Ricardo Diaz (CW)

==Biography==
Ricardo Diaz, also known as the Dragon, is the secondary antagonist of the TV series Arrow. He serves as the main antagonist of Season 6, the central antagonist of Season 7, and a posthumous antagonist in Season 8. He also appeared as a minor antagonist in the Elseworlds crossover.
He was a powerful drug kingpin and ruthless criminal mastermind who plotted to take over all of Star City, becoming one of Oliver Queen's most dangerous and hated adversaries. He is also arguably one of Oliver Queen's three archenemies, with the others being Malcolm Merlyn and Adrian Chase. He was also the Arrowverse's adaptation of the DC Comics antihero, Richard Dragon.
He was portrayed by Kirk Acevedo, who also played Carver in Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, Mitch Dolgen in The Walking Dead and Miguel Alvarez in the Oz TV series.
==Powers and Stats==
Tier: physically, higher with weapons
Name: Ricardo Diaz, Dragon
Origin: Arrowverse (CW)
Gender: Male
Age: Unknown
Classification: Member of the Ghost Initiative, Inmate of Slabside Maximum Security Prison, Crime lord, Leader of his organization criminal organization, Leader of the Quadrant, Member of cabal, Member of the Scorpions, Drug dealer, Factory owner
Powers and Abilities: Superhuman Physical Characteristics, Master Hand-to-Hand Combatant, Expert Knife Wielder, Possibly Resistance to Poison Manipulation (Can counteract some poisons and drugs)
Attack Potency: Wall level physically (Fought Green Arrow. Instantly pinned down Laurel Lance and Anatoly Knyazev despite their own physical condition with ease. Maintained the upper hand due to his new enhanced strength, while Oliver was not in full shape to fight back at the time), higher with weapons (Highly trained in the use of many types of firearms and very skilled in the use of knives)
Speed: Supersonic (Fluidly dodge and attack from different directions without losing balance. Able to match and nearly overwhelm Oliver in combat twice. Threw one at Thea Queen with pin-point accuracy)
Lifting Strength: At least Class 1 (Lifted a full-grown man with ease, ripped large electric cables out of a wall and superior to Green Arrow)
Striking Strength: Wall level (Able to put a huge dent into a concrete wall with a light punch and sent a man flying into his cell with one kick)
Durability: Wall level (Withstand being shot by a machine gun to the chest unfazed when wearing a bulletproof vest, sustain only minor injuries from being blown back by a nearby explosive and even survive being blasted of a building by Laurel Lance's sonic scream and into a body of water despite having already been subjected to an extensive beating from Oliver, with Oliver finding the possibility of Diaz dying by the fall to be very little. He also survived being mortally stabbed in the chest with a shiv)
Stamina: Peak Human (His conditioning also lets him recover from most injuries very quickly)
Range: Standard melee range normally, tens of meters with firearms
Standard Equipment: Guns, Knives, Hand-held flamethrower, Metal link chain, Smoke grenade, Bulletproof vest, Sonic dampening device, Gas mask, Quadrant ring 
Intelligence: Gifted (Extremely adept at many fields of science, particularly chemistry and biochemistry, master tactician, leader, deception, manipulator)
Weaknesses: Mental instability and lack of empathy
==Notable Matchups==
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