Arrow: 10 Characters Who Should Join Season 5

3. Cheshire

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In Cheshire, we have one of the most selfish, single-minded characters in the DC world.

An assassin-cum-terrorist, she is so untrustworthy that even her fellow villains don’t trust her! Likewise, she doesn’t trust anyone that she works with, most notably as part of the Secret Society of Super-Villains or when working alongside Deathstroke and some fellow guns-for-hire.

Abilities-wise, Cheshire, also known as Jade Nguyen, is yet another who is a totally badass hand-to-hand fighter who has a vast knowledge of plenty of different fighting styles, not to mention a background in acrobatics. What makes her unique, though, is that her fingertips are laced with lethal poison, meaning any attack from Cheshire can be fatal.

Where the world of Arrow and the comic book Green Arrow is concerned, Cheshire actually has a child with Roy Harper at one point in time. Given how Arrow has only recently done a child-based story arc with Oliver, maybe it’d be best to just introduce Cheshire as a standard villain in Season 5 with scope to do something more with the character down the line.

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