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* YouGotSpunk: Thea earns the reluctant admiration of Roy for being willing to go out to the Glades at night to get her purse back.
-->'''Thea:''' You must not know the value of a vintage purse.

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* ShockStick: The Dodger uses some kind of electric mace that shocks the heart, causing his victims to become unconscious for 72 hours.



* WeaponOfChoice: The Dodger uses some kind of electric mace that shocks the heart, causing his victims to become unconscious for 72 hours.
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* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: When Slade tells Ollie he "won't last an hour out there", Ollie replies "then you'd better hope I get back in 45 minutes". The show ran for an hour... but taking out commercials the actual run time was about 42 minutes.
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* IWantYouToMeetAnOldFriendOfMine: The actors playing Dodger (James Callis) and Claire, the fence (Rekha Sharma) were both regular cast members on ''Series/BattlestarGalactica2003'', playing Gaius Baltar and Tory Foster, respectively.
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* NotSoDifferent: The Dodger claims this to Oliver as he only steals from the rich. Oliver tells him he's not JustLikeRobinHood.

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* NotSoDifferent: NotSoDifferentRemark: The Dodger claims this to Oliver as he only steals from the rich. Oliver tells him he's not JustLikeRobinHood.
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-->'''Roy:''' Thea Queen. Trust fund brat. Totaled her car, [[SpoiledSweet which she got as a birthday present]]. Loves designer labels and is usually in the tabloids for partying too much. Did I leave anything out?

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-->'''Roy:''' Thea Queen. Trust fund brat. Totaled her car, [[SpoiledSweet [[RichInDollarsPoorInSense which she got as a birthday present]]. Loves designer labels and is usually in the tabloids for partying too much. Did I leave anything out?
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-->'''Roy:''' Thea Queen. Trust fund brat. Totaled her car, [[PoorLittleRichKid which she got as a birthday present]]. Loves designer labels and is usually in the tabloids for partying too much. Did I leave anything out?

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-->'''Roy:''' Thea Queen. Trust fund brat. Totaled her car, [[PoorLittleRichKid [[SpoiledSweet which she got as a birthday present]]. Loves designer labels and is usually in the tabloids for partying too much. Did I leave anything out?
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* SnarkToSnarkCombat: Thea vs. Roy.
-->'''Roy:''' So I guess you're not pressing charges 'cause you feel like you can change my life? And so you can run and tell your rich prep school friends what a saint you are and how you're helping the disadvantaged?
-->'''Thea:''' You don't know a thing about me.
-->'''Roy:''' Thea Queen. Trust fund brat. Totaled her car, [[PoorLittleRichKid which she got as a birthday present]]. Loves designer labels and is usually in the tabloids for partying too much. Did I leave anything out?
-->'''Thea:''' Yeah. Dead father, missing step dad, damaged brother, and almost served jail time for that car accident. Plus, she really wants her purse back.
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** The embezzler with a ten year-old son isn't be the only person on the List who has children, at least one of whom will grow up to take revenge on Oliver.

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** The embezzler with a ten year-old son isn't be the only person on the List who has children, at least one of whom will grow up to take revenge on Oliver.

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-->'''Roy:''' You know, you showed some real sack coming down here, the Glades in the middle of the night.
-->'''Thea:''' You must not know the value of a vintage purse.


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-->'''Thea:''' You must not know the value of a vintage purse.
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--->'''Thea:''' You must not know the value of a vintage purse.

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* SeriousBusiness: Thea goes to a lot of trouble to get her purse back. Though the [[AllGirlsWantBadBoys thief's male model looks]] might have had something to do with that...
-->'''Roy:''' You know, you showed some real sack coming down here, the Glades in the middle of the night.
--->'''Thea:''' You must not know the value of a vintage purse.
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** Turns out the embezzler won't be the only person on the List who has children, at least one of whom will grow up to take revenge on the Hood.

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** Turns out the The embezzler won't with a ten year-old son isn't be the only person on the List who has children, at least one of whom will grow up to take revenge on the Hood.Oliver.

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* EatingTheEyeCandy: Downplayed, but Felicity is shown taking a peak at a shirtless Oliver working out on a training dummy. It won't be long before she drops the subtlety altogether.



** Turns out the embezzler won't be the only person on the List who has children, at least one of whom will grow up to take revenge on the Hood.



* HiddenDepths: Oliver is surprised when, after he tries intimidating Felicity with his brooding DeathGlare when she objects to him targeting the widowed father of a ten-year old who's on the List, the geeky IT girl just walks out on him, saying she might have made a mistake signing up for Team Arrow. He has to approach her again on her own turf in a more conciliatory manner, agreeing to take on the Dodger case.

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* HiddenDepths: Oliver is surprised when, after he tries intimidating Felicity with his brooding DeathGlare when she objects to him targeting the [[EvenEvilHasLovedOnes widowed father of a ten-year old old]] who's on the List, the geeky IT girl just walks out on him, saying she might have made a mistake signing up for Team Arrow. He has to approach her again on her own turf in a more conciliatory manner, agreeing to take on the Dodger case.
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* LeParkour: Roy flees after snatching Thea's purse only to get blocked by a fence. When Laurel and Thea confront him however, he just smirks and leaps over it using the nearby wall.

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* BewareTheNiceOnes: Oliver is surprised when, after he tries intimidating Felicity with his brooding DeathGlare when she objects to him targeting the widowed father of a ten-year old who's on the List, she walks out on him saying she might have made a mistake signing up for Team Arrow. He has to approach her again on her own turf in a more conciliatory manner, agreeing to take on the Dodger case.


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* HiddenDepths: Oliver is surprised when, after he tries intimidating Felicity with his brooding DeathGlare when she objects to him targeting the widowed father of a ten-year old who's on the List, the geeky IT girl just walks out on him, saying she might have made a mistake signing up for Team Arrow. He has to approach her again on her own turf in a more conciliatory manner, agreeing to take on the Dodger case.
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* PetTheDog: Roy does return Thea's purse with everything in it, though not her cigarettes as it's a bad habit.
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* BewareTheNiceOnes: Oliver is surprised when, after he tries intimidating Felicity with his brooding DeathGlare when she objects to him targeting the widowed father of a ten-year old who's on the List, she walks out on him saying she might have made a mistake signing up for Team Arrow. He has to approach her again on her own turf in a more conciliatory manner, agreeing to take on the Dodger case.

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* TheHeart: Felicity urges Oliver to forgo pursuing the List in favor of genuinely helping people. Realising he needs her help, he decides to make an 'exception' by catching Dodger. She also convinces Oliver to try more sophisticated methods like hacking instead of intimidation to get intelligence.

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* TheHeart: Felicity urges Oliver to forgo pursuing the List in favor of genuinely helping people. Realising he needs her help, help (and out of concern she might go to the police after all) he decides to make an 'exception' by catching Dodger. She also convinces Oliver to try more sophisticated methods like hacking instead of intimidation to get intelligence.



* PhantomThief: The Dodger's can pull heists while being miles away [[JustifiedTrope by]] forcing hostages to steal for him.
* PopTheTires: Oliver does this to Dodger's car by shooting the tire with an explosive arrow and causing it to crash.

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* ObliviousGuiltSlinging: Subverted when Roy talks of his mother getting hooked on Vertigo, but not having the resources of the wealthy to get proper care. Given that he already knows who Thea Queen is, it's implied he's doing this deliberately to guilt-trip her into dropping the charges.
* PhantomThief: The Dodger's Dodger can pull heists while being miles away [[JustifiedTrope by]] by forcing hostages to steal for him.
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* PopTheTires: Oliver does this to Dodger's car by shooting the bursting a tire with an explosive arrow and causing it to crash.



** Diggle asks what Oliver would have done if he'd decided to call the police on learning he was the Hood. Oliver replies that he would have put an arrow in him, and doesn't bother to reassure Diggle with a JustJokingJustification.

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** Diggle asks what Oliver would have done if he'd decided to call the police on learning he was the Hood. Oliver replies that he would have [[YouKnowTooMuch put an arrow in him, him]], and doesn't bother to reassure Diggle with a JustJokingJustification.

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* BlackComedy: Diggle asks what Oliver would have done if he'd decided to call the police on learning he was the Hood. Oliver replies that he would have put an arrow in him, and doesn't bother to reassure Diggle with a JustJokingJustification.



* ThatCameOutWrong: Felicity wants to know what Oliver plans to do if the thief absconds with his family jewels.

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* ThatCameOutWrong: Felicity wants to know RhetoricalQuestionBlunder:
** Diggle asks
what Oliver plans would have done if he'd decided to do if call the thief absconds police on learning he was the Hood. Oliver replies that he would have put an arrow in him, and doesn't bother to reassure Diggle with his family jewels.a JustJokingJustification.
** Thea snarks to Roy that he knows nothing about her. Given that she's a tabloid celebrity who's recently been involved in a drug scandal, that's not true.


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* ThatCameOutWrong: Felicity wants to know what Oliver plans to do if the thief absconds with his family jewels, then gives this trope when she realises how that sounded.
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* WeaponOfChoice: The Dodger uses some kind of electric mace that causes his victims to become unconscious for 72 hours.

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* WeaponOfChoice: The Dodger uses some kind of electric mace that causes shocks the heart, causing his victims to become unconscious for 72 hours.

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