History Characters / ArrowverseOliverQueen

* ThreeAmigos: Oliver, with Diggle and Felicity.

-->'''Oliver:''' What's ''Literature/{{Twilight}}''?\\

* InSeriesNickname: Frequently gets nicknamed "[[Main/{{ROBINHOOD}} Robin Hood]]", unsurprisingly considered who he's based off.

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: His forcing Roy to break up with Thea inadvertently causes the last bit of Season Two, which includes Thea finding out her parentage, Isabel Rochev taking over Queen Consolidated, the creation of Slade's Mirakuru army, Roy going on a Mirakuru rampage, the death of his mother, Deathstroke's army destroying Starling City, the city almost being nuked by ARGUS, and Sara going back to the League of Assassins.

* HurtingHero: Oliver is one of the grimmest heroes in the Arrowverse, constantly on the receiving end of the worst life has to offer. He repeatedly has to deal with the deaths of his family and friends, to date including: Robert, Tommy, Moira, Sara[[note]][[BackFromTheDead who got better]][[/note]], and Laurel. He's also had to deal with immense guilt over the BlackAndWhiteMorality of his [[VigilanteMan vigilante]] actions throughout the series. But what really pushed Oliver over the edge was getting broken by Prometheus in season 5.

* FightsLikeANormal: In Season 9 of ''The Flash'', long after after Oliver becomes the god-like Spectre, [[spoiler:he arrives on Earth to asssit Barry, once again donning his traditional Green Arrow attire and fights using his traditional hand-to-hand combat.]]

* FightsLikeANormal: In Season 9 of ''The Flash'', where [[spoiler:Oliver returns as the Spectre, he arrives on Earth once again donning his traditional Green Arrow attire and fights using his traditional hand-to-hand combat.]]

* SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan: Every time he and Barry are together, his "tough-as-nails" demeanor/personality is often highlighted. The same can be said towards his best friend Tommy Merlyn, especially after Oliie returns from Lian Yu. Interestingly, he [[NaiveNewcomer was]] the Sensitive Guy to [[RatedMForManly Slade's]] Manly Man during the island flashbacks.

** During ''Crisis on Infinite Earths'' he eventually becomes this [[spoiler:for the entire Arrowverse, taking over the mantle from the Monitor himself after becoming the Spectre. Unfortunately, it doesn't last very long and he performs a HeroicSacrifice against the Anti-Monitor]].

** When he was with Slade, he tended to use his intelligence and manipulation tactics in contrast to Slade, who was a seasoned fighter.

** [[spoiler:Played straight in Crisis on Infinite Earths, when he dies at the end of the first hour.]]

* BadassBaritone: As the Arrow, seeing how he uses a voice changer.

* ScreamsLikeALittleGirl: For being a BadassBaritone, Oliver has a surprisingly high-pitched scream, best displayed when he's kneecapped in "Seeing Red."

* WillTheyOrWontThey: With Laurel during Season One: They Do only to call it off. He moves into this territory with Felicity from Season Two onwards; They briefly do in the season 3 premiere before an RPG attack on Oliver on their first date spooks him into calling it off with her too, but the door is still ambiguously open as the season progresses and even after Felicity gets in a relationship with Ray Palmer... Then TheyDo in "The Fallen" and end the season together. In late season four however, they call it off, only to get back together in season six.

* WouldHitAGirl: Oliver has faced off against plenty of female enemies that he gives no special treatment for, including [[ProfessionalKiller China White]], [[KnightTemplar Helena]], [[ClingyJealousGirl Nyssa al Ghul]], and [[ManipulativeBitch Isabel Rochev]].

* TheDeterminator: It's almost disturbing how willing Oliver is to hurt himself to take out his foes. One example of such occurs during the season 1 finale, where [[spoiler:he defeats Malcolm Merlyn by stabbing himself through the shoulder.]]

* InformedAbility: Oliver is multilingual, being fluent in English, Russian, Cantonese, Mandarin, Japanese, Spanish, Tibetan, and Arabic. While this is shown onscreen, what's informed is Oliver's Mandarin accent was so perfect it fooled a blinded Chinese guy into thinking Oliver was actually Chinese. To anyone who [[BilingualBonus actually speaks Mandarin]], Creator/StephenAmell sounds more-or-less like any average Westerner speaking the language. His Russian also sounds horrible.

* UnresolvedSexualTension: With Felicity. Until [[Recap/ArrowS3E20TheFallen ''The]] [[CoitusEnsues Fallen'']].

* WillTheyOrWontThey: With Laurel during Season One: They Do only to call it off. He moves into this territory with Felicity from Season Two onwards; They briefly do in the season 3 premiere before an RPG attack on Oliver on their first date spooks him into calling it off with her too, but the door is still ambiguously open as the season progresses and even after Felicity gets in a relationship with Ray Palmer... Then TheyDo in [[CoitusEnsues "The Fallen" and end the season together]]. In late season four however, they call it off, only to get back together in season six.

** The whole purpose of the flashbacks to Oliver's time on the island is to show how he went from "[[RichIdiotWithNoDayJob the male Paris Hilton]]" to the hardened, effective vigilante we meet at the start of the series.

* RichIdiotWithNoDayJob:
** Oliver invokes this to hide his activities as the Hood. He further cultivates the image (and other related aspects of his SecretIdentity) by claiming to want to start a night club in an old Queen Consolidated warehouse... then doing absolutely nothing/making zero progress towards actually turning it into anything. Eventually Tommy steps in to assist with the renovations, having noted that no progress is being made. At which point the night club actually gets finished. This is even lampshaded in the second season, when Moira dismisses Ollie's involvement in the club as just being a hobby.
** Averted in Season Two when he takes over as CEO of Queen Consolidated. In "Deathstroke", it bites him on the ass when he mistakenly lets Isabel Rochev become temporary CEO, allowing her to become full-time CEO of Queen Consolidated as he hasn't been to his job. He would find out she was actively working with Slade Wilson.
** Before Lian Yu, Oliver ''was'' actually one, failing out of four Ivy League schools, constantly in the tabloids for his "bad-boy" behavior, and [[IdleRich never learning basic things like how to do laundry.]] Obviously, five years in hell remedied that problem rather quickly.

!!! '''Voiced By:''' Creator/AlejandroOrozco (Latin American Spanish dub, until Episode 99), Armando Guerrero (Latin American Spanish dub, Episodes 100 and 101), Carlos Díaz (Latin American Spanish dub, Episode 102-present), Creator/SatoshiHino (Japanese dub), Creator/MatthewMercer (''WesternAnimation/FreedomFightersTheRay'')

-> see Characters/ArrowverseFutureCharacters page for more on his possible future version
-> see Characters/ArrowverseEarth2 page to see his Earth-2 counterpart
-> see Characters/ArrowverseOtherEarths page to see his Earth-16 counterpart and the Earth-D character who bears his codename
-> see Characters/ArrowverseEarthX page to see his Earth-X counterpart

-> see Characters/SmallvilleEarth2 for an AlternateUniverse Earth-167 character who bears his name and background

* WeaponOfChoice: [[ArcherArchetype Does it really need to be said?]]

** When he was with Slade, he tended to be a use intelligence and manipulation tactics in contrast to Slade, who was a seasoned fighter.

** Played with for Barry. In their civilian identities, Barry is clearly the Brains being the scientist to Oliver's Brawn considering he's a martial artist. However the dynamic is reversed in their superhero identities, given that Oliver is the tactical WeakButSkilled BadassNormal, while Barry is the StoryBreakerPower speedster who overlies on his powers rather than strategy.

* PoisonousFriend: While it certainly wasn't his intention, he has a tendency to bring out the bad/worst/{{Wangst}}y sides of the women he's involved with.

* {{Sadist}}: After nearly a week of torture at Prometheus' hands, Oliver admits that he kills people because he wants to and because he likes it. He's devastated by the realization, which utterly breaks his spirit.

!!! '''Voiced By:''' Alejandro Orozco (Latin American Spanish dub, until Episode 99), Armando Guerrero (Latin American Spanish dub, Episodes 100 and 101), Carlos Díaz (Latin American Spanish dub, Episode 102-present), Creator/SatoshiHino (Japanese dub), Creator/MatthewMercer (''WesternAnimation/FreedomFightersTheRay'')

** [[spoiler:''Crisis on Infinite Earths'' takes it UpToEleven where he becomes a full-on EmpoweredBadassNormal as he accepts inheriting the mantle of ComicBook/TheSpectre from Jim Corrigan, effectively becoming the most powerful hero in existence.]]

** Reveals to keep a ''kryponite arrow'' in his arsenal in case an [[UpToEleven an evil version of Kara showed up]] (or, presumably, if she ever went bad).