Matthew Shrieve

General Matthew Shrieve was a corrupt General of the United States Army and also the main antagonist of the past flashback of Oliver Queen, of Arrow in the third season.

He is portrayed by Marc Singer.

Biography
Very little is known about Shieve or life is also not mentioned, what is known is that Shrieve is a general America that appears for the first time for Oliver Queen and Maseo Yamashiro, and also under Amanda Waller who is the head of Argus, have succeeded finaly prevent China Na Wei from selling a toxic weapon called the Omega virus in Starlight City. Shrieve then told Oliver that he had to go back to the interrogation with China Na Wei, after that he lets Oliver go, and promising him that he can go wherever he wants, he goes to Japan with the family of Maseo Yamashiro.

Then Oliver and Maseo are attacked by Shrieve's soldiers and they had to separate as they ran from them, and thinking that they were Waller's men, Oliver then infiltrated from inside the Argus facility only to find him with Amanda Waller who is tied by general. Then it is revealed by Waller that the general was the one who planned to end all of China and using the Omega weapon and believing that the Chinese were a threat to the United States and very likely to bring about its downfall. Soon after, that son of Maseo, Akio was submitted to the virus, Maseo and Oliver soon managed to trace Matthew and forced him to look for the virus to cure Akio.

Unfortunatelly, it is revealed that Matthew has lied all the time and that there has never been a cure, it is revealed that it was insulin and that Matthew is diabetic. After his lie, Matthew is subjugated by OIiver with a sniper. Because Matthew had caused Akio's death, Oliver tortured him angrily for some hours, soon afterwards Maseo killed him by firing on his head by killing him

Legacy
After Akio's death, at the hands of Matthew caused Maseo to join the League of Assassins, and became a lieutenant of Ra's al Ghul under the name Sarab. And Matthew's brutal death made him think he was simply torturing him for justice, but soon he realized it was revenge and served to distinguish between justice and revenge.

Personality
Matthew is a pathological liar, and a manipulator who had little regard for the lives of the people he missed without caring, and justifying with his belief that he was only serving his country. He tried to kill Oliver and the Yamashiros under loose ends. Since the services were not made by him. He was a sociopath and totally immoral as Amanda Waller and even worse, he had as goal to end China with a bio-terrorist weapon called Omega that he used to kill innocent lives. However this was his downfall at the end as this led Oliver to torture him and be killed by Maseo Yamashiro soon after because of this actions.

Trivia

 * In comic books, Matthew Shrieve is a single military lieutenant who leads group of superhero monsters called Creature Commandos, Matthew of the universe of Arrowverse Matthew is portrayed with a villain and DC's as a super hero.