Green Arrow

The Green Arrow is a costumed vigilante whose career began in the Forties and has continued with several periods of hiatus to the present day. He originally operated in Star City.

## **Biographies**

The Green Arrow was Oliver Queen, a millionaire and an anthropologist/archaeologist Queen was an expert on the culture and traditions of various Native American tribes, mostly Sioux, Cheyenne, Arapaho, Apache and Navaho. His interest in Native Americans was kindled as child when he spent most of his childhood living on a ranch near a Sioux reservation.

Oliver Queen excelled at archery, being a huge fan of Robin Hood. He had dreams of competing in the Olympics.

During a trip to Africa, Oliver Queen and his parents were attacked by a pride of Lions. Oliver watched as his parents were torn apart and killed.

### **The Green Archer: 1923**

Oliver's first recorded costumed exploit was actually in 1923. Cousins of the Queen Family, the Bellamys, were having a dispute that had resulted in the death of Michael Bellamy. Abel Bellamy took control of the estate for his own nefarious purposes. The reporter investigating the case, Spike Holland, became the target for Bellamy's gang. There was already a legend of a "Green Archer" associated with the estate and Queen saw an opportunity to combine this with his natural Archery talents. He created an alias and got himself close to Bellamy. He moved silently through Garr Castle and the estate grounds, confounding the enemy forces.(*The Green Archer,* 1923 Novel*).*

### **Roy Harper: 1940**

Roy Harper, Jrwas the orphaned son of Roy Harper, Sr., a forest ranger who had died saving a Navajo medicine chief named "Brave Bow" from a fire. Brave Bow raised the younger Roy himself, training him at archery. Roy Jr. took to this training eagerly, and idolized the archer superhero, Green Arrow. As a teenager, Roy was given the opportunity to perform at an archery competition judged by Green Arrow, where he assisted the hero at foiling an attempted burglary, even proving himself to be a faster shot than the hero. Following the death of Brave Bow, Green Arrow asked Roy to serve as his sidekick, an offer Roy readily accepted, taking the name Speedy. Harper became the ward of Green Arrow's alter ego, billionaire Oliver Queen.

The Harpers had told the lawyer in confidence that their marriage, although a happy one had been a marriage of convenience. Harper was a wealthy, widowed Rancher without any heirs and Leona was a girl in trouble. The boy she had been involved with had gone off to school in England and his family refused to see her. Roy Harper was Oliver Queen's natural son. In fact his first name had been chosen in honor of Queen. Roy was French for royalty. Queen remarked that it meant King not Queen. The Lawyer replied that the Harper's had not been likely to name their son Regine now were they? Oliver Queen agreed to become the boy's guardian. The lawyer then let Queen know some more shocking news. Roy Harper, assisted by the former foreman of the Harper ranch, had headed for the mountains. According to some of the Sioux ranch hands, they were heading for the Lost Mesa.

Efforts to find them had come to naught, not enough manpower, too much area to cover and an ongoing forest fire that was a concern to the nearby ranchers. Oliver Queen rented a small plane to see if he could spot them from the air and land on the mesa if he did not see them. The chartered plane was not in the best of condition and the wheel assembly broke when he landed on the mesa.

Over the next few weeks Oliver Queen led a Robinson Crusoe existence while he searched for Roy Harper and his Indian companion. (The comics usually render the Indian's name as Quoag, although it was probably Kan`gi which means Crow). Queen found a boy he assumed was Roy Harper in some ruins. Some artifact thieves who were raiding a Hohokam burial site were holding Harper captive. They had killed Roy's friend and probably intended to return Roy to his family for a price.

Using his skill as an archer, Oliver Queen he freed Roy Harper. They escaped from the artifact thieves. Queen and Harper who turned out to also be a bow aficionado captured the artifact thieves. They bound them and forced them to walk down the mountain. The thieves were turned over to justice once they had climbed down the mountain.

### **Green Arrow and Speedy: 1940-1957**

Inspired By Batman(who Queen knew to be Bruce Wayne and who likewise trusted Wayne with his own identity), Queen decided to build things such as an Arrowcar and Arrow-Plane for transportation, his use of an Arrow-Cave as his headquarters, his alter ego as a wealthy playboy, the use of an Arrow-Signal to summon him. Queen and Harper also battled the Joker(which in comics was rewritten as a character named Bull's Eye). Queen and Harper also fought in the War.

If the Green Arrow was said to have an archenemy it was a psychopath who called himself the Bull's Eye. He mocked Green Arrow's non-lethal code and would do violent acts to goad the Green Arrow into shooting him in the Bull's Eye on his chest. The other part of his costume was a clown's outfit. He was a Joker copycat with suicidal tendencies.

### **Foes**

Green Arrow and Speedy fought many colorful adversaries in this era such as The Cat, The Angler, The Skylark who appeared twice, The Blue Lancer, The Snare — collector of human trophies, The Storm King, The Mask, The Turtle, The Octopus, The Switchmen, The Rainbow Archer, and a variety of other misfits. Most of these were regular criminals with a streak of exhibitionism which exhibited in colorful costumes. There were a few notable adversaries among them.

### **The Cat**

The Cat, was John Robie(*To Catch a Thief*), He was an American Jewel Thief in Paris who became known as "Le Chat"(The Cat). Robie has memories of training a woman named Khefretari when she showed interested in becoming a jewel thief, later changing her name to Selina Kyle. This experience inspired John Robie's persona of "The Cat".

Robie was arrested in Paris in 1939 but escaped when the Germans invaded and inadvertently released him and others. He joined the French resistance but even so would find himself at odds with Green Arrow. Robie may have also have been influenced

He was pardoned after the war and elected to retire. In 1951 he would be framed by a criminal who used his modus operandi of stealing jewels and leaving notes, forcing him to fight to clear his name. Ironically one of his relatives living in France was chosen to be granted Catlike abilities, becoming the hero Chat Noir.

### **The Storm King**

The Storm King was actually a surprisingly powerful enemy. He was formerly a human Nazi commander that antagonized the group known as the Blackhawks. He went after obtaining magical abilities and obtained them, becoming an inhuman beast. Green Arrow fought him as a human but as a powerful entity it took the sorcerer Dr.Fate to banish him to another universe.

In the land the transformed Storm King found himself in he went more than a little mad but gathered an invasion force that conquered several nations(mostly filled with talking animals). In 2017, he was killed while invading the land of Equestria, however his essence survived and he attempted to use his magic to flee into the human world, briefly opening portals to the human world as a result. An army of mercenaries that were were sent in to prevent his resurrection, seemingly succeeding in 2019.(*My Little Pony: The Movie, Fortnite,* Both having magical big bads called the Storm King)*.*

The Turtle was immortal hermit Muten Roshi trying out a career as a criminal he would later regret. It would often take the aid of Jay Garrick, the Flash, to defeat him.

The Octopus was the same deadly foe fought by the Shadow and The Spirit. He would be killed by Doctor the Flame. Dr.Octopus then took control of his gan and ran the organization into the ground. There would be a short lived "Octopus" created from mixing regenerative healing from Weapon X. He was completely destroyed in battle with the Spirit.

Green Arrow was one of the few Heroes to continue well into the 1950's, following Batman even in this regard.

The Mask was fortunately Nina Close, a sometimes enemy of Wonder Woman and not the infamous Big Head Killer, a cartoonish but near omnipotent mask that possessed people, transforming them into cartoon powered psychopaths until it fell into the hands of a man who's personally led to a more comedic goofball rather than a serial killer.

### **The 1950's**

The career of Oliver Queen as the Green Arrow lasted from 1940 to 1957.

Oliver Queen kept up the pretense of Roy being his ward, to shield his and the boy's reputations. He did not think it would do either one of them any good for the press to get wind of the fact that Roy was his bastard son. This became a source of conflict after Roy grew up. After the Wertham book *Seduction of the Innocent*came out in 1954, Oliver had second thoughts about everyone thinking Roy had been his ward. He thought it would be better if people knew Roy was his bastard son and *not* his catamite. Oliver Queen went through the proper tests and procedures to have Roy declared his natural son and then formally adopted him and changed his name to Oliver Queen II. Roy was still under age in 1954, although barely and so technically still a minor so his objections to the name change went unheeded.

Roy was twenty years old and in college at the time. He refused to use the new name and continued to use Roy Harper. This caused an unfortunate rift between Oliver Queen and Roy Harper. They became estranged and barely talked. After college Roy became a photographer and also involved in the beatnik movement in San Fransokyo.

### **Seven Soldiers of Victory: 1941-1957**

The Seven Soldiers of Victory (also known as the Law's Legionnaires) was another team established, following the Justice Society of America. The membership of the Seven Soldiers included anthology comics: The Vigilante, the Crimson Avenger, the Green Arrow and Speedy, the Shining Knight and the Star-Spangled Kid and Stripesy. Unlike most superhero teams, this one included two sidekicks, Speedy and Stripesy, as members (Stripesy was a rarity, an adult sidekick to a "kid" hero). The Crimson Avenger's sidekick Wing also took part in the team's adventures, and was in every other way an "eighth Soldier," but was never considered an "official" member. All but one of its members (the Shining Knight, a time-displaced Arthurian knight who rode a winged horse and used an enchanted sword and suit of armor) were non-powered humans who relied on conventional weapons or training in place of superhuman abilities.

The Seven Soldiers ran into conflict with the Hand. They had obtained access to the Cosmic Cube and attempted to merge it with a person. This became Nebula Man. Nebula Man was extremely powerful and the Seven Soldiers were hugely underpowered against him. He killed Vigilante(Greg Saunders), the Crimson Avenger(Lee Walter Travis), the Shining Knight(Sir Justin), the Star-Spangled Kid(Sylvester Pemberton), Green Arrow and Speedy. It took the sacrifice of Stripesy to remove the Cosmic Cube, kill Nebula Man and return the Cube to SHIELD before his own death. Roy Harper was the only survivor.

### **Roy Harper**

After Oliver Queen's disappearance in 1957, Roy Harper a.k.a. Oliver Queen II was pressured to take control of the Queen family business. He also felt pressure by the media to take over the role of The Green Arrow. Roy Harper did not respond to this pressure very well. In his college days he had become a drinker and from his beatnik days he picked up a marijuana habit. Although he was not physically addicted to pot this was part of his overall dependency problem.

### **The 1960's**

In 1960, While patrolling as the Green Arrow Roy was forced to make a decision to take a life to save a live. The Bull's Eye finally got the arrow in the chest that he had so fervently desired. This agonizing choice shattered Roy's confidence to make the correct decisions. To bolster his confidence he began drinking prior to going on patrol as the Green Arrow. This further impaired his judgement. He even allowed a groupie who called herself Arrowette to tag along on his patrols. Her name was Bonnie King, which Roy found funny. She had recently cut off ties with her mother because she had competed in the 1960 Olympics but failed to win gold and her mother scolded her for this. Boonie King would eventually give up her superhero identity permanently as it caused Carpal tunnel syndrome in her wrists.

In 1961, Roy Harper became a member of the Justice League of America. Something he viewed with pride as Oliver Queen had never been allowed on the Justice Society of America, hence why he joined the Seven Soldiers.

In 1957, Roy Harper had taken on a protégé of his own in the form of the unrelated to him: Jack Turner. Turner would join the Teen Titans along with Kid Flash (Wally West), Robin (Bruce Wayne Jr), and Aqualad (Garth) and later Wonder Girl(Donna Troy), as the team's Speedy.

As far as his personal life as Oliver Queen II, (or Ollie Harper as the unforgiving press often pegged him) the constant drinking took its toll there as well. Although he had been an academic Oliver Queen had been raised as a millionaire and so was a fairly savvy businessman as well. He knew how to maintain a balance between cooperation and competition between his fellow financiers. Oliver Queen II however was unschooled in the predatory ways of high finance. Because he was untrained and because his drinking made him inattentive, the Wolves of Wall Street smelled blood. Oliver Queen II's fortune was stolen out from under him by the Board of Directors of his corporations. It was all quite legal since Queen had signed the papers giving key blocks of stock away as gifts. He was ruined financially and was forced to sell all of his residential properties across the nation for gift taxes for the wealth he had given away. Jack Turner moved into Titans Tower permanently to avoid the situations with Roy.

### **Hawkeye: 1964-1966**

By late 1962 Roy Harper was working as an archer in a carnival sideshow under an assumed name: Clint Barton. He was still drinking and bitter against those who had stolen his fortune. He caught a glimpse of one of the men who had stolen his fortune at the carnival he had been hustled into the carnival among a lot of bodyguards. The Ferris wheel(the 1893 invention that helped fund the creation of Ferris Aircraft) had been stopped and all people were escorted off. When the Ferris Wheel was empty a seat was cleaned off with Lysol and Kleenex. A saturnine faced man took a ten minute ride. He was then hustled out of the carnival.

Roy left his carnival stand and followed the limousine to a well secured hotel. The man was on the top floor suite. He had created q costume that would hide his identity and yet not equate him with either the Green Arrow or Speedy. He called himself Hawkeye. Roy planned to break into the rich man's apartment and have Mr. Big Bucks undo some of the financial damage that had been done to him. On his way to the hotel he saw a jewelry store being robbed. Without thinking he went to the aid of the store owner and shot a sap arrow at the robber. As it turned out the man holding the gun had been the store owner and the robber was the man with his arms raised. He was accused of being part of the robbery by the police who arrived on the scene; he fled and escaped capture.

At the hotel Roy learned that the rich man was planning on visiting one of his Aviation plants.

Roy decided to go there and give the man a real welcome.

Roy was still dressed in his outlandish purple archer's outfit when he arrived at Stark Aircraft. He used some arrows with explosive tips to break into the plant. He planned to take his target, Tony Stark, captive. However upon Roy's explosive entry into the plant Stark was hustled into a special room which was hermetically sealed. Moments after Stark had been taken into safety Roy found himself under attack by none other than Iron Man, who's identity was unknown at the time and he using the cover story of being Iron Man's bodyguard. Iron Man attacked. Roy fired an explosive tipped arrow at the Iron Man's feet and then fled. The floor collapsed under the Iron Man suit but he quickly took off in flight. Roy escaped.

Roy was fired from his job at the carnival and the notoriety of the encounter of the bowman and the iron suited man made him uncomfortable getting another job as an archer. Roy was approached by then Soviet agent Natasha Romanoff AKA Black Widow. She recruited him into a series of battles against Tony Stark. He would eventually choose to break away from Romanoff and announced his intention to reform. Captain America vouched for him and he was accepted into the controversial Avengers lineup of 1965, which included Captain America, Roy and two other reformed Villains in Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver.

### **The Inferior Five: 1966-1968**

For a hobby, Roy fell back on his hobby of photography as a profession. His skills were rusty and at first all he could get were jobs shooting models for men's entertainment magazines of the under the counter variety.

Although the pay was lousy, the settings were sleazy and the publishers were slime, the models were pretty and by 1965 they were often bring pharmaceutical supplements to allay the boredom of the shoots. Many of them did not mind sharing them with the photographer. Since his Clint Barton identity could be tracked to the Carnival and his criminal career, Roy was not using either it, Roy Harper, Oliver Queen at that time but William King, which was a variation on his Ollie Queen name conceived by Bonnie King. Through the various models Roy was able to get better gigs and make interesting contacts throughout the city. While shooting lingerie and brassiere advertisements Roy as William King made the acquaintance of a young model who called herself Athena Trevor. She claimed to be Wonder Woman's daughter. However Athena was known to be a bit of a ditz because she was in an almost permanent fog courtesy of marijuana and other substances. Roy knew Wonder Woman and her daughter slightly; Athena was not Wonder Woman's daughter. She later admitted she made it up for publicity reasons but was related to Steve Trevor.  Athena became good friends with William King and arranged for him to meet somebody famous she really did know, the Chief.

The Chief was Ken Kesey; William King became part of Kesey's entourage at his house in Big Sur and was among the people who got on the bus Furthur. Willie King was one of the cameramen who shot the forty-five hour film epic,*Merry Pranksters in Search of the Cool Place*.  While they were with the Merry Pranksters Athena and William King met Myron Victor. This would lead to them becoming part of Myron's street theatre improvisational freak out performance artist troupe known as The Inferior Five. This groups antics were experienced and often related to the press through a mad rushing delirium fueled by unregulated and constant doses of Dexedrine, Cocaine, psilocybin, LSD, mescaline, marijuana and alcohol.

William King's spent a two year period from 1966 to 1967 working part time as a photographer and hanging out in chemically induced delirium with the other members of the I-5. After a while, everyone went their own way, to do their own thing…. William King drifted deeper into drug addiction. He became hooked on crank and Speedy became his nickname again for a different reason. To cool out from the crank he began skin popping heroin, then became a full mainlining junkie.

### **1969**

Roy willingly subjected to LSD in concentration camps organized by Max Frost, until Frost approached him in an attempt to establish a government sponsored superhero team. This would put him directly in conflict with a resistance group team led by Iron Man, who destroyed a helicopter Frost was onboard.

Roy was left disgraced. Hank Pym offered him some Pym Particles, which would allow him to create a new identity on the Avengers team under the alias of Goliath but this did not cure Roy of any of his habits and he was soon back on the streets.

Roy's life would have probably ended in some back alley from an overdose, malnutrition or foul play if he had not met an old friend.

While on the nod sitting on a front stoop a few doors down from his connection's house he saw a flash of green and thought at first his father had come from Heaven to fetch him there.

Actually he saw Hal Jordan, the Green Lantern. Jordan was engaged in a battle with mere thugs. He looked over and said "Use a knockout arrow on him, Green Arrow." Roy was surprised someone knew who he was.

Roy then recognized the man in green; he was Hal Jordan, a friend of Barry Allen the second Flash, whom Oliver Queen had met on occasion.

Roy told Jordan that he had lost his equipment and so was unsuited to attack the thugs. Jordan told him he would find them. Once all of the thugs had been defeated, Jordan told Roy to follow him.

Jordan announced that he was going to go recharge his ring and find the Green Arrow's stolen weapons and outfit. He brought Roy to his house and offered him his couch.

Roy soon needed a fix and went to find one. A few streets away from the house from where Jordan was staying he was mugged by some punks. One of them had a crossbow. When it turned out Roy not only did not have any money but was a junkie looking for a fix, he was shot in the shoulder by the crossbow and kicked a few times for laughs.

Roy walked to the local hospital emergency room but because he was a junkie without insurance, he was forced to wait a long time before an intern finally slapped a pressure bandage on his shoulder and sent him on his merry way. The hospital did not give him any painkillers for fear that they might react badly with his next fix and because they were more than certain that he would probably sell them.

Roy went to his apartment only to discover that the punks who had taken his wallet had visited it before him. They had trashed the place and lifted anything of value. He found the most important thing, his works and enough H for two fixes. Because he had been strung out and wounded the H hit him fast and hard.

He saw Ollie Queen come into his room and start screaming at him and calling him a worthless junkie. The face of Ollie Queen fluctuated between Ollie's face and Roy's. Roy came out of the drug fugue with Jordan sitting besides his bed, staring at his in disappointment. Roy's face felt swollen and sore. The mirror showed that he had been beaten probably by those muggers although he did not recall it.

He cleaned himself up a bit. Jordan told Roy that he had recovered his equipment. He escorted Roy to the living room where Roy discovered to his surprise was a compound bow, a quiver of arrows, a Robin Hood suit and a black domino mask.

Roy heard a knock on his door. He went outside but no one was in the hallway. He noticed an eviction notice plastered to his doorway. He had five days to vacate the premises. Roy went to the Landlord's office. When Roy began to protest his eviction the Landlord said to count his blessings he had let a junkie like him stay as long as he had but the noise and racket from the night before was too much. He was out.

Hal Jordan walked in dressed in his Green Lantern suit. He told the landlord he knew he was involved in all sorts of illegal activity. The Landlord went for his desk drawer. Jordan slammed a punch into his forehead and knocked the Landlord unconscious. Jordan used his ring to search the office for evidence. To Roy's surprise they actually did find something illegal. The landlord had some heroin in his backroom that had not yet been doled out. The landlord was a drug supplier as well as a slumlord. Roy confiscated the heroin. This was enough to let him quit… gradually.

Roy knew that the landlord was probably not working alone in the drug trade and so thought it might be best if they hit the road. Hal Jordan agreed, he had received a message from the Oan Council that he, The Guardian on Earth and the Green Arrow should travel across the country conducting research for the Oan Council. They were also to right wrongs where ever they found them. He told Roy to meet him at his apartment in an hour or so. Hal Jordan showed up in a pickup truck. He also revealed the Guardian Ali Apsa. Apsa was an immortal Guardian. One of the few who wished to become closer to the people he had sworn to protect. He disguised himself as a human with technology, an arabic man due to his name, claiming to be a member of the Tuareg, the blue people of the desert.

Roy Harper spent from late 1968 to 1969 on the road with Hal Jordan. In an effort to make the "confiscated" heroin last and also prepare him to quit the junk, he would let himself get really strung out until he was very sick with withdrawal. As a result he would often be unaware of traveling or arriving at places.

They traveled north and ended up in a mining town. The miners were striking for better wages spurred on by a youth singing protest songs. The owner of the Mine also owned the mountain and most of the homes of the people. He brought in strikebreakers and had the Sheriff deputize them. He evicted folks from their homes if they did not pay their rents. The thugs that the mine owner had hired were goose-stepping Nazis. The folk singer was arrested and charged with inciting to riot. Rumor had it that the mine owner intended to have him lynched. His arrest spurred a full-scale riot, which the Sheriff and his deputies put down brutally. Ali Apsu saved a little girl from a tear gas canister that exploded near her. Roy and Jordan became caught up in the riot.

The mine owner's actions were later investigated by the Department of Interior and found he had violated several safety regulations. He sold the mine to a conglomerate that modernized the machinery and cut most of the work force.

Roy remembered that they traveled through an Indian reservation in the state of Washington. There was some type of dispute over a logging rights and Indian ownership of the land. The treaty that had stated the Indian's ownership of the land had been lost. An elderly man was the only member of the tribe who had been at the treaty signing. He purportedly had a copy of the treaty. Roy went to see if he could retrieve the treaty copy while Jordan and Ali investigated the logging company. Roy found the old tribal member's house on fire. He rescued him but the copy of the treaty burned in the blaze.

The loggers and the young men of the tribe came to blows. Roy attempted to break up the fight and was aided by Jordan.

A congressional representative ironed out an agreement between the head of the logging company and tribal ruling council, the logging company could log but would provide money to the reservation under the aegis of charitable contributions.

Roy was pretty strung out when he was driving the truck on a coastal highway near Seattle. While crossing a bridge over the Seattle harbor Roy swerved out of the way of an oncoming truck and the pick-up went over the side of the bridge and into the drink. They were rescued by a crew of a freighter whose Captain refused to turn back and made the three men work for their passage. Roy had lost most of his dope and so was in a confused and agitated state for most of their trip. He remembered that a fire had broken out on board ship and that he, Jordan, Ali Apsa and the other members of the crew were forced to dump barrels of toxic waste overboard because it was highly flammable. The toxic waste had been enroute to Asia where it would be recycled into some sort of cleaning fluid.

They were spotted dumping the toxic waste by an U.S. Navy Destroyer who had responded to the distress signal. The U.S. Navy investigated the incident, deemed the Captain and crew had acted appropriately in order to save the ship and allowed them to leave. There was a member of the United States House of Representatives who wished for them to be hauled up before the United Nations or Interpol or whoever for violating international maritime law because they had violated environmental pollution laws. Since the Congressman did not know what he talking about the ship was free to go.(International laws regarding Toxic waste pollution were not enacted until 1973).

Roy noticed that when Jordan was bored by the routine activity of the ship he would go into his trance states. Jordan eventually told Roy that he was communicating with the Guardians of Oa or else he was experiencing an adventure as Pol Manning, the Green Lantern of the 58th Century. The future people believed that his memory was wiped out every time he traveled back and forth from the past to the future but Jordan remembered bits and pieces of each trip.

Roy ran out of smack and became so involved with his withdrawal he did not consciously remember the rest of the trip. He remembered coming awake, feeling very sick, in a tenement home. Jordan asked him when he was sober if he would like to accompany him on a mission to space. Roy agreed and the Ring confirmed he was in his right mind. They were then teleported away.

The city they were in seemed to be composed of wall to wall people, many ill and unwashed. Roy inquired where they were at, Jordan told him the planet Maltus where overpopulation was a major problem. The Council of Oa had sent them there to see if they could do anything about the overpopulation problem. The Oans had even stripped their companion Oan of his immortality. Jordan had discovered that the problem of the overpopulation arose from a cloning factory, which they had to destroy.

From Ali Apsa, Roy and Jordan learned that Maltus was the original home of the Guardians before they moved to Oa. Apsa used this as proof that the Guardians had grown too distant as they wouldn't even solve problems on their own birth planet. Ali Apsa surprised them by wishing to stay on Maltus.

Returning to Earth, Roy and Jordan found work on a freighter heading towards Thailand. In Bangkok, Roy discovered almost anything could be bought, including heroin. He wanted to try some just to make certain he was over his addiction.

Jordan however became fixated on a school for orphans run by an Englishman. Jordan claimed to have seen several people pick-pocketed or accosted by children from this school. Roy did not believe Jordan until two of the kids tried to roll Roy while he was on the nod. Jordan insisted that they investigate the school while wearing their super hero garb. .

Roy and Jordan discovered that the owner of the school was thoroughly intimidated by the school superintendent, an Englishman named Grandy.

The Englishman's name had originally been Gallico and he had been a stage magician, a master of disguise and a designer of many illusions. He had turned to murder to redress his greviences. Escaping from justice he lived for a short time in hiding as a beach bum before coming to Thailand. He should not be confused with his cousin, Dr. Goldfoot, the robotics expert whose dastardly fembots were copied by Dr. Evil, or was it the other way around?

The school was not merely being used to tutor children in thievery but it also catered to the horrid trade of child prostitution. Grandy kept order in the school with ruthless discipline. He kept this ruthless discipline with the unwilling aid of a little girl who had the psychic ability to compel minds. When Grandy became incensed at Roy and Jordan a flock of birds straight out of the incident at Bodega Bay attacked them on the street.

Jordan told Roy in this case severe measures were warranted, the children needed to be freed and the school of crime stopped. Roy concurred. Roy believed that if they drove the children and faculty from the school Jordan and he would have time to collect evidence that would they could release to Bangkok and American newspapers. The newspapers would provide pressure on even Thailand's corrupt police to act against Grandy. Roy's plan was to break into the school, plant wasp nests in various locations about the school and shoot them with his arrows, filling the school with wasps and driving the kids and faculty out. Roy would then drop smoke bombs and Jordan and he would explore the school and look for evidence.

Jordan and Roy split up to collect the wasp nests.

When this task was completed, Roy used an arrow poon to climb onto the school's roof. Entering the school from a sun window,  they began planting the wasp nests. Jordan pulled a disappearing act. Cursing, Roy placed all of the wasp nests but one and then carefully took aim at them. Angry, stinging wasps filled the dorms. The children ran screaming out of the school. Suddenly they turned around and ran back towards him intent on attacking him. Rather than hurt the children, Roy ran down stairs.

Roy made his way to the first floor and looked for Grandy's office. Roy saw that it was dark, opened the door and walked in. The light snapped on. Grandy was standing next to the door holding a gun. Hal Jordan was tied up in a chair with a yellow rope. He had been subdued by the girl's psychic abilities. Next to Grandy was a little girl. Grandy told her to make the Green Arrow shoot his friend. She refused at first but after Grandy slapped her hard Roy felt an overwhelming command in his mind to nock the bow and shoot. In his mentally weakened state he could not disobey, he nocked a bladed arrow and shot it. It took Grandy in the shoulder and the gun fell from his hand. The girl ran out of the room followed by Grandy. They ran into the basement. Roy freed Jordan and the place was rocked by an explosion, Jordan used his ring to encase himself and Roy and leave the building. Jordan flew towards the children holding his ring extended. Whether it was the sight of the green man chasing them or the explosions that rocked the school, the children ran screaming towards the outside.

Roy later wondered how the school had exploded. Jordan said that the girl had caused the boiler to explode. Roy believed that explanation for a few weeks until he found a blasting cap in Jordan's pack. He may have done so as a back up plan if he was incapacitated.

Roy and Jordan stayed in Bangkok for a month while they looked for berths to take them home or saved enough money to get a flight or ship home. During this time Roy once again became deeply addicted to Heroin. Roy and Jordan found working passage on a freighter traveling to Hawaii. Roy and Jordan were hired to be guards against pirates since the owner of the ship believed the comic book stories about them. They were also supposed to do some light seafarer duties on the ship.

Roy's disbelief about pirates was soon evaporated when a ship of them pulled alongside the freighter. His archery skills and Jordan's ring combined with some automatic weaponry wielded by the crew were enough to send the pirates on their way.

As they arrived at the port in Hawaii, the captain told Roy and Jordan that their obligation extended until the cargo was unloaded in the morning. Sometimes hijackers attempted to steal shipments from ships in port.

Roy and Jordan patrolled the ship that night and nearly missed a small group of black garbed men breaking into the cargo hold. Roy and Jordan called for them to stop. Roy and Jordan were forced to wound several.

Roy saw a lone figure dive overboard with a small package. Roy ran off the ship and gave chase. When the figure emerged from the water on a sandy beach a half of a mile from the pier. Roy shot an arrow next to the figure's hand. Roy saw a flash and great pain in his chest as he fell. He saw a woman's face staring down at him before he passed out.

Suffering from a chest wound and going through heroin withdrawal, Roy had some oddly pleasant dreams of love and passion.

Roy awoke laying on a futon in a small but well kept apartment. A young Asian woman came into to change his bandage. He grabbed her hands in a hard grip. She twisted her hands out of his grip easily and continued dressing his bandage.

She remarked with some disdain, she now understood why the hero Green Arrow was working for Yakuza drug runners, he was an addict. When he was well enough to travel he would leave, until then she would treat his wound since it was her responsibility for having caused it accidentally.

Over the next few days, Roy learned that her name was Kokuei and she worked for Japanese Intelligence. it was one of the few places where a person of her background could find gainful employment in Japan. She was Hun Chiun and African-American. Her mother had been Korean woman forced to be a comfort woman. A Japanese soldier had married her and brought her home. He had been killed in the war leaving the woman alone in Japan. She had become a prostitute and catered the occupying Americans after the war. Kokuei had been raised in an orphanage.

Japan's was investigating the Yakuza drug trafficking connections between South East Asia and the United States. Kokuei had believed that Roy was one of the Yakuza when she had shot him. When she saw who he was she realized he must have been undercover. When he began undergoing withdrawal symptoms, she realized that he was a junkie and probably in the pay of the Yakuza. She remarked that Hawaii's state police had raided the ship an hour after he had left it and arrested most of the crew. The hidden narcotics were burned.

After Roy felt well enough to walk out of the apartment on his own, she showed him the door. Now that he was finally freed of Heroin, he determined to stay that way. Unknown to him or Kokuei at the time, she was pregnant with twin boys, though of different appearances. One boy would be named Robert Queen after Oliver Queen's father and Roy's grandfather. The other was named after the identity Roy had once taken: Clint Barton. Kokuei had actually lied about her identity. Her real name is unknown but she was actually Japanese. She would use the alias of Shado.

Shortly after leaving Kokuei, Roy saw a pimp manhandling one of his prostitutes. Roy felt constrained to stop this and was turned on by the Pimp and prostitute as well. However in a few days it became known that Green Arrow was in town. As half expected Jordan showed up. Jordan said he had escaped from the ship when the Zamorans had invaded it. The Zamaron cult of the Star Sapphires had launched rings on Earth in 1962. One of which had possessed and continued to control Carol Ferris. Ferris's love for Jordan turned into a deadly obsession and she had apparently found him and attacked.Jordan forced her and the Zamorans to retreat and had retrieved Roy and his stuff and had gotten their pay.

Roy was glad to hear the latter because he wanted to return the mainland, back to Angel Grove.

Roy returned to Angel Grove with Jordan using his ring.

Even though Roy had kicked the junk habit he still felt strung out. He was suffering from "protracted abstinence syndrome" which can continue for up to 32 weeks afterwards. The symptoms that continue over this time are: restlessness, disturbed sleep pattern, blood pressure, pulse rate, dilated pupils, feeling cold, irritability, change of personality and feeling, as well as an intense craving for the drug.

This anxiety manifested in a desire to *do something,* to take his mind off of the siren call of H. Roy began acting as the Green Arrow and patrolled the streets of Los Angeles and nearby environs. Most of the time he went alone although on a few occasions he was accompanied by Jordan, the Green Lantern. On one such occasion they heard a woman's scream coming from a tavern they were passing by. The tavern was surrounded by empty lots, parking lots and abandoned stores and was located in a secluded section of town. They went to investigate.

Another scream followed. Roy and Jordan entered the tavern; seven Satan's Slaves had a half-naked woman held down on a pool table and were in the process of gang raping her. Roy put three arrows through three knees and one through a shoulder before the Satan's Slaves were aware of their attackers. A hand flashed a knife. Roy pinned the hand holding a knife to a wall. Jordan defeated one of the Satan's Slaves, a behemoth weighing close to three hundred pounds, all muscle. Using his bow and his fists, Roy was able to finish off the other two attackers. The owner of the tavern was no where to seen. Roy found him knocked out behind the bar.

As soon as the fight began the woman had fled; grabbing her tattered clothing and running out the door.

As Roy and Jordan departed the tavern, Jordan noticed one of the motor cycles and stared at it. It was fancier than most of the other motorcycles and had a black bird symbol on its fenders and one on the front section below the handle bars. Jordan said it was the Black Canary's bike and he wondered what the Slaves were doing with it. They went back into the bar and began interrogating the conscious Slaves about the bike. They were reticent. Jordan grabbed one by the jacket collar dragged in into another room. He told Roy he was going to use his ring to get the truth. He returned alone fifteen minutes later.

Jordan said that the Satan's Slaves had bought the bike off a bunch of Hippies living on a broken down ranch. He knew that Canary was in trouble and needed their help.

Black Canary was a vigilante; a beautiful woman who fought crime in the forties dressed in tight skirts and fishnet stockings. Rumor had it she was still kicking butt and still looked good.

As they were leaving the tavern, Roy noted splotches of red on Jordan's green boots.

They asked around about this group of hippies, it seemed that some ex-con had a great following up in the hills. His acolytes were mostly runaways but also included ex-bikers; ex-cons and middle aged occultists. His name was Horace Bones and he was supposed to be Jesus and Satan.

Roy and Jordan decided to go undercover and rescue Black Canary, they took Canary's stolen bike and hid it in the woods near the Ranch. Roy found Horace very charismatic. He exuded a compelling vibe. In order to fit in with the festivities Roy and Jordan had to take LSD, they however refused to take part in the organized sex parties, especially when it became apparent that several of the followers suffered from sexually transmitted diseases. They stayed with the Family for several days searching for Canary among the women. Roy saw a few people using heroin. When offered some it would have been impolite not to accept and it also might have raised suspicion.

After a few days of this generosity, Roy was again hooked.

Jordan's odd behavior, constant questions and refusal to join in with the sex orgies made Horace and several of the Family suspicious. Scouring through the ranch, a Family member found Roys cache that contained Roy's outfit, bow and arrows.

Horace was quite paranoid that the Green Lantern and Green Arrow had infiltrated his operation. He claimed that they were agents of the Establishment, of the Law- that force of the Universe that tried to prevent Change, to prevent the coming Helter Skelter, the race war. Horace left and returned with a small handgun which he handed to a dark haired young woman. He told her to off the police pigs. She trained the gun on Hal Jordan and then on Roy but then told Horace she could not kill them. She then trained the gun on Horace and told him to release Jooleea. Horace claimed he had no hold on her and that she was free to go or to stay. Jooleea did not want to leave but the dark haired girl with the gun told Jordan to carry her. Horace came towards the dark haired girl with a knife. She shot him with the gun or rather tried to. The gun was empty. Horace slapped it out of her hands. The Family jumped on Jordan, Roy and the dark haired girl and brought them down by sheer numbers with Jordan being on LSD and unable to use the ring. Horace carved a small bird symbol on the back of the dark haired girl's hand. He then had them forcibly swallow large doses of LSD. He then cheerfully sent them on their way, telling them that he would have them shot on sight as trespassers next time the came on his land.

The girl made herself regurgitate as soon as they were clear of the Family's line of vision, the drug was only minimally effective after it was out of her system. The larger dose of LSD seemed to have very little effect on Jordan. He guided the girl to the hidden motorcycle. She asked how they had found it. Jordan told her that Horace had sold the bike to some bikers. She cursed Horace he had told her that he had just borrowed it.

Jordan remarked that they had not recognized her because they were looking for an older, blond woman.

Black Canary took them to her apartment. Once they were there Roy began to describe his bad trip. Still under the influence of the psychotropic, Black Canary and Jordan began to experience visual versions of Roy's trip. Harpies, Amazons and a Wicked Red Skinned Queen. Although through Jordan's input the Amazons became Zamorans and the wicked Red Queen was his arch enemy Sinestro's sister.

Roy began to once again experience withdrawal symptoms. This time however Black Canary helped him through the cold turkey withdrawal.

While Roy was in his withdrawal state, Jordan sat on the Canary's sofa, staring off into space while he was experiencing times in the future when he the Green Lantern of the 58th Century. On one occasion he got out the telephone directory and ran his ring over it.

After three days, Jordan suddenly announced that his ring had given him an urgent summons. He explained that he was having an investigation conducted and believed someone had poisoned Roy with heroine and he believed he was onto something. He promised Roy he would achieve justice. He left. Canary was glad to see him go away because he was, in her opinion, one scary, creepy dude.

The Black Canary was the daughter of the original Black Canary, Dinah Laurel Lance. Her mother had married Larry Lance, a private eye. Dinah Drake was 22 years old in 1969. Roy Harper was 33. Dinah found him exceedingly attractive, exciting and sexy.

While Roy was kicking the habit, Dinah learned that Hopper Pharmaceuticals had been attacked by Green Lantern. His disruption had however begun an investigation into Hopper Pharmaceuticals, which had been using their legitimate business to produce illegal drugs.

In a week or so after Roy had flushed all of the heroin from his system and no longer had the physical addiction, Dinah told him all about herself. Unlike her mother and most of the other vigilantes she did not fight crime in general but rather looked for missing children. She had been tracking a girl from Missouri whose parents had hired her to find the kid. The girl Judy Taylor had taken come to Hollywood to be an actress but had drifted into the porn industry. Films of that nature were filmed at Spahn ranch. She had become involved with the Family and Horace had renamed her Jooleea, after the Rutles Song.

Horace had become suspicious of Dinah because she refused to take part in the sex games and she only pretended to take the drugs. She had tried to alleviate his suspicions by lending the Family her bike. When the bike had not reappeared after a few days Dinah should have realized that Horace had sold it. As Roy had seen, Jooleea was a mind warped as the rest of them. Although Horace had grandiose plans Dinah did not consider him much more than a B-grade Svengali, though he had once been arrested for attempting to assassinate Martin Luther King Jr.

Roy agreed to help Dinah rescue Jooleea. As Dinah was making her phone call to Julie's parents, a car came roaring down the street. It crashed into the phone booth, injuring Dinah. Roy called an ambulance and although a piece of glass had cut her artery she was stabilized. She and he had the same blood type so he gave up enough for a transfusion. She told him that the Family had upped the stakes, the man driving the car had been Bobby Bozell.

A month later when she was better and he had achieved a measure of emotional and physical control he had not in year; he and Dinah made another call on Horace's Family. They went in and forcibly removed an unwilling Judy Taylor from the clutches of the Family. Although Horace called down threats upon them they were able to escape with only a few punches. Roy Horace an arrow through two of the Family's legs.

Of course had they known what Horace had planned two months later, they may have been more aggressive with them and injured them so that they would not have been able to attempt to enact wholesale murder. On August 8th, 1969, the family attempted to murder Actor Rick Dalton and his stunt double Clint Booth. The two turned the tides on their attackers, killing them in self defense.

Dinah and Roy returned Judy Taylor to St. Louis. They had become a couple by this time. Roy announced that he would no longer be using the name Roy Harper. This was to break with his past; Roy Harper was a junkie and spoiled brat who dishonored the man who had tried to raise him with an admittedly inflexible moral standard. Roy was now going to be Oliver Queen II, and hoped to make his father proud.

### **The 1970's**

Oliver moved in with Dinah, over the original Black Canary's objections. Dinah ran a florist shop, worked as an investigator of missing children and patrolled the mean Angel Grove County streets with Green Arrow.

In 1971, Hal Jordan met with Oliver. He had something to reveal. He didn't know how to tell him and so decided he would show him. The two broke up a group of criminals who shot at them with a crossbow. Strangely, the weapon was loaded with Queen's old arrows. Tracking down the attackers, Green Arrow and his best friend, Green Lantern Hal Jordan, find out that the criminals were junkies who needed money for their addiction, and were surprised to find Queen's ward Speedy (Jack Turner) among them. They thought he was working undercover to bust the junkies, but Queen caught him red-handed when he tried to shoot heroin. It became evident that the stolen arrows were indeed Queen's, which he shared with Turner when they fought crime together.

Jordan revealed that Jack Turner had become a heroin addict while being Queen's sidekick back in the 50's and 60's. Since they shared a home Turner had hidden heroin in many objects and foods that the two ate, which escalated into full on drugging Oliver. Jack Turner had a nickname: "Captain Jack". He had done this at the insistence of a large Pharmaceutics company.

Oliver would have forgiven Jack were he only addicted to Heroin as he had been, but the revelation Jack had caused his heroin addiction and therefore ruined his life, made Oliver lash out at Jack. In shame, Jack withdrew cold turkey, and one of the junkies died of a drug overdose. Queen and Lantern tackled the kingpin of the drug ring, a pharmaceutics CEO who outwardly condemned drug abuse, and visited the funeral for the dead junkie.

Needing a break, and somewhat sick of Arrows after the criminals using his weapon left a bad taste in his mouth, Queen, returned to his public identity of Clint Barton and a role on the Avengers, using Pym Particles to become the Superhero Goliath. He would be a member during Earth's involvement in the Kree Skull War from 1971 to 1972.

In 1976, Oliver was a photojournalist with a weekly column. The reformed drug addict went after drug pushers and manufacturers with a vengeance. His various exposes caught national attention and he received job offers from the Daily Sentinel in Detroit, the Daily Planet in New York, the Daily Bugle also in New York, the Independent News Service in Chicago. He had an offer from the troubled CrimeWays magazine and a personal offer from Dan Farrell of Crime Magazine.

When his articles turned up information that the police had been holding back as evidence, Queen was arrested and interrogated to discover how he knew what he knew. When he refused to divulge his sources, the Judge sentenced him to six months jail time for contempt of court.

In 1979, Queen unsuccessfully ran for Mayor of Star City.

### **The 1980's**

After his failed Mayorial campaign, Oliver fell back on Superheroics, being both a member of the Justice League and the Avengers. Dinah Lance fell into this as well and joined SHIELD in 1980. She used the alias of Bobbi Morse, which she used a few times in the 1970's. She began using the Superhero name "Mockingbird", a possible pun on her other identity of Black Canary. She would never use her Canary cry while acting as Mockingbird to paint the two as separate identities. To perpetuate the illusion, a false wedding between Hawkeye and Mockingbird occurred in 1983.

Meanwhile, Jack Turner, had continued to act as Speedy, even as an Adult. Oliver had forgiven him and he was legally adopted: becoming Jack Harper. In the early 1980's he commanded Titans East(made up of heroes who were no longer Teens and located on the East Coast as there name suggests). He had a romantic encounter with a female assassin named Cheshire, the result would be a child: Lian Harper. Cheshire would return and leave Lian in Jack Harper's care. She would be raised in Titans tower.

Green Arrow also battled the Supervillain Count Vertigo.

In the Early 1980's, Oliver was on a mission with the Justice League. His hand became stuck in a machine as the craft was about to explode. Superman could not remove the stuck limb. Despite Oliver's protests, Superman used his heat vision to amputate the limb and rescue Green Arrow. Oliver felt useless after this as he learned how to use his teeth and one arm to load the bow. He never forgave Superman(Joel Kent) for this.

Losing an arm seemed to end both his Heroic careers as it would be obvious they were the same person.

Out of Spite, Oliver helped Bruce Wayne in his battle against Superman in 1986. He would return to the Avengers but during the Crisis On Infinite Earths, he was engaged in a battle with them when the Hulk went on a rampage. There was an atomic explosion, Mockingbird grabbed Oliver and they made their escape. Oliver turned to look and was blinded by the Atomic blast. It was the last thing he ever saw.

### **1987: The Longbow Hunters**

On his Fifty third birthday, Ollie Queen relocated from Star City to Seattle, Washington, the home of his wife Dinah Lance. Now having lost his eyesight and his arm, Oliver intended to retire but found that he was still somewhat competent. Several major incidents took place while Ollie and Dinah lived in Seattle. Due to the cooler weather and his advanced age he adopted a suit that was more reflective of the historical Robin Hood rather than the film version, this included a hood. The Hood also helped hide the fact that he was blind.

He abandoned his trademark trick arrows for more traditional archery equipment. As Green Arrow tried to track down a serial killer, the Seattle Slasher, who has been killing prostitutes in the area, Black Canary attempted to infiltrate a drug racket which may had ties to Kyle Magnor, a wealthy shipping magnate.

Oliver tracked the killer to the abandoned Seattle Underground section of the city, discovering that the killer was a disturbed ex-tunnel rat from the Sarkhan War. The Slasher jumped Oliver and got away to apparently kill again, but a mysterious female archer with an elaborate dragon tattoo on her arm shot the slasher (as well as a passing motorist) before vanishing.

The archer was revealed to be Shado, the daughter of a Yakuza agent incarcerated during World War II, where American soldiers, including Magnor, forced him to reveal a major cache of Yakuza gold. Dishonored, the agent killed himself in atonement. When Shado came of age, she was charged with killing those who dishonored her father and the Yakuza. The passing motorist she killed was one of those soldiers, who used the stolen gold to build a financial empire. Ollie tracked down Shado and fared poorly in the confrontation.

At home, Ollie heard on the news that the drug supplier Dinah had been investigating was found dead and mutilated earlier that day. Panicked, Oliver raced to the dockside warehouse that Dinah suspected as the source of the drug distribution. There, he found Dinah tied up, tortured, and on the verge of death. Without hesitation Ollie killed her torturer, one of Shado's intended victims, along with the others in the drug lab. After learning about what happened at the docks, Magnor warned his CIA contact, Osborne, that he wanted better protection on their next deal. Osborne assigned weapons master Eddie Fyers to eliminate Shado.

After killing another target, Shado left a message for Ollie to meet her on Mt. Rainier where she intended to kill Magnor. Although Ollie initially tried to stop her, he noticed Fyers aiming a sniper rifle at Shado and moved to subdue him, inadvertently giving Magnor a chance to escape. Ollie also confronted Osborne about the use of an Kamistanian arms deal to fund Nicaraguan Contras. Ollie confronted Magnor in his office. Ollie intended to frame him for the murder of the drug supplier, but Shado shot the target through the window and killed him.

Unknown to Oliver, he had previously met Shado under the identity of Kokuei.

While Dinah recovered. He took on several criminals, drug dealers and criminal organizations. It was during this time that his secret identity was uncovered and Oliver Queen unmasked.

A government operative of the Drug Enforcement Agency began to work with Oliver Queen in his private war on drugs. The DEA agent Eddie Fyers was actually a CIA agent who had been coopted by The Shop. Fyers to force Queen to work for them. He refused and Fyers made it appear as though The Green Arrow had blown up a drug company ship on the suspicion that it had contained illegal drugs. The explosion had nearly wrecked the Panama Canal. Oliver became a fugitive who tried to gather evidence against Fyers to clear his name. He was ineffectual in this. It was only through the efforts of Bruce Wayne and his friends in the government that Oliver Queen was exonerated. There was however a price to be paid. The government wished to use his services, he had shown great ability at infiltrating, disguise and command ability. In return for being compensated monetarily, the government job would give Oliver Queen great ability to travel the world and held eradicate the drug problem on a greater scale.

### **The 1990's**

In the 1993, Jack Turner began carrying out Government work. Turner adopted a new outfit and used the code name Arsenal. The government really did provide him with the trick arrows and other devices he had used once before. For the SHIELD job, Oliver Queen II used his birth name of Roy Harper.

Although he acted on solo missions for the most part, one of the main components of the job was to train with and accompany on missions the covert Federal Felon Reduction Program Taskforce otherwise known as the Dirty Dozen or The Suicide Squad. Criminals with certain skills were offered the chance to reduce their sentences by going on covert missions with for the government. If caught they would be denied, if attempting to escape, they would be killed. If they spoke about this they would be denied and their pardon's revoked. Although the majority of the members of the Suicide Squad were average skilled criminals there were quite a few of the masked maniac type.

In 1994, Oliver Queen II joined a group of heroes to take down the insane Hal Jordan. He would be the one to defeat the powerful possessed Jordan by firing a yellow tipped arrow into his chest. Jordan survived but his near death caused an epiphany and he retreated.

Oliver Queen II met one of his two unknown children in the form of Connor Hawke, son of Queen and Sandra Hawke. Connor Hawke agreed to go back with Queen and train to become his successor as Green Arrow. Oliver Queen II.

In 1996, the entirety of the Arrow family participated in either joining Superman Justice League, which included Jack Harper(now known as Red Arrow), or joining Batman's Outsiders. Most of the family sided with Batman including Oliver Queen II, Dinah Queen, their daughter Olivia Queen, Lian Harper(now going by red Hood, not based off the Joker's former identity but the story of Little Red riding Hood, her father's "Red Arrow identity" and Robin Hood).

With the exception of Lian Harper and Connor Hawke, All involved members were killed in a Nuclear Blast which devastated the Heroes in the final battle. Oliver Queen II and Dinah Queen died in one another's arms.

Lian Harper took up the mantle of Black Canary, even dying her hair blonde. She would serve as a member of the Birds of Prey and work alongside Connor Hawke's Green Arrow.

### **Connor Hawke: 1996-2005**

Connor Hawke's training was impacted strongly by the many deaths of the Arrow family. He went onto a solo career, travelling to Smallville and befriending Kalel Zod, Joining a Justice League funded group of younger heroic possible successors. he would quickly become the group's de facto leader. Despite his own youth, Connor Hawke would take a sidekick of his own, Speedy III. Speedy III was Mia Dearden, a teenage girl who escaped from an abusive household. She was also HIV positive. Connor Hawke's main nemesis was a serial killer called Onomatopoeia.

Connor Hawke, fitting to his name, would take up the identity of Hawkeye and work for the Avengers. Unfortunately this would be in 2005 when the Avengers faced a series of devastating attacks that would see the team collapse for several years, living on in the form of the New Avengers for a short time before being reformed properly by SHIELD in 2011. Connor Hawke would be caught up in a battle with every living Avenger against a Kree invasion force. He would sacrifice himself in an explosion that would destroy a large number of Kree ships.

### **Clint Barton(Hawkeye II) 2009-2011**

Clint Barton, brother of Robert Queen had joined SHIELD and took up the identity of Hawkeye as well as the previous used identity of Clint Barton fully. Jack Harper was on a team of heroes gathered to find the Villain Prometheus. Prometheus attacked the Justice League Headquarters while he was there. Jack Harper battled him valiantly but Prometheus gained the upper hand. He told Jack that he could make him look a little more like his mentor and cut off his arm. The rest of the Justice League arrived and captured him. Prometheus revealed his plot to destroy several cities with bombs. The heroes attempted to stop the bombs but many were injured or killed. Lian Harper was among the wounded. Barton heard of these events. The Harpers were essentially family to him and that was what Barton valued most. Barton tracked down Prometheus when he escaped in the chaos and shot an arrow through Prometheus's brain, killing him.

Barton continued to work for SHIELD until 2012, when he was mind controlled by the Asgardian Loki into serving him. He was freed by the now reformed Black Widow Natasha Romanoff, his mentor while part of SHIELD. Romanoff had joined the Avengers some time after Roy Harper had and felt an obligation to his memory. After being freed, Barton became a member of the Avengers. However, he would be less active as he had a family of his own with a wife named Laura, two sons named Cooper and Nathaniel and a daughter named Lila.

### **Arrow: 2012-2020**

As mentioned previously there was a child born of Oliver Queen and the woman known as Shadow named Robert Queen. Robert Queen had a son in 1985, when he was only 16 with a girl named Moira. When Oliver Queen II learned of their existence he did all he could to accept them back but was struggling financially. Fortunately Robert and Moira were business savvy and went to work rebuilding Oliver Queen's fortune and forming Queen Consolidated. They did this through some shady means which would come to harm them and their children.

Because of their connections, Robert and Moira's son Oliver Queen III, grew up rich and spoiled. He held a friendship with the Lance family, which included Detective Quentin Lance, son of Larry Lance and brother of Dinah Lance. Quentin had two daughters: Sara and Laurel. Oliver began dating Sara and took her with him on a trip onboard *the Queen's Gambit* with his father. The ship sank and Robert Queen and Oliver ended up on a raft with Sara presumed dead. Robert gave Oliver instructions and a list of men to kill to "Save the City". Oliver found himself on the island of Lian Yu. Oliver would claim to be stranded on the island for five years from 2008 to 2012 but this is not true. He was actually found and recruited by Government agencies who wanted him to act anonymously and so insisted he not reveal his continued survival.Under government work, "the Arrow" mostly targeted the crime of dealer "China White".

Also on the island, Oliver Queen had the unfortunate luck of running into Deathstroke AKA Slade Wilson who was trying to bring down the drug operation alongside Shado. Shado looked amazing for being Oliver's grandmother though that was largely because Robert Queen had sadly died young. It was also because both her and Slade had been experimented on with drugs. They were intending to stop a drug called Mirakuru, said to be Japan's intended answer to America's Super Soldier Serum back in World War II but was never completed.

Slade's origins should be discussed. He lied about his age to fight in the Hun Chiu war. He also fought in Sarkhan where he met Captain Adeline Kane(this ironically makes Slade Wilson related to Bruce Wayne through his mother's side, albeit as in laws). The two fell in love and had children.

A criminal named the Jackal, secretly Professor Miles Warren, wished to recruit Slade Wilson to kill Spider-Man. Slade refused. Jackal attempted to coerce him by kidnapping his younger son Joseph Wilson. Slade attacked and killed the kidnappers at the rendezvous. Unfortunately, Joseph's throat was slashed by one of the criminals before Slade could prevent it, destroying Joseph's vocal cords and rendering him mute.

After taking Joseph to the hospital, Adeline was enraged at his endangerment of her son and tried to kill Slade by shooting him, but only managed to destroy his right eye. Afterwards, his confidence in his physical abilities was such that he made no secret of his impaired vision, marked by his mask which has a black, featureless half covering his lost right eye. Without his mask, Slade wears an eyepatch to cover his eye.

Slade subjected himself to testing with Mirakuru, which healed him but could not fix his eye as it had been injured before the treatment. Slade's son Grant Wilson became a mercenary but was killed fighting the Titans under orders from the H.I.V.E.(actually because the H.I.V.E. gave him augmentations that killed him). Deathstroke took the contract to attack the team. He was slow and methodical in this, rising in the ranks of H.I.V.E., tricking Robin(Dick Grayson) into becoming his apprentice for a brief time and manipulating the Earthbender Terra into betraying the team. He was even horribly injured and became a servant of Trigon before betraying him. Deathstroke however had calms about hurting kids and may have been holding back in these battles, given that he had many chances to kill the team that he did not take.

After the 1980's Deathstroke was seen less and less until 2004, when the Justice League searched for the villain Doctor Light. Deathstroke was hired a large amount to protect Light.(The comic books depcit several inconsistencies, making the fight appear more one sided than it actually was). The battle ended when Connor Hawke lodged an arrow in Deathstroke's eye. Deathstroke was next seen as part of the Secret Society of Supervillains. He had seemed to disappear again until Oliver III found him on the island.

Slade and Shado had fallen in love, only for a failure on Oliver's part to lead to Shado's death, which Deathstroke blamed him for and tried to kill him.

In 2012, Oliver returned to Star City and was reunited with his mother, Moira, his sister, Thea, and his friend, Tommy Merlyn. Oliver rekindleed his relationships, while spending his nights hunting down and sometimes killing criminals as a vigilante, known as The Hood. His first major enemy was one of the Green Arrow's old, Malcom Merlyn, the Dark Archer, a rival of Oliver Queen II from the 1970's. He had retired but the loss of his wife spurred him to form a conspiracy to destroy "The Glades", a poorer section of the city that was overridden with crime. Oliver was assisted by John Diggle(the estranged son of Green Lantern John Stewart, who would believe his father abandoned his pregnant mother until reunited with him)and Felicity Smoak(who did not become romantically invovled with Oliver due to being older than him, having been introduced in the 70's). Oliver also reconnected with ex-girlfriend, Laurel Lance, who was still angry over his role in her sister, Sara's, presumed death, while her father, Detective Quentin Lance, suspected Oliver of being the vigilante. After being saved by The Hood, Jackson Whittlemore attempted to find him so he would train him so he could help others. Jackson was also a werewolf. Oliver III was said to carry silver Arrows on him just in case.

In 2013, Oliver vowed to stop crime without killing criminals, using "The Arrow" as his new name. Oliver's vow was tested when he came under attack from Slade Wilson.

In 2014, Oliver's company Queen Consolidated was sold to businessman, scientist and former hero Ray Palmer, who changed the company's name to Palmer Technologies and hired Felicity as Vice President. After Sara was found murdered, Oliver becomes embroiled in a conflict with Henri Ducard. Ducard had previously trained Jason Todd to become Batman, but Ducard's own plan conflicted with Jason's and they fought. Jason though he had died in a train explosion but he was alive.(The television company who had the rights to adapt the Arrow's story were aware of this and tried to get the same actor who played Ducard in the film adaptation of Jason's battle with him and he wanted to do it too but his schedule wouldn't allow it). Ducard had went after the alive Malcolm Merlyn, Merlyn blackmailed Oliver Queen into being his champion for Trail by Combat against Ducard. Oliver Queen II was killed but revived in the Lazarus pit, turning his eyes green. Ducard then declared his intent to make Oliver his successor, when he refused, Ducard had his Assassins kill people dressed as the Arrow. In a conflict to carry out his original mission of destroying Star City, instead of Gotham, Queen killed Ra's Al Ghul. Unknown to Oliver, Malcolm Merlyn challenged Nyssa for control of the League of Assassins. Merlyn won but spared her life to humiliate her. He knew he could not have won in a fight against Ducard and so he manipulated everyone.

In 2015, Oliver and Felicity both tried to start a new life in Ivy Town, but returned to the city when it was threatened by the terrorist group  H.I.V.E., headed by Damien Darhk. Damien Dahrk was an alias of Damien Thorn, the Antichrist, or at least an attempt at one of them. In 1999 he was sighted as the Second in Command of H.I.V.E. He appeared to have been killed but was then seen snapping awake in a disturbing manner. Oliver witnessed Damien using his Antichrist abilities in combat and to corrupt people against the Archer. Thea Queen worked with Oliver as the current "Speedy".

Laurel Lance attempted to resurrect Sara using the Lazarus Pit. Curtis Holt(son of Michael Holt, the hero Mr.Terrific) began helping the team. Oliver Queen II, like his grandfather, attempted to run for Mayor, which was troubled with the revelation of his son William, which he had no knowledge of. The battle with Damien Dahrk took the life of Laurel Lance. Oliver went on to defeat Damien's plan to detonate Nuclear Weapons but Darhk escaped justice, making his next public appearance as a member of Herbert Garrison's cabinet despite Oliver Queen's protest and opposition.

In 2016, Oliver was training a new group of vigilantes, most of which were successors to established heroes including Rene Ramirez / Wild Dog, Curtis Holt / Mister Terrific, and Evelyn Sharp / Artemis. Also aiding him was the older hero Rory Regan/ Ragman. Oliver also recruited a new Black Canary; former police detective Dinah Drake. Oliver tried to balance vigilantism with his new role as mayor, yet was threatened by a villain impersonating the dead Prometheus, who was aware of Oliver's history and wore Prometheus's helmet, which still had a broke portion from when the arrow had been fired by Clint Barton to kill its original wearer. Oliver was also forced to contend with Prometheus' ally Black Siren, an Earth-3 criminal doppelganger of Laurel. This led to Oliver discovering Prometheus's identity as Tommy Merlyn of Earth 3.

In 2017, After an explosive battle on Lian Yu, New enemies emerged, initially led by terrorist hacker Cayden James, who allied himself with various criminals including drug dealer Ricardo Diaz(Ricahrd Dragon, a member of the League of Assassins), metahuman vigilante Vincent Sobel(The current Vigilante who acted as a double agent), Russian mobster Anatoly Knyazev(KGBeast), and the return of Black Siren. As James lost control of his cabal, Ricardo Diaz came to the forefront and killed him, revealing that he manipulated James into believing Oliver killed his son, and announcing to Green Arrow his scheme to take over Star City's criminal underworld and control the city's political infrastructure. As Diaz took control of the city, Oliver was forced to recruit the aid of the FBI, in exchange for him publicly announcing his identity and going to federal prison. Oliver was imprisoned in a maximum security penitentiary.

In 2018, five months after Oliver's imprisonment, Diaz recruited the Longbow Hunters, consisting of Kodiak, Silencer, and Red Dart for a new criminal agenda, including seeking revenge on Oliver's loved ones and allies. After Oliver was released from prison, taking down Diaz in the process, he and the former members of Team Arrow were deputized and began working alongside the police. Another hooded archer appeared and revealed herself later to be Oliver's half-sister, Emiko Queen, emerged as the new Green Arrow, seemingly to fight crime on Oliver's behalf. However, Emiko was revealed to be the leader of the Ninth Circle, a terrorist group that combined what was left of a few other secret societies including the Nine, The launched several attacks upon Star City, and were seeking to destroy Oliver's legacy as the Green Arrow. Emiko killed Diaz.

Meanwhile, Clint Barton, now retired, lost his family to the snap.

### **Into the Future**

**2020**

Oliver Queen went missing. He was declared dead in January 2020. A statue of Oliver Queen III is added to the statues of other Green Arrows. Dinah Drake disappeared from this time and is mysteriously transported to the year 2040.

**2023**

The Snap is undone. Clint Barton is reunited with his family.

**2029**

Clint Barton and James Howlett, also known as Logan, formerly known as Wolverine, both agree to deliver a package across the United States. Hawkeye has been intentionally blinded in a mocking fashion to the original Hawkeye's blindness in 1986. The package is revealed to be Super soldier serum. Barton is betrayed and killed though Logan would avenge him(tweaked events of the comic Old Man Logan, which occur around the same time as the film *Logan* in this setting).

**2038**

Oliver's now adult son William who seeks out Jackson Whittlemore on Lian Yu, where they discovered instructions left by Felicity leading them back to Star City. They discovered more secrets, including Oliver's hidden daughter, Mia, while they worked to save the city from another attack.

**2040**

Dinah Lance arrives in this time. Oliver Queen III's daughter, Mia Queen becomes the new green Arrow.The 2020 versions of Dinah Drake and Laurel Lance don their Black Canary alter egos again, and, along with Mia Queen, founded the Canaries. Felicity Smoak also disappears and reunited with Oliver.