80s Comic’s Terra wasn’t a victim. She was evil and bitter with full control of her abilities and potential.
She was fifteen years old when we met her (still a child), had a mental illness that she’d lived who knows how long with, was living on her own, had no support system since her own father had her sent to America and dumped off somewhere out of fear of scandal if anyone found out she was his illegitimate daughter, only had her powers and a lot of her mental instability in the first place due to questionable experiments and medication back in Markovia, and was sexually abused (read: raped) by a 40-50 year old man who also exploited her insanity and cruelty for his plans to turn the Teen Titans over to the HIVE and collect the money that was offered to his late son when he’d taken up the contract. Oh, and she died in an accidental suicide. Dead at age sixteen. Sounds like a victim to me.
Deathstroke is a mercenary with an ambiguous code of ethics who just wants a soldier’s job of his choosing.
So in other words, he’s a sociopath who desperately wants to keep living in his glory days where he got to test his capabilities and kill people, but he also wants to view himself as a hero and “good soldier” so he clings to this morally ambigiuous ethics code to deny and disguise the fact that he is, in truth, a self-serving, greedy, skeevy, immoral creep. Is that right? ‘Cause that’s the Slade Wilson that I know and love best.
She was corrupted that even Slade feared her, and they used each other. It was a sick, MUTUAL relationship.
In the actual Judas Contract story, Slade only feared Terra because he feared what she might be capable of if her insanity and powers were turned against HIM - he never displayed any moral standards against her corrupt nature other than thinking of her as being beneath him because of it. Yes they used each other, it was sick and it was mutual, but it was not at all equatable since Slade is a grown ass adult who was far more sound of mind and had a wider range of choices and resources than Tara, the mentally ill child, did. Tara’s fucked up actions were due to her nature, while Slade’s fucked up actions were due to his choices. One is clearly more despicable than the other, and it sure ain’t Tara.
And she was worse than Slade! As pointed out in the middle of Slade’s and Garfield’s conversation:
I’ve just covered why Slade is worse, and another thing: Slade is a lying liar who lies, just like Terra was. In the conversation with Gar, Marv Wolfman was intending for him to be sincere and for readers to take him at his word when he wrote it, but given his prior characterization and later characterization, and the fact that he gave Gar no actual evidence for any of what he was saying, particularly about Tawaba, it’s more than likely that Slade was bullshitting his way through that whole talk and emotionally manipulating Gar into seeing things his way, so that he comes out looking like a better man than he is and that his deceased teenage assistant and victim of his statutory rape looks worse and has her memory spat on. It was a disgusting story that singlehandedly killed TNTT quality-wise and killed Marv Wolfman’s credibility as a writer and as a person.
And with the whole sexual relationship, she was 16. It was unlawful sex with a minor, and I won’t deny that.
Well at least you’re not so blinded by your Slade love to deny that pa….
But she was not forced. She was not manipulated either. It was consensual, and it would make sense that Terra was the one who wanted to be lovers first. Anyone who likes to stay alive and keep their plans in action would not reject a crazy girl like Terra. Just saying.
….A 15/16 year old is legally a child and a child cannot legally consent to having sex with someone above the age of 18. Don’t give me that “it was consensual” crap because Tara literally could not consent to sex. Tara’s “yes” to sexual affairs with an older man would have no sway there, only the “no” that Slade did not say would. And what you said afterwards is just vile. Excusing a child’s rape with “she wanted it!” and excusing the rapist by claiming said rapist couldn’t say “no” or else his child victim might do something awful to him? That is the very definition of victim blaming, abuse erasure, rapist apologism and rape culture.
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