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Yet it isn’t his willingness to kill for cash that represents the real shadow hovering over the character.
The DC Universe is littered with villains who kill for money or just to satisfy a sadist streak.
The plan itself, while bad news for the Titans, was never the issue.
Any attempt to rationalize the behavior just blows up in your face.
Deathstrokes choices are indefensible.
Likewise, they often skirt past everything the original story was meant to say about Terra herself.
Now, we have answers.
It still boils down to the blatant fact that Slade shouldn’t be made into a hero.
For many, it might be the first thing they think of when Slade Wilson comes up.
According to Priest, that isn’t quite right.
Slade’s involvement with Terra was for revenge against the Titans.
He used and manipulated her for that purpose, not due to some overarching attraction to minors.
It isn’t wholly accurate, but he shouldn’t be distanced from it.
Both the original telling and Priest’sDeathstrokerun fail to hold Slade truly accountable for what he did to Terra.
He’s never fully reckoned with it or faced real consequences.
According to Priest, “painting Terra as a saint is wrong and stupid.”
Deathstroke did terrible things, and those terrible things should be his unshakeable shadow.
In short, Deathstroke did terrible things, and those terrible things should be his unshakeable shadow.
