Arrow “A Matter of Trust” Synopsis Tweaked To Change Cody Rhodes’s Character and Remove The WWE

Earlier this afternoon, The CW released a new, updated version of the official synopsis for “A Matter of Trust,” the third episode of Arrow‘s fifth season, which will air later this month.

Usually when synopses are changed after the fact, it’s to fix spelling errors or to add an extra thirty seconds of run time. This time around? Well, the villain gets a name change — and guest star Cody Rhodes (who plays that villain) is now identified as “wrestling star” rather than “WWE Star.”

In the original, Rhodes’s former employer was name checked — as was WWE Smackdown, one of its TV shows. Making “Smackdown” into the more general colloquialism “smack down” and referring to Rhodes as a “wrestling star” was likely a move to keep both his past and future employers (WWE and Impact Wrestling, respectively) happy.

You can check out the original, and modified, synopses for “A Matter of Trust” below:

Original: WWE STAR CODY RHODES BRINGS THE SMACKDOWN TO STAR CITY — Now that Oliver (Stephen Amell) has his new team, they are ready to hit the streets but Oliver doesn’t feel they are ready. Headstrong Wild Dog (guest star Rick Gonzalez) defies the Green Arrow’s orders and sets out on his own after a new drug dealer, Garret Runnels (guest star Cody Rhodes), who is terrorizing Star City. Runnels proves more powerful than Wild Dog and it is up to the Green Arrow to go head to head with Runnels to save his teammate.

Updated: WRESTLING STAR CODY RHODES BRINGS THE SMACK DOWN TO STAR CITY —Now that Oliver (Stephen Amell) has his new team, they are ready to hit the streets but Oliver doesn’t feel they are ready. Headstrong Wild Dog (guest star Rick Gonzalez) defies the Green Arrow’s orders and sets out on his own after a new drug dealer, Derek Sampson (guest star Cody Rhodes), who is terrorizing Star City. Sampson proves more powerful than Wild Dog and it is up to the Green Arrow to go head to head with Sampson to save his teammate.

The decision to change his character name is a little odder: there’s no immediately-clear reason why they would do it, and neither character’s name resonates particularly with the comic book readers as someone they should know — although Christian Hoffer, one of ComicBook.com’s resident WWE experts, says that Garret Runnels is Rhodes’s real-life middle and last name (Rhodes is his family’s stage name).

That, arguably, is an interesting element of the season itself. In the first three episodes, none of the villains have been familiar to DC fans: Rhodes is playing someone new and the season premiere’s villains are Tobias Church (played by The Walking Dead‘s Chad L. Coleman) and Prometheus, neither of whom is directly analogous to any specific comic book character as far as we know (there is a Prometheus in DC, but this is a different character altogether, as specified at Comic Con).

Supergirl airs on Mondays at 8 p.m.; The Flash on Tuesdays at the same time, Arrow on Wednesdays, and DC’s Legends of Tomorrow on Thursdays. The Flash will debut its new episodes on The CW starting October 4; Arrow, October 5; Supergirl, October 10; and DC’s Legends of Tomorrow October 13.