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Fictional graphic symbol in a television serial

Oliver Queen
Arrowverse graphic symbol
Stephen Amell in his costume during the first flavor. Photographed by Jack Rowand.
First advent	"Pilot" Arrow October 10, 2012
Last appearance	"Fadeout" Arrow January 28, 2020
Based on	Greenish Arrow by Mort Weisinger     George Papp
Adapted by	Greg Berlanti Marc Guggenheim Andrew Kreisberg
Portrayed by	Stephen Amell Jacob Hoppenbrouwer (young)
Voiced by	Stephen Amell (Vixen) Matthew Mercer (Freedom Fighters: The Ray)
In-universe information
Full name	Oliver Jonas Queen[one]
Aliases	Kapiushon ( капюшон ) The Hood The Pointer Al Sah-him ( السهم ) Green Arrow The Spectre
Amalgamation	Bratva A.R.1000.U.S. League of Assassins Team Arrow Star City Quango Star City Police Section

Oliver Queen, as well known by his alter-ego the Green Arrow, is a fictional grapheme in The CW's Arrowverse franchise, showtime introduced in the 2012 pilot episode of the television serial Arrow. The grapheme is based on the DC Comics grapheme of the same proper name, created by Mort Weisinger and George Papp, and was adapted for goggle box in 2012 by Greg Berlanti, Marc Guggenheim, and Andrew Kreisberg. Oliver Queen has been continually portrayed by Stephen Amell, with Jacob Hoppenbrouwer portraying a young Oliver.

In the series, Oliver, a billionaire playboy, who claimed to have spent five years shipwrecked on Lian Yu, a mysterious island in the North China Sea, returns habitation to Starling City (later renamed "Star City") to fight law-breaking and corruption equally a secret vigilante whose weapon of selection is a bow and arrow. During the first flavor, Oliver focuses on a list of targets, written by his male parent, that are taking advantage of the city'due south citizens. Subsequent seasons accept him venturing into all criminal activity, and he shifts from being willing to kill to having a rule against all killing as a means of stopping assailants. In Arrow, Oliver is known during the first season equally "The Hood or The Vigilante", but drops those personas once he vows to stop killing and starts using a new name: "The Arrow". He does not take up the "Green Arrow" mantle until season four, later on Roy Harper publicly confesses to being "The Arrow" to protect Oliver. He is a friend and frequent ally of the Central City-based superhero The Flash, White Canary, who leads the superhero squad the Legends, and the Kryptonian superheroine Supergirl from the alternative universe called Earth-38.

Amell has appeared as Oliver Queen and his vigilante persona in crossovers on the television series The Wink, Legends of Tomorrow, Supergirl, and the animated web series Vixen, all which are set in the Arrowverse. The character has besides appeared in several tie-in comics and novels, every bit well as appearing in three video games. Amell has received praise from critics for his portrayal of Oliver Queen, and he has been nominated for diverse awards for his performance, including a People's Choice and Leo Award.

Fictional character biography [edit]

Pointer [edit]

Season i [edit]

Oliver Queen first appears in the airplane pilot episode of Arrow.^[2] He is discovered on the deserted island of Lian Yu past fishermen, having been shipwrecked there five years earlier following the devastation of his family yacht the Queen's Gambit, which he was on with his father Robert Queen (Jamey Sheridan) and Sara Lance (Jacqueline MacInnes Forest), who did not survive. Oliver returns to Starling City and is greeted by his female parent Moira (Susanna Thompson), his sister Thea (Willa The netherlands), his best friend Tommy Merlyn (Colin Donnell), and ex-girlfriend Laurel Lance (Katie Cassidy). Unknown to his friends and family, Oliver has returned to Starling Urban center to carry out a plan of redemption for his begetter, who Oliver believes failed to exercise everything he could to help the citizens of Starling Urban center. Season one focuses on Oliver readjusting to life during the day and spending his nights dressed as a hooded vigilante. Every bit his vigilante persona, Oliver carries a bow and various types of specialty arrows, and acts as judge, jury, and if necessary executioner to the wealthy that have used their coin and power to take reward and hurt the citizens of Starling City, and in the process embroiled into conflicts with some of the city'southward criminals including the Triad leader Mainland china White (Kelly Hu) and drug lord The Count (Seth Gabel).^[2]

In the episodes "Solitary Gunmen" and "The Odyssey", Oliver is forced to reveal his identity to his babysitter John Diggle (David Ramsey) and Queen Consolidated IT specialist Felicity Smoak (Emily Bett Rickards).^{[3] [iv]} Subsequently, each joins Oliver in his quest to salve Starling City from a mysterious group who is determined to destroy the Glades, an area of Starling City filled with crime and the underprivileged. Ultimately, Oliver discovers that the group's leader is Tommy'southward begetter Malcolm Merlyn (John Barrowman), who is as well responsible for Oliver'south family's yacht's sabotage and thus his ain father's death, which leads Oliver and the elder Merlyn to go enemies.^[5] Season one too features flashbacks to Oliver's time on Lian Yu and the inhabitants that he encounters while in that location.^[6] In season one, Oliver meets Yao Fei (Byron Mann) and Slade Wilson (Manu Bennett), who teach Oliver how to survive on the island, training him to fight and employ a bow, while plotting to finish Edward Fyers (Sebastian Dunn) from taking out a Chinese commercial airliner.^{[seven] [viii] [9]}

Season two [edit]

In flavor 2, Oliver is initially found back on the island, having returned as penance for what he views a personal responsibility for the successful devastation of the Glades and the loss of his all-time friend. He eventually returns to save his family unit's visitor, and decides that he needs to laurels his friend by stopping crime in the urban center without killing.^[10] Oliver spends flavour ii being harassed by Slade Wilson, who survived Lian Yu and arrives in Starling City determined to make Oliver suffer the way he did on the island.^{[eleven] [1]} Past the end of the flavor, Oliver has lost his company to Slade, and must contend with an army of soldiers with superhuman strength that are determined to destroy Starling City on Slade'southward orders. Oliver and his friends—which now includes trained assassin Sara Lance (Caity Lotz), an aspiring vigilante named Roy Harper (Colton Haynes), and members of the League of Assassins—are able to stop the army and Slade.^{[12] [xiii]} Flavour two flashbacks focused on the deteriorating relationship between Oliver and Slade, the discovery of a formula that tin create super strength and well-nigh invulnerability called the Mirakuru, and a group of prisoners being experimented upon simply off the coast of the isle.^{[ane] [14] [fifteen]}

Flavor 3 [edit]

In season three, Oliver is brought into a confrontation with Ra'south al Ghul (Matthew Nable) later on Sara's death. In guild to protect his sister, who had been drugged and coerced into killing Sara by Malcolm, Oliver claims responsibleness for the murder and engages Ra'due south in a trial by combat.^[16] After surviving the sword of Ra'south al Ghul, he is pursued by Ra'due south to go the new leader of the League. Later Ra's mortally wounds Thea, Oliver accepts his offer so that he can apply the Lazarus Pit to salve Thea.^[17] In "Al Sah-him", Oliver appears in Starling City to kill Nyssa al Ghul (Katrina Police), who also claims the title of "Heir to the Demon", where it is revealed that he has been brainwashed by Ra's into renouncing all things "Oliver Queen".^[18] In "This Is Your Sword", it is shown that Oliver is actually lying to Ra's, and planning to destroy the League from the inside.^[19] The season three finale features Oliver killing Ra'south, and subsequently giving up existence a hero for Starling City and leaving to have a new life with Felicity.^[20] Over the class of the season, Laurel and Thea accept over Sara and Roy's roles on the squad. Season three flashbacks focused on Oliver living in Hong Kong and grooming under Amanda Waller (Cynthia Addai-Robinson) and her subordinates.

Season four [edit]

In season four, after retiring from vigilantism, Oliver has live a happy life with Felicity Smoak at Ivy Boondocks, until Thea and Laurel approach him, telling that they need him back at the newly rechristened Star Metropolis, which has been taken over by "Ghosts". He eventually discovers that the mastermind is H.I.Five.Due east.'s leader Damien Darhk (Neal McDonough), and go enemies with Darhk every bit both himself and his vigilante alter-ego. Equally the "Arrow" persona has been tarnished, Oliver at present goes by the code proper noun "The Dark-green Arrow" as he becomes a vigilante once once again, but as a symbol of promise for the metropolis, gradually regaining Diggle's trust. Oliver as well decides to run for mayor of Star City.^[21] During this time, Oliver discovers that he is the biological father to a nine-year child named William (Jack Moore), with Samantha Clayton (Anna Hopkins), a college classmate whom Oliver had a ane-nighttime stand during his human relationship with Laurel. This discovery complicates his relationship with Felicity and his duty every bit Green Arrow, too every bit threatens to jeopardize his mayoral entrada. After subsequent attacks from Darhk leaving Felicity permanently paraplegic, his son being kidnapped and Laurel is killed, leading Oliver to accept his opportunity to kill Darhk when it arises, while his team helps avert Darhk'south plans for a nuclear holocaust. Season four flashbacks focus on Oliver returning to Lian Yu on Amanda Waller's orders to infiltrate the mysterious Shadowspire system.

Season 5 [edit]

In flavour five, Oliver recruits a squad of vigilantes to assist balance his double life as Green Arrow and Star City's mayor. He is also stalked by a mysterious archer, Prometheus (Josh Segarra), who has some troublesome link to his past equally the Arrow. Later on Oliver figures out that Prometheus is someone close to him. Oliver is also facing with the possibility that his life might accept been inadvertently affected by his friend and ally Barry Allen's (Grant Gustin) time-travelling deportment. The flavour'southward flashbacks explore Oliver's time in Russia, where he joins the Bratva as office of an assassination ploy against Konstantin Kovar (Dolph Lundgren) and exploring the criminal fraternity in the process. There, he meets and is trained by 1 of Ra's al Ghul'due south daughters, Talia al Ghul (Lexa Doig), as a hooded archer, before eventually returning to Lian Yu and afterwards Starling City.

Season 6 [edit]

In season six, subsequently a serial of battles with Prometheus led to Samantha's death, Oliver struggles to raise William himself and tries to have a relationship with his son. After he and Felicity rekindled their romance, they somewhen married at Central City with Barry Allen and Iris West (Candice Patton) marrying alongside them. Oliver as well develops a feud with hacktivist Cayden James (Michael Emerson) and his cabal, and also discovers Ricardo Diaz (Kirk Acevedo) is manipulating them to against each other before battling Oliver himself after killing James. Past the end of the season, Oliver is forced to turn himself in to the FBI in commutation of their aids against Diaz, reveals to the world that he is Green Arrow in the process.

Flavour vii [edit]

In season seven, Oliver tries to get his judgement reduced for good behaviors in hopes to return to his family unit, but is complicated by some of his old enemies who are imprisoned with him and in addition some inmates who piece of work for Diaz. He learns that at that place is some other vigilante archer in Star City, whom the media dubs as the new Green Arrow. Through the news reports, Oliver discovers that the vigilante's skills and tactics eerily matched his. Unbeknownst to Oliver, the vigilante is actually his unknown paternal half-sis Emiko (Sea Shimooka), who was conceived from his father'south extramarital affair with a woman named Kazumi Adachi. When Ricardo Diaz is captured, Oliver is released from prison and deputized as part of the Star City Police force Department and resumes fighting criminal offense as the Green Arrow, now fighting without the mask and hood. Eventually Emiko is revealed equally the leader of a criminal organization named the Ninth Circumvolve, who seeks to destroy Oliver'due south legacy. In the flavor finale, Team Arrow thwart the Ninth Circle'south plan and Oliver makes amends with Emiko before her death. Oliver and Felicity go out Star City to hide from the 9th Circle. Afterwards Felicity gives nativity to a daughter named Mia (Katherine McNamara), she and Oliver are confronted past the Monitor (LaMonica Garrett), who previously fabricated a deal with Oliver to save Barry and Kara Danvers'southward (Melissa Benoist) lives in exchange for his help in the impending crunch that threatens the multiverse. Oliver leaves with the Monitor despite knowing that he will not render from the calamity. The season's flash-frontward focus on the children of some of the ex members of Team Arrow, similar William (Ben Lewis) and Mia (Katherine McNamara),^[22] Oliver and Felicity's children, Diggle's adoptive son Connor Hawke, and Rene Ramirez's girl Zoe, in adulthood as they battle a visitor called Galaxy One.

Flavour 8 [edit]

In the terminal flavour, Oliver works with Mar Novu to prevent an impending crisis post-obit a deal he made with Oliver to save the lives of Barry Allen and Kara Danvers.^[a] For his first mission, Novu takes Oliver to Earth-2 to retrieve dwarf star particles from Tommy Merlyn, who is the Dark Archer of that Globe, with the help of Laurel and Earth 2's Green Arrow Adrian Chase. Oliver succeeds in his mission, simply to witness Earth-ii's destruction with Laurel its only survivor.

Subsequently Diggle and Tatsu assistance him identify a scientist named Dr. Robert Wong in A.R.G.U.Southward. custody, Oliver reunites with Thea and Talia when he travels to Nanda Parbat where he learns Novu might be causing the crisis rather than preventing it. He is then taken dorsum to the bunker where he meets the future versions of his children Mia and William as well every bit Connor Hawke, John's time to come adopted son. Oliver decides to bond with future Mia and William as he expects that would he not live past the Crisis, shocked from learning his and his friends' children are at war with each other in the future, and Rene'due south daughter Zoe is killed by Diggle'due south son J.J. during the conflict. Oliver and his team are able to gather the resource to try and oppose the Monitor's predicted devastation, but Oliver is eventually killed in the opening hour of the Crisis when he sacrifices himself to help the residents of Earth-38 evacuate by protecting a tower that is holding dorsum the anti-matter destruction. Mia and Sara attempt to revive him with a Lazarus Pit, only are merely able to restore his body without retrieving his soul. John Constantine takes John Diggle and Mia to Globe-666 to collect on a favor with Lucifer to try and call back Oliver's soul from Purgatory, only before he can be brought back to his body, Oliver is 'recruited' past Jim Corrigan to go the host of the powerful entity known as the Spectre. Having contacted the surviving 7 Paragons of the multiverse (Barry, Sara, Kara, J'onn J'onzz, Kate Kane/Batwoman, Ryan Choi, and Lex Luthor), Oliver is able to pb them into a position where they can confront the Anti-Monitor's forces while he faces the villain himself and triggers the reconstruction of the universe at the toll of his ain life. The final episode of "Crisis" sees the heroes assemble a Crisis squad to respond to future threats in a more pre-emptive manner, preceded by a news broadcast where the President asks the world to honour Oliver for his sacrifice. The final episode of "Arrow" depicts Oliver'southward funeral, attended past Barry, Kara, and all of Oliver's cardinal friends and family, including the resurrected Tommy Merlyn, Moira Queen, and Quentin Lance (Thea and Moira speculate that Oliver didn't restore his father to life as Robert living would have affected Oliver's ability to become a hero). At the conclusion of the episode, set in 2040, the Monitor brings Felicity to a pocket dimension where she can be with Oliver forever in a version of the afterlife.

Crossovers [edit]

As of 2019^[update] Amell has appeared as Oliver Queen in six Arrowverse shows, Arrow, Batwoman,The Flash, Legends of Tomorrow, Vixen and Supergirl, having appeared in all seasons of Pointer (viii seasons), The Wink (6 seasons) and Vixen (two seasons). He also appeared in 3 seasons of Legends of Tomorrow, iii seasons of Supergirl and the first season of Batwoman. In the 2014–15 television season he made his first crossover appearance every bit Oliver'due south vigilante persona in the pilot episode of The Wink, giving Barry Allen some advice on condign a hero.^[23] Following that, he appeared in The Flash 's eighth episode, titled "Flash vs. Arrow", where he learns about metahumans and is forced to fight Barry afterward the latter is chemically brainwashed into condign volatile and physically ambitious.^[24] Oliver likewise appeared in the 22nd episode of The Flash, "Rogue Air", helping Barry and Firestorm, Ronnie Raymond (Robbie Amell) and Martin Stein (Victor Garber), defeat the Opposite-Wink (Tom Cavanagh).^[25]

In the 2015–16 television season he voiced the character in the first flavour of the web series Vixen, in which he and Barry track down Mari McCabe (Megalyn Echikunwoke), the wielder of the Tantu totem who becomes the mystical vigilante Vixen, and go her allies.^[26] Oliver after appeared in a two-part crossover spanning the Wink season two episode "Legends of Today" and the Pointer season 4 episode "Legends of Yesterday", with his and Barry's respective teams working together to finish Vandal Cruel (Casper Crump). He briefly appears in the airplane pilot episode of Legends of Tomorrow, advising Ray Palmer (Brandon Routh) on joining Rip Hunter's (Arthur Darvill) fourth dimension-travelling mission. Oliver appears again in Legends of Tomorrow, in its 6th episode "Star Urban center 2046", equally a possible 2046 version of the character. This version has a goatee and is missing his left arm with a cybernetic prosthesis, a nod to the portrayal of the character in The Dark Knight Returns and The Dark Knight Strikes Once more.^[29]

In May 2015, Amell revealed he had discussions with DC Amusement to portray the character on Constantine, a show that was initially not depicted every bit existing in the shared universe created by The CW series, saying, "The reason that I was going to guest star on Constantine, at least the thought that we were throwing around was [Constantine'southward] an skilful when information technology comes to the Lazarus Pit, which is at present something that is a part of and will keep to be a part of Arrow." Amell stated that, even though Constantine was not renewed for a second season on NBC, a crossover "was and is nonetheless on the table".^[thirty] In August 2015, information technology was confirmed that Matt Ryan, who portrayed Constantine, would appear on Arrow in the fourth-flavor episode "Haunted", per a "one-fourth dimension-only" bargain.^{[31] [32]} This set up the stage for Constantine to go role of the Legends of Tomorrow cast in the show's fourth flavour.

In the 2016–17 television season, he appeared in all iii episodes of the Arrow, The Flash and Legends of Tomorrow "Invasion!" storyline, where the Dominators attack World and the diverse heroes must band together to fight them off, forcing Oliver to face his part as the indirect catalyst of the modern age of heroes every bit he helps Barry Allen coordinate Earth's metahuman defenses. He also voiced the graphic symbol for the second flavour of Vixen. Oliver also appears in the flavor two premiere of Legends of Tomorrow, in which he assists Nate Heywood (Nick Zano) in tracking down the Waverider, where they discover Mick Rory (Dominic Purcell) in stasis after a showdown with Damien Dahrk in the twelvemonth 1942, which resulted in Rip Hunter and the Legends existence separated, with the exception of Rory, who fills in Oliver and Nate on what happened.

In the 2017–eighteen idiot box season, he appeared in all four episodes of Pointer, The Wink, Legends of Tomorrow and Supergirl "Crisis on Earth-X" storyline, where Oliver and Sara lead the heroes of their world, Globe-38, and Earth-X to boxing against invaders from the Nazi-ruled Earth-X. Oliver faces his fascistic parallel universe doppelgänger Night Pointer (too portrayed by Amell when unmasked), whom Oliver is determined to kill, after discovering his counterpart'due south villainy and status equally the Reich'due south leader. In the 2018–19 idiot box season, he appeared in all three episodes of Arrow, The Wink and Supergirl in the "Elseworlds" storyline, in which Oliver and Barry temporarily swap identities and powers due to the manipulation of psychiatrist John Deegan, who received the Book of Destiny from the powerful Monitor as function of a test.

In the 2019–20 idiot box season, in the crossover "Crisis on Space Earths", Oliver sacrifices himself trying to save Earth-38's people. In the afterlife, his spirit chooses to go the Spectre over being resurrected in gild to gain the power necessary to defeat the Anti-Monitor. During the ensuing boxing, Oliver uses his powers to recreate the multiverse, resulting Globe-1, Earth-38, and the Earth where television set series Black Lightning is set being merged into Earth-Prime number. Though Oliver died a second time as a effect, his friends and allies continue to defend Earth-Prime in his memory.

Alternate Earths [edit]

In the season ii episode of The Flash, "Enter Zoom", it is revealed through video footage from Earth-2 that the Oliver Queen of that Earth died when the Queen's Gambit sunk, and that his begetter, Robert Queen, survived and went on to become a vigilante known as 'The Hood'.^[33] In the first episode of the last season of Arrow, Adrian Hunt became Earth-two'south version of the Arrow. In the season 1 episode of Legends of Tomorrow, "Star City 2046", the Legends arrive in a future version of Star City in the yr 2046,^[29] which is later revealed to be on Earth-xvi.^[34] They come across an older Oliver Queen who fought Grant Wilson, Slade'southward son, who took the pall of Deathstroke. Wilson defeated Oliver and severed his left arm, and eventually devastated the whole city. Oliver replaced his arm with a cybernetic arm and out of grief, vanished from the public and hid himself in his bunker.^[35] During the Crunch on Globe-X crossover event, set on World-53, one of the main antagonists is revealed to exist that Earth'due south Oliver Queen. Known as Nighttime Arrow, the grapheme is Adolf Hitler'southward successor as Führer, in a world where the Nazis won World State of war II, and take achieved world domination. He is married to Overgirl (Melissa Benoist), the Earth-Ten version of Kara Zor-El.^[36] Some other archer from Earth-X named Black Pointer, voiced by Matthew Mercer, appears in the animated web series Freedom Fighters: The Ray.^{[ citation needed ]}

Tie-in comics and novels [edit]

The Arrow version of Oliver Queen beginning appeared in the 2012 prequel comic "Arrow #ane: Special Edition".^[37] The comic was released before the series aired^[38] and it ties in with the Television series' first season. The comic was after adult into an ongoing digital comic series titled Arrow,^{[38] [39]} that lasted 36 chapters between 2012–xiii and featured various storylines.^[40] The adjacent year, the graphic symbol appeared in Arrow: Flavor 2.5, a bi-weekly comic series which bridged the gap between the terminate of season two and the first of season three.^[41]

In 2015, Oliver appeared in tie-in novel, Pointer: Vengeance, written past Oscar Balderrama and Lauren Certo.^[42] In 2016 he appeared in the crossover novel The Flash: The Haunting of Barry Allen written by Susan and Clay Griffith,^[43] and in 2017 in the determination of the crossover, Arrow: A Generation of Vipers, by the same authors.^[44] In 2018 Oliver appeared in the tie-in novel Arrow: Fatal Legacies, co-authored by Marc Guggenheim and James R. Tuck, published in Jan 2018, which bridged the gap between the season v finale and the flavor six premiere.^[45]

Portrayal [edit]

Amell was cast equally Queen in January 2012,^[46] and was the first actor to audience for the role, with Kreisberg saying that Amell "hit the target from the outset" and "everyone else just paled in comparison".^[47] Producer Marc Guggenheim expressed that the creative team wanted to "chart [their] own course, [their] own destiny", and avoid whatever directly connections to Smallville, which featured its own Oliver Queen / Green Arrow (Justin Hartley), opting to cast a new actor in the part.^[47] It was also the first script that Amell auditioned for during pilot season, having received multiple scripts at the start of the twelvemonth.^[48] For Amell, the appeal of portraying Queen was that he saw multiple roles tied to the aforementioned character: "There's Queen the casual playboy; Queen the wounded hero; Queen the brooding Hamlet; Queen the lover; Queen the man of action, and then on."^[47] The actor, who was already in shape from Hire-a-Goalie, did concrete fitness training at Tempest Freerunning Academy out of Reseda, Los Angeles, California. Amell received archery grooming as well, which included watching a video on how archery has been displayed inaccurately or poorly in tv and film before learning the basics of shooting a bow.^[47] Amell describes the up-go on on his fitness as the biggest physical challenge of the series. Amell stated that he has to "steal time at the gym", and spends time on set being active.^[48]

Character evolution [edit]

Characterization [edit]

In flavour 1, Oliver is non agape to kill criminals when he deems it necessary. Pilot episode director David Nutter believes that, post-obit the time on the island, Oliver returns to Starling City with Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and this contributes to his willingness to kill. Amell stated, "Killing people is gonna start to counterbalance on Oliver. He can't [complete his mission] past himself. He's gonna have to lean on somebody."^[49] Amell describes Oliver as having to battle himself in season one. Similarly identifying Oliver as having PTSD, Amell sees the grapheme every bit a "damaged private" who is a "ticking time bomb"; Oliver is not but doing good things, merely falling along the fashion.^[48] For Amell, the character's damaged nature will weigh on him throughout season one, because he must hide his new cocky from his family, and masquerade as the "entitled jerk" that he once was.^[48]

Relationships [edit]

Originally framed as a 'billionaire playboy',^[50] the character was involved in multiple romantic pairings over the course of the serial first two seasons. All the same, from season 3 onwards his master romantic relationship is with the grapheme Felicity Smoak, who was originally slated to appear in one episode of season ane, just went on to go a chief graphic symbol.^[51] The dynamic was developed between the pair in flavour two, with Stephen Amell stating "she's the woman at the moment who knows me better than anybody".^[52] Speaking to TV Line before the flavour three premiere, when asked whether or not "there is a place on Arrow for a dandy dear", Amell stated "I think that both Laurel and Sara, for Oliver, were loves that were principally from the past, from before the gunkhole. And any other sort of brief relationship that he'south had has been flawed. Felicity has conspicuously, over the course of two-plus seasons, grown into that love for him."^[53] Talking about the development of the human relationship in 2018, he stated that "in our show, it was Oliver and Felicity, and it was going to be them no thing what".^[54] Extra Emily Bett Rickards, who portrays Felicity, believes she and Oliver and are soul mates,^[55] a sentiment echoed past Amell.^[56] Showrunner and executive producer Wendy Mericle described the emotional journey Oliver goes through during the 2017 Arrowverse crossover, in which he and Felicity ally, every bit i where he "explores the question of true dear".^[57] Talking about the relationship in the latter half of flavor vii, showrunner Beth Schwartz commented "They're definitely on track. They're back to, in a sense, being normal between each other. There'southward no friction between the human relationship. They have a lot of obstacles in their way, but they'll be a team. It won't separate them. ... They'll be a force to reckon with."^[58]

Oliver also has connections with the other characters on the show. Amell sees the relationship between Oliver and his female parent, upon his render from the island, as almost adversarial. To him, the Queen family unit has many skeletons in their closets, which helped them to amass their wealth, and his return is a threat to that fashion of life.^[48] Oliver's relationship with his younger sis Thea changes once he returns from the isle likewise. Amell notes that Thea looks upward to Oliver before he went missing, just it was an Oliver that was young and a wiggle. When he returns, Thea has taken over that role and Oliver has to recognize that his behaviors earlier impeded his ability to get through to Thea in season one.^[48]

Costume [edit]

Oliver receives this domino mask in the season two episode "Three Ghosts".^[xi] The producers wanted something that felt as though it could have been part of the costume from the get-go.

The realistic approach to the serial included the costume pattern for Oliver'southward vigilante persona, created by Colleen Atwood.^[59] Co-ordinate to Amell, information technology was of import for the suit to be functional, and the best fashion that he knew for that was if he could put the costume on past himself: "If I can put it on by myself, I recall that people volition buy information technology. And that was our thought. That'due south our world."^[6]

In the second one-half of season 2, Oliver replaces his "painted" mask with a domino mask gifted to him by Barry, like to ane worn by the grapheme in the comics.^[11] The change is addressed on-screen, with Kreisberg saying, "He doesn't only put on a mask. Information technology's actually a large plot point in an episode, and in that location actually is a story behind, not only the need for the mask simply also who provides him with it."^[60] On adding the mask now, Kreisberg stated that, "Conceptually, it was something nosotros wanted to do because Oliver himself is evolving every bit the Arrow—from vigilante to hero, sort of from Arrow to Green Pointer—and we wanted to see that progression in his costume as well. Equally Oliver is embracing being a hero, being a hero means stepping out of the dark and being more than of a symbol, so he has to take steps to muffle his identity more than."^[lx] He added that it volition "allow the Pointer to interact with people who don't know his identity in a much more organic mode than having him constantly keep his caput downwards."^[lx] Costume designer Maya Mani put together roughly l mask options for the producers. Various designs reminded the creative team of something Joel Schumacher would create. Kreisberg said, "What's then wonderful virtually the blueprint that Maya came upward with is that it really is very simple, and it feels as if it'south been part of his costume since the outset...once we finally had this mask and put it on Stephen [Amell], even Stephen was similar, 'This is the right one.'"^[60]

In flavour four, Oliver acquires a new costume. Designed past Mani at the end of flavour three, the costume originally had full sleeves. Afterwards input from producer Greg Berlanti and Amell, Mani redesigned the costume to bear witness off the character's biceps, and be more than cogitating of the comic book analogue. According to Mani, "I wanted it to be tactical, so the shoulders are a little tougher [...] I likewise wanted him to be able to remove a layer or be in the layer and still exist the Arrow, only not have the full fig on."^[61]

Reception [edit]

Disquisitional response [edit]

Andy Greenwald of Grantland wrote that Amell deserves a "slap-up bargain of the credit" for Arrow 's success, as he brings a subtle humor hidden below his "Hollister veneer". Greenwald goes on to land that Amell'due south performance every bit Oliver Queen makes that persona a more interesting character than the Arrow.^[62] Entertainment Weekly 's Ken Tucker acknowledged Amell's range as an actor for the series premiere: "Amell is no mere muscle-head as an actor — he let confusion, dismay, thwarting, and resolve play across his confront at the right moments, fifty-fifty when the dialogue became stilted or clunky."^[63] Neil Genzlinger wrote in The New York Times that Amell was "only inscrutable plenty to pull off the transition from the playboy he was before the shipwreck to the avenging, bow-wielding Green Arrow he becomes on his return to civilisation".^[64] The San Francisco Chronicle 'south David Wiegand came to a similar conclusion, stating Amell has the "acting skill that enables him to be disarming both as rescued rich child Oliver Queen and as his light-green-hooded alter ego, Arrow".^[65] In contrast, The Guardian 's Stephen Kelly found Amell more than "uncomfortable and bad-mannered" in the role, which made it difficult to similar his grapheme as a "traumatised badass".^[66]

Accolades [edit]

In other media [edit]

A representation of Amell's character has appeared in two video game products. The 2013 game Injustice: Gods Among Usa contains downloadable content that features an optional costume for Green Arrow based on Queen'southward appearance in the commencement season. Amell provides his voice and likeness to the costume.^[83] 2014's Lego Batman 3: Beyond Gotham features an Arrow downloadable content pack that includes Oliver Queen in his Pointer persona, as well equally a bonus level assault Lian Yu in which Oliver trains with Slade and raids Fyers' campsite to destroy a weapons stockpile. Amell also voiced the traditional Light-green Arrow in the game.^[84] The Arrow would once again appear every bit a downloadable character in Lego DC Super-Villains as Dark-green Arrow's TV Heroes variant instead of a separate grapheme this time.^[85]

Notes [edit]

1. ^ Equally depicted in the 2018 crossover Elseworlds.

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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Queen_(Arrowverse)