Matthew Iden
Since the question doesn't specify *romantic* couple, I'm going to include partners-in-crime as well as hero/sidekicks.
If everyone is okay with that, then my answer is...Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser. Somewhat obscure for those who don't read fantasy, I know, but they have a special place in my heart after having spent many, many, many nights reading Fritz Leiber's adventure of this dynamic duo.
There was a sense of sarcasm and snark, humor and danger, in all of their adventures. And, of course, the inner tension between them: who IS the best swordsman in Lankhmar?
If I had to stay within my professional genre (crime fiction), I would say Robert B. Parker's Spenser and Hawk, at least in the early books when there was tension (who IS the best boxer in Lankhmar, uh, I mean, Boston?) between the two, some great jokes, and killer on-page chemistry. There was more than a little depth there, too, when Parker explored where the two's ethics differed and the choices they would make or had made, not to mention some honest talk about race and experience.
If everyone is okay with that, then my answer is...Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser. Somewhat obscure for those who don't read fantasy, I know, but they have a special place in my heart after having spent many, many, many nights reading Fritz Leiber's adventure of this dynamic duo.
There was a sense of sarcasm and snark, humor and danger, in all of their adventures. And, of course, the inner tension between them: who IS the best swordsman in Lankhmar?
If I had to stay within my professional genre (crime fiction), I would say Robert B. Parker's Spenser and Hawk, at least in the early books when there was tension (who IS the best boxer in Lankhmar, uh, I mean, Boston?) between the two, some great jokes, and killer on-page chemistry. There was more than a little depth there, too, when Parker explored where the two's ethics differed and the choices they would make or had made, not to mention some honest talk about race and experience.
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