10 Reasons Why Arrow Needs To Kill Off Oliver Queen
2. For Somebody Else To Pick Up The Mantle
We've already been teased with an alternative DC's Legends of Tomorrow future in which John Diggle Jr. picked up the Green Arrow moniker, but that future 2046 has seemingly been erased from existence. But still, the idea of somebody else picking up the mantle of the Green Arrow is a massively intriguing one.
If anybody is to do just that, it's a far easier prospect should Oliver Queen have been killed off by the time Crisis on Infinite Earths comes to a close.
For that 2046 Legends trip, actor Joseph David-Jones played John Diggle Jr. - the son of John and Lyla Diggle - who adopted the name of Connor Hawke and became the Green Arrow. These days, within a different timeline, the same actor is playing a different character called Connor Hawke. Still with us? We hope so.
In the current Arrow landscape, Charlie Barnett plays John Diggle Jr. - the leader of the villainous Deathstroke Gang - while David-Jones plays a straight-up Connor Hawke who is the son of Ben Turner and Sandra Hawke. If anyone in the Arrowverse is to pick up the bow and become the next Emerald Archer, that again pushes the narrative that Oliver Queen sadly has to perish.
Given that a future-set spin-off series titled Green Arrow and the Canaries is in development, and that Stephen Amell will not be a part of that show, expect a new Master Bowman to arise sooner rather than later.