Season 2 (Arrow)

Synopsis
After a violent shipwreck, billionaire playboy Oliver Queen was missing and presumed dead for five years before being discovered alive on a remote island in the Pacific. He returned home to Starling City, bent on righting the wrongs of his family and fighting injustice. To do this, he creates the persona of Arrow – a vigilante – and allies himself with former military man John Diggle and computer science expert Felicity Smoak, while keeping his secret from those closest to him.

Main cast

 * Stephen Amell as Oliver Queen/The Arrow
 * Katie Cassidy as Laurel Lance
 * David Ramsey as John Diggle
 * Willa Holland as Thea Queen
 * Emily Bett Rickards as Felicity Smoak
 * Colton Haynes as Roy Harper
 * Manu Bennett as Slade Wilson/Deathstroke
 * Susanna Thompson as Moira Queen
 * Paul Blackthorne as Quentin Lance

Recurring cast

 * Colin Salmon as Walter Steele
 * Celina Jade as Shado
 * Adrian Holmes as Frank Pike
 * Caity Lotz as Sara Lance/The Canary
 * Summer Glau as Isabel Rochev/Ravager
 * Dylan Bruce as Adam Donner
 * Michael Jai White as Ben Turner/Bronze Tiger
 * Kevin Alejandro as Sebastian Blood/Brother Blood
 * Roger Cross as Lucas Hilton
 * Teryl Rothery as Jean Loring
 * Bex Taylor-Klaus as Sin
 * Jimmy Jean-Louis as The Captain
 * Jesse Hutch as Daily
 * Audrey Marie Anderson as Lyla Michaels
 * Dylan Neal as Anthony Ivo
 * Cynthia Addai-Robinson as Amanda Waller
 * John Barrowman as Malcolm Merlyn/Dark Archer
 * Chelah Horsdal as Kate Spencer
 * Grant Gustin as Barry Allen
 * Sean Maher as Mark Scheffer/Shrapnel
 * Nicholas Lea as Mark Francis
 * Katrina Law as Nyssa al Ghul
 * Alex Kingston as Dinah Lance

Home media release
A boxset of the second season, titled Arrow: The Complete Second Season, was released on DVD and Blu-ray on September 16, 2014. It contains additional features, deleted scenes, gag reel and the Arrow panel from the San Diego Comic-Con International 2013.

Tie-in novel
An novel titled was released on February 23, 2016. The events of the novel takes place before the events of Arrow and later Arrow season 2. It tells the story from the perspectives from Slade, Isabel and Sebastian.

Trivia

 * This is the second season to have a main character killed off.
 * This is the last season in which the main antagonist is not killed until Season 6.
 * Emily Bett Rickards, Colton Haynes and Manu Bennett were promoted to series regulars.
 * Season 2 marked Susanna Thompson's last.