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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WayneLigon" data-source="post: 1562764" data-attributes="member: 3649">In the comics, Deathstroke is a master assassin that has alternately helped and hindered the Titans since near the beginning of the New Teen Titans series. He has a sense of honor and a degree of fair play, but he's still a killer. He's a mercenary; he works for money and lots of it.  There really seems to be no connection between the comics version and the TV-TT version; what little we know about the TV version indicates he's much more of the 'master villain' type than an assassin, that he also seems to have some magical abilities, and that he's more concerned with Robin than the others.  I haven't seen any direct quotes about 'why the change' but the normal reasons are these (1) the writer wants to try a new direction for the character (2) they want to try to inject life into a fading book (Both Robin and Teen Titans are in the Previews Top 100 at 64 and 10 respectively, so that's probably not the case) (3) They want to see how fans respond to a change that's been proposed. I'm betting on #1. The only interview I've seen with Willingham on the subject just proved to me he doesn't know a damn thing about the character, so I'm just sitting back to see how all this pans out. From what I've seen over the years, Willingham is just a few steps up from Dave Sim on the insanity scale.  Now, just from what I've seen in the preview material, it looks like this is a normal, temporary 'I'm not a superhero anymore' direction. Tim still seems to have significant appearances in the book after 126, and that's not normally the case when an actual replacement has taken place. Also, in more practical terms, Robin is an 'A' list property as a boy and it seems very unlikely that Warner would allow such a substantial change like that to be permanent. But all that is just supposition.</blockquote>

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