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Deadshot


Occupation	Former assassin, Member of the Suicide Squad
Powers and Abilities	Expert marksman
Played By	Bradley Stryker
Status	Alive

"Somewhere out there, we all got a bullet with our name on it." - Deadshot, Shield

Floyd Lawton was an assassin for hire who, due to Rick Flag's persuasion, joined the Suicide Squad.

Physical AppearanceEdit

Floyd is a thin, tall, mysterious man with a scruffy appearance. He has dark brown, medium length hair and blue eyes. He also has a scar over his right eye.

In both of his appearances in Shield and Collateral, he was only seen wearing an outfit similar to a western cowboy, which consisted of a black cowboy hat, a long, dark brown, almost black trench coat, with a dark shirt underneath and a pair of jeans. He is almost always carrying a gun with him which he keeps saddled in a brown leather holster. He also sometimes wears a red-lensed, metal, almost steampunk like, ocular scope over his scarred eye.

Powers and AbilitiesEdit

Expert Marksman: As a proficient marksman, Floyd can handle weapons, particularly guns, and can use them very accurately because of the electronic-eye patch he wears.
Peak Agility: As a slender and thin young man, Floyd is extremely dexterous and can maneuver very accurately.

Season TenEdit

In the middle of the street, Deadshot spotted Clark Kent and Cat Grant, and shot a straight forward bullet (passing and missing every structure and person it could come in contact with) to Cat’s car, which had exploded upon ignition. However, Clark was able to save Cat. Receiving orders, Deadshot made preparations for Clark to test him even more.

Once he found Cat, as he was aiming to strike the final blow, Clark got there in time to stop him and save her. Clark also knocked Deadshot unconscious. But unknown to him, Deadshot had implanted a tracking mark in his skin using the bullet that "scraped" him. While in prison, he was approached by Rick Flag and Plastique who said they would release him on the condition that he would join their team, the Suicide Squad, to which he agreed.

Deadshot joined Flag and Chloe Sullivan in saving the Justice League from the VRA. While Flag, Chloe, and Oliver worked on getting the League out of the virtual reality, Deadshot took watch outside. When Chloe was caught by the VRA and almost killed, Deadshot saved her be shooting the two VRA members tasked with the job of executing her.

In the ComicsEdit

Deadshot (Floyd Lawton) is a fictional character, a supervillain in the DC Universe and an enemy of Batman. He first appears in Batman #59 (June/July 1950) and was created by Bob Kane, David Vern Reed and Lew Schwartz.

Within the DC Universe, Deadshot is often a hired assassin, regularly boasting to "never miss." He is capable of using a large variety of weapons, but is most frequently portrayed as using a pair of silenced, wrist-mounted guns.

In his childhood, his mother and father had a deep hatred for each other. His mother went so far as to hire Floyd and his brother to kill their father. While Floyd had no great love for his father either, he did not want his blood soiling his brother's hands, and refused. His brother then accepted to kill their father, and locked Floyd up so he couldn't stop him. Escaping, Floyd took a rifle, went up a tree and aimed towards where his brother was about to kill their father. But the branch broke and his aim was off, killing his idolized brother rather than his hated father. He has lived what he sees as a meaningless lifestyle from then on, accepting hits in hopes that he will one day be killed himself.

While he's not suicidal, he continually dances over that line, never caring whether he lives or dies. This lifestyle has made Deadshot nearly homicidal as well. He first appeared in Gotham City as a new crime fighter, but it was revealed that this was only an elaborate hoax to replace Batman. When this scheme failed, he attempted to head the Gotham underworld, but was exposed and arrested by Batman and Commissioner Gordon. After he got out of jail, Deadshot became a hired assassin, and has been a great help in the past two Suicide Squads. When he was on hiatus from the squad, his son was raped and killed by a pedophile. Floyd took revenge on the man. Later, his suit was stolen by an airport employee, who began to steal and kill with it. Deadshot killed him, but killing his own image affected him. He didn't even fix the bullet hole in the costume for a long time. During the Suicide Squad’s last mission, Deadshot was asked by Count Vertigo if he would kill him. Deadshot agreed, and both of them went to a secret location to await Vertigo’s decision. He declined, and Deadshot did not question the decision.

Later, when he was under Neron’s influence, he tried to kill an entire kindergarten class with an explosion, but was stopped by the Justice League. Deadshot was offered North America if he joined the Secret Six, and was threatened that if he didn't join the team, he would have his daughter’s neighborhood blown up by Mockingbird (Lex Luthor). A stalemate was reached at the end of the series, and Deadshot’s status remained unchanged. He was found in bed with Knockout, but she revealed that she was only using him. During this run, Deadshot was confronted by his teammate Catman, accused of slaughtering the pride of lions he had been living with, planting evidence against the Secret Society of Super Villains in order to force his joining to the Secret Six. Catman eventually forgave Lawton, and they remained something between friends and enemies. This fits with Deadshot's unconscious desire to give other men the place of the brother he killed, be it Catman, Batman or Rick Flagg. All of them, at different points, acted as Deadshot's surrogate brothers of a sort, particularly Catman and Flagg.

Following changes to the Timestream in the New 52, Deadshot was, at some point, captured by Amanda Waller and forced to join the Suicide Squad. After being hired to assassinate a senator in Gotham City, the Batman attacked him, messing up his aim, and ruining the hit. That crime and others landed him on death row at Belle Reve prison. While there, his cell filled up with gas, and he was implanted with a micro-bomb to insure his obedience. After undergoing torture to test his loyalty, Deadshot was officially inducted into the Suicide Squad.

Other Faces of DeadshotEdit

NotesEdit

In the Justice League animated series, the character of Deadshot was voiced by Michael Rosenbaum.
Deadshot is the second villain from Batman's Rogue Gallery to appear on Smallville (with the exception of Amanda Waller, though she is technically a villain to all DC superheroes).
Deadshot is set to appear as a side quest villain in Batman: Arkham City.
The cowboy appearance of Deadshot resembles more of Jonah Hex than of Deadshot's traditional red body armor comic costume. However his costume also looks similar to the way he was portrayed in the Batman: Gotham Knight animated film.
Deadshot's trademark signature of placing the name of the target on the bullet is his calling card and it's used in Shield.

Deadshot's outfit also shares a remarkable resemblance to the cover art for issue 24 of the Secret Six comic book series.

External linksEdit

Deadshot on Wikipedia
Deadshot on Wikia DC Animated Universe
Deadshot on DC Database
Deadshot on comicvine

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