Floyd Lawton

Floyd Lawton, known to Interpol under the codename Deadshot, is an expert marksman with 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.

Season 1
In "Lone Gunman", Floyd 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 Floyd to flee the scene. At the Unidac auction, Deadshot prepared to take out Walter Steele, who was saved by Sergeant Quentin. 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, Floyd 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.

Two months later, Deadshot appeared in Blüdhaven Harbor and approached a man who apparently had a job for him, but was rejected due to having only one fully working eye. In "Dead to Rights", three months following, Floyd had retired to "drink and smoke his life away". However, when China White approached him with a eye scope to replace his eye, 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 Malcolm's office. Deadshot managed to destroy the bullet-proof windows by firing a grenade from a launcher at them and was able to shoot Malcolm several times. Malcolm became poisoned by the curare toxin in the bullets and Deadshot and China were able to escape. Malcolm survived, however, after Tommy gave his father a blood transfusion.

In "Home Invasion", 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 (Lyla Michaels), 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 Lyla, John showed up and saved Lyla's life. When Deadshot (now sporting an eyepatch in stead of his scope). was On his way out John tried to stop him but Floyd easily disarmed him and held two guns on John, who said he was going kill him for what he did to Andy. Floyd 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 John in the head with a gun and left the building.

Season 2
In "Keep Your Enemies Closer",

Abilities

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

Equipment

 * Laser Eye-Patch: One of Floyd'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. This eye-patch also resembles the eye patch Cyborg from the DC comics wore.
 * Cybernetic Eye-patch: This cybernetic eye-patch was given to Floyd, by China White, to replace his damaged eye, after it was seriously injured by Arrow, it was later upgraded, to act as an sniper rifle scope.
 * Wrist Turrets: Floyd possesses two wrist turrets, one on each wrist. That can emit continuous gun shots in less than seconds consecutively.
 * Floyd Lawton's Sniper Rifle: One of Floyd's weapons of choice include a long-ranged sniper rifle with curare laced bullets.
 * Grenade launcher: Floyd used this in order to penetrate Malcolm Merlyn's bullet proof glass.
 * Deadshot costume: Floyd wears a costume as his villain alter-ego, Deadshot, when ever he is out on an assignment, to kill whoever he was paid to kill.

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, Floyd Lawton appears in Blüdhaven, the city he has chosen for his "retirement". in the comics, Blüdhaven is Nightwing's city, during the episode, Guillermo Barrera appears. He's a criminal mainly operating in Blüdhaven, with Nightwing as a nemesis.
 * In, John 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.
 * Deadshot getting tattoos with the names of his victims is similar to Victor Zsasz a villain from the Batman series who carves a tally mark into his body every time he kills someone.