San Diego International Comic Con has been going on for a few days now, and the big bad for “The Flash” season 4 has been revealed. Many fans expected “Arrow” to make a similar announcement regarding a big bad for season 6, but the show will be taking a different approach for the new season.
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It was recently announced that Michael Emerson has joined the cast, and it’s been speculated that he will turn out to be Helix leader Cayden James. A casting notice for “Arrow” also recently surfaced online which revealed that Richard Dragon will be one of the villains in season 6 as well. It sounds like Team Arrow will have their hands full when the show returns, as Marc Guggenheim confirmed at Comic Con that the team will be facing off against a group of villains.
“Season 5 was really about building up this team,” EP Marc Guggenheim said via EW. “By the end of the season, we had Team Arrow 2.0 in a really formidable tightly knit way. We wanted to really double down on this concept of family and found families. Toward that end, we started thinking of a group of villains, something we’ve never done on the show before.”
One of the villains will be Oliver’s former Bratva mentor turned enemy Anatoly Knyazev, and it sounds like the Bratva could potentially be causing major problems for Team Arrow.
“He’s coming back with a literal vengeance. You’ll be seeing a lot of different villains through season 6,” he said. “These are characters we’ll be seeing really throughout the season.”
Do you think this is the right approach to take following Prometheus in season 5? Sound off in the comments below.
“Arrow” will return on Thursday, October 12.
After a violent shipwreck, billionaire playboy Oliver Queen (Stephen Amell) was missing and presumed dead for five years before being discovered alive on a remote island in the North China Sea. He returned home to Star City, bent on righting the wrongs done by his family and fighting injustice.
As the Green Arrow, he protects his city with the help of former soldier John Diggle (David Ramsey), computer-science expert Felicity Smoak (Emily Bett Rickards), his vigilante-trained sister Thea Queen (Willa Holland), Deputy Mayor Quentin Lance (Paul Blackthorne), brilliant inventor Curtis Holt (Echo Kellum), and his new recruits, street-savvy Rene Ramirez (Rick Gonzalez) and meta-human Dinah Drake (Juliana Harkavy).
Oliver has finally solidified and strengthened his crime-fighting team only to have it threatened when unexpected enemies from his past return to Star City, forcing Oliver to rethink his relationship with each member of his “family”.
