With Arrow entering a five-week period without re-runs building to the second season finale this week, we got to thinking: could the villain at the heart of this season — Slade Wilson, better known as Deathstroke — end up joining the Suicide Squad, and thus being kept around for future seasons and future conflicts?It makes sense: Slade’s presence on the Island may or may not end this year, and even if they do “kill” him there, fans already know he didn’t die, so over the next few seasons the fan-favorite Manu Bennett could be retained as a recurring guest star, even if he’s downgraded out of “the series’ main villain” at the end of this year. If they keep him around next season — let’s say for the sake of argument, he’s making his way off the island, challenged by the brutality and pain of the open sea, as he described in “Deathstroke” two weeks ago — they could mirror that in the current day by showing him struggling to adjust to his life in incarceration, and/or as part of the Squad.The likelihood that S.T.A.R. Labs helps Team Arrow find a way to counteract the effects of Mirakuru and make Slade a more manageable threat seems like a pretty good one — especially with this week’s episode, “The Man Under the Hood,” being a break from the non-stop action of last week that introduces The Flash‘s S.T.A.R. techs Cisco Ramon (Vibe) and Caitlin Snow (Killer Frost). Even without his powers — or with a fraction of them — he would still be a formidable threat, as we saw on the Island before he ever got the Mirakuru shot.
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