time favorite duo.
Forgot about Cage & Rand.
Ralph & Sue Dibny
Power Man & Iron Fist
Blue Beetle (Ted Kord) & Booster Gold
Chuck Taine & Luornu Durgo (when they’re running the Academy…)
Oops – I forgot!
4th Doctor and Romana
Cloak and Dagger?
I used to enjoy Archer and Armstrong, Quantum and Woody, Cloak and Dagger and the old Green Lantern and Green Arrow stuff is cool.
Also enjoyed the Flash (Wally) and Green Lantern (Kyle) team-ups that happened a couple times. And Daredevil and Black Widow was interesting.
But the best ever… The be-all end-all of hero team-ups HAS to be Rocket Racoon and Groot!
Green Lantern, Green Arrow 70’s line
Usagi Miyamoto (Yojimbo) and Gen. Also Usagi and Leonardo of the TMNT.
Atomic Robo and his various partners come to mind. Particularly Jenkins as, even though he is technically an employee and Robo is his boss, this is clearly because Jenkins likes this arrangement.
Spider-Man teams up with just about everybody from time to time, and I’ve liked most of the ones I’ve read.
Batman is awesome and I particularly like when he is paired up with Green Arrow. Superman is iconic and all, but I prefer my heroes more ‘street-level.’
green lantern and arrow
the only thing,they arent equals at all.
Classic GL and Green Arrow, as well as both Hal and Barry as well as Kyle and Wally GL/Flash team-ups.
I also like any time Spidey and Human Torch would team up and play off the synergy of Spidey’s wise cracking and Torch’s smart-alecness.
Spider-Man and Human Torch.
“There are those who call me…..Tim.”
Blue Beetle (Ted Kord) and Booster Gold is the perfect pairing of equals. Both are entirely tech based and both are hilarious
I’m gonna go out on a limb, because that’s the kind of gutsy dude I am and say Huntress & Power Girl.
Yep. The current book. Even if Power Girl’s costume is strictly from the WTF?! area of her closet.
That would have to be Empowered and Ninjette. None of these other bands of doofs comes close.
The Birds of Prey, counting both the original Babs and Dinah duo and the later field unit of Dinah and Helina.