Vigilante on Arrow

 

More Arrow casting news!

Adrian Chase — the character known to fans as Vigilante — is headed to Arrow.

Vigilante, in the comics, is a former New York district attorney who’s set on the path of justice after his family is killed by the mob. The CW describes him similarly: Chase is “Star City’s new district attorney and an ally of Mayor Oliver Queen (Stephen Amell), who aims to clean up the streets through the legal system.”

Josh Segarra joins Rick Gonzalez, who was just announced to play Wild Dog next season. Echo Kellum, who plays Curtis Holt (a formative version of Justice Society member Mister Terrific), has also been upgraded from recurring to series regular.

While in the comics, Vigilante tends to be fairly similar to Wild Dog in his aggressive, brutal approach to fighting crime, he’s a more complex and layered character. Chase is only one of the people to use the name Vigilante; he would eventually be consumed with guilt over his own abandonment of the rule of law, and would take his own life. Later, another Vigilante would take his place.

We actually expected Vigilante to pop up at some point. He’s a low level character that CW loves to play with and introduce. We hope that they portray Vigilante and Wild Dog differently because we don’t want them to be too similar.

No word yet on who our big baddie will be, but we are hoping for several villains instead of one that will drag throughout the season like Damien Darhk.

 

~Seppin

~Rek