Floyd Lawton

Floyd Lawton, known to Interpol under the codename "Deadshot", is an expert marksman that uses a sniper rifle. He is an assassin who uses long-ranged weaponry and uses the signature neuro-toxin curare, to poison his bullets. He has murdered countless targets in his time, including John Diggle's brother, Andy Diggle. After each job, he tattoos the name of his victims on his body.

Earlier life
Deadshot's motivation as a sniper is unknown, though he has a large number of victims, including that of Andy Diggle, whom he killed while Andy was working as a bodyguard.

Crossing with Arrow and partial loss of sight
Lawton was first seen as he killed James Holder and injured Oliver Queen in the process. Finding out the bullet was poisoned, Oliver tracked down Deadshot with aid from the Bratva.To an apartment he had used before under the name Floyd Lawton. Where they confronted each other, only for Lawton to flee the scene. At the Unidac auction, Deadshot prepared to take out Walter Steele, who was saved by Detective Lance. Oliver and Deadshot later had another confrontation where Oliver shot an arrow through his right eye, knocking him to the ground, unconscious.

When he regained consciousness, a elderly hobo approached him. Deadshot wrenched the arrow from his eye and stabbed the old man with it. As he staggered out of the building, he was kidnapped by a group of men in a van after losing consciousness again, before he could be taken by the police. In a hospital room, Lawton woke to find his eye having been operated on. Before his brain could be examined, under the instructions of an unidentified man, broke out of his restraints and walked out.

Return to action
Two months later, Floyd appeared in Blüdhaven Harbor and approached a man who apparently had a job for him, but was turned down due to having only one working eye. Three months following, Floyd had retired. However, when China White approached him with a new suit, asking him to kill Malcolm Merlyn, Floyd agreed to come out of retirement. The two formed a plan to kill Malcolm by forcing him outside his office building, so Deadshot could kill him. However, Malcolm and his son, Tommy, headed to a safe room in Merlyn's office. Deadshot managed to destroy the bullet-proof windows by firing a grenade from a launcher at them and was able to shoot Merlyn several times. Malcolm became poisoned by the Curare toxin in the bullets and Deadshot and White were able to escape. Merlyn survived, however, after Tommy gave his father a blood transfusion.

Hunted by A.R.G.U.S and Diggle
Sometime later Deadshot returned to Starling city for a potential contract which in reality was a trap A.R.G.U.S was setting to capture him with. When he was going to met with potential contractor (Lilah), he had somehow learned what their plans were and he plan to kill the A.R.G.U.S agent setting the trap while sitting sniper. He killed three of the agents and when he moved to kill Lilah, Diggle showed up and saved Lilah's life. When Deadshot was on his way out Diggle tried to stop him but Lawton easily disarmed him and held two guns on Dig, who said he was going kill him for what he did to Andy. Lawton replied "I would kill you right now, but there's no one paying me." whilst showing him his tattoo of Andy's name and told him that it was best that he remembered that he had a place just next to his brother's name and then he punched Diggle in the head with a gun and left the building.

Abilities

 * Master Marksman: Deadshot is a master marksman and highly skilled with many ranged weapons. This is partially supported by his proficiency with his eye scope.
 * Physical Conditioning Deadshot is strong enough to go toe-to-toe with John Diggle and come out on top.
 * Martial Artist: Deadshot has shown himself to be a capable martial artist. He was able to take on Diggle with relative ease, and even overpowered him in their confrontation.

Equipment

 * Eye-patch: One of Deadshot's signature trademarks is the high-tech laser sighted eye-patch that he wears over his right eye. This eye-patch augments his amazing marksman skills, and when combined with his sniper rifle's scope, makes it almost impossible for him to miss his target.
 * Wrist turrets: Deadshot possesses two wrist turrets, one on each wrist, that can emit continuous gun shots in less than seconds consecutively.
 * Sniper rifle: One of Lawton's weapons of choice include a long-ranged sniper rifle with curare laced bullets.
 * Grenade Launcher: Deadshot used this in order to penetrate Malcolm Merlyn's bullet proof glass.

Appearances
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Comics
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 * Arrow #1
 * Arrow #22

Trivia

 * Deadshot is one of the more popular DC supervillains, having featured in several animated adaptations, and video games, and is a prominent member of the Suicide Squad, a team of convicted felons that frequently perform missions on behalf of the government.
 * In "Dead to Rights", Lawton appears in Blüdhaven, the city he has chosen for his "retirement". In the comics, Blüdhaven is Nightwing's city; during the episode, Guillermo Ballera appears: he's a criminal mainly operating in Blüdhaven, with Nightwing as a nemesis.
 * In "The Huntress Returns", Diggle is reading an article about Deadshot suspectedly killing the Bialyan president. Bialya happens to be a prominent country in the DC mythos.
 * According to Oliver Queen Interpol calls him Deadshot because he never misses his targets.