Floyd Lawton, also known as Deadshot, was a criminal dubbed as the "greatest marksman on the planet," due to his infamous reputation as an assassin with an almost superhuman marksmanship skill.[1]
History
During the global Anti-Life Virus outbreak, Deadshot joined forces with Vandal Savage among other notorious surviving super-villains, forming a league (dubbed by The Creeper as "Tree Lobsters") of their own amidst the techno-organic viral pandemic within Savage's base of operations, the volcanic terrain of Ball's Pyramid, in pursuit of outliving the apocalypse and inherit whatever's left on Earth.[1]
However, when an infected Wonder Woman had discovered and breached their headquarters, Deadshot and the rest of the Tree Lobsters were forced to escape the infiltrated Ball's Pyramid, fleeing through Mirror World into safety and arriving at a survivor-settled orphanage in Bludhaven, wherein the daughter of his teammate Lady Shiva, who is Cassandra Cain, was currently at the time with other survivors led by Commissioner Gordon. In dealing with the situation at hand, the surviving super-villains and the anti-heroes alike concurred to stay in the orphanage and band together against powered undead, like Wonder Woman, by training each and every orphan to both attack and defend themselves against the Anti-Living.
With their agreement to form the united Unkillables, Deadshot was responsibly tasked with teaching and training the orphans with marksmanship, his field of expertise, for over three months using slingshots. However, on the night when the Anti-Living came to return within the orphanage in the form of an infected Mirror Master, the lives of every survivor at the orphanage was in jeopardy. When the orphan named Zaid was pulled by Mirror Master into a mirror, Deadshot instinctively runs to save him and is successful, albeit costing him to take Zaid's place of being abducted into Mirror World, and was either infected as an Anti-Living or gruesomely killed by his former teammate.[2]
Living his life as super-villain and mercenary who takes lives with little to no remorse, Lawton nevertheless died a selfless man who sacrificed his own life to save someone else's. Later on, a statue memorial of Lawton and the other fallen Tree Lobsters were erected by the orphaned Bludhaven survivors themselves upon their arrival in the Gotham Jungle, as a way to honor of their foster family and saviors' memories.[3]
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- Deadshot was created by David Vern Reed and Lew Sayre Schwartz, first appearing in Batman #59. However, However, the DCeased version of Deadshot (Floyd Lawton) first appeared in DCeased: Unkillables #1 by Tom Taylor and Karl Mostert.
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- 5 Appearances of Floyd Lawton (DCeased)
- 4 Images featuring Floyd Lawton (DCeased)
- Quotations by or about Floyd Lawton (DCeased)
- Character Gallery: Floyd Lawton (DCeased)
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