START TALKING ABOUT CAPTAIN AMERICA AND DEATHSTROKE
I get that Deadpool is a ripoff of Deathstroke and therefore people think about the two of them more in conversations. But Deathstroke and Captain America have such incredible parallels that people never talk about.
Slade is essentially the blonde hair blue eyed perfect American soldier that Erskine warned about in the first movie. He is that perfect loyal soldier that the serum WOULDN'T work on. Not because he's physically incapable, but because all of his worst traits were enhanced by that serum.
Steve is that same blonde hair blue eyed American soldier with one key difference being that he DOES NOT follow the same violent mindset the military enforces on soldiers, and definitely enforced onto Slade. Steve said that he wasn't in the military to kill Nazis, he was there because he wanted to save people. But Slade joined the military to escape from his violent home life, but never once had he truly cared about protecting people.
Its ironic that the Nazis were taken down by their image of a perfect human, being Steve. While its ironic that the Americans, with a similar vision of humans, failed to curate that perfect soldier and created one of the greatest threats to America.
Deathstroke represents some of the worst traits of the United States. The toxic masculinity, the propaganda, the homebred patriotism. while Captain America represents the best, what the United States preaches to be and could be.
