6. His Children
Deadshot has spent the majority of his career being comfortably numb to everything around him. With his apathy towards death, hes 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 Ollies attention, the residents of Deadshots 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 Lawtons 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. Whats 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.