8 Amazing Casting Choices In DC TV Shows

People often go on about the great casting choices in superhero movies (your Hugh Jackmans, Heath Ledgers and Robert Downey Jrs.) but not so routinely celebrated are their small screen cousins.

Christian Bone

Published: Jul 28, 2016 11:37 am

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4) Stephen Amell – Green Arrow

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Even Arrow’s most ardent fans have to admit that it is not the most consistent of shows. While the first year was a very stripped-back superhero show (with a big debt owed to the Dark Knight films), the show increasingly added in more overt comic book elements until it lost its way. The one constant of the series, though, is Stephen Amell.

Thanks to Amell, the great swerves in tone and content the show takes every year are made palatable because his Oliver Queen is so believably played. Sure, his Green Arrow (formerly the Vigilante, the Hood and Arrow) is not the generally quip-happy hero he is in the comics and is more of a brooding Batman type than usual, but Amell sells the show’s unique version of the character.

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Christian Bone

Christian Bone is a Staff Writer/Editor at We Got This Covered and has been cluttering up the internet with his thoughts on movies and TV for over a decade, ever since graduating with a Creative Writing degree from the University of Winchester. As Marvel Beat Leader, he can usually be found writing about the MCU and yet, if you asked him, he'd probably say his favorite superhero film is 'The Incredibles.'