Christopher Weiss (Earth 1)

Christopher Weiss, better known as Slipknot, was an American rope and knot expert skilled at rope climbing. He was apprehended in Gotham City in 2020-2021 and eventually became a member of Task Force X.
Slipknot hardly got to participate in the Squad's mission of taking down Enchantress and Incubus as he was tricked by Captain Boomerang into getting himself killed from his implanted nano-bomb.
== Biography ==
=== Early life ===
Christopher Weiss was born on February 23, 1984, in New Jersey, into a tribe of Saulteaux. He later left his childhood home early in order to attend school. Growing up, he was known to be a socially awkward young individual who was prone to display aggressive and irrational public outbursts. He preferred to spend the majority of his time at work and weekends at the climbing gym. He spent several years working his way up the corporate ladder at Leason Howard Inc., where he worked as formulation scientist. There he invented a supremely powerful adhesive and concealed it from his employers. His reason for doing this was his growing frustration with what he saw as insufficient compensation for his time and limited opportunities for his talent. Weiss tested his invention over several months and applied the adhesive to various burglary tools.
Finding the application extremely useful, he left the incorporation to become a professional criminal, robbing various financial institutions in Montgomery before moving to Keystone City. There, Weiss became known as a lethal assassin "who can climb anything", code-named "Slipknot", and used extremely sticky ropes and harnesses using his special adhesive. In September 1, 2002, he was arrested for comitting murder while moving from Alabama to Keystone City to pursue his criminal ambitions. He was thus forced to serve out his sentence in a federal prison. In January 15, 2010, he was arrested for committing armed robbery and was sentenced to serve in a state penitentiary. He served at least one year in Gloucester Correctional serving a sentence for the botched robbery of a jewelry store. Upon release, Weiss began committing serious felonies, working as a mercenary assassin and kidnapper using his ropes to tie up his victims. In 2015 he was captured in Gotham City and was ordered to serve a life sentence.
At some point, Slipknot was rumored to have been treated at the Elizabeth Arkham Asylum for the Criminally Insane.
=== Recruitment ===
Slipknot joined Task Force X in the evacuation point outside of Midway City, shortly before they are to fly out to their destination. He is forced out of a car and is verbally slurred at by a woman in the vicinity whom he promptly punched in the face. He was briefly introduced by Rick Flag who mentions his prowess with rope work. Task Force X is given instructions by Amanda Waller that, under the command of Colonel Rick Flag, they are to extract HVT-1 from Midway City in exchange for time taken off their prison sentences. The team equips their old uniforms and weapons before flying in a helicopter to the besieged city.
=== Deception and death ===
Soon after crash landing in Midway City, Slipknot was marching through the streets with his fellow members of Task Force X. Captain Boomerang walked up to him and told him that the team is just being played by Flag and Waller and that the whole "bomb in the neck crap" speech was just psychological manipulation. He told Slipknot that he was planning on escaping and asked if he'd join him, which he did. Suddenly, Boomerang and Slipknot attacked some of the soldiers to escape, and after breaking one soldier's neck, Slipknot managed to shoot a rope to a nearby rooftop. However, he was too slow and Flag noticed and detonated the nano-bomb in Slipknot's neck, instantly decapitating him and leaving his body hanging from a building by one of his ropes.
== Relationships ==
=== Allies ===
* United States Air Force
** "GQ" Edwards †
* Task Force X - teammates
** George Harkness/Captain Boomerang † - teammate and indirect killer
** Waylon Jones/Killer Croc
** Floyd Lawton/Deadshot
** Harleen Quinzel/Harley Quinn
** Chato Santana/El Diablo †
** Tatsu Yamashiro/Katana
** Jade Nguyen / Cheshire
** Nanaue / King Shark
** Anatoli Knyazev / KGBeast †
=== Enemies ===
* Rick Flag † - field team leader and killer
* The New Toyman † - target
* Van Criss † - nano-bomb implanter and indirect killer
* A.R.G.U.S.
** Amanda Waller - captor and manipulator