#or if sloan chose not to use his termination implant then it takes away a critical aspect of his character

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Ways to get around Sloan’s death in post-canon fics:

Sloan clones (either he’s always been one or he now has one)

Julian put him in stasis after, managed to repair his brain damage and revived him; Sloan then escaped/was let go

AU: Julian found and deactivated the termination device before Sloan could use it

AU: Sloan’s device was faulty and didn’t activate

AU: another agent was sent instead and met the same fate (Sloan almost went and is salty about it though)

Wildcard: everything in the episode happened exactly the same and no explanation for how/why Sloan isn’t still dead is given