Line #33 Recap/ArrowS7E10MyNameIsEmikoQueen


1	Oliver is back at work at the SCPD as the Green Arrow, but Dinah assigns him to hunt down the New Green Arrow, who unknown to anyone is his secret half-sister!
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3	!!Tropes:
4	* ActionPrologue: The intro shows Emiko fighting several thugs and training.
5	* BatmanGambit: Diggle baits Diaz with a promise of freedom in exchange for his cooperation; Diaz is so tempted that he doesn't think the offer through, and ends up with an ExplosiveLeash and the first spot on an all-new Suicide Squad for his trouble.
6	* BoxedCrook: Lyla and Diggle brought Diaz into ARGUS custody to find out who's been financing the Longbow Hunters. Unsurprisingly, he refuses to be of any help. Diggle ends up conning Diaz into joining a revived Suicide Squad (complete with ExplosiveLeash) to get his cooperation.
7	* BrokenPedestal:
8	** Oliver is understandably crushed that Robert had a second family that he abandoned.
9	** In the present, Zoe idolises her father, but in the future, she's ashamed of his refusal to help the rest of Star City.
10	* CallBack:
11	** Felicity makes a little quip about the ''Elseworlds'' crossover, with Oliver becoming the Flash and their encounter with Batwoman.
12	** Walter Steele, a family friend of the Queens who [[ChuckCunninghamSyndrome disappeared from the show]] many seasons ago, was mentioned.
13	* CallingTheOldManOut: In the future, Zoe tries to do this to Rene, but unfortunately he still refuses to work with Dinah.
14	* {{Cliffhanger}}: The episodes ends with Oliver reaching out to Emiko.
15	* ClingyJealousGirl: Moira was apparently so angry about Robert's affair and secret love child that she deliberately sabotaged his attempt to provide for his second family.
16	* CrossReferencedTitles: To season 3 finale "[[Recap/ArrowS3E23MyNameIsOliverQueen My Name Is Oliver Queen]]".
17	* CynicismCatalyst: In the future, Rene became disillusioned with his vigilante legacy, believing he can do more good as the Glades' mayor and has scorned helping the rest of Star City, and refuses to help his old friends.
18	* ADayInTheLimelight: For Emiko, the New Green Arrow.
19	* DefiantCaptive: Diaz is predictably unhelpful while in ARGUS custody, with only a "[[ExactWords promise]]" of freedom managing to secure any degree of cooperation from him. Even then, he promises to come after Diggle and Lyla if their ExplosiveLeash fails to stop him.
20	* EveryoneHasStandards: Despite his estrangement with his former friends, Future!Rene seems to be taken back by the reveal that Felicity was murdered and tries to uncover the circumstances.
21	* ExactWords: Diggle offers to let Diaz go free in exchange for information about Dante. He "conveniently" forgets to mention the bit about Diaz being conscripted into a revived Suicide Squad and having an explosive implanted at the base of his skull.
22	* FlashForward: This time the storyline in the future introduces Rene and his new occupation as the mayor of the Glades, which is now it's own municipality. It also shows him being estranged from his friends and family, and apparently being under the thumb of a powerful businessman with plans of blowing up Star City.
23	* FrameUp: William Glenmorgan was in Santa Prisca at the time of Emiko's mother's murder; the real killer framed him to throw any investigation off the trail.
24	* HistoryRepeats: Future!Rene's partner has a Malcolm Merlyn-like desire to "save" the Glades by destroying the rest of Star City. It's basically the Undertaking again, but in reverse this time.
25	* IDidWhatIHadToDo: In the future, Rene justifies his actions towards Dinah this way, as he now feels that he never really accomplished anything as a vigilante and had to step up as the mayor.
26	* IJustWantToBeSpecial: The main reason why Rene wants to go back to being a vigilante is because he is the only one of Team Arrow who failed to move on in a significant way. He wants to continue helping the public at all cost.
27	* ItsPersonal: Emiko wants to bring the murderers of her mother to justice.
28	* IWorkAlone: Emiko repeatedly rebuffs Rene's efforts to be her backup in the field, at first anyway.
29	* InternalHomage: Emiko in this episode mirrors Oliver Queen from Season 1 in many ways. We hear her make a PrivateEyeMonologue about her mission, much like Oliver did in the earliest episodes of the series. She even says, "My Name is Emiko Queen", similar to Oliver's iconic "My Name is Oliver Queen". Her lair, in the basement of an abandoned building in the Glades, is reminiscent of Oliver's original lair under the abandoned factory. And her reaching out to Rene for help after getting shot is more than a little similar to the circumstances in which Oliver recruited Felicity into the team.
30	* InternalReveal:
31	** Oliver finds out that the New Green Arrow is his half-sister whom he never knew about, until now.
32	** Rene finds out about the New Green Arrow's identity (although Emiko omits her last name and relation to Oliver), and her motivations.
33	* LargeAndInCharge: While Future!Rene is the mayor of the city, it is his unnamed business partner who holds the power and ''towers'' over the guy.
34	* LaserGuidedKarma: The Glades have long been an object of scorn from the majority of Star City, with the majority of the citizens seeing it as a crime-ridden slum and the people who live there barely worthy saving. 20 years into the future, things have switched, and Rene is is no mood to help Star City after how the Glades were treated for decade.
35	* MakeItLookLikeAnAccident: How Emiko's mom was killed. She was shot and then the house was set on fire to cover it up.
36	* TheManBehindTheMan: In the future, Rene is apparently backed and controlled by his yet unnamed business partner.
37	* MoralMyopia: Moira was so angry at Robert's affair with Emiko's mother that she sabotaged his posthumous efforts to provide for them. Apparently, she saw nothing wrong with her own affair with Malcolm Merlyn, which resulted in Thea.
38	* MustMakeAmends:
39	** Felicity persuades Oliver to reach out to Emiko to right his parents' wrongs (again).
40	** Robert intended to do this posthumously, writing a letter to Walter to ask him to look after Emiko. Moira had other ideas.
41	* NoodleIncident: Something happened in the future that destroyed the friendship between Dinah and Rene. Dinah also alludes to a fight between the two of them that didn't go in Rene's favor.
42	* ParentalAbandonment: What Robert Queen did to Emiko and her mom, under pressure from Moira.
43	* PersecutionFlip: The flash-forwards reveal that while the rest of Star City has become a rundown and crime-ridden WretchedHive, the Glades has prospered. Now the people there look down on the rest of the city the way they once looked down on the Glades.
44	* PragmaticAdaptation: In the comics, Emiko was the daughter of Robert Queen and Shado, who was raised by the villanous archer Simon Lacroix AKA Komodo. The show has significantly altered her backstory, given that there's no way that Robert and Shado could have even met in this continuity, let alone conceived a child together. Also, Komodo in this continuity was a one-off villain in Season 3 who bore little resemblance to his comic-book counterpart. Instead, Shado's mother is an original character named Kazumi, who raised her.
45	* RedHerring: The killer Emiko thought she was hunting turns out to have been out of the country at the time of her mother's death; she's more than a little frustrated to be back at square one after all of her efforts.
46	* TheReveal:
47	** Emiko's mother was Kazumi Aduachi. When Robert Queen died, he arranged for Walter Steele to take possession of her via posthumous instructions. But Moira found out about them, and made sure those instructions never reached Walter.
48	** Emiko became the New Green Arrow to avenge her mother's death and more generally provide justice to the Glades, since the police and firemen ''still'' don't give a damn about the Glades.
49	** The future reveals Felicity was murdered by Rene's unnamed Malcolm Merlyn-like partner in his mission to "save the Glades".
50	* {{Revenge}}: Emiko wants to avenger the murder of her mother. Though she claims that she is seeking for "justice".
51	* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome:
52	** Emiko getting shot at the beginning. If you are only using a bow and arrow against people with guns, no matter how well you are trained, you're bound to get hit by a bullet eventually.
53	** When SCPD gets a blood sample of the new Green Arrow, Oliver is excited about knowing the vigilante's identity in short order. Dinah cools his jets by pointing out that it'll take at least a week to get the DNA results back due to the backlog in the lab. Subverted when Oliver just gives the sample to Felicity.
54	*** Additionally, the police aren't too happy for the Green Arrow directly working for the police department. Some would still view him as a criminal with a questionable history of breaking the law.
55	* SwappedRoles:
56	** Dinah is now Oliver's boss at the SCPD. She even jokingly calls him "rookie" at one point.
57	** In the future, Rene is the mayor of the Glades who wants to uphold the law and is opposed to vigilantes, while Dinah is a vigilante. This is an inversion of their positions in the present-day narrative this season, where Rene is the one who wants to continue playing vigilante, while Dinah is the SCPD Captain who wants to uphold the law and opposes vigilantism.
58	* ThisIsUnforgivable: Oliver says this of his dad abandoning his second family, and his mother ensuring that they ''stayed'' abandoned.
59	* UngratefulBitch: Emiko at first towards Rene. Despite him saving her two times, she refuses to let him help her in the field and even threatens to put an arrow in him.
60	* WeUsedToBeFriends: In the future, Dinah and Rene aren't friends anymore.
61	* WritingAroundTrademarks: Since the Arrowverse TV shows aren't allowed to use the name 'Suicide Squad', the program has been brought back under the new name 'Ghost Initiative'.
62	* YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre: Felicity tells Oliver that he is a much better man than his father ever was and encourages him to try and connect with his sister, which he does in the final scene.

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