Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-6033527-20130407101955/@comment-220364-20130707163111

Tupka217 wrote: And seriously, Wally, Garth and Donna were already out of the picture as Teen Titans for a decade or more (close to three in Wally's case), they weren't even current in Titans. The teams moved on.

And if your rebooting, you're rebooting with your aces, the most popular characters. Mixed with a shorter timeline, you have to axe some of the less relevant characters. True, very true.

The hitch though is that, if Editorial had allowed Wally, Garth, and Donna to be included in the reboot, then the original Titans could have been mentioned.

Remember, while those three had been distanced from the team over the past decade or so, Wally was a very active character and Donna a relatively active one. Arguments could have been made to have them in the New 52.

I can see Editorial though wanting to minimize continuity snarls (see the 4-then -not-4 -Robins-in-5-ish-years and Olli and Roy coming of as the same age). Given the directions that Flash, Aquaman, and Wonder Woman went, not have to deal with sidekicks benefited those titles and allowed for a "first" Teen Titans with a new cast just like we got a "first" JL with a new cast.