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Starling City

The Queens

General

Tropes

• Adaptation Relationship Overhaul: Minor example. The Queens were always dysfunctional, but become even more dysfunctional in Rise due to Oliver's idyllic view of his parents being shattered by revelations he learned after their deaths in the previous timeline. By the time of Age, the Queens have been effectively pruned to three people (four if you count Kazumi), so the dysfunction is only really evident with Thea, who is the slowest to adapt to the new status quo.
• Dysfunctional Family: To the point of bordering on Big, Screwed-Up Family. Oliver clearly resents it, which is why he wants Thea and Emiko to get along so badly.

Oliver Queen

Oliver "Ollie" Jonas Queen | Green Arrow

Tropes

• 100% Heroism Rating: In Age, after taking down Tempest.
• Adaptational Job Change: Initially played straight, then subverted. He becomes CEO of QC over a year early. He briefly stepped down after he was exposed Green Arrow, but resumed it upon his pardon, and makes it clear that the only way he's leaving the position is if he needs to dedicate more time to the Justice League. He later admits to Laurel that his experiences as Mayor of Star City in the previous timeline soured him on politics, hence why he desires to remain at the head of QC — however, the Justice League ends up eating too much of his time, so he hands the job off to Emiko. He then later runs for mayor after realizing there are no other viable candidates he can support, especially since one of them is Sebastian Blood.
• Adaptation Relationship Overhaul: Because of how much he's changed over the course of the previous timeline, Oliver's ability to relate to certain people differs from how he was able to relate with them originally. He reconnects with Laurel easily due to no longer bothering to put up a facade and cover up how he's changed for the better, and manages to build a relationship with Emiko for that same reason. However, his relationship with his mother and sister are both difficult due to having a tainted view of the former and expecting the latter to be more mature like her original counterpart than the bratty teenager she is right now. Then there's his relationship with Tommy, which falls to pieces because they're now operating on completely different wavelengths, which they're ultimately unable to reconcile.
• Badass Normal: He's every bit as skilled as he was before the time travel.
• Benevolent Boss: By all accounts, a well-liked superior at QC.
• Betty and Veronica Switch:
  • He was the initial Veronica to Laurel, being her vigilante cheating ex-boyfriend, before it became clear he was a genuinely heroic and selfless individual who shared in her idealism and vision for Starling City.
  • He himself was the Archie in such a Love Triangle between Felicity and Laurel. He chooses Laurel even before he found out about Felicity's true nature as a Yandere.
• Big Brother Instinct: He brutalizes the kidnappers who took Thea to cash in the bounty on him, just to warn the rest of the criminal underworld that he won't tolerate anyone going after his sister or any of his other loved ones for that matter.
• Birds of a Feather: What helps him reconnect with Laurel is their shared, fierce desires to help the impoverished of Starling City.
• Brooding Boy, Gentle Girl: Brooding Boy to Laurel's Gentle Girl.
• Brother–Sister Team: With Emiko, both at QC and as vigilantes, after she chooses him over the Ninth Circle.
• Cool Big Bro:
  • To Emiko. He makes her the head of Applied Sciences at QC, allows (even insists) she take on the Queen name, and then admits in a press conference that she's his successor as CEO in case something happens while he's Green Arrow. It doesn't take long for Emiko to outright adore him.
  • Zigzagged with Thea. While Thea does resent his Tough Love-approach to parenting, it's obvious that part of that resentment is rooted in a desire for his approval. Though she doesn't act like it, she clearly looks up to him.
• Create Your Own Villain: He's well aware he essentially did this by letting Tommy being taken by the League, even warning Thea that if they ever see Tommy again, they should expect him to be like Malcolm.
• Daddy Had a Good Reason for Abandoning You: Being exposed as the Green Arrow in Rise means he can never see his son again or be a part of his life. While he already had plans not to involve himself in William's life, that doesn't make things any easier.
• Determinator: Nothing will ever stop him from fighting for Starling City.
• Disappointed by the Motive: Even he was disgusted when Original Barry told him the real reason why Eobard Thawne murdered Barry's mother.
• Doppelgänger Gets Same Sentiment: Painfully guilty of this. While sometimes it doesn't cause issues and even helps him out at times, it can also backfire and do a lot of damage to his relationships.
• Dork Knight: After he reveals he named Q-Core after Q from James Bond, Emiko privately calls him a dork in her head. It's very much true.
• The Dreaded: Solidly becomes this as the Green Arrow, even more so after he's exposed and has to use gangland tactics to keep people from aiming after his loved ones. After he exposes Tempest and defeats Malcolm, he essentially becomes this for criminals everywhere.
• Earn Your Happy Ending: In Rise, after losing his mother and stepfather, having several of his loved ones attacked and being exposed as the resident vigilante by his best friend and forced on the run, Oliver manages to defeat Malcolm, expose Tempest, and be pardoned and sanctioned as a government hero.
• Experienced Protagonist: Even more so than he was at the start of the original series. This is an Oliver who lived through the entirety of Arrow, making him one of the most experienced heroes on the planet.
• Guilt Complex: Holds himself responsible for all the deaths that occur in the new timeline that didn't in the previous timeline. Laurel has to remind him that he didn't kill all of those people, but that they died because of other people making their own choices in response to his, and there is no conceivable way he could have control over any of their actions.
• Heterosexual Life-Partners:
  • Slowly becomes this with Henry Fyff over the course of Rise, especially after he's forced on the run and the two start living together in the Quiver.
  • Quickly develops a strong friendship with Barry after hiring the younger man for QC, not unlike the one they shared in the previous timeline.
• I Just Want to Be Normal: If there's anything he resents about being a public hero, it's that he can't enjoy normal activities anymore. It's especially pronounced in his relationship with Laurel, which is constantly dominated by Green Arrow work.
• I Need a Freaking Drink: He goes on a bender after realizing that by choosing Laurel over Felicity, he's effectively written Mia out of existence.
• Insists on Paying: Insists on getting suits for Rene and Ted after they join the team. While both men are reluctant to let him spend so much money for a limited time mission, Oliver refuses to let them go out without as much protection as possible.
• Legendary in the Sequel: After taking down Tempest and Malcolm Merlyn in Rise, he's become a Living Legend in Age, with everyone knowing who he is and what he's done.
• Lesser of Two Evils: He lets Tommy be taken by the League because he can't afford to challenge the organization without causing even worse problems. He's grimly aware that in doing so, he might as well have created a new villain out of his former best friend.
• Like Father, Unlike Son: He's a better person than either of his parents could have ever hoped to be.
• Living Emotional Crutch:
  • To Thea. With Tommy stuck in the League and unquestionably being warped by their ideology, Oliver is the only family she has left. She's terrified of the idea of losing him, which is why she dislikes his vigilantism so much.
  • To Laurel. His supposed death awakened her Canary Cry, and it becomes gradually clear that his death would destroy her as much as her death would destroy him.
• Loving a Shadow: Upon reflecting on their relationship after Felicity's death, Oliver gradually comes to the realization that he never knew the real Felicity, let alone loved her — just the person he wanted her to be, the good person he saw her to be, instead of the "deluded psychopath" she really was.
• The Mentor: To Laurel, Roy, and Thea, alongside Sara.
• My Greatest Failure: No matter what he does, Oliver just can't seem to save his best friend Tommy. Either he dies, or he's corrupted, and every time Oliver finds himself unable to fix it.
• My Rule Fu Is Stronger than Yours: Manages to use the League's obsession with blood ties to take over Thea's training, sparing her from having to join the League.
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: His decision to trust a pre-Character Development Tommy with his secret screwed over everyone in the end, because it led to Tommy exposing him. Oliver later admits that he'll probably never trust Tommy with anything important ever again because of that, and that was before Tommy was forced to join the League.
• The Nicknamer: Picks up the slack in nicknaming things since Felicity is dead and Cisco isn't quite as involved in the superhero business yet.
• Noble Fugitive: In Rise, he's briefly forced on the run after being exposed as the Green Arrow. This ends after he's pardoned.
• Not So Above It All: Prolonged exposure to Barry, Kara, Felicity, and Cisco has made him give things cute nicknames, such as calling his new base the Quiver. Understandably, he blames them for this.
• Official Couple: With Laurel.
• Only Sane Man: He's the sanest member of the Queen family after Walter Steele. Truth be told, that says less about Oliver and more about the rest of the family.
• The Paragon: His ultimate goal as Green Arrow is to inspire more heroes across the world in hopes of bringing them together to sufficiently prepare for Crisis.
• Price on Their Head: After he's exposed as the Green Arrow, Malcolm puts an underground bounty on his head that causes the various hoodlums in the Glades to attack innocents and loved ones alike to draw him out in hopes of killing him and cashing it in.
• Promotion to Parent: He becomes Thea's legal guardian after Moira commits suicide and Walter is murdered by Malcolm. He briefly transfers custody to Tommy due to being distracted by QC and Green Arrow duties, only to retake custody permanently upon Tommy's forced induction into the League of Assassins.
• The Scapegoat:
  • A lot of people like to blame him for all the changes the world has gone through since Tempest's exposure. While he is partially responsible for exposing such things, the truth of the matter is that the world was always that strange, and his actions only brought that to light.
  • Tommy blames him for his forced membership in the League of Assassins and putting Laurel in danger. In reality, Malcolm is to blame for the former due to his crimes against the League's tenets, while Tommy himself is to blame for the latter since he's the one that exposed Oliver.
• Seen It All: Thanks to his experiences with the first timeline, very few things surprise Oliver. He takes Atlantis being real in stride and his only remark upon learning Diana is a demigoddess is that it's a "new one".
• Shipper on Deck: Ships Roy/Thea because Roy is the only boyfriend of Thea's that he's ever liked.
• Shut Up, Hannibal!: Responds to Malcolm's speech about Oliver's lack of conviction by stabbing him and then beheading him.
• Sins of Our Fathers: Because of his now-public identity as the Green Arrow, many of his loved ones are at risk of retaliation by his enemies. While William and Samantha were sent into hiding with new names, everyone else has more-or-less been forced to go under training for self-defense.
• Spanner in the Works:
  • For the Undertaking, which is why taking him out quickly becomes Malcolm's first priority.
  • For the Council of Time Masters. By completely foiling the Undertaking, he's completely averted the timeline where Vandal Savage conquers the world.
• This Is Gonna Suck: Visibly apprehensive when both Lois Lane and Susan Williams manage to finagle their ways into the trip to Amnesty Bay.
• The Time Traveler's Dilemma: Plagued with this constantly, to the point that he wonders how Barry and the Legends ever thought it was a cure-all to their problems.
• Tough Love: His parenting style, which causes him to chafe with Thea, as she's unused to such harsh treatment.
• Uncle Pennybags: He has no problems using his copious amounts of money as owner and CEO of QC to outfit his friends and loved ones with stuff. This becomes even more prevalent when he becomes a public and government-sponsored hero, as he no longer has to hide where the money goes.
• We Used to Be Friends:
  • With Tommy. His friendship with Tommy slowly falls apart over the course of Rise, until it dies completely at the end when Oliver is forced to let him be taken by the League of Assassins.
  • With Anatoli as well, thanks to refusing to hand off Helena Bertinelli to the Bratva and refusing to take his side in the ensuing Mob War.
• You Are Better Than You Think You Are: Tends to dwell upon his failures more than his successes, which means he's a frequent target for these kinds of speeches.
• You Remind Me of X: Talia muses that his newfound foolish heroism is worthy of a certain Beloved of hers.

Thea Queen

Thea Dearden Queen | Artemis

Tropes

• Adaptational Badass: Thea starts her journey to becoming a vigilante much earlier due to being forced into it by the League. By the time Children, the equivalent of Season Two, starts, she's already a fully-trained vigilante and patrolling the streets with Roy.
• Adaptational Job Change: In the original timeline, she took over Oliver's nightclub. Since the nightclub was never created due to Oliver electing to reopen the steel factory instead, she works at Lance Floral as a cashier.
• Adaptational Name Change: She adopts the vigilante identity of "Artemis" in this timeline. This is partially due to pragmatism, as while Oliver is a public hero, Thea is not, and wants to distance her civilian identity from her vigilante one as much as possible.
• Adaptation Relationship Overhaul:
  • Her relationship with Oliver during his first year starts out even worse than it originally did because of the extensive Trauma Conga Line she goes through making her disapprove of his activities as the Green Arrow due to how dangerous it is. It does begin to heal at the end of Rise, only for the tension to return at the beginning of Age when she finds out about Emiko. It resolves itself completely when Oliver reveals his status as a time traveler to her.
  • She has no relationship with Roy outside of being fellow students of Oliver and Sara. She's genuinely shocked to find out they were in a relationship in the previous timeline, and this revelation along with the increasing amount of time they spend together actually leads to them getting together in this timeline.
• Awful Truth: She's horrified to learn that her best friend Margot hadn't ditched her and Starling, but instead had been murdered by the Huntsman. The truth drives her to tears and into Roy's arms.
• Badass Normal: By the time Children starts, where she's a full-fledged vigilante.
• Belligerent Sexual Tension: With Roy, who is basically her partner in everything: sparring, running Lance Floral, patrol...
• Big Brother Worship: A more subdued example than most, but it's there, and it's the real root of the dysfunction in her relationship with Oliver.
• Bratty Teenage Daughter: As this story starts right after Oliver's return home, Thea is at her absolute worst here, and it doesn't help that Oliver is not acting like how she expected him to.
• Butt-Monkey: Thea is unquestionably the series' resident punching bag, even after she becomes a vigilante. She later lampshades it in Children at the Thanksgiving Episode, admitting everyone that she doesn't have a lot to be thankful for in the past year.
  • Especially in Rise. Even Laurel has good things happen to her in that story, as few as they are. Nothing goes right for Thea in Rise.
  • Even after things get better for her, Thea is still this in Age, due to becoming the new Diggle when it comes to reacting to the strange changes in the world. On a less humorous note, she also finds out that her best friend Margot hadn't ditched her...but instead had been murdered by the Huntsman, much to her devastation.
• Composite Character: She becomes Artemis in this timeline.
• Damsel in Distress: Not to the same extent as Laurel, but she does get kidnapped and held hostage three times in Rise.
• Emo Teen: After Oliver refuses to stop being Green Arrow for her and then cuts her off when she runs off to Metropolis. Sara is not impressed.
• Green-Eyed Monster: Towards Emiko, who is Robert's biological daughter and gets to work with their shared brother at QC as an equal. She grows only more jealous when Oliver brings Emiko further into the fold as a vigilante, making her his partner in the field without having her go through all the training the others have to (ignoring the fact that Emiko already has training from the Ninth Circle).
• I Just Want to Be Loved: In Rise. After the death of her mother and stepfather, and after being seemingly abandoned by her brother, Thea is desperate to have a family again, which nearly leads her to accept Malcolm's offer to join his family and shed the Queen name in favor of the Merlyn one.
• Inadequate Inheritor: Not even accounting for the fact that she's a teenager still in high school, she's been publicly revealed as the daughter of Malcolm Merlyn, a (now-deceased) domestic terrorist. While she'll still inherit something as Moira's daughter and as the sole heir of the Merlyn fortune (with Tommy now in the League), the Board will never accept her as CEO of QC. Hence, Oliver makes Emiko his heir instead.
• Kidnapped by the Call: She's basically forced into vigilantism because the alternative is the League of Assassins, where sexual assault against women is not only approved, but even encouraged.
• Lonely Rich Kid: By Age, she's become a pariah at school and no longer has any real friends. You know it's bad when the happiest she's been is when Oliver and Laurel take the night off to celebrate her birthday with her.
• My Greatest Failure: Nearly choosing to accept Malcolm's offer and join the Merlyn family, after she learns about what kind of man he really is. This becomes especially pronounced after Oliver's book is released — Thea flat-out disowns Malcolm completely after that.
• Official Couple: With Roy Harper.
• The Runaway:
  • Runs off to Metropolis in Rise after her mother and stepfather die and Oliver refuses to give up being Green Arrow for her. Oliver sends Sara after her to watch over her and cuts her off for this, and she comes back after Tommy takes over custody of her.
  • Forcibly defied in Age, because Thea knows if she does run off, she'll be snatched off to the League and forced into a Fate Worse than Death.
• Secret-Keeper: She becomes the fourth person to learn about Oliver's Time Travel. That serves as a much needed Wake-Up Call for her.
• Shed the Family Name:
  • She nearly gave up the Queen name in favor of the Merlyn one due to her desire for a family again. Thankfully(?), Malcolm showed his true colors before she could.
  • After reading Oliver's book in Children, Thea gives up on the Merlyn name entirely, angry and horrified at what her biological father put her brother through.
• Ship Tease: With Roy in Age. They undergo a tentative Relationship Upgrade during the Time Skip between Age and Children, and by the end of the first half of the latter are in a fully-committed relationship.
• Sins of Our Fathers: She's become something of a pariah after Malcolm was exposed and killed. Rene does not like seeing her upon their first meeting, and though he backs down after a rebuke from Oliver, Thea comments that he's hardly the only person that's been giving her looks like that.
• Spoiled Brat: Due to Moira's Hands-Off Parenting, which makes Oliver's life infinitely more difficult.
• Teach Me How To Fight: After she was kidnapped by Chien na Wei, she asks Oliver to teach her how to defend herself so she'll never be vulnerable again. It's cut short when she runs to Metropolis, and resumes when she's forced to become a vigilante.
• Throw the Dog a Bone:
  • Oliver and Laurel take the night off to celebrate her birthday with her in Age. It's honestly the best day Thea had in months.
  • She finally gets a good friend and eventual boyfriend in Roy, and by Children, they're openly dating.
  • She makes another friend in Sin in Children, who thanks her for saving her life as Artemis.
• Took a Level in Kindness: She finally begins to grow up and stop being so difficult after learning about Oliver's Time Travel.
• Trauma Conga Line: Thea's life in Rise more or less goes to hell. She's kidnapped several times, molested, her mother commits suicide, her stepfather is murdered, she finds out she's not the biological daughter of the man who raised her, one of her brothers exposes the other as the resident vigilante and forces him on the run, and then her biological father turns out to be a domestic terrorist that is responsible for every terrible thing that's happened and not just in her life, but her family's and most, if not all, of the city's. Then he takes her hostage with the intent to murder her in front of her vigilante brother as revenge. It's telling that it's only after she essentially gets press-ganged into vigilantism that her life finally starts looking up.
• The Un-Favorite:
  • To Malcolm, though it's not entirely clear why; it could do with her being Moira's daughter instead of Rebecca's or because she's a woman or both.
  • She fears she's this to Oliver, which is why she's hostile to Emiko, even though Oliver keeps repeatedly telling her that he loves them equally and that he just has different relationships with both of them.
• "Well Done, Daughter!" Girl: It's subtle, but it's clear that what Thea wants most is her brother's approval, and that is the root of a lot of conflict in their relationship.
• You Have GOT to Be Kidding Me!: Her reaction after learning that Roy Harper and her (who are completely apathetic to each other) were in a serious relationship the previous timeline. She can't help but keep giving looks to Roy because of that.

Emiko Queen

Emiko Adachi-Queen | Red Arrow

Tropes

• Abusive Parents: She has no luck with father figures. Robert effectively abandoned her the moment her existence became inconvenient for him, while Dante only cares for her as long as she is loyal to the Ninth Circle.
• Adaptation Relationship Overhaul:
  • Her relationship with Oliver never becomes antagonistic due to Oliver going out of his way to bring her into the family after Moira's death, including giving her a leading position at QC and the Queen name. Because of this, Emiko eventually sides with him against the Ninth Circle.
  • Emiko had virtually no relationship with Thea due to Thea leaving with Roy before they could meet in the previous timeline. Here, they have something of antagonistic relationship due to Thea being jealous of how close Oliver and her have gotten in a short amount of time. Eventually their relationship settles something more amicable after they get to know each other better.
• Adaptational Heroism: Because Oliver got to her before she truly became involved with the Ninth Circle's more morally bankrupt activities and their overall leadership, this Emiko is still very much against the idea of killing innocent people. This eventually causes her to side with Oliver after the Council of Time Masters contracts the Ninth Circle for their plot to manipulate the timeline.
• Because You Were Nice to Me: Quickly comes to adore Oliver after all the kindness he shows her during Rise and Age.
• Brother–Sister Team: With Oliver, both at QC and as a vigilante.
• Conflicting Loyalty: Between Oliver and the Ninth Circle. It will only be a matter of time before Emiko will be forced to make a choice. After the Ninth Circle is contracted by the Council of Time Masters to slaughter the 502 would-be victims of the Undertaking, she ultimately chooses Oliver.
• Heroic Bastard: Thanks to Oliver's influence, Emiko defects from the Ninth Circle and makes a Heel–Face Turn, even briefly becoming the vigilante Red Arrow for a time.
• Meaningful Rename: She goes by Emiko Queen in Age after Oliver officially reveals her to the public at press conference as a Queen.
• Secret-Keeper: After she confesses her part in the sinking of the Gambit, Oliver (who already knew) finally decides to reveal his status as a time traveler to her.
• Tears of Joy: Upon finally taking the Queen name and being accepted by Oliver into the family.
• Triple Shifter: Emiko had to juggle running both QC and running around as Red Arrow during the Amnesty Bay and Atlantis arcs. Ultimately, when the Ninth Circle cancels their contract with the Council and withdraws from the city, she elects to retire from being a vigilante as she can't handle doing both jobs.
• Unexpected Successor: Subverted. Emiko thinks she's this, being an illegitimate child of Robert and all, but as Oliver points out, she's the only prospective heir he has left. William is six and can't be a part of his life anyway, and Thea hasn't even graduated high school yet and was just revealed to not be Robert's daughter, so the Board will never accept her as CEO. Emiko has the bloodline, the training, and the actual desire to be a part of the company, making her the perfect heir for him.
• "Well Done, Daughter!" Gal: All she ever wanted was to be a part of her father's family and acknowledged. Oliver finally giving that to her, no strings attached, is what earns him her love.

Robert Queen

Robert Queen

Tropes

• Broken Pedestal: None of his children hold him in high esteem. While Thea seems to still have some affection for him (since he still raised her despite knowing she wasn't his daughter), Emiko clearly resents him for abandoning her, while Oliver almost seems to hate him for all the problems he caused beyond the grave and doesn't even address Robert as his father, but by his first name.
• Glorified Sperm Donor: While he was there for Emiko during her early life, his decision to abandon her solidified him as this.
• Parental Abandonment: Abandoned his illegitimate daughter Emiko the moment her existence became a detriment to him.
• Parents as People: While he honestly did love his children, he could be incredibly selfish, as seen with his treatment of Oliver and Emiko.
• Pet the Dog: For what it's worth, he had a clause in his will stating that he'd like for Kazumi and Emiko to be cared for in the event of his death.
• Present Absence: Even though he's dead, he still has an effect on the plot. Oliver actually resents this, because those effects tend to be problems that he has to fix.
• Really Gets Around: Even more so than his son did. While Emiko is his only known illegitimate child, Oliver would not be surprised if he had more that not even he knew about.

Moira Queen

Moira Queen

Tropes

• Broken Pedestal: Much like Robert, Oliver isn't all that charitable to her anymore. Thea doesn't seem to be really fond of her anymore either, especially after learning she's Malcolm's daughter.
• Dies Differently in Adaptation: She dies one year earlier and by suicide, as opposed to being murdered by Slade.
• Driven to Suicide: Much like her first husband, she kills herself to avoid talking about the Undertaking to the FBI and to protect her children from Malcolm.
• Everyone Has Standards: After finding out the true extent of Oliver's trauma, she drops all pretenses of appearances and outright begs him to go to a trauma therapist.
• Kick the Dog: Her treatment of Kazumi and Emiko, by refusing to provide for them like Robert wished after his death.
• Killed Off for Real: Strangles herself with her own stockings while she's in FBI custody.
• Hands-Off Parenting: How she raised Thea, which caused Thea to become a Spoiled Brat. This causes a lot of headaches for Oliver and Sara when they have to train her.
• My Beloved Smother: Her automatic reaction to Oliver acting understandably unhappy and angry about Laurel's kidnapping? Have him kidnapped and sent to a psychiatric facility. She does later admit it was an overreaction, but considering that was her first reaction...
• Parents as People: While she does love Oliver and Thea, she's ultimately not a good person. Her obsession with presenting a perfect nuclear family to the press, her poor treatment of the Adachis, and her general complicity with the Undertaking more-or-less prove that.
• Plot-Triggering Death: Her death is considered the point of no return for the story, as it triggered a number of things: Malcolm murdering Walter to make Oliver CEO of QC, Thea running away to Metropolis, Tommy (temporarily) taking custody of Thea, and ultimately Tommy exposing Oliver.

Walter Steele

Walter Steele

Tropes

• Death by Adaptation: In the previous timeline he moved to England after the Siege. Here, he's murdered by Malcolm.
• Good Parents: He's by far the best parental figure in the Queen family, which is why his death hits Thea so hard.
• Killed Off for Real: Murdered by Malcolm to make Oliver CEO of QC.
• Only Sane Man: Of the Queens.
• Parents as People: He's still a businessman, so when Robert shut down the QC Steel Factory, Walter was obligated to tell him all his options — including the loophole that would allow him to deny the workers severance pay. To Walter's credit, he didn't agree with Robert's choice and they had an argument about it.

Kazumi Adachi

Kazumi Adachi

• Good Parents: To Emiko. Unlike Robert or Moira, she only wants Emiko to be happy and safe.
• I Want Grandkids: Laments the fact that Emiko has shown no interest in romance.
• The Mistress: To Robert, before he left her.
• She Cleans Up Nicely: Kazumi, despite being old enough to have an adult daughter, is still quite beautiful. Enough to catch Quentin's attention.
• Ship Tease: To Quentin, after they meet at Thanksgiving.

The Lances

Laurel Lance

Dinah Laurel Lance | The Black Canary

Tropes

• Action Girl: Gradually develops into this over the course of Age and has fully become one by her return in Children.
• Action Survivor: During Rise. While she does have self-defense training, it's nothing compared to what Oliver and Sara have. Eventually, she gets sick of this and dedicates herself to becoming a Badass Normal like them.
• Adaptation Relationship Overhaul:
  • Oliver and her reconcile much faster and become the Official Couple in this timeline. As a consequence, her Friends with Benefits-relationship with Tommy never becomes genuinely romantic.
  • She also reconciles faster with Sara, and Sara becomes one of her trainers alongside Oliver before her sister joins the Legends.
  • She also develops something of a friendship with Susan Williams in this timeline.
• Adaptational Badass: Starts her journey to becoming Black Canary far earlier than she does in canon. She even plans to go farther with her training than she did in the previous timeline. Then she activates her metagene and awakens her own Canary Cry, technically making her more badass than Oliver and Sara already. After her training with Lady Shiva, however, she's surpassed them both completely and is now considered a world-class martial artist.
• Adaptational Job Change:
  • She becomes Director of CNRI in this timeline.
  • After resigning from CNRI, she becomes one of the shopkeepers of Lance Floral. In Children, she elects to do that part-time, spending her afternoons as a self-defense trainer at Ted's gym.
• Badass Normal: She actually manages to finish the League's basic training within the first fifteen chapters of Age. All that's left is developing a style of her own, which she gradually does over the course of the story, and during her training with Shiva over the Time Skip between Age and Children. By the time Children starts, she's one of the greatest martial artists in the world.
  • Empowered Badass Normal: She awakens the Canary Cry during the Battle of Amnesty Bay.
• Battle Couple: Officially becomes this with Oliver in the Battle of Amnesty Bay.
• Betty and Veronica Switch:
  • The initial Veronica to Oliver, being the wary ex-girlfriend who was understandably still angry at him for cheating on her with her sister. Then she forgives him after seeing how much he's changed and starts supporting him in his Green Arrow activities, before eventually aspiring to be a vigilante herself and his partner in the field.
  • She was also the Archie for a similar Love Triangle with Tommy and Oliver. She chose Oliver even before she found out about Tommy's less admirable traits.
• Beware the Nice Ones: Laurel is one of the kindest and most selfless people you could ever meet, but as seen with her reaction to Sara getting shot and her brutal beatdown of the Huntsman, you do not want to piss her off.
• Big Damn Heroes: Saves Oliver's life using her new Canary Cry, which turns the tide of the Battle of Amnesty Bay.
• Big Sister Instinct:
  • Any resentment she had towards Sara died after she learns from Oliver secondhand what kind of suffering her little sister went through. After that, it's obvious she just wants Sara home. She still remains protective of Sara, even when Sara was the better fighter of the two of them, at one point telling Anatoli that she can't wait to watch Oliver kill him after Sara is shot in front of her by one of the Bratva.
  • She also has this towards Helena after they start partnering together. While it's unclear which of them is older, Laurel is the more seasoned vigilante, so she takes to befriending and mentoring Helena in hopes of swaying her away from her dark path. When Helena nearly dies from a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown at the hands of Aleksandr Creote, a Russian mercenary Helena's father hired, Laurel returns the favor, beating Creote within an inch of his life and shattering his spine with her Canary Cry.
• Brooding Boy, Gentle Girl: Gentle Girl to Oliver's Brooding Boy.
• Butt-Monkey: In Rise, though not quite to the extent of Thea (who borders on being a Cosmic Plaything in that story).
• Character Development: She gradually becomes more comfortable with violence as the series goes on. By the time of Children, she's happily describing how she beat the crap out of ten would-be rapists to her disturbed father.
• The Confidant: To Oliver and Sara. She's the person that both trust the most, and the person they confess most of their troubles to. In turn, she gives them comfort and advice. It's to the point that she is the first person that Oliver tells about the Time Travel.
• Damsel in Distress: She gets kidnapped no less than five times in Rise. The vigilante training is for self-defense as much as it is for becoming a vigilante.
• Dare to Be Badass: After her encounter with the Huntsman.
• Deuteragonist: As Oliver's love interest and as the future Black Canary, Laurel gets the most focus in the series after Oliver himself.
• The Dreaded:
  • Instantly becomes this to every criminal in Starling after she awakens her Canary Cry on live television.
  • Played for Laughs in the case of Quentin, who is deeply disturbed at how violent she's become while he was in rehab. At one point, he even thanks Oliver for sending him to rehab because if he hadn't, Quentin likely would've pissed her off and come to deeply regret it.
• Dumb Blond: Defied. Originally she dyed her hair to adopt the Brainy Brunette stereotype. But after her first kidnapping, she decides to go to back to her natural hair color to spite her enemies.
• Everyone Has Standards: As forgiving as she is, she can't find it in herself to forgive Dinah after learning her mother basically told her sister to blow up Laurel's relationship with Oliver. Doing so would compromise her self-worth, so she ultimately decides to cut Dinah completely out of her life.
• Famed In-Story: Her fame is second to only Oliver's himself. First it was relation to being his faithful girlfriend while he was on the run, until she became the Black Canary and a member of the Justice League in her own right.
• Guilt Complex: Much like Oliver, she tends to blame herself for things that aren't her fault, such as Joanna's death.
• Heterosexual Life-Partners:
  • With her friend Joanna, before Joanna's death in Rise.
  • She later adopts this dynamic with Helena, after they form the Birds of Prey. Laurel later admits to Oliver that Helena is the closest thing she's had to a best friend since Joanna's death.
• Living Emotional Crutch: To Oliver. Oliver fears losing her a second time, because if he does he might very well fall to the darkness like Malcolm did, and this time for good.
• Lovely Angels: With Helena.
• The Mentor: To Helena, after they start teaming up in Children.
• My Greatest Failure: In Age, she's deeply haunted by the death of her close friend Joanna, believing that if she more training she could've defeated the mercenaries who invaded CNRI to kidnap her and saved her friend's life.
• No-Holds-Barred Beatdown:
  • Suffers one from some Bratva thugs during her stay in Metropolis.
  • Delivers one herself to the Huntsman.
• Official Couple: With Oliver.
• One-Man Army: Thanks to her Sonic Scream, and later, her training with Shiva. In fact, Shiva specifically intended to her train her as this.
  Lady Shiva: Right now, you can fight ten men. Allow me to train you, and you will fight one hundred.
• Parental Substitute: To Thea, who even muses that Laurel's been "almost a surrogate mother" to her.
• Positive Friend Influence: What she hopes to be to Helena, hence why she insists that for their crusade against Helena's father they adopt the Thou Shalt Not Kill rule.
• Rage Breaking Point: After the Huntsman literally takes a bite out of her, Laurel snaps, sick of being a Damsel in Distress, and beats the crap out of him.
• Rank Up: Becomes Director of CNRI after Eric Gitter's corruption is exposed. She ultimately resigns, however, after she's disbarred in order to fully devote herself to being the Black Canary.
• Secret-Keeper: The first person after Superman to find out that Oliver traveled back in time after his death.
• Sibling Team: With Sara, during the Battle of Metropolis.
• Surpassed the Teacher: After her training with Shiva, she's surpassed Ted, Oliver and her sister Sara as a martial artist. The only teacher she has not surpassed is Shiva herself, who is the World's Best Warrior.
• Team Mom: Shown to worry over people's emotional health, and even takes steps to fix Oliver and Thea's relationship.
• Teach Me How To Fight: She quickly gets sick of being a Damsel in Distress and seeks out more self-defense, starting with Ted, then Oliver, and finally Sara, before becoming inspired to seek out more training beyond them.
• Took a Level in Badass:
  • Gradually over the course of Rise, culminating in her beating the crap out of the Huntsman, impressing her boyfriend and sister.
  • Finishes the League's basic training and awakens her own Canary Cry in Age.
  • She undergoes another one in Children, after her training with Lady Shiva, being able to easily curb-stomp the likes of Helena.
• Training from Hell:
  • Deconstructed. After finding out about the previous timeline, Laurel starts getting even more nightmares and devotes herself to training even harder than she was before because she doesn't want to die young. Sara stops her from doing this because it can and will be detrimental for her health.
  • She leaves at the end of Age to undergo another training trip with Lady Shiva, at Oliver's insistence.
• Trauma Conga Line: And it's almost as bad as Thea's above. The only good things to happen to her in the entire story are getting back together with Oliver and reconciling with Sara. The rest include getting kidnapped and held hostage multiple times, attacked in her apartment multiple times, getting the crap beaten out of her by Bratva thugs, watching her sister get shot, her boyfriend exposed as the city's resident vigilante and forced on the run, and one of her closest friends die, and getting attacked by a cannibalistic Serial Killer while she was at work. Needless to say, she really needed that happy ending for Rise.
• Traumatic Superpower Awakening: The stress of watching Oliver seemingly die against Trenchers causes her to activate her metagene and awaken the Canary Cry to save him.

Sara Lance

Sara Lance | The (White) Canary

Tropes

• Action Girl: As always.
• Adaptation Relationship Overhaul:
  • Laurel and her reconcile much faster due to Laurel being aware of her trauma from the onset, before they can reunite. The two are also much closer, with Sara even living with Laurel before joining the Legends.
  • Oliver and her never renew their romantic relationship, instead opting for Better as Friends.
  • While Barry and her knew each other and were friends of a sort, they really didn't become close until Crisis on Infinite Earths (2019), after Oliver's death. Here, they becomes close friends much earlier thanks to both joining the Legends in this timeline, and start having an increasing amount of Ship Tease after their visit to Starling City in 2046, that eventually sees a Relationship Upgrade. Sara even moves to Central City to be with him.
  • As a result of moving to Central City, she has much closer friendships with Cisco and Caitlin, who she works with at Q Division.
• Adaptational Job Change: She doesn't stay with the Legends in this timeline, who are disbanded after the initial mission of taking down the Time Masters is complete. Instead, she moves to Central City and starts attending college in hopes of becoming a doctor, while also doubling as security consultant for Q Division and a self-defense instructor for Hudson University. She's also part-timing as White Canary and thus effectively joins Team Flash.
• Amicable Exes: With Oliver Queen and Dick Grayson, who she still counts among her closest friends even after her romantic entanglements with both ended.
• Big Sister Instinct: Inverted. She's fiercely protective of her older sister Laurel, and becomes Laurel's bodyguard after Oliver is exposed as the Green Arrow. After learning about Felicity, Sara is actually grateful the Huntsman killed her because it saved her the trouble of killing Felicity herself.
• Birds of a Feather: With Barry. They were both formerly happy, optimistic people who went through a great amount of trauma and tragedy through no fault of their own and were forced to commit terrible crimes against their will. It's these similarities that allow Sara to break through Barry's Chronos programming, which eventually provides the basis for their romantic relationship.
• Broken Bird: Even after she is released from her vow, Sara is still deeply shaken by all the trauma she went through and refuses to go home at first for that reason. Oliver has to trick her into meeting Laurel again to get her to come back, and finally move on from that trauma.
• Combat Medic: Children reveals that after moving to Central City with Barry, she's enrolled into Hudson University to become a doctor, like she was originally supposed to be before the Time Masters got involved.
• Declaration of Protection: After realizing that Barry is a Weirdness Magnet, Sara decides to keep an eye on him and make sure he gets back home to Starling safely. This was right before Chronos blasted a hole in the ship, sending them both flying into the Temporal Zone. Ultimately, it's this promise that drives Sara to try and break his programming after Barry is revealed to be Chronos, and proves to be the basis for their eventual romance.
• Does Not Like Guns: Already had an inherent hatred of guns thanks to her League training. After she gets shot trying to protect Laurel from the Bratva, that hatred only grows, and she's seen to visibly flinch whenever she sees one.
• Drill Sergeant Nasty: To Thea. She has absolutely no patience for the girl's bratty behavior and has no problems showing it either. She's much kinder to more eager students like Roy and Laurel.
• Dumb Blonde: According to Laurel, she reveled in this stereotype pre-Gambit. These days she's equally intelligent as her sister, though in a different way and with different subjects.
• Everyone Has Standards: Sara is horrified to learn that her mother never told Laurel or Quentin the truth about the Gambit during the five years she was gone — namely, that Dinah had let her go on the Gambit and blow up Laurel's relationship with Oliver. Ultimately, it's one of the reasons why she decides to cut Dinah from her life like Laurel did.
• Give Geeks a Chance: Sara has slept with hunks like Oliver Queen and pretty boys like Dick Grayson, and was in a long-term relationship with the Dark Action Girl Nyssa al Ghul. But in the end, the man that ends up winning her heart is sweet, kind and nerdy Barry Allen.
• Had to Be Sharp: Sara was always intelligent, but was content coasting on her looks before the Gambit. Now, she's not afraid to use her intelligence to the fullest, and by Children is attending college with the intention of going to med school to become a doctor — which is arguably an even more difficult career path than the one her sister went on.
• I Hate Past Me: The reason she hates Thea's bratty behavior is because it reminds Sara of her own pre-Gambit behavior. Considering that behavior is what landed her on the Gambit in the first place, one can't really blame Sara for hating it so much.
• I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: Supports Oliver and Laurel's relationship, after seeing how much the two still love each other.
• It's Personal: Declares this after learning the Time Masters brainwashed her kind and compassionate friend Barry into Chronos.
• Improbable Weapon User: At one point thinks about using a television remote to kill someone. Later on, she suggests her pinky instead.
• The Mentor: She helps Oliver teach Laurel, Roy, and Thea.
• No Sympathy: Towards Thea, in regard's to Oliver's treatment of his sister. Mostly because she knows how important Oliver's work as the Green Arrow is.
• Oh, Crap!: She's visibly shaken after Oliver reveals that Slade is alive and will be coming after them both next year.
• Platonic Life-Partners:
  • Becomes this with Oliver after accepting they are Better as Friends. The two still deeply care for each other and attacking either one is almost as bad as attacking Laurel for both of them.
  • With Dick Grayson. Then again, this is par for the course with Dick Grayson.
• Promoted to Love Interest: She replaces Iris as Barry's main love interest.
• Rape as Backstory: She was gang-raped by the survivors of the Amazo until Nyssa saved her.
• Really Got Around: Pre-Gambit, according to Malcolm. Considering this is Malcolm, take that with a grain of salt.
• Second Love: To Barry Allen.
• Secret-Keeper: The third person to learn about Oliver's time travel.
• Ship Tease:
  • Had a flirtatious exchange with Dick Grayson when they first joined the Legends that culminated in a one night stand. Afterward, however, they settled into a friendship.
  • Has an increasing amount of this with Barry after the visit to Starling 2046, especially after a brainwashed Barry is revealed to be Chronos. This ship sails into a genuine Relationship Upgrade.
• Single Woman Seeks Good Man: One of the reasons she falls for Barry is because he's one of the nicest men she's ever met. He sees her as a person, not a sex object, and even after learning about her past, has never been afraid of her.
• So Beautiful, It's a Curse: Sara is a very beautiful woman and it was her greatest disadvantage after the Gambit went down, as it made her a target for a lot of unsavory types. She used to take a lot of pride in her looks; nowadays, while she isn't afraid to use them to her advantage in a fight, she'd rather be seen for the person she is inside.
• Stranger in a Familiar Land: For all the love she has for her friends and family, she no longer sees Starling City as her home and it occasionally shows. Eventually, she decides to move to Central City to be with Barry.
• Sugar-and-Ice Personality: Often switches between the fun personality she had before the Gambit and the harsh one she had after it. It puts off just about everyone except Oliver and Laurel.
• Took a Level in Jerkass: Only to a certain extent. While Sara is still the same girl she was before the Gambit at heart, the Trauma Conga Line she went through after the ship sank has made her a much harder person, and a lot more impatient with certain kinds of behavior (i.e. Thea's Bratty Teenage Daughter act). It's only really evident to those who knew her before the accident.

Quentin Lance

Quentin Larry Lance

Tropes

• Accomplice by Inaction: Zigzagged. Laurel clearly isn't happy with him after learning about the deal between Tempest and the SCPD, but Quentin isn't happy about it either and is only complying with it to protect his family. It's actually why he's in the Major Crimes Unit.
• Awesomeness by Analysis: He manages to figure out Oliver is a time traveler all on his own. More than that, he manages to figure out that Oliver is a different kind of time traveler than Sara.
• Broken Pedestal:
  • Minor example. Laurel still loves him, but they no longer share the same view of the law, and it causes friction between them.
  • Sara loses a lot of esteem for him as well after learning about his bad treatment of Laurel.
• The Bus Came Back: He returns at the beginning of Children, in a much better place and ready to make amends with Oliver and especially Laurel.
• The Commissioner Gordon: He becomes Oliver' official liaison to the SCPD in Age. He's not happy about it.
• Everyone Has Standards:
  • Whatever issues he has with Oliver, he's still known the other man since he was eight, and Oliver is dating his eldest daughter and is best friends with his other daughter. The idea of hunting him down and killing him visibly sickens Quentin, and at one point he tries to talk down Oliver and convince him to turn himself in.
  • After reading Oliver's book and learning of how much suffering both Oliver and Sara went through, Quentin is sickened by the idea that he was ever friends with someone like Malcolm Merlyn. He's so angry, he goes to the Quiver so he can use its shooting range to blow off steam.
• Gut Feeling: His good instincts are such that even Oliver takes them seriously. When Quentin admits to feeling something 'off' about Luthor, it makes Oliver flashback to a comment Bruce made about Lex when they first met, and suspicious of Luthor as a result. This is actually the closest anyone has gotten to catching on to Lex's Villain with Good Publicity act outside of the always-paranoid Batman.
• Loving a Shadow: After learning that Dinah decided not to return to Starling City in the previous timeline, even after Sara returned, and comparing that to her behavior in this timeline, Quentin realizes that she never really wanted their family at all.
  Quentin: I really was in love with a mirage.
• Off the Wagon: He ups his alcohol intake after Sara leaves and Laurel awakens her Canary Cry and joins the Justice League. It eventually gets so bad that Oliver basically forces him to go to rehab.
• Papa Wolf: He wouldn't be Quentin Lance if he wasn't this.
• Parents as People: He's a recovering alcoholic and he can certainly hold a grudge. That being said, he loves his daughters unconditionally and is by far the best parent out of the Merlyn/Queen/Lance triad outside of Walter Steele (and, perhaps, the deceased Rebecca Merlyn).
• Put on a Bus: He's sent packing to a mental health facility about halfway through Age after he falls Off the Wagon and his relationship with Laurel deteriorates.
• Rage Breaking Point: While he was already Off the Wagon by that point, what finally breaks Quentin is the unveiling of Atlantis. He gets a Twitchy Eye, then goes up to the roof and begins asking 'Why?' repeatedly to the sky while guzzling down his flask of alcohol.
• Rebuilt Pedestal: After he gets back from rehab and apologizes to both Oliver and Laurel for his behavior.
• Recovered Addict: When he returns in Children after his stint in rehab.
• Ship Tease: With Kazumi Adachi.
• Spotting the Thread: He quickly realizes that Sara did not go on some trip around the world using the expense account Oliver gave her when he tries to contact her and it turns out her phone number has been disconnected.
• Twitchy Eye: During the beginning of his breakdown after Atlantis is revealed to the world.

Dinah Lance

Dinah Lance nee Drake

Tropes

• Broken Pedestal: She ends up becoming this to her entire family by Children.
  • Laurel's affection for her completely shatters after she learns about her decision to let Sara go on the Gambit, a decision she hid for five years. The pedestal is further broken as Laurel's self-confidence grows and she becomes aware of the Double Standard Dinah has for her daughters.
  • Sara similarly refuses to have a relationship with her after she learns about her poor treatment of Laurel, and admits she doesn't plan on advocating for their family's reunion anymore.
  • Once Quentin finally gets sober for good and his head on straight, he rips into her for her behavior and gives up on getting back together with her entirely, even asking her to get rid of the name Lance.
• Double Standard: For Laurel and Sara. She lambasts Laurel for deciding to quit being a lawyer so she can remain the Black Canary and then praises Sara for running off with the Legends to save the world. Upon reflection, both daughters and even their father realize that double standard has always existed with her, and it's ultimately what destroys her relationship with all of them completely.
• The Maiden Name Debate: She kept the name Lance even after she divorced from Quentin. When Quentin asks her to get rid of it, it's a sign that he's finally given up on reigniting their relationship.
• Mama Bear: Upon learning of Malcolm's crimes, sincerely wishes it's Oliver and Quentin who find him because she knows neither of them will let Malcolm get away with them, one way or the other.
• Never My Fault: Refuses to acknowledge that the biggest reason why her family still isn't reunited even after Sara's return is because of her poor treatment of Laurel.
• Parental Favoritism: She favors Sara over Laurel because she was like Sara when she was younger. To say this backfired on Dinah is a massive understatement.
• Parents as People: Dinah genuinely loves both her daughters, but her tendency to favor Sara over Laurel causes a great number of issues and ultimately destroys her relationship with her eldest daughter and their family altogether.

The Merlyns

Tommy Merlyn

Thomas "Tommy" Merlyn | Al Zil

Tropes

• Abhorrent Admirer: To Laurel, after he returns to Starling. While he's still physically attractive, his personality is too sexist and crass for Laurel to even feign politeness.
• Adaptation Relationship Overhaul:
  • Laurel and him never start a genuine romantic relationship, due to Oliver and Laurel reconciling faster and getting back together as a couple. Then Tommy's time in the League makes him overly possessive of her, which did not bode well when they finally met again.
  • His friendship with Oliver falls apart even faster than in canon, due to Tommy never undergoing his canon Character Development. And unlike in canon, the relationship becomes completely unsalvageable when Oliver is forced to let Tommy be taken by the League of Assassins. By the time Tommy returns to Starling, he hates Oliver above all else, lays the blame at what happened to him at his feet instead of his father's, and is all but slated to become Oliver's Arch-Enemy.
• Adaptational Badass: After being forcibly inducted into the League of Assassins, he is being personally trained by Ra's al Ghul and with the intention of making him a better fighter than his father ever was. Oliver speculates that Tommy will be a physical match for him after two more In-Universe years of training.
• Adaptational Jerkass: He never goes through his canon Character Development due to Oliver and Laurel getting back together and his father never cutting him off. This only gets worse when he's forced into the League, and he becomes murderously hateful of Oliver and possessive of Laurel.
• Adaptational Job Change: Zigzagged. He still has the same jobs as before, they've just been switched in order: he becomes an executive at Merlyn Global, but that goes belly up after Malcolm is exposed and killed and Tommy is dragged off to join the League. After he returns to Starling as Ra's' agent, he makes plans to open his own nightclub as part of the rehabilitation of his reputation.
• Adaptational Villainy:
  • As Oliver grimly predicts, the League effectively turns Tommy into essentially another Malcolm. Meaning, if (or, more likely, when) the team meets Tommy again, they should expect him to be an enemy.
  • Solidified after his return, which sees him demean Roy in front of Thea, to say nothing of his blatant hatred of Oliver. Even Malcolm — twisted as he was — viewed the Undertaking as his method of saving Starling City. Tommy has no such beliefs, and is eagerly awaiting the day when Ra's lifts his clemency over Starling so he wipe it off the map.
• Ain't Too Proud to Beg: He begs Oliver to not let the League take him. Oliver is sympathetic, but still lets it happen, instead advising him to work hard so he can earn his freedom like Sara did.
• Betty and Veronica Switch: He was the initial Betty to Laurel, being the Dogged Nice Guy best friend who stuck by her through thick and thin for the last five years. However, after learning Oliver is the Green Arrow, his less admirable traits, such as his naïveté and elitism, along with his disdain for Starling City, come out, solidifying him as the Veronica.
• Big Brother Instinct: He was protective of Thea even before finding out that Thea his biological half-sister. Deconstructed in the sense that does not mean he's the best guardian for her, as his decision to expose Oliver effectively made her a target. His protective instinct over Thea is the one positive trait about him that the League's training hasn't completely destroyed.
• Bigotry Exception: A very dark variation. He refuses to accept that Laurel is a "freak" like the rest of the Justice League and chooses to blame Oliver instead.
• Broken Pedestal: You can just feel Thea's affection for Tommy die after he returns and she gets a front row seat to how much he's changed.
• Darkness Von Gothick Name: His League name is 'Al Zil', which is 'The Shadow' in Arabic. Considering his status as a Foil and eventual Arch-Enemy to Oliver, it's rather fitting.
• Dogged Nice Guy: Deconstructed. On the surface, Tommy is a nicer and "safer" choice than Oliver. However, their inner characters couldn't be more different. Oliver genuinely cares about the people of Starling City, from those closest to him to strangers on the street, and wants to help them regardless what it might cost him personally. Tommy doesn't care about anyone except himself and those he loves, and has a somewhat self-centered view of the world. Those traits therefore become more pronounced when he ends up joining the patriarchal League and their Stay in the Kitchen mentality, especially in regards to Laurel.
• Does Not Like Guns: A trait he picked up after joining the League of Assassins. He outright refers them as "metallic phallic replacements" after he slaughters a group of gunman sent to kidnap him.
• Didn't Think This Through: He exposed Oliver as the Green Arrow in hopes of getting him sent to a psychiatric facility where he can get help for his "mental illness". He completely failed to take into account the fact that the Green Arrow was technically a criminal, and that Oliver was probably going to end up in jail instead. That doesn't even cover how Green Arrow has been pissing off all the corrupt elements in Starling, and that by putting a name to his face, Tommy has just painted targets on the backs of every single one of Oliver's loved ones — who also happen to be Tommy's loved ones.
• Driven by Envy: Denies his actions against Oliver were this to Laurel, and it seems he's sincere.
• Embarrassing Nickname: Al-Owal taunts him by refusing to call him Al Zil, adressing Tommy as Warith al Sa-Her instead — Heir to the Magician. Since Tommy's life was effectively destroyed by Malcolm's actions, he's not very happy with it.
• Evil Counterpart: To his Earth-2 counterpart, who wasn't evil, just broken. Subverted with his Earth-X counterpart, however; while they're both evil, at least Earth-1 Tommy isn't a Nazi.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Unlike his hatred of Oliver and lust for Laurel, Tommy still seems to have a modicum of genuine affection for Thea even after nine months in the League. However, it's been twisted by their teachings, and many of his thoughts are geared towards corrupting her to be as elitist as he is.
• Face–Heel Turn: In Rise he was at worst an Obliviously Evil Hero Antagonist. He's then forced to join the League at the end of the story, whereupon he undergoes this in Age and becomes an active antagonist to the heroes in Children and beyond.
• Forceful Kiss: Plants one on Laurel in Children during their first meeting after Tommy's return from Nanda Parbat. Laurel is not pleased and gives him a tight slap for his troubles.
• Hated by All: Much like Thea during Age, his reputation was shot after Malcolm was exposed. Unlike Thea, nobody sympathizes with him because he grew up with Malcolm all his life and because he exposed and endangered Oliver, the one person that was trying to stop Tempest. The perception that he skipped town afterward and left Thea 'high and dry' didn't help, and when he comes back having taken a level in jerkass, neither does his attitude.
• Heterosexual Life-Partners: Subverted. Even though they still see each other as best friends, Oliver inadvertently let his friendship with Tommy fall to the wayside because he was busy being the Green Arrow, then running QC. It didn't help that he kept on forgetting that Tommy was alive due to watching him die three times in the previous timeline. After Oliver is forced to let him be taken by the League of Assassins, their friendship dies and Tommy views him as his most hated enemy.
• I'll Kill You!: Vows to kill Oliver to "protect" Laurel.
• In Spite of a Nail:
  • No matter the timeline, he's the one person Oliver can never save, either from death or from a Face–Heel Turn.
  • He still ends up running a nightclub. Only differences are that it's his nightclub instead of Oliver's, it opens a year later than it originally did, and that it is pointedly not located in the Glades.
• In the Blood: Ra's fears that he's inherited his character from his father. Though Tommy has inherited many of Malcolm's negative qualities like his tendency to blame others for his problems and general obsessive nature, Ra's notes that Tommy displays much more loyalty to the League than his father ever did.
• Lovable Alpha Bitch: Deconstructed and gender inverted. As naturally kind as Tommy was, he was still very elitist and naive, and that caused him to commit a great number of mistakes that end up screwing everyone over. The most notable, of course, being exposing Oliver.
• Loving a Shadow: As noted by Ra's al Ghul, Tommy doesn't really love Laurel so much as lust after her.
• My Sister Is Off-Limits: A dark variant. He despises the idea of Roy being Thea's boyfriend, viewing the younger man as a worthless upstart from the Glades, unworthy of his sister's affection.
• Never My Fault: He blames Oliver for the constant danger Laurel is in while studiously ignoring the fact that he put her in the most danger of all by exposing Oliver in the first place.
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: By exposing Oliver, he basically screwed over everyone in the end. He's permanently painted targets on the backs of all his loved ones, he got Thea essentially press-ganged into vigilantism, and got himself in the same situation, except with the League of Assassins.
• No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: The great tragedy of Tommy's story arc in Rise is that all his foolish actions were ultimately done out of love for Oliver. In return, the woman he loved scorned him, his family name was shamed, and whatever remaining innocence he had left was ruined, ending with his best friend (reluctantly) allowing him to be taken by the League of Assassins, to become the one thing Tommy fought all his life against: his father.
• Not Quite the Right Thing: Exposing Oliver might have come out of genuine concern for his best friend and their collective loved ones, but it was a poor choice that effectively screwed every one of those loved ones over, including Oliver and eventually Tommy himself.
• Obliviously Evil: Downplayed. Tommy isn't actually evil in Rise, but he's ignorant of how much he's benefited from the corruption of Starling, which is why he was able to get away with his fast-living playboy antics so far. Hence why he was willing to expose Oliver — he thought this was like when they were kids and he could just bail him out like their dads did, almost blind to how much he screwed over everyone until he sees Laurel getting charged for aiding and abetting Oliver's vigilante activities.
• Press-Ganged: He's forced into the League to both take his father's place and redeem his father's sins.
• The Proud Elite: In Children, where he takes pride in his status and disdains 'low-lifes' like Roy.
• Promotion to Parent: Oliver arranges for him to take custody of Thea in Rise due to viewing himself as a bad guardian for her. Unfortunately, while Tommy does love Thea and puts her first, his general naïveté proves him to be an inadequate guardian for her. It's cut short anyway after Tommy is taken by the League and Oliver retakes custody over her.
• Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!: Planned to use this to "bail out" Oliver by having him sent to a psychiatric facility instead of jail, completely failing to realize that those same connections are the people Oliver has been pissing off for the last several weeks.
• Screw This, I'm Outta Here: In Age and beyond, most people believe that Tommy skipped town to avoid the scrutiny and scorn of being Malcolm's son, abandoning his sister to fend for herself. Oliver and the others know better, but allow the story to stand because the truth is so much worse and can't be revealed to the public anyway.
• Selective Obliviousness:
  • Tommy is an incredibly naive individual, so he has a tendency to blind himself to certain things in favor of more palatable conclusions.
  • Most notable is his prejudice against Oliver, who desperately believes hasn't changed at all and is endangering Laurel with his thrill-seeking.
• Sins of Our Fathers: He gets press-ganged into the League to pay for his father's sins.
• Spanner in the Works: For the heroes. His decision to expose Oliver sends everything to hell and forces Oliver on the run, making it harder for him to take down Tempest.
• Stay in the Kitchen: He begins to develop this mentality during his time with the League and clearly wants Laurel to give up everything in her life that could put her in danger, which is basically her entire life considering the kind of person she is.
• Took a Level in Jerkass: As Age shows, the League did absolutely no favors for his personality.
• Training from Hell: He's forcibly inducted in the League in Rise, and in Age, Oliver has no illusions as to what he's going through right now.
• Turn Out Like His Father: The reason Ra's is training him and not the usual trainer Al-Owal is because the League doesn't want another Malcolm on their hands. When he returns to Starling in Children, Oliver notes how Tommy has become as cold and calculating and his father and treats him as being just as dangerous as him.
• We Used to Be Friends: His friendship with Oliver ends in Rise after Oliver lets him be taken by the League. Passing comments by Oliver's descendants in 2266 all but confirm that Tommy is slated to become Oliver's Archenemy.

Malcolm Merlyn

Malcolm Merlyn | Al Sa-Her | The Dark Archer

Tropes

• Adaptational Villainy: Minor example. Whereas the original Malcolm would've done anything to protect Thea, even giving his life to save her, this Malcolm's love for her does not outweigh his hatred of Oliver. At least part of that is because Tommy is not dead, which was the event that humanized him.
• Arch-Enemy: Invoked. Convinced that Oliver doesn't have the conviction to kill him at the end of Rise, Malcolm makes a grand speech about how they'll be doing this for a "long time" and that he'll inevitably win this grand rivalry of theirs. Then Oliver kills him.
• Beyond Redemption: Unlike his original timeline counterpart, this Malcolm is an irredeemable monster, willing to kill his daughter to get revenge on Oliver. Oliver himself believes he crossed the line when he sent the Huntsman after Laurel.
• Big Bad: Of Rise, though he came off as a Big Bad Wannabe. While Malcolm is still a dangerous individual, Oliver's foreknowledge renders him largely ineffectual and in the end, and he's nothing compared to future threats like Slade Wilson and Damien Darhk. He's more of a threat to Oliver's loved ones than Oliver himself.
• Broken Pedestal: After he's finally exposed as the leader of Tempest, he becomes this to both his children and all of Starling City.
• Card-Carrying Villain: Once he's exposed, he absolutely revels in what a bastard he is.
• Demoted to Extra: While he still remains a major character for the first story, killing him off at the end of it renders him to this for the rest of the series.
• Dies Differently in Adaptation: He's killed four years earlier and via stabbing and decapitation, opposed to being blown up by a landmine.
• Disappointed by the Motive: Malcolm is horrified to learn that his wife was murdered so Danny Brickwell could get into a gang.
• Even Evil Has Standards: He's genuinely aghast to learn that Tommy doesn't care about bettering Starling City.
• Evil Counterpart: To Oliver. He is everything Oliver fears he could be if he lost Laurel like Malcolm lost Rebecca.
• Hated by All: After he's exposed and killed, no one has a kind word to say about him. Even Tommy, who has essentially become a worse version of him thanks to the League, disdains him because Malcolm's actions essentially ruined his life. Many note that his name has become synonymous with terrorism and general supervillainy in the public conscious, and he's no doubt going to go down in history as one of its greatest monsters.
• I Have Your Wife: One of the reasons why he was so welcoming to Thea was to use her against Oliver.
• Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: The first half of how he dies.
• Killed Off for Real: Impaled and decapitated by Oliver with his own sword at the end of Rise.
• Make Sure He's Dead: Even though impaling him would have a good shot of killing him, Oliver decapitates him for good measure so he can't be revived via Lazarus Pit or some other means.
• Mask of Sanity: Considering his plan is to criminalize and blow up a random (and an admittedly crappy) neighborhood just because his wife died there, he was never all that sane to begin with, but at least he can keep up something of a veneer of sanity. That mask is finally ripped off after he's exposed, revealing to the public just how insane he really was before he was finally killed.
• My God, What Have I Done?: Upon learning that Brickwell is his wife's real murderer and finding his name on the List, Malcolm is sickened to realize he's been protecting the man who killed Rebecca for the last twenty years.
• Obliviously Evil: Sincerely believes himself to be a good man who is acting in the city's best interest.
• Off with His Head!: The second half of how he dies.
• Offing the Offspring: Tries to kill Thea for being related to Oliver.
• Parental Favoritism: Seems to favor Tommy over Thea. It's not clear why, but it could have anything to do from only just recently finding out that Thea is his daughter, to Tommy being male (since Malcolm was trained by the notoriously patriarchal League of Assassins), to Thea being related to Oliver and not being Rebecca's child.
• Revenge Before Reason: Once his crimes are revealed to the public, instead of doing the smart thing and ditching Starling entirely with his family, he sticks around and tries to get revenge on Oliver by killing all of the younger man's loved ones. This gets him killed.
• Revenge by Proxy:
  • He sent the Huntsman after Laurel with the intention of having the Serial Killer record himself "processing" her alive and sending the video to Oliver. Thankfully, both of them underestimated Laurel.
  • Malcolm himself fully intended to murder Laurel, Thea, William, and Samantha in front of Oliver before killing the man himself. Oliver and Sara managed to get them out in time, with Oliver killing Malcolm instead.
• Sanity Slippage: He was never all there to begin with, but as Oliver slowly begins to dismantle Tempest, he starts to gradually lose it. After he's exposed, he completely snaps and kidnaps Laurel, Thea, Samantha and William with the intention of killing them to get revenge on Oliver.
• Selective Obliviousness: When wondering where he went wrong in raising Tommy, he completely ignores the fact that he more-or-less abandoned Tommy after Rebecca died, and that is probably the reason why Tommy turned out the way he did.
• Sins of Our Fathers:
  • He basically disowns Thea and tries to kill her for being related to Oliver.
  • The League try to forcibly induct Tommy and Thea into their ranks for his crimes, especially his exposure of them before his death. While Oliver is able to invoke the right of blood to save Thea, he wasn't able to do the same for Tommy.
• Smug Snake: He keeps on acting confident and self-assured about his ability to defeat Oliver after the latter is exposed even as Oliver slowly dismantles Tempest. It takes until Oliver has pruned Tempest down to three members (one of whom is Malcolm himself) for him to finally realize how screwed he is.
• Too Dumb to Live: Lampshaded by Damien Darhk. His attempt at revenge on Oliver causes him to unwittingly expose the League of Assassins — on live television. If Oliver hadn't killed him, Ra's certainly would have, and he wouldn't have been nearly as nice about it.
• Villainous Legacy:
  • His exposure and subsequent defeat at the end of Rise is still keenly felt throughout Age and beyond. By constantly targeting Laurel through various intermediaries, he gave her the drive to become Black Canary two years earlier. His daughter Thea is forced into vigilantism to avoid joining the League to pay for his crimes, while his son Tommy does in fact join due to Oliver unable to use the same loophole to save him. The foiling of his Undertaking causes the Council of Time Masters to intervene in hopes of correcting the timeline, which results in the Legends forming three years early. Finally, the sheer length and span of his conspiracy shocks and horrifies the world so much that it convinces the POTUS to create a government-sponsored team of heroes to combat similar threats — the future Justice League.
  • It shows especially with Tommy, who in some ways has become worse than Malcolm. As twisted as he was about it, Malcolm did care about Starling City and viewed the Undertaking as his way to 'save' it. Tommy has no such ideals, disdaining Starling as Beyond Redemption and eagerly waiting for the day when Ra's will end its season of clemency so he can finally wipe it off the map.
• Where Did We Go Wrong?: Asks this question once he realizes that Tommy doesn't give a damn about helping Starling City. The obvious answer is Malcolm's Parental Neglect, but he's too self-absorbed to realize and/or accept it.

The Allens

Barry Allen

Bartholomew "Barry" Henry Allen | Chronos | The Flash

Tropes

• Adaptation Relationship Overhaul: Sara and him didn't become close until Crisis on Infinite Earths (2019), after Oliver's death. Here, they becomes close friends and teammates after joining the Legends together, with a lot of Ship Tease between them. They eventually become a couple for real after the Huntsman's trial.
• Adaptational Badass:
  • While he's already slated to become a badass as the Flash, he becomes Chronos first in this timeline.
  • When he does become the Flash, the Speed Force imparts knowledge of the more advanced techniques he learned in the later seasons to him.
• Adaptational Early Appearance: Oliver brings him into his circle sooner after meeting him during his trip to Central City to assassinate Eobard Thawne, by offering him a job at QC's Applied Sciences Division. After Thawne is killed and Henry's name is cleared, Barry accepts the offer and moves them both to Starling. He even gets into superheroics earlier and joins the Legends with Sara, and eventually becomes the Flash at the end of Age.
• Big Damn Kiss: With Sara after the Huntsman is sentenced to lethal injection.
• Birds of a Feather: With Sara. Something he comes to realize after learning about Sara's second stint in the League.
• Brainwashed and Crazy: After the Time Masters captured him, they implanted the Chronos personality into him and made him into their personal assassin.
• Composite Character: He, and not Mick Rory, becomes Chronos in this timeline.
• Disappointed by the Motive: Barry, much like in canon, is furious to learn that the reason why his mother was murdered, the reason why his and his father's lives were ruined, is because his future Arch-Enemy Eobard Thawne was a "bitter and deluded fanboy" who couldn't get over the fact that he couldn't be Barry.
• Empowered Badass Normal: His training as Chronos means he becomes this as the Flash.
• Future Badass: He's going to be the Flash one day, after all. And then subverted, because he ends up becoming the Flash over a year earlier than he did in canon.
• Genre Savvy: After learning about Oliver's time traveler status, he calls him a Peggy Sue.
• My God, What Have I Done?: After his programming breaks, he's horrified about all the crimes he committed as Chronos.
• Nice Guy: Even after his time as Chronos, he's one of the nicest people in the series. This is one of the reasons why Sara ended up falling for him.
• Official Couple: With Sara, who moves to Central City to be with him.
• Platonic Life-Partners: Ultimately settles into this relationship with Iris, after he falls for Sara.
• Relationship Upgrade: With Sara, after the Huntsman is sentenced to death by lethal injection.
• Second Love: To Sara Lance.
• Secret-Keeper: The fifth person to learn about Oliver being a time traveler.
• Ship Tease: With Sara, especially after it's revealed he's Chronos. Ultimately, it's her that breaks his programming — he outright compares her voice to "a lighthouse on the dark ocean, guiding [him] to a safe harbor". This eventually sees a Relationship Upgrade between them in Age.
• Stress Vomit: He vomits after learning that his alternate timeline counterpart, as a result of creating Flashpoint, accidentally erased a person from existence^note Sara Diggle.
• Throw the Dog a Bone:
  • His father's name is cleared in Rise and he inherits the majority of Thawne's estate, allowing them to make a fresh start in Starling City.
  • After being kidnapped and brainwashed into becoming Chronos, Barry not only breaks free of his programming, but gets a solid Relationship Upgrade with Sara.
  • He later gets to leave Chronos behind him for good after the Speed Force deems him ready to become the Flash, well ahead of schedule.
• Weirdness Magnet: Lampshaded by Sara, who declares herself his protector upon realizing it.

Henry Allen

Henry Allen

Tropes

• Adaptational Early Appearance: He's released from Iron Heights earlier thanks to Oliver killing Eobard.
• Clear My Name: His name is cleared in Rise and he moves to Starling with his son soon after.

The Glades

Roy Harper

Roy Harper | Arsenal

Tropes

• Adaptation Relationship Overhaul: He has no relationship with Thea outside of being fellow students of Oliver and Sara. At least until they begin to bond during Age, and more-or-less start tentatively dating during Children. They're also vigilante partners, where as Roy and Thea's respective stints on Team Arrow never coincided.
• Adaptational Badass: Much like Laurel, he begins his journey to Arsenal much earlier. By the time of Children, the equivalent of Season Two of Arrow, he's already patrolling the city with Thea as a full-fledged vigilante. In the original timeline, it took him until the end of Season Two before he was ready.
• Ascended Fanboy: Came to admire the Green Arrow after Oliver saved him from a beating and later returned the favor after Oliver was exposed. Now he's essentially Oliver's apprentice as a vigilante.
• Big Damn Heroes: Helps Oliver escape Tempest's attempted execution of him while he was enroute to Slabside.
• Good Samaritan: How he first meets Oliver in this timeline. He tried to protect a friend of his from being sexually assaulted by multiple men, and Green Arrow saved them both.
• Hate at First Sight: With Tommy.
• Hero-Worshipper: For Green Arrow. He does become conflicted upon learning Oliver is Green Arrow, but he moves past it and saves Oliver anyway. It's fully cemented after learning that Oliver was trying to save the Glades, Roy's home. By the time of Age, Roy idolizes him.
• Official Couple: With Thea.
• Ship Tease: Has an increasingly amount of this with Thea in Age, culminating in a Big Damn Kiss after the Huntsman's trial. By Children, they're openly dating.
• Working-Class Hero: Not quite to the extent of Rene, but Roy is intelligent and capable in his own right, but like Rene, doesn't qualify for better jobs due to his shoddy high school education. He gets by due to his job at the shop, but even that is paid out of Oliver's pocket via a shell corporation.

Ted Grant

Ted Grant | Wildcat

Tropes

• Boxing Battler: His style of combat.
• Mandatory Unretirement: Decides to come out of vigilante retirement when Oliver reveals there's a new threat to the people of the Glades: the Ninth Circle. He tries to go back into retirement after the threat is over, and it sticks for a bit, only to rejoin the team permanently after Tommy Merlyn returns Starling and Ted learns about the deal Oliver has with Ra's.
• The Mentor: For Laurel. Even after she surpasses him and no longer needs his training, he helps her out by hiring her as a trainer for his gym.

Rene Ramirez

Rene Ramirez | Wild Dog

Tropes

• Action Dad: For his daughter, Zoe.
• Guns Akimbo: As always, though his aim is a bit off compared to what it was when he was in the Navy.
• In Spite of a Nail: He is still inspired by Oliver to become a vigilante, except this time it's three to four years ahead of schedule. Oliver is a lot more receptive to it this time around, both due to his bond with Rene in the previous timeline and because he needs the help against the Ninth Circle.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He can be abrasive at times but he has his heart in the right place, at one point thanking Oliver for helping him get custody of his daughter Zoe.
• Papa Wolf: Very protective of his daughter, and viciously refuses Frank Bertinelli's offer specifically because he threatened said daughter.
• Semper Fi: A former marine.
• Working-Class Hero: A surprisingly realistic example. While Rene is intelligent and capable due to his time in the military, he doesn't have many qualifications due to his working-class background preventing him from gathering the necessary funds to pursue certifications and higher education like college. That means that despite his skills, he can't get a better-paying job. Oliver is rather shocked to learn about this, having never known this about Rene in the previous timeline, and asks him why he never asked for help; Rene tells him that while he appreciates the offer, the only job Oliver could get him with his background is that of a janitor.

Sin

Cindy "Sin" Simone

Tropes:

• The Apprentice: Something of one to Laurel, as her most frequent student at Wildcat Gym.
• Protectorate: Laurel becomes protective of her after getting to know her better, essentially taking her under her wing and even inviting her to join Thanksgiving with Oliver and her.
• Younger Than They Look: The author was rather shocked to learn that she was only fifteen in Season Two.

Sebastian Blood

Sebastian Blood | Brother Blood

Tropes:

• Big Bad: Of the titular Children, which is named after his cult.
• Broken Pedestal: To Roy, Rene, and Ted after they learn about what he did in the previous timeline.
• Cult: He's the leader of the Children of the Glades cult.
• Eat the Rich: His rhetoric and ideology for the Children of the Glades. Hence, one of the main rituals of the Children is abducting wealthy people, murdering them, and then draining them of their blood, symbolically representing how the wealthy elite drain the life out of Starling.
• Underestimating Badassery: This is probably out of genuine ignorance rather than arrogance, but thinks it takes someone of Oliver's caliber to take out his four-man snatch team, when they fail to take Tommy and mysteriously disappear. Tommy has been training with Ra's al Ghul, but at this point in his training he isn't really a better fighter than any of the vigilantes in the city, and nowhere near Oliver or Laurel's level yet.

Others

Felicity Smoak

Felicity Smoak | Overwatch

Tropes

• Adaptational Villainy: While Felicity was a Nominal Hero in canon, she was still a hero. In Rise, it's revealed that she knew Earth-1 Laurel had been murdered by Cayden James at the behest of Emiko Adachi, but kept the truth from Oliver out of jealousy. Then, after Oliver leaves her for the current Laurel, she plots to murder her romantic rival in return. Oliver is aghast to find out about the latter and takes it as proof that he never should've married her to begin with.
• Alternate Self: To Earth-X Felicity, whose family may-or-may not be Nazi collaborators.
• Always Second Best: Why she never told Oliver the truth about Laurel's death in the previous timeline — she knew that if she did, all she would ever remain to him is a consolation prize. As it turns out, even without that Felicity was still this, as Oliver ends up leaving her for Laurel despite knowing it would wipe out their daughter from existence.
• Asshole Victim: When Oliver learns about what she was planning, he's so disgusted that he doesn't even feel inclined to avenge her. When Sara learns the whole story, she even flatly states that she's glad the Huntsman killed her as it saves her the effort. Ironically, the only person who shows her any sympathy was the person she was planning to murder: Laurel.
• Betty and Veronica Switch: The initial Betty to Oliver, being his wife from the previous timeline who stood beside him through all the trials he went through as a vigilante and ended up traveling back in time with him. Except, it turns out she's an obsessive Yandere who is willing to Murder the Hypotenuse if it means keeping Oliver to herself. After learning about her true nature, Oliver flat-out admits he made a mistake in marrying her.
• Big Bad Wannabe: Felicity planned on murdering Laurel to have Oliver to herself again, but was killed by the Huntsman before she could even get out of the planning stage.
• Big Damn Kiss: With Oliver, when they see first see each other again in the new timeline. Unfortunately for Felicity, it doesn't last and only goes downhill from there.
• Cruel and Unusual Death: She has her throat slit by the Huntsman and her corpse eaten, with her head sent to QC with an apple in its mouth as a warning to Walter.
• Demoted to Extra: Killed by the Huntsman, writing her out of the story entirely.
• Driven by Envy: What caused her to try and kill Laurel.
• Evil All Along: Insights into Felicity's mind before she died strongly imply she was this. While hiding the true cause of Laurel's death was selfish, it couldn't exactly be called evil — planning to murder Laurel to get back Oliver, however, is evil. The fact that Felicity didn't hesitate to go down that road to get Oliver back suggests that she was never the good person Oliver and the others believed her to be.
• False Friend: Upon learning more about Felicity, Laurel believes Felicity was this to her in the previous timeline. From what brief glimpses we have into Felicity's mind before she was killed, Laurel is probably right.
• False Soulmate: For Oliver. He genuinely loved the person he thought she was, enough to marry her — but in the end, he always loved Laurel more.
• How the Mighty Have Fallen: Prior to coming back in time she was the C.E.O. of Smoak Technologies, "the undisputed queen of all things technology on the international level", and the hero Overwatch. Now she's just "a lowly I.T. worker at Queen Consolidated and the quirky tech working for Oliver". To add insult to injury, Oliver isn't even in love with her anymore. Then she's murdered and forgotten, and nearly every reference to her afterward is mostly about what a mistake Oliver made in marrying her, which is the final nail in the coffin for her character.
• It Runs in the Family: It's strongly implied that Felicity's mental instability and moral failings come from her father, Noah Kuttler.
• Killed Off for Real: Murdered by the Huntsman at the behest of Malcolm Merlyn.
• Jumping Off the Slippery Slope: Felicity did a lot of morally ambiguous and outright selfish things in the original timeline, but a lot of the former were for good causes so many of her loved ones ignored the latter. Then, she decides to try and murder Laurel to get back Oliver, revealing her true colors and cementing her as a villain.
• Laser-Guided Karma: Her death at the hands of the Huntsman could be seen as this.
• Mission Control: Briefly takes over as Oliver's from Fyff when she's sent back. Fyff takes the job back when she's killed.
• Murder the Hypotenuse: Plotted to murder Laurel to get Oliver back.
• Sanity Slippage: Loses her mind after Oliver leaves her for Laurel, when Felicity had been waiting over twenty years to finally reunite with him.
• Sympathy for the Devil: Even after finding out Felicity plotted to kill her, Laurel can't help but feel sympathy for her after learning she was a victim of the Huntsman.
• Unknown Rival: To Laurel. What makes Felicity's plan to kill her so disgusting is that Laurel doesn't even know her in this timeline.
• Yandere: For Oliver.

Henry Fyff

Henry Fyff | Oversight

Tropes

• Heterosexual Life-Partners: Becomes this with Oliver over the course of Rise, which becomes highlighted when Oliver goes on the run for a time and basically lives with Fyff at the Quiver.
• Mission Control: For Oliver, replacing Felicity.
• Took a Level in Kindness: Freely admits he was an "arrogant ass" when he first started working with Oliver, but mellows out considerably and becomes a firm friend.

Helena Bertinelli

Helena Bertinelli | Huntress

Tropes

• Adaptational Heroism: Thanks to Laurel being a Positive Friend Influence, Helena's better traits start coming out more and she more closely resembles what a hero should be. By the end of the first half of the story, this leads to her to spare her father's life and let him be taken to prison, fully establishing her as a hero.
• Ain't Too Proud to Beg: When Creote's No-Holds-Barred Beatdown becomes too much, she ends up momentarily begging for her life.
• Character Development: Oliver's book helps her empathize more with her father's victims. While she always knew Frank was a monster, this is the first time she really begins to understanding the suffering he puts others through with his greed.
• Dark Action Girl: Helena is a badass, but she's also not the most stable individual, at least compared to Laurel. She later slides more into Action Girl after Laurel's influence takes hold.
• Everyone Has Standards: She knew her father was a bad man from a young age but was too afraid to act on it. What finally pushed her into talking with the FBI was watching him beat an innocent man to death just for failing to pay his protection racket fees.
• Family of Choice: With Laurel, her family, and the rest of Star(ling)'s vigilantes.
• Heartbroken Badass: She's still mourning the death of her fiance, Michael.
• Heterosexual Life-Partners: Later becomes genuine best friends with Laurel, who becomes like a sister to her.
• Lovely Angels: With Laurel.
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Her attempt to start a Mob War between the Bratva and the Bertinelli Family in hopes of finally taking down her father instead allowed said father to take over Starling's criminal underground. Helena is bitterly aware of this.
• Rebellious Mafia Princess: After her father takes over the criminal element of Starling, that makes Helena an almost literal mafia princess. However, she's genuinely heroic, if somewhat dark, individual who fights against her father as the Huntress.
• Ship Tease: While it will never happen in the real world, Oliver's dream world while under the influence of the Black Mercy sees her dating Tommy.
• What You Are in the Dark: As the author notes and Laurel later lampshades, Helena turned on her father even before he had Michael murdered, and so revealed that the inciting incident was the one mentioned in Everyone Has Standards above. That proves that beneath all her vengefulness, Helena is a genuinely heroic person who want to help people.
• The Worf Effect:
  • She flat-out gets her ass kicked by Laurel to show off how much more dangerous Laurel is after Shiva's training.
  • She later suffers a vicious No-Holds-Barred Beatdown at the hands of Creote on her father's orders.

Frank Bertinelli

Frank Bertinelli

Tropes

• Arc Villain: For the Birds of Prey arc, which dominates the first half of Children. After he's defeated, the Big Bad torch is passed on to Sebastian Blood, with the Dominators as the Greater-Scope Villain.
• Archnemesis Dad: To Helena.
• Ascended Extra: He only appears in a couple of episodes in canon. Here, he's the main Arc Villain of the first half of Children.
• Big Bad: For Laurel's storyline and the first half of Children.
• Dirty Coward: When he's finally cornered, he has no issues in offering the laptop that Helena was using to gather evidence against him in hopes that his daughter will spare his life.
• The Don: Of the Bertinelli Family and of Starling's criminal element in general.
• Evil Power Vacuum: After Oliver took out Malcolm, the Triad, and the Bratva, this left a massive hole at the top of Starling's underworld that Frank quickly filled.
• I Have No Son!: He disowns Helena after she reveals that she was the one talking to the FBI, not Michael.
• Offing the Offspring: After Helena and him cut ties permanently, he stops holding back and does everything he can to kill Laurel and her.
• Throwing Down the Gauntlet:
  • First to Helena, after confronting her over her actions as the Huntress.
  • Then to every vigilante in Starling at Thanksgiving, mostly out of desperation.
• We Can Rule Together: Before Throwing Down the Gauntlet, he offers Helena one last chance to stop her activities as the Huntress and let things return to how they were before. Helena laughs in his face.

Central City

Q Division

Cisco Ramon

Francisco "Cisco" Ramon

Tropes:

• Adaptational Job Change: He works at Queen Consolidated in this timeline due to Hartley Rathaway taking over S.T.A.R. Labs before Thawne can hire him. He later moves back to Central City, but as a member of Q Division.
• Heterosexual Life-Partners: With Barry, as always.
• The Unfavorite: To his parents, who refuse to believe he was personally hired by Oliver.

Caitlin Snow

Caitlin Snow

Tropes:

• Adaptational Job Change: She leaves S.T.A.R. Labs to become an independent scientist after Thawne's death, and is later recruited by Oliver for QC's Applied Sciences Division to study Laurel's genetic makeup and discover the metagene. She later moves back to Central City to head Q Division as its director.
• In Spite of a Nail: She's still going to become Killer Frost in this timeline, considering the fact that Killer Frost has been laying dormant inside her since childhood. That's one of the reasons why Oliver was so desperate to recruit her.
• Save This Person, Save the World: Downplayed. Oliver is convinced that her Killer Frost persona is going to awaken no matter what anyone does. However, if Caitlin has solid friendships like she did in the last timeline, then the Killer Frost personality can make a Heel–Face Turn in this timeline as well. Hence, he persistently tried to recruit Caitlin so that way he could arrange a meeting between her and Barry and Cisco and allow them to hit it off, preventing her from completely falling into villainy when Killer Frost does come out.
• Ship Tease: With Ronnie Raymond.

Metropolis

Daily Planet

Clark Kent

Clark Kent / Kal-El | Superman

Tropes

• The Ageless: Age reveals that beneath a yellow sun, he can only die by being killed. When the Legends meet Future Clark in 2266, he hasn't aged a day since his debut in the 2010s.
• Alternate Self:
  • For the Earth-38 Superman, the one Oliver met in the original timeline. In fact, prior to meeting Clark at the CNRI Gala, he didn't even know Earth-1 had a Clark Kent.
  • Oliver believes he also has one on Earth-X, who is the true Fuhrer of Earth and leader of the Nazis in lieu of Oliver's own counterpart Dark Arrow.
• Ascended Fanboy: A downplayed example. He decided to become Superman after being inspired by Oliver's actions as the Green Arrow. That being said, Oliver and him interact as equals for the most part.
• Boxing Lessons for Superman: After the Battle of Metropolis, he received training from Oliver so even without his powers he is able to handily subdue a highly trained government operative.
• Clark Kenting: As usual for him. And then he asks how Oliver knows his identity.
• Everyone Has Standards: While he mostly sticks to Thou Shalt Not Kill, he is willing to make an exception for more dangerous enemies likes Zod. He's also willing to discard it when it comes to Those Wacky Nazis, like Batman.
• Human Alien: Which is promptly lampshaded by Sara.
• Immortality Begins at Twenty: Provided he isn't killed, he's going to remain at the physical age of thirty or so as long as he's powered by a yellow sun.
• Intrepid Reporter: Oliver actually meets him for the first time at a Charity Ball he throws for CNRI, and he and Lois are the primary writers for Oliver's exploits for the Daily Planet.
• Official Couple: Has been in a relationship with his reporting partner Lois for years.
• Papa Wolf:
  • Destroys a table after learning that the Earth-X forces will most likely go after Kara when they show up.
  • Kills Zod for threatening his family.
• Parental Substitute: Effectively becomes Kara's new father-figure, which was the inverse of what their parents originally intended for them.
• Thou Shalt Not Kill: Usually. It goes out the window when you threaten his family and are powerful enough to actually go through with it, as Zod found out the hard way.

Lois Lane

Lois Lane

Tropes

• Alternate Self: For the Earth-38 Lois Lane. Oliver likes this Lois far more than the one he met.
• Badass Normal: During the Slabside arc.
• Determinator: She's Lois Lane.
• The Dreaded: Played for Laughs. Oliver has a This Is Gonna Suck reaction when he learns she's coming to Starling to continue with the interviews for her new book.
• Hot Scoop: A Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter, and one of the most gorgeous women in the world.
• Intrepid Reporter: Even more so than Clark, to the point that she's very enthusiastic about writing Oliver's life story.
• Mama Bear: She kills Non for trying to kill Kara.
• Military Brat: She's the daughter of General Sam Lane, which is where her Badass Normal-status comes from.
• Official Couple: With Clark.
• Parental Substitute: As Clark's romantic partner, she essentially becomes Kara's new mother figure.

Others

Kara Danvers

Kara Danvers / Kara Zor-El

Tropes

• The Ageless: As a Kryptonian powered by a yellow sun, the only way Kara can die is if she's killed; otherwise, she's functionally immortal.
• Alternate Self:
  • For the Earth-38 Supergirl. It's for this reason that Oliver is instantly fond of her — he can't help but see her as a younger version of the friend he gave his life to save.
  • She's also this for the Earth-X Overgirl. As it's unlikely Oliver will get the chance to meet his original Kara, that means when Earth-X invades, she's going to be targeted as the provider of Overgirl's replacement heart.
• Big Eater: Wolfs down a pile of pancakes and asks for more. Fortunately, her Kryptonian metabolism means she won't gain any weight from it.
• Future Badass: As seen in 2226, she's still destined to one day become Supergirl.
• Immortality Begins at Twenty: Age reveals that Kara, much like Clark, is The Ageless; she's going to age normally up to her mid-twenties or so and then remain at the appearance for the rest of her (undetermined) lifespan.
• Living MacGuffin: With the unlikelihood of the Justice League meeting the Earth-38 Kara, this Kara is the most likely target during Earth-X's invasion in 2017. The Justice League make it a priority to protect her if this does come to pass.
• Protectorate: For Clark. Even in the future, even after she's been Supergirl for over two centuries, Clark can't help but see her as the young girl who hid herself behind his cape when she first landed on Earth.
• Stepford Smiler: She's still naturally bubbly, but it's clear that a lot of her cheer is faked.
• Troubled Child: Poor girl is still suffering nightmares of Krypton's destruction and is thus unnaturally clingy to Clark as a result.

Lex Luthor

Alexander "Lex" Luthor

Tropes:

• Cut Lex Luthor a Check: He is the Trope Namer, after all.
• False Friend: To Superman, who he befriends under the pretense of safely developing Kryptonian technology for human use, while in reality using him to gain access to said technology for his own use.
• It's All About Me: His reaction to Oliver's book after reading it is to rage about how he doesn't have his own life story out yet and to search out for an author willing to write about it.
• Villain with Good Publicity: During the events of Rise and Age. Not even Oliver knew about his true nature due to Earth-38 Kara refusing to speak of him in polite company; only Bruce was tangentially aware, and that was only through some unconfirmed reports of illegal experimentation. It isn't until the first half of Children that the heroes start suspecting him of anything.

Gotham

The Waynes

Bruce Wayne

Bruce Wayne | Batman

Tropes

• Adaptational Personality Change: This Bruce is a lot less self-righteous about his Thou Shalt Not Kill rule, partly because of the more realistic setting helping him realize the validity of the choice and partly because he used to be a member of the League of Assassins, and thus his policy is partly out of atonement, not just idealism. He even flat-out admits to himself he'd be willing to kill Nazis after learning about Earth-X, something that no other version of Bruce would consider even under those circumstances.
• Broken Ace: Might be an even better fighter than Oliver, just as smart if not smarter, but has way more issues than Oliver ever did.
• Combat Pragmatist: He doesn't kill, so just pummels his opponents until they are no longer a threat.
• Composite Character: While his overall mythos is based off the comics, his origin as a former member of the League of Assassins comes from The Dark Knight Trilogy.
• Darker and Edgier: He still somehow manages to be this to Oliver despite having a Thou Shalt Not Kill rule.
• Dating Catwoman: With Talia. Talia is very much in love with him, and while Bruce returns her feelings to an extent, he's long since given up on having a real relationship with her due to their differing moral compasses.
• Everyone Has Standards: He's perfectly willing to discard the Thou Shalt Not Kill rule when it comes to Those Wacky Nazis.
• Good Parents: To Dick. When Dick is struggling over whether or not to join the Legends in stopping Vandal Savage, Bruce advises him to listen to his heart and do what he feels is right.
• I Work Alone: As usual for depictions of Batman, he tends to turn down working with other heroes. He promises to consider joining the Justice League, which is something. Ultimately subverted after the Battle of Gotham, where he joins the League.
• The Mentor: To Dick Grayson and Barbara Gordon. Is currently one for Jason Todd.
• No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: He compensates for his inability to kill by being almost unnecessarily brutal. Laurel, upon seeing him in action, can't help but disfavorably compare him to Oliver even though Oliver is the one who kills people. She better understands his motives after becoming a vigilante herself.
• Not So Above It All: When called out on the Bat-themed naming of all his equipment and gadgets, he quickly passes the blame to Dick.
• Parental Substitute: To Dick Grayson.
• Properly Paranoid: Suspicious of Lex Luthor after finding out about unconfirmed reports of illegal experimentation. Considering that it's Lex Luthor...
• Thou Shalt Not Kill: As always. It's partially motivated by guilt over his tenure with the League of Assassins. If it weren't for that, Oliver and him would've probably been able to get along better the first time they teamed up. Though, when he learns of a potential invasion from Earth-X, he admits he'd consider suspending his policy on killing given that they're Nazis.
• You Remind Me of X: When Oliver first meets Bruce, he cannot help but compare him to the boorish Carter Bowen. Of course, Bruce quickly reveals himself much more complicated.

Dick Grayson

Richard "Dick" John Grayson | Nightwing

Tropes

• Amicable Exes: He's Dick Grayson.
• Badass Normal: As usual.
• Composite Character: He's visually based off his Titans (2018) version, but his personality comes directly from the comics.
• Cool Big Bro: To Jason, who runs to Bludhaven when whenever Bruce is acting crazier than usual.
• Happily Adopted: By Bruce.
• It's Personal: Much like Sara, he's furious at what the Time Masters did to Barry.
• Likes Older Women: Intends to ask out Barbara Gordon, who is about four years older him.
• Nice Guy: Well, he is Dick Grayson.
• Platonic Life-Partners: With Sara, after their one night stand.
• Ship Tease:
  • Has a flirtatious exchange with Sara when they first form the Legends, that culminates in a one night stand.
  • Had a crush on Barbara, who was four years older than him, when he was a teenager. Years later, he's inspired by Barry and Sara's romance and plans to ask her out.

Jason Todd

Jason Peter Todd | Robin

Tropes

• The Apprentice: To Bruce and to a lesser extent, Dick.
• Badass Normal
• Composite Character: He's based off his Titans (2018) incarnation, but has elements of his comics counterpart.
• Jerkass Has a Point: While he could be a bit nicer about it, he's absolutely correct that Bruce only has himself to blame for running Barbara out of Gotham.
• Legacy Character: He's the second Robin, after his older 'brother' Dick Grayson.

Coast City

Hal Jordan

Harold "Hal" Jordan | Green Lantern

Tropes

• Ace Pilot: Which Oliver uses as a cover to bring him to Amnesty Bay.
• Chivalrous Pervert: He's a bit arrogant at times but has his heart in the right place. He's still Hal Jordan though.
• The Dreaded: While not as feared as Aquaman and Wonder Woman, he's considered one of the more dangerous members of the Justice League because of his ring's versatility. It doesn't help that none of the villains know where the ring came from, due to the Green Lantern Corps still being a complete unknown on Earth.
• Humongous Mecha: His major construct during the Battle of Metropolis, which solidifies his status as The Dreaded.
• Imagination-Based Superpower: Much like in canon, he can form constructs with his ring.
• Shaping Your Attacks: He does wield a Green Lantern Ring.
• Space Police: As always.
• Stranger in a Familiar Land: He's been off-world for years by the time he meets up with Oliver and Clark. Upon coming back he needs to take a week to re-acclimate to the world and has to ask Oliver for help in faking a work history to explain why he was gone for so long.

Amnesty Bay

Arthur Curry

Arthur Curry | Aquaman

Tropes

• Arch-Enemy: Black Manta. The reason for their rivalry is ripped right from the New 52: Manta tried to steal some blood from Arthur, and the confrontation resulted in Arthur's father dying of a heart attack three days later. Arthur went searching for Manta in revenge, and ended up accidentally killing Manta's father instead. They've been at each other's throats ever since.
• Child of Two Worlds: As half-human, half-Atlantean, Arthur's dream is to reunite Atlantis with the surface world and bring peace between them both, and sees the Justice League as a step towards that dream.
• Dating Catwoman: Atlanteans and Xebelians hate each other, and Arthur's now-wife, Mera, was the princess of Xebel and was originally sent to kill him. She ended up falling in love with him and marrying him instead.
• Don't Call Me "Sir": The moment Oliver finds out he's a monarch, he starts addressing Arthur as "Your Majesty". While Arthur takes it in stride, he insists Oliver address him by his first name while they're in Amnesty Bay. He later insists the same to the rest of the Justice League when they aren't in formal occasions.
• The Dreaded: For Damien Darhk and Ra's al Ghul, his display of his Atlantean powers at the Battle of Metropolis terrifies them even more than Superman and Zod's Kryptonian army. Darhk and Ra's treat Aquaman and Wonder Woman as the most dangerous members of the Justice League.
• The Good King: Of Atlantis.
• Half-Human Hybrid: The son of the human lighthouse keeper Tom Curry and Queen Atlanna of Atlantis.
• Open Secret: It's strongly implied his existence is one to the people of Amnesty Bay, with most of the locals knowing exactly who he is but simply not speaking of it to any outsiders.
• Rank Scales with Asskicking: King of Atlantis and a certifiable badass.
• Secret Test of Character: Refuses to meet Oliver until he completes one of these, and arranges one with his friend David Anderson.
• Shrouded in Myth: Prior to Oliver's arrival to Amnesty Bay, Arthur was nothing more than an Urban Legend to everyone outside of the town. He planned to discard it by joining the Justice League and publicly unveiling Atlantis, only for Black Manta to force up his time table by stirring up the Trench to attack his hometown.
• Speaks Fluent Animal: Can telepathically communicate with all sea life. He used this ability to direct a shark to watch over Oliver during his Secret Test of Character.

New York City

Diana Prince

Diana Prince / Princess Diana of Themyscira | Wonder Woman

Tropes:

• Big Sister Mentor: To her sister Donna, both in combat and in surviving Man's World.
• Cool Big Sis: To Donna. When Diana returns to Themyscira, she's absolutely delighted to learn she now has a younger sister.
• Clark Kenting: Averted. She doesn't bother covering her face in both of her identities, not even with glasses, and her supernatural beauty means it's basically impossible for her to keep a secret identity. So she opts to go public, like Oliver, Laurel, and Arthur.
• Cynicism Catalyst: The death of her First Love, Steve Trevor, in World War I deeply jaded her, and it wasn't until Oliver and the Justice League that she was inspired to take up heroism again.
• Decomposite Character: With her younger sister, Donna Troy. As Diana has her New 52/DCEU origin as a demigoddess daughter of Zeus, Donna has Diana's classic origin story of being molded by clay and given life by the gods.
• The Dreaded: Nearly all the major villains in the series thus far have an Oh, Crap! reaction upon learning she's a demigoddess. It's enough that she along with Aquaman are feared by Damien Darhk and Ra's al Ghul as the most dangerous members of the Justice; even more so than Superman.
• Even the Girls Want Her: She's so beautiful that Laurel, who is by all accounts straight, is attracted to her.
• Home Sweet Home: She returns to Themyscira in Children, reuniting with her mother and Amazon sisters and meeting her younger sister Donna for the first time.
• Kill the God: She is the 'God-Killer', and killed her half-brother Ares towards the end of World War I. However, she believes that Ares might have been revived by the subsequent conflicts after his death, especially World War II, making this a zig-zagged trope.
• The Lancer: She is officially this to Oliver in the Justice League, due to her long experience as a warrior and Batman's decision to absolve himself from a leadership role. In the future, she succeeds him as the leader of the Justice League after his retirement and later death.
• Long-Lived: As an Amazon, she was already around for a long time even before she arrived to Man's World. Thanks to her status as a demigoddess, however, she hasn't aged a day and will presumably live forever as long as she isn't killed.
• The Lost Lenore: Steve Trevor. Even after almost a century she still mourns his death.
• Mayfly–December Romance: One of the things that has stopped Diana from moving on from Steve is the bitter reality that even if Steve had survived, their romance would've been this. Diana cannot find it in herself to commit to another relationship when her partner is inevitably going to die like Steve did.
• Semi-Divine: She's a demigoddess, with her father being Zeus.
• Tears of Joy: When she sees Themyscira for the first time in almost a century.
• Trademark Favorite Food: Ice cream, after her first taste of it all the way back in World War I.
• World's Most Beautiful Woman:
  • Diana is absolutely breathtaking, and her Semi-Divine nature only enhances her beauty. The first time Oliver and Laurel meet her, they're absolutely stunned silent, with Oliver not even able to get an intelligent word out. Her boss at the Louvre reveals that everyone reacts like that to her the first time they meet her, regardless of sexuality.
  • Her beauty is such that when the Legends see a photograph of her, they are all Distracted by the Sexy and note the photo seems to come alive.
  • Nyssa pretty much forgets about Sara entirely the first time she sees Diana. Watching Diana wreck Kryptonians in the Battle of Metropolis turns her on.
• You Can't Go Home Again: At least in part because since she slept on the boat ride from Themyscria to London, she isn't actually sure where her home is. She decides to subvert this by finding Themyscira so she can convince her fellow Amazons to rejoin Man's World, which she manages in Children.

Donna Troy

Donna Troy / Princess Donna of Themyscira | Wonder Girl

Tropes:

• Artificial Human: She is a clay figure brought to life by one of Zeus' bolts.
• Big Sister Worship: Donna had a high opinion of Diana from all the stories Hippolyta told her. When they finally meet for real, it doesn't take long for Donna to begin idolizing her.
• Decomposite Character: With her sister Diana. Comics Donna notoriously has one of the most convoluted origin stories in all of DC and comics in general. The author managed to sidestep this problem by giving Diana her New 52/DCEU origin story while giving Donna Diana's Post-Crisis origin story of being molded by clay and given life by the gods.
• Naïve Newcomer: Just like Diana when she first arrived in Man's World. Luckily for Donna, she has an easier time adjusting, because she's not arriving in the middle of a world war, has got a dedicated guide who went through the same thing she did, and has access to the Internet to learn about her new surroundings when Diana can't be there to teach her herself.
• Replacement Goldfish: Downplayed and ultimately subverted. Donna was created due to Hippolyta suffering Empty Nest syndrome after Diana left and failed to return. However, she loves Donna as her own person and regards her as Diana's younger sister, not her replacement.
• Skilled, but Naive: Much like her sister, Donna grew up all her life on Themyscira. That means that while she's trained as a top-notch warrior, she doesn't have any practical combat experience. Diana argues this as a reason to let Donna go to Man's World with her, which Hippolyta concedes to.
• The World Is Just Awesome: All of Diana's tales about Man's World enchant Donna and feed into her wanderlust, prompting her to ask Diana to take Donna with her to Man's World. She's later seen gasping in awe of her first look at New York City from the plane Diana and her are flying in.

The League of Assassins

Ra's al Ghul

Ra's al Ghul

Tropes

• Above Good and Evil: Every atrocity he commits is driven not by any personal desires or gratifications, but simply by duty. That's what makes him so terrifying.
• Abusive Parents: He has a knack to alienate his children. He disregards Talia and Nyssa for the misfortune of being born women, and is thoroughly disgusted by Dusan for his albinism.
• The Corrupter: His devotion to the League's tenets makes him this, because he willingly perpetuates a patriarchal and barbaric environment that tends to bring out the worst in people, as seen with Malcolm and Tommy. Even Sara, who is one of the few to leave the League with some morality intact, is a much more violent person because of his influence.
• Didn't See That Coming:
  • Even he is unnerved to learn about Atlantis' survival and prosperity.
  • The Battle of Metropolis puts him off so much that he basically decides to wash his hands of the Justice League outside of testing Oliver and Bruce to see who is the better potential heir.
• The Dreaded: Even after everything Oliver went through in the previous timeline, even though he killed Ra's in the previous timeline, Oliver is still utterly terrified of him.
• Evil Mentor:
  • One of the teachers of Sara Lance, and is now teaching Tommy Merlyn.
  • Was this to Oliver in a previous timeline. Judging by comments from Malcolm and Talia, he was also one to Bruce Wayne.
• Greater-Scope Villain: He, above all others, is the person Oliver fears the most and the one he goes to every extent not to piss off.
• He-Man Woman Hater: The reason why Oliver has to go to Nanda Parbat with Sara to expose Malcolm, even though Sara is one of the only women Ra's has any real respect for.
• Heir Club for Men: While he won't allow his daughters to be subjected to rape like the other women in the League, that doesn't mean he will allow them to inherit his mantle. One of the reasons Talia left is because she knew he would never let her succeed him.
• Know When to Fold 'Em: He decides to scrap any plan of contingencies against the Justice League in favor of just avoiding their attentions entirely.
• Master-Apprentice Chain:
  • Ra's al Ghul → Talia al Ghul → Yao Fei → Oliver Queen → Laurel Lance, Roy Harper, Thea Queen.
  • Ra's al Ghul → Talia al Ghul → Oliver Queen → Laurel Lance, Roy Harper, Thea Queen.
  • Ra's al Ghul → Sara Lance, Oliver Queen (original timeline) → Laurel Lance, Roy Harper, Thea Queen
  • Ra's al Ghul → Bruce Wayne → Dick Grayson, Jason Todd
• Not Distracted by the Sexy: Despite the League's patriarchy, there's no indication Ra's ever indulged in the "privilege" male members had over the women outside of popping out a kid or two. Sara herself notes that when they first met, his eyes held no sexual desire when he observed her, only determination over whether or not she'd make a decent warrior and assassin.
• Sins of the Father: Believes in this thoroughly. He tried to induct both Thea and Tommy into the League for their father's crimes, and plans on killing both if Tommy proves to be like Malcolm even after all the training the League puts him through.
• Turn Out Like His Father: One of the reasons why he charged himself with personally teaching Tommy is because he did not want a repeat of Malcolm.

Nyssa al Ghul

Nyssa al Ghul / Nyssa Raatko

Tropes

• Distracted by the Sexy: Nyssa more-or-less forgets about Sara entirely when she sees Diana's picture for the first time.
• Inadequate Inheritor:
  • To Ra's, because she's a woman.
  • To Oliver and the Justice League as well, because they view her as sheltered. Nyssa also disbanded the League in the previous timeline, something that can't happen again without moving up Crisis, which causes them to further favor Talia over her.
• In Love with Your Carnage: Watching Diana rip through invading Kryptonians during the Battle of Metropolis turns her on.
• Love at First Sight: Nyssa falls hard and fast for Diana and plots to rule the League with the Amazon at her side.
• Sheltered Aristocrat: Despite the nature of her status as Heir to the Demon, Nyssa has airs of this, which is why Oliver rejects her in favor of her sister when it comes to replacing her father as Ra's al Ghul.
• Unequal Pairing: With Sara. Nyssa's affection for Sara is why Sara never had to suffer the 'attentions' of men during her first stint with the League. Even though Sara did care for Nyssa, she was well aware of what would happen if Nyssa ever got bored of her, which is probably why Sara was never able to love Nyssa quite as much as Nyssa loved her.

Talia al Ghul

Talia al Ghul

Tropes

• Inadequate Inheritor:
  • Ra's refuses to entertain the eventuality of her succeeding him, merely for being female.
  • Interestingly, Oliver and the Justice League think she inverts this trope as she had had to adapt to the changing world after leaving the League, and as such would be a far better Ra's than her younger sister Nyssa.
• Spotting the Thread: She notes that Green Arrow's behavior since he returned to Starling was far too different from the man she trained, leading her to suspect something happened to Oliver in the meantime.
• Villainesses Want Heroes: As usual, she carries a torch for Batman, whom she calls her Beloved.
• The Woman Behind the Man: She trained Oliver with the specific goal of seeing him ascend to the role of Ra's al Ghul, which would have given her some influence as the one having trained the new Demon's Head. That's the real reason she opposed Oliver in the previous timeline, though she was genuinely mourning her father's death.

Dusan al Ghul

Dusan al Ghul

Tropes

• Albinos Are Freaks: His father was disgusted by his appearance, refusing to name him his heir as a consequence, even though Dusan was the son he always wanted.
• Inadequate Inheritor: Ra's rejected Dusan as a possible successor due to his albinism.
• Pay Evil unto Evil: As Slabside is filled with irredeemable criminals, Dusan murdering anyone he meets there doesn't bother Oliver too much.
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: A fanatical assassin devoted to replacing evil with death, who's mentioned to have "reddish" eyes. Actually justified since he's an albino.
• Slasher Smile: Apparently has a wolfish smile. It tends to make people around him nervous.
• Spared by the Adaptation: Oliver realizes Dusan actually died imprisoned in Slabside in the first timeline. Here, he gets the opportunity to escape.
• Undying Loyalty: Towards the League and its precepts. He infiltrated Slabside as an opportunity to replace evil with death.
• "Well Done, Son" Guy: Dusan at his core only wants his father to be proud of him, in spite of his "deficiency" (read, his albinism). Oliver muses that Dusan is probably Ra's al Ghul's most devoted and loyal child for this.

Others

The Huntsman

Hadrian Wolcott | The Huntsman

Tropes

• Attention Whore/Narcissist: Pleads not guilty at his trial, solely to publicly make threats and indulge in Evil Gloating by boasting of his deeds. This is all done simply because he desires to be infamous.
• Crazy-Prepared: Has a "processing facility" in every major city, allowing him to operate virtually anywhere.
• Creepy Souvenir: He keeps the id and a lock of hair of his victims in a journal. Each processing facility has its own journal of that particular city's victims.
• Empty Eyes: Laurel notes that there was nothing in his eyes. "No rage, no pleasure, just pure darkness."
• Evil Brit: A British cannibalistic murderer.
• Evil Has a Bad Sense of Humor:
  • Has a tendency to make puns that tie in with his cannibalistic tendencies.
  • Also, sending Felicity's head to Queen Consolidated is one thing. Putting an apple in her mouth when he does so is clearly just a sick joke.
• Finger in the Mail:
  • Sends Felicity's severed head to Queen Consolidated with a note warning Walter to stop his investigations.
  • In his trial, it's mentioned that this is part of his MO (and always includes the apple in the mouth), for those he is hired to kill at least.
• Genuine Human Hide: His outfit isn't made out of leather...
• I'm a Humanitarian: A cannibal.
  • Picky People Eater: Prefers his targets to be athletic and have developed muscles, as it makes them taste better. He actually comments on this right before he murders Felicity. His favorite part of a woman is the drumstick.
• Killed Off for Real: During the Slabside arc.
• Literal Metaphor/Not Hyperbole: Finds killing Felicity distasteful, threatens that the "delicious" Thea will be "next on the menu", and "gets a piece" of Laurel. He also tends to stare "hungrily" at physically fit women.
• Man Bites Man: Perhaps unsurprisingly given his...appetites, he takes a bite out of Laurel's hand in their fight and then chews and swallows it in front of her. That turned out to be a mistake.
• Original Character: He was created entirely by the author.
• Politically Incorrect Villain: Solely targets women, and only those who "rock the boat" or "push beyond their natural place".
• Psycho for Hire: While he's mostly a serial killer, he also acts as an assassin. Given that he's a cannibalistic serial killer, he certainly fits the "psycho" part.
• Reminiscing About Your Victims: While fighting Laurel, he comments that Felicity was "nothing but a sobbing mess" before he cut her throat.
• Serial Killer: With preference for curvy athletic blondes. During his trial, he claims to have over two hundred victims.
• Starter Villain: For Laurel. He's the first major villain Laurel takes down on her own, before she even becomes the Black Canary.
• Stupid Evil: His boasting of his deeds in open court not only ensures that the jury convicts him, but convinces the judge to sentence him to death. Of course, he's convinced that he can break out of prison anyway, so maybe not so stupid.
• You Taste Delicious: The last thing you want to hear from a cannibal...

Anatoli Knyazev

Anatoli Knyavez

Tropes:

• Arc Villain: For the Mob War arc in Rise and the Slabside arc in Age.
• Big Bad Duumvirate: During the Slabside arc, he allies himself with a number of Oliver and Laurel's old enemies to get revenge on them, among them Tempest, the Huntsman, Brick, Adam Hunt, Eric Gitter, and so on and so forth.
• Bullying a Dragon: He still goes after Oliver and Laurel even after finding out about the Justice League.
• Killed Off for Real: By Oliver, at the end of the Slabside arc.
• The Mafiya: As Pakhan of the Bratva.
• Might as Well Not Be in Prison at All: He still somehow manages to run the Bratva from inside Slabside. Even more than that, he's taken over Slabside and uses that to trap Oliver, Laurel, and Lois.
• Moral Myopia: He kills one of his underlings for (seemingly) killing Sara, because Sara was an old friend who helped him escape Lian Yu. He completely ignores the fact that only reason Sara got shot to begin with is because Anatoli tried to kidnap her innocent sister as leverage against Oliver, another old friend who helped him escape Lian Yu.
• Sanity Slippage: Slabside has done no favors for Anatoli's sanity.