How The Flash Armageddon Event Can Finally Do Right By Mia Queen - Screen Rant

The Flash season 8's "Armageddon" crossover event is a second chance for the Arrowverse to do right by Mia Queen (Katherine McNamara). In lieu of a full-fledged Arrowverse crossover, the first five episodes of The Flash season 8 will welcome several guest star heroes, including Mia, Batwoman (Javicia Leslie), and Black Lightning (Cress Williams), as well as returning villains Eobard Thawne/Reverse-Flash (Tom Cavanagh) and Damien Darhk (Neal McDonough). "Armageddon" will be Mia Queen's first appearance since Arrow ended in 2020.

Mia Queen was formerly Mia Smoak, the daughter of Felicity Smoak (Emily Bett Rickards), and she is the Green Arrow of Star City in 2040 who inherited the superhero mantle of her late father, Oliver Queen (Stephen Amell). In a future timeline that was erased by Crisis On Infinite Earths, Mia was a cage fighter known as Blackstar who became a vigilante archer and joined up with a network of heroes called the Canaries. During the Crisis, Mia time-traveled back to 2019, and she got to fight alongside her father Oliver, but Mia was among the countless billions that died when the original Multiverse was destroyed. Mia was resurrected in the new Multiverse and she was able to travel back to 2020 in order to attend Oliver's funeral. Otherwise, Mia Queen presumably fights crime in Star City 2040 to honor her father's legacy.

Mia Queen was originally earmarked for her own spinoff, Green Arrow and the Canaries, along with Black Canary (Juliana Harkavy) and Black Siren (Katie Cassidy). The penultimate episode of Arrow served as the backdoor pilot for Green Arrow and the Canaries but The CW didn't pick up the series, leaving Mia in limbo. Mia Queen's long-awaited return to the Arrowverse in The Flash is very good news for the character and for her fans because the female Green Arrow epitomized wasted potential. Arrow season 7's flashforwards were committed to establishing Mia's character and her dangerous 2040 future in Star City, and she was a pivotal player in Crisis On Infinite Earths and in Arrow season 8 as well. Mia in The Flash season 8 means she will save the world alongside the Arrowverse's flagship heroes again, and this will hopefully be the harbinger of bigger plans for Mia Queen.

Green Arrow and the Canaries being passed on was a heartbreaking hard stop for Mia Queen when there was much more story about her waiting to be told. After all, the dark future fans saw in Arrow season 7 was erased so the rebooted Star City of the future and Mia's role protecting it as Green Arrow is an unwritten book. Mia is also one of the Arrowverse's most interesting heroes since she's only 21 and living up to the heroic legacies of both Oliver Queen and Felicity Smoak. Except for Stargirl's teenage Justice Society of America, Mia Queen is the youngest superhero in the Arrowverse, and there's a great deal about the new Green Arrow that has yet to be explored.

In addition, the Arrowverse scored a coup by casting Katherine McNamara as Mia. The actress was already popular from starring in the young adult-focused supernatural adventure series, Shadowhunters, and McNamara ideally merged Stephen Amell's determination and athleticism as Oliver Queen with Emily Bett Rickards' brains and appealing vulnerability as Felicity Smoak. Despite the loss of the female-led Green Arrow and the Canaries, Katherine McNamara's talents as Mia Queen would be a boon to any of the Arrowverse series, including The Flash, Batwoman, DC's Legends of Tomorrow, and even Superman & Lois.

It's not clear what role Mia Queen will play in The Flash's "Armageddon" event but simply recruiting her will require time travel by Barry Allen (Grant Gustin), so it will be fun for fans to see Star City in 2021 and get an update on how Mia has fared defending her hometown as Green Arrow. Hopefully, Katherine McNamara's guest spot on The Flash season 8 isn't merely a one-off and it will open the door for Mia Queen to make a full-fledged return to the Arrowverse as Green Arrow. At the very least, The Flash's "Armageddon" crossover will hopefully give Mia Queen the spotlight to shine once again because the female Green Arrow is too great a character to remain in the Arrowerse's limbo.

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