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The 7 best (and 6 worst) Arrowverse villains

The Arrowverse has presented us with plenty of villains over the years, but which of its big bads stole the show and which ones fell a little short?

By Michael Patterson

Arrow -- "Deathstroke Returns" -- Image AR605b_0253b.jpg -- Pictured: Manu Bennett as Slade Wilson/Deathstroke -- Photo: Cate Cameron/The CW -- © 2017 The CW Network, LLC. All Rights Reserved.
Arrow -- "Deathstroke Returns" -- Image AR605b_0253b.jpg -- Pictured: Manu Bennett as Slade Wilson/Deathstroke -- Photo: Cate Cameron/The CW -- © 2017 The CW Network, LLC. All Rights Reserved. /
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The Flash — “Time Bomb” — Image Number: FLA517b_0009b.jpg — Pictured: Sarah Carter as Cicada II/Grace Gibbons — Photo: Sergei Bachlakov/The CW — © 2019 The CW Network, LLC. All rights reserved /

Cicada II

Before we get into this, we’d just like to say that Cicada II was a major improvement over her predecessor. Her arrival late in the game in The Flash season 5 was unexpected for sure, but it was a welcome addition to the main story, which had long since soured as the show had no idea how to make the original Cicada a worthy villain for a 22-episode season.

Unfortunately, the new arrival from the future also wasn’t able to sustain her prominence for long enough to get a worthy storyline. Grace Gibbons becoming the future Cicada was a genius twist because the backstory was there, but the execution once again let it down, as she came off as a crazed, robotic one-note of a character with little depth in spite of a compelling backstory and solid motivations.

Something that also didn’t help matters was how she was introduced so late into the season when the show had already shifted gears from Cicada being the main villain to the return of the Reverse-Flash. Both Cicadas felt irrelevant and that gave the character very little time to stand out. The season was too overcrowded and the more interesting storylines won out in the end.

Verdict: WORST

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