Oliver Queen

* Civilian
* Green Arrow

A.R.G.U.S. Agent (formerly)

Inmate at Slabside Maximum Penitentiary (formerly)

Mayor of Star City (formerly)

CEO of Queen Consolidated (formerly)

Owner of Verdant (formerly)

Leader of The Trio (formerly)

Member of the Bratva (formerly)

Member of the League of Assassins (formerly)

Emiko Queen (paternal half-sister)

Laurel Lance (wife)

Connor Lance-Queen (son)

**Oliver Queen** (May 16th, 1985 - December 20th, 2019) is the son of Robert and Moira Queen and CEO of Queen industries. Oliver lost his parents in a plane crash which resulted in the young Oliver turning into a delinquent, with a lifestyle of women, drinking, and partying. Lost from society after his family's yacht sank, Oliver made it to the island of Lian Yu, where he went on a mission of survival and self-discovery, learning skills that include, and aren't limited to archery, swordsmanship, hand-hand combat, etc. After being presumed dead and lost at sea for five years, Oliver returned home with a mission to save his city from crime and corruption as the hero **Green Arrow**. After nearly a decade of fighting against evil, Oliver heroically sacrificed himself during Crisis on Infinite Earths.

## History

### Early Life

Oliver Queen was born in Star City into the esteemed Queen family to his parents; billionaires Robert and Moira Queen. When he was seven years old, Oliver met and befriended Tommy Merlyn, who would become his lifelong best friend and the two later became acquainted with Laurel Lance. Oliver's parents died in a plane-crash but unbeknownst to him his mother had survived.

Once Oliver entered his late teens and early 20s, he started sleeping around with other women and got into multiple social scandals by himself or with Tommy, including assaulting a paparazzi bystander, driving while intoxicated, stealing a taxi, urinating on a police officer, and using a helicopter to impress Maria Sharapova at the U.S. Open. At some point, Oliver and Tommy became acquainted with McKenna Hall and met Laurel's sister, Sara. Oliver's education was chaotic as well; he dropped out of four Ivy League schools, not even bothering to tell his parents about the last one until sometime after. Additionally, he mentioned that the only book he ever bothered to read in college was The Odyssey.

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. Robert also taught Oliver how to fly a plane. As a teenager, Oliver used these skills to hot-wire Malcolm Merlyn's car four times, which resulted in him getting grounded for an entire summer.

At some point in 2006, Oliver indirectly ran into Simon Morrison when he successfully stole the latter's girlfriend, though he would later forget about this. Some time after this in 2007, Oliver struck up a relationship with Sara Lance, something both Quentin and Laurel disapproved of, as Sara was much more serious about their relationship than Oliver. This only worsened when Oliver began cheating on her in an effort to back out of the commitment. In one instance, Oliver slept with a college classmate, Sandra Hawke, and accidentally got her pregnant. Distressed, Oliver shared the news with Malcom Merlyn, worried about his future. Unbeknownst to him, Malcom stepped in and paid off Sandra to raise the child in Central City, lie to Oliver that she miscarried, and never speak to him again. Oliver was both saddened and relieved upon learning of his dashed fatherhood, unaware of the truth.

Oliver began to regret cheating on Sara with Sandra and invited her to join him on his father's three-week trip on the Queen's Gambit.

### Lian Yu

While on the Queen's Gambit, Oliver was in bed with Sara when the yacht (having been sabotaged) suddenly sank. He witnessed Sara being swooped away by the rushing water before being pulled under. Oliver eventually resurfaced from the ocean on a life-raft, crying out for Sara.

Sometime later, Oliver washed ashore upon an island, where he built a makeshift hut to spend the night in. The next morning, Oliver spotted birds descending on his father's body and rushed to shield him, only to suddenly vomit upon touching Robert's hand. While burying his father, Oliver found a notebook with a strange symbol filled with seemingly blank pages in his pocket. Immediately after, a hooded man named Yao Fei Gulong ambushed Oliver and shot an arrow into his shoulder. Oliver screamed in pain before collapsing and passing out.

Oliver awoke some time later in Natas' camp, where he tended to Oliver's wound. Later, when the man fell asleep, Oliver tried to flee, only to trigger a snare. Natas soon arrived, cutting him down and leaving Oliver with a warning of the island's dangers. Oliver was left with no other choice but to follow him. Shortly after they left, trap which Oliver sprung unknowingly attracted the attention of a group of armed masked men, who examined it.

Oliver accompanied Natas hunting one day. When Natas killed a rabbit for dinner, Oliver refused to touch the body and tried to shoot with Natas' bow as per his instructions. He managed to successfully launch an arrow but missed his intended target, a tree. Oliver then went to retrieve the arrow and dead rabbit, but was ambushed and captured by a group of armed men, who imprisoned him in an underground cage. Terrified, Oliver attempted to beg for his life, to no avail. They brought Oliver to their camp, where he was then interrogated by their leader, Edward Fyers. Fyers showed him a picture of Natas, asking if Oliver had seen him, revealing the man's name as well as the island's: Lian Yu (meaning "purgatory" in Mandarin). Oliver denied any knowledge of Natas in order to protect him. Not believing him, Fyers ordered an an employee named Ricardo Diaz of his to extract information from Oliver. The man tortured Oliver by slicing his torso with a katana. Despite the pain, Oliver refused to divulge anything. After a period of time, Natas barged in, rescuing a severely injured Oliver and bringing him back to the cave. He then left to lead Fyers' men away from their hideout, but not before telling Oliver to survive, and sealing the entrance to prevent Oliver from following him.

Injured and alone in the cave, Oliver began began burning the pages of his father's book to keep a fire going. He suddenly experienced a hallucination of Robert telling him to survive despite Oliver's contemplating suicide, otherwise Robert's sacrifice would have been for nothing. After awakening, Oliver tore another page out of the book, but just as he was about to throw it onto the fire, the heat from the flames causes letters to appear on the paper. He proceeded to do the same with other pages, and various names began to appear on the pages. Oliver then promised the hallucination of his father that he would live up to this responsibility.

Natas returned a while later, bringing with him a captured Fyers. He told Oliver that Fyers had a plane that could take them off the island. They made their way through the woods until they were ambushed by Diaz and Fyers' men, with Fyers admitting how convenient it appeared to be that Natas captured him so easily. Yao Fei told Oliver to run and began fighting the men. Unfortunately, he was defeated and knocked unconscious. From a safe distance, Oliver watched them take Natas and then ran away.

One of Fyers' men continued to search for Oliver after Natas was captured. Armed with only a knife, Oliver was eventually forced to confront him. The skirmish resulted in them tumbling and falling down into a stream. The soldier landed hard on a rock while Oliver ended up in the water. He managed to swim out and donned the uniform of the dead man, finding a set of keys and a map of the island in one of the pockets. Using the map, Oliver found his way to the camp where Fyers and his men were based. There, unfortunately accompanied by Fyers (who didn't seem to recognize him due to wearing a balaclava) he managed to make his way to where Natas was being held prisoner, but once there, Fyers knocked down Oliver and put him in one of the cells. When he came to, Fyers told him he'd known who he was because of his eyes, which tell everything about a person, which was the reason why his men all wore balaclavas. Fyers then rebuked Oliver for putting his trust in the wrong people, specifically Natas. He motioned to the soldier next to him, who had been the first to talk to Oliver upon his arrival in the camp. The soldier took off his balaclava and revealed himself to be in fact Natas, who had began working for Fyers. Natas proceeded to seemingly kill Oliver in a fighting circle, however he secretly used a technique in order to fake Oliver's death. As he hit the water, Oliver was revived and swam to shore. In his pocket, he found a map with a route marked out. Oliver proceeded to follow the route, leading to an abandoned plane

Before he could do anything, a man jumped down, threatening to kill him. Oliver told him that he was sent by Natas, and the man seemed to drop his suspicions, introducing himself as Richard Drakunovski. Richard then told Oliver that there was an airfield, and he and Yao Fei had been observing it for months, that they were going to get off the island together. He then threw a sword to Oliver and told him of his belief that Natas sent Oliver to him because he knew that he could not take the air field alone. Richard then challenged Oliver to a brief sword fight in order to gauge Oliver's fighting skills. He was unimpressed, significantly beating Oliver, and told him how he fought much worse than a girl. Richard then knocked him out. Oliver woke, tied to a chair. Diaz, in order to keep his location secret, decided to kill Oliver, however Oliver managed to escape his bonds by breaking his hand, and then punched Diaz in the face. Amused, Richard thought that there might have been a fighter inside of Oliver after all and decided to train Oliver instead.

Richard reveals that he and Ricardo Diaz were agents of a global organization sent to locate Natas. Their operation, known as Operation: Dragon, had to objective of locating Natas' daughter, Shado, who had become a wanted assassin. Richard and Oliver then storm the camp to rescue Natas from Fyers. While Richard battles Diaz, Natas reveals that Fyers located and kidnapped his daughter and is holding her hostage. Richard overpowered his former friend and killed him, but is shot just after. Forced to flee, Oliver carries Richard back to their camp and remembers Yao’s herbs that once healed him. He returns to Natas' cave to retrieve them and is able to get back in time to save Richard’s life. Oliver once again shows he can be an asset. That was also clear on this week’s episode when Oliver was able to fix the plane’s broken CB radio. Although he succeeds, unfortunately they can not communicate – the radio works but they can’t call out. They were annoyed at first, until Richard realizes the radio could be useful.

After listening for a while, the two learned that Fyers had ordered the shipment of a missile launcher big enough to destroy an entire army. Oliver and Richard were able to sneak in to Fyers' compound, where they stole the launcher's ignition chip. They called Fyers on his radio and told him that they would return the chip in exchange for a way off of the island. The two rescue Shado who decided to begin teaching Oliver archery so that he could help them defeat Fyers. She proceeded to get him to fill a bowl with water, and then continuously slap it. After a while, Oliver became frustrated and asked Shado the purpose of the exercise, and she showed him that because he had spent so long slapping the water, he then had the strength in his hands to pull back a bow.

The trio were then captured by Fyers men. Fyers revealed that the reason he was on the island was because he and his men were hired to shoot down a Ferris Aircraft on its way to China, thus destroying China's economy. Fyers then threatened to kill Shado if Natas did not film a video taking responsibility for the terrorist attack. After reluctance, Natas agreed, but subtly handed Oliver a knife. After filming the video, Fyers shot Natas in the head, killing him. Just as Fyers and his men prepared to fire the missile, Oliver cut himself free using Natas' knife, and he, Richard, and Shado, fought Fyers and his men. Fyers, however, was able to get the missile fired at the plane, and Oliver and Shado went to manually redirect the missile while Richard covered them. Just as Shado was about to place the chip inside the switchboard, she was attacked from behind, and Oliver managed to redirect the missile, which hit Fyers' compound instead, with both Richard and Shado still there. Oliver went to search for them, and found Richard alive, but then turned around to see that Fyers was still alive and had Shado in his custody. Oliver found Natas' wooden compound bow and arrow, and pointed it at Fyers, who mused about how his meticulously-executed plan over the past two years was undone by a shipwrecked boy, and admitted that he would've gotten him off of the island if Oliver had stopped messing with Fyers' plans. Before Fyers could make a move, Oliver shot an arrow at his throat, killing him.

### The Mirakuru

Months later, Oliver had noticeably improved in his combat tactics, as noted by both Richard and Shado. The three of them soon discovered another group of people on the island, and went to track them down. However, Shado was soon abducted by the group, forcing Oliver and Richard to try and rescue her. They soon found her being interrogated by a group of pirates, who were asking her where to find "bodies." Richard told Oliver to wait for his signal to attack, but Oliver, unable to watch Shado be tortured, attacked them impulsively. While Slade fended off the other pirates, Oliver brutally murdered their leader out of rage, shocking both Richard and Shado.

The three of them soon found skeletal remains of Japanese soldiers from World War II, determining that they were the very same bodies that the pirates were looking for. They also deduced that more people were likely to follow, and so they took one of the bodies back to the plane. As Shado examined the body, Slade and Oliver went to find a strategic point to watch from, if more pirates were to appear. Richard emphasized his point about Shado, though Oliver ignored him. When finally the two reached the top of a mountain, they discovered that the pirates had come from a large ship just off the coast of Lian Yu. They soon spotted a number of missiles coming from the ship, clearly aimed for their compound. Oliver and Richard raced back to the plane, however as soon as they approached, they were both knocked out by the explosion of missiles. Oliver quickly saw Richard some distance off with his hands and face on fire, then fainted.

Oliver woke up sometime later, imprisoned in a cell, surrounded by several other people. As he awoke, Oliver was approached by the surviving pirate that interrogated Shado. The man asked him who his friends were and whether any of them knew the location of the graves. Refusing to answer, the man gave him two options: he could give him answers, or he could be tortured, though both would ultimately end in death. Oliver obstinately refuses to reveal anything, and the man shot him in the stomach. Oliver was soon given tools and medicinal tools to remove the bullet. Oliver was prompted to ask a nearby prisoner, later revealed as Anatoly Knyazev, as to why the incident occurred. He explained that it was to see if he was strong enough to survive, and showed a scar from the identical injury. Oliver eventually removed the bullet, to immense pain, and the pirate soon came back to find Oliver surviving. "The Swiss" asked him again if he knew of the location of the Japanese bodies and although Oliver didn't say a word, the Swiss inferred that they were in fact on the correct island.