Green Arrow has a lot of good qualities, but he is great at making other heroes hate him. This should be surprising, as he is incredibly charismatic, intelligent, and generally has stood with his feet firmly planted on the right side of history as he took aim at some of the greatest problems afflicting the world.

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However, Oliver Queen has plenty of character flaws in his quiver. He is brash, arrogant, elitist, a faux populist, an ideologue who can't live up to the high standards of his own ideological purity, and has a long history of cheating. More recently, this last quality has at least been replaced by polyamory, but there are plenty of bitter exes left behind from his days of womanizing. It is any wonder so many other DC heroes can't stand him?

10 Barry Allen Has A Lot Of Reasons Not To Like Green Arrow

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Hal Jordan has two best friends in the superhero community: Barry Allen and Oliver Queen. Shortly after Barry came back to life, Hal namedropped Ollie. Barry’s response was that he didn’t want anything to do with Ollie.

There could be numerous reasons for this. Barry is a Midwestern cop, who might not be thrilled with Ollie’s ever-increasingly-left-leaning politics. Or Barry might not like that Ollie has killed. Or he might dislike how Ollie treated women back in the day. Whatever the reason, the fastest man alive wants to run as far from Green Arrow as he can.

9 Warlord Looks Like Oliver Queen...So People Kept Attacking Him

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The rivalry between Warlord and Green Arrow is actually a bit of an inside joke. Writer-artist Mike Grell created Warlord before working on Green Arrow comics.

Both characters have very similar distinctive looks. When Warlord traveled to Seattle, numerous people assumed this muscular guy with a blonde goatee must be Green Arrow and so attacked him. The moment Warlord met Olivier Queen, he sucker-punched Ollie for all he had been through. They later made up though.

8 Batman Was Mind-Wiped By Green Arrow & Several Other Heroes He Once Trusted

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Batman and Green Arrow have a weird love-hate relationship. They really seem to like and respect each other for the most part. And they have so much in common that Green Arrow has frequently been referred to as a Batman knockoff (and to be fair, he is an unpowered billionaire superhero with gimmicky gadgets who operates out of the Arrow Cave and has his own Arrow-Plane).

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But the biggest contention between them is that Ollie was one of several Justice Leaguers responsible for wiping Batman’s memory.

7 Roy Harper Was Let Down By His Old Mentor & Turned To Heroin

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Roy Harper was once Green Arrow’s sidekick Speedy, and he worshipped his mentor. Then Ollie abandoned him, leaving Roy to succumb to a heroin addiction. When Ollie learned the truth, he hit his young ward.

They have tried to make things right since. They care about each other, but the damage cannot be undone. Roy loves Ollie, but a part of him will always hate Ollie too.

6 Hawkman Hates Green Arrow's Politics

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Carter Hall (AKA Hawkman) and Oliver Queen hate each other. Both of them have served on the Justice League together and at the end of the day, they have each other’s backs, but they genuinely can’t stand one another.

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In this case, it is purely political. Carter Hall is a Thanagarian space cop who cares about gutsy decisive action and being a manly man. Green Arrow has a history of calling cops fascists and monologuing about every form of systemic injustice there are words for, many of which involve cops or fascists. They have repeatedly come to blows over these differences.

5 The Question Also Has Political Disagreements With Green Arrow

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The Question is an interesting character study in how he has evolved under the supervision of different writers. He was originally created by Steve Ditko who infused the character with his own Objectivist ideology. Later, Question was killed and brought back with a more Zen philosophy by writer Denny O’Neil.

When writer-artist Frank Miller incorporated a future version of Question in The Dark Knight Strikes Again, almost all of the hero’s appearances were just as a background character where he argued politics with Green Arrow, as Question’s old Objectivist talking points edged on the fascistic, while Ollie’s center-left attacks came off as bloviating.

4 Barbara Gordon Will Never Forgive Oliver Queen For Hurting Her Best Friend

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Barbara Gordon’s reasons for hating Oliver Queen are simple and straightforward: he hurt her best friend. There is no erudite philosophy behind it. Dinah Lance was heartbroken by Ollie’s cheating, and Barbara stands with her friend. Dinah has since reconciled with Ollie many times over, but it is doubtful Barbara will ever fully forgive him.

3 Black Lightning's Niece Was Killed After Ollie Slept With Her Behind His Girlfriend's Back

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The hero Black Lightning used to respect Green Arrow. They both looked out for people who had been overlooked by most of the other heroes, caring more about everyday folks than stopping supercriminals or alien invaders.

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Then Green Arrow cheated on Black Canary with his niece, Joanna Tanner, which resulted in Joanna being killed a short while later.

2 Black Canary Has Dealt With Years Of His Cheating, Lies, Rants, & Cooking

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Black Canary loves Oliver Queen. And Black Canary knows Oliver Queen better than anyone else. This is why Black Canary can’t stand him.

She dealt with years of cheating and lies, with random criminals attacking their home and her business, and with lifetimes’ worth of his self-righteous monologuing. She even swallowed his chili—so hot it could probably compete with Superman’s laser vision. She loves him, and for all the pain and years of breakups, she will keep loving him. But to love someone is also sometimes to hate them.

1 Oliver Queen Hates Himself More Than Anyone Else Ever Could

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As has been said, Oliver Queen is an idealist. He was born with a silver spoon in his mouth and misspent his youth and privilege chasing after thrills and women, never knowing the value of either. Then he had a life-changing experience that made him commit to helping the world and being better.

But he is a very flawed person. Ollie sees how he has let down those he loves. He hurt Roy. He hurt Dinah. He hurt everyone he ever cared for. And he fails every day to live up to his own ideals. Because a person cannot be an ideology, nor can people fly straight and true as an arrow toward a given target. But he keeps getting back up and pushing himself to do and be more. That drive comes from a sense of moral obligation, but it also comes from spite and self-loathing as he drives himself to be better so he can make a better world.

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