OK, we knew that Oliver Queen wasn’t really done being the Arrow. At the end of season three, he ran off with Felicity to presumably live a normal life of domestic bliss, away from Starling City’s crime and his team of vigilantes.
But since the CW series wasn’t renamed “Team Arrow” or “Diggle and the Canary,” it was safe to assume that Oliver would once again don the mask, hood and quiver to take on the bad guys.
The trailer for season four of Arrow, released Friday on star Stephen Amell’s Facebook page and for fans at DragonCon in Atlanta, shows that Team Arrow tries to maintain order in the renamed Star City (in tribute to the apparently dead Ray Palmer, whose lab blew up at the end of last season), but eventually needs its leader back.
We don’t know what exactly compels Oliver to suit up again (nor Felicity to design a new costume for him), but new villain Damien Dahrk (played by Neal McDonough) surely has something to do with it.
Besides seeing Arrow’s new suit in action, we also get a far better look at Diggle’s crime-fighting helmet, which looks better in action than it did in a Photoshopped publicity image. He still looks a bit too much like Magneto with that thing on, but the helmet does seem to conceal Diggle’s identity better. Why the design isn’t something resembling military gear, since Diggle was a soldier, will apparently be left to mystery.
In addition to seeing the familiar faces of Black Canary, Red Arrow, Detective Lance, Malcolm Merlyn and Nyssa al Ghul, the trailer also provides quick glimpses of the reincarnated Sara Lance, Felicity’s new protege Curtis Holt (Echo Kellum) and John Constantine (Matt Ryan), who makes an appearance after the character’s NBC series was canceled in June.
Season four of Arrow premieres on Oct. 7.
