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Amell received praise from critics for his portrayal of Oliver Queen, and he has been nominated for various awards for his performance, including a People's Choice and Leo Award.įictional character biography Arrow Season 1 The character has also appeared in several tie-in comics and novels, as well as appearing in three video games.

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He is a friend and frequent ally of the Central City-based superhero The Flash, White Canary, who leads the superhero team the Legends, and the Kryptonian superheroine Supergirl.Īmell appeared as Oliver Queen and his vigilante persona in crossovers on the television series The Flash, Legends of Tomorrow, Supergirl, Batwoman, and the animated web series Vixen, all of which are set in the Arrowverse. He does not take up the 'Green Arrow' mantle until season four, after Roy Harper publicly confesses to being 'The Arrow' to protect Oliver. In Arrow, Oliver is known during the first season as ' The Hood or The Vigilante', but drops those personas once he vows to stop killing and starts using a new name: ' The Arrow'. Subsequent seasons have him venturing into all criminal activity, and he shifts from being willing to kill to having a rule against all killing as a means of stopping assailants. During the first season, Oliver focuses on a list of targets, written by his father, that are taking advantage of the city's citizens. In the series, Oliver, a billionaire playboy, who claimed to have spent five years shipwrecked on Lian Yu, a mysterious island in the North China Sea, returns home to Starling City (later renamed 'Star City') to fight crime and corruption as a secret vigilante whose weapon of choice is a bow and arrow. Stephen Amell portrayed Oliver Queen, with Jacob Hoppenbrouwer portraying a young Oliver. The character is based on the DC Comics character of the same name, created by Mort Weisinger and George Papp, and was adapted for television in 2012 by Greg Berlanti, Marc Guggenheim, and Andrew Kreisberg. Oliver Queen, also known by his alter-ego as the Green Arrow, is a fictional character in The CW's Arrowverse franchise, first introduced in the 2012 pilot episode of the television series Arrow.