Deadshot Arkham City

Floyd Lawton (Deadshot) appears as another prisoner inside the prison-city. When Bruce Wayne is forcibly brought in by TYGER guards, Deadshot recognizes him, taunts him, and says he's on his hit list, making a finger-gun gesture. In reality, Hugo Strange secretly hired him (and either introduced or recruited him into Arkham City) to eliminate people who posed a threat to his plans: political prisoners with sensitive information about the city and, later, Jack Ryder, Bruce Wayne, and Batman. Deadshot operates as a professional sniper, killing several targets from a distance with near-perfect precision while Batman has not yet begun investigating him.

Hugo Strange hires Deadshot to clean up threats to his control over Arkham City, providing him with the target list and facilitating his operations. Deadshot carries out the assassinations with professionalism and pride in 'never missing.' Jack Ryder is one of the last names on that list: a reporter investigating or possessing dangerous information for Strange. Batman (either as Bruce Wayne at the beginning or as the Dark Knight) directly interferes: first being threatened by Deadshot, then investigating the crime scenes, saving Ryder at the last moment (causing Deadshot to fail for the first time), and finally confronting and defeating him. The relationship is purely professional and hostile: Strange uses Deadshot as a tool, Deadshot sees Batman as the only one who has made him fail and therefore as his greatest personal challenge, and Ryder is simply a pawn on Strange's chessboard.

Arkham City is a huge walled district of Gotham (former areas of Amusement Mile, Industrial District, Park Row, and The Bowery) turned into an open-air maximum-security prison. Following the events of Arkham Asylum, Mayor Quincy Sharp (manipulated by Hugo Strange) isolated this area with impenetrable walls, letting thousands of criminals from Blackgate and Arkham coexist without law under the watch of TYGER mercenaries. The result is a chaotic and violent territory where gangs of villains like the Joker, Penguin, Two-Face, and others vie for control. There are abandoned industrial zones, ruined buildings, broken bridges, dark alleys, and an oppressive atmosphere of survival of the fittest. Political prisoners hide while Strange secretly prepares Protocol 10.

Fulfill the assassination contract given by Hugo Strange: eliminate a list of high-value targets threatening the professor's plans for the prison-city. Among these targets are several political prisoners with sensitive information, journalist Jack Ryder, and, as a priority, both Bruce Wayne and Batman, whom Strange considers the greatest dangers to Protocol 10 and his absolute control over Arkham City.