a street drug called "Vertigo" and displaying great skill in using it as an offensive weapon via syringes. The first is a secretive drug dealer named Cecil Adams, who is portrayed by Seth Gabel and appears in the second season episode "State v. Queen". While he goes unnamed in the episode, his name is revealed in the fifth season episode "Kapiushon". Initially using the street name "The Count" (based on the needle marks of his drugs resembling vampire bites) before taking on the name "Count Vertigo", he poisons Starling City's citizens, such as Thea Queen, with his namesake drug. Upon learning of this, her brother Oliver Queen develops a bitter rivalry with Adams, which culminates in the former killing him before he can fatally dose Felicity Smoak with Vertigo. The second is Adams' successor Werner Zytle, portrayed by Peter Stormare. In the season three episodes "The Calm" and "Canaries", he becomes the new "Vertigo" and takes advantage of Queen capturing his mob rivals to rapidly build a criminal empire. Additionally, Zytle modified his namesake drug so that it causes the user to experience their deepest fears. Throughout his appearances, he battles Queen and Laurel Lance, both of whom eventually capture Zytle. Film Count Vertigo was reportedly featured in David S. Goyer's script for Escape from Super Max as an inmate of the titular Super Max Penitentiary for Metahumans. Count Vertigo appears in DC Showcase: Green Arrow, voiced by Steve Blum. Count Vertigo appears in flashbacks depicted in Suicide Squad: Hell to Pay, voiced by Jim Pirri. This version was a member of a previous iteration of the Suicide Squad who formed an alliance with Jewelee in an attempt to betray Amanda Waller, only to be killed by the latter for it. Video games Count Vertigo appears as a playable character in Lego DC Super-Villains, voiced again by Steve Blum. Miscellaneous The Arrowverse incarnation of Werner Zytle appears in the non-canonical tie-in comic Arrow: Season 2.5. References Green Arrow characters DC Comics male supervillains Black Canary characters Fictional deaf characters Fictional counts and countesses Fictional henchmen Comics characters introduced in 1978 DC Comics martial artists DC Comics scientists Fictional characters with bipolar disorder Characters created by Gerry Conway Fictional Eastern European people Suicide Squad members DC Comics metahumans