Green ‘Arrow’ Show to Have Cameos Right Away
Holy cow, you guys, the new superhero TV show Arrow is not going to waste any time in bringing other DC heroes and villains to the small screen. This is fantastic news, exactly what we superhero geeks want to hear. The best episodes of Smallville were always the ones that guest starred other famous superheroes. But it took them until Season 4 to start doing that, and even then they didn’t appear all that often.
While Arrow, new this fall on the CW, is going to start having cameos galore in only the first handful of episodes! Clearly the people behind Arrow know exactly what the fans liked about Smallville.
The Huntress is going to appear around episode 6 for a multi-episode story, and will even be a love interest to Arrow.
Hopefully they don’t paint her mask on
According to Entertainment Weekly, the Huntress will be played by Jessica De Gouw. She’ll be the Huntress that appeared before the New 52 relaunch, where she was secretly Helena Bertinelli, daughter of Italian mobsters who became a costumed vigilante in order to bring down her crime family. So she’s perfect to appear alongside another urban vigilante like Arrow.
Here is how the show describes the Huntress:
“Helena is a potential love interest for Oliver Queen; a fellow vigilante, set on destroying her father’s organized crime empire. But Helena’s blind pursuit of revenge will put her on a collision course with the Arrow.”
That’s pretty awesome. Huntress is quite cool, and would fit perfectly in the urban vigilante environment.
In the villain department, so far we have Deathstroke, Deadshot and China White all confirmed as appearing. Deathstroke the Terminator is one of the greatest, toughest mercenaries in the world. I don’t think he’s been cast yet, but the producers have confirmed his little Easter Egg tease in one of the show’s trailers. Deadshot will be played by Michael Rowe, and I’m really excited by him. Deadshot is the world’s greatest gunman. China White will be played by Kelly Hu. She’s the leader of a drug cartel who met Arrow while he was marooned on a desert island.
Deadshot makes guns look cool
And that’s not all! We already know that Dinah Lance, Black Canary, will be a main character on the show. She has always been Green Arrow’s on-again, off-again girlfriend in the comics. But Producer Mark Guggenheim has hinted at other superheroes showing up eventually. Heroes like Batman. Or even Green Arrow’s comic book sidekick Speedy. And you know how much I love sidekicks!
So yeah, it looks like Arrow is turning out to be geekier and cooler than I ever thought possible! How awesome is that?
See? Something for the ladies as well
Posted on August 22, 2012, in DC, Television and tagged Arrow, Green Arrow, Speedy, The CW. Bookmark the permalink. 8 Comments.
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I have high hopes for this show. But it scares me a bit that it is on CW, makes me feel it will turn into a tween soap opera. But aside from that it has a strong comparison to The Cape as what type of superhero Arrow will be and how it will translate to tv. I liked the 1st few episodes of the Cape… but then the writing just fell off and it became mundane. I have always loved Green Arrow and his playboy lifestyle should be much more exciting then circus freaks who rob trains.
I have more faith in the CW to do a good superhero TV show than I do NBC. I would compare Arrow more to Smallville than to The Cape. The CW got 10 seasons out of Smallville and had a lot of fun with the superhero stuff. I think they can do the same here.
I hope so. I really do.
…and Deadshot.
Hell of a cameo, in fact I hope he becomes the on again-off again nemesis of Arrow for the show if they portray him well.
The supporting characters of this series do not belong to the Green Arrow world. The Huntress is a Batman character, Deathstroke is a Teen Titans villain… anyway, I like the idea of putting a character in a world which is unusual for him/her, because you don’t know how things will go. For example, if you put the Riddler in a Batman comic, you know that Bruce, with his detective skills, will solve his riddles in a minute… but what about if you make the Riddler interact with a less lucid and patient superhero, like Grifter?
That’s why the integration of the Wildstorm world into the DC universe has a great potential, in my opinion. The Wildstorm world has a lot of intriguing superheroes and villains who never met the DC ones, so their union is a potential goldmine of brand new stories. At present it’s not working, though: Voodoo closed, Grifter is about to close, and Stormwatch sells quite well, but is boring as all hell. I hope the potential I see will be expressed in the upcoming Team 7.
I liked Voodoo well enough. DC definitely had a good idea in putting those Wildstorm characters into the normal DCU…I just don’t think they pulled it off well at all. It takes a lot of something to get comic book fans to pick up a new book starring a relatively unknown – at least to normal DC fans – main character. DC would have had to put their very best people on Voodoo and Grifter, told some really great stories, for those titles to have succeeded. Alas, they did not.
As for non-GA characters appearing on the show, I couldn’t welcome it more. I hope they take characters from all across the DCU and bring them into the show. I’m actually working on a List of Six about what characters I’d like to see appear. Look for it next Wednesday!
Ok! : )
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