Please do not take this personally, but i have to ask how you would you find such a fight fair? DD thrives in his blindness. So much so that if he was ever to get his sight back it would most probably be a hindrance. His blindness, and the senses that he has due to it, are his greatest weapons.
Deathstroke is amazing. He is a tactician at Batman's level, and he can fight with the best of them. With his sight he would kill DD long before our good ol' blind lawyer even knew someone was gunning for him. Slade (Deathstroke) could find a myriad ways of taking Murdock down, and that is using only a toothpick as a weapon.
But you put the catch that both of them are blind.
First of all that is like having a fight between the Thing and Aquaman, and having the fight take place in the middle of the Atlantic ocean 1,000 feet below the surface!
The advantage in the fight above goes to DareDevil once you make Deathstroke blind. Basically DD is the most adept blindguy this side of Stick, and Deathstroke would be largely crippled by losing his sight. He may only have one eye currently, but he needs it.
All the advantages would be on DDs side. Not that Deathstroke couldn't win (eg he mgiht have a thermobaric weapon hidden nearby), but the very fact that one would have to resort to silly things like hidden fuel-air bombs just shows how one-sided (and pro-DareDevil) this fight would be.
Based on the way you set the match DareDevil wins. But this is what would be termed as a fixed match.
It would be like having some highschool football teams face off against the Patriots, but with the Patriots having to play the game blindfolded!
Totally unfair! The highschool team would win, not because it was better than the Patriots but because the Patriots would be operatng under a severe (and unnatural) handicap.
Goodness, even Jubilee might have a chance against a blind Slade.
Give Slade his vision and he could take out a large portion of Marvel's earth bound characters. There are a good number that could take Slade down, but by the time they know what is going on he would have finished a good number of 'killable' heroes and villains.
And DD would be one of the first to sleep the long sleep.
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He may only have vision in one eye, but it's still vision that he very much needs. spetnaz is right, this is one-sided on so many levels. Unless Slade decides to go kamikaze and pull out a meta-buster grenade while DD's gets within range or has been in range too long, DD takes it. DD may not be able to use his eyes, but he can still see, better than anyone else argueably. On the other hand, Slade in this situation, is completely blind, and has nothing to compensate for it. Like I said, a very one-sided match.
Deathstroke is NOT nearly blind. He has perfect vision. The only catch is that it is only in one eye since he lost the other. There is an immense difference between being 'nearly blind' and 'having one eye.' A world of difference.
The same difference as having a Ferrari with half a tank of gas, versus having no car and having to walk.
Anyways, Slade is extremely skilled. He is one of DC's top tacticians, easily. I'd even rank him as higher than Bane in terms of strategy (and no, i am talking about the comic bane who is a genius manipulator and the only guy to systematically take down Batman,and NOT the movie/cartoon versions that show a retarded muscle guy). I'd say Slade is a better strategist than Bane, and would even go as far as putting Slade in the same level as Batman himself. If something happened to Bruce,and Slade decided to be a good guy and put on the Bat Cowl and cloak, no one would be able to tell the difference.
Thus, Slade is good. He could kill half of Marvel before they even knew what was going on. And ordinarily he would beat DareDevil so badly that Stick would change his name to Twig and join an ashram!
But take away Slade's sight and he goes down hard. IT is really quite unfair. It is like me telling you to take a test (on a subject you are great at), but with several catches:
1) You will be blindfolded. This means you will not know what the questions are, what the answers should be (since you don't even know the question), or even where the desk and chair are at! You have absolutely no way of perceiving the test.
2) You will be competing against a blind student. But this blind student has been blind most of his life, is very good at readign braille (the paper with raised dots that blind people use to understand written words), and good in the subject. The kid would be basically in his environment.
Under the scenario above you would get your behind whooped. You would have zero advantage, no matter how intelligent you might be in the subject. Conversely, the blind student would be in his environment. After all he knows how to read braille, and he would know the questions and answer them. You on the other hand would be lucky if you even found your seat.
Once again, one of the most one-sided matches i've ever seen. It is built in such a way that the only way Slade could win is if he had a thermo-nuclear weapon hidden in a nearby sewer!
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