10 Amazing TV Shows (With Terrible Lead Characters)

10. Arrow

Arrow as a whole did not get off to an appealing start. While it would find its footing as it went on, pretty much all of its problems can be summed up in how it portrayed Oliver Queen.

The problem with this version of Oliver Queen is that he ISN'T Oliver Queen. From front to back, you can tell the writers of this show really just wanted to make a Batman show. So when they couldn't do that, they decided to forcibly cram Oliver into a Batman mould.

Gone were Oliver's liberal politics and aesthetic of "guy who is a billionaire, but would take a guillotine to every single billionaire on the planet if he could get away with it" in favour of Green Arrow just being yet another dark brooding avenger of the night using the cover of a playboy rich kid.

As the show progressed and the writers got over themselves, Oliver would more closely resemble the version from the comics, which ultimately redeemed it enough to place it at the bottom of this list. But the fact that Oliver didn't even call himself Green Arrow for over three seasons still deserves mockery.