According to Entertainment Weekly, Tron: Legacy alum Matt Ward has joined the cast of Arrow season 3, as the DC Comics villain Komodo.
Komodo is the alter-ego of Simon Lacroix, an expert archer, master of Kyudo martial arts, and a big foil of Oliver Queen’s in the New 52 run from Jeff Lemire and Andrea Sorrentino. In the comics, he’s a former associate of Robert Queens, who betrays and kills him in order to obtain an amulet that grants him immortality.
Komodo will make his small screen debut in the second episode, and will tie into some of the season’s larger story arcs, according to executive producer Marc Guggenheim:
“He’s the villain-of-the-week for the second week of the show, but you’ll see that Team Arrow’s pursuit of him is part and parcel of a season-long storyline. You’re going to know what happens to Komodo at the end of the episode, but it will be a little bit tied in better with the season-long mythology than villain-of-the-week episodes have done in the past.”
With Ra’s Al Ghul confirmed as the “big bad” this season, could Komodo show up as a member of the League of Assassins? Or are there other threats out there waiting to reap havoc in Starling City? We’ll have to just wait and see.
Arrow returns on Wednesday October 8 on the CW.
