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Arrow Season 6: the Most Surprising Moment of the Season

We're now looking at the most surprising moments in the recently concluded (except for Supergirl) seasons of the big superhero shows. Each show has multiple surprise moments, some bigger than others, but I'm judging based on how much the surprise affected the series, a single character or was just out of the blue. Here we take a look at Arrow.

The longest running of the series I cover, the show has used a lot of surprises so to do something big, it needs to be really good. And while the biggest surprise of the season to me comes from the episode that you might expect, Docket No. 11-19-41-73, it may not be the exact moment you think. This is the episode that Oliver Queen (Stephen Amell) is on trial for being the Green Arrow. We saw in the trailer for the episode that Colin Donnell would be returning as Tommy Merlyn. So it wasn't a big surprise when he came crashing through the roof of the court house. And it wouldn't be that much of a surprise as we had the Tommy unmasking of the Earth-X Prometheus, so we'd already seen him back earlier in the season. This was a surprise for a lot of people because they brought back Christopher Chance (Wil Traval) aka the Human Target as the reason why Tommy was in the courtroom. And while the opening Diggle pulling a guy out of a hostage situation immediately told me it was Chance, what I didn't see coming was Oliver being convicted by the jury at the end only to have the judge set the verdict aside and later reveal that Chance had replaced him as well.

I know the end result is that Oliver is still in jail, but the not guilty verdict pushed Ricardo Diaz (Kirk Acevedo) past the point of being cautious and eventually lead to his downfall. Making the return of Christopher Chance the biggest surprise of the season for Arrow.

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