Back in 2012, Arrow producers asserted that superpowers had no place in Starling City. Good guys and bad guys alike were to be constrained by the limits of physics and gravity. Oliver's skills with a bow and arrow as well as his martial arts mastery might require some suspension of disbelief, but it wasn't too huge of a stretch to accept that a character played by the magnificent physical specimen that is Stephen Amell would be able to achieve the impossible on skill and athleticism alone. Season 2 strayed a bit too close to superpowers for comfort with the Mirakuru plot, but the rule remained intact: no superpowers on Arrow. The first episode of Season 3 changed all that when Barry Allen sped over to make a cameo appearance on Arrow to correspond with Oliver's appearance in the pilot of The Flash. Barry only had one line and did not share a scene with any of the other characters, but the rule was broken and a precedent set. Superpowers became canon in the Arrow universe. Now, anything can happen, and not necessarily in a good way.
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