Arrow (TV Series)


 * For the series finale, see .
 * For the final season, see Season 8 (Arrow).

Arrow is a television series based on the DC Comics character, the Green Arrow.

The series is developed by Greg Berlanti, Andrew Kreisberg and Marc Guggenheim. The first season premiered on October 10, 2012 with Kreisberg and Guggenheim serving as showrunners. The second and third season premiered on October 9, 2013 and October 8, 2014 respectively. The fourth season marks the departure of Kreisberg as showrunner with Wendy Mericle replacing him. The season premiered on October 7, 2015 while the fifth season premiered on October 5, 2016. The sixth season premiered on October 12, 2017 with Mericle and Guggenheim both departing as showrunner. However, Guggenheim stayed as a consulting producer for the seventh season, which premiered on October 15, 2018 with Beth Schwartz replacing Guggenheim. The eighth and final season premiered on October 15, 2019 and concluded on January 28, 2020, Guggenheim also briefly returned as showrunner when Schwartz went on maternity leave.

During the series' run, it created multiple spin-offs such as and. The connected universe was later known as the Arrowverse and retroactively connected to previous DC Comics-based television series during the Crisis on Infinite Earths crossover event.

Synopsis
After a violent shipwreck, billionaire playboy Oliver Queen was missing and presumed dead for five years before being discovered alive on a remote island in the North China Sea. He returned home to Star City, bent on righting the wrongs done by his family and fighting injustice. As the Green Arrow, Oliver successfully saved his city with the help of his team including former soldier John Diggle, computer-science expert Felicity Smoak, former protégé Roy Harper, street-savvy Rene Ramirez, metahuman Dinah Drake, brilliant inventor Curtis Holt and Earth-2 Laurel Lance. In the wake of discovering what his future holds, Oliver will find himself pit against his most challenging battle yet, one that will leave the multiverse hanging in the balance. In Arrow's final season, Oliver Queen is forced to confront the reality of what it means to be a hero.

Main Cast

 * Stephen Amell as The Hood/Arrow/Green Arrow/Spectre (Oliver Queen)
 * Katie Cassidy as Black Canary (Laurel Lance) and Black Siren/Black Canary (Laurel Lance)
 * Colin Donnell as Tommy Merlyn
 * David Ramsey as Spartan (John Diggle)
 * Willa Holland as Speedy (Thea Queen)
 * Susanna Thompson as Moira Queen
 * Paul Blackthorne as Detective (Quentin Lance)
 * Emily Bett Rickards as Overwatch (Felicity Smoak)
 * Colton Haynes as Arsenal (Roy Harper)
 * Manu Bennett as Deathstroke (Slade Wilson)
 * John Barrowman as Dark Archer/Ra's al Ghul (Malcolm Merlyn)
 * Echo Kellum as Mr. Terrific (Curtis Holt)
 * Josh Segarra as Prometheus (Adrian Chase)
 * Rick Gonzalez as Wild Dog (Rene Ramirez)
 * Juliana Harkavy as Black Canary (Dinah Drake)
 * Kirk Acevedo as The Dragon (Ricardo Diaz)
 * Sea Shimooka as Green Arrow (Emiko Adachi)
 * Katherine McNamara as Blackstar (Mia Smoak)
 * Ben Lewis as William Harris/William Clayton
 * Joseph David-Jones as Connor Hawke
 * LaMonica Garrett as The Monitor (Mar Novu) and Anti-Monitor (Mobius)