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Basic Trope: A male counterpart to a female adventurer that is a total wuss. * Straight: Bob frequently tags around the Action Girl Alice on her various adventures, but he's useless in a fight and seemingly has no reason to join Alice. * Exaggerated: Bob is a totally pathetic and useless guy who never helps Alice and hinders her quests more than the villain(s). * Downplayed: Alice is the superior fighter, but Bob can hold his own in a pinch. * Bob does not fight in combat. Instead, he is a sniper who assists Alice by shooting down several enemies while Alice handles the rest. * Justified: Bob has other skills whose values are not immediately visible. Or are immediately visible, but are unrelated to combat. * Bob and Alice are in a relationship, and both enjoy the ti

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  • Basic Trope: A male counterpart to a female adventurer that is a total wuss. * Straight: Bob frequently tags around the Action Girl Alice on her various adventures, but he's useless in a fight and seemingly has no reason to join Alice. * Exaggerated: Bob is a totally pathetic and useless guy who never helps Alice and hinders her quests more than the villain(s). * Downplayed: Alice is the superior fighter, but Bob can hold his own in a pinch. * Bob does not fight in combat. Instead, he is a sniper who assists Alice by shooting down several enemies while Alice handles the rest. * Justified: Bob has other skills whose values are not immediately visible. Or are immediately visible, but are unrelated to combat. * Bob and Alice are in a relationship, and both enjoy the ti
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  • Basic Trope: A male counterpart to a female adventurer that is a total wuss. * Straight: Bob frequently tags around the Action Girl Alice on her various adventures, but he's useless in a fight and seemingly has no reason to join Alice. * Exaggerated: Bob is a totally pathetic and useless guy who never helps Alice and hinders her quests more than the villain(s). * Downplayed: Alice is the superior fighter, but Bob can hold his own in a pinch. * Bob does not fight in combat. Instead, he is a sniper who assists Alice by shooting down several enemies while Alice handles the rest. * Justified: Bob has other skills whose values are not immediately visible. Or are immediately visible, but are unrelated to combat. * Bob and Alice are in a relationship, and both enjoy the time together, whether Bob is of much use or not. * Alice is Bob's bodyguard. If she wasn't more capable of protecting him than he was of protecting himself, it would defeat the entire point of having a bodyguard. * Inverted: Bob is a Badass Bookworm adventurer who is constantly having to bail Alice, a Faux Action Girl, out of trouble. * Subverted: Emperor Evulz kidnaps Alice and corners Bob. He's expecting a quick victory, but Bob pummels the crap out of him with more force than Alice could ever muster. * Double Subverted: It is made explicitly clear that the asskicking was a one-time thing and was Bob's fight-or-flight response working. * Parodied: Bob is completely incapable of doing anything, and would lose a fight to a malnourished three-year old. * Deconstructed: Having to both save the world and rescue Bob all the time puts an undue amount of strain on her - this causes her to leave the hero business for good. * Alternatively, Alice realizes that Bob is useless and abandons him at the first convenient opportunity. * Reconstructed: Alice enjoys keeping Bob around because she's taken a shine to him, or he helps her keep a sense of perspective. * Zig Zagged: Bob starts out as The Load, until Alice gets tired of him and leaves him. But then Bob returns after becoming a better fighter, that is, until he suffers severely from The Worf Effect, but Alice decides that she likes him anyway. * Averted: From the outset, Bob is established as having at least some fighting ability. * Enforced: "This is the 2000s, so people are expecting a female hero with a useless male sidekick!" * Lampshaded: "Alice, this is your new partner, Bob. He's...well, he does...OK, he does nothing." * Invoked: Da Chief, seeing that Alice is heading towards Cowboy Cop territory, intentionally gives her a useless partner to rein her in. * Defied: After a few adventures in which he only survives by the skin of his teeth, Bob decides to Take a Level In Badass. * Exploited: The villain(s) constantly attack and kidnap Bob, knowing that he can't defend himself. * Discussed: "As long as we take out Alice, we won't have to worry about anything -- Bob is worthless." * Conversed: "Do you notice those shows where the girl is Badass and the guy is totally useless?" Back to Non-Action Guy.
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