Arrow Season 4 Predictions

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This finale acted like a series finale but season 4 is confirmed yay. Olivers "happy" now so what causes him to come back? Where does he go in the flashbacks? Coast city? Russia for the bratva? Does he become green arrow?

 

[Justin]

Hopefully a smaller team of Digg, Laurel and Thea working out of Thea's penthouse. Get a lead on Diggle's brothers killer which eventually leads to Darhk and Oliver having to come back.

As for Flashbacks, depends whether they want to do Hal in the past. He could go to Coast City or that could have just been a tease. Either way they do need to start working him around to Russia because he's meant to be back on Lian Yu in 2 years.

 

[Boy Scout]

- The "new person" Oliver has become will eventually be called Green Arrow.

- Oliver and Felicity will experience relationship drama that will have most of us rolling our eyes.

- Oliver and Diggle's fractured relationship will be healed after three episodes.

- H.I.V.E. will be revealed to have some connection to Oliver's past, either through his "extended family" (Sandra and his son) or Moira Queen.

- Team Arrow will flourish without Oliver's assistance and will find his "temporary" reinclusion to be insulting to their progress.

- Malcolm Merlyn and/or Nyssa will die.

- The flashbacks will explore Oliver's connection to the Russian mob and further explore his descent from reckless playboy to ruthless torturer/killer.

- Diggle and his brother will be front and center. We might even see the return of Carly.

That's all I've got for now.

 

[Matt]

I think H.I.V.E. is definitely going to come into play (and probably be tied to the Russian mob storyline that will constitute the flashbacks). That said, I think that the obvious choice for big bad is Damien Dahrk but I think he may actually be a misdirect. It almost feels too obvious in the sense that it is being set up in the exact same way that Ra's was. I think we may see Dahrk start off as the season baddie but at some point I think, as in the comics, Vandal Savage is going to kill him, be revealed as the true head of H.I.V.E. and serve as the big bad.

 

[Rocketman]

- I'm guessing Deathstroke/Manu Bennett is done for good, so no more of him.

- Brandon Routh has his own show now, so he's going to be reduced to crossovers.

- Roy will probably only get special appearances.

I guess the only villains left who are still alive are:

- Merlyn
- Count Vertigo
- Clock King
- Cupid

Is there anyone else? Hahaha

 

[Justin]

I guess the only villains left who are still alive are:

- Merlyn
- Count Vertigo
- Clock King
- Cupid

Is there anyone else? Hahaha

Slade, Boomerang and Waller are alive. Deadshot is potentially alive but I doubt we'll see any of them due to SS movie. I'm convinced this season was meant to feature Waller more heavily.

Huntress is alive and they did say they have interest in her returning.

Vinnie Jones' Brick is alive, in jail. Then you have all the villains from the Flash. Some of the Rogues like Trickster and Heatwave could easily have an Arrow episode as they aren't metas.

 

[SpideyVille]

I think Oliver is going to stick by his belief that he can't be Oliver Queen and the Arrow. So he may be out of costume for a good part of the season, only to see that he can't live without it. He can't pull a Roy and just give up the life. Felicity, seeing this, will push him to suit back up and help him with the persona, but they will start to clash again, leading Oliver to realize that being with her is far more dangerous for her, and her making peace with the fact that this is just who he is.

Meanwhile, Diggle suits up and takes care of things on his own without a team. But when things get too rough for Laurel and Thea, he comes to their aid and they team up.

 

[famicommander]

 

[FeedOnATreeFrog]

I don't know, but this is what I'd do:

Spoiler

First, kill off Diggle and Felicity because they're really lame. (I was hoping that would happen at the end of season 3, but whatever) The show needs a shot in the arm, and I think they need to shed the dead weight.

So anyways, Diggle and Felicity are killed, (ideally we pick up several years afterward) and Oliver has become addicted to crime-fighting, trying to solve their murders, make up for their deaths, whatever, and he's become a bit unhinged, hair and beard grown out and all. He doesn't kill anyone, but he seems to get off on catching bad guys and shooting them with as many arrows as he can. He's become sarcastic and bitter, bringing back a bit of that sharp tongue he had as a dumb kid which he's been suppressing since the island. He's lost all his money and lives off nothing. He's too ashamed for whatever reason to come to anyone for help. He wears a new costume and goes by a new name for obvious reasons, but he quickly discovers that most people still reckon the Green Arrow is Oliver Queen. Things are somewhat repaired with Lance, who takes pity on Oliver. He still keeps away from the cops though.

While living like this, he starts to see more of the social inequality in his city, etc. He gets flack from random people in the street often, with some people blaming him for the sins of the Queen family, some for the sins of the Arrow, etc. Queen Consolidated is linked with HIVE and specifically Damien Darhk who turns out to be engineering the disparity in Starling for whatever reason, which is what Robert Queen wants Oliver to fix, and it's what Malcolm was all about fixing in season 1 in his own way. It's revealed that Merlyn killed Felicity and Diggle in order to get Oliver back to work in Starling in order to bring down Darhk, since Oliver is essential for some Queen bloodline reason. Malcolm is the final showdown and the ultimate test of Oliver's will and restraint.

At some point he's visited by the Green Lantern, Hal Jordan (who he first met after leaving Hong Kong). Oliver discovers that Roy has become a junkie. He loses his arm later and gets a badass robotic replacement.

Laurel is still crime-fighting, and she eventually finds Ollie on the streets. He's very evasive, but after finally coming face to face when he comes to her aid, she cleverly convinces him that the only way she's going to be safe is if he trains her (though she mainly just wants her friend to get back on the right track), so through training/crime-fighting (and strictly only this at first) they end up reconnecting and eventually falling in love again. Before Detective Lance is killed in the finale, he gives Oliver his blessing to marry Laurel.

The season is about Oliver forgiving himself for his friends' deaths, moving on, becoming a more positive person, learning to love again, etc. To get cheesy for a sec, while in the flashbacks he has to become a darker person to escape back to Starling, in the present, he's back on his own desert island, and he needs to find the light again to escape it. By the end we have someone resembling the more life-arming social crusader from the comics.

 

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[RivenSky]

That probably will happen, though, sadly.

 

[Loki882]

Actually, Oliver NOT being perpetually miserable/wallowing in darkness sounds good to me. So yeah, show him being happy for a few episodes a least, before the rug gets inevitably pulled out from under him.

Oh and no more killing off the people close to him. I'm tired of that.

 

[Matt]

Why does he have to have the rug pulled out from under him at all? TreeFrog's idea reads like bad fan fiction that is just desperate to get the show to align with the comics. Let Ollie be happy. Let's explore Ollicity's dynamic as a couple as Oliver fights crime. Oliver finding balance in his life could make for an interesting arc. Accepting that he is both Oliver Queen and the Arrow, and that the two are capable of co-existence, could make for an interesting arc. It is the natural evolution...this season was about Oliver rejecting his identity. Next season should be about him embracing it.

 

[SpideyVille]

I will support the Olicity stuff going on for a while if it's a means to getting Oliver to lighten up. Even though that's mostly the case with everyone on the show, but I feel like Felicity could make him more of a human than a "monster" or "killer" and he should learn how to have fun some more. If that's the direction they take Olicity in, then I don't mind.

 

[metaphysician]

Agreed. Who says Ollie needs to turn back to being bitter and grim to be a hero? Let him be happy, and *remain* happy. . . and choose to don a mask not because he is broken, but because its the right thing to do. "My name is Oliver Queen. After spending eight years in hell, I discovered one simple truth: no man is so broken as to be unable to achieve peace and find happiness. Once, I took up the bow as an outlet for my hatred and anger. Now, having achieved peace with myself, I look upon the people around me and see other people whose happiness is endangered. To protect them, I must not become someone else. I must fight for them as myself."

 

[yonny616]

You know, that'll probably happen since Tumblr buys Guggenheim's books. He's essentially being bribed by the Olicity ship.

 

[Gee]

Ollie will meet Hal in S04... That's how he will learn how to fly a plane!

 

[b_boy]

Have Thea and Laurel kicking ass together almost like sisters (something Thea didn't fully have it with Oliver because he left and Laurel didn't because Sara was dead) with Diggle and Lyla helping them on the tech/strategy side with Nyssa also helping sometimes.

Leave Malcon and the League for the S5.

Have Oliver and Felicity happy, no drama, no break ups, no deaths. Have them happy in some city and on that city ppl are being murdered and then reveal it's Deathstroke who's behind this deaths working as a mercenary. He escaped from the Island and is working as an assassin. Have Oliver ask the team for help in this new city, where he can suit up as Green Arrow because he's not in Starling. This time he shares his plans with everybody and start making up his friendship with Diggle. After 5 episodes to take down Deathstroke, have them discover he was working for HIVE and go from there.

 

[DarKush]

Slade, Boomerang and Waller are alive. Deadshot is potentially alive but I doubt we'll see any of them due to SS movie. I'm convinced this season was meant to feature Waller more heavily.

Huntress is alive and they did say they have interest in her returning.

Vinnie Jones' Brick is alive, in jail. Then you have all the villains from the Flash. Some of the Rogues like Trickster and Heatwave could easily have an Arrow episode as they aren't metas.

Komodo and China White are also still alive.

 

[vantheman77]

I rather that the group stays fractured for awhile. Have Dinah Laurel, Katana, Thea, and Diggle defend Starling City while Oliver and Felicity go off and do their own thing, perhaps run into Roy.

 

[Jedi Arrow]

Actually, Oliver NOT being perpetually miserable/wallowing in darkness sounds good to me. So yeah, show him being happy for a few episodes a least, before the rug gets inevitably pulled out from under him.

Oh and no more killing off the people close to him. I'm tired of that.

Agreed; I wasn't too terribly excited when I heard how S3 ended but I'm glad Oliver gets a chance to be happy for a while. S3 was an almost constant state of "too grim" for him; between this and his somewhat lighter mood in the Legends of Tomorrow trailer, I'm hopeful that Oliver is coming out of his valley of despair.

 

[haephestus]

I'd like to see Oliver and Felicity come to the realisation that even when together, they both feel incomplete because they're no longer doing good work by trying to save Starling City. So, they brainstorm ideas to find a way to help the city. Oliver decides to honour his mother's legacy by running for mayor of Starling City.

Thea supports Oliver's campaign financially. Laurel provides legal and political advice, possibly even quitting her job as DA (which realistically she couldn't be performing well when spending her nights fighting crime) and becomes Oliver's campaign manager. Felicity provides support for both Oliver's campaing and Team Diggle/Black Canary/Speedy. One of Oliver's primary campaign platforms is providing some kind of legal immunity for vigilantes in Starling City (within reason).

Felicity's ownership of Palmer Technologies is ignored/forgotten/blown up. But, Oliver still aspires to eventually regain control of Queen Consolidated through honest means. He hopes that by serving as mayor, he'll not only be able to help the city, but that he'll also be able to win the trust and respect of the board of directors/trustees/whatever of Queen Consolidated so that they might give him some kind of role within the company.

Oliver and everyone else should be concerned about Thea's devotion to fighting crime, especially her propensity to kill when it isn't necessary. Maybe Thea can develop a drug addiction, but the storyline would need to be developed carefully and with respect, NOT like Laurel's addiction storyline. These issues can be attributed to Lazarus Pit side effects and the fact that her life is seriously messed up and complicated.

Nyssa kills Malcolm in a duel and assumes leadership of the LOA. The LOA are quiet for now, but Nyssa remains a "ally" of sorts for Team Arrow.

Diggle and Lyla serve as a model for a healthy relationship for Oliver and Felicity. Felicity's storylines no longer solely revolve around her love for Oliver and she once again embraces all the awesome character traits and quirks that made her so adorkable in seasons 1 and 2. BUT, Oliver and Felicity naturally grow apart as they both realise that they had unrealistic expectations of each other and that the romance doesn't live up to the hype that they each created in their heads. They remain very good friends.

As mayor, Oliver meets many lovely young ladies and starts to develop a reputation as a playboy. This is accepted by everyone. No-one questions Oliver finding some measure of happiness. Oliver assumes the identity of the Green Arrow. Felicity uses some magic technology to ensure Green Arrow and Mayor Queen appear at the same time in public to remove any grounds for suspicion that Oliver is the Green Arrow. The Green Arrow publicly declares that he plans to adopt the legacy left behind by the deceased Arrow, Roy Harper.

I'm not sure what else. I don't know enough about Damien Darkh and HIVE to figure out how they can be an interesting season long threat. I know that I don't want HIVE to attack Starling City. Maybe they can go after ARGUS or the Nyssa led LOA which is what brings HIVE into conflict with Team Arrow? Maybe HIVE can have a vendetta against ALL vigilantes/superheroes and cross-over with The Flash and Legends?

And NO FLASHBACKS! Or maybe only four episodes with flashbacks or a single "flashback" episode and only if absolutely necessary to tell the "present day" story.

 

[Justin]

I'd like Emily B.R to have a fully nude sex scene. I mean, you're going to shove this shipping crap down my throat the least you can do is show me her ****.

 

[Kar]

I'd like for them to reveal in the beginning of season 4 Oliver actually went off with Felicity specifically to use her skills to help him hunt down Damon Dark and the HIVE. He didn't want to include Diggle in the mission because of his connection to them and he can't have Digg jeopardizing the mission.

They have to return to Starling after the threat of the HIVE heads there. Black Canary and Speedy are taking care of the city with help from Diggle of course, maybe as a hero like the Guardian? (I really don't want him to put on a costume...at all but if they must.)

I want Onomatopoeia to show up in a few episodes. Have Ollie return with a brand new costume and maybe even have him sporting the beard this season to probably show the media its a different hero, and he should definitely just call himself Green Arrow in the first episode. Its really stupid if they keep throwing around all these names like Red Arrow but he just keeps avoiding Green Arrow.

The flashbacks gotta step it up this season. I just wanna see Ollie becoming a colder person (which might happen when he becomes the general in the Russian mafia.) Introduce Hal Jordan already and show how he learned how to fly.

I hope the Olicity thing is gone somehow. I never had an issue with it at all until the really corny S3 ending. So yeah, that has to go and he and Laurel need to get back on it.

And I bet somewhere down the line Ollie has to turn to Malcolm and the League for help.

 

[Human Torch]

Eh, I can't imagine what will happen after this season. A couple educated guesses:

Oille will be forced to return to Starling when another "Big Bad" threatens--probably at the behest of Felicity.

More controversy over Ollie being fit to "lead" Team Arrow" again.

A stable relationship with Felicity will be subject to Ollie's baby mama drama. Many tears will be shed by Felicity-again.

Digg will get a costume and finally solve the Andy Diggle murder.(They waited so long, presumably without Deadshot's help now.)

The flashbacks will have to do with Ollie's ties to the Russian mob and the return of Anatole.

Malcolm Al Ghul will probably be a recurring subplot.I'm predicting by the end,he will have used the LOA to fight whatever the threat is and help Ollie.He'll probably die, causing Nyssa to become the new Ra's. (Nyssa will likely be plotting his death all season,but I doubt she'll be the one to kill him. Presumably, she'll find out Sara's alive at some point,ending her feud with Malcolm.)