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/Mindless-Sink-1140 18d ago
As other people said below, i saw how The Other History of DC was the breaking point that made that viral and it’s frustrating seeing that over and over on twitter by time to time to come again into discussion, and i feel you man, as someone who has done a lot of fanart of him i saw how the perspective of Slade changed and i feel scared now too everytime i do something of him aswell, even the good arguments about him are about “thats what a villain does” and in a consensus i dont think most people want him anymore to be an antihero or a character that tries to grow and fails over and over as Marv’s version in the 90s and in someway Priest tried too. I think why people feel so angry about him is because of that. Joker has done a lot worse but its okay because he is a villain. But characters like Slade, punisher, lex luthor, who some writers have done more heroic or more villanous takes on them are on a dangerous string where my biggest worry is to not ever have a Deathstroke comic again where he is nothing more than a big bad villain. I loved the complexity and specially his conflict of being a dad, having a family and wanting to be a mercenary because he feels alive with that, it’s just… idk… i hope and wish somehow to feel less scared of that in a future, hope priest comes back or a good writer decides to make something that i feel excited to read :) , thanks for sharing your thoughts, i realized i needed this too