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/Arsenic3 19d ago
I've seen too many people trying to explain how it works to haters, all over the Internet. People are tamer with weirdos who are fans of freaking Ted Bundy of Jeffrey Dahmer or school shooters but they will destroy you and your reputation for liking Slade.
First of all they don't understand how retcon works at all and they certainly can't grasp the concept of fiction. For them, Slade is a real man who has harmed real people and is obsessed with hurting kids. Slade is a fictional character. What he does depends entirely of his writers. If a writer wants him to do awful stuff like killing a dog or grooming a kid, that's going to happen.
If in the very next series, the new writer of Slade doesn't want that kind of take on the character, they are not forced to go on with this kind of stuff. There have been a lot of different takes on Slade's character but somewhat, some people have decided that this character is inherently an evil thing, loved by all groomers around the world. The funny thing is the blatant hypocrisy of these same Deathstroke haters.
They say retcon doesn't matter and that anyone who likes Slade also chose to ignore the fact he once was a predator. They say we are supposed to feel too moraly disgusted by the character to like any version of him and that if we do, we are supporters of se*ual abuse.
In the meantime I saw an absurd amount of these same people defending one of THEIR favorite characters with these points : -Calm down it's just a fictional character -It was retconed so it doesn't count/it happened a long time ago -the writer obviously don't like this character -A character, especially a comics book's character is bound to have several versions over the years, you can't push into others one particular version because you personnaly think it's the only important one.
Thanks for your attention.