History YMMV / TheJudasContract

** As detailed in [[http://historiesofthingstocome.blogspot.com/search/label/Terra The blogger tamaranorbust's thorough, multi-part study on Terra,]] creator Marv Wolfman was so determined to make her as [[ForTheEvulz irredeemably evil]] as possible that he ended up writing a whole ''host'' of these, including, but not limited to:

** Seeking revenge on others will only eat up the person on the inside and cause long-term harm. Deathstroke took the contract to avenge his son, but in the end it gets the Titans and his family gunning for him, and Terra literally ''dies'' in a mad attempt to get revenge on the Titans, trying to collapse the building on them and only managing to crush herself.

*** Making Deathstroke a sympathetic character and Terra a two-demintional raving lunatic -- even though it was his plan Terra was following, Deathstroke was a killer himself and he was using her as a pawn.

** As detailed in [[http://historiesofthingstocome.blogspot.com/search/label/Terra The blogger tamaranorbust's thorough, multi-part study on Terra,]] creator Marv Wolfman was so determined to make her as [[ForTheEvulz unredeemingly evil]] as possible that he ended up writing a whole ''host'' of these, including, but not limited to:

*** Having a mentally unbalanced teenager commit suicide -- and then make it so that it, and every other bad thing that happened in the story, was ''her'' fault.

** As detailed in [[http://historiesofthingstocome.blogspot.com/search/label/Terra The blogger tamaranorbust's thorough, multi-part study on Terra,]] creator Marv Wolfman was so determined to make Terra as [[ForTheEvulz unredeemingly evil]] as possible that he ended up writing a whole ''host'' of these, including, but not limited to:
*** Terra's sexual affair with Slade, which the creators [[WordOfGod have confirmed]] was meant to shock the readers over [[SlutShaming what a slut]] ''[[SlutShaming she]]'' [[SlutShaming was]]. Wolfman would later admit that this was a mistake, and later writers would attempt to retcon this.

* As detailed in [[http://historiesofthingstocome.blogspot.com/search/label/Terra The blogger tamaranorbust's thorough, multi-part study on Terra,]] creator Marv Wolfman was so determined to make Terra as [[ForTheEvulz unredeemingly evil]] as possible that he ended up writing a whole ''host'' of these, including, but not limited to:
** Terra's sexual affair with Slade, which the creators [[WordOfGod have confirmed]] was meant to shock the readers over [[SlutShaming what a slut]] ''[[SlutShaming she]]'' [[SlutShaming was]]. Wolfman would later admit that this was a mistake, and later writers would attempt to retcon this.
** Having a mentally unbalanced teenager commit suicide -- and then make it so that it, and every other bad thing that happened in the story, was ''her'' fault.

** During her time with the Titans, it's revealed Terra's having a sexual affair with Slade, and the story's creators [[WordOfGod have confirmed]] that the purpose of this was to shock the readers at [[SlutShaming what a slut]] ''[[SlutShaming she]]'' [[SlutShaming was]]. Needless to say, blaming the ''teenage girl'' for having a sexual relationship with an older man is -- questionable, at best. Especially considering how these things tend to go in the real world. More recent writers have tried to retcon this into making it Deathstroke's fault, but it never seems to stick.
** [[http://historiesofthingstocome.blogspot.com/search/label/Terra The blogger tamaranorbust has a thorough, multi-part study on Terra,]] covering her appearances, her background, how she's referred to, the characters she affected, the histories of [[LegacyCharacter her two later namesakes]] and the implications of her story.

* IdiotBall: Deathstroke has been accused of holding one when he tries to capture Dick Grayson, arguably the most dangerous Titan, by jumping through a window and fighting him hand-to-hand, instead of setting a clever trap of some kind like he did to all the other Titans. Of course, if Deathstroke ''had'' captured Dick in an ingenuous stratagem, then the book would have ended right there.

* UnfortunateImplications: During her time with the Titans, it's revealed Terra's having a sexual affair with Slade, and the story's creators [[WordOfGod have confirmed]] that the purpose of this was to shock the readers at [[SlutShaming what a slut]] ''[[SlutShaming she]]'' [[SlutShaming was]]. Needless to say, blaming the ''teenage girl'' for having a sexual relationship with an older man is -- questionable, at best. Especially considering how these things tend to go in the real world. More recent writers have tried to retcon this into making it Deathstroke's fault, but it never seems to stick.

* UnfortunateImplications: During her time with the Titans, it's revealed Terra's having a sexual affair with Slade, and the story's creators [[WordOfGod have confirmed]] that the purpose of this was to shock the readers at [[SlutShaming what a slut]] ''[[SlutShaming she]]'' [[SlutShaming was]]. Needless to say, blaming the ''teenage girl'' for having a sexual relationship with an older man is -- questionable, at best. Especially considering how these things tend to go in the real world. Eventually, [[ComicBook/DeathstrokeRebirth DC Comics themselves finally decided to put the blame for the relationship on Slade.]]

* IdiotPlot: Deathstroke knows that, even if he has no powers, Robin is the most dangerous Titan, because of his sharp strategic mind. He said it himself. He knew his secret identity and had the element of surprise. And, besides, being intelligent, Deathstroke has military training. Why didn't he set a trap for him, like with all the others? By making a dramatic super window jump at his home, he reveals him the whole thing, and gave him the chance to understand that he had to retreat and organize a contingency plan. A chance that Starfire or Cyborg may not have taken, but Robin surely would, as he did. If he set traps for everybody, including Robin, he would have captured the whole team, and the ending may have likely been very different.
** Two more layers of stupid:
*** 1. If Deathstroke wanted to make sure he got Robin himself, likely the only reason he would do something as stupid as the above, he could've easily just posed as something (delivery man, Jehovah's witness, etc) and then drugged Robin before he had a chance to react, rather than a frontal assault he has a much better chance of escaping.
*** 2. Not trying to find Robin afterwords. Doing so gave Dick all the time he needed to connect the dots instead of waiting at one of his friends places or the Titans Tower for him to show up and then grabbing him there.
%%* SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome: Dick's transformation into Nightwing.

* UnfortunateImplications: During her time with the Titans, it's revealed Terra's having a sexual affair with Slade, and the story's creators [[WordOfGod have confirmed]] that the purpose of this was to shock the readers at [[SlutShaming what a slut]] ''[[SlutShaming she]]'' [[SlutShaming is]], never mind that nothing indicates she's ever slept with anybody else, she actually seems to think Slade loves her, and Slade might be committing statutory rape. When the time comes to betray the Titans, they try to reason with her and fail, and she dies while trying to kill them, destroyed by her own powers. The story becomes quite {{Anvilicious}} at how evil she is. She's explicitly called evil, the {{Narrator}} informs us that she's both completely insane and completely responsible for her actions (a contradiction in terms), even Slade later says [[EvenEvilHasStandards her evil scared even him.]] Her death is essentially a teen suicide (in a series that was about, and originally intended for, teens) where everything is being blamed on the teen. And as for Slade, her boss and lover, [[DoubleStandard the man]] who's decades older than her, a multiple murderer, who created the EvilPlan she was following, whose own stated intentions with that plan was to murder all the Titans, he is (comparatively speaking) EasilyForgiven by the Titans afterwards, and is treated by Creator/DCComics as an AntiHero for the next several years. He's even treated as a ''father figure'' by several of the Titans he was trying to kill! This storyline exonerated the adult in this murderous partnership while trying to blame everything on the 16 year-old girl. [[http://historiesofthingstocome.blogspot.com/search/label/Terra The blogger tamaranorbust has a thorough, multi-part study on Terra,]] covering her appearances, her background, how she's referred to, the characters she affected, the histories of [[LegacyCharacter her two later namesakes]] and the implications of her story. Eventually, [[ComicBook/DeathstrokeRebirth DC Comics themselves finally decided to fix the problem and put the blame for the relationship where it belongs: on Slade.]]
* ValuesDissonance: It's seen as Terra's fault for being an unredeemable BitchInSheepsClothing, who is so evil that at sixteen she sleeps with a man thirty years her senior. In 2003, Changeling was back to calling out Slade for his part in hurting Terra. In the modern 2010s, their relationship would be called a form of grooming, and in both the DTV adaptation and ''ComicBook/DeathstrokeRebirth'', it is flat-out portrayed as such.

* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: Dick's transformation into Nightwing.
* HilariousInHindsight: Or HarsherInHindsight. Orwell's famous ''1984'' book was enough to make a colossal fad of paranoia and conspiracy, so when the contract was carried out in the middle of the craze, ramifications were ''huge''.

** Terra afterwards may or may not have been resurrected, since her grave is empty and her successor is a dead ringer for her. The second Terra is also a good person. Did she block out the memories because IHatePastMe? Or were the means used to revive her less than reliable and caused LaserGuidedAmnesia.

** Was Terra HoistedByTheirOwnPeturb or was she DrivenToSuicide? If the latter, was it a suicide attack or just plain suicide?

* AdaptationDisplacement: More people are familiar with its adaptation from WesternAnimation/TeenTitans than this comic, also applied as AdaptationalHeroism.

* UnfortunateImplications: During her time with the Titans, it's revealed Terra's having a sexual affair with Slade, and the story's creators [[WordOfGod have confirmed]] that the purpose of this was to shock the readers at [[SlutShaming what a slut]] ''[[SlutShaming she]]'' [[SlutShaming is]], never mind that nothing indicates she's ever slept with anybody else, she actually seems to think Slade loves her, and Slade might be committing statutory rape. When the time comes to betray the Titans, they try to reason with her and fail, and she dies while trying to kill them, destroyed by her own powers. The story becomes quite {{Anvilicious}} at how evil she is. She's explicitly called evil, the {{Narrator}} informs us that she's both completely insane and completely responsible for her actions (a contradiction in terms), even Slade later says [[EvenEvilHasStandards her evil scared even him.]] Her death is essentially a teen suicide (in a series that was about, and originally intended for, teens) where everything is being blamed on the teen. And as for Slade, her boss and lover, [[DoubleStandard the man]] who's decades older than her, a multiple murderer, who created the EvilPlan she was following, whose own stated intentions with that plan was to murder all the Titans, he is (comparatively speaking) EasilyForgiven by the Titans afterwards, and is treated by Creator/DCComics as an AntiHero for the next several years. He's even treated as a ''father figure'' by several of the Titans he was trying to kill! This storyline exonerated the adult in this murderous partnership while trying to blame everything on the 16 year-old girl. [[http://historiesofthingstocome.blogspot.com/search/label/Terra The blogger tamaranorbust has a thorough, multi-part study on Terra,]] covering her appearances, her background, how she's referred to, the characters she affected, the histories of [[LegacyCharacter her two later namesakes]] and the implications of her story. Eventually, [[ComicBook/DeathstrokeRebirth DC Comics themselves finally decided to fix the problem and put the blame for the relationship where it belongs: on the adult man, Slade.]]

* UnfortunateImplications: During her time with the Titans, it's revealed Terra's having a sexual affair with Slade, and the story's creators [[WordOfGod have confirmed]] that the purpose of this was to shock the readers at [[SlutShaming what a slut]] ''[[SlutShaming she]]'' [[SlutShaming is]], never mind that nothing indicates she's ever slept with anybody else, she actually seems to think Slade loves her, and Slade might be committing statutory rape. When the time comes to betray the Titans, they try to reason with her and fail, and she dies while trying to kill them, destroyed by her own powers. The story becomes quite {{Anvilicious}} at how evil she is. She's explicitly called evil, the {{Narrator}} informs us that she's both completely insane and completely responsible for her actions (a contradiction in terms), even Slade later says [[EvenEvilHasStandards her evil scared even him.]] Her death is essentially a teen suicide (in a series that was about, and originally intended for, teens) where everything is being blamed on the teen. And as for Slade, her boss and lover, [[DoubleStandard the man]] who's decades older than her, a multiple murderer, who created the EvilPlan she was following, whose own stated intentions with that plan was to murder all the Titans, he is (comparatively speaking) EasilyForgiven by the Titans afterwards, and is treated by Creator/DCComics as an AntiHero for the next several years. He's even treated as a ''father figure'' by several of the Titans he was trying to kill! This storyline exonerated the adult in this murderous partnership while trying to blame everything on the 16 year-old girl. [[http://historiesofthingstocome.blogspot.com/search/label/Terra The blogger tamaranorbust has a thorough, multi-part study on Terra,]] covering her appearances, her background, how she's referred to, the characters she affected, the histories of [[LegacyCharacter her two later namesakes]] and the implications of her story. Eventually, [[ComicBook/DeathstrokeRebirth DC Comics themselves finally decided to fix the problem.]]

** Seeking revenge on others, even if they deserve it, will only eat up the person on the inside and cause long-term harm. Deathstroke took the contract to avenge his son, but in the end it gets the Titans and his family gunning for him. Meanwhile Changeling, in a bid to get revenge on Slade, sabotages the trial that would have gotten Deathstroke convicted, damages the Titans' credibility, and tries to murder him several times. The Titans try to help him through his grief, but Changeling doesn't want help; he wants revenge. Deathstroke manages to talk him down about how they're NotSoDifferent because Changeling ultimately isn't a killer and wants to destroy Deathstroke based on a lie that Terra was a good person.

* UnfortunateImplications: During her time with the Titans, it's revealed Terra's having a sexual affair with Slade, and the story's creators [[WordOfGod have confirmed]] that the purpose of this was to shock the readers at [[SlutShaming what a slut]] ''[[SlutShaming she]]'' [[SlutShaming is]], never mind that nothing indicates she's ever slept with anybody else, she actually seems to think Slade loves her, and Slade might be committing statutory rape. When the time comes to betray the Titans, they try to reason with her and fail, and she dies while trying to kill them, destroyed by her own powers. The story becomes quite {{Anvilicious}} at how evil she is. She's explicitly called evil, the {{Narrator}} informs us that she's both completely insane and completely responsible for her actions (a contradiction in terms), even Slade later says [[EvenEvilHasStandards her evil scared even him.]] Her death is essentially a teen suicide (in a series that was about, and originally intended for, teens) where everything is being blamed on the teen. And as for Slade, her boss and lover, [[DoubleStandard the man]] who's decades older than her, a multiple murderer, who created the EvilPlan she was following, whose own stated intentions with that plan was to murder all the Titans, he is (comparatively speaking) EasilyForgiven by the Titans afterwards, and is treated by Creator/DCComics as an AntiHero for the next several years. He's even treated as a ''father figure'' by several of the Titans he was trying to kill! This storyline exonerated the adult in this murderous partnership while trying to blame everything on the 16 year-old girl. [[http://historiesofthingstocome.blogspot.com/search/label/Terra The blogger tamaranorbust has a thorough, multi-part study on Terra,]] covering her appearances, her background, how she's referred to, the characters she affected, the histories of [[LegacyCharacter her two later namesakes]] and the implications of her story.
* ValuesDissonance: It's seen as Terra's fault for being an unredeemable BitchInSheepsClothing, who is so evil that at sixteen she sleeps with a man thirty years her senior. In 2003, Changeling was back to calling out Slade for his part in hurting Terra. In the modern 2010s, their relationship would be called a form of grooming.

* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: Was Terra EvilAllAlong, and worked with Slade to destroy the Titans just out of irrational hate? Or was she a good and innocent teenager, corrupted by Deathstroke? It [[DependingOnTheWriter depends on the writer]]... on the future writers that reference Terra or this story, to be precise. The story as written by Marv Wolfman leaves no room for doubt: Terra was completely evil, even ObviouslyEvil.

* {{HSQ}}: In the context of Wolfman's New Teen Titans run: Deathstroke is finally beaten but not before completeing his contract on the Titans (one of the series longest standing subplots up to that point), Terra plays her hand as a traitor then dies, Deathstrokes origns are revealed including a wife and second son who ends up joining the team, and finally Dick Grayson graduates from the old red and yellows and becomes Nightwing.

* UnfortunateImplications: During her time with the Titans, it's revealed Terra's having a sexual affair with Slade, and the story's creators [[WordOfGod have confirmed]] that the purpose of this was to shock the readers at [[SlutShaming what a slut]] ''[[SlutShaming she]]'' [[SlutShaming is]], never mind that nothing indicates she's ever slept with anybody else, she actually seems to think Slade loves her, and Slade might be committing statutory rape. When the time comes to betray the Titans, they try to reason with her and fail, and she dies while trying to kill them, destroyed by her own powers. The story becomes quite {{Anvilicious}} at how evil she is. She's explicitly called evil, the {{Narrator}} informs us that she's both completely insane and completely responsible for her actions (a contradiction in terms), even Slade later says [[EvenEvilHasStandards her evil scared even him.]] Her death is essentially a teen suicide (in a series that was about, and originally intended for, teens) where everything is being blamed on the teen. And as for Slade, her boss and lover, [[DoubleStandard the man]] who's decades older than her, a multiple murderer, who created the EvilPlan she was following, whose own stated intentions with that plan was to murder all the Titans, he is (comparatively speaking) EasilyForgiven by the Titans afterwards, and is treated by Creator/DCComics as an AntiHero for the next several years. He's even treated as a ''father figure'' by several of the Titans he was trying to kill! This storyline exonerated the adult in this murderous partnership while trying to blame everything on the 16 year-old girl. [[http://historiesofthingstocome.blogspot.com/search/label/Terra The blogger tamaranorbust has a thorough, multi-part study on Terra,]] covering her appearances, her background, how she's referred to, the characters she affected, the histories of [[LegacyCharacter her two later namesakes]] and the implications of her story .

* {{HSQ}}: In the context of Wolfman's New Teen Titans run: Deathstroke is finally beaten but not before completeing his contract on the titans (one of the series longest standing subplots up to that point), Terra plays her hand as a traitor then dies, Deathstrokes origns are revealed including a wife and second son who ends up joining the team, and finally Dick Grayson graduates from the old red and yellows and becomes Nightwing.

*** 1. If Deathstroke wanted to make sure he got Robin himself, likely the only reason he would do someting as stupid as the above, he could've easily just posed as some sort of delievery man jehovas witness etc and then drugged robin before he had a chance to react rather than a frontal assault he has a much better chance of escaping.
*** 2. Not trying to find Robin afterwords. Doing so gave Dick all the time he needed to connect the dots instead of waiting at one of his friends places or Titans Tower for him to show up and then grabbing him there.
* UnfortunateImplications: During her time with the Titans, it's revealed Terra's having a sexual affair with Slade, and the story's creators [[WordOfGod have confirmed]] that the purpose of this was to shock the readers at [[SlutShaming what a slut]] ''[[SlutShaming she]]'' [[SlutShaming is]], never mind that nothing indicates she's ever slept with anybody else, she actually seems to think Slade loves her, and Slade might be committing statutory rape. When the time comes to betray the Titans, they try to reason with her and fail, and she dies while trying to kill them, destroyed by her own powers. The story becomes quite {{Anvilicious}} at how evil she is. She's explicitly called evil, the {{Narrator}} informs us that she's both completely insane and completely responsible for her actions (a contradiction in terms), even Slade later says [[EvenEvilHasStandards her evil scared even him.]] Her death is essentially a teen suicide (in a series that was about, and originally intended for, teens) where everything is being blamed on the teen. And as for Slade, her boss and lover, [[DoubleStandard the man]] who's decades older than her, a multiple murderer, who created the EvilPlan she was following, whose own stated intentions with that plan was to murder all the Titans, he is (comparatively speaking) EasilyForgiven by the Titans afterwards, and is treated by Creator/DCComics as an AntiHero for the next several years. He's even treated as a ''father figure'' by several of the Titans he was trying to kill! This storyline exonerated the adult in this murderous partnership while trying to blame everything on the 16 year-old girl. [[http://historiesofthingstocome.blogspot.com/search/label/Terra The blogger tamaranorbust has a thorough, multi-part study on Terra,]] covering her appearances, her background, how she's referred to, the characters she affected, the histories of [[LegacyCharacter her two later namesakes]] and the implications of her story .

* IdiotPlot: Deathstroke knows that, even if he has no powers, Robin is the most dangerous Titan, because of his sharp strategic mind. He said it himself. He knew his secret identity and had the element of surprise. And, besides, being intelligent, Deathstroke has military training. Why didn't he set a trap for him, like with all the others? By making a dramatic super window jump at his home, he reveals him the whole thing, and gave him the chance to understand that he had to retreat and organize a contingency plan. A chance that Starfire or Cyborg may not have taken, but Robin surely would, as he did. If he set traps for everybody, including Robin, he would have captured the whole team, and the ending may have likely been very different.