2. Christian Walker & Deena Pilgrim

(Powers)

It was difficult not to make literally half of this list composed of detective duos, but I’m gonna let them all be represented by Walker and Pilgrim. Hailing from Bendis and Oeming’s long-running near-perfect comic series Powers, Christian and Deena are partnered together as homicide detectives specializing in power crimes. As such, they investigate a hell of a lot of super murders.

Walker’s seen-it-all cynicism is balanced out by Pilgrim’s… well, usually, she would be the innocent one, but Deena’s really more of the less experienced peppy but still cynical one. She’s also a lot more hot-headed than Walker, a fact that puts here in some very dark places as the series progresses.

Honestly, the duo’s relationship starts off pretty formal and builds into a deeper friendship long the way. You really get the feeling they trust each other with their lives and neither one feels right without the other. It takes a special kind of person to yell “you’re under arrest” at the dude with laser eyes floating in front of you and Walker and Pilgrim are bonded forever by that specialness.