Though I question the importace of Slade as a villain, this seems like an interesting choice, and nicely contrasts Dick and Slade, who are a far better set of mirror images than Slade and, say, Batman or Wonder Woman. (And Superman would be a very unequal power balance for a final conflict)
One an optimist, one a pessimist
One defined as a good son, the other defined as a bad father
One became a hero to seek justice, and because it was the right thing to do, the other became a villain for money.
One brightly coloured, other other in darker shades.
They're Nightwing and the Slade Yes Nightwing and the Slade One has a great ass, the other's inane To prove his merc-y worth He'll kill the multiverse They're Nightwing They're Nightwing and the Slade, Slade, Slade, Slade Slade, Slade, Slade, Slade
That just gives me a mental image of Slade going to I-Max theaters and such, wearing those glasses they give out. He's sitting there with his arms crossed, glowering at the screen while everyone is cheering and hollering. "Oooo, it's coming toward us!"
Then over time, he gets so fed up with it he decides to destroy the world. Put it in darkness so that nobody gets to see the hand reaching out of the screen.
(And Superman would be a very unequal power balance for a final conflict)
I dunno, we've seen in the past that an individual's power is insignificant in the face of the Great Darkness, up to and including the Spectre's. But there have been in-universe references to Superman being the keystone of DC's reality to match his metatextual importance to superhero comics as an industry. I could see the writers doing a symbolic Light/Great Darkness, creation/nothingness thing with him and Slade representing the forces behind those concepts.
But it's better for Dick to be the standard bearer, as he and Slade have so much history.
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One an optimist, one a pessimist
One defined as a good son, the other defined as a bad father
One became a hero to seek justice, and because it was the right thing to do, the other became a villain for money.
One brightly coloured, other other in darker shades.
And gosh Dick is looking pretty here!
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Yes Nightwing and the Slade
One has a great ass, the other's inane
To prove his merc-y worth
He'll kill the multiverse
They're Nightwing
They're Nightwing and the Slade, Slade, Slade, Slade
Slade, Slade, Slade, Slade
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Then over time, he gets so fed up with it he decides to destroy the world. Put it in darkness so that nobody gets to see the hand reaching out of the screen.
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I dunno, we've seen in the past that an individual's power is insignificant in the face of the Great Darkness, up to and including the Spectre's. But there have been in-universe references to Superman being the keystone of DC's reality to match his metatextual importance to superhero comics as an industry. I could see the writers doing a symbolic Light/Great Darkness, creation/nothingness thing with him and Slade representing the forces behind those concepts.
But it's better for Dick to be the standard bearer, as he and Slade have so much history.