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Examples Of Archetypes In Green Arrow

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The superhero Green Arrow takes on many forms of archetypes. He takes the forms of the wise old man, hero, trickster, and the magician. These archetypes that he portrayed throughout his career help show him as an individual. Each archetype prevails from decisions he made from within his story. Each one manifest different ways he goes about living as hero. Not just to the people in the city, but also his family and friends. These archetypes best fit this character because of his strong mysterious and somewhat hidden behaviour. One can see this hero’s knowledge and guidance of the world through words with friends and to his own sister. At one point his best friend tells him that he dwells on the idea of helping his father take down the “hood.” Oliver Queen (Green Arrow) informs him that chasing the hood could endanger his own well being. Also when his little sister says she's leaving on a date. When Green Arrow sees her data, he quickly tells her that it won’t be safe to go and ends up in his disguise saving her. Finally when his own mother becomes a part of a scandal to destroy the ghettos in Starling city. He knows that she remains a part of the scandal, but tries to get a confession out of her and ends up indirectly telling her things could go wrong if she doesn’t tell …show more content…

He shows his heroism side through these action. One reason why the hero archetype actively shown is when he runs into a burning house to save his best friend who went unconscious. Another one is when his mother's sinister secret catches up to her and he with the help of the police department start evacuation the ghettos and deactivates the earthquake machines hidden in the old subway tunnels. Also his nightly activities of saving those in distress. Either by stopping robbers or rescuing hostages in a kidnapping situation helps reinforce this archetype for him. Even with these two archetypes there holds still more that this hero

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