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** Why does Oliver have a DominoMask painted on? So it doesn't fall off or block his vision in the heat of combat. Oliver would later state this as the reason upon being questioned on the matter by [[Franchise/{{TheFlash|2014}} BarryAllen]] in season 2's "Three Ghosts", who proceeds to design & fabricate a domino mask with those reasons as goals in mind.

** Why does Oliver have a DominoMask painted on? So it doesn't fall off or block his vision in the heat of combat. Oliver would later state this as the reason upon being questioned on the matter by [[Franchise/{{TheFlash|2014}} Barry Allen]] in season 2's "Three Ghosts", who proceeds to design & fabricate a domino mask with those reasons as goals in mind.

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** Why does Oliver have a DominoMask painted on? So it doesn't fall off or block his vision in the heat of combat. Oliver would later state this as the reason upon being questioned on the matter by [[Franchise/TheFlash Barry Allen]] in season 2's "Three Ghosts", who proceeds to design & fabricate a domino mask with those reasons as goals in mind.

* Slade lost his eye after he had already been injected with Mirakuru. So why didn't it regenerate? Simple: when he pulled the arrow out, ''[[EyeScream it pulled his entire eye along with it]]''. This is referenced in ''[[Series/TheFlash The Flash]]''. In one episode, a weapon is used against Barry which sticks him with a number of blades. Caitlin has to remove them before Barry's healing factor kicks in and the wounds heal around the blades.

* When Digger, Talia, and Evelyn have Oliver's friends at gunpoint in the Season Five finale and offer Slade a chance to join them, he tells Evelyn to put the gun to Oliver's head before joining Digger and [[spoiler: punching him in the face while Oliver promptly disarms her. Slade knew Oliver would counter the gun, [[https://youtu.be/a2-ZXPnmVF0?t=41 because it's one of the first moves he taught Oliver on that very island almost a decade prior.]]]]

* When Digger, Talia, and Evelyn have Oliver's friends at gunpoint in the Season Five finale and offer Slade a chance to joint them, he tells Evelyn to put the gun to Oliver's head before joining Digger and [[spoiler: punching him in the face while Oliver promptly disarms her. Slade knew Oliver would counter the gun, [[https://youtu.be/a2-ZXPnmVF0?t=41 because it's one of the first moves he taught Oliver on that very island almost a decade prior.]]]]

* It may not be deliberate, but for ''The Flash'', each season's BigBad has been another speedster, a dark reflection of Barry who manages to stay one step ahead of him. And Season 5 of Arrow gives us Prometheus. Much like the Dark Archer, he's a dark reflection of Ollie who constantly manages to stay one step ahead of him.

* The BigBad of season 5 is called Prometheus. Midway through the season, Felicity retrieves a large data cache. Its name? Pandora. Given that in ClassicalMythology Prometheus and Pandora are two heavily intertwined figures, it's likely there's a connection.

* The [[{{YMMV/Arrow}} YMMV page]] takes note of Ra's's BadassDecay and PlotInducedStupidity in the final fight where Oliver kills him. But it isn't because of either of those that Oliver is able to beat him so easily, but rather a case of VillainousBreakdown-induced SanitySlippage. It's shown even before his first appearance that he does not take betrayal well, and he's clearly furious when he found out that Oliver was playing him. When he and Oliver finally duel on the bridge, he's so livid he isn't thinking clearly, and it's affecting his fighting skills, making it easier for Oliver to beat him. Not to mention consciously or not, he wanted Oliver to win and become his successor, accepting his death.

* The [[{{YMMV/Arrow}} YMMV page]] takes note of Ra's's BadassDecay and PlotInducedStupidity in the final fight where Oliver kills him. But it isn't because of either of those that Oliver is able to beat him so easily, but rather a case of VillainousBreakdown-induced SanitySlippage. It's shown even before his first appearance that he does not take betrayal well, and he's clearly furious when he found out that Oliver was playing him. When he and Oliver finally duel on the bridge, he's so livid he isn't thinking clearly, and it's affecting his fighting skills, making it easier for Oliver to beat him.

* The BigBad of season 5 is called Prometheus. Midway through the season, Felicity retrieves a large data cache. Its name? Pandora. Given that in ClassicalMythology Prometheus and Pandora are two heavily intertwined figures, it's likely there's a connection.

** Another possibility is that the Flashpoint storyline on The Flash changed more things when everyone thought, and those really are the reasons for Diggle and Thea's departure.
* Oliver being terrible at training the new recruits makes sense: he has never really trained anyone to be a superhero before. Diggle, Roy, Helena, Sara, and Thea already knew how to fight by the time any of them joined up with Oliver; Felicity is mostly tech support and doesn't really need to go out in the field; Ray mostly used his suit; Oliver refused to train Laurel, and she had to go elsewhere as a result. He did try to train Roy at one point, but that was mostly to get his Mirakuru-induced anger under control, and that quickly went off the rails. Same thing with Helena. Finally, his attempt to train Barry ended quickly after Barry was hit with an anger-inducing blast, and he also turned out to be a different hero from Oliver. In short, Oliver has no real experience training people.
** There's also who has trained ''Oliver'': assassins, morally ambiguous mercenaries, mobsters, criminals, and cold-blooded black-ops operators. With very few exceptions, the people who have taught him are the people a superhero would normally be expected to fight ''against''.

* [[spoiler:The reveal that Artemis is secretly working for Prometheus explains how she was able to give him a decent fight despite him being more skilled than her, he was pulling the fight and allowed himself to get cut. Also it could be that she is secretly more skilled than she lets on to the team by possibly having been trained by him and it would also explain her new skill with a bow besides Oliver training her with this skill.]]
** [[spoiler: It also implies that Prometheus getting cut and Quentin waking up with a cut in the same place wasn't Prometheus taking advantage of an injury to attempt to frame Quentin, but that it was ''planned'' for him to receive a recognizable injury.]]

* Slade mentioned in season 1 that he has a son, and from the looks of things he's been too busy with his revenge on Oliver to even consider seeing him again. Imagine having your father go missing for six years, and then turn up in a different country as a wanted fugitive [[spoiler:who kidnapped one woman and murdered another]]. Now, remember how Slade used to be, and how his son likely remembers him, to how he is now; if he ever sees his father again, lil'Joe Wilson is NOT going to like what he sees. Made worse given the Mirakuru thing: [[spoiler: Slade believes he's on a mission to avenge Shado, and her memory haunts him in a manner that makes it apparent he sees her egging on his more violent actions. Given the way he reacted to having to kill Moira, and his own word about not being able to let it go as much as he wants to, it's very likely that he's tried to go home and reunite with his son, but his hallucinations of Shado have basically forced him to withhold doing so.]]

** Then of course besides Barry you got the Legends who sometimes inadvertently mess with the timeline and Diggle having a son makes the bad future Star City they saw more likely to happen and [[spoiler:Damien Darhk now being a time traveler along with knowing his fate in season 4]] means that the events of that season could end up being changed or could end up being changed because of Sara's desire to prevent her sister from dying.