History Recap / ArrowS4E22LostInTheFlood

* KickTheSonOfABitch: Or rather, kick the ManipulativeBitch. Most viewers were probably cheering for Lonnie when he killed Ruvé.

* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Darhk and Hive with the people in the Ark. Darhk even states that people still worship the last guy who caused a global genocide.

* KindaBusyHere:
-->'''Felicity:''' Curtis, I don't even have the time to tell you that I don't have the time!
-->'''Curtis:''' You just did.

* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Ruvé's last words are that Oliver look after her daughter. Darhk meanwhile is distraught at her death, not even caring that the ark is destroyed, and decides to burn the whole world when he's told that no-one knows where his daughter is.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Malcolm is not impressed when Ruvé incites her untrained civilians to attack the vigilantes in their midst.

* PlotHole: Green Arrow, Speedy, and Spartan are all above military trained combat fighters that have experence working as a team. How in the world can a late teen, with no indications that he has had any training, take on all three of them at once?

* NotSoDifferent: Donna claims that Felicity and her father are more alike than they think when she finds out her daughter has been in league with the Green Arrow for years and didn't tell her about it. Ironically, she gets subjected to this trope herself when it's revealed that she lied about the reason she and Noah broke up. Then Curtis points out to Felicity that the Donna/Noah relationship isn't that different from the Olicity one.

* VillainousBreakdown: Darhk has a full-blown one when he finds out that his wife is dead and his EvilPlan is in tatters, while his daughter is missing and possibly dead as well, and decides to destroy the whole world anyway out of pure grief and rage, not caring if anyone survives.

* INeedAFreakingDrink: Felicity rushes home when she gets a text from Curtis about an emergency. She finds him downing a beer because Donna has discovered her ex is back and they're having a long-delayed family squabble. On seeing this Felicity grabs the bottle off Curtis and takes a deep chug too.

* DemotedToDragon: Damien's and Ruvé's treatment of Malcolm confirms this once again, with the once-power Ra's being ordered about and threatened like a two-bit heavy.

* PlotHole: Green Arrow, Speedy, and Spartan are all above military trained combat fighters that have experence working as a team. How in the world can a late teen, with no indications that he has had any training, take on all three of them at once? Doubles as BadassDecay.

** Then while everything is collapsing around them Oliver, Thea, and John Diggle engage in a dramatic fight with Anarky and can't beat him, which is weird because Thea took him on one on one and kicked his ass, but then let him get away
* NotSoDifferent: Donna first claims that Felicity and her father are more alike than they think when she finds out her daughter is in league with the Green Arrow. Ironically, she gets subjugated to this trope herself when it's revealed that she lied about the reason she and Noah broke up. Then Curtis points out to Felicity that the Donna/Noah relationship isn't that different from the Olicity one.

* DoNotAdjustYourSet: It's a lot easier when [[CannedOrdersOverLoudspeaker everyone is forced to watch the same program]]. Anarky simply coopts the Ruvé's broadcasting setup.

-->'''Felicity:''' Curtis, I don't even have the time to tell you that I don't have the time.

* NotNowKiddo:
-->'''Felicity:''' Curtis, I don't even have the time to tell you that I don't have the time.
-->'''Curtis:''' You just did.