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* BackseatChangingRoom: Implied. Green Arrow apologizes for being late while intervening in an assassination attempt on Perdita, princess [[spoiler:or rather queen]] of Vlatava. He then quips, "But you try changing clothes in a hybrid!"

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[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVRiADlDEig Watch it on Youtube here]].



* NervesOfSteel: Throughout the whole showcase, Perdita remains relatively calm and levelheaded.

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* NervesOfSteel: Throughout the whole showcase, Perdita remains relatively calm and levelheaded. Presumably she was trained to keep her composure, despite being 10.



* SaveThePrincess: Though no dragons are involved.

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* SaveThePrincess: Though no dragons are involved. [[spoiler:Also, she's a queen. Which is precisely why the assassins are trying to murder her.]]



* SortingAlgorithmOfEvil: Green Arrow starts out fighting random {{Mooks}}, then Merlyn (who can match him in archery), and is then completely blindsided by Count Vertigo (who cancels out his shooting skills with his powers and has to be taken out by Black Canary). Justified; the mooks are meant to take out Perdita with Merlyn as backup in case a masked hero intervenes. Vertigo only intervenes when it's clear his EvilPlan has gone arrow-shaped.

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* ShownTheirWork: The conveyor belt fight uses several real martial arts techniques, like boxing, kickboxing, and several forms of grappling. For example, Ollie attempts a textbook arm bar, and the mook [[CombatPragmatist counters by]] interlacing his fingers. When that doesn't work, he ''bites'' Ollie.
* SortingAlgorithmOfEvil: Green Arrow starts out fighting random {{Mooks}}, fights one who's almost Arrow's equal in a fistfight, then Merlyn (who can match him in archery), and is then completely blindsided by Count Vertigo (who cancels out his shooting skills with his powers and has to be taken out by Black Canary). Justified; the mooks are meant to take out Perdita with Merlyn as backup in case a masked hero intervenes. Vertigo only intervenes when it's clear his EvilPlan has gone arrow-shaped.
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** Oliver leaves a message for Dinah on her answering machine telling her to meet him in Baggage Claim. She must have played it in time, because that where she turns up to save him and Perdita.

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** Oliver leaves a message for Dinah on her answering machine telling her to meet him in Baggage Claim. She must have played it in time, because that that's where she turns up to save him and Perdita.

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-->'''Green Arrow''' ''(after narrowly dodging a taxiing airliner)'': That...[[DragonsPreferPrincesses dragon]] almost got us.\\
'''Perdita''': You do realize that I am ten, and do not require a fairy-tale metaphor?\\
'''Green Arrow''': Sorry, it's my first time rescuing royalty.\\
'''Perdita''': It is quite a forgivable sin... Robin Hood.



* SealedWithAKiss: Ends with Oliver and Canary having a BigDamnKiss after her BigDamnHeroes and Oliver's marriage proposal.

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* SealedWithAKiss: Ends with Oliver and Canary having a BigDamnKiss after her BigDamnHeroes and Oliver's marriage proposal.proposal, with Perdita looking on in approval.



* SpockSpeak: This exchange:
-->'''Green Arrow''' ''(after narrowly dodging a taxiing airliner)'': That...[[DragonsPreferPrincesses dragon]] almost got us.\\
'''Perdita''': You do realize that I am ten, and do not require a fairy-tale metaphor?\\
'''Green Arrow''': Sorry, it's my first time rescuing royalty.\\
'''Perdita''': It is quite a forgivable sin... Robin Hood.

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* BulletDodge: On two occasions Oliver senses an incoming arrow from Merlyn and either pulls Perdita away from its path or blocks it.



--> '''Vertigo:''' Soon to be ''King'' Vertigo, once I've dispatched you and the little bi-

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--> '''Vertigo:''' Soon to be ''King'' Vertigo, once I've dispatched you and the little bi-bi--



* DarkIsNotEvil: Dinah's main costume wear is black, but she's one of the good guys.
** [[DarkIsEvil Inverted]] with Merlyn.
* EvilBrit: Merlyn. Voiced by Creator/MalcolmMcDowell.

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* DarkIsNotEvil: Dinah's main costume wear is black, but she's one of the good guys.
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guys. [[DarkIsEvil Inverted]] with Merlyn.
* EvilBrit: Merlyn. Voiced Merlyn as voiced by Creator/MalcolmMcDowell.



* FailedASpotCheck: After his fight on the baggage conveyor, Oliver fails to realise [[LowClearance until he hits his head on it]] that he's about to fall into the chute to baggage claim.

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* FailedASpotCheck: After his fight on the baggage conveyor, Oliver fails to realise [[LowClearance until he hits his head on it]] that he's about to fall into the chute to baggage claim.Baggage Claim.



** Oliver leaves a message for Dinah on her answering machine telling her to meet him in baggage claim. She must have played it in time, because that where she turns up to save him and Perdita.

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** Oliver leaves a message for Dinah on her answering machine telling her to meet him in baggage claim.Baggage Claim. She must have played it in time, because that where she turns up to save him and Perdita.



** {{Implied}} with Green Arrow's interaction with [[AChildShallLeadThem Perdita]] in the showcase.

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** {{Implied}} with Green Arrow's interaction with [[AChildShallLeadThem Perdita]] in the showcase.Perdita]].
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* TrickArrow: Not as out there. But present.

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* TrickArrow: Not as out there. But present.Arrows that disperse KnockoutGas and smokescreens, shatter glass, deploy a zipline or knock down mooks.

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* {{Foreshadowing}}: "I'll meet you in baggage claim."

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* {{Foreshadowing}}: "I'll {{Foreshadowing}}:
** Oliver leaves a message for Dinah on her answering machine telling her to
meet you him in baggage claim."claim. She must have played it in time, because that where she turns up to save him and Perdita.

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* AristocratsAreEvil: Count Vertigo.

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* AristocratsAreEvil: Count Vertigo.Vertigo, but only because he's TheStarscream. Averted with his intended victim.
* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: Having beaten the Green Arrow on eight previous occasions, Merlyn is confident enough to challenge him to an arrow duel. Oliver says he's been practising since then, and fortunately he's not lying--Merlyn is shocked to find the Green Arrow is good enough to cut his arrow in half in mid-flight!



* ImprobableAimingSkills: Having beaten the Green Arrow on [[AlwaysSomeoneBetter eight previous occasions]], Merlyn is confident enough to challenge him to an arrow duel. Oliver says he's been practising since then, and he's not lying--he fires an arrow that [[ShootTheBullet breaks Merlyn's arrow in midair]], [[PaperCutting cuts his cheek]] and slams into the wall behind him...[[ExactlyWhatIAimedAt then sprays Merlyn with]] KnockoutGas.



* SealedWithAKiss: Ends with Oliver and Canary having a BigDamnKiss after her BigDamnHeroes and Oliver's marriage proposal.



* ShootTheBullet: Green Arrow and Merlyn shoot simultaneous shots at each other. Green Arrow's arrow shatters Merlyn's, cuts his bowstring, slices his cheek and hits the wall behind him and releases a cloud of KnockoutGas.

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* ShootTheBullet: Green Arrow and Merlyn shoot simultaneous shots at each other. Green Arrow's arrow shatters Merlyn's, cuts his bowstring, [[PaperCutting slices his cheek cheek]] and [[ExactlyWhatIAimedAt hits the wall behind him and releases a cloud of of]] KnockoutGas.
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* WithThisRing: Since he's on his knees anyway after Canary's BigDamnHeroes, Oliver uses the opportunity to propose.
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* ImprobableAimingSkills: Having beaten the Green Arrow on [[AlwaysSomeoneBetter eight previous occasions]], Merlyn is confident enough to challenge him to an arrow duel. Oliver says he's been practising since then, and he's not lying--he fires an arrow that [[ShootTheBullet breaks Merlyn's arrow in midair]], [[PaperCutting cuts his cheek]] and slams into the wall behind him...[[ExactlyWhatIAimedAt then sprays Merlyn with]] KnockoutGas.
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* FailedASpotCheck: After his fight on the baggage conveyor, Oliver fails to realise [[LowClearance until he hits his head on it]] that he's about to fall into the chute to baggage claim.
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* IllKillYou: A goon keeps shouting this while trying to crush Green Arrow's head with a wrench. Oliver objects, pointing out he's supposed to be killing Perdita (who objects in turn to this quip).
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* InstantCostumeChange: Averted, "...but you try changing clothes in a hybrid!"


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* SaveThePrincess: Though no dragons are involved.
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* MythologyGag: The contacts on Ollie's phone include; Dinah (Dinah Lance[=/=]ComicBook/BlackCanary), Bruce (Bruce Wayne[=/=]Franchise/{{Batman}}), Clark (Clark Kent[=/=]Franchise/{{Superman}}), Wally (Wally West[=/=]Comicbook/TheFlash), Mort (Mort Wesinger, the creator of Green Arrow) and Diana (Franchise/WonderWoman).

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* MythologyGag: The contacts on Ollie's phone include; Dinah (Dinah Lance[=/=]ComicBook/BlackCanary), Bruce (Bruce Wayne[=/=]Franchise/{{Batman}}), Clark (Clark Kent[=/=]Franchise/{{Superman}}), Wally (Wally West[=/=]Comicbook/TheFlash), West[=/=]ComicBook/TheFlash), Mort (Mort Wesinger, the creator of Green Arrow) and Diana (Franchise/WonderWoman).



* NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent: Perdita. Noticeable only because Vertigo does have a mild Eastern European accent, and because when Creator/ArielWinter reprised the role for ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice'', Perdita suddenly gained one, too.

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* NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent: Perdita. Noticeable only because Vertigo does have a mild Eastern European accent, and because when Creator/ArielWinter reprised the role for ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice'', ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice2010'', Perdita suddenly gained one, too.
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* BroadStrokes: According to Creator/GregWeisman, producer of ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice2010'' and writer of this short, a version of these events happened in ''YJ''.

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* BroadStrokes: According to Creator/GregWeisman, producer of ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice2010'' and writer of this short, a version of these events happened in ''YJ''. The flashbacks in the comic mini-series ''Young Justice: Targets'' retell these events, with some minor differences.

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* AccidentalPun: When Perdita says "Every queen needs a consort." (referring to Black Canary), and Green Arrow says "She's right. Every ''Queen'' does." (referring to his own alter ego).

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* AccidentalPun: AccidentalPun:
** In traffic, Ollie snarls, "The arrow's ''green''! C'mon!"
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When Perdita says "Every queen needs a consort." (referring to Black Canary), and Green Arrow says "She's right. Every ''Queen'' does." (referring to his own alter ego).



** In traffic, Ollie snarls, "The arrow's ''green''! C'mon!"

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