Oliver Queen

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"Because there are more important things in this world than what I want... and what I love." - Oliver Queen, Justice

Oliver Jonas Queen is the billionaire Owner, Chairman, CEO, Shareholder of Queen Industries, who also masquerades as a heroic archer known as the Green Arrow. As the Green Arrow, Oliver dresses in green and commands a variety of arrows for many forms of defense.

Oliver went to boarding school at Excelsior Academy Preparatory School, where he studied fine arts and was a classmate of Lex Luthor.

He is also the founder of a team of pro-active heroes that gathered many metahumans together to bring down Lex Luthor.

Contents 1 Personality 2 Powers and Abilities 3 Vulnerabilities 4 Early Life 5 Season Six 6 Season Seven 7 Season Eight 8 Relationship with Lois Lane 9 Appearances 10 In the Comics 11 Trivia 12 See Also 13 External Links

[edit] Personality

"Some of us sacrifice being with the people that we really care about so that we can go make a difference." - Oliver Queen, Siren

Tall and blonde, Oliver is extremely charismatic with an affable demeanor. Known for his wit and subtle humor, he is very easy to talk to. He is in his late twenties.

As the Green Arrow, Oliver adopts a Robin Hood-type philosophy-- he steals ill-gotten valuables from the rich and donates the proceeds anonymously to charity. Clark Kent argued with him that stealing is wrong for any reason, but Oliver stands by his conviction that the ends justify the means. He believes that he has a duty to find people who need saving.

Oliver easily assumes a leadership position and, as the Green Arrow, is the unofficial leader of Smallville's version of the Justice League.

[edit] Powers and Abilities

Oliver has no superhuman abilities, but he makes up for it with his extraordinary skills as an archer and his enormous family fortune. From the roof of Queen Tower, Oliver was able to hit the ornamental globe on the roof of the Daily Planet building almost a mile away; not only did he hit the globe itself, but he was able to specify which country he wanted to hit (Borneo). He was able to aim his arrow inside of the hole of a pop tab of a soda can. He was also able to anticipate a bullet in flight and block it with an arrow.

Oliver also has access to top of the line technology and electronics equipment through his corporation, Queen Industries. This technology not only powers his quiver of superpowered arrows; it also provides technology for members of his Justice League, including Cyborg. He also funds the research and development of drugs like RL65, a healing drug which allowed him to temporarily acquire the metahuman power of a healing factor. His satellites also provide him with imagery he is able to use for his superhero team, as well as to monitor his enemies.

He is also extremely fit, training extensively (including yoga).

[edit] Vulnerabilities

As a human with no known metahuman skills, Oliver is extremely vulnerable to physical attacks. As a result, he often uses his archery skills to maintain distance between him and his opponents. Oliver also often carefully plans his assaults, such as when he's stealing jewelry to give to the poor (Sneeze). He also uses technology whenever possible (such as from his satellites or from Cyborg's information warfare capabilities) to gain an informational advantage.

Oliver also compensates for his physical vulnerability by partnering with metahumans whenever possible. The ultimate manifestation of this strategy is his team of superheroes (Justice).

[edit] Early Life

Oliver's parents traveled frequently and extensively when he was young, associated in business and in research with the Teague, Swann and Luthor families. They died on October 14, 1989. En route to visit a prominent politician in Seoul, their plane was sabotaged and crashed into the ocean. Oliver was in the fourth grade, around age 9 or 10 at the time. Oliver attended Excelsior Academy with Lex Luthor in the 1990s. He graduated in 1998 and deferred admission to an Ivy League school to sail away in a private yacht to say goodbye to his parents. However, after he and his friends partied away, Oliver's yacht sailed into rocks and the boat sank with Oliver washing up on a nearby island. Coincidently, he washed up on the same island that his parents' plane crashed onto and awoke afround the wreckage of their plane. He collected their wedding rings before burying his parents and leaving to explore the island.

Oliver was stranded for two years where somedays it would rain for days and others where it would be blsitering sun as well as mosquitos eating him alive. While on the island, Oliver improved his archery skills by making a make shift bow and arrows which he would use to hunt wild boar on the island. While hunting one day, Oliver heard other people on his island and went to check it out and found drug runners on teh island. Before he could approach, he pricked his hand on a toxic flower and collapsed. He woke up later in a tent with Tess Mercer looking over him. She told him the flower was deadly and he had only 12 hours to live after the poison had enetered his system. She was using leaches to suck the poison out of his body. Days later, Oliver staged an escape out of the island when the drug runners were leaving knocking out one of them and poisoning the other with the toxin. He and Tess then left the island, returning to his home Star City, where he improved his archery skills further and taking the mantle of the hero, Green Arrow.

[edit] Season Six

"But there's a whole world of people out there, Clark. They need us. With your potential... you can't wait for them to come to you. When you're ready to do something about that... you let me know." - Oliver Queen, Arrow

During his time in Metropolis, Oliver lived in a loft apartment known as Queen Tower. His company, Queen Industries, owned the only satellite that stayed online during Dark Thursday and Oliver learned that Lex was behind the destruction. He had Lex followed and kidnapped so he could be questioned about the origins of his powers. Lionel suspected he was responsible and showed up at his loft. Oliver found him there and denied having anything to do with it. Something to keep in mind, however, is that Oliver specifically ordered his men not to use any type of violence unless they were in danger. It is possible that Lex was being "scouted" as a possible member of the Justice League, or else he was being evaluated as a potential enemy. Either way, Oliver realized that Lex's powers were gone and his interest seemed to have done the same. Oliver donned his Green Arrow uniform and stole a diamond necklace from Martha Kent. Lois Lane became obsessed with finding the identity of the green thief, which got her kidnapped by his enemies. They tortured her to force her to provide information, but he rescued her in time. She attempted to unmask him, but Clark Kent intervened, in exchange for return of the diamond necklace, and the two agreed to protect each others' secret identities. However, Oliver was unimpressed with Clark; he believed Clark should use his powers to help anybody in need.

Lex and Oliver returned to their school for an alumni event and were startled when Oliver's old friends were killed in violent and mysterious accidents. It was revealed that Oliver and his friends relentlessly teased Lex and his best friend Duncan Allenmeyer, eventually goading Lex into beating Duncan up and causing him to become severely injured in a car accident. Oliver believed that Duncan had died, but the recent murders began to point to him. Oliver had to face the guilt and regret over his part in Duncan's severe injury and admitted to Lex that he was sorry. However, Duncan had, in fact, survived and almost killed Oliver in revenge, but he was saved by Clark Kent.

Oliver had Dr. Pamela Black manufacture a healing drug. In the middle of a date with Lois, Oliver dashed away to save a couple from being carjacked, but was shot in the process. He used the drug to heal his wound completely. However, it also had side effects: angry outbursts and mood swings. When Clark went to see if he was all right, he insulted him and ordered him to leave him alone. Lois came into the apartment and saw him there, dressed as the Green Arrow. He pushed her down into a glass table and fled. He went to find his shooter and discovered he had obtained the drug from a LuthorCorp halfway house. Oliver attacked Lex with an arrow and Lex shot him in the chest. He took the drug again to save his life and Clark gave Lex the drug to save him.

Oliver had been recruiting super-powered individuals to form a group that fought for good. His band of super-human heroes then had to spring into action and rescue team member Impulse. They worked together to destroy one of LuthorCorp's Level 33.1 facilities. He and the Justice League left Metropolis to shut down other Level 33.1 locations across the globe.

Even after leaving Metropolis with his superhero team, Oliver's benevolence and wealth continued to help the friends he made in Kansas. His hero team shut down at least eight 33.1 labs around the world. He provided Clark Kent with the details on a lethal internet fight club so that Clark could shut it down. When Clark met Tobias Rice, he asked Oliver to arrange for him to receive a cornea transplant and sent him to Oliver's hometown of Star City for the surgery. Oliver also provided a safe haven for Moira Sullivan, the mother of Chloe Sullivan, after Moira was kidnapped and exploited by Lex. Chloe enlisted Oliver's help again when Lois was kidnapped by Wes Keenan. Oliver reported to her about encountering another version of Lex's super soldier in a desert in Utah, explaining that he used an exploding arrow to penetrate the soldier's force field. Clark, upon learning about Oliver's solution to the shield, used his heat vision at maximum to shatter Keenan's force field.

[edit] Season Seven

"A terrorist? You really have it backwards. No one's ever been hurt. And Lex's factories aren't exactly producing Christmas toys for little girls and boys. I'm the good guy!" - Oliver Queen, - Siren

Once Oliver returned, he asked Chloe for help to download information on Lex’s projects, and once she did, she was attacked by Black Canary. Oliver managed to get to her in time to save her, although Clark later showed up in his apartment with angry words for getting Chloe involved with Oliver. He figured Lois would be there to see him so he made dinner for them, however, Black Canary appeared, and attacked them. After the attack, Lois saw Green Arrow’s gear and discovered he was Green Arrow. Oliver later got loose, and had an intense fight with Lex. He then asked Lois to try to make their relationship work, but she knew it was not going to work out. Although, he did make an addition to his team of heroes: Black Canary.

[edit] Season Eight

"Clark wouldn't give up on us; we're not going to give up on him" - Oliver Queen - Odyssey

When LuthorCorp was in the Arctic looking for Lex, Green Arrow and his team infiltrated the facility to find any information they could about Clark's location. Green Arrow starting firing arrows while Black Canary destroyed their equipment with her sonic scream (and threw knives) while Aquaman came up through the ice.

The team went back to the Isis Foundation to try and look for any clues about Clark. After Black Canary and Aquaman were captured, Oliver locates Clark in a Russian camp and causes a fake fight with Clark to retrieve him. They track Chloe to a LuthorCorp facility in Montana and go to rescue her. Green Arrow is captured while attempting to rescue Dinah and Arthur Curry and is then mind-controlled by LuthorCorp to find out the location of Lex and looks for Clark and shoots him twice in the chest before Martian Manhunter comes his aid, and flies Clark into the sun.

Oliver, Dinah, Clark and AC meet to say they need to disband for a while as Tess has taken over, and knows their identities, creating a sizable threat. They all go their seperate ways, at least for now.

While attending a rainforest funraiser, Oliver was poisoned by Marcos, a crook who Oliver had been kidnapped by before during his time spent on a deserted island. During the twelve hours Ollie had left after he was poisoned Oliver remembered his time shipwrecked on an island where he had taught himself how to use the bow and arrow which would eventually lead to his Green Arrow identity. One memory was of when Marcos had captured him and he had first met Tess Mercer, remembering that he himself had been poisoned by the toxic on the island and that Tess knew what the cure was. Moments before the poison overtook him, Clark found Oliver the cure and he snapped out it. Oliver told Clark to save Tess. Later, Tess told Oliver that Lionel Luthor killed his parents. Oliver confronted Clark with this info suspecting that Clark had known,which he did, stating that Clark doesn't trust him. He also explained to Clark that he may be indestructible but he wasn't fearless. He still had to face his 'island' as Oliver had.

[edit] Relationship with Lois Lane

"Yeah, well, don't worry about it Clark. You know. I mean, if I lived under the same roof as such a beautiful woman, I would've masked my feelings in sarcasm, too." - Oliver Queen, Arrow

Shortly after arriving in Metropolis, Oliver stopped by the Kent household to meet with Senator Martha Kent and deliver a letter to her. There he met Lois Lane, with whom he was quite taken, but she mistook him for a messenger boy for Queen Industries. She gave him a tip and sent a rather stunned Oliver on his way. After Lois learned from Mrs. Kent who he actually was, an embarrassed Lois went to his loft to apologize and gave him a fruit basket as a token of her apology. He invited her to go to Lex’s charity ball and Lois reluctantly agreed.

They attended the ball together as Robin Hood and Maid Marian. After the ball, Oliver attempted to give Lois a goodnight kiss, but she stopped him and told him he'd have to earn it; she challenged him to hit a can off of a dumpster with an arrow. He said it was an easy task, but seemingly missed. A slightly disappointed Lois told him, "Better luck next time," and went inside, while a pleased Oliver looked on at his target, where the pop tab was dangling from his arrow.

Oliver inadvertently injured Lois as the result of taking the healing drug RL65. Clark told Lois he saw Oliver injecting something and she guessed that a drug addiction was the problem. Afterwards, she forgave him for his erratic behavior and they spent the Kents' Thanksgiving together.

When Lois began to seriously suspect that Oliver and the Green Arrow were one and the same, she enlisted Clark's help to find out. However, Clark worked with Oliver instead to devise a plan to throw Lois off. Clark put on Oliver's Green Arrow costume and Lois was tricked into thinking they were two different people. She told Clark that she thought she was falling in love with Oliver, but shortly after, Oliver interrupted another date to dash off. Lois grew tired of his disappearing act and confronted him. To make up for it, he promised her a romantic vacation, but then canceled the trip because he felt his duty to the Justice League was more important. Lois told him that she would not be waiting for him, but he admitted that he did not intend to return to Metropolis. He told Lois that he knew he would always regret leaving her behind. Lois kissed him goodbye and left in tears, ending their relationship in an emotional parting.

When Oliver returned to Metropolis, he correctly guessed that Lois would approach him first and planned a romantic dinner for her in his loft. However, they were accosted and kidnapped by Black Canary, whose sonic scream exposed all of his Green Arrow gear. Lois was furious that he never told her his secret, but after thinking about it, she decided she understood why. Oliver asked her if she would consider rekindling their relationship and promised to make time for her, but Lois turned him down. She later confessed to Clark that she was still in love with Oliver, but knew she would always come second to his greater destiny and be left behind.

Lois and Oliver's relationship has been nicknamed "Lollie" by fans.

[edit] Appearances

• Season 6 - Sneeze, Wither, Arrow, Reunion, Rage, Hydro, Justice, Combat and Prototype
• Oliver also appeared in Smallville Legends: Justice & Doom, an animated on-screen comic book that aired during the last six episodes of Season Six.
• Oliver also had his own animated series the Oliver Queen Chronicles which featured some of his past and how he retrieved his boat and began life as Green Arrow.
• Season 7 - Siren and his young self is shown in Veritas.
• Season 8 - Odyssey, Toxic

[edit] In the Comics

Between Oliver's depiction on Smallville and how the Green Arrow is in the comic books, there are differences worth noting.

Unlike his depiction in Smallville, Oliver had to be convinced to join the established Justice League of America. He originally felt that mass teams of heroes were "soulless" and that they "sacrificed the little guy." Unbeknownst to the team, however, Oliver bankrolled the newly established Justice League in the years preceding Batman's funding.

Oliver's best friend in the comics is Hal Jordan, better known as the Green Lantern. One of DC's most celebrated works included the creative team of Denny O'Neil and Neal Adams showing Oliver and Hal confronting questionable social issues that had never been explored in comics before, such as racism and drug use (an issue loosely explored in the Smallville episode Rage).

Also, Oliver is known as having a very sarcastic sense of humor and usually uses political anecdotes in most of his conversations. He is also a full fledged liberal and an advocate of gay rights, social mobility and affirmative action. Ollie's liberal politics sometimes humorously clash with Hawkman's conservative ideology.

Ollie also believes that Aquaman's ruling monarchy over Atlantis is tyrannical, and as a member of the Justice League of America, Aquaman should govern his land by democracy.

Ollie's political status was mentioned once in Smallville, with Lois referring to him as a "bleeding heart pacifist," a term often associated with liberals in the United States.

Currently in the comics, Oliver was recently elected as the mayor of Star City. After tricking the corrupt city leaders into giving that job to his closest aide, Ollie recently proposed and at last married Black Canary, culminating their long courtship. After joining the Outsiders currently led by Batman, Green Arrow will help found and lead a splinter group of the Justice League.

[edit] Trivia

• Though he uses them in the show, in the comics, Green Arrow has a strong distaste for crossbows.
• He speaks fluent Russian (Odyssey)
• Oliver Queen's home town is Star City.
• Oliver Queen is allergic to peanuts.
• According to Lionel, Oliver was a very "convincing actor".
• Oliver Queen's parents died when he was in fourth grade in 1989, placing his birth year around 1979 or 1980, the same time as Lex.
• The Green Arrow can be seen on security camera footage that Lex views in Combat.
• He has been called OJ Queen in the comics
• Smallville's Oliver Queen is like Bruce Wayne, he is a wealthy playboy, uses his company's technology to support his crime-fighting career, his parents are dead, has no true superpowers and becomes a member of the Justice League. Also like Batman he is more mysterious and uses the shadows as cover.
• Like Andrea Rojas, Arthur Curry, Dinah Lance, and Victor Stone, when he met Clark he attacked him. However unlike the others, this is when Clark first met him as the Green Arrow. (Although this is not the case with Dinah Lance/Black Canary)
• He is the founder of Smallville's version of the Justice League and, as far as we know, the first member to wear a costume. He rescued each of the other members before asking them to join.

[edit] See Also

• Queen Tower
• Lex and Oliver
• Clark and Oliver

[edit] External Links

• The Oliver Queen Chronicles on CW.com
• Oliver Queen on KryptonSite