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DC Comics character

Roy Harper
Roy Harper equally Red Arrow. Art past Factor Ha.
Publication information
Publisher	DC Comics
Outset appearance	Every bit Speedy: More Fun Comics #73 (November 1941) As Arsenal: The New Titans #99 (July 1993) Equally Red Arrow:: Culling universe: Kingdom Come up #2 (June 1996) Main universe: Justice League of America vol. ii #seven (May 2007)
Created by	Speedy: Mort Weisinger (writer) George Papp (creative person) Arsenal: Marv Wolfman (writer) Tom Grummett (artist) Cherry-red Arrow: Mark Waid (writer) Alex Ross (artist)
In-story information
Change ego	Roy William Harper Jr.
Team affiliations	Teen Titans Justice League Vii Soldiers of Victory Immature Justice Suicide Squad Checkmate Outsiders The Outlaws
Partnerships	Green Pointer Cheshire Nightwing Donna Troy Red Hood Starfire
Notable aliases	Speedy, Arsenal, Ruddy Arrow
Abilities	Expert archer and marksman Highly skilled martial creative person and hand-to-paw combatant Highly skilled athlete Weapons expert Uses play a trick on arrows Espionage

Roy Harper is a fictional superhero appearing in American comic books published past DC Comics. Roy is one of DC'southward nigh longstanding characters, originating in 1940s comics as Speedy, the teen sidekick of the superhero Green Arrow. Like his mentor Green Pointer, Roy is a globe-grade archer and athlete who uses his exceptional marksmanship to fight criminal offence. Along with other prominent DC Comics superhero sidekicks, he goes on to become a core member of the superhero grouping the Teen Titans. Every bit an developed, Roy casts off his Speedy identity to establish himself as the superhero Arsenal, and later takes on the name Red Arrow to symbolise his coming-of-age and having become an equal of Green Arrow every bit he joins the Justice League. In addition to continuing to serve on occasion every bit one of the Titans, Roy has had leading roles in the superhero groups the 7 Soldiers of Victory, the Outsiders, Checkmate, the Justice League, and the Outlaws.

He was the subject of the laurels-winning 1971 comic book story "Snowbirds Don't Wing", which was historic for its gritty delineation of Roy's battle with drug addiction; the story is considered a key moment in comic book history as it represented the emergence of mature themes in comics.^[1] In 2013, ComicsAlliance ranked Harper as #fifty on their list of the "50 Sexiest Male Characters in Comics".^[2] The character has been adapted for video games and animation several times, and was portrayed in live action past player Colton Haynes on the Arrowverse television receiver series Arrow.

Publication history [edit]

The graphic symbol first appeared as Light-green Arrow's teenage sidekick Speedy, a name by which he was known for over fifty years, in More Fun Comics #73 (November 1941) and was created past Mort Weisinger and George Papp.^[3] The graphic symbol'due south modern-24-hour interval version was an early member of the Teen Titans who after causeless the identity Arsenal in The New Titans #99 (July 1993), and became a member of the Justice League of America nether the guise Red Arrow in Kingdom Come #2 (June 1996) or Justice League of America vol. two #7 (May 2007).^[4]

Fictional character biography [edit]

1941–1992: Origin, Teen Titans, addiction and fatherhood [edit]

Green Lantern vol. 2 #85, featuring Roy Harper's addiction

Every bit an baby, Roy was raised by his father, Roy Harper Sr., a forest ranger. The fate of his birth mother is unknown, something that Roy has questioned his unabridged life, not sure whether she left them or died. When his father died in a forest burn down when Roy was a infant, he was rescued by a man named Brave Bow, a Navajo medicine chief. Brave Bow took Roy into his tribe and raised him equally his own son, telling him about how his nascency father saved him, which made Roy grow up seeing him as a hero. Under Brave Bow's tutelage, Roy trained in archery, becoming remarkable at a very young age and a champion in several events. Roy began learning about the superhero Green Arrow (Oliver Queen) and started idolizing him, seeing him equally a hero alongside his father and Dauntless Bow.

When Dauntless Bow learned of an illness that would lead to his decease, he contacted Light-green Pointer, asking him to accept Roy in and raise him subsequently his death. After posing as a estimate in an archery contest, Green Arrow was impressed by Roy'southward skills as an archer, which prompted to him exam Roy's graphic symbol past rigging his arrows with magnets so they tin be deflected, where Roy proceeded to impress Green Arrow as well. After Brave Bow's death, Roy was adopted by Green Arrow and became his sidekick, Speedy. He was given the name Speedy afterwards he stopped a pair of robbers faster than Light-green Arrow could even put on his costume, and for being quicker than at shooting arrows and in full general.

Speedy became a founding fellow member of the Teen Titans forth with Robin, Kid Flash, Aqualad and Wonder Girl, a group they formed so they as sidekicks could come out of their mentors' shadows and become their own. Roy developed a trounce on Donna, and the two eventually began dating.

As Roy spent more than and more time with the Teen Titans, Oliver left to travel the country with Greenish Lantern (Hal Jordan) after Oliver had lost his fortune. When the Teen Titans had their beginning break up, Roy found himself lone. Trying to find some comfort, he started taking drugs and developed a heroin habit in the award-winning "Snowbirds Don't Wing" story.^[5] When Oliver returned and learned of Roy'due south addiction and beliefs, he reacted angrily and banished Roy from his business firm. When Hal found Roy on the street later, Roy vowed to fight and end his drug habit.^{[half dozen]} Hal took him to Black Canary, Oliver's girlfriend, who helped Roy with his drug withdrawal and gave him care. Roy reconciled with Oliver, but he officially concluded their partnership with him, going fully solo.

When the Teen Titans formed again, Roy rejoined the squad. He created a ring, Great Frog, with fellow Titan Mal Duncan. Roy too managed the Titans' base of operations under the nightclub Gabriel'due south Horn, where his band played oft.

After he went solo, Roy started working with the US Drug Enforcement Assistants (DEA), working as a counselor in diverse anti-drug programs also equally in helping taking downwardly drug operations and drug lords. His piece of work with the DEA led to him joining the Cardinal Bureau of Intelligence (CBI), a fictional federal agency in the DC Universe, where he worked every bit an amanuensis and spy. While on undercover assignment with the CBI in Japan, Roy was supposed to capture the assassin Cheshire, but they barbarous in love and had a relationship. His feelings for her fabricated him turn a bullheaded eye and let her get free.

About a year after, Roy met Cheshire once again on a mission with the Titans, where he found out he fathered a daughter with her, Lian. Cheshire, however, only allowed Roy to see her one time. Desperate to run across Lian once again on her first birthday, Roy sought the assistance of his best friend, Dick Grayson, at present going by Nightwing. The two of them constitute Lian and fought off Cheshire, where Dick helped him find Lian and requite her to him. Information technology was here that Cheshire realized how much more dangerous her life as an assassin was, and she decided to give Roy full custody of Lian.

Every bit he sought a calmer place to learn how to raise Lian, Roy left the CBI and briefly moved to Northern Republic of ireland, where his birth ancestors came from. Despite his endeavor to avoid his work as a superhero there, he plant that he could not avoid it as he establish himself in the middle of a mystery. He so moved to Los Angeles, where he took upwards work as a private detective, balancing that job with being Speedy and raising his girl. It was during this fourth dimension that Roy too fully reunited with Oliver after some time of not beingness on full speaking terms, where he was finally prepared to forgive him and accept him as a father.

1993–1996: Becoming Arsenal and leading the Titans [edit]

Roy Harper's kickoff appearance equally Arsenal. Art by Tom Grummett.

Roy decided to accept upwards spy work again, and he was reassigned to Checkmate, nether the command of Sarge Steel. While at Checkmate, Roy expanded his skills across just using a bow and arrow and became a weapons practiced, as well as mastering Moo Gi Gong, the martial fine art of using whatsoever household or random item as a weapon. This was when he stopped being Speedy to focus on his work every bit Agent Harper full-time. At Checkmate, Roy became friends with a young man amanuensis, Martin Santos and his wife Erika and their family, who helped him with Lian in her early on years.

Being a founding member and current reserve fellow member of the Titans, Roy was sent by Checkmate to talk to Dick well-nigh the Titans, who had recently been under pressure from the government and the media due to the large amount of harm acquired in the battle against the Wildebeests in the Titans Hunt storyline. Roy was asked to convince Dick into having the Titans cooperate with the authorities, he had also secretly heard that if the Titans did non cooperate, Congress would piece of work on shutting downwards all superhero teams, so he tried to levy the situation every bit much as he could, merely he knew information technology would non piece of work out.

Roy suggested a compromise to Sarge Steel: that he would render to the Titans full-time and make sure everything was going smooth himself. Since he had non been Speedy for some time, Roy decided to accept on a new mantle. With some assist and technology acquired from Steve Dayton (whose mansion the Titans take been using as an HQ), Roy built new gear and a new costume, now officially calling himself Armory.^[seven]

Some fourth dimension later, the hymeneals of Dick and Starfire was interrupted past an attack, causing the death of the minister and damage all effectually. This acquired a major uproar from the regime and media confronting the Titans. Considering of what happened at the wedding, Sarge Steel turned on the deal he made with Roy, demanding that he take leadership of the Titans himself, or else the government will shut them down. Roy refused to do it, not wanting to turn on Dick considering he knew he had faith in him as a leader and man, confident that he would turn it around, but he kept receiving further pressure from Steel. The state of affairs was only fabricated worse when the chaser general announced he was planning on prosecuting the Titans and all not-sanctioned superhero teams. When he heard about that, Roy turned to Donna, Wally, Garth, and the residual of the Titans for advice on what he should do. Deciding that the situation was bad and had to be handled, they agreed to enquire Dick to temporarily resign leadership until this matter blew over, especially since they agreed that he needed a break from all the force per unit area he'd been receiving himself recently subsequently the wedding incident.

Roy, along with Donna, Garth, Red Star, and Pantha, went over to talk to Dick about it. After some arguing and a brief fight, Dick realized that he wasn't in whatever place to lead right now and agreed to mitt over leadership, and accept a leave of absence from the squad every bit well, realizing that was what was all-time for him at the fourth dimension considering of everything that had happened recently. That was when Roy, with his new superhero identity as Armory, took over equally leader of the Titans, much to his own dismay.

As leader, Roy was faced with constant force per unit area from the government. Eventually, with help from Wally and Garth, Roy managed to turn the situation on the government and take abroad anything they had on the Titans, making it and so they operated on their own terms. Equally leader of the Titans, Roy brought on new members to the squad including and established a satellite base of operations in addition to the Globe base. Once he dealt with the regime, Roy led the Titans on several cosmic missions. He planned to evolve the team beyond but traditional superhero business concern, wanting to expand the means they could aid. Somewhen, he and Donna disbanded the team, when he realized information technology wasn't functioning as a family unit like the Titans should.

When Checkmate drugged Roy and unsuccessful tried manipulating him into killing someone, Roy severed all ties with them and Sarge Steel, going back to existence a regular superhero.

1996–2003: Titans reunion [edit]

Roy Harper, with Dinah Lance, later on he got his new band tattoo to honor his Navajo upbringing. Art by Rick Mays.

Later the decease of Oliver Queen, Roy moved to Urban center.^[8] During a reunion with Dick, Wally, and Garth, Roy faced the villain Haze, who made Roy face an image of his ideal cocky, which was him in a scarlet version of the Green Arrow suit.^[ix] To laurels Ollie after his recent death, Roy embraced this and took on the scarlet Dark-green Arrow suit fully and went back to using a bow as his principal weapon.^[x] He joined the new Teen Titans team, interim every bit an experienced mentor to the younger new heroes forth with fellow first generation Titan Lilith Clay.

While in City, Roy and Lian were likewise sought out past Vandal Savage.^[11] Savage had discovered that both Roy and his daughter Lian were his descendants. Thus, their organs were suitable for him to harvest to prolong his life. Roy was able to save his girl from Savage. Roy then got a band tattoo on his left bicep, to honor to his Navajo heritage.^[12]

Before long after, Roy joined the rest of the original five Titans (now known every bit Nightwing, Arsenal, Troia, The Flash, and Storm) in reforming the Titans team for a new generation.^[xiii] He resided in Titans Tower, with his daughter Lian. Roy took on a mentorship role to Grant Emerson, the younger hero known equally Harm, who Roy recruited in his tenure every bit leader. He became a father figure to him, seeing a younger version of himself in Grant. Information technology was likewise during this time that Roy found out he had a living relative in the form of Jim Harper, the clone of his nifty uncle.^[xiv]

2004–2006: Death of Donna Troy and reforming the Outsiders [edit]

A mysterious conglomerate known equally Optitron offered to sponsor the Titans and Young Justice afterwards summoning them to San Francisco.^[15] Earlier any decisions could be made, a cybernetic girl from the time to come known as Indigo invaded the circuitous, and immediately engaged both teams in combat. With one-half the group out of commission, the remaining members tried to rail downwardly Indigo, simply instead encountered a rogue Superman android, which had been activated. Caught by surprise, Lilith had her neck snapped by the Superman android, killing her instantly. Donna Troy tried valiantly to defeat the Superman android, but he released a mortiferous heat beam directly through her chest, killing her. Roy, with assistance from Tim Drake, managed to reprogram Indigo, who arrived and shut downwardly the Superman android, leaving Arsenal and Nightwing to mourn the fallen Troia. Shaken by these losses, Nightwing decided to officially end the Titans as he did not want to put the people he loved in the face of danger anymore, despite Roy'due south protests against this conclusion, saying they had to honor what the five of them started.^[xvi]

Mourning Donna'due south expiry, Roy shaved off his hair and donned a new, more avant-garde suit^[17] and got to work assembling a new squad of heroes chosen the Outsiders, this fourth dimension full of strangers instead of loved ones, in an effort to convince Dick to rethink his conclusion.^[18] Roy began by ownership a massive surreptitious cloak-and-dagger headquarters beneath New York City. Roy outfitted the shelter with land-of-the-art equipment and began recruiting members for the new squad.

Dick and Roy co-pb this new iteration of Outsiders that consisted of Thunder, Grace Choi, Shift, Jade, and Indigo, with the aim to endeavor to have the lead on crime and have information technology down earlier it happens.

Roy Harper as he recruits his friend Dick Grayson to the newly formed version of the Outsiders. Art by Tom Raney.

During a mission, Roy was shot five times in the chest,^[nineteen] leaving him out of commission for three months. When he was ready to get dorsum, despite his skills being just as expert equally they were before, he plant it difficult settle back in because of his PTSD and fright of his own limitations, finding that he was afraid of beingness shot over again and what that might do to Lian if he were hurt in a worse way. With the help and encouragement of Nightwing, Roy establish it in himself to believe in his abilities once again, and to get back out there and face his fears.^[20]

Non long after his recovery, the Outsiders took on a case which involved a kid-slaver and molester named Tanner.^[21] Ane of Tanner's informants recognized Roy from years prior, and led Tanner to Lian. Lian's nanny was killed and the girl was branded with Tanner's marker. The Outsiders arrived just in fourth dimension to salve Lian and other children from being flown out of New York.^[22]

Roy's near-death experience from gunshot wounds saved his life when he faced Deathstroke. Since the Outsiders began, Roy had been collecting intel from Batman, but he found out that it was not really Batman, it was Deathstroke posing as him. Deathstroke and Arsenal fought, with Deathstroke intending to kill him, but when the mercenary discovered the bullet scars on Arsenal'southward breast, he figured Arsenal had suffered enough and gave him a "pass", as a sign of respect for the history between the 2 with the Titans as well. Nigh the aforementioned fourth dimension, Arsenal was also kidnapped by Constantine Drakon, Light-green Arrow's nemesis. Drakon was working with the Riddler, and he slit Roy's throat so that he would take to utilize constant pressure or die. The Outsiders helped search for and rescue Roy.

When Indigo was corrupted by Lex Luthor and exploded, killing herself in the process and almost killing the Outsiders and Teen Titans, Dick left the team, leaving Roy to assume full leadership of the team.

After the return of Donna Troy, Roy began to rethink his position as an Outsider. While leading an effort to take down the Secret Society, Roy realized that working like this was too much for him, and that operating from the shadows wasn't for him, and that he wasn't meant to blur the line. When Lian told him that she saw him upwardly at night, looking sad, Roy finally made the conclusion to go out the Outsiders, accepting that he wasn't made for the life of a cloak-and-dagger type hero. He handed leadership of the team officially back to Dick and took his leave, seeking to be a hero more in the light, aspiring to be more of a hero that can exist an inspiration to people and to Lian.

2005–2011: Becoming Red Arrow and joining the Justice League [edit]

Roy Harper joins the Justice League as the Red Pointer. Art by Ed Benes.

For the next year, Roy worked solo for the nigh office. During a squad upwardly with Dinah Lance and Hal Jordan to help Cherry Tornado, Roy found himself fighting Amazo alongside several other heroes. Afterwards this, he was invited to join the Justice League, where he officially took on the proper noun Ruby Arrow, wanting to honor his family name and legacy, seeing this proper name as a final coming-of-historic period for him to become the hero he was always meant to be.

While on the league, Roy developed a romantic human relationship with Hawkgirl.

As Red Pointer, Roy found himself to be fully settled for the kickoff time in a while, happy that he was fully embracing his legacy. He bought a house in Star City, to requite Lian more room equally she grew up, and even began giving her archery lessons, realizing that one day, she would probably want to take on the family unit legacy herself.

Roy was as well part of the Titans as they reformed again.

During a fight with Prometheus, Roy's right arm was severed, and he was left in coma. Prometheus unleashed an earthquake on Star City that resulted in the expiry of Lian as well. When Roy woke upwardly, he was devastated, separating himself from anybody as he grew an addiction to pain medications, before falling into a new drug, which caused him to hallucinate ghosts. Roy also received a new cybernetic arm adult by his friend Cyborg. Dealing with his grief, Roy joined Cheshire in Deathstroke's new rogue Titans squad, in a clandestine programme to take out Deathstroke from the inside. However, unbeknownst to him, Slade was drugging Roy to control him. When the drug wore off and Roy came back to his senses, he fought Deathstroke out and vowed to redeem himself in Lian's honor by redeeming the Titans name that Slade diminished, deeming it something worth fighting for, every bit well as making amends with everyone he loved. He decided to start and atomic number 82 a new Titans team that would redeem the proper noun, and he was joining the recently resurrected Jericho (Joey Wilson), his friend and young man Titan.

During the Convergence storyline, Roy is living in Gotham, where he started a children's home and shelter, Lian'southward Identify. The villain Dreamslayer offered Roy a bargain: that he would return Lian if Roy betrayed his friends Donna Troy and Starfire. Roy outsmarted him and managed to get Lian back without harming anyone, revealing that he had weaponized Gotham in case something like this ever happened. With that, Lian was dorsum to life and Roy was reunited with his daughter one time more.

2011–2016: The New 52 [edit]

As role of DC'due south New 52 reboot, Roy'southward story has inverse quite a bit. Instead of his mother being unknown, she was a forest ranger along with his father, and they both died in the forest fire. Brave Bow was renamed Big Bow. Roy was raised in a Spokane tribe in Seattle instead of with the Navajo in Arizona. Roy besides has an adoptive blood brother, Bird. When Large Bow was mysteriously killed, Roy believed that he accidentally killed him himself, and Roy couldn't deny it equally his memories were unclear because of existence intoxicated. All the same, years later, he would discover that Big Bow was killed by a corrupt sheriff, whom Roy brought to justice along with Oliver Queen. Roy's relationship with Oliver is slightly different. While the story of their separation remains much the aforementioned, their reunion took years to happen rather than the shorter time of the previous continuity. In the New 52, he was part of the Outlaws, where he developed a romantic relationship with Starfire. Roy's habit was also briefly retconned into being an alcohol habit, but was retconned back into a heroin addiction.

During the Titans Chase storyline, Roy, along with several other heroes, found out he was part of the original Teen Titans, with all of their memories beingness forgotten due to unknown circumstances. When they discovered their memories were erased as a mode to defeat the villain Mr. Twister, they defeated him once more in the present. This led to the squad existence reformed, with the team regaining their memories of each other's relationships. Roy's romance with Donna Troy was rekindled during this time, equally the ii remembered the years they spent together.

2016–2020: DC Rebirth [edit]

As part of DC Rebirth, Roy appeared as a principal grapheme in the Titans book, where he and the residual of the Titans were reunited with their best friend Wally West after he reappeared in the timeline. When Lilith encountered an anomaly in the multiverse, the Titans moved to Manhattan to investigate, where they ready up Titans Belfry once. The Titans took on various villains such as Abra Kadabra and the Fearsome 5, and Roy led them to take out a drug operation for a new drug known as Bliss.

Roy likewise redeveloped his romantic relationship with Donna Troy here, with the two admitting their shared feelings to one another.

Roy likewise fully reunited with Oliver in the Green Pointer title, where the 2 helped the protestors at Roy's tribe fight against a militia known as the Wild Dogs.

During the "Heroes in Crisis" storyline, Roy, alongside Wally Westward and various other heroes, was found deceased in the superhero rehabilitation facility known as Sanctuary.^[23] Information technology was later revealed that Roy was accidentally killed by Wally in a Speed Force explosion due to a Sanctuary malfunction.

Arsenal is i of the many deceased heroes and villains resurrected as a zombie past Batman with a Black Lantern ring in Dark Nights: Decease Metal.^[24] He takes part in the final battle against the forces of The Batman Who Laughs, killing a murderous alternating version of Wally with an pointer through the caput. He tells the real Wally that he does not blame him for the Sanctuary disaster and the ii fight side past side, jokingly referring to each other by their original aliases of "Child Flash" and "Speedy".^[25]

2021–nowadays: Infinite Frontier [edit]

Roy was restored to life by the reboot of the multiverse after Decease Metallic, but has so far chosen not to reveal himself. Deciding non to call Greenish Pointer or whatsoever of his friends, he discarded his cellphone, trademark trucker cap and bow at an isolated gas station and began hitchhiking down the highway.^[26]

Although Roy is believed dead past the full general public and the superhero community, his resurrection is known to the Department of Extranormal Operations. He is the subject of 1 of several reports prepared by Cameron Chase for Manager Basic. The study establishes that some aspects of Roy's pre-Flashpoint history accept been restored to continuity, near notably the nascency and apparent decease of Lian Harper. Hunt speculates virtually how Roy is handling his restored traumatic memories and whether he can exist an asset or hindrance to the DEO.

At a bar in New Mexico, Roy deliberately antagonises a human being named Bill into a "fight". Roy allows Nib to repeatedly beat out him and refuses to fight dorsum, information technology is implied that he is one time over again attempting suicide. The bartender, who resembles Lian, steps in to defend him and Pecker threatens her. Newly energised by his desire to protect her, Roy hands defeats Bill and steals his motorcycle, riding off into the night.^[27]

It is revealed in DC Festival of Heroes: The Asian Superhero Commemoration that teenage vigilante and Catwoman supporting grapheme Cheshire True cat, aka Shoes, is Lian Harper, alive and manifestly suffering from amnesia.

Powers and abilities [edit]

In the comic books, Roy Harper possesses no superhuman attributes, but he is extremely practiced at the use of the bow and pointer, as well as a wide assortment of weaponry, with Dark-green Arrow admitting that Roy surpassed him. He also has the ability to take about whatever object and utilize it in combat every bit an constructive weapon, a martial art he mastered known equally Moo Gi Gong, which itself is a branch of Hwa Rang Do. Roy'due south Moo Gi Gong training included the mastery of 108 unlike classical weapon classes, which makes him a master weapon wielder with any weapon type (including, but non limited to, knives, swords, ropes, sais, blades, and staffs) and able to turn any random object into a deadly weapon. In addition, Roy's natural marksmanship and archery grooming from growing up gives him an impeccable aim that gives him perfect aim with any long range or projectile weapons. Harper is also a skilled mitt-to-hand combatant and he possesses keen analytical and detective skills. He was trained in hand-to-hand fighting by several characters, including Black Canary and Nightwing. He was also taught how to box by Hal Jordan. Roy is a master of espionage because of his spy days at the CBI and Checkmate. Roy can also utilise accupressure as a means of temporarily disabling an opponent'southward muscles by hitting them at very specific points in their bodies, something that comes in handy with his precise aim.

Roy speaks Japanese^[28] and understands Russian.^[29] Before Flashpoint, later the loss of his right arm, Roy Harper received an advanced prosthetic, built by Vic Rock, designed to loop around his damaged nerve endings and restore his usual degree of hand-to-eye coordination, albeit with the price of a constant phantom limb pain.^[30] The pain was eliminated in the second version of the arm.

Weapons and equipment [edit]

Before Flashpoint, much like Nightwing and other members of the Bat-Family, Roy Harper'due south arrange is capable of emitting an electronic pulse. It is unknown, even so, whether or not his suit is capable of emitting but one pulse, similar Batman's and Nightwing'south, or several. Roy carries various weapons in his many suits, including a bow and several arrows, including many utility and pull a fast one on arrows. He has been known to carry around a crossbow, throwing knives, a staff, laser rut sidearms, billy clubs, a boomerang, an electrified bolas amongst a wide array of non-lethal weapons.

Roy also embeds Promethium Kevlar to armor his suits, which has saved his life on at least ii occasions.

Personal life [edit]

Roy Harper is of Navajo heritage, and has a tribal band tattoo on his left bicep to represent information technology. He has had three begetter figures in his life: his biological father, Roy Harper Sr., who Roy sees as a hero after his death saving people in a forest fire, his adoptive father Dauntless Bow, who took Roy in and raised him like a son, and his second adoptive father, Oliver Queen (Dark-green Arrow), who took Roy in later on Dauntless Bow's death and made his ward and sidekick. Before condign Speedy, Roy was a champion athlete, about notably in archery, but also in rail and field.

Roy has a girl named Lian whom he raised as a unmarried male parent for years. Roy is a natural thrill seeker, who has many connections in the government and metahuman customs. He has had several jobs, including being a drummer in his own band, running a nightclub, existence a Private Detective, working as an agent and spy for the CBI, counseling in various anti-drug programs, and running a shelter for lost families.

Roy also sees Black Canary as a female parent, since she took him in and helped him get through his withdrawal, and she was too one of his teachers in his training every bit a hero. He was there for her when she lost her own female parent, and he has ever had a close relationship with her.

Additionally, he sees Hal Jordan equally an uncle figure, as he was always around when Roy was younger, being the all-time friend of Oliver. Roy cites that Hal was the one who taught Roy to be unafraid, and Hal has said that he sees himself in Roy, and could encounter him every bit his successor one twenty-four hour period. Roy has also stated he sees Connor Hawke as a brother, with the 2 of them being Oliver's children, and growing to run into each other as brothers despite the differences in how they turned out, but finding something in common in the fact that they both want to honor Oliver and Green Arrow's legacy. Roy as well has a sibling relationship with the 2nd Speedy, Mia Dearden. While he was against her existence Speedy at get-go, he chop-chop changed his mind when he realized what it meant to her when she told him she wanted to have it on to honor him and his use of the Speedy mantle to fight through his addiction and alter his life for the meliorate by growing equally a person and hero through putting a positive output to the world, and how that inspired her to take it upwardly after her contempo positive HIV diagnosis. Roy began taking on a bit of the mentor relationship to Mia, and handed downwards a various assortment of some of his old arrows and things he used as Speedy.

Roy Harper (Armory / Crimson Arrow) and Jade Nguyen (Cheshire), his long standing romantic partner. Art past Fabrizio Fiorentino.

Roy too participates in a lot of volunteer work. In addition to counseling for anti-drugs and running a shelter for lost families, he also regularly volunteers at soup kitchens, particularly around the holidays, and competes in diverse archery charity events in his superhero identities to raise money for charities.

Roy's most well known relationship throughout his history with the assassin Cheshire. Subsequently falling in love with her on a mission where he was sent to capture her, she became the mother of his child, a daughter called Lian. Roy and Jade had a relationship that was rekindled several times throughout the years, with both of them wanting to be there for their daughter and their love for each other, despite constantly beingness pulled away due to their different loyalties. Roy makes an effort to go along Jade part of Lian's life, despite her crimes and always being on the run. His feelings for Jade ever made him see past her crimes, and he'south even considered abandoning everything and running away with her and Lian.

Roy'due south showtime known superhero relationship was with Donna Troy during the Teen Titans. Although curt-lived, the pair has rekindled the relationship on multiple occasions over the years, peculiarly during their fourth dimension with the reformed Titans. When he formed the Outsiders, he had a fling with Grace Choi, although they mutually saw each other as friends-with-benefits. At this time, he also had a fling with the Huntress. His human relationship with his JLA teammate Hawkgirl was strained considering of Hawkgirl's human relationship with Hawkman, which caused Roy to feel she didn't take the human relationship as seriously equally he did.

Other versions [edit]

Earth-Two [edit]

The Earth-Two version of Speedy was a fellow member of the Vii Soldiers of Victory and All-Star Squadron in the 1940s along with Light-green Arrow. Aside from their origin, having been trained on a mesa pinnacle together, their history nearly parallels the history of the World-One versions up until the point when Arrow and Speedy forth with their teammates were thrown into various periods of time during a boxing with the Nebula Man. He and his teammates were later on retrieved by the Justice Gild and the Justice League in social club to assistance them in saving Globe-Two from the machinations of their erstwhile foe the Iron Hand. Speedy had been sent to the Island of Circe in the past and turned into a centaur controlled by Circe, but was restored. During the Crisis on Infinite Earths a new lone universe was created at the dawn of time, a universe whose history fused together the histories of several universes, including Earth-Two. Whether he ceased to exist or exists just as an aspect of the postal service-Crisis Globe has not been determined, although his mentor died during the last part of the Crisis defending the new Earth from the Anti-Monitor. Both this version of Speedy and Dark-green Arrow were wiped from being in Crisis on Infinite Earths.

Bizarro World [edit]

A Bizarro version of Arsenal appears as one of the heroes of Bizarro World. In addition to sporting a robotic left arm (as opposed to his right one), the Bizarro Arsenal is shown wearing a quiver filled with dead cats, which he uses as weapons.^[31]

Flashpoint [edit]

In the alternate timeline of the Flashpoint effect, Roy Harper is a member of mercenary squad working for industrialist Oliver Queen. Very early in the story, even so, Roy and his fellow mercenaries were killed by an unshown explosion set off by Vixen and a grouping of anti-Queen activists. The explosion actually kills everyone in the facility relieve for Vixen and Oliver Queen, who is remarkably unscathed even though he had been continuing right next to Roy, discussing the possibility of becoming a group of actual heroes rather than mercenaries, at the time the explosion went off.^[32]

Smallville [edit]

Roy Harper is featured in the Smallville Season eleven digital comic based on the Tv series, where he is shown as a member of the Outsiders, alongside Grace Choi and other heroes.^[33]

Titans Tomorrow [edit]

In the Titans Tomorrow future Roy Harper took on the part of Light-green Arrow and was killed in battle. Information technology is hinted that his rivalry with Deathstroke developed fiercely over the years.

Thrillkiller [edit]

Batman: Thrillkiller is an Elseworlds story set in the early 1960s. Roy Harper is depicted equally a biker who buys drugs in social club to get friendly with schoolgirl Hayley Fitzpatrick (aka Harley Quinn), but a terrifying ordeal with drug runners leads him to alert the police force after existence helped by Batman and Black Canary. He is afterward shown practicing archery, though it is not articulate if it is part of a rehab scheme or training for vigilantism.

Convergence [edit]

During the Convergence issue, the New Globe version of Roy Harper is shown following the events of the Titans series. Still struggling with Lian's death, he has now devoted himself to helping the community to make amends for his time with Deathstroke. When the Extremists assault the city, he dons his Arsenal costume and helps his former teammates from the Teen Titans fight off the villains. Dreamslayer then uses his powers to pull Lian out of the timestream presently earlier her decease, and offers to return her to Roy in commutation for him turning on the Titans.^[34] Using trickery, Roy pretends to betray his friends, simply instead scrambles Dreamslayer's teleportation field. As the Extremists retreat, Roy stays backside with Lian, finally reunited with his daughter.^[35]

Teen Titans Go! [edit]

Speedy has likewise made 8 appearances in the comic book series Teen Titans Go! (based on the 2003 drawing). His first advent in event #x was a cameo. He made a reappearance with the rest of Titans Due east in #twenty & #25. A super-plain-featured version of him posed every bit Cupid in #27. I of the two stories in issue #30 focuses on him and Aqualad. Thus far, he and Aqualad both have made appearances in each 10th issue. He appeared in consequence #39 and after being struck by Larry's arrows falls in dear with Cheshire, similar to the comics. In issue #48 he appeared every bit Armory in an alternate reality in a group called the Teen Tyrants.

Teen Titans Get! To Camp [edit]

Speedy was a regular character in the Teen Titans Go! To Campsite comic book series, which is a tie-in comic to the Teen Titans Go! drawing. In the comic, Speedy is part of the summer military camp with several other Titans members, and his rivalry with Robin is further adult as the two compete in various camp competitions. Speedy's relationship with Greenish Pointer is shown for the first time in this continuity here, as Speedy writes a letter of the alphabet from camp to Light-green Arrow in one of the issues.

Arrow [edit]

Roy Harper appears in the Arrow tie-in comic, Season two.v. In the comic, Roy as Arsenal goes with Oliver on mission to terminate "drug plane". While Oliver puts an autopilot device on airplane'due south controls and kicks other enemies, one of the thugs fires on Roy and begins falling from the plane, merely Oliver managed to rescue him and is put in hospital. While recovering, Felicity is kidnapped by Church building of Claret and mercenary group Renegades. Oliver calls Roy for help and gives him kevlar-lined accommodate after he recovered from injury. Heading to the Church's base of operations, they are contacted by Clinton Hogue, a new church'due south leader, who demands Oliver in substitution for Felicity, which Oliver accepts despite Roy's advice not to. Roy goes to Lyla Michaels for help and they, along with another backup released from prison house named Helena Bertinelli, go to Bludhaven where Felicity is held. Infiltrating their base, Roy fights confronting Cyrus Vanch and Winnick Norton, only after taking them down, he is knocked out by Lyle Bolton electrocuting them and taking the hostages, only to be knocked out by Helena who saves them. Roy and his friends bound the mercenaries and leave for helicopter piloted by Oliver. Yet, Hogue comes in helipack and attempts to kill Roy. In the middle of the air, the 2 are knocked out of the aeroplane, held by Roy and Hogue fastened to his leg. Roy kicks him and Hogue falls to the ground to his death.

In other media [edit]

Goggle box [edit]

Animation [edit]

William Harper, i of Roy Harper's clone as Red Pointer in Young Justice

• Roy Harper / Speedy appears in the "Teen Titans" segments of The Superman/Aquaman Hour of Run a risk, voiced by Pat Harrington, Jr.
• Roy Harper / Speedy appeared in Teen Titans animated series, voiced by Mike Erwin. Post-obit a minor appearance in the episode "Winner Take All", in which he displays a serious, businesslike mental attitude, he goes on to join the Teen Titans' sis grouping Titans Eastward in their self-titled 2-part episode, displaying his traditional "bad male child" personality.
• Roy Harper / Speedy appears in the Justice League Unlimited episode "Patriot Act", voiced over again past Mike Erwin. This version is Greenish Arrow's "ex-sidekick". He also appears in upshot 30 of the Justice League Unlimited comic book tie-in, in which he and Booster Gold have to protect the Watchtower from Doctor Polaris.^[36]
• Speedy appears on Batman: The Brave and the Bold, voiced by Jason Marsden (primarily) and past Ryan Ochoa as a younger. This version is portrayed every bit a stereotypical kid sidekick, maxim phrases like "Golly!" or "Holy [insert uncommon phrase]".
• Roy Harper appears in Immature Justice, voiced by Crispin Freeman.^[37] Initially starting as Speedy, this version was captured past the Calorie-free, who amputated his right arm in order to brand two clones of him and control them through a combination of programming and hypnosis to serve their needs. Ane clone would become Jim Harper / Guardian, who serves as security for Project Cadmus while operating as a superhero and assertive he is Roy Harper'south uncle, while the 2nd would exist made to believe he was the real Roy Harper and serve as a sleeper agent within the Justice League. Afterwards becoming Carmine Arrow, eventually succeeding in joining the League, and learning of his truthful nature, the second Roy married Cheshire and had a daughter, Lian Nguyen-Harper, all while spending the next v years searching for the real Roy, causing his health and friendships to decline. Upon finding him, the real Roy seeks revenge on Calorie-free member Lex Luthor, who gives him a bionic arm. Choosing not to pursue revenge confronting Luthor, Roy takes the proper noun Arsenal and briefly joins the Team earlier being ousted for his recklessness and disobedience while the second Roy retires from being a superhero to focus on being a begetter. As of Immature Justice: Outsiders, the 2nd Roy has renamed himself "Will Harper" and started a company called Bowhunter Securities to back up his family. Additionally, the Harpers have begun seeing each other like family and adult a team dynamic.
• Roy Harper / Speedy appears in the Teen Titans Go!, voiced by Scott Menville.

Live action [edit]

• Colton Haynes portrays Roy Harper in The CW Television set series Pointer.^{[38] [39]} Introduced in the season one episode, "Dodger", he pickpockets Thea Queen, but they fall in love and enter an on-and-off relationship. After Oliver Queen saves his life in the episode "Conservancy", Harper gains an active interest in the vigilante and begins emulating him.
  • In season two,^[40] Harper has begun working alongside Oliver as a vigilante. After being captured Brother Blood and injected with Deathstroke's Mirakuru drug, Harper gains superhuman forcefulness and healing coupled with increased hostility and trigger-happy tendencies. He is eventually cured past Oliver and Sara Lance and becomes a full-fledged member of Team Arrow, though at the cost of his human relationship with Thea.
  • In season three, Harper takes the name Arsenal,^[41] though he is likewise briefly referred to as Red Arrow. Afterward Ra's al Ghul exposes Oliver's identity, Harper takes the fall for his mentor and allows himself to be captured in Oliver's adapt, making the public believe that he had been the Arrow. Team Arrow helps Harper out of jail and Star City by faking his death. Eventually, Thea locates Harper living under an allonym. He encourages her to alive the life he and Oliver sacrificed so much for, and leaves her his adapt before pursuing a new life in Hub City.
  • In flavour four, Noah Kuttler / The Estimator locates Harper and threatens to betrayal him unless he returns to Star Urban center and steals equipment for the former. After Team Arrow trick Kuttler into assertive that Harper has been killed, the latter rejoins the team to help them terminate Kuttler earlier leaving Star City over again.
  • In season half-dozen, Ricardo Diaz captures Harper and brings him dorsum to Star Urban center in an attempt to make him testify that Oliver is the Green Pointer in court, though Harper is somewhen saved by Oliver and Thea. Harper helps Team Arrow boxing the Thanatos Guild before joining Thea and Nyssa al Ghul in their mission to locate and destroy Lazarus Pits around the globe while Oliver clears Harper's name by publicly exposing his secret identities.
  • In flavor seven, Team Pointer recruits Harper to help them battle the 9th Circle. Along the way, he reveals he died fighting the Thanatos Guild and was revived by Thea and Nyssa via a Lazarus Pit, resulting in him occasionally suffering from uncontrollable fits of rage. In flashforwards gear up in 2040, he lives in exile on Lian Yu until he is contacted by Oliver's son William. They return to Star City while following clues left behind by Felicity Smoak and link up with the Canary Network to save the city from Galaxy 1.
  • In flavor eight, having seen his future, Team Arrow recruit Harper to help them avoid it. Realizing the cure to his bloodlust is being part of a team, Harper returns to Squad Pointer, though he loses an arm and receives a mechanical prosthetic in the procedure. In the series finale "Fadeout", Harper becomes engaged to Thea.
• Roy Harper / Speedy appears in a photograph in Stargirl. This version is a member of the Seven Soldiers of Victory.

Moving-picture show [edit]

• Roy Harper / Speedy appears in films set in the DC Animated Moving-picture show Universe. This version is a member of the Teen Titans:
  • Harper starting time appears in Teen Titans: The Judas Contract, voiced again past Crispin Freeman.
  • In Justice League Dark: Apokolips War, Harper joins Earth'south heroes in against Darkseid, just to be killed in battle.
• Two versions of Roy Harper makes a cursory appearance in Teen Titans Go! To the Movies.

Video games [edit]

• Roy Harper / Red Arrow makes a cameo appearance in Light-green Arrow'southward ending in Injustice: Gods Among Us.
• The Arrow incarnation of Roy Harper appears as a playable graphic symbol in Lego Batman 3: Beyond Gotham via downloadable content.
• Roy Harper / Arsenal appears as a playable character in Lego DC Super-Villains, voiced again by Crispin Freeman.

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External links [edit]

• DC Database Project: Roy Harper
• The World'southward Finest JLU Bio
• The World'south Finest TT Bio

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