following the resurrection of jericho at the hands of raven, wonder girl and robin request that raven use the same ceremony to resurrect superboy. raven calmly explains that is not possible, because jericho's resurrection was a special case: jericho's soul was still on earth, imprisoned inside of a computer disk, while conner's has moved on to the afterlife. in the middle of this conversation with robin and raven, wonder girl is captured by deathstroke's villainous titans east after an attack by inertia and match. each member of titans east has been recruited to negate a specific titan. deathstroke selected match, a bizarro-type clone of superboy, to counter wonder girl due to his strength and his warped visage as being a psychological edge against her.