Despite a number of tweets that suggested otherwise, ComicBook.com has learned that Manu Bennett will return to Arrow in the role of Slade Wilson/Deathstroke for the show's season 5 finale.

Series star Stephen Amell and executive producers for the series had separately told fans to expect Bennett's villain, who was the big bad on the show's fan-favorite second season, with EP Marc Guggenheim sharing a set photo that included a man in Bennett's Deathstroke costume.

Bennett had tweeted that on Monday that he wasn't returning to Arrow, and then followed it up yesterday with a tweet that read, "Enough b.s about d.s!!! FACT: Deathstroke Arrow are currently filming in Vancouver IS NOT ME. I am in Auckland filming The Shannara Chronicles." Bennett has not appeared on Arrow since a season three episode in which his character was easily bested by Thea Queen, Oliver's younger sister, in a fight. After that episode, Bennett criticized the show. That public criticism, coupled with a then-recent alteraction with a fan at a convention, led many viewers to assume that they had seen the last of his character.