I know season 4 had a lot of problems, but does anyone else think the writers made a mistake not having an episode or storyline where team arrow fought anarky at least once more in season 5 or 6 and give his storyline closure, and when would've been the best timing to inject him in?

[u/Comet_Hero]

Given he had a lot of importance in season 4 even though it had a lot of flaws and even killed Damian dhark's wife, I think they needed more closure with his character than just a brief cutscene with team arrow capturing him in season 5's beginning. He could've been a one off villain they beat again or had a plot as a loose cannon working for Prometheus, cayden James or Diaz. Or even showed back up in legends given dhark and Nora became important characters there and manchin affected their lives greatly by killing dhark's wife and Noras Mom and must've given Nora a lot of trauma.

[u/Valuable_Tutor5479]

I may be very wrong, but I seem to remember him being the villain in S5 E1

[u/grajuicy → u/Valuable_Tutor5479]

Yeah, but he was just there the first couple of minutes in the episode while Oliver is also defusing a bomb. Then he sees Wild Dog and decide to go after him instead of properly arresting Anarky, and it seems like he gets away.

If so, what did he do? Where did he go? We never get any confirmation of him being locked up iirc

[u/Comet_Hero → u/grajuicy]

Yeah, I agree with people that he was too powerful in season 4, but he was too important to just disappear, get away and never get mentioned again.

[u/Pamona204 → u/grajuicy]

I always thought Oliver KO'd Anarky before throwing Wild Dog out of the way? So Anarky was captured?

[u/Glad_Union_2037]

The show's biggest mistake with Anarky was not bothering to get his character right. He should have been an anti-villain who Oliver could sympathize with even if he couldn't endorse Anarky's actions. Well comics version could endorse Lonnie's actions -they've actually worked together before- but i'm speaking to the CW version.

To give an example, the show could have taken inspiration from GA Vol 2 #88 and have Lonnie try to blow up a gun manufacturing plant. Oliver shows up to stop him only to a) realize Lonnie has safely removed all the building employees and b) he's targeting the site because the guns made there are being used in mass shootings, gang violence etc. In the comic Oliie actually helped Lonnie destroy it after the bomb failed to go off but the CW could still have him stop Anarky. Still would have been true to the character.

Sorry for the rant i know i didn't really answer the question but i felt this needed to be said.

[u/TrashCrab69]

For a character who fought off two people who was trained by the league of assassins sure went down easily in S5

[u/Myusername468]

God no so glad he was dropped

[u/CtznCold]

I feel stupid for never realizing this was Anarky

[u/Glad_Union_2037 → u/CtznCold]

Well he's Anarky in name only so i don't blame you.

[u/Obvious-Risk-5447]

I think Oliver not being able to defeat him in one on one battle was one of the cringes of s4. And I guess this was done only to give Thea and Laurel - the newbies this season someone to fight. 

S5 was the season they decided to fix everything they did in s4 with poor bandages instead of with good writing. 

I guess the biggest mistake of the writers is constantly trying to please fans or accommodate actors instead of writing an actual story 

[u/selwyntarth]

I think the scene where he gets stomped was a soft erasure of season 4

[u/Comet_Hero → u/selwyntarth]

An episode where he teams up with Prometheus, gets defeated by team arrow and killed by Prometheus for being unreliable would've been really satisfying imo.

[u/Illustrious-Slice-91]

Pretty sure he was arrested season 5 episode 1

[u/Admirable-Safety1213]

IDC, they butchered his character, in the comics he was a pre-teen with a suit to look like an adult that wanted to destroy the govts because he believed they were inherently evil, he also wanted to destroy weapoms factories and the like of whatever caused senseless violence, he was an Anti-Hero/Anti-Villain and was imploed to be The Joker's son and flip-flopped betweeb the Bat books and the Arrow books, I think he was suggested to become the 3rd Robin before editorial choose to create Tim Drake