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It is also not unusual, especially in more recent TV programs such as Bones and NCIS, for there to be a team of sidekicks.

In Bones, for example, FBI Special Agent Seeley Booth often fulfills one of the traditional roles of a sidekick by providing translations for the brilliant but socially incapable Dr. Temperance Brennan.

Both Brennan and Booth, however, are heroes in their own right.

The sidekicks in this case are the team of " squints " back in the Jeffersonian Institution's Medico-Legal Lab, each with their own scientific specialty, all of whom are usually needed to break the case.