Deathstroke #32 - "Deathstroke Versus Batman, Part 3 of 6: The Seven Waynes"

[laughing_tree]

The common wisdom that Bruce Wayne is merely a daytime mask for Batman-- that Batman is Batman all of the time and only wears Wayne like a raincoat in order to serve Batman’s purpose--is reversed for Slade who is, in many ways, Batman's criminal counterpart. Slade Wilson really is Slade Wilson. “Deathstroke” is just a character he created to act more-or-less anonymously, although Deathstroke’s secret identity is hardly secret; it is, at best, selectively secret. -- Christopher J. Priest











Ace Masterson, the Human Dynamo:

Comments

[beyondthefringe]

Batman is such a jerk.
Let the guy go out the way he wants to go out. :(

[joetuss]

You're joking?

[beyondthefringe]

I dunno... is it really so bad for a superhuman, knowing that he might lose control of his powers in a potentially devastating manner as he approaches senility, to engage in what's basically assisted suicide?

Sure, we can argue the morality of murder-for-hire and suicide in general, but on one hand, I can actually see a warped validity to the Human Dynamo's request. Batman only objects because he's trying to shutdown Deathstroke's operation for the duration. And when he, against Dynamo's wishes, wants to put him in suspended animation and try to cure him, isn't that also kind of bad by some standards?

See, I'd love it if the Heroes in Crisis series actually tackled issues like this, instead of "murder mystery involving heroes."

[nyadnar17]

I would be a lot more sympathetic to the idea that this dude's convoluted suicide attempt was something more than mental illness if he had exhausted all his other options.

From what was shown here at least it seems like the dude is just depressed, disillusioned, and didn't try to ask help from the people who could actually help him.