Arrow Reveals First Look At Vigilante Costume

In the teaser for next week's episode of Arrow, audiences got their first look at Vigilante, the costumed hero created by Marv Wolfman and George Perez.

In the comics, there have been various characters to go by the name, although the main one was Adrian Chase -- the character who is currently Star City's district attorney. While Chase has expressed misgivings about the role of masked adventurers in Star City, he seemed to warm to them significantly after seeing Team Arrow work a couple of weeks ago.

Vigilante has, apparently, already been active in Star City in before he appears onscreen; in the Arrow season 5 premiere, Felicity and Oliver were taking a count of the city's recent influx of costumed do-gooders, and one of the police sketches seen on Felicity's screen was a George Perez drawing of Vigilante, suggesting that the hero has not only already hit the streets but that his costume will look pretty much like it did in the comics (unless that's not a very good police sketch, which is possible).

"When I watch something that's based off of literature, I'm excited to see the parts that I imagined in my head," Segarra told reporters during a visit to the set of Arrow last week. "So when I started reading Vigilante comics, there were little parts where I was like 'I hope I get to do this,' or 'I hope I get to go down this road,' and so far I'm getting to do a lot of those things."

He told ComicBook.com during the Arrow 100th episode party that they were working hard not to disappoint anybody who read the comics and had expectations for the character.

"The biggest question that I have for myself as an actor is 'why does this person become the person that they are?'" Segarra said. "So what's going to be hard is that in the middle of the season I get to introduce Vigilante. So now I'm getting to tell that backstory and we get to tell the biggest pieces and get to show him becoming who he is before episode 7."

While in the comics, Vigilante tends to be fairly similar to Wild Dog in his aggressive, brutal approach to fighting crime, he's a more complex and layered character. Chase is only one of the people to use the name Vigilante; he would eventually be consumed with guilt over his own abandonment of the rule of law, and would take his own life. Later, another Vigilante would take his place -- and yet another debuted last month in the pages of Vigilante: Southland#1.

We also asked Segarra about Chase's depression and mental illness, but all he could say was "That's a good question. Why isn't he showing his pain? That will be answered."

He said that while it would be a while before he got to suit up as Vigilante, he "a thousand percent" pawed through the script for "Invasion!" -- the show's hundredth episode -- to see what part Adrian got to play alongside Supergirl, The Flash, and the rest of the DC/CW superheroes.

Arrow airs on Wednesday nights at 8 p.m. ET/PT on The CW.