Roy became Oliver's sidekick and vigilante partner with the code-name Arsenal up until the point where he masqueraded as the Arrow and faked his death. Having no choice, Roy left Team Arrow and Star City to begin a new life under the name Jason. Before leaving Roy left his Arsenal suit to Thea which she uses as her own vigilante persona as "Speedy". Roy would later return to vigilantism briefly, when Noah Kuttler extorted him to steal technological components, he was however freed from Noah's control and later relocated to another place. In 2018, Roy was found and captured by corrupt Star City Police Department officers under Ricardo Diaz's payroll, they tortured him to get him to testify against Oliver in court, but they were unsuccessful as he refuses to testify against Oliver, even when Ricardo threatened to torture Thea right in front of him, Roy still refused to betray his friend.
Publication Information
- Arrow : Roy Harper
- Version : The Arrow Series
- Multiverse : Earth One
- Known As : Arsenal
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- Unnamed : Mother
- Roy Harper Sr : Father
- Origin : The Glades, Star City
- Season : Arrow
- First Appeareance : Arrow Season 1 Episod 15 : Dodger
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- Potrayer : Colton Haynes
- Main View : Full Episod
Discovering and many attempts of contacting The Hood
Roy first encountered Thea Queen when he stole her purse in 2013. He was later caught by the cops after being chased, and was taken in for questioning by Detective Quentin Lance. When asked, he admitted to stealing, because his mother was addicted to Vertigo and they desperately needed the money. Thea, moved by Roy's story, decided not to press charges, feeling compassion for his situation. She later visited him to get her purse, and the two had a brief chat. Some time later, Thea again met with Roy outside of a coffee shop in the Glades, She promised him a job at her brother's club, Verdant, provided he showed up for the job.
Aligning with The Arrow
Shortly after the destruction of the Glades, Roy spent nights patrolling the streets, fighting with street thugs, in order to suppress the absence of The Hood. He was often arrested for obstruction by the police as a result. He also went to work at the club Verdant, which was now being run by Thea. When Roy tried to prevent a rape one night, he was surprised by the appearance of The Canary, who knocked out all of the bad guys in a few moments.
Injected by the Mirakuru
Roy was captured and injected with the Mirakuru, where he was then declared a failure by Brother Blood, but he survived and was at least a partial success as his wound The Arrow gave him seemingly recovered. Roy got cut by some glass but quickly healed. Later on when a light platform was about to fall on Moira Queen Roy quickly ran to her and blocked the light platform. Roy continued to struggle with revealing his new found powers to Thea, creating a rift between him and her.
Becoming Arsenal
Roy first helped Oliver take down Vincent Steelgrave who stole an illegal cache of RPG's intended for his gang. When Oliver received a text from Thea, Roy told Oliver he would go on patrol to clear his head, feeling guilt knowing Thea was lying to Oliver. After Oliver and Felicity were attacked by Werner Zytle, Roy quickly discovered a GPS tracker under Felicity's jacket. Roy later helped Oliver take down one of Werner's thugs before freezing bomb intended to blow up Rockets Arena. Roy would request to Felicity to reconfigure their phone system before discovering Sara had been murdered. Roy comforted a distraught Felicity as they grieved over the loss of Sara.
Return To Star City
Roy had eventually moved on to Hub City where he was living with a new name and a decent life until he was emailed by the Calculator who had blackmailed him, threatening to expose Roy's identity if he didn't comply with his demands. Roy returned to Star City and began raiding various tech companies for parts, having a camera contact lens attached to his right eye, he was discovered by Oliver after visiting with Thea, though it wasn't until a second encounter did they manage to use a tranquilliser to put him to sleep so as to pretend to be dead. He was then sent into the Bunker to remove the lens.
As Mirakuru Soldier
- Main Article : As Mirakuru Soldier
- As a result of being injected with the Mirakuru, Roy became aggressive and violent. After being cured from it, he regained much of his composure. Despite his rough start with Thea, Roy is shown to genuinely love Thea. The thought of her was the only factor to keep the Mirakuru from completely twisting his mind, by focusing on his romantic feelings for her. Later on when he was trained in archery and hand-to-hand combat, he didn't lose his temper when he repeatedly missed his mark and simply commented he thought he would have hit one.
- As Arsenal
- Origin : Earth One
- Version : Arrow Series
- Type : Member Of Team Arrow
- Host : Roy Harper
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- Appearances : Arrow Series
- After taking on the mantle of Arsenal, and becoming more active on the field with Team Arrow as well as becoming Oliver's partner, Roy has become far more calm, level-headed and patient, but still has his moments of losing his temper.
- Despite his dislike for Sara, he did feel guilt and remorse for what he apparently did to the latter as the constant nightmares of Roy apparently killing Sara caused him to suffer sleep deprivation.
- Despite his enormous good deeds to Star City as his vigilante code-name Arsenal, Roy is deeply haunted from when he killed police officer Gabe Vincent, when he overdosed on Mirakuru, despite the fact that he wasn't in control of his actions at the time. Although he sought redemption by anonymously leaving money and groceries to the officer's family, his guilt was evidently still affecting him despite helping the family helped with his guilt. This mindset ultimately drove him to turn himself in as the Arrow, and faking his death in prison absolving Oliver and proving the Arrow is dead, to start a new life elsewhere. Roy, also wanting the best for Thea not wanting her to live a life on the run, ends his relationship with her.
- Roy is very loyal to the people he cares about; for example, when he was being tortured by corrupt police officers under Ricardo Diaz's payroll, he refused to testify against Oliver in court (regarding his identity as Green Arrow), even when Ricardo threatened to torture Thea right in front of him, Roy still refused to betray his friend and former mentor.
- Enhanced physical condition : After being injected with the Mirakuru, Roy's physical capacity was increased in terms of strength, durability, stamina, speed, senses, reflexes, and agility, in addition to an accelerated healing factor. Roy is cured from his Mirakuru powers and abilities by Oliver.
- Accelerated healing factor : Roy was able to regenerate from wounds that would be deemed fatal for any normal human being. Bullets/stab wounds and high velocity impact have no ill effects on him and would completely heal from a span of a few hours or less. However, like all Mirakuru-enhanced humans, Roy was not able to regenerate missing limbs/organs (as evident by Slade losing his eye even after being injected with the Mirakuru), a bullet to the head would be fatal or even kill him, and strong dosages of poison like Tibetan Pit Viper venom could heavily sedate him.
- Enhanced durability : Roy is durable enough to punch through solid concrete and military-grade steel that is durable enough to withstand regular bombs. He can also withstand hits from Mirakuru-enhanced beings and possibly any meta-humans with low-level superhuman strength.
- Enhanced reflexes : Thanks to the Mirakuru serum, Roy is able to react much faster than any normal human could. He was able to catch an arrow shot at him by Oliver.
- Enhanced senses : It can be assumed with Slade, that the Mirakuru has greatly enhanced Roy's senses, allowing him to see, hear, and smell, far better than any normal human could.
- Enhanced speed : Roy is faster than the finest human athlete, as evident by his ability to catch up and even outrun normal vehicles at top speed.
- Enhanced strength : Roy can lift approximately a ton of weight and is able to easily subdue and flung a full-grown man across several feet. His strength easily equals that of 12 men.
- Peak of human physical condition : Even before his tenure as Oliver Queen's prodigy and vigilante, Roy is in top physical condition. Due to his youth, Roy is faster than Oliver.
- Acrobatics / Free-running : Roy's former rough and criminal lifestyle forced him to learn free running to better escape his pursuers. He also uses his natural athletic and acrobatic skills to either escape or fight off thugs in the Glades. He is shown to be more agile and nimble than Oliver due to his much longer experience in doing this skills on the streets.
- Indomitable will / High tolerance for pain : A driven and determined person, Roy is nearly fearless and almost never gives up under most situations. When he was being tortured by corrupt police officers under Ricardo Diaz's payroll, he refused to testify against Oliver in court even when Ricardo threatened to torture Thea Queen right in front of him, Roy still refused to testify against Oliver. Having spent years living and fighting in the roughest neighborhood in Star city, Roy has been injured countless times, resulting in him developing an incredible tolerance for pain.
- High-level intellect / Expert tactician : Roy is very intelligent and a capable tactician, as he was able to come up with a plan, that would exonerate Oliver of being the Arrow, and faked his own death. Roy is good with math, even being able to correct Felicity Smoak's mistake in the decoding of Malcolm Merlyn's map.
- Expert archer : As Oliver Queen's prodigy, Roy was taught in the ways of archery. Although not being good at first, Roy's continued training in the Arrowcave and Oliver's tutelage resulted in a significant increase in this skill. By the time of the Siege of Starling City, Roy became a capable archer. He further refined his archery ability by using it more often when Oliver started bringing him out in the field. He is skilled enough to subdue Komodo, an expert archer in his own right, by firing an arrow laced with tensile cable that was wrapped around his ankle.
- Expert driver : Roy has the ability to drive multiple vehicles, and is skilled at it. He is able to pursue enemies in various ways using different vehicles, known to be of a car or a motorcycle.
- Expert hand-to-hand combatant / Martial artist : Having grown up in the Glades all his life, Roy has taught himself to fight back. He often employs acrobatics to catch opponents off-guard and even cause considerable damage to them. He was displayed to be capable at fighting off three thugs at the same time, but not as efficiently as other seasoned fighters; such as Oliver Queen, Malcolm Merlyn and Sara Lance respectively. His time under Oliver's training and as a vigilante made him an expert in close-ranged combat. Roy's style mirrors that of Oliver, but mostly uses eskrima, wing chun, jeet kune do and taekwondo as his preferred style. He is now capable at efficiently fighting multiple opponents simultaneously whether they are street thugs or members of the League of Assassins and skilled enough to subdue four prisoners while he is handcuffed and only sustaining a minor injury from a knife wound.
- Expert scout : Roy is an extremely capable scout. Combined with his training, Oliver regularly sends him out alone to scout Starling City for any crimes. He was also capable of even tracking Nyssa al Ghul, a high figure in the League of Assassins without her knowing.
- Expert stick fighter : Roy is an expert stick fighter, as seen from his fights against Simon Lacroix and Digger Harkness respectively. He was trained by Oliver Queen and possibly Sara Lance, also, like Oliver he often uses his bow as a melee weapon.
- Expert thief : Roy has a history of B&E's and theft, he stole Thea's purse and was able to escape, though he was later arrested and released; despite this, he is rarely caught by the law. He has some skills at hot wiring a car, as he and Thea were in a car he claimed to have borrowed illegally.
- First aid : Roy is skilled in first aid, being able to sew up slashes; due to the fact that he was taught by John Diggle.
- Network : Roy has connections on the streets, he was able to get information on the woman in black which points to her friend Sin, and learn the diamonds Murmur's crew stole are used to make diamond bullets.
- Trypanophobia : Roy has a fear of needles so strong he can’t even look at one without being visibly scared.
- Mirakuru side effects : Although the Mirakuru enhanced Roy's physical abilities it greatly deteriorated his mind. Roy occasionally experienced violent and sometimes uncontrollable moments of rage. However, unlike Slade, Roy has much better control over these traits.
- Arsenal mask : Roy wears a mask to hide his identity from his enemies, like Oliver and Sara. His mask is a dark red/brown in color to match his hoodie. It is made from a compressible micro-fabric. This has the ability to conceal Roy's identity very effectively, it has no restrictions on his visual field while on the run or aiming arrows. It is unknown if it was designed by Oliver, Felicity, or Barry Allen, who designed Oliver's.
- Arsenal suit : Roy wears a protective suit as his heroic alter-ego, Arsenal, to hide his identity from his enemies, when he goes out fighting crime. It is unknown if it was designed by Oliver or Felicity, though it was made by Lodai. It is also unknown what materials it is made from; with the exception of Kevlar. It seems to resemble the suits worn by his mentors, Oliver and Sara. Later on, he gave the suit to Thea, claiming that red looked better on her.
- Combat knife : Roy carries a combat knife attached to the back of his belt.
- Customized hunting arrows : Like his vigilante partner and teacher, Roy uses customized arrows.
- Customized recurve bow : Roy was trained in archery by Oliver Queen and use in battle his own bow, red in color. He has a great shooting speed, and can successfully use this in close combat. Despite that he recently became trained, Roy already has quite a serious success, which is enough to fight against the army of Slade. Roy demonstrated greater accuracy and speed shots.
- Eskrima sticks : As his vigilante alter-ego, Arsenal, Roy carries two eskrima sticks strapped to both his lower legs. He used them to fight Simon Lacroix,[39] and to fight Digger Harkness.
- Flechette : Roy received his first Flechette after The Arrow, saved his life from the psychotic Joseph Falk aka The Savior, Roy keeps it as a reminder that the Arrow saved his life, and he owes him everything. He later painted it red so he would not get this Flechette confused with one of the Arrow's flechettes, which are green. Roy used it as a way to contact the Arrow before he discovered Oliver's identity, and joined his team. Roy carries multiple red flechettes strapped to his left thigh.
- Roy Harper's motorcycle : Roy, when he is on patrol as Arsenal, is seen riding a motorcycle to get around Star City.
- Throwing knives : Roy has 4 throwing knives strapped around his right thigh.
- Trick arrows : In battle with Slade Wilson's army, he uses trick arrows with Mirakuru cure heads. He also uses other arrowheads.
- Quiver : Roy has brown arrow container, to carry his arrows with him.
- Voice filter : Roy uses this device to disguise his voice, regardless of who he speaks to as Arsenal
- Wooden bow : Roy used a wooden bow during his training in archery, it is unknown what type of bow it was.
