HAPPY BATMAN DAY! I know what you're thinking, "Hey, this is a Deathstroke blog. Why are you making such a big deal about Batman Day?" There are three reasons.
- Batman is an important foundational character to not only my favorite comic book publisher, DC Comics, but to the entire comic book industry as a whole.
- Batman is cool and I like him!
- No Batman, no Deathstroke. The line of logic goes as follows.
- Batman created in 1939.
- Batman gets Robin as a partner in 1940.
- Robin joins original Teen Titans in 1964.
- Marv Wolfman and George Pérez reunite Robin with former Teen Titans teammates and some newcomers to form the New Teen Titans in 1980.
- With Robin/the future Nightwing specifically in mind, Wolfman and Pérez create Deathstroke the Terminator as an "evil Batman" figure to be a major adversary for the New Teen Titans. The rest is history.
So, thank you Batman for being so awesome that Ben Affleck and Geoff Johns wanted a total badass character like Deathstroke to fight you in your movie.
