>>86517015You didn't read the last couple of issues of Devin Grayson's Nightwing, which fleshed out the whole reason WHY Slade was with the Brotherhood when Alex Luthor gave the order to nuke it, or who gave the idea to Alex in the first place.
Slade was training Rose to kill Superman and put a chuck of Kryptonite in her empty eye socket to give her a massive advantage. Dick was undercover with the Secret Society at the time in his solo book. Slade found out and arranged for Dick to work for him as a flunky. He made Dick train Rose to kill Superman, with the plan to have Rose kill Dick after he finished training her and yet, Slade made a HUGE mistake: he had stopped giving Rose the mind control serum after it made her act psychotic and caused her to gouge out her own eye.
As such, when he revealed to Dick that he knew who he was, he was fully expecting Rose to still be 100% loyal to him and be perfectly fine in killing Nightwing AND putting Kryptonite in her eye socket, behind her eyepatch. Even though Kryptonite causes cancer and horrific death in humans if they are exposed to it for prolong periods of time.
Rose, no longer under the serum's spell, basically freaked out that Slade was planning on giving her incurable cancer for the CHANCE that she might kill Superman. Especially since Slade NEVER TOLD ROSE that Kryptonite was fatal to humans and was selling her on the entire plan by making out like Kryptonite was safe and harmless to humans. She basically told Slade to go kill himself and left with Nightwing.
Slade, needlessly, had a complete mental breakdown from the rage he felt from losing his last family member, called up Alex and basically asked him what his plans were for Bludhaven (which Alex was planning on destroying but not right away). When Alex told him that they were still working on it, Slade basically told him he wanted to drop Chemo on the city and kill everyone and if he didn't OK the plan, he'd do it without Alex's consent behind his back.
