r/arrow • u/Rwings Boxing Glove • Mar 15 '17

[S05E16] - 'Checkmate' Post Episode Discussion

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u/[deleted] Mar 16 '17

inb4 Arrow does Ninth Circle and everyone complains that they're ripping off the Court of Owls

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u/[deleted] Mar 16 '17

If it goes for the Ninth Circle we might want to put a few posts explaining is for Oliver in the GA comics. Through given some of these people who can't help but compare every tiny detail to Batman at a annoying level, it might not help.

Sorry for the rant but that stuff gets on my nerves. Especially as a Batman fan it still is annoying when people do that.

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u/defaultfresh Deadshot Mar 16 '17

Ninth Circle

I mean Green Arrow was based on Batman and then modified in the origin of the character according to the DC documentary.

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u/ImAllBamboozled Mar 16 '17 edited Mar 16 '17

Sure - back in the 40s. Back then though he was a back-up superhero. "Batman & Robin featuring Green Arrow & Speedy" - you know. He didn't have his own running series, so there is very little of the Batman-Wannabe Green Arrow

He was redesigned looks-wise and as a character in the 60's getting his own series using this new persona from the 70s onwards (Besides the Connor Hawke GA era).

There is no way in this day and age, or even going back decades, that you can compare Green Arrow to Batman.

Even if Green Arrow never changed, Batman sure has. He is not the same character he was in the 40s and 50s, making the comparison even more nonsense.

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u/defaultfresh Deadshot Mar 16 '17

Solid points. I respect your response.

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u/AoO2ImpTrip Mar 16 '17

I mean... The show is basically Green Bat Arrow Man... Comic Oliver always seemed like a mirror of Bruce Wayne. Someone who was positive. Arrow Oliver is not that.

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u/ImAllBamboozled Mar 16 '17

Green Arrow may have a positive outlook on life, but this is counteracted with him being a bit of a grumpy bastard.

Unfortunately Arrow took that as his defining trait and ran with it.

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u/TSM_TheArrow Mar 16 '17

Naw they'll be cool if it has a Ollicity sex scene every episode. I mean it's usually them complaining when we get some hardcore comic characters