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Felicity Megan Smoak,[3] also known as Overwatch, is a fictional character who debuted in the The CW television series Arrow and has appeared in the other shows in the Arrowverse franchise. The character is based on the DC Comics character Felicity Smoak, created by Gerry Conway and Rafael Kayanan[4] and was adapted for television in 2012 by Greg Berlanti, Marc Guggenheim and Andrew Kreisberg. Felicity Smoak has been continually portrayed by Emily Bett Rickards. Initially a one-episode guest star in the first season of Arrow,[5] Felicity went on to become a recurring character in season one, and a series regular from season two onwards.[6] She has since featured in Arrowverse shows The Flash, Legends of Tomorrow and Vixen, as well as appearing in Supergirl and in annual Arrowverse crossover events.

Felicity Smoak
Arrowverse character
File:Felicity Smoak Arrowverse.jpg
Emily Bett Rickards as Felicity Smoak
First appearance
Created by
Adapted by
Portrayed byEmily Bett Rickards
In-universe information
Full nameFelicity Megan Smoak
Aliases
  • Overwatch
  • Ghost Fox Goddess
  • The Calculator[1]
Affiliation
Family
SpouseOliver Queen
Children
ReligionJudaism[2]
Years2012–present

Felicity debuts in the third episode of Arrow's first season, "Lone Gunmen" as an employee of Queen Consolidated, working in the IT department. She is recommended to Oliver Queen by his stepfather/CEO of the company Walter Steele, to assist him with an IT issue. She later joins Oliver in his crusade becoming one of the founding members of 'Team Arrow' and eventually beginning a romantic relationship with Oliver, leading to their marriage and to her becoming stepmother to his son, William, and later mother to their daughter, Mia.

The character also appears in the Lego Batman 3: Beyond Gotham video game as part of the Arrow DLC pack,[7] and is one of the protagonists of the Arrow and The Flash tie-in novels and digital comics.

Often described as Arrow's 'fan favourite' or 'breakout' character, in 2016 she was voted number 15 on a list of 50 Favorite Female Characters, in a poll of Hollywood professionals conducted by The Hollywood Reporter.[8]

Creation and casting

Early in season one, the creative team behind Arrow wanted to introduce a tech-savy character for a season one scene, drawing inspiration from the catalogue of DC comic book characters. Producers originally considered using Karen Beecher/Bumblebee, but opted to use the less well known Felicity Smoak.[9] Rickards was initially cast for the role as a one-episode guest star for the episode, "Lone Gunmen".[5] Following positive response from show lead Stephen Amell[10] and Warner Brothers producer Peter Roth[11][12] as well as from journalists at preview screenings[13] her role was extended to recurring through out the show's first season.[6] Speaking about the decision to bring Rickards back after her first appearance, co-showrunner Andrew Kreisberg commented "[Marc and I] were just, like, bedazzled by her....we were all like...'Did you see those dallies with Stephen?'...And then the network called, and then the studio called and they were like 'This girl, who is she?'"[9] The character joined the main cast of the show from season 2 onwards.[6] Regarding this decision, co-showrunner Marc Guggenheim echoed Kreisberg's sentiments, stating "We reached a point where we said we have to fish or cut bait with Felicity because she either has to learn Oliver’s secret — because otherwise she’s just an idiot — or she’s got to go away. Once we decided that she couldn’t go away — we love her too much and the audience loves her too much — making her a series regular was kind of a no-brainer."[14]

Speaking about Felicity in 2013, Kreisberg went on to state "She wasn’t in anyone’s conception of the show at the beginning. Now we can’t imagine it without her.”[15] He has also described the moment Felicity learns of Oliver secret as the moment when "our show became our show".[9] With regard to the progression of Felicity's romantic relationship with Oliver Queen before the season three premiere, executive producer Greg Berlanti stated that it was "something that we've been working toward and building toward since she first showed up on the show."[16]

Storylines

Arrow

Further information: Arrow (TV series)

Season 1

Further information: Arrow (season 1)

On the recommendation of Walter Steele,[17] she assists Oliver Queen with various discreet jobs, not knowing his secret, but realizing that there is something else behind them. When Oliver is shot by Moira Queen, he waits in Felicity's car to ask for her help, thus revealing his identity.[18] Following the abduction of Walter Steele, Felicity joins Oliver and Diggle in the lair, in order to find him. She later decides to continue working with them as technical support in order to stop 'The Undertaking'.[19]

Season 2

Further information: Arrow (season 2)

After travelling with John Diggle to Lian Yu, in order to persuade Oliver to return to Starling City, the character moves from the I.T. department to become Oliver's Executive Assistant at Queen Consolidated, as a cover for their vigilante activities.[20] During this season, Felicity meets Central City CSI Barry Allen,[21] who later becomes the super-fast hero known as the Flash. In the final episode of the season, she plays a pivotal role in helping capture Oliver's enemy, Slade Wilson / Deathstroke.[22]

Season 3

Further information: Arrow (season 3)

Felicity and Oliver attempt to start a romantic relationship, but this is thwarted when he decides he can not do so whilst being the Arrow.[23] During the episode "The Secret Origin of Felicity Smoak", it is revealed that Felicity was a goth in College, and that her ex-boyfriend, Cooper, went to jail for using a computer virus she designed.[24] Felicity begins working for the new owner of Queen Consolidated, now Palmer Technologies, Ray Palmer, eventually becoming Vice-President, as well as helping him to develop his Atom suit.[25] The two date, but break up when they both realise Felicity is still in love with Oliver.[26] They remain friends, working together to save the city from a deadly virus. By the end of season three, Oliver and Felicity are seen driving away from Starling City together to live a more normal life.[27]

Season 4

Further information: Arrow (season 4)

Oliver and Felicity are seemingly living happily in Ivy Town, when Laurel Lance and Thea Queen arrive to ask for their help in Starling (now Star) City. After returning to Star City, Felicity admits to Oliver that she misses working with the team, and the two agree to stay on.[28] Now also CEO of Palmer Technologies, Felicity uses her position and resources to try and help the team combat Hive. In the mid-season finale, following their engagement, Oliver and Felicity are ambushed in their limo by gunmen,[29] leaving Felicity paralysed from the waist down.[30] Despite initial doubts, Felicity rejoins the team, with Oliver giving her the moniker 'Overwatch'.[31][32] With the help of Curtis Holt, who creates a prototype microchip, Felicity regains the ability to walk.[33] The character breaks off her engagement to Oliver following revelations that he had been lying to her about his son, William, which also leads to her leaving the team.[34] Following Laurel's murder at the hands of Damien Darhk, she rejoins them, to help bring down Darhk,[35] which ultimately leads her to have to make the decision to re-divert a nuclear bomb from the city of Monument Point to the town of Havenrock, with a lesser but still high loss of life.[36] She is also fired from her job as CEO, due to her consistently neglecting her position. The season ends with Oliver and Felicity alone, in the ruins of their lair.[37] This season also sees the introduction of Felicity's father, revealed to be cyber-criminal Noah Kuttler.[38]

Season 5

Further information: Arrow (season 5)

Oliver and Felicity are still the only members of the team left.[39] Felicity is instrumental in persuading Oliver to recruit new team members. She also has a new boyfriend in Detective Billy Malone, whom Oliver is later tricked into killing by Prometheus.[40] She begins to work with shady hacking organisation Helix in a bid to find and stop Prometheus, which ultimately brings her into conflict with Oliver and the team when she aids Helix in freeing their leader, Cayden James, from an A.R.G.U.S. prison.[41] After Prometheus sets off an EMP, which temporarily disables her spinal chip, Felicity and Oliver are trapped in the bunker. As they struggle to escape, they manage to resolve the problems standing in the way of their being together.[42] The two decide to tentatively rekindle their romantic relationship.[43] Following the explosion on Lian Yu in the season finale, Felicity's fate is unknown.[44]

Season 6

Further information: Arrow (season 6)

Felicity is shown to be safe and well, still working with the team. She and Oliver are once more involved in a romantic relationship.[45] Together with Curtis, Felicity decides to start a tech company.[46] Her worst fears are realized when it is revealed that Cayden James, whom she helped free from A.R.G.U.S. custody is in fact a criminal.[47] Following her marriage to Oliver, Felicity begins to bond with his son William.[48] In the season finale, Oliver is arrested by the FBI, leaving Felicity as William's sole parent.[49]

Season 7

Further information: Arrow (season 7)

Following Oliver's incarceration and Ricardo Diaz's escape, Felicity and William are living away from Star City, under Witness protection. Felicity is shown to be working as a barista. However, after Diaz attacks them in their home, the pair return to Star City. Felicity takes the decision to send William to a boarding school under A.R.G.U.S. protection, whilst she stays to assist in the pursuit of Diaz.[50] Throughout the first half of the season, she works with a series of unlikely allies in her attempts to both bring Diaz to justice and to free Oliver from prison. She is reunited with Oliver following his release from prison.[51] Later in the season, Felicity discovers that she is pregnant, eventually giving birth to a girl named Mia,[52] who is raised in secrecy outside of Star City.[1]

The season also features flash forwards, set twenty years in the future, where it is initially believed that Felicity has been recently murdered.[53] The flash forwards feature an adult Mia, who teams up with William, Connor Hawke, Dinah Drake, Roy Harper and Zoe Ramirez to uncover the conspiracy around Felicity's supposed death, eventually finding her alive and rescuing her from Galaxy One, an Eden Corps front.[1] When an arrest warrant is put out for Felicity, she is identified as "The Calculator".[1]

The Flash

Further information: The Flash (2014 TV series)

Felicity first appears in the series during the season one episode "Going Rogue", where she and Barry Allen confirm their friendship, and agree to keep their relationship platonic. Later in the season, she and Ray Palmer travel to Central City[54] to assist Team Flash with meta-human Brie Larvin, in the episode "All Star Team Up".[55]

At the start of season three episode "Paradox" Barry Allen comes to Felicity for advice regarding the repercussions of 'Flashpoint'.[56]

During season four, Felicity makes an appearance at the bachelorette party of Iris West in the episode "Girls Night Out" and helped to thwart the efforts of Amunet Black.[57]

Legends of Tomorrow

Further information: Legends of Tomorrow

Felicity makes a brief cameo talking to Ray Palmer in the season one episode "River of Time".[58] She appears in the season two penultimate episode, "Doomworld",[59] as a masked vigilante in an alternative reality where Damien Darhk is mayor of Star City, and the rest of team Arrow are dead. She is murdered by Sara Lance, who is working for Darhk.[60]

Vixen

Further information: Vixen (web series)

Felicity provides technical assistance to Mari Mcabe as Vixen in both season 1[61] and season 2[62]

Crossover events

Felicity features in both the Arrow and Flash[63] episodes of the first Arrowverse crossover 'event', "Flash vs. Arrow".[64][65]

She is also in the second Arrowverse Crossover event,[66] (which set up spin-off series Legends of Tomorrow), working with the teams to combat Vandal Savage.[67][68]

Felicity features in the Arrowverse "Invasion" crossover episodes, working with the teams to combat an alien invasion by the Dominators,[69][70][71]

She plays an important role in the first full four-way Arrowverse crossover event entitled "Crisis on Earth X", featuring in all four episodes, beginning with an episode of Supergirl,[72] helping to combat the threat posed by the invasion of Earth-X Nazi's. Her Earth-X counterpart, who is interned in a concentration camp, is also introduced.[73] In the final scene of the crossover, Felicity and Oliver get married alongside Barry Allen and Iris West, in a service conducted by John Diggle.[74]

Alternate Earths

  • During the "Crisis on Earth-X" Arrowverse crossover event, the Earth-53 Felicity Smoak is shown to be interned in a concentration camp. She is later freed by Earth-1 Oliver Queen, who gives her a gun and tells her "it is the duty of the strong to protect the weak".[73]
  • In the season seven Arrow episode "The Demon", Earth-2 Laurel Lance states that on her Earth, Felicity Smoak is a successful, but ruthless, business woman.[75]

Character development

Characterization

Speaking after being made a series regular, Emily Bett Rickards commented that Felicity was "a character who's intelligent and brave and facing huge situations, and being real in how she's facing them".[76] Discussing the character's growth across the first season, Rickards stated "I think what’s really interesting with Felicity is that, in each episode, she shrugs off one more restriction that was keeping her held back"[77] and with regard to working undercover, that "she is able to fully commit. She becomes braver, she realizes she can play a character and do this, that she doesn't have to be herself."[76] Of her how the character's social awkwardness affects her, Rickards said "She's changing in how she looks at things. She's becoming more emotionally involved in what is going on with the undertaking, the book, the Glades. She wants to protect people who are going out in the field. She puts her life at risk. She's not working behind a computer, she's dealing with people, which is hard for her."[76]

Speaking about the impact of Felicity's paralysis in season four, Rickards stated "Keeping Felicity’s voice and keeping her attitude towards life positive while faced with this total rearrangement of her life was something I tried hard to portray".[78] She also talked about the impact on the character of her relationshipship with her mother commenting that "Donna brings out something in Felicity that no one else can" and how that relationship has evolved the character over time, in pariticular with regard to "Donna being a single woman and having sacrificed so much for Felicity and Felicity being an adult now and realizing her sacrifice is HUGE".[78]

Discussing the ways in which Felicity has had to change going into season seven, Rickards expressed that "her original mindset is a little broken, 'cause it's been sort of jaded and deconstructed, if not completely destroyed,....deciding where now she believes justice and her morals lie, and whether or not she can accomplish that by being the person she was, or does she have to accomplish it now by being the person that she has made herself into?"[79] Previewing the season, new showrunner Beth Schwartz echoed similar sentiments, saying "We’re going to see a different side to Felicity than we’ve ever seen.....she’s going to take matters into her own hands a lot this season. She’s going to fight back, and we’re just going to see a different side to her."[80]

Relationships

The character's first significant romantic relationship is shown in the season three episode "The Secret Origin of Felicity Smoak". Talking about this relationship, with Cooper Seldon (Nolan Gerard Funk), Rickards stated "It was young love. They were so in love, They had a deep connection. He was Felicity's first experience with love and having a home in somebody else.." and that the ending of the relationship shaped her character as "It was definitely a turning point in her life. It was full of turmoil and it was a loss."[81]

""I hope that it's because it's honest and working towards a place of what we all sort of want and where we can see ourselves bettering ourselves. I don't know what the magic equation is to writing something that hits somebody at a certain time. We're so grateful....I think the way that they communicate and talk to each other is about them growing...there is such a purpose towards them working as a couple and working through it."

— Rickards speaking in 2018 about the appeal of Felicity and Oliver's relationship.[82]

Speaking about the early development of a potential romantic relationship between Oliver Queen and Felicity, Rickards stated that "the scenes Oliver and Felicity have together are always honest. He doesn’t have to hide anything from her, which is spectacular."[77] Series lead Stephen Amell echoed similar sentiments at the start of season two, stating "she’s the woman at the moment who knows me better than anybody".[83] Rickards has said in interviews that she believes Felicity and Oliver and are soul mates,[84] something Amell has also agreed with.[85]

Talking about the couple's relationship in season seven, showrunner Beth Schwartz explained that "For their arc [this season], what I like about it the most is we're really going for the real struggles in marriage, so that's kind of where we're approaching their relationship. It's going to feel really authentic."[86] Following the couple's onscreen reunion, Schwartz called the couple "a force to reckon with", stating they were "back to, in a sense, being normal between each other. There's no friction between the relationship. They have a lot of obstacles in their way, but they'll be a team."[87]

Felcity's mother, Donna Smoak, is also introduced in the episode "The Secret Origin of Felicity Smoak". Describing the relationship with her mother, Rickards stated "They’re completely different people. She’s [Donna] flamboyant, extreme, nurturing, understanding on an emotional level, but a little airy. I would say 99.997 percent different, but their emotional intellect and nurturing ability, their willingness to accept everyone and non-judgmental personality [is the same]".[88] She has also stated that the character's "emotional intelligence" is inherited from her mother.[89] Charlotte Ross, who plays Donna, described their dynamic as one where "they love each other and really support each other and there's a natural comfortability between the two of them" and how it had developed through the seasons "I think it's kind of grown organically, their relationship, into really supportive friendship in many ways, as well."[90]

Speaking about the impact on the character following the introduction Felicity's father, The Calculator (Tom Amandes) in the season four episode "Unchained", showrunner Wendy Mericle commented that "I think she’s really conflicted. She wants to believe that her father loves her and that he has a vested interest in who she is and knowing her and having a relationship with her, and she feels very torn about that".[91]

Costume

File:Felicity Smoak Costume Concept Art.jpg
Concept art of Felicity Smoak's mask for Legends of Tomorrow episode "Doomworld"

Arrow and Legends of Tomorrow co-developer and former showrunner Marc Guggenheim has insisted in interviews that he had no intention of transitioning Felicity into a costumed superhero stating in 2017 "for as long as I’m involved with the show, the two things I never want to do is kill off Thea and put Felicity in a mask and a costume." In the same year, Felicity did appear in a brief cameo in the penultimate season two episode of Legends of Tomorrow, "Doomworld", as a masked superhero in an alternate timeline, a choice Guggenheim stated was made because "we’ll probably never have the opportunity to do so again, I think it would be fun if we did Felicity as a superhero.’[92]

Talking about the younger Felicity's 'goth' persona, Rickards acknowledged that the costume design was 'a nod' to the character of Death in the DC comic book series The Sandman.[93]

Reception

Critical response

The character has been described as Arrow's 'fan favorite' [94][95][77][96][97][76] or 'breakout' character,[98][99][100][101] and in 2016 was placed at number 15 on a list of 50 Favorite Female Characters, in a poll of Hollywood professionals conducted by The Hollywood Reporter.[8] Rickards portrayal of the character has been nominated for five Teen Choice Awards, four for Choice TV Actress in Fantasy/Sci-Fi/Action[102][103][104][105] and one for Female Breakout Star, in 2014.[106] She has also been nominated for a Leo Award in the Best Lead Performance by a Female in a Dramatic Series category four times.[107][108][109][110]

Felicity's introduction into the series was met with generally favourable reviews. Her first appearance in the episode "Lone Gunmen" generated a positive response from journalists in preview screenings.[13] Her appearance in the broadcast episode and in subsequent episodes, "An Innocent Man" and "Legacies", was welcomed by critics, with many expressing a desire to see more of the character.[111][112][113][114][115][116] Rickards' promotion to series regular, coupled with Felicity's integration into Oliver's mission in the episode "The Odyssey" prompted IGN's Jesse Scheeden to note "the seeds of transition" in her character, welcoming her interaction with John Diggle, but expressing a desire to see "deeper character development" in the future.[117] Alasdair Wilkins of The A.V. Club welcomed Rickards' promotion to regular for season two, and praised her performance regarding the "deepening of her character".[118] Similarly, Caroline Preece of Den of Geek welcomed the promotion, and in particular the interaction between the characters of Felicity, Oliver and Diggle working as a team.[119] Jeffrey Morgan of Digital Spy called Felicity's introduction to 'Team Arrow' "a smart move", welcoming the integration of her lighter personality with the more stoic duo of Oliver and Diggle, as well as praising the performances of both Rickards and David Ramsey.[120] In his review of Arrow's season one finale, Alasdair Wilkins of AV Club praised the character's reaction to the destruction of the glades, stating it "reminds us of the Undertaking’s human cost without undermining the character’s essential bravery", and praising Rickards' performance for conveying "all those notes in about 10 seconds".[121]

Throughout the series run, critics generally praised the development of the character, in particular Rickard's performance, and noted her importance to the show. However, at times some questioned her prominence and the show's over reliance on her character. In his review of Arrow's first season, Jesse Scheedon of IGN expressed mixed feelings in regard to the character describing her as "both endearing and annoying".[122] However, in his season two review, he felt that the character "often had the best material" and had "established herself as a force to be reckoned with."[123] During his review of Arrow season four, whilst conceding that the audience reaction to the character and in particular to her romance with Oliver had been mixed, Schedden praised Rickards' performance stating that the season offered the actress "a wider range of both drama and comedy, and she rose to the challenge".[124] Reviewing the show's third season DVD release for Den of Geek, Rob Leane acknowledged the popularity of the character, and praised Rickards' performance, but questioned whether that popularity, and the character's resulting prominence, at times distracted from the narrative of the show as a whole.[125] Writing for Collider in 2016, Craig Byrne described Felicity, and Rickards, as "one of the best revelations of Arrow", stating that in Arrow's formative stages "it was her character that really made a lot of people take notice". However, he also expressed concern that the show had become too reliant on both Felicity and the relationship between her and Oliver.[126] Similar concerns were expressed by Caroline Schlafly, writing for TV Overmind in 2016, who felt that at times the show gave too much focus to Felicity.[127] Writing in 2019 about Rickard's best performances as Felicity, following her decision to step away from the Arrowverse at the end of season seven, Chancellor Agard of Entertainment Weekly, called Felicity "an integral part of Arrow", stating it would be "hard to imagine" what the show would have looked like without the character.[101]

The working relationship between the characters of Oliver, Felicity and John Diggle, described both in the media[128] and the show[129] as 'Original Team Arrow', has received particular praise from critics. Commenting on this "symbiotic relationaship", terming it "Arrow's most important relationship", Carrie Raisler of The A.V. Club stated "Amell, Ramsey, and Rickards have the kind of lightning-in-a-bottle chemistry that makes all their scenes together hum", in her review of the first half of season 2.[130] Similarly, Jenny Rafferty of Vulture, writing about season four, described the relationship between the three as "the heartbeat of the show".[131]

The speech delivered by Felicity in the season six Arrow episode "We Fall" won particular praise from critics. In her review of the episode, Allison Shoemaker of The A.V. Club called the scene "exceptional" and one of the most "thoughtful and compelling" sequences in the show's history, praising Rickards delivery and describing it as an "unabashedly romantic scene, but one that’s based in a long, fraught history. It’s a speech given by a woman whose experience, wisdom, and faith are hard fought".[132] In Shoemaker's review of the season as a whole, she included it as one of the best scenes in both the season and the entire series.[133] Chris King of TV Overmind described Felicity's monologue as a "wonderfully moving speech"[134] and Della Harrington of Den of Geek similarly described Felicity's faith in Oliver as "actually pretty moving".[135] Chancellor Agard of Entertainment Weekly included the episode in his list of Rickards' "10 best Arrow episodes", citing both her performance and Wendey Stanzler's direction as reasons for its resonance.[101]

Accolades

Year Award Category Nominee Result Refs
2014 Leo Awards Best Lead Performance by a Female in a Dramatic Series Emily Bett Rickards Nominated [107]
Teen Choice Awards Female Breakout Star Nominated [106]
2015 Leo Awards Best Guest Performance by a Female in a Dramatic Series Emily Bett Rickards (The Flash) Nominated [108]
Best Lead Performance by a Female in a Dramatic Series Emily Bett Rickards Nominated
MTV Fandom Awards Ship of the Year Emily Bett Rickards & Stephen Amell Won [136]
Teen Choice Awards Choice TV Actress - Fantasy/Sci-Fi Emily Bett Rickards Nominated [102]
Choice TV Liplock Emily Bett Rickards & Stephen Amell Nominated
2016 Leo Awards Best Lead Performance by a Female in a Dramatic Series Emily Bett Rickards Nominated [109]
MTV Fandom Awards Ship of the Year Emily Bett Rickards & Stephen Amell Won [137]
Teen Choice Awards Choice TV Actress - Fantasy/Sci-Fi Emily Bett Rickards Nominated [103]
Choice TV Liplock Emily Bett Rickards and Stephen Amell Nominated
2017 Leo Awards Best Lead Performance by a Female in a Dramatic Series Emily Bett Rickards Nominated [110]
Teen Choice Awards Choice TV Actress - Action Nominated [104]
2018 Teen Choice Awards Choice TV Actress - Action Emily Bett Rickards Nominated [105]
Choice TV Ship Emily Bett Rickards & Stephen Amell Nominated

In other media

File:Felicity Smoak in Arrow 2.5.png
Felicity Smoak in Arrow 2.5.

Felicity features in the tie-in comics, Arrow Season 2.5, which bridge the gap between the second and third seasons of the television show.[138] She also features in the Flash Season Zero tie-in comics, which link to the first season of The Flash.[139] The character appears in several issues, most prominently in "Smoak Signals" parts 1 and 2.[140][141]

She is also one of the protagonists in the tie-in novels published for the series, Arrow: Vengeance, written by Oscar Balderrama and Lauren Certo,[142] The Flash: The Haunting of Barry Allen written by Susan and Clay Griffith,[143] its sequel Arrow: A Generation of Vipers from the same authors[144] and Arrow: Fatal Legacies, co-authored by Marc Guggenheim and James R. Tuck, which bridged the gap between the season five finale and the season six premiere of Arrow.[145]

Whilst the original Felicity Smoak featured in the Fury of Firestorm comics, in 2014 DC introduced a new version in the New 52 Green Arrow comics. Introduced in Green Arrow #35, the character was loosely based on Arrow's version, and physically resembled Rickards.[146] Similarly, a younger version of the character, again resembling Rickards, was introduced by Marguerite Bennett in her DC Comics Bombshells and Bombshells:United comics run, set in an alternate history.[147][148]

Web series

File:Felicity Smoak (Vixen CW Seed series design).png
Felicity Smoak in Vixen.

In 2013, Felicity (again portrayed by Rickards), appeared in the promotional tie-in web series for Arrow, entitled Blood Rush, which also featured the characters of Roy Harper (Colton Haynes) and Quentin Lance (Paul Blackthorne). The series was presented by Bose, and featured product placement for their products.[149]

Rickards also provided the voice for the character on seasons one and two of the Arrowverse web-series Vixen,[150] which debuted in 2015 and 2016 respectively, on CW Seed.

Video games

The character appears in Lego Batman 3: Beyond Gotham as part of the Arrow DLC pack.[7]

In the 2017 game Injustice 2, Felicity is referenced in an easter egg. When facing each other in combat, if the Flash manages to take out the first bar of Green Arrow's health, he states; "That's for breaking Felicity's heart".[151]

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