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>crawling from the wreckage of his plane, CIA agent Bill Wilson finds himself alive but badly burned and permaneantly scarred
>wandering through the barrens of a wartorn nation in nothing but rags, Wilson encounters a secret society of mercenaries, The Masketta Men, who accept pitiful CIA into their cabal
>his body trained and his skills perfected over the years, Wilson emerges a new man and dons a mask similar to the villain who caused his fate
>remembering his academy days, Wilson recalls how his instructors told him to always shoot a man before throwing them out of a plane, to always perform that final death-stroke
>Bill Slade Wilson, newly christened by that adage as Deathstroke sets out into the world to track down Bane and finish their fight that started that fateful day on the plane
>On the other side of the world, after Gotham is saved by Batman, the gravely wounded Bane is taken into custody by the mysterious CADMUS organization
>fitted with a bomb on the back of his neck, CADMUS employs him on suicidal missions with the promise that he will eventually gain his freedom and be able to continue his holy crusade
>seeing his mask as a burden, they performs facial reconstruction surgery on Bane and restores his original face
>eventually realizing that Talia and the League of Shadows are both destroyed, Bane becomes disillusioned and forsakes his mask and identity, instead choosing resume using his real name Rick Flag
>now given one final task before he gains freedom, Flag must face his biggest challenge yet
>His last mission: Hunt down and kill the ruthless mercenary, the dangerous masked man. He must locate and eliminate Deathstroke
>Tom Hardy isnt Flag anymore so this is no longer canon
