Scimitar

Remember when the producers of arrow thought that for some reason that there was a popular dc character called Scimitar and put him in an episode of arrow only for them to later find out that no such character exists?

Remember this guy? In Arrow Season 5-5, Tobias Church hires an assassin to kill Oliver Queen. This assassin had short screen time, before being shot and presumed dead, never to be seen again.

In the credits he was listed as Scimitar. Before the airing of this episode, one of the producers of the show stated that Scimitar is a “big DC universe character with a long history in the comics”. However, there is no “Scimitar” in the comics. (There is a character named Scimitar in Marvel comics, who bears almost no resemblance to the character on Arrow.) Did they change the name? Who was this character intended to be? There are a plethora of similarly looking assassins in DC comics, Black Spider, Nobody, The Reaper.

We will probably never know what the writers originally had planned for Scimitar, or if the confusion surrounding the character was the result of a mistake.