My favorite fans of the shows are the people who are not comic book fans. The truth of the matter is that a wildly successful comic book today sells 80,000 copies, but 80,000 viewers does not keep any show on the air. None of these shows exist without people who are not fans of the comics. We’re not burying you in backstory and the minutiae of who these characters are.

Marc Guggenheim

• Permalink: My Favorite Fans Are Not Comic Fans
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Let’s say you’ve been given the position of writing Green Arrow from scratch [...] Clean slate. You might say, ‘Okay, I’m going to write this new character,’ and when someone says, ‘Well, what about Black Canary,’ you might say… ‘nope.’ That means you completely misunderstand these characters.

Geoff Johns

• Permalink: You Completely Misunderstand These Characters
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They even told us NOT to watch the shows. That comic[s] SHOULD inspire the shows and not vice versa.

Juan Ferreyra

• Permalink: Comics Should Inspire the Shows
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Customer: You could always change my mind over dinner? Unless that just put me on your creepy customer list?
Felicity: You're asking me out?
Customer: Now I'm regretting it.
Felicity: No, like I'm flattered and everything. Woah, still got it.

• Permalink: No, like I'm flattered and everything. Woah, still got it.
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Jason Stet...you have failed this city.

Vigilante

• Permalink: Jason Stet...you have failed this city.
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It makes sense now why there is a new Green Arrow out there, because the old one is a coward.

Stanley

• Permalink: It makes sense now why there is a new Green Arrow out there, because the old one is a coward.
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Laurel: Isn't babysitting a little bit below your pay grade?
Dinah: Way below, but the SCPD is going to keep you safe whether you want us to or not.
Laurel: Okay fine, whatever suit yourself. You mine as well make yourself useful while you're here and make me a coffee. Two sugars, no cream.
Dinah: Never happening.

• Permalink: Never happening.
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Rene: Back in town a week, and you're already sneaking out of ARGUS behind papa Dig's back. So proud.
Felicity: Thanks, bae.

• Permalink: Thanks, bae.
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Oliver: I need to find his pressure point.
Stanley: WWGAD?
Oliver: What?
Stanley: What would Green Arrow do?
Oliver: Oh, he'd have Overwatch gather information.
Stanley: What's an Overwatch?

• Permalink: What's an Overwatch?
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Roy: Felicity and Oliver they really just left you?
William: Pretty much, and my ex-boyfriend wonders why I have commitment issues.
Roy: I'm sorry, that's awful.
William: Yeah well he was a real jerk.
Roy: No I was talking about Oliver and Felicity.

• Permalink: No I was talking about Oliver and Felicity.
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I still can't believe you stabbed yourself. Did you hit anything big, like your liver or something? Right, you probably don't even have a liver, just muscle.

Stanley

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You're never going to be able to stay a hero. Not in this place.

Stanley

• Permalink: You're never going to be able to stay a hero. Not in this place.
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