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He’s crashing through your windows. He’s snatching bad people up. Hide ya gun, hide ya knife, Oliver Queen is returning to Starling City. For the last three seasons of Arrow we’ve watched Oliver go from being called The Hood, to The Arrow, to a name that’s, sadly, probably on a no-fly list. Now with the fourth season of the popular super hero soap fast approaching our titular hero will finally get a little color, so to speak. Though he’s been in the crime fighting business for a while now, season four Arrow will now be ‘Green,” at long last adopting his full alias from the comics. Though season three ended with Oliver returning from Nanda Parabat to defeat Ras al Guhl, we know that the sunset ‘Ollicity’ rode off into only means Darhk is fast approaching- Damien Darhk, that is: Oliver’s big bad this coming year. Darhk (Neal Mcdonough; Star Strek: First Contact, Captain America: the First Avenger) was mentioned in season three as not only the leader of mystery org H.I.V.E., but also as a former “heir to the demon,” so he’s clearly not one to mess with. Not like that’s going to stop Oli from defending his city against whatever Darhk is up to. In DC Comics Damien was a genius level intellect who also had ties to H.I.V.E., an organization that trained mercenaries and assassins, sort of like the League of Shadows (which is now under the watchful eye of one Malcolm Merlyn). And to add chaos to all the organization, creators are also introducing Alexander Calvert to the show as Anark…
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