User blog:Nightslayer2/Changes I Would Make To Arrow

I'm not done with Arrow. But I still think of it as a good show. I love Felicity, Diggle, Quentin, Laurel (more than anything), Thea, and Roy and most important of all, Oliver. Here are some of the changes I would make to the show while everything remains just the same.

Season One
1. Introduce Hackett and Eddie Fyers-In the comics, Hackett convinced Queen to invest in several illegal offshore accounts, thought Queen was unaware that his investments were being used to make drugs for China White. Hackett then gets Ollie shipwrecked on Lian Yu when China White feels threatened by Oliver since his presence would expose his operations. Hackett would have Eddie Fyers' role where he is the one being contracted by Amanda Waller to cripple China's economy by blowing up a Ferris Airlines plane and framing Yao-Fei for it. This would sort of make a reference to the comics where Hackett was a former member of the Royal Air Force and where he had a connection to Chien Na Wei as well as being the first villain Oliver Queen has ever encountered. He'd be played by Sebastian Dunn and everything would be the same. As for Eddie, he'd be played by either Gary Oldman or Bryan Cranston and he would be the Queen family butler as well as being a former member of the British military. Oliver would avoid Eddie at first to hide the fact that he is the Arrow, however, Eddie would eventually find out and help Oliver in his crusade.

2. Make Diggle an FBI Special Agent-In season 6, they introduced Samandra Watson as an FBI agent sent to investigate Oliver and they made Diggle become a government agent for ARGUS. It doesn't make sense for the FBI to want to bring down the Green Arrow because they don't deal with vigilantes, just federal crimes not municipal activities. Diggle would be an FBI agent sent by the Bureau to capture the Arrow since the Arrow robbed Adam Hunt of his money. That would make sense since hunting down cybercriminals is within the FBI's jurisdiction. Diggle would become suspicious of Oliver since and Tommy were throwing a party at the same place where Hunt was robbed and Diggle would confront his ex-wife Lyla, who would reveal that the FBI has a file on Oliver due to him being on Lian Yu for five years. Eventually, Diggle becomes Oliver's ally when Oliver saves him from Dead Shot. He even lies to the FBI that the Dark Archer robbed Hunt not the Arrow and that Oliver Queen is innocent before heading back to Washington. I like to see flashbacks similar to the Arrow comics of Diggle's time in the United States Army with Oliver reviewing his file and him investigating the 'death' of his brother Andy after being informed of it by Carly.

3. Make Quentin Lance A Bit Like James Gordon-In Gotham, James Gordon encountered supervillains long before Bruce Wayne became Batman. Before Oliver Queen returned to Lian Yu, Quentin had to deal with SWAT team Sergeant Notting, who has gone renegade with his unit and became violent vigilantes. In his youth, he had an encounter with Malcolm Merlyn when Malcolm started out as the Dark Archer and the Dark Archer killed his partner. This would give a background of why Quentin despises the Arrow and becomes obsessed with catching him. It doesn't make sense for Quentin to be blaming Oliver for the madness being brought into other people's lives. I think that this stuff would have happened whether or not Oliver returned from Lian Yu.

4. Malcolm Merlyn-I like to see an aspect of the Arrow comic incorporated with flashbacks of Malcolm starting out as the Dark Archer trying to protect the Glades and then trying to destroy it after. That would be in the 1980s where the Dark Archer encounters Quentin and puts an arrow in his partner. I would also make Constantine Drakon be Malcolm Merlyn's head of security and his male version of Mercy Graves. Like in the comics, as a child, the Greek assassin was teased for his shortness by other children. Once he started killing people at the age of ten, however, he found he was no longer sensitive about his stature. He claims that he had nothing strange or traumatic in his upbringing to turn him to murder, he was simply curious to see what he could do. Discovering that he was a prodigy at killing, Constantine proceeded to make a living out of it which is why the impressed Malcolm Merlyn offered him a job which Drakon accepted. However, Oliver kills Drakon.

Season Two
1. Make Lucas Hilton Like The Comics-When trying to catch a criminal, Quentin's partner Hilton is stabbed to the skull with a hunting knife. He survives the wound, but the knife cannot be removed, otherwise it would kill him. The damage the brain suffered from the trauma makes Hilton's character change drastically, manifesting massive personality disorders. Hill becomes violent and dangerous and shoots a cop point blank. Quentin is then forced to kill his own partner in self-defense.

2. Eddie Fyers Gets Killed Off-Not only does Slade kill Moira, but before that, he kills Eddie when Eddie goes looking for Thea when she is abducted by him. This motivates Oliver to want to kill Slade, but he decides to spare Slade and lock him up on Lian Yu. Eddie has Diggle's role throughout the entire season until he killed off. However, Diggle returns to Starling City to assist Team Arrow in the battle against Slade and he still teams up with Lyla to stop Waller from destroying Starling City when Slade is having the Mirakuru soldiers attack.

3. For Count Vertigo, I would make him be Werner Zytle, an immigrant from a foreign country who becomes a powerful crime lord that the Arrow tries to bring down. Zytle is blackmailed by Slade and Isabel into conducting a huge crime wave and to assassinate politicians standing in the way of Sebastian Blood's plans to become mayor. This is only because Slade and Isabel have his mother hostage. Isabel kills Zytle's mother when Zytle tries to rescue her and Zytle kills Isabel in revenge. Zytle and the mob even assist Team Arrow as well as Nyssa and the police in bringing down Slade's army.

4. For Clock King, he'd be William Tockman and a villain that Quentin Lance encountered in his youth. Tockman started out as a forensic scientist, however, he soon wanted some fame and began commiting crimes as the Clock King. Tockman frames Quentin for murder only for the young Quentin to eventually clear his name. Tockman also cost Quentin his relationship with Annie Green, who was Quentin's first love interest before Dinah who is the second and Donna who is his third.

Season Three
1. Make Ra's Al Ghul's origin as In The Comics- Ra's was born over 600 years before his first appearance in Batman comics, to a Bedouin tribe of nomads in a desert somewhere in Arabia, near a city whose inhabitants' ancestors had journeyed to the Arabian Peninsula from Morocco. Developing an interest in the sciences at an early age, Ra's abandoned his tribe to live in the city where he pursued life as a researcher. He subsequently became a physician and married a woman named Sora. Ra's discovered the secret of the Lazarus Pit, and he saves a dying prince by lowering him into it. The prince, who is sadistic to begin with, is driven completely insane by the Lazarus Pit. He proceeds to strangle Sora, on whom he has already had his eye for some time. The sultan, unwilling to admit to himself his son's culpability, declares Ra's guilty of the crime and sentences him to a slow, tortured death in a cage with Sora's corpse. Ra's is set free by the son of a dying elderly woman, who Ra's had earlier examined. The son feels that he owes Ra's a debt for easing his mother's suffering during her last few hours. Ra's and the son head into the desert to seek the tribe of Ra's' birth. Ra's convinces the head of his tribe, his uncle, to follow Ra's in his quest for revenge by promising the downfall of the sultan. By understanding the germ theory of disease hundreds of years before anyone else, Ra's is able to infect the prince with a deadly virus by sending him contaminated fabrics. When the sultan comes to ask Ra's to cure the prince again, Ra's kills both him and his son. Ra's then leads his tribe to raze the city to the ground and kill all of its inhabitants. Subsequently, Ra's declares himself "Ra's al Ghul", the "Demon's Head".

2. Amanda Waller Has Sara Killed Instead of Malcolm-I think it was originally planned for Amanda Waller to have Sara killed as part of her plan to bring down the League of Assassins. That would be a very interesting concept to explore and one of the reasons why Lyla decides to resign from ARGUS.

3. Oliver Goes To Supermax-Because of his mother's death, Zytle's personality becomes even darker. He contracts Malcolm to assassinate his niece Princess Perdita only for it to be foiled by Roy, Oliver, and Diggle. Zytle then manages to kill his niece and frames Oliver Queen for her murder with Oliver being covered in her blood. Despite the fact that Diggle believes Oliver to be innocent, the FBI arrests him and takes him to the Slabside Maximum Security Prison. The storyline is then about Oliver trying to escape a high-security prison filled with A-, B-, and C-list villains such as Floronic-Man and rogue superheroes. There would also be cameos made by Lex Luthor and the Joker like in David S. Goyer's script. Eventually, Waller releases Oliver on condition he infiltrates the League of Assassins after helping to clear his name.

4. No terrorist attack. Instead, Ra's tries to destroy the world by unleashing the Lazarus Pit on it similar to Batman: The Animated Series. Ra's still dies in the end because of Oliver stabbing him to death.

5. Huntress appears as a member of the Suicide Squad when Diggle and Lyla and the Squad are trying to rescue a senator.

6. The Brick appears while Oliver is in prison. He assassinates rival mob bosses and the district attorney who blames Team Arrow for what happened as well as Mayor Altman. It's like in his comic book storyline except that like in Arrow, when Oliver gets out because of a deal he makes with Waller, Oliver talks Malcolm out of killing him.

7. Lance outs Oliver as the Arrow when Oliver gets out of prison. Roy takes the blame and is forced to leave.

Season 4
1. The Death of Felicity Smoak-Felicity dies in the mid-season finale sending Oliver down a dark path since he and Felicity were engaged and this happened just right after he proposed to her. Laurel doesn't die, Felicity does and Curtis replaces her as a hacker on the team just like what Eobard95 wanted.

2. Instead of Damian Darhk trying to nuke the world, he is at war with Malcolm Merlyn's League of Assassins. Everything is like in the season finale where Oliver, Diggle, Lyla, and the people of Star City rally against Dark and his men. Oliver then kills Dhark to avenge Felicity.

3. Introduce Albert Davis as Quentin Lance's New Partner-In this version, Albert Davis would be like the Harvey Bullock from Gotham and like his comic book version. Davis had a perfect life until his daughter and grand children were assaulted and killed by a car-jacker, and his world fell to pieces. He left Star City and went around the world for a time, eventually returning with a plan to keep everyone safe from all crime. He hires the Clock King instead of the Riddler to obtain certain occult artifacts to generate a distraction. Davis then does a ritual that summoned a demonic army of peace-keepers that would prevent crime. Unfortunately, the justice meted out by these demons was brutal, instant death for even the most minor offence, and Star City began to truly suffer. The only way to stop the demonic horde was for the summoner to die, a fact that Davis calmly accepted. He begged Green Arrow to kill him but Thea does and Thea gives up being Speedy out of guilt for what she just did even though everyone shows understanding towards her, especially Quentin.

4. Introduce Carly Diggle-She learns Diggle killed her husband and a lot of drama results from that when Diggle confesses this to her. The only reason that the FBI is in Star City again is because of the terrorist attacks made by Damian Dahrk and the Ghosts.

Season Five
1. Make Adrian Chase Vigilante-Adrian was born to Justin Claybourne and Amanda Westfield. However, Claybourne had become a mob boss who ran the AK Desmond Group and used his pharmaceutical company as a front for his mischevious activities. Wanting to protect his son from his rivals in the criminal underworld, Claybourne forced Amanda to give up her son to Charles Chase, a wealthy lawyer who is good friends with Claybourne, and to Charles' family. While Adrian knew who is real parents were, Adrian hated the man Claybourne was while Amanda loved him but had to keep his hatred a secret due to not wanting to hurt  his mother. As an adult, Adrian became a lawyer to end his father’s corruption and started working for the District Attorney's office which upset Charles since Adrian would make five times as much money by working for him. Adrian was also disgusted with the fact Charles was using his law firm to defend criminals whom Charles knew was guilty. In 2012, Claybourne was killed by Oliver. While Adrian was glad that his father’s evil had been ended his mother became vengeful and the two agreed that the Hood is a monster. However Adrian hated the fact that he admired him somewhat as he ws bringing an effective form of justice to a corrupted city. Years later, Adrian was taking his wife Doris and foster brother Dorian out for dinner. However, Dorian was killed by the Ghosts who were attempting to kill Adrian which then prompted Adrian to become like the Hood. Prometheus would claim to be Justin Claybourne's son when it actually is Vigilante. Adrian is one of the people who helps Oliver on Lian Yu, however, he kills Prometheus by impulse when Prometheus kills his wife. Again, I got the idea for that from Eobard95. Adrian would be like Punisher from Daredevil where he doesn't kill innocent civilians and dismiss this as collateral damge, however, he would still be at conflict with Team Arrow and he would try to kill Curtis.

2. Make Tommy Merlyn Prometheus-Similar to Batman: Death and the Maidens, Talia brings back Tommy from the dead with the Lazarus Pit as part of her plan to avenge her father. Talia woud lkill Tommy and resurrect him in rapid succession in a Lazarus Pit, leaving Tommy virtually broken from the trauma of dying again and again in so short a time. Tommy then becomes Talia's brainwashed pawn. Oliver would be upset at this, however, Laurel, Malcolm, and Thea would reassure Oliver that this isn't Tommy. Tommy would similar to his Earth-X version. He'd also be the one who kills Adrian's wife and he was only pretending to be Justin Claybourne's son because of Talia. After the death of his brother Dorian, Adrian sought Talia out in order to have the same skills as the Hood in order to avenge his brother. This would also be a reason for Malcolm to return.

3. Replace Tobias Church With Reggie Mandell-I don't mind Tobias Church at all I really don't. It's just that this could be a reference to Tobias Whale from Batman and since this is a Green Arrow show, it should have Reggie Mandell in it. Chad Coleman would still play Mandell, same personality as Church, and same role, just a different name.

4. Black Canary V.S Black Siren-It would be interesting to see Laurel encounter her evil-twin.

5. Quentin and Donna are still together.

Season Six
Everything would be like Eobard95's blog. Because of the accusations that Diggle was a terrorist last season and due to the death of his brother, the FBI begins to feel that Diggle is too unstable to be with them and eventually let him go despite Diggle insisting he is fine despite his injury. This is when Diggle gets a job at ARGUS and eventually becomes its director. Adrian would still appear with Oliver trying to prevent Adrian from becoming mentally unstable. Thea would still leave the show with Roy and Nyssa once Athena appears to make Thea embrace the legacy of the fallen Malcolm Merlyn and Quentin would still perish at the hands of Ricardo Diaz since Paul Blackthorne wanted to leave the show for a new role. Laurel and Quentin would be working together to reform Black Siren and it would be similar to Eobard95's blog.

Adrian becomes a judge thinking he'd be much happier but has to deal with an impostor pretending to be Vigilante. That impostor would have to be Dead Shot as a result of Talia's manipulations and I also like to see him diffuse a violent situation as himself like he did in the comics when he reasoned with a woman into not killing two boys whom she allegedly thought killed her daughter. This makes Adrian resume the role of Vigilante feeling that he cannot escape this. Huntress would come back and have to deal with Omerta the Silencer as well as Steven Mandragora. Mandragora wants to open Frank Bertinelli's hidden safe. Since Frank is dead and is body is in ashes, Mandragora decides to have Omerta find Helena. Omerta captures Helena and takes her to Mandragora. Mandragora asks Huntress to join him as the leader of the Star City families. Huntress refuses despite Mandraogra killing Omerta and asking her again. Team Arrow arrives to rescue Helena. However, Mandragora stumbles upon some weak flooring outside the safe and falls to his death. Helena starts helping, however, Mandragora mocks Helena about her father's death which makes Helena let him go. I like to see flashbacks of Helena's past like in the Arrow comic where she trained in Italy after the death of her brother.

Quentin and Donna are still together, however, Donna becomes upset when Quentin dies.

I would also like to add flashforwards of Connor Hawke being the Green Arrow with Oliver and William by his side.

What do you guys think?