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* CallBack: Several to ''Arrow''.

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* BrainsAndBrawn: Snart and Mick's discusses their respective roles in their partnership.
* CallBack: Several to ''Arrow''.''Series/{{Arrow}}''.



* CelebrityParadox: Mick makes a ''Series/HappyDays'' ShoutOut. The show famously has Creator/RonHoward, who is the RealLife father-in-law of Seth Gabel aka the first Count Vertigo.
* ChekhovsGun: When Sara, Connor and Rip first dropped by to the Arrow Bunker, Sara sees an ArtificialArm lying around in a corner. The now handicapped Oliver will later use it after he regains his funk.



* DoomedHometown: Star City for Sara, Ray, Connor and Oliver.
* {{Dystopia}}: Star City does not look good in an alternate 2046.



* EverybodysDeadDave: All of Sarah's friends and family except Ollie are long gone. This is also what caused Ollie to cross the DespairEventHorizon, as he eventually found himself fighting, and losing, all alone.

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* EverybodysDeadDave: All of Sarah's Sara's friends and family except Ollie are long gone. This is also what caused Ollie to cross the DespairEventHorizon, as he eventually found himself fighting, and losing, all alone.



* ExtyYearsFromNow: The episode is set 30 years into the Franchise/{{Arrowverse}}'s current time.
* GenerationXerox:
** In the very first episodes of ''Series/{{Arrow}}'', Diggle becomes Oliver's very first ally when he was still starting out. Oliver then rebuilds his life and career by taking Diggle's son Connor as his protegee.
** Grant terrorizes Star City just like what his father did.



* {{Hypocrite}}:
** Sara calls out Rip on his constant exposition of messing with the timeline despite the fact that that is exactly why he recruited them in the first place.
** Grant Wilson mocks Connor for being a LegacyCharacter, despite being one himself.



** An aged Oliver boasts the goatee worn by his comic book counterpart.
*** He sports a full beard, not the forked Van Dyke of the comics.

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** An aged Oliver boasts the goatee worn by his comic book counterpart.
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counterpart, though he sports a full beard, not the forked Van Dyke of the comics.



** Sara finally dons the White Canary's BadassLongcoat from the comics.
** the insult Grant Wilson throws at Connor for being "a punk in a costume" is reminiscent of the ones Terry [=McGinnis=] gets in ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond''.



* ThePlace: Referring to the city where ''Series/{{Arrow}}'' takes place in.



* ShipTease: Toyed with Ray, Jax and Kendra.



* SpoilerOpening: Stephen Amell appears in the credit opening as a special guest star. This makes the reveal that he's still alive less surprising.

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* SpoilerOpening: Stephen Amell Creator/StephenAmell appears in the credit opening as a [[AndStarring special guest star. star]]. This makes the reveal TheReveal that he's still alive less surprising.


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* TrailersAlwaysSpoil:
** Oliver being alive was spoiled by the trailers, sneak-peeks, social media and [[SpoilerOpening the OBB of this very episode]].
** The new Deathstroke being Grant Wilson was psoiled by one of the sneak-peeks.
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* TimeyWimeyBall: Rip insists that the team trying to fix things in this timeline may be what causes it to happen, despite that it's ''already'' happened. And changing the future is worse than changing the past, even though that's what this whole mission is about. And how do you define "the future" in this situation anyway?
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* CallBack: Several to ''Arrow''.
** Oliver mentions Slade Wilson's plan to destroy his life, which was the focus of ''Arrow's'' second season.
** Star City in 2046 resembles what Starling City looked like during the 'Siege' - and once again, its an army raised by a Deathstroke that's responsible.
** Grant Wilson is defeated the same way his father was over thirty years ago - being bound by a bola arrow.


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* GoneToTheFuture: In this particular future timeline, Sara and Ray never returned to 2016 and have been missing for thirty years.
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* Everybody'sDeadDave: All of Sarah's friends and family except Ollie are long gone. This is also what caused Ollie to cross the DespairEventHorizon, as he eventually found himself fighting, and losing, all alone.

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* Everybody'sDeadDave: EverybodysDeadDave: All of Sarah's friends and family except Ollie are long gone. This is also what caused Ollie to cross the DespairEventHorizon, as he eventually found himself fighting, and losing, all alone.
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* EveryBodysDeadDave: All of Sarah's friends and family except Ollie are long gone. This is also what caused Ollie to cross the DespairEventHorizon, as he eventually found himself fighting, and losing, all alone.

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* EveryBodysDeadDave: Everybody'sDeadDave: All of Sarah's friends and family except Ollie are long gone. This is also what caused Ollie to cross the DespairEventHorizon, as he eventually found himself fighting, and losing, all alone.
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* SpoilerOpening: Stephen Amell appears in the credit opening as a special guest star. This makes the reveal that he's still alive less surprising.

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* BadFuture: The episode takes place in Star City 30 years after the events of ''Arrow'', and from the looks of things, Oliver failed to save his city.

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* BadFuture: The episode takes place in Star City 30 years after the events of ''Arrow'', and from the looks of things, Oliver failed to save his city. All of his teammates are dead except for Felicity, who left when it became clear Star City was beyond saving, criminal gangs rule the streets, and most buildings have been reduced to ruins.


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* EveryBodysDeadDave: All of Sarah's friends and family except Ollie are long gone. This is also what caused Ollie to cross the DespairEventHorizon, as he eventually found himself fighting, and losing, all alone.
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*** He sports a full beard, not the forked Van Dyke of the comics.
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* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: Averted, the cuts and bruises Ray picked up in the previous episode still linger.
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* ArmorIsUseless: Averted, Connor takes a point blank shot but survives due to the high density kevlar in his suit.
* AnnoyingArrows: Averted, one of these cuts through Wilson's armour and kills him (though he did survive the first one without much slowdown).
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* EvilOverlord: Grant Wilson rules the remnants of Star City and has unified the criminal element as his personal army.
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* KlingonPromotion: Mick becomes the head of a gang after torching the previous leader.


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* PrettyInMink: Mick is so pimp in his new fur coat.
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* ShoutOut: Mick dubs two of the gang members "[[Series/HappyDays Fonzie]]" and "[[Film/{{Grease}} Kenickie]]."
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* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Stein's well-intentioned attempt to see if Ray was interested in Kendra in order to help Jax out resulted in Ray being interested in Kendra, to Jax's annoyance.
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* AnArmAndALeg: Oliver lost his left arm to Grant Wilson when he attempted to save Star City.


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* BadGuyBar: Mick makes himself at home by partying with his newfound gang as the new thug leader.


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* MoralityPet: Professor Stein reminds Rip that there's no point in stopping Vandal Savage if it means making immoral decisions such as abandoning your own team member.
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* TeethClenchedTeamwork: Snart and Mick find themselves on opposite sides - Mick is content to stay in the ruined Star City and lead an ArmyOfThievesAndWhores while Snart is focused on saying Sara and stopping Savage.
* UnexpectedCharacter: Sara is shocked to learn that Slade has a son named Grant.

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* TeethClenchedTeamwork: Snart and Mick find themselves on opposite sides - Mick is content to stay in the ruined Star City and lead an ArmyOfThievesAndWhores while Snart is focused on saying saving Rip and Sara and stopping Savage.
* UnexpectedCharacter: Sara is shocked to learn that Slade has a son named Grant. Amusingly, she acts surprised that Slade had a son at all, inspite of the fact she knew of his other son Joe.
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** The new Green Arrow is John Diggle Jr. who goes by the name "Connor Hawke" who in the comics was Oliver's son.
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** Oliver missing an arm is the same as what happens to him in ''ComicBook/TheDarkKnightReturns.''
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** The new Deathstroke is Grant Wilson, Slade's son from the comics that had previously been mentioned by Slade in what many thought a simple throwaway line.

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** The new Deathstroke is Grant Wilson, Slade's son from the comics that comics. This son had previously not been mentioned by Slade in what many thought a simple throwaway line.the show yet, which had only mentioned Joe, a.k.a. Jericho.
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* ADayInTheLimelight: Sara is the main focus of the episode.

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* InSpiteOfANail: Oliver doesn't dwell on it, but things may have different if Ray and Sara were there to fight by his side.

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* InSpiteOfANail: Oliver doesn't dwell on it, but things may have been different if Ray and Sara were there to fight by his side.



* MythologyGag; Photos show the aged Oliver boasts the blond goatee worn by his comic book counterpart.

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** Mick just [[Film/TheDarkKnight wants to see the world burn.]]
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* TeethClenchedTeamwork: Snart and Mick find themselves on opposite sides - Mick is content to stay in the ruined Star City and lead AnArmyOfThievesAndWhores while Snart is focused on saying Sara and stopping Savage.

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* TeethClenchedTeamwork: Snart and Mick find themselves on opposite sides - Mick is content to stay in the ruined Star City and lead AnArmyOfThievesAndWhores an ArmyOfThievesAndWhores while Snart is focused on saying Sara and stopping Savage.
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* DespairEventHorizon: Ollie crossed it when Grant conquered the city and he lost all his friends and family.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Snart is disgusted at the mindless chaos of Star City, both because that kind of thing doesn't interest him (there's no fun in stealing without a challenge) and because he's matured in ways Mick hasn't.
* HesBack: After some persuasion from Sara, Ollie dons his old costume and shows that old age and a missing arm haven't slowed him down in the least.
* InSpiteOfANail: Oliver doesn't dwell on it, but things may have different if Ray and Sara were there to fight by his side.



** The new Deathstroke is Grant Wilson, Slade's son from the comics that had previously been mentioned by Slade in what many thought a simple throwaway line.

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** The new Deathstroke is Grant Wilson, Slade's son from the comics that had previously been mentioned by Slade in what many thought a simple throwaway line.line.
* ThatManIsDead: John Diggle Jr. changed his name to Connor Hawke when he failed to save his dad.
* TeethClenchedTeamwork: Snart and Mick find themselves on opposite sides - Mick is content to stay in the ruined Star City and lead AnArmyOfThievesAndWhores while Snart is focused on saying Sara and stopping Savage.
* UnexpectedCharacter: Sara is shocked to learn that Slade has a son named Grant.
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* LegacyCharacter: Both Connor Hawke and Grant Wilson are this to Oliver Queen and Slade Wilson, respectively.



** The trailers show the ruined Star City with the tag line: "You have failed this city."

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** The trailers show the ruined Star City with the tag line: "You have failed this city.""
** The new Deathstroke is Grant Wilson, Slade's son from the comics that had previously been mentioned by Slade in what many thought a simple throwaway line.
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* BadFuture: The episode takes place in Star City 30 years after the events of Arrow, and from the looks of things, Oliver failed to save his city.

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* BadFuture: The episode takes place in Star City 30 years after the events of Arrow, ''Arrow'', and from the looks of things, Oliver failed to save his city.
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* BadFuture: The episode takes place in Star City 30 years after the events of Arrow, and from the looks of things, Oliver failed to dave his city.

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* BadFuture: The episode takes place in Star City 30 years after the events of Arrow, and from the looks of things, Oliver failed to dave save his city.
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* BadFuture: The episode takes place in Star City 30 years after the events of Arrow, and from the looks of things, Oliver failed to dave his city.
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* MythologyGag; Photos show the aged Oliver boasts the blond goatee worn by his comic book counterpart.

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* MythologyGag; Photos show the aged Oliver boasts the blond goatee worn by his comic book counterpart.counterpart.
** The trailers show the ruined Star City with the tag line: "You have failed this city."
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* Mythology Gag; Photos show the aged Oliver boasts the blond goatee worn by his comic book counterpart.

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* Mythology Gag; MythologyGag; Photos show the aged Oliver boasts the blond goatee worn by his comic book counterpart.
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The team find themselves in a ruined Star City in 2046 and face off against both a new Green Arrow and an elderly Oliver Queen to find out what happened.

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*Mythology Gag; Photos show the aged Oliver boasts the blond goatee worn by his comic book counterpart.

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