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Deathstroke
(LAST UPDATE: 1/27/2009) |
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Deathstroke
(LAST UPDATE: 1/27/2009) |
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GENERAL/STORY:
Imbued with enhanced physical prowess by secret army experiments attempting to create metahuman soldiers for the U.S. military, Deathstroke the Terminator (called "Terminator" for most of his published existence) became a mercenary soon after the experiment when he defied orders to rescue his friend and mentor Wintergreen, who had been sent on a suicide mission by a commanding officer with a grudge. However, he kept this career secret from his family, even though his wife was an expert military combat instructor- indeed, she had been responsible for a significant portion of his early training-, until a criminal named the Jackal kidnapped his younger son, Joseph, as a hostage to force Slade to divulge the name of a client who had hired him as an assassin. Slade refused to do so, claiming that it was against his personal honor code, and attacked and killed the kidnappers at the rendezvous. Unfortunately, Joseph's throat was slashed by one of the criminals before Slade could prevent it, destroying his vocal cords and rendering him mute. After taking Joseph to the hospital, Slade's wife Adeline, enraged at his endangerment of her son, tried to kill Slade by shooting him, but only managed to destroy his right eye. Afterward, his confidence in his physical abilities was such that he made no secret of his impaired vision, marked by his mask which has a black featureless half covering his lost eye. Without his mask, Slade wears an eyepatch.
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REVIEW:
He does of course
remind me a hell of a lot of Deadpool (whom is much cooler in my opinion)...
And ironically enough, I did hear Deadpool was actually inspired by this guy...
Interesting, but that doesn't mean he's as cool as Deadpool.
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I took to this character with an open mind, but his fighting style in MK vs DC didn't impress me
(and could have been done better if another company made Deathstroke into a
fighting game character).
