| “ | You know, I had a daughter who looked just like you, with similar compulsions...and I expunged that filth from my family line forever! | „ |
| ~ Quentin Lance to Sara Lance. |
Quentin Lance is a supporting antagonist in the 2017 Arrowverse crossover event "Crisis on Earth-X".
He is the Earth-X doppelgänger from the Starling City cop Quentin Lance of Earth-1. However, due to Earth-X being a world ruled by the Nazis due to them winning World War II, the normally sympathetic Quentin is instead a member of the Schutzstaffel and a sadistic enforcer of Earth-X's Nazi regime, commanded by the Dark Arrow and Overgirl.
Like his Earth-1 counterpart, he was portrayed by Paul Blackthorne, who also played Stephen Saunders in 24 and Gideon Hask in Star Wars Battlefront II.
His Evil Ranking[]
His Villainous Deeds[]
- He serves the New Reich as one of the most ruthless and horrid high-ranked Reichsmen within the Schutzstaffel. It's more than likely that his actions, as well as those of his fellow Nazis like the Führer Dark Arrow and his wife Overgirl, are one of the many reasons why Earth-X is considered such an awful and depraved reality no one in the Multiverse wishes to visit or even classify a number for.
- He had his daughter killed upon finding out that she was bisexual, viewing all non-heterosexuality as "filth", wanting to expunge it from his family line permanently, with zero remorse but great pride for "purifying" his blood.
- He runs an concentration camp that keeps Jews, gays, rebels and political enemies in line, treating them inhumanely by giving them little and miserable food rations and executing any of them whenever he is given the orders to do so. While one can say that this is offscreen villainy, it can't be considered so due to the plenty onscreen evidence of this, like how all the prisoners are shown malnourished and fearful of the New Reichsmen whenever they are near them, always marching at their orders without complaints. As for the executions, while the trenches where the New Reischmen dispose of the bodies of their victims are empty when Lance tries to have the protagonists executed, his dialogue makes it clear that this isn't the first time these trenches have been used with his prisoners.
- He puts all of Earth-1's heroes and Earth-38's Alex Danvers in his concentration camp before taking notice of their Sara Lance, whom he remarks to that her Nordic beauty reminds him of his daughter, before telling her why he killed her when Sara tells him that she is bisexual due to him complimenting how she represents the female Aryan ideal and shocking her and her friends with the power-dampening cuffs his men put on them.
- He tries to have the heroes of Earth-1 and Earth-38 executed by having his firing squad shoot them, zapping them when they try to tackle him and his guards and even taking the opportunity to put a bag on Earth-1's Green Arrow because he looked like his superior and that disgusted him.
- He cooperates with his fellow Nazis to take the Wellenreiter to Earth-1 for them to conquer it and impose the Aryan regime there. As he mentions to have the authority to delay the deployment, this makes Lance responsible for the Wellenreiter later leaving Earth-X for Earth-1, leading to a deadly battle over Central City which claims several lives of both his fellow Nazis and innocents.
- He brought his world's Felicity Smoak to a disguised Earth-1's Green Arrow and offers her as a "gift" for his "Führer" to execute due to Smoak feeding starving children from his concentration camp (which he scoffs at) to deduce if he is really the Dark Arrow or not, which is proven when Green Arrow tries to shoot him with the empty gun, leading Lance to send his men after him.
- His mention that he is bringing Felicity's Earth-X doppelgänger before his Führer because he knows how much the Dark Arrow enjoys executing "law-breakers" makes clear that Lance has previously sent many of his prisoners to be executed by the Dark Arrow, making him responsible for how many prisoners the Dark Arrow has personally killed.
- He orders his men to not let any of the Earth-1 and Earth-38 heroes escape through the Wellenreiter's interdimensional gateway, resulting his men shooting Martin Stein as the heroes escape back to Earth-1 through the gateway, fatally wounding Stein and eventually causing him to sever his Firestorm connection to Jefferson Jackson to prevent him from dying too.
- His defeat leads his other daughter Laurel Lance to find her way into Earth-1 and sabotage the Flash and his team's attempts to defeat the The Thinker to avenge how they engineered the New Reich's downfall, nearly causing Central City to be destroyed by Neil Borman's nuclear powers.
- While he is loyal to the Nazi ideology, it's unknown if he is loyal to his superiors, as he orders Earth-1's Oliver Queen to be put a bag on his head because he reminds him of the Führer with disgust.
- Unlike his superiors or Prometheus, who at least care for or love each other, Quentin Lance is the only main Nazi from Earth-X with zero redeeming qualities or mitigating factors. His relationship with his daughter Laurel isn't explored, yet given his willingness to kill Sara for being LGBT, it's more than likely that he would have gotten rid of Laurel too if she didn't fit within the Aryan ideal as well.
Why He Doesn't Stand Out?[]
- Despite his lack of redeeming qualities and passing the baseline, he ultimately fails the heinous standards to Dark Arrow and Overgirl, both of whom have done far worse than he is. In addition, his worst atrocities take place off-screen.
Trivia[]
- He used to be Pure Evil but was removed when it was revealed he failed the heinous standards of the franchise and his worst crimes were off-screen villainy.
External Links[]
- Quentin Lance on the Villains Wiki
- Quentin Lance on the Arrowverse Wiki
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