Board Thread:Episodic and Issue Discussion/@comment-5008987-20130317001647/@comment-432124-20130404043409

Branchl wrote: The death HAD to be from the original team. MM and SB had to do their little "get back together in season3 thing". I think killing off Dick Grayson is against the law. Kaldur had to have his emotional thing with Black Manta. If they killed him then their fight would've lost strength. I agree with most of this.

So Artemis and Wally. I think it came down to the traditional "the speedster dies".

I don't know. I don't think that they would do it just for that. Maybe it was because they wanted to explore Tigress being a hero. Or maybe they planned for the death of the former jokester of the team to have a big, traumatic effect on the rest of the originals in Season 3.