Board Thread:Young Justice News/@comment-47881-20121014004628/@comment-1038387-20121014180542

Slade is his first name. It's like everyone calling Batman "Bruce". Sure, there are people that do that - Superman, Wonder Woman - but even to most other heroes (even the ones that know his name), he's Batman or Bats. In the comics, only his close friends called him Slade on a regular basis (Pat Trayce, Adeline Kane. Not sure about Squirrel and Wintergreen). Everyone else generally (with very few exceptions) called him Deathstroke.