Has there ever been an instance of a sidekick/secondary character becoming more popular than the main character? The only one I can think of is Daria from Beavis and Butthead but that's debatable.
Has there ever been an instance of a sidekick/secondary character becoming more popular than the main character...
Cooper Gomez
Cooper Wilson
This reminds artemis and green arrow had like 0 bonding
Oliver Bennett
Wally was more popular than Barry during the 90s and the 00s.
Today he definitely isn't, though, and Wallifags can't accept that they are what they accused Barryfags of being.
Jaxon Bennett
When a sidekick gets popular, what do they do? Do they take over the mantle like Wally? Or do they go off into their own identity like Dick?
Either way I can't think of one where the sidekick started that way and truly eclipsed their mentor.
Unless you count homages then Static is probably more popular than Black Lightning
Zachary Gray
Wally was the main Flash for 20 year after his mentor died. He has fallen from the spotlight after the New 52 reboot made Barry the main Flash again.
Then we have Blue Bettle, who became more popular that the original one.
Samuel Ortiz
Kato, mainly because Bruce Lee played him in the 60's TV show
Wally West during the 90's and 00's
Zachary Reed
Dick did both and did better as Nightwing although I guess it's not fair to expect him to be more popular than fucking Batman.
Carter Lee
>Unless you count homages then Static is probably more popular than Black Lightning
That feels like a different thing, it's like Fawcett's Captain Marvel being more popular than Superman back in the 40's or people being way more familiar with the Ninja Turtles than the Daredevil/Frank Miller stuff they were doing homage/parody to.
Angel Perry
Rex the Wonder Dog was Green Lantern's dog but then he became more popular than the Green Lantern so they gave the whole comic to him.
William Russell
I can only think of legacy characters more famous than their predecessors, such as Mister Terrific, The Atoms, both Blue Beetles, The Flash and Green Lantern. But that's not exactly what you're asking for I think.