The organization's main focus was on the completion of an initiative known as "Genesis", a plan to 'cleanse' the world of evil and darkness through nuclear holocaust, after which those chosen by H.I.V.E. to survive would be able to rebuild society. However, their plans ultimately failed thanks to numerous interventions from Team Arrow. Following the death of Damien at the hands of Green Arrow, the organization's status remains unknown. Damien Darhk was a member of the League of Assassins from the 19th century, and one of the "riders" of Ra's al Ghul, considered a possible successor to the title. After escaping from his best friend turned rival, when he failed to become the leader of the League, Darhk founded H.I.V.E. with a group of his most loyal followers.
Publication Information
- Arrow : H.I.V.E.
- Version : The Arrow Series
- Multiverse : Earth One
- Known as : Organization
- Type : Mysterious terrorist organization
- Location :
- Led by : Damien Darhk
- Season : Arrow
Arms deal
In 1975, Damien and two of his agents, known as "Ghosts" went to a weapons sale held by Vandal Savage, planning to buy a nuclear warhead from him. H.I.V.E. put in an initial bid of $100 million, but were outbid by Martin Stein. Damien later met Martin and told him he suspected Martin wasn't as he appeared as Damien wasn't familiar with him or his organization, and he was familiar with everyone. Stein's associate Mick Rory started to get angry with Damien and threatened him, forcing Savage to intervene. As a fight ensued, Damien and the Ghosts left the premises of the Norwegian military storage facility.
Deal with the KGB
In 1987, Eobard Thawne interrupted a weapons deal that Damien was taking part in and killed everyone present except Damien. Thawne attempted to recruit Damien for his team, and alluded to the fact that he knew about Damien's future plans, including building a "hive of followers". Thawne sent Damien to the White House to do a deal with the KGB. Damien, his Ghosts, and the KGB met in the White House basement. The KGB agents intended to exchange a priceless artifact for the United States' nuclear codes, while Darhk also left a bomb to kill Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev, along with everybody in the White House.
Early plans
After Floyd Lawton was incarcerated for threatening the lives of his family, Mina Fayad approached him as a representative of H.I.V.E., convincing Lawton that a normal life was not possible for him anymore after the events that had transpired. Fayad offered Lawton money to assassinate Andrew Diggle, though – unknown to Lawton – Diggle survived the attempt as H.I.V.E. had secretly replaced Lawton's bullets with non-lethal rounds. Diggle himself ended up becoming an agent of H.I.V.E., serving as one of its Ghosts.
Attacks on Star City
After Ra's al Ghul's failed attempt to destroy Star City, H.I.V.E. soldiers began attacking the city in waves, with the media nicknaming them Ghosts for the way they quickly disappeared after each successful mission. Damien soon personally threatened the city's leadership and had many of them killed as a show of force. During a secret meeting, Damien killed one of his men, Alvarez, for disobeying orders, but was disrupted by the intervention of Team Arrow. They later stopped H.I.V.E.'s attempt to blow up Star City's central train station.
Attacking Oliver Queen
Damien's partners soon arrived in Star City and this caused Damien to grow anxious to stop Oliver Queen's interference. During one of Queen's campaign clean-ups of Star City bay, H.I.V.E. sent a drone to attack the bay. However, due to this, Oliver revealed that Damien was the leader of H.I.V.E. to the press, much to the annoyance of his partners. In an act of revenge Darhk personally led a squad of Ghosts to attack Oliver's Holiday Party, and took John Diggle, Felicity Smoak, and Thea Queen.
Damien's fall
Darhk met with Felicity and Oliver, showing Oliver a video of William playing at the Darhk residence, revealing that he'd kidnapped him. Green Arrow and Vixen later attacked Darhk at his home, intent on saving the child hostage, but were both overpowered until the rest of Team Arrow showed up. Darhk phoned Oliver and, using William as leverage, forced him to suspend his campaign and endorse Ruvé. Oliver agreed to Darhk's demands, but Damien Darhk reasoned that giving up William would not be in his best interests.
Operation Genesis
Coming back to the organization, Damien Darhk seized full control over H.I.V.E., killing the partners that were content with leaving him imprisoned and continuing the Genesis project without his input. He then started the preparation for the final stage of Genesis. H.I.V.E. spread its "suggestion pills" as "vitamins" to specifically chosen people, such as those who worked for Ruvé Adams like Alex Davis. These people were put in the underground facility Tevat Noah that looked like an idyllic suburb, covered with a dome of energy the "walls" of which resembled the hexagonal pattern of a beehive honeycomb.
In contrary to the more traditional ways of the League of Assassins, H.I.V.E. uses advanced technology and modern military tactics to get the job done. Their members use modern weaponry and high-tech equipment. Their operators wear bulletproof vests and use advanced firearms and grenades. They are highly trained and able to overwhelm both the police force and Team Arrow.
Their members are highly devoted to their leader and are trained to commit suicide when in risk of being captured. H.I.V.E. is notable for its characteristic hexagonal pattern that resembles a beehive honeycomb. Said pattern is used on the organization's logo, support system design, as well as on the grey uniforms of its agents, Ghosts. H.I.V.E. logo is usually designed as a lamp of sorts, shaped after a beehive pattern.
Former members
- Damien Darhk
- Ruvé Adams
- Malcolm Merlyn
- Ian
- Judy
- Milo Armitage
- Phaedra Nixon
- Tomas
- Slater
- Mina Fayad
- Andy Diggle
- Alvarez
- Alex Davis
- Gas chamber
- Evelyn Sharp / Artemis
- Quentin Lance
- Dozens of unnamed Ghosts
- Michael Amar / Murmur
- Danny Brickwell / Brick
- Floyd Lawton / Deadshot
- Lonnie Machin / Anarky
- Gholem Qadir
- Vandal Savage
- Cooper Seldon
- Mark Shaw
- Jeremy Tell / Double Down
- Eobard Thawne / Reverse-Flash
- Ben Turner / Bronze Tiger
- KGB
- Boris
- The Demolition Team
- Rosie
- Hardhat
- Jackhammer
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