Deathstroke

> "*You said you had something I'd want? You better not be wasting my time.*"
>
> ―Deathstroke and Lex Luthor

**Slade Joseph Wilson** is one of the world's deadliest assassins and a mercenary-for-hire, operating under the codename **Deathstroke**. He is one of the adversaries of the Batman and a mutual acquaintance of Lex Luthor.

Originally a soldier in the U.S. Army during the Vietnam War, Slade Wilson was part of an experimental super-soldier program where he gained enhanced strength, agility, healing factor and intelligence. Deathstroke became a mercenary soon after the experiment and rapidly gained a reputation as one of the world's greatest assassins.

## Personality

As an assassin, Slade Wilson is cold, blunt, and irascible, being more than willing to leave Lex Luthor's yacht when he warned the latter not to waste his time, but seemed quite interested after hearing his realizing the Batman is Bruce Wayne in response to the Justice League's formation and resurrection of Superman. Deathstroke immensely dislikes insanity and inefficiency, as he was vocally irritated by having to work with Joker in the Knightmare timeline.

Much like Joker, however, Deathstroke is was willing to temporarily team up with his former enemies for the greater good of humanity (or more likely their own personal agenda or reasons at least). Though he is a mercenary, he is show to be willing to do jobs without pay if he has a personal stake in it. As he showed by volunteering to work for Luthor in exchange for the chance to kill Batman.

## Abilities

* **Enhanced Physical Condition**: Slade Wilson was part of an experimental super-soldier program where he gained enhanced strength, agility, healing factor and intelligence. His physical condition is far superior to Batman, whom was merely the peak of human physical condition, only equal due to his Batsuit.

* **Enhanced Intellect**: Deathstroke can utilize 90% of his brain to learn and process information far faster than normal human beings, making him smarter than any human in existence.

* **Master Martial Artist**: Slade is a highly skilled hand-to-hand combatant and martial artist, easily comparable to his enemy Batman, which usually have fights with equal skill and dominance over one another.

* **Master Combatant**: Deathstroke is an extremely deadly and skilled combatant. He is proficient in various types of martial arts that allows him to defeat his opponents in many different styles and ways in his own preference, combined with his enhanced strength.

* **Sword Mastery**: Slade is a highly skilled swordsman, which surpised Batman considering that he isn't that much of a swordsman.

* **Expert Marksman**: Slade is very proficient in the use of firearms, his marksmanship is seemingly equal to Batman in terms of firearms, which he can use to dominate his foes in ranged combat, though inferior to Deadshot's unerring marksmanship skill.

* **Superhuman Strength**: He possessed superhuman strength due to the experiment/s. He is stated to be as strong as 10 men, lift a maximum of five metric tons, pry open steel doors and kill people with his bare hands alone.

* **Agility**: Despite his armor, he is still very agile, able to keep up with Batman's superior agility and speed.

* **Expert Engineer**: It can be assumed that Deathstroke created his very own armored suit by himself, or with assistance.

## Equipment

* **Deathstroke battle armor**: When in the field, Deathstroke dons an armored orange-and-black armored bodysuit and helmet. The suit carries his arsenal in various holsters and sports multiple pouches for ammunition and other necessities.

* **M249 Paratrooper**: In the Knightmare timeline, he carries a paratrooper version of the M249 SAW as his main primary weapon. It is equipped with an ACOG scope, laser designator and a collapsible stock.

* **Dual Swords**: Wilson actively employs the use of two swords as part of his arsenal. They are Promethium alloy swords sporting a design similar to a Japanese Katana.

* **Glock 17**: Slade has a handgun holstered on his chest, which can be used as a last resort.

* **HK USP**: Slade has a pistol in the right thigh, serving as a secondary weapon

* **Grenades**: Slade carries what appears to be three grenades on his left shoulder plate.

## Trivia

### General

* In DC Comics, Deathstroke is a recurring enemy of the Teen Titans, and one of the most formidable foes of Batman and Green Arrow.
* The armor he wears in *Josstice League* and *Zack Snyder's Justice League* is identical to the one he sports in the video game, *Batman: Arkham Origins*. The similarities include the orange color scheme around his chest, a pop-out collar-like neck armor, and heavy shoulder plates with similar design patterns. The only noticeable difference being a black chevron on the top of the movie version's helmet.
* Joe Manganiello was uncredited for his appearance in *Justice League*.
* Joe Manganiello was originally considered for the role of Superman.
* Before Joe Manganiello was cast as Deathstroke, Stephen Lang, Ron Perlman, and Arnold Schwarzenegger were considered for the role of Deathstroke.
* It was initially planned for Deathstroke to have his own solo film, but a change in executives at the studio put the film on indefinite hold.
* According to Joe Manganiello, the character of Deathstroke was originally planned to star in *Suicide Squad 2* before James Gunn was hired to direct the film.
* Deathstroke in the DC Extended Universe is the fifth live-action incarnation of the character, following incarnations portrayed by Antonio Sabàto, Jr, Michael Hogan, Jeffery C. Robinson and Manu Bennett.
* There is a nod to popular Batman rogue, Ra's al Ghul, on the hilt of one of Slade's swords: an emblem of the League of Shadows.
	+ The emblem was actually made for *Halo*, which is unrelated to DC Comics, but was used on a fan page to represent Ra's. Apparently Manganiello and/or his costume designer didn't realize the difference when pushing to make the connection, but the intention remains.
* In *Justice League*, Deathstroke was invited to Lex Luthor's yacht, but instead of being there to take down the Batman, Luthor instead invited him to join a team of supervillains with himself as the head.

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