History Recap / ArrowS1E14TheOdyssey

* TrainingMontage:
** Slade and Oliver start the episode [[{{Flynning}} smacking bamboo sticks against each other like their swords]], with Slade outdoing Oliver each time and snapping the stick against Oliver's neck. Eventually, Oliver gets sick of failing and questions how sticks will help him fight armed mercenaries, only for Slade to let Oliver stick a gun in his face and promptly disarm him in half a second.

* SpecialEffectsFailure: In the opening, Slade is training Oliver, and at points a pistol in his face. The shot is noticeably a "flopped image", i.e. the original shot has been mirror-reversed along the vertical axis. It's noticeable because Slade's distinctive facial scar suddenly changes positions as he points the gun, and the gun switches back and forth between his hands between shots.

* TrainingMontage: Slade and Oliver start the episode [[{{Flynning}} smacking bamboo sticks against each other like their swords]], with Slade outdoing Oliver each time and snapping the stick against Oliver's neck. Eventually, Oliver gets sick of failing and questions how sticks will help him fight armed mercenaries, only for Slade to let Oliver stick a gun in his face and promptly disarm him in half a second.
-->'''Slade:''' One job to do. And you managed to screw up even that.

* IHaveAFamily: Used for DramaticIrony when Moira begs the Hood not to kill her, while holding a picture of Oliver and Thea. When Oliver lowers his bow, [[RealityEnsues she takes the opportunity to grab a gun and shoot him]].

* RealityEnsues: It takes more than a TrainingMontage to turn Oliver into a killer.
-->'''Slade:''' One job to do. And you managed to screw up even that.

* TrustPassword: After Slade and Oliver take the control tower, the supply plane calls on the radio with a challenge code. Fortunately it's a quote from ''Literature/TheOdyssey'', the [[BookDumb one book Oliver read in college]], so he knows the rest of the quote.

* ChekhovsSkill / RuleOfThrees: Slade demonstrates a disarming technique for a man pointing a gun in his face. The first time Oliver tries it on the control tower guard, he stuffs it up and Slade has to rescue him. As he's carrying a wounded Slade from Fryers camp however, another guard points a gun in Oliver's face and he uses the technique successfully.

** Slade has Oliver tie him up before [[WeHaveToGetTheBulletOut cutting the bullet out of him]] because, "A man in pain is unreliable. I was afraid I might kill you." [[spoiler:A grief-stricken Slade with a vendetta against Oliver is the BigBad of Season 2.]]

* FireForgedFriends: Slade and Oliver don't like each other much at the start of the episode, but their willingness to risk their lives saving each other changes that. And although on the surface she's RefusedTheCall, Felicity too becomes a member of Team Arrow after helping save Oliver's life (and upgrading their software), with Oliver shown shaking her hand in the same manner he did with Slade.

** The face that both Shado and Oliver have the same kind of dragon tattoo.

** The emphasis put on Shado and Oliver's dragon tattoo.

* AttackHello: When first Felicity bursts into the Arrowcave, Diggle turns and points his pistol at her in alarm.

** Slade has Oliver tie him up before cutting the bullet out of him because, "A man in pain is unreliable. I was afraid I might kill you." [[spoiler:A grief-stricken Slade with a vendetta against Oliver is the BigBad of Season 2.]]

* RhetoricalQuestionBackfire: Angry over how Slade keeps walloping him, Oliver demands to know why they're learning stickfighting when they're going up against men with guns. "What am I supposed to do if someone sticks a gun in my face; hit them with my stick?!" Cue OhCrap from Oliver as Slade hands Oliver his pistol and tells him to stick it in his face, only to be quickly and painfully disarmed.

* TookALevelInBadass: Oliver has come a long way since he was stranded in the island. Slade notices and appreciates it.

* {{Foreshadowing}}:
** Slade stabs his old partner through the right eye while said partner is wearing the Deathstroke outfit. In season 2, [[spoiler:Oliver puts an arrow through Slade's right eye in the season's last flashback]].
** Slade has Oliver tie him up before cutting the bullet out of him because, "A man in pain is unreliable. I was afraid I might kill you."

* FireForgedFriends: Slade and Oliver don't like each other much at the start of the episode, but their willingness to risk their lives saving each other changes that. And although on the surface she's RefusedTheCall, Felicity too becomes a member of Team Arrow after helping save Oliver's life, Oliver shown shaking her hand in the same manner he did with Slade.

* {{Troll}}: Slade watches Oliver trying and failing to light a fire when he has a lighter in his pocket. He watches for ''two hours''.

* CharacterDevelopment: Having had a HeelRealisation about what a self-centred jerk he was all his life, Oliver risks going to save Yao Fei, even though the plane leaves in three hours and Slade says he's willing to leave him behind.

* InternalReveal: Oliver is forced to reveal his secret to Felicity, though she already had her suspicions.

* ThouShaltNotKill: Oliver is still reluctant to kill, throwing away the gun he takes off the mook.

* ChekhovsSkill: The counter move that Slade did to Oliver at the beginning of the episode becomes useful near the end when Oliver himself uses it on a {{Mook}} while he and Slade are escaping.

* FreezeFrameBonus: When Fyers is talking with Yao Fei in his command tent, a copy of ''Literature/TheOdyssey'' can be seen on his desk.

** Diggle talks of how he was assigned to protect an Afghan warlord called Gholem Qadir.

* JerkassHasAPoint: Slade has only a short time to turn Oliver even a passably good soldier, so can't afford to be gentle with him.

-->'''Felicity:''' Oliver brought me a [[Recap/ArrowS1E3LoneGunmen laptop riddled with bullet holes]], had me [[Recap/ArrowS1E9YearsEnd trace a black arrow]], and research a [[Recap/ArrowS1E11TrustButVerify company involved in armored car heists]]. I may be blonde but not that blonde.

* DumbBlonde: Felicity uses "blonde" as a synonym for "stupid" when explaining how bad Oliver was at lying to her whenever he tried to cover up his superhero antics.
-->''"Oliver brought me a laptop riddled with bullet holes, had me trace a black arrow, and research a company involved in armored car heists. I may be blonde but-not that blonde."''
* EyeScream: Billy Wintergreen gets a sword in the right eye... from Slade Wilson, no less.