Following her costumed cameo in this week’s episode of DC’s Legends of Tomorrow, executive producer Marc Guggenheim has revealed to Entertainment Weekly that there are no plans to have Emily Bett Rickards’ Felicity Smoak don a mask and costume in Arrow.
“There’s two lines in the sand that I’ve drawn for Arrow for myself,” said Guggenheim. “I can’t speak for Greg Berlanti or for Wendy Mericle, but 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. Those, to me, are two lines that I just think are a bridge too far. Thea, because we’ve taken so many family members away from Oliver, and Felicity because when you put a character like that in a costume, I think it diminishes who that character is and it makes the idea of superheroics seem silly.”
Seeing how Felicity’s short-lived crime-fighting career ended up in Legends this past Tuesday, that’s probably a good thing for fans of the character…
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Originally published March 31, 2017. Updated April 16, 2018.
