
However, upon realizing being on the brink of death began to awaken the warrior inside Oliver, Slade changed his mind about killing Oliver and decided to train him. Upon realizing Oliver was hopeless in helping him take down Edward Fyers, he decided to perform a coup de grace on Oliver to spare him any suffering from facing Fyers, but also to prevent his location from being given up. Slade was also a realist but also open minded. Slade only trusts and cares for people who have proven themselves trustworthy to him, as he trusts Oliver and Shado, but was less trusting of Sara Lance as they had barely known each other. Slade is very open about his opinions of people, frequently calling Oliver an idiot, and doesn't hide that he likes Shado, which she often smiles at. Slade does not take well to traitors, which he shows by killing Billy Wintergreen, his friend and partner for many years until he betrayed Slade in exchange for his own life. Slade is a man of honor and good morals, who puts up a tough act, but underneath is a caring individual, as seen by his rescue of Oliver from Edward Fyers and Billy Wintergreen, even after stating that he'd leave the island if Oliver didn't return in time. In the flashbacks, unlike the DC comics character that Slade was based on, he appears less cold and distant, but retains his appearance of an anti-hero. In Arrow, he serves the anti-heroic deuteragonist of the flashback timeline of Season 1, the main antagonist of Season 2 and the anti-heroic deuteragonist turned final antagonist of the flashback storyline, a minor antagonist in Season 3, a cameo antagonist in Season 4, a supporting character in Season 5, a supporting protagonist in Season 6 and a cameo character in Seasons 7 and 8. He serves as a major antagonist of Arrow and a mentioned character in The Flash and DC's Legends of Tomorrow. He was portrayed by Manu Bennett, who also played Azog in The Hobbit trilogy. He secretly gathered an army of Mirakuru-enhanced individuals to lay waste to Starling city, one of the things Oliver loved the most. He is a vengeful mercenary who planned on taking away everything and everyone Oliver Queen loved as vengeance for letting Shado get killed and stabbing his eye. Slade Wilson, also known as Deathstroke, is a major character in the Arrowverse. ~ Deathstroke being recruited by Oliver and officially redeeming himself.

But in the moment of my death, you'll prove one thing- that you are a murderer. To beat me, you're going to have to kill me.

We both know there's only one way that this can end. Once he has lost everyone and everything he values, I will drive an arrow through his eye. I am going to tear everything he cares about away from him. Death would be a release from this life and his sentence is yet to be carried out.
