7. Green Lantern & Green Arrow

(DC Comics)

You ever have that friend with whom you disagree on almost everything but your arguments keep you both centered? That friendship is best depicted in Green Lantern and Green Arrow.

Hal Jordan was your typical ‘50s conservative and Oliver Queen was (and is) the most liberal tree-hugger comics have ever birthed. For serious, we’re talkin’ about a dude who quit the Justice League because they were too busy stopping alien invasions to deal with the “real problems on the streets, man”.  But, for a time the dirty hippie bowman and possibly racist whitebread space cop road-tripped across the nation learning about each other and the world at large. Oh, and the ‘possibly racist’ thing wasn’t me editorializing, Green Lantern is confronted in the first issue for helping alien races over his own fellow man.

Later on Green Arrow learns that his sidekick, Speedy, is a drug addict. And no, I’m not making the obvious joke here because it is such an easy joke I’d feel guilty getting paid to write it. But the key here is that Ollie and Hal’s friendship is owed to a mutual sense of discovery and learning from each other. It’s why the Green Lantern/Green Arrow dynamic has stuck around to this day. Also because they both hate Hawkman. Who is a jerkface.