Jimmy Akingbola To Play DC Comics Villain 'Baron Blitzkrieg' In Season Four Of ARROW

Jimmy Akingbola To Play DC Comics Villain 'Baron Blitzkrieg' In Season Four Of ARROW

We already know that season four of Arrow is going to shake things up for Oliver Queen in a major way as he finally becomes Green Arrow, and now The CW series has added yet another recurring villain to the series in the form of Baron Blitzkrieg. Hit the jump for details...

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By JoshWilding - Jul 22, 2015 09:07 AM EST
Filed Under: Arrow
Source: The Hollywood Reporter
The Hollywood Reporter reveals that Jimmy Akingbola has joined the cast of Arrow's fourth season as the villainous Baron Reiter/Baron Blitzkrieg. He'll go by the former moniker in The CW series, and is described by the site as "an adversary for Oliver"  who will "appear in the show's prominent flashback scenes." In the comics, Reiter leads a group known as Shadowspire and uses Nazi imagery on his costume, but it's not clear how much of that will factor into the series (common sense says he won't be a Nazi). Akingbola has starred in the likes of Sons of Liberty, Holby City, and Rev. This is the latest casting addition to Arrow's fouth season as we recently found out that Neal McDonough as Damien Darhk, Alexander Calvert as Lonnie Machin/Anarky and Echo Kellum as Mister Terrific.
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TronVin
TronVin - 7/22/2015, 9:18 AM
The character is a Nazi but the actor playing him is an African-Briton.
TronVin
TronVin - 7/22/2015, 9:29 AM
@ckal

I don't think you realise this but they just cast a black person to play a character that is a Nazi.
Matador
Matador - 7/22/2015, 9:29 AM
Oh cool it's ironman.
Monitorearthprime
Monitorearthprime - 7/22/2015, 9:30 AM
Um H*ll No!!

That just....No
LEOSTRATOR
LEOSTRATOR - 7/22/2015, 9:32 AM
This has to be the dumbest crap ever, exactly why I gave up on this crapfest.
blackandyellow
blackandyellow - 7/22/2015, 9:33 AM
Holy shit. All this time we've been [frick]ing with SuperCat has been leading up to this moment.
Matador
Matador - 7/22/2015, 9:33 AM
It's kinda like this.
blackandyellow
blackandyellow - 7/22/2015, 9:37 AM
SuperCat hasn't been this happy since he adopted that new puppy.
Nickk
Nickk - 7/22/2015, 9:38 AM
after the meh-ness of season 3..Arrow needs to earn my trust back again..Season 4 needs to get back on track

You DON'T say i thought you was gonna praise this like you praise all most every movie thats in living daylight
Desr0w
Desr0w - 7/22/2015, 9:38 AM
Suicide Squad Official website:

http://www.suicidesquad.com/
pesmerga44
pesmerga44 - 7/22/2015, 9:38 AM
Clayton Bigsby black white supremest


Nickk
Nickk - 7/22/2015, 9:39 AM
i thought supercat was the one found out gusto use to aswell!
BlackIceJoe
BlackIceJoe - 7/22/2015, 9:39 AM
They should change the Nazi symbol to a Confederate one. Just to see people face after the fact would be priceless.
blackandyellow
blackandyellow - 7/22/2015, 9:40 AM
Sigma9
Sigma9 - 7/22/2015, 9:43 AM
@Matador I think you're mastaken it says Baron Blitzkrieg

I really like what they did here on picking up old E,D,C-list characters from 1950.. and putting them into our modern world just Deathbolt

Green Arrow has so many villains we havent seen

Red Dart
SuperCat
SuperCat - 7/22/2015, 9:43 AM
LOL! @blackandyellow. It's hard to hate that puppy!
SuperCat
SuperCat - 7/22/2015, 9:44 AM
@ Nomis

That bastard, @Gusto started all this. They just want to rustle my jimmies!
MrAisA
MrAisA - 7/22/2015, 9:44 AM
"appear in the show's prominent flashback scenes."
blackandyellow
blackandyellow - 7/22/2015, 9:45 AM
@nomis

We started to get suspicious when we made him take off his KKK robe and was wearing a Nazi SS uniform underneath.
Matador
Matador - 7/22/2015, 9:47 AM
@Sigma9 - Dude I had no idea who 'Baron Blitzkrieg' is and could not even see the picture within the page only the icon of the top left corner that looked like Ironman.

And I did not know the character or actor was black but read what people were saying.
JorL5150
JorL5150 - 7/22/2015, 9:47 AM
"Finally...MY story is told...."
-supercat
MercwithMouth
MercwithMouth - 7/22/2015, 9:47 AM
I'm so confused...and not just sexually for once.
THEDARKKNIGHT1939
THEDARKKNIGHT1939 - 7/22/2015, 9:48 AM
Don't care about Season 4 anymore. Especially after amell posted this shit:
ComicsDoneRight
ComicsDoneRight - 7/22/2015, 9:48 AM
Okay, so here's what we're probably getting with this. Dahrk is probably the head of Shadowspire. Within his organization, he has a disfigured assassin simply named The Baron, or simply "Reiter". Him and McDonough's Dahrk will be the big villains most likely this season, with Anarky having a minor role somewhere in the middle
Kcaps512
Kcaps512 - 7/22/2015, 9:48 AM
It seems like they're taking on Arrow the same way they did the flash. Introduce a bunch of bad guys and let them be reoccurring throughout the show, while dealing with one big bad. Hopefully the show will right the mistakes of season 3 and put the emphasis back on Oliver, instead of the supporting cast. I miss those season one monologues.
JorL5150
JorL5150 - 7/22/2015, 9:52 AM
Say what you will- but hitler invented cupcakes.


Was it a fair trade? You decide. But just THINK about next time you have a cupcake.
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