YMMV / DC Showcase: Green Arrow

• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • Merlyn shoots an arrow in Green Arrow's knee.
    • Even better, "taking an arrow to the knee" is an old Nordic euphemism for getting married.
  • Merlyn's voice actor is named Malcolm.
  • And now, Neal McDonough is going to be the Big Bad in Arrow Season 4.
  • Ariel Winter would later go on to voice Princess Sofia the First. There's also an episode where she admires another Robin Hood-esque character.
• Magnificent Bastard: Merlyn is Oliver's Arch-Enemy who has bested him in all of their previous encounters. Hired by Count Vertigo to assassinate Queen Perdita, Merlyn ambushes Green Arrow outside of the airport, quickly putting him on the back foot by shooting him in the leg. Countering every strategy Oliver tries to use, Merlyn even manages to blow up a tanker to cut off his escape. Ambushing Oliver at the baggage claim and almost immediately shooting him, Merlyn nevertheless agrees to an honorable Archer's Duel, polite to the end despite the rivalry.
• Moral Event Horizon: Count Vertigo has his brother, the king, killed, and tried to do the same to his niece, princess-now-queen Perdita, a ten-year old girl, with his own hands.

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