10 Reasons Why Arrow Needs To Kill Off Oliver Queen

3. Makes A Mockery Of The God-Like Monitor

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For over a year now, The Monitor has been making his presence felt across the entire Arrowverse of shows. This God-like being has been turning up to warn our heroes about an ominous, universe-destroying threat that's on the way. That being The Anti-Monitor.

What The Monitor has made clear, is that some serious sh*t is going down and that billions of lives are at stake. Not just that, but this omnipotent being has long made a deal with Oliver Queen that, when the time comes, Ollie will be giving up his life as a sacrifice.

Should Oliver not be killed off during Crisis on Infinite Earths, that basically makes a mockery out of what The Monitor has said, about the threat he's been chillingly warning about for a year, and about the stakes that really are on the line for Crisis.

If any otherworldly being in the Arrowverse is to be taken seriously going forward, The Monitor's words of Oliver's demise have to come true by the time that Crisis on Infinite Earths comes to its game-changing close.

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