Oliver Queen (Arrowverse)

Oliver Queen is the titular main protagonist of the Arrowverse, debuting as the main protagonist of the CW's Arrow. Mentored by several individuals such as Yao Fei Gulong, Slade Wilson, Shado, and Talia al Ghul, Oliver took up the idea to become a vigilante as an archer. After being away from home for five years, Oliver returns to Starting City to rid the city of crime from corrupted CEOs and businesspeople, his father included. He was called the Hood and the Vigilante during his earlier days as one, before being code-named the Arrow by Quentin Lance. After faking the Arrow's death, Oliver became known as the Green Arrow to inspire hope to his hometown. During the Crisis, he was known as The Spectre, and died saving the multiverse as a hero. 
Oliver Queen was the son of the late Robert Queen and Moira Queen (née Dearden), the maternal half-brother of Emiko Adachi and Thea Queen, the husband of Felicity Smoak, and the father of Mia Queen and William Clayton. He is also the best friend of John Diggle and Tommy Merlyn, a good friend of Kara Danvers, the former lover of Laurel Lance, Samantha Clayton, Shado, the ex-boyfriend of McKenna Hall, and Sara Lance, and the former leader of Team Arrow. He was also briefly married to Nyssa Al Ghul through the League of Assassins before she anulled the marriage in Season Six.
==Roles==
He is the titular main protagonist of Arrow,  the kickstarter series of the franchise, and a supporting character in Season 1-6 of The Flash and a posthumous character in subsequent seasons, and a minor character in  Supergirl, DC's Legends of Tomorrow and Batwoman. 
Oliver has also appeared in several crossovers. 
He is  one of the two main protagonists of the Flash vs. Arrow and Heroes Join Forces (with Barry Allen) and a background character in the Supergirl and Flash crossover World's Finest. 
He later appeared in other major crossovers that went on to be not just Arrow, The Flash and Supergirl but other shows such as Legends of Tomorrow and Batman. deuteragonist of the Arrowverse crossover, Invasion, one of the three main protagonists of Crisis on Earth-X (with Kara Danvers and Barry Allen) the main protagonist of Elseworlds , one of the main protagonists of the Crisis on Infinite Earths and a posthumous character in The Flash: Armageddon.
==Biography==
===Background===
Oliver Jonas Queen was born in 1986 to Moira Dearden and Robert Queen, where he was born into one of the richest families in Sterling City. He was pampered by his parents, and he got away with most of the troubles he caused. As a child, Oliver became best friends with Tommy Merlyn, Laurel Lance and her sister Sara. As the Merlyns and Queens were close, they often treated each other as family. However at age seven, Oliver came to support Tommy, who was suffering a great loss when his mother Rebecca was found murdered in the Glades. Shortly after, Moira grew angry and tired of Robert cheating on her, she had an affair with Malcolm before he left for Nanda Parbat for two years. During that time, Tommy came to live with the Queens for a while, where Robert, Oliver and Moira treated him as family. 
Soon family servers started to remain hidden from Oliver. As a young boy, his father had affairs with other women. One of them went on to give birth to Roberts illegitimate daughter - and Oliver's paternal half-brother. Emiko Adachi, In January 21, 1995, Moira gave birth to Oliver's sister, Thea, who he treasured and loved more than anything. Unbeknownst to the two, Moira and Robert knew that the later was not Thea's biological father; Malcolm was.  As children, Oliver nicknamed her "Speedy" because she always seemed to be faster than him whenever they chased each other around the house.  Every year they had a Christmas tradition of racing each other reaching the last candy canes and had annual parties with their family and friends. 
As a young man, Oliver became a party boy, often starting out late and sometimes coming out of Tommy's parties without remembering the events of the night. At some point, Oliver and Tommy became acquainted with McKenna Hall. On one occasion, he punched a paparazzi on the nose with his own camera when the photographer wouldn't leave him alone. He failed out of four Ivy League schools paid for by his parents, only reading The Odyssey in college. However, Oliver did have some engineering skills due to working with his father, who was an aspiring pilot and sometimes performed his own maintenance with his son. He would use these skills to hotwire Malcolm's expensive cars, resulting in him getting grounded one summer. 
In 2005, Oliver would begin dating his longtime friend Laurel, and they fell in love with one another. However, Laurel's father, Quentin, disapproved of their relationship and once threatened to use a taser on Oliver after catching the two in bed together. Despite this, Oliver enjoyed spending time with Laurel and her family as he felt unburdened from being Robert Queen's son, according to Moira. Oliver also held Quentin in high regard, secretly wanting to earn his validation.
On one occasion cheated on Laurel with one of their classmates Samantha Clayton in 2006-2007. Oliver's brief affair with Samantha resulted in her pregnancy with his son William. After Oliver told Moira he got Samantha pregnant, Moira gave Sam two million dollars to tell Oliver she lost the baby and to return to Central City and never speak to Oliver again. As a teenager, Oliver's "loss" both saddening and relieving him, but he would feel differently as an adult, when the truth would later be revealed many years later,
In 2007, after Moira caught Laurel sneaking away to Oliver's room in the Queen Mansion, Laurel suggested that she and Oliver could live in their own home, bringing up how their friends, Ray and Jean, had recently decided to get an apartment together. Oliver initially agreed to moving in with her, but he quickly began having doubts. Rather than talk to Laurel about his doubts, Oliver panicked, causing him to start cheating on her in an effort to back out of the commitment. He hurt his relationship with Laurel by sleeping with Sara, who before had a crush on him, and eventually inviting her to join him on his father's three-week trip on the Queen's Gambit. Before he boarded the Gambit, Laurel visited Oliver to say goodbye and gave him a photograph of herself for when he got lonely overseas.
===Becoming the Hood===
=== Becoming the Arrow===
=== Meeting Barry Allen===
===Mirakuru Soldiers===
===Becoming the Green Arrow===
=== Invasion/Meeting Kara Danvers===
===Crisis on Infinite Earths===
===Erased Futures ===
==Personality==
==Powers & Abilities==
===Powers===
*Light magic
*Spectre Magic
===Abilities===
* Master Archer
* High Intelligence
* Excellent Detective Skills
* Grand Master Martial Artist
* Peak human physicality
* Swordsmanship
* Marksmanship
* Multilingualism
* Sheer tenacity
* Sheer force of will
* Trick arrows
===Weaknesses===
*Multiverse crisis
*Inner darkness
*Power limitation
==Possessions==
*Bow & arrow: Oliver used several bows and arrows during his time as the vigilante, Arrow. His arrows are color-coded green.
*Green Arrow suit
*Lian Yu herbs
*Shado's Hood: Slade gave Oliver the Green hood that Shado and her father, Yao Fei wore.
*Sword: Oliver used a sword when he was fighting Ra's Al Ghul
*Sara's Bo-staff: When fighting the "Mayor's" men, Oliver briefly used Sara's bo staff and she use his bow and arrow. They immediately switched afterwards.
==Relationships==
===Family===
*Moira Queen - Mother
*Robert Queen † - Father
*Emiko Adachi - Paternal half-sister
*Thea Queen/Speedy - Maternal Half-Sister
*Roy Harper - Future Brother-in-law
*Felicity Smoak/Overwatch - Wife and Teammate
*William Clayton - Son
*Mia Queen - Daughter
*Donna Smoak - Mother-in-law
*Noah Kuttler - Father-in-law
*Grandmother-in-law †
* Grandfather-in-law †
===Allies===
*Slade Wilson
*Malcolm Merlyn † - Situational Ally, Former Attempted Killer and Attempted Victim
*Tommy Merlyn - Best Friend and Resurrected Ally
*McKenna Hall - Former Girlfriend
*Peter † - Friend
*Mark Francis -Mother’s Mayoral Advisor
*Akio Yamashiro †- Friend
*Talia al Ghul – Former Mentor and Temporary Enemy
*Slade Wilson/Deathstroke
*Shado † - Friend, Mentor and Former Lover
*Yao Fei † - Friend, Mentor and Savior
*Anatoly Knyazev - Close Friend and Temporary Enemy
*Jean Loring - Attorney
*Walter Steele - Former Stepfather
*Team Arrow - Friends and Teammates 
**John Diggle - Best Friend and Surrogate Brother
**Quentin Lance - Former Enemy, Savior, and Father Figure
**Laurel Lance-1/Black Canary - Former Love Interest and Close Friend
**Laurel Lance-2
**Rene Ramirez/Wild Dog
**Curtis Holt/Mr. Terrific
**Dinah Drake/Black Canary
*Helena Bertinelli - Former Love Interest and Situational Enemy
* Star City Police Department - Former Enemies 
**Frank Pike †
**Billy Malone † - Accidental Victim
*Elisa Schwartz † - Doctor
*Star City Hall 
**Emily Pullard - Ally and Temporary Enemy
*A.R.G.U.S. - Allies and Former Enemies 
**Lyla Michaels 
*Mesi Natifah/Talibah
*Tatsu Yamashiro/Katana
*Team Flash 
**Barry Allen/The Flash - close friend and brother figure
**Cisco Ramon/Vibe
**Sara Lance/White Canary
**Ray Palmer/The Atom
**Ronnie Raymond/Firestorm
**Caitlin Snow/Frost
**Frost
**Cecile Horton
** Joe West
**Ralph Dibney/Elongated Man
**Iris West-Allen
**Harry Wells
**Harrison Nash Wells
**Chester P. Runk
**Allegra Garcia/Wavelength 
*Khione
*Wally West/Kid Flash
*Legends
**Sara Lance/White Canary
**Nate Heywood/Steel
**Ray Palmer/The Atom
**Martin Stein/Firestorm
**Jefferson Jackson/Firestorm
**Kendra Saunders/Hawkgirl
**Carter Hall/Hawkman
**Amaya Jiwe/Vixen
**Mick Rory/Heatwave
**Gideon
**Zari Tomaz
*Superfriends
**Kara Danvers/Supergirl
**Alex Danvers/Sentinel
**J'onn J'onzz/Martian Manhunter
**Querl Dox/Brainiac-5
*Nyssa al Ghul
*Mari McCabe/Vixen 
*Clark Kent/Superman
*Lois Lane
*Alena Whitlock/Kojo Sledgehammer - Former Enemy
*Christopher Chance/Human Target - Friend
*Ted Grant/Wildcat
*Cindy Simone
*Canaries
**Connor Hawke
**Zoe Ramirez 
*Ben Turner/Bronze Tiger
*Crisis Team 
**Kate Kane/Batwoman
**Jefferson Pierce/Black Lightning - Recruit
**Ryan Choi
*Jim Corrigan/The Spectre
*Freedom FIghers
**Leonard Snart-X/Citizen Cold
**Ray Terrill/The Ray
*Bart West-Allen/Impulse
*Nora West-Allen/XS
*Bat Team 
**Ryan Wilder/Batwoman
**Luke Fox/Batwing
*Susan Williams - ex-girlfriend
*Samantha Clayton
*John Constantine - Friend and Temporary Enemy
===Enemies===
*Eddie Fyers
*Billy WIntergreen/Deathstroke
*Crew of the Amazo'
**Anthony Ivo + - Former Captor, Interrogator, and VIctim
**The Butcher † - Torturer and Kidnapper
*U.S. Army
**General Matthew Shrieve
*Shadowspire
**Baron Reiter + - Attempted Killer, Former Employer and VIctim
*Bratva - Former Allies
*Chinese Triad
**China White
*ARGUS
**Amanda Waller - Former Associate, Tormentor and Enemy
*Konstantine Kovar † - Victim
*Danny Brickwell
*Bertinelli Crime Family
**Frank Bertinelli
**Nick Salvati - Kidnapper
*Vandal Savage - Attempted Victim
*Cecil Adams/The Count/Count Vertigo
*Tobias Church/Charon
*Justin Claybourne † - Victim
*Joseph Falk/The Savior
*Church of Blood
**Sebastian Blood/Brother Blood † - Former Friend turned Enemy
**Cyrus Gold † - Attempted Killer and Victim
**Clinton Hogue/Brother Blood †
**Isabel Rochev/Ravage - Former Fling and Attempted Killer
*Lonnie Machin
*Adam Donner
*Barton Mathis/The Dollmaker
*Xavier Reed/Mayor †
*Mark Scheffer
*Officer Dailey
*William Tockman
*Roy G. Bivolvo/Rainbow Raider
*League of Assassins - Former Enemies
**Ra's al Ghul † - Attempted Killer, Former Mentor and Victim
**Maseo Yamashiro/Sarab - Former Handler, Friend and Ally
**Al-Owal
**Thanatos Guild 
***Athena † - Attempted Killer and Accidental Victim
*Carrie Cutler/Cupid - Rescuee, Former Obsessive Idolizer and Attempted Killer
*Eobard Thawne/Reverse-Flash - Former Ally, and Attempted Killer
*HIVE 
**Damien Darhk
**Andy Diggle
**Ruvé Darhk
*Ricardo Diaz †
*Dominators
*Prometheus' Team 
**Adrian Chase/Prometheus
**Evelyn Sharp - Former Ally
**Digger Harkness †
*A.M.A.Z.O.
*Joe Wilson/Jackal
*John Deegan
*Vincent Sobel/Vigilante - Former Attempted Killer
*Cayden James - Former Attempted Killer
*Earth-X Invaders
**Oliver Queen/Dark Arrow - Alternate Self and Victim
**Kara Queen/Overgirl
**Tommy Merlyn/Prometheus X
*Dark Archer's Team 
**Dinah Drake 
**Rene Ramirez 
*Mobius/Anti-Monitor
**Shadow Demons
*Grant Wilson/Deathstroke
*Ninth Circle
**Dante †
**Beatrice
**Virgil
*Longbow Hunters
*Ramsey Rosso/Bloodwork
*Magog's team 
**William Poulter/Magog
**Clayface
**Kal-El 
*FBI
**Samanda Watson - Former Enemy
==Acts==
Oliver Queen (Arrowverse)/Relationships
==Gallery==
==Trivia==
*Oliver is the seventh character in the Arrowverse to be brought back to life without time travel, after Sara, Kuasa, Roy Harper, Otis Graves, Nate Heywood, and Lex Luthor.
*Oliver is right-handed, at least while fighting. When he is in a serious close combat, Oliver will switch his bow from his shooting hand (left hand) to his fighting hand (right hand) and use it as a staff. However, Oliver always uses his right hand to pull back on the arrow.
*According to Supergirl, Green Arrow does not exist on her Earth. This implies that if Oliver even has a doppelgänger on that Earth, he never became Green Arrow, or if he is a vigilante in that universe, he has a different alias.
*Oliver's most recent codename, Green Arrow, was interestingly suggested by Malcolm back in the Season 1 episode "Year's End",
*This version of Oliver Queen is very similar to Batman, being a brooding, cold, serious hero, in contrast to comic book Oliver's light-hearted and wisecracking demeanor. However this change is likely due to contradicting personalities between Oliver and Barry, and how Oliver from the Arrowverse is similar to the one from Smallville.
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