History YMMV / Arrow

** There are fics that are uploaded online centering on them.

* CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming: In episode 5, Thea gives one statement that shows how much she truly loves her brother "I can't lose you again."

* MoralDissonance: Oliver's current methods for 'saving' his beloved city. To date, he's 'gone after' two minor crime bosses, and although he's defeated them both, one is still at large (though significantly poorer), the other is under arrest thanks to evidence whose admissibility is questionable at ''best'', and neither of them suffered more than (literally) a tiny scratch in their confrontations with Oliver. Balance this against the approximately two dozen underlings that Arrow has ruthlessly murdered in the pursuit of his goals. While some of them ''were'' indeed criminals themselves, most of them were killed while doing nothing more threatening than standing watch and/or defending themselves from attack.
** Even worse, Adam Hunt was simply a corrupt businessman, and his bodyguards might well have been completely unaware of his criminal activities. In the course of storming his offices, Oliver cut down eight or more men whose only crime was doing their job and trying to stop an armed man who was trying to reach their employer. Thus far, Arrow's message to Starling City seems to be that the rich and powerful criminals should look forward to receiving a slap on the wrist, while any minor, and perhaps even mostly harmless criminal--OR completely honest individual who happens to work security for the wrong individual, even unknowingly-can expect a swift and brutal end. This, from our 'Hero'.
** Well, one's out $40 million, the other is rotting in jail and at the very least has been outed as a criminal and a murderer, and the third episode's CorruptCorporateExecutive got picked off by Deadshot. None of these guys really got a slap on the wrist, although they're all undeniably deserving of an arrow to the face. Also of note is the fact that the show itself notes that Ollie's methods are not great.
*** Ollie didn't kill the bodyguards. Hunt clearly says Arrow "put them in the hospital."
**** He shot an arrow into their chest into a lot of them. That's like firing a gun into their chest and than say 'Nah, they're fine'.
**** Except for the fact that it's easy to take an arrow to the chest and survive. Arrows do significantly less damage than bullets, because they're only able to penetrate so deep before getting stuck, and also because they fly much slower.
**** Also, given his onscreen kill, the expectation is set that while he's not necessarily trying to kill mooks, he's not exactly concerned about their ability to live either. And note that being put in the hospital doesn't imply life or death. They could still die or be permanently maimed as easily as they could recover.
* OlderThanTheyThink: Some people are now accusing this series of being a rip-off of {{Hawkeye}} from the movie ''Film/TheAvengers''. This is despite the fact that the show is based off GreenArrow, a comic book character who predates Hawkeye by over two decades.
** That said, the [[TrickArrow hacking arrow]] does not help matters. . .

* MoralDissonance: Oliver's current methods for 'saving' his beloved city. To date, he's 'gone after' two minor crime bosses, and although he's defeated them both, one is still at large (though significantly poorer), the other is under arrest thanks to evidence whose admissibility is questionable at ''best'', and neither of them suffered more than (literally) a tiny scratch in their confrontations with Oliver. Balance this against the approximately two dozen underlings that Arrow has ruthlessly murdered in the pursuit of his goals. While some of them ''were'' indeed criminals themselves, most of them were killed while doing nothing more threatening than standing watch and/or defending themselves from attack. Even worse, Adam Hunt was simply a corrupt businessman, and his bodyguards might well have been completely unaware of his criminal activities. In the course of storming his offices, Oliver cut down eight or more men whose only crime was doing their job and trying to stop an armed man who was trying to reach their employer. Thus far, Arrow's message to Starling City seems to be that the rich and powerful criminals should look forward to receiving a slap on the wrist, while any minor, and perhaps even mostly harmless criminal--OR completely honest individual who happens to work security for the wrong individual, even unknowingly-can expect a swift and brutal end. This, from our 'Hero'.

* AndTheFandomRejoiced Dinah Lance Showing Fighting Skills

* WhatAnIdiot: Starling City's criminal elite have lots of shades of this. The second episode alone features a "legitimate businessman" threatening the life of a police detective and his daughter ''directly to said detective's face''.

* TheScrappy: Thea, already, to some fans. It doesn't help that her character pretty much is defined by trying to guilt-trip Ollie over being missing for five years and how hard that was on her.

** As there is no indication that Dinah a.k.a. BlackCanary has super powers or martial arts training, it is prompting fears that she will once again be a regular DamselInDistress for GreenArrow to save. Despite the possibility she would become BlackCanary as the show progresses.

* FanDumb: Plenty of fans have complained about Justin Hartley (Green Arrow in Series/{{Smallville}}) not being cast as the main character despite the fact that this show is completely different and separate from Smallville.

** As there is no indication that Dinah a.k.a. BlackCanary has super powers or martial arts training, it is prompting fears that she will once again be a regular DamselInDistress for GreenArrow to save. Despite the possibility she would become BlackCanary as the show progresses.

* TheyChangedItNowItSucks: The city has been renamed, Dinah isn't Black Canary yet (even if though it's very possible the show will make her into one as it goes on.) and Green Arrow's mask is painted on.