>>85878568If he was the kind of villain that jumps around on fucking pogo sticks covered in knives and jumped on peoples heads to kill him, then I'd buy Deathstroke as a good name for him.
But for an assassin, a name like Deathstroke is too over the top, too flashy. Slade, on the other hand, is perfectly quiet and still maintains the element of danger (rhyming with "blade" and phonetically sounding like "slayed"). Slade is the kind of name I'd buy for an assassin.