All of these atribbutes apply to Malcolm, played by John Barrowman. Mr. Barrowman is famous for not only being the villain on Arrow, but also Capt. Jack Harkness on the Sci-Fi favorite "Doctor Who". I was fortunate enough to listen to him speak along with his sister Carole during a Q&A panel at NC Comicon. One question asked by a fan was along the lines of "Do you find it strange that in real life, the actor who plays Malcolm's som Tommy (Colin Donnell), is only 15 years apart from you in age?". John replied, "in theory, Malcolm could have had Tommy, right before he graduated High School" (their age is different in real life). He then went on to say " But then again, I know the story, and you don't". That is where this whole idea came from. OK, so how did Malcolm survive being killed by Arrow? How does he look so young, if he's probably almost 60? Why is Ra's Al Ghul after him? In the show, they think he payed off the M.E. office, uses special skin cream (not), and that he broke the leagues honor code. But could their be more to this? In the Comic Books, not the Dark Knight Trilogy, Ra's Al Ghul was immortal, and is suspected to be centuries old by the worlds greatest detective (Batman). He accomplishes this by using a substance called Lazarus, which heals him, makes him young again, and has even been shown to bring him back to life. You see where I'm going? Now the likelyhood of me thinking they would incorporate something so sci-fi would have easily been debunked, but now we have The Flash, sci-fi in the Arrowverse. If Malcolm stole something like...Lazarus, he could have used it to bring himself back to life, to keep himself young, and it would be a better reason for Ra's to be hunting him down.
So what do you guys, the Arrow fans think of this random theory?
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