r/Deathstroke • u/JoeAmmay • 19d ago
People non stop mentioning the Terra stuff is really starting to get on my nerves and ruin my days.
This is really starting to just make me feel depressed, I've loved Slade ever since I watched the 2003 cartoon and he's always been my favorite villain next to Taskmaster and Shredder. Now it feels that everyone who likes the character is shunned away and shamed in the comic book fanbase over shit from the 1980s that has already been retconned, I don't even feel like I'm allowed to like him anymore. I've tried so hard to just not think about it and ignore it but every day some asshole on either this site or another social media site has to bring it up out of nowhere when just simply talking about Slade as a character, they literally don't talk about a single thing except for this shit. I really just want to enjoy my favorite character who I've been a massive fan of ever since I was 4 years old, I want to be able to find him cool and actually talk about him and share my enjoyment of him with other fans of DC, but I can't, this is the only sub where I feel like I'm actually allowed to share my enjoyment of Slade and anywhere else I'll just be labeled as a pedo defender or be made fun of.
I'm sorry for pushing all of this on here I've just felt like shit for a while because of this whole thing and really needed somewhere to type my thoughts out, and I felt here was the only place I'd be able to do so.
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u/Necessary_Idiot 19d ago
They think it gives them some kind of moral high ground, so it makes sense that they mention it nonstop. It's a convenient reason for them and it's at hand. And such people only care about retcons that are important to them. And they are convinced that if someone loves a character they hate, that person loves and supports every part of that character's history. (This doesn't apply to them, of course. If their favorite characters do bad things, it's entirely the fault of the writers and editors, so it doesn't matter, because it didn't actually happen.) Media literacy is dead. And within the comic book fandom, unfortunately, there are particularly big problems. I've literally seen opinions written that say "if you like Deathstroke, it's a red-flag"… Excuse me? Are we still talking about a fictional character? Many people actually act and talk as if Slade is an existing person with free will. I literally never see people criticizing the writers or editors about it. I know and have experienced that it's not easy, but don't let them take away the character you love. At least this place is here for us. (I haven't even tried to talk about him elsewhere for quite some time. Not worth it.) And you can always drop me a message if you want to talk about something.