She was his foil, but I thought her deductive powers were up there with his. Though it's been a while. She wasn't just a sidekick. He needed her rationality to get to the truth because unchecked he would assign too much to magic.
Who moves every episode forward? Mulder. So he's the main character.
On wikipedia Mulder is called a protagonist, Scully is called a partner.
She matches most definitions of sidekick, and I feel like the objection to calling her one is just that she's a woman. If her character was instead a guy called Pater (similar play on 'skull') he'd be a sidekick.
She was his foil, but I thought her deductive powers were up there with his. Though it's been a while. She wasn't just a sidekick. He needed her rationality to get to the truth because unchecked he would assign too much to magic.
Who moves every episode forward? Mulder. So he's the main character.
On wikipedia Mulder is called a protagonist, Scully is called a partner.
She matches most definitions of sidekick, and I feel like the objection to calling her one is just that she's a woman. If her character was instead a guy called Pater (similar play on 'skull') he'd be a sidekick.