If you want to know more about the categories that follow, you can read the first post in this Epic Guide to Character Creation-series: The Epic Guide to Character Creation, Part 1: Categorizing Your Charactersĭynamic or Static, Round or Flat? A sidekick can be either dynamic or static, even though static sidekicks are more common.Ī dynamic sidekick will change throughout the story, either because of his/her friendship with the protagonist and/or his/her involvement in the main events of the story.Ī static sidekick, however, won’t have a significant change throughout the story. In this way both of the characters will complement each other one way or another. The sidekick should be a contrast to the protagonist (in personality, abilities, qualities, etc.) in order to highlight the other one’s traits. He/she travels with the protagonist and is the main support to the hero/heroine. The sidekick is basically a secondary character. I will provide examples of characters from both literature and movies/TV-series to provide you with an overall understanding of fictional characters.
In this part I will show you different sidekick archetypes.
#Sidekick definition series
This is part 6 in a series called The Epic Guide to Character Creation.
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