Stephen Amell On John Cena Calling Him Out 

Watch the full interview with Stephen Amell on my main channel here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-V-gl3kYN7ws.html

Arrowverse had a lot of problems on the writing side but the actors did deliver and kept me invested.

"You might have to cut this out of the podcast"..first clip to be put out there 😂😂

I kinda get it honestly. Say you what you want about the Arrowverse and its at times abysmal writing and dialogue but they did more with less and when the DCEU was out here throwing shit at the wall with no plan the Arrowverse were knocking it out of the park with their crossovers that lived up to the hype for the most part

Nah Amell was spitting. All he was saying was pretty much “you ain’t gotta punch down, we worked hard too”

Peacemaker vs Green Arrow on the John Cena WWE retirement tour is something I now ABSOLUTELY NEED

For context, on the show Peacemaker, Cena as Peacemaker said that Green Arrow "goes to brony conventions dressed as the back 1/2 of Twilight Sparkle with a 4' wide butthole drilled in the costume." That being said, neither Cena nor the show said anything about Amell or the Arrowverse. The line was about the in-universe Green Arrow (tho he never appeared on screen), not the Arrowverse character. Amell being upset would be like Justin Hartley being upset b/c Hartley played GA in Smallville... For further context, Peacemaker threw all kinds of insults at other DC heroes on the show, like Superman has a poop fetish & Aquaman fucks fish...

Cena probably said “Stephen Amell, you have failed this city” 😂

Amell put in the work for Arrow. So many of the stunts and fight scenes were done by him. Plus, he really improved his range as an actor throughout the course of the show. A true sign of his dedication to the role.

Arrow and the flash in their beginning years were just fantastically written

Hey, kudos to Arrow for getting a Green Arrow skin in Injustice. That was pretty cool.

Arrowverse 2012-2016 was outstanding DC media. Regardless of everything else that followed, that much is a fact.

Anyone confused Cena said “goes to brony conventions dressed as the back half of Twilight Sparkle with a four-inch-wide butthole drilled in the costume.” Then After a Twitter user tagged Amell to ask if he had a response, the actor, who was playing a wrestler on the Starz series Heels, “Haven’t seen it. Too busy showing Cena what professional wrestling should actually look like on tv.”

"maybe don't shit on our show" he's literally right

Christian: "Can I swear?" Stephen Amell: "**** this ****ing ****"

To be fair, Peacemaker made fun of Batman and Aquaman too. I wouldn’t take it personally.

Stephen Amell and Thomas Gustin did amazing jobs as the Arrow and the Flash. That said, they were severely limited by the soap opera drama CW felt mandatory to put into their shows because they need to cater to as many audiences as they can. The Crossovers were immaculate but feels like a slog to get to them because of just how many shows it evolved into being and just how BORING shit was. Stephen, you aren't reading this, but you and the hard working actors didn't deserve to get shit on. The prop and costume department don't deserve it. The show itself?? Peak start with dwindling returns.

He wasn't taking a shot at the arrowverse. He was taking a shot at the character Green Arrow just like he did Aquaman. C'mon it's not that deep.

The Arrowverse at it's peak was incredible. Hell the entire run of Arrow was decent with only one off season the rest being incredible.

If Amell didn’t do what he did with the first 3 seasons of Arrow, Cena would never have been peacemaker.

felicity becoming front and center of arrow is what killed it

"... They're not thinking of the snyder cut; they're thinking about the arrowverse..." Eh.....no.... They're thinking about the animated stuff.....

You gotta know that Amel is the biggest Arrowverse hater. I understand him, the show was awesome until Season 3. Then they made it a shitshow. All the weight was thrown down at actors shoulders, while writers was smoking weed. Also no stuntmen, actors did everything themselves. These guys are the real heroes. Steve Amel and Kaity Lotz carried their shows solo. And after all the struggles all they had is fans shiting on their work. That's frustrating.

Amell needs to learn to take a joke. Peacemaker (the character) because of his own insecurities and envy was saying all sorts of ridiculous stuff about other more popular, well-liked superheroes on the show. He said Aquaman F'd fish, and Jason Momoa played along with the joke in a cameo. This wasn't some personal attack on Amell's show. Bro just needs to get a sense of humor.

I think Stephen is in the "Cena sucks!" Crowd 😂

Respect to Amell and the whole arrow verse cast. Fr first 3 seasons just hit different

The fact that it went for 8 seasons tells you it was a good show but it was for a certain audience and to those people it is one of the greatest superhero shows ever to be made

It was definitely James Gunn that unnecessarily wrote those lines.

For as many problems as the Arrowverse ended up having, the first season or two of Arrow is easily some of the best, if not THE best, DC content around. I'd even put it up against some of the best superhero movies, honestly.

Listen, Im 43 and to this day Arrow is still my favourite superhero show/movie. I watched it 2 times already start to finish. It never once felt cheesy and that’s hard to do in this genre.

Peacemaker vs arrow when

Stephen Amell has a history of being a complete narcissist and this is no different. John Cena did not call out Stephen Amell and neither did James Gunn. James Gunn wrote a script in which the fictional character Peacemaker insults the fictional character of Green Arrow, a character that has long been established before Stephen Amell took on the role and a character that will be standing long after.

i love arrow it is my favorite show on cw if it was not for arrow there would not be a arrowverse

The arrow-verse was great until it wasn't. You can pick the point it wasn't. But Peacemaker & Arrow-verse could have been an unhinged awesome crossover and we all know who is to blame.

He said it hahahahahha "They think about the Arrowverse"!!!!!!!!!!!

Peacemaker S1 alone SH*TS all over anything the CWverse ever did.

So did he forget that green arrow is a character outside of just the one he played? The line had nothing to do with Stephen Amell’s green arrow, it was about the character himself

He has a point 🤷🏻‍♂️

Stephen has nothing to worry about. He didn't sell his soul like John Cena did.

The first two seasons of Arrow were gold, but I felt it got rocky after that. The whole Arrowverse was SOOOOO convoluted. But that actors ALWAYS delivered. No matter how silly the story, they always brought it. And Amell is a legit legend for pulling off that character so convincingly, so *physically* for so long. A really fantastic performance.

I absolutely loved Arrow. Amell did an amazing job. I rewatch it start to the last season every other year. Just haven't been able to bring myself to actually finish it.

As a long time DC fan who grew up with the Bruce Timm Cartoons back in the late 90s and early 2000s the Arrowverse sucked. Sure the Arrowverse had a better start than the DCEU but that is not saying much. The Writing on the CW shows felt like something on the lifetime channel, too much soap opera drama and just bad writing all around. The actors did the best they could but it amounted to nothing because the writing was just unbearable. Don't even get me started on Felicity.

Even though I love James Gunn and Peacemaker, I can understand his frustration. He and the other Arrowverse actors gave it their all and as a creator I can agree that no one deserves to have their work crapped on.

Arrow was such a great show. i loved the psychology of oliver queen "No one can know my secret."

Honestly I liked Arrow more than Peacemaker. Cena is just a tool

He took a shot at the character Green Arrow and in the same sentence says Aquaman fucks fish, it wasn't meant to be a serious shot at the show. Amell still out here taking himself too seriously.

22 episode shows are no joke. Hard to make in so many ways.

Peacemaker takes shots at everybody. That's part of his character. He even calls himself a choad

Gunn threw jokes at WW, Aqua Man etc. My guy took this super personal...

All the DC CW shows suffered the same exact fate. They all started off really good first season or two really solid, good action, good storyline. Then the team around them just gets bigger and bigger. More people find out their identity and join in just to create more storylines to write about. Of course the team then becomes woke and starts looking like a college pamphlet with a character to represent every ethnicity and one would of course come out as gay/transgender. Writers would try to be topical with whatever was going on in the news with storylines that would point out that a regular on the show that’s white and straight would have to be shown the "error” of their ways and be educated that they were racist or homophobic etc. The worst part of all this was how the main hero of the show got weaker as the team got bigger. Early seasons the Green Arrow, Flash, Supergirl would be taking out multiple people by themselves in no time. Now that they had a team, suddenly they all just got weak and need backup and help taking on 2-3 people or even needed to get rescued themselves. The shows then were just dragging out getting ridiculous that you just watched to watch, but almost relieved when they finally ended because they ruined it.

It’s easy to come after CW shows but I’ll tell you now if we’re looking at DCs staple of expanded universe projects it goes Timverse, Arrowverse, DCEU and then whatever Gunns universe will eventually be named. James Gunn isn’t even in the damn conversation yet, we’ve at best got one show that may or may not be part of his universe in peacemaker and a trailer for creature commandos. Don’t shit on a guys work that he did over ten years and despite the budget still managed to make a more coherent universe than the movies did when you’ve not even got one movie out to compare against.

I remember in the beginning when the arrowverse was coming together such a good time

Cena or Peacemaker never called out Amel. Because Peacemaker doesnt break the 4th wall. He was talking about their Green Arrow. And its made clear that Peacemaker hates all heroes with a bias because of their code to never kill. And seeing Peacemaker is kind of a villain or Anti Hero its easy to understand.

Peacemaker took a shot at Green Arrow character, not the show. Just like how Peacemaker took a shot at Superman, Aquaman, etc. I dont know why Stephen took it personally and thought it was a shot against his show. But having said that, I do agree that Arrowverse should get more respect and credit. Easy to make fun of the budget but when BvS was getting panned, Justice League was disaster, DCEU was mocked seen as failed try-hards, the Arrowverse was at its peak entertaining people with their crossovers Invasion and Crisis Earth X, introduced/popularised Green Arrow, Flash Supergirl to whole new generation of general audience. They held the DC torch at that moment in time (with Gal Gadot/Wonder Woman and Jason Momoa/Aquaman)

I don’t think the joke in Peacemaker is directed at the Arrow-verse it’s about just the dc character green arrow.

Like Karen Fukuhara, Stephen needs a good script and director to work with.

Arrow was amazing and Flash!!! And DC legends of tomorrow. Man the fans loved you Stephen!!❤❤

Oh snap! It's Stephen from the series "Heels" I F***ING love that series 😃 (will it come back?)

To me Stephen Amell is one of the most talented and hardest working actors in the game. He deserves more respect and notice than he gets.

Arrow season 1 and 2 was sick and it was hindered by needing to fill the networks demand for 23 episodes a year. 6-10 episodes is the sweet spot.

The earliest seasons of Arrow paved the fucking way.... They need to slow it down. DC MEDIA is based on The Arrowverse. Like what??? He had the world on the edge of our seat for years.

I think Peacemaker was talking about the DCU version of Green Arrow that we haven’t seen yet

Geez, take a joke. Peacemaker rips on several DC characters through the season. It's a freaking action comedy show.

I prefer arrow🤷🏻‍♂️

Nah dude. Your TV show died before it finished, way before the Snyder cut even started filming. Arrow verse killed itself.

Flash and Legends of Tomorrow were good ftw.

It was a joke in comedy wtf😂😂How was that even a joke at them Green Arrow is a character outside of the CW yk💀💀

Much respect for what Stephen Amell did on CW but I aint ever putting the Arrowverse over the Snyder Cut 😂

Stephen Amell was great. His Arrow was NEVER comic accurate though. He was written as a Batman knock off from the jump. Not HIS fault, because I honestly think he could’ve taken a (more) comic accurate GA to another level. The shows writers were trash. That said, to be gettin crap from people like Gunn is BS. Amell is FAR more loved by actual comic fans than Gunn. Gunn has casted (comic movies) well and has been carried by that casting because Gunn can’t write worth a sh*t either

Arrow was my shit. I loved that universe especially the Flash

"When they think of the most recent iteration of the Dc Universe, they don't think about the Snyder Cut." Yes. 100% this.

Does this guy not know Green Arrow is a comic character? That peacemaker was talking about the unseen dceu version and not his little Arrowverse version?

I get that Amell is pissed but he should be pissed that the joke from Peacemaker was personal (against Amell) and not against the show. The joke was about Green Arrow going to MLP conventions which is something Amell does in real life with his daughter. They weren't shitting on the show, they were shitting on Amell and his family.

Arrow was actually elite tbh, Flash kinda ruined it towards the end... the episodes were too kid friendly and all mushy with happy endings and felt like a TV show but Arrow did not. Wish it actually got taken seriously like Gotham

Aquaman says hi. Peacemaker clowned on everyone. Get a helmet.

Agreed with Stephen, no one thinks about the Justice League movie because it was so bad! Lol 😆 People can also agree that the Flash tv series was way better than the Flash movie. lol 😆

Arrowverse was so amazing the problem was the writing at the end of the shows.

I don't care i prefer arrow over peacemaker especially when you think about how hard the cast worked

Lol he's actually more like comics GW than his own way of doing GW in his show This is something else

Let’s keep “really hard” in perspective, you’re an actor guy, you’re not building an oil rig in the middle of the ocean.

Man I wish Heels got another season. That last seasons’ cliffhanger was beautifully tragic.

Nobody is thinking about the arrow verse bruh

One thing he's got wrong is when people think about DC, they think about the animated universe. They've been killing it for years now on that side

Stephen is kinda.. fucking weird 😂

Wasn’t expecting the video to end with that I must say.

The joke is Peacemaker took shots at every hero in the world on his show, he's talking out his ass, that character is. He misread that entirely

I'm sorry but when the Arrowverse in its totality is better than the DCEU there's a problem. Yes there is faults. There's obvious faults. It's literally more cohesive and felt like a living comic book. The DCEU was put into that position by the MCU. They were rushed, they failed and we're at where we are at now. Another new era, in a new generation under new leadership. I'll say it once and I'll say it again if Berlanti was given the budget. It would've been the best DC universe on the film screen. (I don't count Green Lantern because of one simple reason. That was Berlanti's mistake which allowed him to make Arrow the following year).

Dude seems super grounded and honest. Say what you want about Arrowverse but I never felt like the cast didn't try to deliver. Digs is still one of my favorite DC characters. I love that he's not afraid to speak his mind but doesn't shit on anyone. I'd much prefer seeing him in DC movies over some of the actors or characters they've picked.

john cena is an infinitely better actor than stephen amell

Peacemaker wasn’t joking about the arrow verse. He was joking about the green arrow that existed within his own universe

major respect to Stephen Amell and the arrowverse that have a lot of good moments is not only bad things

It was a shot to the character green arrow lol

I got tired of Arrow towards the last few seasons, but I honestly enjoyed the first three or four seasons of Arrow much more than I did probably all but four of the DCEU movies.

Ugh, why is he so sensitive about this. He made a show many people loved and became a platform for other franchises to launch from, yet gets in his feelings about an in-world joke aimed at the character and not him, his production, nor their adaptation. He made a joke about the character Green Arrow because he’s now known well enough to be made fun of in a subversive way, and he should be proud he helped but GA on the map. At first I thought he was doing a bit... like he got it (being a in continuity joke) but then pivoted to being insulted. This isn’t the first time either, he should get some thinker skin.

Arrow, the first 2 seasons were next level!!! Then it kinda went downhill . But Amell killed it!

Arrow really had 1 bad season and 2 okay seasons. The rest of the show was great will always be one of my favorites

as someone who doesn’t much care for celebrity drama i fully agree and love how they did what they could in the arrow verse to try to keep dc alive considering at many points it was our only form of consistent dc media outside comics

.... Well, I think about the Snyder Cut..... Best DC superhero movie since Nolanverse

Arrow was awesome. Flash started awesome. After that the writers turned it to shit.

Man I always loved him, especially when he got into wrestling and did waaaay better than 99% of guest wrestlers, but these interviews make me love him even more. What a class act, GREAT guy, and INSANELY hard working.