8 Movie Heroes You Didn’t Realise Were Actually The Sidekicks

8. Back To The Future Part III - Marty McFly Is The Sidekick To Doc Brown

While the first two Back To The Future movies focused on Marty McFly and his time travel misadventures, the final movie in the trilogy belongs to Doc Brown. Following the cliffhanger ending of Part II, Marty travels back in time to the Old West to stop Doc being murdered. While they’re trying to figure out a way to return to the present, Doc falls in love with a school teacher and has to decide if he wants to leave after all.

The focus on Doc this time is a refreshing change up for the series. Marty still gets plenty to do, but he’s already been the focus of two movies, and it’s nice that Doc gets a chance to shine. Christopher Lloyd has always been the secret weapon of the series and here he gets to humanise the oddball scientist. Doc's love story subplot is fairly sweet and Part III manages to deepen the friendship between Doc and Marty. 

He also gets to save the day more than once and at the end he gets the girl (and a family), plus a sweet new time machine.