Oliver Queen (Arrowverse)

## Media

**Oliver Queen** (also known as the **Vigilante, the Hood, the Arrow**, and the **Green Arrow**) is a principal character in the Arrowverse and the main protagonist of the 2012 television series *Arrow*.

## Characteristics

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.

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.

The overall morality of the character is brave but flawed man who resorts to violence, torturing and killing. Despite his high body count, Oliver learns restraint, necessary sacrifices, learning trust and other selfless acts such as kindness, inspiration and honor.

## Analysis

### Selfishness

* Oliver was pampered by his parents, and got away with most of the troubles he caused. This includes him punching a paparazzi with his own camera when he wouldn't leave him alone.
* Failed out of four schools with his parents
* Cheated on Laurel with Samantha Clayton and her own sister, Sara.

### Selflessness

* Despite being a playboy, Oliver had good friends with him, such as his girlfriend Laurel and his best friend Tommy Merlyn. He also cared about his little sister, Thea, as noted by McKennan Hall, who found this trait to being an admiral quality of him.
* His maid, Raisa, knew Ollie was a good boy deep down
* Oliver felt remorse for getting one of his classmates, Samantha Clayton, pregnant. Despite Moira thinking the girl is lying for money, Oliver doesn't believe it, thinking she is a good person. He is saddened but relieved to learn she miscarried
	+ However, this act redeems; after finding out Moira paid Samantha in advance to return to Central City and tell Oliver she lost the baby, he was disgusted his mother deprived him of his own child.

### Heroic

#### Overall

* According to Eobard Thawne, where he is from Oliver is regarded as one of the greatest heroes to have ever come from the "Age of Heroes".
* Because of Oliver's sacrifices, most of his allies such as Sara Lance, Kara Danvers and Baryr Allen were inspired to help those in need just as Oliver did.

#### Arrow

##### Season 1

* Oliver doesn't care about casualties. He targetted corrupted officials because of the list his father gave him.
* Sometime during season 1, Oliver put away a human trafficker as the Hood.
* During Christmas, Oliver freed the Dark Archer's hostages and was even willing to work with Quentin Lance despite being on opposite sides.
* He was disgusted by Moira's part in destroying the Glades and showed shock that his father was a part of this during Moira's press conference in the finale.
* Goes off to rescue Roy because he's just a kid when 'The Savior' abducts him. This will lead Roy down the path of his own vigilantism.
* Oliver shows sympathy for John when he learns his brother was killed by Deadshot.
* His welcoming of Felicity and John onto his crusade toned down most of Oliver's violence, reconnecting with people he cares about.

#### Season 2

* After the Count abducted Felicity, he called Oliver, with the threat of harming Felicity. In fury, Oliver goes to rescue her despite his mother's trial. He was forced to kill the Count, only because the criminally insane man was going to hurt Felicity.
* Despite feeling jealous of Felicity and Barry's relationship, Oliver considered the mask Barry gave him as a "gift from a friend' and asked Diggle about Barry's status.

#### Season 3

* Even though Oliver tries to go on a date with Felicity, it is sabotaged when a bomb in his duffle bag snuck in by Werner Zytle's men, Felicity is gravely injured but survived. After realizing he could put her in danger, Oliver breaks up with her in order to protect her.
* Oliver looks to Team Arrow, Ray Palmer and Barry Allen as equals, even mentoring them.
* Roy tells Oliver about his intentions of leaving Star City with Thea, the note she left about never coming back, his mentor isn't angry, but rather understanding.
* Oliver refuses to train Laurel or let her be a part of the team because he doesn't want her getting hurt. He later apologized to her and the two friends reconcile. However,  Oliver doesn't let her continue on because he doesn't want her to continue making reckless decisions, so Laurel goes on her own.  Despite her being drugged by the Count and nearly dying, Oliver gives Laurel a second chance in letting her continue because of Diggle's advice. Oliver's actions with Laurel shows he is putting her safety before anything and letting her stay on the team shows he knows what he did was wrong.
* Oliver has complete faith in his sister when evidence starts pointing out that Thea killed Sara. This includes a 99% partial match on the fingerprint found on the arrows directing up to Oliver (due to it Oliver and Thea being siblings). He refused to give up on her, despite John and Felicity insisting Thea killed Sara and them seeing footage of Malcolm and Thea arriving in Starling City the night Sara was killed and before Oliver found them on Corto Maltese. This is true, given that Malcolm drugged Thea with cuary, a drug that makes her susceptible to any suggestion or command that Malcolm gives her.
* Even after finding out the truth from Malcolm, Oliver is forced to stop himself from killing the Man when he shows him a video of Thea killing Sara. Ollie is only forced to challenge Ra's because of the latter's vendetta with Malcolm due to the Undertaking.
* When an injured Oliver returns home, he stops Malcolm from killing Danny Brickwell (who killed Rebecca years prior). He also declares Malcolm off limits by Team Arrow to stop them from doing anything rash.
* Oliver only accepted the role of being Ra's heir to save his sister from dying.

##### Season 5

* Oliver was going to help Lyla break her husband out of prison to both save a friend and make sure John wouldn't forsake his wife and son, both who were missing him.
	+ Also, instead of blaming John for Laurel's death, Oliver understands it wasn't his fault for trusting Andy. Instead, he knows Damien is to blame.
	+ Even though John is arrested several days later due to him being framed for stealing an atom bomb, Oliver doesn't abandoned him. A couple of episodes later, Oliver finds a way to bail John out of prison due to Felicity's efforts.
* After finding out about Felicity's affiliation with a questionable and shady organization Oliver fears she may be taking the same path he once did. He is more worried about her losing her morality like he has rather than a lack of trust. In fact Felicity is probably the person he trusts more than anything. Oliver confirms he didn't tell Felicity about William not because he doesn't trust her, but because he was afraid of how she would react.
* Oliver's role in honoring Laurel's last request:
	+ After Black Siren tarnished Laurel's reputation, this led to the Oliver being forced to decommission the statue made in honor of Laurel. He does this all for her, even though Laurel is long gone. He later recruited Dinah into the team to ensure she gets a second chance. He inspires her to show faith things can change for the better, and that Team Arrow is a place for second chances.

### The Flash

#### Season 1

* Oliver is supportive of Barry's decision as a Flash. He inspired the younger man to being hope in a way he never could (even though Oliver has done so before.)
* Advises Barry not to pursue Iris because guys like them never get the girl, reflecting his relationship with Felicity and it is possible Oliver doesn't want Spirit to feel heartbreak like he has.
* Tries to help Barry get over the anger that the Rainbow Raider inflicted on him.
* He assisted The Flash and Firestorm and taking down the Reverse Flash, knowing how dangerous he is and his murder of Barry's mother Nora.

### Crisis on Infinite Earth

* Oliver dies protecting the citizens of Earth-38, his friends Kara's homeworld, ensuring they get to Earth One.
* After finding himself in Purgatory, Oliver becomes the Spectre to save his friends and helps the paragons defeat the anti-monitor with his sacrifice. As the Spectre, Oliver was able to create a new Multiverse and revives everyone. Because of his sacrifice everybody on Earth Prime honors Oliver.  The president's giving a moment of silence on the news broadcast, the people of Star City giving Oliver his own statue like Laurel and Barry forms an elite force of superheroes to protect the Multiverse from other threats that may come their way one day. Afterwards Oliver is declared the Hero of Star City
* After many years of suffering, Oliver and Felicity are finally reunited in the afterlife, with nothing but peace and having each other for all eternity.

## Questionable

* When Oliver was questioning Adam Hunt, he put at least four of the man's bodyguards in the hospital. Oliver stole all of the money Hunt took from innocent people and returned it to those who lost it.
* Oliver coldly renounces Moira as his mother when he learns she lied to him and Thea about his sister's parentage. Instead of telling Thea the truth that Malcolm is her father, he keeps it from her in order to protect her from getting hurt. However, Thea is emotionally distraught by the turn of events. Oliver realizes he was wrong to keep Thea's parentage a secret. Deciding he doesn't want to lie to her anymore, Oliver tells Thea that Robert always was her father despite not being blood related.
* Is cold and hostile to Barry Allen and Kara Danvers when he first meets them. He initially distrusted Barry after learning he lied about why he came to Star City but gained some level of respect for the younger man after he saved his life. With Kara, he is dismissive for no reason and often benches her when she wants to help the heroes fight the Dominators.

## Anti-Heroic Analysis

### Arrow

#### Season 1

* Went to great lengths in trying to find out who abducted his step-father Walter Steele, even showing shock and sorrow when he was told Walter was dead by Oliver's step-father's abductor. However he tortured the man.

### Season 5

* In the premiere, Oliver kills a mercenary that abducted him and a group of politicians. Thea is disgusted by this, and decided to retire because of her brother renouncing his no-kill rule. However, later, Oliver only kills when necessary and never puts citizens in harm's way.
	+ Oliver forms an alliance with Anatoly Knyazev to eliminate Adrian Chase, even lying to his friends with the Bratva's involvement in Star City. However, he is convinced of other ways to defeat the serial killer.
	+ When Oliver was going to rescue Diggle from the army prison, he was confronted by the new team Arrow recruits. However, he senselessly beats Evelyn, Rene and Curtis in order to her to his destination.

### Crossovers

##### The Brave and the Bold

* Oliver ruthlessly tortures a convict when he refuses to give up George Harkness's location, something that bothers Barry.

## Powers and 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
* Light of the Soul/Light Magic
* Dark Magic Immunity
* Divine powers

## Relationships

### Family

* Moira Queen - Mother
* Robert Queen - Father
* Thea Queen - Maternal Half-Sister
* Emiko Adachi - Paternal Half-Sister
* Felicity Smoak - Wife and Teammate
* William Clayton - Son
* Mia Queen - Daughter
* Noah Kuttler - Father-in-law
* Donna Smoak - Mother-in-law

## Navigation

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