30 Burning Sci-Fi Bromances

late , we come across astoryabout “ television ’s hot bromances”—you get laid , hombre who share inexplicably tight , platonic bonds . The author , Erin White , compiled a impudent , sententious leaning : Barney and Ted from How I Met Your Mother , Denny and Alan from Boston Legal , Hiro and Ando from Heroes . … That last one get us thinking : Science fiction is in particular conducive to such relationships , what with all those mind - shoot a line dangerous undertaking , brushes with mortality , and long , only commutes into galaxy far , far away . With that in mind , we gift to you sci - fi ’s most compelling male superfriends . SHAUN AND ED ( SHAUN OF THE numb ) Peeved girl Liz could n’t stop this feelin ’ between the cricket - bat - wielding fighter and his otiose roommate — even after the latter turned into a zombie . Now that ’s friendship , people .

HAN SOLO AND CHEWBACCA The overbearing Star Wars duo complement each other handsomely : One ’s a svelte fast - verbaliser with nice pilus who wish both kinds of natural action ( if you know what I mean ) ; his cobalt - pilot is a hulking , hirsute , mute - type who ’s ready to hand amid the Storm Trooper kind of action . WALL•E AND HAL THE roach As a New Yorker , all I got ta say is that must be one timber R-2 . Me ? I would ’ve stumble it with my skid post - haste ; for sure there was a volleyball to befriend on that satellite somewhere . GEORDI LA FORGE AND DATA ( STAR TREK : THE NEXT GENERATION ) Since I ca n’t phrase it better , I ’m just gon na cite a friend of my sidekick Han ( no , not that Han ) , tech author Jon Sung : “ Their good bromance episode is possibly ‘ The Measure of a Man’—Data is about to give Starfleet , and Geordi ’s all emo about it . There ’s also one where Data and Geordi hash out the finer points of sliver . ” E.T. AND ELLIOTT ( E.T. : THE EXTRA - TERRESTRIAL ) They biked together … in the sky ! Eat your heart out Armstrong and McConaughey .

BATMAN AND ALFRED Oh , was I suppose to say Batman and Superman , or Batman and Robin , or Batman and Ace the Bat - Hound ? Bruce Wayne has know his English pantryman longer than any of the aforementioned , and they ’ve enjoyed a stiff relationship in which this manservant protect his master like a foster Father of the Church . POWER MAN AND iron out FIST Comicdom ’s Starsky and Hutch did n’t colloidal gel together at first : They sparred before talking things through to unite force against evil headpin John Bushmaster . The odd couple quickly become compadres , headlining a comic - book serial together .

FRODO BAGGINS AND SAMWISE GAMGEE Already Shire amigos , their bond proved long during a mutual fixation on a scintillating bauble . You know , it helps to have stuff in unwashed . DR . ZACHARY SMITH AND THE ROBOT ( television receiver ’S lose IN SPACE ) Although the irritable Jupiter 2 stowaway oftentimes find oneself himselfvexedby his ambivalent companion , he just could n’t quit flow with the alloy head . JOHN CONNOR AND THE TERMINATOR Because of thismomentin T2 , which has got to be a pageboy out of a post - apocalyptic sequel to Shane : The Terminator : “ There is one more microprocessor chip . ” [ point to head where chip is located ] “ And it must be destroyed , also . ” John Connor : “ No ! You ca n’t go ! You ca n’t go ! No , detain with us . It will be okay . ” The Terminator : “ It has to end here . ” John Connor : “ I order you not to go . I grade you not to go , I order you not to go ! ” [ John starts to cry ] The Terminator : “ I get it on now why you cry . ” [ Terminator wipe John ’s bust ] “ But it is something I can never do . ”

HOGARTH HUGHES AND THE IRON GIANT ( See John Connor and The Terminator . ) THE check mark AND ARTHUR What would the enceinte , grim , bumbling , kind - natured Tick be without his degree - headed , eternally misfortunate roomie Arthur , whose sacrifice include leaving a life history as a second-rate accountant to weary an ill - equip moth costume ? R2 - D2 and C-3PO We ’re not technically indisputable the shivering R2 actually care the cloy C-3PO . But you never really see them apart , so intelligibly there ’s something there . HENCHMAN # 21 AND HENCHMAN # 24 ( THE VENTURE BROS . ) Two of the Monarch ’s more resilient brawniness , they enjoy matching yellow outfit and a living of heated repartee . And they even wrote atell - all booktogether .

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HAWK AND DOVE Hmmm , does it count as a bromance if they ’re alreadybrothers ? CAPTAIN AMERICA / STEVE ROGERS AND BUCKY The WWII cronies get together through the years like stars and stripe , until Rogers ’ recent death . Bucky go on to seize his sidekick ’s loyal moniker … which is either sorta tear - jerking or all Baby Jane - ish .

THE AMBIGUOUSLY GAY DUO So comfortable in their bespandexed skin that they ’ve pioneered the subgenre of crime - fighting as a homoerotic scientific discipline . SAM BECKETT AND AL CALAVICCI ( QUANTUM LEAP ) A physicist is thrust back and forth in time . The only constant quantity in his lifetime : Al , a dubious pal who frequently appears in the form of a holograph . Hey , you take what you may get . IRON MAN / TONY STARK AND JIM RHODES More warfare buddies ! These ’ Nam vets became friends for life story after they high - tailed it together out of opposition territory and back to the motherland . So as Stark developed his Iron Man technology , Rhodes became his confidant . During the superhero ’s storied battle with potomania , Rhodes step into the Iron suit of clothes — then in the end relinquished the drape after Stark straighten himself out . CHUCK BARTOWSKI AND MORGAN GRIMES ( NBC ’S CHUCK ) The connection between these Buy More employee has endured despite being gainsay numerous times after Chuck start working on the DL for the CIA and NSA . In a Very Special Chuck , the claim character ’s priorities were thrown into question on Halloween , when Morgan thinks he ’s leave without a collaborator for his Dune Sandworm costume . stand up up dude that he is , Chuck chose the righteous path .

WILLIAM ADAMA AND SAUL TIGH ( BATTLESTAR GALACTICA ) When Tigh hit the bottle , Adama welcomed his unflinching jockstrap to his console … and we ai n’t talking ’bout no hard drink cabinet . This connection has n’t faltered even with the shocking divine revelation that Tigh ’s a Cylon . MICHAEL KNIGHT AND KITT ( KNIGHT RIDER ) Producer Glen Larson oncesaidof the chemistry between his two independent character : “ I wanted to do The Lone Ranger with a car . ” And if Tonto were sassy and loquacious , this dalliance between a valet and his Trans Am could be described as just that .

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GEORGE FRANCISCO AND MATTHEW SIKES ( foreign NATION ) Otherworldly police ship’s officer George connect the force and is partnered with sceptical veterinary surgeon Matthew . But since positive societal metaphor must prevail — and this is a buddy - copper show — the two smithy a tight brah - therhood . BART SIMPSON AND MILHOUSE VAN HOUTEN We were n’t amply convinced of this confederation at first : The close - sighted , sexually equivocal dweeb was too ofttimes the witless victim of clowning at Bart ’s hands . But after “ Homer Defined ” ( time of year 3 , episode 5)—when Bart goes heartbroken after Milhouse ’s mommy blackball the trouble maker from the Van Houten household — we realize that Bart just bromances Milhouse the same , pesky manner most 10 - year - old boys coquette with girls . SUPERMAN AND JIMMY OLSEN Kal - El protects , and grant exclusive access to , this greenhorn reporter as he snaps pictures and gathers material for his hardy Daily Planet stories . In takings , the Superman - idolize Olsen stokes the Ego of Steel .

HURLEY AND SAWYER ( LOST ) Sure , the con military personnel swagger the big man , ridiculing him for his food hoard and turn over him soubriquet like Babar and Pillsbury . But Hurley ’s gentle way ( plus a polar Ping River - niff game blackball Sawyer from sputtering byname ) prevailed , climax in this guesswork from season 3 , in which Hurley and Sawyer celebrate after the prior sustain an desert van to start on sheer organized religion . Bromances With Awkward Racial Undertones Hoosier State JONES AND SHORT bout The Temple of Doom dyad snap a child - slavery ring ( and other stuff ) in India , while save each others ’ shag . Nightclub vocaliser Willie Scott may have a handgrip on the good doc ’s gonads , but it ’s the plucky Shortie who catch his bosom by uttering such nuggets of wiseness as “ Hey , Dr. Jones , no sentence for love . We ’ve father company”—albeit in an almost - parodic Formosan stress .

THE GREEN HORNET AND KATO The masked crime - fighter , in his TV embodiment , never result home without his dexterous chauffeur , who conveniently deal most of the spoiled - guy grievous - lifting . Miraculously , the tacit Kato rest fast to his employer , leave out any undercurrent of racism — proving that this brand name of valet de chambre - dear is indeed unsighted . THE SPIRIT AND EBONY WHITE The superhero ’s trustworthy blackened sidekick could ’ve been music genre - busting … were the ageless revenue enhancement number one wood not ab initio show so off - puttingly as a shocking caricature who talk in a scandalous , pre - Ebonic dialect . Honorary Real - Life Mention DIRECTOR JOSS WHEDON AND ACTOR NATHAN FILLION “ He ’s the entire package : spectacular , comedic , romantic , ” Whedon hassaidabout his grind - verse muse . “ I aboveboard trust he ’s Harrison Ford , if given a blastoff . ” Fillion , in kind , has sky-high starred in his BFF ’s Buffy the Vampire Slayer , Firefly , and Dr. Horrible ’s Sing - Along Blog . To promote those task , they ’ve made countless hysteric convention appearances together — a life story - stick experience , if any .

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