Despite starting as an assassin out to get the Teen Titans during the 1980s, Slade Wilson's instant popularity as Deathstroke the Terminator propelled him to immense heights, to the point where he's considered one of the most recognizable anti-heroes/villains of both the Teen Titans' mythos and the entire DC universe.
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