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! Team Arrow

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!!Team Arrow

->'''Current Members''': [[TheHero Oliver Queen/The Hood/The Arrow/Green Arrow]], [[TechnoWizard Felicity Smoak/Overwatch]]
->'''Former Members''': [[MilitarySuperhero John Diggle/Spartan]], [[ReformedCriminal Roy Harper/Arsenal]], [[CrusadingLawyer Laurel Lance/Black Canary]], [[LadyOfWar Sara Lance/The Canary/White Canary]], [[CuteBruiser Thea Queen/Speedy]], [[TokenEvilTeammate Malcolm Merlyn/Dark Archer/Ra's Al-Ghul]], [[FriendOnTheForce Det./Officer/Capt. Quentin Lance]], [[MafiaPrincess Helena Bertinelli/The Huntress]].

A group that Oliver Queen intentionally and unintentionally formed throughout his Vigilante career.
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* ActionDad: Two ([[FriendOnTheForce technically]] [[TokenEvilTeammate four]]) of the members are fathers (Oliver and Diggle).
* AllYourBaseAreBelongToUs: Heroic example. The Blood Cult's base in Season 2 become theirs starting Season 4.
%%* AntiHeroTeam: Until Season 4.
* BadassArmfold: Laurel and Diggle are fond of doing this. Oliver occasionally does as well.
* BadassBiker: All the fighters sans Diggle were shown riding bikes.
* BadassCrew: The group is the resident BadassNormal team of the Franchise/{{Arrowverse}}.
* BadassDriver: Subverted by Diggle. He is unquestionably a badass, and originally worked as Oliver's bodyguard/driver, but he never uses the vehicle he drives as a weapon. Felicity, on the other hand, plays this straight when she goes CarFu on Isabel Rochev near the end of Season 2.
* BadassFamily: The group had two {{Sibling Team}}s in its entire run, and their respective fathers (well, Thea's) are also occasional {{Sixth Ranger}}s. Diggle's wife Lyla is also an occasional SixthRanger, so is Oliver's "League wife" Nyssa.
* BadassNormal: None of them have superpowers, but most of them rely on their physical skills unlike Team Flash's reliance on Barry's SuperSpeed, and later Cisco's {{Seer}} powers.
* BatmanGambit: TheTeam relies on elaborate analysis of their opponents so they can use it on their favor.
* TheBeautifulPeople: The group consists of very good looking [[MrFanservice men]] and [[MsFanservice women]].
* BrainsAndBrawn: They are the Brawn compared to Team Flash's Brains. Unlike Team Flash who are mostly composed of {{Science Hero}}es, this team are emphasized on using their physicality.
* ColorCharacter: There's ''Green'' Arrow, ''Black'' Canary and ''Dark'' Archer (during Season 3). Sara is slated to become ''White'' Canary in ''Series/LegendsOfTomorrow''. Roy Harper is also known as ''Red'' Arrow in the comics continuity, a name that Thea ([[RunningGag repeatedly]]) suggests to adopt.
* ColorCodedCharacters: Everyone but Felicity has a ColorMotif. Oliver = Green, Diggle = Black/Blue, Roy/Thea = Red and Sara/Laurel - Black/Yellow.
* TheCowl: The group is originally protecting Star(ling) City from the shadows. This changes in Season 4.
* DivergentCharacterEvolution: You can tell the group's evolution by the changes of their bases and costumes or the addition of their members.
* DominoMask: All the group's fighters wear one sauf [[CoolHelmet Diggle]].
* DramaQueen: The members are prone to giving dramatic displays of woes. The only exceptions are Diggle and Sara, but even they have their moments.
* DysfunctionalFamily: The Queens and the Lances have turbulent relationships within themselves and with each other, while both Roy and Felicity have ParentalAbandonment issues (the former more so). Diggle is the only member who is free from heavy family drama until Season 4.
* ElaborateUndergroundBase: Their original base was located below Verdant, the Queen family's bar. Their current one is located below Oliver's (previously Sebastian Blood's) campaign office.
* EnemyMine:
** They teamed up with The League of Assassins to fight Slade Wilson in the Season 2 finale.
** Oliver made a controversial decision to align with Malcolm Merlyn to fight off Ra's Al-Ghul.
* {{Experienced Protagonist}}s: They are the very first superhero team in the Franchise/{{Arrowverse}}.
* GenderEqualEnsemble: The mid-Season 2 incarnation before Roy is properly on board is the closest with Oliver, Diggle and Felicity, Sara).
%%* {{Hypocrite}}: The entire Team is guilty for not practicing what they preach and all that.
* {{Hunk}}: [[MrFanservice All the male members]].
* LeParkour: Only Oliver, Sara and Roy have displayed mastery of this skill, though Laurel, Thea and Diggle were shown capable of making high and long leaps.
* InstantExpert: Downplayed. They don't get things straight from the get-go, but they still have a very fast rate on learning things.
* InSeriesNickname: "Team Arrow", though Oliver takes a while to come around to it. "Original Team Arrow" for the primary trio of Oliver, Diggle and Felicity.
* MrFanservice: All the male teammates.
* MsFanservice: All the female teammates.
* PowerTrio: The group's original incarnation with Oliver, Diggle and Felicity.
* ProgressivelyPrettier: Their bases gets more and more cool-looking as seasons go on.
* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: Throughout the years, they were composed of a reformed {{Jerkass}} billionaire heir (TheLeader and founder), a RetiredBadass military veteran, a brilliant and quirky PlayfulHacker, a rogue assassin, a ReformedCriminal, a CrusadingLawyer, and a former teen junkie.
* SecretKeeper: They and Team Flash mutually keep the other team's and their allies' secret identities.
* SiblingTeam: Oliver and Thea Queen, Laurel and Sara Lance.
* SixthRanger: Most members (Sara, Roy, Laurel) started this way, but the group's occasional allies are Quentin Lance, [[Series/TheFlash2014 Team Flash]], [[TokenEvilTeammate Malcolm Merlyn]], Nyssa Al-Ghul, Lyla Michaels-Diggle, Ray Palmer, Mari [=McCabe=] and John Constantine. Former members Sara Lance and Roy Harper frequently help the group as well.
* TheTeam: Obviously. They went from a PowerTrio in Season 1 and the first half of Season 2 to a FiveManBand starting the second half of Season 2.
* TheTeamWannabe: Both Roy and Laurel started as this. See their respective entries.
* ThouShallNotKill: TheTeam's principle starting Season 2.
* ThreePlusTwo: The original team was the PowerTrio of Oliver, Diggle and Felicity. Late in Season 2, Sara and then Roy join. They both leave in different circumstances in Season 3, and by that time Laurel and Thea come on board.
* TrainingFromHell: All the physical fighters but Laurel (though Nyssa might have given her a brief one offscreen) underwent one.
* TrashTheSet: Their bases always gets compromised.
* TrueCompanions: They treat each other as family.
** The Lance sisters have been this to the Queen siblings way before Oliver started this team despite Oliver's [[SiblingTriangle turbulent]] [[YourCheatingHeart history]] with them.
** Oliver, Diggle and Felicity spend Season 1 and the first half of Season 2 building a relationship, quickly get used to putting their lives in the other's hands and Diggle and Felicity are the few friends Oliver willing trusts with his secret identity. Diggle also frequently refers to Oliver as his brother.
* TwoGirlsToATeam: The late Season 2 incarnation, with Oliver, Diggle, Roy, Felicity and Sara. Inverted in Season 4 where Oliver and Diggle are the only male members, while there are three female members with Felicity, Laurel and Thea.
* TwoGuysAndAGirl: The original lineup consisting of Oliver, Diggle and Felicity.
* VigilanteMan: The group is this originally.
* WeakButSkilled: Weak in the sense that the Franchise/{{Arrowverse}} are gradually being filled by super powered individuals. TheTeam's main asset is their physical and combat skills and, as pointed many times, are ''the'' BadassNormal team of this universe.
* WhiteAndGreyMorality: They are the Grey to Team Flash's white, with them being originally an AntiHeroTeam and all. They are going for a much brighter shade of grey starting Season 4.
* TheWorfEffect: Every episode has the BadassCrew lose in their first fight with a villain in the beginning half of an episode before planning out a better strategy for their next confrontation.
* WorkoutFanservice: They love keeping themselves in shape, and these [[ShirtlessScene men]] and [[UnderwearOfPower women]] ''love'' showing it.
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[[folder: Oliver Queen]]

!![[ComicBook/GreenArrow Oliver Jonas Queen]]

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->'''Known Aliases:''' The Starling City Vigilante, The Hood, The Arrow, سهم (Al Sah-Him, Arabic for "The Arrow"), The ComicBook/GreenArrow
->'''Played By:''' Creator/StephenAmell, Jacob Hoppenbrouwer (young)

A billionaire playboy more interested in girls, drinking, and partying than doing anything with his life until becoming stranded on a (supposedly) deserted island for five years, during which he became a hardened killer. Oliver returned to Starling City and began a crusade to save the city as a vigilante, drawing in several allies to his cause.
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* TenMinuteRetirement: Oliver stops being the Hood for a few months while recovering from his fight with Dark Archer, and then again between Season 1 and 2.
** Ollie retires from crimefighting after season 3 and was absolutely happy to stay that way for good, but it's only six months before he's back in action at the beginning of season 4.
* ActionDad: He certainly fits the "action" part, although he doesn't actually know he's a father [[spoiler: until Season 4 "Legends of Yesterday"]]. The pregnancy was accidental and he was later told (falsely) that the mother miscarried.
* ActionHero: Considering he's a comic book superhero adaptation.
* ActionSurvivor: When trapped on the island, before he TookALevelInBadass through TrainingFromHell.
* AdaptationalAngstUpgrade: Unlike most Green Arrow stories, the toll the time he spent five years away from home was more emphasized on this version, particularly his struggle to reconnect properly with his loved ones. Said five years is also portrayed more bleakly compared to other versions.
* AdaptationalAttractiveness: Green Arrow is canonically very physically fit and is noted to be handsome, but this version of him is blatantly portrayed as MrFanservice in any given chance.
* AdaptationalBadass: Perhaps the most competent depiction of the character to date.
* AdaptationDyeJob: Somewhat. In present time, his hair is closer to brown than his comics blond. On the island, it looked lighter.
* {{Adorkable}}:
** While asking out [=McKenna=] Hall. Justified:
-->'''Oliver:''' I don't know if you heard, I was on a deserted island for five years and I'm totally out of practice with this whole...
** Even more so when he's asking Felicity out; as she points out, usually ''she's'' the one speaking in sentence fragments.
* AesopAmnesia: He still continues on keeping secrets in Season 4 despite the fact that it cost him Diggle's friendship at the previous season. This time, [[spoiler: keeping his son's existence from Felicity cost him their relationship]].
** Well that's not really due to amnesia, but because of a promise he made concerning said secret. He's pretty much forced to make it and argues pretty strongly against doing so, mentioning Felicity as a reason for why he no longer wants to keep secrets.
* AlwaysSaveTheGirl: Something that is actually addressed as a problem, Oliver has a big weakness towards women, he even chose to help Laurel over Diggle in the first season which nearly led to a team breakup, and despite having put arrows in people who have done less he can't ever bring himself to kill or really even harm Helena. He nearly gets himself and Slade killed trying to save Shado, who was just fine on her own. If there is a woman and Oliver has feelings for her, you can bet he won't be thinking too straight.
* AlwaysSomeoneBetter:
** His first two fights with the Dark Archer see him get [[CurbStompBattle summarily trounced]].
** Which becomes nothing when compared to his fight with ComicBook/RasAlGhul.
* AmicableExes: [[ChickMagnet Several examples]]:
** He and Laurel "struggled" to be this throughout the first two seasons, they succeeded near the end of Season 2...and then switched back to a turbulent relationship throughout Season 3. [[spoiler: They do finally succeed during Season 4, after Oliver has [[HeroOfAnotherStory John Constantine]] restore a revived Sara's soul.]]
** Played straight with Sara, who is probably the only of Oliver's previous lovers to not hold any form of grudge or resentment over him.
** Double Subverted with Felicity. After they break-up, there are issues mostly on her part but they are eventually able to put their issues aside during the time of [[spoiler: Laurel's death]].
** Played with concerning Samantha: She's polite but extremely harsh concerning [[spoiler: their son, including refusing to let Oliver tell ''anyone'' about William when discovers him and only lets Oliver interact with him as "Mommy's friend". Given she doesn't know Oliver is the Green Arrow and about his dangerous life her demands are never explained. She and Oliver also have a fallout on her part when [[spoiler: William is kidnapped by Damien Dahrk]].
* AntiHero: Starts off as [[Analysis/{{AntiHero}} a unscrupulous hero, but gradually develops into a pragmatic hero]]. His death count is a lot higher in the earlier episodes, he wasn't above torturing targets for information, and his mission is mostly about stopping the people on the list his father gave him and bringing them to hard, cold justice. As the series goes on, he kills less often and helps out people who aren't necessarily part of his mission. But there is a reason most of the bad guys roll over and do as he tells them to when he comes for them.
* AntiVillain: During his third and fourth years when he was 'dead', he was forced to work for ARGUS.
* ArcNumber: The number "5" is heavily attached to him, specifically;
** He was away from home for five years after the yacht incident.
** He has five prominent identities throughout the series; his actual identity (Oliver Queen), The Hood, The Arrow, Al Sah-him and Green Arrow.
** His team is a FiveManBand for most of the series.
* ArcSymbol: Boats/Ships are heavily associated to him in the flashbacks, signifying his journey to become a better person and hero.
* ArcWords: "I must/have to become someone else. I must/have to become something else." Details his [[TheHerosJourney gradual journey]] in a nutshell.
* ArchEnemy: Malcolm Merlyn and Slade Wilson. Of the two, he probably hates the former more. While Slade ''did'' kill his mother and made his life hell, Oliver has more-or-less accepted the fact that what happened with Slade was partially his fault, and can at least justify imprisoning him instead of killing him due to that and their formerly close relationship. With Malcolm, who was responsible for sinking the ''Queen's Gambit'', leaving Oliver stranded on the hell that is Lian Yu for several years (and also making him indirectly responsible for what happened with Slade as well), the deaths of at least three important people in Oliver's life, indirectly or not, and manipulating Thea so he could use Oliver to end his debt to Ra's al Ghul, one has to wonder why Oliver ''hasn't'' killed him yet. It seems the only reason he hasn't is because he's Thea's biological father and because Oliver adopted a ThouShaltNotKill policy in the wake of Tommy's death. Even then, the former reason barely holds any weight because Thea hates his guts too, and after everything Malcolm has done, it's highly doubtful anyone would hold it against Ollie for making an exception to the rule.
* AssassinOutclassin: Done on multiple occasions, though most of the assassins aren't after him.
* TheAtoner: For both his own and his father's mistakes.
* BadassBaritone: As the Arrow, seeing how he uses a voice changer. But Stephen Amell's natural voice is pretty deep.
* BadassBeard: At least on the island, given how he didn't shave for five years. Off the island, not so much. However, by "Year's End", he seems to be growing it out more and more.
* BadassBiker: Occasionally ride bikes on both his civilian and vigilante life.
* BadLiar: Oliver can be this at times, particularly when it comes to Felicity before he just gives up and lets her in on the secret. He is somewhat better at deceiving his family and friends (not to mention the police) but mostly that's because they write his odd behavior off as PTSD from the island.
* BatmanGambit:
** Oliver realizes that eventually someone will put together the timing of his return home and the arrival of the Hood. So he purposely staged his supplies in front of a security camera, suspecting that he would get arrested on 'mostly' circumstantial evidence. Then, after being arrested and forced to wear a security anklet he throws a large party (ensuring multiple witnesses) and has Diggle appear as the Hood on the other side of town.
** He does it again in the Season Two finale, taking Felicity's advice to make Slade overthink things. He takes it to mean distracting Slade by telling her she's the one he loves most in full view of the former's surveillance. Slade falls for it, and is hit by the cure Oliver gave her.
** During the Arrow/Flash crossover, Oliver points out that this and experience are really the only advantages he has over Barry. It really levels the playing field between them.
* BattleCouple: Oliver/the Hood and the Huntress are this very briefly. Ollie and The Canary become this in Season Two.
* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: Subverted with Oliver himself, who most definitely suffered a great deal of cosmetic damage and scarring during his time on the island (though played straight in that he somehow avoided any lasting damage to his face, and none of the injuries he's sustained since returning home have left any noticeable scars).
* BeautyMark: He has a mole on his lips much like his mother.
* BelligerentSexualTension: With Laurel in the beginning, much to her annoyance.
* BigBrotherInstinct: Towards Thea.
* BigBrotherMentor: From "Tremors" onward, he is this towards Roy. He initially tries to be harsh and secretive, but it doesn't work out for him. He's is also this to Barry when he revealed that he gained superhuman speed powers, inspiring him to become the Flash and offering advice about being a hero every now and then.
* BigDamnHeroes: Too many times to even count.
* BlastingItOutOfTheirHands: Oliver does this twice in "Honor Thy Father" once by throwing a kitchen knife and knocking China White's dagger out of her hand, and later he knocks the gun out of Detective Lance's hand with a throwing dart/arrow thing. And a variant in "Dodger", when he severs a nerve in the Dodger's arm to stop him using his ExplosiveLeash. Since he's started killing fewer people, this has become more of his signature.
* BlatantLies: He tells some real whoppers particularly to Felicity and Diggle. Possibly because he's testing them to find out if they can be trusted, but mostly because he isn't a great liar.
-->'''Oliver:''' I'm having some trouble with my computer and they told me that you were the person to come and see. I was at my coffee shop surfing the web and I split a latte on it.\\
'''Felicity:''' ...Really?\\
'''Oliver:''' Yeah.\\
'''Felicity:''' 'Cause these look like bullet holes.\\
'''Oliver:''' My coffee shop is in a bad neighborhood.
* BreakoutCharacter: CW's version of Green Arrow really put the character on the map for non-comic readers. He is one of the most popular live action TV superheroes to date, with his Creator/StephenAmell receiving critical acclaim for his portrayal. He has also been included in various video games as downloadable content for ''VideoGame/InjusticeGodsAmongUs'' and ''[[VideoGame/LegoBatman Lego Batman 3: Beyond Gotham]]'' with Ammell providing the voice.
* BrokenBird: The island was... unpleasant. First, he buried his father. Second, he got shot with an arrow. Third, he got tortured. Then it got worse. And he had to actually break a bird himself (literally -- it was dinner).
-->'''Oliver:''' ''FIVE YEARS!'' Where ''nothing'' good happened!
* BrokenPedestal: Has happened to him a few times.
** For Laurel at the end of "Blind Spot" when her drug addiction is revealed.
---> '''Oliver:''' She nearly had me believing that Sebastian Blood was a criminal mastermind. And the only reason I nearly believed her was because it was Laurel. I do have a [[TitleDrop blind spot]] where she's concerned. Not anymore.
** Moira is also on the receiving end of this twice: first when her involvement in the Undertaking is revealed, and again when he finds out that she was covering up that Thea is Malcolm's daughter.
** [[spoiler: A ''huge'' (temporary) one for Quentin Lance in Season 4, after he discovers the latter's DealWithTheDevil with [[BigBad Damian Darhk]], as Quentin was the one of the people who inspired him to run for mayor.]]
* BroodingBoyGentleGirl: The Brooding Boy to Felicity's Gentle Girl. Oliver is TheStoic and the StraightMan who is very cynical, sullen and brooding most of the time but Felicity, who is a GenkiGirl and ThePollyanna who is very optimistic and upbeat in personality and temperament, has a habit of bringing out the much lighter and happier side of him. She always manages to make Oliver smile and laugh.
* BulletproofVest: His costume seems to include this as a feature. Either that or the mooks are just [[ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy that bad at aiming]]. Despite this, Moira manages to do quite a bit of damage at close range with a handgun, and the Dark Archer gets a couple of arrows through into Oliver's back.
* ByronicHero: Initially, he was a far darker anti-hero riddled with PTSD and survivor's guilt. Over the years, he has been reconnecting with people who have pulled him back more firmly into heroic status with a ThouShaltNotKill ethic.
* TheCape: In Season 4, he no longer wants to be TheCowl, having grown disillusioned with being a dark AntiHero and he becomes the Green Arrow to become a symbol of hope they way the Flash is to Central City since Star City ''really'' needs one.
* CartwrightCurse: Cheated on his then girlfriend Laurel with her sister Sara, who was survives two near death experiences only to finally die after getting shot three times, falling 6 stories and smashing her head. On the island, he started a romance with Shado that ended when she was killed by Ivo. After he gets back, his first steady girlfriend, Helena, is a mobster's daughter who turns into a [[{{Foil}} sociopathic vigilante]]. And when it looks like he finally catches a break with [=McKenna=] Hall, she gets shot by Helena and moves to another city to get the best physical therapy she can. When Oliver and Felicity get a RelationshipUpgrade, the restaurant they are in gets blown up by an RPG. They end it soon after. In short, poor Oliver just can't catch a break with women. Lampshaded in the first episode of season 3.
-->'''Oliver:''' Last girlfriend? She's in the League of Assassins. My girlfriend before that shot my girlfriend before that. Not exactly a catch at the moment.
* TheCasanova: Oliver was one as well before he got lost on the island. He slept with Laurel's sister. That should be a giveaway. Sara also claimed that he was sleeping with ten other women, though that may have been an exaggeration.
* CatchPhrase: As the Hood. Disappears with his turn to the Arrow, at least until season 3.
--> '''Oliver:''' [Name]! You have failed this city!
* CelebrityParadox: Cisco mentions ''Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles'' during the second season of ''Series/TheFlash2014''. Stephen Amell will play Casey Jones in ''Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesOutOfTheShadows''.
* CharacterDeath: Loses the duel to Ra's Al Ghul in "The Climb", and after being stabbed through the chest, he is kicked off the edge of the mountain. ''Averted'' as the fall was cushioned by snow and he was kept alive through the cold slowing down his blood loss.
* CharacterDevelopment:
** The producers have said his main arc is transforming from the Arrow into ''Green'' Arrow. He initially starts out as The Hood (and is referred to now and then as The Vigilante), who kills those who he deems "have failed this city." The death of Tommy shifts him into The Arrow, where he adopts pacifist methods to honor his friend's memory. After his TenMinuteRetirement in Season 3, he decides to become a beacon of hope and be TheCape, similar to the Flash, becoming the Green Arrow.
** The whole purpose of the flashbacks to Oliver's time on the island is to show how he went from "[[RichIdiotWithNoDayJob the male Paris Hilton]]" to the hardened, effective vigilante we meet at the start of the series.
** At the start of the series, Oliver's reasons for becoming a vigilante were to honor his father's memory and seek justice against those who had exploited the under-privileged of Starling City, and was perfectly willing to kill to accomplish this. Over the course of the first season, he begins to actively fight crime in the city and goes from being a lone vigilante to working with Diggle and Felicity. By the start of the second season, he's primarily fighting crime and his motives for his vigilantism are no longer to honor his father's memory, but to provide a symbol of hope for the people of Starling City, even renaming himself the Arrow; furthermore, he has taken up a ThouShallNotKill stance to honor Tommy's memory.
** Outside of his vigilantism, Oliver starts the series closed off to his loved ones, and gradually begins to open up to them as he readjusts to his old life.
** His arc over the first three seasons focused on him losing his IWorkAlone attitude and allowing other people to join in his crusade to save Starling City. By the Season 3 finale he's content to go on a vacation with Felicity, knowing that Diggle, Thea (Speedy), Laurel (Black Canary), and Ray (the Atom) are more than capable of looking after Starling in his absence.
* CharlesAtlasSuperpower: True to his comic book counterpart, Oliver gains his expert archery skills while trapped on a deserted island for five years. Furthermore, training with Slade Wilson, Yao Fei, and Shado has given him near unstoppable fighting skills.
* ChickMagnet: The women he's been involved with so far are (in no particular order); Laurel, Sara, Felicity, Shado, Isabel, Helena, [=McKenna=] and Samantha Clayton whom he got pregnant and Moira exiled to Central city. Said women are the only ones who appeared on-screen.
* ChildhoodFriendRomance: With Laurel [[YourCheatingHeart and, technically, Sara]].
* ClarkKenting: He covers his face with paint and a hood, keeps to the shadows, and uses a voice changer if talking to someone who might recognize him. However, it isn't impenetrable and he isn't always careful with his targets.
* ColorCharacter: He finally dons his canonical CodeName starting Season 4.
* ColorMotif: Green obviously.
* CombatPragmatist: He doesn't hesitate to kill when need be, but he also leaves a few living so they can talk about what he did.
* ComicallySerious: Oliver can have these moments at times, especially when he's teaming up with one of the more [[{{Adorkable}} enthusiastic]] superheroes of the DCTV Universe such as Barry or Ray. Which makes sense since he's the closest thing to Batman there is in said Universe.
* CompositeCharacter: He combines aspects of other DC characters with the comic book Oliver Queen, namely;
** Franchise/{{Batman}}, particularly the [[Film/TheDarkKnightTrilogy Nolan-movie Batman]], including a past history with Ra's Al Ghul. This portrayal Oliver is far more serious, driven, obsessive and mission-orientated than his comic book counterpart and much more bent on cleaning up a corrupt city, and is more of a night-time hero who sneaks around in the shadows, all traits owed more to the Dark Knight than the Emerald Archer. His darker, more complex and more lively backstory along with his season 1 insistence that the "Arrow" persona is the real him and that [[ThatManIsDead Oliver Queen died on the island]] also sound more Batman-ish. He has also had to deal with antagonists who are hell-bent with making him lose everything he cared about, which sounds very similar to ''Film/TheDarkKnightRises''. That and the fact that a lot of his enemies are RoguesGalleryTransplant from Batman's RoguesGallery [[note]]Ra's al Ghul, Nyssa al Ghul, Solomon Grundy, Firefly, Dollmaker, Anarky[[/note]]. Furthermore his headquarters gets nicknamed the "Arrowcave" by a few characters.
** His animosity with Slade and (brief) relationship with the Huntress also makes him parallel to [[ComicBook/{{Nightwing}} Dick Grayson]], whom Stephen Amell is actually a fan of. Him being Slade's "{{Sidekick}}" on the island flashbacks and him using eskrima sticks (at the time) for melee combat also supports this.
* CoveredWithScars: [[InformedFlaw Over about 20% of his body.]] Doesn't stop many a ShirtlessScene.
* TheCowl: Very much so, especially in the second season.
** Made especially clear in his cameo from the pilot for ''The Flash'', where he says Barry can be TheCape, a figure that inspires people rather than staying in the darkness like him.
** The two-part crossover of "Flash vs. Arrow" on ''The Flash'' and "The Brave and the Bold" on ''Arrow'' is an extended look at how Barry's city is clean and nice and had to be bombarded with metahumans before it needed a hero, one like Barry, who's optimistic, sweet and kind. This is contrasted with Star City and Oliver, a violent city on the brink of destruction that needed a violent hero.
*** Barry also rebuts it at the end, saying that while the Arrow may not be able to inspire people, Oliver Queen certainly can.
** The third season ended with Oliver taking yet another TenMinuteRetirement, because he was tired of being the Cowl. When he comes back at the start of season four, he rebrands himself the Green Arrow, hoping to be a symbol of hope, rather than of fear, for the people of Star City. He also adopts this in his civilian life and [[spoiler: decides to run for mayor.]]
* CrazyPrepared:
** To the point where he decided to store his blood in his hideout, in case he ever needed an emergency transfusion.
** If that wasn't enough, it's established in Season Two's "City of Blood" that if the Foundry was ever compromised or destroyed, he had another lair just in case. Felicity and Dig find him there, sulking, through Amanda Waller's help after Slade had murdered Moira.
* CrimefightingWithCash: "You know us billionaire vigilantes... we ''do'' love our toys."
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: As part of his SecretIdentity. "I'm shallow!"
* CynicismCatalyst: Being trapped on the island and going from an easygoing, womanizing party boy to a vigilante [[TheAtoner atoning]] for his family's sins.
* DatingCatwoman: Twice in the first season.
** Helena -- even after he discovers that she's the mysterious assassin who injured his mother and is trying to instigate a bloody war among the city's criminal factions.
** Later, Oliver starts a relationship with Detective [=McKenna=] Hall, who immediately after gets assigned to help catch the Hood. She doesn't know Oliver's the Hood, though.
* DeadpanSnarker: Most of Oliver's humour is more subdued.
* DecompositeCharacter: ''Series/LegendsOfTomorrow'' reveals that his role as Connor Hawke's father in the comics is given to [[spoiler: Diggle]].
* DentedIron: With over 20% of his body covered in scars, he's still capable of fighting off super-powered monsters and running down a motorcycle on foot.
* DidNotThinkThisThrough: [[spoiler: Goes along with Samantha (who lied to him for years) and her demands to keep William a secret despite the fact that a) she would never know if he told the team (people he can actually trust) the truth, b) contacting any lawyer, including the ''one on his team'' would get him ''some'' rights beyond being "Mommy's friend" and no longer at Samantha's mercy especially if he revealed he never knew William existed and c) His fiancee and his enemies would eventually notice him popping down to Central City to visit a random child.]] Rather predictably it all blows up in his face.
* DisappearedDad:
** His father was DrivenToSuicide right in front of him.
** Oliver himself is an example, though he's not even aware of it. His mother paid the girl off to say the baby died.
* DominoMask: He finally starts wearing one at the end of Episode Nine of Season Two, recognizing the need to better conceal his identity.
* FakeDefector: Fakes joining the League of Assassins near the end of Season 3 in an attempt to destroy it from the inside.
* FishOutOfTemporalWater: After five years fighting for his life on a remote island, Oliver has trouble reconnecting with his friends and family whose lives moved on without him. He also doesn't get most pop culture references.
* FriendlyRivalry: With [[Series/TheFlash2014 Barry Allen]].
* GoodCannotComprehendEvil: His mother notes that he always tries to see the good in everyone even if they don't deserve it.
** This has gotten in trouble when he failed to realize how obsessed Helena was with avenging her fiancé
** Possibly subverted with Isabel Rochev, whose vendetta meant that she would do anything to spite the Queen family with or without Oliver's trust.
** Again with his vow to protect Malcolm Merlyn when he said he didn't kill Sara, but still is a mass murderer and had a drugged Thea kill Sara.
** He also underestimated how far Ra's Al Ghul would go to get Oliver to succeed hem as the head of the League of Assassins
* GoodIsNotNice: As the Arrow, and before that, the Hood. In the words of Barry Allen, the Arrow is "kind of a douche". He's working on this as of Season 4.
* GreenEyedMonster: He's not happy when Barry turns up and hits it off with Felicity, being noticeably grumpy about her visiting him in Central City. Lampshaded by Diggle.
--> "I think you didn't have a problem with Felicity's performance until she met Barry Allen."
** Crops up again when Felicity starts dating Ray in Season 3. His reaction when he sees them kissing can only be described as a temper tantrum. (This is case is less sympathetic, as Oliver had refused start a relationship with Felicity himself and she was only trying to move on from his rejection).
* HeartbrokenBadass: On the island, Shado's death puts him in this territory. Off the island, Laurel's life falling apart, the death of Moira, his mother and Sara's murder puts him back there.
* HellBentForLeather: His Green Arrow costume is very leather-y compared to his original gear.
* TheHeroDies: Averted. He does comes BackFromTheDead the following episode.
* HeroicBSOD:
** After nearly being killed by the Dark Archer, Oliver suffers from a form of PTSD, too afraid of losing his family and friends to fight effectively.
** He goes through an even worse one near the end of season two after Slade Wilson murders his mother right in front of him.
* HeroWithBadPublicity: Progressively subverted over time, especially after "Year's End", but he still isn't this [[VigilanteMan without reason]].
* HeterosexualLifePartners: With Tommy and Diggle. Roy and Barry to a lesser extent.
* HollywoodHealing: For some reason, he has a very rapid time on healing himself. This is notable during his fight with a {{Hate Plague}}d Barry where the latter gave him multiple RapidFireFisticuffs which he did suffered for quite a while but appears fine after Bivolo's capture, and, of course, his duel with Ra's where he was ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice and kicked-off from a cliff and it only took him about two weeks to fully recover, where in real life said injuries are fatal. However, given that Maseo said that he asked Tatsu "to come there so, she could bring Oliver back from the dead," it's unclear how much of this is HollywoodHealing and how much of it is due to other, as yet unknown, factors.
* HonestCorporateExecutive: In Season Two when he assumes control of Queen Industries.
* HonorBeforeReason:
** His teamup with Malcolm in Season 3, lampshaded by everybody.
** [[spoiler: He dropped out of the mayoral election late in Season 4, to stop Darhk from killing William. Once William is returned to his mom and Darhk is arrested, it's pointed out he could rejoin the race, but he declines on the flimsy premise that voters hate flip-floppers.]]
* HouseHusband: Between Season 3 and 4, he became this to Felicity. Though they aren't married.
* {{Hunk}}: As MrFanservice and WalkingShirtlessScene...
* {{Hypocrite}}:
** During the first season, he condemns Helena and the criminal in "Salvation", Joseph Falk ('the Savior') for killing criminals without giving them a chance to change... despite him started out his crusade doing that exact same thing. To his credit, he seems to have realized this, as in Season Two he's trying to avoid killing, though he isn't always successful.
** In Season Two, he criticizes Barry Allen for keeping his reason for being interested in paranormal cases a secret. Felicity immediately calls Ollie out on keeping pretty much everything a secret.
** In Season Two, Oliver yells at his mother about keeping Thea in the dark about her parentage - despite the fact that he is lying to his family about more than a few things.
** He tells Laurel in Season 3 she can't be on Team Arrow because she's untrained. Laurel went to him for exactly that a few episodes before that and Ollie refused to train her. In fairness however he and Sara went through TrainingFromHell that nearly destroyed them and neither of them would wish it on anyone else. Add in that Quentin has already lost one daughter so training Laurel up to put herself in danger is clearly something to avoid. [[spoiler: His reluctance to let her join up is proved to be justified in Season 4 when Laurel is killed.]]
* IDidWhatIHadToDo: During the five years he was legally dead, he had to lose conventional morality in order to survive. Coming back after this, he was so used to killing people to live that he was mostly running on instinct when fighting.
* ILetGwenStacyDie:
** Blames himself for Sara Lance's death. Ultimately subverted as she's not actually dead, though he thinks so for a while.
** Tommy and Shado, as of Season Two.
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: Courtesy of Ra's al Ghul.
* ImportantHaircut: After coming home from Lian Yu. Officially speaking. Also after falsely joining the League of Assassins.
* ImprobableAimingSkills: Given the premise of the show, Oliver's skill with the bow is to be expected. However, he is also a master knife thrower.
* InformedAttribute: Oliver's {{Jerkass}} party boy image, which seems to have been very true before the island but not carried over no matter what assumptions people make.
* InformedFlaw: Pretty much every character in the beginning of the first season repeatedly calls him a selfish jerk who is completely ambivalent and unapologetic to his friends and family, despite almost all of his interactions showing him expressing his gladness to be back, his sorrow for the people he's hurt and his concern for Thea's party-life.
* InTheHood: The source of his AppropriatedAppellation.
* {{Irony}}: He laughed at the prospect of being called Green Arrow during his first year of being a vigilante. Now, he adopts the moniker as a shift from being TheCowl into TheCape.
* InstantExpert: Downplayed. Oliver doesn't instantly master any particular skill, but he still has a really fast rate on both learning and improving them.
* {{Jerkass}}: As a result of his time on the island (and elsewhere), Oliver is pretty seriously broken and traumatized, and he pushes people away, often roughly, and deals with them harshly as a default. However, some of it is a...
* JerkassFacade: As when he pretends to be a drunken playboy to get out of working at Queen Industries. When he does so...
* JerkassHasAPoint: ...he does make a fairly valid point: He's not ''remotely'' qualified to manage an international corporation. However, we also know that he's a...
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He's been pretty deeply damaged by his time on the island, but he's been reconnecting with people thanks to Diggle, Felicity, his family, and now Barry. He's rediscovering his humanity, using more gentle methods in his vigilantism, and evolving from a phantom of dark justice to a truer hero with each passing season. (i.e. Adopting a ThouShaltNotKill policy in the second season, being pushed not to torture people by Barry in the third, learning to trust his teammates and adopt a more hopeful, humane and responsible ethos in the fourth…)
* JustLikeRobinHood: Discussed. He's been accused of this but hotly denies it. In fact he's not actually in this to redistribute the wealth of his victims but to get 'their' victims justice and prevent them from hurting more people.
* KeepingSecretsSucks: He has dealt with the consequences of this numerous times, [[AesopAmnesia but keeps repeating it]].
* KnightTemplarBigBrother:
** Oliver's sister takes drugs and drives under the influence, causing her to crash. As a civilian, Oliver pulls all the favors he can to try and get Thea out of jail time. As the Hood, Oliver hunts down The Count and ... Don't even indirectly mess with Oliver's sister, or it's going to go down very badly for you.
** Lampshaded in "Darkness on the Edge of Town":
-->'''Oliver, to Roy:''' Hi, I don't know if we've met. I'm Thea's disapproving older brother.
** At the beginning of Season Two, Oliver is unwilling to hood up again, because he doesn't want to increase his body count and dishonor Tommy's memory, even after Hood copycats kill the mayor and threaten Laurel. Then, they kidnap Thea. Cue one pissed-off Arrow (non-lethally) beating the living crap out of the copycats.
** This ends up being his FatalFlaw and downfall. See NiceJobBreakingItHero below.
* LegallyDead: Oliver is this during his five years on the island.
* LeParkour: He makes frequent use of this.
* LooksLikeJesus: Mostly around the late [[TurnOfTheMillennium 2000s]]. More so after the yacht incident.
* LoveMakesYouStupid: He is very prone to make dumb decisions when loved ones are involved.
* MadeOfIron: The amount of injuries Oliver sustained while on the island would have probably crippled most people. Likewise, in the premier he cuts his way through Adam Hunt's cadre of bodyguards, defeats his TheDragon, leaps out of a skyscraper, ziplines to safety... and reappears at his party a scant three minutes later looking none the worse for wear. Reaches its apotheosis, perhaps, in his fights with Cyrus Gold. The Mirakuru-powered villain literally bounces Oliver off walls and kicks/punches him hard enough to play pool with him in rooms, yet all he gets is a few dented ribs.
* TheMafiya: The third episode reveals that Oliver has the rank of captain, because he saved the life of Anatoli Knyazev (who in the DCU is the [=KGBeast=]), who was a prisoner of Ivo's on the Amazo. Whether Oliver's relationship with the Bratva was damaged beyond repair by the events of the Mirakuru attack in the second season remains to be seen.
* TheMasqueradeWillKillYourDatingLife: Dates the Huntress, she leaves due to his disapproval of her methods. Dates [=McKenna=], she leaves after being shot during a confrontation between Oliver and Helena. Attempts to date Felicity in the season 3 opener, but when they're attacked, he takes it as a sign that he could never live a happy life as Oliver Queen and they tearfully call it off...for while.
* MasterOfTheMixedMessage: He alternates between telling Laurel to stay away, and having ice cream with her. Also does this to Felicity, to the point that when their UnresolvedSexualTension comes to a crossroads in the season 3 premiere, she demands he stop "dangling 'maybe's" with her.
* MeaningfulRename: In Season 4 he finally becomes the Green Arrow.
* MoralDissonance: Oliver's methods can sometimes be extreme, especially at the start of the series. He also has a habit of taking out mooks but leaving their bosses alive.
* MoralMyopia: Oliver doesn't seem to notice that he applies this often. He's capable of cold-blooded murder in taking out his targets but doesn't allow anyone else the same leeway. No longer the case in Season Two, as he's trying to avoid killing.
* MoralityPet: Thea. Tommy. Laurel. Diggle. Felicity. Roy. Barry. Oliver's the Crazy Morality Pet Lady of the DCTV Universe.
* MovieSuperheroesWearBlack: Averted. He wears a variation of his costume from the comic in a darker shade of green.
* MrFanservice: Especially with many a ShirtlessScene.
* MultiRangedMaster: Throwing knives and a bow and arrow.
* MyGreatestFailure: Originally, it was watching Sara Lance die — while he was cheating on his girlfriend with her. His girlfriend, Sara's sister. As of Season Two, this has been surpassed by Tommy's death during the undertaking and rendered moot when Sara turns up alive and well as the Canary.
* MyGreatestSecondChance: After learning that there could be a way to cure Mirakuru, he still chose to try and kill Slade anyway, even though curing him could have potentially prevented most of the events of the second season, or at least greatly diminished how much of a threat Slade could be. Oliver now working to get the antidote made so it can be used on the similarly addled-up Roy seems to be him making sure something like that doesn't ever happen again.
* MySisterIsOffLimits:
** Tommy gets a nonverbal version, over Thea.
--->'''Tommy:''' Have you noticed how ''[[SheIsAllGrownUp hot]]'' your [[SheIsAllGrownUp sister's gotten]]?\\
''(Oliver gives him a DeathGlare)''\\
'''Tommy:''' Because I have not!
** Subverted with Roy, though. In fact, he's counting on Thea being a MoralityChain for him.
* NeverFoundTheBody: During his five years on the island, he was presumed dead.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: His forcing Roy to break up with Thea inadvertently causes the last bit of Season Two, which includes Thea finding out her parentage, Isabel Rochev taking over Queen Consolidated, the creation of Slade's Mirakuru army, Roy going on a Mirakuru rampage, the death of his mother, Deathstroke's army destroying Starling City, the city almost being nuked by ARGUS, and Sara going back to the League of Assassins.
* NiceToTheWaiter: Even as the spoiled party guy he was before the island, Oliver seems to have a good relationship with his family's staff. Prior to letting her in on the secret he is also nothing but charming towards Felicity despite his odd requests.
* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Delivers one to Brodeur's bodyguard after the latter almost kills Laurel.
* NonIdleRich: Besides his nighttime activities, he also runs a nightclub in the first season and takes over as the co-CEO of Queen Consolidated in the second.
* NotQuiteDead: His loved ones find this out at the start of the show, much to their relief.
* NotSoStoic: He can be quite frightening when he loses his cool.
* NotWearingTights: Oliver's first costume, in the opening minutes of the Pilot, is essentially a dark green leather hoodie. When he starts his vigilante work, it's expanded to basically a full-body leather outfit, with a hood and green face paint.
* ObfuscatingStupidity: Upon his return from the island, he immediately tries to hide that he's changed by acting like he did 5 years ago. Whilst he drops it as it becomes more apparent to those around him that he's no longer that guy, he still invokes this trope to help hide his vigilantism.
* OddFriendship: With Barry Allen, AKA The Flash. Surprisingly, they're close in age, but Oliver's age and experiences make him the older, gruff, almost unwilling mentor to Barry's eager kid. In their first crossover (not the backdoor pilot), they both feel out of place in one another's series, as Oliver is the brutal cowl and Barry the idealistic cape. They're the DC Television Universe equivalent of Bruce Wayne and Clark Kent.
* OddNameOut:
** To Thea's blood relatives; '''M'''alcolm (her father), '''M'''oira (their mother) and '''Th'''omas aka Tommy (her paternal half-brother).
** In the island Flashbacks, especially in Season 2, with '''S'''lade, '''S'''hado and eventually '''S'''ara (Yao Fei was never with them when they were a group).
** To date, he's the only member of Team Arrow whose given name starts with a vowel. There's John (Diggle), Felicity, Roy, Sara, Laurel, [[TokenEvilTeammate Malcolm]] and Thea. This gets more noticeable when his titular show is ''also'' the only show [[note]]''Series/TheFlash2014'', WesternAnimation/{{Vixen}}'', ''Series/LegendsOfTomorrow'' and retroactively ''Series/{{Constantine}}''. [[/note]] in the Franchise/{{Arrowverse}}'' which starts with a vowel.
* AnOfferYouCantRefuse: Ra's wants him to be his successor and won't take "No" for an answer.
* OhCrap: Has a damn near perfect expression when he sees Laurel has set him up in a police sting at her office at the end of "Identity".
* TheParagon: He eventually inspires Roy to follow in his footsteps, leading to Roy becoming a part of his team.
* PermaStubble: Once he was back home, he developed this, both mustache and beard versions.
* PhraseCatcher: "You Missed" is said when he shoots trick arrows, often a moment before the arrow explodes.
* PoisonousFriend: While it certainly wasn't his intention, he has a tendency to bring out the bad/worst/{{Wangst}}y sides of the women he's involved with.
* ThePornomancer: Formerly. He was a [[ReallyGetsAround notorious]] ChickMagnet and [[TheCasanova Casanova]] before the yacht incident.
* PragmaticHero: In Season 3 he has no problem forming a temporary alliance with Malcolm in order to defeat Ra's Al-Ghul. This causes alot of friction with the rest of Team Arrow.
* {{Pride}}: He admits to Diggle that the reason why he tried to protect Malcolm even after he was taken by the League of Assassins was because of pride.
* PrivateEyeMonologue: Provided by Oliver [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness for the first few episodes]]. It's dropped after he has someone to listen to his plans.
* ProperlyParanoid: At one point on the island, he came across someone tied up in a cave who claimed to be a student stranded on the island. Out of fear that he might be working for Fyers, Oliver leaves him there to die. In the penultimate episode of Season One, we find out he was right to be worried.
* TheProtagonist: As the eponymous Arrow... duh. However, the show has become much more an ensemble vehicle than it was initially.
* PunnyName: Oliver is evocative of "Olive", a shade of green.
* ReallyGetsAround: Mostly before the yacht incident. Not so much in the present day scenes.
* RelatedInTheAdaptation:
** While his comic counterpart later adopted Mia Dearden, she's not related to the Queens by blood. Mia's counterpart Thea is his biological half-sister in this edition.
** He also becomes Walter Steele's stepson in this version.
** He is married to Nyssa near the end of Season 3, and technically they still are by the laws of the League of Assassins. In the comics, he's only been married to Dinah Laurel Lance.
** Inverted with Connor Hawke, who is not his son in this version (though the Franchise/{{Arrowverse}} made Connor and his biological son here a DecompositeCharacter, anyway).
* RelativeButton: You'd think Malcolm would have [[TooDumbToLive known better than to press his.]]
* RenamedTheSame: When he joined the League of Assassins he was given the codename "Al Sah-him", which means Arrow in Arabic.
* RichIdiotWithNoDayJob:
** Oliver invokes this to hide his activities as the Hood. He further cultivates the image (and other related aspects of his SecretIdentity) by claiming to want to start a night club in an old Queen Consolidated warehouse...then doing absolutely nothing/making zero progress towards actually turning it into anything. Eventually, RealityEnsues when Tommy steps in to assist with the renovations, having noted that no progress is being made. At which point the night club actually gets finished. This is even lampshaded in the second season, when Moira dismisses Ollie's involvement in the club as just being a hobby.
** Averted in Season Two when he takes over as CEO of Queen Consolidated. In "Deathstroke", it bites him on the ass when he mistakenly lets Isabel Rochev become temporary CEO, allowing her to become full-time CEO of Queen Consolidated as he hasn't been to his job. He would find out she was actively working with Slade Wilson.
* SadisticChoice: Thrice so far. On the island, Ivo forces Oliver to choose between Shado and Sara. Slade later forces Oliver to choose between Thea and Moira. The second is an InvokedTrope, as it is a deliberate reconstruction of the first choice. Near the end of Season 3, Ra's Al-Ghul has been framing him up and gradually turned the city he tried so hard to protect against him to push his back against the wall just to make Oliver so desperate to accept Ra's' offer to be his heir.
* ScreamsLikeALittleGirl: For being a BadassBaritone, Oliver has a surprisingly high-pitched scream, best displayed when he's kneecapped in "Seeing Red."
* SavvyGuyEnergeticGirl: The Savvy Guy to Felicity's Energetic Girl. Oliver is more serious and stoic while Felicity is more upbeat and energetic. Due to their opposing personalities and temperaments, they balance each other out nicely.
* SecretIdentity: And at first, he [[HeKnowsTooMuch maintained]] one [[NeckSnap ruthlessly]]. He's gotten softer about it, though. By Season Two, he is assisted by Diggle and Felicity and states that they both need secret identities, since he is now CEO of his family's company.
%%* SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan:
%%** He is the manly man to best friend Tommy's sensitive guy.
%%** This becomes the dynamic between Oliver and Barry later.
%%** Interestingly, he was the Sensitive Guy to Slade's Manly Man during the island flashbacks.
* SleevesAreForWimps: His Green Arrow costume has this look.
* SerialRomeo: Even when he's not in [[TheCasanova Casanova]] mode, he still has a tendency to end up falling quickly in-love with women, especially after he officially came home from the island. This, coupled with his AlwaysSaveTheGirl mentality above, got called out by Diggle way back in Season 1.
* ShellShockedVeteran: Oliver definitely suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder. And although he's trying to maintain his guise as a SpoiledBrat, his family can tell that his act is [[StepfordSmiler not very genuine]].
** In "Identity", Slade comments on this after Oliver had killed his first person on the island that wasn't in self-defense.
* SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism
** Oliver starts out on the cynicism scale, and slowly moves into the idealism scale in seasons 1 and 2. an example would be in the eighth episode of the first season, Vendetta. where Oliver thinks he can save Helena Bertinelli from her path of rage, hatred and vengeance (much to Diggle's objection). Oliver fails though. by season 3, he is full on an idealistic hero. making use of his "The Arrow" alter-ego to be a symbol of hope for Starling City.
* TheStraightAndArrowPath: Lampshaded by the police, who find using a bow and arrow in the modern day pretty ridiculous and insane.
* TheStoic: Oliver is really damn good in keeping his emotions in check.
* SupportingProtagonist: On the island, at first. He started to grow up a bit more and meet some interesting people along the way.
* TattooedCrook: Both variants.
** He has a tattoo over his heart marking him as a captain in the Russian mob; a gift from Anatoli Knyazev for saving his life.
** The dragon tattoo on his left shoulder is a copy of the one Shado had. Slade branded him with it to remind him of his crime.
* TerrorHero: Thanks to the influence of his ''many'' {{Morality Pet}}s, he appears to be toning this down. Heck, Barry even got him not to torture Captain Boomerang for information on the locations of his bombs!
* TheyKilledKennyAgain: He supposedly died three times already. First during the Queen's Gambit accident. Second during his loss to Ra's Al-Ghul which was negated by Tatsu. Third and last was at the hands of Vandal Savage which was negated by Barry Allen via TimeTravel.
* ThouShaltNotKill: Adopts this starting in Season Two. He was forced to break it in "State v. Queen" to save Felicity from Count Vertigo, and he was visibly shaken after the deed. ''Totally'' averted in season 1, especially in the first few episodes, where he had no problem killing villains or [[WhatMeasureIsAMook any of their guards or underlings]]. The season 1 island flashbacks also detail his transformation from sheltered playboy to ruthless killer-by-necessity.This causes problems for him in Season 3 when Malcolm manipulates Thea to kill Sara. Naturally ''everyone'' wants to kill Malcolm, except Oliver.
** After he's adopted this policy there have been two major exceptions: Ra's Al-Ghul, who had to be killed to stop him from destroying Starling City as part of an arcane ritual and Damian Darhk who made it personal for Oliver after [[spoiler: he killed Laurel.]]
* TokenWhite: Becomes this in Season 3's flashbacks. Justified as he's in Hong Kong.
* TookALevelInBadass: Before the wreck of the Queen's Gambit, Oliver was a useless playboy. He came back a hardened killer and excellent fighter. Since then, he's continued to grow and improve. In the first season, his every fight against Malcolm Merlyn was a CurbStomp with Merlyn the victor. By the fourth season, Oliver has grown to the point that he's capable of taking down Merlyn without breaking a sweat.
* TookALevelInDumbass: As shown in ''The Climb'', Ollie's intelligence has taken a severe drop in Season 3 due to his {{Pride}}.
* TrainingFromHell: How is a SpoiledBrat able to hold his own against...everyone? Oh, right, five years alone (except for a few mentors) on an island against an army of merciless killers, some of whom are bonafide supervillains in their own right. And if you thought the Island was bad, wait until you see what the League does to him after he leaves.
* TraumaCongaLine: Season 3 is hell for Oliver. He ends up getting killed for defending Malcolm, brought back and then offered his job. He refuses and ends up framed with his secret identity exposed, having his apprentice arrested and needing to fake his death, and his sister being stabbed.
* TrueLoveIsExceptional: Early seasons and flashbacks have him exclusively dating [[{{ActionGirl}} Action Girls]] including Laurel, Sara, Helena, Mckenna and Shado, but it's Adorkable, [[{{NonActionGuy}} Non Action Girl]] Felicity he ends up really falling for. Slade lampshades this.
* TwoGuysAndAGirl: He loves being part of this dynamic for some reason. [[note]] Him, Tommy and Laurel. Him, Slade and Shado, later him, Slade and Sara on Lian Yu. Him, Maseo and Tatsu in Hong Kong. Him, Diggle and Felicity as the original Team Arrow. Him, Roy and Sara later him, Roy and Laurel as Team Arrow's main combatants. [[/note]]
* TheUnfettered: He may not kill any more but there's still plenty he'll do to keep Starling safe like destroy his friendship with Team Arrow in order to make sure his plan to destroy the League of Assasains goes unhindered.
* UnresolvedSexualTension: With Felicity. Until ''The Fallen''.
* UnstoppableRage: Briefly enters one when Brodeur's bodyguard/hitman almost kills Laurel.
* UptownGuy: Technically to every girl he was linked with. The only woman who ''may'' have been "in league" with his family's social status is Helena Bertinelli, who came from a mafia family. The Lance sisters, [=McKenna=], Samantha and Taiana all appear to be from middle-class families. Felicity apparently was poor but is a SelfMadeMan, while both Isabel and Shado apparently came from families that are "between upper and middle class".
** Inverted in his relationship with Felicity in Season 4, as he lost his family fortune back in Season 2 while she's become the owner and CEO of multi-billion dollar company Palmer Tech.
* VigilanteMan:
** His role as "the Hood", which gives many an AppropriatedAppellation including the word "vigilante". However, he rarely stoops to VigilanteExecution, if ever (though, him and Diggle did plan on one to Deadshot, but that got scrapped).
** In Season Two, he realizes how fundamentally screwed up everyone else considers this, and decides not to act in a VigilanteMan manner anymore, instead simply helping the police do their jobs without killing if possible.
* WalkingShirtlessScene: At least OnceAnEpisode. All the better to show you he's CoveredWithScars, my dear.
* WeaponOfChoice: [[ArcherArchetype Does it really need to be said?]]
* WellDoneSonGuy: Surprisingly, or perhaps not, he feels this way toward Detective Lance.
* WhatMeasureIsAMook: In the first season, Oliver had no qualms about killing mooks as he preferred to leave the villains themselves alive. He tries and fails to communicate this policy to the Huntress, both on his own poor communication and Helena's crusade against the mob. Eventually, after he swears off killing for good, he admits that this policy wasn't much better than just killing indiscriminately.
* WhatTheHellHero:
** Oliver gets a few about his actions from the people who find out his secret, and from Detective Lance while in costume.
** About half of season 3 consists of his team yelling at him for his tunnel-vision when it comes to protecting Thea, especially regarding the hypocrisy of his lies and his dealings with both Ra's al Ghul and Malcolm Merlyn.
* WillTheyOrWontThey: With Laurel during Season One: They Do only to call it off. He moves into this territory with Felicity from Season Two onwards; They briefly do in the season 3 premiere before an RPG attack on Oliver on their first date spooks him into calling it off with her too, but the door is still ambiguously open as the season progresses and even after Felicity gets in a relationship with Ray Palmer... Then TheyDo in [[CoitusEnsues "The Fallen" and end the season together.]]
* WorkingWithTheEx: Several times, with [[ChickMagnet several women]].
** He frequently approaches Laurel to be his legal intel during the beginning of his vigilante career up until the Season 1 finale. After a tense start at Season 2, they were able to work with each other again during the middle of the season. Throughout Season 3, their relationship gets a little rocky again when Laurel repeatedly tries persuading Oliver to let her become a vigilante and join Team Arrow. Fully in play in Season 4 [[spoiler: until her death]].
** After their bitter breakup, Helena blackmails him on working with her to kill her father. Oliver grudgingly complies when she took Tommy and the people at Verdant hostage.
** Technically with Nyssa as they are still married by League of Assassins law despite the fact that Oliver does not recognize their vow. It did not stop her in helping him take down her father during the Season 3 finale.
** Double Subverted with Felicity. She leaves Team Arrow late in Season 4 specifically because of her lingering feelings for him. It takes [[spoiler: Laurel dying]] for her to get back on the team [[spoiler: for payback]].
* WouldHitAGirl: Justified as the girls in question are [[ProfessionalKiller China White]] and [[AxCrazy Helena]].
* YouCantGoHomeAgain: He was stuck on Lian Yu for "five" years in-order to survive. While working with Waller in Hong Kong, he willing allows himself to shut himself off from Starling City and his family, after seeing the deep pain they are all in. Previously, he was about to come back home and announce he was alive and well, but decides not to.
* YourCheatingHeart:
** Oliver was cheating on Laurel with her sister Sara. He also cheated on Laurel with other women before.
** Technically, he officially starts a relationship with Felicity while still married to Nyssa.
[[/folder]]

[[folder: John Diggle]]
!!John "Dig" Diggle
[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/diggle_john_9881.jpg]][[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/freelancer.png]][[caption-width-right:350:''"The second I looked at her, ... everything changed. My whole universe ... changed."'']]
->'''Known Aliases:''' Spartan
->'''Played By:''' Creator/DavidRamsey

Hired by Moira to be Oliver's bodyguard, Diggle quickly became his first partner in his vigilante activities. As a former special forces soldier, Diggle has extensive combat training and several connections in the military and government agencies that he can exploit to assist in their missions. In Season 3, Diggle re-marries his ex-wife from the Army, Lyla Michaels and becomes a father to their newborn-daughter Sara.
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* TenMinuteRetirement: Twice. One lasts one episode. The other lasts two.
* ActionDad: Starting Season 3. [[spoiler: ''Series/LegendsOfTomorrow'' reveals that he and Lyla will/could have another child named John, Jr. in an alternate future]]
* AmicableExes: Was this with Lyla, but they're back together as of "Suicide Squad" and re-married almost a year later.
* ArcWords: "Brother". At first it was mainly because of the main reason for him joining Oliver's crusade being to prevent other people from losing anyone they love like he did with his brother, to eventually being the BigBrotherMentor for Oliver and eventually their entire team. His major StoryArc is also about hunting down Deadshot, the man who killed his brother. [[spoiler: Eventually, his supposedly dead brother ends up being a major personal antagonist for him.]]
* TheAtoner: He wants to work with Oliver since it makes him feel good again.
* BadassArmfold: He's fond of doing this, probably to show off his enormous arms.
* BadassBaritone: Seems fitting for such a big guy.
* BadassDriver: Subverted. He is a badass and he worked as Oliver's driver, but he was never shown fighting while on wheels (it was Felicity who did that, against Isabel Rochev).
* BadassFamily: He and his wife are a seasoned BattleCouple. [[spoiler: His supposed "late" brother also happens to be a kickass agent. ''Series/LegendsOfTomorrow'' also shows an alternate future where he has a son who becomes Oliver's successor.]]
* BadassInANiceSuit: How he dresses while playing the part of Oliver's bodyguard and driver.
* BadlyBatteredBabysitter: The bodyguard equivalent, anyway. Oliver seems to take more pleasure in ditching him than is strictly necessary -- at least until he lets Dig in on the secret, after which it proves unnecessary altogether.
* BattleCouple: With Lyla in Afghanistan. They're actually a {{Reconstruction}} of this. First they split-up because they couldn't function as a couple without battles. But in time, they realized that both of them are the only ones who can truly understand each other.
* BerserkButton: Do not fuck with his family or his close friends, especially Felicity. The first was enough to make him hate Oliver at the end of Season 3, and the second [[spoiler:was enough to make him beat his brother senseless out of rage after Darkh's men crippled Felicity.]]
* BigBrotherMentor: Basically his role in Team Arrow.
* BodyguardingABadass: Understandable, considering nobody knows Oliver is anything more than an idiot playboy when they assign Diggle to bodyguard him.
* BreakingTheFellowship: Much like Felicity in Season Four, Diggle leaves the team in Season One because he can't trust Oliver to have his back, after he prioritized Laurel over Diggle. He doesn't stay away for long though.
* CanonImmigrant: In Issue #24 of the ComicBook/{{New 52}} series.
* CodeName: For most of the series, he doesn't have one, beyond a one-off call sign of "Freelancer" in Season 2 when he was on a mission with ARGUS. In season 4, despite having a costume and being the team's point man, he doesn't have a code name until episode 6, when Felicity is forced to invent one on the spot so that she doesn't have to say his name in front of Curtis.
-->'''Diggle:''' Spartan?\\
'''Felicity:''' We have a ''guest'' with us tonight.
* TheConfidant: To Oliver and Felicity.
* TheConsigliere: To Oliver; he shares this role with Felicity.
* CoolTeacher: He thought Felicity a few moves to defend herself in Season 1. While it wasn't shown, it is heavily implied that he polished the skill set of both Laurel and Thea during the time gap between the Season 3 finale and Season 4.
* CoolUncle: To his "late" brother's son.
* CostumeCopycat: He wears the Hood's costume a couple of times. The first time is when Diggle attacks an arms dealer across town while Oliver is at a party surrounded with witnesses, proving to Detective Lance that Oliver is not the Hood. The second time is when Diggle beats up Oliver in front of Moira to get information out of her.
* DarkIsNotEvil: He wears an overall black costume starting Season 4.
* DeadpanSnarker: After he and Oliver become closer, he shows no hesitation in cracking wise on a regular basis.
* DeathByOriginStory: His brother, Andy, is part of Dig's motivation to help Oliver. [[spoiler: And boy is he pissed when he learns that not only is Andy alive, but is EvilAllAlong.]]
* DecompositeCharacter: Takes Oliver's role in the comics as [[spoiler: Connor Hawke's father]].
* EnemyMine: Forced to work with Deadshot to break out of prison.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: With Oliver. He jokes about this when telling Felicity that he and Oliver don't need couples therapy.
* ItsAllMyFault: WordOfGod has said that [[spoiler: he feels responsible for Laurel's death at the end of ''Eleven Fifty Nine'' due to not realising that Andy was EvilAllAlong and the hand he played in Laurel's death]].
* ItsPersonal: With Floyd "Deadshot" Lawton. Not only does Deadshot shoot and nearly kill him, he also shot and killed Diggle's brother Andy.
* TheLancer: To Oliver.
* MilitarySuperhero: He's a retired U.S. Army soldier, though he only officially becomes a superhero during his third year of vigilante work.
* MoralityChain: Aims to become one to Oliver so that he won't [[JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope Jump Off the Slippery Slope]].
* MoralityPet: Functionally, as Oliver edges away from the Slippery Slope, Diggle acts more as his external conscience and reminder-of-humanity. He's not exactly blind to this, either. When he agreed to become Ollie's right hand man as the Arrow he [[LampshadeHanging outright cited this]] as his most important function.
* NiceGuy: One of the most moral, reliable and loyal characters on the show.
* NumberTwo: Oliver treats him as his second-in-command due to him being his original ally. He's also the one who leads Team Arrow everytime Oliver is not present.
* NWordPrivileges: He pokes fun of his TokenMinority status in any given chance, and in ways only ''he'' is allowed to.
* OldRetainer: As of Season 3, when Oliver loses control of Queen Consolidated and most of his money.
* OneSteveLimit: Averted in season 4 as he shares his first name with John Constantine.
* OnlySaneMan: Unquestionably the most level-headed member of TheTeam. While he still have his idiotic moments, it's not as worse as the rest.
* PlatonicLifePartners: With Felicity, the two have one of the most solid and loyal friendships on the show even when one of them is at odds with Oliver. Near the end of Season 3 when they think they're being poisoned the pair's last words are affirming how glad they are to have known each other.
* PreAsskickingOneLiner: A few. The most memorable so far from "Trust But Verify":
-->"You forgot one thing: I'm the one with the grenade launcher."
* RefusalOfTheCall: Though it didn't take him too long to answer it.
* TheReliableOne: Diggle's training in the military are completely overshadowed by Oliver's TrainingFromHell, so his position in the group is more of MoralityPet for Oliver, intel guy, and liaison with A.R.G.U.S.; he's now also a family man, making him even more into a big brother type for Oliver. Where Felicity is TheHeart, providing emotional grounding, Digg provides regular doses of loyalty, insisting "you don't go in there alone" and "we don't leave anyone behind".
* SecretKeeper: From "An Innocent Man" onwards.
* ShipperOnDeck: For Oliver/Felicity.
* ShoutOut: He's named for writer Andy Diggle, who wrote the ''Green Arrow: Year One" mini-series.
* StopBeingStereotypical:
** When Team Arrow is investigating Vertigo, he's the one to dress in street clothes and purchase a sample.
--->'''Diggle:''' There you go. The person of color has successfully purchased your drugs.\\
'''Felicity:''' For the record: I offered.
** In Season Two, when Oliver insists that he and Felicity need secret identities if they're going to keep working with him, Diggle pulls this off again as he begrudgingly notes his secret identity is as Oliver Queen's black driver.
* SympatheticMurderBackstory: Subtly so; as he's a soldier, he probably has been responsible for a number of deaths in battle. However, there is one that seems to stand out: while protecting an Afghani Warlord, he killed a young rebel, which shook his world view as he questioned who was more worthy of life in that moment.
* TallDarkAndSnarky: He stands 6'3 and definitely has a snarky humor.
* TeamDad: Literally, since the birth of his daughter, but a lot of his role seems to be trying to make sure everyone on Team Arrow is on an even keel (and playing ShipperOnDeck to Olicity). When Ollie and Roy are both at the tail end of a shitty day, they accept Diggle's invitation to a home-cooked meal with his family.
* UnderestimatingBadassery: Ted Gaynor ''really'' should have known better than to hand Diggle a grenade launcher.
* TheWarOnTerror: Served three tours in the [=US=] Army Special Forces in the Afghanistan theater, before becoming a bodyguard.
* WeUsedToBeFriends: His friendship with Oliver is severely strained after the events of Season 3 because: a) Oliver kept him and the rest of Team Arrow LockedOutOfTheLoop on his plan to destroy the League from the inside and b) he had to kidnap Lyla in order to uphold the charade. Diggle is unsure if he can ever trust Ollie again. [[spoiler:This gets resolved in a matter of weeks, though between Felicity's scolding, a second chance plea, and Oliver [[TakingTheBullet taking metahuman tattoo playing cards]] for him, it couldn't be helped.]]
* WhatTheHellHero: Aims several at Oliver. Initially for being a murderous vigilante, later for not being as reliable to Digg as Digg is to Oliver.
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Felicity Smoak]]
!!Felicity Megan Smoak
[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/smoak_felicity_2303.jpg]][[caption-width-right:350:''"Despite your best efforts, you've allowed yourself to feel something. I know you think that that's a weakness; it's not. [...] Don't fight to die. Fight to live."'']]

->'''Known Aliases:''' Overwatch
->'''Played By:''' Creator/EmilyBettRickards

An IT technician at Queen Consolidated, she was eventually recruited by Oliver to help in his mission to save the city.
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* ActionSurvivor: She grows into this in the Season Two premiere when she nails one of the copycat Hoods with a piece of wood in an attempt to distract them from killing Oliver.
* AdaptationalHeroism: In the comics, she's Ronnie Raymond's WickedStepmother. Here, she's a good-natured NiceGirl.
* AdaptationDyeJob: Felicity has black hair in the comics, but is portrayed as a blonde in the series. Possibly InUniverse, in that she states she dyes her hair.
** As of Season Three's fifth episode, this is confirmed; we see her in her senior year of college five years ago with black hair worn down. She dyed it and donned her more familiar attire after losing her boyfriend to prison.
* {{Adorkable}}: Even once she's in on the secret and surrounded by badasses, she still manages to be an {{Adorkable}} StraightMan.
* AgeLift: The Felicity Smoak in the comics is old enough to be Ronnie Raymond's mother-in-law, making her age somewhere between late 20s to late 30s. She started appearing in the series at exactly 23 years old.
* AlwaysSaveTheGirl: A variant. Her ability to prioritize Oliver before everything can be a little scary at times. This is especially evident in the third season finale, where she momentarily attempts to convince Ray to save Oliver before fixing the bioweapon situation. Her second (and executed) solution becomes a literal case of this as she uses the ATOM suit instead.
* AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents: Felicity is incredibly embarrassed by her mother. Whether she worked as a cocktail waitress or a stripper, she's kind of a stereotype of the DumbBlonde TheDitz. However, by the end of the episode that introduces her, the two have reconciled, and it seems that Felicity shed her PerkyGoth persona and dyed her hair blond and started dressing like her mother because that's when she decided to grow up.
* AmicableExes:
** She and Ray had a respectable breakup near the end of Season 3.
** Double Subverted with Oliver. After they break-up, there are issues mostly on her part but they are eventually able to put their issues aside during the time of [[spoiler: Laurel's death]].
* AudienceSurrogate: Has become this, especially from season 2 onwards. Felicity seems to have shaped into this for part of the audience. She seems to be the character that part of the audience relates to the most and she either feels, thinks, says or asks a lot of the things that the audience would also ask, think, say or feel. It also helps that she has a very close, intimate relationship with Oliver and she can basically read and understand him like she understands computers and technology. She drops out of it as she gets caught up in the series RomanceArc and the teams' general disposition to hypocrisy.
* AwesomeMomentOfCrowning: She gets about as close to one as you'll find in the business world when Ray Palmer hires her directly as an executive, complete with her own secretary.
* BadassAdorable:Yes, Felicity is not much of an ActionGirl but she is savvy and brainy. She often uses her brains to get Team Arrow out of trouble and she usually manages to be quirky and adorable while doing so.
%%* BadassBookworm
* BerserkButton: She is '''not''' a secretary, thank you very much. Attempting to treat her as one will result in getting an earful and a smashed coffee maker for your trouble.
* BigDamnHeroes: She finally gets to pull one herself in the Season 3 finale, when Ray is busy making a cure for the Alpha Omega virus, so she puts on the Atom suit herself to save Oliver from falling off a dam.
* BreakoutCharacter: She progressively becomes important to the plot as the series goes on, to the point that she's even PromotedToLoveInterest. She has the most confirmed {{Crossover}} appearances on [[Series/{{The Flash 2014}} the Spin-Off show]] so far, more than Oliver himself (again, so far). She's also the only character (yet again, so far) to get a ShipTease with ''two'' (three if you count ComicBook/TheAtom) of Creator/TheCW's main leads.
** The best example of this? She was [[WhatCouldHaveBeen only intended to appear in]] ''one episode''. Now she's become a major part of the show.
* BreakTheCutie: When Oliver had "died", Felicity basically broke down emotionally.
* BreakingTheFellowship: [[spoiler: Like Diggle in Season One she leaves Team Arrow of her own free will largely because she can't work with the Team while her feelings for Oliver cloud her judgement.]]
* BroodingBoyGentleGirl: The Gentle Girl to Oliver's Brooding Boy. While Felicity is more optimistic and upbeat in personality, Oliver is more brooding and stoic. Felicity often gets a very sullen and brooding Oliver to smile and laugh quite often.
* BunnyEarsLawyer: She has her share of quirks and eccentricities (see MotorMouth and OpenMouthInsertFoot), but she's the best IT specialist at Queen Consolidated for a darn good reason.
* CarFu: She saves Diggle from Isabel Rochev in the penultimate episode of Season 2 by ''[[RammingAlwaysWorks ramming her]]'' with TheTeam's van.
* TheChick: The overlapping type (in her case, TheSmartGirl) where she functions as the resident tech expert as well.
* ClingyJealousGirl: She can be possessive of Oliver, though it's usually PlayedForLaughs.
* CompositeCharacter: Halfway through Season 4 [[spoiler:she's rendered paraplegic by an attack from the current BigBad. Along with her already being the tech person of the team, it seemed to make her the Arrowverse's equivalent of Barbara Gordon during her time as Oracle, with even a joke about that name already being taken.]] However, she's actually a better fit for [[spoiler: Wendy Harris--or the CanonImmigrant from Creator/GeoffJohns's ''ComicBook/TeenTitans'' run as she's revealed to be The Calculator's daughter, and both that Wendy and this Felicity are tech geniuses who end up in wheelchairs. Wendy became Oracle's non-ActionGirl protege and took the codename "Proxy." Since Oracle's already taken and Felicity gets cured of her paralysis, Felicity is Wendy in all but name.]]
* TheConfidant: Seemingly the go-to person if you're having trouble, as Oliver, Barry and Ray all confide in her concerning their superhero issues. She's also this to Diggle, especially if he's struggling to talk to Oliver. Season 3 makes her this to Roy over his experiences under Mirakuru.
* TheConsigliere: To Oliver; she shares this role with Diggle.
* CovertPervert:
** She was careful to reinstall [[MrFanservice Oliver's salmon ladder]] when upgrading the Foundry. Why? She likes watching him use it. It should be noted that when she redecorated the place, she kept the ladder in its original spot: right in front of her work station.
** She admits to [[{{Characters/TheFlash2014MainCharacters}} Caitlin Snow]] that being with Ray Palmer is like dating Barry with Oliver's body.
* TheCutie: Felicity is sweet, loveable and nerdy (for the most part). It also helps that she is very likeable and relatable to a large part of the audience.
* DamselInDistress: She's a completely untrained non-combatant up against people willing to kill, so there really isn't much she legitimately can do when she's put in danger. However she usually keeps her cool and is capable of completing missions even when kidnapped or strapped with bombs.
* DamselOutOfDistress: She upgrades to this in the Season Two finale when she stabs Slade with the Mirakuru cure ''while he's holding a sword to her neck''. She pulls off a similar trick in "The Secret Origin of Felicity Smoak", when she takes out her psycho ex-boyfriend all on her own, with Oliver merely proving a distraction for the guy, and in S4, is able to elude Double Down with a well placed kick then blind fire with an assault rifle (she's not a great shot).
* TheDeterminator: Once Felicity wants something or believes in something, she NEVER gives up. Overall, Felicity is probably the most determined and stubborn member of Team Arrow.
* DeadpanSnarker: She has her moments, but normally her moments of snark come from her already {{Adorkable}} nature rather than a strict deadpan tone.
* DisappearedDad: Her father, who gave her his dark hair and big brains, abandoned her and her mother when she was a kid, leaving her fearful of losing anybody else she cares about.
* DramaQueen: She's infamously very emotional throughout Season 3. She got better by Season 4 so far until the ChristmasEpisode.
* DumbBlonde: Averted and discussed InUniverse.
-->'''Felicity:''' I may be blonde, but I'm not ''that'' blonde.
* DudeMagnet: Several male characters are attracted to her including the protagonist Oliver Queen, Barry Allen, and Ray Palmer.
* DyeHard: [[InvokedTrope Has admitted to this.]]
* EveryoneLovesBlondes: She does get quite an attention from guys (Oliver, Palmer and a ShipTease with Barry) and is seen as a SexySecretary by many others to boot.
* ExpositoryHairstyleChange: As revealed in "The Secret Origin of Felicity Smoak", her dyed blonde hair is this, leaving her Goth look behind along with her past life.
* {{Expy}}: Given that she's an InNameOnly character, her overall characterization is very similar to [[Series/{{Smallville}} Chloe Sullivan]].
* FanservicePack: As of Season Two, she is wearing sexier outfits and letting her hair out more often.
* GeniusCripple: [[spoiler:Is crippled by an attack on her and Oliver by Damian Darkh, but remains as smart as ever]]
* GenkiGirl: Lacks the manic energy typically associated with this trope, but she does talk very fast and tends to be very optimistic.
* GenreSavvy: When trying to smuggle Oliver out of Nanda Pardat, Malcolm tells her that there's no way they can escape with him without being detected. She shoots back that she's seen enough movies to know that every SupervillainLair has a secret exit.
* GirlFriday:
-->'''Felicity:''' I should add Personal Internet Researcher for Oliver Queen to my job title.
** It's even lampshaded in Season Two.
-->'''Oliver:''' I need a [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall Girl Wednesday]].\\
'''Felicity:''' It's Friday! And the answer is no!
* GoodWithNumbers: She's a natural at counting cards, stating that it's all just probability theory and mathematics.
* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: Which reflects her innocent and idealistic nature.
* HasAType: PlayedForLaughs. [[Recap/ArrowS3E7DrawBackYourBow She realizes]] she has a thing for intense, attractive, moral men who do do shirtless salmon ladders in their place of business. Then it turns out the new sexy shirtless salmon man is gunning to be another super hero. Oh, and we also know that her college ex was an attractive hacktivist. Salmon ladder status unconfirmed.
--> '''Felicity:''' Why does this keep happening to me?
* TheHeart: To Team Arrow.
* HereditaryHairstyle: Apparently, she got her dark hair from her father.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: With [[Series/TheFlash2014 Caitlin Snow]].
* HollywoodHacking: When she guest-starred in ''[[Series/TheFlash2014 The Flash]]'' she hacked into Central City's municipal data network in about three seconds (after Cisco said it would take 30 minutes) by typing a bit on a computer that happened to be sitting nearby.
* HollywoodNerd: Pretty much a textbook example.
* HonestCorporateExecutive: In season 4 she is the CEO of Palmer Technologies and constantly struggles to be this, and in fact [[spoiler: dedicates herself full-time to this after quitting Team Arrow, believing that she can make the world a better place from this angle rather than a vigilante one]]. You can definitely feel her anguish when she has to make difficult but necessary choices in her role, such as layoffs.
* HotLibrarian: Her colorful blouses and short pencil skirts certainly evoke the look.
-->'''Isabel:''' What were her qualifications? Aside from an abundance of short skirts?
* HotScientist: When working in the IT department.
* {{Hypocrite}}: She's angry that Oliver hid his son from her, despite all the secrets she's kept over the years.
* InformedJudaism: She mentions several times that she's Jewish, but we'd probably never guess otherwise. In "Sara", however, she does the Jewish funeral tradition of throwing dirt on Sara's grave.
* IgnoredEnamoredUnderling: She has a "bit" of a crush on Oliver. As of Season Two/Three, it's proved mutual and ironically he spends more time pining over her.
* InNameOnly: She has very little in common with her comic book counterpart, the stepmother of [[ComicBook/{{Firestorm}} Ronald "Ronnie" Raymond]].
* InnocentBlueEyes: They go along with her HairOfGoldHeartOfGold.
* InspirationallyDisadvantaged: [[spoiler: She becomes a paraplegic mid-way in Season 4, yet becomes much more driven.]]
* InstantExpert: She was able to use Ray's PoweredArmor with ease during the Season 3 finale despite the fact that Ray still has issues using it at the time.
* InterdisciplinarySleuth: You can come to her with any problem. Crack a laptop? No problem. Track down an accounting discrepancy? Done. Investigate an apparently empty book? Easy. Track down a specialist arrow? 60 seconds and you're out the door. Hack into Merlin Global's mainframe and disarm a Markov device? Piece of cake. Need her to determine the composition of an unknown drug sample? That's... totally something that IT would handle. She also went to M.I.T. And she uses her IT skills for the purposes of crime fighting. As time wears on, it's clear she isn't ''just'' some IT girl, she was revealed to have been a Child Prodigy and some sort of hacking demigod, so her ability to do almost anything Team Arrow can throw at her isn't quite as bizarre as it looked on the outset.
* IntergenerationalFriendship: With Walter Steele. Possibly a MythologyGag as Walter becomes Oliver's (now ex-)[[RelatedInTheAdaptation stepfather here]], while Felicity herself was [[ComicBook/{{Firestorm}} Ronnie Raymond's]] stepmother in the comics (but not in this universe).
* IronicName: One definition of the word "felicity" is "the ability to find appropriate expression for one's thoughts"; definitely not something that describes our resident MotorMouth IT girl. Lampshaded by Curtis Holt in season 4. On the other hand another meaning of Felicity is "great happiness", which fits her bubbly and optimistic nature and her ability to restore Oliver's hope when the chips are down
* JewishAndNerdy: Her Judaism comes up a few times, especially near Christmastime. She's also extremely nerdy.
* JumpedAtTheCall: Despite being just an IT girl at the time, she plunged headfirst into joining Team Arrow once she discovered it gave her a real purpose in life. In season 4, while Oliver is happy living a normal life, Felicity continued to help out Team Arrow on the sly and eventually talks Ollie into them rejoining the fight against Star City crime.
* LethalChef: The season 4 premiere shows a garbage full of her attempts at making an omelet.
-->'''Oliver''': Felicity Smoak, you have failed this omelette.
* LettingHerHairDown: She usually wore her hair in a ponytail when not on missions in Season One, but Season Two has her wearing her hair down more often.
* {{Meganekko}}: She's an {{Adorkable}} girl who often, [[TheGlassesGottaGo but not always]], wears glasses.
* MissionControl: Her usual role for the team, though she does go out on occasion to help in the field.
* TheMistress: Several people (most notably Isabel Rochev) wrongfully assume she's Oliver's.
* MoralityPet: In her innocence and inexperience, she sometimes disapproves of Oliver's methods, and she won't shy away from telling him when she thinks he's wrong.
* MotorMouth: She talks ''a lot''.
* MysteriousPast: We don't know much about her personal life except for the fact that she went to M.I.T. -- it's even said word for word in her character bio. With the revelation in the middle of Season Two of her DisappearedDad and her mother being... her mother, it seems to have elements of a DarkAndTroubledPast.
** We learn more about it in, aptly enough, "The Secret Origin of Felicity Smoak": She used to be a PerkyGoth hacktivist whose boyfriend was less ethical and more ambitious than she, and she was able to create a computer super-virus that he uses in the present day to attack Starling City. Oh, and her mother is rather more of an airhead than she, but is nonetheless devoted to seeing her daughter happy and healthy.
* NiceGirl: In addition to being {{Adorkable}}, she's polite and kind even when someone like Moira or Laurel is treating her dismissively -- but she ''will'' put her foot down when she believes Oliver or anyone else is doing wrong.
* NonActionGuy:
** She's not trained in combat, though she does take part in missions in "The Undertaking" and "Darkness on the Edge of Town". We do see her getting some training in "Dead to Rights".
** It comes back to bite her in the Season Two premiere, which sees her skydiving onto Lian Yu and almost triggering a land mine. A few subsequent episodes see her getting self-defence training from Diggle and Sara.
* OpenMouthInsertFoot: She has a bad tendency to phrase things in an awkward or insensitive manner and only realize how they sound after she has already said them. In particular, she does so when talking to Oliver and Walter, who are her bosses and could have her fired for it. She even [[LampshadeHanging calls herself out on it]] in "Darkness on the Edge of Town".
** Given that she did the same when Sara/Canary came BackFromTheDead, it opened up a [[BiTheWay whole mess of]] ShipTease.
* ParentalAbandonment: Her dad left her and her mother.
* PerkyGoth: Surprisingly, she pulled this off in her college days.
* PlatonicLifePartners: With [[Series/TheFlash2014 Barry Allen]]. The two are a couple of adorable science nerds who in Felicity's words are "perfectly perfect for each" but they are just friends. Very close and devoted friends mind you, but still just friends.
** Also with Diggle, the two have one of the most solid and loyal friendships on the show even when one of them is at odds with Oliver. Near the end of Season 3 when they think they're being poisoned the pair's last words are affirming how glad they are to have known each other.
* PlayfulHacker: Very much so, especially in college.
* PluckyGirl: Felicity is usually the most optimistic character in the show and will throw in a quip to relieve tension from time-to-time.
* PromotedToLoveInterest: Progressively since the beginning of Season 2.
* PromotedToOpeningTitles: She got promoted to series regular for Season Two.
* RavenHairIvorySkin: She naturally has jet-black hair.
* RealWomenHaveCurves: She's curvy in contrast to the slender Laurel and Thea.
* RelatedInTheAdaptation:
** Inverted with [[Series/TheFlash2014 Ronnie Raymond]]. In the comics, she's his stepmother. Here, they don't even know each other personally (yet).
** Played straight with [[spoiler: The Calculator. In the comics, he's a ''ComicBook/BirdsOfPrey'' villain and she's a ComicBook/{{Firestorm}} character. Here, he's her father]].
* TheReliableOne: At the end of "Blast Radius", Oliver openly admits how much he relies on her and Diggle.
* RetCanon: She already existed in the DC Universe as a minor or supporting character and she is known as being the stepmom of ComicBook/{{Firestorm}}. The ''ComicBook/{{New 52}}'' introduces the new version of the Felicity character patterned over Emily Bett Rickards' likeliness in an unsuccessful storyline, her portrayer on the television adaptation.
* SavvyGuyEnergeticGirl: The Energetic Girl to Oliver's Savvy Guy. Felicity is more optimistic, upbeat and cheerful in personality while Oliver is more serious, brooding and stoic.
* SecretKeeper: To such a degree that she at one point is simultaneously juggling work and favors for ''three'' different superheroes.
** As of "The Odyssey". After all of Oliver's bad lies, she's not too surprised.
** By "Birds of Prey", she's been tasked with so many secrets that she's starting to have trouble remembering who knows what.
** In "The Climb" she's been saddled with ''three'' superheroes making her their confidante. By this point she's understandably wondering why this keeps happening.
* SelfMadeMan: She was born to a cocktail waitress in Las Vegas, but through her own work and smarts, she got a degree from M.I.T. and landed a job at Queen Consolidated, all before she met Oliver.
* SexySecretary: How everyone at Queen Consolidated sees her.
* SheCleansUpNicely: Whenever she lets her hair down and dresses up, she goes from [[HollywoodNerd beautiful-in-a-nerdy-way]] to somewhat stunning.
* ShipTease: With Barry Allen in "The Scientist", and with Oliver all throughout Season Two.
* ShutUpHannibal: She plows (non-fatally) into Isobel in her van, cutting the madwoman off mid-gloat to Diggle about how much she looks forward to killing Felicity.
* SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan: Felicity apparently [[HasAType has a thing]] for moral men.
* SomethingCompletelyDifferent: She's apparently the only non-ActionGirl that Oliver had feelings for. Slade lampshaded it in the Season 2 finale.
* TeamSpirit: She's always the first one to welcome the new members of Team Arrow and is visibly happy to work with them.
* TheSmartGirl: She's the one who does all the research and hacking for the team.
* TheSmurfettePrinciple: She's the only female member of Team Arrow until the second half of Season 2.
* TechnoWizard: By her own admission, she's been putting computers together since she was seven, and her aforementioned hacking skills are nothing to sneeze at.
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: She's the GirlyGirl to perhaps every named female character in the Arrowverse with few notable exceptions such as her mom and [[Series/TheFlash2014 Caitlin Snow]], who are either just as girly or more "girlier" than her.
* TrueBlueFemininity: Granted, she wears a lot of different colored dresses, but blue is clearly her favorite as those were the ones she constantly wears.
* UnresolvedSexualTension: With Oliver. Until it gets resolved in "The Fallen", that is.
* WillTheyOrWontThey: With Oliver during Seasons Two and Three. Even though they share TheBigDamnKiss at the end of the Season Three premiere, they appear to take their sweet time to work through the mental hurdles in the way of being together. They do in '''The Fallen'''. And [[CoitusEnsues HOW]]
* WomanScorned: [[spoiler: She ends her engagement to Oliver in Season Four, when she finds out about Ollie's son William. She's not mad that she had a son, she's mad that he kept him a secret, since they specifically agreed to no longer keep secrets from each other.]]
* WrongGenreSavvy: She deduces that Oliver is trying to get her involved in a ''{{Theatre/Hamlet}}''-like plot against his step-father. While Oliver's situation looks very much like Hamlet's, they're actually in a superhero story and Oliver doesn't seem to hold a grudge against Walter for marrying his mother.
* YouAreInCommandNow: Ray names her as the new CEO of Palmer Tech near the end of Season 3. Predictably, she struggles but seems to be on her way to becoming a successful and HonestCorporateExecutive as the season continues.
* YouGetMeCoffee: She's worked all her life to avoid ending up fulfilling this specific trope. Trying to force her into this role is her BerserkButton. She is ''not'' an assistant. She is ''not'' a secretary. She is ''not'' a sidekick. She'll do the job she ''wants'' to do and '''someone broke the coffee maker'''.
** Played for laughs and plot relevance twice since it was introduced.
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Roy Harper]]
!!Roy William Harper, Jr.
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[[quoteright:272:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/colton-haynes-arsenal-arrow_309.jpg]][[caption-width-right:272:''"Last year, you saved my life. And I don't mean from the guy who kidnapped me. I mean, you saved me. You gave me purpose."'']]

->'''Known Alias:''' Arsenal, "Abercrombie"
->'''Played By:''' Creator/ColtonHaynes

A street thug living in the Glades, Roy begins a relationship with Thea Queen after trying to steal her purse. He initially doesn't wish to change his life of crime, thinking that it's the only way of life for a young man in the Glades. After the vigilante saves his life, he starts to idolize him, and decides to clean up his life and emulate his idol. He eventually succeeds at this goal, becoming a part of Team Arrow and the Arrow's field sidekick, codenamed Arsenal.
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* AdaptationDyeJob: He has brown hair instead of the comics' red hair.
* AddedAlliterativeAppeal: A phonetic example. His full name and alias(es) are loaded with the "R" sound ('''R'''oy H'''ar'''p'''er''', J'''r'''. aka '''Ar'''senal, occasionally called '''R'''ed '''Arr'''ow).
* AfraidOfNeedles: Most likely a MythologyGag to Roy being an addict in the comics. Or subtle {{Foreshadowing}} to him getting injected with Mirakuru.
* AmicableExes: With Thea in Season 3. They're back together in "The Offer", only to stop once Roy faked his death. Thea finds him with a new name and tries to stay with him, only to see he's gone.
* AndStarring: During his guest spots in Season 1 before he got PromotedToOpeningTitles starting Season 2. After he starts CommutingOnABus near the end of Season 3, he's now under the "Special Guest Star" citation (just like Colin Donnell in his future appearances).
* AntiHero: His initial forays into crime-fighting involved him going out and fighting thugs, mostly taking a beating. Then he got dosed with Mirakuru and went AxCrazy. Now he's graduated out of this and is fighting at Oliver's side as Arsenal, more a traditional hooded hero.
* AppropriatedAppellation: Ted Grant's former sidekick tried to warn Roy against following the Arrow too much, saying that he would treat Roy as nothing but "a weapon in his arsenal". When Roy told Oliver about this, they made "Arsenal" his codename.
* TheAtoner: Upon remembering that he killed a cop under the influence of Mirakuru, he started helping the cop's family in the shadows.
* AxCrazy: Through the Mirakuru, he is a lot more dangerous to be around, going as far as breaking Oliver's leg and also killing a police officer with one of Oliver's arrows.
* BadassBaritone: Has a deep voice and one of the show's badass characters.
* BadassInDistress: When he's kidnapped by the Savior, and when he's kidnapped by Brother Blood.
* BeAllMySinsRemembered: Believes he's a horrible person and is surprised when there are people who think he's worth saving.
* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: Goes from beaten and bloodied to looking no worse for the wear in about twenty minutes in "Salvation".
* BelligerentSexualTension: His and Thea's initial interaction was almost full of bickering.
* BreakHisHeartToSaveHim: During mid-to-late Season Two, he breaks up with Thea so she won't get hurt by being around him, as his Mirakuru powers have begun to spiral almost out of control. It backfires big-time when she gets kidnapped by Slade, and he furiously calls Oliver out for ordering him to do this. Again, the same thing happen only he had faked his death and moved away from Staring to be away from her.
* BrokenBird: His cynicism stems from his crappy life. He becomes more broken after losing his home and friends in the earthquake.
* BrokenPedestal: ZigZagged towards the Arrow. He's furious when the guy shoots him in the leg, but after finding out Oliver is the Arrow, he forgives him. In "Deathstroke", however, he gets frustrated with Oliver's decisions and no-one questioning them, even if they may not be right. He's also probably bitter over Oliver forcing him to break up with Thea. He's also suffering Mirakuru-madness at this point...
* BroughtDownToBadass: In "Unthinkable", he's depowered from Mirakuru, but in the same episode, he finally takes up a bow alongside Oliver.
* ChronicHeroSyndrome: Part of his character arc and a main source of his conflict with Thea.
* CivvieSpandex: During his first official outing as a bow-wielding masked vigilante, he's just wearing his trademark red hoodie and jeans. Justified as there was no time to make him a costume as Starling was under siege by Slade's Mirakuru army at that time.
* ColorCodedCharacters: Wears red most of the time, likely foreshadowing his role as the Arrow's partner. When he takes up the mantle as Arsenal, he wears a red hood and mask, with red bow and arrows to match.
* CompositeCharacter: Of Roy Harper and Connor Hawke; he has Roy's name and personality, but is more of a fighter than an archer and gains superpowers, including healing abilities, against his will like Connor.
* TheCorruption: After waking up and being nearly killed by Slade, the Mirakuru practically takes over him, making it even more urgent for Team Arrow to find the Mirakuru antidote.
* DanceBattler: His fighting style as Arsenal involves a lot of flipping and stuff. Very fancy.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: It's mostly hinted at, but he does have a criminal record and appears to have lost someone dear to him.
* DeathFakedForYou: He ends up having his death faked in order to escape prison and free Oliver from his accusations of being the Arrow.
* DecompositeCharacter:
** His comic counterpart's drug problem was given to Thea (pre-to actual Season 1) and Laurel (Season 2), though he technically did have one in the show itself in the form of Mirakuru.
** Roy in the comics is also known to do occasional work for the government, has a young daughter, (for a while) used guns when in combat, and was Oliver's first partner in crime fighting, all traits that Arrow!Roy currently lacks...but are found in Diggle. Back in Season 1, long before Roy took the name officially, some fans even suspected Diggle would use the codename Arsenal.
* DemotedToExtra: Becomes a recurring character in Season 4, with only one appearance.
* DidNotGetTheGirl: With Thea. They were in a serious relationship for much of Season 1 and all of Season 2 but were separated during Season 3 and after a brief reunion, he had to go on the run and encouraged her to live a life without him.
* DontYouDarePityMe: Played with. He uses the pity card when he wants something, but becomes irritated when it actually produces positive results.
* DualWielding: Has a pair of batons for melee combat.
* EmpoweredBadassNormal: Becomes this after being injected with and living through the [[PsychoSerum Mirakuru]].
* FragileSpeedster: An extremely fast fighter who utilizes LeParkour a lot more than Oliver, but being stabbed once can severely hurt him, and he doesn't wear armor. Lessened greatly after he gets Mirakuru, but not too much. While he's still fast and now ''very'' strong, a knife or bullet can easily go through him. His training with Oliver, however, seems to be improving his abilities.
* HairTriggerTemper: A side effect of Mirakuru; even a stranger mouthing off to him can get him in a killing mood.
* {{Hallucinations}}: After waking up out of a Slade-induced coma, he suffers from a warped hallucination of Thea telling him to kill her. In season 3, he starts having lucid dreams that he was the one who killed Sara, but the team is able to discover that Sara's death was fusing with the memory of the cop he killed in a Mirakuru rage, not that that makes him feel any better.
* HealingFactor: According to Oliver, this is the ''only'' benefit of Mirakuru.
* HeartbrokenBadass: Becomes one after he is forced to end the relationship with Thea. Even more after Thea leaves with Malcolm Merlyn.
* HeroicSacrifice: Near the end of Season 3. When Oliver is outed in the public as the Arrow and is arrested, Roy dressed himself in Oliver's vigilante gear and claimed [[IAmSpartacus he's the real Arrow to take the fall.]]
* HeroicWannabe: His arc in late Season 1 to mid Season 2 concerns him rushing to where ever The Hood/The Arrow is without second thoughts. When Oliver finally notices, he makes him his "eyes and ears" but Roy still insists on going into the action.
* TheInformant: The Arrow gives him this role so that he won't get himself killed.
* InSeriesNickname: Has been repeatedly called Abercrombie.[[note]][[DontExplaintheJoke Due to looking like an Abercrombie and Fitch model. Which the actor actually was in real life.]][[/note]]
* InstantExpert: Downplayed. He has years in the streets before his TrainingFromHell from Oliver. But only barely a year after that, he was able to beat Nyssa Al-Ghul, a {{Tykebomb}} trained since early childhood., with ease.
* InTheHood: Roy wears a red hoodie as a disguise. Then as Arsenal he wears a red version of Oliver's hood and mask.
* IOweYouMyLife: How he feels about Oliver/The Arrow ever since he rescued him. It's not just for the fact that the Arrow saved his life, but for the fact that the Arrow considered him worth saving him, showing him he could be more than a petty criminal.
-->'''Roy:''' Last year you rescued me. And not just from the guy who kidnapped me. You gave me purpose.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Steals Thea's purse, uses his fake sob story to get away without criminal charges, and blows off her later attempt to help him get a job...but then picks a fight with three armed guys to rescue her fast enough that he had to be following her. Then denies being her friend to the doctor stitching him up.
* JustifiedCriminal: Double subverted. His story about needing money for his sick mother's medical bills was made up to get out of trouble for stealing Thea's purse, but he later says he ''can't'' get a job because nobody wants to hire a high-school dropout with a criminal record.
* KnightInSourArmour: He grew up in [[CrapsackWorld the Glades]] and has no visible family and ''knows'' how bad life can get. Nevertheless, he's devoted himself to fighting for good.
* LeeroyJenkins: Had a tendency to just jump at scenarios involving Oliver and his team with little or no plan. Even when he officially joins them in Season 2, he had a knack of just barging in at their opponents. No longer the case starting Season 3.
* LeParkour: A large part of his combat style.
* LimitedWardrobe: He only wore his trademark hoodie, jeans and black shirt throughout the first season.
* LoveMakesYouCrazy: It's implied that breaking up with Thea is what makes the Mirakuru take over.
* MeaningfulName: Roy has become a multi-weapons master by Season 3.
* MrFanservice: He has his fair share of {{Shirtless Scene}}s and is even played by a former model.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: When he finally remembers that he killed a cop under the influence of Mirakuru near the end of Season 2.
* NiceGuy: In early seasons he was firmly in the JerkWithAHeartOfGold territory and evolves into a genuine nice guy by Season 3, having worked through his anger issues and the huge chip on his shoulder.
* NeverGotToSayGoodbye: [[spoiler: Due to CommutingOnABus, he is the only other former member of Team Arrow to not be in Laurel's side during her last moments. The other was her sister Sara, who is [[Series/LegendsOfTomorrow busy time travelling]].]]
* NobleDemon: He's a thief, but he's perfectly willing to help out people who seem defenseless in the Glades outside of his thieving, even putting his life on the line.
* OutOfFocus: Ironically has gotten much less character focus after becoming part of Team Arrow. This is likely because he has completed his goal of following in the Arrow's footsteps and doesn't have much else to do afterwards besides help him. He's put back into focus in the last half of season three.
* ParentalAbandonment: His mom suffered from the effects of Vertigo, [[FreudianExcuse causing him to steal]] just to pay for his mother's medical bills. This allows him to get off the hook from stealing Thea's purse. When she finds him, it proves to have been a lie. However, he lost ''someone'' important in his past, which ''may'' have inspired this lie and his parents are certainly nowhere to be seen.
* PintsizedPowerhouse: 5'7 on a good day. Easily one of the best fighters on the show.
* PromotedToOpeningTitles: Got promoted to series regular for Season Two.
* PsychoSerum: Got dosed with Mirakuru and survived.
* PutOnABus: Near the end of Season 3 after his actor's contract was up. Both WordOfGod and his actor said that he will be CommutingOnABus often.
* RageAgainstTheMentor: In "Deathstroke", Roy calls Ollie out for their failure to capture Slade and for telling him to break up with Thea in the wrongful belief she would be safer. [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere Then he quits the team and leaves Starling City]].
* RedemptionQuest: His hunt for the Vigilante.
* RedIsHeroic: His signature red hoody becomes his actual costume as Arsenal.
* ReformedCriminal: Started out as a petty criminal, before deciding to follow in the Hood's footsteps.
* RescueRomance: With Thea.
* SecretKeeper: As of "Tremors", he's one of the few non-evil people who know Oliver's secret identity.
* SexEqualsLove: His relationship with Thea.
* {{Sidekick}}: He starts as an informant to the Arrow, then after being dosed with Mirakuru, Oliver tries to have him be his sidekick, but finds that he is too unstable. After being cured, he's fully suited and masked as the Arrow's true sidekick, though Oliver calls him a partner.
* SixthRanger: Helps Team Arrow occasionally since CommutingOnABus.
* SuperStrength: Strong enough to punch through metal blast-proof shielding in one try when on Mirakuru.
* SuperToughness: Though it's less shown than his other PsychoSerum attributes when on Mirakuru.
* TheTeamWannabe: He relentlessly pursued The Hood after he rescued him. He ultimately got his attention and appointed him as his "eyes and ears" on the Glades. However, Roy keeps insisting to be Oliver's field partner. Oliver doesn't want to but he was forced to comply due to Roy being injected with Mirakuru just so he can keep an eye on him. Oliver ultimately learned to take the kid in though and gave him a formal introduction to fellow Team Arrow members Felicity and Diggle. By Season 3 Roy has built his own friendship with them.
* TroubledButCute: He grew up in the Glades, is a high school dropout, and has quite a long rapsheet, but darn if he isn't gorgeous.
* TookALevelInBadass: Between seasons 2 and 3. He was already a tough guy with LeParkour skills, but by the time he's Arsenal he's become a multi-weapons master, is a better fighter, and more. In "The Offer," he manages to beat Nyssa without his gear or getting hit, and in "Public Enemy," fights two League of Assassins members at once, while Laurel and Ollie only fight one each.
* TookALevelInKindness: Introduced solidly as a JerkWithAHeartOfGold, he ended up as a genuine NiceGuy by Season 3.
* VigilanteMan: Season Two shows that he's taken this up in the Arrow's absence. In the third season, he's graduated to a full member of Team Arrow as codename Arsenal.
* YouCantGoHomeAgain: Due to him FakingTheDead for Oliver after taking the blame as "The Arrow", he has to leave Starling City or else the SCPD (or rather, Quentin Lance) will gun for Oliver again.
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Laurel Lance]]

!![[ComicBook/BlackCanary Dinah Laurel Lance]]
[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/lance_laurel_1427.jpg]][[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/2a2d070725cc0bf44256a54cdcae3c02.jpg]][[caption-width-right:350:''"I'm the justice you can't run from."'']]
->'''Played By:''' Creator/KatieCassidy
->'''Known Alias:''' ComicBook/BlackCanary

Oliver's ex-girlfriend, Laurel is a lawyer for the City Necessary Resources Initiative ([[MythologyGag CNRI]]) in Season One and an Assistant District Attorney in Season Two, until she began to expand her role into a vigilante in Season Three.
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* ActionGirl: "Lone Gunman" showed that her father taught her some decent fighting skills. By the end of season three she has really started to fall into the role of Black Canary.
* ActionSurvivor: There's no doubt that Laurel is a badass, but she does seem to end up the target for some very nasty people -- Jason Brodeur, Cyrus Vanch, Mr. Blank, the Dollmaker. This eventually starts to take a toll on her psychologically by Season Two. In Season Three she decides to do something about it.
* AdaptationalAngstUpgrade: Like many characters in the show, her dilemma has been highlighted '''a lot'''.
* AdaptationalModesty: Her Black Canary costume is perhaps the most covered up version of the character's costume to date. She occasionally makes up for it with most of her civilian outfits though.
* AdaptationalSexuality: Her comic counterpart is BiTheWay according to WordOfGay. She's only been with men in the show and her bisexuality was given to her sister Sara instead. She got a FemaleGaze from Nyssa in early Season 3 though, and pretty much her only relationship arc in season three comes from bonding with said character, however she herself never expresses any interest in women.
* AdaptationalWimp: Due to being the Black Canary in the comics, who was one of the best fighters in the DCU. Here, she starts off as the go-to damsel with occasional bursts of badassery, [[TookALevelInBadass before taking training]] with Ted Grant and Nyssa Al-Ghul, and later becoming Oliver's sparring partner, to the point she can now fight League Assassins without problem. Even in spite of this, though, she is still a far-cry from her comic book counterpart. [[spoiler: Sadly, she never reaches her original counterpart's credibility either since she's abruptly killed by Damien Darhk.]]
** The Canary Cry ability also counts as this; in the comics, its an incredibly powerful sonic attack that Dinah often avoided using ''because'' it was so powerful, able to destroy buildings and cause deafness if used improperly. Here, its essentially a temporary stun that does little to no damage in a fight and mostly just announces she's there, and almost everyone she uses it on shrugs it off rather quickly. Funnily enough, when it was just a device Sara used, it was ''much'' more powerful.
* AdaptationNameChange: Averted but still played with. She is called Laurel Lance, but her real name is acknowledged as [[ComicBook/BlackCanary Dinah Laurel Lance]] as was in the comics (She's named Dinah after her mother).
* AdaptationSpeciesChange: In the comics, Laurel is a Metahuman whose power is the [[MakeMeWannaShout Canary Cry]]. Here, she's still an ordinary human as of Season 4 and the Canary Cry is just a sonic device attached to a choker she wears.
* AesopAmnesia:
** At the end of Season 2, mere minutes after meeting Team Arrow she demands they take her into the field with them and sneaks out when Oliver refuses...apparently forgetting that putting herself in dangerous situations rather than staying somewhere safe is exactly what got Tommy killed in the Season 1 finale and caused her guilt spiral and alcoholism.
** At the beginning of Season 4, she tells John that he shouldn't keep secrets from the team since it causes nothing but problems. She then ignores her own advice, when [[spoiler: she discretely decides to bring Sara back to life via the Lazarus Pit]].
* TheAlcoholic: In Season Two, Laurel resorts to drinking and popping pills in order to cope with Tommy's death and her overall guilt.
* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: Noted as a tendency with Laurel by Tommy. This makes her relationship with Tommy all the more rocky since she's uncomfortable with a normal relationship and he worries that her closeness with the Hood might result in her falling for the Hood. Played with in Season Two when her relationship with the Arrow sours. It later improves, but not to the point it was in Season One.
* AlliterativeName: Her real name is Dinah Laurel Lance, but she usually goes by her middle name. See AdaptationNameChange.
* AllLoveIsUnrequited: [[spoiler: Reveals on her deathbed that she still considers Oliver the love of her life even though he's utterly in love with Felicity at this point.]]
* AloofDarkHairedGirl: She holds herself at a distance from most people and has had little social life over the course of the show, thanks to her BrokenBird status. Best seen with her unfortunate dismissive attitude towards Diggle and especially Felicity when she interacts with them, viewing them as Oliver's staff.
* AmicableExes: She and Oliver "struggled" to be this throughout the series, with their past relationship, Tommy, Sara returning, [[spoiler: Laurel's attempts to become a vigilante]] and [[spoiler: raising Sara from the dead]] getting in the way. By early Season 4 they seem to have finally reconciled as friends.
* AnguishedDeclarationOfLove: [[spoiler:Admits to having always loved Oliver, even if he didn't feel the same, while heavily injured after being stabbed by Darhk.]]
* AnnoyingArrows: Averted. [[spoiler: She gets seriously injured by one of Oliver's arrows stolen by Darhk and impaled. This leads to her death afterwards.]]
* ArcSymbol: Hallways are heavily associated with her and are present in many of her major scenes, signifying her character's frequent habit of entering different (and often complicated) situations. [[spoiler: She was also fatally stabbed at an underground prison hallway.]]
* ArcWords: "Always trying to save the world", which not only foreshadows her becoming a superhero, but her ChronicHeroSyndrome in general.
* BadassArmfold: She's fond of doing this, a trait carrying over from the comics.
* BadassBoast: When she makes her first outing as Black Canary:
-->'''Mook''': Who are you?
-->'''Laurel''': I'm the justice you can't run from.
* BaitAndSwitch: [[spoiler: After being seriously injured by Darhk, it seems that Laurel might make a full recovery after receiving medical treatment. Only for her to die later from internal injuries that her surgery was unable to fix.]]
* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: [[spoiler: For a woman who's been beaten, impaled, and bleeding out, she sure does look fine after death.]]
* BelligerentSexualTension: With Oliver in the beginning.
* BikerBabe: Starting Season 4.
* BrainyBrunette: She's a very competent lawyer. She was most of the legal force behind CNRI in the first season, and actually shows her chops in season two with the prosecutor's office.
* BreakTheCutie: Her sister's death. Then Tommy's. Then her sister's death again. She's also dealt with alcoholism, her father's poor health, keeping her sister's death a secret from her father in order to ensure his health, and had to deal with a humiliating attempt at vigilantism that left her beaten and broken.
* BrokenBird:
** She doesn't have much of a social life in the first season. It gets worse in the second. In the third, she starts putting herself together in what the Creators have promised will lead to her becoming the Black Canary.
** Laurel is a very competent lawyer who's still recovering from her sister's death and her mother leaving.
** Made even worse in Season Two with Tommy's death and the incredible guilt she feels for it.
* BrokenPedestal:
** For the Arrow after Tommy's death, though she admits at the end of "Broken Dolls" that she was just projecting her own guilt onto him. Gets [[RebuiltPedestal rebuilt]] near the end of Season 2 though.
** She is this to Oliver after he discovers her drug addiction. This, coupled with him dating her sister whom he cheated on her before with, is what greatly strained their relationship. While they got better, it's effects are still felt even by Season 4.
* CallingTheOldManOut: More than once, but most notably when her father uses her to try and catch the Hood in "Betrayal", she gives him a well-deserved calling out. Subverted in the second season when she develops problems with alcohol and pills, and she deflects her father's concern by throwing his own past problems back in his face.
* CantCatchUp: Is hit hard with this in Season 3 when she tries to join Team Arrow, but can't match Oliver's half a decade of TrainingFromHell, or even Diggle's years of army experience and Roy's history of street-fighting/parkour.
* CartwrightCurse: Oliver was stranded on an island for five years, Tommy died saving her life, Sebastian Blood was working for Slade Wilson and experimenting on people in the Glades and Ted Grant was last seen badly injured by Brick's men. She may not be as bad as Oliver but her relationships have not ended well for the guys involved.
* CassandraTruth: No one believes her about Sebastian Blood -- putting her suspicions down to her substance abuse -- despite her being 100% correct about him (In fairness this is the same season she went on a revenge-driven rampage against the Arrow so it's not surprising people doubt her judgement).
* CelebrityParadox: [[Music/LeonaLewis "Bleeding Love"]] was playing on the background during a Season 1 flashback with her and Oliver. The song was written by her actress' ex Music/JesseMcCartney [[BreakupSong after they broke up]]. Interestingly, said flashback scene was before Oliver cheated on her with Sara.
* CharacterDeath: [[spoiler: At the end of ''Eleven Fifth Nine'' Laurel is stabbed by one of Oliver's arrows curtesy of Damien Darhk and dies from complications after surgery.]]
* ChildhoodFriendRomance: With Oliver and Tommy.
* ColorCharacter: Her super hero alias is ''Black'' Canary.
* CompositeCharacter: Her job makes her more similar to [[ComicBook/{{Manhunter}} Comic!Kate Spencer]] (who ironically ''[[InNameOnly was]]'' her boss) than her comic counterpart.
* CoolBigSis: She acts as an older sister figure to Thea in Season 1 and 4. She and her own sister Sara had a rather rocky relationship early on (including Sara sleeping with Laurel's boyfriend and Laurel blaming Sara for ruining her life) but she seems to become this by the end of Season 2.
* CrusadingLawyer: In Season One, she worked for a legal aid office and only took on cases where innocent people had been abused by the system.
-->'''Laurel:''' If we can't win a class-action suit against a man who swindled hundreds of people out of their homes and life savings, then we're not fit to call ourselves a legal aid office.
* DaddysGirl: Far, far closer to her father than to her mother, because her mother left the family after Sara died (due to her own guilt about knowing Sara was going on the boat with Oliver and not stopping her).
* DamselInDistress: Often needs rescuing, especially in Season 1. However, [[DamselOutOfDistress she remains capable of defending herself given the opening]].
* DatingWhatDaddyHates: Seems to make a habit of it.
* DeadpanSnarker: Snarks a lot, particularly at Oliver's expense.
* DeathByAdaptation: [[spoiler: Most incarnations of Black Canary live long enough to become Green Arrow's girlfriend (sometimes wife and even ex-wife) and join the Justice League. Laurel ends up killed off by Damien Darhk when he escapes prison.]]
* DeathByIrony: [[spoiler: Laurel announces that she's retiring from her superhero mantle after one last job with Team Arrow. She ends up killed thanks to Damien Darhk impaling her with an arrow and dying later in a hospital after a complicated surgery fails to save her.]]
* DecompositeCharacter: ZigZagged. She apparently shares the role of ComicBook/BlackCanary with her sister, Sara. However, Laurel's canonical predecessor was actually her mother, meaning Sara is a Decomposite of their mother, Dinah, instead. However, Laurel's bisexuality, role as part of a BattleCouple with Oliver, interest in botany and mentoring Sin were all present in Sara.
* DefrostingIceQueen: Towards Oliver in Season One and the Arrow in Season Two.
* TheDeterminator: In Season One she's shown to do just about anything to help her clients win cases. At the beginning of Season Two, it's her mission to bring down the Arrow, and she will go to any lengths to stop him, even setting up a police sting at her office.
* DidntThinkThisThrough: Seems to be a habitual flaw of hers, with everything surrounding [[spoiler:Sara's death and revival]] being a particular example. She kept [[spoiler:Sara's death a secret from her father]] thinking [[spoiler:his heart]] might be too weak to take it, only for [[spoiler:him to discover the truth anyway which set him on the path to becoming an UnwittingPawn for the BigBad of season 3]]. Then she [[spoiler:goes ahead and secretly revives Sara with the Lazarus Pit in spite of the warnings from Malcolm and Nyssa and the clear evidence with Thea that said warnings weren't just hot air. This results in a soulless Sara violently lunging after Thea, having to be knocked out and chained up in both Nanda Parbat and Star City, breaking free from said constraints anyway, attacking and killing random women who happen to look like Thea, finally finding Thea and trying to strangle her to death about 3 or 4 times. If it wasn't for the ContrivedCoincidence upon ContrivedCoincidence that was Oliver's suddenly revealed past with [[Series/{{Constantine}} John Constantine]], Sara wouldn't have stopped until Thea was dead at her hands and she still wouldn't have her soul back. If Laurel deflection about Oliver's judgment and semi-hypocrisy[[note]]he used the Lazarus Pit on Thea, though she had either just died or been on the brink of death and thus her soul was still intact unlike Sara who'd been dead for over a year[[/note]] and the fact that Oliver was the one fixing the problem and apologizing in the end is any indication,]] it's highly unlikely she'll learn from this.
* DramaQueen: She's infamously known for being a walking angst magnet. To be fair, she does have valid reasons for being upset and she is starting to get better late in Season 3. She briefly reverts back to this in Season 4, but caused a whole new load of drama [[spoiler: by reviving soulless Sara]].
* DrowningMySorrows: After all the trauma she's gone through at the end of the first season and into the second, she's not only turning into an alcoholic, but also taking pills with her drinks.
* DualTonfas: Her WeaponOfChoice.
* DyingDeclarationOfLove: [[spoiler: She confesses to having always been in love with Oliver just minutes before flatlining.]]
* EasilyForgiven: In Season 3 Team Arrow never even comment that it was her lying about Sara's death that caused Quentin to go on a rampage against the Arrow, even though it results in Roy almost getting killed in prison and going on the run for the rest of his life. Likewise in Season 4, her resurrecting Sara against all warning leads to several innocent people getting attacked or killed - including Thea - and Oliver has to risk his life to save Sara's soul. Naturally the arc ends with him apologizing to Laurel and complimenting her for being such a valuable member of the team.
* ExpositoryHairstyleChange: Starting the series as an AloofDarkHairedGirl, her hair color gradually becomes lighter, matching her DefrostingIceQueen CharacterDevelopment.
* FingerlessGloves: The gloves of her costume is clearly patterned on MMA fighting gloves.
* {{Foil}}: To her father, especially in Season Two. They both have the same character flaws, but while Quentin realizes this and seeks help, Laurel is too wrapped up in her own hurt to accept that she has a problem -- [[LikeFatherLikeSon a complete flip of their personalities from Season One]].
* ForceAndFinesse: Her and Sara's fighting styles can be described this way. Sara prefers to fight more gracefully thanks to her years of training (Finesse) while Laurel has a more smash-mouth style of fighting fitting her IncompletelyTrained nature. (Force).
* ForgotFlandersCouldDoThat: The writers seem to have forgotten that she already has basic combat training when she officially began her Black Canary arc in Season 3 and portrayed her as if she's some kind of a newbie. It wasn't until it's ''near the end of the season'' where they remembered it.
* TheGloriousWarOfSisterlyRivalry: Prior to the start of the series, she fell into the Smart Sister category, a rarer older sister variety. Still, both she and Sara had some crossover. Sara reveals that Laurel apparently went after Oliver knowing her sister had a crush on him (though what Laurel felt at the time is unclear, as we only have Sara's side of the story). However, Laurel feels tremendous guilt and grief (and rage) over Sara's deaths.
* {{Gaslighting}}: She is put through this after she begins to uncover the truth about Sebastian Blood. It ends with her losing her job and Oliver losing his faith in her, even though she was right.
* GirlinessUpgrade: Flashback shows her being more of a classical {{Shorttank}} compared to her more feminine self in the present day scenes.
* GoneHorriblyRight: [[spoiler:Quentin, Oliver and most of Team Arrow spent most of Season Three warning her against becoming a vigilante. In Season Four, they've fully accepted her as the Black Canary with Quentin even acknowledging she made the right decision. Then she's killed in action.]]
* GoodIsNotSoft: She's generally kind to those around her and has made a career of helping those who need it most, but that doesn't mean she'll let the bad guys get away with abusing people. She's also harsh and stand-offish with a lot of people, namely Oliver and her father, but also Tommy early Season One, then Sara and briefly Felicity in Season Two.
* HellBentForLeather: Her Canary outfit is notably much more leather-y than Sara's. Malcolm even snarkily refers to it as her ''Bondage Outfit'' at one point.
* HelloAttorney: Until "Blind Spot", when she's fired by the Assistant DA, and is disbarred in "Tremors" until "Birds of Prey" when she is re-installed as one, via subtle {{Blackmail}} against Kate Spencer.
* HeroicWannabe: Her Season 3 arc concerns her wanting to be a badass vigilante like Sara, Oliver and Team Arrow, but lacking the skills - and often the logical thinking - to manage it. Several episodes have her rushing off to confront someone (a domestic abuser, Malcolm) and then other characters then having to bail her out of trouble. She also shows hints of this back in Season 2 when she admits she's jealous of how strong and powerful Sara has become and Oliver considering Diggle and Felicity his partners and not her.
* HollywoodLaw: As a lawyer a lot of what happens is really unrealistic. From the Laurel being in charge of prosecuting Moira's case to her being disbarred.
* {{Hypocrite}}: A really nasty trait of hers. In season 1 she would tell her dad not to blame Oliver for Sara's presumed death then blame him whenever the two argued. In Season 2 she blamed the Arrow for Tommy's death that she later admitted was her fault. Then in Season 3 she keeps Sara's actual death a secret from her dad, because she's afraid the shock would kill him. When he finds out he's ticked off. So when Laurel finds out Oliver's been keeping the identity of Sara's killer secret for similar reasons she too chews him out. She also tells Oliver that he can't hold her accountable because she doesn't "work" for him but frequently expects him to help her out of any trouble she gets herself into. In Season 4 she advises Diggle to tell the others about Darhk being the one who called Deadshot on his brother, all the while [[spoiler: reviving Sara via the Lazarus Pit despite knowing it'll have adverse effects. Sure enough when Sara is revived as a souless killer, Laurel refuses to tell anyone for a week because she doesn't want Oliver's "judgement".]]
* IceQueen: She starts off rather cold and icy, especially towards Oliver. But she eventually starts to mellow out as the series progresses; see DefrostingIceQueen. At the start of Season Two she's icy towards the Arrow, but not Oliver; she resolves this somewhat after "Broken Dolls", only to start getting icier toward her family as she becomes TheAlcoholic. In Season Three she ices up again thanks to Sara's death and Oliver's refusal to let her join Team Arrow.
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: [[spoiler: Damien Darhk impales her with one of Oliver's arrows.]]
* IncompletelyTrained: She has mostly basic self defense and combat skills, but she didn't received the advanced training that Oliver, Sara, Roy and Thea do. This becomes a plot point on her journey to become Black Canary during the middle of Season 3 as she CantCatchUp with most of them but insists on running around on the streets anyway, resulting in the team having to save her on several occasions. It wasn't until she was trained by Nyssa Al-Ghul when she improved, though she's still not up to her predecessor's standards.
* InstantExpert: ZigZagged. Early Season Three episodes show her realistically failing in her vigilante attempts, but it only takes a few episodes of after-work boxing lessons to hit the streets and be jumping out of windows onto waiting helicopters. Likewise her training with Nysaa has her being beaten by common street thugs one episode and taking on world class assassins the next. All in all, it takes her a few months to become a fully-fledged vigilante while Roy and Thea took half a year or more, and Oliver, Diggle and Sara had years of training.
* ItsAllAboutMe: For the first two seasons she compares her experiences with Oliver and Sara's five years of constant hell and torture, and [[spoiler: come Season 4 she revives a souless, feral Sara resulting in several innocent people being attacked and killed, including Thea]] and when Oliver tries to clear up the mess Laurel's response is to complain he never thinks about ''her'' feelings.
* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: [[spoiler: Shortly before she dies]] Laurel tells Oliver that he [[OneTrueLove will always be the love of her life]] but knows that he has moved on and wishes him the best in his relationship with Felicity.
* JumpedAtTheCall: Although Ollie, Diggle, Roy, her father... ''Everyone'' tries to stop her from going vigilante in the wake of Sara's death, she's determined to do ''something''. And when the Arrow disappears mid-season three, Felicity does come around to supporting her and the others realize they need help. By the end of the season even Oliver has mellowed out somewhat. [[spoiler: Tragically the concerns about her putting herself in danger turn out to be right as she's killed in Season 4.]]
* KarmaHoudini: In Season 3 she lies to Quentin about Sara's death and drags the rest of Team Arrow into her secret-keeping despite their advice to tell the truth. When Quentin finds out he goes completely off the rails at being kept in the dark for ''months'', blames ''Oliver'' for lying to him and leads an anti-Arrow taskforce to arrest him. Roy takes the fall for Oliver and - after being brutally attacked in prison - fakes his death and is forced to go on the run seemingly for the rest of his life. Neither he or the rest of Team Arrow blame Laurel for her part in the situation (or the fact she didn't defend them to Quentin) and Laurel ends up finally get accepted onto the team since they're now in need of new vigilante help. Likewise in Season 4 Laurel [[spoiler: revives Sara via the Lazarus Pit despite Nyssa and Malcolm's warnings, refuses to tell anyone when Sara goes on a rampage and attacks innocent people including Thea and blames Oliver for the situation. Eventually Oliver fixes her mistake, refuses to distance himself from her like his political adviser suggested and then affirms how important Laurel is to him and the team.]]
* KickingAssInAllHerFinery: In her first scene in the Season Two premiere, Laurel disarms a bad guy and throws him down the stairs -- all while wearing a gorgeous full-length red dress. Probably heels, too. Season 3 turns this into kicking ass with her finery... using her heels to stab a thug in the arm.
* KillTheCutie: [[spoiler: One of nicest characters on the team ends up brutally killed by Damien Darhk.]]
* LadyInRed: She is seen wearing a form-fitting red dress in "City of Heroes" and again in "Crucible".
* LeeroyJenkins: Has a tendency to just barge into fights without a plan, compared to the more tactical Oliver, Diggle, Felicity and Sara. Especially prominent during Season 3 when she attacks a woman's abusive partner with a baseball bat and goes after Malcolm alone and has to be saved by Nyssa.
* LegacyCharacter: She dons the mantle of Canary after Sara's death.
* LethalChef: Her diet seems to consist mostly of takeout, delivery, and eating out at restaurants; according to Oliver and Tommy, that's for a ''very'' good reason. However, she can make a good mac and cheese.
-->'''Oliver:''' Thank God she didn't cook.\\
'''Tommy:''' Amen.
* LikeFatherLikeSon: They have fairly similar personalities and both are very concerned with justice – even if they don't always see eye-to-eye about how to obtain it. They both also struggle with substance abuse. Quentin is trying to help her despite her pushing him away because he sees his actions mirrored in her.
* TheLostLenore:[[spoiler: For Oliver. While he is at the time of her death [[RelationshipRevolvingDoor ''with'' Felicity]], his reaction and utter despair that he couldn't save her at her funeral makes it clear that while Felicity may be the love of his life, he never stopped loving Laurel either.]]
** [[spoiler: In a way becomes this for the entire team. Unlike Sara, Laurel isn't coming back from the land of the dead.]]
* LovelyAngels: With Thea starting Season 4.
* LoveMakesYouStupid: [[spoiler: Uses the Lazarus Pit to revive Sara, despite all the warnings that while it could save a person ''nearly'' dying, there's no guarantee it could save someone actually '''dead'''. The result is a feral Sara, whom Laurel is convinced will be back to normal in time.]]
* LoveMartyr: To Oliver when they dated. Flashbacks establish that Oliver cheated on her repeatedly and was an immature douchebag who only cared about himself, but Laurel still stayed with him. [[spoiler: Revealed to be this to the end, when her deathbed confession is that she still considers Oliver as the love of her life, even though he's treated her incredibly callously and lied to her constantly since he returned.]]
* LovesMyAlterEgo:
** Played with. Given her conversations with Oliver-as-Arrow in "An Innocent Man", it looks like she's starting to side with him and maybe even fall for him. Then she witnesses him giving a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown to a man who had just tried to kill her, which terrifies her. She later realizes it was because he was trying to protect her, and starts falling for him again. At the start of Season Two, she blames the Arrow for Tommy's death and is set on arresting him. However, she drops this at the end of "Broken Dolls", and in "Blind Spot", she asks him for help with bringing down Sebastian Blood.
** In "Deathstroke", Slade tells her Oliver is the Arrow, and by the time of "City of Blood", she has come to fully accept his motives and methods.
* MakeMeWannaShout: Thanks to [[Series/TheFlash2014 Cisco]], who was able to modify one of Sara's sonic devices, she is able to obtain her "Canary Cry". It generates a non-lethal sonic wave, that Laurel attaches on to her neck to produce a high frequency (like a sonic scream). Cisco also quadrupled the range of the sonic blast and tripled the resonance.
* MasterOfNone: An additional issue with her training in Season Three, while Laurel gets general boxing/hand to hand combat training the rest of Team Arrow have unique vigilante skills to contribute. Oliver is a master archer and has a whole slew of survival skills from the island, Diggle has specialized military and tactical training, Felicity is the team's only hacker/computer specialist, Roy has a background in parkour and street fighting and Thea has extensive League of Assassins training.
* MissingMom: She keeps in touch with her, though, and she comes back in certain situations, first time being in "Dead To Rights".
* MoralityPet: Her genuine friendship with Nyssa is what eventually causes [[spoiler: the disbanding of the League Of Assassins.]]
* MsFanservice: On occasion.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Laurel has a breakdown when she stops blaming the Vigilante for Tommy's death and starts blaming herself. She has another in "Time of Death" after Oliver's furious WhatTheHellHero[=/=]TheReasonYouSuckSpeech to her; she comes to see Sara at Verdant and admits that she really lashed out because seeing her sister alive and healthy showed Laurel how far she'd fallen in comparison, then hugs her and starts crying.
* NeverGotToSayGoodbye: [[spoiler: ZigZagged. While her [[TrueCompanions friends]] sans Roy, Joanna, Nyssa and [[Series/TheFlash2014 Cisco]] were there in her last hours to say their goodbyes, none of her family were.]]
* NeverMyFault: In Season 1 she blamed Oliver for Sara's death, before acknowledging her sister bore some of the responsibility too. In early Season 2 she blamed the Arrow for Tommy's death despite the fact he died rescuing her from a collapsing building she refused to leave. When she admitted this she descended into drugs and alcoholism. In late Season 2 when Sara returned Laurel blamed her for said alcoholism, drugs, losing her job and "everything" that had gone wrong in her life, before apologizing. Come Season 4, [[spoiler: after raising a murderous Sara from the dead]] she blamed the situation on Oliver [[{{IdiotBall}} not telling her about the lazarus pit in the first place.]]
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: At the end of Season One she ignores ''everyones'' warnings to get out of the collapsing Glades, resulting in Tommy having to rescue her and dying in the process. In Season Three her lies to Quentin about Sara's death cause him to go on a vendetta against the Arrow causing poor Roy to take the fall for Oliver. Then in Season Four she [[spoiler: secretly revives a souless Sara despite everyone's warnings who escapes and starts attacking innocent people.]]
* OddFriendship: She and Nyssa Al-Ghul become very close during season three, much to the confusion and disapproval of most of Team Arrow.
* OneNoteCook: She did once say she could make the world's best mac and cheese, and Tommy didn't disagree, only added that it's all she ''can'' make.
* OutOfFocus: During Season 2 when Sara is more prominent, Laurel is only in one or two scenes per episode usually concerning her alcoholism. (And even misses some episodes altogether). Again in the second half of Season 4, when she's only really around as back up during fights or to drop a few lines of support to the team. (Ironically this role saw her gain more popularity than ever before).
* OneSteveLimit: Shares her first name with her mother.
* RelatedInTheAdaptation: Since Sara dons the White Canary identity in ''Series/LegendsOfTomorrow'', this makes the character related to her, Quentin and her mother Dinah by default. In the comics, the White Canary is an unrelated character who is a self-appointed ArchEnemy of Laurel's comic counterpart.
* {{Retirony}}: [[spoiler: In ''Eleven Fifty Nine'' just as she is considering putting away the Black Canary outfit for good and becoming a District Attorney she tries to stop Darhk from acquiring his magic totem with the rest of Team Arrow. The resulting fight leads to her death.]]
* RevengeBeforeReason:
** At the start of Season Two, she blames the Hood/the Arrow for Tommy's death, believing it was a result of being caught in the crossfire between the two archers. However, she abandons this in "Broken Dolls" when she realizes that Tommy only died because he came to save her from the collapsing CNRI building, and suffers an emotional breakdown.
** Again in Season 3: When [[spoiler: she finds out Malcolm was behind Sara's death she attacks him single-handily despite his vast experience and skill over her. If it wasn't for Nyssa she'd have gone the same way as Sara.]]
* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: One of the main reasons she comes to accept help from the Arrow, and she becomes a vigilante in her own right.
* SecretKeeper:
** At the end of "Deathstroke", Slade tells her that Oliver is the Arrow, from which she's able to deduce that Sara is the Canary. In the three-part finale, she finally confronts both of them with the knowledge and officially throws her support behind them.
** Happens again in Season 3 being the only member of her family who knows that Sara is dead, and cannot bring herself to tell her father since it would break his heart.
* ShesGotLegs: Very nice ones, at that. Particularly noticeable when Laurel is walking into the club in "Burned".
* SimpleStaff: Laurel originally used a collapsible quarterstaff as her principal weapon as Canary. She ditched them because DualTonfas suit her smash-mouth style of fighting.
* SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan: For all her reported love of [[AllGirlsWantBadBoys bad boys]], Laurel's relationship with Tommy seems to be this. She wasn't interested before he demonstrated he could be something more than a shallow playboy.
* SpyCatsuit: Her Black Canary costume.
* StatuesqueStunner: She nearly makes the cut at 5'7 1/2. She is the tallest of the main female cast, though (unless the 5'8 Helena Bertinelli and Nyssa Al-Ghul are present).
* SugarAndIcePersonality: She bounces back and forth between being too close to people and pushing them away ''hard''. See BrokenBird.
* TakingUpTheMantle: After her sister's death she tries to take up her mask and weapon to become Black Canary. [[RealityEnsues Problem is, she doesn't have her sister's skills or nearly enough training, so she nearly gets killed many times.]] But her skills began to improve, thanks to additional training sessions with Nyssa al Ghul.
* TheFriendNobodyLikes: To Team Arrow at the beginning of Season 3, as they allow her into the lair only because they're investigating [[spoiler: her sister's death.]] In contrast to the friendly welcome Felicity, Sara and Roy receive, Oliver frequently gets angry and frustrated at her hanging around, Felicity outright points out they're not friends when Laurel demands a favour, and Diggle and Roy are irritated at her butting in with no training. Thankfully she does grow out of this and bonds with the team more.
* TheTeamWannabe: After she finds out about Team Arrow at the end of Season 2, she spends a lot of her screen time trying to join them and take over [[spoiler: Sara's spot]] much to the team's irritation. Given they're a group of [[{{TrueCompanions}} close-knit]] expert fighters and hackers, while Laurel is an untrained, often reckless civilian who has tried to take Oliver down before. Laurel eventually gets her own training from Ted and Nyssa independent from Team Arrow. [[spoiler: By the time Oliver accepts her as a vigilante he, Roy and Felicity have all left the city and are being replaced by Ray and Thea anyway.]]
* TheyKilledKennyAgain: [[spoiler: Her official death is actually her second, the first was being obliterated along with Teams Arrow and Flash sans Barry and the rest of Central City at the hands of Vandal Savage until Barry negated it via TimeTravel.]]
* ThisIsUnforgivable: Quentin doesn't seem to have forgiven her for hiding Sara's death. He still loves her and is protective when push comes to shove, but he openly says that they are basically done. However, at the start of Season 4, it seems they are back on speaking terms while simultaneously working to protect the city.
* ToBeLawfulOrGood: Laurel goes back and forth between the two. She's a lawyer, but in Season One, she supports the Vigilante until he nearly beats someone to death in front of her. She later helps him find justice for people and asks him for help in return. At the start of Season Two, she is determined to see the Vigilante brought to justice, but she later softens enough to refer to him as the Arrow.
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl:
** She and Sara traded roles. Before the yacht incident, Laurel is obviously a {{Shorttank}} whereas Sara is more of a party-type GirlyGirl. After Sara returned in Season 2, she notably toughened up and dresses in OutdoorsyGal and BikerBabe attires while Laurel becomes more of a TomboyWithAGirlyStreak.
** She is the straight-up tomboy to both Thea and Felicity's Girly Girls though.
* TookALevelInBadass: Her season three plot is all about this, first she decides to take up Sara's mask, but after an ass kicking she decides to get training. Oliver refuses but luckily she ends up finding a gym run by an ex-vigilante who starts training her. After Oliver goes missing, Roy takes her on missions and mentions that he too has added himself as one of her mentors. Finally after bonding with each other Nyssa, takes up improving and finishing Laurel's training, who Laurel describes as being "enthusiastic" while she sports a sprained wrist. She takes the most hits of any fighter in the series but she is much better at giving them back now.
* TookALevelInJerkass: As a result of everything that happens to her in Season Two (see TraumaCongaLine), she starts being incredibly nasty to everyone who tries to help her, growing worse as she dips deeper into [[TheAlcoholic alcoholism]]. When Sara ''finally'' reveals that she's alive, Laurel is furious and throws her out of the apartment. However, as of the end of "Time of Death", she seems to be making an effort to change herself.
* TookALevelInKindness: Although she hits a bit of a rough spot at the start of season 4 [[spoiler: with the whole resurrecting Sara thing]] Laurel and Oliver eventually patch up their differences and repair their friendship. She basically becomes the CoolBigSis to the entire group for the remainder of the season and is shown to be a lot more understanding of Oliver's problems and gives him some very helpful advice from time to time.
* TooManyBelts: Her Canary costume is literally more strapped, contrasting Sara's more "loose" one.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Rocky Road flavored ice cream. Also, mac and cheese.
* TraumaCongaLine: Season Two. After Tommy's death at the very end of the previous season, she is coping but clearly not happy. After she's kidnapped by the Dollmaker, her life starts to spiral down with prescription drugs and alcohol. Then she has to prosecute Moira, is the only one who thinks Sebastian Blood is evil, is arrested, is kidnapped again, is completely discredited when her addiction comes to light, loses her job, is about to be disbarred, and is almost killed by a League of Assassins member via snake venom. It's not hard to see why she TookALevelInJerkass. Then Sara dies in front of her.
* {{Tsundere}}: Towards Oliver mostly, usually in response to his own hot and cold actions towards her.
* UndignifiedDeath: [[spoiler: Laurel dies in ''Eleven Fifty Nine'' getting immobilized by Darhk, held helplessly against her will as he stabs an arrow through her, requires Oliver to carry her to the hospital, and dies flat-lining on a stretcher in front of all her friends.]]
* UnexplainedRecovery: A cruel inversion. [[spoiler: She was declared stable by the doctors before suddenly suffering from her fatal seizure.]]
* UnskilledButStrong: While she has some basic strength and endurance, she's a far less skilled fighter than Oliver, Digg, Sara or Roy and mostly just swings her staff like a baseball bat.
* WeaponOfChoice: Discussed, when Laurel insists on using Sara's [[SimpleStaff bo staff]], despite [[AwesomeButImpractical not being proficient with it]]. In the end, she switches to [[DualTonfas batons]], which suits her more unrefined fighting style.
* WhatDoesSheSeeInHim: Quentin wonders this in Season 1, as Oliver cheated on her repeatedly - including with her own sister - when they dated. [[spoiler:In play again in Season 4 when she confesses she still loves Oliver on her deathbed. Given over the seasons Oliver has lied to her about his secret identity, thrown her alcoholism in his face, tried to block her from joining the team and revealed he fathered a secret child while they were together, it's a wonder Laurel still considers him love of her life material.]]
* WhatTheHellHero: Quentin doesn't waste any time calling her out after he finds out that she lied about Sara being dead for months to his face and broke his trust in "The Return".
* WomanInBlack: As [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Black]] Canary.
* TheWorfEffect: [[spoiler: One of the team's most competent action girls ends up murdered thanks to Damien Darhk in order to remind us that he's still a serious threat.]]
* {{Workaholic}}: She has little to no social life outside of work. She picks up the phone in the first season finale and tells her father, "Don't worry, dad, I didn't come in to work." While at work. He replies, "You can't lie to me, of course you're at work. Now please get the hell out of there."
* WorkingWithTheEx: She certainly tries this throughout Season 3 when persuading Oliver to let her become a vigilante and join Team Arrow. Fully in play in Season 4.
* ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend: She might not be dating either of them at the time, but Laurel delivers an ass-kicking to Max Fuller in defense of Oliver and Tommy in "Lone Gunmen".
* YouShouldHaveDiedInstead: In the Pilot, Laurel blames Oliver for her sister's death and tells him this. Oliver later reveals he wished the same thing. In the second season, she blames the Arrow for Tommy's death... then she forgives him and starts blaming herself.
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[[folder: Thea Queen]]
!!Thea Dearden Queen
[[quoteright:300:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/5cd323ec9b16fe8e6987b87017b5f382.JPG]][[quoteright:300:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/speedy.jpg]][[caption-width-right:300:''"A year ago, you told me that you could teach me to be strong. You've made good by that promise."'']]

->'''Played By:''' Creator/WillaHolland
->'''Known Alias:''' Speedy, "Mia"

Oliver's younger sister, Thea is initially a bratty teenager and drug user until being sentenced to do community service by working at CNRI. She later entered a relationship with Roy Harper, and following the events of the Undertaking, became the owner of Verdant. Thea learns Malcolm Merlyn is her real father. After she is resurrected by the Lazarus Pit, Thea then joins her brother's team as a vigilante by her brother's side, with the codename Speedy.
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* ActionSurvivor: In the first season finale, Thea throws a bottle and knocks out a thug who is trying to kill Roy. Graduates to ActionGirl in Season 3.
* AdaptationalAngstUpgrade: Her comic counterpart already has an unfortunate backstory, but the series altered her angst and struggles and emphasize them '''a lot'''.
* AdaptationalEarlyAppearance: Traditionally, Roy Harper should be introduced first before Mia Dearden. Justified though, as RelatedInTheAdaptation (see below) necessitates this.
* AdaptationDyeJob: Mia Dearden is blonde, while Thea is a brunette. This was likely used [[HairColorSpoiler as a plot point]], though.
* AdaptationNameChange: Her comic counterpart's name is Mia. She uses it as an alias, though.
* AgeAppropriateAngst: Her father and brother were LostAtSea, when her brother came BackFromTheDead, he was emotionally distant and crippled with PTSD. She has a reason to be upset about things, even with CharacterDevelopment.
* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: DoubleSubverted with Roy Harper. He doesn't exactly endear himself to her by stealing from her, but his nice attitude helps a bit, and she tries to help him out of his life of crime. However, in spite of his desire to continue thievery, she appears to fall for him after he rescues her from an AttemptedRape.
* AloofDarkHairedGirl: At her worst, Thea can be very rigid.
* AmicableExes: With Roy in Season 3. She gets back together with him in "The Offer," and says to him in "Public Enemy," that she was an idiot for breaking up with him.
* AxeCrazy: Originally, the Lazarus Pit made her unstable for a brief moment of her recovery period. But six months later, the Lazarus Pit after effects have affected her and given her a bloodlust that terrifies Oliver.
* BadassInDistress: [[spoiler: Merlyn has her abducted and held against her will in Damien Darhk's underground city. Fortunately, Oliver and the others come to her rescue.]]
* BareYourMidriff: She does this much more frequently in Season 3.
* BeautyMark: She has a mole on her cheek.
* BelligerentSexualTension: Her and Roy's initial interaction was almost full of bickering.
* BerserkButton:
** Doesn't take well to her family keeping secrets from her. So naturally, everyone in her life is keeping at least one secret from her and the biggest secret in the family is that Thea is the result of an affair between Malcolm Merlyn and Moira Queen.
** She seems to [[CharacterDevelopment have gotten more mature about this]] as seen in "Canaries" when Oliver reveals that he is the Arrow to her she responds with nothing but gratitude, but when Oliver tries to hide the fact that she was brainwashed into killing Sara, she does get somewhat mad, but she does not become overly bitter and angry with him, but keeps on pressing Oliver until he tells her.
* BigBrotherWorship:
** For Oliver before he disappeared. After his return, that worship transforms into an equally-powerful mass of bitterness and anger with him, because of how badly his apparent death [[ItsAllAboutMe hurt her]].
** It's worth considering that a large part of the reason Thea became a [[WhereDidWeGoWrong parental disappointment]], wild party girl, and drug user, besides her stated reasons, may be because ''that's how she remembered her brother'', and she wanted very badly to grow up to be just like him.
** Thanks to CharacterDevelopment, she seems to be far more aware of how horrible the island was. When Roy calls Oliver 'a wimp' for not approving of their hunt for the Hood, Thea points out his ordeal as a counter; she knows the island was horrible, and she has nothing but respect and admiration for Oliver to survive there and seemingly still be sane.
** She no longer looks up to him as of "Deathstroke," having learned that Ollie knew Thea is Malcolm's daughter and kept it from her to keep her "safe". She tells him he's just like their mother. And this was after "Birds of Prey", where she tells him he's the only she can trust because [[DramaticIrony he wasn't keeping secrets]].
** She returns to looking up to him as of "Canaries," after finding out that Ollie is the Arrow and has thus saved her life [[Recap/ArrowS2E1CityofHeroes twi]][[Recap/ArrowS3E4TheMagician ce]] and has saved many other people's lives as well.
* BloodKnight: As a result of her dip in the Lazarus Pit, Thea has cravings to kill people. She is not happy about this.
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: Malcolm drugged her with a substance that basically allows mind control and had her kill Sara. Then ''again'' in order to have her act as one of Darhk's foot soldiers.
* BrainyBrunette: She was able to locate Roy after he stole her purse and she's successfully running Verdant in Season Two.
* BrattyTeenageDaughter: Started out as this, getting incredibly snotty and indignant at the notion that she shouldn't, in fact, be shoplifting, drinking, and getting high in bars at 17, but has gone through some CharacterDevelopment and is much better now.
* BrokenPedestal: Has this for Ollie and Moira now that she knows she's Malcolm's daughter as of "Deathstroke". [[RebuiltPedestal She returns looking up]] to Ollie after finding out his secret identity in "Canaries."
* BrotherSisterIncest: The Thea/Tommy ShipTease has this undertone after the reveal. She realizes how screwed up this is in "The Man Under The Hood".
-->'''Thea:''' You know who else is my half-brother? Tommy. Tommy who I tried to ''kiss''. ... I tried to kiss my half-brother.
* CallingTheOldManOut:
** After Walter disappears and Moira retreats into her bedroom, Thea calls her mother out on her selfish behavior.
** She does it again to Malcolm in "The Return," when she finds out that he brainwashed her into killing Sara.
* CanonCharacterAllAlong: While there are {{Red Herring}}s as early as the pilot, the confirmation by WordOfGod that she is the show's version of Mia Dearden only happened near the end of Season 3, and Thea herself only made it official in the SeasonFinale by wearing Roy's attire.
* CatholicSchoolGirlsRule: In the first season, a lot of her outfits were button-down shirts and plaid skirts, from the private school she ''should'' have been at.
* CharacterDevelopment: From SpoiledBrat in the first several episodes to much nicer, especially with her work at Laurel's law firm and involvement with the problems of the Glades (and Roy Harper). As of Season Two, she's running Verdant and has left her druggie days behind for good. By the end of season 2 she's run off with her father, Malcolm Merlyn, presumably to be trained in evil. She returns with martial arts skills, and rejects her father after learning that he programmed her to kill Sarah and learns that Oliver is Arrow. Eventually becomes Red Arrow. She is defending Star City, and running business. As of the start of Season 4, her biggest problem is enjoying the fight against crime too much, and it hard to say whether this is because she came back wrong.
* CompositeCharacter: Her initial drug problems originally belong to Roy's comic counterpart.
* CuteAndPsycho: Her dip at the Lazarus Pit did something to her psyche.
* TheCutie: She did eventually get a FanservicePack, but she's still occasionally portrayed as the "Token young chick".
* CuteBruiser: After she TookALevelInBadass in Season 3.
* DamselInDistress: In "City of Heroes", the second season premiere, Thea is kidnapped by copycat Hoods looking for revenge and media attention.
* DisappearedDad: He died when she was twelve in a boating "accident".
* DisproportionateRetribution: Is willing to go to jail just to spite Moira, because she thinks she was cheating on her stepfather.
* TheDogBitesBack: After finding out that Malcolm brainwashed her to murder Sara, Thea calls the League of Assassins on him and tells them that ''he'' was the one to murder her.
* DramaQueen: She's very angsty in the early seasons and she's not afraid to show it.
* DrivenToSuicide: After the above, she admits to Nyssa that Sara died by her own hand, then gives her a sword and tells her to take her revenge.
* EmbarrassingNickname: After joining the team, she really wants her superhero name to be Red Arrow. The others all insist on appropriating her childhood nickname Speedy for the job, which she hates.
* EmoTeen: Both her legal father and brother disappeared before she hits thirteen and as a result, she turned to drugs and constantly comes to trouble in her teenage years.
* ExplainExplainOhCrap: A dramatic example, as more than a few times, the weight of a situation doesn't really seem to set in until after she verbalizes it to someone else. First defending Oliver to Roy made her seem to realize just how horrible the island was. Later on, after refusing to visit her mother in jail to spite her, it was only after being kidnapped and having to defend her mother to the kidnappers as being under Malcolm's control, that really seem to realize how horrible it was for Moira to be in that situation.
* FamilyThemeNaming: Her biological parents are '''M'''alcolm and '''M'''oira. She even invokes this by temporarily using the name '''[[MythologyGag M]]'''ia. There's also her paternal half-brother '''Th'''omas (Tommy).
* FeelNoPain: Subverted in Season 3. After a lot of training from Malcolm, Thea still ''feels'' pain, but refuses to suffer from it, resulting in her completely ignoring things as startling as hot coffee pouring on her hand.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: It's in the background, but her room in "Pilot" has several [[http://olicityforever55.tumblr.com/post/68594669557/demidumbvato-queencestqueen-so-i-was archery trophies]].
* FunPersonified: In Season 4, she seems to have graduated to this. She does seem to be suffering from anger control issues, but while the rest of Team Arrow goes into combat completely deadpan and only talk when they need to, Thea goes in with an excited expression, swinging into the fight from a van door, and excitedly declaring how awesome it all is before and after, as well as seeing no problem arguing over her codename in the middle of a gunfight. In a weird case of RealityEnsues, this combined with her aggression control issues seems to disturb Oliver quite a bit.
* GirlyBruiser: Despite Malcolm's TrainingFromHell, Thea retains her posche lifestyle.
* HairColorSpoiler: Notice that Robert, Moira and Oliver are all blondes? It's revealed in Season 2 that she's Moira's daughter with [[TallDarkAndHandsome Malcolm]].
* HardDrinkingPartyGirl: Only in her first few episodes -- after her brush with the law and Vertigo-related troubles, she seems to be cleaning up her act. Fully subverted in Season Two -- she's now mature enough to run Verdant and shows no sign of lapsing at all, in stark contrast to Laurel's substance abuse problems.
* HardWorkHardlyWorks: Despite all of her training from Malcolm Merlyn, Thea is bested in a one-on-one fight by Chase, who almost kills her. She uses this an opportunity to get better.
* HeroicBastard: Whether she's going to stay in the "hero" column remains to be seen, but she ''is'' the product of an extramarital affair. turns she is going to live out the "Heroic" part as seen in the finale.
* HonorBeforeReason: In "Nanda Parbat", her inability to deal with having killed Sara leads to her confessing the full truth to Nyssa, releasing her from the cell Oliver put her into, and offering her a sword with which to take revenge for her lover's death if she needs to.
* {{Hypocrite}}: She made a gigantic deal about people keeping secrets from her, while she is keeping the fact that she is being trained by Malcolm a secret from Oliver.
* ImportantHaircut: During the five months she spent with Malcolm, she cut her hair to chin length.
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: How Ra's Al-Ghul nearly kills her near the end of Season 3.
* ImprobableAge: She's eighteen years old and yet in Season Two, she owns and operates Oliver's nightclub ''Verdant'' despite not being old enough to drink any beverages it serves. This is [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] twice, first by Oliver when it happens and later by Thea herself in the fourth season.
* ImprobableAimingSkills: In "Sacrifice", she nails a thug with a bottle from off-screen, knocking him out, to save Roy. It may not be completely instant; her room does have more than one archery trophy in it.
* ItsAllAboutMe: Flat-out tells Oliver that she had just as bad a time as he did whilst he was on the island. At first glance, it appears that she's comparing living in a ''mansion'' with your slightly dysfunctional family to being forced to watch multiple people you know and love die, then washing up on an island with no supplies and no experience, being tortured, and having to run from people who want to kill you; however, it becomes more apparent as the first season goes on that she's not really taken in what Ollie went through, and that Moira was so distraught over Ollie and Robert's deaths that twelve-year-old Thea was basically left to deal with her own grief alone. As of Season Two, she's pretty much grown out of this.
* JerkassHasAPoint: Though she presents it in a pretty narcissistic way, she does make a pretty good point: she lost half her family when she was barely out of middle school, had no efforts made to help her cope, and when it turns out her brother is still alive, he returns distant and judgmental.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: At first she's very prickly towards Oliver, angry at his refusal to open up to her, bitter because he left her all alone and resentful of his efforts to curtail her party girl lifestyle, but she still cares for him deeply.
* LockedOutOfTheLoop:
** As of season 3 Thea is the only member of Ollie's personal circle that is unaware that he is the Arrow due to his fear that knowing his secret identity would destroy their relationship. This is finally resolved in "Canaries" where Oliver takes her down into the Arrow Lair and reveals his secret identity [[CrowningMomentOfHeartWarming and she couldn't be more proud of him]].
** After being saved by The Flash during the second crossover between the two series, she points out that she didn't know that everyone else on Team Arrow knew him.
* LovelyAngels: With Laurel starting Season 4.
* MoralityChain: Unknowingly this to Roy in Season 3. Ollie manages to calm Roy down by telling him to think of Thea.
* MoralityPet: In Season 3 she becomes this for Malcolm Merlyn.
* MovieSuperheroesWearBlack: Gloriously subverted. Throughout Season 3, she's seen wearing a much darker [[note]] Mia Dearden wore a black outfit with yellow BadassCape/hood in some issues [[/note]] take of her comic counterpart's costume. However, her official costume as Speedy is revealed to be Roy's former Arsenal costume, which is red, that he personally handed down to her.
* MsFanservice: Thanks to some of her outfits.
* NearDeathExperience: She was in a very critical condition after Ra's stabbed her to the point where she would probably be a vegetable, necessitating Oliver to make a DealWithTheDevil and use the Lazarus Pit to heal her.
* OddNameOut: The first names of both of her biological parents starts with '''M'''. She toys with this in Season 3 by briefly using the name [[MythologyGag Mia]].
* PsychoPartyMember: Thanks to her Lazarus Pit-induced violent streaks.
* PutOnABus: Leaves with Malcolm Merlyn in "Unthinkable". TheBusCameBack in Season 3.
* RavenHairIvorySkin: She has very dark brown hair and her complexion is notably pale. She's also easy on the eyes.
* RedIsHeroic: She officially becomes a part of Team Arrow as Speedy by donning Roy's former Arsenal outfit. She even suggested to Oliver to call her Red Arrow before he shoots it down.
* RelatedInTheAdaptation:
** While her comic counterpart was later adopted by Oliver, she's not related to the Queens by blood.
** Played more straight with Walter Steele, who becomes her (and Oliver's) stepfather in this version.
** Also played straight with the Dark Archer, who is her biological father in this edition.
** Also played straight with Nyssa Al-Ghul (Raatko). Since Oliver is legally married to her by the League of Assassins' laws, she's her sister-in-law in this edition.
* RescueRomance: With Roy, as of "The Huntress Returns". However, after their breakup at the end of the second season, this is no longer the case.
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections: Thea takes full advantage of this in Season One, breaking laws with reckless, even ''gleeful'' abandon, knowing that her mother will use her influence and money to deflect any consequences. Subverted when a judge decides to make an example of her.
* ShesAllGrownUp: As noted by Tommy. It's a bit squicky since the reveal that she is Malcolm's daughter (and Tommy's half sister) in "State v. Queen".
* ShesGotLegs: Her primary {{Fanservice}} attribute.
* SixthRanger: Of Team Arrow as of the Season 3 finale.
* SourOutsideSadInside: In early Season One she typifies this trope due to grief over her brother and her father.
* SpoiledBrat: At the start of Season One, Thea is dismissive of her mother and cruel to her brother. She implies that what she suffered is just as bad as what Oliver has been through, she drinks and stays out late, and eventually she is arrested for taking drugs and driving under the influence. However, after that, she starts a path of CharacterDevelopment, becoming a much more pleasant person to the people in her life. In Season Two, there is no real sign of her being spoiled at all -- she's now running Oliver's nightclub and is making no sign of returning to her old ways.
* TakingUpTheMantle: Roy leaves his Arsenal outfit behind when he goes into hiding, along with a letter to Thea that she should take over the job.
* TookALevelInBadass: In Season 3. During the five months she was with Malcolm, she became quite the fighter.
* TookALevelInJerkass: In Episodes Eleven and Twelve of Season One, but the end result is a heap of CharacterDevelopment for her. However, by the end of Season Two and until mid Season Three, she was firmly on the side of her father.
* TookALevelInKindness:
** Since doing community service at CNRI, Thea's negative qualities seem to have dimmed, even offering a job to Roy Harper. And now that she's running Oliver's nightclub Verdant in Season Two, she seems to have her life fully under control. This makes her fall at the end of the season all the worse.
** Season 3 shows that while she still has a lot of anger in her, she's become more mature than she once was: her response to learning Oliver is the Arrow is to hug and thank him, when her usual response to secrets being kept was anger. She's also become more considerate of other peoples' feelings, even if she doesn't show or express it in the best manner all the time.
* TooSpicyForYogSothoth: She's immune to Damien Dahrk's magic, presumably because of the Lazarus Pit's effects.
* TrainingFromHell: Malcolm puts her through it between seasons 2 and 3, trying to treat her relatively kindly at first (which still involves pouring hot water on her hand until she can't resist dunking it in cold water) before deciding she'll only reach her full potential if he treats her just like Ra's al Ghul did him.
* TraumaCongaLine: As Moira points out, Thea's had more than a few unhappy experiences in her life, especially given how young she is.
** It gets worse near the end of Season Two. She finds out Moira and Oliver knew about Malcolm Merlyn being her father, she witnesses Moira's death at the hands of Slade, and she loses control of Verdant after the family goes bankrupt.
* UptownGirl: To Roy. She's a billionaire heiress - he's a street kid from the glades. Despite this they're pretty happy together and it's other issues that eventually drive them apart.
* ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend: During the Undertaking, she throws a bottle from offscreen, knocking out a gunman about to take down Roy. Now that she's training with Malcolm, she'll be able to do a lot more for whoever dates her next.
* YourApprovalFillsMeWithShame: In the second season finale, Thea is more or less exasperated when Merlyn favorably compares her to Tommy, who "lacked the conviction to pull the trigger... you... are made of iron". Ultimately subverted in that she ends up leaving with him.
* YoureNotMyFather: She refuses to accept Malcolm Merlyn as her father. Subverted when she leaves with him at the end of Season Two, deciding to stop being Thea ''Queen''. It is DoubleSubverted in "The Return" when she finds out that Malcolm had her brainwashed into killing Sara. After finding this out, Thea wastes no time [[IHaveNoSon disowning]] [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech him]] [[CallingTheOldManOut for manipulating her]]. And after [[spoiler:he kidnapped Oliver's son as an act of petty revenge for the end of the League of Assassins]], she wants absolutely NOTHING to do with him anymore.
* ZettaiRyouiki: Her school uniform is somewhere between B and C. Combine this with ShesAllGrownUp and that makes for some...conflicting situations and imagery.
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[[folder: Quentin Lance]]
!!Quentin Larry Lance
[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/a36613a3dac373c2133db094745914e8.JPG]][[caption-width-right:350:''"What this city needs is someone willing to stand up in the light of day, not a guy lurking around in the shadows."'']]
->'''Played By:''' Paul Blackthorne

Father of Laurel and Sara, Quentin is a police detective who is none too overjoyed when Oliver returns to Starling City or with the appearance of a vigilante. However, he slowly comes to forgive Oliver, and begins to appreciate what the Arrow is doing for the city. He eventually enters into a partnership with the Arrow. In Season 3, Lance is promoted to captain.
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* AdaptationalAngstUpgrade: While his family has some serious drama going on in the comics, here it's bleaker; one of his daughters supposedly (and eventually [[BackFromTheDead for a little while]]) dies because she cheated with his eldest daughter's boyfriend. This leads to his wife leaving him, and ever since he has secretly hoped that they'll eventually get together again. Said events made him an alcoholic. Oh, and those happened '''before''' the show even started...
* AdaptationNameChange: Subverted. Detective Larry Lance is now Detective Quentin Lance. However, his middle name in the show is Larry.
* AmicableExes: With Dinah. However, it is openly stated in Season 2 that he's still in love with her.
* TheAlcoholic:
** Suggested as a possibility when, after a verbal and emotional beat down by the Queens over his family tragedies, Laurel has to pick him up from a bar because he's falling down drunk. Laurel doesn't seem particularly surprised. Confirmed or at least used as an insult in "Betrayal" by Laurel after he uses her as bait to try and catch The Hood.
** He's also seen attending an AA meeting in "Crucible" after learning Laurel is falling off the wagon like he did when Sara had "died".
* AllLoveIsUnrequited: He never got to move on from Dinah after their divorce. Laurel always has to painfully remind him that her mother already does.
* AndStarring: In the show's OBB.
* TheAtoner: Is noticeably politer towards Oliver post-"Damaged," because of his arresting Oliver on supposedly false charges and almost getting him killed.
* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: The most competent SCPD officer shown on-screen and has become DaChief starting Season 3.
* BaldOfAwesome: Sports a shaved head starting Season 3.
* BerserkButton: "The Huntress Returns" shows that Quentin is not fond of being told that his daughters are/were [[MyGirlIsNotASlut easy]].
* BloodFromTheMouth: Has this after a Mirakuru-fueled punch causes a blood clot.
* ByTheBookCop: When he's not the Commissioner Gordon for Oliver. One of his biggest gripes with Oliver's crusade is him killing or maiming too many bad guys, which Lance chalks up to Oliver enjoying it.
* CallingTheOldManOut: Laurel does this when he uses her as bait to try and catch the Vigilante.
* CareerEndingInjury: Deathstroke's siege inflicts him with internal injuries that give him a heart condition, causing him to be promoted but refraining from field work.
* CharacterDevelopment: Initially completely opposed Arrow and standing by the law, he comes to realize that you can't always do the right thing without breaking the law. Unfortunately it doesn't last due to Sara's death.
* TheCommissionerGordon: For a while in seasons 2-3 to Oliver, before their alliance is frayed with Sara's second death and blaming Oliver for upping the crime quotient in Star(ling) City, as well as feeling Oliver kills too many in the heat of battle.
* CompositeCharacter: His role as Oliver's ally with a badge traditionally belongs to Edward Fyers in the comics.
* CoolOldGuy: Despite the gruff demeanor, he is actually a stand up guy.
* DaChief: He's the SCPD Captain starting Season 3.
* DatingWhatDaddyHates: Quentin really doesn't like his daughter's [[AllGirlsWantBadBoys choice in boyfriends]].
-->'''Laurel:''' [Tommy] has a name you know.\\
'''Quentin:''' I know. I just can't quite bring myself to use it. Baby steps.
* DeadpanSnarker: He gets progressively snarky as the show goes on.
* DemotedToExtra: In Season Three. He's gone from being a prominent member of the cast in the first two seasons, to missing several episodes at a time and only appearing in brief scenes in the episodes he ''is'' in.
* {{Determinator}}: Deconstructed. Quentin never gives up when he wants to catch a criminal (see season 1) but it's his best and worst trait. His singlemindeness alienates his family when he focuses too much on work, his guilt and stress drives him into being an alcoholic and he ends up ignoring other criminals and refusing to divert his resources leading to either both the Arrow and the criminal of the week escaping or the criminal being killed by the Arrow.
* DentedIron: Quentin is very tough. The dude has managed to escape serial killers and alike without much of a real mark on him. However, his fight with Cyrus Gold in "Three Ghosts" leaves him in terrible condition, enough so to place him in the hospital. This comes to a head in "Unthinkable", the finale of Season Two, when a Mirakuru-fueled soldier punches him hard enough to cause internal bleeding. In Season Three this has forced him to retire from street work, and he needs to use a cane.
* EnemyMine: When he's at odds with Oliver/the Vigilante in seasons 1, late in 3, and early in 4. He is at odds with Oliver being the source of losing his daughter and his police force frequently under siege, but reluctantly will accept his help when threats are too great for SCPD to handle.
* EveryoneHasStandards: Despite not initially liking Oliver, he's disturbed by the possibility that most of Oliver's scars could be self inflicted. They're not, but it's the thought that counts.
* FantasticRacism: Ever since Sarah's death he really has in out it for masked vigilantes and superheroes. He even calls the Flash a "freak". He gets over it later on.
* {{Foil}}: To Laurel. In Season One, Quentin is an angry alcoholic who refuses to listen to any kind of reason until it's too late. In Season Two, Laurel takes on many of these flaws when Quentin finally gives up drinking, helps the Arrow, and welcomes Sara home.
* GoodIsNotNice: Yep, but he's slowly getting better.
* GoodParents: In a series full of absent, manipulative or crazy parents, Quentin stands out as someone who cares for and loves his daughters, no matter what.
* GreatDetective: Despite being a jerk, Lance has shown some signs of this, as despite wanting to arrest the vigilante he's able to easily tell when a crime they come across is not because of said vigilante despite everyone else assuming so. Such as pointing out that the vigilante does not use guns when they found someone shot, the fact that he hasn't snapped any necks (as of recently), or the fact that the arrows used to kill Adam Hunt were black and not green like he is known for.
* GutturalGrowler: Quentin is known for his ruggedly raspy voice.
* HandicappedBadass: As of Season 3, he needs a cane to walk but is still a good shot. Deconstructed when he tries aiding the Arrow against Werner Zytle and nearly gets himself killed because of his health.
* TheHeart: [[WordOfGod Wendy Mericle]] has described him as "the moral center of the show, and someone who's lorded his morality over Oliver's".
* HeroicBSOD: After he finds out Sara was killed. He becomes angry towards both Laurel and the Arrow as a result to the point of refusing to cooperate with the latter anymore.
* HeWhoFightsMonsters: Laurel accuses him of becoming this.
* HollywoodLaw: With his connection with the Queen family he should not be allowed anywhere near a case involving them.
* ImportantHaircut: Shaves his head starting Season 3, around the same time when he's both promoted as SCPD captain and his daughters finally started to become major players in the Franchise/{{Arrowverse}}.
* InspectorJavert: In Season One to a certain extent, in contrast to his daughter's more CommissionerGordon attitude. By Season Two he's become the CommissionerGordon while Laurel is more of an InspectorJavert.
* JerkassHasAPoint: Quentin is crusading against Arrow since... uh... the guy's killed and maimed several people. On the personal side, Quentin's hatred towards Oliver makes a lot of sense when you consider Oliver is the guy who cheated on his one daughter with his other daughter, and got said daughter killed. Then you find out that the fallout of his daughter's death resulted in his wife leaving. Yikes.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He makes a joke about Oliver being kidnapped right to his face and his family. Oliver's mother showed an instant disliking to his behavior towards the subject. {{Justified|Trope}}, since he considers Oliver to be responsible for Sara's death, as well as breaking the heart of his other daughter. Despite what one could say about him, he truly does care for his daughter and wouldn't hesitate to use the entire police force to protect her when she is threatened.
* JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope: At first he was just reasonably upset and furious that Laurel and the Arrow kept Sarah's murder a secret from him. Then when Ra's framed the Arrow for a killing spree Lance fell for it hook, line, and sinker letting his emotions cloud his judgement, becoming single-mindedly determined to arrest him ignoring all the good the Arrow had done for the city. Then Ra's told him Oliver was the Arrow and the man became freaking Captain Ahab, TookALevelInJerkass going out of his way to harass Oliver's friends and family and take every chance to KickTheDog.
* KickedUpstairs: He now leads the SCPD by Season 3, but he became OutOfFocus at the same time.
* LargeAndInCharge: Stands 6'3 1/2 and is [[DaChief captain]] of SCPD starting Season 3.
* LockedOutOfTheLoop:
** In Season 3, all of the good guys are actively conspiring to prevent him from finding out that Sara was murdered for fear that the shock of learning the truth could give him a fatal heart attack. While he doesn't have a heart attack when he finds out [[TearJerker he doesn't take the news well]].
** He's also the only member of the main cast to be unaware of the Arrow's true identity now that Thea knows during "Canaries". This he's eventually told by ''Ra's al Ghul'' of all people, and from there he starts to lose all sense of restraint in his vendetta against the Arrow.
* TheMole: In season four, [[spoiler:he's being blackmailed by Darhk to help H.I.V.E. destroy Star City. Then he agrees to help Ollie as a ReverseMole]].
* NeverGotToSayGoodbye: He was not able to say goodbye to Sara in [[TheyKilledKennyAgain all her deaths]]. [[spoiler: Sadly, [[KilledOffForReal and permanently]], also the case with Laurel.]]
* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: A recurring theme with Quentin:
** He tells the precinct that he's been working with the Hood to convince them the earthquake machine isn't crazy talk and promptly gets demoted.
** Later on, he gets arrested for continuing to work with the Arrow.
** In the season 2 finale, he attacks a Mirakuru soldier laying a beatdown on a fellow officer, gets punched in a desk, resulting in internal injuries that continue to plague him via a heart condition in Season 3.
* TheOneGuy: He's the only male in the Lance household consisting of his (now ex-) wife and two daughters.
* OpenMindedParent: When Sara admits to him that Nyssa was her lover there is a pregnant pause, before he tells her he's just glad there was someone to care for her and make her happy during her otherwise brutal experiences.
* OutlivingOnesOffspring: After Sara's death. Both perceived and actual. This gets subverted yet again as she's slated to come BackFromTheDead to be part of another SpinOff show. [[spoiler: And then Laurel dies..]]
* OverprotectiveDad: He's ''extremely'' protective of Laurel and just wants her safe. Understandable, since she's his only surviving daughter and is making dangerous enemies as a lawyer, but sometimes his protectiveness overwhelms his reason. He was also willing to take on the Leagues of Assassins to protect Sara, and wound up killing one of them on his own. Even after falling out with Laurel, he still makes protecting her his top priority.
* PerpetualFrowner: Particularly early on. He is a ''grim'' mother fucker. Lost his daughter, estranged from his wife and other daughter, drinking problem...
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: In Season One, he is determined that 'The Hood' will pay for his actions, but he's still reasonable enough to a) use evidence that the vigilante gives him, b) realize when it's not The Hood that's doing the killing, c) help the vigilante when there is nothing that he can do, and d) ask the vigilante for help when Starling City PD's in over their heads.
* ReassignedToAntarctica: At the start of Season Two, he's been demoted to a beat cop for helping the vigilante during Season One.
* RelatedInTheAdaptation: Since Sara dons the White Canary identity in ''Series/LegendsOfTomorrow'', this makes the character related to him, Laurel and Dinah by default. In the comics, the White Canary is an unrelated character who is a self-appointed ArchEnemy of Black Canary (the Dinah Laurel Lance version).
* SecretKeeper: For most of Team Arrow, as he knows Felicity works with them, Sara and then Laurel eventually join the vigilante crusade, then finally Oliver himself, although he's not happy about it as he continues to pin both the city's endless crime wave and Sara's deaths on him, but knows that Ollie is a valuable last resort when the police are over their head.
* SecondLove: He and Donna Smoak to each other, starting Season 4.
* SelectiveObliviousness: Eventually admits that he doesn't ''want'' to know who the Arrow really is. [[{{Foreshadowing}} Which explains how he could "miss" the fact that when he called the Arrow, Ollie (who was right in front of him) just happened to get a call on his phone.]] He explains why during an exchange with Laurel in the episode "The Man Under the Hood".
-->'''Quentin:''' If I knew who he really was then he would become a person. Maybe he's got family. Friends. People that care about him. Some other life. And then he couldn't be what I needed to him to be. What this city needs him to be. It's The Arrow that matters...[[TitleDrop The man under the hood]] isn't important.
* SparedByTheAdaptation: In most stories, Detective Lance [[DependingOnTheWriter is usually]] dead by the time Laurel is the Black Canary. [[spoiler: Here, he even outlives her.]]
* SixthRanger: Team Arrow's most consistent outsource ally. He joins the core group at Season 4, though.
* SympatheticInspectorAntagonist: Throughout Season One, but leans further and further towards 'sympathetic' as time goes by.
* TallDarkAndSnarky: He stands 6'3 1/2 and is definitely gruff and sarcastic.
* ThisIsForEmphasisBitch: You sons of bitches should know that when he swears, he's goddamned serious.
* ThisIsUnforgivable: He ''really'' doesn't take Laurel keeping him in the dark about Sara's death well. His usually loving demeanour disappears in place of his old cynicism, he seems to contemplate falling off the wagon (but doesn't), won't even go to the same AA meeting as her and stops answering her calls. He eventually admits to her that while he still loves her, they won't patch things up any time soon.
* ToBeLawfulOrGood: Struggles with this as the series goes on, wanting to catch the vigilante however grudgingly helps him when there is no other choice. In "Sacrifice", he chooses Good, understanding that laws and rules are useless if they are not protecting anyone. He is ultimately demoted to beat cop for this. He continues to work with the Arrow in Season Two with little internal conflict, showing that he has embraced Good. Though Sara's death makes him regress, he switches back when she's resurrected.
* TookALevelInCheerfulness: In Season 4, [[spoiler:after Sara is revived, and when he starts going out with Felicity's mother, Donna]].
* TookALevelInJerkass: After finding out that Sara died and Laurel and the Arrow have kept him in the dark, he understandably isn't happy.
* TookALevelInKindness: Quentin is noticeably much more calm and easygoing in Season 2 when he isn't focused on catching Arrow. This goes away in Season 3 when he finds out Sara died, though he comes back around in season 4 when she's (properly) brought back to life.
* UngratefulBastard: In Season 3, his grief over Sara's death and anger at Laurel and the Arrow for keeping it secret from him pushes him to ignore all the good Oliver did and focus on the bad, and he becomes a prime believer in the SuperheroParadox, (even though roughly half of the villains were active before Oliver took up his hood) blaming Ollie for everything wrong that has happened in Starling. He does grow out of this mindset eventually.
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Blind hatred and arrest at all cost mentality towards Oliver pushed him to joining the League.
* UnwittingPawn: To Ra's al Ghul in season 3, although he really has no excuse anymore that doesn't include the words "hate" and "Arrow".
* WhatTheHellHero: Oliver calls him out, ''hard'', for [[spoiler:working with Damien Darhk]].
* YouHaveToBelieveMe: He ''might'' have chosen a better way to explain how he heard about the "destroy the Glades" plan. In his defense, with literally no hours remaining, zero leads, and thousands to evacuate, he might not have been thinking about that sort of thing.
[[/folder]]

! Others

[[folder: Moira Queen]]
!!Moira Dearden Queen
[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/queen_moira_9127.jpg]][[caption-width-right:350:''"From the moment your children are born, you worry what the world might do to them. But you never stop to think what you might do to them."'']]

->'''Played By:''' Creator/SusannaThompson

Oliver and Thea's mother, Moira was coerced into joining Tempest and contributing to the Undertaking by Malcolm Merlyn after the murder of her husband. She manages to expose Malcolm's plot at the end of Season One, but is arrested for her part in the conspiracy. After being found not guilty, Moira begins a campaign for mayor of Starling City.
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* ActionSurvivor: Ironically, she is one of the few people to wound The Vigilante.
* AdaptationalAngstUpgrade: Given that she's initially SparedByTheAdaptation, the show gave her personal demons to struggle through for her own CharacterDevelopment.
* AintTooProudToBeg: When confronted by the Hood, she's willing to beg for her life, for the sake of her children.
* AmicableExes: With Walter in Season 2. She also had a brief affair with Malcolm, though it turns out that they're actually not really in good terms because he was threatening her and her children.
* AndStarring: In the first two seasons.
* AntiVillain: Slides from Type I to Type IV over the course of the first season. In the first few episodes, she's a WellIntentionedExtremist, even by Undertaking standards. By the middle of the first season, we see that unlike most members, she is trying to stop the Undertaking from within, though she uses rather underhanded methods to do so. By the end, we see that she's been coerced into it ever since Malcolm killed half her family. Ultimately, this leads to her HeelFaceTurn.
* AscendedExtra: Like her husband, she's a PosthumousCharacter in the comics.
* BeautyMark: She has a mole on her lips.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: Subverted. Every time you think she's going to be this, it turns out that she's just a [[MamaBear mother]] trying to protect her family, albeit often through underhanded and deceptive means.
* CelebrityParadox: An episode of ''Series/LegendsOfTomorrow'' mentions the ''Franchise/StarTrek'' franchise. Susanna Thompson was one of the franchise's "[[YouAllLookFamiliar go-to]] [[ProductionPosse actors]]".
* CompositeCharacter:
** Her role as the ruthless head of Queen Industries appears to be based a bit on Isabel Rochev/The Queen, an ex-lover of Robert Queen who became the BigBad of ''Green Arrow'' in the ''ComicBook/BrightestDay'' era. Though later Isabel herself shows up.
** Also, her maiden name is the last name of the second Speedy; it's also part of her daughter's name (Thea ''Dearden'' Queen), and said character has "Speedy" as an AffectionateNickname.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Seems to be one, but she doesn't want to be. She's forced to support Malcolm in his plan to destroy the Glades out of fear, following him having Robert killed.
* DamselInDistress: The second time the Hood comes for her.
* ADeathInTheLimelight: Dies in ''Seeing Red'' after the episode's flashbacks center on her and, in the present, reveals she knows Oliver is the Arrow.
* DeathBySecretIdentity: She winds up dying in the same episode it's revealed that she knew Oliver was the Arrow. Also right before her death, she's trying to reveal a secret - most likely the fact that Malcolm Merlyn is still alive.
* DiesWideOpen: Her death episode [[IncrediblyLamePun closes]] with the camera zooming out from her opened eyes.
* TheDragon: Played with. The traditional role of the Dragon as the brutal enforcer is played by the Dark Archer, Malcolm himself, but Moira carries out most of the overt business of traveling around the city, threatening and extorting people on behalf of the Undertaking. She plays this role to the hilt, but she's only doing it because she's terrified Malcolm will kill her and her family.
* DragonWithAnAgenda: Her agenda initially seems to be simply to protect her family from Malcolm but she also tried to stop the Undertaking.
* EvilParentsWantGoodKids: While not exactly evil, she's certainly participated in some nasty things, including being coerced into committing mass murder. But she genuinely wants the best for Thea and Oliver.
* GrandmaWhatMassiveHotnessYouHave: Moira is still acknowledged as beautiful (mostly by Walter) despite having two adult children, one of which already (but unknowingly) having a kid of his own.
* HeelFaceTurn: She outs Malcolm and the Undertaking to the media during the Season One finale, knowing that she will immediately be arrested for her participation.
* HeroicSacrifice: After Slade captures her, Thea, and Oliver, she chooses to take the bullet, despite Oliver and Thea's pleas. Slade kills her anyway with a sword, though not without noting her courage.
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: Stabbed through the chest by Slade.
* IronLady: When she's running Queen Consolidated. And later in Season Two, when she's going to run for Mayor.
* MamaBear:
** But she's the one who arranged Oliver's kidnapping, right? By the end of the first season, we've learned she's only ever participated in the Undertaking because Malcolm was threatening her family, a threat he carried out on Robert, with Oliver caught as an innocent bystander, and again on Walter.
** Cemented in Season Two, when she informs Ra's Al-Ghul on Malcolm Merlyn to keep him away from Thea.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Selling Malcolm out to Ra's Al-Ghul, opened up a new can of worms for Team Arrow.
* NoPartyGiven: While running for mayor, she makes statements that imply she is a Republican. However, her party is never specifically named, which is normal for local elections in the United States.
* ParentWithNewParamour: Within the past five years, Moira married her dead husband's business associate, Walter Steele. It's quickly revealed to be... an innocent and genuinely loving relationship with nothing underhanded about it. Until Walter starts [[HeKnowsTooMuch investigating the Undertaking...]]
* ParentsAsPeople: As this entry demonstrates, she cares for her children and wants the best for them, but she's not perfect.
* PunchClockVillain: Deconstructed. Punching the clock has ''not'' been good for her.
* RedemptionEqualsDeath: She posthumously regains Thea's respect.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: She's handed one by Thea after Walter is kidnapped. And by both Thea and Oliver after they find out about the Undertaking.
* RelatedInTheAdaptation:
** While Thea's comic counterpart Mia was later adopted by Oliver, she is not related to the Queens by blood.
** She was also married to Walter Steele for a few years in this version.
** Inverted with Connor Hawke, who is not her grandchild in this version.
* ReverseMole: As of "Dodger", we learn that Moira is trying to have Malcolm killed.
* SadisticChoice: Merlyn presents her with this: help him kill all the people in the Glades, or have your whole family killed.
* SecretSecretKeeper: She knew Oliver was the Arrow since the Undertaking.
* SerialSpouse: Her first husband died, while her second divorced her.
* ShipperOnDeck: For Thea and Roy -- she wants her daughter to be happy, even if it damages her case.
* SparedByTheAdaptation: Her comic counterpart is a PosthumousCharacter like Robert. She ultimately dies, though.
* TakeAThirdOption: When Slade offers a SadisticChoice to Oliver in "Seeing Red" in the second season, Moira offers a way out: she tells Slade her son will ''not'' be forced to choose between his mother and his sister, and says that she herself ''will'' be the one dying. Slade is impressed. And kills her.
* TrappedInVillainy: The reason she's still TheDragon is that if she isn't, her family will be hurt.
* UnscrupulousHero: As revealed in "The Undertaking", she absolutely hates the Undertaking itself, and is trying her best to stop it. The only problem is she's also the BigBad's DragonWithAnAgenda.
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: She helped murder 503 people, but apparently there are enough people in Starling City who'd vote for her that she can run for Mayor. It doesn't hurt that she's considerably less evil than Sebastian Blood, of course.
* WrongGenreSavvy: Moira seems to believe the Arrow is a Robin Hood figure stealing from the rich to give to the poor. It has to be pretty much spoon-fed to her by Malcolm that the Arrow is going after only specific targets in their Organization that just happened to be rich.
* YourCheatingHeart: As is revealed in "State v. Queen", she cheated on her husband with Malcolm. Because of this, Thea is actually Malcolm's daughter.
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Tommy Merlyn]]
!!Thomas "Tommy" Merlyn
[[quoteright:300:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/0ec018712b511a089e2c3a41e8ca5f47.png]][[caption-width-right:300:''"I'm sorry. I was angry. I was jealous. [...] Thank you."'']]
->'''Played By:''' Creator/ColinDonnell, Arien Bouey (young)

Oliver's best friend, who has romantic feelings for Laurel and dated her throughout most of the first season. His father, Malcolm Merlyn, is the BigBad of the season. He also learns about his friend's vigilante duties and his father's SecretIdentity as the Dark Archer.
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* AndStarring: Future seasons after his death gives his actor Colin Donnell a "Special Guest Star" citation separated from the regular guest stars line-up everytime he'll make an appearance.
* BeingGoodSucks: Uses this as an excuse to walk out on Laurel. It isn't actually what he feels, though.
* BigBrotherInstinct: Towards Thea. Come Season Two, turns out they're actually half-siblings.
* TheBroCode: Tommy ''really'' doesn't want Oliver to find out that Tommy hooked up with Oliver's ex-girlfriend Laurel while Oliver was missing. Never mind that Oliver had been cheating on Laurel with her sister, that everyone thought Oliver was dead, and that Oliver was gone for five years. He also immediately backs away from [[OverlyLongGag ever possibly even doing anything that might hint at something remotely approaching looking like showing even a touch of interest]] in Thea, or in Diggle's sister-in-law.
* ButtMonkey: The poor guy never could catch a break.
* CallingTheOldManOut: Justified in that his father is a [[ParentalAbandonment world]] [[ParentalNeglect class]] [[{{Jerkass}} jerk]] [[ToughLove to him]]. And also the BigBad, but he doesn't know about that part until the Season One finale.
* CanonImmigrant: To the ComicBook/{{New 52}}, one month after the series started.
* TheCasanova: Tommy is stated to have quite a reputation as a ladies man. Quentin Lance implies that there have been accusations of him drugging his dates.
* CelebrityParadox:
** An episode of ''Series/TheFlash2014'' mentions the ''Franchise/LawAndOrder'' franchise. Since his tenure from this show ended, Colin Donnell has been part of ''Series/ChicagoMed'', which takes place [[SharedUniverse in the same universe]] as the shows from the said franchise.
** An episode of ''Series/TheFlash2014'' mentions the Elsa from ''Disney/{{Frozen}}''. Thing is, said character was voiced by Creator/IdinaMenzel, who was one of the pioneer cast members of ''Theatre/{{Wicked}}''. While not a pioneer cast member, Colin Donnell was part of the show's main cast during its 2009 season.
* CharacterDeath: In the Undertaking, saving Laurel.
* ComfortingTheWidow: After Oliver died, Tommy and Laurel, for a little while. Oliver is surprisingly cool with it.
* DeathOfTheHypotenuse: Tommy is killed off just as Oliver and Laurel get back together.
* DisappearedDad: His father became cold and emotionally distant after his mother's death and disappeared outright for about two years. He came back, though they never repaired their relationship.
* DoggedNiceGuy: To Laurel, proving that he actually cares and wants more than just a FriendsWithBenefits relationship, that he's matured and is a good guy. [[TheyDo It works]], because it's all true.
* FriendlyTarget: That said, he wasn't ''actually'' a target, but an unfortunate casualty.
* GreenEyedMonster: Toward Oliver, with regard to Laurel. It doesn't help that their ''incredibly awkward'' double date happened right after Tommy's father cut him off, leaving Tommy penniless.
** In a smaller way, the GOM rears its head at the fund-raiser Tommy threw for CNRI, when Laurel went to dance with the smarmy neurosurgeon/writer. It really didn't help that, just before they went off to the dance floor, Dr. Smarm had talked about opening a free clinic in the Glades... which was Tommy's mother's thing before she was murdered.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: With Oliver.
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: He gets impaled by a rebar while saving Laurel from the collapsing CNRI building in "Sacrifice".
* IAmNotMyFather: Tommy does ''not'' want to be like his father.
* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: Tommy loves Laurel so much that he breaks up with her because he knows she's in love with both Oliver and the Vigilante, and he believes that should she ever find out they are the same person, she'd choose Oliver in a heartbeat.
* KissingCousins: He and Thea show attraction to one another, though nothing really comes of it. Good thing, too, since they turn out to be half siblings.
* LadykillerInLove: He seems to be ready to abandon his womanizing ways so he can start a serious relationship with Laurel. Laurel is initially skeptical of whether he is capable of changing, but they seem to be going steady.
* LetThemDieHappy: Becomes best friends with Oliver again (see quote above). Oliver lies to him as he dies, telling him that he didn't kill Malcolm. Later though it turns out to be true.
* MillionairePlayboy: This is the role he occupies until his father cuts him off from his trust fund. In "Muse of Fire", he takes the job as the manager of Oliver's nightclub, which he chooses even after Oliver freely offers to let him share his own large trust fund. He eventually loses the "playboy" side of it in order [[LadykillerInLove to be with Laurel]].
* MissingMom: She was killed during a mugging in the Glades.
* MoralityPet:
** Posthumously. Oliver takes up a ThouShaltNotKill policy in Season Two to honor Tommy's memory.
** Tommy serves to be this to his father as well. Malcolm may be a JerkAss to his son, but he does love him and wants him to be happy. Examples of this can be seen during "Dead to Rights".
* NiceGuy: Despite originally being assumed to be a shallow playboy and possible future supervillain, Tommy has, from Episode One onward, proven to be nothing but a completely dependable friend, dedicated boyfriend, and in general, an all-round awesome person. Towards the end of the season, his attitude unfortunately soured quite a bit, especially towards Oliver, and it wasn't totally unjustified.
* NonActionGuy: He's not combat proficient like Oliver. And even though he has the balls to defend the people close to him, he always lose badly if he decides to fight.
* OnlyKnownByHisNickname: Never referred to as Thomas, until his tombstone was marked as such.
* ParentalAbandonment: After his mother died, his father flat-out took off for two years, with no explanation, and remained distant even upon returning.
* ParentalSubstitute: After his [[MissingMom mother died]] and his [[DisappearedDad father became cold and disappeared]], the Queens became his surrogate family.
* PluckyComicRelief: As Oliver's best friend, he provides the light touch to counterbalance Oliver's darkness early on. Also as Oliver's best friend, he's easily inserted in the plot in a way that Diggle and Felicity couldn't be.
* PosthumousCharacter: After dying in the Season 1 finale, he occasionally shows up as a ghost or in flashbacks at least OnceASeason.
* RedHerring: DC Comics fans might recognize his surname as the name of Green Arrow's EvilCounterpart in-comics. He's not. [[BigBad His father, on the other hand]]...
* RunningGag: He just can't catch a break with the MySisterIsOffLimits trope.
* SacrificialLion: The only member of the main cast to die in the Undertaking, and drives Oliver's ThouShaltNotKill afterward.
* SecondLove: He's the only man after Oliver that Laurel loved.
* SecretKeeper: Tommy finds out that Oliver is the Vigilante as his father was dying from Deadshot's bullets in "Dead to Rights".
* SecretSecretKeeper: During the pilot episode, he opens his eyes as Oliver kills and chases after their kidnappers/torturers, but closes them quickly. The audience is left unaware whether he saw Oliver's identity or not until "Dead to Rights: it turns out he did, but chose not to say anything. Some of his conversations with Oliver before this episode (such as that regarding Laurel's relationship with the Hood in "Betrayal") carries hints that he knows and wants Oliver to open up to him.
* SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan: He is the sensitive guy to Oliver's manliness.
* ShipperOnDeck: Subverted. He doesn't actually want Laurel to be with Oliver. He just thinks it's inevitable.
* StrongFamilyResemblance: Laurel notes that Tommy looks a lot like his dad in "The Undertaking".
* TallDarkAndHandsome: He's 5'11.
* TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth: As previous entries have shown, Tommy is a NiceGuy and a LadykillerInLove. He also has the distinction of being the only one to learn about Oliver's secret and not join his crusade. These factors make his DyingMomentOfAwesome in the season finale all the more tragic.
* WhatTheHellHero: When Tommy finds out about Oliver's secret, he calls Oliver out on being a murderer.
* WhiteShirtOfDeath: Was wearing a white polo when he dies.
* YankTheDogsChain:
** Pretty much everything that could go wrong in his life does go wrong. He does a good deed? It blows up in his face. Does something good happen to him? Due to circumstances outside of his control, he gets it cruelly ripped away from him. This reaches its logical conclusion with his death in the Season One finale.
** Happens in flashbacks too. After finding a possible clue that suggests Oliver may still be alive, he travels to Hong Kong, only to be kidnapped and told it was all a set-up.
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Slade Wilson]]
See his entry in Characters/ArrowMajorVillains.
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Malcolm Merlyn]]
See his entry in Characters/ArrowMajorVillains.
[[/folder]]

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* KeepingSecretSucks: He has dealt with the consequences of this numerous times, [[AesopAmnesia but keeps repeating it]].

* ArcWords: "I must/have to become someone else. I must/have to become something else." Details his [[AHerosJourney gradual journey]] in a nutshell.

* ArcWords: "I must/have to become someone else. I must/have to become something else." Details his [[AHeroesJourney gradual journey]] in a nutshell.

* BreakoutCharacter: CW's version of Green Arrow really put the character on the map for non-comic readers. He is one of the most popular live action TV superheroes to date, with his Creator/StephenAmmel receiving critical acclaim for his portrayal. He has also been included in various video games as downloadable content for ''VideoGame/InjusticeGodsAmongUs'' and ''[[VideoGame/LegoBatman Lego Batman 3: Beyond Gotham]]'' with Ammell providing the voice.

** Franchise/{{Batman}}, particularly the [[Film/TheDarkKnightTrilogy Nolan-movie Batman]], including a past history with Ra's Al Ghul. This portrayal Oliver is far more serious, driven, obsessive and mission-orientated than his comic book counterpart and much more bent on cleaning up a corrupt city, and is more of a night-time hero who sneaks around in the shadows, all traits owed more to the Dark Knight than the Emerald Archer. His darker, more complex and more lively backstory along with his season 1 insistence that the "Arrow" persona is the real him and that [[ThatManIsDead Oliver Queen died on the island]] also sound more Batman-ish. He has also had to deal with antagonists who are hell-bent with making him lose everything he cared about, which sounds very similar to ''Film/TheDarkKnightRises''. That and the fact that a lot of his enemies are RoguesGalleryTransplant from Batman's RoguesGallery [[note]]Ra's Al Ghul, Firefly, Dollmaker, Anarky[[/note]]. Furthermore his headquarters gets nicknamed the "Arrowcave" by a few characters.

* BreakoutCharacter: CW's version of Green Arrow really put the character on the map for non-comic readers. He is one of the most popular live action TV superheroes to date, with his Creator/StephenAmmell receiving critical acclaim for his portrayal. He has also been included in various video games as downloadable content for ''VideoGame/InjusticeGodsAmongUs'' and ''[[VideoGame/LegoBatman Lego Batman 3: Beyond Gotham]]'' with Ammell providing the voice.

** Franchise/{{Batman}}, particularly the [[Film/TheDarkKnightTrilogy Nolan-movie Batman]], including a past history with Ra's Al Ghul. This portrayal Oliver is far more serious, driven, obsessive and mission-orientated than his comic book counterpart and much more bent on cleaning up a corrupt city, and is more of a night-time hero who sneaks around in the shadows, all traits owed more to the Dark Knight than the Emerald Archer. His darker, more complex and more lively backstory along with his season 1 insistence that the "Arrow" persona is the real him and that [[ThatManIsDead Oliver Queen died on the island]] also sound more Batman-ish. He has also had to deal with antagonists who are hell-bent with making him lose everything he cared about, which sounds very similar to ''Film/TheDarkKnightRises''. That and the fact that he had fought a few villains originally part of Batman's RoguesGallery. Furthermore his headquarters gets nicknamed the "Arrowcave" by a few characters.

* AntiHeroTeam: Until Season 4.

* FiveManBand: The group's incarnation starting late Season 2.
** TheHero: Oliver
** TheLancer: Diggle
** TheSmartGuy: Felicity
** TheBigGuy: Roy (later Thea)
** TheChick: Sara (later Laurel)
** SixthRanger: At different times,Quentin, Barry, Lyla, Nyssa, Ray and [[spoiler: Curtis]]
** TokenEvilTeammate: Temporarily, Merlyn and Calculator.

* {{Hypocrite}}: The entire Team is guilty for not practicing what they preach and all that.

* WorkoutFanservice: They love keeping themselves in shape, and these [[ShirtlessScene men]] and [[UnderwearOfPower wo]][[SensualSpandex men]] ''love'' showing it.

* GoneHorriblyRight: [[spoiler: Quentin, Oliver and most of Team Arrow spent most of Season Three warning her against becoming a vigilante. In Season Four, they've fully accepted her as the Black Canary with Quentin even acknowledging she made the right decision. Then she's killed in action.]]

* WhatDoesSheSeeInHim?: Quentin wonders this in Season 1, as Oliver cheated on her repeatedly - including with her own sister - when they dated. [[spoiler: In play again in Season 4 when she confesses she still loves Oliver on her deathbed. Given over the seasons Oliver has lied to her about his secret identity, thrown her alcoholism in her face, tried to block her from joining the team and revealed he fathered a secret child while they were together, it's a wonder Laurel still considers him love of her life material.]]

->'''Current Members''': [[TheHero Oliver Queen/The Hood/The Arrow/Green Arrow]], [[MilitarySuperhero John Diggle/Spartan]], [[TechnoWizard Felicity Smoak/Overwatch]], [[CuteBruiser Thea Queen/Speedy]], [[FriendOnTheForce Det./Officer/Capt. Quentin Lance]]
->'''Former Members''': [[ReformedCriminal Roy Harper/Arsenal]], [[CrusadingLawyer Laurel Lance/Black Canary]], [[LadyOfWar Sara Lance/The Canary/White Canary]], [[TokenEvilTeammate Malcolm Merlyn/Dark Archer/Ra's Al-Ghul]], [[MafiaPrincess Helena Bertinelli/The Huntress]].

* HeroicWannabe: Her Season 3 arc concerns her wanting to be a badass vigilante like Sara, Oliver and Team Arrow, but lacking the skills - and often the logical thinking - to manage it. Several episodes have her rushing off to confront someone (a domestic abuser, Malcolm) and then other characters then having to bail her out of trouble. She also shows hints of this back in Season 2 when she admits she's jealous of how strong and powerful Sara has become and is bitter Oliver considers Diggle and Felicity his partners and not her.

! Others

[[folder: Moira Queen]]
!!Moira Dearden Queen
[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/queen_moira_9127.jpg]][[caption-width-right:350:''"From the moment your children are born, you worry what the world might do to them. But you never stop to think what you might do to them."'']]

->'''Played By:''' Creator/SusannaThompson

Oliver and Thea's mother, Moira was coerced into joining Tempest and contributing to the Undertaking by Malcolm Merlyn after the murder of her husband. She manages to expose Malcolm's plot at the end of Season One, but is arrested for her part in the conspiracy. After being found not guilty, Moira begins a campaign for mayor of Starling City.

[[folder: Quentin Lance]]
!!Quentin Larry Lance
[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/a36613a3dac373c2133db094745914e8.JPG]][[caption-width-right:350:''"What this city needs is someone willing to stand up in the light of day, not a guy lurking around in the shadows."'']]
->'''Played By:''' Paul Blackthorne

Father of Laurel and Sara, Quentin is a police detective who is none too overjoyed when Oliver returns to Starling City or with the appearance of a vigilante. However, he slowly comes to forgive Oliver, and begins to appreciate what the Arrow is doing for the city. He eventually enters into a partnership with the Arrow. In Season 3, Lance is promoted to captain.
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* AdaptationalAngstUpgrade: While his family has some serious drama going on in the comics, here it's bleaker; one of his daughters supposedly (and eventually [[BackFromTheDead for a little while]]) dies because she cheated with his eldest daughter's boyfriend. This leads to his wife leaving him, and ever since he has secretly hoped that they'll eventually get together again. Said events made him an alcoholic. Oh, and those happened '''before''' the show even started...
* AdaptationNameChange: Subverted. Detective Larry Lance is now Detective Quentin Lance. However, his middle name in the show is Larry.
* AmicableExes: With Dinah. However, it is openly stated in Season 2 that he's still in love with her.
* TheAlcoholic:
** Suggested as a possibility when, after a verbal and emotional beat down by the Queens over his family tragedies, Laurel has to pick him up from a bar because he's falling down drunk. Laurel doesn't seem particularly surprised. Confirmed or at least used as an insult in "Betrayal" by Laurel after he uses her as bait to try and catch The Hood.
** He's also seen attending an AA meeting in "Crucible" after learning Laurel is falling off the wagon like he did when Sara had "died".
* AllLoveIsUnrequited: He never got to move on from Dinah after their divorce. Laurel always has to painfully remind him that her mother already does.
* AndStarring: In the show's OBB.
* TheAtoner: Is noticeably politer towards Oliver post-"Damaged," because of his arresting Oliver on supposedly false charges and almost getting him killed.
* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: The most competent SCPD officer shown on-screen and has become DaChief starting Season 3.
* BaldOfAwesome: Sports a shaved head starting Season 3.
* BerserkButton: "The Huntress Returns" shows that Quentin is not fond of being told that his daughters are/were [[MyGirlIsNotASlut easy]].
* BloodFromTheMouth: Has this after a Mirakuru-fueled punch causes a blood clot.
* ByTheBookCop: When he's not the Commissioner Gordon for Oliver. One of his biggest gripes with Oliver's crusade is him killing or maiming too many bad guys, which Lance chalks up to Oliver enjoying it.
* CallingTheOldManOut: Laurel does this when he uses her as bait to try and catch the Vigilante.
* CareerEndingInjury: Deathstroke's siege inflicts him with internal injuries that give him a heart condition, causing him to be promoted but refraining from field work.
* CharacterDevelopment: Initially completely opposed Arrow and standing by the law, he comes to realize that you can't always do the right thing without breaking the law. Unfortunately it doesn't last due to Sara's death.
* TheCommissionerGordon: For a while in seasons 2-3 to Oliver, before their alliance is frayed with Sara's second death and blaming Oliver for upping the crime quotient in Star(ling) City, as well as feeling Oliver kills too many in the heat of battle.
* CompositeCharacter: His role as Oliver's ally with a badge traditionally belongs to Edward Fyers in the comics.
* CoolOldGuy: Despite the gruff demeanor, he is actually a stand up guy.
* DaChief: He's the SCPD Captain starting Season 3.
* DatingWhatDaddyHates: Quentin really doesn't like his daughter's [[AllGirlsWantBadBoys choice in boyfriends]].
-->'''Laurel:''' [Tommy] has a name you know.\\
'''Quentin:''' I know. I just can't quite bring myself to use it. Baby steps.
* DeadpanSnarker: He gets progressively snarky as the show goes on.
* DemotedToExtra: In Season Three. He's gone from being a prominent member of the cast in the first two seasons, to missing several episodes at a time and only appearing in brief scenes in the episodes he ''is'' in.
* {{Determinator}}: Deconstructed. Quentin never gives up when he wants to catch a criminal (see season 1) but it's his best and worst trait. His singlemindeness alienates his family when he focuses too much on work, his guilt and stress drives him into being an alcoholic and he ends up ignoring other criminals and refusing to divert his resources leading to either both the Arrow and the criminal of the week escaping or the criminal being killed by the Arrow.
* DentedIron: Quentin is very tough. The dude has managed to escape serial killers and alike without much of a real mark on him. However, his fight with Cyrus Gold in "Three Ghosts" leaves him in terrible condition, enough so to place him in the hospital. This comes to a head in "Unthinkable", the finale of Season Two, when a Mirakuru-fueled soldier punches him hard enough to cause internal bleeding. In Season Three this has forced him to retire from street work, and he needs to use a cane.
* EnemyMine: When he's at odds with Oliver/the Vigilante in seasons 1, late in 3, and early in 4. He is at odds with Oliver being the source of losing his daughter and his police force frequently under siege, but reluctantly will accept his help when threats are too great for SCPD to handle.
* EveryoneHasStandards: Despite not initially liking Oliver, he's disturbed by the possibility that most of Oliver's scars could be self inflicted. They're not, but it's the thought that counts.
* FantasticRacism: Ever since Sarah's death he really has in out it for masked vigilantes and superheroes. He even calls the Flash a "freak". He gets over it later on.
* {{Foil}}: To Laurel. In Season One, Quentin is an angry alcoholic who refuses to listen to any kind of reason until it's too late. In Season Two, Laurel takes on many of these flaws when Quentin finally gives up drinking, helps the Arrow, and welcomes Sara home.
* GoodIsNotNice: Yep, but he's slowly getting better.
* GoodParents: In a series full of absent, manipulative or crazy parents, Quentin stands out as someone who cares for and loves his daughters, no matter what.
* GreatDetective: Despite being a jerk, Lance has shown some signs of this, as despite wanting to arrest the vigilante he's able to easily tell when a crime they come across is not because of said vigilante despite everyone else assuming so. Such as pointing out that the vigilante does not use guns when they found someone shot, the fact that he hasn't snapped any necks (as of recently), or the fact that the arrows used to kill Adam Hunt were black and not green like he is known for.
* GutturalGrowler: Quentin is known for his ruggedly raspy voice.
* HandicappedBadass: As of Season 3, he needs a cane to walk but is still a good shot. Deconstructed when he tries aiding the Arrow against Werner Zytle and nearly gets himself killed because of his health.
* TheHeart: [[WordOfGod Wendy Mericle]] has described him as "the moral center of the show, and someone who's lorded his morality over Oliver's".
* HeroicBSOD: After he finds out Sara was killed. He becomes angry towards both Laurel and the Arrow as a result to the point of refusing to cooperate with the latter anymore.
* HeWhoFightsMonsters: Laurel accuses him of becoming this.
* HollywoodLaw: With his connection with the Queen family he should not be allowed anywhere near a case involving them.
* ImportantHaircut: Shaves his head starting Season 3, around the same time when he's both promoted as SCPD captain and his daughters finally started to become major players in the Franchise/{{Arrowverse}}.
* InspectorJavert: In Season One to a certain extent, in contrast to his daughter's more CommissionerGordon attitude. By Season Two he's become the CommissionerGordon while Laurel is more of an InspectorJavert.
* JerkassHasAPoint: Quentin is crusading against Arrow since... uh... the guy's killed and maimed several people. On the personal side, Quentin's hatred towards Oliver makes a lot of sense when you consider Oliver is the guy who cheated on his one daughter with his other daughter, and got said daughter killed. Then you find out that the fallout of his daughter's death resulted in his wife leaving. Yikes.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He makes a joke about Oliver being kidnapped right to his face and his family. Oliver's mother showed an instant disliking to his behavior towards the subject. {{Justified|Trope}}, since he considers Oliver to be responsible for Sara's death, as well as breaking the heart of his other daughter. Despite what one could say about him, he truly does care for his daughter and wouldn't hesitate to use the entire police force to protect her when she is threatened.
* JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope: At first he was just reasonably upset and furious that Laurel and the Arrow kept Sarah's murder a secret from him. Then when Ra's framed the Arrow for a killing spree Lance fell for it hook, line, and sinker letting his emotions cloud his judgement, becoming single-mindedly determined to arrest him ignoring all the good the Arrow had done for the city. Then Ra's told him Oliver was the Arrow and the man became freaking Captain Ahab, TookALevelInJerkass going out of his way to harass Oliver's friends and family and take every chance to KickTheDog.
* KickedUpstairs: He now leads the SCPD by Season 3, but he became OutOfFocus at the same time.
* LargeAndInCharge: Stands 6'3 1/2 and is [[DaChief captain]] of SCPD starting Season 3.
* LockedOutOfTheLoop:
** In Season 3, all of the good guys are actively conspiring to prevent him from finding out that Sara was murdered for fear that the shock of learning the truth could give him a fatal heart attack. While he doesn't have a heart attack when he finds out [[TearJerker he doesn't take the news well]].
** He's also the only member of the main cast to be unaware of the Arrow's true identity now that Thea knows during "Canaries". This he's eventually told by ''Ra's al Ghul'' of all people, and from there he starts to lose all sense of restraint in his vendetta against the Arrow.
* TheMole: In season four, [[spoiler:he's being blackmailed by Darhk to help H.I.V.E. destroy Star City. Then he agrees to help Ollie as a ReverseMole]].
* NeverGotToSayGoodbye: He was not able to say goodbye to Sara in [[TheyKilledKennyAgain all her deaths]]. [[spoiler: Sadly, [[KilledOffForReal and permanently]], also the case with Laurel.]]
* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: A recurring theme with Quentin:
** He tells the precinct that he's been working with the Hood to convince them the earthquake machine isn't crazy talk and promptly gets demoted.
** Later on, he gets arrested for continuing to work with the Arrow.
** In the season 2 finale, he attacks a Mirakuru soldier laying a beatdown on a fellow officer, gets punched in a desk, resulting in internal injuries that continue to plague him via a heart condition in Season 3.
* TheOneGuy: He's the only male in the Lance household consisting of his (now ex-) wife and two daughters.
* OpenMindedParent: When Sara admits to him that Nyssa was her lover there is a pregnant pause, before he tells her he's just glad there was someone to care for her and make her happy during her otherwise brutal experiences.
* OutlivingOnesOffspring: After Sara's death. Both perceived and actual. This gets subverted yet again as she's slated to come BackFromTheDead to be part of another SpinOff show. [[spoiler: And then Laurel dies..]]
* OverprotectiveDad: He's ''extremely'' protective of Laurel and just wants her safe. Understandable, since she's his only surviving daughter and is making dangerous enemies as a lawyer, but sometimes his protectiveness overwhelms his reason. He was also willing to take on the Leagues of Assassins to protect Sara, and wound up killing one of them on his own. Even after falling out with Laurel, he still makes protecting her his top priority.
* PerpetualFrowner: Particularly early on. He is a ''grim'' mother fucker. Lost his daughter, estranged from his wife and other daughter, drinking problem...
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: In Season One, he is determined that 'The Hood' will pay for his actions, but he's still reasonable enough to a) use evidence that the vigilante gives him, b) realize when it's not The Hood that's doing the killing, c) help the vigilante when there is nothing that he can do, and d) ask the vigilante for help when Starling City PD's in over their heads.
* ReassignedToAntarctica: At the start of Season Two, he's been demoted to a beat cop for helping the vigilante during Season One.
* RelatedInTheAdaptation: Since Sara dons the White Canary identity in ''Series/LegendsOfTomorrow'', this makes the character related to him, Laurel and Dinah by default. In the comics, the White Canary is an unrelated character who is a self-appointed ArchEnemy of Black Canary (the Dinah Laurel Lance version).
* SecretKeeper: For most of Team Arrow, as he knows Felicity works with them, Sara and then Laurel eventually join the vigilante crusade, then finally Oliver himself, although he's not happy about it as he continues to pin both the city's endless crime wave and Sara's deaths on him, but knows that Ollie is a valuable last resort when the police are over their head.
* SecondLove: He and Donna Smoak to each other, starting Season 4.
* SelectiveObliviousness: Eventually admits that he doesn't ''want'' to know who the Arrow really is. [[{{Foreshadowing}} Which explains how he could "miss" the fact that when he called the Arrow, Ollie (who was right in front of him) just happened to get a call on his phone.]] He explains why during an exchange with Laurel in the episode "The Man Under the Hood".
-->'''Quentin:''' If I knew who he really was then he would become a person. Maybe he's got family. Friends. People that care about him. Some other life. And then he couldn't be what I needed to him to be. What this city needs him to be. It's The Arrow that matters...[[TitleDrop The man under the hood]] isn't important.
* SparedByTheAdaptation: In most stories, Detective Lance [[DependingOnTheWriter is usually]] dead by the time Laurel is the Black Canary. [[spoiler: Here, he even outlives her.]]
* SympatheticInspectorAntagonist: Throughout Season One, but leans further and further towards 'sympathetic' as time goes by.
* TallDarkAndSnarky: He stands 6'3 1/2 and is definitely gruff and sarcastic.
* ThisIsForEmphasisBitch: You sons of bitches should know that when he swears, he's goddamned serious.
* ThisIsUnforgivable: He ''really'' doesn't take Laurel keeping him in the dark about Sara's death well. His usually loving demeanour disappears in place of his old cynicism, he seems to contemplate falling off the wagon (but doesn't), won't even go to the same AA meeting as her and stops answering her calls. He eventually admits to her that while he still loves her, they won't patch things up any time soon.
* ToBeLawfulOrGood: Struggles with this as the series goes on, wanting to catch the vigilante however grudgingly helps him when there is no other choice. In "Sacrifice", he chooses Good, understanding that laws and rules are useless if they are not protecting anyone. He is ultimately demoted to beat cop for this. He continues to work with the Arrow in Season Two with little internal conflict, showing that he has embraced Good. Though Sara's death makes him regress, he switches back when she's resurrected.
* TookALevelInCheerfulness: In Season 4, [[spoiler:after Sara is revived, and when he starts going out with Felicity's mother, Donna]].
* TookALevelInJerkass: After finding out that Sara died and Laurel and the Arrow have kept him in the dark, he understandably isn't happy.
* TookALevelInKindness: Quentin is noticeably much more calm and easygoing in Season 2 when he isn't focused on catching Arrow. This goes away in Season 3 when he finds out Sara died, though he comes back around in season 4 when she's (properly) brought back to life.
* UngratefulBastard: In Season 3, his grief over Sara's death and anger at Laurel and the Arrow for keeping it secret from him pushes him to ignore all the good Oliver did and focus on the bad, and he becomes a prime believer in the SuperheroParadox, (even though roughly half of the villains were active before Oliver took up his hood) blaming Ollie for everything wrong that has happened in Starling. He does grow out of this mindset eventually.
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Blind hatred and arrest at all cost mentality towards Oliver pushed him to joining the League.
* UnwittingPawn: To Ra's al Ghul in season 3, although he really has no excuse anymore that doesn't include the words "hate" and "Arrow".
* WhatTheHellHero: Oliver calls him out, ''hard'', for [[spoiler:working with Damien Darhk]].
* YouHaveToBelieveMe: He ''might'' have chosen a better way to explain how he heard about the "destroy the Glades" plan. In his defense, with literally no hours remaining, zero leads, and thousands to evacuate, he might not have been thinking about that sort of thing.
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* HeroicWannbe: Her Season 3 arc concerns her wanting to be a badass vigilante like Sara, Oliver and Team Arrow, but lacking the skills - and often the logical thinking - to manage it. Several episodes have her rushing off to confront someone (a domestic abuser, Malcolm) and then other characters then having to bail her out of trouble. She also shows hints of this back in Season 2 when she admits she's jealous of how strong and powerful Sara has become and is bitter Oliver considers Diggle and Felicity his partners and not her.

* WhatDoesSheSeeInHim?: Quentin wonders this repeatedly in Season 1, as Oliver cheated on her repeatedly - including with her own sister - when they dated. [[spoiler: In play again in Season 4 when she confesses she still loves Oliver on her deathbed. Given over the seasons Oliver has lied to her about his secret identity, thrown her alcoholism in her face, tried to block her from joining the team and revealed he fathered a secret child while they were together, it's a wonder Laurel still considers love of her life material.]]

* WhyWouldAnyoneTakeHimBack?: [[spoiler: She confesses she still loves Oliver on her deathbed, although it's more "why would anyone ''want'' to take him back", as Oliver isn't interested anymore. The sentiment is still there as over the years, Oliver cheated on Laurel multiple times - including with her ''sister'' - threw her alcoholism in her face, lied to her about his secret identity and tried to block her from joining the team, so why Laurel considers him the love of her life is a mystery.]]

* MoralityChain: Unknowingly this to Roy. Ollie manages to calm Roy down by telling him to think of Thea.

* DemotedToExtra: The last half of Season 3, Roy plays a lesser and lesser part. To the point where he only has ''one'' appearance in Season 4.
* DidNotGetTheGirl: With Thea. They were in a serious relationship for much of season one and all of season two. As of season three, they're no longer together until near the end of said season.

** Possibly subverted with Isabel Rochev, whose vendetta meant that she would do anything to spite the queen family with or without Oliver's trust.

* GoodIsNotNice: As the Arrow, and before that, the Hood. In the words of Barry Allen, the Arrow is "kind of a douche".

* AdaptationalAngstUpgrade: Unlike most Green Arrow stories, the toll the time he spent five years away from home was more emphasized on this version, particularly his struggle to reconnect properly with his loved ones. Said five years is also portrayed more bleaker compared to other versions.

* BadassDriver: Subverted by Diggle. He is unquestionably a {{Badass}}, and originally worked as Oliver's bodyguard/driver, but he never uses the vehicle he drives as a weapon. Felicity, on the other hand, plays this straight when she goes CarFu on Isabel Rochev near the end of Season 2.

* {{Badass}}: With TruthInTelevision. That [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvxdpv5BKoo salmon ladder]] that Oliver trains on? Yeah, Stephen Amell actually does those. The parkour he does? Yup, Stephen again.

* TrueLoveIsExceptional: Early seasons and flashbacks have him exclusively dating {{Badass}} [[{{ActionGirl}} Action Girls]] including Laurel, Sara, Helena, Mckenna and Shado, but it's Adorkable, [[{{NonActionGuy}} Non Action Girl]] Felicity he ends up really falling for. Slade lampshades this.

* {{Badass}}: Shows off his skills in "Honor Thy Father", taking down two Triad assassins and going toe-to-toe with China White for a bit. In "Legacies", we see Dig without his professional suit on and his physique is arguably more impressive than Oliver's. Oliver later comments that his arms are the size of bowling balls.

* BadassDriver: Subverted. He is a {{Badass}} and he worked as Oliver's driver, but he was never shown fighting while on wheels (it was Felicity who did that, against Isabel Rochev).

* {{Adorkable}}: Even once she's in on the secret and surrounded by {{Badass}}es, she still manages to be an {{Adorkable}} StraightMan.

* {{Badass}}: His fighting skills have taken an upgrade since he joined Team Arrow. Before that, he was mostly a badass thanks to his street savvy and pretty remarkable parkour skills.
* BadassBaritone: Has a deep voice and one of the show's {{Badass}} characters.

* {{Badass}}: Played with. Laurel is perfectly capable of kicking ass when she needs to. [[{{ActionSurvivor}} However, she is a lawyer, not a crime-fighter.]] After Sara's death, she tries to take her place as a vigilante despite lacking her sister's skill or training.[[{{TookALevelInBadass}} She gets some training from Ted and Nyssa to amend this]], although she's not up to [[{{TrainingFromHell}} Sara's standard]].

* {{Badass}}: While not to the level of Oliver or Sara, he manages to fend off and ultimately kill a member of the League of Assassins entirely on his own.

* BlondesAreEvil: Subverted. The first few episodes of the series will make you think that she's a BlackWidow and an EvilMatriarch, but it turns out that she was just forced by the man who had her husband murdered to work for him and that she only had Oliver kidnapped to know if her late husband told him anything about the aforementioned mastermind's EvilPlan that could put his life in danger.

* ArcWords: "Brother". At first it was mainly because of the main reason for him joining Oliver's crusade being to prevent other people from losing anyone they love like he did with his brother, to eventually being the BigBrotherMentor for Oliver and eventually their entire team. His major StryArc is also about hunting down Deadshot, the man who killed his brother. [[spoiler: Eventually, his supposedly dead brother ends up being a major personal antagonist for him.]]

* BrainwashedAndCrazy: Malcolm drugged her with a substance that basically allows mind control and had her kill Sara

* IronicName: One definition of the word "felicity" is "the ability to find appropriate expression for one's thoughts"; definitely not something that describes our resident MotorMouth IT girl. Lampshaded by Curtis Holt in season 4. On the other hand another meaning of Felicity is "great happiness", which fits her bubbly and optimistic nature and her ability to restore Oliver's hope when the chips are down.
* JerkAss: Felicity's reaction to Oliver sending his son away to secret location for his own safety? Something that Oliver is literally crying over? Immediately start whining about Oliver not telling her everything and breaks up with him right there. She is never called out on this.

** He and Laurel "struggled" to be this throughout the first two seasons, they succeeded near the end of Season 2...and then switched back to a turbulent relationship throughout Season 3. [[spoiler:They do finally succeed during Season 4, after Oliver has [[HeroOfAnotherStory John Constantine]] restore a revived Sara's soul.]]

** He and Samantha, though they had a slight fallout (at least on her part) when [[spoiler: their son William is kidnapped by Damien Dahrk]].

** [[spoiler:A ''huge'' (temporary) one for Quentin Lance in Season 4, after he discovers the latter's DealWithTheDevil with [[BigBad Damian Darhk]], as Quentin was the one of the people who inspired him to run for mayor.]]

** His arc over the first three seasons focused on him losing his IWorkAlone attitude and allowing other people to join in his crusade to save Starling City. By the Season 3 finale he's content to go on a vacation with Felicity, knowing that Diggle, Thea (Speedy), Laurel (Black Canary), and Ray ( the Atom) are more than capable of looking after Starling in his absence.

* HeterosexualLifePartners: With Tommy, Diggle, Roy, and Barry.

** He tells Laurel in Season 3 she can't be on Team Arrow because she's untrained. Laurel went to him for exactly that a few episodes before that and Ollie refused to train her. In fairness however he and Sara went through TrainingFromHell that nearly destroyed them and neither of them would wish it on anyone else. Add in that Quentin has already lost one daughter so training Laurel up to put herself in danger is clearly something to avoid.

** When team Arrow is investigating Vertigo, he's the one to dress in street clothes and purchase a sample.

* ClingyJealousGirl: She can be very possessive of Oliver, though it's usually PlayedForLaughs.

* GreenEyedMonster: Whenever another woman shows up in Oliver's life, though she did get along with Sara.

** Averted, however, with her mother, who is not nerdy at all, having a personality very different from her daughter's.

* TheLostLenore:[[spoiler: For Oliver. While he is at the time of her death [[RelationshpRevolvingDoor ''with'' Felicity]], his reaction and utter despair that he couldn't save her at her funeral makes it clear that while Felicity may be the love of his life, he never stopped loving Laurel either.]]