Scope Note:

Fictional work focusing primarily on the camaraderie between two individuals, usually two men or two women. Often their relationship develops as they are thrown together while traveling or as professional partners. Although perhaps starting out as strangers, or even enemies, a bond usually comes to exist between the pair as they become friends or at least allies. Note: Do not use Buddy for work in which a character simply has a "sidekick," or a friendship is one of many subsidiary plot elements, but only when it is dominant. Because this genre traditionally uses another plot formula as its background, the term Buddy would most often be used in conjunction with other genres (such as BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID (with Western), LETHAL WEAPON (with Police), or THELMA AND LOUISE (with Road)). Feature examples: BOOM TOWN; JULIA (with War); MANPOWER; MIDNIGHT COWBOY; PARDNERS (with Comedy; Western); ROAD TO ZANZIBAR (with Comedy).

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