ARROW Confirms That Ra's Al Ghul Is [SPOILER]

ARROW Confirms That Ra's Al Ghul Is [SPOILER]

Matt Nable's Ra's Al Ghul confirmed a number of long-held fan suspicions about his character. Is The CW's Arrow portraying Ra's as a semi-immortal warrior or a title passed down from one League of Assassins member to the next?

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By MarkJulian - Feb 26, 2015 03:02 AM EST
Filed Under: Arrow

Last night's Arrow provided our first solid look at Ra's al Ghul in the Lazarus Pit.  The character also confirmed that he's been around for a long time, stating that he met an amazing illusionist in 1854 only to see that man become a shadow of himself 50 years later.  Yeah, unlike Batman Begins' Ra's al Ghul, played by Liam Neeson, Arrow's version of the character has been around for nearly two centuries.  How will the Lazarus Pit factor in to future episodes of Arrow? We'll have to find out when new episodes of the show resume on March 18th. 

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kdrkdr19
kdrkdr19 - 2/26/2015, 4:02 AM
@Jollem

No there wasn't
Mecha
Mecha - 2/26/2015, 4:05 AM
@kdrkdr19 Actually there was. It was just done in a realistic way.
MarkJulian
MarkJulian - 2/26/2015, 4:10 AM
@kdrkdr19 He's talking about the prison from TDKR. And in the novelization of Batman Begins, there was mention of the actual Lazarus Pit but the movie never touched on it.
GhostDog
GhostDog - 2/26/2015, 4:15 AM
There was a lazarus pit in Nolan verse
kdrkdr19
kdrkdr19 - 2/26/2015, 4:24 AM
I'm confused, I don't remember ever seeing it or it being mentioned in the trilogy
Luminus
Luminus - 2/26/2015, 4:43 AM
You can see Ra's dipping his injured hand into the Lazarus Pit in the preview for the next episode. He must be doing a demonstration for Ollie.
RalphieWiggum88
RalphieWiggum88 - 2/26/2015, 4:53 AM
Awesome News! I love that they are introducing more fantastical elements...unlike the TDK trilogy which was strictly reality-based.
Supes17
Supes17 - 2/26/2015, 5:36 AM
The Lazarus pit was hinted at in both the novelization and the blu ray. I'm sure Ra's Al Ghul was vaporized on that train so it's not like they could bring him back anyway
1pickleduck
1pickleduck - 2/26/2015, 5:58 AM
thought he was gonna say,"..... is Batman."
Bartman87
Bartman87 - 2/26/2015, 5:59 AM
Wait-so the Lazarus pit was mentioned in the Nolanverse~except it was only in the novelization. That doesn't count since no one read the novelization and if it didn't happen in the movie it didn't happen at all. Nolan went for the realistic approach of passing the title on from each person-not dumb just different, but to justify it by saying that the pit was in the novelization and hinted at (you'd have to point that out) is reaching.
GarthRanzz
GarthRanzz - 2/26/2015, 6:08 AM
Where in the trilogy does it say there isnt a pit? You know they arent mentioned in every comic. Its like Bane, in most of his appearances, he doesnt . use Venom.
TheLight
TheLight - 2/26/2015, 6:13 AM
Is it wrong that I want to see Batman crash through the ceiling, do a spinning back kick to Ra's, take down Nyssa, and say to Arrow, "That's how to do it" and then just vanish right in front of him?
TheBrotherhood
TheBrotherhood - 2/26/2015, 6:14 AM
Jollem's fetish - Hating on Marvel. What a disease!
RextheKing
RextheKing - 2/26/2015, 6:15 AM
Did he say 1854, i thought he said 1954. It would make more since, because if I read the scene right he was referring the man to Merlyn. 1954 plus 50 years is 2004, and I can't remember if they revealed when Merlyn ran off to the league, but somewhere in the early 2000s would make since.
BritishMonkey
BritishMonkey - 2/26/2015, 6:15 AM
Arrow really is just a Batman show now isn't it?
DallasAvenger
DallasAvenger - 2/26/2015, 6:17 AM
Yep, this Ra's is better than the one in Batman Begins.
tugboy
tugboy - 2/26/2015, 6:20 AM
Nyssa is gonna stab Thea and mortally wound her. Then Oliver will have to take the offer and become Ra's Al Ghul and then use the Lazerus Pit to bring her back to life. And then she becomes Speedy.
MercwithMouth
MercwithMouth - 2/26/2015, 6:21 AM
Wait...what the hell was wrong with the Mandarin twist? It was played beautifully by a ridiculously talented actor in Ben Kingsley...
tugboy
tugboy - 2/26/2015, 6:22 AM
I agree with those liking Matt Nable's protrayal. I just wish he had been used more this season. Him and Vinnie Jones. Nable, Vinnie Jones, and Deathstroke are the best baddies on the show ever. Merlyn is just a tad below.
tugboy
tugboy - 2/26/2015, 6:23 AM
Quick question, since when can The Atom fly? The Atom I grew up with could not fly. He had to go through telephone wires to get places.
DallasAvenger
DallasAvenger - 2/26/2015, 6:24 AM
Yeah, special features and novelizations don't count for anything. And quite frankly I don't even like the tie-in and prequel comic books that Marvel does. To me a cinematic universe should be oh I don't know uh... Cinematic!
DallasAvenger
DallasAvenger - 2/26/2015, 6:27 AM
Yeah, I love the Atom. But I do not like that flying Robocop looking thing Ray Palmer is doing. Make him shrink soon as possible and end that nonsense. I wanted to see an Atom spin-off.
RextheKing
RextheKing - 2/26/2015, 6:27 AM
@BritishMonkey Is Batman the main character on the show? Is Batman even a character on the show? No and No. So to answer your question, no. It's a Green Arrow show, which take inspiration from his own comics, a little from Batman's, and a little from Nolan's Batman films.
SteveBosell
SteveBosell - 2/26/2015, 6:28 AM
Am I the only one that is thinking Merlyn is really old and has used the Lazarus Pit as well? Merlyn even said he was one of Ra's al Ghul's "horsemen".
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