Green Arrow's rogues gallery

I dunno, I think Deathstroke, Brick, the goatee assassin guy, and onamonapia(sp), and merlyn were a pretty strong gallery of rogues. plus now there's the cloud assassin as well.

 

Yeah, he should stay there, because God forbid a writer goes against the status quo and uses a character beyond what every writer before has done.

 

Onomatopoeia (Jesus Christ, I hope I spelled that right) was a pretty interesting villain, one I'd definitely like to see more of down the line.

 

And he was a new character to the DCU. Green Arrow doesnt need the scraps of others when it comes to rogues. There's a reason clock king and boomer I weren't written often. They arent that interesting of characters. I'm sure there are plenty of capable writers out there able to create new interesting villians for GA w/o resorting to bad guy leftovers.

 

True. It seems that every time a new villain is introduced, they get used for that one storyline and then we never see them again. That is, until there's some big crisis and they can be seen in the lower left corner of a splash page somewhere.

 

hahaha, i like you sensei. you should really speak up more.

 

And you are against reading a story where it's flash v. joker? that sounds like a great story to me written by the right person. why do you put such limits on what you would read? I guess batman v. luthor is just out of the question for you.

And hell, you are contradicting the hell out of yourself. By your logic, boomerang is a flash rogue, and can only be a flash rogue. Your reign of terror must end.

 

I don't think they have a laminated card saying which rogue gallery they belong in.

What I'm saying is, you picked a bunch of lame ass villians and are trying to dump them on GA. One of which is dead btw. And you wouth rather not use interesting villans who actually have motivation (remember that time Ollie stabbed Slade in the eye socket?) because they "belong" to a different hero.

 

He's got a history with Ollie, too. Ollie beat him in a ridiculously painful and, by Slade's standards, fairly humiliating way, and now he likes kicking the tar out of him every now and then to prove he's still better.

 

I remember an issue of Superman, old enough to probably be out of continuity by now, where The Joker went to Metropolis and messed up some ***** for Superman. It was fantastic.
I'm as guilty as the next guy of going "The Joker fighting Green Lantern? Wha-Wha-Whaaaaat?" when something of the sort happens, but I agree with WompuM that those stories can be great.

More often than not they won't be, but they can be.

And thanks WompuM, I've decided to venture out and not spend all my time in the RPG section of the Hype.

 

This is actually the only reason why I'm reading this thread, personally. It's good for a couple laughs.

 

Constantine Drakon

 

That would be him.

 

GA's built up a pretty good rogues gallery since his return. Merlin, Drakkon, Deathstroke, Otomonipia, Brick. Some guys are lucky to get one good villain, he's got several.

 

Doesn't GA have some sort of Punisher Clone that he battles?

 

Also, I don't get how Captain Boomerang would have made a better GA villain. Boomer is a Flash villain. He's a member of The Rogues, probably one of the few rogues galleries in comics that is a functioning team, as opposed to a handful of random antagonists who all dislike the same person. No member of The Rogues would be anywhere near as interesting on their own. What makes them some of the best villains in DC is their team dynamic, almost familial in nature, as well as their strange love/hate relationship with The Flash and the respective police forces of Central City and Keystone City.

 

I especially liked Brick. He was an unexpected threat on all fronts. Ollie, the police, other criminals. Everybody was blindsided by him. You don't expect "the muscle" to be that smart, that invulnerable, or that ballsy.

 

More cold and calculating villains would be good for GA. Nutjobs are a bit overused, and we can't have him going up against anyone too powerful or we'll have Supes flying in all the time to clean up (like those mindless Ogre type guys who were mutated immigrant construction workers or something). I think Captain America has always had a good assortment of villains. Lots of tech powered fighters and semi-powerful underlings of mastermind type bosses. Ollie could do with more like that.