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* BreakOutTheMuseumPiece: Not only the World War 2-era Japanese submarine, but the suicide torpedoes it's armed with.



* RagnarokProofing: Even if they could [[BreakOutTheMuseumPiece get the submarine working]], the fuel would have long since evaporated.

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* RagnarokProofing: GasolineLastsForever: Even if they could [[BreakOutTheMuseumPiece [[RagnarokProofing get the submarine working]], the fuel would have long since evaporated.
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-->'''Oliver:''' This started with [[PowerTrio the three of us]]. It's time we got back to that.

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-->'''Oliver:''' This started with [[PowerTrio the three of us]].us. It's time we got back to that.
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* BaitAndSwitch: Slade goes to the pier from which the ''Queen's Gambit'' left to surrender himself to Slade. Someone tranq darts him in the neck and he wakes up in the Arrowcave with Felicity and Diggle. And Laurel.

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* BaitAndSwitch: Slade Oliver goes to the pier from which the ''Queen's Gambit'' left to surrender himself to Slade. Someone tranq darts him in the neck and he wakes up in the Arrowcave with Felicity and Diggle. And Laurel.
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* PartingWordsRegret: Thea talks of how Moira died thinking that she hated her.
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* PlotDemandedManualMode: The submarine's torpedoes are [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaiten Kaiten]] manned suicide torpedoes. Fortunately someone doesn't have PlotArmor is already dying of induced radiation poisoning.

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* PlotDemandedManualMode: The submarine's torpedoes are [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaiten Kaiten]] manned suicide torpedoes. Fortunately someone who doesn't have PlotArmor is already dying of induced radiation poisoning.



* TookALevelInBadass: Diggle can't believe his eyes when a Mirakuru-enhanced Isabel appears before him wearing a two-color half-mask and [[RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver red and black]] leather supervillain outfit plus a [[DualWielding sword in each hand]], eager for payback on the man who killed her.

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* TookALevelInBadass: Diggle can't believe his eyes when a Mirakuru-enhanced Isabel appears before him wearing a two-color half-mask and a [[RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver red and black]] leather supervillain outfit plus outfit, holding a [[DualWielding sword in each hand]], eager for payback on the man who killed her.



-->'''Oliver:''' This started with the three of us. It's time we got back to that.

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-->'''Oliver:''' This started with [[PowerTrio the three of us.us]]. It's time we got back to that.



-->'''Oliver:''' I wasn't thinking about saving anybody. It's not who I am.
-->'''Peter:''' Maybe not yet.

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-->'''Oliver:''' --->'''Oliver:''' I wasn't thinking about saving anybody. It's not who I am.
-->'''Peter:''' --->'''Peter:''' Maybe not yet.
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* ImagineSpot: A DeletedScene has Oliver saving his mother by using a concealed knife to cut his bonds, then wresting Slade's gun off him and shooting him. Cut to Diggle asking if he's OK, showing it's all in his imagination.
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* ImagineSpot: A DeletedScene has Oliver saving his mother by using a concealed knife to cut his bonds, then wresting Slade's gun off him and shooting him. Cut to Diggle asking if he's OK, showing it's all in his imagination.
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* CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot: Thea blames Oliver for failing to warn his family that Slade Wilson was a dangerous psychopath with a personal grudge against him. While Oliver is understandably reluctant to talk of what happened on Lian Yu, it's hard to argue with this.

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* CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot: Thea blames Oliver for failing to warn his family that Slade Wilson was a dangerous psychopath with a personal grudge against him. While Oliver is understandably reluctant to talk of about what happened on Lian Yu, it's hard to argue with this.

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* CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot: Thea blames Oliver for failing to warn his family that Slade Wilson was a dangerous psychopath with a personal grudge against him. While Oliver is understandably reluctant to talk of what happened on Lian Yu, it's hard to argue with this.



* PoorCommunicationKills: Thea blames Oliver for failing to warn them that Slade Wilson was a dangerous psychopath with a personal grudge against him.
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* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: Despite being angry at her brother for not turning up for their mother's funeral, Thea is thrown when Oliver encourages her intent to make her own way in the world and tells Thea she is the purest member of their family. Rather than give him a WhatTheHellHero lecture, Thea awkwardly promises to get in touch after she settles down, not knowing Oliver is saying this because he intends to commit [[SuicideByCop Suicide By Slade]].

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* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: Despite being angry at her brother for not turning up for their mother's funeral, and blaming him for not warning them about Slade, Thea is thrown when Oliver encourages her intent to make her own way in the world and tells Thea she is the purest member of their family. Rather than give him a WhatTheHellHero lecture, Thea awkwardly promises to get in touch after she settles down, not knowing Oliver is saying this because he intends to commit [[SuicideByCop Suicide By Slade]].
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** Laurel and Quentin Lance learn that Sebastian Blood knew that Moira was going to be killed, and that is the reason why she was killed, not just Slade's vendetta against Oliver.

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** Laurel and Quentin Lance learn that Sebastian Blood knew that Moira was going to be killed, and that which also leads to them realizing there is the reason why she was killed, not just a larger conspiracy than Slade's vendetta against Oliver.
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* {{Cliffhanger}}: On the island Sara has been captured by Slade. In the present day, Oliver and Laurel are buried in a collapsed tunnel, Diggle is cornered by Isabel/Ravanger, Thea and Quentin are stuck in buildings being attacked by Slade's soldiers, and Felicity is last seen getting a call from S.T.A.R. Labs (presumably, one can hope, about the Mirakuru cure).

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* {{Cliffhanger}}: On the island Sara has been captured by Slade. In the present day, Oliver and Laurel are buried in a collapsed tunnel, Diggle is cornered by Isabel/Ravanger, Isabel, Thea and Quentin are stuck in buildings being attacked by Slade's soldiers, and Felicity is last seen getting a call from S.T.A.R. Labs (presumably, one can hope, about the Mirakuru cure).



* HopeSpot: Diggle is about to blow up Blood's army during his NewEraSpeech when Isabel intervenes in her Ravanger outfit. Thea is about to leave Starling City for safety when a Deathstroke soldier attacks the train station. Oliver and Anatoli have blasted the submarine free, only to find that Sara has been captured.

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* HopeSpot: Diggle is about to blow up Blood's army during his NewEraSpeech when Isabel intervenes in her Ravanger Ravager outfit. Thea is about to leave Starling City for safety when a Deathstroke soldier attacks the train station. Oliver and Anatoli have blasted the submarine free, only to find that Sara has been captured.
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* ComicBookMoviesDontUseCodenames: Isabel Rochev is not referred to as Ravager.
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* KickTheDog: Isabel reveals she is alive to Felicity and Diggle by mocking Oliver ''at his mother's funeral reception'' and threatening their lives. She then goes on to seize Verdant off Thea on the grounds that the foundry it's built on is still a QC asset (though this has the added benefit of shutting down the Arrowcave).

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* KickTheDog: Isabel reveals she is alive to Felicity and Diggle by mocking Oliver ''at his mother's funeral reception'' and threatening their lives. She then goes on to seize Verdant off Thea on the grounds that the foundry it's built on is still a QC asset (though this has the added benefit of shutting she's likely also planning to shut down the Arrowcave).
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* GutFeeling: Laurel when getting her father to look into Blood one more time, despite her previous mistakes.

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* GutFeeling: Laurel when getting her father to look into Blood one more time, despite her previous mistakes. Given that Quentin himself believes in this trope, it works.
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* SpiesInAVan: Felicity and Diggle on the surface planting the charges to bring down the sublevels on Blood's head.

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* SpiesInAVan: Felicity and Diggle on the surface planting the charges to bring down the sublevels on Blood's head.
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* VillainWithGoodPublicity: For a moment Oliver contemplates killing Blood right there in the restaurant. Blood sees this and just smirks, pointing out that killing the Mayor of Starling City in public would be a bad idea.

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* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: Despite being angry at her brother for not turning up for their mother's funeral, Thea is thrown when Oliver encourages her intent to make her own way in the world and tells Thea she is the purest member of their family. Rather than give him a WhatTheHellHero lecture, Thea awkwardly promises to get in touch after she settles down, not knowing Oliver is saying this because he intends to commit [[SuicideByCop Suicide By Slade]].



* CallBack: After Laurel turns up in the Arrowcave, she discusses with Oliver the events of the Undertaking when Tommy was killed. Oliver is finally able to reveal to her what happened in Tommy's final moments.
* ConvenientlyTimedAttackFromBehind: Oliver is being garroted by a Mirakuru soldier when Laurel (who disobeyed orders to stay behind) whacks his attacker on the back with a pipe. It has no effect but does serve as a distraction so Oliver can get free and BoomHeadshot him with an explosive arrow as the soldier advances on Laurel.



* GodzillaThreshold: Felicity points out that using explosive to drop tons of concrete on Blood's army is [[ThouShaltNotKill murder no matter how you look at it]]. As far as the Arrow is concerned, the [[WhatMeasureIsANonHuman Mirakuru soldiers aren't even human any more]].

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* GodzillaThreshold: GodzillaThreshold:
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Felicity points out that using explosive to drop tons of concrete on Blood's army is [[ThouShaltNotKill murder no matter how you look at it]]. As far as the Arrow is concerned, the [[WhatMeasureIsANonHuman Mirakuru soldiers aren't even human any more]].more]].
** Amanda Waller is not in a mood to help Diggle after he disobeyed orders in "Suicide Squad" but the news that there's an army of Mirakuru soldiers about to run rampant in an American city changes her mind.


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* TookALevelInBadass: Diggle can't believe his eyes when a Mirakuru-enhanced Isabel appears before him wearing a two-color half-mask and [[RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver red and black]] leather supervillain outfit plus a [[DualWielding sword in each hand]], eager for payback on the man who killed her.

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* BaitAndSwitch: Slade goes to the pier from which the ''Queen's Gambit'' left to surrender himself to Slade. Someone tranq darts him in the neck and he wakes up in the Arrowcave with Felicity and Diggle. And Laurel.



* GodzillaThreshold: Felicity points out that using explosive to drop tons of concrete on Blood's army is murder no matter how you look at it. As far as the

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* CornerOfWoe: Diggle and Felicity track down Oliver in a second Arrowcave he's prepared in case the first was compromised. Turns out he's been using it when he wants to be alone.
* GodzillaThreshold: Felicity points out that using explosive to drop tons of concrete on Blood's army is [[ThouShaltNotKill murder no matter how you look at it. it]]. As far as the Arrow is concerned, the [[WhatMeasureIsANonHuman Mirakuru soldiers aren't even human any more]].
* GutFeeling: Laurel when getting her father to look into Blood one more time, despite her previous mistakes.
* HandshakeRefusal: Thea to Isabel.



* ItsTheOnlyWay: In the past, Peter sacrificing himself manning a kamikaze torpedo. In the present, Oliver sacrificing himself so Slade will no longer have an interest in hurting his friends and family just to hurt Oliver.
* JustBetweenYouAndMe: Oliver and Blood have a reasonably civil chat in the Japanese restaurant where Oliver reveals he's the Arrow and Blood admits he's working with Slade and his motives for doing so.
* JustOneLittleMistake: Sebastian Blood typed up the press release about Moira's death the day ''before'' she was killed, as shown by the datestamp. This finally provides the proof Laurel needs that he is in league with Slade.



* KilledOffForReal: The Starling City IT guy gets a NeckSnap from a Deathstroke soldier.

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* KilledOffForReal: The Starling City Kelton, the police IT guy tech gets a NeckSnap from a Mirakuru soldier.
* MalevolentMaskedMen: The Mirakuru soldiers are all wearing
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* OhCrap: Diggle and Felicity's reaction to Isabel showing up alive at Moira's wake for some EvilGloating.

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* NeverSplitTheParty: Island!Oliver gives Sara a radio and tells her to wait outside on hull in case something goes wrong when they launch the torpedo. The plan works only for Sara to send a panicked radio message as Slade's men grab her.
* OhCrap: Diggle and Felicity's reaction to Isabel showing up alive at Moira's wake for some EvilGloating.EvilGloating, then Diggle later when he sees Isabel in her Ravager outfit, ready to get payback for him killing her.


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* SpiesInAVan: Felicity and Diggle on the surface planting the charges to bring down the sublevels on Blood's head.


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* TechnologyPorn: Felicity geeks out over the ARGUS computer system, some of which isn't supposed to have been built yet.
-->"Is that the satellite frequency communicator TX-50? Can I touch it? I know that sounds a [[CargoShip little weird and creepy]], but I've never seen one in real life."
* TrueCompanions: Oliver tells Laurel to stay behind when going to take on Blood and his army, because he wants her to be safe. Laurel points out that Diggle and Felicity are going with him.
-->'''Oliver:''' This started with the three of us. It's time we got back to that.

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* {{Dissimile}}: Anatoli says piloting a submarine is like riding a bicycle. Underwater.
* GodzillaThreshold: Felicity points out that using explosive to drop tons of concrete on Blood's army is murder no matter how you look at it. As far as the



* PoorCommunicationKills: Thea blames Oliver for failing to warn them that Slade Wilson was a dangerous psychopath with a personal grudge against him.



* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: With her mother dead, her brother estranged, her boyfriend vanished who knows where and the house she grew up in being sold off due to the Queen family bankruptcy, Thea decides to leave Starling City and make her own way in the world. She's surprised when Oliver encourages her to go ahead (in actuality so she'll be safely elsewhere when whatever Slade is planning hits the fan).

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* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: With her mother dead, her brother estranged, estranged from her, her boyfriend ex-boyfriend vanished who knows where and the house she grew up in being sold off due to the Queen family bankruptcy, Thea decides to leave Starling City and make her own way in the world. She's surprised when Oliver encourages her to go ahead (in actuality so she'll be safely elsewhere when whatever Slade is planning hits the fan).



** [[GodzillaThreshold Faced with Mirakuru-enhanced soldiers]], Oliver resorts to explosive arrows.

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--->'''Anatoli:''' I can see why you two are made for each other. You like your explosions.
** [[GodzillaThreshold Faced with Mirakuru-enhanced soldiers]], Oliver resorts to explosive explosive-head arrows.

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