10 Comic Book Adaptations That Messed Up Iconic Stories

From one CW superhero show to another. Arrow is what spawned The Flash series (among many other 'Arrowverse' shows) and though it clearly took a lot of inspiration from Christopher Nolan's Dark Knight trilogy, the first couple of seasons still gave us Oliver Queen taking on long time comic book foes Dark Archer and Deathstroke respectively.

Like with The Flash, Arrow's third series is where general consensus among viewers and critics tells us the show took a nose dive in quality (not managing to fully recover until its fifth season). It was here where the show perhaps took its Batman inspiration a bit too far, deciding to introduce a villain from the Caped Crusader's rogue's gallery as the big bad of the season.

Ra's al Ghul - previously portrayed by Liam Neeson in Batman Begins - was the said villain, with his motives and actions stripped straight from his numerous appearances in several Batman titles. Oliver Queen stands in for Bruce Wayne as The Head of the Demon's would-be apprentice, while Star City replaces Gotham as the location the super villain plans to purge.

On paper, there are similarities between the two crime fighters, with both Queen and Wayne seemingly being billionaire playboys by day and masked crime fighters by night. However, that's pretty much where the similarities end in the comics, and the show would have done well to take notice of that and stick to more Green Arrow centric comic book stories.