Arrow debuted 10 years ago today, launching a superhero TV explosion
Almost 11 years after being name-dropped on the series premiere of Smallville, the DC hero Green Arrow go this own TV series for the first time when Arrow premiered ten years ago. The series launched on October 10, 2012, led by actors Stephen Amell as Oliver Queen; John Barrowman as Malcolm Merlyn; David Ramsey as John Diggle; and Willa Holland as Thea Queen.
In that first season, Oliver's friend Tommy Merlyn was established, as well as his ally-turned-nemesis Slade Wilson . It was Slade whose Mirakuru formula -- think a super soldier serum that makes you crazy -- first introduced the idea of enhanced humans to the world of Arrow. The Flash became the highest-rated show on The CW, and it was impossible to ignore how well Arrow did in the ratings whenever it featured appearances by familiar DC Comics faces, so not only did The CW decide that the two shows needed to establish regular crossovers, but that they would always be expanding the universe of the shows, looking for more potential spinoff ideas.
The latter is what ultimately happened, with CBS cancelling Supergirl and The CW swooping in to save it. Those four shows -- Arrow, The Flash, Supergirl, and DC's Legends of Tomorrow -- mark the core of the Arrowverse, and the period when they were all airing together marked the high water mark in terms of the universe's pop culture influence.
Arrow was more than just a breeding ground for crossovers; the series gave fans what many argue is the best live-action interpretation of Deathstroke, a fan-favorite villain who has shown up in the movies and on Titans. It made Ra's al Ghul a villain who had ties to the whole DC universe, rather than just Batman.
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