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Arrow (Series) - TV Tropes. After five years in hell, I returned home with only one goal: to save my city. Watch Lenny Bruce In Lenny Bruce Online (2017). Today, I fight that war on two fronts. By day, I lead Star City as its mayor.

By night, I am someone else. I am something else. I am the Green Arrow. It started airing in 2. A more realistic and grounded adaptation of DC's Green Arrow comics, it was the show that began the Arrowverse.

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After a violent shipwreck, billionaire playboy Oliver Queen (Stephen Amell) was missing and presumed dead for five years before being discovered alive on a remote island in the Pacific. When he returns home to Starling City, his devoted mother Moira (Susanna Thompson), beloved sister Thea (Willa Holland), and best friend Tommy (Colin Donnell) welcome him home, but they sense Oliver has been changed by his ordeal on the island. Oliver keeps quiet about the man he. Most particularly, he seeks reconciliation with his former girlfriend, Laurel Lance (Katie Cassidy), which is a complicated affair as he was cheating on her with her sister, Sara (Caity Lotznote Jacqueline Mc. Innes Wood in the Pilot), who Oliver watched die in the shipwreck of the Queen's Gambit.

As Oliver plays the role of the wealthy, carefree and careless philanderer he used to be, he secretly creates the persona of the Hood . However, Laurel. In his mission, Oliver is flanked by John Diggle (David Ramsey), his devoted chauffeur/bodyguard, Felicity Smoak (Emily Bett Rickards), a Queen Consolidated I. T. In the present day, Oliver finds himself taking on an organization far more dangerous than he anticipated, headed by Malcolm Merlyn (John Barrowman). Meanwhile, Oliver.

Those unfamiliar with the comics will miss some Mythology Gags and references to important characters in the DCU, but the series enjoys employing Red Herrings to keep even the comics fans on their toes. The show's goal was to depict an evolving group of characters who may be closer or further from their comics origins, but through Character Development may eventually grow into the classical characters. Oliver starts his mission as a ruthless vigilante killing enemies without hesitation, but has a change of heart when he sees the negative effect it has on the city, his allies, friends and family.

Despite some hesitation regarding the seriesnote A different version of Green Arrow was a cast member on Smallville, and the Darker and Edgier tone of Arrow didn't help concerns, with many detractors saying it felt like the writers wanted to do a Batman show instead, the show ended up highly acclaimed for the cinematic presentation and having a strong cast. It brought in high ratings for The CW and was such a success it lead to the creation of a televised Shared Universe known as the . His spinoff show The Flash (2. Arrow's third season. Its success would expand the universe again with an animated web series on CW Seed focusing on Vixen, set in the same continuity.

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Soon after a third spinoff was created, Legends of Tomorrow, following other DC characters introduced between the two shows in a team- up to combat unique threats, starring Brandon Routh as Ray Palmer / the A. T. O. M. Following the cancellation of Constantine, in the fourth season Matt Ryan showed up reprising the title character, retroactively incorporating that show into the shared universe. Has a character sheet with the main characters, recurring characters, and the villains as well as a recap page.

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