He was the serial killer who was calling himself Prometheus, and not only knew that Oliver is Green Arrow, but had a personal vendetta against him as well. Having lost his father four years ago at the hands of the Hood, Adrian desired retribution, and spent his time afterward studying The Hood's skills and history, while also uncovering Oliver's true identity as Green Arrow. In his alter-ego, Prometheus crusaded against Green Arrow in order to destroy the vigilante's life and legacy. He had also been labeled by the media as the "Throwing Star Killer" for murdering people whose names formed anagrams of individuals on the List using shurikens made from Oliver's discarded arrows as a form of sending a twisted message to him.
Publication Information
- Arrow : Adrian Chase
- Version : The Arrow Series
- Multiverse : Earth One
- Known As :
- Simon Morrison
- Prometheus
- Type :
- Formerly Serial killer
- Formerly District attorney of Star City
- Formerly Leader of his team
- Relative :
- Justin Claybourne : Father
- JAmanda Westfield : Mother
- JDoris Chase : Wife
- Origin : Starling City, United State
- Season : Arrow
- First Appeareance : Arrow Season 5 Episod 5 : Legacy
- Last Appeareance :
- Number of Appeareance :
- Potrayer : Josh Segarra
- Voice Actor / Actresss :
- Main View : Full Episod
Preparing for his crusade
In late 2012, Justin was murdered by the Hood, and so Simon sought vengeance upon the elusive vigilante. Dropping off the grid completely and erasing all traces of his existence from the internet, and changing his name to "Adrian Chase," he researched his target and learned everything he could. In his research, Adrian discovered his target's identity and obsessively studied, learning everything he could about the man's allies. In his research, he became aware of the existence of The List, a book of Starling City individuals with ties to Malcolm Merlyn, which included Justin.
Beginning his crusade
Five months following Damien Darhk's death, Adrian began his crusade by targeting individuals in Star City whose names formed anagrams to other names on The List. His first target was Lieutenant Conahan. When Conahan was leaving the SCPD precinct, Prometheus is noticed on the rooftop. Mistaking him for Green Arrow, Conahan asked how to help him but is shot by an arrow. Conahan painfully tried to shoot back but Prometheus dodged the shots, leaped to the ground and threw a shuriken to disarm. As Conahan tried to flee, Prometheus threw a knife into his victim's leg, knocking the cop down. As Conahan desperately tried to crawl away, Prometheus slowly walked up, sword in hand. When asked if he was Green Arrow,
Conflict with Tobias Church
A few nights later, Adrian learned of Green Arrow's encounter with crime lord Tobias Church amidst an illegal deal with AmerTek Industries, where the crime lord almost killed Green Arrow. In response, Prometheus stalked Church at Club XLR8 and killed two bodyguards. While Church mistook him for the Green Arrow and laughed in amusement, Prometheus threw an ax into Church's shoulder, leaped to the ground and slammed Church into the pavement. Prometheus angrily told Church being aware of Church's attempt to kill the Green Arrow. Warning Church that the former is his to kill and if Church ever tried to do it again, the crime lord would die as well.
War with Team Arrow
With Green Arrow now aware of his existence after being informed by Church prior to the crime lord's death, Prometheus lured Green Arrow and Spartan to a construction site, using Church's cell phone to lure them out. After they tracked the phone, Prometheus called it, heavily breathing into the phone, as Green Arrow answered. He then ignited a message on the ground: "SO IT BEGINS." From there, Prometheus continued killing civilians to form more anagrams of individuals on the List including Peter Meld and Gay Eked. Their names, along with Conahan's and Church's, all spelled out anagrams of Oliver's previous victims: Adam Hunt, Ted Gaynor, Palmer Cokes and Sachi Beech.
First encounter with Green Arrow
During Christmas, Prometheus sharpens his weapons in his hideout. He's approached by Evelyn with photographs and addresses of Felicity Smoak and Rory Regan. Evelyn then asked Prometheus to be there when he killed Oliver, but Prometheus stated that he didn't intend to kill Oliver, only to make his nemesis wish to be dead. Prometheus later attacked Curtis Holt at the mayor's Christmas party and Paul Holt, effortlessly defeating Curtis and injecting with Dycloseral, making Oliver and Team Arrow aware that he knew their secret identities.
Exonerating Diggle and working with Black Siren
Eventually, Laurel's cover was blown but as Laurel asked why couldn't they just killed them, Prometheus furiously tackled the metahuman. Choking Laurel's throat tight enough to prevent using the screaming power against him, Prometheus reminded that Laurel's freedom and life were contingent on following his orders. Terrified, Black Siren agreed and fell in line. Adrian is later called to Oliver's office, informing him of John's arrest of being wrongfully imprisoned for illegal arms dealing of a nuclear trigger set up General J.G. Walker, and wanted Adrian to represent John.
Attacking the Queen administration
After Oliver visited Amanda for his name, Adrian sent a letter to SCPD Captain Frank Pike containing the autopsy report for Detective Malone's true cause of death, thus Pike ordered the Anti-Crime Unit to arrest Green Arrow for Billy's death. Adrian is later present when Oliver and Quentin tried to convince Pike that the Green Arrow is innocent, though initially refused to listen as Green Arrow still killed a member of ACU. Despite this, Oliver is successful in getting Pike to stop this pursuit after talking sense, to which Adrian leaked the mayor's office's role in covering up Billy's death to the media which was then broadcasted by Channel 52 News.
Discrediting Green Arrow and discovered by Team Arrow
Adrian offered his letter of resignation in order to take full responsibility for the cover-up, but Oliver denied his request and instead insisted that Adrian represent as a lawyer at the hearing. While Adrian agreed, he reminded Oliver that the circumstances would call for someone to take the fall. At the hearing, Adrian and Oliver watched as the coroner confessed to filing a false report on Billy's death to Councilman Collins, and as Captain Pike told them of Oliver's vouching for the Green Arrow. After the first stage of the hearing, Oliver, Thea, Quentin and Detective Dinah Drake left for the office, though their limo is attacked by Vigilante which left them all injured.
Torturing Oliver and exposure to the public
Adrian tortured Oliver, trying to make Oliver confess what Adrian believed to be the real reason for Oliver's killings: Oliver did the deed simply because wanting to, using Robert Queen's wishes as justification. However, Oliver didn't know what Adrian wanted and Adrian tortured Oliver for six days, trying to get the answer. On the sixth day, Adrian held Oliver underwater for 140 seconds, the same amount of time it took for Adrian's father to drown. When Oliver didn't "confess," Adrian, resumed the torture. When Oliver regained consciousness, Adrian planted photos of Oliver's victims, but as Oliver reminded Adrian they all had victims themselves, Adrian further pointed out they also had families and they all suffered because of Oliver.
Tuberculosis plot and capture
After arriving back to Star City, he lured Team Arrow and the S.C.P.D. to a video game arcade but rigged all the attractions with weapons and rigged one of them to display an image of Prometheus and the words "GAME OVER." Adrian somehow caused an EMP explosion in the Arrowcave which left Oliver and Felicity trapped for some time, forcing Team Arrow to focus on getting them out. While they were distracted, Adrian tracked down William, saying to William that he knew the boy's father and presumably kidnapped William. Because of Adrian's exposure to the public as a serial killer, all convicts he detained were released after retrial which included Sampson. Adrian soon enlisted Sampson's aid to seemingly recreate his father's tuberculosis outbreak by having Sampson steal the chemicals required.
Battle on Lian Yu and death
Adrian, Black Siren, Evelyn Sharp, Talia al Ghul and her acolytes confront Oliver, Team Arrow, Nyssa al Ghul and Slade Wilson/Deathstroke. Adrian then taunts Oliver about William and duels with Oliver as the rest of the team take on the acolytes and Black Siren. As they dueled, Oliver knocked Adrian off a balcony and attempted to break his neck, only with Adrian goading Oliver to do so. But much to Adrian's shock, Oliver gives up in the end, stating that Adrian can blame Oliver for his father's death for the rest of his life while Oliver has already forgiven his sins.iver saw right through him and told him even if it were true
Legacy
Before his death, Adrian used all his money to hire and arm criminal Alex Faust to destroy buildings that were close to Oliver. He recorded himself in a video where he taunted Oliver, who died on Lian Yu and told his plans, knowing that Oliver would be forced to watch it sooner or later. The idea of his plan destroying buildings was to trigger PTSD for Oliver from Lian Yu's explosion.
Even though Adrian's endgame left deep marks within Team Arrow, including the death of Samantha, forcing William to move in with Oliver and the team was able to put him and his actions aside and move on, thus his entire revenge scheme ended in failure; therefore his years of planning on getting revenge on Oliver for killing his father was ultimately in vain. Ironically, all of his efforts and planning on destroying Oliver only resulted in him becoming a better man than he was before.
When a doctored photo was shown to the public of Oliver in the Green Arrow suit, Team Arrow suggested the idea that it was Adrian's final gift to Oliver before it was revealed to be Ricardo Diaz. Sometime after he was exposed as a serial killer or after his death, Sam Armand succeeded Adrian as the district attorney of Star City.
Adrian appeared as a hallucination when Oliver was exposed to Vertigo, taunting him on his failure to keep his team or save his city from Ricardo Diaz. This shows that Chase's actions still affect Oliver even after Chase's death. Before Oliver realized he was hallucinating, Oliver snapped Chase's neck, showing that he would now kill him had he still been alive after killing Samantha Clayton.
Abilities
- Computer specialist / Expert computer hacker : Adrian had demonstrated a high degree of computer skills, as he was able to build and use several theatrical traps which he used against Oliver and Team Arrow. Oliver also mentions that Adrian has managed to erase all traces of his birth identity as "Simon Morrison" from the internet.
- Expert lawyer : As a former district attorney of Star City, Adrian was a skilled lawyer able to use his legal knowledge to successfully prevent John Diggle's prison transfer. Considering the fact that he only became District attorney to get close to Oliver, it is possible that Adrian did not even possess a law degree, making his knowledge potentially even more impressive.
- Expert archer : Like Oliver, Adrian was a trained archer although he seems to prefer throwing weapons. Adrian is skilled enough to either wound or kill his targets and use his bow as an improvised quarter-staff like Oliver. While torturing Oliver, Adrian fired three arrows in Oliver's chest in a tight pattern at point blank range.
- Expert swordsman : Adrian was trained in the art of swordsmanship, often using his sword fighting skills in conjunction with his melee skills; his exact level as a swordsman was unknown.
- Explosives expert : Adrian had a good knowledge on explosives, quickly placing a bomb on a train before escaping, placing bombs in many rooms of a building and later having C4s all over Lian Yu linked to himself to be triggered through a dead man's switch.
- Free-running / Acrobatics : Adrian was able to move and scale down walls with great dexterity and grace, even while simultaneously dodging bullets and throwing his shurikens.
- High-level intellect / Master tactician / Manipulator : Adrian was a highly effective tactician, with his tactics against Oliver being at a psychological level, as he was successful in tricking Oliver into killing Billy Malone; knowing that Oliver came with the intention on killing Adrian making the latter one of the few people to ever tactically outsmart Oliver who is a master tactician in his own right. This is a skill on a level he shares with, most noticeably, Malcolm Merlyn, Slade Wilson, and Ra's al Ghul, with all able to outsmart Oliver up into their final confrontations. Adrian was also very manipulative able to convince Evelyn to betray Oliver, and he positioned Oliver in a scenario where he was forced to proclaim his "Green Arrow" identity as a police killer making it nearly impossible for him to take Prometheus down with his alter ego.
- High tolerance for pain : Adrian had a high tolerance for pain as he could keep fighting without slowing down after Evelyn cut his arm and barely flinched after being shot in the shoulder with a bullet and was still able to move his arm normally even when the wound reopened.
- Intimidation : Adrian possessed an intimidating presence due to his ruthlessness with Tobias Church, Evelyn Sharp, and even Laurel Lance, a meta-human, showing signs of fear towards him; his killings as the "Throwing Star Killer" combined with media rumors and his presence was enough to cause a city-wide panic. Even Darren Coffman stated Adrian was terrifying.
- Master hand-to-hand combatant / Martial artist : Adrian, like Oliver, was an incredible martial artist trained by Talia al Ghul with fighting style incorporating several moves that Oliver knows. Adrian was able to defeat Evelyn Sharp, Curtis Holt, and Vigilante in single combat. During all his battles with Oliver, Adrian fought on par with him and even managed to outpace him in some of their encounters making him one of the deadliest fighters in the multiverse.
- Master interrogator / Torturer : Adrian was a highly skilled interrogator, trained in both verbal and physical extraction techniques. As a lawyer, Adrian was successfully able to flip one of Eric Dunn's men to find him. While torturing Oliver, Adrian tortured Oliver using same methods of Oliver used to kill his enemies; including water-boarding and shooting him with arrows all while not killing him. At the same time, Adrian psychologically tortured Oliver by threatening his loved ones and seemingly killing Evelyn in front of him. Adrian was eventually successful in breaking Oliver and convinced to end his crusade temporarily, due to the efforts of John Diggle.
- Master knife wielder / Knife-thrower : Adrian was highly proficient in throwing weapons such as knives, battle axes, flechettes and his weapon of choice; shuriken. He was able to disarm police lieutenant Conahan while jumping and was able to perfectly split an arrow shot at him by Oliver in half by throwing a shuriken. Adrian was a capable knife wielder as shown during a confrontation with Oliver.
- Network : As a former district attorney, Adrian had access to the resources of his office and the Star City Police Department. Adrian was also apparently second-in-command of Talia al Ghul's cult, all who were his fellow students.
- Peak of human physical condition : Adrian was in top physical form after training for four years to defeat Oliver. He was strong enough to pin down the large and physically imposing Church, and Earth Two Laurel, a meta-human, with one arm and kick Oliver through a wooden wall with one leg. He also had a high tolerance to drugs, as he was able to quickly shrug off the effect of the diazepam-ridden dart that Oliver threw at him. He also withstood a severe beat down from Oliver which left his face bloody and swollen, and barely seemed fazed by it.
- Skilled metalsmith : Adrian has stolen several of Oliver's arrows that Oliver has left behind during his vigilante career and melted them down to be reforged as his own weapons; mainly his shuriken.
- Stealth/Infiltration : Adrian is highly skilled in the art of stealth, as he is able to sneak in or appear to people fairly quickly without them noticing whether it was day or night. He was able to sneak into Gay Eked's home, a moving subway train and S.T.A.R. Labs without triggering any alarms, an act that went unknown to Team Flash for 3 days.
- Ax : Adrian carries at least one ax.
- Chokuto : Adrian carries a chokuto on his back for close quarters combat.
- Pistol : Adrian used a pistol when taking William hostage. He then used it to kill himself after Oliver saved William.
- Prometheus suit : Adrian wears a protective suit as Prometheus, to hide his identity from his victims, in his quest for vengeance against Oliver Queen.
- Recurve bow : Although rarely used, Adrian carried a recurve bow which he used to fire his arrows and for close combat.
- Quiver : Adrian carries a black arrow container, to carry his arrows with him.
- Shurikens : Adrian carries Shurikens strapped to his abdomen, usually no more than six at a time. These appear to be his preferred method of killing his victims.
- Throwing knives : Adrian carries several smaller and easily concealable throwing knives.
- Voice filter : Adrian apparently uses a voice filter in his mask to conceal his true identity and making him sound almost unrecognizable as Prometheus. For some reason, he made several alterations to his disguised voice. This is possibly what he used to mimic Lyla Michael's voice to trick John Diggle.
