Arrow’s Michael Rowe Wants A Deathstroke/Deadshot Story

Like everyone else, Arrow‘s Michael Rowe wants to see more of Manu Bennett’s Deathstroke on the show — but unlike most, he says there were plans for his character, Deadshot, to actually have a story with Deathstroke before Rowe was apparently killed off from the series.

During a visit to the set of Ninjak vs. the Valiant Universe, in which Rowe plays the title character, the longtime Arrowverse favorite told ComicBook.com that there had been plans to bring his character together with Manu Bennett’s Deathstroke — plans that he hopes can still come to fruition.

“You didn’t see a body; they just had to remove him quickly from the show because of business and there would be a lot of fun ways to bring him back and to revisit some of the storylines that we originally had,” said Rowe, who also told us he didn’t believe Deadshot had died in the blast that supposedly killed him. “One of them would be a Deadshot/Deathstroke either versus or team-up. Me and Manu are pretty fiery when we get together in real life, so we would love to see us through those characters end up in the same scenes and the same scenarios together; I think that would be real fun and real interesting.”

After a violent shipwreck, billionaire playboy Oliver Queen (Stephen Amell) was missing and presumed dead for five years before being discovered alive on a remote island in the North China Sea. He returned home to Star City, bent on righting the wrongs done by his family and fighting injustice. As the Green Arrow, he protects his city with the help of former soldier John Diggle (David Ramsey), computer-science expert Felicity Smoak (Emily Bett Rickards), his vigilante-trained sister Thea Queen (Willa Holland), Deputy Mayor Quentin Lance (Paul Blackthorne), brilliant inventor Curtis Holt (Echo Kellum), and his new recruits, street-savvy Rene Ramirez (Rick Gonzalez) and meta-human Dinah Drake (Juliana Harkavy).

Oliver has finally solidified and strengthened his crime-fighting team only to have it threatened when unexpected enemies from his past return to Star City, forcing Oliver to rethink his relationship with each member of his “family”.

Based on the characters from DC, ARROW is from Bonanza Productions Inc. in association with Berlanti Productions and Warner Bros. Television, with executive producers Greg Berlanti (“The Flash,” “Supergirl”), Marc Guggenheim (“DC’s Legends of Tomorrow,” “Eli Stone”), Wendy Mericle (“Desperate Housewives,” “Eli Stone”), Andrew Kreisberg (“The Flash,” “Eli Stone,” “Warehouse 13”) and Sarah Schechter (“The Flash,” “DC’s Legends of Tomorrow”).