20 TV Sidekicks Who Deserved to Be the Main Character
‘The green Power Ranger is the greatest example of this’
A protagonist can make or break a television series. Of course, ensemble casts can be equally entertaining, but if a show revolves around one person, it can be really, really hard to stick with it if that person sucks.
In such cases, a significantly higher-quality sidekick can be a series’ saving grace. Maybe the main character doesn’t suck, exactly, but someone else clearly has the better story. For example, “Troy and Abed were the real duo of (Community), along with Annie,” user BigTimeSuperhero96 told r/AskReddit.
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They then asked, “What is a TV show where the side character(s) completely upstage the main character?” Here’s how their fellow Redditors responded…