User blog comment:Leena1445/Pairs/@comment-80.184.54.202-20121108192200/@comment-34954086-20121110104147

watch the double negatives, ill answer both interpretations for both incarnations, just in case...
 * They aren't sidekicks:Original comics: No Impulse and Robin were.
 * They aren't not sidekicks:Original comics: Not all of them were certainly.
 * They aren't sidekicks:our YJ: they were, bar superboy, when they started. Since then many sidekicks have joined, many of which continued as sidekicks.
 * They aren't not sidekick:Well at least, Superboy initially, Artemis initially, Blue Beetle, Tempest, Aquagirl (not necessarily), etc. all not sidekicks in any capacity when they joined.