Title Character
Green Arrow (Oliver Queen)
Supporting Cast
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Rogues Gallery
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Green Arrow I (Oliver Queen)
Oliver Queen/Green Arrow I
Green Arrow's pre-reboot design
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Debut: More Fun Comics (Vol 1) #73
"I've failed this city. I've left it alone and left the people I should be protecting exposed. I'm never going to let that happen again."
Born into a life of privilege, Oliver Queen's life would take a different turn after his yacht sank and he was forced to live on a deserted island. Using a bow to survive, Oliver would eventually return to civilization and use his newly honed skills to fight crime as the Green Arrow.
Green Arrow II (Connor Hawke)
Connor Hawke/Green Arrow II
Connor Hawke's Dawn of DC design
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Debut: Green Arrow (Vol 2) #0
"I'm not giving up on him. I don't care if he's a jerk or a traitor or whatever. It's taken all this time to find him and I'm not giving up on my father."
Connor Hawke is the biological son of Oliver Queen and Sandra "Moonday" Hawke. A fan of Green Arrow, he worked alongside his father for a time, until Oliver's "death". Connor would take up the Green Arrow mantle to honor his hero.
- Aborted Arc: His long-awaited return after being Ret-Gone was teased in issue #25 of Green Arrow (Rebirth) but unfortunately didn't happen before the book got a new creative team.
- Affirmative-Action Legacy: His father's multiracial successor as the second Green Arrow.
- Animal Motifs: He's sometimes associated with Hawks, which are phonetically identical his surname "Hawke". This was used heavily in his appearance in Robin (2021), where hawk and robin symbolism was used for his rivalry with Damian Wayne.
- Animal Theme Naming: His surname "Hawke" is phonetically identical to hawks, which is why he sometimes has them as an Animal Motif. In Robin (2021), this was the basis for his rivalry with Damian Wayne during the Lazarus tournament, with The League of Shadows claiming that to kill a Robin, they need a Hawke.
- Ascended Fanboy: Was introduced as a huge fan of Green Arrow even before the reader knows he's Oliver's son, and eventually becomes Green Arrow.
- Badass Normal: He doesn't have any superpowers, his skills just come from training as a Warrior Monk in an Ashram monastery.
- Empowered Badass Normal: After being experimented on by Doctor Sivana, he gained a Healing Factor and became more resistant to pain.
- Badass Pacifist: He's a Master Archer and formidable Warrior Monk considered to be one of the World's Best Warrior, yet as a commitment to nonviolence whenever possible, and especially hates taking a life.
- Bald Head of Toughness: When he's first introduced he's bald, as appropriate for a tough Warrior Monk, and also to make The Reveal that he's Oliver son less obvious. When he adopts the Green Arrow mantle he grows his hair into the dark-skinned blond look he's more know for.
- Bash Brothers: Much like how his father Oliver often teamed up with Hal Jordan, Connor would also end up teaming up often with successor Green Lanter Kyle Rayner.
- The Bus Came Back: After the New 52 universal reboot, his character was Ret-Gone for years. He was teased to return in Green Arrow (Rebirth) but the idea was aborted when the book got a new creative team. He would only be brought back fully in 2021 on the Robin (2021) series.
- Calling the Old Man Out: He's heavily annoyed by his father's horrible parenting skills and has more than once called him out for his terrible behavior as a father and a hero.
- Celibate Hero: Is uncomfortable with women due to being raised by monks and tends to avoid romantic relationships for this reason.
- Chick Magnet: Despite being a Celibate Hero, he gets hit on by women pretty often, to the point that Chick Magnets Wally West and Kyle Rayner are jealous!
- Commonality Connection:
- He and Kyle Rayner have bonded over their shared struggle of not knowing their fathers and being racial minorities in America.
- He and Damian Wayne bond over having absentee superhero fathers with similar methods and equipment.
- Composite Character: In the New 52 continuity, Connor Hawke is the Red Arrow of Earth 2 rather than Green Arrow.
- Contrasting Sequel Main Character: A lot of his backstory and personality traits were created to mirror his father Oliver Queen, the first Green Arrow:
- Ollie was a rich kid who became a social activist and a Badass Normal superhero who was devoted to doing the right thing and helping the poor. Connor only had a Struggling Single Mother who couldn't support him, so he was raised in an ashram and spent his life studying to become a humble monk.
- Ollie is a loud-mouthed and showy figure who had a sort of pig-headed stubbornness and cocky air about him. Connor is much more humble and reserved, and had difficulty coping with the stardom and larger-than-life aspects of being a superhero.
- Ollie is a notorious womanizer and Sex God whose libido was fairly infamous among super-heroes and has a long complicated history with his main love interest Black Canary who he frequently forms a Battle Couple with. Meanwhile, Connor is an Asexual Chick Magnet who is deeply uncomfortable around women due to his upbringing and gets visibly uneasy when being hit on.
- Convenient Coma: During Green Arrow & Black Canary, he spent the majority of the run in a comatose state after being poisoned by the League of Assassins. Even when he woke up, he was Not Himself and became detached from many of his memories and the emotions, even forgetting how to use a bow, and he was Put on a Bus by returning to the Ashram where he had been raised in order to recover.
- Depending on the Artist: His skin color tends to vary a lot. Sometimes he's black, sometimes he's Ambiguously Brown and sometimes he's Caucasian white just like his father.
- Depending on the Writer: His asexuality. It was potentially implied in his earlier appearances and blamed as a mix of himself and his religious upbringing. Then a certain writer retconned him into kissing a woman whom he believed to be his mother. Seemingly his asexuality is back as of Rebirth.
- Domino Mask: Like his father, he took up wearing one as part of his Super Hero after becoming the second Green Arrow.
- Friendly Rivalry: Forms one with Damian Wayne in Robin (2021), where they both compete in the Lazarus Tournament, but they bond over their absent hero fathers and they ultimately team up to bring the whole tournament down.
- Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: Shares his father's blonde hair and is a genuine pacifist Nice Guy.
- Healing Factor: After being brought to a Convenient Coma and becoming a guinea pig to Doctor Sivana, he gained an accelerated healing factor and a heightened resistance to pain.
- Heroic Bastard: He is the son of Oliver Queen (one of several) and his former girlfriend Sandra "Moonday" Hawke. Oliver walked out on him when he was a baby, but that didn't stop Connor for wanting to follow in his father's footsteps and becoming a Super Hero like him.
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Ho Yay: With Kyle Rayner. - Humble Hero: He has the humility that one would expect for someone raised as a Warrior Monk, and preserves that humility even when he takes on the mantle of Green Arrow, which is in rather stark contrast to his dad's boasting and boisterous nature.
- In the Hood: Tends to use a hood in his hero costume much more often than his father does.
- Irisless Eye Mask Of Mystery: The Domino Mask he usually wears completely covers his eyes.
- Lamarck Was Right: Averted, in that while Connor is a competent enough archer after years of training with monks as a boy, he is nowhere near the savant Oliver Queen is with a bow. He is a great martial artist, though.
- Legacy Character: With his father dead in the 90s, Connor decided to take up the mantle of Green Arrow and continue his hero's work and became the second Green Arrow. Even when Oliver came Back from the Dead, they both stayed as Green Arrow for a time, and worked as partners in a Parent-Child Team.
- Luke, I Am Your Father: Connor reveals to Ollie he's his son some time after they traveled together. Ollie reacts... poorly.
- Made of Iron: One story arc had him surviving being shot in the head by the villain Onomatopeia, and while he was seriously injured, he quickly made a full recovery.
- Martial Pacifist: He's a fearsome Warrior Monk, but his martial art skills also taught him how to value life and to avoid violence unless necessary.
- Master Archer: As a Warrior Monk, Connor studied the Kyudo Discipline style of archery. He's not as skilled with the bow as his father and most Team Arrow members but has still shown to have some Improbable Aiming Skills with a bow.
- My Significance Sense Is Tingling: Connor's zen training as a Warrior Monk endowed him with the gift of vision, which sometimes allows him to sense supernatural occurrences, such as getting a vision when his father was brought Back from the Dead.
- Nice Guy: Contrasting with his father's Jerk with a Heart of Gold.
- Nom de Mom: Hawke is his mother's surname, which he uses due to Oliver walking out on him when he was a baby.
- O.O.C. Is Serious Business:
- Connor was so angry at Ollie for murdering Prometheus that he essentially severed all ties with the entire family, only returning for Lian's funeral but doing nothing to help Dinah, Mia or Roy before disappearing from their lives.
- In the Robin (2021) run, readers familiar with him know that Connor Hawke is the last person to be murdering people. It's the why of it that is the question. However, for the actual characters, they don't know who Connor is, so he's just a mysterious assassin to them.
- Only Sane Man: He can sometimes seem like this in a household with his hot-tempered, impulsive father and the equally impulsive and hot-tempered Speedies.
- Parental Abandonment: His father walked away from him when he was a baby and his mother left him to be raised in an Ashram monastery when he was a child.
- Put on a Bus: As a member of Team Arrow he often returned to the Ashram he was raised in for one reason or another, as an excuse whenever a writer didn't want him around.
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: He's been the Blue to Ollie's, Eddie's, Roy's, and Kyle Rayner's Reds.
- The Reliable One: Often portrayed as this with the other Team Arrow members, with his calm demeanor contrasting to the others who are more Hot-Blooded and opinionated people and he often acts as The Confidant and the one willing to listen and understand the issues of the others.
- Religious Bruiser: He is a Buddhist Warrior Monk.
- Ret-Gone: After being rebooted from existence in 2011. He mentions a bright light, which is what everyone who was retconned away saw, and then waking up lost and alone, later being found by the League of Shadows.
- Screw This, I'm Outta Here: During The Fall of Green Arrow he decides he's had enough of his father after finding out he killed Prometheus and turns his back on him, and by extension the rest of the Arrow Family. His last appearance until Robin (2021) shows him attending Lian's funeral, but does absolutely nothing to try and comfort or help Roy as he steadily goes off the deep end showing just how pissed he is at Ollie to functionally cut everyone else out.
- The Straight and Arrow Path: A variant in which the archer Super Hero is actually more famous for his skills in close quarters combat, as Connor is one of the best martial artists in the The DCU.
- Thou Shall Not Kill: As a Warrior Monk, Connor is by far the biggest adherent to this way of thinking, as he was raised as a Badass Pacifist who values all life. He often acts as a Morality Chain to other Team Arrow members when they become willing to use deadly force.
- Trick Arrow: As a successor to Green Arrow, he attempted to incorporate the trick arrows Ollie was famous for, but had difficulty using them due to finding them weighty and inconvenient. However, after a particularly crippling battle aboard the Justice League's Watchtower he found a case of his father's arrows and began to see their usefulness, though he still uses them much more rarely than other Team Arrow members.
- Twofer Token Minority: His father is Anglo-Saxon and his mother is half-Korean/half-African American. Threefer considering his asexuality.
- Villain Takes an Interest: Lady Shiva took notice of him after he defeated the Silver Monkey, observing Connor's quick rise as a formidable martial artist in The DCU. One story arc even had her taking the moniker of "Paper Monkey" and luring Connor to her, where they could have a Duel to the Death.
- Wacky Parent, Serious Child: Oliver is boisterous and loud while Connor is stoic and aloof.
- Warrior Monk: He was literally raised in a monastery and was trained to fight there, becoming a formidable hand-to-hand fighter who is particularly gifted in Aikido.
- Warrior Therapist: In his time with Team Arrow, he was more useful as emotional support and as The Confidant to the many issues the rest of the members had.
- Wide-Eyed Idealist: Even with Ollie's many faults, Connor still very much admires him and the Super Hero business in general, and is implied his sheltered upbringing has made him naive.
- World's Best Warrior: While he is a peg below Lady Shiva, Richard Dragon, and Cassandra Cain, he is, along with Batman, Bronze Tiger, Black Canary, and Catman, one of the single best non-augmented or superpowered (Black Canary notwithstanding, though she seldom if ever uses her abilities in direct combat) physical combatants in the mainline/non-Elseworlds DCU.
