Oliver Queen

"My name is Oliver Queen. For five years I was stranded on an island with only one goal. Survive. Now I will fulfill my father's dying wish. To use the list of names he left me and bring down those who are poisoning my city. To do this, I must become someone else. I must become... something else."

- Oliver Queen

Oliver "Ollie" Queen (born May 16, 1985) is a billionaire and a former playboy. He is the son of Moira and the late Robert Queen, and the older brother of Thea Queen. He is the main protagonist of the TV series, Arrow. In 2012, Oliver returned to Starling City after being stranded on a remote island for 5 years, much to the surprise of everyone since he was assumed dead, alongside his father. On the island, Oliver learned to fend for himself, and so upon his return, became a green hooded vigilante archer known by everyone in his city as The Hood, though known through official sources as Arrow.

In, Oliver and Laurel have seemingly rekindled their romantic relationship.

Early Life
Oliver was born in 1985 to Robert Queen and Moira. From an early age, he was best friends with Tommy Merlyn and had known Laurel Lance, and ended up dating Laurel in his early twenties. When he was 22 years old, Laurel approached him about moving in together and he agreed, but he panicked because he liked to think of himself as a "bad boy", and worried that having a committed relationship would hurt his ego. So he decides to keep his reputation to woo Laurel's sister, Sara, and take her on a cruise ship.

Shipwrecked on Lian Yu
In 2007, Oliver was on the Queen's Gambit, his family's yacht, with his father and Sara Lance, the sister of his girlfriend Laurel, whom he had been cheating on with Sara.

A shipwreck occurred, leaving only Oliver, Robert, and one other crew member surviving. There were not enough provisions to keep all of them alive, so, in order to save his son's life, Robert killed the other survivor then himself but not before telling Oliver that their wealth had been built on the suffering of others, and it was up to him to make things right and to survive.

Oliver lands ashore upon the island Liang Yu. There, while burying his father, he finds a book, filled with blank pages, in Robert's pocket. Immediately after, a hooded man, Yao Fei, shoots Oliver with an arrow in the shoulder. Oliver awakes in Yao's camp, where Yao tends to his wound. Later, when Yao falls asleep, Oliver tries to escape but was snared in a trap. Yao later arrives, cuts him down, and walks away, leaving Oliver with no other choice but to follow him. Later, a group of armed men, their faces hidden, examine the sprung trap.

Over the next few days, Oliver spends most of his time gazing at a picture of Laurel until Yao brings him a bird trapped in a cage. He tells Oliver that he must kill the bird if he wants to eat and survive, at first Oliver refuses, but later, driven by hunger, he breaks the bird's neck. Yao tells him that he will be forced to take more lives and tells him to forget about Laurel, or he will not survive.



One day Oliver and Yao went hunting. Oliver tries to shoot Yao's bow but misses his target, a tree. He goes to fetch the rabbit Yao killed but is captured by the armed men. They bring him to their camp and he was interrogated by their leader, Edward Fyers. Edward shows him a picture of Yao, asking if Oliver had seen him. Oliver denies any knowledge of Yao in order to protect him. Not believing him, Edward orders Deathstroke, his lackey, to torture Oliver for more information. Yao rescues Oliver and brings him back to the cave. He then goes to lead Edward's men away but not before telling Oliver to survive and sealing the entrance to prevent Oliver from following him.

Injured and alone in the cave, Oliver begins hallucinating. He sees visions of his father telling him to survive, otherwise his father's sacrifice would have been for nothing. He also dreams about burning his father's book. When he awakens, he tears a page out of the book, but just as he was about to throw it onto the fire, the heat from the flames causes letters to appear on the paper (Note: Most kinds of invisible ink are practically undetectable until the paper they're on is heated). He proceeds to do the same with other pages, and the names of the people corrupting Starling City, whom Oliver determines he must hunt down, appear. He promises the hallucination of his father that he will live up to this responsibility.

Yao Fei returns, bringing with him a captured Edward. He tells Oliver that Edward had a plane that can take Oliver (And Yao) off the island. They make their way through the woods until they are ambushed by Deathstroke and Edward' men, with Edward saying "Do you not think it convenient you captured me so easily?". Yao tells Oliver to run and begins fighting the men, unfortunately, he was defeated and knocked unconscious by Deathstroke. From a safe distance, Oliver watches them take Yao and runs away.

One of Edward's men continues to search for Oliver after Yao was captured. Armed with only a knife Oliver was eventually forced to confront him. The skirmish results in them tumbling and falling down to a stream. The soldier lands hard on a rock while Oliver ends up in the water. He manages to get out and dons the uniform of the dead man, where he finds a set of keys and a map of the island in one of the pockets.

Oliver finds his way to the camp where Edward and his men are based, here, unfortunately accompanied by Edward (who doesn't seem to recognize him as he was wearing a balaclava) he manages to make his way to where Yao was being held prisoner, but once there, Edward knocks down Oliver and puts him in one of the cells. He tells him he knew who he was because of his eyes, which tell everything about a person, which was the reason why his men all wear balaclavas. Edward then rebukes Oliver for putting his trust in the wrong people, specifically Yao. He motions to the soldier next to him, who had been the first to talk to Oliver upon his arrival. The soldier takes off his balaclava and reveals himself to be in fact Yao, who had began working for Fyers. However, Yao later helps Oliver escape from the camp by using a technique to fake Oliver's death.

Oliver follows the map Yao tucked into one of Oliver's pockets when he faked his death which leads him to a crashed plan where he was met by a man (Slade Wilson). Oliver tell him that Yao Fei sent him there. Slade tells Oliver that there was an air field and he and Yao had been observing it for months and they were going to get off the island together. He then throws a sword to Oliver and tells him that he thinks Yao sent Oliver to him because he knew that he could not take the air field alone. Slade then challenges Oliver to a brief sword fight in order to gauge Oliver's fighting skills. He is unimpressed and tells Oliver that "it would be a compliment if someone told you that you fight like a girl". Slade then knocks him out.

Oliver wakes tied to a chair. Slade, in order to keep his location secret, decides to kill Oliver, but Oliver manages to escape his bonds by breaking his hand, and then punches Slade in the face. Amused, Slade thinks that there might be a fighter inside of Oliver after all, and decides to train Oliver. As Oliver goes to choose a weapon, he finds the mask of Deathstroke, the man who had tortured him under Edward's orders. When questioned about this, Slade explained that he and his partner and friend wear the same mask, they came to the island to rescue Yao as a mission from the Australian Secret Intelligence Service.



The two progressively fight over an unspecified amount of time. Oliver almost gives up, though is re-motivated by Slade. When the time comes, the two of them make their way to Edward's camp, and ultimately the airstrip to a ride home. They made camp. Oliver tried to start a fire for several hours, before Slade pulled out a lighter and helped, bemused at Oliver's anger. In return, Slade reminisced about his and his partner, Billy Wintergreen's, arrival on the island.

A day or so later, Oliver accidentally steps on a land mine that is left over from what was assumed to be World War 2. Slade runs to hide as a group of Edward's men approach a now-masked Oliver. Oliver explains his situation, as Slade has deserted him, and they survey the mine. Suddenly, Slade jumps from his hiding spot, slicing through the soldiers with his sword, replacing Oliver with one of them. They continued towards the camp, finally reaching it at dark. Oliver, aided by Slade's sniping, raced stealthily to the communications tower. He attempted to quietly take out the only man in there, but resulted in having a gun pointed at his face. He tried to remove it, but it again failed. Luckily, Slade reached him just in time, stabbing the man through the gut. They were able to contact the plane, allowing it clearance to land. Slade left, leaving Oliver on his own. Seeing his chance, Oliver grabbed a phone and called Laurel, hoping to make up for his wrongdoings. Before he could speak, Slade returned and stopped him, reminding him that it could be monitored. After a short argument, Oliver goes to find Yao and rescue him. Yao explains that he is staying for his daughter, though she is only mentioned as a "who". Edward Fyers and Billy, Slade's ex-partner, enter the tent, leading Yao to knock out Oliver. When Oliver comes to, he is forced in to the middle of a circle. After questioning Edward, he discovers that he means for Bill to kill him. Before this can happen, Slade causes a distraction so that he can snipe several soldiers and Oliver can run to safety. Oliver watches as Slade and Billy face off, and sees Slade overpower his ASIS ex-partner and former friend. As they are leaving, Slade is shot. Oliver helps to protect them as they leave, finally knocking out his first soldier with a move Slade had shown him earlier. When they reach Slade's plane, Oliver helps remove the bullet in Slade's arm and mocks that his only friend on the island is "Wilson".

Later, Oliver checks Slade's wound and finds that it's infected. He recalls the herbs Yao gave him in "Lone Gunman" to prevent infection from his arrow wound and offers to go get them. Slade says he won't last an hour out there and Oliver says he'll get them in forty five minutes. He then goes to Yao's cave and discovers a man tied up there. The man says that he was the only survivor of a shipwreck, like Oliver, and discovered the men one of whom (Edward) ordered him beaten and brought there. Oliver, thinking it's a trap, grabs the herbs and leaves the man there, presumably to die, and returns with the herbs to Slade.

Oliver begins working on a broken down radio transmitter to find a way to get off of the island with Slade. After working on it for a while, they are able to hear conversations between radios, but unable to communicate back. After listening for a while, they learn that Edward had ordered the shipment of a missile launcher big enough to destroy an entire army. Oliver and Slade are able to sneak onto Edward's compound, where they steal the launcher's ignition chip. They call Edward on his radio and tell him that they will return the chip in exchange for a way off of the island.

Oliver and Slade meet with Edward, who backs down from their deal by telling them that he will kill Shado, Yao's daughter, if they do not give him the chip. Oliver then realizes that it was because of Shado that Yao joined Edward's cause. Oliver and Slade escape with Shado in tow, but soon learn that Edward's men found the chip and took it back. Shado then tells them that she knows what Edward's plan was.

Shado decides to begin teaching Oliver archery so that he will be able to help them defeat Edward. She tells him to fill a bowl with water, and then continuously slap it. After a while, Oliver becomes frustrated and asks Shado what purpose this serves, and she shows him that because he spent so long slapping the water, he now has the strength in his hands to pull back a bow. She then tells him that he must now learn how to shoot. After Oliver learns how to shoot the arrow, he, Shado, and Slade are all surprised to see Yao arrive at their compound, but soon see that he brought Edward's soldiers along with him.

The solidiers bring the three of them to Edward's compound, where Oliver sees that one of the soldiers was the young man who he met in the cave who claimed to be trapped there. Edward reveals that the reason he is on the island is because he and his men were hired to shoot down a Ferris Aircraft on its way to China, thus destroying China's economy. Edward then threatens to kill Shado if Yao does not film a video taking responsibility for the terrorist attack. After reluctance, Yao agrees, but subtly hands Oliver a knife. After filming the video, Edward shoots Yao in the head, killing him.

Just as Edward and his men prepare to fire the missile, Oliver cuts himself free using Yao's knife, and he, Slade, and Shado, fight Edward and his men. Edward, however, is able to get the missile fired at the plane, and Oliver and Shado go to manually redirect the missile while Slade covers them. Just as Shado is about to place the chip inside the switchboard, she is attacked from behind, and Oliver manages to redirect the missile, which hits Edward's compound instead, with both Slade and Shado still there. Oliver goes to search for them, and finds Slade alive, but then turns around to see that Edward is still alive and had Shado in his custody. Oliver finds Yao's wooden compound bow and arrow and points it at Edward, who muses about how his meticulously executed plan over the past two years undone by a shipwrecked boy and tells him that he will get him off the island if he would stop messing with him. Oliver shoots the arrow at Edward and kills him, marking the first occasion that Oliver killed someone with a bow and arrow.

Season 1
In, At some point, and under yet unknown circumstances, Oliver was rendered alone on the island. After 5 years, Oliver was trained intensely having acquired high level of combat ability, and acquiring a skill and accuracy with unparalleled archery, later he managed to spot a small fishing boat, and using improvised explosive devices, draws attention of Chinese fishermen, who ultimately rescue him and take him to Starling City. Oliver is given several medical exams that reveals that he has multiple scars, burns, and bone fractures that never properly healed. He returns home and meets up with the rest of his family. Together with his best friend Tommy, Oliver is given a brief tour of the city, where much of the city in a damaged state, with high poverty and high crime. After a difficult meeting with Laurel, Oliver and Tommy are kidnapped by three masked criminals, sent by his mother. They are taken to a hangar for interrogation. While Tommy remained unconscious, Oliver freed himself and easily took out two of the criminals, and after a quick chase took out the third. He gave the alibi that they were saved by a man in a green hood to Sergeant Quentin. Oliver decides to start his fight against crime, but his mother hires John Diggle, a former soldier who now works in private security. Oliver easily escapes him, and turns the basement of the family's old factory into the Arrowcave Using his bow and a green costume, he begins to fulfill his promise. He targets Adam Hunt, a corrupt man who tops The List Robert Queen gave him. As a hooded vigilante archer, Oliver eliminates Adam's men, and forces him to transfer 40 million dollars to the city, or he would steal all of it in an unfriendly way. Adam refuses and contacts the police to help defend himself. Oliver positions his welcome party across the street from Adam's building in order to carry out his mission without anyone noticing. While waiting for the deadline he catches Thea buying drugs at his party, and explains to her some of the regrets of his former life. Once the deadline passes he attempts to sneak away, only to be caught by Diggle, who he knocks unconscious in order to continue his plan. Oliver storms the building and dispatches Adam's security but is wounded by stray gunfire. The police arrive and attempt to subdue him, but Oliver jumps through the window and uses his bow to zip line to safety and use his party as a cover. The next day Oliver was able to transfer the money Adam Hunt, due to capacity with an arrow router which stuck to Hunt's computer. At the end of the night, Laurel has a conversation with Tommy about their relationship while Oliver as The Hood watches. The Hood goes after another person on the List, after overthrowing his men, he forces him to transfer 40 million dollars for retirees of the court to Starling. Oliver went to investigate the circumstances of his death, he also conflicts with John, due to his constant escapes.

In, Walter and Moira ask for him to take a position within Queen Consolidated, but he rejects the offer. Later, he receives an explanation of his sister Thea for his rebelliousness, justifying the alleged death of Oliver and Robert, and also is encouraged to try to get closer to your loved ones. Following this advice, he goes to the apartment of Laurel, however they are interrupted by China White and her men who invade the apartment to kill Laurel, but with the help of John who was prowling the place, he eliminated the goons, but China White escaped. Oliver has another conversation with John who begins to suspect Oliver, due to his accuracy with the knife during the invasion of the apartment. Arrow goes behind Martin Somers, it generates a pursuit to Starling docks, but Arrow grabs and forces him to confess to being the mastermind of a man who would testify against him. However, he ends up fighting with China White. The fight is interrupted by the police that invades the place, forcing both to flee, however during the struggle Sergeant Quentin intercepts Arrow who quickly disarms and flees, leaving a device with the recorded testimony of Somers. The next day during the public memorial to Robert Queen, Oliver appears pretending to be selfish and irresponsible, to hide his real identity, and in front of the tomb of Robert, Oliver vows to fulfill his father's desire even if it means hurting those close to him.

In ,



In, When his bodyguard John Diggle is injured by Deadshot, Oliver takes him back to his lair to recuperate and reveals his identity to him. Oliver offers a job to John supposedly as a sidekick. He declines, calling him a criminal and a murderer. Oliver later tries to have Laurel defend Peter Declan from receiving the death penalty and catch the real killer. After he saves Peter, Quentin figures out that Oliver is Arrow and arrests him at his home.

In, Oliver insists on having Laurel as his attorney, and she eventually accepts to be his legal counsel. He is accepted as not being Arrow when he convinces John to put on Arrow costume and Hood and bust a gang and even passes the lie detector test. Oliver is released and continues to act as Arrow.

In, Later Oliver is diverted from the list when a gang of bank robbers start to hit more often. John convinces Oliver to stop the thieves, but it becomes complicated when he learns that the leader of the Royal Flush Gang was laid off by his father, and Oliver feels bad for that injustice. After a third hit, King (Derek Reston) was killed, and Ace (Kyle Reston) was incarcerated.

In, Oliver goes to Queen Consolidated to pick his mother up for a lunch date they are having. Moira is speaking to Paul Copani representing Bertinelli Construction Company. Suddenly, a biker appears and shoots Paul. Moira falls and hits her head. Oliver chases after the biker but after he loses track of the biker he heads back to his mother. His sister criticizes him for going after the biker when he should have stayed with his mother. Oliver discovers that the man who tried to close the deal with his mother works for Frank Bertinelli and decides to go undercover. He intends to have a chat over dinner with Frank but instead goes with his daughter. Although reluctant at first, he finds himself enjoying the evening. He heads to an Italian restaurant run by Mr. Russo, a man who pays protection money to the Bertinellis. The dinner is interrupted when John comes and informs Oliver that Nick Salvati, Frank Bertinelli's right hand man, was coming around to collect protection money and injuring anyone who refused. Oliver leaves to Arrow up and returns to the restaurant where Nick has showed up with his crew. Just as they are about to break Mr. Russo's fingers, Oliver arrives as Arrow and protects him. He is joined by The Huntress. After taking out the men, Oliver and The Huntress fight it out. She is revealed to be Helena. Oliver meets with Helena at the grave of her late fiancée, Michael. Nick and his men jump the two and kidnap them. The two awake in a warehouse. Nick plans on killing the two but Oliver and Helena free themselves and kill all the men. Oliver and Helena then sleep together.

In, Oliver takes Helena under his wing and trains her to be a vigilante alongside himself. He gives her a crossbow because guns are too noisy and clumsy. The two bust a drug operation that is run by Frank Bertinelli. John warns him about taking these actions, saying that she may be to far gone, but Oliver ignores him, saying that he help her get through the pain. This warning ends up proving true, as, against Oliver's hopes, Helena becomes too vengeful, and she ends up instigating a war between the Chinese Triad and Frank Bertinelli, by killing the Chinese Triad's leader, and saying it was a hit by Frank Bertinelli. Oliver and Sergeant Quentin are able to stop the war, and he takes Helena back to the Arrowcave. Helena leaves Starling City and Oliver comments, that he will see her soon enough.

Oliver heads to the Bertinilli mansion where the Chinese Triad agents are storming the mansion. China White is about to kill Frank Bertinilli when she is stopped by Oliver. During the fight, Frank escapes only to be shot with a bolt by his own daughter. Oliver arrives just as she is about to kill him. This causes enough time for Frank to shoot her with her crossbow. Oliver knocks him out and brings Helena back to the Arrowcave. He tends to her wounds but she remains ungrateful. She leaves the city and orders Oliver to stop bothering her if he wants his secret to remain a secret. Oliver tells her that he cares for her and lets her go.

In, When another archer takes to the streets of Starling City, Oliver is determined to figure out who this impostor is. Oliver requests Sergeant Quentin's help in getting one of the arrows of The Dark Archer. Although he refuses, Oliver still tries to find the Dark Archer. At the same time, Oliver tries to reignite the Christmas spirit in the Queen family, he does this by restarting the Queen family Christmas party. As the party starts he learns that the other archer has taken hostages and plans on killing them if he does not get a visit from Arrow. He runs off to save the hostages, ditching the party, he gets into a hand to hand battle with the other archer. The fight ends in a draw, and Oliver wakes in the hospital, as John explains that he was hit by a car while on his motorcycle. He regrets his actions because he almost didn't win the fight, and he let the other archer live, but John tells him that he saved the hostages and that is enough to be proud of.

In, Six weeks have passed, and Oliver is still recovering from his experience with The Dark Archer, emotionally and physically. As firefighters are being killed, Oliver is reluctant to take up Arrow again. John convinces him otherwise and although Oliver fails to stop the man, he learns the murderer is a former firefighter. Oliver deduces that the murderer is Garfield Lynns. He confronts the man's former fire chief but is ordered to leave. At a charity gala at his night club for the Fire Department, Garfield shows up and almost kills the fire chief. Arrow stops him and saves the lives of both of them. Garfield commits suicide by walking into the flames after being saved.

In, After an armored truck is robbed, and the drivers killed, Oliver believes that one of the thieves is ex-marine Ted Gaynor, an individual from his target list. John dismisses Oliver's assumption, as Ted was John's commanding officer during his first tour of duty in Afghanistan and saved John's life. Oliver goes after Ted regardless and steals encrypted data, but John intercedes and prevents Oliver from getting any information directly from Ted. The data is revealed to be plans for robbing armored trucks, to which Oliver uses to track and stop the thieves during their next heist. Oliver informs John that Ted was not at the heist, but someone from his security firm was. While investigating, John learns that Ted was the mastermind behind the robberies, and is forced to join Ted's team to recoup the money they lost on the previously failed heist. John backs out of helping Ted, who attempts to kill John in retaliation. Oliver arrives in time and kills Ted before he can succeed. Afterward, Oliver apologizes for not trusting John more.

In, After an accident with driving under the influence of drugs, Thea attempts to enter into a plea bargain with the district attorney, but determined to set an example for the Vertigo drug dealers, the judge dismisses the plea and orders the charges brought to trial. In an attempt to help Thea, Oliver begins working on tracking down the supplier, he eventually discovers that the supplier goes by The Count, and he arranges a meeting through his contacts with the Russian mob. The meeting is broken up by the police, and The Count injects Oliver with a concentrated dose of Vertigo when the latter attempts to follow him. John takes Oliver back to his hideout and uses medicinal herb's Oliver brought back with him from the island to fight the drug overdose. Afterward, Oliver has the drug analyzed by Felicity and uses the ingredients to track the location of The Count. As Arrow, Oliver is able to confront The Count and inject him with his own drug just as the police arrive as well. Finally, Felicity shows Oliver the list of names that Walter discovered, and informs him that they came from his mother.

In, Oliver confronts his mother about the list of names, but she denies any knowledge. John does not trust Moira and decides to look into her daily activities. Laurel enlists the help of Arrow when criminal Cyrus Vanch is released from prison on a technicality. Oliver acquires evidence that could put Cyrus back behind bars, but Cyrus discovers what Arrow is up to and kidnaps Laurel in an attempt to kill Arrow and take leadership over the city's gangs. Detective Quentin and Arrow team up to save Laurel, as Quentin realizes that Cyrus has contacts in the police force and that was how he learned of Laurel working with Arrow. The pair save Laurel, with Oliver stopping Quentin from killing Cyrus as revenge for kidnapping Laurel. In order to protect Laurel, Oliver decides that she can no longer have contact with Arrow. John presents evidence to Oliver that his mother is connected to the group he is hunting, and that she also knew that his father's yacht was sabotaged and kept it to herself. In response, Oliver decides to interrogate his mother again, but this time as Arrow.

In, While confronting his mother, Oliver lets his guard down and Moira manages to grab a gun and shoot him. Seeking out Felicity for help, Oliver exposes his secret and asks Felicity to take him to his hideout. With Diggle's help, the bullet is removed and Oliver is stabilized. Felicity agrees to join Oliver and Diggle, but only until they find Walter.

In, Oliver learnt of a jewel thief named The Dodger, who used hostages tagged with bomb collars to steal for him, and how he had come to Starling City. Felicity suggested that Oliver bug the phone of Detective McKenna, an old friend of Oliver's, to gain information on The Dodger. She also convinced Oliver to ask Detective McKenna out on a date so that he could have some down time. Through the wire tap, Oliver was able to determine The Dodger's next location, but was stunned by a bomb thrown by the thief, who subsequently got away. To draw out The Dodger, Oliver donated antique jewels to a local auction. The plan worked, and lured the Dodger, but Felicity was caught tracking the thief, who placed a bomb collar on her as insurance in his getaway. Oliver managed to stop The Dodger and deactivate the collar.

In, Oliver stopped a hired gunman who comes to Starling City, but had to enlist Felicity to decipher Guillermo's phone and determine who the target was. Oliver persuaded Tommy to attend an award ceremony where Malcolm Merlyn received a humanitarian award. At the last moment, Oliver discovered that Malcolm was the target and raced to the event to save him. Although he was almost caught by Detective McKenna, Oliver managed to get Malcolm away from China White's men. While in an office, Malcolm was shot with one of Deadshot's poison tipped bullets, and Oliver was forced to reveal his identity to Tommy in order to secure his trust so that he could save Malcolm's life.

In , Oliver has just opened up his new night club and is happy with McKenna, but then Helena, aka The Huntress, arrives still trying to find her father. She threatens Oliver's family and manages to get him on board. Oliver tries to deny his feelings for her throughout the whole episode but he just cant bring himself to hurt her. When she finally finds her father she ends up shooting McKenna and fleeing. McKenna gets hurt by the bullet and has to go away to live at her sisters house, in Coast City.

In, Oliver has decided to stay away from relationships as they always get hurt. A new villain appears, grabbing people from the glades and shooting them. When the villain claims he got the idea from Arrow, Oliver decides to take him down. After Roy gets taken, Thea comes to Oliver for help, and Oliver saves Roy (as Arrow).

In, a girl dies of Vertigo after being in Oliver's night club. Oliver pays a visit to The Count with no luck. Thinking that he was crazy. But after The Count escapes and a stronger flood of Vertigo sweeps town, Oliver, Felicity and John decide to take him down. Oliver finds The Count realizing that he was crazy, his doctor had found some in his system and was able to work out the recipe. Oliver kills him and his partner with some help from John.

In, Laurel takes on a case with two parents and their son and Deadshot returns to starling city. John is determined to take him down but after the parents of the young boy dies, Laurel goes to great lengths to protect him, including staying at Olivers house as he has 'more protection than the white house' after Tommy suggested it. Unfortunately, Laurel's case clashes with John's feud and Oliver has to make a choice. He chooses Laurel and ends up losing John's trust.

In, Oliver doesn't want to apologize for not helping John so, despite a visit from Felicity, John wont come back. Oliver and Felicity find a lead on Walters location and to reconfirm the lead, Felicity wants to go out on the "field". Oliver is against it, not wanting to put her at risk but she is determined to find him. Oliver ends up having to come to her rescue. They find Walter after Oliver listened to a conversation between Moira and Malcolm. Oliver apologizes to John, realizing that he needs all the help that he can get.

In, Oliver and John devise a plan where John dresses as Arrow and kidnaps Oliver and Moira in an attempt to uncover the truth about the Undertaking. The plan works and Oliver, Felicity, and John break into Merlyn Global Group to hack the mainframe and find the device. Oliver tries to convince Tommy to get back with Laurel but after realizing that once he had finished stopping the Undertaking he could stop being Arrow, he decides to go to Laurel himself. Tommy takes his advice and decides to go to her, only to witness them kissing. Back as Arrow, John and Oliver split up, Oliver going after Malcolm and John after the device. The device is gone and Oliver tries to fight Malcom, with no success.

In, After escaping from Malcolm, Oliver tries to tell Tommy the truth about his father which Tommy denies. He is able to defeat Malcolm by stabbing him in the chest with an arrow while being strangled. Oliver was too late to save Tommy, but he apologizes to Oliver, for being angry and jealous at him, Tommy criticizes himself for being like his father, but Oliver tries to assure him, that he's nothing like his father, Tommy reconciles with Oliver, and they become friends again, He watched Tommy die in Laurel's office after the Undertaking levels the east sector of the Glades, much to Oliver's grief.

Season 2
To be continued

Personality
Prior to his time on Lian Yu, Oliver was the stereotypical spoiled brat and bad boy. He was unimaginably rich, a playboy and didn't care who got hurt due to his actions. He was also laid back, selfish, and a manipulator, back then. He underwent a rapid change in his personality when his father killed himself, so that Oliver could survive and right his wrongs and also when Sara died because of him. On the island he becomes more subdued, depressed and retreats into a shell. He is inspired by Slade Wilson, who mentors him and teaches him almost everything he knows that he needs for crime-fighting later.

Upon returning to civilization, he tries to make amends with his family, Laurel and her father. In order to keep his identity a secret, he continues his bratty personality to a certain extent. To those who know about his secret identity Arrow, he is responsible, disciplined, intelligent, confident, slightly impulsive, always thinking everything through and an individual who always look out for others. He only kills his enemies in self-defense or to save the lives of innocent people, but tries his best to avoid it. He never acts as judge, jury and executioner, and has a sense of justice and honor. He is always willing to give those he punishes a second chance, those on the list by surrendering willingly to the authorities and those not on the list, by stopping whatever crime they are committing, and always tries to do the right thing. He also tries to pry out information from his enemies, or tries to get them to confess to a crime they commit it, and records it with one of his trick arrows, and sends it to the police so they can be brought to justice, (by making them think he is going to kill them, when he is actually bluffing), or some times tries to get solid evidence. He is prudent enough to admit he made mistakes and learns from them as well, and he doesn't like to admit when he's wrong, only doing it when he is face with cold hard facts. Also he is not above apologizing to people, he has unintentionally hurt, or those he has intentionally hurt, when he was a bad boy and a spoiled brat 5 years ago, even if some of them are people he dislikes for a good reason. He tries to see good in everyone (although he has great difficulties trusting anyone), which makes him a little naïve.

However, he doesn't see straight when it comes to those he cares about, often either putting himself at unnecessary risks for them or refusing to admit to logical suspicion on them. He also prioritizes some people or tasks, particularly those related to his family, over others, despite circumstances saying that he should do it the other way around instead. Oliver dislikes vigilantes with no morals nor codes, nor sense of remorse, who kills solely for personal revenge, and dislikes criminals who kills primarily for money, Whenever he encounters these types of vigilantes or criminals, who often say they were the same, he fervently corrects them. His temper is well controlled, though he is still prone to emotional outbursts when it comes to issues concerning those he holds dear. His sense of humor is dry, with a hint of sarcasm, While he is not afraid of dying, he is afraid of leaving those he cares about, with broken hearts again, which makes him nearly fearless, and he is very stubborn. He also uses his position, as being one of the highest ranking members of the Solntsevskaya Bratva, to help get information to locate people he's having problems finding, like Deadshot, or The Count. He does not like lying to the people he cares about, particularly his friends and family, he only does it to protect them, from his secret life as Arrow.

Physical appearance
Oliver is a Caucasian male, with dark brown hair, blue eyes and is about 6'1' tall. He is also well-toned, especially after his return from the island. Before the wreck Oliver had hair just above the shoulders and lighter in color with no facial hair. When rescued by fishermen, he is seen with long hair and a long beard. After returning to civilization Oliver is seen to have a series of scars all over his body, along with a dragon tattoo on his left shoulder and a star tattoo of the Solntsevskaya Bratva Organization on the left side of his chest. Oliver typically dresses in a simple way, using shirts, jeans and boots, often putting on leather coats. While on the island he was seen most of time wearing stolen soldiers' uniforms. He frequently uses tuxedos or suits for social events and for parties at Verdant. When dressed as Arrow, his costume consists of a green leather vest with a simple green hood on a leather jacket of the same color, with details on Arrow's arms and black gloves. He teams it up with leather pants with green details from the knees down and black boots. A Quiver is tied around the chest. He employs Flechettes on his left forearm and a holster for knives is strapped to his right leg. He also dons eye makeup, to conceal his identity in lieu of his usual face mask.

Abilities

 * Peak of human physical condition: Oliver is shown to be in top physical condition from his intense exercises both in the Arrowcave and from his time on the island. His training regimen seems to be inspired by his mentors on the Island and possibly unknown others.
 * Master archer: Oliver is extremely experienced and has outstanding archery skills. He has extreme accuracy with the bow and arrow, allowing him to shoot 6 bouncing tennis balls without missing, shoot small objects off of people without harming them and shoot with deadly accuracy even while he is moving. His archery skills extends even to throwing of improperly weighted kitchen knives and even a rusty pole. Oliver has also demonstrated enough skill in archery to fire three arrows at once while disorientated from the effects of Vertigo. While two missed, the third hit its target. His archery skills are at near-superhuman levels.
 * Master hand-to-hand combatant/Martial artist: Oliver excels in advanced hand to hand combat, being a master martial artist. He is proficient in various types of fighting, and can more than hold his own against his opponents, whether with his signature bow and arrow or completely unarmed. He styled his fighting styles of self defense, offense, grappling, and takedown after his mentors, Yao Fei, Slade Wilson, and Shado. The fighting form seems to be a combination of Wing Chun, Hapkido, Jujitsu, and Eskrima, as Oliver has been seen regularly training with sticks, knives and has even used his bow as an improvised weapon.
 * Free running/Acrobatics: Oliver has shown himself capable of scaling buildings and running from rooftop to rooftop easily. On 1 occasion he scaled a building using the window ledges of the building to retrieve a bullet. On another occasion, he leapt over a rooftop to land on a lower one. It allows him to sneak in and out of almost any unguarded building without being detected. His impressive stamina coupled with his free running skills almost allows him to outrun and capture Helena Bertinelli, who is riding a Motorbike, after shooting Paul Copani. However it should be noted that a truck came out of nowhere, preventing him from going after her. If that had not happened, Oliver likely would have caught Helena. His speed is at peak-human level.
 * Skilled detective/Genius-level intellect: Oliver has been shown to have great detective skills when searching for information about the people on his list. While he is no expert in anything outside his physical skills, he has shown to have extensive knowledge in various fields, including computer engineering, toxicology, combat medicine, weapons and so on, all of which he uses to effectively aid in his investigation while maintaining discretion, often without needing aid from anyone else. Occasionally when things are more than he can handle, he is also shown to be resourceful enough to acquire assistance from his network of contacts, whether they are willing to help or not. His deductive thinking allows him to think ahead of his enemies and is capable enough to devise an elaborated plan to shake off suspicions of him being Arrow.
 * Multilingualism: Oliver, based on current knowledge, is capable of speaking English, Chinese, Mandarin Chinese, and Russian fluently.
 * First aid/Toxicology: It has been shown that Oliver is educated in various types of medicine and first aid. He was able to provide medical attention to himself and John, as well as determine the type of poison (Curare) that the bullet contained from his blood, compliments of Deadshot. He has been shown to be able to give first aid on himself or others, and going so far even to treat bullet wounds completely without having to go to the hospital.
 * Intimidation/Interrogation: As Arrow, Oliver commands a very intimidating presence, which strikes fear into the hearts of the criminals he confronts.
 * Indomitable will/Tolerance for pain: Oliver has shown to be very stubborn, and is nearly fearless. Under no situation would he ever give up. Even on the island while he was untrained and in no shape to fight anyone, he was shown to be quite resistant to pain. Despite being tortured by Billy Wintergreen, he adamantly refused to reveal the location of Yao Fei. Oliver was able to injure Malcolm's leg with a Flechette, before knocking him out cold with a single punch, despite being badly injured by his arrows and having three broken ribs. In his final encounter with Malcolm, Oliver was able to take Malcolm down by summoning all his residual strength into a single blow, immediately after he stabbed himself through the shoulder with one of Malcolm's arrows.
 * Expert driving skills: Oliver has the ability to drive multiple vehicles, and appears to be skilled at it. He is able to pursue enemies in various ways using different vehicles, known of are a car and a motorcycle.

Equipment

 * Customized Recurve Bow: Oliver, as Arrow, uses as his weapon of choice a customized Recurve Bow combined with his arrows to fulfill his promise and mission he made to his father before his death. It is unknown if it was designed by Slade or Shado, and it is also unknown what materials it was made from.
 * Carbon Fiber long bow: this carbon fiber long bow serves as Oliver's spare bow, after his customized recurve bow was chopped in half by a downward forearm strike from Malcolm. It belonged to his late mentor Yao Fei.
 * Oliver Queen's crossbow: Oliver used this crossbow once he was in the elevator shaft, when he was in the building of Merlyn Global Group, while using one of his grappling hook arrows and swinging across the elevator shaft. It is shown to be strong enough to hold 2 people, like Oliver and Felicity Smoak.
 * Customized hunting arrows: Oliver, as Arrow, uses as his signature weapon of choice numerous types of arrows, which he creates and designs himself. Combined with his customized Recurve Bow or carbon fiber long bow to fulfill his promise and mission he made to his father before his death. He carries arrows and flechettes (miniature projectiles stored on gauntlets, the equivalent of throwing knives) that add up to 24 in number.
 * Trick arrows: Oliver has used custom-designed arrows such as incendiary arrows that explode on contact, on occasion he has also been known to use arrows embedded with recording and listening devices.
 * Quiver: An arrow container strapped to Oliver's back. He uses it to carry his arrows as his heroic alter-ego, Arrow.
 * Flechette: Oliver, as Arrow, carries flechettes or the equivalent to darts to disarm people for example in, as he disarmed Quentin's gun. He carries it around his forearm. It is unknown what materials it is made from.
 * Arrow costume: Oliver wears a costume as his heroic alter-ego, Arrow, to hide his identity from his enemies, when he goes out fighting crime. It is unknown if it was designed by Oliver, Slade, Shado, or Anatoli, and it is also unknown what materials it is made from. It seems to resemble the costume worn by Yao Fei on the island.
 * Arrow gauntlets: These gauntlets are used by Oliver, under the guise of Arrow, to carry his flechettes.
 * Voice changer: Oliver uses this device to disguise his voice, when ever he is talking to people, who knows what his voice sounds like, as Arrow.
 * Ghost phone: Oliver uses this ghost phone to call Quentin, from the other ghost phone that he gave him anonymously, when ever he needs his help. When he called Quentin it is shown that it uses the same voice changer technology that Oliver uses to disguise his voice as Arrow whenever he is talking to people who know what his voice sounds like. On 2 occasions it was used by Laurel. It is unknown if it was designed by Oliver.

Appearances
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Comics
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 * Arrow #1: Special Edition
 * Arrow #1
 * Arrow #2
 * Arrow #3
 * Arrow #4
 * Arrow #5
 * Arrow #6
 * Arrow #7
 * Arrow #8
 * Arrow #9
 * Arrow #10
 * Arrow #12
 * Arrow #13
 * Arrow #15
 * Arrow #19
 * Arrow #20
 * Arrow #21
 * Arrow #22
 * Arrow #23
 * Arrow #24
 * Arrow #25 (mentioned)
 * Arrow #26 (mentioned)
 * Arrow #32

Trivia

 * During his 5-year stay on the island he learned Russian and became captain of one of the Russian mafia's most powerful criminal organization Solntsevskaya Bratva. He also has a star tattooed on his left chest signifying that he is one of the highest members in the Russian underworld. Alexi Leonov a member of the Bratva branch in Starling City mentioned that Oliver was spoken very highly of by their leader in Russia, which Oliver replies by admitting that he did save his life.
 * Oliver also speaks very good Mandarin Chinese, most likely taught by Shado, as seen in Dead to Rights, where a Chinese restaurant worker says "He spoke with a perfect dialect" and was convinced he was definitely Chinese.
 * Throughout his lifetime, Oliver has dropped out of four high schools.
 * In, Oliver mentions opening a night club to conceal his base and give himself an alibi for where he disappears to in the evenings.
 * According to Tommy Merlyn, Oliver has been arrested four times, prior to his latest arrest by Quentin Lance. These incidents include assaulting a paparazzi, driving while intoxicated, stealing a taxi, and urinating on a police officer.
 * Oliver possesses a dragon tattoo on his left shoulder similar to one that Shado has.
 * Oliver's The Hood costume is featured as an alternate costume for Green Arrow in the video game, Injustice: Gods Among Us. Using this costume also changes Green Arrow's voice actor to Stephen Amell, Oliver's actor.​
 * Stephen Amell and Colton Haynes both portrayed Werewolves in The Vampire Diaries and Teen wolf, respectively.
 * As of, there are 3 living people who know of Oliver's secret identity Arrow, Two of these are on his team and reside in Starling City.
 * It can be assumed that Oliver was not always on the island, as he tells John Diggle "I didn't say that I was on the island".
 * Oliver's catchphrase is "you have failed this city", when he is under under the guise of Arrow.
 * Oliver's nickname is "Ollie".
 * In a sizzle reel for the second season shown at Comic-Con 2013, Oliver tells John Diggle "I don't want to be called The Hood anymore". John replies, "So what do you want to be called?", and Oliver looks at an arrow he's holding. This implies he'll take up the alias of Arrow or even possibly Green Arrow.