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* Misao and Ayano from ''[[Lucky Star]]''. At one point, Misao even bemoans that she and Ayano are essentially part of the background, completed with them suddenly turning into watercolor still versions of themselves.
** However, just like what happened with Taniguchi and Kunikida above, Misao has become an [[Ensemble Darkhorse]] of sorts, even getting her own solo character song album. No such luck for Ayano, though.
*** Ayano now has an image song..But so does basically everyone else.
** Heck, don't forget their official label, "Haikei (Background) Combination."
* Moe and Miwa, Ichigo's friends from ''[[Tokyo Mew Mew]]'', whose names aren't [[They Just Didn't Care|even revealed for several episodes.]]
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* Poor Rivalz from ''[[Code Geass]]'' is That One Guy, who goes out of his way to try and do something cool and noble in the season finale... and fails. The Japanese fans [[Fan Nickname|nicknamed]] him "Air", an effective description of how relevant the poor guy actually is to the main plot.
* Taro, Myu-myu and the other guy from ''[[Serial Experiments Lain]]'', often seen hanging out at the Cyberia or somewhere like that; Taro does gets some protagonism though, telling Lain what the Psyche processor is for, and then having a one-scene affair with her.
** They are more a plot-device than Those Two Guys. The series also has a straight example, namely Juri and Reika, Lain's only school acquaintances/friends apart from Arisu. Reika is outspoken, while Juri is kinda childish, for example suggesting that Arisu should date a boy for the sole reason that people wouldn't make rumours about her crush towards a teacher. Neither of the two ever learn about the massive, terrible phenomenon going on right under their noses, even when Juri was the one who first ''alluded'' to it in-series (she was seen crying her heart out after receiving an e-mail from Chisa Yomoda, who had just killed herself.. ''right'' after Chisa's death).
* Yayoi (short) and Lilie (tall) from ''[[Mai-Otome]]''.
* Shiratori's three art school classmates in ''[[Mahoraba]]'', two girls and one guy, are so ordinary they don't even get [[No Name Given|get named]] until the final chapter. One of the Drama CDs revolves around trying to find their names.
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** Additionally, Homura and Koharu, the two village elders, seem to be pretty inseparable. Although they work together as the only two members of the Konoha Council, which demands that they spend time together, they are never seen apart from one another. However, it is later revealed that {{spoiler|they, along with Danzo, orchestrated the Uchiha Clan massacre}}.
* Kazu and Onigiri from ''[[Air Gear]]''.
** Least at the start of the series, they're upgraded to main characters later on. On the female end, Emily and Yayoi who are generally Team Kogarasumaru's cheerleaders and sometimes backup memebers.
* The three old men from ''[[Cowboy Bebop]]''.
* The two girls in Amu's class in ''[[Shugo Chara]]''. One wears glasses and the other, who is later revealed to be named Manami, wears her hair in two buns.
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** Played straight with Yosaku and Johnny also probably the earliest example of this trope in the series. They're two of Zoro's old bounty hunting friends, and the most they accomplish is by lending Zoro their swords for his fight with Hatchan.
* ''[[Mahoromatic]]'' has Kawahara and Hamadi who, in the first season, exist mostly to procure and share porn with Suguru. In the second season, Hamadi goes beyond simple Two-Guys-hood when he develops a crush on [[Dojikko|Minawa]]. Kawahara still mostly stays in the background. {{spoiler|In the manga [[Where Are They Now? Epilogue|epilogue]], Hamadi is shown to have married Minawa while [[Pair the Spares|Kawahara is with Miyuki]]}}.
* Subverted in ''[[Durarara!!]]'', where it turns out Those Two [[Otaku]] are just as involved in the [[Mob War|Mob Wars]] as everyone else is. Also, {{spoiler|they're [[Torture Technician|Torture Technicians]]}}
* The two unnamed guys from Tokyo in ''[[Initial D]]'' who drive a Nissan Silvia S15. The fat guy who drives the car uses a technique called "SUPER ULTRA LATE BRAKING!!!" which only ends up screwing over his chance of victory.
* Bucky and Pauley Cracker from ''[[Kimba the White Lion]].''
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* Masaru and Saiki in ''[[Tenshi ni Narumon]]''.
* Daigo's high school friends in ''[[Virgin Love]]'', who show up to comment briefly on how Daigo's relationship with Kaoru is going, and then immediately get brushed off by Kaoru.
* In ''[[Baccano!]]!'' we've got--
{{quote|'''Miria''': [[Catch Phrase|Hey, Isaac!]]<br />
'''Isaac''': [[Self-Demonstrating Article|Yeah, Miria?]]<br />
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== Comics ==
* For most of the '90s, [[Booster Gold]] and the [[Blue Beetle]] were Those Two Guys of [[The DCU]]. They practically never got up to anything important of their own, but often showed up in team books or other heroes' series, where they invariably got into trouble thanks to some [[Zany Scheme]] or another. This came to an end in the '00s, when DC remembered they were both heroes in their own rights, Beetle died heroically, and Booster went on to star in his own series again.
** This is because they're the characters most associated with the Keith Giffen era of the Justice League which occurred shortly after the characters were introduced to mainstream DC Continuity and which brought them to prominence. The light hearted nature of that series became associated with those two guys.
* Sam and Twitch, NYPD homicide detectives, from the ''[[Spawn]]'' series. Sam Burke was a large and headstrong man, with a tendency for foul language. "Twitch" Williams, on the other hand, was thinner, bespectacled, and was usually the brains of the group.
* ''[[Bone]]'''s [[Memetic Mutation|Stupid Stupid Rat Creatures]].
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== Fan Works ==
* Sam and Naoko provide the human commentary in ''[[The Return (fanfic)|The Return]]'' it's even Lampshaded how everyone else seems to get turned into a succubus but they've hung around the main character for half a million words so far and are still human and un-kidnappedd. When Sunshine reveals she is a succubus, they just look at each other and the loser pays the winner with an "I told you so".
* In the Wrestling fanfiction TWE: The Next Generation "Rapid" Ricky Helix and Marcus Cross are just there to make Generation Now more threating. While Dax Din, Claymore Raters, Rena Myers, Nicholas Churchill and Zephyr Jones are more important to the whole story arch.
* In [[Glee]] fanfiction focusing on Blaine and/or Dalton, Wes and David (frequently called [[Portmanteau Couple Name|Wevid]] in-universe) often play this part.
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== Films -- Live Action ==
* A rather perfect example in [[Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead]]
** Parodied with Harold and Kumar's semitic duo, Rosenberg and Goldstein.
* The ''[[Pirates of the Caribbean]]'' series has two sets of these. One set are pirates (Pintel and Ragetti) who explain the convoluted plot to each other, and the other, less-used pair are a duo of Laurel and Hardy-inspired redcoats who are always debating things (Murtogg and Mullroy). Both pairs {{spoiler|end up on Barbossa's crew at the end of the third movie and will likely appear in the upcoming fourth movie.}}
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* Mariah Carey's woeful "star vehicle" ''[[Glitter]]'' has Louise and Roxanne.
* A very early film example are "Charters and Caldicott" from ''[[The Lady Vanishes]]'' (and a half dozen other movies of the early 40s) who spend their on screen time mostly obsessed with the current cricket scores.
** They have their very own adventure in ''Charters and Caldicott'' by Stella Bingham. The pair are ''still'' obsessed by cricket and go from lunch at their club to Caldicott's flat to settle a point in dispute with his 'Wisden' a Cricket reference work. They discover the body of a young woman on Caldicott's bedroom floor. Her purse identifies her as the daughter of an old friend. But then another young woman appears claiming to be the * real* daughter and that her father has been murdered - then it starts getting complicated.
* Brian Posehn and Patton Oswalt in ''[[Desperate But Not Serious]]'' appear several times, discussing which ''[[Star Wars]]'' characters are gay.
* In ''The Life and Death of Peter Sellers'', [[Spike Milligan]] and Harry Secombe ([[Peter Sellers]]' colleagues from ''[[The Goon Show]]'') pop up in a largely non-speaking capacity several times after the opening scene of a show recording, symbolizing Peter's disconnect with his old friends and his first great success out of his ambition to become a film actor, and his eventual alienation of virtually everyone he was ever close to. (Peter was actually quite close to these two guys throughout his life, but it's [[True Art Is Angsty|the kind of movie that's not interested in the good times]].)
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* Andy and Andy from ''[[Hot Fuzz]]''.
* The two unnamed hearse drivers from ''[[Bubba Ho-Tep]]''.
* Despite going on to the spin off movie ''[[Harold and Kumar]], John Cho's role in ''[[American Pie]]'' was in Milf Guy #2, one of Those Two Guys with Milf Guy #1 (Justin Isfeld).
* The newspaper hounds from ''[[Max Keeble's Big Move]]''.
* Mia's maids in the second ''[[The Princess Diaries]]'' movie. One of the few funny bits in the movie is when Lilly lampshades this by calling them Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. And then Lenny and Squiggy.
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** Not to mention their various international counterparts... every locale has an ethnic equivalent of Fred & Nobby.
*** Lampshaded in ''[[Discworld/Jingo|Jingo]]''
* Inspectors Lestrade and Gregson in ''[[Sherlock Holmes]]''. Good enough coppers in their own way but naturally can't compare with the Great Detective.
** Only in the debut novel, ''A Study in Scarlet'', though. They never appear together after that, with Gregson largely fading into the background, while Lestrade attains enough prominence to [[Inspector Lestrade|get his own trope.]]
* ''[[Harry Potter (novel)|Harry Potter]]'', having [[Loads and Loads of Characters]], has several of these: Fred and George, Crabbe and Goyle, Dean and Seamus, Lavender and Parvati, etc.
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** While it would be an exaggeration to call those two main characters, they do get more characterization and some plot-relevant moments later in the book; Wamba even manages to {{spoiler|free his master Cedric from his jail cell in their enemies' castle}} virtually all by himself, by the simple expedient of a clever disguise.
* Bodger and Grift in JV Jones' ''Book of Words'' books are pretty much used for Rosencrantz-and-Guildenstern observational purposes for the whole trilogy, and occasionally have to do something important for the plot.
* The ''[[House of the Night]]'' series has a female version in 'the Twins', two of Zoey Redbird's friends, who aren't literal twins (in fact, one is the [[Token Ethnic Minority]]) but are very close friends to each other. They even have [[Elemental Rock-Paper-Scissors|complementary]] [[Elemental Powers]], with one being fire and the other one water. I can't even remember which has fire and which has water. They have a brief romantic fling with a more typical set of Those Two Guys, incidentally.
* Charlie and Fanwell, Mr. J.L.B. Matekoni's two apprentices, in the ''No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency'' novels.
* ''[[Of Mice and Men]]'' has a set as the main characters. In any other book, George and Lennie would be Those Two Guys, and [[The Ace|Slim]] would be [[The Hero]].
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** Unlike most sets of Those Two Guys, they remained constant characters in every season of the continuous plotline, cameoed in the first season after the continuous plotline, and even cameoed in the 10th anniversary [[Reunion Show]].
** Their spiritual successors are Cassidy and Devin in ''[[Power Rangers Dino Thunder]]'', an aspiring reporter and her cameraman.
** Along with Lother's nieces Marah and Kapri on ''[[Power Rangers Ninja Storm]]''. (Cassidy and Marah are even played by the same actress).
** Bulk himself returns in ''[[Power Rangers Samurai]]'' in this role for the first time in more than a decade, though Skull's son takes his father's place in the onscreen duo.
* Frank and Cyril, from ''[[Slings and Arrows]]''.
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* Officers Michael Francis Murphy and Tony Bellows from the live action ''[[The Flash]]'' series.
* and [[wikipedia:Black Scorpion (TV series)|Black Scorpion]] had Slugger & Specs.
* ''[[The West Wing]]'''s Ed and Larry. Or Larry and Ed. They're in every meeting, advise the President on every issue and no one knows who the hell they are.
** Lampshaded a couple of times when they are given the wrong folders, and when someone asks if they always walk around together
** Lampshaded another time when the pair are introduced to a new character and when they ask "which one is Ed and which is Larry?", Ed, Larry and Josh all respond "it doesn't matter"
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** Isabel and Kati, particularly in the first season.
* Matt Rutherford (the black guy) and Mike Chang (the Asian guy) from ''[[Glee]]''.
** Only in the first season, though.
* Subverted in ''[[30 Rock|Thirty Rock]]'', with Grizz and Dotcom being anything but ordinary. They are, however, as close as "those two guys" can be for a man like Tracy.
* Ed and Harry from ''[[Supernatural (TV series)|Supernatural]]'''s Ghostfacers. They acquire a team later, but in their first appearance it's just them.
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** Except the Holmesian Double Act is very rarely minor characters. The iconic "double act" are Jago and Lightfoot from Talons of Weng-Chiang. Jago owns the theatre where Weng-Chiang is hidden and his agent plies his trade, and Lightfoot is a police pathologist and the Doctor's de facto landlord for the story. Both important to the plot to the point that they are more important then the Doctor until the finale.
** The trope gets parodied mercilessly in the revived series episode ''A Good Man Goes To War'', with the introduction of the 'fat, thin, gay, married, Anglican marines.' Who don't just have no names, but [[Lampshade Hanging|don't even need them]].
** And the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' serial "[[Doctor Who/Recap/S18
* The gate guards from ''[[Kings]]'' seem poised to fulfill this role.
* Huey and Gardino on ''[[Due South]]''.
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* An interesting take on the idea is in HBO's ''[[Rome]]'', where Lucius Vorenus and Titus Pullo may be two of the main characters, but they are also arguably playing a Rosencrantz-and-Guildenstern role where their stories, although important to them, are but a minor side-show compared to the unfolding civil war between Caesar and Pompey, which they observe and sometimes affect. This angle is arguably lost in the second season, when their stories are largely separated from the bigger, more important characters, at least until the finale when they side with their patrons (Mark Antony and Octavian, respectively) once again.
* Ryan and Esposito from ''[[Castle]]'' fit very well, along with being possible [[Ensemble Darkhorse|darkhorses]].
* Amy's friends Madison and Lauren on ''[[The Secret Life of the American Teenager]]'' along with Ben's friends Alice and Henry.
* ''[[Life with Derek]]'' has Sam and Ralph, depending on the episode.
* Brian and Kurt from the British TV series ''[[Teachers]]'' fit this trope almost exactly. Brian is the tall jock P.E teacher and Kurt is the short IT teacher. They could also be labeled as [[Heterosexual Life Partners]]
* Whichever two lab rats happen to feature in any particular episode of ''[[CSI]]'' (particularly Archie or Mandy)...their personalities are just, y'know, those two lab techs. Yet they've almost all been around, just conversing in the background for the majority of the show. Every dozen or so episodes they get thrown a bone and have an actual episode featuring them. So much so that Hodges and Wendy have been upgraded to main cast members.
* Korean dramas like to feature those ''three'' guys, usually with names and a generic personality frameset: the gossipy one, the play-by-the-rules one, and the [[Butt Monkey]].
* ''[[Degrassi the Next Generation]]'' always seems to have a pair that last a few years, which usually means they'll be nerdy and/or [[Casanova Wannabe|wannabe players]]. JT and Toby were it for Seasons 1-6 until JT was killed, then Danny and Derek for Seasons 6-7 until Danny outgrew Derek and matured, and now recently Connor and Wesley have settled into Degrassi's Those Two Guys mantle, which had people shuffling in and out of that spot since Season 8.
** Of course all of the above were preceded by Yick Yu and Arthur Kobalewscuy from [[Degrassi Junior High]] and [[Degrassi High]]
* ''[[Leverage]]'' has FBI agents Taggart and McSweeten.
* [[Horatio Hornblower]] has Styles and Matthews, at least by the second series, both of whom have been under Horatio's command since the first episode and are the most prominent lower-deck characters.
* On ''[[Stargate Universe]]'', Brody and Volker wound up becoming this.
* In ''[[Sons of Guns]]'', several scenes with Joe and Charlie on technical projects wind up working out this way.
* In the ''[[Hannah Montana]]'' episode "He Could Be the One" Jackson and Rico appear as singing narrators who a variety of different styles of music. They are later joined by Jackson's girlfriend Siena in "I Will Always Remember You" (Who can actually sing). This made some wonder if Rico knew if Miley was Hannah.
* Kenan and Kel on ''[[All That]]''; they even have [[Statler and Waldorf]] imitations. They got their own spinoff.
* Drake and Josh on ''[[The Amanda Show]]'' They did too.
* Laura Hall and Linda Taylor on ''[[Whose Line Is It Anyway?|Whose Line Is It Anyway]]''. They are musicians who almost never speak but are still part of the main cast. Sometimes a [[Rule of Three|third female musician]] joins them.
* Hiro and Ando were this in season 1 of ''[[Heroes (TV series)|Heroes]]'' whenever Hiro wasn't contributing to the plot.
** Season 2 had the twins Maya and Alejandro until the latter {{spoiler|was killed by Sylar}}.
* ''[[Red Dwarf]]'' is arguably a show where Those Two Guys become the main characters. Who else would the camera follow after [[Everybody's Dead, Dave|everybody else dies?]]
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* The smugglers in the opera ''Carmen'' are often played like this.
** Also Carmen's two friends, Mercedes and Frasquita.
* ''[[The Tempest]]'' features Trinculo and Stephano.
* Most productions of ''[[Macbeth]]'' often turn Ross and Lennox (or Lennox and Angus, if Ross retains his considerably large role) into this, often merging said characters with the minor lords like Caithness, Menteith, and the unnamed lord (from III.vi) in the process.
* Ping, Pang and Pong in the opera ''Turandot''.
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== Video Games ==
* The ''[[Final Fantasy]]'' video game series features repeated incarnations of Those Two Guys, invariably named Biggs and Wedge after two minor characters from ''[[Star Wars]]''.
** [[Final Fantasy VII|The Turks]] would also be a good example, Reno and Rude acting much like a comedy duo in [[The Movie]] ''Advent Children''.
*** Which is odd considering Reno's the one who [[Moral Dissonance|crushed Sector 7 and everyone in it]].
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**** ''[[Final Fantasy IX]]'', on the other hand...
***** Speaking of IX, Marcus, Cinna and Blank might qualify under this trope. ''Final Fantasy IX'' [[Suspiciously Specific Denial|IS popular by the way. Its fans just tend to be a lot less vocal about it.]]
**** ''Final Fantasy X'' also had a pair; Luzzu and Gatta. Biggs and Wedge are also appear in Blitzball as recruitable players with very good stats.
**** No mention of Zenero and Benero? (Their brother Genero isn't part of Tantalus)
** In ''[[Final Fantasy XII]]'', there are a pair of guards at Nalbina named Gibbs and Deweg.
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* ''[[Mother 3]]'' has Lou and Bud, two minor characters who appear in chapter 1. Every time Bud says something, Lou slaps him. It's [[Boke and Tsukkomi Routine|a form of Japanese Comedy]].
** That's because they're references to [[Abbotand Costello|Bud Abbot and Lou Costello]].
* Both ''[[Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan]]'' and ''[[Elite Beat Agents]]'' usually feature two team members that stays constant whenever the difficulty changes, except during the hardest difficulty (where everyone gets replaced by girls). They usually follow their current leader and not the one who did most actions (they did, but not as big as the leader, who also does most poses, especially the rivalry poses in ''Ouendan 2''). Their names:
** ''Ouendan'': Atsushi Saitou and Ittetsu Suzuki (Red team), Tsufushi Moriyama and Kenshin Sugita (blue team).
** ''Elite Beat Agents'': Agent Derek and Agent Morris.
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* [[Princess Waltz]] is fairly unique among [[Visual Novel|Visual Novels]] by actually providing character models for the random classmates, most of which are Those Two Guys. Most notable are Nodoka (Cute and Perky) and Kazuko (Talkative and Loud). {{spoiler|In a twist, one of the even more minor Those Two Guys turns out to be the [[Secret Identity]] of a fairly major character.}}
* [[Spirited Competitor|Shizune]] [[Club Stub|and]] [[Large Ham|Misha]] of ''[[Katawa Shoujo]]'' become this in nearly every route but their own, frequently pestering Hisao to do work for the Student Council or [[Shipper on Deck|commenting on his love life]].
* In ''[[Tsukihime]]'', there is only "That One Guy" (Arihiko, who has this going on with Shiki, the main character, before Shiki becomes an [[Ordinary High School Student]]), though his role is exactly as in the trope.
** Arihiko is further unusual in that he's surprisingly well-developed for a supposedly minor character. He even gets his own [[Day in The Limelight]] story in ''Kagetsu Tohya''.
* Gakuto and Moro in ''[[Maji de Watashi ni Koi Shinasai!|Maji De Watashi Ni Koi Shinasai]]'' fit this role to a tee, though they occasionally do get some time to shine.
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== Web Animation ==
* ''[[Broken Saints]]'' has two villainous variations: [[Sociopathic Soldier|Sociopathic Soldiers]] Lt. Charles and Lt. Bravado, and [[Giant Mook|club bouncers]] Phobos and Deimos. The latter two do fulfill the physical contrast, with one being white and the other [[Scary Black Man|black]].
* Mr. Bland and Señor Having a Little Trouble from ''[[Homestar Runner]]''. They both entered the Strongest Man in the World Contest... and only lasted a couple of seconds. They only have ''one line each''. Strong Bad jokingly explained their lack of appearances because they were crushed by a falling concession stand. Most of their appearances are in the cartoons poking fun at the creators' old drawing style.
** Coach Z and Bubs or Strong Mad and The Cheat (or as Strong Bad calls them, "the two guys") probably qualify.
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* As proof that you can pull these guys from other categories, ''[[No Need for Bushido]]'' has the pair start out as part of a small group of bandits, the first moment of menace for the Heroine and the chance for the Hero to save the Heroine for the start of a [[Rescue Romance]] (or whatever). Then we think they're out of the story. Nope, they show up later, and their oblivious-to-obvious-clues nature pretty quickly becomes a running gag before they end up finding the party and starting to help them out.
* Xander and Max from ''[[The Wotch]]''.
* Bob and Elmer from ''[[Penny and Aggie]]''. Stan and Jack also fit the trope to some degree, especially in their earlier appearances.
* In ''[[Megatokyo]]'', Yuki's friends [[Deadpan Snarker|Mami]] and [[Genki Girl|Asako]].
* "The Lounge Guys" from ''[[You Say It First]]''
* The amourous cat boys from ''[[Okashina Okashi]]''.
* Spongebath and Emeril from ''Achewood''.
* ''[[Sexy Losers]]'' had Touro's two nameless friends, known only as "Sarcastic Friend" and "Swearing Friend". The Swearing Friend was enough of an [[Ensemble Darkhorse]] that he started making slightly bigger appearances than just being Touro's foil.
* "The Comet and the Pirates" arc of ''[[Station V3]]'' has "Those Two Frog-Fish Guys" who are obsessed with taking over things (the Station, an incoming comet, the coming-soon ski resort ...)
* ''[[Ansem Retort]]'' has [http://www.ansemretort.org/ansemretort/index.html?comic=324 Darth Maul and Marluxia] filling this role. Maul is lazy, offensive, violent, and as much of a [[Cloudcuckoolander]] as anyone can be without being retarded. Marluxia is the gayest [[Straight Man]] ever -- relatively speaking that is, considering that ''[[Ansem Retort]]'' takes place in Cloudcuckooland.
* Robbie and Jase in ''[[PvP]]''. {{spoiler|Until Robbie won the lottery and Jase moved in with his girlfriend. Even though Jase is living with Robbie again, their role has significantly changed.}}
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* Smic and Hannah in [http://www.jaydenandcrusader.com Jayden and Crusader] tend to be minor background characters... right up until the point they finish their massive death machine. Or make something explode.
* ''Girly'' has two sets: Team Fast and Chuy's two brothers.
* Tweaking the archetype a little ''[[Exiern]]'' has [[Punny Name|Neils and Bhors]], two eight-foot tall members of the king's [[Praetorian Guard]], as Those Two Guys.
* [[The Big Guy|Equius]] and [[The Heart|Nepeta]] from [[Homestuck]] are not really all ''that'' important, but they're almost never seen without at least mentioning the other, if not speaking to each other and adventurin' together. They're also [[Platonic Life Partners]] and have engaged in many a [[Heartwarming Moment]] in times where the story gets pretty dark.
** [[Me's a Crowd|Eggs and Biscuits]] of the Felt as well.
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== Web Original ==
* Greasy and Peeper, in the ''[[Whateley Universe]]''.
* For TGWTG, Handsome Tom and 8-Bit Mickey play this role in both The 1-Year Anniversary Brawl and Kickassia.
* Thalia Ruiz and Erasme in ''[[Greek Ninja]]''.
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** The cops Eddie (the cop who looks like an [[Off-Model]] Mr. Burns) and Lou (the black cop with the Popeye arms) as well.
** Let's not forget Bart's school friends from the first two season, Richard and Lewis.
** As well as Rod and Todd Flanders, both who are the sons of Ned Flanders.
* Officers Smitty and URL in ''[[Futurama]]''.
* Timmy's best friends Chester and A.J. on ''[[The Fairly Odd Parents]]''.
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** Also the rich jerks, Tad and Chad.
* Pete White and Master Billy Quizboy from ''[[The Venture Bros]].'', who are also business partners and roommates in addition to being super-scientists. In fact, most of the series' characters are foils for one another; Doctor Venture and Brock, The Monarch and Dr. Girlfriend, Hank and Dean, Watch and Ward, Monarch Henchmen 21 and 24, etc.
** In DVD commentaries, Doc Hammer and Jackson Publick point this trope out and confess that this is because whenever they're stuck or bored while writing they just make up two characters who are basically each other and goof around doing voices as them.
* ''[[Code Lyoko]]'' has two pairs: the two [[School Newspaper Newshound|School Newspaper Newshounds]] Milly and Tamiya, and arguably Sissi's two cronies, Hervé and Nicolas.
** And starting Season 3, Hiroki and Johnny also fit the mold.
* Flem and Earl from ''[[Cow and Chicken]]''.
* Several such pairs exist in ''[[Transformers Animated]]'': Blitzwing and Lugnut, Bumblebee and Bulkhead, and Mixmaster and Scrapper, and Snarl and Swoop.
** In the ''Transformers'' comics, Rack'n'Ruin of the Wreckers, who were bonded together in a desperate attempt to save their lives. The fact that they basically have one name (and it's never specified which is which), ''and'' that they receive basically zero characterization even as a pair makes them a perfect example.
* Sheen and Carl from ''[[Jimmy Neutron]]''.
* Mr. Small and Mr. Nosy from ''[[The Mr. Men Show]]''.
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* The Badly Drawn Brothers from ''[[Avenger Penguins]]''.
* Slatislav and Dimitri from ''Count Duckula''.
* ''[[Rocky and Bullwinkle]]'' have Edgar and Chauncey, two guys who occasionally comment on the action.
{{quote|'''Edgar:''' Now there's something you don't see every day, Chauncey.
'''Chauncey:''' What's that, Edgar?
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* The Diggers (Sam and Dave) from ''[[Recess]]''
** In the main six, T.J. and Vince are considered this.
* Mervis and Dunglap from [[
* Whizzer and Dipstick in ''[[101 Dalmatians|101 Dalmatians: The Series]]''
* Larry and Steve from the first season of ''[[Rugrats]]''.
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