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Oliver Queen aka Comicbook/GreenArrow goes to the airport to pick up his girlfriend Dinah Lance aka Comicbook/BlackCanary, but stumbles onto a plot to assassinate the visiting Princess Perdita of Vlatava.

[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVRiADlDEig Watch it on Youtube here]].
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!!Tropes in this short include:
* AccidentalPun:
** In traffic, Ollie snarls, "The arrow's ''green''! C'mon!"
** 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).
* AffablyEvil: Merlyn (courtesy of Creator/MalcolmMcDowell) is nothing short of polite, calmly accepting Green Arrow's challenge to an honorable Archer's Duel, despite the fact that he's trying to put an arrow into Perdita's heart.
* AristocratsAreEvil: Count 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!
* 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!"
* BigBad: Count Werner Vertigo, Perdita's EvilUncle who wants to kill her and usurp the throne.
* BigDamnHeroes: Green Arrow when he shows up during the initial assassination attempt on Princess Perdita. Black Canary at the end, when she saves the pair from Count Vertigo.
* BrainyBrunette: {{Implied}} with Queen Perdita. She manage to make a medical bandage for Green Arrow after he gets injured with one of Merlyn's arrows.
* 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.
* BulletDodge: On two occasions Oliver senses an incoming arrow from Merlyn and either pulls Perdita away from its path or blocks it.
* AChildShallLeadThem: Perdita turns out to have become the Queen of her nation and is only around 10 or 11.
* TheComicallySerious: Perdita acts like she takes everything Green Arrow says literally.
* CurseCutShort:
--> '''Vertigo:''' Soon to be ''King'' Vertigo, once I've dispatched you and the little bi--
--> '''Black Canary:''' Watch your mouth! *''screamblast''*
* DarkIsNotEvil: Dinah's main costume wear is black, but she's one of the good guys. [[DarkIsEvil Inverted]] with Merlyn.
* EvilBrit: Merlyn as voiced by Creator/MalcolmMcDowell.
* EvilCounterpart: Merlyn is this to Green Arrow.
* EvilSoundsDeep: Count Veritgo, courtesy of his voice actor Creator/SteveBlum.
* EvilUncle: Count Vertigo aims to gain the throne of his country, Vlatava, by killing Perdita, his niece.
* ExpressiveMask: Green Arrow.
* 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.
* {{Foreshadowing}}:
** 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's where she turns up to save him and Perdita.
** Perdita wears a black dress over a light purple blouse. It is later revealed that she is in mourning for her father.
* FriendToAllChildren:
** {{Implied}} with Green Arrow's interaction with [[AChildShallLeadThem Perdita]].
** {{Implied}} with Black Canary. See CurseCutShort.
* GracefulLadiesLikePurple: Perdita is seen wearing a purple blouse and hairband.
* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: Green Arrow and Black Canary are the hero/heroine variety.
* HandicappedBadass: Merlyn shoots Green Arrow through the leg with one of his arrows, causing him to spend over half the short with a makeshift bandage, and lowered mobility. In spite of this, he does very well under the circumstances.
* HeartbrokenBadass: An understated example, but Perdita only admits that her father had died the night before while she's applying a field dressing to Green Arrow's wound.
-->'''Green Arrow''': You're even braver than I thought.
* 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).
* InTheHood: Green Arrow has a hood as a part of his costume.
* InstantCostumeChange: Averted, "...but you try changing clothes in a hybrid!"
* LittleMissSnarker: Perdita can still make good natured banter with Ollie during the deadly situation, which adds to her charm.
-->'''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.
* 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).
* NervesOfSteel: Throughout the whole showcase, Perdita remains relatively calm and levelheaded. Presumably she was trained to keep her composure, despite being 10.
* NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent: Perdita. Noticeable only because Vertigo does have a mild Eastern European accent, and because when Creator/ArielWinter reprised the role for ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice2010'', Perdita suddenly gained one, too.
* OfficialCouple: Green Arrow and Black Canary. Ollie actually proposes to her at the end, and she accepts.
* ReimaginingTheArtifact: The segmented blunt looking object on the arrow seen in the picture right there? It's actually a reimagining of the ''boxing glove arrow''. Namely in its purpose of giving Green Arrow a way to strike his enemies with a large amount of blunt force, yet not be fatal. In essence, the arrow equivalent of a rubber bullet.
* RoyalBrat: {{Averted}} with Perdita. Throughout the entire short she was brave, calm, helpful, and serious.
* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: Princess Perdita keeps her head during the assassination attempt, and even applies a field bandage to Green Arrow when he's wounded by one of Merlyn's arrows.
* SaveThePrincess: Though no dragons are involved. [[spoiler:Also, she's a queen. Which is precisely why the assassins are trying to murder her.]]
* SealedWithAKiss: Ends with Oliver and Canary having a BigDamnKiss after her BigDamnHeroes and Oliver's marriage proposal, with Perdita looking on in approval.
* ShipperOnDeck: From Perdita's encouragement to Black Canary to say "yes" to Green Arrow's proposal, it appears that she ships the two.
* 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]] and [[ExactlyWhatIAimedAt hits the wall behind him and releases a cloud of]] KnockoutGas.
* ShootTheFuelTank: Merlyn tries to kill Green Arrow by firing a flaming arrow into a fuel tanker, which explodes.
* 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.
* StealthPun:
** Ollie drives a hybrid. As in, a green car.
** Ollie proposes to Dinah because "I can't live without you." (Black Canary having just saved his life).
* TrickArrow: Arrows that disperse KnockoutGas and smokescreens, shatter glass, deploy a zipline or knock down mooks.
* ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend: Black Canary's gives a ''full, sonic blast'' to Count Vertigo when he tries to kill her boyfriend (later fiance) and a child.
* WiseBeyondTheirYears: Princess Perdita is ''10'', dealing with her dad having been murdered, and forced to rely on a vigilante for protection during an assassination attempt. She handles it with remarkable aplomb, causing Green Arrow to remark on how brave she is.
* WithThisRing: Since he's on his knees anyway after Canary's BigDamnHeroes, Oliver uses the opportunity to propose.
* WouldHurtAChild: Count Vertigo, Perdita's uncle, orchestrated the assassination attempt, because if she dies, then he will inherit the throne. Vertigo was even going to kill her, with his own hands, at the climax. He is stopped thanks to Black Canary.
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