Slade Wilson (Earth-1)

***NOTE: This version of Slade Wilson/Deathstroke is exclusive to the Arrowverse continuity.***

## Biographical Information

### Resides In

ARGUS Prison (formerly)
Lian Yu (formerly)

###  Occupation

Mercenary
ASIS agent (formerly)
Team 7 operative (formerly)
Mastermind behind the Church of Blood (formerly)

### Affiliations

Oliver Queen
ASIS (formerly)
Mirakuru Soldiers (formerly)

## Relationships

### Children

Grant Wilson/Deathstroke (son, estranged)
Joseph Wilson (son, estranged)

### Friends

**Currently:**
Oliver Queen/Green Arrow
Shado
Sara Lance/White Canary
Isabel Rochev
Nyssa al Ghul
Malcolm Merlyn
Felicity Smoak
John Diggle
Thea Queen
William Clayton
Samantha Clayton
Quentin Lance
Dinah Drake
Curtis Holt
Rene Ramirez
**Formerly:** William Wintergreen
Sebastian Blood

###  Enemies

**Currently:**
Edward Fyers
Amanda Waller
ARGUS
Laurel Lance
Roy Harper
Caitlin Snow
Cisco Ramon
Sebastian Blood
the League of Assassins
Ray Palmer
Anatoly Knyazev
Digger Harkness
Talia al Ghul
Adrian Chase/Prometheus
Evelyn Sharp
Black Siren
Joe Wilson
Jackals
Nylander
Moira Queen
**Formerly:** Oliver Queen
Sara Lance
Felicity Smoak
John Diggle
Thea Queen
Quentin Lance
Nyssa al Ghul

## Background Information

### Portrayed By

Manu Bennett

**Slade Wilson**, also known as **Deathstroke**, is an antagonist turned anti-hero in the Arrowverse. Throughout the storyline, Slade was, at stages of his relationship with Oliver, his friend, mentor, and worst enemy, before eventually reforming and restoring Slade's old personality at the end of Season 5.

## Role

The anti-heroic deuteragonist of the flashback timeline of Season 1, the main antagonist of Season 2, a minor antagonist in Season 3, a mentioned antagonist in Season 4, a supporting anti-hero in Season 5, a major anti-hero in Season 6, and a mentioned character in subsequent seasons. He also appears as a mentioned character in Seasons 1, 2, 3 and 6 of *The Flash* and Seasons 1 and 2 of *DC's Legends of Tomorrow*.

## Comics

   Slade debuted as Deathstroke in *The New Teen Titans* and was created by Marv Wolfman and George Pérez. He is notorious for being the main antagonist of *The Judas Contract* and sharing an antagonistic relationship with Dick Grayson/Nightwing, Gar Logan/Beast Boy and the Teen Titans.

However, there is nothing Deathstroke related within Green Arrow's origin story. In most adaptations, Slade is often an adversary for the Teen Titans and Nightwing, blaming them for his son Grant's death, while also having an on/off friendship with Beast Boy in earlier stories.

## Trivia

* Slade is the only known Arrow main antagonist to still be alive.
* He is one of the few main characters to be the main antagonist of present day and flashback events,, along with Malcolm Merlyn
* His old partner, Billy Wintergreen, was his son, Joe's godfather.
* During his fight with his ex-partner, Slade stabs Wintergreen in the eye with a sword, mirroring Oliver's and Slade's eventual falling out under similar circumstances as former partners turned enemies and with an end result of the villain having an object thrusted into their eye.
* Both he and Lena were close friends with the main character at one point in the series but feeling betrayed by them because of a kept secret (Oliver kept the secret of being indirectly responsible for Shado's death, for the sake of Slade's sanity when he was on the Mirakuru and Kara kept her identity from Lena). This leads them to be temporarily work against their former friends before realizing the error of their ways

### Comic book references

* Slade is usually an enemy of Dick Grayson and the Teen Titans while later moving on to fight their mentors, notably Batman (Bruce Wayne), Superman (Clark Kent) and occasionally, the Green Arrow (Oliver Queen).
* Deathstroke is a full-time supervillain and occasional anti-hero. This aspect of him being an anti-hero was adapted into his Arrowverse version of the character.
* Slade actually had three children in the comics. In this order, they are Grant, Jericho, and Rose.
	+ In the series, he only has Grant and Joe, but in reverse birth order
	+ His daughter, Rose, does not appear to exist in the Arrowverse or has not been introduced yet. In the comics Slade didn't know he had a daughter until she was fourteen years old.
* From the comics, Slade lost his eye to his ex-wife, Adeline. In the series, Slade loses an eye to Oliver Queen.
* Slade has a strained relationship with his ex-wife as he does in the comics.
* Slade's nationality changed in the series. He is American the comics, but Australian in the series

## See Also

* Slade (Teen Titans)
* Slade Wilson (Titans)
* John Diggle, Jr. (Deathstroke; Erased future)