Arrow Spinoff The Atom Planned at The CW. The CW is in early talks with Arrow producers for a new spin-off series centering on The Atom, played by Brandon Routh. The Atom's physical appearance is on his appearance in the Arrowverse TV shows Arrow and its spin-off DC's Legends of Tomorrow. Raymond 'Ray' Palmer, is a physicist and professor at Ivy University in the fictional city of Ivy Town, somewhere in New England, specializing in matter compression as a means to fight overpopulation, famine and other world problems.
No stranger to DC superheroes, Superman Returns star Brandon Roth is joining Arrow's third season. Usually, new additions to a TV cast are shrouded in mystery (see: this season's additions to Scandal, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., etc.), but The CW told TV Line up front who Routh will be playing: Ray Palmer. If you're not up to date with your DC character alter egos, I can help you out — he'll be playing The Atom.
Who's The Atom? Well, according to the comics, Ray Palmer is a scientist who's studying matter compression. So, like shrinking and expanding stuff. One day, he and his girlfriend go out spelunking, there's a rock slide, and the two of them get trapped underneath the rubble. Palmer decides to use one of his science experiments on himself, and shrinks down small enough to crawl through the rocks and escape (don't worry, he goes back for his girlfriend, Jean). With this new found shape-altering ability, he does the only logical thing and decides to become a superhero.
His storyline on Arrow will mostly likely deviate from that. TV Line reports that he's entering the show as the new head of Queen Consolidated (we'll miss you, Isabel!), and I imagine he'll be met with open arms, since I doubt he's going to show up and try to kill everyone (we still miss you, Isabel!). However, he's bound to shake things up no matter what. Oliver's never been more ready to take over the company, if only to prove to everyone, once and for all, that he can handle it. But, can Ollie live with another attractive gentleman hanging around Felicity? Rumor has it that Routh will play a potential love interest for our favorite girl.
In saying this, though, his character is still a mystery. I doubt Arrow will make Palmer out to be a new bad guy for the season, since he's only ever been portrayed as a good guy — but that would be an awesome twist. Palmer's agenda for what he wants to do with Queen Consolidated's Applied Sciences Division is still tightly under wraps. It's not even a sure thing that he'll become The Atom during the season. Considering that Roy Harper has been around since Season 1 and stillhasn't fully become Arrow's sidekick, Speedy, the show could easily take its time setting the character up. Hopefully he'll stick around for the entire season.
Palmer will probably develop the experiment that makes him shrink while working at Queen Consolidated, giving us a very nice introduction to the character. Doing that would also set up a very nice tension with Oliver. How do you think he'll feel knowing that his company isn't making earthquake machines anymore, but rather shrink rays? The last thing he needs is more trouble at QC.
It won't be too hard for Routh to slip right into the role of a crime-fighting vigilante. In addition to playing Superman in Bryan Singer's greatly disliked Superman Returns (honestly, I think I'm the only person out there who enjoyed that movie, which is why I was so excited to hear Routh was joining Arrow), he had a stint on Chuck as a good guy turned bad guy. Routh also popped up in Enlisted before it was rudely canceled by FOX. Hopefully his portrayal of Palmer gets him a standing invitation to the Arrowcave.
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Atom Heart Father (アトム・ハート・ファーザー Atomu Hāto Fāzā)
- [NOTE]: The ability is bound to a Polaroid camera and the pictures produced, thus it doesn't have an exact appearance.
(E): Kitchen Knife Throw - Atom Heart Father's user throws a kitchen knife in front of them.
(R): Arrow Stab - This unique move allows AHF's user to slash with the arrow. The damage is scaled further depending on the user's worthiness.
(T): Photographic Prison - (AoE Movement Manipulation) Upon using a Camera, the Stand User takes a picture of the surrounding area, and Anyone caught within the photograph is then trapped in an invisible box. This will limit their movement for [5] Seconds.
(Y): Requiem Arrow Throw - The user of AHF throws a small requiem arrow in front of them, buffing anyone hit by 25%. This buff only lasts for a few seconds, however.
- [NOTE]: This does NOT actually requiem the people you hit.
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AFTER REQUIEM:
(F): Arrow Throw - (Ability Advantage) Concealing an arrow all the time only to throw it towards a player that is currently [STANDLESS] in-game will force the user to gain a random tier Stand.
Atom Arrow Anna
- [NOTE]: The arrow can roll any stand (excluding unobtainable ones, obviously) and give spec users stands. The latter is only limited to Hamon variants, however. In order to give a spec user a stand, it must be the killing blow.