At the beginning of “Arrow” season 6, Oliver Queen passed the Green Arrow mantle on to John Diggle, but he later took it back after it was discovered that Diggle was working through an injury following the explosion on Lian Yu in the season 5 finale.
But Diggle has made it clear that he wants to be the Green Arrow, and in this week’s episode Oliver and Diggle are going to be throwing some serious punches at each other as they fight over the hood.
Diggle seems to feel very strongly that he should be the Green Arrow, and David Ramsey told TV Line that he wants the mantle because he feels that he could do things differently than Oliver, and possibly avoid increasing the number of casualties involved with saving the city.
“What John sees is that there’s more than one way to save the city,” Ramsey explains of his character’s POV. “Arguably, people have died both close to us, i.e. Laurel Lance, and in our city from the invention of the Arrow, the Hood character. And it’s not a forgone conclusion that these people would not have died had Oliver Queen listened to different varying points of view as to how to fight the Damian Darhks and the Ra’s al Ghuls of the world. Diggle feels like perhaps if some things were listened to, we could’ve spared ourselves some pain.”
Ramsey also teased that the episode will go deep into the relationship between Diggle and Oliver, and how Oliver’s decisions affect everyone else around him.
“This is a long time boiling up. They’re brothers, right? And brothers have fights. But this feels a bit different.” Green Arrow’s vigilantism “is no longer just Oliver’s crusade. It is also Felicity’s, it is also John Diggle’s, and it’s also the lives and the families of everyone else on the team, so Diggle is speaking not just for himself but for a lot of other people.”
“Brothers In Arms” will air tonight on the CW.
