Talk:Slade/@comment-509894-20131209021918/@comment-10991130-20131210033516

Yeah, the whole thing with the mirror house or whatever makes me suspect he might fixate on Beast Boy, but for whatever reason I just doubt it. For lack of a better word, I think he was just harrassing Beast Boy, rubbing it in his face that Terra's gone/doesn't want to be with him and he's still alive. What makes me think Robin is that, in Apprentice Part 2, Slade didn't stop the nanites that were killing the Titans until Robin had them too. Like Robin has with him, Slade seemed to have some sort of obsession or fixation on Robin, only to a lesser extent

Unless he can do another thing like in season 1 where he has the Titans lives at his fingertips, Slade won't really have anything over Cyborg or Starfire (unless he can threaten Tamaran, but even Slade doesn't have the resources for that), but he does have something over Beast Boy: Terra. Even if that wasn't really Terra in Things Change, Beast Boy would still want revenge and Slade could use that to his advantage somehow. I don't know how, but Slade's the criminal mastermind, not me

And as far as what Slade wants, that's what makes him such a great villain: we don't really know what he wants (season 4 being the exception). He wanted Robin as his apprentice. But why? He could've chosen a much more theoretically powerful Titan in that same situation but didn't. Why? He had a chance to kill all the Titans, he would've won, but he chose not too. Why? He wanted Terra as his apprentice and had her take over Jump City and possibly multiple surrounding areas, causing everyone in them to leave. But why? Even the Joker has reasons for doing things (he thinks it's fun by his own twisted definition), but what were Slade's? We don't really know, you can only hypothesize. And another thing is he's likely a psychopath (like the Joker, but to a lesser extent). Psychopaths don't have any rhyme or reason for the things they do, or at least not rational reasons. Or maybe he isn't. Perhaps he does have rational reasons for doing the things he does and doesn't tell anyone. Maybe he's just evil. We don't really know. There's a lot of mystery to Slade