List of famous fictional pairs

The following is a list of famous fictional pairs listed alphabetically.
* For non-fictional pairs see the List of famous pairs
* Here's a list of pairs by category.

A

*Ace and Gary (fictional; partners)
*Aladdin and Jasmine (couples; Disney characters)
*Amos & Andy (fictional; companions)
*Arnold and Helga (cartoon; bullying/unrequited love)
*Asterix and Obelix (cartoon friends)
*Autobot & Decepticon (fictional; rivals)

B

*Bambi & Thumper (fictional; companions)
*Barbie & Ken (fictional; couples)
*Batman and Robin (fictional; colleagues)
*Beany & Cecil (fictional; companions; animated cartoons; television)
*Beavis & Butt-head (fictional; companions)
*Beren & Lúthien (fictional; lovers) Creations of J. R. R. Tolkien
*Bert & Ernie (fictional; companions; puppets; television) Creations of Jim Henson, possibly named after characters in It's a Wonderful Life
*Betty and Veronica (fictional; friends and rivals, mostly friends)
*Bill and Ben, The Flowerpot Men (fictional; companions)
*Bill & Ted (fictional; companions)
*Blackadder & Baldrick (fictional; companions)
*Charlie Brown & Snoopy (fictional; companions; comic strip) Creations of Charles M. Schulz
*Buster Brown & Tige (fictional; companions; comic strip) Creations of Richard F. Outcault

C

*Cagney & Lacey (fictional; television cop partners)
*Cain & Abel (mythological/legendary; Biblical; siblings; rivals/opponents)
*Calvin and Hobbes (fictional; companions; comic strips) Creations of Bill Watterson
*Captain Scarlet & the Mysterons (fictional; rivals)
*Castor & Pollux (astronomical; juxtapositions); also (mythological/legendary; twins) The twin stars in Gemini; see also Dioscuri; see also Leda and the Swan
*Cherubim & Seraphim (Biblical; complementary) Frequently paired; the two lowest orders of angels.
*Chip and Dale
*Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner (cartoon characters; adversaries)

D

*Dalziel & Pascoe (fictional; colleagues; detectives) Creations of Reginald Hill
*Dangermouse & Penfold
*Dante and Virgil (epic poets, fictional companions) Dante makes Virgil his guide through Hell (logical since Virgil described the Roman underworld in his Aeneid) in Inferno
*David & Goliath (mythological/legendary; Biblical; rivals/opponents)
*Del and Rodney (fictional; brothers)
* Dempsey and Makepeace (fictional; colleagues)
*Diarmuid and Gráinne (fictional; couples)
*Dick and Jane (fictional; siblings) (in the Scott, Foresman primary readers, very widely used in the U.S.)
*The Dioscuri (mythological/legendary; twins; rivals/opponents)
*Dorothy & Toto (fictional; companions)

E

*Elsie the Cow and Elmer the Bull (fictional; couples; mascots) trademarks of Borden Milk Products and their chemical division, respectively, circa 1938 on.
*Éowyn & Faramir (fictional; couples)

F

*Basil Fawlty & Sybil (fictitious)
*Fibber McGee and Molly (entertainers; spuses; fictitious, pseydonymous)
*Fred and George Weasley (fictional; twins)
*Frodo Baggins & Sam Gamgee (fictional; couples)
*Fred and Wilma Flintsone (fictional; married)

G

*Goofus & Gallant (fictional; rivals/opponents)
*Gumby & Pokey (fictional; companions; television; animated cartoons)

H

*Hagar the Horrible and Helga, fictional Vikings
*Han Solo & Chewbacca (Co-pilots from Star Wars)
*Hansel & Gretel (mythological/legendary; siblings)
*Harlequin & Pierrot (fictional; archetypes; complementary)
*Harry Potter and Lord Voldemort (fictional character rivals)
*Hawk and Dove (superheroes, siblings)
*He-Man & She-Ra (fictional; siblings)
*He-Man & Skeletor (fictional; rivals)
*Hero & Leander (mythological/legendary; couples)
*Homer & Marge (fictional; couples)
*Sherlock Holmes & Dr. Watson (fictional; colleagues; companions)
*Sherlock Holmes & Professor Moriarty (fictional; rivals/opponents)
*Hubie and Bertie characters in the Warner Bros. Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of cartoons

I

*Itchy & Scratchy (fictional; rivals; characters in The Simpsons)

J

*Jack & Jill (proverbial/idiomatic; fictional; companions)
*Jarndyce and Jarndyce (fictional; commercial partners) (legal case in Charles Dickens' novel, Bleak House)
*Agents Jay and Kay (fictional; colleagues)
*Jay & Silent Bob (fictional; companions)
*Jeeves & Wooster (fictional; companions)
*Jekyll & Hyde (fictional)
*Jesse and James (Pokémon cartoon characters)
*The Jets and the Sharks (fictional; rival gangs of West Side Story)
*Jules & Vincent (fictional; companions)
*Jules et Jim (fictional; companions)
*Juno & the Peacock; see also Aesop, Alfred Hitchcock, Sean O'Casey (fictional; couples)

K

*Kermit & Miss Piggy (fictional; companions)
*Kirk and Spock (fictional; colleagues)

L

*Lady & The Tramp (fictional; couples)
*Lancelot & Guinevere (mythological/legendary; couples)
*Leda & the Swan (mythological/legendary; couples)
*Lone Ranger & Tonto (fictional; colleagues)

M

*Mario and Luigi (Nintendo Mascots)
*Mace and Nightshade (characters in the C.O.P.S. (Central Organization of Police Specialists) series brought on by Hasbro)
*Madam and Eve (characters in the South African comic by the same name)
Mapp and Lucia (E. F. Benson's fictional rivals)
*Marc Antony and Pussyfoot characters in the Warner Bros. Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of cartoons
*Maria and Tony (fictional; lovers torn by gang hatred in West Side Story)
*Mary & her little lamb (fictional; companions) (Sarah Josepha Hale's nursery poem, "Mary had a Little Lamb")
*Matti & Maija (proverbial/idiomatic; fictional; companions) in Finnish language
*Modesty Blaise & Willie Garvin
*Montague & Capulet (fictional; rival families)
Mork & Mindy (fictional; companions; television)
*Mr. Puntila and His Man Matti (from the notalbe play by Bertold Brecht; comedic figures)
*Mutt and Jeff (fictional; companions; comic strip) Creations of Harry Conway "Bud" Fisher; it was the first well-known daily comic strip. Hence also (idiomatic/proverbial) for any tall-short pair of men.
*Mutt & Jeff (colleagues; spies)
*Fox Mulder and Dana Scully (fictional; colleagues; television)

N

*Nancy & Sluggo (fictional; companions; comic strip) (Creations of Ernie Bushmiller)
*Napoleon & Pedro (fictional; companions; film industry)
*Napoleon Solo & Illya Kuryakin (colleagues, The Man from U.N.C.L.E.)

O

*Scarlett O'Hara and Rhett Butler
*Orthanc & Minas Morgul (Tolkien's (fictional; geographical; juxtapositions; rivals/opponents) Two Towers)
*Othello & Desdemona (fictional; couples; theatre) (creations of William Shakespeare)
*The Owl & the Pussycat (fictional; couples)
*Ozzie and Harriet (fictional; companions)

P

*Paolo and Francesca (mythological/legendary; lovers) from Dante's Inferno
*Paris and Helen (mythological/legendary lovers from Homer's Illiad)
*Penrod & Sam (fictional; companions) Creations of Booth Tarkington
*Peter Pan & Wendy (fictional; companions) Creations of J. M. Barrie
*Phil and Grant Mitchell (fictional; brothers in EastEnders)
*Phileas Fogg & Passepartout (fictional; travelling companions) (Creations of Jules Verne)
*Philemon & Baucis (mythological/legendary; couples)
*Pinky & the Brain (fictional; cartoon mice)
*Pinky and Perky (fictional; children's television puppet pigs)
*Porgy & Bess (fictional; couples) Title of and characters in DuBose Heyward's novel, on which the Gershwin opera was based
*Postman Pat & Jess (fictional; children's television character and cat)
*Pyramus & Thisbe (fictional; couples)
*Punch & Judy (fictional; archetypes; couples; rivals/opponents)

Q

R

*Ren & Stimpy (fictional; colleagues; animated cartoon)
*Rocky and Bullwinkle (fictional; colleagues; animated cartoon)
*Rocky and Mugsy characters in the Warner Bros. Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of cartoons
*Romeo & Juliet (fictional; couples) Creations of William Shakespeare
*Romulus & Remus (mythological/legendary; siblings)
*Ron Burgundy and Veronica Corningstone (fictional; colleagues; lovers; Anchorman)
*Rosencrantz & Guildenstern (fictional; companions) Creations of William Shakespeare, also used by Tom Stoppard
*Rosie & Jim (children's puppets)
*Ruth & Naomi (mythological/legendary; Biblical; companions)

S

*Samson & Delilah (mythological/legendary; Biblical; couples)
*Sapphire & Steel (fictional; colleagues)
*Scylla & Charybdis (See also Scylla & Charybdis) (mythological/legendary)
*The Sharks and the Jets (fictional; rival gangs of West Side Story)
*Shrek & Donkey (fictional; colleagues)
*Spike the Bulldog and Chester the Terrier characters in the Warner Bros. Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of cartoons
*SpongeBob & Patrick (fictional; colleagues)
*Spy vs. Spy (fictional;adversaries)
*Starsky & Hutch (fictional; colleagues)
*Steptoe and Son (fictional; companions)
*Suiseiseki & Souseiseki (fictional; twin dolls)
*Superman & Wonder Woman (fictional; colleagues)
*Sylvester the Cat and Tweety Bird (fictional,rivals)

T

*Tarzan & Jane (fictional; couples)
*Thelma & Louise (fictional; companions)
*Thomson and Thompson (Dupont et Dupond in the original Belgian) twin-like detectives in the Tintin comic series
*Tintin and Snowy (fictional; companions)
*Tom and Jerry (fictional; rivals/opponents; animated cartoon); also (proverbial/idiomatic).
*Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn (fictional; companions)
*Tommy and Tuppence (fictional; created by Agatha Christie)
*Tony and Maria (fictional; lovers torn by gang hatred in West Side Story)
*Tristan & Iseult (fictional; couples)
*Troilus & Cressida (fictional; couples)
*Tweedledum & Tweedledee (idiomatic/proverbial; complementary) Proverbial for a trivial difference; originally creations of John Byrom, referring to musical controversy; also (fictional; twins) creations of Lewis Carroll in Through the Looking-Glass

U

V

*Vernon & Petunia Dursley [1] (fictional; married)

W

*Wallace & Gromit (fictional; companions; motion pictures; animation) Fictional creations of Nick Park
*Wayne & Garth (fictional; companions)
*Weebl and Bob (fictional; internet cartoon characters)
*Will & Grace (fictional; best friends)
*Nero Wolfe & Archie Goodwin (fictional; colleagues; detectives) Creations of Rex Stout
*Woodstock & Snoopy (friends) Charles Shultz, Carlie Brown

Z

*Zeus & Ganymede (mythological; couples)