Arrow is a modern retelling of the dc comic character green arrow. Multimillionaire playboy Oliver Queen is missing, and presumed dead after a ship wreck at sea. he found five years later, having survived on a desert island off his wits and by mastering the bow and arrow. When he returns to starling city however, he discovers that it is rife with corruption and crime. Oliver decides to put his skills to use by taking on the persons of arrow and becoming the vigilante that starling city needs. The show stars Stephen Amell in the title role. Green Arrow has been portrayed two times by a real life character and voiced in twelve separate cartoon/animation starting 1973.