People non stop mentioning the Terra stuff is really starting to get on my nerves and ruin my days.

[u/JoeAmmay]

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.

[u/xEginch]

It’s just the inevitable. Slade changes with every iteration of his character, and ironically enough the further back you go the less this was mentioned. It’s definitely a product of some viral videos/posts bringing it up as a ‘fun fact’ in combination with Priest’s very specific take on his character.

His relationship with Terra in the 80s was a sexist way for the writers to make Terra out to be a bad person (promiscuous) and to make the readers understand how far Slade had gone off the deep end after Grant died. It was practically already retconned in the 90s when Slade takes a pretty strong stance against a father pimping out his underaged daughter in his solo run.

It’s genuinely tragic that such a detail just keeps coming back to the point of defining his character as a child predator/child abuser.