History Characters / Deathstroke

* CovertPervert: In the second Volume of "The New Titans", she holds down Kyle Rayner during a training exercise and looks in his face thinking "Oh, the things I could do to him." while smiling.

** Defied with Kid Devil / Red Devil (Eddie Bloomberg) who, for a long time, was the only friend she had on the team. 

* AmbiguouslyBi: Calls Stephanie Brown "the cute Batgirl" in ''ComicBook/TheJokerTheManWhoStoppedLaughing #9''

* ShipTease: With Jason Todd. In ''ComicBook/{{Catwoman}} Vol.5 #62'' she is said to have been last seen in his arms before being recruited for the Suicide Squad off-screen.

** Defied with Bart Allen who, for a long time, was the only friend she had on the team. 

* AmbiguousBi: Calls Stephanie Brown "the cute Batgirl" in ''ComicBook/TheJokerTheManWhoStoppedLaughing #9''
* AmbiguousCriminalHistory: In ''ComicBook/{{Catwoman}} Vol.5 #62'', she was part of the Suicide Squad and is said to "have been returned to [her] cell" following the successful end of the mission Catwoman took part in, too. Since the Suicide Squad is made up out of criminals and she is imprisoned somewhere, it stands to reason she committed some sort of crime and got arrested for it. However, it's not revealed what crime she committed.

* ShipTease: With Jason Todd.

* StrongAndSkilled: He has enhanced abilities and is a highly trained soldier with years of combat training and experience in numerous martial arts such as Karate, Judo, Ninjitsu, Muay Thai, Kung Fu, Krav Maga, Taekwondo, Boxing, Kickboxing, Wrestling and Brazilian Jiujitsu. He can go toe to toe and even defeat some of the best martial artists in the DCU, including Batman himself.

* TheDreaded: ''Everyone'' is terrified of Slade. Mentioning that he's involved in something always leads to a collective moment of [[OhCrap blind terror from everyone in earshot.]] He regularly shows exactly why he has such a reputation as well.

* EvilSoundsDeep: He's been voiced by Creator/RonPerlman and Creator/FredTatasciore. And played by Manu Bennett, which made him sound very deep.

* GeniusBruiser: He's a very good planner and manipulator as well as a SuperSoldier.

* TheSociopath: His earliest characterization painted him as this before his evolution into a NinetiesAntiHero or NobleDemon AntiVillain in later appearances. His Sociopath status is now DependingOnTheWriter (Christopher Priest, for example, has gone on the record saying he thinks Slade Wilson is "ultimately amoral and a sociopath" and that's what he writes him as.)

* StrongAndSkilled: He has enhanced abilities and is a highly trained soldier with years of combat training and experience in numerous martial arts such as Karate, Judo, Ninjitsu, Muay Thai, Kung Fu, Krav Maga, Taekwondo, Boxing and Brazilian Jiujitsu. He can go toe to toe and even defeat some of the best martial artists in the DCU, including Batman himself.

** Defied with Kid Devil / Red Devil (Eddie Bloomberg) who, for a long time, was the only friend she had on the team. 

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* PickOnSomeoneYourOwnSize: While he is an equal opportunity criminal mercenary, he holds a personal grudge against the Teen Titans (and former Teen Titans) who are all much younger than him -- ''especially'' Dick Grayson. Hell, he supplies the current page image for this trope.

* PitbullDatesPuppy: [[spoiler:She married Hosun, Slade's former tech guy. Although the motive was obstensibly (to Hosun) avoid getting murdered by Slade, and (to Rose) to piss Slade off, they got along well. Rose breaks down when he is killed]].

-->" 'Wintergreen'": Much as you or I, or say, the "Justice League" would like to pretend otherwise..." mercenary," "anti-hero," and such...the "villain" label is the best fit, I'm afraid.

* UsedToBeASweetKid: Before Deathstroke [[BrainwashedAndCrazy drugged her into villainy]], she used to be a fairly normal, sweet girl even serving as Arsenal's daughter's caretaker in ''{{ComicBook/Titans}}'' Volume 1.

** ComicBook/GreenArrow pressed a major one in ''ComicBook/IdentityCrisis'' when he stabbed him in his eye socket with one of his arrows. Though Slade had been blind in that eye for years, it was implied that [[EyeScream the eye itself was still there]] until that point.

* InvincibleVillain: In the hands of clumsy writing he can be this. His most infamous showing was in ''ComicBook/IdentityCrisis'', in which he single-handledly beat ComicBook/GreenLantern, ComicBook/TheFlash, ComicBook/BlackCanary, ComicBook/GreenArrow, ComicBook/{{Hawkman}}, ComicBook/{{Zatanna}}, and ComicBook/TheAtom with minimal effort. In this fight, he demonstrated ''faster reflexes than [[ComicBook/TheFlash Wally West]]'' and ''enough willpower to convince a ComicBook/GreenLantern ring to not attack him''. The encounter ends with the entire Justice League on the floor spitting up blood, and Slade quipping that this League, made up mostly of new faces (in ComicBookTime terms, anyway) to superheroing, is so much weaker than the old one... despite the fact that many of them (Wally in particular) are ''far'' more powerful than their predecessors. You'd also think that an [[EyeScream arrow to the eye]] would have done something more than force him to retreat, but he was just fine afterwards.

* RoguesGalleryTransplant: Slade started out as a Teen Titans rogue, turned towards antiheroism, and then became (after ''ComicBook/IdentityCrisis'') a sort of generic Franchise/DCUniverse villain, being as much of a dick to as many superheroes as he could manage. It should be noted that he's never let go of his grudge against the Titans since he never completed his contract against them (a bit of a blow to his merc cred). He even went so far as to harass Damian Wayne, his Arch-Enemy Nightwing's protege. These days, he generally tends to be considered a Bat-Family adjacent villain.

Slade Wilson was just sixteen years old when he lied about his age and enlisted in the United States Army where he eventually reached the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. It was also in the Army that he met his future wife, and combat trainer, Adeline Kane. Slade was eventually shipped to Vietnam, where he would end up being rescued by his future right-hand man, an SAS commando named Wintergreen. After his tour in Vietnam, Slade was selected to be a test subject for an experiment designed to create metahuman supersoldiers. This left him with enhanced physical and mental abilities as well as a healing factor. Slade deserted soon afterwards to rescue Wintergreen after a vindictive superior officer sent him on a suicide mission. Deciding to put his skills and abilities to a profitable use, Slade became a mercenary.

* FromCamouflageToCriminal: After his experiences in the military SuperSoldier program, Deathstroke became a merc/assassin for hire.

* SuperSoldier: When in the army he took part in an experiment designed to create meta-human supersoldiers. He's slightly above maximum human physical ability and has a healing factor with inconsistent strength.

** He's a mercenary [[Franchise/{{Batman}} Batman]]. To get more detailed both are a quintessential BadassNormal (well, Slade's an EmpoweredBadassNormal), are typically CrazyPrepared, and Deathstroke even has his own BattleButler in Wintergreen, a sort of EvilCounterpart to Alfred. Finally there's the fact that Batman will never use a gun whereas Deathstroke is a WalkingArmory.

* HeroKiller: He's killed a couple of heroes, including Phantom Lady and Ryan Choi's [[ComicBook/TheAtom Atom]]. Then in the trailer for ''VideoGame/DCUniverseOnline'', he ''almost'' kills Franchise/{{Batman}}.

* InvincibleVillain: In the hands of clumsy writing he can be this. His most infamous showing was in ''ComicBook/IdentityCrisis'', in which he single-handledly beat Franchise/GreenLantern, Franchise/TheFlash, ComicBook/BlackCanary, ComicBook/GreenArrow, ComicBook/{{Hawkman}}, ComicBook/{{Zatanna}}, and ComicBook/TheAtom with minimal effort. In this fight, he demonstrated ''faster reflexes than [[Franchise/TheFlash Wally West]]'' and ''enough willpower to convince a Franchise/GreenLantern ring to not attack him''. The encounter ends with the entire Justice League on the floor spitting up blood, and Slade quipping that this League, made up mostly of new faces (in ComicBookTime terms, anyway) to superheroing, is so much weaker than the old one... despite the fact that many of them (Wally in particular) are ''far'' more powerful than their predecessors. You'd also think that an [[EyeScream arrow to the eye]] would have done something more than force him to retreat, but he was just fine afterwards.

* PowerCreepPowerSeep: He can be portrayed as someone who can hold his own against members of the Franchise/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica, and be able to knock out the Flash, but also struggle against someone like ComicBook/{{Nightwing}}.

* CannotSpitItOut: In the Comicbook/DCRebirth volume of the series, Wintergreen says that Slade genuinely loves his children, but is too fundamentally broken as a human being to show them the affection they deserve.

* InvincibleVillain: In the hands of clumsy writing he can be this. His most infamous showing was in ''ComicBook/IdentityCrisis'', in which he single-handledly beat Franchise/GreenLantern, Franchise/TheFlash, Comicbook/BlackCanary, Comicbook/GreenArrow, Comicbook/{{Hawkman}}, Comicbook/{{Zatanna}}, and Comicbook/TheAtom with minimal effort. In this fight, he demonstrated ''faster reflexes than [[Franchise/TheFlash Wally West]]'' and ''enough willpower to convince a Franchise/GreenLantern ring to not attack him''. The encounter ends with the entire Justice League on the floor spitting up blood, and Slade quipping that this League, made up mostly of new faces (in ComicBookTime terms, anyway) to superheroing, is so much weaker than the old one... despite the fact that many of them (Wally in particular) are ''far'' more powerful than their predecessors. You'd also think that an [[EyeScream arrow to the eye]] would have done something more than force him to retreat, but he was just fine afterwards.

* MySuitIsAlsoSuper: His suit in the New 52 runs is (DependingOnTheWriter) made of Nth metal (the stuff that comprises Comicbook/{{Hawkman}}'s mace and flight harness) or Promethium (the metal that comprises Comicbook/{{Cyborg}}'s body). The Comicbook/DCRebirth run has him upgrading to a "gravity sheath" suit from Dr. Ikon, which allows him to take blows from ''Comicbook/{{Superman}}'' of all people.

* ShouldersOfDoom: In the ComicBook/New52 continuity, DependingOnTheArtist.

* AdaptationalSexuality: The ''DC Rebirth'' relaunch of ''Comicbook/{{Deathstroke}}'' establishes that Jericho is pansexual and has a rather fluid view on sexuality in general.

** Averted with the last incarnation of the Teen Titans before ''ComicBook/TheNew52'' where she was on good terms with most members, especially Superboy and Damian.

* UnableToCry: A literal example. After the end of her [[BrainwashedAndCrazy Brainwashed And Crazy-phase]], Rose is rarely shown grieving. Rather, she usually does something else like play with her phone or go skinny dipping. Even the times she DOES show to be affected by someone's death [[spoiler: namely when trying to comfort Roy Harper at his daughters funeral]], she is not shown shedding a single tear. While at first, this comes off as a {{Jerkass}} trait, the first issue of ''ComicBook/BlackestNight: Titans'' reveals that she is simply unable to healthily cope thus doing her best to ignore the grief instead.

* AdaptationRelationshipOverhaul: While still complicated, the relationship between Rose and Slade is more stable in ''Rebirth'' compared to her Pre-Flashpoint version. While she still likes doing things to piss Slade off like [[spoiler: marrying his former tech-guy,]] she no longer hates him showing multiple times that she loves and cares for him and wants him in her life.

* AxCrazy: In the ComicBook/New52, she starts this way and stayed it for a long time.
** She's calmer in ''Rebirth'', although her father's machinations do push her. [[spoiler: She later develops a split personality [=and/or=] gets possessed by an ancient Hmong warrior-queen]].

* BloodKnight: In the ComicBook/New52.

* ContinuitySnarl: Along with all of the Wilson family, her ComicBook/New52 history was ''very'' unstable. Initially, it was said that Adeline was her mother and she works for an organisation called N.O.W.H.E.R.E. as part of a group called ''the Ravagers''. She makes little mention of this when she later shows up in the second ''Deathstroke'' series. The ''Rebirth'' series specifically says Lillian Worth is once again her mother, and presents an entirely different backstory for her, aside from being Slade's daughter.

* EnemyMine: The ComicBook/New52 version with the Ravagers to save a town.
** Again only a few issues later when N.O.W.H.E.R.E. send [[spoiler: Deathstroke]] after her and Warblade as well as the Ravagers.

* RaceLift: Her mixed heritage was erased in the ComicBook/New52 after DC made her Adeline Kane's daughter instead of Lilian Worth's. Following Rebirth, Lillian was her mom again and Rose's mixed ethnicity restored.

* VillainousFriendship: The ComicBook/New52 version with Warblade. Well, as much as one can be friends with an AxCrazy BloodKnight as Warblade, anyways...

* AlternateCompanyEquivalent: Apparently, Rob Liefeld once mis-drew Slade "Deathstroke" Wilson by letting him have both of his eyes, and when Fabian Nicieza saw it, he jokingly referred to the "new" character as Wade "Deadpool" Wilson. (Y'all know ComicBook/{{Deadpool}}, yes?)