Oliver Queen (Arrowverse)/Relationships

The relationships of Oliver Queen from the Arrowverse.
== Love Interests==
 
===Laurel Lance===
Oliver has been best friends with Laurel since grade school; they were close as children, which escalated into crushes and then a boyfriend/girlfriend territory, showing she felt betrayed by two people she was close to when she learned Oliver was having an affair with her sister, Sara. Despite being broken up from their terrible actions, Laurel and Oliver became good friends again.
 
When Sara was revealed to be alive, Laurel yelled at her for cheating on her with Oliver and would scold him for sleeping with her sister. Even at the time where she grew enraged at the fact Oliver and Sara were dating again. Despite Oliver already being attracted to Felicity Smoak, Laurel still had romantic feelings for Oliver. After she was fatally stabbed by Damien Darhk, Laurel confessed that she still loved Oliver and that he was the love of her life. However, she knew that she wasn' his. As she died, Laurel told Oliver to swear that she wasn't the last Black Canary so that way another part of her would always be with him. 
 
Oliver later avenged Laurel's death by killing Damien Darhk the same way. He later listed Laurel's death as one of the reasons why he went back to killing criminals because if he had killed Damien, then Laurel would still be alive. After months of searching, Oliver found Dinah Drake, who succeed Laurel as the second Canary. 
 
===Sara Lance===
Being childhood friends make the Oliver and Sara relationship as one of the longest running pairings in the series. They started an affair together when Oliver was still dating her sister Laurel but seemingly lost each other when the Queen's Gambit sunk. They reunited about a year later and nearly spent a year together on Lian Yu fighting Slade, until Oliver lost Sara again when they were fighting Slade on the Amazo and later reunited
 
When they were stranded on the island, Sara admitted to Oliver she had a "silly girl crush" on him, despite his bad boy attitude. She sneaked into a party that Tommy was hosting just to get close to spending time with Oliver despite Sara being underage at a rave only meant for people over the age of 18. However, Laurel called their dad, the cop on Sara to break up the party to protect her. However, at the time, Sara thought Laurel did this because she was aware of her sister's crush and did this to hurt her. When Laurel and Oliver became a couple, this further supported Sara's idea her sister ratted her out to Quentin just to spite her. However, in truth, Laurel presumably wasn't aware of her crush on Oliver and just didn't want Sara to go down a wrong path. Sara supposedly drowned when the Queen's Gambit toppled over and ocean water flooded the yacht. However, in the category 2 storm, Oliver was saved by his father and a crew remember when the Queen's Gambit went down and Sara was miles away from him.
 
Their romantic feelings for each other resurfaced after their encounter with the League of Assassins and Nyssa al Ghul. Sara revealed she was willing to kill Roy when the opportunity opened itself up to her and would have had the chance after he nearly landed Sin in the hospital. Believing herself to be filled with darkness, she still saw there was some light left in Oliver and it was something she didn't have, so she broke up with him. Instead, they remained friends, having team up on several occasions between their two teams Team Arrow and the Legends. This includes dealing with the Dominator invasion in 2016, the Earth X invaders in 2017, and finally, the Anti-Monitor Crisis of 2019.
 
===Shado===
Oliver's fourth main love interest 
 
===Samantha Clayton===
In 2002, Samantha was having an affair with Oliver Queen when he was dating Laurel and unintentionally got the girl pregnant. They had a son, named William, but Oliver was led to believe that the child had died when Samantha was paid 2 million by Oliver's mother, Moira, to tell him that she miscarried and leave Starling City for Central City and never return. At first, when Oliver found out about the lie being covered, he wanted to have a relationship with his son. Samantha allowed it, if he never revealed their relationship to their son. Oliver accepted those terms but say the cost of his relationship with Felicity. At first believing him to still being the arrogant figure she once knew; Samantha changed her opinion of Oliver when she found out he was the Green Arrow. This mellowed down her hostility towards him, as Samantha finally acknowledges that William was his son too, advising Felicity tonight be too hard on Oliver for keeping William a secret because it was her fault. Though she didn't blame Oliver for hers and William's abduction, Samantha acknowledged that he could save their son. She was also aware of Oliver and Felicity's feelings towards each other, noticing the small, passionate kiss that Felicity gave Oliver on Lian Yu. Though she was confident in Oliver's abilities to save their son, Samantha refused to leave William and went searching for them. Though she was killed by the blasts when Lian Yu was destroyed when Prometheus committed suicide, Samantha asked Oliver to be a father to their son. Oliver swore to the mother of his child that he would honor it and choose to raise their son and stopped being the Hood for a while.
===Helena Bertinelli===
Oliver Queen and Helena Bertinelli had a small relationship with one another in Season 1. She was also the first romantic interest Oliver had since Shado's death. Shortly before his relationship with McKenna, Oliver tried to teach her to get back at her father through being a vigilante rather than kill him. The two broke up when Helena saw that he still had feelings for Laurel Lance and instead turned to her plan to killing her father.
 
By the time they met again, a vengeful Helena forced his cooperation into helping her kill her father by threatening to kill Felicity. To no avail, Oliver's efforts to stop her from going down the path of vengeance once more only motivated Helena to further gain revenge on her father for her fiancé's death. Oliver and Helen saw each other again at least a year later. In 2014, she infiltrated the Star City Court House finding her father. Oliver tried convincing her to not kill Frank, but Helena refused, stating she had no other choice and that Oliver knew that. Despite her aggressions, Oliver did not want to kill Helena due to his belief he failed her and his new "no-kill" policy since Tommy's death and stopped Sara Lance from killing her. She later agreed to a hostage exchange: Laurel in exchange for her father. However, the trade went south when Frank was killed in a crossfire between SCPD and Team Arrow. When Oliver went to talk with her in the interrogation room, Helena admitted that Oliver was right: now that her father was dead, she felt nothing. Oliver bore no ill-will towards Helena, and instead expressed his guilt in failing her and turning her into the Huntress to begin with. 
 
=== McKenna Hall===
At some unknown point, Oliver became friends with McKenna Hall. She has admitted the one thing she always liked about Oliver was his concern for the well-being of his sister. Though they were friends as kids, they didn't remain in touch, mostly because Oliver had been shipwrecked and away from home for five years.
They both met again in 2012 when Thea Queen was on trial for using the Count's Vertigo case. Oliver was shocked to see her, expecting "Detective Hall" to be a middle-aged man with white hair. She showed her sympathy for Oliver, who had come to her to seek out the Count. However, he used his charm and charisma, and Oliver was still grateful for McKenna's help, as her tips and giving him the file on the Count. Afterward, Oliver asked her out on a date. At the same time, Oliver was there when Quentin offered to have McKenna as his partner to catch the Hood. This makes it rather ironic that McKenna was later dating the same man she was hunting. The two committed themselves to a real relationship. During their date, Mckenna unintentionally made Oliver uncomfortable because he was reminded of his time on Lian Yu, as he remembered being tortured by Billy Wintergreen and meeting Yao Fei and Slade Wilson. Oliver snapped at her and unintentionally made her upset. However, Oliver apologized to her for his behavior earlier and they made up. They later went with each other to Tommy's birthday party at Laurel's apartment and were not afraid of kissing in an apartment or in front of people, thus showing they were open about their relationship.
In "The Huntress Returns," McKenna tracked Oliver (as the Hood) when she caught him and Helena Bertinelli together. Helena shot McKenna and temporarily paralyzed her during Helena's vendetta against her father, Frank Bertinelli. This caused her to move to Coast City to live with her sister under physical therapy and forced Oliver to end his relationship with her. However, they remained on good terms.
=== Felicity Smoak===
Oliver first saw her in 2010 when he sneaks into Queen Consolidated for something that will help ARGUS with finding China White. He hears someone approaching and quickly hides. The someone who comes out is Felicity Smoak, who goes into Robert Queen's office. Oliver watches her as she grabs the photograph of Robert and Oliver. She notes that he is cute, and when she starts rambling, Oliver slightly smiles at Felicity's shy character. (314 - The Return)
Later, Oliver, on the recommendation of Walter Steele, goes to Felicity's office in the IT department of Queen Consolidated, remembering he had seen her two years before their first encounter. He has her track down the owner of a bullet-ridden laptop. He later occasionally goes to her for help tracking things down, even coming up with ridiculous stories. The final straw for her to figure out something was going on was when he gave her a syringe filled with Vertigo. Felicity reveals that even though Oliver gave her objects and came up with bad cover stories, she still feels like she can still trust him. She reveals the journal that Walter gave her before he disappeared and gives it to Oliver, who takes it and makes him suspect the reason why Walter had the journal (Betrayal).
After confronting his mother, Moira shoots Oliver when he is disguised as the Hood and he goes to Felicity for help. Showing up in her car, bleeding, Oliver reveals that he is the Hood to her. Felicity takes him to the Arrowcave (in the basement of Verdant) and helps Diggle patch up his bullet wound. She then joins Team Arrow, at least until they find Walter.
Felicity and Oliver manage to find Walter together.
In "The Undertaking," Felicity and Oliver go into Merlyn Global together. A rude, male employee enters the elevator and is mean to Felicity by revealing he is going on a floor before her. Irritated at the man insulting his friend, Oliver purposefully smacks the man's papers out of his hand, causing the man to leave.
In "Fadeout," Oliver and Felicity are finally reunited in the afterlife, which is the office of Queen Consolidated, where Oliver first saw her. Now, they have all the time in the world to be together at last without conflict.
==Family==
 
===Moira Queen===
 
 
Mother
 
 
===Thea Queen===
 
 
Younger Maternal Half-Sister
 
Oliver and Thea have an unbreakable sibling bond. Oliver is nine years old when Thea is born. Oliver has loved her and adored her since the day, and they often had a race to the Christmas tree. Because of Thea being the fastest, Oliver nicknamed her "Speedy." However, as he grew older, Oliver and Thea drifted with the younger Queen somewhat detached by him, believing he didn't care about her. This is not the case, as according to Mckenna, the one thing she enjoyed about Oliver was he always cared for Thea.
 
At first, Oliver never told Thea he was the hooded vigilante due to his and John's shared belief that Thea would not accept her brother's secret or about his crusade. He later lies to her about her parentage to Malcolm, which later causes tension between the two when Thea finds out the truth film Slade.
 
In Season 3, Thea lies to Oliver about Malcolm being alive and her accepting money. Oliver did anything to keep her safe, such as pretending he was the one who killed Sara so Ra's wouldn't go after her. Thea turned over her father, Malcolm, to the League for her and Oliver's protection from Ra's wrath without thinking. When Oliver left Star City with Felicity, Thea felt abandoned by her brother and kept all the rage and anger inside her due to the aftereffects of being resurrected through the Lazarus Pit. However, the siblings worked it out.
 
In Season 5, Thea returned as Speedy once more to rescue Oliver when he was held hostage by Tobias Church. After Thea learned that Oliver's ex-girlfriend, Susan Williams, found out he was the Arrow, Thea tricked Felicity into helping her blackmail Susan to protect her brother. When Oliver found out, he pointed out to Thea that her actions were mirroring the ones acted by their late mother. Realizing she was becoming too much like Moira, Thea went on sabbatical by leaving Star City for a couple of weeks to find herself.
 
 
===Emiko Queen===
 
Paternal Half-Sister
 
 
===Robert Queen===
 
 
Father
 
Growing up, Oliver revered and loved his father, remembering him as a man who loved him as well. However, he was unaware of his father's many infidelities and the fact he had a long-lost half-sister, Emiko. He remembers his parents fighting all the time, unaware of their argument's subject matter. It is also heavily implied that Oliver became a flirt and lashing due to lack of his father's discipline. He tells Moira he became a partying flirt because his parents would let him get away with anything.
 
=== William Clayton===
 
 
Son/Firstborn
 
 
===Mia Queen ===
 
 
Daughter/Second-Born
 
 
===Roy Harper===
 
 
==Friends==
 
===Tommy Merlyn===
 
 
Best Friend
 
 
===John Diggle===
 
Best Friend
 
After learning Oliver was the vigilante, Diggle refused to work with him, but after realizing Oliver was doing it to fight corruption in Star City, John became his first recruit. One of the reasons that John stayed on as Oliver's partner is because he has had self-doubt about his moral character after he shot and killed a child soldier during his stay in Afghanistan. After many years of fighting with each other, Oliver and Diggle became best friends and companions. When Oliver is lost or hurt, John gives him advice, such as pursuing his relationship with Felicity. Despite fighting, they always find a way to help each other and reconcile. They would also toast and drink alcohol together whenever they came back from a tough night, Diggle and Oliver will take out alcohol and drink to wash away the pain.
In "Nanda Parbat," they officially realize their comradeship is a brotherhood in all but blood. During their capture, John asks Oliver to be his best man, and the latter accepts. They are immensely loyal to one another, strong enough for all of her to help him save Lila from a Russian gulag, and Oliver stages a prisonbreak to rescue his brother. He did not blame Diggle for Laurel's death and felt he could do more as Spartan than stay locked up in jail to pay for his penance.
Despite this, John and Oliver do have their fights, whether it's physical combat or debates between each other. John was furious with Oliver when he abducted his wife and held her hostage in exchange for Nyssa al Ghul. The two reconciled six months later after Oliver took a bullet for John, saving him when they were trying to apprehend anarchy.
===Quentin Lance===
 
 
When Oliver became best friends with Laurel, he would eventually meet her father, Quentin. However, he never approved of their romantic relationship because Quentin passes him off as a rich and arrogant kid because his status as Robert Queen's son, even tasing him at one point when he saw him sleeping in bed with Laurel. However, Oliver still respected Quentin, felt at home when he was at Laurel's house and deep down, wanted his approval because of his strained relationship with his father. After learning Oliver took his daughter Sara and cheated on Laurel, he absolutely despised him. However hard he tried to prosecute Oliver Queen; Quentin still warned him to stay away from Helena Bertinelli. After a while, Quentin and Oliver learned to get along. At first blaming him for Sara's apparent death, Oliver and Quentin appeared to have been improving their relationship. When Oliver was the Arrow, Quentin would forever make him a personal nemesis. However, Quentin was furious when he learned that Oliver was the Green Arrow and began prosecuting him once more when the League of Assassins framed him for murders he did not commit.
 
When Season 4 came around, Oliver admitted he always had the need to prove himself in his eyes, especially when he learned that Quentin was convinced to spy on Damien Darhk. With Sara's mission with the Legends and Laurel's death, Quentin has acted as a father-figure, of sorts, to the Queen siblings, especially after their mother died. During Oliver's wedding to Felicity, Quentin gave him a watch that the former's father once owned due to the lack of a parent at Oliver's wedding. By the end of the sixth season, Oliver has acknowledged Quentin to be the perfect example of a father figure and was deeply affected by his death.
 
===Barry Allen===
 
Close Friend/Younger Brother Figure
Oliver and Barry met each other in "The Scientist;" despite the differences and hardly getting along at first, they eventually become very close friends. In The Flash, Oliver was the first outside of the Team Flash to be aware that Barry was the new hero of Central City and inspired his friend into becoming a Vigilante. 
After learning Barry went to save his mother, inadvertently creating changes to the timeline, Oliver empathized with his friend because he would have done the same thing if he had been in Barry's position. Especially since he also felt helpless as he watched Slade kill Moira.
 
===Kara Danvers===
 
Of the three main leads, Oliver and Kara didn't meet each other until the crossover event, "Invasion," which took place in 2016, three years since Oliver became the Arrow. However, when they first met, Oliver was mistrusting of Supergirl, as he usually is when he meets people. Despite their differences both the Oliver and Kara stood by Barry when everyone else doubted him when they learned of Flashpoint. In the third act Oliver tried sidelining her but his opinions of Kara changed when she saved his life from a dominator. This earned her Oliver's respect and he apologized to her for his uncalled-for behavior.
During Crisis on Earth X, Kara "noted" that Oliver does not have super speed and was disgusted to learn that she and Oliver are married on another planet, accidentally offending him and shocked that Oliver created synthetic Kryptonite arrows in case of an evil version of her showed up.
By 2018, Oliver states that even though he didn't know Kara as much as he knows Barry, he knows the type of person she really is: a brave and selfless hero. After learning that Supergirl and The Flash would be killed in an upcoming crisis, Oliver chose to make a deal with The Monitor to ensure his two friends survived. After waking up when the Paragons and Oliver restarted the multiverse, Kara was devastated to learn that Oliver died saving them. Because of this, Kara joined the Crisis Team and continued to protect the world, in Oliver's honor, showing how much he impacted her and other superheroes' lives.
 
===Nyssa al Ghul===
To get Team Arrow to surrender Nyssa, Oliver abducted his former friend, Lyla Michaels-Diggle and held her hostage. Despite Team Arrow's attempts to protect her, Nyssa was captured by the League and returned to Nanda Parbat. There, Ra's forced both Oliver and Nyssa to marry each other, in the eyes of the League's laws. 
In Post-Crisis, it was revealed that Ra's still forced Nyssa to marry Oliver and did not love him romantically. She still respected him as a friend and ally. So much, that Nyssa attended his funeral held at Star City Cemetery, where she was reunited with her sister and Sara before going their separate ways. 
===Slade Wilson===
===Talia al Ghul===
==Enemies==
===Malcolm Merlyn===
===Ra's al Ghul===
===Damien Darhk===
===Laurel Lance/Black Siren===
===Adrian Chase===
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