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Shows that feel likeArrow (2012–2020)

Spoiled billionaire playboy Oliver Queen is missing and presumed dead when his yacht is lost at sea. He returns five years later a changed man, determined to clean up the city as a hooded vigilante armed with a bow.

If you loved Arrow, the closest series we have are Marvel's The Defenders (2017), Marvel's Luke Cage (2016) and DC's Stargirl (2020). All three share Arrow's kinetic and epic feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes (2010).

★ 7.5 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗8 seasons · The CWcreated by Andrew Kreisberggrittycontemplativekineticepic
12 of 12 streaming nowNetflix · HBO Max · Disney Plus

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If Arrow hit the spot, these will too

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Marvel's The Defenders
2017 · 1 season · Netflix
★ 7.2sci-fi & fantasy · action & adventure · crimeDisney+

Street-level heroes with real injuries and a city they know by block

The difference: A crossover miniseries, over almost before it starts

Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage and Iron Fist join forces to take on common enemies as a sinister conspiracy threatens New York City.

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Marvel's Luke Cage
2016–2018 · 2 seasons · Netflix
★ 7.2drama · action & adventure · crimeDisney+

One thread runs through both: superhero

Given superstrength and durability by a sabotaged experiment, a wrongly accused man escapes prison to become a superhero for hire.

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DC's Stargirl
2020–2022 · 3 seasons · The CW
★ 7.1sci-fi & fantasy · action & adventure · dramaMax

Picking up a dead hero's mission and the guilt attached to it

The difference: Family-friendly, small-town, and hopeful

Courtney Whitmore, a smart, athletic and above all else kind girl, discovers her step-father has a secret: he used to be the sidekick to a superhero. "Borrowing" the long-lost hero’s cosmic staff, she becomes the unlikely inspiration for an entirely new generation of superheroes.

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Marvel's Daredevil
2015–2018 · 3 seasons · Netflix
★ 8.6crime · drama · action & adventureDisney+

A masked man beating a corrupt city into shape, one hallway at a time

The difference: Heavier, bloodier and Catholic — three tight seasons, no network gloss

Lawyer-by-day Matt Murdock uses his heightened senses from being blinded as a young boy to fight crime at night on the streets of Hell’s Kitchen as Daredevil.

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Young Justice
2010–2022 · 4 seasons · Cartoon Network
★ 8.6animation · sci-fi & fantasy · action & adventureMax

Younger heroes doing the work while carrying secrets from everyone

The difference: Animated, ensemble-wide, and far less brooding

Teenage superheroes strive to prove themselves as members of the Justice League.

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Justice League Unlimited
2004–2006 · 3 seasons · Cartoon Network
★ 8.7animation · action & adventure · sci-fi & fantasyMax

A widening roster of heroes and the politics of who gets called

The difference: Animated and optimistic, episodic by design

The galaxy's most powerful superheroes return to battle the allied villains and criminal plots that endanger the universe.

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DC's Legends of Tomorrow
2016–2022 · 7 seasons · The CW
★ 6.7action & adventure · sci-fi & fantasy · dramaNetflix

The same universe, and misfits shoved onto one team

The difference: Deliberately silly — time travel as a playground

When heroes alone are not enough ... the world needs legends. Having seen the future, one he will desperately try to prevent from happening, time-traveling rogue Rip Hunter is tasked with assembling a disparate group of both heroes and villains to confront an unstoppable threat — one in which not only is the planet at stake, but all of time itself. Can this ragtag team defeat an immortal threat unlike anything they have ever known?

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Jupiter's Legacy
2021 · 1 season · Netflix
★ 6.7sci-fi & fantasy · action & adventure · dramaNetflix

A legacy of heroism that turns out to be mostly wreckage

The difference: Prestige gloss and flashbacks, slower and stiffer

As the world's first generation of superheroes (who received their powers in the 1930s) become the revered elder guard in the present, their superpowered children struggle to live up to the legendary feats of their parents.

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Titans
2018–2023 · 4 seasons · DC Universe
🍅 50%★ 7.4drama · action & adventure · sci-fi & fantasyMax

Grim live-action DC, sidekicks and mentors and unfinished business

The difference: Bleaker still, and less interested in a city to save

A team of young superheroes led by Nightwing (formerly Batman's first Robin) form to combat evil and other perils.

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Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
2013–2020 · 7 seasons · ABC
★ 7.5drama · sci-fi & fantasy · action & adventureDisney+

A covert team, a base and a secret war run outside the law

The difference: Spy plotting and Marvel tie-ins, lighter on the vigilante guilt

Agent Phil Coulson of S.H.I.E.L.D. (Strategic Homeland Intervention, Enforcement and Logistics Division) puts together a team of agents to investigate the new, the strange and the unknown around the globe, protecting the ordinary from the extraordinary.

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Marvel's The Punisher
2017–2019 · 2 seasons · Netflix
★ 8.4action & adventure · crime · dramaDisney+

A soldier turned back into a weapon by what happened to his family

The difference: No code and no restraint — brutal, joyless, uninterested in saving anyone

A former Marine out to punish the criminals responsible for his family's murder finds himself ensnared in a military conspiracy.

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The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes
2010–2012 · 2 seasons · Disney XD
★ 8.3action & adventure · animation · sci-fi & fantasyDisney+

Heroes with day jobs, grudges and a base to argue in

The difference: Bright animated Marvel, aimed at kids

The most powerful villains on the planet escape from prison. However, none of the superheroes can stop them without help, not even S.H.I.E.L.D. The Avengers then join forces to fight evil, and discover that as a group they are stronger.

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