Slade Wilson & Pat Trayce

[mrosa]

In Deathstroke: The Terminator, Marv Wolfman introduced Detective Patricia Trayce, of the Gotham City Police Department. During a case involving Batman and Deathstroke, she inadvertently ended up becoming the new Vigilante. Abandoning her personal life, she left with Deathstroke. In issue #10 we see her talking a bit about her past and asking Slade Wilson to train her since she wants to continue acting as the Vigilante:







Slade reluctantly agrees to train her. That's shown in the issue, and then we also see the first time they go on a mission together. It's a standard action sequence anyway. They're wounded, but since Slade recovers faster, he gets up and carries Trayce before the cops arrive. And then this happens:









What do you think of this scene?

Comments

[rainspirit]

Yikes.

It's odd to see this scene after reading the scans of Priest's run posted here. Wade doesn't seem as much of a magnificent, anti-social bastard here.

[jmacq1]

Slade was in his least-horrible phase here, when he was being marketed as a 90's anti-hero rather than a villain. So yeah...far better adjusted than Priest's run (even if I think Priest's run is a great reconciliation of the two extremes of the character).

Though interestingly enough this brief affair is still canon in Rebirth, as it's brought up early in the current book.

[mrosa]

Slade was in his least-horrible phase here, when he was being marketed as a 90's anti-hero rather than a villain.

Although Marv Wolfman created him as a villain, and a formidable one, he also originally gave him a complex personality and a moral code that allowed Slade to grow organically into something beyond his villain persona.

[lbd_nytetrayn]

It's... not quite what I would have hoped for between the two, but I guess it works.