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“I’m not afraid of the police. But you? I might make an... exception. Do you have to go to a specialist store to fit into those pants? That can’t be cheap.”
| IDENTITY: |
Oliver Queen, AKA Green Arrow
| ORIGIN & BACKSTORY: |
The world of Earth-2 created a more hardened and cynical Oliver Queen, this much is clear.
Oliver Queen’s childhood was not idyllic, it was not the picture of utopia. Following the disbandment of the Justice Society of America and the anti-superhero sentiment within the United States federal government, the world seemed to get bleaker in the face of poverty and crime. The prosecution of superheroes affected the mood of Star City a great deal as icons like the Arrowette were forced to retire or surrender to the wrath of the law. Robert Queen however wouldn’t let the suffocation squench his ambitions— a fact that became obvious as he turned his small startup company, Queen Industries, into the likes of a Fortune 500 in what seemed like an overnight success. Soon the little fish became known as a titan as it increased its strength with affiliations with Ferris Aerospace, Bolt Financial, and others until it became a rival to old money corporations such as Wayne Enterprises. From a young age Oliver knew what it was to be ambitious, determined, and powerful.
However, Oliver’s mother lost her life to cancer fairly early in his life thus leading to a empty single parent household. Oliver could see his father’s own despair as it led Robert through several relationships; this always moving sight of relationships made him feel uncomfortable and wary— he swore he wouldn’t go through life so recklessly. Unlike his father Oliver took to coping in different ways such as martial arts, archery, and academics; his favorite was archery.
In 2000, the new millennium didn’t bring much hope back into the world but for Oliver there was some light to this at the age of eighteen the news of his father’s second wife brought a daughter into the Queen legacy named Emiko. Oliver wouldn’t have much time to bond with the infant as he set his sights for University as he left the west coast to study at Metropolis University in the ivory-touched “utopia” that was the City of Metropolis. Whilst at University he met Sandra Hawke who too was going towards a degree in Business; the two would become more than friends in time. His time at college would have him see firsthand the machine that was LexCorp as it began to restore and gentrify rotten neighborhoods. A gentrification that made Oliver sick to his stomach as he worked for his business degree. Oliver saw it as the greed of corporate America— a greed that rolled over the little guy to plop hipster neighborhoods on once thriving blue collar neighborhoods. How could Alexander Luthor be so blind to what he was doing?
Following University, Oliver Queen wasn’t quite ready to go home. The debut of Superman in 2002 had been a empowering experience as he looked to restore peace and integrity to the word “hero” despite the government’s vicious laws against vigilantism. Even with the military’s unjust laws against vigilantism, Oliver was convinced he had to start doing something instead of barking liberal politics that he couldn’t preach. The next few years had Oliver experience Iran and Afghanistan at their worst… until he caught the eye of one military official by the name of Amanda Waller who offered a promotion to do “real good” with Task Force X— a “tough” unit that had been nicknamed as a “Suicide Squad”. Oliver did not hesitate to join. It was 2005.
A few years after joining the squad Oliver would find himself on his most harrowing mission yet: Lian Yu. The mission was the textbook definition of a disaster. After landing on the island their transport was shot down, communication lines were cut, their contact a double agent, the group ambushed, and Oliver left for dead. Learning to survive on his own and swearing to get off the island to fulfil his promise to his now dead comrade, Oliver began to default back to his training as he learned about the island— from the herbs to the geography to the wildlife… he memorized it all. He refused to be an unmarked gravestone. Using only his wits and a bow he would take down the entire insurgent operation. A situation that Waller was impressed by following Oliver’s extraction; so impressed she offered him a command position of a squad of his choosing. However, he had a promise to keep… and he had been away from home for too long.
It was time to go home.
However, Oliver’s mother lost her life to cancer fairly early in his life thus leading to a empty single parent household. Oliver could see his father’s own despair as it led Robert through several relationships; this always moving sight of relationships made him feel uncomfortable and wary— he swore he wouldn’t go through life so recklessly. Unlike his father Oliver took to coping in different ways such as martial arts, archery, and academics; his favorite was archery.
In 2000, the new millennium didn’t bring much hope back into the world but for Oliver there was some light to this at the age of eighteen the news of his father’s second wife brought a daughter into the Queen legacy named Emiko. Oliver wouldn’t have much time to bond with the infant as he set his sights for University as he left the west coast to study at Metropolis University in the ivory-touched “utopia” that was the City of Metropolis. Whilst at University he met Sandra Hawke who too was going towards a degree in Business; the two would become more than friends in time. His time at college would have him see firsthand the machine that was LexCorp as it began to restore and gentrify rotten neighborhoods. A gentrification that made Oliver sick to his stomach as he worked for his business degree. Oliver saw it as the greed of corporate America— a greed that rolled over the little guy to plop hipster neighborhoods on once thriving blue collar neighborhoods. How could Alexander Luthor be so blind to what he was doing?
Following University, Oliver Queen wasn’t quite ready to go home. The debut of Superman in 2002 had been a empowering experience as he looked to restore peace and integrity to the word “hero” despite the government’s vicious laws against vigilantism. Even with the military’s unjust laws against vigilantism, Oliver was convinced he had to start doing something instead of barking liberal politics that he couldn’t preach. The next few years had Oliver experience Iran and Afghanistan at their worst… until he caught the eye of one military official by the name of Amanda Waller who offered a promotion to do “real good” with Task Force X— a “tough” unit that had been nicknamed as a “Suicide Squad”. Oliver did not hesitate to join. It was 2005.
A few years after joining the squad Oliver would find himself on his most harrowing mission yet: Lian Yu. The mission was the textbook definition of a disaster. After landing on the island their transport was shot down, communication lines were cut, their contact a double agent, the group ambushed, and Oliver left for dead. Learning to survive on his own and swearing to get off the island to fulfil his promise to his now dead comrade, Oliver began to default back to his training as he learned about the island— from the herbs to the geography to the wildlife… he memorized it all. He refused to be an unmarked gravestone. Using only his wits and a bow he would take down the entire insurgent operation. A situation that Waller was impressed by following Oliver’s extraction; so impressed she offered him a command position of a squad of his choosing. However, he had a promise to keep… and he had been away from home for too long.
It was time to go home.
Oliver Queen returned to Star City in 2009 fatigued from his time with the military and found himself ready to put his business degree to good use. His father commended him on his “patriotism” and re-introduces Oliver to his half-sister, Emiko, who is now nine years of age. However, Oliver feels uneasy as a business leader when he sees how much worse Star City has gotten in his absence; drugs fill the streets while poverty ravages the low income neighborhoods of the city, but what can he do about it? But before Oliver can sort his thoughts everything falls apart.
Robert Queen was dead.
Now the guardian of Emiko Queen and with a wave of inheritance coming his way, Oliver is overwhelmed by the death of his father; an alleged suicide. Oliver begins to investigate as he suspects foul play— all evidence suggests this was not what it seemed… but actually a well set up murder. Oliver enlists the aide of Queen Industries Security Consultant John Diggle and Police Detective Mack Morgan. As legitimate means seem to be uneventful Oliver looks to the heroes of past and present as he dons a green hood and bow in the darkness of the night. Oliver soon deduces that Daniel Brickwell, an important executive in Queen Industries, is responsible and a fight ensues that ends in the arrest of Brickwell. Green Arrow is born.
Seeing the good he can do outside of the law, Oliver decides to not retire the Green Arrow alias as a one-time thing. Swearing to fight corruption like the Justice Society of America had in the twentieth century, Oliver begins his crusade against crime as he sets up base underneath the Queen Estate. His only confidant is John Diggle; who despite also being ex-military agrees that vigilantism is the best route to help those who need it. Green Arrow’s first year begins. Green Arrow soon comes to deal with frantic drug lord Werner Zytle who has infected the population with the drug known as Vertigo. As Green Arrow becomes a hassle, Zytle hires an infamous assassin known as Deadshot to deal with the vigilante. The vigilante loses and is apprehended by police with two broken arms in a dumpster. Zytle's operation crumbles not too long after.
At his father’s funeral, it was then that Oliver crossed paths with Sandra Hawke for the second time. Oliver was surprised when she told him she had found herself pregnant when he left for the military and that his father had opened an account in her son’s name, ensuring financial stability and a job in Queen Industries marketing department. Not long after this the two reconcile and continue dating. Oliver meets his then five year old son, Connor Hawke.
In 2010, Oliver would have to contend with the terrorist organization known as HYRAX, when the organization crashes a public event held by Queen Industries in the guise of activism. Green Arrow is all too eager to deal with the eco-terrorists when they begin to use extreme methods of violence, though the aftermath of the incident does make Oliver look into Queen Industries developments that harm the environment and look for alternative options.
Dealing with HYRAX was only the beginning of the year, a fact Oliver would realize when he found himself involved in a case involving the serial killer known as Cupid. The pattern was erratic but easy to pinpoint after some careful observation: men who were blatant womanizers and unfaithful husbands. Unfortunately for Oliver, that meant way too many people in Star City so he had to create a trap. Expanding on his persona as “Ollie” he turned his charisma into a weapon as he began having brief relationships (of which he fed to the press) and the suggestion that his relationship with Sandra Hawke ended because he didn’t want to take responsibility for the son that came from their time together. The trap had sufficient bait with this information out there and as Green Arrow he awaited Cupid to break into the Queen Estate. Cupid was quickly defeated and soon apprehended by the police.
<Merlyn Debut Somewhere Here>
By 2012, Green Arrow has become an icon of Star City much like the other heroes who refuse to halt their vigilantism. This leads to increased government interference and investigation nationwide; with Star City being assigned one specific agent by the name of Slade Wilson. This begins to create problems for Oliver in Star City as Slade Wilson makes it a point to arrest Green Arrow and make an example of the vigilante— during a particularly important case where Green Arrow is trying to stop a vicious serial killer known as the Clock King. However, intervention by a hacker by the name of Roy Harper makes things… somehow less complicated when information is fed to Green Arrow about the serial killer whilst he slows Slade down by feeding the agent with faulty information. As the Clock King is defeated, Roy Harper reveals to Green Arrow that he knows his identity but wants to help more actively. Oliver calls it blackmail but accepts the terms considering his options with Slade on his tail.
Robert Queen was dead.
Now the guardian of Emiko Queen and with a wave of inheritance coming his way, Oliver is overwhelmed by the death of his father; an alleged suicide. Oliver begins to investigate as he suspects foul play— all evidence suggests this was not what it seemed… but actually a well set up murder. Oliver enlists the aide of Queen Industries Security Consultant John Diggle and Police Detective Mack Morgan. As legitimate means seem to be uneventful Oliver looks to the heroes of past and present as he dons a green hood and bow in the darkness of the night. Oliver soon deduces that Daniel Brickwell, an important executive in Queen Industries, is responsible and a fight ensues that ends in the arrest of Brickwell. Green Arrow is born.
Seeing the good he can do outside of the law, Oliver decides to not retire the Green Arrow alias as a one-time thing. Swearing to fight corruption like the Justice Society of America had in the twentieth century, Oliver begins his crusade against crime as he sets up base underneath the Queen Estate. His only confidant is John Diggle; who despite also being ex-military agrees that vigilantism is the best route to help those who need it. Green Arrow’s first year begins. Green Arrow soon comes to deal with frantic drug lord Werner Zytle who has infected the population with the drug known as Vertigo. As Green Arrow becomes a hassle, Zytle hires an infamous assassin known as Deadshot to deal with the vigilante. The vigilante loses and is apprehended by police with two broken arms in a dumpster. Zytle's operation crumbles not too long after.
At his father’s funeral, it was then that Oliver crossed paths with Sandra Hawke for the second time. Oliver was surprised when she told him she had found herself pregnant when he left for the military and that his father had opened an account in her son’s name, ensuring financial stability and a job in Queen Industries marketing department. Not long after this the two reconcile and continue dating. Oliver meets his then five year old son, Connor Hawke.
In 2010, Oliver would have to contend with the terrorist organization known as HYRAX, when the organization crashes a public event held by Queen Industries in the guise of activism. Green Arrow is all too eager to deal with the eco-terrorists when they begin to use extreme methods of violence, though the aftermath of the incident does make Oliver look into Queen Industries developments that harm the environment and look for alternative options.
Dealing with HYRAX was only the beginning of the year, a fact Oliver would realize when he found himself involved in a case involving the serial killer known as Cupid. The pattern was erratic but easy to pinpoint after some careful observation: men who were blatant womanizers and unfaithful husbands. Unfortunately for Oliver, that meant way too many people in Star City so he had to create a trap. Expanding on his persona as “Ollie” he turned his charisma into a weapon as he began having brief relationships (of which he fed to the press) and the suggestion that his relationship with Sandra Hawke ended because he didn’t want to take responsibility for the son that came from their time together. The trap had sufficient bait with this information out there and as Green Arrow he awaited Cupid to break into the Queen Estate. Cupid was quickly defeated and soon apprehended by the police.
<Merlyn Debut Somewhere Here>
By 2012, Green Arrow has become an icon of Star City much like the other heroes who refuse to halt their vigilantism. This leads to increased government interference and investigation nationwide; with Star City being assigned one specific agent by the name of Slade Wilson. This begins to create problems for Oliver in Star City as Slade Wilson makes it a point to arrest Green Arrow and make an example of the vigilante— during a particularly important case where Green Arrow is trying to stop a vicious serial killer known as the Clock King. However, intervention by a hacker by the name of Roy Harper makes things… somehow less complicated when information is fed to Green Arrow about the serial killer whilst he slows Slade down by feeding the agent with faulty information. As the Clock King is defeated, Roy Harper reveals to Green Arrow that he knows his identity but wants to help more actively. Oliver calls it blackmail but accepts the terms considering his options with Slade on his tail.
Before Roy's debut as his crime-fighting partner, Speedy, Green Arrow finds himself dealing with China White, a mysterious individual who had taken advantage of the hole left in the drug trade by Werner Zytle’s defeat by the Emerald Archer. However, China White is not a simple drug lord like Zytle had been but is in a way similar to Oliver in that she runs a pharmaceutical firm as her cover; a cover that is well-designed and hard to immediately destabilize. However, he finds himself an ally in a vigilante known as Katana who had been fighting China White’s cartel for a year. The two work together to reveal China White’s operation and force the police to react. However, China White vanishes before she can get apprehended.
Sandra Hawke is killed by Brick. <details later>
Slingshot happens.
The Justice Society of America is restarted by Superman. Green Arrow joins.
Big Game happens.
Merlyn organizes a group he calls "The Longbow Hunters" to test Green Arrow & Speedy's skills. Black Canary helps.
Roy Harper retires his role as Speedy when he is approached by Batgirl, Kid Flash, and Supergirl about an initiative called the Titans. Green Arrow tells him to be careful. Emiko Queen succeeds him as Speedy.
Rev. William Miggs becomes Mayor of Star City.
Black Canary starts a relationship with Green Arrow.
Sandra Hawke is killed by Brick. <details later>
Slingshot happens.
The Justice Society of America is restarted by Superman. Green Arrow joins.
Big Game happens.
Merlyn organizes a group he calls "The Longbow Hunters" to test Green Arrow & Speedy's skills. Black Canary helps.
Roy Harper retires his role as Speedy when he is approached by Batgirl, Kid Flash, and Supergirl about an initiative called the Titans. Green Arrow tells him to be careful. Emiko Queen succeeds him as Speedy.
Rev. William Miggs becomes Mayor of Star City.
Black Canary starts a relationship with Green Arrow.
Brought into another dimension by an unknown being, Green Arrow finds himself seeing triple as he finds two separate versions of himself staring back at him equally as confused by where they are and how they got there.
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Archery | First and foremost of Oliver's abilities is his prowess with a bow and arrow. He can use anything from the most simple bows and arrows to complicated composite bows and trick arrows with full efficiency. Archery is like second nature to him, and many have said that his marksmanship is like that of a metahuman’s. He was happy to prove them wrong.
Stealth & Investigation | Oliver has had to be smart and quiet, a fact that was groomed in the field. Upon becoming Green Arrow he has only honed these skills to combat the dirty politics of his city. He can deduce the qualities of herbs, toxins, and chemicals as well as sneak up on a trained assassin.
Inventor | Oliver is a technical genius as evident by the several developments of what the press has called "trick arrows"; with each invention having a useful utility in his warfare on the corruption in his city.
Martial Arts | Receiving training from both Slade Wilson and Rick Flagg, Oliver has become a skilled martial artist. While not as capable as, say, Batman, he has proven on more than one occasion that he is more than able to hold his own.
Peak Human Conditioning | In order to survive on Lian Yu, Oliver had to push his body to the very limit, transforming it into a weapon. Most notable of his enhanced capabilities is his hand-eye coordination, many mistaking him for a metahuman purely due to his reflexes and eyesight.
Acrobatics | A capable acrobat, Oliver often incorporates archery into his manoeuvres, pulling off seemingly impossible shots.
Stealth & Investigation | Oliver has had to be smart and quiet, a fact that was groomed in the field. Upon becoming Green Arrow he has only honed these skills to combat the dirty politics of his city. He can deduce the qualities of herbs, toxins, and chemicals as well as sneak up on a trained assassin.
Inventor | Oliver is a technical genius as evident by the several developments of what the press has called "trick arrows"; with each invention having a useful utility in his warfare on the corruption in his city.
Martial Arts | Receiving training from both Slade Wilson and Rick Flagg, Oliver has become a skilled martial artist. While not as capable as, say, Batman, he has proven on more than one occasion that he is more than able to hold his own.
Peak Human Conditioning | In order to survive on Lian Yu, Oliver had to push his body to the very limit, transforming it into a weapon. Most notable of his enhanced capabilities is his hand-eye coordination, many mistaking him for a metahuman purely due to his reflexes and eyesight.
Acrobatics | A capable acrobat, Oliver often incorporates archery into his manoeuvres, pulling off seemingly impossible shots.
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EARTH ONE
GREEN ARROW
| IDENTITY |
- Oliver Queen
- Green Arrow
| ORIGIN & BACKSTORY |
1981-2004: Queen
2004-2009: Purgatory
2009-2012: Green Arrow
2012-2014: Speedy
2014-2015: Hawke
- 1981 | Oliver Queen is born to billionaire philanthropist Robert Queen and his wife, Moira, in Star City, California.
- 1988 | Oliver takes up an interest in archery. Delighted, Robert begins teaching him whenever he can, also hiring the best teacher money can buy.
- 1994 | Oliver begins high school, attending Brentwood Academy alongside his best friend, Tommy Merlyn. It’s there that he meets Hal Jordan. The three remain firm friends throughout their secondary education.
- 1996 | At the age of fifteen, Oliver is no longer the avid archer his father wanted him to be, instead taking interest in girls, partying and irresponsibility, spurred on by Tommy. Disappointed, his father takes the then eighteen year-old Simon Lacroix under his wing, making him his protégé.
- 2000 | Oliver and Tommy fall out of touch with Hal, who, after graduating, begins actively pursuing a career in the Air Force.
- 2000 | Oliver breaks up with his girlfriend, Sandra Hawke, after finding out that she’s pregnant. Feeling unready to be a father, he instead sends two million dollars to her new home in San Francisco.
- 2004 | Having witnessed his son’s shameful behaviour as a young adult, Robert sends Oliver to a Queen Industries oil rig in the North China Sea, assigning him to clerical work. Oliver, always the wild socialite, is quick to turn the rig into a party site. Such a party would see his fall from grace, as oil-thieving terrorists attack the rig, intending to take it over. Armed with a bow he’d used to entertain partygoers, Oliver resolved to confront the terrorist leader, believing himself capable enough to defuse the situation. However, a shot that managed to knock a detonator from the terrorist’s hands also managed to detonate the explosives they’d set, blowing up half of the rig and killing most of its inhabitants, including Tommy. Flung into the cold seawater with nothing but his bow, Oliver washes up on the shore of Lian Yu, a deserted island with seemingly no other occupants. Oliver has arrived at his purgatory.
2004-2009: Purgatory
- 2004 | Oliver spends much of his first year on Lian Yu surviving, building shelters and hunting food with nothing but his bow and arrows constructed of wood and stone.
- 2004 | Oliver runs into his first bout of trouble on the island, in the form of drug smugglers lead by the infamous crime lord, Chien Na Wei, better known as China White. Discovering their poppy fields, grown and maintained by workers against their will, Oliver takes the fight to China, burning the crops. In retaliation, China has the workers rounded up and killed, leaving their bodies for Oliver to find. She then leaves the island, taking away the only means Oliver had of escape.
- 2005 | The Queen scion’s second year on the island opens with his kidnapping at the hands of mercenaries, who torture him for weeks on end, wanting to know how he came to be on the island. Despite telling them that he was stranded there, they don’t believe him, opting instead to continue with the torture. Biding his time, he eventually escapes, leading up to a confrontation with the mercenaries’ leader. A brief yet brutal scuffle ends with the leader falling from a cliff to his apparent death. The mercenaries leave soon after.
- 2005 | Robert Queen dies in a helicopter crash while on a trip to the Himalayas.
- 2006 | Natas, an assassin hired by China White, arrives on Lian Yu. Tasked with killing Oliver, he instead opts to train him, impressed by his ferocity and determination. The assassin trains Oliver in a variety of martial arts, all while lying to China about his status. Eventually she grows suspicious and returns to the island, only to be ambushed by Oliver and Natas, who dispatch her men with ease. Fighting China two on one, Oliver has the chance to kill her, but he refuses. Disgusted, Natas deals the killing blow instead before turning on his pupil, disgusted at his weakness. Leaving a weakened and injured Oliver on the sands of Lian Yu, Natas leaves the island, once again taking away Oliver’s only means of escape.
- 2007-2008 | Oliver recovers from the wounds inflicted by Natas, surviving his final two years on the island without much trouble.
- 2009 | In the early stages of January, Oliver manages to gain the attention of a fishing trawler, which takes him to Shanghai. From there he returns to Star City, a changed man. His purgatory is over.
2009-2012: Green Arrow
- 2009 | Oliver returns home to the news that his father had died four years ago, and that his mother is ailing from cancer. He attempts to reconnect with Hal, but following his disappearance later that year, they fall out of touch.
- 2009 | His mother’s illness taking too much of a toll on her, Oliver is reassured that his father’s old friend and CFO, Walter Steele, is taking care of Queen Industries until he’s ready to take over. The older man offers to teach Oliver all he knows in the line of business, saving him from the hassle of getting his MBA. All the while, Oliver observes how far his city has fallen. It doesn’t take long for him to make a decision.
- 2009 | Green Arrow debuts in Star City, interrupting multiple arms deals in one night. Meanwhile, Oliver regains his pre-island reputation, throwing a massive, scandalous party that throws Walter into a rage.
- 2009 | Ricardo Diaz, leader of Star City’s most powerful criminal empire, becomes increasingly frustrated with Green Arrow’s interferences. Hiring multiple hitmen to take care of the vigilante, his empire ultimately comes tumbling down thanks to Oliver’s efforts.
- 2009 | Confident that Oliver’s ready to take a leadership position in his family’s company, Walter assigns him to Q-Core, Queen Industries’ tech subsidiary.
- 2009 | Daniel Brickwell, better known as Brick, takes advantage of the hole in Star City’s criminal underworld, becoming the city’s most powerful mob boss through intimidation and violence.
- 2009 | Sgt John Diggle of the SCPD contacts Green Arrow, informing him that Brick has managed to tuck police commissioner Brian Nudocerdo into his front pocket. Diggle becomes Oliver's informant within the SCPD.
- 2009 | On Christmas Eve, Brick kidnaps the mayor's daughter. After a night of frantic searching, Oliver finds out that his efforts were fruitless, the young girl turning up at a police station in the Glades, safe and unharmed. Following the kidnapping, the already complacent authorities are scared into submission, allowing Brick free reign within the city.
- 2010 | Oliver interrupts a drug trade negotiated between Brick and mob boss, James MacGowan. Integral to Brick’s game plan, this throws him into a rage. The mob boss sets out to discover Green Arrow’s identity.
- 2010 | Seeking out an old acquaintance, Brick enlists the help of Natas, who immediately tells him who Green Arrow is. However, upon Brick’s request to kill Oliver, Natas refuses and leaves Star City, as if never having been there in the first place.
- 2010 | Armed with knowledge of Green Arrow’s secret identity, Brick kidnaps Oliver’s mother, Moira, in a severely deteriorated state due to her cancer. Enraged, Oliver scours the entire city for her whereabouts, and with Diggle’s help, finds her in a motel, one of many fronts for Brick’s empire. Brick and Green Arrow fight, ending with the crime lord’s apparent death – an explosive tip arrow tends to do that to people.
- 2010 | A thorough investigation following Brick’s death exposes Commissioner Nudocerdo’s corruption. He faces trial and jail time, as do many of his officers.
- 2010 | Star City reels from the Apokolips invasion. Oliver and Hal reunite as they push back Darkseid’s forces as Green Arrow and Green Lantern.They reconnect in the aftermath, often catching up and occasionally teaming up in the years that follow.
- 2010 | Moira Queen loses her battle with cancer.
- 2011 | A mercenary archer going by the Dark Archer openly challenges Green Arrow to a duel on live television, threatening that failure to comply will end with civilian deaths. Oliver accepts the challenge, and only narrowly beats him, who vows that this was not the last they’d see of each other.
- 2011 | Cupid, a crazed archer with an obsession for Green Arrow, murders Star City Triad leader Jin Fang. This marks the beginning of her killing spree as she continues to target those with a vendetta against the Emerald Archer. Oliver and Diggle eventually track her down, and Carrie Cutter is arrested and pleads for insanity for multiple counts of murder.
- 2011 | Green Arrow meets the vigilante known as Black Canary (Dinah Lance) in his first meeting with the Justice League. What starts as a friendship soon develops into romance, and their love for each other quickly grows.
- 2011 | Feeling uncomfortable with living in the Queen Mansion, Oliver buys an apartment within Star City, converting the manor into the Moira Queen Home for Homeless Youth. Walter tells Oliver that his parents would be proud of him.
- 2011 | Roy Harper, archery aficionado, turns up at the Moira Queen Home’s doorstep. Oliver takes an instant liking to him, offering to give the boy archery lessons. Unbeknownst to him, that’s all it takes for Roy to figure out his secret identity.
- 2012 | Diggle leaves the SCPD, becoming Oliver’s “bodyguard”.
- 2012 | As Oliver engages in battle with a mercenary known as Big Game, Roy interferes, wanting to help. After the criminal’s apprehended, Oliver berates Roy, but the teenager doesn’t flinch, explaining that all he wants is to help people by the Green Arrow’s side. Oliver reluctantly agrees to train him, preparing him for the field.
2012-2014: Speedy
- 2012 | A new drug arrives at Star City, its street name, Vertigo. As more and more people are found dead from the narcotic, Oliver, Diggle and Dinah rush to find its supplier. After weeks of searching, Oliver enlists the help of a Q-Core employee, Felicity Smoak. Growing desperate from the rising body count, he reveals his identity to her, and asks for her help. Her ingenuity with technology eventually brings them a lead – all the way in Eastern Europe. The country of Vlatava. Its monarch, Werner Zytle, going by Count Vertigo, uses the money his criminal dealings bring to fund his small nation, unsympathetic to those he hurts in the process. Oliver begins planning a raid on Zytle’s mountainside compound, all while Roy insists that he comes along. Speedy debuts in Vlatava as Team Arrow conducts an attack on Vertigo’s compound, effectively ending his operations – but not before falling victim to his “Vertigo Effect” – emitted by a machine built into his head.
- 2012 | Roy becomes a member of the first Teen Titans.
- 2012 | Oliver fires Henry Fyff, an employee at Q-Core who’d been allegedly stalking Felicity.
- 2013 | Merlyn returns to Star City, hired to kill several high-profile figures in the city council by the Elevast Corporation’s CEO, Martin Somers, in retaliation for their refusal to allow the construction of the Star Center, a multi-storey complex that would span over fifteen city blocks, which would see hundreds of residents face eviction. Green Arrow, Black Canary and Speedy intervene, and Merlyn reveals himself to be none other than Malcolm Merlyn, father to Tommy Merlyn and one of Robert Queen’s closest friends prior to a falling out months before his death. Merlyn escapes, but Somers is arrested, and Elevast falls under new ownership.
- 2013 | While on patrol, Speedy runs into a woman calling herself Red Dart, a bank robber with a dangerous skill set. Roy manages to beat her with ease.
- 2014 | Oliver reveals his plan to propose to Dinah to Diggle and Roy. The two encourage him, but he scares himself from doing it, hiding the ring in the Quiver.
- 2014 | Walter calls Oliver up to Queen Industries. Once there, Walter tells Oliver just how frustrated he is at the man’s frequent absences from the company, calling him irresponsible. Oliver agrees, and hands over all responsibilities involving Queen Industries back to him.
- 2014 | Constantine Drakon, an assassin for hire, attempts to take Walter’s life. Green Arrow and Speedy intervene, and after a brief scuffle Drakon escapes, not to be seen again.
- 2014 | Oliver falls back into old habits as tension between himself and Felicity reaches boiling point. The two have a one night stand, consuming Oliver with guilt. Felicity leaves Team Arrow, apologising to Dinah – leaving the Canary to seek an explanation as to what she’s sorry for. Oliver has no choice but to tell her, and Dinah leaves for Gotham the next day, heartbroken.
- 2014 | After losing his girlfriend and his company, Oliver leaves Star City, seeking to find himself. He ends up in an ashram monastery in Napa Valley, where he meets a teenager by the name of Connor Hawke.
2014-2015: Hawke
- 2014 | The truth about Oliver and Connor’s relation is quick to come out, and the two spend much of their time at the monastery trying to make up for lost time. It comes to light that Connor is also a natural with the bow, and Oliver is ecstatic, more than happy to help his son improve. All the while they are taught the way of the Buddha by Master Jansen, helping Oliver find himself and Connor to find some level of peace within. Despite his best efforts, Oliver can’t get Connor to tell him what happened to his mother.
- 2014 | Lian Harper is born to Roy and assassin, Jade Nguyen. Unready to raise a child while in her current profession, Jade hands over custody to Roy, who makes Oliver Lian’s godfather – and an uncle.
- 2015 | After six months at the ashram, Oliver returns to Star City with Connor in tow. He once again dons the hood of Green Arrow, taking the weight of responsibility off of Roy, who stood in as Arsenal while he was away. Behind the scenes he continues to train Connor, who wishes to follow in his father’s footsteps.
- 2015 | Oliver returns to Queen Industries. Walter, weary from their last meeting, once again grants him control of only Q-Core, not wanting to let Oliver’s “rashness” to be the cause of Queen Industries’ downfall.
- 2015 | Despite Connor’s protests, Oliver enrols him at Larchmont High School.
- 2015 | In need of a tech guy to replace Felicity, Oliver tracks down Henry Fyff, the same man that he fired for, as she claimed, stalking her. He finds Fyff working at his family-owned Chinese takeout restaurant and recruits him to the cause.
- 2015 | Green Arrow breaks up a dogfighting ring, rescuing an apparent half-wolf dog that was injured in his fight. Oliver takes him home and nurses him back to health. He calls him George.
- 2015 | Lex Luthor announces that he’s running for president, and Oliver is less than happy.
- 2015 | Oliver catches wind of a human trafficking ring being run in Star City. After investigation by both him and Fyff, they find the head perpetrator: a mercenary by the name of Edward Fyers, leader of a large mercenary group. After confronting him, Oliver finds out that Fyers was hired to run the operation by none other than Count Vertigo as a means to draw him out. Before he can leave, Zytle steps out from the shadows and blasts him with his Vertigo Effect, knocking the archer unconscious. A day passes, and Connor, worried for his father, enlists the help of Diggle and Fyff to track him down. They do, and Connor single-handedly incapacitates Vertigo, proving himself more than capable in the field. Oliver grudgingly, if a bit proudly, allows Connor to accompany him on patrols afterwards.
- 2015 | An assassin known as Onomatopoeia leaves a trail of bodies on his way to Star City – each of them a non-powered vigilante. He makes his next targets Green Arrow and his new partner, Red Arrow (Connor), managing to shoot the latter. As Connor is rushed to the hospital, a distraught Oliver nearly kills Onomatopoeia, who manages to escape by the breadth of his hair. When Connor recovers, Oliver lets him know that he will no longer allow him to go out into the field – and that his decision is final. No argument, from either Connor or Diggle, changes his mind.
- 2015 | Green Arrow rescues a fifteen year-old girl by the name of Mia Dearden from a local councilman who paid her pimp, David, for a night of privacy. Oliver refers her to the Moira Queen Home for Homeless Youth, where she turns up but a few days later – and almost instantly figures out that he’s the Green Arrow.
- 2015 | Oliver officially adopts Mia after finding out that her father, who sexually abused her, had died a year prior.
- 2015 | Oliver, Diggle and Connor reluctantly train Mia, who insists that it’s only so she can feel safe in her own skin. This is proven false when she dons a makeshift costume and takes to the streets in order to fight crime. Caught by Oliver, he bans her from further training, taking away her bow and costume. Mia and Connor bond over the limitations placed by their mentor/father.
- 2015 | Oliver changes his mind when Mia finds out that she’s HIV positive. The second Speedy debuts shortly after. Connor remains idle, still banned from fighting crime.
- 2015 | Mia becomes a member of the second Teen Titans.
| ATTRIBUTES |
Archery | First and foremost of Oliver's abilities is his prowess with a bow and arrow. He can use anything from the most simple bows and arrows to complicated composite bows and trick arrows with full efficiency. Archery is like second nature to him, and many have said that his marksmanship is like that of a metahuman’s. He was happy to prove them wrong.
Swordsmanship | Taught by Natas, Oliver is an adept swordsman, though he rarely takes a blade into the field, instead practising his scales and techniques as a means to maintain physical and mental fitness.
Martial Arts | Receiving training from both Natas and Black Canary, Oliver has become a skilled martial artist. While not as capable as, say, Batman, he has proven on more than one occasion that he is more than able to hold his own.
Peak Human Conditioning | In order to survive on Lian Yu, Oliver had to push his body to the very limit, transforming it into a weapon. Most notable of his enhanced capabilities is his hand-eye coordination, many mistaking him for a metahuman purely due to his reflexes and eyesight.
Multi-Lingual | Oliver is fluent in multiple languages, taught Mandarin and Japanese by Natas, and having learnt Russian upon his return to Star City. Connor has also taught him snippets of Korean.
Acrobatics | A capable acrobat, Oliver often incorporates archery into his manoeuvres, pulling off seemingly impossible shots.
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