Favorite Sidekick

[Knil]

You can talk to Epona whenever you want to in TP.

Now you're just being ridiculous.

You have to be a wolf.

[MasterKeyX]

I pick Midna, she has grown on me since I got TP. And shes not annoying, like Navi, or a little mean, like Tatl.

[Evahn]

You have to be a wolf.

Touché. I hadn't thought of that.

[LadyNintendo]

I pick Midna, she has grown on me since I got TP. And shes not annoying, like Navi, or a little mean, like Tatl.

Not mean and annoying? Midna? From Twilight Princess? From The Legend of Zelda? We are thinking of the same person right? The one who even admitted she was using Link? The one who never bothers to make a gentle landing and belittles Link on multiple occasions?

HnS: I don't think a horse qualifies as a person. Now, TP shows there's animals have a consciouness (ugh) so Epona might be considered a person in that sense. However, giving Link advice (advice, info etc) and staying with him almost the entire adventure is a decent way of describing Link's sidekicks. You can't call people who give him some advice at some parts in the game sidekicks and you can't call a a horse, nothing more than a way or transportation, a sidekick either. You can't call the Batmobile Batman's sidekick, can you?

[Commodore Axilon]

If the Batmobile was sapient, yes. Yes I would.

[Hi no Seijin]

LadyNintendo, some people do get attached enough to their pets to consider them people.  I also said that it's possible to consider Epona as a sidekick.  I was in no way making a definite ruling that Epona was a sidekick.  I was just pointing out that people could call Epona a sidekick if they wanted to.

[bgrugby]

LadyNintendo, some people do get attached enough to their pets to consider them people.  I also said that it's possible to consider Epona as a sidekick.  I was in no way making a definite ruling that Epona was a sidekick.  I was just pointing out that people could call Epona a sidekick if they wanted to.

I agree with you and at the same time disagree with you. Epona is essential in only a two parts in two games, but so are items in every game. Granted you could finally speak to Epona in TP but the advice she gives you is...well not advice. Epona is your transportation to make things quicker, a sidekick bails you out of tough situations, or tells you were to go next, or informs you of a weak spot in a enemy. Epona does not do any of that.

She could be considered a sidekick because it is Link's horse but that is all she is...Link's horse. Its like LadyNintendo said, Epona basically does the same thing the Batmobile does, but do you consider it a sidekick...no! Robin is the sidekick (and probably more but lets not get into that). Epona is a horse and that is all.

[Knil]

Ok, I might be a little biased towards Epona, since I love animals, but you can do all those things with her.  I admit her advice isn't the best, but she still stands by Link through tough times.

[DW]

Robin is the sidekick (and probably more but lets not get into that).

:POkay Professor, didn't need to hear that....

anyways, Epons isn't even always Link's horse. In MC she was Malon's the whole game.

[MasterKeyX]

I pick Midna, she has grown on me since I got TP. And shes not annoying, like Navi, or a little mean, like Tatl.

Not mean and annoying? Midna? From Twilight Princess? From The Legend of Zelda? We are thinking of the same person right? The one who even admitted she was using Link? The one who never bothers to make a gentle landing and belittles Link on multiple occasions?

Well yeah, but towards the end of the game she becomes much more friendly and helpful...trust me, she does change.

[Hi no Seijin]

*sigh*  Will you all just let me be weird and say Epona is a sidekick if I want to?  I'm going with Webster's definition of a sidekick since it's the most general definition, what with not giving a job description and all.  All that I'm saying is that it's possible to consider Epona, and even Link's weapons, as sidekicks.  I'm not saying you have to think like that also.  If you want to exclude Epona from the list of sidekicks, fine.  Then don't vote for her.  Just let other people vote for her if they want to and don't comment on it like "Epona is not a sidekick" is a definite thing, because it's not.

[LadyNintendo]

Well yeah, but towards the end of the game she becomes much more friendly and helpful...trust me, she does change.

So does Tatl, and a lot quicker than Midna. Not to mention she was never mean in a big way, like Midna.

*sigh*  Will you all just let me be weird and say Epona is a sidekick if I want to?  I'm going with Webster's definition of a sidekick since it's the most general definition, what with not giving a job description and all.  All that I'm saying is that it's possible to consider Epona, and even Link's weapons, as sidekicks.  I'm not saying you have to think like that also.  If you want to exclude Epona from the list of sidekicks, fine.  Then don't vote for her.  Just let other people vote for her if they want to and don't comment on it like "Epona is not a sidekick" is a definite thing, because it's not.

You're not really defending the Epona-is (could be considered)-a-sidekick case this way.   Anyway, this wasn't about Epona in the first place. It was about the definition of a sidekick. And with you saying even weapons count as sidekicks, voting is getting a little hard.

[bgrugby]

Robin is the sidekick (and probably more but lets not get into that).

:POkay Professor, didn't need to hear that....

anyways, Epons isn't even always Link's horse. In MC she was Malon's the whole game.

Hehe sorry my friend, but couldn't help myself when Batman and Robin are mentioned  

[Knil]

In MC the horse is probably not Epona, but just a horse that looks like her.  Someone earlier in this topic started to talk about how certain sidekicks have special abilities, that's why HnS said sidekicks could be considered sidekicks.

[Hi no Seijin]

....voting is getting a little hard.

Bah.  Voting is always hard.  That's why everyone should have a d20.