#9 Deathstroke has perfect “timing.”
When describing Deathstroke, it’s easy to get caught up in the more obvious powers he has. Yes, Slade Wilson is essentially Captain America turned up a notch, but there’s more to the character than muscle. He also has an incredibly enhanced mind.
Specifically, Deathstroke has 9x the brain capacity of a normal human, making him almost like a computer. So he’s brilliant at strategy and mind games, but there’s one other factor that sometimes gets buried. Deathstroke has a perfect sense of time. He can predict the cause and effect of his enemies and use their strengths against them. In real-time, he can do the math on what his opponent is going to do and adjust in a split second.
One of the best stories that illustrates Wilson’s “beautiful mind” is DEATHSTROKE #17-18 (pictured above) in 2011. In that run, his intellect was tested against the “unkillable” Koschei, and he had to face off against many of the Sukesada Clan’s ninja forces alone. He won.
