The Arrowverse  is one of the nearly expansive shared universes on television, and information technology's filled to the skirt with DC Comics superheroes. It all started with Pointer in 2012 and then continued withThe Wink in 2014, which was offset fix up in Arrow. From that point onward, Arrow became the convenance ground for dozens of new superheroes, crafting a multiverse as complex as that in the original DC Comics. This shared reality has grown to envelope non only the superhero shows of The CW and CW Seed (including animated series Vixen and The Ray), but even the DC Comics shows of other networks, like CBS'southward Supergirl (which moved to The CW with its 2nd flavor) and NBC's Constantine.

Now, as the Arrowverse prepares to introduce Batwoman and (potentially) start all the same another new spinoff series, it seems a good time to look back and take inventory of all the heroes that have come before. The DC Universe of the comics contains thousands of superheroes and while the Arrowverse has yet to equal that number, it has adapted a surprisingly large number of superheroes for the small screen - in just a few years, too.

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Starting time, a definition of terms. Superhero, in this case, will include anyone who has metahuman or magical powers, wears a costume, or uses a codename while fighting law-breaking. Though their contributions to their respective teams are valuable, this list will not include those characters who primarily fight criminal offence every bit technical or legal support, such as Winn Schott, the many variations of Harrison Wells, or police officers similar Joe West or Quentin Lance. This list will also skip those characters who have been said to exist but haven't actually appeared on-screen, such as the Batman of Earth 38 or The Wink of Earth 19.

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  • Page 2: Every Superhero In Supergirl & Vixen
  • Page 3: Every Superhero In Legends Of Tomorrow & The Ray

The Superheroes Of Arrow

Arrow centers upon the adventures of Oliver Queen - a billionaire playboy who was presumed lost at bounding main in 2007, but survived to spend five years training himself to honor a promise to his father to make amends for the many crimes he committed in building their family unit's fortune. Returning home to Star City in 2012, Oliver had but i goal: save his city from the evils that plagued it. For six years, under a number of aliases and with a number of allies, Oliver did just that, eventually adopting the identity of the Greenish Arrow and leading a squad of largely low-powered vigilantes.

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  • Oliver Queen/Greenish Pointer - The world's greatest archer and leader of Star City'southward vigilantes.
  • John Diggle/Spartan - Hired to be Oliver Queen'south bodyguard, this former soldier would find a new war to fight as Oliver Queen'due south correct-hand human.
  • Helena Bertinelli/Huntress - This Mafia princess sought to bring down her family's criminal enterprise from the inside, but her tactics proved too fatal for Oliver Queen'due south taste.
  • Felicity Smoak/Overwatch - A hacker with a middle of gilded, she became Oliver Queen's staunchest marry and, in time, his wife.
  • Lyla Michaels/Straw - John Diggle's onetime commanding officer and one-time wife, whom he remarried. Now leader of the anti-terrorism group ARGUS.
  • Roy Harper/Arsenal - A old petty crook from the bad side of Star Urban center, he found a new life as Oliver Queen'southward partner in crime-fighting.
  • Ted Grant/Wildcat - A former pro-boxer, he used his fists to protect The Glades decades before Light-green Arrow showed up.
  • Tatsu Yamashiro/Katana - A master swordswoman, she helped to railroad train a young Oliver Queen and saved his life years after, after his duel to the death with Ra's Al Ghul.
  • Laurel Lance/Black Canary- Oliver Queen'due south former lover, she became a vigilante to avenge her sister's murder.
  • Thea Queen/Speedy - Oliver Queen's half-sis. Trained equally an assassinator past her begetter, Malcolm Merlyn, before joining Squad Pointer.
  • Curtis Holt/Mister Terrific - A quondam Olympic decathlete and technology genius. Inventor of The T-Sphere.
  • Rory Regan/Ragman - Wielder of the magical Rags of Devarim, Ragman seeks to punish the wicked the police can't touch.
  • Rene Ramirez/Wild Dog - A former Navy SEAL, who turned to vigilantism after the violent expiry of his wife.
  • Evelyn Sharp/Artemis - An aspiring hero who blamed Oliver Queen for her parents death and somewhen betrayed Team Arrow.
  • Christopher Chance/Man Target - This method thespian and master of disguise claims to be able to turn himself into anyone, hiring himself out as the ultimate double amanuensis.
  • Vincent Sobel/Vigilante - A sometime Central City cop, with a metahuman healing factor.
  • Dinah Drake/Black Canary 2 - A former Cardinal Urban center cop, with a metahuman sonic scream.
  • Dark-green Arrow Iii - A mysterious new figure, who has taken upwardly Oliver Queen's curtain in flavor 7.
  • Zoe Ramirez/Black Canary III - Wild Domestic dog's daughter, a vigilante in the future of 2038.

The Superheroes of The Wink

The explosion of a particle accelerator at STAR Labs' facility in Central City in 2013 unleashed vast amounts of energized dark matter and other strange energies, thereby imbuing strange powers in hundreds of people. Forensic scientist Barry Allen was i of these and so-called metahumans and was granted the ability of superhuman speed. Now, with the aid of the scientists at STAR Labs, Barry uses his newfound abilities as the Fastest Man Alive to cease those metahumans who abuse their powers and protect the world from diverse super-powered menaces, such as dimension-hopping Nazis and telepathic gorillas.

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  • Barry Allen/The Flash - The self-described Fastest Man Live and favorite hero of Primal City. Barry Allen's day job is working as a CSI for CCPD.
  • Ronnie Raymond/Firestorm - The original physical component of the Firestorm entity. Ronnie sacrificed his life to save the globe in the season two premiere.
  • Cisco Ramon/Vibe - A talented engineer, he afterwards discovered unique metahuman powers that allowed him to create focused sonic blasts and portals between alternate Earths.
  • Hartley Rathaway/Pied Piper - Once an enemy of Squad Flash, a change to the time-stream turned his heart and earned his help in saving Barry from the Time Wraiths.
  • Jay Garrick/The Flash Ii - The Flash of Earth 3, he has go something of a mentor to Barry Allen.
  • Wally Westward/Kid Wink - Iris West'south estranged younger brother, a second release of dark matter within STAR Labs gave Wally a connectedness to The Speed Forcefulness.
  • Jesse Wells/Jesse Quick - Acquiring super-speed subsequently being exposed to charged dark thing on Earth 1, this Earth 2 native went back to her habitation Earth and started her ain superhero squad.
  • Cynthia/Gypsy - A dimension-traveling law officeholder from Earth nineteen, she briefly had a romantic relationship with the Vibe of Earth 1.
  • Josh/Breacher - Father of Cynthia/Gypsy and perhaps the most legendary dimension-hopping lawman in all the multiverse. Recently retired to run a dragon farm on Earth 47.
  • The Accelerated Man - A speedster from Earth nineteen, who worked for the same police agency equally Gypsy and Breacher
  • Caitlin Snowfall/Killer Frost - Possessing ice-generation powers and a 2d personality, Caitlin eventually made peace with her change ego, before losing the power to summon her up. She likewise recently discovered that she's been repressing her powers since childhood.
  • Ralph Dibny/Elongated Human - A disgraced cop turned private eye, this ductile detective turned over a new foliage subsequently he developed the power to stretch his torso into nearly any shape.
  • Nora Westward-Allen/XS - Barry Allen and Iris West'southward daughter from the future of 2049. She inherited her father'southward speed, only very little of his patient nature.
  • Barry Allen/The Flash III - The star of the 1990s The Flash series, early photos of the Elseworlds event confirmed that his reality (designated Earth xc) is part of the Arrowverse.

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Matt Morrison has been writing well-nigh comics since before the discussion "blogging" was coined. He got his offset writing for the legendary DC Comics digital fanzine Fanzing, before receiving his own column, The Mountain. Since then he has gone on to write for over a dozen websites, including 411 Mania, Comics Nexus and The Cult of Nobody. He holds both an MS in Information Scientific discipline from the University of Due north Texas and a BFA from the Academy of Texas at Arlington. Known as a font of comic book history trivia, he has delivered lectures on the history of American Comic Books, Japanese Manga, Doc Who, and Cosplay at over a dozen conventions and served as an Expert In-Residence for a class on Graphic Novels for Librarians at the Academy of Due north Texas. In addition to his piece of work for Screen Bluster, Matt is currently the Editor In Chief of Kabooooom.com and writes reviews for No Flying, No Tights – a graphic literature and anime review site aimed at teachers and librarians. He as well maintains a personal web log – My Geeky Geeky Ways – which hosts his extensive episode guide for the goggle box series making upwardly The Arrowverse besides as his comedic Let's Play videos. What little spare time he has is devoted towards acting, role-playing, movie-riffing and sarcasm. Y'all can follow his adventures on Twitter, @GeekyGeekyWays.

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