SIDEKICK TOURNEY FIRST ROUND -- Comic/Cartoon Region (bottom half)

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Barney Fife (6)

Sidekick to: Sheriff Andy Taylor
Advantages: Passionate about law enforcement.
Disadvantages: An emotional powderkeg, Barney easily projects panic, despair and fear. Also lousy with a firearm.

vs. Donkey (11)

Sidekick to: Shrek
Advantages: Optimism. Attractiveness to female dragons.
Disadvantages: Acrophobia, colorblindness, hypochondria and cowardice.

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Sideshow Bob (3)

Sidekick to: Krusty the Clown
Advantages: Criminal mastermind. Extremely well-read.
Disadvantages: Megalomania and obsessive hatred for Bart Simpson.

vs. Scrappy Doo (14)

Sidekick to: Scooby Doo
Advantages: He’s … well … scrappy.
Disadvantages: One of the most obnoxious cartoon characters ever animated.

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Waylon Smithers (7)

Sidekick to: Montgomery Burns
Advantages: Good business sense. Loyalty.
Disadvantages: Creepy erotic fascination for and devotion to Mr. Burns.

vs. Mini Me (10)

Sidekick to: Dr. Evil
Advantages: Tenacious. Perhaps as important to the popularity of the Austin Powers franchise as Powers himself.
Disadvantages: Lack of verbal communication skills. Vertically challenged. Actor who portrayed him known for public intoxication and urination.

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Barney Rubble (2)

Sidekick to: Fred Flintstone
Advantages: Devoted friend. Hot wife.
Disadvantages: Annoying laugh. Complicit in the marketing of tobacco to youngsters in the 1960s.

vs. Chumley (15)

Sidekick to: Tennessee Tuxedo
Advantages: A South Pole walrus, he is unique.
Disadvantages: Blind devotion to his mentor lands him in trouble.