#and we had slade and trigon as dueling dads who thought each others kid wasn't good enough for theirs

[ruhigknight]

"The writers of the show have stated that they CAN use Slade, and they WANT to use Slade for the series, but are not sure HOW to use him (a dark, serious villain) in the show's silly format." (From a wiki so grain of salt yet thought I heard about this before. It's just hard to find another source as people are mostly complaining about the Return of Slade ep)

REALLY? I've been imagining TTG Slade scenarios since the show was announced (&even when it became less promising) and for someone with little writing experience it was pretty easy just acknowledge his kids (ie others that aren't Rose. Like the mute son who was originally part of the era the show is based off and the show's sight gags be neat for a mute character) and play up the "not a good dad but still loves his kids" aspect of his character that he's had since his creation and focus on his relationships with said kids and Titans specially since two of his kids were Titans. Kinda sorta like a slightly scarier Dr. Doofenshmirtz just a play on ~mysterious~ assassin villains rather than mad scientists. 

 Other silly DC media has handled Slade fine like Tiny Titans, LEGO DC Superheroes,  and hell the New Teen Titans shorts that lead to TTG being a thing. You guys made a silly version of an interdimensional, world conquering/destroying, rapist demon you can do it with a ( admittedly really messed-up) man who to this day cracks some jokes and has a messed-up but still caring relationship with his kids if you realized there's more outside the same 5 Titans and pandering to a certain ship to alienating degrees.