Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-9346948-20150514010106/@comment-82.16.93.41-20150529184237

StarkResilientAvengers wrote: The Mercenary 73 wrote:

Jon Jeong wrote: Or have you forgotten, Arrow is Batman and Batman isnt allowed to be _____ Who said that was Batman? Seriously the situation DC pulling characters from the show could kill it. There are two different continuities between film and tv (a 3rd if you count Gotham), so there is no need to rob Arrow of Deathstroke and the Suicide Squad. By "Arrow is Batman", he means that Oliver Queen is to the Arrowverse as Batman is to The Justice League: the one with the experience, the heavy backstory, and the skill to lead a team of superpowered wildcards and tech-finatics. Besides, I hardly doubt Deathstroke is leaving anytime soon, the SS maybe.

Throughout the last 18 months the showrunner has been getting calls from DC execs demanding certain characters are 'pulled' from the show, it has happened with Wilson, Waller and Lawton. They recently publically revealed it started 18 months ago when they were told to not use Harley Quinn, they are being very cautious with what they're revealing to the public and naturally so considering whats going on. Slade Wilson and Floyd Lawton's final episodes were a goodbye to the characters, though Wilson may return if as expected the character has been cut from the Suicide Squad movie. But as it stands if they are going to appear in a DC movie such as The Suicide Squad or Batman vs Superman or Justice League then the character will be off limits to the show. The one exemption is The Flash, most likely as the show's lead character in a popular program they are turning a blind eye to him.

My exposition of a possible scene was no more than an easter egg to fans of both the show and the comics, but also subversively using a strictly off limits character i think that the producers can figuratively blow a raspberry at these DC executives that are spoiling the narrative of the season. So as long as the name Bruce Wayne or Batman are used i think there is little DC can do.