Barry Queen (Earth-4528)

## Bartholomew Henry Queen

* Civilian
* Green Arrow
* Dark Arrow
* Spectre

### Status

Alive (resurrected; when his brother was in danger and was supposed to only be temporality resurrected, but stayed on Earth)

## Affiliations

### Husband/Wife and Kids

* Becky Cooper (ex-girlfriend; mother of daughter)
* Ella Fuller (one-night-stand; mother of daughter)
* Sara Lance (future wife)
* Eobard Allen (son, old timeline)
* Dawn Cooper (daughter)
* Isabella Fuller (daughter)
* Nora Queen (future daughter)
* Daniel Queen (future son)

### Relatives

* **The Allen Family**
	+ Henry Allen (father)
	+ Nora Allen (mother)
	+ Malcolm Allen (twin brother)
* **The Queen Family**
	+ Robert Queen (adoptive father)
	+ Moira Queen (adoptive mother)
	+ Walter Steele (adoptive stepfather)
	+ Oliver Queen (adoptive brother)
	+ Nyssa Queen (adoptive sister-in-law)
	+ Thea Queen (adoptive half-sister)
	+ Emiko Queen (adoptive half-sister)

### Alter ego

**Spectre**
**Green Arrow**
**Venom** (alternate personality)
**Dark Arrow** (alternate personality's alter-ego)
**Ra's al Ghul** (briefly)
**Al Sah-him** (formerly)
**The Arrow** (formerly)
**Green Hood** (formerly)
**The Flash** (original timeline; formerly)

### Code name

**Overwatch** (briefly; along with Venom)

### Occupation

* **New Multiverse**
	+ Vigilante (deputized; formerly)
	+ Leader of Team Arrow (formerly)
	+ Mayor of Star City (formerly; impeached)
	+ Member of The Trinity (formerly)
	+ Captain of the Solntsevskaya Bratva (in secret; formerly)
	+ A.R.G.U.S. operative (formerly)
	+ Shadowspire operative (infiltrator; formerly)
	+ Owner of Verdant (formerly)
	+ Co-CEO of Queen Consolidated (formerly)
	+ Leader of the League of Assassins (briefly; formerly)
	+ Inmate of Slabside Maximum Security Prison (formerly)
	+ Member of Trigger Twins (altered reality)
	+ Leader of Team Cobalt (altered reality; in secret; formerly)

### Other Affiliations

* **New Multiverse**
	+ Team Arrow (formerly)
	+ Star City Police Department (formerly)
	+ The Trinity (formerly)
	+ Solntsevskaya Bratva (in secret; formerly)
	+ A.R.G.U.S. (formerly)
	+ Shadowspire (infiltrator; formerly)
	+ Verdant (formerly)
	+ Queen Consolidated (formerly)
	+ League of Assassins (briefly; formerly)
	+ Slabside Maximum Security Prison (formerly)
	+ Trigger Twins (altered reality)
	+ Team Cobalt (altered reality; in secret; formerly)

## Appearances

### Last Appearance

*TBA*

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* 2

> I thought coming here would bring up so many bad memories, but I got to see my parents again. Thank you, Eobard. For giving me that chance. I love you, son. I'm sorry, for forgetting about you. Change the timeline. Reveal yourself to me, change it so that I can still have you."
>
> -*Barry Queen* in the original timeline to Eobard Allen/Reverse-Flash.

> You have failed this city!"
>
> **Barry Queen** says as **the Green Hood/Arrow/Green Arrow** to criminals

**Bartholomew Henry "Barry" Queen** (née **Allen**; born March 14th, 1989) is a billionaire and former playboy, turned archer superhero of Star City, and the leader of Team Arrow. He is the son of Henry and the late Nora Allen, the adopted son of the late Robert and Moira Queen, the adopted younger brother of Oliver Queen, the adopted older half-brother of Thea Queen, the adopted ex-stepson of Walter Steele, the grandfather/archenemy of EJ Thawne (commonly known as the **Reverse-Flash**), the father of Dawn Cooper, Isabella Fuller, Nora and Daniel Queen. He is the ex-boyfriend of Shado, the good friend of the late Laurel Lance-Queen, and the adoptive brother-in-law of Nyssa Queen. He is the best friend of Cisco Ramon, Tommy Merlyn, and John Diggle, the good friend of Wally West, Quentin Lance, Roy Harper, Lyla Michaels, Anatoly Knyazev, Ray Palmer, Kara Danvers, Rene Ramirez, Dinah Drake, and Curtis Holt.

Barry's mother was murdered when he was 10 years old on March 18, 1999 and the blame was wrongfully placed on his father. He was taken in by Robert and Moira Queen and become apart of their family and become famous. Barry was lost from society after his family's yacht sank and 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. He traveled to China and Russia on missions as an agent of A.R.G.U.S. for some time, became a member of the Solntsevskaya Bratva known as **Kapot** (Russian for *Car Hood*), and the murderous vigilante **Luchnik**/**Kapiushon** (Russian for *Archer*/*Hood*). After being presumed dead and lost at sea for five years, Barry returned home with a mission to save his city from crime and corruption. He began his crusade as an archer who would eventually become known as **the Hood**, **Starling City Vigilante**, or simply **the Vigilante**. As the Hood, Barry was willing to use lethal force by targeting members on his father's list.

## History

### New Multiverse

#### Original Timeline

##### Barry's Life and the Reverse-Flash

Barry Allen was born to Henry and Nora Allen, along with his twin that died at childbirth. In this timeline Barry's mother never died that night on March 18, 1999, and he had children. This Barry was known as **The Flash** and stylized as the "**Scarlet Speedster**". He had a son, Eobard Allen with Bree Cooper. She had died of cancer in the Original timeline, then when he married Patty Spivot and had twins with her named Dawn and Don Allen. After a while Barry started to show love more to his wife and his newly born twins and didn't pay attention to his son Eobard. His mother died of old age along with his father.

Then after his son was struck by lightning that connected him to the Negative Speed Force, and Eobard tried to deny his destiny as his father's archenemy. Then one faithful night, Eobard decided to change fate and went back in time to March 18, 2000, where he stopped blocks away from his father's old childhood home. Barry stopped near Eobard telling him that he didn't need to do this and Eobard started to tell him why he became the Reverse-Flash. Barry was shocked to learn that he did all this, just cause He didn't show Eobard love.

He told Eobard that he should have put the pieces together of who the Reverse-Flash was, and he told him that it was too late and now he will know what it's like to be abandoned and forgotten. Eobard runs off and Barry chases him. They got into a fight around Nora Allen and they landed hits against one another. Then Eobard tried to kill young ***Barry Allen*** who in this timeline will be adopted by the Queen Family. Barry got his younger self out of there and Eobard killed Nora Allen. And he saw his son on the ground alone. He stopped and he asked why he let him kill his grandmother. Barry told him that it was meant to happen and that he needs to change the timeline so that this Barry will love Eobard no matter what so he could keep him as his son. Then Barry disappeared within a blue light and was never seen again.

#### New Timeline

This Barry was raised by his parents till he was 10 years old, due to the Reverse-Flash killing his mother. And in this timeline his twin is alive and is taken in by the Thawne's who is named Malcolm Thawne (who is the future enemy known as the **Cobalt Blue**). After Joe West had taken him in for a while, but due to this timeline changing, this Barry was friends with Oliver Queen and his parents, Robert and Moira Queen took in Barry as their own child and he became famous in Starling City. Barry had learned of his twin, Malcolm when he had left Joe's house and he wanted to meet Malcolm, but couldn't as the Queen's were waiting for him.

When he was eleven years old, Barry met and befriended Tommy Merlyn and later, Laurel Lance, both who would become his lifelong best friends. Barry had a younger adopted sister, Thea, whom he was very close to and protective of. He and Oliver nicknamed Thea "Speedy" since he and Oliver always chased after her when she was a kid. Every Christmas, Barry, Oliver and Thea would race to see who could eat the holiday candy canes the fastest. While learning how to drive, Oliver once chipped the side paint off of his adopted father's Maserati.

Once Barry 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 and Oliver, 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, Barry, Oliver and Tommy became acquainted with McKenna Hall and met Laurel's sister, Sara. Oliver's and Barry's education was chaotic as well; they dropped out of four Ivy League schools, and Barry went to Central City Community College and finished his years there early as he was smart, not even bothering to tell his parents about the last one until sometime after. Additionally, Oliver mentioned that the only book he ever bothered to read in college was *The Odyssey*, and Barry remembered reading it as well.

However, Oliver and Barry did have some engineering skills due to working with his adopted father, who was an aspiring pilot and sometimes performed his own maintenance with his adopted son. Robert also taught Oliver and Barry how to operate a plane and the two often went flying together. As a teenager, Oliver used these abilities to hot-wire Malcolm Merlyn's car four times, which resulted in him getting grounded for an entire summer along with Barry. Then at some point Barry had two kids in the early 2000's that he didn't know about, Dawn and Isabella.

Then in 2007, Barry started to date Sara Lance, knowing that Laurel liked him, but Sara wanted to give them a shot so he did, and they kept their relationship secret for a long time, and that's when they went on the *Queen's Gambit*, for a three week trip with his adopted father and Sara. Oliver was originally supposed to go, but decided not to and Robert asked Barry if he wanted to. Before he boarded the *Gambit*, Laurel visited Barry to say goodbye and gave him a photograph of herself for when he got lonely overseas.

##### Shipwrecked on Lian Yu

That night on the *Queen's Gambit*, Barry was in bed with Sara as they drank wine and flirted. Suddenly, the yacht (having been sabotaged) sank. Barry witnessed Sara being swooped away by the rushing water before being pulled under. He eventually resurfaced from the ocean with Robert and a crew member, Dave Hackett, dragging him into a life raft, the three of them being the only known survivors. Barry tried to go back and look for Sara, but Robert told him it was too late, much to his devastation. After days of drifting at sea and running low on provisions, Robert realized that there was enough for maybe one person and chose to give his son a chance at survival. He revealed to Barry that their family's wealth had been built on the suffering of others and he was not the man his son thought he was. Robert urged his son to right his wrongs and be better than he was. He then took out a gun and proceeded to shoot Hackett, much to Barry's horror, before turning it on himself. Robert told Barry once last time, "Survive" before shooting himself amidst his son's pleas.

Sometime later, Barry washed ashore upon an island, where he built a makeshift hut to spend the night in. The next morning, He spotted birds descending on his father's body and frantically rushed to shield him, only to suddenly vomit upon touching Robert's hand. While burying his father's body, Barry 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 Barry and shot an arrow into his shoulder. Barry screamed in pain before collapsing and passing out.

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

Over the next few days, Barry spent most of his time gazing at his picture of Laurel until Yeo Fei brought him a bird trapped in a cage. Barry was confused, to which Yao Fei simply repeated, "Shēngcún", gesturing him to kill the bird if he wanted to eat. Horrified at the thought, Barry refused at first but later, driven by hunger, he reluctantly broke the bird's neck. While eating, Yao Fei told Barry that his mantra, "Shēngcún", means to survive. Yao Fei warned that Barry would be forced to take more lives in the future, and advised him to forget about Laurel if he wanted to survive on the island.

Barry accompanied Yao Fei hunting one day. When Yao Fei killed a rabbit for dinner, Barry refused to touch the body and tried to shoot with Yao Fei's bow as per his instructions. He managed to successfully launch an arrow but missed his intended target, a tree. Barry 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, Barry attempted to beg for his life, to no avail. They brought Barry to their camp, where he was then interrogated by their leader, Edward Fyers. Fyers showed him a picture of Yao Fei, asking if Barry had seen him, revealing the man's name as well as the island's; Lian Yu (meaning "purgatory" in Mandarin) Barry denied any knowledge of Yao Fei in order to protect him. Not believing him, Fyers ordered an an employee of his to extract information from Barry.

The man tortured Barry by slicing his torso with a katana. Despite the pain, Barry refused to divulge anything. After a period of time, Yao Fei barged in, rescuing a severely injured Barry and bringing him back to the cave. He then left to lead Fyers' men away from their hideout, but not before telling Barry to survive, and sealing the entrance to prevent Barry from following him.

Injured and alone in the cave, Barry 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 Barry's contemplating suicide, otherwise Robert's sacrifice would have been for nothing. After awakening, Barry 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. Barry then promised the hallucination of his father that he would live up to this responsibility.

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

One of Fyers' men continued to search for Barry after Yao Fei was captured. Armed with only a knife, Barry 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 Barry 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, Barry 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 Yao Fei was being held prisoner, but once there, Fyers knocked down Barry 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 Barry for putting his trust in the wrong people, specifically Yao Fei. He motioned to the soldier next to him, who had been the first to talk to Barry upon his arrival in the camp. The soldier took off his balaclava and revealed himself to be in fact Yao Fei, who had began working for Fyers. Yao Fei proceeded to seemingly kill Barry in a fighting circle, however he secretly used a technique in order to fake Barry's death. As he hit the water, Barry was revived and swam to shore. In his pocket, he found a map with a route marked out. Barry proceeded to follow the route, leading to an abandoned plane.

Before he could do a thing, a man jumped down, threatening to kill him. Barry told him that he was sent by Yao Fei, and the man seemed to drop his suspicions, introducing himself as Slade Wilson. Slade then told Barry 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 Barry and told him of his belief that Yao Fei sent Barry to him because he knew that he could not take the air field alone. Slade then challenged Barry to a brief sword fight in order to gauge Barry's fighting skills. He was unimpressed, significantly beating Barry and told him how he fought much worse than a girl.

Slade then knocked him out. Barry woke, tied to a chair. Slade, in order to keep his location secret, decided to kill Barry, however, Barry managed to escape his bonds by breaking his hand, and then punched Slade in the face. Amused, Slade thought that there might have been a fighter inside of Barry after all and decided to train Barry instead. As Barry went to choose a weapon, he found a bi-colored solid black and orange fabric mask, identical to the one worn by the man who had tortured him under Fyers' orders. When questioned about this, Slade explained that he and his old partner, and former friend, wore the same mask, that they had come to the island to rescue Yao as a mission from the Australian Secret Intelligence Service.

The two progressively fought over an unspecified amount of time. Barry almost gave up, though was quickly re-motivated by Slade. When the time came, the two of them made their way to Edward's camp, and ultimately the airstrip to a ride home. They set up camp, and Barry tried to start a fire for several hours, before Slade pulled out a lighter and helped, bemused at Barry's anger. In return, Slade reminisced about his and his partner, Billy Wintergreen's, arrival on the island.

A day or so later, Barry accidentally stepped on a land mine left over from a previous war. Slade ran to hide as a group of soldiers approached a masked Barry. Barry explained his situation, as Slade had deserted him, and they surveyed the mine. Suddenly, Slade jumped from his hiding spot, slicing through the soldiers with his sword, replacing Barry with one of them. They continued towards the camp, finally reaching it at dark. Barry, aided by Slade's sniping, raced stealthily to the communications tower. He attempted to quietly take out the only man in there, only resulting in having a gun pointed at his face. He tried to remove it, but his technique failed. Luckily, Slade reached him just in time, stabbing the man through the gut. They were able to contact the plane, allowing it clearance to land.

Slade left Barry on his own and Barry, seeing his chance, grabbed a phone and called Laurel, hoping to make up for his wrongdoings. Before he could speak, Slade returned and stopped him, reminding him that it could be monitored. After a short argument, Barry went to find Yao Fei and rescue him. Yao Fei explained that he was only staying for a person. Fyers and Wintergreen entered the tent, leading Yao Fei to knock out Barry. When Barry came to, he was forced into the middle of a circle. After questioning Fyers, he discovered that he meant for Wintergreen to kill him.

Before this could happen, Slade caused a distraction so that he could snipe several soldiers and Barry could run to safety. Barry watched as Slade and Wintergreen faced off, with Slade overpowering his former friend. As they were leaving, Slade was shot. Barry helped to protect them as they left, finally knocking out his first soldier with the move Slade had shown him earlier. When they reached Slade's plane, Barry helped remove the bullet in Slade's arm. He then joked that his only friend on the island was named "Wilson".

Later, Barry checked Slade's wound and found that it was infected. He recalled the herbs that Yao Fei had given him that prevented infection from his arrow wound and offered to go get them. Slade said that he wouldn't last an hour out there, and Barry believed that he could get them in 45 minutes. He then went to Yao Fei's cave, discovering a man tied up there. The man explains that he was the only survivor of a shipwreck, like Barry, and had discovered Fyers' soldiers, whom had beaten and taken him to the cave. Barry, believing it to be a trap, grabbed the herbs and left the man there, returning to Slade with the herbs. Barry began working on a broken down radio transmitter to find a way to get off the island with Slade.

After working on it for a while, they were able to hear conversations between radios, but unable to communicate back. 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. Barry and Slade 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.

Barry and Slade soon met with Fyers, who quickly backed down from their deal by revealing to them that he would kill Shado, Yao Fei's daughter, if they did not give him the chip. Barry then realized that it was because of Shado that Yao Fei joined Fyers' cause. Barry and Slade escaped with Shado in tow, but soon learned that Fyers' men had found the chip while they had rendezvoused with Fyers, and had taken it back. Shado then told them how she knew of Fyers' plan. Shado decided to begin teaching Barry 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, Barry 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. She then told him that he had to learn how to shoot, during which the two grew closer romantically despite Barry confessing that he was in love with Laurel despite it being complicated to Shado. After learning how to shoot, the three were shocked to see Yao Fei arrive at their compound. However, he was promptly forced to reveal that he had brought Fyers' soldiers along with him.

The soldiers brought the three of them to Fyers' compound, where Barry saw that one of the soldiers was the young man who he had met in the cave who had claimed to be trapped there. 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 Yao Fei did not film a video taking responsibility for the terrorist attack. After reluctance, Yao Fei agreed, but subtly handed Barry a knife. After filming the video, Fyers shot Yao Fei in the head, killing him. Just as Fyers and his men prepared to fire the missile, Barry cut himself free using Yao Fei's knife, and he, Slade, and Shado, fought Fyers and his men. Fyers, however, was able to get the missile fired at the plane, and Barry and Shado went to manually redirect the missile while Slade covered them.

Just as Shado was about to place the chip inside the switchboard, she was attacked from behind, and Barry managed to redirect the missile, which hit Fyers' compound instead, with both Slade and Shado still there. Barry went to search for them, and found Slade alive, but then turned around to see that Fyers was still alive and had Shado in his custody. Barry found Yao Fei's 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 Barry had stopped messing with Fyers' plans. Before Fyers could make a move, Barry shot an arrow at his throat, killing him.

## Personality

* As a civilian
* as the Hood/Arrow
* As Green Arrow

Barry is described as someone who complements Felicity Smoak's intellect level, both when it comes to forensics, as she claims it's not her strong suit and science in general. He is also someone who is regularly late as he missed a train and cab all to get to Queen Consolidated's warehouse and missed the last train back to Central City. He is also considered a comic geek.

Much like Oliver Queen, Barry has a strong sense of justice; due to the fact that he knows that his father, Henry Allen is innocent of a crime that he was convicted of, he joins the forensics department to both learn how to investigate crimes and study cases with unexplained elements, to prove his personal account of his mother, Nora Allen's murder true and ultimately, free his father. Barry is very intelligent, like Felicity, he is socially awkward; as he sometimes gets nervous and babbles.

Barry has good morals; for example, he does not like to lie about who he really is, like when he first met, Oliver, Felicity and Quentin Lance, as he told them that he was a forensic scientist, this was only because he knew they wouldn't take him very seriously if they knew that he was only an assistant forensic scientist (at the time) when Oliver confronted him, after he found out who Barry really is, he did not try to deny it, but explained the reason why he did it.

Upon revealing to the world he was alive after 5 years of being marooned, Oliver masked how he had matured by using the same playboy image he was before. In reality, he had become a stern, disciplined, and responsible. From which, he showed a very intelligent, calculating, and tactical approach to each of his exploits. This newfound maturity and made him always look out for those he cared for, with a newly defined sense of loyalty and service, moral compass and an indomitable will, though a severely traumatized and damaged individual.

Oliver was immensely disciplined emotionally, he excels at masking and compartmentalizing his emotions, he has both a dry and sarcastic sense of humor, Oliver is also very intelligent and calculating in regards to others; he is quick to take notice of talented individuals that show aptitude in secrecy, and when the opportunity presented itself invites such individuals to join his crusade. The first was John Diggle, who noticed Oliver was more capable than he was letting on. Eventually, John became his first partner. Secondly, he took notice of Felicity Smoak who's obviously not quick to accept his blatant lies.

Oliver was immensely talented in the area of subterfuge and deception. He cleverly covered his tracks by opening a night club to explain his nightly escapees while actually fulfilling his duties as the Hood and staged a public ruse in having himself arrested under significant suspicion of being the Hood while having John simultaneously pose as a decoy so to out himself. Oliver admits that he does not like lying to his friends and family about his double life, that it hurts no one anymore than it hurts him. He justifies he only does it to protect them from his secret life as the Starling City Vigilante.

Oliver coldly began his vigilante crusade by hunting down and punishing the high-profile criminals on the List, by being a symbol of retribution and fear, known as the Hood. After being convinced by John, Oliver agreed to branch out in taking down regular criminals, such as the Royal Flush Gang and Cecil Adams. He has a sense of justice and honor, and is nearly fearless. His temper is well controlled, and as he is proven to haves a high level of restraint.

When Oliver returned home, after his 5 years of fighting for survival, he was emotionally damaged, riddled with post traumatic stress and survivor's guilt; he wore the green hood in his vigilante guise in penance for Shado's death. Oliver himself described his state of mind back then as "having no sense of hope". He outright murdered a criminal who abducted him and Tommy simply to keep his new talents secret, justifying that the man shot an innocent bystander. Also he is prone to emotional outbursts when the situation involves someone he holds dear such as when he overdosed the Count with his own Vertigo as revenge for his self-made drug coming into Thea's hands and her getting high, leading to her accident. Despite this, Oliver feels guilt, shame, remorse and tries to atone for his actions.

When Oliver began his crusade, he was comfortable with killing his targets if he deemed it necessary, and wasn't afraid to torture suspects for information. Though Oliver was ruthless during his crusade's earlier days, taking lives actually took a toll on him. He admits that his more extreme measures, sometimes torturing people, "takes conviction". Despite this, Oliver did display humanity for people who were crippled, such as Garfield Lynns. Instead of killing him, Oliver displayed rare sympathy for Garfield and offered him help.

Oliver tended to be morally myopic. He targets vigilantes with no morals nor codes, who kill solely for personal revenge or money. Whenever he encounters these types of criminals, who often say they are the same, he fervently correct them. After taking John and Felicity on his crusade, working with them steers him down a less lethal path, he learns to reconnect with people he cares for, with his humanity.

Oliver could be very stubborn and prideful to the point that he doesn't like to admit when he was wrong; only doing it when he was faced with cold hard facts. Due to Oliver's stubborn and prideful traits; he isn't likely to learn from his mistakes; until experiencing them first hand.

Despite Oliver's newer, tough and more honorable exterior, he was still arrogant; albeit slightly, believing that he could mend Helena Bertinelli out of her crime spree and maybe even be with her as he had grown feelings for her, and later thinking he could lead a life with McKenna Hall while being the Hood, only for him to later realise that he was wrong. Oliver had great difficulties trusting other individuals; due to what happened to him in the 5 years he was away from Starling City, he could sometimes be controlling and unintentionally abrasive.

Oliver (initially) had a blind spot when it comes to his family, not wanting to believe when they're up to something that could be dangerous or if they're straight up lying to him, however, Oliver's blind spot for his family completely changed after he discovered Moira's involvement in Walter Steele's kidnapping and the Undertaking respectively, he was completely disgusted that his own mother would willingly become involved in something so immoral, despite this, following Moira's trial, he decide to give his mother a second chance. However, this was short-lived, for once he learned from Felicity that Thea's biological father was Malcolm Merlyn, and that Moira had known this for years and never intended to disclose this truth to him or Thea, Oliver disowned his mother, this time for good, as he was tired of all her dishonesty.

Upon failing to stop Malcolm Merlyn's Undertaking and his best friend Tommy Merlyn's death, Oliver chose to return to Lian Yu to live in self-imposed exile. Upon being convinced by John and Felicity to return to Starling City, Oliver agreed to resume his crusade, but, inspired by and honoring Tommy's sacrifice and memory, he took on a more merciful, pacifist approach, changing his codename to the Arrow, only killing when absolutely, justly unavoidable. As the Arrow, Oliver never acts as judge, jury and executioner and stands by his newly defined morals, and cleaning up the crime-ridden underworld of Starling City, providing a symbol of protection and justice became his primary objective.

Later on, Oliver compares himself to his friend Barry Allen that as the Flash, he can inspire people (after Barry witnesses him torture a suspect, Klaus Markos for information) while what he does in Starling City is "what's ugly". After Barry inspires him not to torture Digger Harkness to diffuse a series of bombs, Barry later contradicts him that while the Arrow can't inspire people, Oliver Queen certainly can. Over time, Oliver learns to open up to the people close to him, Team Arrow in particular, eventually including letting Thea in on his secret, and being lighthearted upon hearing her say she couldn't be more proud of him. Though haunted, driven to make up for the various people - Shado, Moira, Tommy - he feels he failed, Oliver comes to terms with what his mantle has become, finding a semblance of peace. Oliver also grows as a leader for his team, coming to see them as equals, as well as a mentor for capable aspiring vigilantes such as the Barry and Ray Palmer. Despite the many losses and tragedies he has endured in his life Oliver remains steadfastly undeterred in providing a symbol of justice and hope to his city as the Arrow.

When out in the field, Oliver almost always stays focused on the mission at all times; as such, he openly disliked small talk and going off-topic and would get annoyed by and frequently cut off those who do this around him, this dislike also included individuals who have a tendency to babble; such as Barry and Ray, to which he often wondered out loud if such individuals were unknowingly related to Felicity (who Oliver was always easier on due to his feelings for her) this also extended to his dislike towards Team Cobalt being more lax towards their mission, criticising Barry for giving their enemies "silly codenames". He later admitted that his far from carefree attitude in his life as a vigilante came from having lived through and channelling the countless painful memories and deaths, especially those closest to him such as his parents and Tommy, he had lived through. Few of Oliver's allies shared his attitude to such an extent, which occasionally led to coming to odds with them; however, ironically, he once joked that despite everything he had never "been that mature".

After defeating Ra's al Ghul, Oliver decided to retire from life of a vigilante and pursue a relationship, a normal life with Felicity. When he announced his intentions to retire, Oliver tells the team that he is confident the city is safe under their protection now that he can no longer be the Arrow. Oliver mentions to Felicity as they are driving away from Starling City that he is finally happy with his life.

After being retired from vigilantism for 6 months, living in peaceful, romantic suburbia with Felicity Smoak, Oliver had taken a more peaceful, relaxed approach to life, he had become more calm, grounded, mature and level-headed, he had put many demons to rest, including having removed Shado's tattoo, no longer burdened with the guilt. Though he enjoys his new life as a civilian being in love with Felicity, planning on proposing to her, he realizes he can't change who he was in his bones when he sees the state that newly branded Star City was in, that his sense of service, justice and duty still remain under his new-found sense of peace and tranquility, and comes out of retirement, changing his codename to "Green Arrow", with a new determination to be the symbol of hope to the individuals of Star City that the Arrow never was.

As Green Arrow, Oliver had become against killing and torturing his foes in general, Oliver had also become more mature in regards to individuals, having lost some of his more Byronic traits, his paranoia and coldness, after being inspired by Quentin Lance and Jessica Danforth, he realizes that there is something he cannot offer as a vigilante, hope and inspiration, "someone who can do things in the light of day and protect himself", so Oliver decides to run for mayor of Star City, when he discovered that Laurel used the Lazarus Pit to bring Sara back from the dead, he became very angry and criticized her for this, mainly because innocent individuals got killed because of this action of hers, but as he used the Lazarus Pit to save Thea, he doesn't place anything further on her, coming up with the option to restore Sara's soul instead. He and Quentin also come to solve their differences after the reveal of Quentin working with Damien Darhk, accepting Quentin's worry for Laurel and resolving with Quentin becoming a counter-spy in Damien's circle.

Upon Oliver learning of the existence of his son William Clayton and that Moira paid Samantha Clayton 1 million dollars if she told him she had a miscarriage, he becomes very angry that his late mother deprived him of his own child and how it could risk his relationship with Felicity, wanting to be a father and to be in his son's life, Oliver reluctantly agrees with Samantha's condition that William and no one else learns the truth.

After Barry inadvertently travelled back in time to prevent Vandal Savage from destroying Central City, he revealed to Oliver how he and Felicity broke up, allowing Oliver a second chance to do things right; however, instead of learning from this mistake, he kept the existence of his son, William a secret, although it should be noted this was at her son's mother insistence and was willing to honor this if it meant getting to know his child. However, when William was kidnapped by Malcolm to help Damien get leverage over Oliver, the latter was forced to reveal the existence of his son to Felicity, leaving her very angry at him even after Oliver tells her about Samantha's ultimatum, accusing him of not trusting her enough to tell her the truth. When Oliver arranges for Samantha and William to go into hiding, he excludes Felicity from the arrangement they have, which proves to be the last straw for her, leading to their break up. John Diggle stated that it was also his self-righteousness and self-pity that caused Felicity to leave him.

Despite Oliver's more calm, grounded, mature and level-headed traits, he still had his moments of being impulsive, like when he revealed to the public that Damien Darhk is the leader of H.I.V.E., believing the latter would only come after him, he finds out the hard way that he was wrong, this action of his results in Felicity becoming paralyzed, later when he cuts off Malcolm's left hand and removed him as the leader of the League of Assassins, the latter reveals the existence of his son William, to Damien, to get revenge on Oliver.

Behind or perhaps entirely in spite of Oliver's convictions and ethics, he possesses a grey moral, his developing moral center was stunted after he was shipwrecked on Lian Yu and there he learnt one and only virtue; survive no matter the cost, a belief which he did not abandon after his leaving the island. On his first day being shipwrecked, Oliver was barely able to bring himself to kill a bird, however, he learnt to kill to survive without remorse quickly after; it was Shado that observed deep within Oliver is internally conflicted. The idea of "schangjen" which he learnt on Lian Yu embraces the cold-blooded killer side whereas he may appear or strive to be a hero and protector he can be despite this other half.

However, this side only tends to surface whenever Oliver was around his suitor, Felicity, who he admits was the best of the two of them. Oliver's morality was sometimes transmutable. After the events of the Undertaking he began refusing to kill his enemies, abandoning his feelings of self-hatred and accepting himself as a hero but these were destroyed when he was forced to join the League of Assassins and become his dark side in the form of Al Sah-him.

Oliver learnt the fine line between mercy and those who had no choice but to be put down while dealing with random enforcers and genuinely irredeemable enemies during his remoulding at Nanda Parbat. Although he chose to spare Malcolm Merlyn and Slade Wilson, despite the former's involvement in the sinking of The Queen's Gambit and the latter killing his mother, he didn't hesitate to kill Ra's al Ghul and Damien Darhk; Ra's had proven to be an unreasonable zealot who would kill an entire city of individuals to prove a point, and Damien was a remorseless psychopath who was willing to commit global genocide and murdered Laurel, his first love, in front of him.

When John and Thea quit the team, and in the wake of Laurel's death, Oliver became extremely dark and ruthless again, regressing to his old ways, he was back to killing individuals whenever he deems it necessary (but only as a last resort), blaming himself for Laurel's death because he had multiple chances to kill Damien but didn't until Laurel die. He also tortures criminals for information if need be.

After undergoing torture by Adrian Chase, Oliver who eventually broke down, after the latter taunted him continuously by saying that all his loved ones including Laurel, Tommy etc. died because of his false crusade which was partially true, revealed that he killed individuals because he wanted to and that he liked it. Displaying that even after all his years of fighting and surviving and even after giving up killing, there was a part of his psyche that had been completely broken, as he stated to John that a part of him was still sick; revealing a bloodthirsty and sadistic nature, briefly after this torture, Oliver almost crossed a line when he hired the Bratva to take down Adrian, proving that his dark nature was slowly returning only to be snapped out of it by John, later accepting his and the team's help to take down Adrian.

Oliver was unwilling to allow his friends, such as John and Felicity to cross into the gray moral zone, although this was something that he was willing to do himself; this did not make him a hypocrite, as he did not want his friends to destroy the good that's inside of them. Due to his time on Lian Yu, Oliver became extremely arrogant, believing that he had the right to decide not only the actions of others but also what was best for them as seen when he ordered Kara to stay behind while they met the president, even though he was not the leader of the group Barry formed and deciding it was best for Quentin and Laurel not to know Sara had not died when the yacht sank.

Unlike most other members of Team Arrow, Oliver was capable/willing to push aside any grudge he had with his enemies if the situation calls for it; such as Oliver was willing to work with both Malcolm Merlyn and Slade Wilson, both of whom have killed or corrupted individuals close to him, for the sake of rescuing his friends from Adrian Chase. As John, Felicity, Laurel and Thea were incapable/unwilling to accept Malcolm and Slade's help, on several occasions, because of their previous actions; due to John, Felicity, Laurel and Thea's short-sightedness.

Following the events of Lian Yu (regarding Samantha Clayton's death) Oliver had taken up his role as a parent, but he initially finds it difficult to be a father to William and even considers sending his son to live with his grandparents. Oliver later employs Raisa, a former employee of his parents, to help him.

Due to the fact that Oliver was previously betrayed by Evelyn Sharp (a former member of Team Arrow who was revealed to be working with Adrian Chase, his nemesis; prior to Adrian's death) he still continue to distrust his new teammates Dinah Drake, Rene Ramirez and Curtis Holt, even after they had (genuinely) proven themselves trustworthy and so, when he learned that a member of his team was going to testify against him in court (regarding his identity as Green Arrow) instead of confronting them directly, he put them under surveillance - not only violating their privacy, but their trust as well, resulting in the team splitting up.

Oliver was proven to be bias; for example, when he discovered that a member of Team Arrow was going to testify against him in court (regarding his identity as Green Arrow) he spied on Dinah, Rene and Curtis to find out who the traitor was, but he did not spy on John and Felicity; proving that not only did he treat his new teammates differently from his original teammates, but he also did not bestow them with the same equal trust and respect, like he did with John and Felicity.

Oliver was proven to be a hypocrite when it comes to being a parent; for example, when he discovered that the only reason why Rene was testifying against him in court (regarding his identity as Green Arrow) was because the corrupt FBI agent, Samanda Watson had obtained evidence that he is the vigilante known as "Wild Dog" and blackmailed him with the threat of never seeing his daughter, Zoe Ramirez again, if he didn't comply. Oliver still got angry and unfairly kicked Rene off the team; as he would've done exactly the same thing for his own son, William, if he was put in a similar situation.

Later, when Oliver apologized to Dinah, Rene and Curtis for his part in their fallout, he was sad to see that his former teammates refused to return to Team Arrow and elected to create a team of their own (the Outsiders) but he also respects their decision, as he knows full well that loyalty and trust cannot be forced; as it had to be earned. However, after discovering that Dinah tried to kill Laurel in cold blood; Oliver become distrustful of his former teammates once again, but this time he had good reason not to trust them; when Dinah later offers to help Team Arrow in the field, Oliver coldly states that "i would rather go out in the field short handed, than with someone i cannot trust".

Due to recent events, Oliver reverted to his old ways as the Hood and once again continued his mission alone. He had become extremely arrogant and overconfident, in part; due to the Vertigo in his system and even began experiencing angry outbursts, worrying those around him. Suffering from drug-induced hallucinations of his enemies and those close to him, especially Adrian Chase, Oliver was convinced that his mission was always a solitary one and that having a team with individuals he cares about splits his focus, believing Diaz's take-over of the city as a case-in-point.

During Oliver's trial, he refused to reveal his identity as Green Arrow to the entire court (even though Jean Loring could have made of a good argument; regarding all the good he has done as a vigilante) this was partly because he suspected that judge C. McGarvey, as well as the entire jury were under Diaz's payroll (which turned out to be true) and mainly because Oliver knows full well, that if his vigilante identity is revealed to the public, every single one of his enemies would not only come after him, but also after the individuals he cares about.

However, After Diaz had failed to send Oliver to prison, he began open warfare on the latter and his allies. Oliver was quick to realize that Team Arrow was both overwhelmed and outnumbered, as Diaz had an army under his command. Oliver reluctantly went to Samanda Watson, whom he had a rocky partnership with for conflicting beliefs in his vigilantism. Samanda stated that she would only help Oliver if he agreed to her conditions; that he was to admit that he was Green Arrow and that he was to the publicly confess to being a vigilante; which he stoically agreed to without hesitation.

Following the defeat of Diaz, Oliver remained loyal to his word regarding the deal with Samanda. After Felicity stated that she and John were planning to get him out, he pointed out that breaking him out of prison was impossible, as he was being sent to a maximum security prison; Oliver also states that even if he did escape from prison, Samanda would just arrest Felicity and the other members of Team Arrow in order to draw out of hiding. Felicity was then reminded by Oliver of his acceptance of the terms.

After being released from Slabside Maximum Security Prison, Oliver, who has now being deputized by Dinah, began to work with the Star City Police Department. Minor conflict occurred between the two parties, mainly; due to Oliver using his vigilante methods and taking point in many of their missions; much to the annoyance to the officers of the SCPD.

As a vigilante, Oliver was proving to be quite prideful; this was evidenced by the fact that he refuses to acknowledge the existence of Batman. Even after seeing the Bat-Signal and Kate Kane's confirmation the Dark Knight's existence respectively, he still refused to accept that the latter exists. Oliver's disbelief of Batman's existence was out of jealousy; due to the fact that unlike Bruce, he was not the first/original vigilante.

Due to the countless experiences Oliver had lived through before and after his time at Lian Yu, he had little difficulty accepting and processing what others would consider impossible; such as superhuman powers and magic. As such, it was rare for him to be surprised at all that something new was coming along; even the existence of aliens didn't phase him too much. However, Oliver desired some normality from the incident, which led to him initially requesting that Kara stay behind while the others meet the president during the Dominator invasion (although it should be noted this was following having experienced an alternate reality, which had clearly made an impact on him).

However, Oliver was less experienced with processing alternate realities and universes; although his experiences with Laurel Lance from Earth 2 and the conflict with Earth-X had given him some exposure to dealing with beings from other universes, he was quick to become emotionally sucked in when visiting Earth-2 and had to learn the hard way that although it looks similar to his world, it is a very different place; he was quick to accuse Malcolm Merlyn of also being the Dark Archer on Earth-2 only to later learn that actually he was Tommy Merlyn of that world. However, Despite this, he had no issues with fighting and beating down those who looked like his friends and allies from his Earth or with working with Adrian Chase despite being the doppelgänger of one of his greatest enemies.