Hypercompetent Sidekick/Quotes

Your job, Jurgen, is to know my needs before I do.

—Commissar Ciaphas Cain

Mayor Manx: That ghost means to kill me!
Callie: Yes. And you're the only one who can stop him!

Mayor Manx: MEEE?!! Then we're doomed. DOOMED I tell you!

—Swat Kats, "The Ghost Kat"

Al is my assistant. He assists me.

—Tim "The Tool Man" Taylor, Home Improvement

"Collot d'Herbois, incredulous, half-contemptuous, did not altogether approve of these schemes, which seemed to him wild and uncanny; he liked the direct simplicity of a summary trial, of the guillotine, or of his own well stage-managed "Noyades." He did not feel that any ridicule or dishonour would necessarily paralyze a man in his efforts at intrigue, and would have liked to set Chauvelin's authority aside, to behead the woman upstairs and then to take his chance of capturing the man later on."

—The Elusive Pimpernel, Chapter 24

Balthazar: Opal, this is just one of the reasons why you'd make a much better general than me.

Opal: I'm fine where I am. My hands are already full keeping you on a leash!

—BIBLE