The point of his character isn't that he's a grizzled Vietnam vet in it for the money. The point of his character is that he's a sex-crazed pedophile.
>the name Deathstroke, clear reference to masturbation
>fucked Terra, who was underage
>groomed her in the Teen Titans cartoon and tried to do the same to Robin
>clearly supposed to be the "evil Batman" - relies on tech and fighting skills, even has an evil Alfred
>the key difference is that while unlike Killer Moth, the other "evil Batman" and decisively not a pedophile, Deathstroke is a direct response to Seduction of the Innocent
>he is the evil Batman in that he wants to fuck Robin
>this can be seen due to the fact that his archnemesis is not Batman, it's Robin and his teenage friends
>his signature weapons are nearly always phallic (swords, bo staff)
>there's also Priest's statement about his character: "[N]ot only was Marv’s Deathstroke a villain, he was also kind of an asshole, which I thought was unique.... he deliberately did skeevy things - most notably sleeping with Terra, a presumably underage girl - in his quest to exact revenge against his enemies. I read that and went, “Whoa". This was beyond The Joker, well beyond Lex Luthor."
Thoughts?
>the name Deathstroke, clear reference to masturbation
>fucked Terra, who was underage
>groomed her in the Teen Titans cartoon and tried to do the same to Robin
>clearly supposed to be the "evil Batman" - relies on tech and fighting skills, even has an evil Alfred
>the key difference is that while unlike Killer Moth, the other "evil Batman" and decisively not a pedophile, Deathstroke is a direct response to Seduction of the Innocent
>he is the evil Batman in that he wants to fuck Robin
>this can be seen due to the fact that his archnemesis is not Batman, it's Robin and his teenage friends
>his signature weapons are nearly always phallic (swords, bo staff)
>there's also Priest's statement about his character: "[N]ot only was Marv’s Deathstroke a villain, he was also kind of an asshole, which I thought was unique.... he deliberately did skeevy things - most notably sleeping with Terra, a presumably underage girl - in his quest to exact revenge against his enemies. I read that and went, “Whoa". This was beyond The Joker, well beyond Lex Luthor."
Thoughts?
