10 Things You Need To Know About Deadshot

By Vince Cicchino /

6. His Children

Deadshot has spent the majority of his career being comfortably numb to everything around him. With his apathy towards death, he€™s quick to shoot and even quicker to forget who he just shot. It could be said that Deadshot truly has no weaknesses, except for one; his daughter, Zoe. In the second Deadshot mini-series released in 2005, Deadshot learns that he has a daughter who is being brought up in a crime-ridden Star City neighbourhood, stomping ground of Green Arrow. Lawton, not being as entirely cut off to his emotions as he would like others to believe, embarks on a quest to do right by his daughter and clean up the area, renting an apartment in the same building as Zoe By €˜clean up€™, I mean make an absolute mess of blood, brain matter and bullet shells. His vigilante methods end up working a treat and when Green Arrow shows up to take him in, after numerous fights with mercenaries, thugs and meta-humans captured Ollie€™s attention, the residents of Deadshot€™s new block end up standing up for Lawton and telling Green Arrow that he needs to patrol around there more regularly. However, Deadshot also had a son, named Eddie, who, in the first Deadshot mini-series (1988), was kidnapped from the home of Lawton€™s ex. Deadshot succeeds in taking out the kidnappers, a gang of mercenaries, but cannot stop the pedophile Wes Anselm from stealing Eddie and murdering him. Deadshot makes the monster eat a whole salad bowl of bullets but the damage has already been done. What€™s worse is that Lawton tracks down the person who hired the mercenaries; his mother, Genevieve Lawton. Floyd shoots her in the spine, paralysing her and exclaiming €˜Now she and Dad are a matched set€™.