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Essay / The Arrow Series: Oliver Queen - 1189
The Arrow Series focuses on fighting crime in Starling City where you can move from Mansions to Glades by simply passing through the city. The main character is Oliver Queen, also known as Arrow. His job begins simply by getting rid of the people on his deceased father's hit list. However, as the series continues, he begins to help his town become a better place by stopping bank robbers and other crimes. Oliver benefits from the help of his two sidekicks Diggle and Felicity. They help him monitor the city, learn about crimes, and plan how to act. In Aeon Skoble's article "Superhero Revisionism", the main focus is on the philosophical complexity within superheroes, "leading us to rethink our fundamental moral ideas and attitudes towards the concept of super -hero”. (34) Oliver wants justice by stopping the criminals in his town, while Helena wants personal revenge on her father. Oliver tries to show that Helena will only be happy with the outcome without hurting innocent people. Oliver is the human form of Skoble's goal of achieving justice for all: "he was always careful and measured in his use of violence, he refused to cross certain lines, and he only systematically interfered with the criminals. » (33) While Helena is exactly what Skoble is trying to prove, it is a bad way to live. Overall, Skoble does a wonderful job of showing the difference between justice and revenge. Skoble “places the responsibility for meaning and justice on all of us.” (39) Vengeance is shown by someone going out and “looking for trouble and then defending himself against it” (30). Skoble explains that it wouldn't be an act of justice because it's not a true act of heroism if he gets out. looking for bad guys and not defending yourself against threats. In Arrow, there are... middle of paper ...... written in utilitarian terms, aimed directly at the common good; I gave them my obedience and my invisibility” (32) and whether superheroes should be capable of doing evil to bring greater good to the city. Even though Oliver doesn't work with the government, he leaves the crime scene before arriving there so as not to be arrested. He doesn't kill the people he arrests, he allows the government to take over and give people the punishment they deserve. Oliver and Helena are representations of Skoble's article because Skoble indicates that superheroes' actions are always justified if they work with the law and take criminals off the streets, which is exactly what Oliver does. While Helena, on the other hand, is the exact opposite of Skoble's goal as she seeks her own personal vengeance, she kills innocent people along the way, which Skoble believes would be unjustified..