Deathstroke

With all of the DC movies in the pipeline, we can only imagine they’re plotting their next moves for movie theater domination and if their planned releases go well, those next moves could very well be spin-offs. Deathstroke would not only be a great direction to move in, but if experimentation with an R rating is on the table, Deathstroke could certainly join the ranks of great R rated comic books.

Fans have already been introduced to Deathstroke via Arrow, but again, that’s only an introduction. A character with the magnitude of Deathstroke deserves, and could withstand, his own full-length feature film. We hate to add another assassin/mercenary to our list but really, these guys are the best for R rated comic book movies because they lend themselves to complicated, violent storylines where fans won’t necessarily feel bad about rooting for “villain.” Assassins rarely make distinctions between good and evil in their line of work and so depicting the brutality of those choices are well suited for an R rating.

Deathstroke himself has a complicated past, wrought with lies and wrongdoings at the hands of the government, and is a talented combat fighter lending himself to some amazing fight scenes.

Without a doubt, Deadpool’s release is changing the landscape of comic book movies for years to come and we can only hope that this means so many of our favorite heroes, antiheroes, and villains deemed too inappropriate for the big screen finally get their time to shine in some R rated comic book movies. It is time to grow the the genre and it seems that this is the step.