a little bit of william tell
A Little Bit of William Tell
Oliver Queen does not have a band of merry men. Neither does he have a band of merry women, though he wouldn't be quite so opposed to one of those dancing about in tights as he would be to one of the former. He does not rob from the rich to give to the poor, because he himself is rich and being poor does not automatically make a person worthy of his help.
Oliver Queen is nothing like Robin Hood, but that's what he's being called.
Star City has it's own superhero now, except there's nothing really "super" about Oliver Queen besides his amazing skill with both the long bow and the short bow (and if he's feeling a little cocky, he'll list off all the variations of the two that he also knows how to use). He's just a guy who stopped a heist by shooting an arrow at some guy's nuts, and then got pinned with the name "The Green Arrow." All in all, a very normal thing.
Except that he decided he liked stopping that heist, so he decided to stop another. And a robbery, a rape, a carjacking, and a number of other things, too. So then "The Green Arrow" was more than just a one-time hero; he was a fullfledged defender of justice and the American way.
And now Oliver Queen is being called a new Robin Hood, which is really just going too far.
He's always likened himself more to William Tell, who walked by a statue of a tyranical ruler without bowing (because he wasn't impressed with the ruler's newly stolen crown) and was then told: "Shoot an apple off of your son's head, or both of you will die." So then, William Tell put two arrows in his quiver and shot the apple off of his son's head, and said, "If I had missed, the second arrow would have been for you."
And then William Tell had been shackled and was carted away to jail, but he escaped and went after the man who had told him to shoot an apple off of his son's head. He killed that man, because if he hadn't, then his whole village would have been in danger. He fought for the safety of his home, and that's what Oliver Queen was doing.
But, he supposed that with his witty reparte and dashing good looks and general lack of having children, he was only a little bit like William Tell. The other bit of him was, he would have to grudgingly admit, very much like Robin Hood. So the city wasn't entirely wrong.
That didn't mean he'd have to like it.
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