When Deadly Class debuts on Syfy--it`s already available online--you might find the level of graphic content in the series to be a little surprising. After all, this show is adapted from a graphic novel about a high school for assassins, the training ground for contract killers. With subject matter like that, you might be expecting gunfights left and right, with blood splattered on the walls.Deadly Class, though, isn`t the ultraviolent playground you might think it is. Yes, there are still plenty of fight sequences and based on the first three episodes made available to the press, some heinous kills. However, if you`re walking into this series expecting the type of violence you might see on a show like DC Universe`s Titans, it`s time to temper your expectations. That`s not what Deadly Class is attempting to be. Instead, it`s carving out its own place in the crowded world of comic book adaptations, where what`s far more interesting than the violence on display is seeing the toll is takes on the characters forces to participate in it.`In this show, we tell stories about the cost of violence,` Luke Tennie, who plays Willie, told GameSpot during a visit to the show`s set. `We are not glorified. It`s not casual. If there is a loss of life on our show, we see everything about the price. We don`t spend time on blood and gore, and we don`t glorify the violence.`That`s a price that will vary, depending on the student that finds themself in the middle of it. While it may bring certain characters joy, there are others enrolled in King`s Dominion Atelier of the Deadly Arts that struggle with its murderous teachings. `[Marcus] just really wants friends and a family and that`s what he`s creating over here,` star Benjamin Wadsworth explained of his character, a newcomer at the school. `But he does not like violence. When he was on the streets he saw that all the time. He saw homeless guys beat up women. He saw money stolen. He`s forced to get in these violent situations and he ...
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