Suicide Squad 2: 10 Comics James Gunn Should Adapt

Deadshot's rarely anyone's favorite character, but he usually becomes one of the best aspects of the books he's in. Naturally, that meant that during the lauded Ostrander/Yale run of Suicide Squad, he got his own miniseries penned by the duo. It was bleak, it was brutal, and it was exactly what Deadshot needed.

The Deadshot miniseries has Floyd Lawton leaving the Suicide Squad on a personal mission to find his kidnapped son, and it turns out he was abducted by Lawton's mother. Permeated by a high body count, we also get a history lesson on Deadshot through flashbacks as Marnie Herrs, the team psychiatrist, goes through his massive file.

With Will Smith cast as Deadshot, there's no reason not to use his strengths and give a tragic and emotional plot for the character in the sequel. Floyd Lawton is an unrepentant killer and he can live with how terrible he is, but his fatherly instincts are part of what makes him such a unique character. With that in mind, it makes plenty of sense as to why this particular spin-off should inform Gunn's sequel, either with a new team behind Lawton, or with the same cast from before.