Grimlock ♥ Ultra Magnus

Is quite telling.   He threatens to kill Captain Boomerang, who thought he was doing Lawton a favor.    He also insists that he's not called Lawton in the suit, and wears it with the hole in the forehead.   The hole he made when he killed the man using his suit.  

Even the psychiatrist insists that getting his suit back isn't doing him any good.   

And while he'll never say it out lout, he says it in a roundabout way.   He knows the suit is no good for him, and he's resentful about having it back.   Tigus made a comment in another conversation about how the bullet hole in the suit, and Deadshot not getting it fixed, is appropriate given his death wish.   

I have a couple thoughts about this.   Everyone likes calling it a death wish, but I think the comics where it's pointed out - sometimes by Deadshot, sometimes not - that it's not a death wish are more accurate.  In Suicide Squad's Most Wanted: Deadshot, Lawton himself points out he doesn't really care if he lives or dies.   I think this is more accurate: he occasionally pulls kamikaze moves, but he doesn't jump at the chance to go on suicide missions all the time.   He stays with the Squad after he has to, but I don't think it's because they're suicide missions.  I think he needs something to do, and he's bored, more than anything.  

And I think the hole in the suit is more than just a representation of his death wish.  I think it's a manifestation of his resentfulness: he doesn't necessarily want to be Deadshot, and says something along the lines of not being able to get rid of the suit - and the Deadshot persona with that damned suit.    He's Deadshot, and he wishes Deadshot were gone.   That hole is the wish that Deadshot - that his soul - was dead.   

Which is understandable, given what his mother did to him, and what happened to the Eddies in his life (his brother and his son, named after his brother.)   And I think this duality is part of what attracts me to Deadshot stories.   He wasn't different enough without the costume for me to feel this come into play, and there was no mention of him getting better.   It now seems like an afterthought that this was added later, when he got the costume back.   But without that conflict, I find him less interesting, which may be why Dragon's Hoard didn't do it as much for me. 

Glad he got the costume back, even if it's not great for him.