10 Things Everyone Always Gets Wrong About Green Arrow
5. He Doesn't Have His Own Villains
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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.
WhatCulture's very own resident movie guy, Ewan has been working in the content creation biz for over 10 years now, having started as a freelance contributor to WhatCulture Gaming all the way back in 2015. After graduating with a First-Class Honours in History from Northumbria University in 2017 (where he won a prize for a totally killer dissertation on the Watergate years), Ewan took on the role of Comics Editor at WhatCulture and quickly developed WhatCulture Comics into one of the biggest superhero-focused channels on YouTube. He followed this with a brief hiatus at Screen Rant in 2021, where he worked across the Gaming and Film sections as a writer and editor, before returning to WhatCulture as a Senior Content Producer / Presenter in 2023. He started his own podcast, We Love Dad Movies, in 2022, and has contributed several written pieces to the Eisner-nominated comics website Shelfdust as well.
In his current role, Ewan incorporates his love of cinema, comic books, and history into written pieces and video essays for WhatCulture's Film & TV channel, as well as WhatCulture Gaming and WhatCulture Horror, with a particular focus on nineties-era Dad Movies, old school Westerns, and Golden Age Hollywood Noir. John Carpenter is his fave, and he thinks Batman Beyond should never have been cancelled. If that's your vibe, you'll probably like his stuff.
