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Green Arrow (Volume 7) #16 is an issue of the series Green Arrow (Volume 7) with a cover date of November, 2024. It was published on September 25, 2024.
Synopsis for "Old Friends"
Team Arrow defeat Bright and his guards, with Oliver and Connor fighting Bright blindfolded to counter his light attacks. As they fight, Bright reveals that he is from Earth 3 and was his world's White Lantern, until Oliver's counterpart Deadeye betrayed him for his ring and left him for dead. Oliver manages to push Bright off the plane, confident that he will survive the fall, and takes control of the craft. He flies them back to the Hall of Order, where to Team Arrow's shock he hands them over to the Bureau of Sovereignty to be imprisoned.
Oliver shows Ivo the plans for Task Force VII and Ivo tells him that they possess "chrono-healing" which makes them effectively invulnerable; Oliver then lets him go. Later in the Hall of Order basement, Oliver builds a mysterious device using Time Commander's hourglass and the contents of Martian Manhunter's box. Black Canary, Zatanna and Doctor Light enter via the Dark Roads and Black Canary demands that he explain himself. Oliver says he's doing what needs to be done for their family and activates the intruder alarm. Dinah tells him that they're about to storm Gamorra and asks him to come with her but he refuses and the heroines leave.
Waller calls Oliver up to the control room and tells him that the war is coming to them.
Appearing in "Old Friends"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
Antagonists:
- Amanda Waller (Flashback and main story)
- Bureau of Sovereignty
- Bright/White Lantern (Earth 3) (Flashback and main story)
- Green Arrow (Oliver Queen)
- Suicide Squad
- Bizarro (On a TV or computer screen)
- Task Force VII (Hologram)
- Depth Charge (Hologram) (Cameo)
- Failsafe (Zur-En-Arrh) (Cameo)
- Global Guardian (Hologram) (Cameo)
- Jadestone (Hologram) (Cameo)
- Last Son (Hologram) (Cameo)
- Paradise Lost (Hologram) (Cameo)
- Velocity (Hologram) (Cameo)
- Bureau of Sovereignty
Other Characters:
- Crime Syndicate (Earth 3) (Flashback only)
- Owlman (Thomas Wayne, Jr.) (Flashback only) (Cameo)
- Power Ring (Harold Jordan) (Flashback only) (Cameo)
- Superwoman (Lois Lane) (Flashback only) (Cameo)
- Ultraman (Kal-El) (Flashback only) (Cameo)
- Insiders (Earth 3) (First appearance) (Flashback only)
- Deadeye (Oliver Queen) (Flashback only) (First appearance as Deadeye)
- Justice League (Flashback only)
- Aquaman (Arthur Curry) (Flashback only) (Cameo)
- Batman (Bruce Wayne) (On a TV or computer screen)
- Cyborg (Flashback only) (Cameo)
- Superman (Clark Kent) (Flashback only) (Cameo)
- Wonder Woman (Flashback only) (Cameo)
- Professor Ivo
- Superman (Jon Kent) (On a TV or computer screen)
- Connor Hawke (Earth 3) (Mentioned only)
Locations:
- Multiverse (Behind the scenes)
- Earth 0
- Gamorra Island
- Metahuman Detention Center
- United States of America
- Arctic Circle
- Fortress of Solitude (Mentioned only)
- Starfish Island (Mentioned only)
- Gamorra Island
- Earth 3 (Flashback only)
- Sphere of the Gods (Behind the scenes)
- Spirit World (Behind the scenes)
- Dark Roads
- Spirit World (Behind the scenes)
- Earth 0
Items:
- Batsuit (On a TV or computer screen)
- Bracelets of Submission (Flashback only)
- Black Mercy (On a TV or computer screen)
- Deadeye's Bow
- Emerald Power Ring (Flashback only) (Cameo)
- Fail-Safe Box
- Green Arrow's Bow
- Mother Box (On a TV or computer screen)
- Owlsuit (Flashback only)
- Time Commander's Hourglass
- White Lantern Ring (Flashback only) (Cameo)
- Wonder Woman's Tiara (Flashback only)
Vehicles:
- Bureau of Sovereingty transport carrier
- Owlplane (Flashback only)
Events:
Concepts:
- Chrono-Healing
- Emotional Electromagnetic Spectrum (Flashback only)
- Magic
- Metahumans
Notes
- This issue takes place after the events of Absolute Power #3 and Superman (Volume 6) #18.
- Bright mentions an event known as the "Brightest Night" taking place on Earth 3, a counterpart to the Blackest Night and Brightest Day events on New Earth/Earth 0. This indicates that Crisis events on Earth 0, like its characters,[1] are also mirrored on Earth 3.
- There are major continuity errors in this story:
- Bright mentions Power Ring who is shown to be Harold Jordan. However, Jordan died against the Starro Collective many years in the past of the reborn continuity of Earth 3[2] and could have never been a member of the Syndicate;
- In the flashback, he also doesn't wear his Emerald Knights outfit;
- The Crime Syndicate is shown to be an actual team in Bright's flashback. However, they banded together[3] not long after the rebirth of the Multiverse[4] so their clash against the League on Earth 3 from this issue (and their invasion of Earth 0) should have never happened, making it temporal paradoxes, like the existence of Superwoman/Lois Lane;[5]
- Deadeye is implied to be Oliver Queen's Earth 3 counterpart and Bright states that he died some time in the past. However, Queen was still alive and President of the United States during the rise of the Crime Syndicate,[2] which take place just months before the arrival of Amanda Waller on Earth 3.[6]
- Bright mentions Power Ring who is shown to be Harold Jordan. However, Jordan died against the Starro Collective many years in the past of the reborn continuity of Earth 3[2] and could have never been a member of the Syndicate;
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