Partners, lovers, friends and people who work awesome together, Dynamic Duos is actually a very broad category that include literary characters that cannot exist without each other. If you're interested in doing the top 10 tuesdays and shamelessly display your literary culture, head over to The Broke & The Bookish.
1-Patrick Kenzie & Bubba Rogowski: These two can inflict amazing amounts of violence together and keep a slapstick edge, worthy of the good days of Laurel & Hardy. Blood, broken bones and and laughter will accompany you through the Kenzie-Gennaro novels.
2-Achilles & Patroclus: If you've read The Iliad (or seen Troy, I guess). The relationship in between those two is at the base of the tragedy and the only part of the poem where Diomedes doesn't butcher entire legions. It also happens to be the very best part of Homer's story.
3-Raoul Duke & Dr. Gonzo: The journalistic equivalent of a wrecking crew. You have to admire their team work in spreading terror and dread over an already tainted Las Vegas. And their destructive behavior has a very specific goal, finding the American Dream.
4-Numb & Mal: Not that I want to kiss Sean Ferrell's ass, but they have one of the most interesting, problematic relationship I have read about. I can only dream to have my characters being so quietly fond of each other.
5-Glen Runciter & Joe Chip: They do terrific team work for two guys who don't live in the same layer of reality. You can feel their complicity from the beginning of the novel to the tortuous ending. Michel Gondry is supposed to give them faces in 2013.
6-Jonathan Harker & Dr. Van Helsing: I'm not certain why those two didn't get a room yet. They are the original gay innuendo in vampire fiction. The beautiful thing about Harker & Van Helsing is that they are completely co-dependant. If Van Helsing isn't there, Harker dies and if Harker isn't there, there's no Van Helsing.
7-Gilgamesh & Enkidu: The original literary dynamic duo. Their adventures are surprisingly cinematographic, like a very strange Japanese anime. They are basic representations of the human & the divine working together, but nonetheless, they have a pretty elaborate relationship for the characters in the first ever story.
8-Sherlock Holmes & Watson: Can't really look over this one. Wanted to, but I would be cheating you, dear reader. They aren't as cool as Guy Ritchie made them out to be, but they are nonetheless pretty cool for a nerd and an opium fiend.
9-Narrator & Brandy Alexander: Invisible Monsters is a riot of a novel. Brandy and the narrator live in a symbiosis that only get tighter as the pages go by. They are not the most sympathetic characters (none of the Palahniuk creations are), but they work well together and wreak some insane havoc.
10-Louie Holland & Renee Seitcheck: This one is all about representing tainted beauty. The one that goes beyond any sort of physicality. Holland isn't without his annoyances as a character, but they end up getting the job done and live a very intense relationship despite that they are both emotionally wounded.
