Arrow (TV Series) Episode: Starling City

"Starling City"
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Arrow  Season 8: Episode 1
October 15, 2019
Directors	James Bamford
Writers	Beth Schwartz Marc Guggenheim
Previous Episode	"You Have Saved This City" (May 13, 2019)
Next Episode	"Welcome to Hong Kong" (October 22, 2019)

Thea is dead. And yes, Tommy's alive. But, he's trying another undertaking with Rene and Dinah helping, who, if you haven't noticed, are very bad people here. Oliver, this world isn't better. It's much, much worse. You know why? Because you weren't in it.

—John Diggle

Starling City is an episode of season 8 of Arrow. It premiered on October 15, 2019.

Appearing in "Starling City"

Featured Characters:

• Green Arrow (Oliver Queen) (Impersonates Oliver Queen (Earth-2))

Supporting Characters:

• Alberto Vasquez (Star City 2040) (First appearance)
• Malcolm Merlyn (Earth-2) (Only appearance; dies)
• Moira Queen (Earth-2) (Only appearance; dies)
• The Monitor (Mar Novu)
• Spartan (John Diggle)
• Team Arrow (Earth-2)
  • Black Canary (Laurel Lance)
  • The Hood (Adrian Chase) (Only appearance; dies)
• Team Arrow (Star City 2040)
  • Connor Hawke
  • Mia Smoak
  • William Harris
  • Zoe Ramirez

Antagonists:

• Dark Archer/Tommy Merlyn (Earth-2) (Only appearance; dies)
  • Dinah Drake (Earth-2) (Only appearance; dies)
  • Rene Ramirez (Earth-2) (Only appearance; dies)
• Deathstroke/J.J. Diggle (Star City 2040) (First appearance)
  • Deathstroke Gang

Other Characters:

• Curtis Holt (Earth-2) (Single appearance) (In a photograph only) (Cameo)
• Felicity Smoak (In a photograph only) (Cameo)
• Mia Queen (In a photograph only) (Cameo)
• Nick Anastas (Earth-2) (Single appearance) (In a photograph only) (Cameo)
• Starling Metro Police Department (Earth-2) (Single appearance)
• Thea Queen (Earth-2) (Deceased) (Single appearance) (In a photograph only) (On a TV or computer screen) (Cameo)
• Batman/Bruce Wayne (Earth-2) (Mentioned only)
• Cisco Ramon (Mentioned only)
• Curtis Holt (Mentioned only)
• Felicity Smoak (Earth-2) (Mentioned only)
• Felicity Smoak (Star City 2040) (Mentioned only)
• GalaxyOne (Star City 2040) (Mentioned only)
• Knightwatch (Star City 2040) (Mentioned only)
• Paragons (Mentioned only)
• Oliver Queen (Earth-2) (Deceased) (Mentioned only)
• Oliver Queen (Star City 2040) (Mentioned only)
• Raisa (Earth-2) (Mentioned only)
• Robert Queen (Earth-2) (Mentioned only)
• Tommy Merlin (Mentioned only)
• Walter Steele (Earth-2) (Mentioned only)
• William Clayton (Mentioned only)

Locations

• Multiverse (Mentioned only)
  • Earth-2 (Destroyed)
    • Lian Yu (Cameo)
    • United States of America
      • Starling City
        • Bunker (Single appearance)
        • Queen-Merlyn Enterprises (Single appearance)
        • Queen Mansions
        • Starling Metro Police Department
        • Verdant
        • The Glades (Mentioned only)
        • Smoak Tech (Mentioned only)
  • Star City 2040
    • United States of America
      • The Glades
      • Star City
        • Bunker
      • Pennytown (Mentioned only)
  • Earth-1 (Mentioned only)
    • Star City (Mentioned only)
  • Heaven (Mentioned only)

Items:

• Dimensional Extrapolator
• Trick Arrows
• Vertigo (drug) (Mentioned only)

Vehicles:

• Queen's Gambit (Earth-2) (Mentioned only)

Concepts:

• Antimatter (First full appearance)
• The Crisis (Mentioned only)
• The Undertaking (Mentioned only)

Notes

• The destruction of Earth-2 was heralded in The Flash episode, A Flash of the Lightning, which aired before this episode, as it was mentioned that antimatter was coming to Earth-2 by Jay Garrick's map of the Multiverse.
• In Laurel's Earth-2 bunker, there can be seen suits for Huntress, Steel, Vixen and Ragman.

Trivia

• No trivia.

See Also

• 14 Images from Arrow (TV Series) Episode: Starling City
• Episodes of Arrow (TV Series)
• Images from Arrow (TV Series)
• Gallery for the Arrow (TV Series) series

Recommended Media

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Links and References

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