December Daily: power couples

muccamukk - "Favourite power couple(s) and what makes them work so well together. Can be storyish or not."

The first couple who come to mind are Morticia and Gomez Addams, who make up the happiest marriage on television. When I was about eight, my godfather gave me a big book of Charles Addams cartoons; I'd never seen the TV show and the movies didn't exist yet, but the cartoons were brain-expanders. I loved the one where the two of them were sitting on a window seat looking out at a heavy rain, and he said, "Unhappy, darling?" and she said, "Oh, yes, yes! Completely!"

Fraser and Ray wouldn't be a power couple because they'd be a retreat couple. Their power is the power of Nope.

What would it take for any variant of Sherlock Holmes and John Watson to become a power couple? I just can't see it. I think they're on too much unequal ground.

I don't feel like I'm giving this prompt its due. Anyone else?



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