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Previously, on  Wait, what? Well, poo poo. Let's try this again.  Season 2 spoilers ahead.Last season's main story arc involved Slade Wilson's attempt to systematically destroy Oliver Queen. Driven insane by Dr. Anthony Ivo's superhuman "Mirakuru" serum, Slade erroneously blamed Shado's death on Oliver. Slade mostly stayed in the shadows during the first half of the season, but eventually made his presence known by posing as a new benefactor for Moira Queen's mayoral campaign.  Despite making his presence known, Slade continued his master plan successfully, appearing to be a step ahead of Team Arrow at every turn. Slade pierced into every aspect of Oliver's life, both figuratively and literally.  RIP, Moira  Eventually, with the help of his team, a Mirakuru cure, and an assist from Nyssa al Ghul and her minions, Oliver was able to take down Slade.  Man, that fight scene was great. More of this please, showrunners. Oliver even did it without killing him. He later thanked an imprisoned Slade for allowing him reach his aspiration of being more than just a vigilante. But it came with a cost. His mother died, his sister abandoned him, his company was in shambles, and his family fortune was gone. Also, a bunch of other stuff happened, because this show moves through plots about as quickly as anything on television. But I'm not going to dedicate a novella to all of that. And if you haven't watched the show and have read this far--way to spoil yourself, jerk--you should to go back and start from the beginning. Fortunately, there are multiple ways to do that. The first two seasons are available now on DVD, Blu-Ray, and Amazon Instant Video. Season 1 is also on Netflix Instant Watch in the US and possibly other countries, with Season 2 slated to go up on October 8th, the same day as the S3 premiere. Anywho, let's catch up with the cast... ( Minor Season 3 spoilers ahead, skip if you want to go in knowing nothing)Team Arrow Stephen Amell as Oliver Queen aka The Arrow  Strengths and Abillites: Outstanding archery and combat skills, Weaknesses: Every woman he's not related to. After defeating his former friend turned nefarious foe, Oliver is left to forge his own path forward. While continuing his nightly heroics, Season 3 will have him joining with a new business partner (Laurel) and possibly even a new romantic partner (Felicity). With Slade locked up in prison, clearly nothing will go wrong. David Ramsey as John Diggle  Strengths and Abillites: Highly trained military veteran, Black Driving, abs, ties to shady government spooks. Weaknesses: Search Engine Preferences Season 2 ended with Diggle learning that he had knocked up his ex-wife and fellow combat veteran, Lyla Michaels. An early S3 plot will involve Oliver's hesitation to allow the father-to-be into Team Arrow's frequent combat situations. Diggle's not on board with that. Emily Bett Rickards as Felicity Smoak aka Not-Oracle  This isn't remotely the creepiest picture of her on the internet. Strengths and Abillites: MIT Degree, Advanced Computer and Technical Skills, abs, nerdy wit. Weaknesses: Tumblr. Despite serving mainly as Team Arrow's tech specialist, Felicity still found herself in the line of fire on more than a few times in Season 2. Most notably, she was key in the ploy to give Slade the Mirakuru cure. In season 3, Oliver and Felicity will be going on a date, to the delight of some of the most unbearable people the internet has to offer. Colton Haynes as Roy Harper aka Arsenal  Snazzy. Strengths and Abillites: Moderate archery and combat abilities, Superhero Mentor, abs, kickin' new costume. Weaknesses: No bionic weapon arm. Single, unemployed, and de-Mirakuru'd, What's left for Roy to do but join Team Arrow full-time? But yeah, there's no way Oliver lets him have the team's coolest outfit for too long. Allies and Acquaintances Katie Cassidy as Laurel Lance  Arrow's stunt team are the best in the business. Strengths and Abillites: Law Degree, Took some self-defense classes, abs, good at blackmailing her employers. Weaknesses: The Hooch The Arrow thread's favorite punching bag returns, now with full knowledge of Team Arrow's identities and operations. She's also going into business with Oliver, as the two look to secure a bid for a Starling City revitalization project. Joining Team Arrow full time remains a possibility as well. No confirmation on whether Drunk Laurel will be making a Season 3 appearance. Paul Blackthorne as Quentin Lance  ...also pretty snazzy. Strengths and Abillites: Excellent Policeman, abs, is basically Commissioner Gordon now. Weaknesses: Health Problems, needs an Arrow Signal. Detective Lance collapsed onto the pavement during his last scene in Season 2, his fate left unknown. SPOILER:He lives. It also looks like he's up for promotion from clips and pics we've seen this far. We'll see if his association with Team Arrow becomes more formal this year. Willa Holland as Thea Queen  Some houseguest you are, Thea. Strengths and Abillites: Nightclub Management experience, abs, regularly calls people on their bullshit. Weaknesses: Went on vacation with a madman. Tired of everyone in her life continually lying to her, Thea decided to skip town with her biological father, Malcolm Merlyn. As the lovely gif above (sorry) shows, Merlyn is wasting no time in giving her some training. It remains to be seen if she'll go full villain, though. Caity Lotz as Sarah Lance aka The Canary  Strengths and Abillites: League of Assassins-trained fighter, fluent in multiple languages, Sonic noise device, abs, some sweet dance moves. Weaknesses: Keeps making lifetime contracts with terrorists. Sara agreed to return to the League in order to gain Nyssa's assistance against Slade Wilson. But she will be returning this season for an unconfirmed number of episodes. Bex Taylor-Klaus as Sin  Strengths and Abillites: Street smarts, abs, knows superheroes who can come beat you up. Weaknesses: Joined the cast of another TV show. Sin served as a sidekick to The Canary and confidant of Roy and Thea over the course of Season 2. She's likely to return for Season 3, but whether her actress signing onto the Scream TV adaptation will affect her role remains unclear. Brandon Routh as Ray Palmer aka The Atom  Strengths and Abillites: Weaknesses Ray Palmer is one of the new additions to the cast. This version of Palmer is a rival businessman looking into the same revitalization bid as Oliver and Laurel. The showrunners originally wanted Ted Kord for this role, but DC/Warner Bros have other plans for him. The Producers have confirmed that Palmer will suit up this season, but they claim it won't be with his powers from the comics. Colin Donnell as Tommy Merlyn  Strengths and Abillites: Not many, because he's dead. Abs. He did show up on Person of Interest last season! Weaknesses: Dead. Tommy is dead and according to the producers will continue to be dead. But he will show up in the flashbacks of at least one episode. And who knows, maybe his dad will toss him in a Lazarus Pit at some point. Hard to say with this show. Oh, speaking of... Rogue's Gallery John Barrowman as Malcolm Merlyn aka Merlyn aka BARROWMAN!   Strengths and Abillites: Highly skilled archer and combatant, very good at faking his death, abs, a way with words. Weaknesses: Hates poors. Torchwood sucked. That's about it. Your God and mine His Holiness Barrowman joins the main cast for Season 3. With his disgruntled daughter in tow, Barrowman returns to Starling for as yet unexplained reasons. Ollie probably won't like them, though. Matt Nable as Ras al Ghul aka The Demon's Head  Strengths and Abillites: ?????????, abs. Weaknesses: ????????? Namedropped a few times in Season 2, the famed Bat-Villain is appearing as one of Oliver's main foes this season, played by Riddick actor Matt Nable. Nothing yet on how much of the comics backstory is being kept for this version. All we know is that Oliver has heard some crazy stories about this guy. Katrina Law as Nyssa al Ghul  Strengths and Abillites: Highly trained combatant, abs, ninja minions. Weaknesses: Blondes. Nyssa appeared as a foe and then an ally in Season 2. Gonna guess it'll be the former this season. Cynthia Addai-Robinson as Amanda Waller  Strengths and Abillites: Skilled government operative, abs, pretty much does whatever she wants. Weaknesses: Not played by CCH Pounder.  Though ostensibly a good guy, Waller had to be convinced not to wipe Starling off the map so that Oliver and company could stop Slade with a more direct approach. From the look of it, she'll be a thorn in Ollie's side in both the present and the flashbacks this year. The Suicide Squad  Strengths and Abillites: Diverse skillset, multiple sets of abs. Weaknesses: Lack of loyalty, death implants in their necks. Waller's team of prisoners turned conscripted mercenaries made their first appearance last year, and are likely to show up again. Shrapnel (Sean Maher) was killed while trying to bail on their first mission, so we could see new recruits alongside Deadshot (Michael Rowe) and Bronze Tiger (Michael Jai White). Manu Bennett as Slade Wilson aka Deathstroke  Strengths and Abillites: Combat training from elite Australian Special Ops Unit, handy with swords, abs, locked in a bunker that doesn't seem to have any guards. Weaknesses Mirakuru No More Slade is locked up on The Island and, for now, off the table. Odds he will break out at some point: 700% Peter Stormare as the new Count Vertigo  Strengths and Abillites: A supply of Vertigo, You bet your rear end there's abs under that suit. Weaknesses: Sequelitis. Oliver was forced to kill the first Count Vertigo (Seth Gabel) last season in order to save Felicity. Oliver will run into this new one early on this season. Nick Tarabay as Captain Boomerang  Strengths and Abillites: Throws Boomerangs, abs, Spartacus actors have a great track record on this show. Weaknesses: Could go wrong in a hilarious fashion. Captain Boomerang will show up as part of the Arrow/Flash crossover multi-parter towards midseason. Also a great candidate to join the Suicide Squad. A few video links to get you hyped: Sizzle Reel from Comiccon. Season 3 Preview from last month Season Premiere Clip 1 Season Premiere Clip 2 Finally, the powers that be have scaled back on the "no comics talk" rule. Per Deadpool's recommendation, I'm going to just steal the ground rules from jscolon2.0's Flash thread. quote:1.) The comics aren’t spoilers, but they’re also not on-topic. Use your discretion. “Holy poo poo, was that xxxxx character?” is probably okay, but a thousand words on how that’s not in canon, is not. Thanks, and if you hate my OP, too bad. 
hcreight fucked around with this message at 03:39 on Nov 13, 2014 |
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(This, but pretend we have equivalent Arrow smilies. Somebody should get on that.)
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Postal Parcel posted:Where the gently caress is Manu Bennet you son of a bitch? Oh he's there. He's all over. (I forgot to put him in the cast, will ninja him in later. Or will I?) JohnSherman posted:gently caress you hcreight, Torchwood series 1 was just fine. Get out.
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Oct 6, 2014 04:01
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It's supposed to be canon to the show but I'm sure they ignore stuff from it at their discretion. For example in one of the comics between S1 and S2 Oliver says that he transferred a million bucks each into Felicity and Diggles' bank accounts before he took off for the island and yet in one of the S3 premiere previews Felicity is working at a Radioshack lookalike.
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Oct 7, 2014 10:56
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Doctor Spaceman posted:Retiring because you have a million bucks in the bank in your mid 20s isn't a sensible financial decision anyway. Yeah but neither is an MIT grad taking a low wage retail job unless they're really strapped for cash. I was just making the point that the tie-in comics are only canon until it's inconvenient for them to be.
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Oct 8, 2014 04:56
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Singer is one of those people with a massive Donner Superman fetish and that was the movie he was going to make one way or another. Plus 26 year old Routh and 23 year old Kate Bosworth playing characters who should be well into their 30s just looked off, even if Routh made the best of the material. Routh's a great pickup for Arrow whether they have spinoff plans for him or not. I made the career trajectory joke in the OP but he really does deserve better. hcreight fucked around with this message at 19:09 on Oct 8, 2014 |
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Oct 8, 2014 19:07
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muscles like this? posted:Yeah, I don't think anyone was expecting that. Even after the producers were being coy about how many episodes Caity was going to be in. Episode 2's title is a pretty big hint. I was wondering if something was up.
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Oct 9, 2014 02:09
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It just occurred to me that Oliver got called out of the hospital to give a certain someone a pep talk on another one of Starling's many vacant rooftops. Now what if that person could move so quickly that it would seem as if they were in two places at the same time... #Barrydidit
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Oct 9, 2014 02:30
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I know Amell is doing voicework for that, but are they getting anyone else? Because I demand that Lego Barrowman be fully voiced.
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Oct 11, 2014 19:09
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Senerio posted:It's as plausible as any other theory posted here. Appealing to the Arrow thread for authority isn't going to win you this argument. Sorry, bud. 
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Oct 18, 2014 05:50
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Maybe she's going undercover in an S&M Club like Lois in that one Smallville episode.
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Oct 21, 2014 21:49
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So I guess Colton Haynes goes all out for Halloween.  http://instagram.com/p/umqUxFDTOc/
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Oct 26, 2014 23:18
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Edit:Wrong thread.
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Oct 27, 2014 02:24
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Laurel has always been saddled with atrocious dialogue, more so than any other cast member. I honestly don't know why.
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Oct 28, 2014 03:56
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Someone gif that smirk. Now.
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Oct 30, 2014 01:19
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Felicity is the rare TV character that is the same age or older than the young female actress who plays her.
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Oct 31, 2014 21:05
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Phylodox posted:Calling it now, Ollie, Roy, and Diggle all murdered Sara. They each fired an arrow. This happened, but with arrows.
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Nov 7, 2014 19:09
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Aphrodite posted:Mockingbird has only worn street clothes on SHIELD, no? She has a bodysuit similar to Black Widow's, but nothing like in the comics, really. No mask/goggles. I don't think she's even been referred to as Mockingbird yet.
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Nov 12, 2014 21:40
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VDay posted:I don't read comics but I feel like every other DC character I look up is "One of the greatest martial artists in the world". They sure seem to like their fightin' dudes/ladies. It's more or less like that in both DC and Marvel. Every elite fighter and all of the smartest people on earth are either superheroes or villains.
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Nov 12, 2014 22:22
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JohnSherman posted:Serious though, there was a god drat boxing glove arrow on television. And its presence wasn't completely ridiculous! I wonder how long they've been sitting on that idea.
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Nov 13, 2014 03:14
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I made an important update to the OP.
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Nov 13, 2014 03:43
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I hope Gotham discussion never comes back in this thread again.
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Nov 13, 2014 22:55
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Could be, but I wouldn't assume Lazarus Pits even exist in this universe until they actually show one. They're still being careful about how much they dive into the more fantastical elements of the comics on Arrow, especially since they have a whole other show to do that stuff on now.
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Nov 18, 2014 14:37
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IIRC both Oliver and Tommy were born in 1985. If Merlyn were to be about the same age as Barrowman (47), he'd have been pretty young when Tommy was born but it would be completely possible. It's a bit of a cheat since Colin Donnell is actually 32, but it's by no means the most ridiculous age stretch on television.
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Nov 18, 2014 15:25
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There's no reason they have to address it now, but yeah, they clearly put her in Central City for plot convenience. It probably will come up at some point.
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Nov 19, 2014 23:23
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VDay posted:The DJ might be the most realistic character on the entire show. They're obviously going to do something with him and *knocks on wood* I kind of doubt it'll be a love triangle. They would've had Roy there at the club being depressed watching Thea flirt with/kiss him from afar if they wanted to do that. I'm wondering if he's gonna end up being Music Meister or something. Giving Thea a completely normal new love interest just doesn't seem like something this show would do.
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Nov 20, 2014 21:19
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Hollismason posted:I am starting to think that the CW just has spare Amell's in cold storage somewhere and when they need a new actor for anything they just thaw one out and put him in front of a camera, because there are now 4 Amell's on CW now. Is that counting Stephen's wife doing a Hart of Dixie guest spot? And if so, who's the fourth?
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Nov 30, 2014 18:50
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Robbie is amusing to watch in that he's practically a brunette palette swap of Stephen. They seriously have the same jawline and everything.
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Dec 1, 2014 05:38
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Pretty much confirmation that they're fighting The Rogues.
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Phylodox posted:In five years, when we're gearing up for the big Arrow/Flash/Agents of SHIELD/Amazing Spider-Man/Wolverine crossover episode event, we're gonna look back at tomorrow and remember how it all started. Amell said he wants to do an AoS crossover in the Q&A he put up on Facebook today. 
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Dec 2, 2014 20:38
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https://twitter.com/CW_Arrow/status/540202793026330624 Preview clip from part two of the crossover. Slightly spoilery. Seems like they're keeping the humor going even as they flip over to Starling.
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Dec 3, 2014 19:01
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Roy had to work shifts at Verdant. Bam. Problem solved. I'd say it's more of a question as to how Felicity keeps getting ridiculous amounts of time off from her job as Vice President of a corporation.
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Dec 3, 2014 19:59
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I think they did it so the episodes can play independently in syndication without it being confusing.
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Dec 3, 2014 21:03
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Ray made her a VP which means she's presumably involved on the business side of the company now in some capacity, but I'm guessing a lot of her day to day work is still IT stuff. So yeah, she may do a lot of telecommuting.
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Dec 3, 2014 22:07
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That is not a picture of a fat person. Jesus Christ, you guys.
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Dec 3, 2014 22:29
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Some Numbers posted:It's cute that you think someone who's been in The Quiver would have trouble piecing together that Oliver is the Arrow. Considering Wells figured it out in a few hours without having been there... I wouldn't be shocked if they're building up to Oliver either being outed publicly or being forced to out himself. The Feds (ARGUS) already know who he is, the cops don't care about arresting him anymore, everyone in Starling except Thea and Captain Lance seems to know anyway...
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Dec 4, 2014 15:26
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Not exactly surprising given the crossover, but Arrow hit a new series high with a 1.4 demo rating last night.
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Dec 4, 2014 20:25
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Maybe. But The Flash has its own busybody military spook in Wade Eiling so they may keep Waller/ARGUS confined to Arrow. It was sort of weird how despite the ARGUS-heavy plot, Waller was only seen in the flashbacks.
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Dec 4, 2014 20:58
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zoux posted:Someone else is coming back. I hope there's an in-episode explanation for the Lakers hoodie and he wasn't just wearing it between takes.
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Dec 5, 2014 18:01
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Oliver hasn't killed anyone this season, I don't think. He may have killed a few mirakuru'd goons at the end of last season, and before that his last kill was the first Count Vertigo.
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CharlieFoxtrot posted:This got me wondering -- is there any DC representation of Los Angeles or a Los Angeles-like city? All the fictional ones are based on cities further east. I know Ollie ends up in Seattle or something, but California seems absent? I think the official explanation in the comics is that DC has all the real world cities. They just also have all the fictional cities. Gotham City is supposed to be in New Jersey, for example.
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