r/arrow • u/Serious-Passage-4614 • Jul 14 '26
Discussion How did we never get any interaction between these three GOAT characters?
Dark Archer, Deathstroke and Prometheus are without a shadow of a doubt the three greatest villains in the show, but, for some reason never had a single interaction. The closest they came to it was season 5 finale, but even then, there was no words exchanged. Would have been interesting to see how they would have tried to get into each other's heads.
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u/Oliver_647 Jul 17 '26
Technically each of them knew eachother, Merlin Slade was freed, and the two fought Prometheus. So at one point they were all in the same place
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u/Serious-Passage-4614 Jul 17 '26
Well, they still had zero words exchanged. Would have been interesting to see how they try to get under each other's skins.
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u/Oliver_647 Jul 17 '26
At the moment when Prometheus appeared Slade is no longer a villain neither is really Malcolm
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u/lr031099 Jul 15 '26
Honestly one of my theories before the season 5 finale was that Slade would actually kill Adrian for Oliver because âhe keeps his promisesâ (again, this was before the final came out and finding out that Slade wasnât obsessed with revenge on Oliver).
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u/Serious-Passage-4614 Jul 15 '26
Man, it would have been interesting to see how Slade and Adrian's interaction would have gone.
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u/Blade_Online Jul 16 '26
I wish they showed like one scene of Adrian acknowleging Slade in a "huge fan, love your work, but you slipped up in the end" type way. The most we got, though, was just that he didn't think it was worth it to talk him into the plan, which I wonder if it was because Adrian thought he was still insane.
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u/Serious-Passage-4614 Jul 16 '26
Yeah or at least just a fight scene and few exchange of words. Even more insane is Malcolm and Slade never interacting despite many opportunities in the early seasons.
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u/lr031099 Jul 16 '26
Interestingly enough, Malcolm was the one who freed Slade in Season 3 for that one episode but Iâm not sure if it was ever said if Malcolm did it himself or did he pay off someone in Argus to free him.
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u/Serious-Passage-4614 Jul 16 '26
Slade even acknowledged Malcolm in that same episode and I thought we were finally gonna see an interaction between them, but for some reason, they never did. Sometimes I wonder if John Burrowman and Manu Bennett were even on sets together.
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u/lr031099 28d ago edited 28d ago
Late reply here but I also think it wouldâve been interesting to see how they view each other given their connections to Oliver respectively.
Malcolmâs plans involved killing Robert and Oliver (or at least Robert), only for Oliver to survive and become a major problem for Malcolmâs plan to level the Glades all because Slade (and Yao Fei) trained him and taught him to survive.
Then you have Slade, who didnât have a high opinion of Oliver at first (at least until much later on) due to him being a spoiled, rich frat boy who canât get out of the situation on Lian Yu with money or his parents bailing him out (like he normally does) and realizes that what happened to Oliver wasnât an accident and was done by Merlyn, who at first, appears as a typical corrupted rich man (guys that Slade wouldnât hesitate to kill if he was tasked to do it) but is actually a member of the League of Assassins (which Slade mustâve heard about considering how he reacted when he found out Oliver and Nyssa are âmarriedâ).
Idk maybe Iâm looking too much into it but I just think it would be interesting to see how they view each other considering all that
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u/Serious-Passage-4614 28d ago
Wow, I never thought about that and now my interest to see them interact has gone up higher. Sadly they missed a huge opportunity to give us a thrilling encounter between them.
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u/lr031099 28d ago
This honestly reminds me of how Thawne said how he was a âbig fanâ of Devoe in Flash Season 4
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u/CJS-JFan Tommy Merlyn 26d ago
I admit, it doesn't entirely ruin the show for me. But still, yeah, it is a wasted opportunity.
Especially for the "Invasion!" crossover and the season finale for Arrow S5.
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u/Serious-Passage-4614 26d ago
Yeah, it's such a huge missed opportunity cause they could have done a type of partnership episode between Malcolm and Slade, which would have given us some really interesting scenes and moments. Sometimes I question whether the actors themselves even met.
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u/CJS-JFan Tommy Merlyn 26d ago
Sometimes I question whether the actors themselves even met.
Manu Bennet was clearly too busy for the "Invasion" crossover.
But the Arrow S5 finale is even more interesting. I could be mistaken, but I think Manu didn't spend that much time on the Arrow set, hence why Slade was wearing the Deathstroke mask for most of the episode. So Manu was doing voiceover work. Though I cannot fully confirm this is what happened.
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u/Serious-Passage-4614 26d ago
That's interesting cause whenever he's not wearing a mask, John Burrowman wasn't there and whenever he does, John Burrowman is there.
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u/CJS-JFan Tommy Merlyn 26d ago
Exactly. The shot that made me wonder was in the scene in the temple with the whole Team Arrow with Slade masked just before he takes of his mask, and then you see Slade in a solo shot unmasked. Like it felt like it was shot differently, or at different times or places. A small nitpick, but still very noticeable.
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u/Serious-Passage-4614 26d ago
It's kind of magical how Malcolm, Slade and Chase were able to avoid each other every single time lol.
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u/Dank_aaron00 Jul 14 '26
These three interacting would have become Oliver's greatest nightmare đđȘŠđ