Longtime Titans nemesis Deathstroke created a team of his own and called them Titans East. He faced off against his own children who had joined the Teen Titans. They were eventually defeated, but Deathstroke mused that the only reason he created the Titan's East was to force his children to side with the Teen Titans and therefore be welcomed into their family. He felt that he couldn't be a true father to them and they needed a family of their own.

