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== [[Advertising]] ==

 

== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==

* ''[[JoJo's Bizarre Adventure]]: Stardust Crusaders'' has among the protagonists Iggy, a pug who commands the sand-based Stand The Fool. The opposition has Pet Shop, a hawk who commands the ice-based Osiris. The two even duke it out one on one eventually. The fifth storyline (''Diamond Is Unbreakable'') has Stray Cat, a sentient cat-turned-flower with the power to launch bubbles, and the sixth (''Stone Ocean'') has Foo Fighters, ''a mass of plankton'' inhabiting dead ex-criminal Etro's body.

* ''[[Speed Racer]]'': Chim-Chim, Spritle's chimpanzee pal.

 

== [[Comic Books]] ==

* Chameleon Boy of the [[Legion of Super-Heroes]] had Proty (best described as a shape-shifting blob of Silly Putty).

 

* Inverted in the ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic]]'' fanfiction ''[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/6848/Silent-Knight Silent Knight]''. {{spoiler|Spike and/or Twilight Sparkle are the heroes, and Chirp is the mute ''human'' sidekick. Makes ya think, don't it...?"}}

 

* ''[[Star Wars]]'': Han Solo and Chewbacca. R2-D2 and C-3PO also work for the group as a whole.

* ''[[A Boy and His Dog]]'' features the titular boy and dog duo, which shares a telepathic bond.

* Roger plays a natural sidekick to Eddie Valiant in ''[[Who Framed Roger Rabbit?]]''.

 

* A number of these occur in the [[Tamora Pierce]] ''[[Tortall Universe|Tortall]]'' series.

** Alanna and Faithful, a black cat who is quite possibly a God avatar. Has [[Purple Eyes]].

** Additionally, [[The Grim Reaper|Death]] of the same series has the Death of Rats, a dark-robed rat skeleton that preforms the function of death for small rodents, and his horse Binky.

** It may be stretching the definition, but Tiffany Aching's loyal Nac Mac Feegles may also count.

* Loiosh, the snarky dragonet familiar of the title character in the ''[[Taltos]]'' novels.

* Toto from ''[[The Wonderful Wizard of Oz]]''. One could also make a case for the Tin Man, Scarecrow and Cowardly Lion, in spite of their otherwise human characteristics.

* In Steven Brust's [[Dragaera]] books, Vlad Taltos has a jhereg familiar Loiosh, who looks like a miniature wyvern and acts as a [[Servile Snarker]].

 

* Twiki from ''[[Buck Rogers in the 25th Century]]''

** Also Dr. Theophilus, although given that he's a sentient AI charged with helping run the affairs of humanity one could argue an inversion in this case.

* Muffit the robotic dog in [[Battlestar Galactica (1978 TV series)|the classic ''Battlestar Galactica'']].

 

* Comedian/ventriloquist [[Jeff Dunham]] and basically any of his puppet partners (IE: Walter, Peanut, Bubba J, Achmed, etc.). Made [[Crowning Moment of Funny|all the more hilarious]] in that one of the puppets, Peanut, points out several times that well-

{{quote|Peanut: You're arguing with yourself....[[Punctuated! For! Emphasis!|AND LOSING!]]}}

** Jeff plays off this with Walter and Jose as well.

 

== [[Tabletop Games]] ==

 

== [[Video Games]] ==

* In ''[[Knights Of The Old Republic 2]]'', Bao-Dur is always accompanied by a small flying orb with built-in laser. You yourself have the option of three robotic sidekicks, plus several alien ones.

* In ''[[La Pucelle Tactics]]'', your entire party lineup aside from plot-essential humans consist of monsters you've recruited in the field.

 

== [[Web Animation]] ==

* The Cheat from ''[[Homestar Runner]]''.

** Technically, Strong Bad is non-human but The Cheat still counts.

 

== [[Web Comics]] ==

* Mia from ''[[Unintentionally Pretentious]]'' has [http://www.unintentionallypretentious.com/index.asp?c=34 Aibo], her robotic [http://www.unintentionallypretentious.com/index.asp?c=101 guide dog] and [http://www.unintentionallypretentious.com/index.asp?c=121 guardian], making it also her [[Angry Guard Dog]], but with a manual [[Berserk Button]].

** And occasionally as [http://www.unintentionallypretentious.com/index.asp?c=59 a household appliance].

 

== [[Western Animation]] ==

* Blue Falcon had Dynomutt.

* [[Futurama]]: Fry has Bender; Zapp has Kif; Farnsworth has Zoidberg.

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