These flashbacks are carefully woven into the show's overarching narrative, so it's best to view them in context.

The episodes feature flashbacks to reveal what Oliver Queen was doing during the time he was missing, initially stranded on the island of Lian Yu in the South China Sea. He suited up as the Hood, brutally attacking Starling City's crime lords. It all began with Arrow season 1, which saw long-thought-dead billionaire playboy Oliver Queen return to his home of Starling City. The horizontal lines represent the different shows, with each season marked vertical lines indicates crossover events. Here's the timeline as it stands to date.

Related: Restricting Arrowverse’s Heroes Was DC’s Best DecisionĬonsequently, it's best to realize the timeline visually and then explore it in detail. That's especially the case given that the Arrowverse embraces multiple different timelines, and 'Crisis on Infinite Earths' further complicated the issue by bringing several of these timelines into collision. When it comes to TV shows, where each individual series has hundreds of episodes, an effort to keep track of continuity can feel quite intimidating. That means continuity is pretty much baked into the shared universe model, and naturally viewers need to have a sense of just how the timeline works. All the pieces fit together like a spectacular jigsaw puzzle, and if you're missing part of the puzzle, you don't really get to appreciate the big picture. But here's the catch with shared universes: they are, by nature, complicated things, where everything connects to everything else.

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