8 Wild Predictions For Who Could Be Vigilante In Arrow Season 5

Much of Arrow's fifth season has revolved around who Prometheus is, but Adrian Chase being beneath the mask left everyone reeling. That's because the comic book version of the character is better known as Vigilante and most assumed Chase would at some point be revealed as being the mysterious and violent anti-hero. Because the series has shaken things up to such a huge extent, we now have no idea who Vigilante really is. Executive producer Marc Guggenheim has previously said that we may have to wait until season 6 for the reveal to be made and if that's really the case, it leaves us with an awful long time to wonder who Team Arrow has been plagued by for the past few months. However, looking at the evidence and coming up with some pretty outlandish theories, we've managed to collect eight of the most likely candidates for who Arrow's Vigilante could be. Some you may expect and others will leave you completely gobsmacked, but we're pretty sure that one of these characters will ultimately be revealed the show's Vigilante. 8) Susan Williams With the relationship between Oliver Queen and Felicity Smoak finally at an end, Susan Williams has become the hero's main love interest in Arrow. Her investigation into her new boyfriend's time in Russia led to the journalist deducing that the mayor of Star City and Green Arrow are one and the same and things do seem to be going well for them so far. However, there could be more to her than meets the eye. Vigilante does seem to have backed off since since Susan learned Oliver's secret identity, but is that because she's the one beneath the mask and no longer wants to target the man she loves? It's definitely possible, and would make for a great reveal. Arrow will have to do a lot in order to make this twist work, to be sure, but of all the relatively new characters in the series, Susan seems to be the most likely candidate. 7) Earth-2 Oliver Queen Season 5 of Arrow has introduced us to a new Laurel Lance in the form of Black Siren, a villain from Earth-2. It was The Flash which first tackled the concept of alternate realities, but outside of that different version of Laurel, the series has remained largely unaffected. Until now, maybe? On Earth-2, Laurel turned to villainy after Oliver was killed on the Queen's Gambit. His father Robert then became the Arrow on his world's Star City, but what if Oliver survived the same way as Sara Lance did on Earth-1? Regardless of how he's ended up in the same world as the Green Arrow we all know and love, a deranged Oliver becoming Vigilante is an interesting concept and one which has a lot of potential if he ultimately decides to try and replace his Earth-1 counterpart. Heck, it could even be Robert who's beneath the hood. Either way, an Earth-2 character being Vigilante opens the door to a lot of new storytelling possibilities in the same way Black Siren's unexpected arrival has. 6) Anarchy Lonnie Machin's story arc in Arrow has been a lot of fun to follow and he's become a recurring villain thanks to his ties to Thea Queen. After numerous unsuccessful attempts to take down the Green Arrow and cause mass death in Star City, Anarchy deciding to take his mission in a slightly different direction as Vigilante is a twist which has some potential, even if it does feel like something of a 180 for this particular character. Despite that, this reveal would make the whole Vigilante storyline a lot more personal for Team Arrow and means Machin could be freshened up and brought back as a recurring presence here. After failing so many times to take down Oliver Queen, attempting to become a better vigilante than he is does make sense for him and wouldn't necessarily be a reveal that fans would see coming. 5) The Real Adrian Chase As we mentioned at the start of this article, the comic book version of Vigilante is, in fact, Adrian Chase. That's what made the Prometheus reveal so surprising, but what if the real Adrian Chase is still out there somewhere? The two villains definitely share the same sort of belief system and if Prometheus knows the man we're assuming he's been impersonating, it's possible they could have agreed to switch places. It's admittedly a tad convoluted, but there's probably a way this could be made to work, especially if the real Chase comes back and claims he's been kept somewhere by Prometheus only for us to later learn that he's actually Vigilante and was somehow in cahoots with season 5's big bad. Chase is the only man to have held the Vigilante mantle in the comic books, so it's hard to escape the feeling he could still factor into this story somehow. 4) Konstantin Kovar Season 5 of Arrow is the last year the series will feature flashbacks building up to Oliver Queen's return to Star City, and Konstantin Kovar has been a big part of that. As of right now, we have no idea how his story will end, but the hero is out for revenge and to take him down, so things ending with his apparent demise at the hands of The Hood seem likely. However, we are talking about a world based on comic books here, so him surviving and returning to Star City is definitely feasible. Of course, that begs the question of why he hasn't just made it his mission to take down Oliver? Seeing as Vigilante has targeted both him and the Green Arrow on multiple occasions though, there's a strong chance Kovar is biding his time and has something greater up his sleeve. What that could be may very well end up being a huge part of Arrow's upcoming sixth season, and we'll obviously know whether or not this theory is accurate once the show's current run wraps up. 3) Talia Al Ghul Talia al Ghul has been a very interesting part of Arrow, not least because she's turned on her former pupil to align herself with Prometheus. The last time we saw her, she was willingly handing Oliver over to the villain to be tortured at his hands in a bid to get revenge on him for killing her father (back in season 3), but what else has she been up to? We know a confrontation between her and her sister Nyssa is on the way, but there's no doubt a chance that Talia could be revealed as Vigilante. This is another one potentially hard to explain, but Vigilante has a lot of skills and it's possible Talia has decided to show Oliver how a vigilante should set out to protect their city due to her believing he has failed as both her student and in his mission. What her endgame might be is ultimately hard to say, but her father's demise would probably come into play in some way. Then again, should Nyssa end up taking her down in battle, then we'll know that we can take Talia off the list of suspects. 2) Someone From The Flashpoint Timeline Both Legends of Tomorrow and The Flash have shown us the impact of time travel, but Barry Allen's decision to create a new timeline actually had a pretty significant impact on Team Arrow. John Diggle's baby daughter was replaced with a toddler named John Jr. who will one day become Green Arrow in a potential future, but what if Vigilante has also been created as a result of Flashpoint? If that's the case, it's hard to say exactly who might be beneath the mask, but the series has the opportunity here to deliver a massive time travel related twist that no one would see coming. Vigilante could hail from that alternate timeline and may have somehow survived the changes in the same way Wally West was able to become Kid-Flash again. It could even be that the Scarlet Speedster's actions have turned a character we all know and love into Vigilante, like the hero featured on the next page... 1) Roy Harper Roy Harper was written out of Arrow when Colton Haynes decided to move on from the series, but he has since made sporadic appearances and made it clear that he'd be willing to return. There are any number of reasons why the former Arsenal could have decided to become Vigilante; resentful that he had to give up his life for Oliver Queen, that would explain why he's returned to Star City hungry for vengeance. Alternatively, he may have decided to take his crimefighting actions down a darker route, which will bring him into conflict with Team Arrow, highlighting the fact that Oliver let down one of his first recruits and indirectly caused him to embark on a murderous new mission. As I previously mentioned, Flashpoint could also explain Roy's new outlook and if Arrow wants to make the Vigilante reveal really personal, it's hard to think of a better candidate than this former fan-favourite.