The Green Arrow himself Stephen Amell has admitted that Arrow could continue without Oliver Queen.

Yep, that was a collective gasp you just heard from the superhero fan community. But before you go jumping to conclusions, hear the man out first.

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Amell made the comments during a chat with Smallville actor Michael Rosenbaum (you may remember him as Lex Luthor on the series) on his Inside of You podcast, as Amell reflected on what else his character can achieve during his time on the show.

"You bring up a good point. This is what I've been thinking about: What else does my character have to do? Like what else?" Amell mused, prompting Rosenbaum to respond with: "Die!"

While Stephen then admitted that "that's the only thing left for him to do" and confirmed that his lack of superpowers means he can die quite easily, he continued to say that he doesn't think that Oliver Queen would ever be killed off the series.

"I find it incredibly difficult to believe that would ever happen – I don't know that anyone would allow themselves to be cornered by killing the title character of the show," Stephen noted.

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"The only thing that is left for him to do – and he doesn't need to die to do this – is he needs to leave a legacy. Because we have all these other shows that exist.

"So whether Arrow continued on in the absence of Oliver Queen, or someone else took up the mantle of the Green Arrow… I think leaving a legacy is the last box left to tick for the character."

Elsewhere in the interview, Amell also shared that he almost didn't audition for the role of Oliver Queen, explaining that he only went to the Arrow audition because his HBO series Hung had been cancelled.

"I only got Arrow because Hung got cancelled," he shared. "The third season of Hung did better ratings from my understanding than the first couple seasons of Hung, and it was very well received critically… but basically they [HBO] wiped the comedy slate in December of 2011."

Arrow airs on The CW in the US and Sky One in the UK.

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