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Warning : spoilers for Dark Crisis # 1 are ahead !
loss leader of theTitans , Nightwing , has often been pegged asDeathstroke’sarch - rival , but the latter has a more personal history with a dissimilar bane : Beast Boy(aka Changeling ) . It ’s understandable as to why Deathstroke has more so been intrinsically linked to Nightwing rather . The two are more evenly matched physically and mentally compared to Beast Boy . Nightwing has a more extended , richer history withDeathstroke dating back to theJudas Contractstory arc .
This is the same arc that reveals the genuine intentions of Terra , a character who join the Titans as a mole secretly working for Deathstroke . Prior to the reveal , she begins a quixotic partnership with Beast Boy . For Terra , it is simply a artifice to earn his trust , but for Beast Boy , he had actually fallen in passion , turning that treachery into an even sharp confidence game for him . Surprisingly enough , their on - off relationship has more so focussed on Beast Boy taste to swing Terra to embrace her more heroic qualities rather than directly feuding with her mentor .
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This relationship between Beast Boy and Deathstroke ( or lack therefrom ) reaches a turning point in the conclusion ofDark Crisis#1 by Joshua Williamson and Daniel Sampere . It is here whereDeathstroke launches a sudden attack on Titans Tower , culminate in the gunslinger cast a hummer through Beast Boy ’s heading . This brief brush showcases why Beast Boy has been Deathstroke ’s genuine archnemesis this whole time . Not only because of their look out over history but because bolt down Beast Boy is the most significant nose candy that Deathstroke could ever give to the Titans as a whole .
Although this is a abbreviated substitution , it offer audiences the most pregnant telephone exchange between Deathstroke and Beast Boy since perhapsTales of the Teen Titans#55 by Marv Wolfman and Ron Randall . In this issue , Beast Boy hunts down Deathstroke out of revenge for everything that happened with Terra . Not only does Deathstroke not resist , he tells Beast Boy to kill him . However , Beast Boy ca n’t bring himself to do this . He rather cry and call for Deathstroke why he targeted the Titans over a cup of coffee tree . Dark Crisis#1 finally gives closure to this dynamic , with the decision tokill now being in Deathstroke ’s hand , who does what Beast Boy could n’t in a moment that is much weightier for those readers who are intimate with their chronicle . Even those unfamiliar will finger the system of weights and bear on this end sure will have on the Titans propel forward .
Deathstroke ’s villainy is most commonly associated with the Titans and therefore he is most often written to counteract those heroes , but he ’s never done something as dastardly as this . The reason why killing Beast Boy is so important is because Beast Boy has always been associated as the center and soul of the Titans . He ’s been portray as that uplifting , affirmative look to remain promising in hopeless situations and get theTitans back on their feetonce they ’ve had the legs cut from under them , like in this example of the destruction of Titans Tower . destroy the affectionateness of the Titans takes out its overreach heart . The DC Universe has already see the death of the Justice League and by killingBeast Boy , Deathstrokehas spelled the unofficial death of theTitans .
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Dark Crisis#1 is available now from DC Comics .
