Eddie Fyers

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Eddie Fyers
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Eddie Fyers as depicted in Green Arrow: Secret Files & Origins #1 (December 2002). Art by Phil Winslade.
Publication information
Publisher DC Comics
First appearance Green Arrow: Longbow Hunters #3 (October 1987)
Created by Mike Grell
In-story information
Alter egoEdward Fyers
Team affiliations CIA
Ninth Circle
AbilitiesWeapons master

Eddie Fyers is a fictional character, appearing in various comic book series published by DC Comics.

Contents

Edward Fyers appears in the first and eighth seasons of Arrow , portrayed by Sebastian Dunn.

Publication history

Created by Mike Grell, he first appeared in Green Arrow: The Longbow Hunters #3 in 1987.

Fictional character biography

Edward "Eddie" Fyers, was employed by the CIA to shoot and kill the rogue archer Shado. [1]

He appeared frequently in Grell's run on the Green Arrow ongoing series, occasionally in the summer bi-weekly Green Arrow arcs with Shado. Over the course of his appearances, Fyers became less of an enemy to Oliver Queen, aka Green Arrow, and the two often became begrudging allies. Fyers was untrustworthy, however, and would generally leave Green Arrow holding the bag, including implicating Oliver in a terrorist attack on the Panama Canal. After Mike Grell left the Green Arrow series at issue #80, Chuck Dixon and Jim Aparo further developed the character. [2]

He grew to be a father figure to Connor Hawke, Oliver's son and the second to bear the name Green Arrow. Their relationship grew after Oliver died in a plane explosion near Metropolis while fighting off eco-terrorists. [3]

Eddie had promised Oliver to look after his son if anything were to happen to him, which he did, even after Oliver returned from the dead in the Quiver storyline. Fyers was seriously injured in the mini-series Connor Hawke: Dragons Blood, written by Dixon in 2006. He had severe burns all over his body, which he had gotten by protecting Connor and Shado. He was last seen at the wedding of Green Arrow and Black Canary.

Eddie Fyers re-appears in Green Arrow comics following DC Rebirth . Here, Fyers is a mercenary and member of the Ninth Circle, an international criminal organization and bank alongside such assassins like Brick, Shado and Cheshire. [4]

In other media

Edward Fyers appears in Arrow , portrayed by Sebastian Dunn. This version is the field commander of a mercenary unit based on Lian Yu. Throughout flashbacks depicted in the first season, Amanda Waller secretly hires Fyers to kill China White. In pursuit of this, he attempts to destroy China's economy and kidnaps Shado to frame her father Yao Fei. After killing him, Shado, Oliver Queen, and Slade Wilson foil Fyers' plan before Queen kills him. In the eighth season episode "Purgatory", Fyers and Yao Fei are revived by Lian Yu's supernatural energy until Lyla Michaels and William Clayton build a device to absorb the island's energy, causing the revived individuals to disappear.

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References

  1. Green Arrow: The Longbow Hunters #3 (October 1987). DC Comics.
  2. Green Arrow (vol. 2) #80 (November 1993). DC Comics.
  3. Green Arrow (vol. 2) #101 (October 1995). DC Comics.
  4. Green Arrow (vol. 6) #10. DC Comics.