An expert marksman with a callous disregard for life, Deadshot worked as a professional hitman until he was imprisoned at Belle Reve Penitentiary, a notorious prison for super-powered criminals. The authorities then forced him to volunteer for the Suicide Squad, a team of expendable Super-Villains used for dangerous black-ops missions by the US Government. The lone-wolf sniper soon found himself leading a motley crew of unpredictable bad guys on a series of near-impossible missions.