10 Mindblowing Ways That Arrow Could Go Out With A Bang

6. The Darkest Timeline

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Arrow's current future-based 'flash-forward' storyline certainly seems to be trying its best to out-bleak the present day, with Star City rife with crime and the implication being that vigilantes/superheroes were responsible. We don't know what happened with the Green Arrow, but the implication is that it was bad.

Now that we know that Amell told Arrow's producers he was leaving towards the end of last season, it throws some of their storytelling choices for season 7 into sharp relief. If this future-set storyline has more relevance to Arrow's endgame than we first thought - why not up the ante?

Let's make this the darkest timeline possible, the dirt worst time for anyone to be alive in Star City. I mean Old Testament, real wrath-of-God type stuff. Fire and brimstone coming down from the skies, rivers and seas boiling, human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together – mass hysteria.

Then let's give the few heroes that are left the slimmest chance at changing things, risking whatever they have left on one chance at setting their world right again. No one is guaranteed to get out alive, and this changes everything. Those are some high stakes to end Arrow with the biggest bang possible.

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