10 Things Everyone Always Gets Wrong About Green Arrow

5. He Doesn't Have His Own Villains

Merlyn Green Arrow DC Comics
DC Comics

While Green Arrow's rogues' gallery could never compete with Batman's or The Flash's, it's nonsense to argue that he lacks his own iconic villains.

Merlyn, the very antithesis of the Queen character (and a League of Assassins member to boot), has proven time and again that he's a more than worthy adversary. Clock King, who most will know as being one of Batman's foes, started his career as an enemy of the Emerald Archer, and other villains like Count Vertigo, Onomatopoeia and Deathstroke have all come to hold their own kind of synonymy with him too.

It may not be as expansive a list as some of DC's other heavy hitters, but Oliver Queen still certainly has his work cut out for him. Add to that a massive collection of stories that have seen the character take on everyone from Doctor Light to the aforementioned Prometheus himself, and you have a hero who, by all means, is able to tangle with the worst the DCU has to offer.

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