- Supported by the fact that, assuming that the Black Lamp Society is correct, there is a hereditary component to being a Slasher. It's been confirmed repeatedly that there is definitely a biological component to being one.
- Also Samhain, who was not merely more moral than most slashers but more stereotypically attractive. Although Cassie hasn't shown anything you could really call super-healing yet.
- No obvious super-healing, but her survivability is extraordinary.
- She did gain a healing factor ever since the recent arcs. Since it came from Samhain's blood, this could arguably make her a Half-Slasher, if anything.
- Also Samhain, who was not merely more moral than most slashers but more stereotypically attractive. Although Cassie hasn't shown anything you could really call super-healing yet.
Other aspects of Buffy also get a darker twist in Hack/Slash. Like Angel, Samnhain is a member of the race of monsters the heroine fights who develops feelings for her and becomes her ally. Unlike Angel, it doesn't stick, and as soon as he leaves his brainwashed state he reverts to his normal Slasher form. Also, despite all the supernatural danger she gets them into, Buffy's friends always come out fine. Lisa and Chris, however, aren't so lucky. Unlike Buffy, this is the type of story where the Plucky Comic Relief isn't safe.
They look kind of similar; Cassie could've become like BQ, a psychotically depraved hedonistic thrill killer and the champion of psychos, if she had chosen a different path, or if she just completely snaps one day. Could possibly tie into the above.
It's been revealed that some demons/extra-dimensional things use humans for breeding, so it doesn't seem a big leap to actual hybridisation. Hence his looks, strength, and Parental Abandonment. His lung problems are probably because his lungs aren't completely optimised to Earth atmosphere: since acidic urban air pollution makes them worse I suspect that one of his parent's home environment had a more alkaline nature than Earth, maybe an ammonia-heavy atmosphere.
- Jossed by Me Without You. It features his perfectly normal mother and father, and shows his maternal grandfather (an apparent descendent of Sawney Beane) has whatever disorder Vlad does, though apparently much more severe due to either age or because he didn't bother to work through it like Vlad did.
- But then confirmed by the later "The Good Son" arc in the main title. The original Sawney Beane had sex with some kind of demonic entity, and all their male descendents are deformed but super-strong.
Both are giants with deformed faces and skulls that walk around and killing stuff with knives. Both are also not the sharpest knives in the drawer. Maybe Vlad is what Jason Voorhees or someone with his genes would have grown into with marginally better parenting and not so much bullying.
- I think Seeley once said he envisioned Vlad as a good version of Jason.
- It would certainly explain this◊ incentive cover.
We never see his body.
- The main villains would be both Jason and 13 Jason copycats.
- The main villains will be Freddy Krueger and a cult that worships Freddy Krueger.
- Hack/Slash pays homage to 1980's slasher movies and Duke Nukem pays homage to 1980's action movies.