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Originally Posted by TheDub

Aren't star sapphires evil though? Why is love evil?

Star Sapphires aren't necessarily evil, but there's an interesting concept in play: If you remember your ROYGBIV primary colors/spectrum from school, the idea is that the closer to the outside of the spectrum you get, the more the emotion that "fuels" you can overwhelm you and...make you kinda crazy. So Yellow, Green, and Blue Lanterns tend to be stable (or at least not as influenced by the emotion they embody).

Then the Red Lanterns are mostly (or at least start) as almost mindless berserkers (they can get better though). Violet Lanterns/Star Sapphires can get REALLY obsessive, but at least at the moment in the story I think the Star Sapphires are at least considered "semi-good."

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Originally Posted by hrothgars

Was Slade ever a good guy? When he founded the Titans East team, he was either blackmailing or drugging all the team members to fight the Teen Titans. I don't recall but maybe this was all while under the guise of being one of the good guys.

His daughter Ravager is usually a Titan, and has a very similar costume.

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Originally Posted by KingLouie731

not exactly he had a more punisher type role in the early 90s titans 1-2 yrs before zero hour. after he had to kill his son, Jericho who was possessed, he went straight in a kind of merc with honor role. of course he fell off for a few years and then they brought him back full on bad guy

More accurately, he became totally awesome in the late 80's/early 90's which was also when his popularity ramped up considerably. Then after a bunch of poor portrayals and some silliness in his own book about losing his memory, getting de-aged, and becoming immortal they eventually turned him into a garden-variety villain that seemed to have none of the sense of honor that the character started out with. They did very much "beef him up" as a threat, but only to basically tear him back down again (Green Arrow kicked his butt, though to be fair he trained himself intensively for like a year to do it). Dunno what exactly is going on with him in the New 52 except that they messed with a fair bit of the interesting stuff in his origin.

I used to be a BIG fan of Deathstroke. He was one of DC's few cool antiheroic characters (I like Lobo, but let's be honest, Lobo works best as a comedic character, and at the time Black Adam was still a full-fledged villain). Not a big fan of how he reverted in later years. Also, I kept hoping beyond hope that DCUC would put out a figure of him in his blue costume. I may have disliked his portrayal in most of the appearances he made in the costume, but I always really liked the look. I like his "classic" outfit too (especially from an "Dark Captain America" standpoint), but his was one of the few "edgy 90's redesigns" that I liked...mostly because it seemed like a pretty sensible costume, all told.