![]() The various sidekicks are also commonly more down-to-earth than the Champion and frequently Genre Savvy, being aware of the nature of The Multiverse, the Champion, and themselves. The nature of the Companion varies, from Hypercompetent Sidekick, to The Watson, to Distressed Damsel, to almost pure comic relief. Just as the Champion has many incarnations, so does the sidekick, and is commonly referred to as the Eternal Companion. The Eternal Champion commonly has a sidekick of some sort, if only briefly. Many of his earlier works were written as stand-alone works but have been retroactively added to the Eternal Champion mythology, mainly through later crossovers. Most of his work revolves around the concept of the "Eternal Champion" a being who undergoes repeated incarnations throughout time, and is destined to maintain the balance between Law and Chaos- whether he wants to or not. ![]() In the 1960s he became editor of New Worlds magazine, evolving its format from a fairly conservative science fiction magazine into an anarchic counter-cultural outlet, bringing a much-needed waft of swinging-London "hipness" and progressive sensibility to fantastic and fantasy fiction and touching off the New Wave Science Fiction movement. ![]() He combines a graphic and powerful imagination with an often frustrating inability to resolve a plot except by Deus ex Machina. Michael Moorcock (born December 18, 1939, London) is a British Speculative Fiction author of roughly 80 novels and short stories collections. ![]()
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