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Biography[]
(Submitted by Operator)
Oliver Queen: 1972 - 1990[]
In Star City, Oliver spent his youth in private schools. Even as a child, Oliver enjoyed participating in extracurricular activities like archery, lacrosse, rowing, and fencing. Though perhaps destined to be an Olympic archer, being trained around the clock by his coach Malcolm Merlyn and alongside Tommy Merlyn (who became Ollie's best friend), Oliver was a naturally gifted all-around athlete and excelled at any physical activity. His love of sports also fostered a love for the outdoors, and he became interested in an altogether different sort of sport and game; hunting. Oliver would often join his father on exotic hunting trips around the world.
Oliver Queen: July 3rd, 1990[]
It was during a safari that tragedy struck the Queen family. Robert and Moira Queen were mauled by a lion before Oliver's eyes as he tried to unjam his rifle. When the lion turned its hungry eyes to Thea, Oliver's much younger sister, Oliver grabbed his father's bow and killed the lion with a shot through its eye.
Oliver Queen: 1990 - 1993[]
Back home, Oliver began preparing to inherit the reins of his father's company, under the guidance of his and Thea's godfather and their father's business partner, Walter Steele. Though Oliver was given control of the family fortune, there were certain stipulations placed on his control over Queen Consolidated, and it was Walter's responsibility to help Oliver overcome these obstacles. Yet, much to Walter's regret, Oliver quickly earned a reputation as a playboy and thrill-seeker, often throwing lavish parties aboard his yacht, "The Queen's Gambit." No such exception was spared for Oliver's biggest party to date: his twenty-first birthday party.
But that party was not all fun and games. The Safinat Dakhma infiltrated the ranks of Oliver’s crew! After drugging and kidnapping Oliver, the assassins murdered all the guests and scuttled the vessel to cover up their tracks.
Oliver's abduction was due to a past relationship between Ra's al Ghul and Oliver's parents. An example of how the League had begun to sink its hooks in Oliver at a young age is made clear with the fact that Oliver's archery coach was none other than Malcolm Merlyn. So, back to the story, the assassins brought Oliver to a training camp on an uncharted island, but shortly after his arrival, it was discovered that Oliver had an allergic reaction to the sedative. Afraid of losing an investment, Ra's al Ghul ordered Oliver's limp body tossed into a Lazarus Pit, where it was consumed by a green glow.
It's hard to say if Ollie actually died that day, but it wasn't his last day.[1]
Al-Sahim: 1993 - 1998[]
al Sahim
Upon recovery, Oliver's eyes turned green (a prophetic trait he shared with Ra's al Ghul), earning him the nickname "Akhdir" or "The Green" which made him of interest to Ra's al Ghul's occult-minded daughter, Nyssa al Ghul, who chose Oliver over the more capable Bruce Wayne. Upon completion of his training, Oliver Queen became an assassin in service of the League of Assassins, taking on the name "al Sahim," or "The Arrow".
Wedded to Nyssa al Ghul, Oliver Queen was in direct competition with Bruce Wayne to inherit Ra's al Ghul's title. Their rivalry pushed both of them and while Bruce excelled at most things, he could never best Oliver's natural affinity with archery, hunting, and fencing. Eventually, the two became close friends and would often be on assignments together. When Oliver's hedonism and carefree nature led Ra's al Ghul to name Bruce Wayne as heir, Oliver held no grudge and was happy to enjoy the luxuries of his position among the Assassins' elite. Though neither Bruce nor Oliver discuss the reasons for their leaving the League, I have learned that Oliver fathered two children during his time in the League; one of which was not with Nyssa, so that may have led to Oliver's choice to flee from the League, in fear of being given the "Matt Hagen" treatment by Ra's al Ghul.
Green Arrow: 1998 - 2009[]
Green Arrow (JLA Era)
Returning to Star City, Oliver orchestrated a cover story for his five-year absence, claiming he had been shipwrecked aboard a deserted island. For a time, Oliver lived the life of a playboy back from the dead and reunited with his sister, Thea.
Eventually, Oliver's paranoia that the League would retaliate led him to hire a security team, led by an ex-especial forces operative, John Diggle. Oliver and John became best friends and when news reports came in from Gotham City about a vigilante, Oliver recognized the work of his old friend Bruce. Oliver decided to follow Bruce's example. With the help of Diggle, Oliver crafted his alter-ego as the Green Arrow. Taking cues from Batman, Oliver also crafted an Arrow-Cave, Arrow-mobile, and even took in a ward to serve as a sidekick [see "Arsenal"]. Over time, Team Arrow grew to include a poor man's Oracle (a hacker named Felicity Smoak) and a parade of other runaway sidekicks.
Eventually, Oliver met the love of his life [see "Black Canary"], helped found the Justice League, and even was elected mayor of Star City for a term. Following a stint in public office, Oliver decided to sell his family's company to Wayne Enterprises and use the money to fund his war on crime full-time. Oh, and he changed the name of his "Arrow Cave" to "The Quiver." Yay!
Green Arrow: 2009 - Present[]
Missing Data
Supplemental Reports[]
- (Submitted by Oracle) Robert Queen was something of a business tycoon who had made his fortune playing the stock market before investing his wealth in a variety of profitable markets: banking, entertainment, medical tech, and military weapons. Moira was from the traditional sort of wealth: oil and old money. The Deardens were once the nation's wealthiest family.
- (Submitted by Radar) Oliver quit drinking from 2003 to 2008. The aftermath of Roy's "death" caused him to relapse, and he's been unable to quit since.
- (Submitted by Operator) Oliver was born with blue eyes. Since his Lazarus Pit bath, Oliver's eyes are usually green but sometimes revert to blue. Dinah hinted that his blue eyes return when Oliver is "at peace." Something about the way she says that... Actually, whenever Ollie and Dinah disappear to go "spar", he usually returns with blue eyes.
Threat Assessment[]
Resources[]
- Acrobatics: Oliver Queen has displayed on many occasions that he is an expert in acrobatics, and often uses this skill while evading enemy fire.
- Safinat Dakhma Training
- Expert Martial Artist: He is proficient in several forms of hand-to-hand combat including Judo, Escrima, Kickboxing, and Karate. Proclaimed as a martial arts master, he has shown the ability to take on seven people at once. This training was from his years in the League of Assassins.
- Novice Occultist
- World-Class Archery: Oliver Queen is perhaps the finest archer ever known. Something of an idiot savant when it comes to the bow and arrow. He claims to be able to shoot 29 arrows per minute (I still need to fact-check this as he stated this himself when he was correcting Black Canary for saying 26). He has a wide variety of trick arrows, ranging from bola arrows to time-bomb arrows to his infamous boxing glove arrow. In recent years, he has used these gimmick arrows sparingly, preferring the time-tested simple arrow. Green Arrow has shown the ability to shoot an arrow down the barrel of a gun, pierce a drop of water as it leaves a tap, and shoot almost any part of the human body; although he aims only to wound and not kill when he shoots. He once shot two arrows down two different gun barrels while upside down, in mid-flip while somersaulting off a building (I need to fact-check that, too). In ideal conditions, Oliver's archery is more accurate than Deadshot's use of guns. For this reason, Batman has secretly been testing Oliver's DNA for years to assess the possibility of a meta-gene. All tests have come back inconclusive, apparently. Possible that his Lazarus bath gave him preternatural archery skills?
- Swordsmanship: Ollie is also very proficient with a sword, though it is not his preferred weapon of choice. Bruce claims that Oliver can easily defeat him if the two were to duel with blades.
- World-Class Tracker
- World-Class Trainer
- Aviation: He used to own and fly his own airplane called the Arrow-plane. He still has some skill in flying different types of planes.
- Cooking: Oliver's chili is one of the hottest foods on the planet. I'm pretty sure it can be classified as a chemical weapon.
- Firearms: Although not his preferred weapon, Oliver is very skilled in the use of firearms. He has displayed great accuracy with handguns and machine guns. Even Slade Wilson has complimented Oliver's skill with firearms.
- Hunting and Survival: Archery is by far Oliver's preferred method of hunting, however, the ability to hunt comes from years of training, patience, and survival. He is proficient enough in hunting to pursue a cougar without it ever noticing. Oliver is perhaps the best conventional tracker in the Justice League.
- Peak Human Condition: Two words: salmon ladder.
- Skilled Politician: Ollie ran for office and became the mayor of Star City for a significant amount of time. He has since resigned from being the mayor and has continued to lean on political issues from time to time. He is a true social justice warrior and a far-left liberal.
- Throwing: Oliver is a master marksman and possesses great aim with projectile objects such as darts, in addition to his skill in archery. He loves to hustle people at the bars he frequents, always using the money they lose to him to buy them a drink and listen to their woes.
- Weaponry: Oliver is proficient in the use of an array of weaponry, including archery, sticks, and various bladed weapons. As a trained assassin and former elite member of the League of Assassins, there isn't a weapon that Oliver has yet to master.
- Strength Level: Due to extensive archery training, Ollie's arm strength is superior to that of the average man. He once broke free from a metal chain over a course of a few hours.
- Ceaseless Courage
- Indomitable Willpower
- Custom Bow: In his Quiver (the base), Oliver has a rack of over three dozen compound bows customized to his precision standards.
- Quiver: Oliver's quiver (the item on his back) is a state-of-the-art quiver designed not to spill his arrows when performing acrobatic maneuvers. It also has an arrowhead-changing mechanism that can add gimmick features to standard arrows. His standard quiver holds thirty arrows. He often keeps spare arrows on his Arrow Bike and has a number of other locations stowed throughout Star City and other major cities for stocking up for missions.
- Transportation: In his Quiver, Oliver has an Arrow-boat, an Arrow car, an Arrow Rod, and an Arrowjet; but he has retired most of these due to maintenance costs and the constant comparison to Batman by the public who sees him using these vehicles. He mostly gets around with a JL Javelin or on an Arrow Bike.
- Trick Arrows: These are a collection of specialized arrows. Among them are: Concussive Grenade Arrow, Capture Foam Arrow, Grapnel Arrow, Flashbang Arrow, Exploding Arrow, Boxing Glove Arrow, C4 Arrow, and C4 in a Boxing Glove Arrow.
- Wealth: $18 Billion
Weaknesses[]
- Slacker: It seems odd to say with all of his accomplishments and his work for social justice reform, but Oliver Queen is a slacker at heart. Oliver often doesn't like to take things too seriously... except for when he does.
- Women: Oliver Queen is weak to the charms of women. This often conflicts with his intense love for Dinah and his desire to remain loyal to her. The right nudge is often all that's needed to sway Oliver into making a wrong choice.
- Paranoid: Oliver Queen is deeply afraid of his ex-wife Nyssa and can become paranoid when he believes she is out to get him.
- Alcoholic
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Trivia and Notes[]
Trivia[]
General[]
- Ollie's blood type is AB-, the same as his both of his ex-wives: Nyssa al Ghul and Dinah Lance.
- After the League faked the death of Roy Harper and framed Prometheus for it, Oliver hunted Prometheus with the help of Tommy Merlyn. It was Tommy who killed him by stabbing Prometheus' faceplate with an explosive arrow.
- Oliver was assigned a partner by ARGUS. This agent was Carrie Cutter.
- His archenemy is The Magician.
- Oliver is right-handed, as he always uses his right hand to pull back on the arrow before firing them.
- Edward Fyers started to investigate him because his fighting techniques matched those of the League of Assassins. They had a number of run-ins and Edward even managed to find his lair. Fyers and Queen had a very tense discussion that left off with Queen uncertain about Fyers' intentions. Before Fyers could come to a conclusion himself as to what to do, Mr. Bones turned up in Fyers' own home. Bones assured Fyers that Queen was one to trust, but just in case he was wrong, he offered Fyers a high-ranking position in the DEO with all the resources and authority he would need to shut Queen down if he ever stepped out of line. Fyers accepted the job - the job he still maintains to this day.[2]
- Oliver proposed again to Dinah Lance on July 5th 2017, which she accepted.[3]
- Ollie co-owns the Legends Hotel & Casino in Atlantic City, NJ, partnered with Bruce Wayne. This has been very useful in laundering the needed funds for Batman, Incorporated and Team Arrow.
- There is a movie based on Green Arrow.[4]
- He and Bruce started a chain of coffee talks.
- Bruce's smile creeps him out.[5]
- One of his hobbies includes wine collecting.
- Oliver takes his coffee black with two sugars and one cream.[6]
- He feels weird when he's sparring with someone other than Dinah. He even gets turned on.
- During the 2016 election he voted for Clanton.[7]
Quiver[]
- Ollie's base is the Quiver (he's actually on his third one, with one being too compromised, and the other destroyed during the Undertaking) and then he has Bunkers, Safehouses, and Armories scattered over Star City and other major cities he journeys to often, just so that he doesn't have to travel far to reload on arrows or travel around with his costume and gear on and/or near him.
- Ollie's central Quiver is located in the subbasement of an industrial warehouse owned by Wayne Enterprises (Bruce gave him the property so that if it's compromised, the cover story could be that Batman, Inc. also funds the Green Arrow) that was built over an old underground train station that Star City was adopting in the 80s as public transit but quickly phased out due to lack of public interest. Oliver and company use those tunnels to access the Quiver from different locales a good distance from the Quiver itself and if an entrance is compromised, they can just blow that tunnel, rather than the whole base immediately becoming useless.[8]
The League of Assassins[]
- Oliver wasn't aware that the League was responsible for his ship sinking before joining them. He assumed he got drunk, and the ship crashed... possibly due to his own behavior. He didn't know people died until he returned to Star City, which is part of the reason he became a hero: to atone for the lives lost at his expense.
- During his time in the League he was always bringing a flask of booze on every mission in order to have a toast after every completed mission.
- Emiko Queen is a result of Malcolm Merlyn drugging Oliver Queen and Mei Gulong with a love potion. Because the love potion had a memory altering properties, they don't remember Malcolm's involvement.
- It is hinted that Oliver and Bruce left the League of Assassins after they refused to kill Lucius Fox, and a young Tatsu Yamashiro helped them escape. It's also possible he's responsible for the 1993 Khandaq parliament bombing.
- Ollie's left arm can sometimes cause him pain due to an old injury as an assassin. In training with Merlyn, he once took an arrow to his left side, chipping his bone which never healed properly.
- Oliver's marriage to Dinah Lance fell apart when Oliver was seduced by Dinah's sister, Sara, acting under the orders of Nyssa al Ghul. Though Dinah knows this was not Ollie's fault as he had been drugged, she still needed some space. The two have reconciled and continued to date. Why they haven't gotten married again is anyone's guess.
Hell on Earth[]
- He met a group of mutant turtles during the events of Hell on Earth, and due to a misunderstanding, they had a fight. Turtles sent him flying with a grapnel arrow.[9] Oliver later embellished his story, that he was attacked because he killed eight of their kind.[10]
- He saved the Schlegel siblings during the Undertaking. He gave one of his tracking arrows to Lisa and told her to activate it if she needed help.[11]
- During the events of Hell on Earth he killed Albert Davis whose own lifeforce turned out to be the key needed to reseal the gateway he had opened.
- After the events of Hell on Earth he created the Paranormal Contracts Oversight Commission (PCOC or "Peacock" for short) and gave the job to Walter Peck, who was fired from the DEO when they heard about his role in the "Gozer Incident."[12]
Notes[]
- A detailed telling of Green Arrow's origin in Earth-27 can be read in Roy Reimagines Arrow.
- Green Arrow's quiver mechanism seems to be inspired by Hawkeye's mechanism from The Avengers movie.
- In the comics he actually was stranded on a Pacific island, it wasn't a cover-up.
- Oliver hunting Prometheus is a nod to Cry for Justice.
- Oliver killing a lion who killed his parents is a nod to Green Arrow Secret Files and Origins.
- Barbara Gordon theorizes that Oliver may be a metahuman, due to his exceptional archery skills. This is why his race is listed as Human with a question mark.
- Albert Davis is a character from Green Arrow, Vol. 3, featured in the "City Walls" storyline. In the comics Albert was killed by Mia Dearden.
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Links and References[]
- ↑ Network Files: Oliver Queen 1
- ↑ Network Files: Edward Fyers
- ↑ Deluxe Oracle File: Oliver Queen
- ↑ Network Files: Marla Bloom
- ↑ Coffee Talk: Debut Episode
- ↑ Coffee Talk: Debut Episode
- ↑ Coffee Talk: Hal and Oliver
- ↑ E27 Journal: Killing Time
- ↑ VOX Box: Shell on Earth
- ↑ VOX Box: Out of the Shadows Prelude
- ↑ Network Files: Mona Lisa
- ↑ NFX: Walter Peck