Who Are Your Least Favourite Characters In the Arrowverse?

Oct 23, 2017 6:49:58 GMT @deblovesbeccy said:

Oct 20, 2017 7:58:00 GMT dazz said:

I can see why you have a problem with Talia's motivation. I was under the impression when she first came into the show she had a falling out with her Father and she wouldn't have cared about Oliver killing her Father since she was never even mentioned in the third season. Then there were rumours Damian Dhark's Wife was going to turn out to be Talia but that obviously didn't happen but apparently Talia loved her Father and was more loyal to him than Nyssa which doesn't make an awful lot of sense. Talia being added so late in the show after Ra had been killed off was confusing too and I think it would have worked better if they had her in Season 3 as somebody who was close to Ra and then she went away after he was killed off and came back looking for revenge on Oliver or they replaced Talia with Lady Shiva and had Shiva come to Star City to get revenge on Oliver for killing her former master and wanting to take over as the new Demon's head. 

In the comic books Lady Shiva is the most deadliest member of the League of Assassins and is a better fighter than Ray himself. Batman, Green Arrow, Black Canary, Batgirl etc have all struggled when they have come up against her in battle so it would have made more sense to have had Lady Shiva be the one that trained Prometheus and after Oliver defeated Prometheus he could have gone on to face Lady Shiva in the following season. Talia on the other hand was never that good of a fighter and one of the main reasons she become such a threat was 'cause she had her own group called the 'League of Shadows' and she mixed the Man-Bat formula with the Lazarus Pit and got them to all go into it and they turned into flying demons. Prometheus could have been handled a lot better and one other character that could have been handled better that comes to mind is Anarky. 

I think they changed Anarky too much not having him as a teenage boy with a group of followers. His followers were what made him so much more dangerous ‘cause they listened to him and would do anything for him. Anarky had the ability to turn people who were feeling disillusioned with their lives to his side like ISIS do in real life and the writers should have played that out in 'Arrow.' I don't think he was as bad as some other versions of characters they did like the awful version of Firefly cdull pointed out but when you think about what they could have done with him it was disappointing and they could have had Anarky and his followers turn a lot of the young people of Star City against the Green Arrow and then had them out in the streets with Anarky masks protesting and burning things down and when Oliver unmasked him as a teen they could have had somebody take a picture of Oliver attacking him and then put it in a newspaper saying Green Arrow was attacking children which could have lead to more joining Anarky’s group. I don't think they understood the character or what he represented either. Anarky was an anarchist not a psychopath and he was disillusioned with life and wanted to take down all the corporations ‘cause he believed they were all corrupt.
He was originally meant to be the third Robin and in some of the comic books become good.  

Even with Lady Shiva though the justification they used is wrong imo, wanting revenge on Oliver for the reason  they used doesn't work, it's a thing they constantly do in the show in that they get so close to a logical and reasonable point but then fuck it up, it's like in S4 when Laurel brought back Sara, the argument she and Oliver had could have worked but it didn't because the writers choose the wrong elements to use, instead of being mad Oliver never told her about the pit after saving Thea Laurel's whole you don't tell me because you don't respect me pov would work if she were arguing about how he didn't tell her he was facing Ra's the first time, or that he was going to trade himself for Thea's life, because that's the truth where as the why didn't you tell me about the pit makes no sense as Oliver practically spent no time with Laurel to tell her about it, but everyone else had months to tell her but didn't, so why she was angry with him made no sense and she should have been more pissed at everyone else for that than him.

If Talia's grudge was because Oliver basically destroyed the League which she viewed as her birth right then that makes sense, hell that could ultimately tie in with Chase and his anger to Oliver because Oliver destroyed his "birth right" as well, which would explain why finding out his father hated him and was about to disown him or whatever it was Chase pretended to break over wouldn't matter to him, or if they both hold grudges because Oliver didn't simply kill their fathers but took that away from them, makes them more evil and petty but makes 20x more sense than the shit they gave us.

As for Anarky I agree they messed that character up, and he would have been a great villain for S5 or S6 had they not wasted him, I mean a anarchist inspiring the disillusioned into creating anarchy would be the perfect set up for Oliver to face as a season long problem both as Mayor and as Green Arrow, also it would fit with the shows pseudo batman motif and give Oliver and the show their own Joker style villain, this would have worked better as a reason to have the villain stick around as much whilst facing off regularly with the good guys also, Anarky could much like Joker see GA as the ying to his yang, that without order there cant be disorder because if all things are chaos then chaos is the norm sort of thing, so Anarky would want GA alive because he gives him contrast and a challenge to face and the insanity for this could make sense, unlike with Dahrk and others who just keep Oliver alive because it's a TV show and we need to stretch this out over 23 episodes.

Arrow's general lack of sense is the thing that annoys me most about this show, like Oliver wanting Diggle to become GA, Diggle is proven to be a bad archer, also GA spent a year with his arms shown bare to everyone meaning they all know GA is a white dude, it's a bit odd that after OQ gets outed as the GA then suddenly the GA grows about 2 inches puts on about 20lbs of muscle and becomes black, like sure no one would suspect this at all right? fucking muppets.