Joe Wilson

"Then you're not my father anymore. You're just in my way!"

- Joe Wilson to Slade Wilson

Joe Wilson, also known as Kane Wolfman, is the leader of the Jackals and a former agent of the Australian Secret Intelligence Service. He is the son of Slade and Adeline Wilson, the brother of Grant Wilson, and the godson of the late Billy Wintergreen.

Early life
In 2004, Joe Wilson went camping with his father in Milford Sound, New Zealand. He found some flat ground and pitched his own tent. That night, his father cooked some fish, despite Joe claiming to not like it. Deciding he wasn't hungry, he went for a walk. The following day, the two of them threw a rugby ball around. Another camper, "Darryl", walked past with his family. Slade had Darryl take a photo of him with his son, before he and his family left. For lunch, Joe tried some fish, which he decidedly liked. He continued eating it while his father claimed to go to the bathroom, while he was really going to kill "Darryl", who he'd deduced was a secret agent named Sen Ming. Joe then watched as his father proceeded to kill him. Not long after, they left Milford Sound to return home.

Following in his father's footsteps
When his father went missing during the mission to Lian Yu, Joe went on to follow in his father's footsteps, joining the Australian Secret Intelligence Service. Slade was then found and taken into medical care where Joe stayed beside him until he woke up, with Slade promising to never leave him again. One year passes and Joe trains with his father and gives him a gift as a present to the latter coming back from the "dead" and shows him a new prototype suit. They continue to spar until Slade loses control as the sparring gives him flashbacks of him training Oliver and leaves a heavy scratch on Joe's hand causing it to bleed much to Joe's frustration and declares the session to be over. Another year later Joe finds his father slaughtered all the ASIS agents in the ASIS Training Facility. He questions what he is doing until Slade restrains him, claiming the agents were "stopping him" from keeping his promise. Joe is then knocked down before Slade proceeds to leave with the Deathstroke armor.

Years later, Joe finds himself in the Republic of Kasnia, taking a new name, "Kane Wolfman". Found in the wrong place at the wrong time, Joe was imprisoned. However, he was soon freed by the Jackals, becoming their leader.

Reuniting with his father
While Slade was eager to know what was going on with his own son, Joe did not actually want to see his father despite the gap of years that the father and son did not reunite again. Joe was hesitant to shoot Slade as he thought (along with Nylander) that his own father would be a liability, seeing as how Slade already had come in trashing the Jackals' headquarters and trying to find out where Joe was. However, after a convincing talk from his own father, who begged to let Joe bring him in as a member of the Jackals, Joe put the gun down and accepted Slade's offer. When Slade called Joe by his name, however, Joe said that wasn't his name anymore as Adeline Wilson had her son's name changed so that she can keep Joe away from Slade. Joe said to his father that the Jackals' operation was a reassignment of resources, which made Slade curious despite the mercenary not knowing that Oliver was still in the building.

Most of Joe's men actually believed that Slade had joined under false pretenses, but after that, Nylander brought a captive Oliver in front of both Slade and Joe, and Joe tried to make Slade get his "revenge" on the Green Arrow. However, Slade had "convinced" Joe and Oliver knocked the former out after Slade cut Oliver free from the chair. After this, Joe decides to kill his father instead of trying to reason with him as Slade, along with Oliver, had already interfered with their operation.

As soon as Joe had Nylander and his men go to the site where they would use explosives and such, the son of Deathstroke was confronted by Slade, as the latter tried to reason with him so that they could still try to make up their father-son relationship. However, Joe was hesitant and, wanting to make his father pay for all that he did, started a sword fight against him. As soon as Joe and Slade got to a stopping point, Joe tells Slade that he saw the latter murder the Chinese spy, but after, Joe told the shocking truth that Adeline had a son named Grant, and "claimed" to have slit Grant's throat. As soon as Slade told his son that the former wasn't a villain anymore, Joe stated that Slade was no longer his father. Before Joe proceeded to kill Slade, Oliver intervened and shot Joe's sword below the walkway. Joe then tells Slade that the latter should have stayed dead, before escaping. It is currently unknown what Joe's fate is after this, as well as Slade and Grant's fates.

Personality
Joe Wilson is displayed to hold his father, Slade Wilson in high regards. However, he is revealed to be a sadistic and twisted individual upon reuniting with his father, clearly not the same boy Slade expressed his fond memories of to Oliver Queen when they were both on Lian Yu. Joe's ruthlessness is further shown when Oliver was captured and encouraged his father to kill him, knowing about the "debt" Oliver owed him and even promised to make Oliver's son, William Clayton suffer as well. This may be due to seeing his father ruthlessly kill Sen Ming as a child and aspired to be like him, going as far as implying that he slit the throat of his younger brother Grant Wilson. Upon learning that Slade is no longer the killer he once was, Joe became disappointed and denounced him as his father and would have killed him had Oliver not interfered.

Abilities

 * Peak of human physical condition: Joe is in top physical condition thanks to the special training he went through in ASIS in order to become an effective killing machine for the sake of his country. Joe is very durable and resilient. He has quick reflexes like his father, being able to catch up with his fast strikes and slashes. He was able to quickly recover after Oliver Queen knocked him out, and his physical condition and skill allowed him to fight his father, one of the most physically powerful individuals in the multiverse, Slade Wilson on equal terms for an extended period of time (although the latter was holding back).
 * Acrobatics: Joe has skills in acrobatics as he was able to jump over the panel where he fought with his father and quickly depart after being stopped by Oliver Queen.
 * Expert combatant/Martial artist: Joe is a very skilled combatant and martial artist as a former soldier for ASIS, a trait that he shares with his father, Slade Wilson. His close-range skills are very effective and his own ruthlessness and anger makes him even more powerful. Joe is shown to combine his hand-to-hand combat with swordsmanship in order to take his opponents down. His skill is great enough that he was able to fight evenly against his father Slade in battle, who is one of most powerful combatants in Multiverse and was able to defeat who dozens of members of his group without a scratch (albeit the latter was holding himself back), although he was still defeated and needed to use his father's feelings for him to gain the upper hand. His battling style is very similar to Slade's own, that mostly relies on eskrima and Muay Thai, with different supplements from other martial arts.
 * Expert swordsman: Like his father, Slade Wilson, Joe is extremely powerful swordsman. Joe is able to fight his father, who is one of deadliest fighters in the world, on equal grounds and even gain the upper hand in some moments (albeit the latter was holding back), but was overwhelmed ultimately.
 * Expert stick-fighter: Joe is an expert stick fighter, able to spar with his father, Slade Wilson and impress him.
 * Master marksman: Joe is excellent marksman, who is able to use different types of guns and firearms. His skill in marksmanship allowed him to quickly kill several soldiers, while they were in the truck.
 * High-level intellect/Expert tactician/Leader: Joe is very intelligent and calculative tactician, just like his father, Slade Wilson. He is able to create extensive plans that could bring disaster to the entire country. He created several quick and effective strategies for combat, infitration and diversion in order to attack the water supply system of Republic of Kasnia. Joe was able to become the leader of Jackals quickly and lead them to silent and almost successful destruction of Kasnia. Joe is shown to be very perceptive person, who cannot trust somebody easily and carefully observes is target, as he still suspected his father in hiding something and wasn't surprised after his betrayal. He is also very skilled in usage of different explosive materials and bombs, being able to use them with maximum accuracy and destruction. He created a plan to take down the water supply system of the entire country using the stolen explosives. He also is skilled with grenades.

Equipment

 * Suit: Joe owns a suit that is similar to a military uniform. This suit is shown to have a flak jacket, bandoleer, grenades and possibly other weapons.
 * Flak jacket: Joe wears protective jacket with multiple pockets.
 * Sword: Joe has a sword, that very similar to katana, with white hilt. He carries it on his back, just like his father, Slade Wilson.
 * Sidearm: Joe carries a sidearm on his back.
 * Grenades: Joe has grenades, that could be used for attack or escaping the battle.

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Trivia

 * Slade mentions that Billy Wintergreen was Joe's godfather.

Behind the scenes

 * Joseph William Wilson first appeared in the DC comic series Teen Titans, appearing in issue #43, as the mute superhero known as Jericho. He would later become an on-again, off-again villain to the Titans, due to assorted reasons.
 * In the comic book continuity, Slade Wilson had three children: Grant, Joseph, and Rose. Rose is the only one of his children to have not yet appeared or been mentioned in the Arrowverse, most likely because of another Slade-trained female that took the codename and costume of Ravager on the show, Isabel Rochev.
 * The name Kane Wolfman is a nod to two things: Kane is a nod to Joe's mother's maiden name while Wolfman is a nod to Marv Wolfman, who created Deathstroke.