Holt is a technological savant, inventor and medal-winning Olympic decathlete, who works with Felicity at Palmer Technologies. These were collected, together with the initial preview comic, in two volumes with the first released digitally in October 2013 and the second in both print and digital formats in May 2014. Lesley Goldberg of The Hollywood Reporter noted the presence of the character Thea "Speedy" Queen as one of the larger departures from the comics in the series, as well as the character's early willingness to kill. In season six, Oliver attempts to balance his vigilantism alongside his role as mayor, whilst also being a father to William, following the death of the boy's mother.

After many years in a sheltered, rich boy life, Oliver Queen is stranded on an island after his father’s yacht crashes.

The actor, who was already in shape from Rent-a-Goalie, did physical fitness training at Tempest Freerunning Academy in Reseda, California. The site's consensus reads, "The CW nails the target with Arrow, a comic book-inspired series that benefits from cinematic action sequences, strong plotting, and intriguing characters.

Guggenheim said, "We still want to make [flashbacks] part of our storytelling, because we do like them. The miniseries features Emily Bett Rickards, Colton Haynes and Paul Blackthorne reprising their roles of Felicity Smoak, Roy Harper and Quentin Lance, respectively. Executive producers Guggenheim and Kreisberg helped the Barrowmans ensure the story would fit within the continuity of the series. Filming for the backdoor pilot began on October 21, 2019, [250] with its title, along with the series, being named Green Arrow and the Canaries.In August 2015, it was confirmed that Matt Ryan would appear in the fourth-season episode " Haunted", reprising his role as John Constantine from the short-lived NBC series Constantine per a "one-time-only-deal" that would involve his character being "brought in to deal with the fallout of the resurrection of Sara Lance ( Caity Lotz) via Ra's al Ghul's Lazarus Pit. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. On March 6, 2019, it was announced that the eighth season would be the final season of the series, with an abbreviated ten-episode run. By night, he acts as a vigilante, known as "The Hood", [3] hunting down those listed in his father's notebook, with assistance from John Diggle and Felicity Smoak.