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  • Hey youtubers it’s Charlie and since Arrow totally got renewed for season 3 early I thought

  • it would be fun to talk about the top 5 stories that they should adapt from the comic books

  • as well as some of the new characters they should introduce next...Hint Hint. Ravager

  • and Jericho.

  • Just to clarify though, when I say it was renewed early. What that means is that most

  • shows don’t get renewed until after their season is over. So the fact arrow got picked

  • up again halfway through it’s season means the CW has a lot of confidence in it. Six

  • Seasons and a movie confidence. ha ha.

  • And I said it before, but here’s some more evidence, Caity Lotz is sticking around. She

  • will be back next season as the canary. So fear not for her death this year.

  • I’ll also be doing this same type of top 5 stories video for the flash next week, so

  • if youre finding me for the first time be sure to subscribe to get it.

  • So first let’s talk about just straight up comic book titles and then specifically

  • some cool ways they can change things to make them fit better.. Number 5 - Road To Jericho.

  • This featured The Red Hood, jason todd attacking Speedy and Oliver tries to deal with him and

  • eventually it turns into one villain after the other tag teaming him including Deathstroke,

  • Merlyn, Brick and Constantine. At the end of the story, he also ends up asking Black

  • Canary to marry him.

  • There are a couple aspects of this they could change. Because a lot of the batman characters

  • are tied up legally with Fox’s gotham tv show, they could use slade’s son Jericho

  • or even ravager to come after Roy for revenge in the wake of the season 2 finale. We don’t

  • know what’s going to happen this year with Slade’s character, but it will not end well

  • for him. He won’t die, but he will be beaten badly.

  • I think of all the new characters to bring on next year, his children have been the most

  • referenced people the past two years that weve never seen. Bringing them on would

  • be a way in to Young Justice and eventually Teen Titans.

  • Number 4 - Archers Quest, who wants to go on a road trip with oliver?

  • This story is all about Oliver reclaiming really sentimental personal items from all

  • over the world. Including family heirlooms. They did a brief team arrow road trip to russia

  • this season already in a diggle-centric episode, but it would be a good opportunity for a Roy-Oliver

  • ramblinman story that let’s them travel outside the city. Or they could swap the Roy

  • part for Felicity. Raise your hand if you want to see an Oliver-Felicity road trip

  • Them sharing a motel room would cause tumblr to explode (make noise).

  • Number 3 - Hard Traveling Heroes, Green Lantern Crossover anyone?

  • This is also a road trip story but it’s also a green lantern crossover. It’s Oliver,

  • hal Jordan and Black canary solving problems as they travel through the midwest jack kerouac

  • style. The story was originally from the 70s and is super political, but they could use

  • it as an opportunity to swap hal jordan for grant gustin’s flash. Imagine oliver and

  • barry on a road trip, with some of the comedy flowing from the fact that barry is stuck

  • traveling at human speeds in a jet when he could just run way faster.

  • It’s unclear how substantial crossovers are going to be between flash and arrow characters,

  • but it’s likely that theyll involve major villains. Last year’s arrow road trip was

  • a psuedo suicide squad story, so oliver could always get involved in a flash rogues story.

  • This was also the comic that dealt with Roy’s heroin addiction. They kind of already did

  • that with the mirakuru storyline, but they could still use the serum as continuing allegory

  • for addiction.

  • Number 2 - Longbow Hunters. This is where it starts to get dark.

  • Longbow actually features an aging Oliver, which they would have to fudge a bit on, but

  • he tracks down a serial killer while black canary tries to take down a drug circle. It’s

  • the story where Oliver first meets shado, which they’d have to change just based on

  • her being dead on the tv show.

  • The reason it’s super dark is because Oliver ends up murdering one of the villains he finds

  • torturing Black Canary. Arrow kind of did this during season 2 when count vertigo was

  • going to inject Felicity with the mirakuru serum. So technically the tv version of oliver

  • has already gone into that territory.

  • Some changes they could make would be again, swapping the shado character for ravager or

  • even Sin who should get a slightly expanded role next year anyway. They could even swap

  • oliver and black canary’s roles.

  • Remember, she’s only just left the league of assassins, so she hasn’t pacified herself

  • in the way oliver is trying to this year. Remember he’s all about not killing people

  • anymore, but that’s still something Sara is dealing with.

  • Number 1 - Cry For Justice. This is a longshot, but it’s such an epic story it has to be

  • mentioned.

  • Oliver basically goes nuts in this story after Prometheus chops roy’s arm off and eventually

  • results in the fall of green arrow storyline. It’s a story about how oliver is undone

  • as a person after his family and his team are decimated.

  • Right now theyre kind of teasing this with slade’s storyline in present day. Slade

  • is going to try and destroy oliver’s life by destroying everything he loves.

  • What they could do that would be really epic would be having oliver cross the line a little

  • going after villains and have amanda waller send the suicide squad to stop him. It would

  • be like the government going after team arrow with their own team of supers.

  • I don’t think theyll do a story that dark, but it would be awesome to see amanda

  • waller and oliver go after each other.

  • All that being said, here’s a bonus choice because arrow has also been borrowing stories

  • from the batman universe and all over the greater dc universe. Kingdom Come. Think of

  • it as being like a dc version of days of future past.

  • You could even involve a practical time travel aspect to the story via the flash and STAR

  • LABS technology. Maybe something more technical than the cosmic treadmill, but it would just

  • be a story where you have oliver try to prevent a much darker timeline from actually happening.

  • It would even be a way to kill a major character like Felicity or Thea or even Oliver himself.

  • And then fix everything by the end as if nothing bad ended up happening.

  • Now it’s your turn, which DC story do you want to see arrow do next year.

  • Next week I’m going to do my top 5 new characters arrow should introduce. Be sure to subscribe

  • to get it.

  • Don’t forget, valentines day I’m posting Hannibal season 2 and supernatural season

  • 10 videos. it’s going to be a fun weekend.

  • Right now click here to learn all about the arrow flash crossover that’s happening this

  • year and click here for my arrow Q&A.

  • Thanks for watching, see you tomorrow. High Fives!

Hey youtubers it’s Charlie and since Arrow totally got renewed for season 3 early I thought

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