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Roy Harper is Coming to Arrow After All!
Awesome bit of casting news has hit TV Guide: actor Colton Haynes has been cast as Roy Harper in the hit TV show Arrow!
Ladies?
Now that is one studly guy. He comes from Mtv’s Teen Wolf show, which I’ve never seen, so I have no idea if he’s a good actor or not. But that hardly matters to me. The CW and Arrow aren’t exactly filled with Oscar winners. But who cares? The show is awesome so far, and this is fantastically awesome news! Clearly somebody at The CW saw my list of DC Comics characters that I want to see in Arrow.
Because if you don’t know, Roy Harper is really Arsenal, the sidekick of Green Arrow! He’s the Robin to Green Arrow’s Batman!
Super ladies?
Arsenal started out as Speedy, your typical plucky young sidekick, but he eventually grew up to be a more badass fighter who changed his name to Arsenal. When he then later joined the Justice League, he took on more of the Green Arrow’s mantle by changing his name to Red Arrow. I thought that was pretty awesome, because I love stories where the sidekick grows up and becomes his own hero. Things got a little murky after that, and now he’s back to being Arsenal in the New 52 reboot.
According to the TV Guide article, Roy Harper on Arrow is going to be a street-smart kid who grew up on the wrong side of town. And he’s going to be a love interest for Oliver Queen’s sister, Thea (whose childhood nickname as ‘Speedy’). The producers are keeping their lips sealed about any superheroics for their version of Roy Harper, but I have to hope that he’s going to suit up and be a real sidekick one of these days. Why else have him on the show?
I think Arrow could get a lot of mileage out of a sidekick storyline. They’ve already got the one character, Diggle, aiding Ollie in his vigilante quest. But Diggle isn’t suiting up in costume or firing bows and arrows. Roy Harper could join the crusade as well and be a real sidekick, trained in archery by Ollie. Like how he tried to do with Huntress in the past few episodes. I very much want this to happen. Don’t let me down, Arrow. Don’t break my heart.
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
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