{"id":266,"date":"2018-10-17T11:01:45","date_gmt":"2018-10-17T11:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hicollector.com\/?p=266"},"modified":"2019-05-01T19:35:09","modified_gmt":"2019-05-01T19:35:09","slug":"character-spotlight-deadshot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hicollector.com\/index.php\/2018\/10\/17\/character-spotlight-deadshot\/","title":{"rendered":"Character Spotlight &#8211; Deadshot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Deadshot&#8217;s original costume was a top hat Tuxedo with side guns.&nbsp; His first appearance was in 1950 (Batman #59) and the title of his story is &#8220;The man who Replaced Batman.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-269\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hicollector.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/images.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"270\" height=\"431\"><\/p>\n<p>Deadshot is a hired assassin.&nbsp; He is known in the criminal underworld as the assassin that&nbsp; &#8220;never misses.&#8221; He is trained in a variety of weapons, but is most of the time shown as using a pair of wrist-mounted guns.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-267\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hicollector.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/012c5e3e80ffbab6d243b79b37462b25.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"648\" height=\"405\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hicollector.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/012c5e3e80ffbab6d243b79b37462b25.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/www.hicollector.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/012c5e3e80ffbab6d243b79b37462b25-600x375.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.hicollector.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/012c5e3e80ffbab6d243b79b37462b25-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hicollector.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/012c5e3e80ffbab6d243b79b37462b25-768x480.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.hicollector.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/012c5e3e80ffbab6d243b79b37462b25-1024x640.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 648px) 100vw, 648px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Deadshot&#8217;s real name is Floyd Lawton.&nbsp; Although born wealthy, Floyd was a troubled child and was neglected by his parents.&nbsp; His father was abusive and he idolized his brother Eddie.&nbsp; Unlike Floyd, Eddie was loved by his parents (as well as others).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-268\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hicollector.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Deadshot-645x370.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"645\" height=\"370\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hicollector.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Deadshot-645x370.jpg 645w, https:\/\/www.hicollector.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Deadshot-645x370-600x344.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.hicollector.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Deadshot-645x370-300x172.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 645px) 100vw, 645px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Deadshot had a son he named Edward Lawton (after his brother Eddie).&nbsp; Unfortunately, his son was sodomized and killed by Wes Anselm.&nbsp; Later, Deadshot finds out he has a daughter Zoe.&nbsp; He decides to change his life (for his daughter) and eliminate the local&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; gangs that plague Star City.&nbsp; He then later fakes his own death to lead a normal life.&nbsp; However his &#8220;normal life&#8221; does not last long and he returns to his former life.<\/p>\n<p>Did you know that Deadshot was originally introduced as a hero?&nbsp; This however was a ruse as he intended to eliminate Batman and become King of Gotham&#8217;s underworld&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Deadshot&#8217;s original costume was a top hat Tuxedo with side guns.&nbsp; His first appearance was in 1950 (Batman #59) and the title of his story <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hicollector.com\/index.php\/2018\/10\/17\/character-spotlight-deadshot\/\" title=\"Character Spotlight &#8211; Deadshot\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":270,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[117,115,118,116],"class_list":["post-266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-character-spotlight","tag-dc-vilians","tag-deadshot","tag-floyd-lawton","tag-suicide-squad"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hicollector.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hicollector.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hicollector.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hicollector.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hicollector.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.hicollector.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1241,"href":"https:\/\/www.hicollector.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266\/revisions\/1241"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hicollector.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hicollector.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hicollector.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hicollector.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}