Deathstroke

Slade Wilson was sixteen years old when he first enlisted in the United States Army, having lied about his age.

After serving a stint in Korea, he was later assigned to Camp Washington where he had been promoted to the rank of Major.

In the early 1960s, he met Captain Adeline Kane who was tasked with training young soldiers in new fighting techniques in anticipation of brewing troubles taking place in Vietnam.

Kane was amazed at how skilled Slade was and how quickly he adapted to modern conventions of warfare.

She immediately fell in love with him, and realized that he was without a doubt the most able-bodied combatant she had ever encountered.

She offered to privately train Slade in guerrilla warfare.

In less than a year, Slade mastered every fighting form presented to him and was soon promoted to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel.

Six months later, Adeline and he were married and she became pregnant with their first child.

The war in Vietnam began to escalate and Slade was shipped overseas.

In the war, his unit massacred a village, which sickened him.

He was also rescued by SAS member Wintergreen, to whom he would later return the favor.

Chosen for a secret experiment, the Army imbued him with enhanced physical powers in an attempt to create metahuman supersoldiers for the U.S. military.

Deathstroke became a mercenary soon after the experiment when he defied orders and rescued his friend Wintergreen sent on a suicide mission by a commanding officer with a grudge.

However, Slade 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.

A criminal named the Jackal took his younger son Joseph Wilson hostage to force Slade to divulge the name of a client who had hired him as an assassin.

Slade refused, claiming it was against his personal honor code.

He 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 Joseph's vocal cords and rendering him mute.

After taking Joseph to the hospital, his wife Adeline Wilson 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 eye-patch.

Slade has a long history as an enemy of the Teen Titans, beginning when his other son Grant received superhuman enhancements from the H.I.V.E., dubbing himself Ravager, and accepting a contract from them to kill or capture the Teen Titans.

However, those enhancements proved fatal in the end, and Slade agreed to complete the contract.

His first mission involved stealing the element Promethium from S.T.A.R. Labs and selling it as the ultimate weapon.

He then kidnapped the Titans and placed them in the path of a Promethium bomb to test his device for the buyers, effectively killing two birds with one stone.

The Titans escaped and pursued Deathstroke, but he severely wounded Changeling in his escape.

This would be the start to a lasting animosity between the two.

Deathstroke next appeared in New York, holding officials hostage in order to lure the Titans into confronting him.

Terra, a new ally of the Titans, and Changeling were the only ones available to answer the call.

Terra knocked Changeling out in an effort to prove herself worthy of being a Titan and fought Deathstroke single-handedly.

Slade escaped as the other Titans arrived, but by then Terra had proven herself and the team offered her membership.

Later that night, it was revealed that Terra and Deathstroke had conspired to fake the fight in a plot to infiltrate the team.

It was also revealed that they shared an intimate relationship, despite Terra being fifteen years old.

The artist, George Pérez, noted that this technically constituted "statutory rape" even though Terra consented.

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