| Deathstroke the Terminator | |
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| Born | Slade Wilson |
| Race | Human |
| Citizenship | American |
| Children | Grant Wilson, Rose Wilson, Joseph Wilson |
| Spouse | Adeline Kane Wilson |
| Affiliation | Team 7 |
| “ | Deathstroke. You really will work for anybody, won't you? | ” |
Slade Wilson, better known as Deathstroke the Terminator, was the most well known assassin in the world, despite his age and not belonging to any organization. Although often seen as a villain, Wilson did manage to work for Team 7, a mostly heroic partnership. While Slade did care for his family, and loved his children, he was not especially close with any of them. Instead, Slade took solace in money, which even though he had little use for, loved to collect.
Biography
Origins
As a young child, Slade Wilson's father had him travel a lot. This was simply because Nathaniel was not good at his job and was forced to leave a lot. Slade came to resent his father, viewing him as cold and uncaring. The only thing Slade ever learned from his father was how to kill. Eventually Slade got sold to a mobster named Rossi, an exchange to pay off his father's debts. Growing up cold and bitter, at the age of sixteen, Slade joined the military and worked under Adeline Kane. However, after destroying a children's hospital, Slade angrily quit, heading out to join a world of adventure. Despite this, he maintained a relationship with Adeline but was known to have had an affair with Hessia when he went to Turkey to assassinate some terrorists.
Marrying Adeline, Slade had three children, Grant, Rose and Joseph Wilson. Only with Grant was Slade able to maintain a relationship, Rose always wondered where her father headed off to and Joseph, the youngest, grew up bitter. At this point, Slade decided to mentor future assasins and took in a boy named Christoph. Along with Christoph, Slade began to train Gran and Alex Peabody. The first to be ready was Grant, who became the Ravager. As Adeline remained with the military, Slade was approached by Kurt Lance to join Team 7. After getting possessed by Eclipso, the trauma forced Slade to undergo a physical enhancement procedure, unaware that the enhancement was based off of his own father's DNA. However, after the Spartan Subject is manipulated to make James Bronson become Majestic, the truth beind Team 7 was revealed. Nonetheless, the Team continued to operate, and in trying to stop Majestic, Kaizen and Pandora's Box, the estranged team broke apart. Taking up a mission in North Korea with Grant, in the process, Slade ended up losing his eye.
Enraged, Slade decided to take up an identity to use when operating, as well as creating a suit made of Nth Metal. With these enhancements, Slade Wilson became Deathstroke the Terminator. Soon after, Slade believed Ravager to have died on a separate mission. When his house was destroyed, Slade believed Adeline and Joseph to be dead and was unable to find Rose.
The Terminator
The Terminator continued to be the greatest assassin into old age.
Christoph later retired from field work and decided to be Deathstroke's manager alongside Benjamin Williams. The Terminator also became good friends with Benjamin Turner, a member of the League of Assassins. His friendship with Turner extended to such a degree that he called Turner Tiggs and made him his handler. He was then hired to work with a team of mercenaries known as the Alpha Dawgs to steal a briefcase containing Clayface DNA. Near the end of the mission, Deathstroke ended up terminating the Alpha Dawgs simply because they were working with him. A short time after, Slade was arrested in Mexico by a simple beat cop, though he escaped and murdered the warden. After Christoph was murdered, Deathstroke learned that somebody was after him. To find Christoph's killer, Deathstroke once again began to work with Peabody. Deathstroke and Peabody discovered Legacy to be behind the murder, though after handling Legacy it turned out that Ravager had been behind the whole plot. Slade became determined to stop his thought-dead son and put an end to the Legacy madness. After stopping the Legacy, Grant defeated Slade, though Deathstroke was allowed another chance to live. Slade was saved by Peabody who also paid for his hospital bill. After recovering, Slade took up another job and paid a vist to his near-dead father, finally getting closure on years of childhood trauma. Slade's father passed away shortly after this meeting.
Approached by Maxim, Deathstroke ended up learning of a bounty on the head of the intergalactic criminal Lobo. The fight against Lobo quickly went sour for Slade as he realized that he was outclassed in nearly every aspect of the fight. Out of sheer luck, Deathstroke managed to defeat the last Czarnian and leave him for dead. After a brief altercation with Hawkman, Deathstroke again found himself wrapped up in family business, after being contracted by Harvest to take down Majestic. By the end of the adventure, Slade found himself having to kill his sons Grant and Joseph, with only the little comfort that they could have survived due to their metagenetic powers.
Despite everything that occured to him, Deathstroke continued to operate, joining the Secret Society and compromising the White House. However, he later turned on the Society when Lex Luthor offered him a better deal. He aided Luthor in taking down the Crime Syndicate and later left. Recruited into Task Force XL, on the first mission, Slade was offered a job by the Beast from the East and right away took up Knyazev's offer, betraying the New Suicide Squad.
Continuing his solo mercenary work, the Terminator found his brain betraying him against Possum and himself running for help to I-Ching. Under Ching's supervision, however, Slade woke up in a much younger body with both eyes. Sent by I-Ching to rescue his son Jericho, Slade found his own father harvesting Jericho's powers. Believing himself to have killed his father, Slade was for the first time affected by Jericho's powers. Slade subsequently lost all memories after turning young, of his father after the age of twelve and of several of his Team 7 partners. Waking up, he was contracted by Red Fury to take out Odysseus. Trying to regain his memory, Slade captured Benjamin Turner and realized his own father was Odysseus. Approached by Red Fury, I-Ching and Victor Ruiz, Slade realized that a CIA-Interpol partnership group called the Dead Bastards wanted Odysseus gone. Understanding that only Jericho could kill Odysseus, Slade headed off to Gotham City to find his son. Using Harley Quinn to try and find a lead on Jericho, Slade was betrayed and led straight into a confrontation with the Batman. Barely escaping the brutal fight, Slade and Harley headed off to find Rose. While Harley took care of Lady Shiva and Bronze Tiger, Slade battled his father and skewered the old man on rubble psionically controlled by Jericho. Waking up in Ruiz' facility, Slade learned that his father's body had not been recovered and was offered a contract by Hephaestus to kill a God. Due to the riches offered by Hephaestus, Slade accepted the contract and recieved the God-Killer Sword. Before heading off to the target, Slade confronted Rose. Learning his target to be Lapetus and to be exiled in Tartarus, Slade headed to other dimension from Themyscira but accidentally unleashed a strange force resulting in a confrontation with Wonder Woman. After being subdued by the Amazonian princess, Slade offered to kill Lapetus on behalf of the citizens of Themyscira. Slade and Wonder Woman were both, however, sent into a world of their own mind by Lapetus but managed to return just in time. Finding the Onyx Army ravaging Paradise Island, Slade once again joined the fray of battle and pursued the God. Attacked by Superman, Slade tried to hold off the alien but ultimately failed. After Lapetus easily dispatched Superman, Deathstroke found Wonder Woman helping fight the Onyx Army and himself up against Lapetus once more. After finally getting into Lapetus' head, Deathstroke killed the God and destroyed the Onyx Army. Confronting Hephaestus, Slade lost the God-Killer Sword Slade discovered it was necessary to give a blood sacrifice. Offering up his eye, Slade found himself to be a better fighter without it. In his attempt to kill the daughter of Morgan DuCard, Slade was paid off by Robin. Returning to Danger Island, Slade learned that Rose's house had been attacked and Harley Quinn was involved. Assaulting Belle Reve Prison, Deathstroke found himself teaming up with Harley, trying to kill Amanda Waller and at odds with Deadshot. Ironically, revealing his love for his daughter ended Deathstroke's fight with Deadshot, but landed him in the hands of Black Manta. After ejecting himself and Black Manta out of a water tank, Deathstroke battled the villain until they were interrupted by Belle Reve security. Heading with Harley to Waller's office, Deathstroke discovered she had already been kidnapped by Snakebite. After government forces began to invade Belle Reve, Deathstroke was confronted by Catwoman.
Eye Future
His age properly returning to him, Slade was hired by King Faraday to work exclusively for Project Cadmus. When the Earth 2 War started, Slade headed up to the Brother Eye satellite to collect the Earth 2 prisoners due to the Battle of Space. When Fifty Sue was created, she terrified Slade but took a liking to him and the two became partners. When Oliver Queen admitted his identity as the Green Arrow and began to uncover the secrets of Cadmus Island, Slade was sent out to assassinate him. Continually thwarted, Slade thought he succeeded after Queen announced his return to Seattle. Slade also approved of Project Cadmus granting Dr. Yamazake funding for his projects, despite the doctor's fragile mental state. During his tenure at Cadmus Island, Slade was disappointed to learn that he and Sue would be joined by his former Team 7 partner, Grifter. Sent out to Montreal to apprehend Big Barda, Slade failed and returned to Cadmus Island in time for Brother Eye to take over the island. Doing that which he did best, Slade began to try and play both sides while also trying to recover the DNA strands of metahumans. When Green Arrow's army arrived on Cadmus Island, Slade revealed his newfound loyalty to Brother Eye and tried to kill Grifter and Arrow, only to be killed by having his head ripped off by Fury.
Powers
Due to his physical enhancements, Deathstroke's strength and durability was vast and great. Despite his age, Slade's speed and power was many times that of a normal man. In addition, Slade was able to use more brain power than a normal man. One of Slade's greatest enhancements was his healing factor. When placed under the care of I-Ching, Slade was actually able to heal into a younger body. One of Slade's weaknesses was the fact that he only had one eye, when his healing restored the other eye, Slade found himself much less skilled with it than without it. The only reason the enhancements worked on Slade was because of his healing factor, which he had inherited from his father.
Deathstroke had several sets of armour. Initially he preferred to use a bulkier and more heavy suit. All of the armours had one thing in common: the black and orange tints. The initial armour was composed of Nth Metal, which gave Slade resistance to supernatural elements and enhanced his already great power. This original armour also had blue kevlar plating. His second armour abandoned the Nth Metal in favour of a more sleek design with chain mail and black plating. The armour Slade used before his death was supplied to him by Cadmus. This one saw him using sleek black and orange plating and was much more thin compared to his previous armour designs.