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The origin of Super Villians: Deadline (DC Comics)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deadline_(DC_Comics)Deadline is a fictional villain in the DC Comics universe. He first appears in the story "Deadline Doom!" in Starman #15 (October 1989) and was created by Roger Stern.
Fictional character biography
Deadline first appears as a mercenary with a contract on Starman Will Payton.[1] He is mentioned to be one of the best and highest paid super-mercenaries, along with Bolt. Other stories suggest that, while Deadline is a master at what he does, he is not as highly regarded as, for example, Deathstroke or Deadshot.
Deadline appears as a vacationer in Bialya after it is opened up to supervillains. When the country is assisted by the Justice League, Deadline is captured by Guy Gardner.
Deadline later becomes part of a more villainous version of the Suicide Squad propping up the dictatorship in the Bermuda Triangle island of Diabloverde. His team is shown terrorizing civilians for fun. Amanda Waller and her Squad take him out, along with his colleagues, while attempting to remove the dictator.[2]
During the Underworld Unleashed crossover event, Deadline meets fellow mercenaries Deadshot, Merlyn the Dark Archer, Bolt, and Chiller, and bands together with them as the Killer Elite where they each got to live out their dream assassination. On Deadline's part, it was on a Texas district attorney. While operating within this group, they confront the mercenaries called the Body Doubles.[3] The entire Elite suffers multiple humiliating defeats.
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