There is more to the nickname speedy than you would think. Speedy was Green Arrows sidekick, but the alter ego of the sidekick is Roy Harper, Oliver Queens assistant on the show and Theas ex-boyfriend on the show. In the comics Speedy struggled with a heroin addiction, eventually being helped to get clean by his superhero mentor and Black Canary. Thea has had more than her share of drug influenced storylines on the show from pills to underage drinking to Vertigo more than living up to her nickname. She is now learning to fight with her sinister father, who was trained by the League of Assassins, so the show may have been laying the groundwork for her to eventually join Oliver Queens heroic campaign against Starling City's criminal underworld. In the comics Oliver Queen does not have a sister, but Roy Harper has been rebranded as Arsenal, so there is a gap for this character. The second Speedy was named Mia Dearden in the comics, and given that Thea's middle name is Dearden it looks like she may be this incarnation of the sidekick. She certainly has the anger and the skill to fight in the show, and presumably Malcolm Merlyn has a plan to use her later on in the series - why else would he invest so much time in training her? Eventually she will join her brother as one of Starling City's many masked protectors.
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