User blog comment:Hannah230/Artemis and death/@comment-96.241.72.70-20120617214528

Hmm, that's an interesting point you bring up. Here's one theory: It may be more believable if it's her. As Dick pointed, she's rusty from having been away from the team. Artemis is also more vunerable than Wally and Zatanna, as she doesn't have powers. (This point was inspired by Homefront, if it seems familiar.) In addition, her 'hesitation' when facing 'evil' Kadur seems more natural. (She wasn't there during the mission in Alienated.)

Other points: Wally seems very adamant about not coming out of retirement and Zatanna is officially a League member now. The League is, apparently, not supposed to know about this so she was probably never an option. Connor and M'gann's deaths wouldn't have been believable. Connor's a nearly invincable half Kryptonian, and she can phase through solid objects now. Stabbing them...Not gonna work. Why they aren't AWARE of what was going on is another story. There's a reason, I'm sure, it's just hard to say what exactly. One idea is that the number of people involved needs to be kept to a minimum. Wally probably wouldn't have been involved, I suspect, if Dick and Artemis hadn't decided they couldn't bare to inflict that amount of pain on him. It shows how much they care about him to me.