Green Arrow's Ultimate Form Makes Hawkeye Look Like a Joke
Although they’ve often been compared to each other, Marvel’s Hawkeye cannot compete with DC’s Green Arrow in his deadliest form. When Barry Allen changed history to save the life of his mother, he created a separate DC timeline dubbed Flashpoint, where Oliver Queen was never stranded on an island nor trained to become the Green Arrow. Instead, the controversial philanthropist and weapons designer focused on making Green Arrow Industries profitable with his one-of-a-kind weapons.
In Flashpoint: Green Arrow Industries #1 by Pornsak Pichetshote, Mark Castiello, and Ig Guara, Oliver Queen is the intelligent yet arrogant face of a major military contracting company. Having almost lost everything to a corrupt business partner, Queen sunk the remainder of his money into recruiting a team designated as the Green Arrows, who would find and capture super criminals using advanced technology of their own design. Queen’s company took and repurposed that technology to better serve the military and other authorities, hoping to combat the public’s unease over the rise of superhuman criminals and the escalating conflict between Wonder Woman's Amazons and Aquaman's Atlanteans that threatened the world.
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In this alternate timeline, Oliver Queen has more in common with an early Tony Stark, believing that his weapons are helping to make the world a safer place but also enjoying the riches and acclaim that come as a result. Before a group of intrigued military investors, Oliver Queen explains that his research has indicated they need to escalate their weapons capabilities to combat the rising threats to the Flashpoint world. He presents to them their latest product, the
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