User blog comment:Icon1994/New Team Members=New Mentors/@comment-118.92.80.218-20121224081251/@comment-4928331-20121230155632

No such thing as a Green Lantern sidekicks. These guys are intergalactic space cops - police don't get sidekicks, so why should lanterns? Kai-ro, of the DCAU, is a child, but is a full-fledged Green Lantern, presumably receiving full training from Oa (so he's a child soldier, not a sidekick).

Kai-ro's inspiration, the Venusian Space Monkey Kairo who was Hal Jordan's sidekick in the Filmation Green Lantern shorts, isn't counted either. Since he's a monkey.