Arrowverse Failed Them β The Multiverse Didnβt
Iβm going to double down on my unpopular opinions.
If youβve been here long enough, you already know: this blog does not do safe takes.
A few days ago I wrote about Overgirl β how her alternate version of Kara felt sharper, more layered, more emotionally compelling than canon Supergirl ever allowed her to be.
So today weβre taking it one step further.
Letβs talk about ships.
And yes β I am about to say something deeply controversial:
I was more emotionally invested in Dark Arrow and Overgirl than I ever was in Oliverβs or Karaβs canonical relationships.
Three episodes.
Thatβs all it took.
Karaβs Canon Love Life
I actually liked Kara and Mon-El. I did.
But looking back? Their ending didnβt elevate her character.
If the intention was to show that Kara doesnβt need a relationship to exist β thatβs a strong narrative choice.
But then you have to give her growth in exchange.
Independence has to transform the character.
And it didnβt.
She remained fundamentally the same.
The breakup felt like sacrifice without narrative payoff.
And thatβs frustrating.
Oliverβs Canon Love Life
Unpopular opinion number two: I never connected to Oliver and Felicity.
Not emotionally. Not structurally.
It always felt misaligned.
And in eight seasons of Arrow, itβs kind of astonishing that Oliver never had a relationship that felt both emotionally grounded and narratively inevitable.
Laurel didnβt fully work. Sara didnβt stabilize him. Nyssa was political. Felicity carried weight, yes β but for me, the chemistry never felt balanced.
Which makes what happened in the crossover even more baffling.
Three Episodes. Thatβs It.
Dark Arrow and Overgirl appear briefly.
Theyβre villains. Theyβre morally compromised. They belong to a nazist regime.
And yet β narratively β their dynamic works.
Why?
Because itβs built on emotional intensity.
He wages war across universes to save her. Not for conquest. Not for glory.
For her.
When she dies, he drops his guard. And he dies too.
Itβs twisted. Itβs dark. Itβs dangerous.
But itβs emotionally coherent.
And the real shock?
Melissa Benoist and Stephen Amell had chemistry.
Not hypothetical chemistry.
Visible, on-screen, magnetic chemistry.
In three episodes, I felt more tension, more spark, more narrative charge than I did across years of separate canonical pairings.
And thatβs not because I think Oliver and Kara would work in canon.
They wouldnβt.
Theyβre fundamentally incompatible in their original forms.
But that raises a bigger question:
Why did the alternate versions feel so emotionally effective, while eight and six seasons respectively struggled to give us relationships with that same spark?
The Arrowverse Comparison
In the ArrowβFlashβSupergirl trio, there was one couple that felt structurally solid:
Barry and Iris.
Iconic. Balanced. Aligned. Clark and Lois-level mythic energy.
You believed them.
Which proves the Arrowverse could build powerful relationships.
So why didnβt Oliver or Kara ever receive one that felt equally inevitable?
The Real Question
This isnβt about wanting Dark Arrow and Overgirl canonized.
Itβs about narrative impact.
If a three-episode alternate-universe villain pairing can create more emotional resonance than years of main-character relationshipsβ¦
That says something.
So I have to ask:
Did you truly love Oliver and Felicity? Were you fully invested in Kara and Mon-El?
Or did you ever, even for a second, look at Dark Arrow and Overgirl and think:
ββ¦wait.β
And please β letβs leave Lena out of this one. Thatβs a different battlefield entirely.
Tell me honestly:
Was I the only one who saw it?

















