Returning Team Members:

Felicity (Emily Bett Rickards),

Diggle/Spartan (David Ramsey)

Curtis Holt,(Echo Kellum)

New Team Arrow Members:

Mister Terrific (Echo Kellum)

Wild Dog (Rick Gonzalez)

Artemis (Madison McLaughlin)

Ragman (Joe Dinicol)

Dinah Drake

Mayor Queen’s Team:

Thea (Willa Holland) Chief of Staff

Quentin (Paul Blackthorne) his Deputy Mayor

District Attorney Adrian Chase (Josh Segarra)

Russian Mob (Flashbacks)

Anatoly Knyazev (David Nykl)

Konstantin Kovar (Dolph Lundgren)

Cameos

Talia al Ghul

Human Target

Vigilante

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Following the events of last season, Oliver finds himself challenged as he fights for the future of Star City on two fronts: as Mayor and The Green Arrow.

Team Green Arrow is back down to just Oliver and Felicity as Diggle returns to the military and Thea retires as Speedy. Green Arrow is no longer the only vigilantes in town as his public defeat of Damien Darhk at the end of Season Four inspired a new crop of masked heroes to step up and defend the city.

Rene Ramirez/ Wild Dog

Rene is a Navy SEALs officer who was dishonorably discharged and lived in the Glades. After his wife was accidentally killed and his daughter taken by social services, Rene hit rock bottom. When he heard about Darhk’s death at the hands of the Green Arrow, he was inspired to take justice into his own hands and began acting as a vigilante. The character is based off the late 80s character Jack Wheeler, who as Wild Dog is a Quad Cities vigilante who targets domestic terrorism.

Artemis / Evelyn Crawford “Evie” Sharp

During Season 4, Evelyn was one of H.I.V.E.’s unwilling test subjects, who following the death of Black Canary, adopted the Black Canary name and began a crusade, to get revenge on H.I.V.E. for the death of her parents. Evelyn is later recruited by Green Arrow into Team Arrow under the code-name Artemis. However, after learning that Oliver was also “The Hood”, who she’d previously considered a serial killer, Evelyn came to resent Oliver and believed him a false hero. Following this revelation, Evelyn betrays Team Arrow and allies with Adrian Chase/Prometheus to get revenge on Oliver. ARROW’s version of Artemis is an amalgamation of two DC Universe characters Evelyn Crawford (New52) and Artemis Crock (Young Justice cartoon). Artemis Crock is from the Young Justice cartoon where she is introduced as Green Arrow’s niece and new sidekick following the departure of Roy Harper.

Her name is taken from the New52 Birds of Prey series. Sharp was an old friend of Dinah Lance from their time undercover at Penguin’s Iceberg Lounge. Like she does in the show, Evie would later betray the Birds of Prey.

Rory Regan/Ragman Rory Regan was the sole survivor of Havenrock which was destroyed by one of Damien Darhk’s nuclear weapons. He was saved by his father who covered him in the mystical rags of the Devarim before the town was destroyed. He comes to Star City to seeking vengeance and attacks the CEO and Vice President of AmerTek, who developed the nuclear missiles that destroyed Havenrock He is later convinced by the Green Arrow to cease his crusade and use his powers for good. In the comics Rory Regan is a ragman, doing good in his community by buying used items from people who need money. The suit of rags that he wears was originally just a costume made from materials found around the rag shop, Rags’n’Tatters, that he shared with his father. In 1991, it was retconned that each of the patches in the suit was the soul of an evildoer that the Ragman had punished and absorbed. He can absorb souls into his costume and then call upon the souls in his costume to lend him their attributes or power.

Curtis Holt/Mister Teriffic After learning of the Green Arrow’s secret identity and the location of the Arrowcave, he joined the team as maintenance and tech support and helped Team Arrow take down Dahrk in Season 4. When the Team Arrow recruiting drive starts at the beginning of Season 5, Curtis goes searching for Rene Ramirez and is jumped by a group of street thugs. This incident inspired him to train so that he could go out on the field. On their first mission, Curtis is jokingly called Mister Fair Play, after his favorite wrestler, Terry Sloane, and for his clean tactics. He later adopted Sloane’s in-ring name; Mr. Terrific. Curtis’ character is based on Mister Terrific /Michael Holt from the comics universe. Michael Holt /Mister Terrific is the third smartest man on the planet, an Olympic-level athlete and expert combatant better known as Terry Sloane’s successor as the legacy hero, Mister Terrific, from the Golden Age (Earth-2). Like in the comics, Curtis invents T-Sphere,has the “FAIRPLAY” jacket, and wears the “T”-shaped mask.

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Once these new would-be vigilantes are assembled it is evident that they are painfully inexperienced and liabilities, rather than allies, for Oliver in the field.

Assembling the new Team Arrow gets off to a rough start. Oliver hesitates to trust his new teammates, which in turn hinders his ability to effectively lead them. His secretiveness also backfires on their ability to trust him especially when they learn about his time as The Hood and The List his father gave him on the island.

Oliver also searches for a replacement for Laurel Lance as the Black Canary. Losing Laurel was the biggest blow to Team Arrow and Oliver promised that the Black Canary’s legacy would be carried on and for this reason. He recruits Dinah Drake, who possesses a Canary Cry thanks to the Dark Matter explosion at Star Labs in Central City, to become the Black Canary. Diggle would also return to the team after he is falsely accused and imprisoned for supposedly trying to sell a WMD.

The Villains

The first threat of Season 5 is Tobias Church / Charon, a crime lord who was creating a coalition of the gangs of Star City, aiming to take it over. This, of course, brought him into conflict with the Green Arrow and the team. He was later killed by Prometheus after trying to kill the Green Arrow when he was warned twice not to. Before getting killed with a shuriken, he told Prometheus the Green Arrow’s real name.

Tobias received his moniker Charon for his habit of leaving two coins on the eyes of his murdered victims, like the Roman’s did with their dead to pay the boatman who took the dead across the River Styx to Hades. While there is no character in the comics universe who is a parallel of this character, it reminded me of the Batman villain Tobias Whale, who is also a crime boss. The only thing I can think of as a reason for not using Tobias Whale is that he will probably appear in the CW’s 2018 Black Lightning series.

Prometheus was the big bad of the season who brought the repercussions of Oliver’s time as The Hood when he was killing people from his father’s the list (Season 1) back to haunt him in form of the villain Prometheus.

In the comics, Prometheus was a super-villain who swore to destroy justice in any form. His reasons for his vendetta is a twisted parody of Batman’s origin. He was the son of criminal parents and witnessed their deaths at the hands of the police. Years of traveling the world and training made him one of the most dangerous men alive. Throughout his career, he was a threat not only to the law enforcement agencies that killed his parents but also to superheroes, especially the Justice League. He is famous for taking out the Justice League of America, cutting off Roy’s arm and destroying Star City which killed Roy Harper’s daughter.

Prometheus’ goal is to destroy both the Oliver Queen and The Green Arrow, which he did as Prometheus and as Adrian Chase, who was The District Attorney for Star City and worked with Oliver

It is revealed that Prometheus/ Simon Claybourne / Adrian Chase is the illegitimate son of Justin Claybourne, who Oliver killed as The Hood. Simon becomes motivated by vengeance and plans to destroy Oliver Queen’s life and make him admit he’s a murderer.

After Oliver kills his father, Simon searches for the real identity of his killer, The Hood. He discovers that Oliver Queen is The Hood and that Oliver used “The List” as a motive to kill his father. Simon follows Oliver’s connections to the League of Assassins and the Russians. Like Oliver, he seeks out Talia al Ghul, Ras al Ghul’s younger daughter who trained Oliver during his time in Russia with the Brativa. Talia, who hates Oliver for killing her father, trains Simon the same as she did Oliver. After completing his training, Simon returns to Star City, assumes the identity of Adrian Chase the District Attorney, and starts killing people, as Prometheus, to get Oliver’s attention.

Chase’s masterplan to destroy Oliver and The Green Arrow was planned with four stages with a few contingency plans.

First, he destroys the Queen administration by getting them to cover up the death of Detective Billy Malone, who Oliver kills thinking it is Prometheus. Chase discredits The Green Arrow and turns Star City against him when they discover that he killed Detective Malone. After The Green Arrow is public enemy #1, Chase tortures Oliver until he believes that he is nothing more than a murderer who enjoys killing. This Chase used this to distract Oliver long enough as he tried to revive his father’s tuberculosis plot. Oliver stops the plot to weaponize tuberculosis, and Chase allows himself to be captured and moves on to another plan. Using his team of Talia al Ghul, Artemis, and Black Siren, Prometheus captures Team Arrow, Oliver’s son, and others Oliver cares about. Chase uses captives as bargaining chips and forces Oliver to break him out of prison. Prometheus then takes his captives to the island Lian Yu for his final plan to try to ruin Oliver.

In the finale, Prometheus forces Oliver to choose between his son’s life or everyone else he cares for. Prometheus gives Oliver a choice: kill him (Prometheus) to save William, which will destroy the Island where Team Arrow is trapped. Or if Oliver refuses to kill Prometheus he will kill his son.

Oliver finds a way to save Willam without killing Prometheus, which prompts Prometheus to kill himself in a last-ditch attempt to destroy the Island with everyone else on it.

The Season ends with the bombs that Chase placed all over Lian Yu exploding as Oliver and William look on from the sea, wondering the fate of their friends and family.

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Season 6

Confirmed plot points (from Arrowverse wiki)

The season premiere will have flashbacks to explicate the season 5 finale and find out who died and who survived.

The theme of this season is family.

I think the obvious choice for who dies would be William’s mother which would force Ollie to take care of his son.

Dinah Drake will get a new suit (Black Canary) and a new love interest.

Vigilante’s identity will be revealed this season and it will be a familiar face.

Laurel Lance/Black Siren’s backstory

Slade will reunite with his son Joseph Wilson, who was mentioned in the previous seasons

Oliver gave information to Slade about to help him take down Prometheus on Lian Yu

A “villainous cabal” rather than a single foe will torment Oliver and Team Arrow throughout the season”

The villain for the season is Richard Dragon which leads me to believe that that the storyline may be similar to Jeff Lemire’s New52 run “The Outsiders War”

Green Arrow discovers that his stranding on a desert island was not just an accident – and there are sinister forces at work behind it all! The Queen family is embroiled in a war generations old. A war of clans. A war of outsiders.

Helix will return including hacker Alena and the reveal of who Cayden James is that Felicity helped the organization rescue in order to locate Adrian Chase.

I am hoping that Cayden James turns out to be Mr. Bones from the Infinity Inc. series.

It has been hinted that Colton Haynes will reprise his role as Roy Harper

Atnatoly Knyazev, the Pakhan (godfather) of the Solntsevskaya Bratva and a former KGB agent, who was held captive Oliver on Lian Yu, is making moves into Star City after Season 5 which ended their friendship … I think that we may see the return of Konstantin Kovar, possibly as the KGBeast

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It will be interesting to see what takes the place of the Flashbacks as Season 5 explored Oliver’s time in Russia with the Brativa and ended with his rescue from Lian Yu.