View Single Post Old July 22 2012, 11:42 AM   #14 Ugly Sweater
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Robin  Not sidekicks in general but Batman's having a child
sidekick!  He's going out there and fighting armed thugs,
murderous maniacs and people bent on destroying Gotham and as an
aide Batman brings a twelve year old boy in hot pants to help?
It doesn't really fit or make sense.  Robin as a sidekick is
very, very different than Holmes having with him an intellectual
near-equal, adult, doctor.  As for other child or child-like
sidekicks, I don't think they fit well either. Jimmy Olson was a
tool and probably more annoying to Superman than as a helpful
"sidekick." And the idea of putting a child into a movie to give
child-readers someone to connect with is the type of stupid
thinking that gets us Short Round and a young child Darth Vader.
When kids read these stories or watch these movies they don't
want to be a child hanging out with the superhero or the hero
they want to BE the hero.