Red Dart is the name of different characters appearing in

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s published by

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. A female version of Red Dart appeared on the seventh season of

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'', played by actress

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Fictional character biography

Jonathan Mallory

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. They didn't know it yet, but Red Dart is secretly in allegiance with some gold thieves. The next night, Green Arrow deduced the truth about Red Dart where he and Speedy captured him and the gold thieves. Green Arrow proved Red Dart's allegiance to the gold thieves by removing one of Mallory's gloves to reveal gold stains which is a tell-tale sign of testing gold with Aqua-Regia. Red Dart later plotted to assassinate Green Arrow by using a booby trap at the time he was going to speak at an engagement in

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. This plan fails because

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shows up instead. He teams up with

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to defeat Red Dart. When Red Dart tries to beam up to the

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's satellite, he is instead taken away by another teleportation beam.

Anthony

When the Justice League arrived in Belle Reve to deal with the prison riots, a minor criminal named Anthony who calls himself Red Dart steals

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's power ring during his fight with the Color Queens prison gang (consisting of

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, Doctor Light,

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) where he plans to give it to someone on the Green Mile and then return it to Green Lantern. When Superman reclaims the power ring from Red Dart as the prison riot is being quelled, Red Dart privately remarks that this is probably the coolest thing he will ever do knowing that he will be partly responsible for the death of Superman. When Red Dart is back in his cell with nothing but a picture of Green Lantern's power ring, he wonders what his employers wanted as it is secretly revealed that his employers are

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and

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who are forming the next incarnation of the Injustice Gang. Their temporary theft of the ring somehow allowed them to sabotage it so that Green Lantern couldn't use it, but it is later revealed that this was under the influence of the universe-destroyed weapon Mageddon, with Green Lantern eventually restoring the ring to working order through force of will.

Unnamed female

In "

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", a reboot of the DC Comics universe, a third Red Dart appeared. This version is an unnamed female and is a member of Ricardo Diaz's

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alongside Brick,

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, and

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. Red Dart is the first to attack Green Arrow who protects Henry Fyff and Naomi Sing from them. Brick and Killer Moth then assisted Red Dart in beating up Green Arrow until Oliver Queen's half-sister Emiko strikes them with a volley of trick arrows. Red Dart tries to take Emiko hostage only for Naomi to knock her in the back of her head.''Green Arrow'' Vol. 5 #33. DC Comics.

Powers and abilities

The Jonathan Mallory uses trick darts.

In other media

A variation of the female Red Dart appears in the seventh season of ''

'', portrayed by

. She is a member of the Longbow Hunters alongside Kodiak and Silencer. Red Dart prefers quiet, subterfuge and subtle tactics, over confrontation and brute force. Red Dart and her fellow Longbow Hunters are hired by Ricardo Diaz to serve his criminal empire. After Diaz is defeated by the new Green Arrow and the rest of Team Arrow, the Longbow Hunters flee.

Fictional character biography

Jonathan Mallory

Anthony

Unnamed female

Powers and abilities

In other media

See also

References

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