‘Arrow’ season 5 theory: Is Billy Malone actually Prometheus?
One of the things that we’ve really enjoyed doing over the “Arrow” hiatus in particular this year is looking at some of the greatest theories out there revolving around some of your favorite characters. There’s no real need to speculate further about Laurel Lance now that it’s pretty clear what her return really means, so instead, we put most of our focus onto Prometheus.
While there may not be too much about him that is known for certain, there is this: It’s a bad, bad person under that hood. They are someone out to destroy Oliver Queen’s life, and also harm anyone and everyone close to him. They’s incredibly skilled in combat, and given that they worked with Artemis already, they’re not so much of a loner that they fail to recognize the power of solid teamwork.
Who is the top candidate to be our villain? We already had some fun discussing at length the Tommy Merlyn one, so with that, let’s just over and focus on another interest candidate: Billy Malone.
The biggest argument: Tyler Ritter
Ritter is a fairly substantial get for the show, given that he was just the major star of another in “The McCarthys” and likely had many different opportunities leading into this season. Why choose “Arrow”? Maybe he was promising a meaty role. Another easy argument here is that this was a character who viewers could become invested in over time, that way the show wouldn’t have to reveal that the person under the Prometheus mask is someone we haven’t seen hardly at all during the season.
A great parallel here could be with “The Flash” getting Teddy Sears. The moment that he was brought on board, it was easy to imagine that he was more than just Jay Garrick, and was also Zoom in disguise.
How is it possible?
After all, we did see Malone’s dead body on the show … yet, we’ve certainly seen people back from the dead before. Maybe you can argue that there’s a twin situation going on, or that Billy had something in his system just in case he were to die that would help to bring him back later. (Not sure how that would’ve helped the arrows, though.) There’s just something interesting about the idea of Billy using Felicity to get close to Oliver, and then “dying” at the time that he learns everything that he needs to know. Now, he can be in the shadows and nobody will ever suspect anything at all.
Also, doesn’t all of this make sense given the previous theory that Prometheus had police connections?
The biggest question that remains
Who doesn’t Oliver recognize him? If Prometheus hates him so much that he wants to destroy his entire life, you think Oliver would have recognized him unless he’d went and done some elaborate plastic surgery — which feels a little too much like a soap-opera for this particular show. Maybe he’s the child of someone like we saw suggested with a similar story in the winter finale.
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Personally, the Tommy theory is our favorite one out there, even though it seems almost impossible unless you’re only going to unmask him for an episode or two near the end with Colin Donnell back as a guest star. (With “Chicago Med,” we doubt that he will be around for a whole lot more than that.) We do also think that the Billy one has some legs, just because there aren’t a lot of other viable candidates and he was introduced at the right time. There’s just that little issue of him already dying that seems to get in the way.
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