Oliver Queen

"My name is Oliver Queen. For five years I was stranded on an island with only one goal: survive. Now I will fulfill my father's dying wish. To use the list of names he left me and bring down those who are poisoning my city. To do this, I must become someone else. I must become... something else."

- Oliver Queen Oliver "Ollie" Queen (born May 16, 1985) is the protagonist of Arrow. He recently returned to Starling City after being stranded on a remote island for five years, much to the surprise of everyone since he was assumed dead. On the island, Oliver learned to fend for himself, and so upon his return, became the vigilante known as "the Hood", though known through official sources as Arrow.

Shipwrecked on Lian Yu
In 2007, Oliver was on the Queen's Gambit, his family's yacht, with his father and Sara Lance, the sister of his girlfriend Laurel, whom he had been cheating on with Sara.

A shipwreck occured, leaving only Oliver, Robert, and one other crew member surviving. There were not enough provisions to keep all of them alive, so, in order to save his son's life,  Robert killed the other survivor then himself but not before telling Oliver that their wealth had been built on the suffering of others, and it was up to him to make things right.

Oliver lands ashore upon the island Lian Yu. There, while burying his father, he finds a book, filled with blank pages, in Robert's pocket. Immediately after, a hooded man, Xao Fai, shoots Oliver with an arrow. Oliver awakes in Xao Fai's camp, where Xao tends to his wound. Later, when Xao falls asleep, Oliver tries to escape but is snared in a trap. Xao later arrives, cuts him down, and walks away, leaving Oliver with no other choice but to follow him. Later, a group of armed men, their faces hidden, examine the sprung trap.

Over the next few days, Oliver spends most of his time gazing at a picture of Laurel until Xao brings him a bird trapped in a cage. He tells Oliver that he must kill the bird if he wants to eat and survive, at first Oliver refuses, but driven by hunger, he breaks the bird's neck, Xao tells him that he would be forced to take more lives and tells him to forget about Laurel otherwise he would not survive.



One day Oliver and Xao go hunting, Oliver tries to shoot Xao's bow but misses his target -- a tree. He goes to fetch the rabbit Xao killed but is captured by the armed men. They bring him to their camp and he is interrogated by their leader, (Edward Fyers). Edward shows him a picture of Yao Fei, asking if Oliver had seen him, protecting Xao, Oliver denies any knowledge of the man. Not believing him Fyers sends Deathstroke to torture Oliver for more information. Yao rescues Oliver and brings him back to the cave. He then goes to lead Fyers men away but not before telling Oliver to survive and sealing the enterance to prevent Oliver from following him.

Injured and alone in the cave, Oliver begins hallucinating, he sees visions of his father telling him to survive otherwise his father's sacrifice would have been for nothing. He also dreams about burning his father's book. When he awakens, he tears a page out of the book, but just as he is about to throw it onto the fire, the heat from the flames causes letters to appear on the paper he proceeds to do the same with other pages, and the names of the people corrupting Starling City appear. He promises the hallucination of his father that he would live up to his responsibility.

Yao returns, bringing with him a captured Fyers, he tell Oliver that Fyers has a plane that can take Oliver off the island. They make their way through the woods where they are abushed by Deathstroke and Fyers men with Fyers saying " Do you not think it convinient you captured me so easily?". Yao tells Oliver to run and begins fighting the men; unfortunately, he is defeated and knocked unconcious, by Deathstroke. From a safe distance, Oliver watched them take Yao and runs away

One of Fyers' men continues to search for Oliver after Yao Fei is captured. Armed with only a knife Oliver is eventually forced to confront him. The skirmish results in them tumbling and falling down to a stream. The soldier lands hard on a rock while Oliver ends up in the water. He manages to get out and dons the uniform of the dead man, where he finds a set of keys and a map in one of the pockets.

Oliver finds his way to the camp where Fyers and his men are based, here, unfortuneately accompanied by Fyers (who doesn't seem to recognise him as he is wearing a blaclava) he manages to make his way to where Xao Fai is being held prisoner, but at the prison Fyers knocks down Oliver and puts him in one of the cells. He tells him he knew who he was through his eyes, which told him everything and is also the reason why his men all wear blaclavas. Fyers then rebukes Oliver for putting his trust in the wrong people, particularly his friend, Xao Fei. He motions to the soldier next to him, who had been the first to talk to Oliver upon his arrival. The soldier takes off his balaclava and reveals himself to in fact be Xao Fei, who had been working for Fyers the whole time. However, Xao Fei later helps Oliver escape from the camp by using a technique to fake Oliver's death.

Oliver follows the map Yao Fei gave him when he faked his death which leads him to a crashed plan where he is met by a man (Slade Wilson). Oliver tell him that Yao Fei sent him there. Slade tells Oliver that there was a airfield there and he and Yao Fei had been observing it for months and they were going to get of the island together. He then throws a sword to Oliver and tells him that he thinks Yao Fei sent Oliver to him becuse he knew that he could not take the air field alone. Slade then challenges Oliver to a brief sword fight in order to gauge Oliver's fighting skills, he is unimpressed and tells Oliver that "it would be a compliment if someone told you that you fight like a girl." Slade then knocks him out.



Oliver wakes tied to a chair, Slade, in order to keep his location secret, decides to kill Oliver, but Oliver manages to escape his bonds by breaking his hand, he then punches Slade in the face. Amused, Slade thinks that there might be a fighter inside of Oliver after, he reverses his descion to kill Oliver and decides to train him into a fighter. During training,  Oliver finds the mask of Deathstroke, the man who had tortured him under Fyers' orders. When questioned about this, Slade explained that he and his partner wear the same mask; they came to the island to rescue Yao Fei as a mission from the Australian Secret Intelligence Service.

Return Home
After years in absolute danger, Oliver was trained intensely having acquired high level of combat ability, and acquiring a skill and accuracy with unparalleled arch, later he managed to spot a small fishing boat, and using improvised explosive devices, can draw attention of fishermen, who ultimately rescues him and takes him to Starling City. Already back to his family, Oliver went through several tests that diagnosed several serious injuries and scars, he returns to his house, where review all their family and friends, but it shows up with a completely different personality. Together with his friend Tommy, Oliver gives a brief tour of the city, where they've got much of the city in a deplorable state, with high poverty and high crime as well as the former factory of his family, which was sold, with the full dew. After a difficult meeting with Laurel, his former girlfriend, Oliver, accompanied by Tommy is kidnapped by three masked criminals, sent by his mother Moira, and taken to a hangar for interrogation, while Tommy remained unconscious, Oliver can come loose and can easily eliminate two of the criminals, and after a quick chase eliminates the third. Giving the alibi that was saved by a man in a green hood to investigator Lance, Oliver decides to start his fight against crime, but his mother hires John Diggle, a former soldier who now works as seugurança, but easily escapes him, and turns the basement of the family's old factory in a command base and using a custom made bow on the island with the costume Yao Fei wore, he begins hunting Adam Hunt, a corrupt man who tops the list Robert Queen gave his son. As a masked vigilante, Oliver eliminates Hunt's men, and forces him to transfer 40 million dollars to the city, or he would steal all of it in an unfriendly way. Hunt refuses and contacts the police to help defend himself. Oliver inconsipcuoulsy positions his welcome party across the street from Hunt's building in order to carry out his mission without anyone noticing. While waiting for the deadline he catches Thea buying narcotics at his party, and explains to her some of the regrets of his former life. Once the deadline passes he attempts to sneak away to be caught by Diggle, who he knocks unconsicous in order to continue his plan. Oliver storms the building and dispatches Hunt's security but is wounded by stray gunfire. The police arrive and attempt to subdue him, but Oliver jumps through the window and uses his bow to zipline to safety and use his party as a cover. The next day Oliver able to transfer the dinehiro Adam Hunt, due to capacity with an arrow hacker who stuck to room wall Hunt. At the end of the night Laurel Oliver notes on top of a building after a conversation with Tommy. Arrow goes after another person on the List, after overthrowing his men, he forces him to transfer 30 million dollars for retirees of the court to Starling. Oliver vai exclarecer circumstances of his death, he also conflicts with Diggle, due to his constant escapes.

Walter and Moira ask for him to take a position within the Consolidated Queen, but he rejects aempresa claiming to be his father and not his. Later, receive an explanation of his sister Thea for his rebelliousness, justifying the alleged death of Oliver and Robert, and also is encouraged to try to get closer to your loved ones. Following this advice, he goes to the apartment of Laurel ice cream, however they are interrupted by China White and his men who invade the apartment to kill Laurel, but with the help of Diggle who was prowling the place, he eliminated the goons, but Chine White escaped.Oliver has another conversation with Diggle who begins to suspect Oliver, due to his accuracy with the knife during the invasion of the apartment. Arrow goes behind Martin Sommers, it generates a persegição docks Starling, but the Arrow grabs and forces him to confess to being the mastermind of a man who would testify against him, however he ends up fighting with China White, The fight is interfered with by the police that invades the place, forcing both to flee, however during the struggle Detective Lance Arrow intercepts who quickly disarms and flees, leaving a device with the recorded testimony of Sommers. The next day during the public memorial to Robert Queen, Oliver appears pretending to be selfish, and irresponsible, to foil their identity, and in front of the tomb of Robert Oliver vows to fulfill your desire even if it means hurting those close to him.



When his bodyguard John Diggle is injured by Deadshot, Oliver takes him back to his lair to recuperate and reveals his identity to him. Oliver offers a job to John supposedly as a sidekick. He declines, calling him a criminal and a murderer. Oliver later tries to have Laurel defend an innocent man from receiving the death penalty and catch the real killer. After he saves the man, Quentin figures out that Oliver is the vigilante and arrests him at his home.

Oliver insists on having Laurel as his attorney, and she eventually accepts to be his legal counsel. He is accepted as not being the vigilante when he convinces Diggle to put on the hood and make a gang bust. Oliver was released and continues to act as the vigilante.

Later Oliver is diverted from the list when a gang of bank robbers start to hit more often. Diggle convinces Oliver to stop the thieves, but it becomes complicated when he learns that the leader was laid off by Oliver's father, and Oliver feels bad for that injustice. After a third hit, King (Derek Reston) was killed, and Ace (Kyle Reston) was incarcerated.

Oliver goes to Queen Consolidated to pick his mother up for a lunch date they are having. Moira is speaking to man represent Bertinelli Construction Company. Suddenly a biker appears and shoots the man. Moira falls and hits her head. Oliver chases after the biker but after he looses track of the biker he heads back to his mother. His sister criticizes him for going after the biker when he should have stayed with his mother. Oliver discovers that the man who tried to close the deal with his mother works for Frank Bertinelli and decides to go undercover. He intends to have a chat over dinner with Frank but instead goes with his daughter. Although reluctant at first, he finds himself enjoying the evening.He heads to an Italian restaurant run by Russo,a man who pays protection money to the Bertinellis. The dinner is interrupted when Diggle comes and informs Oliver that Nick Salvati, Bertinelli's right hand, was coming around to collect protection money and injuring anyone who refused. Oliver leaves to Hood up and returns to the restaurant where Nick has showed up with his crew. Just as they are about to break Russo's fingers, Oliver arrives as the Hood and protects him. He is joined by Huntress. After taking out the men Oliver and the Huntress fight it out. She is revealed to be Helena.

Abilities

 * Outstanding Marksmanship and Archer: Oliver is an expert sharpshooting marksman, attaining outstanding precision with a variety of ranged weaponry. He has highly experience and outstanding archery skills. Examples include skilled proficient accuracy with the bow and arrow, a single arrow, a knife and even a rusty pole. His marksmanship skills are at near superhuman levels.
 * Peak of Human Physical Condition: Oliver as shown to be top physical condition from his intense exercises both in the factory and his time on the island. He has shown that he can keep up with a motorcycle, perform acrobatics with some ease as well as other feats.
 * Skilled Detective: Oliver has shown to have some great detective skills when searching for information about the people on his list. He has also demonstrated keen eyesight, such as when he deduced that his mother was in a relationship with Walter Steele.
 * Master Hand to Hand Combatant: Oliver excels in advanced hand to hand combat, being a master martial artist. He is proficient in various types of fighting, and can more than hold his own against his opponents, whether with his signature bow and arrow or completely unarmed. He styled his fighting styles of self defense, offense, grappling, and takedown after his mentor, Yao Fei. The fighting form seems to be Eskrima, as Oliver has been seen regularly training with sticks, knives and using his bow as an improvised weapon.
 * Multilingualism: Oliver, based on current knowledge, is capable of speaking English, Mandarin Chinese, and Russian fluently.
 * Medicine: It has been displayed that Oliver is educated in various types of medicine. He was able to provide medical attention to himself and Diggle, as well as deduce the type of poison (Curare) that the bullet contained from his blood, compliments of Deadshot.
 * Intimidation And Interrogation: As Arrow, Oliver commands a very intimidating presence, which strikes fear into the hearts of the criminals he confronts.

Equipment

 * Customized Recurve Bow and Hunting Arrows: Oliver, as Arrow, uses as his signature weapon of choice is a recurved bow and numerous types of arrows, which he creates and designs himself, to fulfill his promise and mission he made to his father before his death. He carries arrows and flechettes (miniature projectiles stored on gauntlets, the equivalent of throwing knives) that add up to 24 in number.
 * Trick Arrows, Oliver has used custom-designed arrows such as incendiary arrows that explode on contact;  on occasion he has also been known to use arrows embedded with recording devices.
 * Quiver: An arrow container strapped to Oliver's back. He uses it to carry his arrows as his vigilante alter-ego, Arrow.

Trivia

 * During his 5 year stay on the island he learned Russian and became captain of one of the Russian mafia's most powerful criminal organization Solntsevskaya Bratva. He also has a star tattooed on his left chest signifying that he is one the highest members in the Russian underworld.
 * Throughout his lifetime, Oliver attended four schools, all of which he had dropped out of at one point.
 * In "Lone Gunman", Oliver mentions opening a club called Queens to conceal his base and give himself an alibi for where he disappears to in the evenings.
 * Oliver has been arrested four times according to Tommy Merlyn, prior to his latest arrest by Quentin Lance. These incidents include assaulting a paparazzi, driving while intoxicated, stealing a taxi, and urinating on a police officer.