The Ikon suit sported by Deathstroke throughout DC Rebirth is by far the character's best look, but it's not the only one he rocks. When operating as the leader of a team of superheroes known as Defiance, Deathstroke dons a black and white Ikon costume complete with a cape. Nothing beats the black and orange, but if anything were to come close - or deserved to stick around for longer - it would be his outfit for Defiance.
Deathstroke is one of the most surprising comics to have emerged from DC Rebirth, blending high-stakes military fiction with superhero shenanigans to great effect, and it's arguably on Defiance where Christopher Priest and Carlo Pagulayan got the best out of it.
Slade trains a new team, comprised of his own family and other figures he's encountered over the course of the series, and all wear a black and white uniform to prove their newfound role.
It takes a bit of getting used to, but once it settled in, the Defiance costume was perfect.
WhatCulture's very own resident movie guy, Ewan has been working in the content creation biz for over 10 years now, having started as a freelance contributor to WhatCulture Gaming all the way back in 2015. After graduating with a First-Class Honours in History from Northumbria University in 2017 (where he won a prize for a totally killer dissertation on the Watergate years), Ewan took on the role of Comics Editor at WhatCulture and quickly developed WhatCulture Comics into one of the biggest superhero-focused channels on YouTube. He followed this with a brief hiatus at Screen Rant in 2021, where he worked across the Gaming and Film sections as a writer and editor, before returning to WhatCulture as a Senior Content Producer / Presenter in 2023. He started his own podcast, We Love Dad Movies, in 2022, and has contributed several written pieces to the Eisner-nominated comics website Shelfdust as well.
In his current role, Ewan incorporates his love of cinema, comic books, and history into written pieces and video essays for WhatCulture's Film & TV channel, as well as WhatCulture Gaming and WhatCulture Horror, with a particular focus on nineties-era Dad Movies, old school Westerns, and Golden Age Hollywood Noir. John Carpenter is his fave, and he thinks Batman Beyond should never have been cancelled. If that's your vibe, you'll probably like his stuff.
