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Deathstroke: Knights And Dragons is a 2020 animated web series from DC Comics starring {{Creator/Michael Chiklis}} as the titular mercenary. Other characters include his wife and son Adeline and Joseph Wilson, The Jackal, high-ranking member and leader of the global terrorist organization HIVE, Slade's old friend Wintergreen, Bronze Tiger, and Shiva. The first episode was released January 6, 2020, running for 37 minutes, before eventually getting a DVD release with the other 50 minutes, all compiled into an 87-minute movie.

-->'''Suarez:''' I don't understand; if Molina hired you to assassinate me, then-\\

Ten years ago, Slade Wilson -aka the super-assassin called {{ComicBook/Deathstroke}}- made a tragic mistake and his wife and son paid a terrible price. Now, a decade later, Wilson's family is threatened once again by the murderous Jackal and the terrorists of H.IV.E. Can Deathstroke atone for the sins of the past-or will his family pay the ultimate price?

Deathstroke: Knights And Dragons is a 2020 animated web series from DC Comics starring {{Creator/Michael Chiklis}} as the titular mercenary. Other characters include his wife and son Adeline and Joseph Wilson, The Jackal, high-ranking member and leader of the global terrorist organization HIVE, Slade's old friend Wintergreen, Bronze Tiger and Shiva. The first episode was released January 6, 2020, running for 37 minutes, before eventually getting a DVD release with the other 50 minutes, all compiled into an 87 minute movie.

* NotSoDifferent: Jackal claims this repeatedly about himself and Deathstroke.

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** Joseph and [[spoiler:Rose]] call Slade for abandoning them, in one way or another.

** Both of Slade's children call him out for abandoning them, in one way or another.

** [[spoiler:Rose for her part truly loves her step-brother. Part of the reason she plots against Jackal is for what he did to Joseph ten years ago.]]

* {{Foreshadowing}}: After Slade finishes his call to his family, Joseph begs his mom for another bedtime story, but declines the one about the KnightInShiningArmor that he already read with Slade. This shows that he isn't on the same wavelength as his father and that book is really for the latter's pleasure.

'''Jackal:''' I told you years ago, Wilson: we're two of a kind.

* TheReveal: [[spoiler:The HIVE Queen is actually Rose, a daughter Slade never knew he had with Lillian and Joseph's stepbrother. Joseph is also not a prisoner of HIVE, but a willing member.]]

* YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre: [[spoiler:During the final confrontation, Jackal cruelly twists Rose's belief she loves Joseph into another form of manipulation, briefly breaking her. Slade however assures her that love ''does'' exist and that she was there more for her stepbrother than Slade himself.]]

* ArtificialLimb: Bronze Tiger has a new cybernetic right arm after the timeskip. It's strong enough for him to fire a rocket launcher one-handed and put up a longer fight against Deathstroke than the first time, but still gets chopped off.

* AffectionateNickname: Adeline calls Joseph "little soldier."
* ArtificialLimb: Bronze Tiger has a new cybernetic right arm after the timeskip. It's strong enough for him to fire a rocket launcher one-handed and put up a longer fight against Deathstroke than the first time, but still gets chopped off.

* YourCheatingHeart: Slade cheated on Adeline with Lillian when they were engaged, resulting in Rose. It left a rift in their relationship even before Joseph was kidnapped and she learned about Deathstroke.

* DisabledInTheAdaptation: In this version, Slade was already missing his right eye when he underwent the procedure that gave him his powers. In the comics, he already had his powers when he lost it -- part of the aftermath about what happened with Joey as it sent Adeline into a murderous rage, who fired at Slade with the intent to kill him and his heightened reflexes saving him, but the shot still costing him his eye.

* YourCheatingHeart: Slade cheated on Adeline with Lillian when they were engaged, resulting in Rose. It left a rift in their relationship even before Joseph was kidnapped and she learned about Deathstroke.

* DisabledInTheAdaptation: In this version, Salde was already missing his right eye when he underwent the procedure that gave him his powers. In the comics, he already had his powers when he lost it -- part of the aftermath about what happened with Joey as it sent Adeline into a murderous rage, who fired at Slade with the intent to kill him and his heightened reflexes saving him, but the shot still costing him his eye.

* TruerToTheText: Putting aside the RaceLift, Wintergreen in close to his comic counterpart in that he's an ally to Slade (unlike in ''Series/{{Arrow}}'', where he betrayed Slade), around the same age as him, (unlike in ''Series/Titans2018'', where he's younger), and from England (unlike both series, which respectively made him Australian and American).

* TruerToTheText: Putting aside the RaceLift, Wintergreen in close to his comic counterpart in that he's an ally to Slade (unlike in ''Series/{{Arrow}}'', where he betrayed Slade), around the same age as him, too (unlike in ''Series/Titans2018'', where he's younger), and from England (unlike both series, which respectively made him Australian and American).

* TruerToTheText: Putting aside the RaceLift, Wintergreen in close to his comic counterpart in that he's an ally to Slade (unlike in ''Series/{{Arrow}}'', where he betrayed Slade) and around the same age as him, too (unlike in ''Series/Titans2018'', where he's younger)

* BaitAndSwitch: In Deathstroke's first job, he carves a bloody path through a South American base until he reaches the office of a general named Suarez. The target surmises the dictator he technically serves under is the one who Deathstroke, but then Slade shows him said dictator's severed head. He then explains in exchange for paying him for this, the general now has a chance to do better than his predecessor.

* SwordAndGun: Slade regularly uses a sword or his handgun in tandem. Or [[TheMusketeer separately]].

* AdaptationalBadass: Jericho's PsychicPowers are expanded far beyond his usual BodySurfing. The Hive Queen outright compares him to a nuclear bomb, and he's key to Hive's plan.

* BelievingHisOwnLies: Adeline accuses Slade of compartmentalizing pieces of his mindset so much that he truly believes he's some sort of modern KnightInShiningArmor, protecting the world and his family from the true monsters out there.
* BloodierAndGorier: This movie shows about as much blood splashing around as a [[Creator/Quentin Tarantino]] film.

* CrazyPrepared: [[spoiler: Jackal has taken precautions just in case Jericho or Rose would try to stab him in the back: for one, a psychic dampener his engineers designed to absorb and redirect psychic powers, and for another, a good old-fashioned kidnapping of the US President.]]

** The only time Jackal appears agitated is when Deathstroke impales the dark-skinned woman attacking him. As her dead body is thrown to him, he takes a moment to stare down at her and later calls her "an extraordinary operative." [[spoiler:In their final fight, Jackal angrily reveals that the woman was his own daughter.]]

* InformedAbility: Shiva is called the world's deadliest hand-to-hand combatant

* NotSoDifferent: Jackal says this repeatedly to Deathstroke.

* EveryoneHasStandards: Slade has a certain code of honor and repeatedly refuses to join Hive despite Jackal's pushing him.

* PapaWolf: Slade Wilson.
* RetiredBadass: Adeline and Wintergreen.

* WhatTheHellHero: Adeline takes many opportunities to call out Slade for consistently screwing up his family by choosing to be Deathstroke.

'''Jackal:''' I told you years ago Wilson: we're two of a kind.

Deathstroke: Knights And Dragons is a 2020 animated web series from DC Comics starring {{Creator/Michael Chiklis}} as the titular mercenary. Other characters include his wife and son Adeline and Joseph Wilson, The Jackal, high-ranking member and leader of the global terrorist organization HIVE, Slade's old friend Wintergreen, Bronze Tiger and Shiva.