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* SingleMomStripper: She's a cocktail waitress than an actual stripper but the trope principle is there.
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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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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. By season 5, after loosing his police commission due to working with Damien Darhk, he becomes the Deputy mayor of Star City under Oliver.
** After Laurel's death in season 4 poor Quentin ends up falling off the wagon again (the fact that his relationship with Donna Smoak broke down didn't exactly help matters). He eventually goes back into rehab because he doesn't want his alcoholism to effect his job as deputy mayor.
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* 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. However after suffering a taste of HumblePie after unwittingly helping Damien Darhk rise to power he becomes much more willing to help Oliver out and, after Oliver avenges Laurel's death in the season 4 finale, Quentin becomes loyal to Oliver and actively helps him out in his crusade as oppose to constantly hindering him.
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* 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]].
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* TheMole: In season four, [[spoiler:he's he's being blackmailed by Darhk to help H.I.V.E. destroy Star City. Then he agrees to help Ollie as a ReverseMole]].ReverseMole.
** After the city was left in shambles at the end of season 3 he ended up enlisting the help of a man whom Quentin believed wanted to genuinely help the city. That man turned out to be Damien Darhk whose rise to power thanks to Quentin's actions actually made things ''worse''.
* RetiredBadass: By the end of season 2 Lance gets KickedUpstairs and becomes a Captain in the police due to almost suffering from a heart attack due to internal bleeding from a Mirakuru soldiers punch. Because of this Lance is a lot less active in the field then he used to be however, when he does go out to the field, he can still take down people half his age if he needs to.
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* 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.
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** 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 tolife.life.
** After everything that happened to him in season 4, as well as the death of Laurel, Quentin has become a lot more tolerant of Oliver's actions and actively helps him in his crusade now as oppose to hinder it as both a member of Team Arrow and as the deputy mayor. He also seems to have lost his old animosity towards Oliver and know acts as a ParentalSubstitute of sorts to him and Thea.
** 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
** After everything that happened to him in season 4, as well as the death of Laurel, Quentin has become a lot more tolerant of Oliver's actions and actively helps him in his crusade now as oppose to hinder it as both a member of Team Arrow and as the deputy mayor. He also seems to have lost his old animosity towards Oliver and know acts as a ParentalSubstitute of sorts to him and Thea.
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* 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}}.
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* 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}}.Series/{{Arrowverse}}.
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* EvilParentsWantGoodKids: Robert Queen wanted his son to clean up his mistakes.
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* PosthumousCharacter: By the time of the pilot airs, he's already been dead for five years. All of his appearances are through flashbacks.
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** 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.
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** To Laurel. In Season One, 1, 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.
* ForgottenFirstMeeting: He forgot about his first meeting with Rene, back when he was a punk on the streets, but managed to sway him from a life of crime and put him on the correct path.
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* InspectorJavert: In Season One 1 to a certain extent, in contrast to his daughter's more CommissionerGordon attitude. By Season Two 2 he's become the CommissionerGordon while Laurel is more of an InspectorJavert.InspectorJavert. He goes back to InspectorJavert in Season 3 after Sara's death shakes him up and he pins the blame on the Arrow.
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* 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 Oliver (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".
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* LikeADaughterToMe: He starts developing this dynamic with Thea in Season 5, where she comes to care for him and tries to put him back on his feet when he has a drinking problem.
* RedHerring: "So It Begins" seemed to hint that Quentin was Prometheus, with the cut on his arm matching the one Artemis gave to Prometheus, as well as Quentin finding a throwing star in his house. [[spoiler:This all turns out to be a ruse to throw viewers off.]]
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* ThisIsUnforgivable: He ''really'' doesn't take Laurel keeping him in the dark about Sara's death well. His usually loving demeanour demeanor 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.
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** Ray is apparently a fan of ''Series/DoctorWho'', a show which his actor has appeared in.
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* DeathEqualsRedemption: For all her immoral actions earlier in the series, willingly [[HeroicSacrifice sacrificing]] herself to save her daughter Thea really made up for it.
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* NeverMyFault: Lays all of the fault upon Oliver for all the results of the vendetta he goes on against him in season 3, up to and including Roy's incarceration and subsequent [[FakingTheDead "death".]] He even blames him for Roy's death to his face while denying any responsibility.
-->'''Lance''':''I would say I'm sorry, but we both know whose fault this is.''
-->'''Lance''':''I would say I'm sorry, but we both know whose fault this is.''
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* DemotedToExtra: To ludicrous extremes, despite being Diggle's LoveInterest in season 1 she has dissapeard from the show entirely from 2 onwards. The only thing that stops her from [[ChuckCunninghamSyndrome becoming chucked]] is that Diggle still mentions her and Andy Jr in passing. [[spoiler: This is especially baffling when you consider that her husband Andy is revealed to be alive and well in season 4 and yet the two never even see each other.]]
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* DemotedToExtra: To ludicrous extremes, despite being Diggle's LoveInterest in season 1 she has dissapeard disappeared from the show entirely from 2 onwards. The only thing that stops her from [[ChuckCunninghamSyndrome becoming chucked]] is that Diggle still mentions her and Andy Jr in passing. [[spoiler: This [[spoiler:This is especially baffling when you consider that her husband Andy is revealed to be alive and well in season 4 and yet the two never even see each other.]]
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* 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.
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* DisappearedDad: To his son.
* PosthumousCharacter: Killed by Deadshot before the series starts.
* StuffedInTheFridge: He's death by Deadshot's hands is the reason why Diggle hates the man to the core.
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John Diggle's younger brother. He was a bodyguard and murdered by Deadshot [[PosthumousCharacter prior to the events of the series.]]
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* DisappearedDad: To his son.
* PosthumousCharacter: Killed by Deadshot before the series starts.
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* DisappearedDad: To his son.
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* StuffedInTheFridge: He's death by Deadshot's hands is the reason why Diggle hates the man to the core.
* WalkingSpoiler: Any information about him as of the fourth season. Follow the headline if you want to know more..
* NeverGotToSayGoodbye: [[spoiler: Thanks to being RetGone'd by Barry creating the Flashpoint timeline, her parents never even know who she was.]]
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* EarlyBirdCameo: His FutureBadass self makes a two episode guest appearance in ''Series/LegendsOfTomorrow''.
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* TheGhost: So far his only appearance is in a photo on ''Series/TheFlash2014'' Season 3 (his FutureBadass self doesn't really count).
* MixedAncestry: His father is African-American while his mother is Caucasian.
* RememberTheNewGuy: Played with. He made an EarlyBirdCameo in ''Series/LegendsOfTomorrow'', but if the audience doesn't watch that show and/or ''Series/TheFlash2014'', chances are they have no idea who the hell he is. For the matter, Barry plays this straight InUniverse.
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* EarlyBirdCameo: His FutureBadass self makes a two episode guest appearance in ''Series/LegendsOfTomorrow''.
* FutureBadass: In an AlternateTimeline visited by [[Series/LegendsOfTomorrow The Legends]], he will be Oliver's successor as Green Arrow.
* TheGhost: So far his only appearance is in a photo on ''Series/TheFlash2014'' Season 3 (his FutureBadass self doesn't really count).
* MixedAncestry: His father is African-American while his mother is Caucasian.
* RememberTheNewGuy: Played with. He made an EarlyBirdCameo in ''Series/LegendsOfTomorrow'', but if the audience doesn't watch that show and/or ''Series/TheFlash2014'', chances are they have no idea who the hell he is. For the matter, Barry plays this straight InUniverse.
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** 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 Sarahome.home.
** To [[Series/TheFlash2014 Joe West]]. Both of them are the cop main characters [[note]]For added bonus, both of their actors' respective StarMakingRole are also cops; ''Series/LawAndOrder'' ([[Theatre/{{RENT}} at least as a screen actor]]) for Creator/JesseLMartin, ''Series/TheDresdenFiles'' for Paul Blackthorne.[[/note]] of their respective show, and actively involved with their city's resident hero as a result. But while Joe has always been supportive of Barry being The Flash, Quentin's relationship with The Arrow is pretty shaky and unpredictable. Around the time he discovered The Arrow's real identity, their relationship had completely gone to shit. They also have a daughter whom they've always been especially close to - while Quentin had a second child (Sara), he's described the bond between Laurel and himself as one of trust, similar to Joe and Iris. Furthermore, one side of the relationship has been keeping the other LockedOutOfTheLoop with good intentions; and the level of hurt that Quentin felt about Laurel doing it, when Sara died, has forced Joe to reconsider his own self-righteous attempts to keep Iris from finding out that Barry is The Flash.
** 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
** To [[Series/TheFlash2014 Joe West]]. Both of them are the cop main characters [[note]]For added bonus, both of their actors' respective StarMakingRole are also cops; ''Series/LawAndOrder'' ([[Theatre/{{RENT}} at least as a screen actor]]) for Creator/JesseLMartin, ''Series/TheDresdenFiles'' for Paul Blackthorne.[[/note]] of their respective show, and actively involved with their city's resident hero as a result. But while Joe has always been supportive of Barry being The Flash, Quentin's relationship with The Arrow is pretty shaky and unpredictable. Around the time he discovered The Arrow's real identity, their relationship had completely gone to shit. They also have a daughter whom they've always been especially close to - while Quentin had a second child (Sara), he's described the bond between Laurel and himself as one of trust, similar to Joe and Iris. Furthermore, one side of the relationship has been keeping the other LockedOutOfTheLoop with good intentions; and the level of hurt that Quentin felt about Laurel doing it, when Sara died, has forced Joe to reconsider his own self-righteous attempts to keep Iris from finding out that Barry is The Flash.
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! Star City Families
!! Queen Family
[[folder: Oliver Queen / The (Green) Arrow]]
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[[folder: Thea Queen / Speedy]]
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[[folder: Moira Queen]]
!!Moira Dearden Queen
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->'''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.
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[[folder: Robert Queen]]
!!Robert Queen
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->'''Played by:''' Creator/JameySheridan
Husband of Moira and father of Oliver, but not Thea (though he still loved her like his own). He was a well-intentioned member of Malcolm Merlyn's scheme to clean up Star(ling) City, until he learned of Malcolm's plan to level the Glades. Malcolm sabotaged the ''Queen's Gambit'' to prevent him from exposing the conspiracy, which resulted in Robert passing the list onto Oliver before committing suicide.
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* AccidentalMurder: Why he joined the Undertaking.
* AlphabeticalThemeNaming: He and his wife '''M'''oira were friends with '''M'''alcolm and his wife '''R'''ebecca Merlyn.
* AlternateUniverseReedRichardsIsAwesome: As revealed in "[[TheFlash2014S2E6EnterZoom Enter Zoom]]", there exists an AlternateSelf on Earth-2 where it is ''he'' that became "The Hood" and not Oliver, who had died instead of Robert.
* TheAtoner: In his last moments, he really seems regretful of his past. Turns out in "The Undertaking" that he's been this way for a long time prior to his death. At some point when he was trying to set up some building in the Glades, the councilman he spoke to tried to blackmail him into bribing him. When he refused and the resulting fight ends with him accidentally killing the councilman, he joined Malcolm's group to clean up the Glades to atone for this, until he finds out what Malcolm is planning.
* CelebrityParadox: An episode of ''Series/TheFlash2014'' mentions the existence of the ''Franchise/LawAndOrder'' franchise. His actor was one of the main characters of ''Series/LawAndOrderCriminalIntent''.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Confessed to being one while they were on the life raft.
* BoomHeadshot: How he killed himself.
* DeathByOriginStory: He does appear a few times in flashbacks, though.
* DrivenToSuicide: Shot himself to ensure that Oliver would survive.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Though he was willing to atone for his manslaughter by blackmailing the city's worst criminals, he drew the line at Malcolm's absolutely insane plan to destroy the Glades with a machine capable of creating a natural disaster.
* EvilParentsWantGoodKids: Robert Queen wanted his son to clean up his mistakes.
* HeroicSacrifice: Robert shot himself and a fellow crew member on the lifeboat to save his son, wanting him to survive.
* HonestCorporateExecutive: He started as one of these; turns out that he was a rather honest and decent businessman until he accidentally killed a corrupt councilman in self-defence. He joined Malcolm's crusade to clean up the Glades by taking control of the corrupt executives, but he refused to go along with destroying the Glades, and from the start his only motive was to help people.
* KnightTemplarParent: To save his son, not only does Robert shoot himself to leave all the survival supplies to Oliver, he also kills the third, innocent shipwreck survivor first. In Robert's defense, he seemed to fear that the man -- a tough-looking sailor -- would kill Oliver over the supplies.
* NeverGotToSayGoodbye: Only Oliver was there in his last moments. Justified since they were LostAtSea at the time.
* ParentalSubstitute: After Tommy's mother died and his father disappeared, Robert largely took over the role. Even after Malcolm returned, he was still distant, so Robert still basically treated Tommy as his own.
-->'''Tommy:''' ''My'' dad was never there. ''Your'' dad was the one who took me to baseball games, went to school plays, helped me with birthday parties...
* RedemptionEqualsDeath: His suicide in the pilot flashback, when he tells his son to make up for his mistakes. Also, by the end of the season, we've learned that Malcolm had the yacht sabotaged because Robert was going to betray the Undertaking.
* RelatedInTheAdaptation:
** Subverted. While Thea's comic counterpart Mia was later adopted by Oliver, she is not related to the Queens by blood; however, it was later revealed that Thea is conceived by Moira's infidelity with Malcolm, and that Robert ''knew'' this but loved her like his own anyway.
** Inverted with Connor Hawke, who is not his grandchild in this version.
* YourCheatingHeart: Reportedly. It's confirmed in "The Man Under the Hood".
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Walter Steele]]
!!Walter Steele
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->'''Played By:''' Colin Salmon
CEO of Queen Industries, Walter was Robert Queen's best friend. He married Moira sometime after Robert's death, but divorces her after Season One due to her lies and role in the Undertaking. He is the current CFO of Star(ling) National Bank.
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* AllLovingHero: Downplayed. But you'll notice that Walter likes just about everybody, and everybody likes him.
* AmicableExes: Despite the fallout of their marriage, he and Moira patched things up and remain civil with each other.
* AscendedExtra: Appeared in exactly one panel in one issue of any comic book, ever.
* BadassBaritone: He has a very deep voice.
* BadLiar: It's because he's British according to Felicity.
* BaldBlackLeaderGuy: He's the CEO (former CFO) of Queen Industries.
* BeardOfSorrow: He has no time (and tools) to shave when he was captured by Tempest for much of Season 1. He shaved immediately once he's rescued.
* BenevolentBoss: Gets along very well with employees. His kind nature is why Felicity wanted to help find him.
* BigDamnHeroes: Helps Oliver secure a 50% stake in Queen Consolidated, saving it from a corporate takeover by Isabel Rochev.
* CelebrityParadox:
** Ray is apparently a fan of ''Series/DoctorWho'', a show which his actor has appeared in.
** Ray also acknowledges the existence of the ''Film/JamesBond'' film series in this universe. Colin Salmon was a prominent supporting cast during Creator/PierceBrosnan's tenure as the title character.
** An episode of ''Series/TheFlash2014'' mentions the existence of the ''Franchise/LawAndOrder'' franchise. Colin Salmon was a RecurringCharacter in ''Series/LawAndOrderUK''.
* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: He abruptly departs the series without warning.
* CommutingOnABus:
** He leaves on a "business trip" in "Damaged" where he's actually investigating Moira's lies, but he returns in "Muse of Fire". Then he gets kidnapped in "Year's End". He's rescued in "The Undertaking", but leaves again at the end of the following episode after telling Moira that he's filed for divorce.
** He returns in Season Two as an angel investor in Queen Consolidated, then shows up again in the middle of the season to try to convince Moira to run for Mayor, and pops up once more to comfort Thea at Moira's funeral.
** He hasn't been since Season 2, after Moira's funeral, but he still lives in Star City, where he was asked by the Star City council to run for mayor. He declined.
* DistressedDude: He's kidnapped by Malcolm and spends six months as a captive until he's rescued by the Hood.
* DroppedABridgeOnHim: Subverted. Is used as a mid-episode cliffhanger, but the source was lying.
* HappilyMarried: Until "Darkness At the Edge of Town".
* HonestCorporateExecutive: He's definitely one of these -- see NonIdleRich below. Ironically, he's married to his polar opposite, though he doesn't realize this at first.
* HonorBeforeReason: Walter's stated reason for investigating further into Robert Queen's murder despite being told that doing so was dangerous? Because Robert was his friend and he's the type of guy to avenge his best friend's murder.
* IntergenerationalFriendship: With Felicity Smoak. This may be a MythologyGag since Felicity is originally the stepmother of the DC hero [[ComicBook/{{Firestorm}} Ronnie Raymond]] (though not here in the show).
* LargeAndInCharge: He stands 6'4 1/2 and serves as the CFO of Star City national Bank, and was previously Queen Consolidated's CEO.
* LikeASonToMe: Treats Thea as if she were his own daughter. And while things are initially frosty between them, it's clear that he views Oliver as if he were his own son, and actually calls him "son" in "The Undertaking". He reiterates this in "City of Heroes" when he states that regardless of the situation between himself and their mother, if Oliver and Thea need anything, they can call him.
* NiceGuy: Friendly and personable to more or less everyone.
* NiceToTheWaiter: Being this to Felicity is explicitly the reason she tries to discover his fate. Also, when his head of security gets killed under suspicious circumstances, he's reluctant to have any other staff continue that investigation.
* NonActionGuy: Walter doesn't get involved in fights.
* NonIdleRich: Though a NonActionGuy, because he's an HonestCorporateExecutive, he tends to do his due diligence. When he suspects potential embezzling within his company, he personally investigates despite the fact that he has an entire department also investigating.
* RaceLift: He's Caucasian (and American) in the comics.
* RedHerring: Savvy viewers expect him to be the bad guy. Oliver comes home and finds Walter married to his mother. In just a few episodes, we learn that nope, Walter's a genuinely good guy who loves Moira and Thea, is a caring and dedicated CEO, and wants nothing but the best for his adopted family and the employees. The reason people think he's evil in the beginning is mostly because a) [[EvilBrit he's British]] and b) he's a bit uptight. Regardless, he's an honorable gentleman through and through.
* RefusedTheCall: He rejects the offers to run for Star City's mayoral position at the start of Season 4.
* RelatedInTheAdaptation: He becomes the stepfather of both Oliver and Thea (Mia Dearden, herself being heavily associated with this trope) due to his marriage to Moira. In the comics, he's just a minor character unrelated to both characters.
* RomancingTheWidow: Or rather romanced the widow.
* SecretKeeper: One of two people who knew that Thea is actually Malcolm Merlyn's daughter prior to the Undertaking. Notably, Walter is the only one Moira ''chose'' to tell, with the other person being her doctor after complications with the birth.
* TallDarkAndHandsome: He stands 6'4 1/2 and is definitely a good-looking man.
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[[folder: William Clayton]]
!!William Clayton
Oliver's illegitimate son.
-> see the Characters/ArrowverseCentralCityCitizens page
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!! Lance Family
[[folder: Laurel Lance]]
-> see the Characters/ArrowverseTeamArrow page
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[[folder:Sara Lance]]
--> see Characters/ArrowverseTheLegends page
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[[folder: Quentin Lance]]
!!Quentin Larry Lance
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->'''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]]
[[folder: Dinah Lance]]
!![[ComicBook/BlackCanary Dinah Lance]]
[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/arrow_dinahlance.jpg]]
->'''Played By:''' Creator/AlexKingston
Ex-wife of Quentin Lance and mother of Laurel and Sara. Currently living in Central City and is a professor of Greek and medieval history at Central City University.
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* AdaptationalIntelligence: To complement her being an AdaptationalWimp (see below), the show made her both a multi-national historian and a linguist.
* AdaptationalWimp: Her comic counterpart is the original Black Canary, but she's not implied to be at least an ActionSurvivor here. Nyssa even kidnapped her without putting up a fight during mid-Season 2.
* AdaptationDyeJob: She has dirty blond hair while her comic counterpart has raven hair.
* AlliterativeName: Her maiden name is Drake (as was in the comics).
* AmicableExes: With Quentin, though he still obviously hoped for them to get back together until Season 4.
* AndStarring: She's either given this citation in the guest stars line-up or is billed first.
* TheCassandra: Throughout Season 1, she repeatedly told Quentin and Laurel that Sara might still be alive. They both don't buy it. Lo and behold at Season 2.
* CelebrityParadox:
** Ray is apparently a fan of ''Series/DoctorWho'', a show which Alex Kingston regularly appears in.
** An episode of ''Series/TheFlash2014'' mentions the existence of the ''Franchise/LawAndOrder'' franchise. Alex Kingston was a RecurringCharacter in ''Series/LawAndOrderSVU''.
** Both the ''Film/JamesBond'' and ''Film/HarryPotter'' film series are acknowledged to exist in this universe. Her actress's [[Creator/RalphFiennes ex-husband]] is a major cast member of both film franchises.
* CoolOldLady: Unlike Quentin, she is nice and civil to Oliver and doesn't hold Sara's apparent death against him.
* CoolTeacher: Currently works as a professor in Central City.
* DecompositeCharacter: Has the name of the original Black Canary but the role of the vigilante herself and Laurel's predecessor was taken up by her youngest daughter, Sara.
* InNameOnly: So far, the only things she shares with the original Black Canary is the name, (former) marital status with (Quentin) Larry Lance and the mother of (Dinah) Laurel.
* ItsAllMyFault: Holds herself responsible for Sara's death because she was the one who let her go on the cruise with Oliver. That's why she was so desperate to confirm that Sara was alive.
* TheMaidenNameDebate: An Inverted variant. She's still called "Mrs. Lance" long before she and Quentin got divorced.
* MissingMom: Disappeared some time before Sara's death, but came back when she claimed to have proof that Sara is alive.
* NeverGotToSayGoodbye: She was not able to say goodbye to Sara in [[TheyKilledKennyAgain all her deaths]]. [[spoiler: Sadly, [[KilledOffForReal and permanently]], also the case with Laurel.]]
* OutlivingOnesOffspring: After Sara's death. Both apparent and official. This gets subverted yet again as she's slated to come BackFromTheDead to be part of another SpinOff show. [[spoiler: And then Laurel was KilledOffForReal in Season 4, thus playing this straight.]]
* RealLifeWritesThePlot: We were denied a scene of her learning Sara was alive again due to Alex Kingston not being available. Instead we just get Sara talking to her on the phone. She also has yet to appear on ''The Flash'' despite living in Central City.
* RelatedInTheAdaptation: Since Sara dons the White Canary identity in ''Series/LegendsOfTomorrow'', this makes the character related to the her, Quentin and Laurel 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).
* SparedByTheAdaptation: In many versions, Laurel's mother and predecessor is dead by the time she dons the costume. [[spoiler: Here, she even outlives her.]]
* TwoFirstNames: Per the Creator/DCComics norm. Her maiden name, Drake, counts too
[[/folder]]
!! Diggle Family
[[folder: John Diggle]]
-> see the Characters/ArrowverseTeamArrow page
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Carly Diggle]]
!!Carly Diggle
[[quoteright:299:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/96efa9c20c72b30a997f0e98925233b1.jpg]]
->'''Played by:''' Christie Laing
Diggle's sister-in-law, who was widowed when her husband was killed by Deadshot. She works at a diner in Star(ling) City.
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* AloofDarkHairedGirl: At times particularly when it comes to Oliver.
* CanonForeigner: Doesn't have a comic book counterpart.
* DamselInDistress: When she's kidnapped in "Trust But Verify".
* DeadpanSnarker: Particularly when it comes to Oliver.
* DemotedToExtra: To ludicrous extremes, despite being Diggle's LoveInterest in season 1 she has dissapeard from the show entirely from 2 onwards. The only thing that stops her from [[ChuckCunninghamSyndrome becoming chucked]] is that Diggle still mentions her and Andy Jr in passing. [[spoiler: This is especially baffling when you consider that her husband Andy is revealed to be alive and well in season 4 and yet the two never even see each other.]]
* LoveInterest: For Diggle in season 1 although this is {{subverted}} come season 2 onwards after the two of them [[OffscreenBreakup breakup]] and Lyla comes back into the picture.
* ParentWithNewParamour: Her son is probably young enough not to understand the change in relationship between his mother and his uncle.
* SassyBlackWoman: She's always snaky in her dialogue.
* SatelliteCharacter: To Diggle, only appearing to show their interest.
* SatelliteLoveInterest: We know very little about her outside of her relationship with Diggle. Then they break up after Season One because of Diggle's obsession with Deadshot.
* WidowWoman: Her husband, Andy, was killed by the assassin Deadshot.
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Andrew "Andy" Diggle]]
!!Andy Diggle
John Diggle's younger brother. He was a bodyguard and murdered by Deadshot [[PosthumousCharacter prior to the events of the series.]]
[[spoiler: For tropes applying to him as of Season Four, see Characters/ArrowverseTheHIVE.]]
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* CanonForeigner: Doesn't have a comic book counterpart.
* DisappearedDad: To his son.
* PosthumousCharacter: Killed by Deadshot before the series starts.
* StuffedInTheFridge: He's death by Deadshot's hands is the reason why Diggle hates the man to the core.
* WalkingSpoiler: Any information about him as of the fourth season. Follow the headline if you want to know more..
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Lyla Michaels-Diggle]]
--> see Characters/ArrowverseARGUSAndUSMilitary
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Sara Diggle]]
!!Sara Diggle
John Diggle and Lyla Michale's daughter, [[AlternateTimeline and potentially first born child]]. She was born during ''Series/{{Arrow}}'' Season 3.
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* CanonForeigner: Doesn't have a comic book counterpart.
* DeadGuyJunior: Named after [[BackFromTheDead the at the time recently deceased]] Sara Lance.
* MixedAncestry: Her father's black while her mother's white.
[[/folder]]
[[folder: John Diggle, Jr.]]
!!John Diggle, Jr. aka Connor Hawke
Diggle and Lyla's son from an AlternateTimeline.
-> see the Characters/ArrowverseOtherTimelines page
[[/folder]]
!! Smoak Family
[[folder: Felicity Smoak]]
-> see the Characters/ArrowverseTeamArrow page
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Donna Smoak]]
!!Donna Smoak
[[quoteright:299:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/80801647c6e9699389f27cfa21faa35b.png]]
->'''Played By:''' Charlotte Ross
Felicity's mother.
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* AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents: For Felicity, especially in her flashbacks.
* AndStarring: In the guest stars lineup.
* AscendedExtra: She was previously a really minor character before getting bumped up to a recurring character.
* BadassPacifist: She's not exactly a fighter, but she won't hesitate to give a villain TheReasonYouSuckSpeech.
* BeautyEqualsGoodness: She's beautiful and Felicity's kind mother.
* BigBreastPride: Anyone noticing her fondness for AbsoluteCleavage dresses?
* CanonForeigner: Felicity's comic counterpart is really minor, so no family members of hers appeared. Since Felicity obviously has/had a mother, she's a case of NamedByTheAdaptation technically speaking.
* DumbBlonde: Zig-zagged. Although she is rather ditzy, she's also a good parent for Felicity and is well-aware when her EvilGenius ex-husband is playing others.
* EveryoneLovesBlondes: Unlike her daughter, it's natural.
* FanserviceWithASmile: She works as a cocktail waitress in Vegas.
* GenkiGirl: She is much more energetic than Felicity.
* GoodParents: Singlehandedly raised her daughter to grow up into a noble person.
* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: She's blonde and the kindest character on the show.
* HotMom: She's Felicity's mother and {{Ms.Fanservice}}.
* InnocentBlueEyes: She has such colorful baby blues.
* MatzoFever: She's proudly Jewish and attractive.
* MsFanservice: Wears a lot of revealing outfits, and played by Charlotte Ross to [[DoubleEntendre boot]]. [[note]] Charlotte Ross had a rather infamous ShowerScene revealing guess what during her stint on ''Series/NYPDBlue''. [[/note]]
* NiceGirl: She's very pleasant to others.
* NonActionGuy: One of the few recurring females of the show who doesn't fight.
* ThePollyanna: Doesn't seem to get bad vibes get to her. Unless she's being held hostage by a terrorist group led by her daughter's ex-boyfriend that is.
* SecondLove: For Quentin Lance.
* ShipperOnDeck: She supports her daughter and Oliver.
* SingleMomStripper: She's a cocktail waitress than an actual stripper but the trope principle is there.
* SmartBall: Occasionally provides her daughter good life advice when necessary.
* ThatCameOutWrong: Where exactly do you think Felicity got it from?
* WackyParentSeriousChild: Her dynamic with Felicity.
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Noah Kuttler]]
-> see the Characters/ArrowverseStarCityCriminals page
[[/folder]]
!! Holt Family
[[folder: Curtis Holt]]
-> see the Characters/ArrowverseTeamArrow page
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Paul Holt]]
!!Paul
->'''Played By:''' Chenier Hundal
Curtis' husband.
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* AdaptationalSexuality: From straight woman to the comics to gay man in the show.
* AdaptationNameChange: To accommodate the GenderFlip, as his comic counterpart is named ''Paula''. His new surname is also unknown since he's only addressed as Paula Holt in the comics.
* GenderFlip: He's a woman in the comics.
* RaceLift: He's African-American in the comics.
* SparedByTheAdaptation: He's a PosthumousCharacter in the comics.
* StraightGay: Much like Curtis.
[[/folder]]
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[[foldercontrol]]
! Star City Families
!! Queen Family
[[folder: Oliver Queen / The (Green) Arrow]]
-> see the Characters/ArrowverseTeamArrow page
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Thea Queen / Speedy]]
-> see the Characters/ArrowverseTeamArrow page
[[/folder]]
[[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: Robert Queen]]
!!Robert Queen
[[quoteright:300:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/robert_queen_arrow_7.jpg]]
->'''Played by:''' Creator/JameySheridan
Husband of Moira and father of Oliver, but not Thea (though he still loved her like his own). He was a well-intentioned member of Malcolm Merlyn's scheme to clean up Star(ling) City, until he learned of Malcolm's plan to level the Glades. Malcolm sabotaged the ''Queen's Gambit'' to prevent him from exposing the conspiracy, which resulted in Robert passing the list onto Oliver before committing suicide.
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* AccidentalMurder: Why he joined the Undertaking.
* AlphabeticalThemeNaming: He and his wife '''M'''oira were friends with '''M'''alcolm and his wife '''R'''ebecca Merlyn.
* AlternateUniverseReedRichardsIsAwesome: As revealed in "[[TheFlash2014S2E6EnterZoom Enter Zoom]]", there exists an AlternateSelf on Earth-2 where it is ''he'' that became "The Hood" and not Oliver, who had died instead of Robert.
* TheAtoner: In his last moments, he really seems regretful of his past. Turns out in "The Undertaking" that he's been this way for a long time prior to his death. At some point when he was trying to set up some building in the Glades, the councilman he spoke to tried to blackmail him into bribing him. When he refused and the resulting fight ends with him accidentally killing the councilman, he joined Malcolm's group to clean up the Glades to atone for this, until he finds out what Malcolm is planning.
* CelebrityParadox: An episode of ''Series/TheFlash2014'' mentions the existence of the ''Franchise/LawAndOrder'' franchise. His actor was one of the main characters of ''Series/LawAndOrderCriminalIntent''.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Confessed to being one while they were on the life raft.
* BoomHeadshot: How he killed himself.
* DeathByOriginStory: He does appear a few times in flashbacks, though.
* DrivenToSuicide: Shot himself to ensure that Oliver would survive.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Though he was willing to atone for his manslaughter by blackmailing the city's worst criminals, he drew the line at Malcolm's absolutely insane plan to destroy the Glades with a machine capable of creating a natural disaster.
* EvilParentsWantGoodKids: Robert Queen wanted his son to clean up his mistakes.
* HeroicSacrifice: Robert shot himself and a fellow crew member on the lifeboat to save his son, wanting him to survive.
* HonestCorporateExecutive: He started as one of these; turns out that he was a rather honest and decent businessman until he accidentally killed a corrupt councilman in self-defence. He joined Malcolm's crusade to clean up the Glades by taking control of the corrupt executives, but he refused to go along with destroying the Glades, and from the start his only motive was to help people.
* KnightTemplarParent: To save his son, not only does Robert shoot himself to leave all the survival supplies to Oliver, he also kills the third, innocent shipwreck survivor first. In Robert's defense, he seemed to fear that the man -- a tough-looking sailor -- would kill Oliver over the supplies.
* NeverGotToSayGoodbye: Only Oliver was there in his last moments. Justified since they were LostAtSea at the time.
* ParentalSubstitute: After Tommy's mother died and his father disappeared, Robert largely took over the role. Even after Malcolm returned, he was still distant, so Robert still basically treated Tommy as his own.
-->'''Tommy:''' ''My'' dad was never there. ''Your'' dad was the one who took me to baseball games, went to school plays, helped me with birthday parties...
* RedemptionEqualsDeath: His suicide in the pilot flashback, when he tells his son to make up for his mistakes. Also, by the end of the season, we've learned that Malcolm had the yacht sabotaged because Robert was going to betray the Undertaking.
* RelatedInTheAdaptation:
** Subverted. While Thea's comic counterpart Mia was later adopted by Oliver, she is not related to the Queens by blood; however, it was later revealed that Thea is conceived by Moira's infidelity with Malcolm, and that Robert ''knew'' this but loved her like his own anyway.
** Inverted with Connor Hawke, who is not his grandchild in this version.
* YourCheatingHeart: Reportedly. It's confirmed in "The Man Under the Hood".
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Walter Steele]]
!!Walter Steele
[[quoteright:300:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/walter_steele_arrow_7615.jpg]]
->'''Played By:''' Colin Salmon
CEO of Queen Industries, Walter was Robert Queen's best friend. He married Moira sometime after Robert's death, but divorces her after Season One due to her lies and role in the Undertaking. He is the current CFO of Star(ling) National Bank.
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* AllLovingHero: Downplayed. But you'll notice that Walter likes just about everybody, and everybody likes him.
* AmicableExes: Despite the fallout of their marriage, he and Moira patched things up and remain civil with each other.
* AscendedExtra: Appeared in exactly one panel in one issue of any comic book, ever.
* BadassBaritone: He has a very deep voice.
* BadLiar: It's because he's British according to Felicity.
* BaldBlackLeaderGuy: He's the CEO (former CFO) of Queen Industries.
* BeardOfSorrow: He has no time (and tools) to shave when he was captured by Tempest for much of Season 1. He shaved immediately once he's rescued.
* BenevolentBoss: Gets along very well with employees. His kind nature is why Felicity wanted to help find him.
* BigDamnHeroes: Helps Oliver secure a 50% stake in Queen Consolidated, saving it from a corporate takeover by Isabel Rochev.
* CelebrityParadox:
** Ray is apparently a fan of ''Series/DoctorWho'', a show which his actor has appeared in.
** Ray also acknowledges the existence of the ''Film/JamesBond'' film series in this universe. Colin Salmon was a prominent supporting cast during Creator/PierceBrosnan's tenure as the title character.
** An episode of ''Series/TheFlash2014'' mentions the existence of the ''Franchise/LawAndOrder'' franchise. Colin Salmon was a RecurringCharacter in ''Series/LawAndOrderUK''.
* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: He abruptly departs the series without warning.
* CommutingOnABus:
** He leaves on a "business trip" in "Damaged" where he's actually investigating Moira's lies, but he returns in "Muse of Fire". Then he gets kidnapped in "Year's End". He's rescued in "The Undertaking", but leaves again at the end of the following episode after telling Moira that he's filed for divorce.
** He returns in Season Two as an angel investor in Queen Consolidated, then shows up again in the middle of the season to try to convince Moira to run for Mayor, and pops up once more to comfort Thea at Moira's funeral.
** He hasn't been since Season 2, after Moira's funeral, but he still lives in Star City, where he was asked by the Star City council to run for mayor. He declined.
* DistressedDude: He's kidnapped by Malcolm and spends six months as a captive until he's rescued by the Hood.
* DroppedABridgeOnHim: Subverted. Is used as a mid-episode cliffhanger, but the source was lying.
* HappilyMarried: Until "Darkness At the Edge of Town".
* HonestCorporateExecutive: He's definitely one of these -- see NonIdleRich below. Ironically, he's married to his polar opposite, though he doesn't realize this at first.
* HonorBeforeReason: Walter's stated reason for investigating further into Robert Queen's murder despite being told that doing so was dangerous? Because Robert was his friend and he's the type of guy to avenge his best friend's murder.
* IntergenerationalFriendship: With Felicity Smoak. This may be a MythologyGag since Felicity is originally the stepmother of the DC hero [[ComicBook/{{Firestorm}} Ronnie Raymond]] (though not here in the show).
* LargeAndInCharge: He stands 6'4 1/2 and serves as the CFO of Star City national Bank, and was previously Queen Consolidated's CEO.
* LikeASonToMe: Treats Thea as if she were his own daughter. And while things are initially frosty between them, it's clear that he views Oliver as if he were his own son, and actually calls him "son" in "The Undertaking". He reiterates this in "City of Heroes" when he states that regardless of the situation between himself and their mother, if Oliver and Thea need anything, they can call him.
* NiceGuy: Friendly and personable to more or less everyone.
* NiceToTheWaiter: Being this to Felicity is explicitly the reason she tries to discover his fate. Also, when his head of security gets killed under suspicious circumstances, he's reluctant to have any other staff continue that investigation.
* NonActionGuy: Walter doesn't get involved in fights.
* NonIdleRich: Though a NonActionGuy, because he's an HonestCorporateExecutive, he tends to do his due diligence. When he suspects potential embezzling within his company, he personally investigates despite the fact that he has an entire department also investigating.
* RaceLift: He's Caucasian (and American) in the comics.
* RedHerring: Savvy viewers expect him to be the bad guy. Oliver comes home and finds Walter married to his mother. In just a few episodes, we learn that nope, Walter's a genuinely good guy who loves Moira and Thea, is a caring and dedicated CEO, and wants nothing but the best for his adopted family and the employees. The reason people think he's evil in the beginning is mostly because a) [[EvilBrit he's British]] and b) he's a bit uptight. Regardless, he's an honorable gentleman through and through.
* RefusedTheCall: He rejects the offers to run for Star City's mayoral position at the start of Season 4.
* RelatedInTheAdaptation: He becomes the stepfather of both Oliver and Thea (Mia Dearden, herself being heavily associated with this trope) due to his marriage to Moira. In the comics, he's just a minor character unrelated to both characters.
* RomancingTheWidow: Or rather romanced the widow.
* SecretKeeper: One of two people who knew that Thea is actually Malcolm Merlyn's daughter prior to the Undertaking. Notably, Walter is the only one Moira ''chose'' to tell, with the other person being her doctor after complications with the birth.
* TallDarkAndHandsome: He stands 6'4 1/2 and is definitely a good-looking man.
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[[folder: William Clayton]]
!!William Clayton
Oliver's illegitimate son.
-> see the Characters/ArrowverseCentralCityCitizens page
[[/folder]]
!! Lance Family
[[folder: Laurel Lance]]
-> see the Characters/ArrowverseTeamArrow page
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Sara Lance]]
--> see Characters/ArrowverseTheLegends page
[[/folder]]
[[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]]
[[folder: Dinah Lance]]
!![[ComicBook/BlackCanary Dinah Lance]]
[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/arrow_dinahlance.jpg]]
->'''Played By:''' Creator/AlexKingston
Ex-wife of Quentin Lance and mother of Laurel and Sara. Currently living in Central City and is a professor of Greek and medieval history at Central City University.
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* AdaptationalIntelligence: To complement her being an AdaptationalWimp (see below), the show made her both a multi-national historian and a linguist.
* AdaptationalWimp: Her comic counterpart is the original Black Canary, but she's not implied to be at least an ActionSurvivor here. Nyssa even kidnapped her without putting up a fight during mid-Season 2.
* AdaptationDyeJob: She has dirty blond hair while her comic counterpart has raven hair.
* AlliterativeName: Her maiden name is Drake (as was in the comics).
* AmicableExes: With Quentin, though he still obviously hoped for them to get back together until Season 4.
* AndStarring: She's either given this citation in the guest stars line-up or is billed first.
* TheCassandra: Throughout Season 1, she repeatedly told Quentin and Laurel that Sara might still be alive. They both don't buy it. Lo and behold at Season 2.
* CelebrityParadox:
** Ray is apparently a fan of ''Series/DoctorWho'', a show which Alex Kingston regularly appears in.
** An episode of ''Series/TheFlash2014'' mentions the existence of the ''Franchise/LawAndOrder'' franchise. Alex Kingston was a RecurringCharacter in ''Series/LawAndOrderSVU''.
** Both the ''Film/JamesBond'' and ''Film/HarryPotter'' film series are acknowledged to exist in this universe. Her actress's [[Creator/RalphFiennes ex-husband]] is a major cast member of both film franchises.
* CoolOldLady: Unlike Quentin, she is nice and civil to Oliver and doesn't hold Sara's apparent death against him.
* CoolTeacher: Currently works as a professor in Central City.
* DecompositeCharacter: Has the name of the original Black Canary but the role of the vigilante herself and Laurel's predecessor was taken up by her youngest daughter, Sara.
* InNameOnly: So far, the only things she shares with the original Black Canary is the name, (former) marital status with (Quentin) Larry Lance and the mother of (Dinah) Laurel.
* ItsAllMyFault: Holds herself responsible for Sara's death because she was the one who let her go on the cruise with Oliver. That's why she was so desperate to confirm that Sara was alive.
* TheMaidenNameDebate: An Inverted variant. She's still called "Mrs. Lance" long before she and Quentin got divorced.
* MissingMom: Disappeared some time before Sara's death, but came back when she claimed to have proof that Sara is alive.
* NeverGotToSayGoodbye: She was not able to say goodbye to Sara in [[TheyKilledKennyAgain all her deaths]]. [[spoiler: Sadly, [[KilledOffForReal and permanently]], also the case with Laurel.]]
* OutlivingOnesOffspring: After Sara's death. Both apparent and official. This gets subverted yet again as she's slated to come BackFromTheDead to be part of another SpinOff show. [[spoiler: And then Laurel was KilledOffForReal in Season 4, thus playing this straight.]]
* RealLifeWritesThePlot: We were denied a scene of her learning Sara was alive again due to Alex Kingston not being available. Instead we just get Sara talking to her on the phone. She also has yet to appear on ''The Flash'' despite living in Central City.
* RelatedInTheAdaptation: Since Sara dons the White Canary identity in ''Series/LegendsOfTomorrow'', this makes the character related to the her, Quentin and Laurel 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).
* SparedByTheAdaptation: In many versions, Laurel's mother and predecessor is dead by the time she dons the costume. [[spoiler: Here, she even outlives her.]]
* TwoFirstNames: Per the Creator/DCComics norm. Her maiden name, Drake, counts too
[[/folder]]
!! Diggle Family
[[folder: John Diggle]]
-> see the Characters/ArrowverseTeamArrow page
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Carly Diggle]]
!!Carly Diggle
[[quoteright:299:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/96efa9c20c72b30a997f0e98925233b1.jpg]]
->'''Played by:''' Christie Laing
Diggle's sister-in-law, who was widowed when her husband was killed by Deadshot. She works at a diner in Star(ling) City.
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* AloofDarkHairedGirl: At times particularly when it comes to Oliver.
* CanonForeigner: Doesn't have a comic book counterpart.
* DamselInDistress: When she's kidnapped in "Trust But Verify".
* DeadpanSnarker: Particularly when it comes to Oliver.
* DemotedToExtra: To ludicrous extremes, despite being Diggle's LoveInterest in season 1 she has dissapeard from the show entirely from 2 onwards. The only thing that stops her from [[ChuckCunninghamSyndrome becoming chucked]] is that Diggle still mentions her and Andy Jr in passing. [[spoiler: This is especially baffling when you consider that her husband Andy is revealed to be alive and well in season 4 and yet the two never even see each other.]]
* LoveInterest: For Diggle in season 1 although this is {{subverted}} come season 2 onwards after the two of them [[OffscreenBreakup breakup]] and Lyla comes back into the picture.
* ParentWithNewParamour: Her son is probably young enough not to understand the change in relationship between his mother and his uncle.
* SassyBlackWoman: She's always snaky in her dialogue.
* SatelliteCharacter: To Diggle, only appearing to show their interest.
* SatelliteLoveInterest: We know very little about her outside of her relationship with Diggle. Then they break up after Season One because of Diggle's obsession with Deadshot.
* WidowWoman: Her husband, Andy, was killed by the assassin Deadshot.
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Andrew "Andy" Diggle]]
!!Andy Diggle
John Diggle's younger brother. He was a bodyguard and murdered by Deadshot [[PosthumousCharacter prior to the events of the series.]]
[[spoiler: For tropes applying to him as of Season Four, see Characters/ArrowverseTheHIVE.]]
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* CanonForeigner: Doesn't have a comic book counterpart.
* DisappearedDad: To his son.
* PosthumousCharacter: Killed by Deadshot before the series starts.
* StuffedInTheFridge: He's death by Deadshot's hands is the reason why Diggle hates the man to the core.
* WalkingSpoiler: Any information about him as of the fourth season. Follow the headline if you want to know more..
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Lyla Michaels-Diggle]]
--> see Characters/ArrowverseARGUSAndUSMilitary
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Sara Diggle]]
!!Sara Diggle
John Diggle and Lyla Michale's daughter, [[AlternateTimeline and potentially first born child]]. She was born during ''Series/{{Arrow}}'' Season 3.
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* CanonForeigner: Doesn't have a comic book counterpart.
* DeadGuyJunior: Named after [[BackFromTheDead the at the time recently deceased]] Sara Lance.
* MixedAncestry: Her father's black while her mother's white.
[[/folder]]
[[folder: John Diggle, Jr.]]
!!John Diggle, Jr. aka Connor Hawke
Diggle and Lyla's son from an AlternateTimeline.
-> see the Characters/ArrowverseOtherTimelines page
[[/folder]]
!! Smoak Family
[[folder: Felicity Smoak]]
-> see the Characters/ArrowverseTeamArrow page
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Donna Smoak]]
!!Donna Smoak
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->'''Played By:''' Charlotte Ross
Felicity's mother.
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* AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents: For Felicity, especially in her flashbacks.
* AndStarring: In the guest stars lineup.
* AscendedExtra: She was previously a really minor character before getting bumped up to a recurring character.
* BadassPacifist: She's not exactly a fighter, but she won't hesitate to give a villain TheReasonYouSuckSpeech.
* BeautyEqualsGoodness: She's beautiful and Felicity's kind mother.
* BigBreastPride: Anyone noticing her fondness for AbsoluteCleavage dresses?
* CanonForeigner: Felicity's comic counterpart is really minor, so no family members of hers appeared. Since Felicity obviously has/had a mother, she's a case of NamedByTheAdaptation technically speaking.
* DumbBlonde: Zig-zagged. Although she is rather ditzy, she's also a good parent for Felicity and is well-aware when her EvilGenius ex-husband is playing others.
* EveryoneLovesBlondes: Unlike her daughter, it's natural.
* FanserviceWithASmile: She works as a cocktail waitress in Vegas.
* GenkiGirl: She is much more energetic than Felicity.
* GoodParents: Singlehandedly raised her daughter to grow up into a noble person.
* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: She's blonde and the kindest character on the show.
* HotMom: She's Felicity's mother and {{Ms.Fanservice}}.
* InnocentBlueEyes: She has such colorful baby blues.
* MatzoFever: She's proudly Jewish and attractive.
* MsFanservice: Wears a lot of revealing outfits, and played by Charlotte Ross to [[DoubleEntendre boot]]. [[note]] Charlotte Ross had a rather infamous ShowerScene revealing guess what during her stint on ''Series/NYPDBlue''. [[/note]]
* NiceGirl: She's very pleasant to others.
* NonActionGuy: One of the few recurring females of the show who doesn't fight.
* ThePollyanna: Doesn't seem to get bad vibes get to her. Unless she's being held hostage by a terrorist group led by her daughter's ex-boyfriend that is.
* SecondLove: For Quentin Lance.
* ShipperOnDeck: She supports her daughter and Oliver.
* SingleMomStripper: She's a cocktail waitress than an actual stripper but the trope principle is there.
* SmartBall: Occasionally provides her daughter good life advice when necessary.
* ThatCameOutWrong: Where exactly do you think Felicity got it from?
* WackyParentSeriousChild: Her dynamic with Felicity.
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[[folder: Noah Kuttler]]
-> see the Characters/ArrowverseStarCityCriminals page
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!! Holt Family
[[folder: Curtis Holt]]
-> see the Characters/ArrowverseTeamArrow page
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[[folder: Paul Holt]]
!!Paul
->'''Played By:''' Chenier Hundal
Curtis' husband.
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* AdaptationalSexuality: From straight woman to the comics to gay man in the show.
* AdaptationNameChange: To accommodate the GenderFlip, as his comic counterpart is named ''Paula''. His new surname is also unknown since he's only addressed as Paula Holt in the comics.
* GenderFlip: He's a woman in the comics.
* RaceLift: He's African-American in the comics.
* SparedByTheAdaptation: He's a PosthumousCharacter in the comics.
* StraightGay: Much like Curtis.
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