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At the age of sixteen, Slade Wilson was determined to enlist in the Unted States Army, so he ran away from home and lied about his age to enlist. He soon showed talents and skills in guerrilla warfare far superior to that of any other soldier and was quickly promoted in rank time and time again. After a while his outstanding reputation landed him under the wing of Captain Adeline Kane, an instructor who became one of his superiors and whom he befriended. Slade trained under Captain Kane, and...
Created by Marv Wolfman and George Perez, Deathstroke first appeared in The New Teen Titans (Vol. 1) #2. Deathstroke was originally known only as The Terminator. But with the making of the popular "Terminator" movie franchise starring Arnold Schwarzenegger (four years later), the name was abandoned to avoid the possible confusion.
Modern Age: New Earth
Depending on the writer, Deathstroke can be a "violent gun-toting mercenary, unafraid to kill", a likeable anti-hero, or just another hired gun meant to fill in the pages. His character is molded by a certain Code of Ethics, that may change at any given time depending on the situation of his life. When his code is more strict, he can become one of the good guys, while other times he can almost completely throw his honor out the door and do something as cold blooded and senseless as destroying...
Post-Flashpoint: Earth-0
Writer Kyle Higgins takes Deathstroke back to his bloody, gritty roots. After finishing a blood-soaked assassination in Moscow involving decapitating a target, Slade catches the attention of a new client. Christoph offers Slade a new contract. It's a kill and retrieve contract that requires him to work with a young and obnoxious support team that calls themselves "The Alpha Dawgs". Deathstroke carries out the contract but uncovers a briefcase and a secret within. He takes it back and shows Ch...
Deathstroke: Rebirth
As of DC: Rebirth, Slade has returned to his usual tricks. After rescuing Wintergreen from an African warlord's grip, investigating an attempt on the life of Rose, battling a conspiracy to set up Adeline, a run-in with Superman, and incarceration in a black site, Slade has returned to taking contracts and killing anyone who gets in the way. Most recently, he made an attempt at being something of a good guy and created a team of young heroes. When one of them committed suicide, Slade deemed hi...
Sometime in the past, Slade takes Grant and Joseph camping. While Joseph enjoyed himself, Grant refused to camp and slept in the car during the night, exhausting the car battery and stranding the three in the wilderness in the middle of winter. When Slade reprimands Grant, he snaps at Slade. Before he can discipline him, Grant storms off while Slad...
Slade Wilson has a very complicated personality. He is a trustworthy and honorable man who operates under a strict code of ethics, yet his sense of morality is flawed. Slade is a man who believes in using deadly force, and at times has acted as judge, jury, and executioner for those he deems without honor or worth. However, Slade is particular abou...
Super Strength / Speed / Endurance / Intellect
As a result of an experimental hormone therapy conducted by the US government, Slade became a super soldier. Unbeknownst to Slade's superiors, the procedure boosted his brain capacity, increasing his coordination and stamina further than a human could process, becoming an enhanced human. His mind is like a computer built for strategy. Deathstroke's mental faculties are accelerated by a factor of 9, allowing him to think and perceive nine times faster, affording him a greatly superior reaction...
Healing Factor
Slade has also been granted a modestly accelerated healing factor which enables him to recover from physical injuries much faster than most normal humans, which supplies him with great longevity. This ability has limitations, as he can not regenerate lost eyes or limbs, although he can heal from fatal injuries such as being shot multiple times, stabbed with a sword through his vital organs, great impacts such as falls from great heights and hits from super-strong metahumans (such as direct hi...
Enhanced Senses / Reflexes / Agility
As he is able to think nine times faster than most humans, Deathstroke possesses heightened senses, reflexes, and physical acumen, making him a one man army and genius level tactician. His senses allow him to identify small changes in the air that enables him to react to attacks from behind, and even allows him to cut a fly in half with a paperclip. His reflexes and agility are at such a degree that they allow him to casually dodge point blank gunfire from multiple assailants, fight an entire...
Missing Right Eye
Slade lost his right eye due to a gunshot wound. His ex-wife Adeline Kane was enraged after finding out that her son Joseph became mute due, in part, to Slade's actions She became enraged at Slade, arguing that he betrayed her and risked her sons life. She then fired a gun at Slade, and he managed to evade the bullet but his right eye was lost. Though, so far, his fighting ability has yet to be hindered by his blindness. In fact, when Slade lost his eye after having it restored, he claimed th...
Blindness
Recently, Slade's eyesight has begun to deteriorate for reasons beyond anything that is currently known to medical science. After exposing himself to radiation from a ship's nuclear reactor for too long a period of time, his lost the sight in his one remaining eye.. However, Tanya Spearsequipped him with special glasses that allowed him to see, and her pet dog as a seeing eye dog. Eventually, Slade's on-call doctor obtains a new eye for him and performs transplant surgery, restoring his visio...
Ikon Suit: After his rebirth, Slade came across a prototype of one of his older suits of armor during a rescue mission. Created by Dr. Ikon, in addition to being bulletproof, this armor is able to absorb kinetic energy to power itself. Once activated, the kinetic energy generated by Slade's superhuman movement speed and reflexes can maintain the su...
Promethium Wear & Arsenal: The Deathstroke of a previous continuum used an arsenal consisting of Volatile Promethium spliced within his mesh-woven Kevlar, Chainmail body armor and some few items of weaponry, particularly his swords and ballistic munitions. Because of his regenerative abilities, Slade is largely immune to the mutative effects that i...
Anti-Matterverse
An anti-matter version of Deathstroke has appeared once. This version was almost identical to Deadpool, a reference to the fact that Deadpool began as a Deathstroke copy. Throughout the comic he attempts to say his name, but never gets farther than "Dead.....". He attacked both Superman and Batman aboard a cruise ship early in their careers. This was the event in which they revealed their true secret identities to one another.
Earth-9
On Earth-9, an alternate version of Deathstroke is a member of the Fatal Five. This version is a man in an armored suit, and along with his teammates was responsible for the death of that world's second Atom.
Flashpoint
In the DC universe's sweeping event Flashpoint, the famed mercenary Deathstroke is a violent and infamous pirate captain in search of his beloved daughter Rose. His daughter, whom Deathstroke considers to be his greatest treasure, has been taken from him and he will stop at nothing to get her back . As the war between the Atlanteans and the Amazons wages on, Captain Deathstroke and his crew of fearsome pirates sail the oceans seas pillaging war ravaged civilizations on his ship, the Ravager....
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May 17, 2019 · By Jenna Anderson - May 16, 2019 10:22 pm EDT. 2. Today, The CW's crop of DC Comics-inspired programming went into a new, but familiar territory, with the announcement of a Deathstroke...
Aug 10, 2020 · One of DC Comics’ most popular characters, Deathstroke finally headlines his own animated movies and fans of the anti-hero (for lack of a better descriptor) will not be disappointed. A thorough dive into his past, Deathstroke: Knights & Dragons finds dark secrets bubbling to the surface, forcing Deathstroke (aka Slade Wilson) to set right a ...
