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2. Merlyn

There are a lot of Dark Archer-type Green Arrow villains. I mean, this makes sense, because when you’re trying to come up with a villain for a dude who shoots arrows, “a different dude, who is evil, who also shoots arrows” is probably gonna come to mind pretty early.

Merlyn is one of those guys. He was born Arthur King, which is a solid name, but was nicknamed “Merlyn the Magician” due to his rad arrow skillz. He was a master assassin and a member of the League of Assassins famously headed up by Ra’s al Ghul.

In their first battle, Merlyn bested Ollie Queen and bailed, but in their follow-up conflict, Queen managed to hold his own, even if he still failed to capture the evil archer. After parting ways with the League of Assassins (Which seems like a thing you couldn’t do? Like, did he give his two weeks’ notice?) he stayed in the game as a freelance assassin.

Of course, this led to him taking some bad jobs, one of which got him stabbed in the face with his own arrow by Azrael. Tough break, kiddo.