Characters We Want On Arrow
Big things are happening in Star City this year -- but as fans start to think about Arrow season [...]
THE QUESTION
From the first season of the series, there have been rumors that Vic Sage -- The Question -- could appear on the show.
Repeated mentions of "Hub City" have pushed that idea along, even at times when DC's version of The Question was an odd mystical entity rather than the grimy, street-level vigilante who inspired Watchmen's Rorschach.
He feels like a character who would fit in well on this show -- perhaps later in this season or even next year, once the new Team Arrow recruits have worked out some of their kinks, since Vic isn't the kind of character we can see suffering Wild Dog gladly.
EDDIE FYERS
It's hard to guess how ths one would work -- and it's arguable that at this point the role of Eddie Fyers is being played by John Diggle -- but one of the great disappointments of the early seasons of Arrow was the fact that Eddie was essentially a pretty one-note antagonist.
In the comics, Eddie kind of skirted a lot of lines during the Grell run that inspired much of the show's first two seasons -- but when he returned during Chuck Dixon's tenure, he returned as Oliver Queen's intelligence-industry contact and an old friend -- kind of the equivalent of a war buddy -- who took Oliver's son Connor Hawke under his wing when Oliver was apparently-dead for a while.
He's already shown up, as mentioned, but since he didn't really fulfill the part of his character that made him awesome, we can always dream about some kind of replacement...!
BLUE BEETLE
If we had to pick a "most likely to appear" based solely on previous references and episodes, this would be your guy.
Kord Technologies have appeared in nearly every season of Arrow, and Felicity Smoak even briefly worked there.
There was also that thing where Ted Kord was supposed to come to Arrow, before last-minute changes at DC Entertainment led to the show making him Ray Palmer instead.
Those last-minute changes, while never confirmed, are generally thought to have been connected to the long-rumored (and now confirmed) Booster Gold movie, in which his best pal Ted "Blue Beetle" Kord seemed likely to appear. If the powers that be at Warner Bros. should decide to use the modern day Blue Beetle, though -- and thus tie into notalgia for Batman: The Brave and the Bold and Young Justice as well as providing the DC Extended Universe with another diverse face for its lineup -- Ted might free up as Jaime Reyes appeared alongside Booster on the big screen.
NIGHTWING
This one's a Hail Mary that will never quite land, but it would be great to see Nightwing appear.
Not only because he's one of DC's coolest and most beloved non-powered superheroes...but becuase, as we've hinted at above, one of the best recent runs on Green Arrow was written by Chuck Dixon -- who also wrote about a hundred issues of Nightwing.
The sensibilities of the two books were pretty similar, and that speaks to how well Nightwing would fit in with Arrow.
TRAVIS MORGAN
Look, Warlord might seem like an odd fit for a list like this, but there's a reason behind it.
Back when the series first started, we talked about the idea of Smallville's Green Arrow, Justin Hartley, playing Morgan. It would still be a fun bit.
"We have some funny ideas for how to [bring in Hartley]," executive producer Andrew Kreisberg told Green Arrow TV at the time. "More than anything, Justin has been so amazing and so supportive of this. Neither of us really knew him before we worked on this pilot. We actually met him during pilot season, and he's just been so cool, saying 'I'm happy for you guys,' so great… and he and Stephen have actually developed a nice friendship. So, we hope, in the same way that in the Superman movies, you'd see actors from previous incarnations joined in some way… if there's an opportunity down the road for Justin to play with us, that would be great."
Warlord, created by Mike Grell, had he same body type, facial shape and hair structure as Green Arrow, whose comic Grell would work on following his run on Warlord. As such, there ws an issue of Green Arrow where Morgan showed up in Star City, only to find himself constantly accosted by people mistaking him for the hero.
Here's how Grell described the creative process for the story, during our Creation Conversations interview with him about Warlord and his villain Deimos:
You know how that came about? That story was [artist] Dan Jurgens' idea. He just wanted to do a story that featured both characters because he got his break on The Warlord and of course followed me onto Green Arrow. And I put my foot down. Mike Golden called me up and said, "Dan wants to do a crossover" and I said, "Oh, no, no, no. No way." Because I always fought like hell to keep The Warlord separate from the DC Universe.
The same with Green Arrow -- I took him as far out of the DC Universe as possible. And I didn't want to do this silly crossover thing, and Golden said, "Well, look at it this way: It's all predicated on the well-known fact that you only know how to draw one face." That was it. I laughed my ass off, and I said "fine."
And that's how I wrote that story: There's a knock on Oliver Queen's door, he opens the door and there stands Travis Morgan, who punches him square in the jaw because he's been in Seattle for three days and ever since he's arrived, people have been trying to kill him thinking that he's Oliver Queen. He goes, "Whatever you're doing to piss people off, cut it out!"
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