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* OutDamnedSpot: Moira sits in her car, weeping and scrubbing Chen's blood off her hands at the end.
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* CrusadingWidower: A villainous example. The Savior lets his wife's murder be his StartOfDarkness and he never looked back.

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* CrusadingWidower: CrusadingWidow: A villainous example. The Savior lets his wife's murder be his StartOfDarkness and he never looked back.
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* TheseHandsHaveKilled: While Moira didn't murder Chen herself, seeing his blood on her hands after she turns him out to the Dark Archer to be assassinated causes her to have a full-on breakdown.
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* DiggingYourselfDeeper: Slumlord John Nickel claims that "Without me, people like that would end up on the street." This only makes the Savior more angry, "People like that. That's all we are to guys like this."

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* DiggingYourselfDeeper: Slumlord John Nickel claims that "Without me, people like that would end up on the street." This only makes further convinces the Savior more angry, how little he cares about his tenants, "People like that. That's all we are to guys like this."
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Read more at: https://transcripts.foreverdreaming.org/viewtopic.php?f=172&t=10221
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* DiggingYourselfDeeper: Slumlord John Nickel claims that "Without me, people like that would end up on the street." This only makes the Savior more angry, "People like that. That's all we are to guys like this."

Read more at: https://transcripts.foreverdreaming.org/viewtopic.php?f=172&t=10221
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Not So Different has been renamed, and it needs to be dewicked/moved


* NotSoDifferent: Inevitably the Savior argues this to the Hood when he turns up to stop him executing Roy.
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* MySisterIsOffLimits: Although Oliver does his utmost to save Thea's friend, he's clearly not happy on realising they're not JustFriends.

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* MySisterIsOffLimits: Although Oliver does his utmost to save Thea's friend, he's clearly not happy on realising they're not JustFriends. [[CharacterDevelopment Unlike last year however]], Oliver doesn't interfere in his sister's love life.
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* BelligerentSexualTension: Just because Thea and Roy have started making out doesn't mean they've stopped snarking each other.
-->''(Roy is getting intimate with his new rich girlfriend when they're interrupted by a knock on the door.)''

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* BelligerentSexualTension: Just because Thea and Roy have started making out doesn't mean they've stopped snarking each other.
their SnarkToSnarkCombat.
-->''(Roy is getting intimate with his new [[UptownGirl rich girlfriend girlfriend]] when they're interrupted by a knock on the door.)''
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* BelligerentSexualTension: Just because Thea and Roy have started making out doesn't mean they've stopped snarking each other.
-->''(Roy is getting intimate with his new rich girlfriend when they're interrupted by a knock on the door.)''
-->'''Thea:''' Oh, ''now'' you want to stop?
-->'''Roy:''' Well we don't all have butlers. Some of us actually have to answer our own doors.
-->'''Thea:''' Oh, the horror.

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* KnightTemplarBigBrother: Although Oliver does his utmost to save Thea's friend, he's clearly not happy on realising they're not JustFriends.


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* MySisterIsOffLimits: Although Oliver does his utmost to save Thea's friend, he's clearly not happy on realising they're not JustFriends.
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* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: Averted; when Thea sees the gun delivered to Roy and he admits it's for a robbery, she gets upset and walks out on him. She does go to Laurel for advice, citing how she's dated a few bad boys herself. Laurel advises her to "run", but events conspire against that.

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* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: Averted; when Thea sees the gun delivered to Roy and he admits it's for a robbery, she gets upset and walks out on him. She does go to Laurel for advice, citing how she's dated a few bad boys herself. Laurel advises her to "run", but events conspire against that. The trope is lampshaded by Laurel at the end to Oliver, in a wry comment on their own relationship.

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** Oliver realises the Undertaking is somehow connected to the Glades, when he has a EurekaMoment about the glyph on his father's notebook.

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** Oliver realises the Undertaking is somehow connected to the Glades, when he has a EurekaMoment about the glyph on his father's notebook.notebook--a map of the subway tunnels under the Glades.
** The {{Crawl}} text under the newsreader mentions an earthquake.
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** Shado says that Fyers would never have handed over a boat to Oliver and Slade because he couldn't risk them warning the mainland about his EvilPlan. The irony is they still don't know that Fyers is planning anyway.
* YourMakeupInRunning: After tearfully hugging Roy, Thea admits she looks like a mess and goes to freshen up.

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** Shado says that Fyers would never have handed over a boat to Oliver and Slade because he couldn't risk them warning the mainland about his EvilPlan. The irony is they still don't know that Fyers is planning anyway.
anyway (though Shado does).
* YourMakeupInRunning: YourMakeupIsRunning: After tearfully hugging Roy, Thea admits she looks like a mess and goes to freshen up.

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* HopeSpot
** The woman Dinah thought was her daughter turns out to be someone else.
** On the island, Shado is rescued but they discover that the mercenaries found and retrieved the circuit board. They also have Yao Fei in their custody, so there's nothing to stop them carrying out their plan.



* ItsNotYouItsMyEnemies: After what happened with [=McKenna=] (not to mention Helena, Laurel and Sara) Oliver has decided to give up having a social life altogether. However the events of the episode convince him that cutting himself off totally is a bad idea, and [[NotADate he asks Laurel out of coffee some time.]]

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* ItsNotYouItsMyEnemies: After what happened with [=McKenna=] (not to mention Helena, Laurel and Sara) Oliver has decided to give up having a social life altogether. However the events of the episode convince him that cutting himself off totally is a bad idea, and [[NotADate he asks Laurel out of for coffee or dinner some time.]]



* JudgeJuryAndExecutioner: The Savior feels fully justified in finding anyone he thinks of as guilty and murdering them.
* MurderDotCom: The Savior's M.O.
* MythologyGag:
** Dinah Lance leaves to go back to Central City and comments she'll be there “in a flash.” Central City is the home to The Flash in DC Comics, and in another coincidence, Dinah Lance, the Black Canary, first appeared in ''Flash Comics''.
* NotSoDifferent: Inevitably the Savior argues this.

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* JudgeJuryAndExecutioner: The Savior feels fully justified in finding anyone he thinks of as guilty and murdering them.
* MurderDotCom: The Savior's M.O.
O., playing JudgeJuryAndExecutioner live on the internet.
* MythologyGag:
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MythologyGag: Dinah Lance leaves to go back to Central City and comments she'll be there “in a flash.” Central City is the home to The Flash in DC Comics, and in another coincidence, Dinah Lance, the Black Canary, first appeared in ''Flash Comics''.
* NotSoDifferent: Inevitably the Savior argues this.this to the Hood when he turns up to stop him executing Roy.



* ParentalBetrayal: Dinah reveals she knew Sara got on the Queen's Gambit with Oliver despite it being a betrayal of Laurel, and didn't tell Laurel about until now. Laurel is less than pleased.

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* ParentalBetrayal: Dinah reveals she knew Sara got on the Queen's Gambit with Oliver despite it being a betrayal of Laurel, and didn't tell Laurel about until now. Laurel is less than pleased.pleased, but extends an olive branch by asking her mother to call her, when she's previously rejected such attempts.



* PetTheDog: After killing Chen, the Dark Archer tells Moira that Chen's daughter must also be killed in retribution. Moira (not knowing the Dark Archer is Malcolm) successfully pleads for her life to be spared.
* PullTheThread: Dinah thinks the woman in the photo is Sara because she's wearing a Starling City Rockets cap like Sara was wearing on the ''Queens Gambit''. Laurel suddenly asks how Dinah knew this, and she has to admit she saw Sara get on the yacht.

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* PetTheDog: After killing Chen, the Dark Archer tells Moira that Chen's daughter must also be killed in retribution. Moira (not Not knowing the Dark Archer is Malcolm) Malcolm, Moira successfully pleads for her life to be spared.
* PullTheThread: Dinah thinks the woman in the photo is Sara because she's wearing a Starling City Rockets cap like Sara was wearing on the ''Queens Gambit''. Laurel suddenly asks how Dinah knew this, and she has to admit she saw came home early and caught Sara get on the yacht.packing.



* YouKnowTooMuch: When Moira realises that Malcolm is getting too close to the truth, she denounces Chen herself as the traitor, handing over the evidence that he hired China White. Chen is then executed by the Dark Archer before he can reveal that Moira put him up to it.

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* YouKnowTooMuch: YouKnowTooMuch:
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When Moira realises that Malcolm is getting too close to the truth, she denounces Chen herself as the traitor, handing over the evidence that he hired China White. Chen is then executed by the Dark Archer before he can reveal that Moira put him up to it.it.
** Shado says that Fyers would never have handed over a boat to Oliver and Slade because he couldn't risk them warning the mainland about his EvilPlan. The irony is they still don't know that Fyers is planning anyway.

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