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{{trope}}
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A [[Sidekick]] with a peculiar twist: presumably to serve as a [[Foil]] to a brave (or cocky) hero, they're so yellow that one has to wonder how the heck they ended up in the adventure business in the first place. The Cowardly Sidekick is often what happens when the [[Plucky Comic Relief]] isn't so... well, plucky. Anything but, in fact.
Often overlaps with [[Bumbling Sidekick]]. Compare [[The Drag Along]], for which this usually wasn't his choice to begin with. Contrast [[Reckless Sidekick]].
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▲== Anime & Manga ==
* Myoga the flea in ''[[Inuyasha|Inu Yasha]]''. Whoever he hides with in a battle has been used as an indicator of what's the safest place to be.
* While [[Weasel Mascot|Chamo]] of ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]'' may be mostly useless during fights (and not all that brave during the particularly dangerous fights), he's at least a capable [[The Strategist|strategist]] and is willing to be as useful a possible.
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* Yoki in ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist]]''.
== [[Comic Books]] ==
* In ''[[Battle Pope]]'', this role is occupied by [[Jesus Christ]].
* Bob, Agent of HYDRA and sidekick of [[Deadpool]].
== [[Film
* Itchy from ''[[All Dogs Go to Heaven]]'' is an example of this who (at least at the beginning of the first film) displays traces of [[Hypercompetent Sidekick]].
* ''[[The Swan Princess]]'' has two, Bromley and Jean-Bob.
* Malak the thief in ''[[Conan the Barbarian|Conan the Destroyer]]''.
* Snails in ''[[Dungeons and Dragons (film)|Dungeons and Dragons]]''.
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* Ruby Rhod in ''[[The Fifth Element]]''.
== [[Live-Action TV]] ==
▲* Vila Restal, the cowardly thief, in ''[[Blake's 7|Blakes Seven]]''.
* Goodwin in ''[[wikipedia:The Immortal (TV series, Canadian)|The Immortal]]'' for the last 400 years.
* Edward Borman in ''[[The Mercury Men]]''.
== [[Newspaper Comics]] ==
* ''[[Rip Haywire]]'' has his faithful dog, talking collie TNT, who is in near-constant panic mode.
== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
* ''[[Magic: The Gathering]]''{{'}}s [https://web.archive.org/web/20081004194211/http://ww2.wizards.com/gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?&id=113512 Norin the Wary], quoted in several flavor texts before getting a card of his own (with an appropriate ability, of course). He's probably the game's most famous coward, and as a summonable creature he arguably qualifies as the ''player's'' sidekick.▼
▲* ''[[Magic: The Gathering]]'''s [http://ww2.wizards.com/gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?&id=113512 Norin the Wary], quoted in several flavor texts before getting a card of his own (with an appropriate ability, of course). He's probably the game's most famous coward, and as a summonable creature he arguably qualifies as the ''player's'' sidekick.
== Video Games ==▼
▲== [[Video Games]] ==
* Linebeck in ''[[The Legend of Zelda:
* Globox from the ''[[Rayman]]'' series.
* [[Divergent Character Evolution|Luigi is depicted this way]] in the more recent ''[[Super Mario Bros.]]'' games (such as ''[[Mario & Luigi]]''), which is partially [[Canon Immigrant|integrated]] from the 90's cartoons.
== [[Web Original]] ==
* Craig from ''[[The Allen and Craig Show]]''.
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* In ''[[Rugrats]]'', Chuckie Finster is literally scared of his own shadow. [[Foil|Contrast]] to Tommy, who is generally fearless.
* Penfold from ''[[Danger Mouse]]'' is an iconic example.
* Luigi in the ''[[Super Mario Bros Super Show]]'' and its sequels.
* Arthur from ''[[The Tick (animation)|The Tick]]''. Actually explained in the pilot basically as Arthur being unable to tolerate how mundane his life was anymore; we even see him doing his work as an accountant in costume.
* Carl Wheezer from ''[[The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron]]''.
* Ron from ''[[Kim Possible]]''.
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* Fluttershy from ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic]]'' is known to freak out at falling leaves and her own shadow, when she doesn't have something more pressing to attend to, like scolding an angry dragon into leaving her friends alone or glaring a cockatrice into submission. "Cowardly" is perhaps not the correct word, so much as "cripplingly timid".
* Gus from ''[[Recess]]''.
* Zilly from ''[[Dastardly and Muttley in Their Flying Machines]]''.
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