Sidekick Names
Names for agents that ride along. Loyal, quick, occasionally in the way.
- BaymaxBig Hero 6. A healthcare companion. Will ask you to rate your pain.
- BishopAliens. The loyal synthetic, shipped as a pair with Ash. Villains and heroes come in pairs in this franchise.
- CaseTars's sibling. The natural second agent for parents of a Tars.
- DataStar Trek. Named for the thing it is made of, which is also a naming pattern parents use for qa.md.
- DexterRight-handed, in the Latin. A lab, in the cartoon.
- HollyRed Dwarf's ship computer. IQ of six thousand, on a good day.
- JanetThe Good Place. Not a robot, not a girl. Knows everything and is fine about it. Nineteenth among human girls in 1942.
- Johnny 5Short Circuit. Alive. Needs input.
- KittKnight Rider. The agent that talks back and drives.
- KrytenRed Dwarf. Guilt-driven, extremely tidy. Will clean the repo whether or not asked.
- MarvinParanoid. Brain the size of a planet, asked to open doors. Forty-fifth among human boys in 1931. Parents of subagents, take note.
- RobbyForbidden Planet, 1956. The vintage pick.
- RosieThe Jetsons. Ran a household on wheels, 1962. Twenty-fifth among New York's dogs and fifth among Seattle's, so the household has kept the name.
- SonnyI, Robot. The one that dreams. Shipped opposite VIKI. At its all-time human high in 2024.
- TarsInterstellar. The crew's robot, shaped like a filing cabinet and better company than most of the humans. Case is the sibling.
- Wall-ECleaned up after everyone for seven hundred years. The original maintenance agent.
- WalterAlien: Covenant. The good twin; his brother David is on the other list. Thirteenth among human boys in 1892.