Post by Doctor Cyber on Jun 18, 2012 14:24:24 GMT -5
Real name: Floyd Lawton
Alter Ego: Deadshot
”If I wanted to be dead, I would be. I don’t want to die. I just don’t care if I do.”
Status
Occupation: Government Operative, Assassin, former Crimefighter
Martial Status: Divorced
Legal Status: U.S. citizen with a criminal record
Group Affiliation(s): Secret Six,; formerly Suicide Squad, Task Force X, Killer Elite
Origin
Place of Birth: Lawton, Kansas
Known Relatives: George Lawton (father, deceased), Genevieve Pitt Lawton (mother, deceased), Edward Robert Lawton (brother, deceased), Susan (ex-wife), Edward Lawton (son, deceased), Zoe (daughter)
History
Floyd was the youngest of two sons born to George and Genevieve Lawtons, an influential family in the Midwestern United States who lived in a town named after them. The older brother Eddie was highly successful and Floyd became a rebellious troublemaker to avoid the expectations placed upon him by his family. The boys' parents had a difficult marriage that ultimately resulted in Genevieve conspiring with Eddie to kill George. Floyd intervened and in the resulting fracas George suffered a paralyzing injury and Eddie was fatally shot as Floyd tried to wrestle a gun away from him. George covered up the incident and effectively exiled his wife by sending her to live in a small town.
Devastated by his brother's death, Floyd left town as well. He eventually married and had a son, whom he named after his brother. However, Floyd's guilt over his inadvertent fratricide became so onerous that it ruined his marriage. Cut adrift and bored with his life as a socialite, Floyd decided to turn his skills toward crime. He started out as a crime fighter in Gotham City, but soon turned to villainy after his failed attempt to replace Batman as Gotham City's premiere vigilante. He attempted to become the kingpin of Gotham's organized crime syndicates and was brought down by Batman and Commissioner Gordon.
After finishing his prison term, Floyd became an assassin for hire. He came into conflict with Batman repeatedly, ultimately ending up in Belle Reve prison. There, he was recruited into the Suicide Squad, a government team that offered super-villains a full pardon in exchange for a period of service as covert agents. It was while there that Lawton's death wish was first formally diagnosed by a psychiatrist, though Batman had previously recognized that Deadshot subconsciously wanted to lose in his battles.
During his time with the Suicide Squad, Lawton was again dragged into his parents' twisted relationship. His mother had his son Eddie kidnapped to force Deadshot to follow her orders and kill his father. Deadshot refused and killed everyone involved in the kidnapping. Unfortunately, this was too late to save his son; one of the kidnappers was also a pedophile and had raped and killed Eddie before Floyd could save him. Lawton took revenge on his mother by shooting and crippling her in the same way that his father had been crippled when his brother Eddie's attempted to murder him.
Afterward Deadshot returned to the Suicide Squad. Once the Squad disbanded, Deadshot became a freelance mercenary again until another Suicide Squad was formed. He served with that incarnation of the Squad until it was dismantled as well. This placed Deadshot on the open market once more.
It was during that period of free agency that Lawton learned his parents had passed away. Lawton returned to the family estate and while going through some of his mother's papers Floyd discovered that he had a daughter, Zoe. He had unknowingly fathered the child with a prostitute years ago, and the mother had since moved on to legitimate work while raising their daughter.
Floyd went to Star City to meet the two of them and offer his support and even began building a familial relationship with them. At the same time, he tried to provide security for the two in his Deadshot identity by returning to his vigilante roots and cleaning up their crime-ridden neighborhood in Star City. This only escalated the conflicts therein. He ultimately faked his own death to end the ever-worsening battles after securing Green Arrow's agreement to increase his patrols in that part of the city.
Soon afterward, Deadshot became a member of the Secret Six, a team of villains working in opposition to the larger Secret Society of Super-Villains. The Secret Society had been extremely draconian in their recruitment efforts and some of the more independent super-villains who had resisted membership in the society were drawn into the Secret Six. In addition to opposing the Secret Society, each member of the six was given additional reasons for joining. The carrot offered to Lawton by the Secret Six's benefactor for joining the team was that Floyd would be given leadership of North America if the team was successful in their bid for world domination. The stick was that his daughter's entire neighborhood would be destroyed if Deadshot did not join the Secret Six.
The Secret Six made impressive inroads in battling the Secret Society, but was ultimately unsuccessful. The Six disbanded after a series of arguments and betrayals among the team coincided with the Secret Society attacking them at their home base. The Six inflicted major casualties on the Secret Society but would have perished if it were not for Vandal Savage intervening, ending the fight to save his daughter, who was one of the Six.
Deadshot had been seriously injured in a shootout with Deathstroke during that battle but received medical help afterward. He later guarded Catman during a meeting with Green Arrow to warn the JLA of the Secret Society's ultimate goal of mind-wiping all superheroes as the JLA had done to some of their foes in the past.
Deadshot then joins the Suicide Squad, rounding up super-villains for removal. The group has encountered Pied Piper and Trickster several times, and each time failed to capture them. Deadshot, becoming tired of the poor antics of his teammates, decides to make a solo effort to capture them, but the pair again eluded him. Deadshot is told by Amanda Waller to cease and desist all attempts at killing the two, but Deadshot follows his own internal ethics and attacks Piper and Trickster on a train outside of the Rocky Mountains. Deadshot kills The Trickster leaving Pied Piper on his own.
Deadshot was then tricked by Amanda Waller and sent off to the prison planet along with the last batch of criminals. Rick Flag Jr. stated to him as the Boom Tube closes that he can't have people like him on Earth. Deadshot vowed that if he ever returns to Earth, he will take his revenge on Rick.
After helping fight off the Parademon invasion he manages to escape with the surviving villains in the teleportation machine.
Characteristics
Age: 33
Height: 6’1”
Weight: 210lbs
Eyes: Brown
Hair: Brown
Appearance: Floyd is a physically fit white male with a lean face and a short handlebar mustache, somewhat reminiscent of a old west gunfighter's mustache. Lawton usually wears unobtrusive clothing in his civilian identity, contrasting markedly with the red bodysuit with silver and yellow accoutrements and chrome metal helmet he wears as Deadshot.
Personality: Lawton's most infamous trait is his death wish. This self-destructive urge stems from a combination of self-loathing and guilt. It likely has its roots in the twisted relationships among his family. Being unable to compete with his well-liked and successful older brother and being one of the ropes in the murderous tug-of-war between his parents resulted Floyd developing an unhealthy view of himself. This trait became much worse after the inadvertent killing of his brother and his failure to rescue his son from his kidnappers.
Floyd's death wish is not a directly suicidal urge. It is mostly a subconscious belief that he deserves to be punished for his prior bad acts. The risks he takes may also provide a distraction from his guilt, providing an adrenaline rush and allowing him to live in the moment rather than dwelling on the past. At his worse, he may hold back slightly at a critical moment or increase the dangers of a situation by taking unnecessary risks or provoking confrontations he could have avoided. On rare occasions, he has even assisted his targets in their defensive measures to worsen the odds against him. At his best, Deadshot will rush into situations without regard to the possible consequences, not wanting to be killed but still being unafraid to die. Either way, Deadshot still manages to come out on top when in lethal danger -- however much he wants to die, he is a born survivor and his self-preservation instincts are quite well honed.
Lawton has had moments when he tried to build a normal life with a family -- his wife and son and then his daughter and her mother -- but these fell apart due to guilt over his past actions in the first case and the collateral threats of his chosen career in the second. Floyd may have also felt that he did not truly deserve to live a happy life after depriving his brother of his. He is still very sensitive on the subject of family, particularly after his son's death. An off-the-cuff comment by a business associate regarding Deadshot's parenting skills once provoked a near-murderous reaction from Lawton. Floyd may have only spared the offending person's life because that person did not know Deadshot's personal history; he also perhaps thought on some level that the thoughtless barb had some unintentional truth behind it.
Aside from his brash risk-taking, Deadshot is a cold professional. He confronts battles with a calm that many others find unnerving. The combination of Lawton's relentless, cool-headed attitude and Deadshot's formidable skills have cemented his reputation as one of the most dangerous men alive.
Deadshot has a twisted code of ethics; as long as he's paid for an accepted job, he will not, under any circumstances, call it off. Batman was unable to get him to stop threatening a witness (who refused to testify as long as Deadshot was waiting to kill him if he did) by threatening him or his family (Deadshot rightly assumed Batman was bluffing); however, Batman managed to get Deadshot to drop the hit by getting the bank accounts of his employer frozen. Unable to get paid, Deadshot publicly called off the hit, letting the witness go free.
Powers
Deadshot has no superhuman powers. He is a marksman and assassin of legendary skill as well as a competent hand-to-hand combatant. He has also become an accomplished gunsmith and usually employs special weapons of his own design.
Known Powers: None
Known Abilities:
Strength Level: Peak human strength.
Weaknesses:
Misc (optional)
Equipment:
Transportation: Varies, from aircraft, boats, cars, etc.
Weapons:
Power Grid
5 Durability denotes his bullet proof armor.
10 Fighting Skill denotes his skill with projectile-type weapons (firearms, throwing knives, etc)
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Alter Ego: Deadshot
”If I wanted to be dead, I would be. I don’t want to die. I just don’t care if I do.”
Status
Occupation: Government Operative, Assassin, former Crimefighter
Martial Status: Divorced
Legal Status: U.S. citizen with a criminal record
Group Affiliation(s): Secret Six,; formerly Suicide Squad, Task Force X, Killer Elite
Origin
Place of Birth: Lawton, Kansas
Known Relatives: George Lawton (father, deceased), Genevieve Pitt Lawton (mother, deceased), Edward Robert Lawton (brother, deceased), Susan (ex-wife), Edward Lawton (son, deceased), Zoe (daughter)
History
Floyd was the youngest of two sons born to George and Genevieve Lawtons, an influential family in the Midwestern United States who lived in a town named after them. The older brother Eddie was highly successful and Floyd became a rebellious troublemaker to avoid the expectations placed upon him by his family. The boys' parents had a difficult marriage that ultimately resulted in Genevieve conspiring with Eddie to kill George. Floyd intervened and in the resulting fracas George suffered a paralyzing injury and Eddie was fatally shot as Floyd tried to wrestle a gun away from him. George covered up the incident and effectively exiled his wife by sending her to live in a small town.
Devastated by his brother's death, Floyd left town as well. He eventually married and had a son, whom he named after his brother. However, Floyd's guilt over his inadvertent fratricide became so onerous that it ruined his marriage. Cut adrift and bored with his life as a socialite, Floyd decided to turn his skills toward crime. He started out as a crime fighter in Gotham City, but soon turned to villainy after his failed attempt to replace Batman as Gotham City's premiere vigilante. He attempted to become the kingpin of Gotham's organized crime syndicates and was brought down by Batman and Commissioner Gordon.
After finishing his prison term, Floyd became an assassin for hire. He came into conflict with Batman repeatedly, ultimately ending up in Belle Reve prison. There, he was recruited into the Suicide Squad, a government team that offered super-villains a full pardon in exchange for a period of service as covert agents. It was while there that Lawton's death wish was first formally diagnosed by a psychiatrist, though Batman had previously recognized that Deadshot subconsciously wanted to lose in his battles.
During his time with the Suicide Squad, Lawton was again dragged into his parents' twisted relationship. His mother had his son Eddie kidnapped to force Deadshot to follow her orders and kill his father. Deadshot refused and killed everyone involved in the kidnapping. Unfortunately, this was too late to save his son; one of the kidnappers was also a pedophile and had raped and killed Eddie before Floyd could save him. Lawton took revenge on his mother by shooting and crippling her in the same way that his father had been crippled when his brother Eddie's attempted to murder him.
Afterward Deadshot returned to the Suicide Squad. Once the Squad disbanded, Deadshot became a freelance mercenary again until another Suicide Squad was formed. He served with that incarnation of the Squad until it was dismantled as well. This placed Deadshot on the open market once more.
It was during that period of free agency that Lawton learned his parents had passed away. Lawton returned to the family estate and while going through some of his mother's papers Floyd discovered that he had a daughter, Zoe. He had unknowingly fathered the child with a prostitute years ago, and the mother had since moved on to legitimate work while raising their daughter.
Floyd went to Star City to meet the two of them and offer his support and even began building a familial relationship with them. At the same time, he tried to provide security for the two in his Deadshot identity by returning to his vigilante roots and cleaning up their crime-ridden neighborhood in Star City. This only escalated the conflicts therein. He ultimately faked his own death to end the ever-worsening battles after securing Green Arrow's agreement to increase his patrols in that part of the city.
Soon afterward, Deadshot became a member of the Secret Six, a team of villains working in opposition to the larger Secret Society of Super-Villains. The Secret Society had been extremely draconian in their recruitment efforts and some of the more independent super-villains who had resisted membership in the society were drawn into the Secret Six. In addition to opposing the Secret Society, each member of the six was given additional reasons for joining. The carrot offered to Lawton by the Secret Six's benefactor for joining the team was that Floyd would be given leadership of North America if the team was successful in their bid for world domination. The stick was that his daughter's entire neighborhood would be destroyed if Deadshot did not join the Secret Six.
The Secret Six made impressive inroads in battling the Secret Society, but was ultimately unsuccessful. The Six disbanded after a series of arguments and betrayals among the team coincided with the Secret Society attacking them at their home base. The Six inflicted major casualties on the Secret Society but would have perished if it were not for Vandal Savage intervening, ending the fight to save his daughter, who was one of the Six.
Deadshot had been seriously injured in a shootout with Deathstroke during that battle but received medical help afterward. He later guarded Catman during a meeting with Green Arrow to warn the JLA of the Secret Society's ultimate goal of mind-wiping all superheroes as the JLA had done to some of their foes in the past.
Deadshot then joins the Suicide Squad, rounding up super-villains for removal. The group has encountered Pied Piper and Trickster several times, and each time failed to capture them. Deadshot, becoming tired of the poor antics of his teammates, decides to make a solo effort to capture them, but the pair again eluded him. Deadshot is told by Amanda Waller to cease and desist all attempts at killing the two, but Deadshot follows his own internal ethics and attacks Piper and Trickster on a train outside of the Rocky Mountains. Deadshot kills The Trickster leaving Pied Piper on his own.
Deadshot was then tricked by Amanda Waller and sent off to the prison planet along with the last batch of criminals. Rick Flag Jr. stated to him as the Boom Tube closes that he can't have people like him on Earth. Deadshot vowed that if he ever returns to Earth, he will take his revenge on Rick.
After helping fight off the Parademon invasion he manages to escape with the surviving villains in the teleportation machine.
Characteristics
Age: 33
Height: 6’1”
Weight: 210lbs
Eyes: Brown
Hair: Brown
Appearance: Floyd is a physically fit white male with a lean face and a short handlebar mustache, somewhat reminiscent of a old west gunfighter's mustache. Lawton usually wears unobtrusive clothing in his civilian identity, contrasting markedly with the red bodysuit with silver and yellow accoutrements and chrome metal helmet he wears as Deadshot.
Personality: Lawton's most infamous trait is his death wish. This self-destructive urge stems from a combination of self-loathing and guilt. It likely has its roots in the twisted relationships among his family. Being unable to compete with his well-liked and successful older brother and being one of the ropes in the murderous tug-of-war between his parents resulted Floyd developing an unhealthy view of himself. This trait became much worse after the inadvertent killing of his brother and his failure to rescue his son from his kidnappers.
Floyd's death wish is not a directly suicidal urge. It is mostly a subconscious belief that he deserves to be punished for his prior bad acts. The risks he takes may also provide a distraction from his guilt, providing an adrenaline rush and allowing him to live in the moment rather than dwelling on the past. At his worse, he may hold back slightly at a critical moment or increase the dangers of a situation by taking unnecessary risks or provoking confrontations he could have avoided. On rare occasions, he has even assisted his targets in their defensive measures to worsen the odds against him. At his best, Deadshot will rush into situations without regard to the possible consequences, not wanting to be killed but still being unafraid to die. Either way, Deadshot still manages to come out on top when in lethal danger -- however much he wants to die, he is a born survivor and his self-preservation instincts are quite well honed.
Lawton has had moments when he tried to build a normal life with a family -- his wife and son and then his daughter and her mother -- but these fell apart due to guilt over his past actions in the first case and the collateral threats of his chosen career in the second. Floyd may have also felt that he did not truly deserve to live a happy life after depriving his brother of his. He is still very sensitive on the subject of family, particularly after his son's death. An off-the-cuff comment by a business associate regarding Deadshot's parenting skills once provoked a near-murderous reaction from Lawton. Floyd may have only spared the offending person's life because that person did not know Deadshot's personal history; he also perhaps thought on some level that the thoughtless barb had some unintentional truth behind it.
Aside from his brash risk-taking, Deadshot is a cold professional. He confronts battles with a calm that many others find unnerving. The combination of Lawton's relentless, cool-headed attitude and Deadshot's formidable skills have cemented his reputation as one of the most dangerous men alive.
Deadshot has a twisted code of ethics; as long as he's paid for an accepted job, he will not, under any circumstances, call it off. Batman was unable to get him to stop threatening a witness (who refused to testify as long as Deadshot was waiting to kill him if he did) by threatening him or his family (Deadshot rightly assumed Batman was bluffing); however, Batman managed to get Deadshot to drop the hit by getting the bank accounts of his employer frozen. Unable to get paid, Deadshot publicly called off the hit, letting the witness go free.
Powers
Deadshot has no superhuman powers. He is a marksman and assassin of legendary skill as well as a competent hand-to-hand combatant. He has also become an accomplished gunsmith and usually employs special weapons of his own design.
Known Powers: None
Known Abilities:
- Athlete: Deadshot is in peak-human shape. He maintains a strict regimen of exercise that keeps his body in the utmost condition. He is performs gymnastics, martial arts, weightlifting, and aerobics, keeping himself constantly primed and ready for battle, should the need arise.
- Acrobatics: Deadshot has trained as an acrobat for many years, including gymnastics and martial arts ‘acrobats’. This has helped him to become one of the most agile men in the world and he is extremely evasive in combat.
- Bluff: Deadshot is a born con-artist. He has a gift of being able to say things and make them seem convincing, even if he is lying like a dog.
- Computers: Deadshot is not a programmer or hacker, but he knows enough about computers to be considered highly adept. He knows how to find programs to hack into secured systems, and find nearly any type of information he needs.
- Criminal Underworld: has ties to virtually ever criminal organization in the world. When a meeting takes place, other organizations come to him, not vice versa. He has been known to infiltrate organizations by himself.
- Escape Artist: Deadshot has trained to learn the ability to escape from any trap. This ability has come in very handy when he has occasionally been temporarily bested by an enemy. There is no trap that can hold him in the end, whether he uses the various lock picks concealed on his person to open the bonds, or dislocates his joints to more easily slide free of his chains.
- Explosives Expert: Deadshot is fully capable of setting up and creating his own explosives. He can deal with small explosives or even those capable of leveling an entire city block. His expertise also enables him to disarm explosive devices, or even make bombs out of something rather complicated, or something as simple as a can of air freshener and a flamethrower.
- Infiltration: Deadshot is adept at breaking into even heavily guarded facilities with security systems rivaling any on Earth, capable of picking locks, bypassing cameras, and sneaking past or defeating security guards with little trouble. Even if he comes upon a system he cannot immediately bypass, he knows enough tricks to improvise.
- Martial Arts: Deadshot is highly proficient in martial arts. He is easily a master of half a dozen martial arts. He does not use a single style, but mixes and matches his moves to the situation. He is also fully capable of using his weapons in combination of his martial arts, moving like traditional cinematic gunfighters, ala Equilibrium.
- Marksmanship: Deadshot is considered to be the top marksman in the world. He can wield any firearm with perfect accuracy, and he’s capable of firing with either hand. He also has the ability to dual-wield firearms and maintains is perfect accuracy with thrown weapons as well.
”Deadshot is the crack-shot of the DCU, Given any gun (or throw-able weapon he can hit any target no matter how hard a shot.”- Gun Fu: Deadshot uses firearms in ways that they were not designed to be used. Shooting a gun from each hand, shots from behind the back, as well as the use of guns as melee weapons are all common for him. Many of his maneuvers are often mixed with hand-to-hand combat maneuvers.
- Pre-emptive Firing: Deadshot understands that hitting targets is a matter of knowing where enemy fighters are likely to be located in relation to him, which removes the problem of aiming (especially at close ranges) and allows him to defeat foes with pre-emptive fire before they can present a true threat.
- Evasion: Like pre-emptive firing, Deadshot knows that avoiding return fire is also a matter of probability. He knows the probability of where opponents are likely to shot, and because of that, he can ensure he is not in the enemies most likely lines of fire.
- Gun Fu: Deadshot uses firearms in ways that they were not designed to be used. Shooting a gun from each hand, shots from behind the back, as well as the use of guns as melee weapons are all common for him. Many of his maneuvers are often mixed with hand-to-hand combat maneuvers.
- Multi-Lingual: Deadshot knows how to speak Russian.
- Piloting: Deadshot can fly virtually any vehicle, from planes, jets, helicopters, and more.
- Stealth: Deadshot has spent years learning to be both silent and invisible to those who are looking for him, and he is one of the top stealthy villains in the world. He is familiar with the techniques of moving silently and invisibly through even crowded areas. He has learned to walk across noisy surfaces without making a sound, and to cross snowy or muddy areas without leaving tracks.
- Superhero Scholar: Deadshot has knowledge on virtually every public and not-so-public hero and villain. It is his job, and his survival that motivates this knowledge and Deadshot keeps tabs on all of the supers of the world.
- Tactician: Deadshot is an excellent tacticitant, capable of seeing multiple steps ahead of his opponent, figure out what they will do, and select the course which best assures him of victory.
- Weapons Engineer: Deadshot designs many firearm gadgets of mechanical complexity. He builds weapons and electronic devices to aid him in his quest in crime.
- Weapons Master: Deadshot has studied many weapons and the general fighting styles associated with them. He is capable of sword fighting, fighting with a knife, and the weapons associated with any number of martial arts.
- Willpower: Deadshot has the intestinal fortitude to fight members of the JLA, and he is more than capable of resisting mind control and see through illusions.
Strength Level: Peak human strength.
Weaknesses:
- Mortal: Under all his armor and behind his weapons, Deadshot is entirely human. His body is just as susceptible to injury or disease as that of anybody else.
- Mental Attacks: Deadshot has no special defenses against mental attacks, and his willpower would only take him so far against a powerful mental attack.
- Death Wish: Deadshot's irrational attraction toward dying does not compel him to place himself in overtly suicidal situations. Instead, he takes unnecessary risks or otherwise arranges circumstances to put the odds against him. Lawton is often deliberately confrontational toward other super-villains, hoping to provoke a fight he might lose.
Misc (optional)
Equipment:
- Body Armor: This armor is bullet proof, and also gives him good protection versus other street level weaponry. It also protects him from electrical based attacks, making them completely useless. The suit is also protected against magnetism and EMPs.
- Eye Scope: This enables Deadshot to see farther away, similar to a telescope, and also gives him thermal vision.
Transportation: Varies, from aircraft, boats, cars, etc.
Weapons:
- Wrist magnums: These powerful magnums are silenced and extremely accurate up to 1 mile. Deadshot carries 8 complete reloads on his special belt.
Power Grid
5 Durability denotes his bullet proof armor.
10 Fighting Skill denotes his skill with projectile-type weapons (firearms, throwing knives, etc)
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