Big things are happening in Star City this year -- but as fans start to think about Arrow season 6, one of the big questions is: what will they do to replace the flashbacks? Not all of that time will go to anything in particular, of course: freeing themselves from the five-year flashback device will allow the writers to spend more time and energy investing in whatever narrative is driving the season at the moment. Still, we have to assume that there will be something to take the place of the 10 or so minutes an episode spent hanging around "five years ago." In celebration of those five years -- years which has helped land Arrow at No. 12 in the ComicBook.com Composite Rankings -- and of the likelihood that somewhere along the line it's likely Arrow will bring in a new DC character or two to help flesh out the upcoming stories on the show, we've assembled a list of five DC characters we'd like to see reimagined for the world of Arrow. You can check them out on the following pages. Arrow airs at 8 p.m. ET/PT on The CW. Arrow (CW) Tuesday at 9 PM ET on Metacritic Rating 73.00 Average Rating Star Star Star Star Star from users Leave A Review

THE QUESTION From the first season of the series, there have been rumors that Vic Sage -- The Question -- could appear on the show. Repeated mentions of "Hub City" have pushed that idea along, even at times when DC's version of The Question was an odd mystical entity rather than the grimy, street-level vigilante who inspired Watchmen's Rorschach. He feels like a character who would fit in well on this show -- perhaps later in this season or even next year, once the new Team Arrow recruits have worked out some of their kinks, since Vic isn't the kind of character we can see suffering Wild Dog gladly. prevnext

EDDIE FYERS It's hard to guess how ths one would work -- and it's arguable that at this point the role of Eddie Fyers is being played by John Diggle -- but one of the great disappointments of the early seasons of Arrow was the fact that Eddie was essentially a pretty one-note antagonist. In the comics, Eddie kind of skirted a lot of lines during the Grell run that inspired much of the show's first two seasons -- but when he returned during Chuck Dixon's tenure, he returned as Oliver Queen's intelligence-industry contact and an old friend -- kind of the equivalent of a war buddy -- who took Oliver's son Connor Hawke under his wing when Oliver was apparently-dead for a while. He's already shown up, as mentioned, but since he didn't really fulfill the part of his character that made him awesome, we can always dream about some kind of replacement...! (Photo: DC Entertainment) prevnext

BLUE BEETLE If we had to pick a "most likely to appear" based solely on previous references and episodes, this would be your guy. Kord Technologies have appeared in nearly every season of Arrow, and Felicity Smoak even briefly worked there. There was also that thing where Ted Kord was supposed to come to Arrow, before last-minute changes at DC Entertainment led to the show making him Ray Palmer instead. Those last-minute changes, while never confirmed, are generally thought to have been connected to the long-rumored (and now confirmed) Booster Gold movie, in which his best pal Ted "Blue Beetle" Kord seemed likely to appear. If the powers that be at Warner Bros. should decide to use the modern day Blue Beetle, though -- and thus tie into notalgia for Batman: The Brave and the Bold and Young Justice as well as providing the DC Extended Universe with another diverse face for its lineup -- Ted might free up as Jaime Reyes appeared alongside Booster on the big screen. (Photo: The CW/Warner Bros. TV) prevnext

NIGHTWING This one's a Hail Mary that will never quite land, but it would be great to see Nightwing appear. Not only because he's one of DC's coolest and most beloved non-powered superheroes...but becuase, as we've hinted at above, one of the best recent runs on Green Arrow was written by Chuck Dixon -- who also wrote about a hundred issues of Nightwing. The sensibilities of the two books were pretty similar, and that speaks to how well Nightwing would fit in with Arrow. prevnext