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The 8 best (and 7 worst) Arrowverse couples

By Michael Patterson

Arrow -- "Brotherhood" -- Image AR407A_0036b.jpg -- Pictured (L-R): Stephen Amell as Oliver Queen and Emily Bett Rickards as Felicity Smoak -- Photo: Dean Buscher/The CW -- © 2015 The CW Network, LLC. All Rights Reserved.
Arrow -- "Brotherhood" -- Image AR407A_0036b.jpg -- Pictured (L-R): Stephen Amell as Oliver Queen and Emily Bett Rickards as Felicity Smoak -- Photo: Dean Buscher/The CW -- © 2015 The CW Network, LLC. All Rights Reserved. /
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Arrow, Dinah Drake, Arrowverse
Arrow — “Lost Canary” — Image Number: AR718B_0072r.jpg — Pictured: Juliana Harkavy as Dinah Drake/Black Canary — Photo: Dean Buscher/The CW — © 2019 The CW Network, LLC. All Rights Reserved. /

Dinah Drake and Vincent Sobel

Show: Arrow

Dinah Drake was one of the more exciting introductions in Arrow‘s back half, but she already had an uphill battle to prove herself as the Black Canary when the show disrespectfully killed the actual Black Canary off and then replaced her. Pitting her against the original Team Arrow and then saddling her with a romance nobody cared about did not help her overcome those odds.

Vigilante was another exciting addition in Arrow season 5, with his agenda for killing other vigilantes making him a real wild card (especially in a season all about Prometheus). Temporarily “killing him off” and then bringing him back in season 6 only to reveal he was Dinah’s thought-to-be-dead lover was… a choice.

Was it the fact that Vincent Sobel was now played by a different actor? The fact that this was clearly a retcon? Or was it that Vigilante had dropped his moral code to work with other villains? Honestly, it was all of the above, and the bland storyline that brought Dinah and Vince back together. The reveal fell flat because of the recast and the romance just didn’t carry any kind of emotional weight to make people root for it.

This was designed purely to move the plot forward and the execution completely let it down.

Verdict: WORST

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