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{{Infobox comics character<!-- Wikipedia:WikiProject Comics-->
| image = Arrowette-WF113.JPG
| caption = Bonnie King debuts as Miss Arrowette in ''World's Finest Comics'' #113.
| character_name =  Arrowette
| publisher = [[DC Comics]]
| debut = '''Bonnie King''':<br/>''World's Finest Comics'' #113 (November 1960)<br/>'''Cissie King-Jones''':<br/>''Impulse'' #28 (August 1997)
| creators = '''Bonnie King''':<br/>Dave Wood<br/>[[Lee Elias]]<br/>'''Cissie King-Jones''':<br/>[[Tom Peyer]]<br>[[Craig Rousseau]]
| alter_ego = Bonnie King <br/>Suzanne "Cissie" King-Jones
| full_name =
| species = [[Human]]
| homeworld = <!-- optional -->
| alliances = '''Cissie King-Jones''':<br/>[[Young Justice]]
| partners = '''Bonnie King''':<br/>[[Oliver Queen]]<br/>[[Roy Harper (character)|Roy Harper]]<br/>'''Cissie King-Jones''':<br/>[[Tim Drake]]<br/>[[Wonder Girl (Cassie Sandsmark)|Cassie Sandsmark]]<br/>[[Bart Allen]]<br/>[[Superboy (Kon-El)|Conner Kent]]<br/>[[Secret (Greta Hayes)|Greta Hayes]]<br/>[[Red Tornado]]<br/>[[Anita Fite]]<br/>[[Lobo (DC Comics)#Li'l Lobo|Li'l Lobo/Slo-bo]]
| supports =
| powers = * Olympic-level archery skills
*Highly skilled martial arts
}}

'''Arrowette''' is a [[superheroine]] that appear in [[American comic book]]s published by [[DC Comics]].

==Publication history==
The Bonnie King version of Arrowette appears in ''World's Finest Comics'' #113 and was created by Dave Wood and [[Lee Elias]].

The Cissie King-Jones version of Arrowette appears in ''Impulse'' #28 and was created by [[Tom Peyer]] and [[Craig Rousseau]].<ref name=Guide>{{cite book |last1=Cowsill |first1=Alan |last2=Irvine |first2=Alex |last3=Korte |first3=Steve |last4=Manning |first4=Matt |last5=Wiacek |first5=Win |last6=Wilson |first6=Sven |title=The DC Comics Encyclopedia: The Definitive Guide to the Characters of the DC Universe |date=2016 |publisher=DK Publishing |isbn=978-1-4654-5357-0 |page=20}}</ref>

==Biography==
===Bonnie King===
The first Arrowette (properly known as '''Miss Arrowette''') is '''Bonnie King''', a would-be [[sidekick]] and general nuisance to [[Green Arrow]]. She first appears in ''World's Finest Comics'' #113 (November 1960).

When Bonnie was a child, her mother Millie put her through archery training and was very controlling of her progress. She does well and ends up competing in the Olympic Games, where she wins a bronze medal. However, her mother is not pleased as she had expected Bonnie to win a gold, and harasses her daughter over Bonnie's alleged failure. This ends up driving Bonnie to abandon both her home and archery and she never speaks to her mother again.<ref name = sogiant>''Secret Origins 80-Page Giant'' #1 (December 1998)</ref>

Alone in [[Star City (comics)|Star City]], she eventually becomes inspired by Green Arrow and [[Roy Harper (character)|Speedy]] and decides to use her archery skills in a way that counted. She makes a costume for herself and names herself "Miss" Arrowette. Like Green Arrow, she carries trick arrows but with a feminine slant (such as the "Powder Puff" Arrow). She attempts to aid both archers a few times, but they repeatedly rebuff her attempts. Despite her good intentions, Arrowette turns out to be too clumsy to become a hero and too vain to even wear a mask. Arrowette briefly dates Green Arrow in his civilian identity of Oliver Queen, as shown in ''[[Justice League of America]]'' #7 (October–November 1961).

[[Image:Arrowette1.jpg|thumb|125px|left|The adult Bonnie King appears in ''Young Justice''.]]
At some point, she meets a journalist named Bernell "Bowstring" Jones, who remembers her from her Olympic Games and is probably the only person to consider her a star. She nicknames him ''Bowstring'' because he is as thin as one and takes him briefly as her sidekick so he will give her publicity in his journal.<ref name = imp28>''Impulse'' #28 (August 1997)</ref> Eventually, however, Green Arrow convinces Arrowette to give up superheroism.<ref name = sogiant/>

She has to permanently give up archery due to [[carpal tunnel syndrome]] in her wrists, and also due to her job as a secretary. She talks Bowstring into marrying her and, one year later, she has a daughter they name Cissie King-Jones.<ref name=imp28/> When Bowstring dies five years later from [[Ciguatera|fish poisoning]], [[Hal Jordan]] (working as an agent for the company that holds Bowstring's life insurance policy) gives Bonnie and Cissie the policy's beneficiary check; the money enables Bonnie to train Cissie into a superhero. Cissie hardly has time to breathe between lessons of archery, judo, kick-boxing, gymnastics, ballet, and many other fields, and eventually comes to resent her mother deeply.<ref name = sogiant/>

Bonnie's name is a parody or play on Green Arrow's civilian name, Oliver Queen.

===Cissie King-Jones===
Forced by her mother to adopt a version of her old costume, '''Suzanne "Cissie" King-Jones''' becomes the second '''Arrowette'''. Arrowette first appears in the pages of ''[[Bart Allen|Impulse]]'' wearing a frilly costume and a bejeweled mask that apes her mother's old costume. Despite Arrowette's success as a heroine, Impulse's mentor, [[Max Mercury]], is concerned by what he sees as Bonnie's exploitation of her daughter. Child Welfare Services gets involved, and Bonnie loses custody of her daughter, who is sent to the Elias School for Girls, a [[boarding school]].<ref name="dc-ency">{{Cite book|last = Greenberger|first = Robert|contribution = Arrowette|editor-last = Dougall|editor-first = Alastair|title = The DC Comics Encyclopedia|pages = 25|publisher = [[Dorling Kindersley]]|place = London|year = 2008|isbn = 978-0-7566-4119-1}}</ref>

Arrowette next appears in ''[[Young Justice]]'' #4 wearing a more practical costume.<ref name=yj4>''Young Justice'' #4 (January 1999)</ref> Acting alone, she battles [[Harm (comics)|Harm]], who injures her with one of her own arrows.<ref name=yj4 /> She manages to escape and contact Young Justice, later joining the team, along with the second [[Wonder Girl]] ([[Wonder Girl (Cassie Sandsmark)|Cassie Sandsmark]]) and [[Secret (Greta Hayes)|Secret]] (Greta Hayes). The three quickly become close friends, although Cissie admits during a game of 'Truth or Dare' that, if put in a position where she had a choice to quit being a hero, she would ask her mother's advice and then do the opposite to establish herself as an independent person.<ref>''Young Justice'' #5 (February 1999)</ref>

After her school therapist—one of the few adults whom Cissie trusted—is brutally murdered, Cissie tracks down the killers in a violent rage. She nearly kills one of them herself, but is stopped by [[Superboy (Kon-El)|Superboy]]. Cissie is so shaken by the incident that she vows never to be Arrowette again.

Despite leaving the team, Cissie remains close friends with her teammates and eventually reconciles with her mother, who convinces her daughter to try out for the "Summer Games" in [[Sydney]] (a reference to the [[2000 Summer Olympics]]). With her battle-honed abilities, Cissie ends up taking home the gold, and becomes something of a celebrity, guest-starring on Superboy's favorite TV show, ''Wendy the Werewolf Stalker'' (a parody of ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV series)|Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]''). She helps [[Red Tornado]]'s daughter, Traya, adjust to life at Elias and later, when Secret is resurrected, Cissie helps to organize placement for her at the same school.

[[Image:Arrowette2.jpg|thumb|125px|left|Cissie King-Jones appears in her original Arrowette costume.]]
Now retired from superheroics, Cissie never expresses any desire to return to her life as a superhero, despite the best efforts of several of her former teammates. They even involve her in a baseball game on an alien planet, with the fate of many innocents riding on the outcome. Cissie is enraged because they chose her instead of many other superhumans, but she participates as best as she can. Her team barely wins. Cissie still remains committed to justice and compassion. During the [[Imperiex]] war, she served as medical aid volunteer, again working with Young Justice, although the team is again divided due to uncertainty about Robin's loyalty to them after the discovery of Batman's [[JLA: Tower of Babel|files on the Justice League]].<ref name="dc-ency"/>

Cissie made a brief appearance in ''Teen Titans'' vol. 3 #7 when Helen Sandsmark attempts to enroll Wonder Girl into the Elias School. With Greta Hayes, the girls threaten to leave the school and take Cissie's celebrity status as a gold-winning archer with her if Wonder Girl is not allowed to enroll. The school gives in to her demands.<ref>''Teen Titans'' vol. 3 #7 (March 2004)</ref> Cissie makes a second appearance in ''Teen Titans and Outsiders Secret Files 2005'', joining Wonder Girl on a trip to [[San Francisco]]. Cissie wishes to give her best friend moral support as Cassie battles with the decision to tell her friends that her father is [[Zeus]].<ref>''Teen Titans and Outsiders Secret Files'' #2 (October 2005)</ref> At the funeral for her former teammate, [[Bart Allen]], she is mentioned in passing during a video made by Bart prior to his death. Cissie also makes a flashback cameo in ''Teen Titans'' #50.<ref>''Teen Titans'' vol. 3 #50 (October 2007)</ref>

Cissie was last seen hanging out with [[Wonder Girl (Cassie Sandsmark)|Cassie]] and [[Empress (character)|Anita]] in ''Wonder Girl'' #2, now sporting short hair. She is seen again in ''Wonder Girl'' #3 with Anita, as they help Cassie realize that she has truly gotten over Superboy's death. For the first time since 'retiring' from super-hero work in the pages of ''Young Justice'', Cissie wears a new Arrowette costume that resembles the second one to aid Wonder Girl rescue her mother in ''Wonder Girl'' #4.<ref>''Wonder Girl'' #4 (February 2008)</ref>

Cissie temporarily rejoins Young Justice debuting a new red hooded costume<ref>''Young Justice'' (volume 3) #14 (2020)</ref> as part of a roster of back-up members alongside [[Aqualad (Kaldur'ahm)]], [[Stephanie Brown (comics)|Spoiler]], and [[Sideways (comics)|Sideways]].<ref>''Young Justice'' (volume 3) #13 (2020)</ref> During the ''[[Dark Crisis]]'' event she reconnects with Cassie &ndash; who reveals her resentment at Cissie for abandoning the team and her friends &ndash; while Impulse, Superboy, and Robin are trapped by [[Mister Mxyzptlk|Mickey Mxyzptlk]]. She joins her former teammates to assist the other heroes fighting [[Deathstroke]]'s dark army in the series' conclusion.

She is brought out of retirement once again after Amanda Waller teleported a bomb inside her head during the [[Dawn of DC]] era. This led to her being recruited by Arsenal, Red Arrow, and Red Canary to work alongside the Green Arrow family once again.<ref>''Green Arrow'' (volume 7) #10 (2024).</ref>

==Skills and abilities==
Cissie is a normal human with above average strength, stamina and agility for a girl of her age. She has exceptional hand-to-hand combatant ability, being highly skilled in [[judo]],<ref name="sogiant" /> [[jeet kune do]]<ref>''Wonder Woman'' vol. 2 #153 (February 2000)</ref> and [[kickboxing]]<ref name="sogiant" /> with skills as an Olympic gold-medalist longbow marksman and possesses above average intelligence.

==Other versions==
* An alternate timeline variant of Cissie King-Jones / Arrowette appears in the ''[[Flashpoint (comics)|Flashpoint]]'' tie-in ''Wonder Woman and the Furies'' as a member of the [[Amazons (DC Comics)|Amazons]]' eponymous [[Female Furies|Furies]].<ref>''Flashpoint: Wonder Woman and the Furies'' #2 (July 2011)</ref>
* An alternate universe variant of Arrowette named '''Cissie King-Hawke''' appears in ''[[The Multiversity]]: The Just'' #1. This version is the spoiled and popular daughter of [[Connor Hawke]] who wishes to start her own superhero team called the Just over her father's disapproval.<ref>''The Multiversity: The Just'' #1</ref>

==In other media==
* The Cissie King-Jones incarnation of Arrowette appears in ''[[Young Justice (TV series)|Young Justice]]'', voiced by [[Kelly Stables]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Arrowette Voice - ''Young Justice'' (Show) |url=https://www.behindthevoiceactors.com/tv-shows/Young-Justice/Arrowette/ |access-date=January 20, 2019 |work=Behind The Voice Actors |postscript=. A green check mark indicates that a role has been confirmed using a screenshot (or collage of screenshots) of a title's list of voice actors and their respective characters found in its credits or other reliable sources of information.}}</ref> This version is a member of the [[List of Young Justice characters#"The Team"|Team]].
* The Cissie King-Jones incarnation of Arrowette appears in ''[[DC Super Hero Girls]]'' as a student of Super Hero High.

==References==
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==External links==
*[http://www.dcuguide.com/who.php?name=missarrowette Miss Arrowette at the Unofficial Guide to the DC Universe] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070322104416/http://www.dcuguide.com/who.php?name=MISSARROWETTE |date=2007-03-22}}
*[http://www.dcuguide.com/who.php?name=arrowette Arrowette at the Unofficial Guide to the DC Universe] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070416120237/http://www.dcuguide.com/who.php?name=arrowette |date=2007-04-16}}
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20050225223212/http://spider-bob.com/heroes/dc/Arrowette.htm ''Spider-Bob'' Profile]

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