Tommy Merlyn

"So, what'd you miss the most? Steaks at the palm, drinks at the station, meaningless sex?"

- Tommy to Oliver Queen

Tommy Merlyn (born c. February 1984) is the son of Rebecca and Malcolm Merlyn, a former billionaire "trustafarian", and the best friend of Oliver Queen.

Biography
When Oliver returns to Starling City, Tommy believes the good times will roll again but is greatly mistaken as Oliver is a changed man. In Oliver's absence, he forms an on-again, off-again relationship with Oliver's ex-girlfriend, Laurel Lance. He later goes to confront his father about why his trust fund was shut off. Malcolm replies by stating he cannot use his money unreasonably. In Year's End, Oliver is confronted by a very dangerous vigilante. This vigilante not only uses a new very distinctive arrow, but Oliver doesn't know this masked man is actually his best friend's father, Malcolm Merlyn. His mother was killed in 1992, leading to him and his father to have a very strained relationship, because after his mother was murdered, his father left him for two years to train as the Dark Archer (Currently for unknown purposes).

Appearances
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Comics
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 * Arrow #1
 * Arrow #26

Trivia

 * Originally, many believed that Tommy would become Green Arrow's mononymous enemy from the comics, Merlyn, or the "Dark Archer", due to the name similarities until it was revealed in "Year's End" that it is in fact his father, Malcolm Merlyn, who becomes the Dark Archer.
 * His family runs Merlyn Global Group.
 * Tommy is the fifth person to discover Oliver's identity. He discovered this in "Dead to Rights".
 * Malcolm mentions that Tommy, as a child, wanted a puppy for Christmas, which he would have called "Arthur", to pair with him being a "Merlyn". This may attribute to how Merlin assisted King Arthur, as well as subtly referencing that Merlyn's real name in the comics is Arthur King.
 * It was mentioned by Oliver that Tommy once rented an entire football field just so he could play "strip football" with a group of ladies.