Space Marine 2 Player Creates Deathstroke-Inspired Armor

A clever Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 player has created a fitting tribute to the iconic DC Comics villain Deathstroke for use in the game. The sheer popularity of Space Marine 2 has led players to employ the game’s armor customization systems to create homages to their favorite characters and games.

Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 might have only launched a few weeks ago, but it’s already looking like one of the biggest releases of 2024 so far. Despite the many years between the release of the original Space Marine game and its sequel, the record success of Space Marine 2 so far indicates not just the level of anticipation for the game, but how popular Warhammer 40,000 itself has grown in the intervening period.

Though Space Marine 2 is best regarded as a high-budget, modernized game starring one of the most powerful factions in Warhammer 40,000, it does make room for players to add in their own preferences. For player organicaeonia, their preference was a Space Marine that looks like Deathstroke, a famed DC Comics character. Also known as Slade Wilson or Deathstroke the Terminator, Deathstroke is one of the most famous DC Comics villains around, and is a frequent nemesis of the Teen Titans and even Batman. Organicaoenia created a customized Astartes armor setup using Space Marine 2‘s in-game armor customization tools to share with the Space Marine Reddit community.

While many custom Space Marine 2 costumes tend to focus on creating customized color blocking patterns, organicaeonia’s Deathstroke-inspired Space Marine 2 armor set takes advantage of the more unusual aspects of the Vanguard and Sniper Space Marine 2 classes. While other in-game classes use armor designs that seem more like “standard issue” Space Marine power armor, the Vanguard and Sniper classes use armor that tends to feature sleeker silhouettes, skin-tight suits, and stealthier elements with less of a focus on hard, bulky armor plates. The lighter profile of the armor design, combined with the telltale orange-and-black two-tone color blocking, cleverly evoked the ninja-like outfit typically worn by Deathstroke.

Fellow Space Marine 2 players praised organicaeonia’s attempt to capture the legendary comic assassin’s essence using in-game tools. One commenter jokingly called on Saber Interactive to implement the famousSpace Marine Terminator armor suits in Space Marine 2 somehow, so that players can then create a version of Deathstroke that comes closer to the character’s full title: Deathstroke the Terminator.