User blog comment:Hannah230/Artemis and death/@comment-5145408-20120617233407

artemis is simply the most vulnerable on the team.

Miss M and Superboy are invulnerable (not entirely, but by comparison to humans).

zantanna and rocket were not there from the beginning and therefore less emotional attachment from the audience. and more so, they are no longer on the team but rather on the league.

that leaves robin, aqualad, wally, and artemis.

the 'leader' should stay alive as that gives a chance to show the impact on the leader of having someone die under his watch. which pulls out robin and aqualad who have that leader role.

leaving wally and artemis. you'll get a stronger reaction to show out of wally (artemis is more reserved with her emotions and just takes it out in frustration whereas wally will sulk and talk about it which could (arguably) make for better/easier writing and story.

plus, artemis is also a lesser known person and therefore less preconcieved notion about what she should and shouldn't be able to survive. (i mean, imagine telling someone that wally was killed, and you have a much larger group of people that know about his powers and how he should have used them to get out of the situation)