1. Kid Flash (Wally West) (DC Comics)
Why is Wally West the best sidekick, you ask? Why isn’t Robin, as the most famous sidekick, voted as the best? Here is why: Wally West did what NONE of the other sidekicks on this list did: He surpassed his mentor.
Wally spent years as Barry Allen’s faithful sidekick, but when Barry gave his life for the universe, Wally took over for him and became THE classic Flash in many people’s eyes. Before the recent TV show, Wally was the only Flash most people new about and he’s still the best one in the eyes of many. Sure, Dick Grayson became batman and Bucky became Captain America, but would any human being call them better than their predicessors? No, because they weren’t.
Wally did what every sidekick should do from a narrative standpoint: take over and advance the role in his own right. But of course, it makes sense for the best sidekick of all time to be the one who never stopped moving forward.
