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{{quote|''We're sorry, the position of annoying talking animal has already been taken!''|'''Donkey''', ''[[Shrek]] 2''}}

 

 

In webcomics it often takes the form of the [[Snarky Non Human Sidekick]]. May be a [[Bond Creatures|Bond Creature]].

This primarily applies if the sidekick is distinctly different from its buddy. Pinky from ''[[Pinky and The Brain]]'' is decidedly nonhuman, and the Brain's sidekick, but since the Brain is a mouse himself there's no real difference.

 

 

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* [[Pronoun Trouble|Lord/Lady]] Belbel in ''~There, Beyond the Beyond~'' is a rabbit-like creature who accompanies the heroes in [[Viewer Gender Confusion|his/her]] capacity as a magician.

* Ruu the monkey (to Nowa), Setra the sceptre (to Menace), and Kere-tan the snake (to Echidna) in [[Queens Blade]].

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

 

* A super villain, the Red Ghost, was active alongside three superpowered apes.

* The second Major Mapleleaf gained his powers from his sidekick, a horse named Thunder.

* ''[[Spirou and Fantasio|Spirou]]'' has a pet squirrel with excactly the same role as Tintins Snowy. And the [[Marsupilami]] in earlier books.

* Krypto, the Super-Dog, [[Superman]]'s [[Silver Age]] Kryptonian pet, who has apparently made a recent comeback. He was later joined by [[Supergirl]]'s pets, Streaky the Super-Cat, Beppo the Super-Monkey, and Comet the Super-Horse (also Kara sometimes-boyfriend in his centaur form). Together, they formed the Legion of Super-Pets.

 

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* ''[[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.

* Stanley Ipkiss's dog Milo in ''[[The Mask (Film)|The Mask]]''.

* Possibly subverted in ''[[Ladyhawke]]'', a story of two cursed lovers, a man who is a wolf by night and a woman who is a hawk by day.

*** Remy generally considers the ghost of Gusteau to be a figment of his imagination; the ghost agrees. Truth be told, one might argue that Linguini is Remy's non-rodent sidekick.

** Louis and Ray from ''[[The Princess and The Frog]]'' are sort of an odd example, considering the human protagonists are also in the form of frogs during the majority of the movie.

** Baloo, Bagheera, and the vultures from ''[[The Jungle Book (Disney)|The Jungle Book]]''.

** The Seven Dwarfs from ''[[Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs (Disney)|Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs]]''.

*** The Friends from the Other Side to [[The Princess and The Frog (Disney)|Doctor "The Shadow Man" Facilier.]]

** Notable aversions: Both ''[[Atlantis the Lost Empire (Disney)|Atlantis the Lost Empire]]'' and ''[[The Incredibles]]'', which have the least nonhuman characters (zero in all) of any animated Disney film.

* Villains get these too -- see Rasputin's bat Bartok in ''Anastasia.''

* Faffy and, to a lesser extent, Twinkle the Marvel Horse in ''[[Dave the Barbarian]]''.

* Custard in the 2002 ''[[Strawberry Shortcake]]'' series.

* Blip from ''[[Space Ghost]]''.

* The television show ''[[Get Ed]]'' had no less than four examples of these, spread out evenly amongst the protagonists and antagonists. Series [[Big Bad]] Mr. Bedlam had a computer AI named Kora who tended to function as the system administrator for his evil empire (while also giving snarky comments on the side). Similarly his toaster apparently grew a skinny body to become the robot Crouch who tended to be somewhat less snarky and more of a suck-up but who nonetheless seemed to be the one who helped designed the vehicles for the evil mooks. One the good guys' side the title character wound up acquiring Torch for his flying surf board, a sentient navigational program that helps to keep Ed in the loop as to his surroundings. Perhaps oddest of all is [[Cloudcuckoolander]] Loogie's sidekick Dr. Pinch, a catfish puppet decked out in a doctor's outfit. While the idea that Loogie suffers from disassociative identity disorder can be used to explain Dr. Pinch's animated nature, this troper can't help but remember the episode where, in order to sneak into Bedlam's firewall protected Virtual Reality World after each one was locked out, the good guys wound up placing the VR interface on Pinch's head (read that, PINCH'S head, not Loogie's) and the puppet was able to enter the virtual world (as a puppet on BEDLAM'S arm no less) with his personality completely present. Even team brain [[The Smart Guy|Fizz]] wasn't able to come up with an explanation for this.

** Also, there was one episode where Dr. Pinch got put on someone else's arm (Was one of the guys, can't remember which) and still had the same personality and voice.

** Also, one episode in the webseries, she had replaced grudge with another in-human sidekick, named Rubella.

* [[Invader Zim]] (who isn't human, but if [[Doctor Who (TV)|the Doctor]] can be listed here, he can too) has his [[Robot Buddy]] GIR, and gains another - just before the series was cancelled - in Minimoose.

* Blue Falcon had Dynomutt.

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