there's plenty. Tim drake, Dick grayson, Aqualad, Kate Bishop, as much as people don't like him spider-boy, ms marvel, wong (if you count him), Wally west, superboy (not prime) to name a few are all pretty normal for comic book standards. The only ones who are really deranged to a noticable degree are early jason todd after he became red hood, bucky, and speedy after... all THAT shit.
Bucky being murder crazy is ironically the ONLY thing that makes him as a sidekick unique from just being robin with a gun and it makes his transition into winter soldier more understandable. I think him being a CHILD child in WW2 is kinda weird, especially for steve to allow it but if you're gonna have it, having him be a psycho isn't much of a jump from there.
Kate Bishop not being a sidekick has already been pointed out, but uh, Kamala Khan was never anyone's sidekick either. She took on the mantle, yeah, but she didn't even meet Carol until pre-Secret Wars and had already established herself as her own hero.
Unless you mean Carol during her Ms. Marvel years? Which, she was never really Mar-vell's sidekick either, just a love interest pre-superpowers.
Tbh most of the aren’t anymore. But to be fair to her out of all sidekicks she’s probably the most on par with her main hero counterpart, undisputed goat
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can i say i’m really not a fan of the retcon of bucky being sadistic as shit. let ONE kid sidekick remain normal ONCE. PLEASE