Thea Queen (Arrowverse)

Thea Dearden Queen, also known as "Mia" and Speedy, is Oliver Queen's younger sister. Later revealed to be the daughter of Malcolm Merlyn, Thea went to train with him. She eventually learned of her brother's vigilante activities as the Green Arrow and became his new partner after being resurrected by the Lazarus Pit.

Early Life

Originally believed to be the daughter of Robert Queen and Moira Queen, Thea was the younger sister of Oliver Queen until he supposedly died with their father on the Queen's Gambit.^[1] In reality, her brother survived and lived the next 5 years on the island of Lian Yu, during this time Thea developed a rebellious attitude and a drug habit.^[2] Although she began to become clean after criminal charges are brought against her for driving while under the influence.^[3]

During this time she also met a man named Roy Harper and later began a relationship with him.^[4][5] After the collapse of the Glades and Oliver's return to the island, Thea took over Oliver's club. However, her relationship with her family and Roy swiftly began to break down due to Roy experiencing psychological issues after he was dosed with mirakuru- a strength-enhancing drug that also compromised his capacity for rational thought. Thea later learned from Slade Wilson that Malcolm Merlyn was her biological father and nobody else had told her about this.^[6] She was subsequently contacted by the resurrected Malcolm Merlyn, and accepted his offer to accompany him for training.^[7]

Becoming Speedy

While training with Malcolm, he drugged Thea so that she would return to Starling and murder Sara Lance on his orders, provoking a chain of events that would force Oliver to fight Ra's al Ghul to protect Malcolm.

Powers and Abilities

Abilities

• Acrobatics
• Archery
• Business Management
• Martial Arts: Thea received regimented training from her father Malcolm Merlyn.^[8] However, after her coma induced by the destruction of Lian Yu by Prometheus^[9], Thea has lost a little bit of her strength and skill.^[10]
  • Eskrima^[11]
  • Stick Fighting^[11]
• Political Science
• Swordsmanship
• Toxicology: Thea has displayed a familiarity with poisons, being able to detect disguised cyanide in red wine.^[11]
• Weaponry

Other Characteristics

• Drug Addiction (Formerly)

• This version of the character is exclusive to the continuity of the television series Arrow and is an adaptation of Mia Dearden/Speedy. The original character was created by Kevin Smith and Phil Hester and first appeared in Green Arrow (Volume 3) #2.
• Thea Queen is portrayed by Willa Holland.
  

• Thea was nicknamed Speedy in her childhood. A reference to Green Arrow's comic sidekicks.
• Both Thea's middle name, "Dearden", and her alias in Corto Maltese, "Mia", are references to Mia Dearden, the second Speedy after Roy Harper.
• Thea suggested that her vigilante identity could be "Red Arrow", before being prompted by Oliver to take on the name Speedy. In the comics, Red Arrow was one of Roy Harper's aliases.
• Thea's birthday is January 21, 1995.^[12]
• Thea was running a bar before she was old enough to drink.^[13]

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