WARNING: The following article contains spoilers from Robin #14, on sale now.

Robin #14, the penultimate chapter of the "Shadow War" story arc, sees Deathstroke finally clashing with Talia al Ghul -- and seemingly meeting his end at the point of one of her blades.

The dramatic moment occurs in the issue's final pages, as Slade Wilson and his Secret Society of Super-Villains launch an all-out assault on the League of Assassins' base in Nepal. Batman and Robin arrive alongside Ghost-Maker and other members of Batman Inc., but the Dynamic Duo isn't fast enough to reach Slade and Talia before the two start duking it out.

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As they fight, Deathstroke taunts Talia, telling her she's never managed to surpass the grand schemes of her father and has only ever been a daughter, a mother and a lover of Batman. He also blames her for sending her assassins after him, which led to the untimely death of Respawn. Respawn -- a genetic clone of Damian Wayne meshed with Slade's DNA -- sacrificed himself to save his father in Batman #123, falling victim to the same fate as Deathstroke's other sons, Grant and Jericho Wilson.

Meanwhile, Talia wants Slade to die, believing that he is responsible for killing her father in Shadow War Alpha, the book that kicked off the "Shadow War" saga. As she takes several blows from Slade, she finally catches his sword in one hand and drives a dagger into his gut with the other. With one swift strike, Deathstroke falls to the floor, seemingly dead.

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At this moment, the imposter who masqueraded as Deathstroke and was the true mastermind behind the death of Ra's rears his head. This doppelganger explains that he instigated everything to see Slade and Talia destroy each other. He then rips away his costume to reveal himself as Geo-Force, the prince of Markovia and a former ally of Batman as part of the superhero team the Outsiders. Geo-Force has long harbored a grudge against Deathstroke for manipulating his half-sister, Terra, and also hated Talia for how Markovia has suffered under the whims of Leviathan, a splinter group of the League of Assassins that took over the Eastern European country in 2020's Leviathan Dawn limited series.

Robin #14 -- by writer Joshua Williamson, penciler Roger Cruz, inker Norm Rapmund, colorer Luis Guerrero and letterer Troy Peteri, with cover art by Cruz, Rapmund and Guerrero and variant cover art by Simone Di Meo, Dan Schoening, Dexter Soy and Veronica Gandini -- is on sale now. "Shadow War" concludes on May 31 with the Shadow War: Omega one-shot.

Source: DC