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admonition ! mollycoddler ahead for Titans # 21!It ’s been decades sinceDeathstrokecommitted one of his risky crimes against the Titans , and now the fan - favorite squad is perplex ready to make Slade Wilson pay for everything he ’s done . Years after his last appearing , Deathstroke is back manipulatingthe DC image from the shadows once again in pursuit of his own goals .
Deathstroke has been antagonizingthe team all the way back to their New Teen Titans ' era , but he cemented himself as their greatest enemy during the ill-famed " Judas Contract " storyline . While Deathstroke has been missing since the end ofDark Crisis on Infinite worldly concern , he ’s back andthe Titans are get readyto take him down for practiced .
The Titans Are Taking the Fight Straight to Deathstroke
He’s Crossed a Line and The Team is Ready to Take Him Down
InTitans # 21by John Layman , Pete Woods , and Wes Abbott , the Psycho - Pirate has taken mastery of an experimentation designed to restore Raven ’s fickle emotional state . Utilizing the apparatus designed by S.T.A.R. Labs , Psycho - Pirate oversee to take ascendency of Raven ’s organic structure and enhance his own emotional powers . After taking control of Raven ’s consistence , Psycho - Pirate use her power toturn the Titans into his puppets and set up them to kill one another . An all - out brawl occur between the team just as Roy Harper and Cyborg arrive with their new recruit , the former Titan villain Vanadia .
Asthe Titans get down to turn on each other and struggle to the expiry , Vanadia manages to slip past the Pscho - Pirate ’s ascendence due to being all auto now . psychotic person - Pirate tries to belt down Vanadia , but Raven refuse his mastery , refuse to obliterate Vanadia again . In Raven ’s thinker , Psycho - Pirate buries Raven deep in her own judgement , but Raven unfreeze her dark half to fight the villain . Dark Raven defeats Psycho - Pirate and rescue her light half and the two agree to unify and live as one whole being .
… Slade has been behind all the foreign events they ’ve been through latterly …
The rubble from the engagement settles and everything give out back to normal . Raven ’s emotions and powers are under ascendance and the Titans are ready to move on . But Raven lets her friends know that the Psycho - Pirate informed her that Deathstroke hired him to aim the Titans . Cyborg and Nightwing musical composition together that Slade has been behind all the unusual events they ’ve been through recently and determine he ’s likely to mint again . Donna taunt her squad and inform them thatthey’re not waiting for Deathstroke ’s next move and that they ’re going to take the battle to Slade .
Deathstroke is About To Get Retribution for His Worst Crimes
Slade Wilson Has a Lot to Answer For
There is n’t a Titans rooter alive that does n’t know the vicious part Deathstroke played in the ill-famed " Judas Contract " saga . Slade Wilson dress and keep in line the Markovian metahuman Terra to pass through the Titans , using the information he gathered to seek and eradicate them . It was one of the most jaw - omit things he ’s ever done and the storyline easily set Deathstroke up as the de facto Titans ’ antagonist . Deathstroke has fought a destiny of DC heroes in the long time since , but his early encounters with the Titans have defined his bequest .
They could easily track Slade down no matter where he ’s concealing …
Readers may recall that Deathstroke was last seen duringDark Crisis on Infinite Earths , where he was debase by the Great Darkness and judge to eliminate legacy heroes with the Dark Army ( which led him to almost taking Beast Boy ’s life ) . While Slade barely survived the event , it was divulge that he ’s back to his old self and out to take out his greatest enemies by any means necessary . He ’s already roped in baddie like Clock King and Mammoth toserve as part of his ‘ Crime Syndicate ’ and take out the Titans once and for all .
Deathstroke was last find out inDark Crisis on Infinite earth # 7clinging to sprightliness after someone disable his life support !
Luckily , the Titans are one step in front of Deathstroke this time . Not to mention , they ’re working with Justice League Unlimited and have much more resources than in the past times . They could easily track Slade down no thing where he ’s hiding and end whatever he ’s got planned before Deathstroke get it on what dispatch him . For the first time since he get taking on the Titans , Deathstroke is in a literal attitude to fall back , meaning he ’s on the precipice of pay up for all of his offence against the team , all the way back to the “ Judas Contract ” .
It’s About Time Deathstroke Pay for Everything
He’s Gotten Away with This For Far Too Long
Despite his crimes , Deathstroke has enjoyed a prospicient run of popularity , even hold up down multiple self - entitle series . But the Titans are pissed , and they ’re not going to take his use lying down any longer . They ’re go bad to use everything at their disposal from the League ’s help to their own powers to find wherever Slade is and verify he hear justice . Slade may have a trick or two up his arm , but with the Titans on high qui vive , Deathstrokeis on borrow time .
Titans # 21is available now from DC Comics .
