Today's Blind Items - Sidekicks

A number of decades ago, this very popular A++ lister did not want to pick his closest competitor as a sidekick.  He did not like the guy personally, felt he was creepy, and did not like what he heard he had been involved in behind the scenes at the 3 letter agency he used to work at.  However, his first choice was not interested so for unity’s sake the A++ lister chose the competitor as his sidekick.  From the beginning, the A++ lister was aware the sidekick/competitor was running his own shadow government with different agencies and started to make plans to dump him and get a new sidekick when the next chance to be A++ lister came up.  The sidekick/competitor found about this and decided to use the 3 letter agency program of turning people (often the mentally ill) into assassins to kill the A++ lister. They even had someone already set up whose parents were friends with the sidekick/competitor The plan failed although the A++ lister was seriously injured.  There was no more conflict after that and the A++ lister even publicly helped the sidekick/competitor when he successfully tried to be an A++ lister himself.