Roy Harper

## Red Arrow

* Civilian
* Red Arrow

### Family

Roy Harper/Frank (genetic template), Jade Nguyen (ex-wife), Lian Nguyen-Harper (daughter)

### Voiced by

Midgettoe2000Frank Todaro

Throkk Grungeshield

"*Is it a super power to snipe a guy in London from Cambodia? Is it a super power to make leather look heterosexual? No, those are just natural-born talents.*"
—Red Arrow

**Roy Harper** aka **Red Arrow** (formerly **Speedy**) is a superhero and the former-protégé of Green Arrow.

## Physical appearance

While under the guise of Speedy, Roy donned a yellow sixteenth century-style hat complete with feather, yellow gloves, boots, belt, and a red suit. He later abandoned the hat after quitting as Green Arrow's partner. After re-branding himself as Red Arrow, the suit itself was redesigned. It is predominantly black, with a red chest and collar. His quiver is now attached with two gray shoulder straps connected across the chest, and his black gloves are fingerless.

## History

Roy Harper was kidnapped and cloned by the Light to infiltrate the Justice League.

### Red Arrow

On July 4th, 2010, Speedy and Green Arrow stopped Icicle Jr. from causing chaos on the Star City bridge. Speedy begged his mentor to let him kill the criminal, saying it would stop the villain from ever causing any more harm. Green Arrow drunkenly rejected this request. They then proceeded to the Hall of Justice to meet up with other Leaguers and their sidekicks. This was to be Roy's first step in joining the Justice League, seeing their headquarters and moving towards starting his own junior Justice League with the other teen heroes, called Young Justice. Upon arrival, however, Roy discovered that the Justice League mostly just partied all day, some of them getting drunk like his disappointing mentor Green Arrow. Finally having had enough, Roy abandoned the traditional hero life and the identity of Speedy, striking out on his own as a violent vigilante. Roy became Red Arrow, a hero who wasn't afraid of breaking the rules and killing criminals. After killing Brick (who taunted him to do so), Red Arrow called the Justice League and informed them about his breaking of their one rule. Green Arrow tried to patch things up with his former partner but was routinely rejected.

Red Arrow's darker behavior caught the interest of Red Hood.

### Dr. Roquette

On Infinity Island, the League of Shadows held Dr. Serling Roquette captive. Red Arrow arrived and took out several of the assassins. However, he revealed that he was not there to rescue the doctor, but was looking for heroin. When Roquette told him there were no drugs on the island, Red Arrow attempted to leave. She convinced the hero to take her with him in exchange for sexual favors.

Red Arrow then visited Mount Justice and was angered to find that Green Arrow had replaced him so quickly with Artemis. Moving past that, he revealed that the League of Shadows were after Serling Roquette, their weapons manufacturer, who he had stashed at the local high school. Red Arrow offered the Young Justice team the gig, swore revenge on Green Arrow for the trauma he'd endured as a child, and left.

He later caught up with Artemis, offering her the benefit of the doubt but warning her about keeping secrets.

### Protecting Lex Luthor

A Korean peace summit was held in Taipei, with a mystery middleman coming to help reunify the two nations. Red Arrow watched from the shadows, having been tipped off that the assassin Cheshire would try and interrupt the summit. His secure channel was hacked by an unknown caller, who claimed to have been watching Arrow for some time and knew his true identity. Red Arrow had to abandon the call to stop Cheshire from assassinating the mystery middleman, who was revealed to be Lex Luthor. The billionaire stopped the hero from being arrested and requested his help in stopping the assassins.

Red Arrow tried to interrogate Cheshire, who seduced the archer before escaping with her father Sportsmaster. The hero tracked them to a base in the city, where the assassins met with Ra's al Ghul. The killers prepared themselves for another attack on Lex but noticed Red Arrow watching them. The archer barely managed to escape. His unknown stalker called again, promising to reveal himself when the time was right.

Lex explained his obsession with beating Superman to Red Arrow, envying the Man of Steel's appreciation and always wanting to one-up him. He implied that he may have to run for President one day. With the help of Aqualad, Red Arrow was able to stop Cheshire and Sportsmaster from completing their mission and the nations were ratified. Lex Luthor capitalized on the opportunity to show off his bodyguard Mercy, a powerful android that he offers to sell to the leaders. Red Arrow discovers that the mysterious person who'd been calling him was Jason Todd, who wanted to form an alliance.

Jason proposed starting a team called the Outlaws with Roy and Starfire, who he had convinced that he was Dick Grayson. Jason said that Roy was one bad day away from becoming him and that they were all better off striking out on their own. Roy denied the proposition and revealed Jason's true colors to Starfire. The proposed team scrapped, Jason bid the archer farewell and warned him about a mysterious organization pulling the strings behind everything.

### Family Life

One year later, Roy had ended up in a whirlwind romance with Cheshire, real name Jade Nguyen, and they'd gotten married. She had left for many months, however, leaving Roy on his own. A disheveled Red Arrow tried desperately to reach out to the Justice League. Back at his apartment, Roy was reunited with Jade. She revealed that they had a daughter named Lian. To help her husband out of his depression, she took him to a mountain fortress where she showed him the real Roy Harper, revealing that Red Arrow was a clone.

Roy had been kidnapped by Lex Luthor, had his arm cut off, and been replaced. Oliver and Red Arrow went to the boy's bedside as he awoke and told him what had happened. Angry, he asked them to leave. When they returned, they discovered that the real Roy Harper was missing, having gone after Lex Luthor.

By the time Green Arrow and Red Arrow caught up to Roy, he was already exiting the Lexcorp building, having left the villain alive for the time being. Equipped with a robotic, highly-weaponized appendage, Roy decided to take on a new identity to go along with the arm: Frank.

Red Arrow asked Green Arrow to nominate him for Justice League membership. To qualify, he went on a mission with the Young Justice team.

## Resources

### Abilities

* **Marksmanship:** Roy is skilled with a bow and arrow.
* **Hand-to-hand combat:** Roy is an excellent fighter.
* **Stealth:** Roy knows how to keep to the shadows.

### Equipment

* **Bow and arrow:**Roy's weapon of choice.
* **Trick arrows:** Roy possesses a large arsenal of trick arrows.

## Appearances

* *Young Justice Abridged*
	+ "Don't Call Us Sidekicks"
	+ "Guerrilla Warfare"
	+ "Reservoir Heroes"
	+ "Civvies"
	+ "Shadow Boxing"
	+ "Shades of Red"
	+ "Unusual Suspects"
	+ "Eyes of Fate"
	+ "Injustice"
	+ "House of Cards"
	+ "Seeing Red"
	+ "Father's Day"

## Trivia

* The only people Red Arrow trusts are Aqualad, Kid Flash, Red Robin, and Batman.
* Roy does heroin.