Team Arrow

"Team Arrow, the original gangstas."

- Felicity Smoak

When Oliver returned from Lian Yu, he began his activities around Starling City as a vigilante archer on his own. However, after both John Diggle and Oliver were shot by Floyd Lawton and his mother Moira respectively, Oliver has since expanded his vigilante team to include Diggle and Felicity Smoak. They operate from a base, nicknamed the Arrowcave by Cisco Ramon, which was originally located under Verdant, a night club owned by Oliver and run by his sister Thea, but is currently set up beneath Oliver's mayoral campaign office. Felicity has affectionately called the unit "Team Arrow" after Roy Harper suggested it. Following Oliver's leaving for the League of Assassins, he and Felicity left the team to start a new life, however after some time, Oliver and Felicity returned to help them and eventually rejoined as Oliver took on the code name "Green Arrow".

Intentions
The team generally follows Oliver's wishes and targets those on "The List". However, they also occasionally focus on other criminals. They fight against crime/corruption, doling out justice when regular law enforcers cannot perform it on the perpetrators.

Following the destruction of the Glades, their secondary objective of catching unruly criminals has become their primary focus. They no longer rely on "The List" to direct them against criminal elements, and instead try to make a difference in the city in the aftermath of the destruction caused by the earthquake device. For a time, the team's goal was to eliminate the upsurge in extreme terrorist threats, such as Slade Wilson, the League of Assassins, or Damien Darhk's Ghosts, but with Star City in a chaotic state after so many of these attacks focused on the city's elected government, Oliver Queen decided to seek a role that would allow him to make a difference on the streets and in politics by running for and winning the position of Star City's mayor.

Year One: Becoming The Hood/The Undertaking
Oliver Queen initially worked on his one-man war against the people on "The List" alone, though this changes after he saved John Diggle from a bullet laced with curare. Oliver chooses to reveal his secret identity to John, who inevitably joins up when he realizes that Oliver needs someone to remind him of what he is fighting for.

After developing a strong connection with Helena Bertinelli, Oliver tells her his secret and trains her in non-lethal ways of taking people down. However, Helena was more interested in revenge and left, correctly assuming that Oliver wouldn't allow her to do things her way if she stayed.

When Oliver's mother Moira shoots him while he tried to interrogate her in his vigilante suit, Oliver seeks aid from Felicity Smoak, whom he had already relied several times when he encountered technological problems he could not face on his own. Oliver initially strove to keep Felicity out of his one-man war, feeding her ridiculously outrageous stories whenever he needed her help (which she accepted rather than believed). After she fulfills her promise to take him to the Arrowcave and helps John save his life following the revelation that he was the vigilante, Felicity joins the team in order to find her boss and Oliver's step-father, Walter.

John later leaves the team after Oliver chooses to pursue a fleeing criminal Laurel was prosecuting over helping John capture (or kill) the elusive sharp-shooter Floyd Lawton, who was responsible for the death of John's brother, Andy Diggle. John returns after Oliver apologizes to him, just in time to help try and prevent The Undertaking.

After they failed to prevent the Undertaking - albeit because they only managed to disarm one of the earthquake machines being used rather than both, limiting the damage caused without preventing it completely - the team initially disbanded, as Oliver went into self-imposed exile back on Lian Yu.

Year Two: Becoming The Arrow/Deathstroke's revenge
However, Felicity (and perhaps John) restored the Arrowcave at some point, and they later tracked Oliver down to convince him to return to Starling City. Agreeing to return, both to the city and his self-assigned duty as the vigilante, Oliver decided to shift their mission from crossing names off The List to attempting to clean up the chaos in the city caused by the Undertaking. He vows that he would no longer kill his enemies, wishing to honor his late best friend, Tommy Merlyn. To this end, he has enlisted the aid of Roy Harper as an informant, with Roy using his street contacts to get information that none of them cannot find on their own. Roy, however, remains unaware of both The Arrow's true identity, and the identities of The Arrow's partners.

When Oliver is left for dead and drugged by Cyrus Gold, a member of Sebastian Blood's Church of Blood, Felicity makes the decision to involve Central City Police Department CSI intern Barry Allen in order to save Oliver's life. John knocks out and abducts Barry from the train station and brings him to the Arrowcave at Felicity's behest. Barry wakes up to find John standing over an unconscious Oliver in full Arrow garb, and Felicity asks for his help in saving him. Barry does so, only for Oliver to wake up and become infuriated with Felicity's actions. Oliver eventually calms down and accepts Barry's knowledge and promise to keep quiet, and Barry creates a mask for Oliver to wear before departing for Central City.

After Oliver found out from Thea, that Roy put someone in the hospital, Oliver offered to train Roy, so he can control his new powers and abilities, later Roy finds out that Oliver is The Arrow, after this, Roy officially becomes a member of the team, Roy is now aware of the identities of Oliver's partners.

When Oliver found out that his former friend and former mentor Slade Wilson is alive, he was horrified, trying various methods to take him down until he finally managed to neutralize his powers.

Year Three: Becoming Al Sah-him / Fighting the League of Assassins
After saving Starling City from Slade's assault, Oliver (as the Arrow), is viewed as a hero to the citizens of Starling City, so much so that Quentin Lance calls off the Anti-Vigilante Task Force. Shortly after this occurs, Sara Lance is killed by an unknown individual and Oliver and his team try for months to find out the identity of Sara's killer with no success. Ra's al Ghul, leader of the League of Assassins, who is also adamant to punish the one responsible for Sara's death, loses his patience with Oliver, giving him and his team an ultimatum; that they are to identify Sara's killer within 48 hours, or the League will kill 50 people per day until the person responsible for her murder reveals himself/herself. Eventually it is discovered that Malcolm Merlyn was indeed behind Sara's murder, albeit indirectly, and that she was actually killed by Thea, whilst she was under the influence of Vitura, (a mind-control drug and memory-loss agent), which had been administered to her by Malcolm. Oliver was reluctant for her to take the blame for Malcolm's actions, because even if he were to tell Ra's that Thea was under the influence of Vitura, Ra's would still kill Thea for being the one who directly killed Sara. Oliver faces Ra's in battle and loses but still manages to survive in the fight and because he had survived Ra's' blade - Ra's wants him to become his successor. Oliver politely declines, and so Ra's and the League, pose as the Arrow and start killing people in Starling City with the Arrow's tools to frame him in a perverted attempt to make the offer more convincing.



After Roy took the blame for being the Arrow and faked his death to exonerate Oliver, Ra's attacked Thea and mortally wounded her, in order to finally force Oliver to accept his offer to become his successor. Ra's sends Maseo Yamashiro to give Oliver a message, that he can save his half-sister's life with the Lazarus Pit, only if Oliver agrees to finally become his successor and a member of the League, which Oliver reluctantly agrees to. Once Thea is saved - Oliver remains true to his word and leaves his team. Thea joins the team when Oliver was about to kill Diggle and Thea shoots an arrow through Oliver's wrist. Although Ra's apparently successfully brainwashed Oliver to become his successor as he ordered him to destroy Starling City with a virus, Oliver's brainwashing was revealed to be a deception, as he had developed a vaccine for this virus based on his blood due to his exposure to the virus during his five years away from Starling City. After Barry Allen extracted his team, they were able to shut down Ra's attempts to disperse the virus, followed by Oliver killing Ra's in a duel. With this success and the compromise of his identity, Oliver decided to retire as the Arrow to make a new life with Felicity.

Year Four: Becoming the Green Arrow/War against H.I.V.E.
Oliver and Felicity returned however due to the attacks on the city made by the "Ghosts". Oliver found that the team had been capable of handling things on their own without his leadership when he gave out orders, but recognizing that they required his skills, he adopted the new persona of 'Green Arrow', taking a more public role than in his past role as the Arrow. After Jeremy Tell destroyed their lair while attacking Felicity and Curtis Holt, as well as Curtis knowing about the secret lair's elevator, Cisco Ramon and S.T.A.R. Labs renovated Sebastian's lair into a new headquarters for Team Arrow.

Faced with the new threat of Damien Darhk, Oliver decided to step up his efforts to be a hero as both Oliver Queen and the Green Arrow, acting against Darhk as the Green Arrow while running for the currently-vacant position of Star City mayor as Oliver Queen. As well as investigating Darhk, Oliver also found himself rescuing other heroes, such as retrieving Ray Palmer from Darhk's custody after learning that Palmer's suit had acquired the ability to shrink to microscopic size, resurrecting Sara Lance with the aid of John Constantine, or working with Barry to save Carter Hall and Kendra Saunders from psychotic immortal Vandal Savage.

However, despite the team's initial successes, their personal lives began to suffer when Felicity was paralyzed from the waist down in an attack by Darhk. Shortly after this, Thea faced death due to a side-effect of her treatment in the Lazarus Pit, forcing Oliver to confront Malcolm Merlyn in a duel and cut off his hand so that Nyssa could regain control of the League of Assassins and provide Thea with the cure. In revenge for Oliver's actions against him, Malcolm revealed the existence of Oliver's son William to Darhk, and although the subsequent campaign saw them destroy the source of Darhk's mystical power with the aid of Vixen, the revelation that Oliver had kept the fact that he had a son secret from her prompted Felicity to break off their engagement and leave the team, while Darhk's earlier blackmail forced Oliver to step down from the mayoral race so that Darhk's wife could run unopposed. However, after a prison riot saw Damien Darhk escape custody and kill Laurel Lance, Felicity returned to the team to put Darhk down once and for all.

After H.I.V.E.'s rampage through Star City while attempting to execute Operation Genesis, Darhk was finally killed by Green Arrow. Soon after Darhk's death, Diggle, Thea and Quentin left Team Arrow to evaluate their lives as they feared the lengths they had been forced to resort to during this conflict, leaving Oliver and Felicity on the team as Oliver officially assumed the role of mayor after the loss of all other candidates.

Year Five: Building a new team/Rise of Prometheus
After the exit of most of his old team, sans Felicity, Oliver attempted to act on his own, refusing the help of others. However, after the insistence of Felicity, Oliver decided to try and recruit Evelyn Sharp and Rene Ramirez/Wild Dog, as well as begin training Curtis Holt. Refusing to reveal his identity, he brought them to a building to train, by working together to ring a bell, to no avail. Felicity suggested that Oliver utilize them as security for the AmerTek free clinic, which he eventually agreed to, instructing them not to interfere. However, after Wild Dog interfered, despite gaining some evidence, Oliver yelled at them, causing all three to quit. That night, Oliver went on a solo mission to stop "Ragman". Convincing him to not hunt down Janet Carroll, he also convinced him to join him in his vigilantism. The following day, Oliver called back his three previous recruits, revealing his identity in the hopes of gaining their trust. Having gained their trust, they rejoined the team.

John Diggle later rejoined the team after Oliver Queen broke him out of prison. Thea temporally rejoined to help fight the Dominators. The team later fights Vigilante.

It was later revealed that Evelyn seemed to be working with Prometheus and gives him information about the team. It was unknown where she was when Team Arrow joined the Legends, Team Flash and Supergirl to fight the Dominators.

Weeks later, the team celebrates Christmas which is interrupted by Curtis being attacked by Prometheus. The team tracks him down to an abandoned building where Evelyn reveals her allegiance with Prometheus and takes off with him. Prometheus later kidnaps Felicity's boyfriend Billy Malone and gets Oliver to go after him. Oliver is tricked by him to kill Billy by putting Billy in his suit and putting a voice chip on him. Felicity is devastated by his death but does not blame Oliver knowing it was Prometheus who did this, Curtis's husband Paul leaves him due to him not bearing Curtis's actions as a vigilante and John is recaptured by the police. Oliver is briefly distracted when he finds Laurel alive and well in his lair, but Felicity's research soon reveals that this Laurel is actually Laurel's counterpart from Earth Two, forcing Oliver to defeat and capture her.

Following this, Oliver decides to find a new Black Canary to replace Laurel. The team finds Dinah Drake who gained the ability of sonic scream due to Particle accelerator explosion. After defeating Sean Sonus and Oliver revealing his identity. She agrees to join the team with Quentin giving his blessing for her becoming the new Black Canary.

The team later went to Russia to help John take down Walker and to stop his nuclear bomb test with the help of Anatoly. Rory leaves the team following the destruction of his rag suit. After Russia Star City is targeted by James Edlund when he starts a shooting spree across the city starting with City Hall due to them proposing a gun control act. The team manages to take him down and imprison him.

The ACU later issued a arrest warrant for Oliver due to him killing Billy Malone by Prometheus's trick. The ACU attack him but he manages to escape. He and the police make a cover up of the murder. The team takes down Chien Na Wei, Carrie Cutter, and Liza Warner, when they escape from a prison transfer and the ACU helps them apprehend them. Prometheus reveals the cover up and it threatens Oliver with impeachment. Oliver is forced to put an arrest warrant for the Green Arrow. While John, Curtis, Dinah, and Rene battle Vigilante when he targets Oliver and they manage to defeat them. Oliver learns Adrian Chase is Prometheus from Talia al Ghul and Adrian kidnaps Susan Williams to lure Oliver into a trap. The team manages to rescue and uses Chase's wife to convince him to stop his reign of terror. But Adrian kills her and he captures Oliver with the help from Talia. He later tortures him with the help from Evelyn.

Possible future
In a possible future witnessed by Rip Hunter's team, by 2046 Star City was a battleground for various gangs, with Slade Wilson's son Grant Wilson having attacked the city to avenge his father's death. Grant's assault fifteen years prior to 2046 resulted in the death of John Diggle and Oliver Queen losing his right arm when Grant cut it off, Oliver going into self-imposed exile in the team's headquarters as he felt ashamed at his failure to protect his city. During this time, Diggle's son took on the Green Arrow mantle to try and protect the people of Star City, although he also changed his own name to Connor Hawke as he felt that he didn't deserve his original name of John Diggle Jr. after his failure to save his father. When the Waverider crashed into this timeline, the team were able to work with Hawke and Oliver- Oliver using an artificial arm he had acquired at some point- to rally a new offensive against Grant's men, the time-travelers leaving the city with hope that Oliver and Hawke would be able to make a difference in this city once again.

Current members

 * Oliver Queen/Green Arrow (founder, leader, archer and field support)

Former members

 * Helena Bertinelli/The Huntress (field support; left the team after going rogue)
 * Roy Harper/Arsenal (archer and field support; faked death to protect the rest of the team)
 * Sara Lance/The Canary (field support; left to re-learn self-control; later joined the Legends)
 * Ray Palmer/The Atom (part-time member; tech support and field support; left team to join the Legends)
 * Malcolm Merlyn/Dark Archer (co-leader and field support; left to lead the League of Assassins; later joined H.I.V.E. and the Legion of Doom; later returned to help stop Prometheus' team; deceased)
 * Laurel Lance/Black Canary (legal support and field support; deceased)
 * Evelyn Sharp/Artemis (field support and archer; revealed to be a spy for Adrian Chase; caught in an explosion on Lian Yu)
 * Rory Regan/Ragman (field support, left the team after his suit was damaged; until he can restore his bond with the rags)

Status unknown

 * John Diggle/Spartan (second in command, marksman and field support; caught in an explosion on Lian Yu)
 * Dinah Drake/Black Canary (police officer and field support; caught in an explosion on Lian Yu)
 * Curtis Holt/Mr. Terrific (tech support, field support and occasional computer hacker; caught in an explosion on Lian Yu)
 * Quentin Lance (informant and occasional field support; part-time member; caught in an explosion on Lian Yu)
 * Rene Ramirez/Wild Dog (sniper, marksman and field support; caught in an explosion on Lian Yu)
 * Felicity Smoak/Overwatch (computer hacker, tech support and former member of Helix; caught in an explosion on Lian Yu)
 * Thea Queen/Speedy (archer and field support; retired from vigilantism; returned to help stop The Dominators; leave of absence; returned to stop Prometheus' team; caught in an explosion on Lian Yu)

Future members (2046 in possible timeline)

 * Oliver Queen/Green Arrow (founder, leader, archer and field support)
 * Connor Hawke/Green Arrow (archer and field support)

Current allies

 * Christopher Chance/Human Target
 * John Constantine
 * Kara Danvers/Supergirl (operating on Earth Thirty-Eight)
 * Esrin Fortuna
 * Ted Grant/Wildcat
 * Mari McCabe/Vixen
 * Mesi Natifah/Talibah (Nyssa's ally)
 * Susan Williams
 * Tatsu Yamashiro
 * Sin
 * A.R.G.U.S.
 * Lyla Michaels/Harbinger (director)
 * Helix
 * Alena/Kojo Sledgehammer
 * Legends
 * Sara Lance/White Canary (leader; former member of Team Arrow)
 * Ray Palmer/The Atom (former member of Team Arrow)
 * Nate Heywood/Steel
 * Amaya Jiwe/Vixen
 * Mick Rory/Heat Wave
 * Firestorm
 * Martin Stein
 * Jefferson "Jax" Jackson
 * Team Flash
 * Cisco Ramon/Vibe
 * Joe West
 * Iris West
 * Harrison "Harry" Wells
 * Wally West/Kid Flash
 * Julian Albert
 * Jesse Wells/Jesse Quick (part-time member; currently operating on Earth Three)
 * Solntsevskaya Bratva
 * Anatoly Knyazev

Former allies

 * Andy Diggle (spying for H.I.V.E.; deceased)
 * Digger Harkness/Captain Boomerang (field support; betrayed; status unknown)
 * Carter Hall/Hawkman (field support; former member of the Legends; deceased)
 * Rip Hunter (former leader and member of the Legends; retired from vigilantism)
 * Noah Kuttler/The Calculator (left due to his ex-wife)
 * Alexi Leonov (deceased; Bratva informant)
 * Lonnie Machin (temporary ally; incarcerated)
 * Billy Malone (deceased)
 * Ronnie Raymond/Firestorm (deceased)
 * Kendra Saunders/Hawkgirl (field support; former member of the Legends; retired from vigilantism)
 * Leonard Snart/Captain Cold (former member of the Legends; deceased)
 * Amanda Waller (deceased; A.R.G.U.S. ally)
 * "Harrison Wells" (revealed to be an enemy; erased from existence)
 * H.R. Wells (strategy support; former member of Team Flash; deceased)
 * Caitlin Snow (former member of Team Flash; left to discover who she truly is now)
 * Barry Allen/The Flash (founder, leader of Team Flash, forensic scientist, field speedster and occasional tech support; left to go into the Speed Force)

Status unknown

 * Nyssa Raatko/Nyssa Al Ghul (archer, assassin and field support; caught in an explosion on Lian Yu)
 * Slade Wilson/Deathstroke (assassin and field support; caught in an explosion on Lian Yu)
 * Samantha Clayton (caught in a explosion on Lian Yu)

Current enemies

 * "Vigilante"

Former enemies

 * Cecil Adams/Count Vertigo (deceased)
 * Helena Bertinelli/The Huntress (incarcerated; former member of Team Arrow)
 * Roy Bivolo/Rainbow Raider
 * Tobias Church/Charon (deceased)
 * James Edlund (incarcerated)
 * Joseph Falk/The Savior (deceased)
 * Noah Kuttler/The Calculator (turned ally)
 * Simon Lacroix/Komodo (incarcerated)
 * Brie Larvan/Bug-Eyed Bandit (comatose)
 * Garfield Lynns/The Firefly (deceased)
 * Barton Mathis/The Dollmaker (deceased)
 * Xavier Reed/The Mayor (deceased)
 * Rory Regan/Ragman (turned teammate)
 * Derek Sampson (incarcerated)
 * Vandal Savage (deceased)
 * Mark Scheffer/Shrapnel (deceased)
 * Jake Simmons/Deathbolt (deceased)
 * Smith (assigned to Antarctica)
 * Sean Sonus (deceased)
 * Isaac Stanzler (deceased)
 * Eobard Thawne/Reverse-Flash (erased from existence)
 * William Tockman/Clock King (incarcerated)
 * J.G. Walker (incarcerated)
 * Laura Washington/Cyber-woman (incarcerated)
 * Webb (deceased)
 * Grant Wilson/Deathstroke (incarcerated; in a potential future)
 * Werner Zytle/Vertigo (incarcerated)
 * "Mr. Blank" (deceased)
 * "Scimitar" (deceased)
 * Liza Warner's team (inactive)
 * Liza Warner (leader; incarcerated)
 * Chien Na Wei/China White (incarcerated)
 * Carrie Cutter/Cupid (incarcerated)
 * Blackhawk Squad Protection Group (inactive)
 * Ted Gaynor (leader; deceased)
 * Paul Knox (deceased)
 * Blake (deceased)
 * Cavanaugh (deceased)
 * Church of Blood/Slade Wilson's army (inactive)
 * Slade Wilson/Deatstroke (leader; turned ally)
 * Sebastian Blood/Brother Blood (deceased)
 * Daily/The Masked Man (deceased)
 * Cyrus Gold/The Acolyte (deceased)
 * Caleb Green (deceased)
 * Clinton Hogue/Brother Blood (deceased)
 * Isabel Rochev/Ravager (deceased)
 * Hoshaw Tolibao/Brother Hoshaw (incarcerated)
 * "Ripped" (deceased)
 * Dominators (retreated)
 * H.I.V.E. (inactive)
 * Damien Darhk (leader; deceased)
 * Ruvé Adams (deceased)
 * Michael Amar/Murmur (associate; incarcerated)
 * Milo Armitage (deceased)
 * Phaedra Nixon (deceased)
 * Danny Brickwell/Brick (associate; incarcerated)
 * Alex Davis (brainwashed; deceased)
 * Andy Diggle (deceased)
 * Mina Fayad (deceased)
 * Floyd Lawton/Deadshot (associate; deceased)
 * Lonnie Machin/Anarky (associate; incarcerated)
 * Malcolm Merlyn/Dark Archer (turned ally)
 * Cooper Seldon (associate; deceased)
 * Mark Shaw (associate)
 * Jeremy Tell/Double Down (associate; incarcerated)
 * Ben Turner/Bronze Tiger (associate; deceased)
 * The Demolition Team (inactive)
 * "Rosie" (leader; incarcerated)
 * "Hardhat" (incarcerated)
 * Jack/Jackhammer (incarcerated)
 * The Hoods (inactive)
 * Aglin (leader; incarcerated)
 * Baker (incarcerated)
 * Colton (incarcerated)
 * Jeff Deveau (incarcerated)
 * League of Assassins (inactive)
 * Ra's al Ghul (former leader; deceased)
 * Nyssa al Ghul (leader; turned ally)
 * Al-Owal (deceased)
 * Chase (deceased)
 * Maseo Yamashiro/Sarab (deceased)
 * Prometheus' team
 * Adrian Chase/Prometheus (leader; deceased)
 * Renegades (inactive)
 * Lyle Bolton (incarcerated)
 * Bartek Kuranski (incarcerated)
 * Winnick Norton/The Dodger (incarcerated)
 * Cyrus Vanch (incarcerated)
 * Royal Flush Gang (inactive)
 * Derek Reston/King (leader; deceased)
 * Kyle Reston/Ace (incarcerated)
 * Mrs. Reston/Queen (incarcerated)
 * Teddy Reston/Jack  (incarcerated)
 * Shadowspire
 * Joyner (incarcerated)
 * The Spooky Crew (inactive)
 * Eric Dunn/Lead Skull (leader; incarcerated)
 * Laura Buser/Bonesey (incarcerated)

Status unknown

 * Prometheus' team
 * Talia al Ghul (caught in an explosion on Lian Yu)
 * Evelyn Sharp/Artemis (caught in an explosion on Lian Yu)
 * Laurel Lance/Black Siren (caught in an explosion on Lian Yu)
 * Digger Harkness/Captain Boomerang (presumed deceased)

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