History BreakoutCharacter / Arrowverse

* Leonard Snart, who would steal the scene whenever he appeared, and quickly became a fan-favorite. Most agree he was also the main selling point for Season 1 of ''Legends of Tomorrow''. It really goes to show how popular he is when he kept getting brought back post-mortem in some capacity, and later permanently via BackUpTwin.

* While everyone's performances are generally well-received, it is universally acknowledged that it was Creator/TomCavanagh's intriguing and multi-layered performance as the likeable but mysterious (and somewhat sinister) Dr. Harrison Wells that really drove most of the show's first season. In fact, he's so good that the showrunners found a way to bring him back for Season 2 and potentially beyond through his Earth-2 counterpart, and in later seasons as his various counterparts from TheMultiverse.

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** Season 2 mixes things up a little bit. While we ''do'' get new additions to the team in the form of Dr. Nate Heywood / Steel and Amaya Jiwe / ComicBook/{{Vixen}}, this season instead switches things up by introducing ''[[BreakoutVillain Breakout Villains]]'' from the Arrowverse as the Big Bads: Malcolm Merlyn / Dark Archer and Damien Darhk from ''Arrow'', and [[ComicBook/EobardThawne Prof. Eobard Thawne / Reverse-Flash]] and Leonard Snart / Captain Cold from ''The Flash.''
** Season 3 does a little bit of both. It brings [[ComicBook/WallyWest Wally West/ Kid Flash]] from ''The Flash'' as the newest member of the team, and it also brings back Damien Darhk, and lastly one of ''The Flash's'' most popular villains: Grodd!
** The biggest addition to Season 4 is doubtless ComicBook/JohnConstantine joining the team, following a few previous guest appearances on ''Arrow'' and ''Legends'' Season 3. Not only does it bring back John, but all of his baggage as well from the many unresolved plot threads from his cancelled series, enough for many to consider the fourth season being a SpiritualSuccessor or even a SequelSeries to ''Series/{{Constantine}}.''
* Some of the show's original characters have become very popular too, like Beebo the Tickle Me Elmo/Furby parody (who eventually rose to SeriesMascot status!) and [[SubvertedKidsShow Mr Parker]].

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BreakoutCharacter in this series.

** Season 2 mixes things up a little bit. While we ''do'' get new additions to the team in the form of [[ComicBook/CommanderSteel Dr. Nate Heywood / Steel]] and Amaya Jiwe / ComicBook/{{Vixen}}, this season instead switches things up by introducing ''[[BreakoutVillain Breakout Villains]]'' from the Arrowverse as the Big Bads: Malcolm Merlyn / Dark Archer and Damien Darhk from ''Arrow'', and [[ComicBook/EobardThawne Prof. Eobard Thawne / Reverse-Flash]] and Leonard Snart / Captain Cold from ''The Flash.''

* Some of the show's original characters have become very popular too, like Beebo the Tickle Me Elmo/Furby parody (who eventually rose to SeriesMascot status!) and [[SubvertedKidsShow Mr Parker]].

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* ''Series/{{Arrow}}'':
** Felicity Smoak was originally supposed to be just a one-episode tech support agent at Queen Consolidated. But then [[EnsembleDarkhorse things]] happened while shooting that episode and the story was modified to [[TheHeart include her]] in the team. By Season 2, she was a regular and began to [[PromotedToLoveInterest replace]] Laurel Lance as the go-to character for ShipTease with Oliver. By the third season, she was unquestionably the female lead of the show, especially once she and Oliver became an OfficialCouple, and in the back half of the series, was elevated towards the top of the opening credits billing, demoting former co-lead Katie Cassidy to an AndStarring credit.
** [[Characters/ArrowverseSaraLance Sara Lance / The Canary / White Canary]] is initially introduced [[PosthumousCharacter posthumously]] in Season 1 flashbacks, she was then revealed to be alive in Season 2 using the alias [[ComicBook/BlackCanary Canary]]. She was essentially introduced to set up Laurel's CharacterDevelopment into becoming Black Canary, however she quickly became a Fan Favourite character amongst the fandom with many fans believing she should stay the Canary instead. After the hugely negative reception [[spoiler: to her unceremonious death in the first episode of Season 3 (which to many fans felt like a combination of [[BuryYourGays Bury your Bisexuals]] and [[StuffedInTheFridge fridge stuffing]]]]) she was [[spoiler: [[BackFromTheDead brought back to life]]]] and promoted to main characters status in ''Legends of Tomorrow'' as the White Canary.

* ''Series/TheFlash2014''
** While everyone's performances are generally well-received, it is universally acknowledged that it was Creator/TomCavanagh's intriguing and multi-layered performance as the likeable but mysterious (and somewhat sinister) Dr. Harrison Wells that really drove most of the show's first season. In fact, he's so good that the showrunners found a way to bring him back for Season 2 and potentially beyond through his Earth-2 counterpart, and in later seasons as his various counterparts from TheMultiverse.
** Leonard Snart, who would steal the scene whenever he appeared, and quickly became a fan-favorite. Most agree he was also the main selling point for Season 1 of ''Legends of Tomorrow''. It really goes to show how popular he is when he kept getting brought back post-mortem in some capacity, and later permanently via BackUpTwin.
** [[Characters/ArrowverseDinahLaurelLance Black Siren]], the Earth-2 counterpart of Dinah Laurel Lance. Introduced as TheDragon to the Season 2 BigBad [[Characters/ArrowverseHunterZolomon Hunter Zolomon / Zoom]] not long after the death of the original Laurel from Earth-1, she quickly became popular with fans. With her being TruerToTheText compared to the original Laurel and her existence alone being seen as a second chance to write the character properly[[note]]Then ''Arrow'' showrunners Marc Guggenheim and Wendy Mericle got a lot of scorn from the comic community and a number of fans for sidelining the character who was so important to [[ComicBook/GreenArrow source material's mythos]], even treating her as a CreatorsPest[[/note]] while also having the potential to be a different character in her own right, many rallied for her to be the ''Arrowverse''[='=]s official version of the ComicBook/BlackCanary. She's eventually {{transplant}}ed to ''Arrow'' (sort of, as said Earth-1 Laurel was an ''Arrow'' main character, meaning [[Creator/KatieCassidy her actress]] just returned to that show) and became a main character there, ultimately becoming the Black Canary towards the end of ''Arrow'' Season 7.

* ''Series/LegendsOfTomorrow'': This is practically the ''entire premise'' of this series: Take a bunch of popular side heroes and villains from the various ''Arrowverse'' shows, put them in a team and give them their own show. That being said...it wasn't really until the second season that the show really took off and embraced its own sense of awesome.

** Some of the show's original characters have become very popular too, like Beebo the Tickle Me Elmo/Furby parody (who eventually rose to SeriesMascot status!) and [[SubvertedKidsShow Mr Parker]].