Connor Hawke

Connor Hawke was created by Kelley Puckett and Jim Aparo. Connor is the son of Oliver Queen,
the original Green Arrow, and his former girlfriend Sandra "Moonday" Hawke. Connor Hawke
first appeared in Green Arrow (volume 2) #0 (1994).

Connor Hawke met Oliver Queen after Oliver came to stay at the ashram where Connor had been
studying for some years. Oliver who had previously retreated to the ashram decades before,
looking for peace after accidentally killing a criminal (in The Flash 2nd series #217),
returned to the ashram under similar circumstances, haunted by the thought that he had
killed his former best friend Hal Jordan, who, at the time, was involuntarily serving as the
host of the supervillain Parallax. Thanks to Connor, who was a big fan of Green Arrow,
Oliver was able to regain a semblance of inner peace and venture out into the world again,
especially after numerous attempts on his life had been made.[1]

Connor decided to journey with Oliver, and created a costume similar to his. Connor served
as Oliver's sidekick, also meeting with Eddie Fyers, the former federal agent that acted as
a form of counsel for Oliver. It was during this time that Oliver learned about his
connection to Connor (albeit from the ghost of Hal Jordan): Connor was Oliver's son,
conceived during Oliver's college years - a truth that Eddie Fyers had already deduced.
Oliver didn't take it well and stormed off, agreeing to go undercover in an eco-terrorist
group called the Eden Corps for the government. The mission turned out to be fatal for
Oliver, as his arm was connected to a bomb in a plane that was headed for Metropolis. Rather
than endanger Metropolis, and refusing to allow his arm to be amputated, he sacrificed
himself to let the bomb explode away from the city. With his father dead, Connor decided to
take up the mantle of Green Arrow and continue his hero's work.

Connor continued to travel with Eddie, accompanied at times by Connor's martial arts mentor
Master Jansen. Connor tried to find his place not only in the hero world, but also in the
legacy of Green Arrow. Akin to the friendship between his father and Hal Jordan, Connor
became quick friends with the new Green Lantern Kyle Rayner, who himself was struggling to
live up to a legacy. Connor also met Black Canary (Dinah Laurel Lance), Oliver's former and
longtime romantic interest, who gave him one of Oliver's old bows, which Connor would use
from then on (though the news that Oliver was dead had sent Black Canary, who was already
suffering from a string of misfortunes – loss of income from the destruction of her florist
shop and the loss of her superhuman ability – into a despair, it was finally ended by her
association with Oracle and she was Oracle's agent by the time she finally met Connor).

Besides making other friends such as Robin, he also made significant enemies in the fighting
world, including the Silver Monkey, an assassin and member of the Monkey Fist martial arts
cult. Their first encounter resulted in a decisive loss for Connor, which was also filmed
and sold underground. Connor's close win in a rematch resulted in a loss of face for the
Monkey Fist cult and set Connor on a path that would bring him face to face with Lady Shiva,
said to be the deadliest assassin in the world. During the Brotherhood of the Fist
storyline, the Monkey Fist schools attacked various world-class martial artists attempting
to prove their worthiness and skill after having been dishonored by the Silver Monkey's
loss. Under the alias "Paper Monkey," Shiva arrived in Gotham City where Connor had allied
with Batman, Nightwing, and Robin. Shiva's final opponent was Connor, who was the prime
target of the Monkey Fist. Though a close and taxing contest, Shiva was the victor, with
Connor unconscious and defenseless. Thankfully, Shiva's old pupil, Tim Drake who had saved
her life during a previous encounter, asked her not to kill Connor, trading a life for a
life. After warning Robin that using the favor now meant she would challenge and kill the
boy wonder when he was older, she refrained from killing Connor and departed. Batman warned
Connor that he would be perceived as surviving a battle with Shiva through his own skill and
would therefore be a possible target for any fighters building their way up to a battle
against her.

Connor also applied for membership in the JLA, replacing his father. On the date of his
second interview, he singlehandedly saved the League from the hands of the Key, defeating
the Key's robots by using his father's old trick arrows after the Key had destroyed his own.
In the end, he knocked out the Key using his father's trademark boxing glove arrow, and was
accepted as a member of the JLA.

He would later be used by Batman as a "traitor" in the League in a ploy to defeat Lex
Luthor's Injustice Gang. Connor left the League afterward, feeling he was better suited for
the street-level work and out of his element in the epic adventures of the Justice League,
although he did remain on reserve status. He and Eddie returned for a time to the ashram
where Connor was raised, although they both often returned to the outside world, aiding
Robin at one point when his Brentwood Academy roommate had been attacked by a demon, and
again when Robin, the Spoiler, and Batgirl were attempting to protect Robin's father from an
ancient cult.

When Oliver returned from the dead, Connor left the ashram and tracked him down. After
Connor managed to save his father from the evil wizard Stanley Dover- a 'blood seal' had
been placed around Dover's house that meant that only someone related to anyone in the house
could get in- Connor and Oliver moved in together in Star City. The two live with Mia
Dearden, a runaway that Oliver has taken in and trained as his new sidekick Speedy. Since
returning to the superhero life, Connor has been wounded seriously twice, once by the
villain called Onomatopoeia and once by Constantine Drakon, but he continues in his hero
role. He is the voice of reason for Oliver, and the two have since formed a real father-son
relationship. During his recovery from Onomatopoeia's attack, Oliver Queen and his former
sidekick Roy Harper went on a trip across the country recovering old possessions. One of
them was an old photograph which revealed that Oliver had been present at Connor's birth,
but later ran from the responsibility of being a father. Oliver kept this fact from his son.
However, Connor already learned the truth years ago from his mother, and has already
forgiven him without Oliver's knowledge.

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