Heroic Henchmen

Seems as though everyone is far too engrossed in the romanticized fantasy of the lone hero to even consider the idea.

The closest thing is Rex in Generator Rex, who had an army who fought alongside him. But they died. A lot. All they seemed to do was die.

>>94761160
That's due to hack writing. Red shirts die to raise the stakes, to show the situation is serious, as if the audience can't fucking tell that serious shit is going down.

Thing is, they never get personalities, so nobody cares if they die, and they never get to do anything but die so the main characters can solve all the problems themselves every single time, even if it's a problem they're not qualified to solve.

Of course, this issue could be easily solved by not insisting that someone die every episode, and allow each red shirt to have some rudimentary character over the course of a few installments, maybe even let them accomplish something. But that would take effort, and fuck giving a shit, we have to suck the hero's cock at every possible opportunity.

Because the role of a henchman is pretty unheroic.
Their job in a story is to basically occupy the heroes and get beat up like the fodder they are.
For a hero to do that it's basically signing up weaker people to be expendable fodder against the villains.
Heroes instead have sidekicks and teams to bypass that issue.

What are some comics/cartoons that have competent henchman?

>>94761865
I fail to see how sidekicks are any better in that regard.