Missing and presumed dead, billionaire playboy Oliver Queen was the lone survivor of a shipwreck, but being stranded on a remote, uncharted island for five years has changed him. Upon returning home, Oliver is determined to fulfill his father's dying wishes; to right the wrongs of the Queen family, fight the ills of society, and restore Starling City to its former glory. To fight crime and corruption, Oliver maintains his billionaire playboy image by day, but becomes a secret vigilante by night.. Arrow, a masked crusader whose weapon of choice is a bow and arrow.

Captain Jack Harkness is a man from the 51st century trapped in the past who leads the last remnants of the Torchwood Institute, a top secret British agency outside the government whose job it is to investigate alien goings on in the world, act in mankind's best interest, and, if needed, be the Earth's last line of defense.