Felicity Smoak

"It feels really good having you inside me. And by you I mean your voice, and by me I mean my ear. I'm gonna stop talking. Right now."

- Felicity to Oliver Queen

Felicity Megan Smoak (born 1988) is one of the main characters in the TV series, Arrow. Originally a recurring character, she has been promoted to a series regular since Season 2. She is a partner-in-vigilantism of both Oliver Queen and John Diggle, and is a good friend and former employee of Walter Steele. She serves as the primary contact between The Arrow and SCPD Officer Quentin Lance. Felicity is very smart and great with electronics, which is why both Walter and Oliver initially approached her for help in their separate problems.

Felicity was drawn into Oliver's vigilante team due to her desire to find her abducted boss and friend, Walter Steele, who prior to his kidnapping had secretly asked her to look into some suspicious things happening with his money and business. When she finds evidence confirming his suspicions, Walter asks her to stop looking further because he didn't want to put her in more danger. However, she stubbornly continues to look into it, and after Walter is kidnapped, she realizes that he might have been taken due to the things she found.

Meanwhile, Oliver Queen has approached Felicity for help with a few odd tasks (that he couldn't complete himself), using ridiculous cover stories in a vain attempt to hide the true purpose of his request. Putting two and two together, Felicity begins to suspect that Oliver was involved with Starling City's new vigilante archer, which helps her eventually decide to approach Oliver with Walter's copy of The List (which Walter found in his and Moira's bedroom), trusting him with the information.

After Oliver is shot by his mother, he retreats to Felicity's car, revealing his identity to her and asking her to drive him to his warehouse instead of a hospital. After saving his life, she agrees to join his team, but only until they find Walter.

In the beginning, Felicity doesn't agree with Oliver's methods in catching criminals, but later starts to loosen up after she helps capture the Dodger and realizes that what he does isn't all bad. Unfortunately, she would later be unable to get a lock on the location of a criminal, and is subsequently forced to watch a man die due to her failure. She begins to lose faith in herself until John Diggle realizes that their target was on a moving train underground, which allows her to anticipate where the train would be next and help save Roy Harper.

Felicity has gone on three undercover missions: first as a card-counter in a mob-run casino, second as a Big Belly Burger delivery girl at Merlyn Global Group, and third as a bait for the Dollmaker.

Season 1
In "Lone Gunmen", Felicity is busy working in the I.T. Department when Oliver Queen walks in. Upon introducing himself, Felicity informs him that she knows who he is and refers to him as "Mr. Queen", which he refutes by telling her, "Mr. Queen is [his] father." Felicity rebuffs this by tactlessly pointing out that his father was dead, backtracking apologetically and ending up babbling at him, which visibly amused Oliver. To her relief, he ignores her ramblings and gives her a bullet-ridden laptop, claiming that he'd spilled a latte on it. When she points out the bullet holes, he tells her that his coffee shop was in a bad neighborhood, which she clearly disbelieves. But when Oliver asks her to salvage what she can from the laptop, Felicity complies. Sometime later, Felicity retrieves blueprints to the Exchange building, where his stepfather Walter Steele would be bidding on the Unidac Industries auction. Seeing that the laptop actually belonged to Walter's competitor Warren Patel, Felicity tells Oliver that she doesn't want to be caught in the middle of the Queen family drama, and ends up explaining the situation to Oliver. Thanks to her, Oliver realizes that Patel is the man who hired Deadshot. This is also the first time Felicity hears about Floyd Lawton.

In "An Innocent Man", Walter Steele calls Felicity up to his office, making her assume she was about to be fired. After extolling her importance in the company, to which Walter agrees with her, she is given the assignment of digging up the details of one of his wife Moira's transactions. From this, Felicity unearths an offshore limited liability company called Tempest that only existed to facilitate the purchase of a warehouse somewhere in Starling City.

In "Legacies", Felicity is introduced to John Diggle and ends up researching Derek Reston for Oliver. Her research unearths the fact that Reston had been an employee of his father, which propelled Oliver to reach out and offer Reston a second chance.

In "Vendetta", Felicity enters Walter's office to speak with him about someone else looking at his wife's financial transactions regarding Tempest. She shows him a picture (the same symbol found in Robert Queen's notebook) she managed to find that Walter denies having seen before, and he coldly warns her to stop looking into his wife's affairs, promising to suspend her if she continued. Stunned and appropriately threatened, Felicity agrees to back off, only for Walter to later call her back and give her a seemingly blank copy of The List after he finds it in his and Moira's bedroom. After a few hours, Felicity returns to Walter's office with The List and a pair of glasses manufactured by Quen Consolidated's Applied Sciences division that allowed them to see the list of names written in invisible ink.

In "Year's End", Felicity calls Walter in the middle of dinner to tell him that Doug Miller, head of QC's Applied Sciences division, was on The List. Later, while looking at the names she'd copied onto her tablet, Oliver arrives to ask for her help again, claiming that a friend of his is a big archery fan and giving her an arrow to track down where it was delivered. Upon providing him with the information, Oliver praises her and greets her a merry christmas before he leaves, causing Felicity to reveal to him that she is Jewish.

In "Trust but Verify", Oliver asks Felicity to decrypt the information stored on a security fob, claiming that it was part of a scavenger hunt that would award several bottles of 1982 Lafite Rothschild to the winner. Declaring her love of red wine and bring promised one of the bottles, Felicity decrypts the fob and discovers that it contained information regarding several planned heists similar to the armored-car robberies that have been occuring in the city. Oliver asks her to hold off on warning the police, saying he didn't want to get her in trouble and asking her to send him the information instead. Felicity does so, privately expressing her disappointment in the lack of wine coming her way.

In "Vertigo", Felicity is outside the I.T. department when Oliver and John Diggle arrive, looking for her. Oliver hands her a syrings and asks her to run a spectroanalysis on what he claims is an energy drink, but is in fact Vertigo. Felicity questions him on why the energy drink is in a syringe, and then walks away exasperatedly when Oliver tells her he ran out of sports bottles.

In "The Odyssey", Felicity leaves her work at night and gets in her car. She turns and sees a gunshot-wounded man in a hood, who reveals himself as none other than Oliver Queen. Felicity is taken aback and remarks that everything she knows about him "just became so unbelievably clear." Oliver tells her to take him to his father's old warehouse and nowhere else, which she does. When Felicity gets to the warehouse, she and John Diggle operate on Oliver and manage to stop the bleeding. While Oliver was unconcious, John commented that he thought all this would be more of a shock to Felicity and asked if she already knew, to which Felicity simply recalled all the horrible cover stories they have told her for the favors Oliver asked her for, pointing out that she may be blonde, but she wasn't that blonde. John, when asked what was in the "energy drink" vial given to her in "Vertigo," revealed that it was Vertigo, and that it was him and Oliver that took down The Count, but that they also couldn't have done it without her help. After learning how much she has helped already, she agrees to help Oliver on a provisional basis until Walter is found. After that, she would go back to her boring I.T. girl life.

In "Dodger", Oliver hoods up to mark a name off of the List and Felicity locks him in the Arrowcave to point out that he's about to threaten to kill a single father with a ten-year-old son. Oliver ignores her objections, prompting her to quit in the belief that it was a bad idea to get involved with them in the first place. To coax her back on the team, Oliver goes after The Dodger, a thief who forces others to steal for him with bomb collars. During their first team meeting at Big Belly Burger, Felicity notices the attraction between John and his former sister-in-law Carly, which leads to her persuading and/or daring the guys to go on dates: John with Carly and Oliver with McKenna Hall, mostly for fun, though Oliver's date also had more to do with the intention of planting a bug on McKenna's phone, which would allow them to get information about the Dodger. When Team Hood sets up a sting using one of the Queen jewels, the Dodger simply steals the bait himself. Felicity naively confronts him, which leads to him collaring her with a bomb. With Felicity guiding him through the streets via the tracking device they installed in the jewel, Oliver chases after the Dodger while Diggle attempts to disarm the collar. He manages to find and stop the Dodger, retrieving the detonator and freeing Felicity from her collar.

In "Dead to Rights", John has begun training Felicity to defend herself in case she is attacked, saying it let him "sleep easier knowing she could handle herself." During their break, Oliver comes in, having just killed Guillermo Barrera, an assassin-for-hire. He gives Felicity Barrera's phone, hoping she could figure out who the target was so they could stop any another assassin who came to finish the job. Felicity manages to get the last number Barrera called, which was a front for the Chinese Triad, a restaurant called the Jade Dragon. While Oliver goes to check it out, Felicity continues to decrypt the phone, eventually cracking through its firewalls and discovering that Barrera's target was Malcolm Merlyn. Later, after Malcolm is saved, Oliver informs them that the assassin had been Floyd Lawton, upsetting John. Felicity learns from Oliver that Lawton was the man who killed John's brother.

In "The Huntress Returns", Felicity accidentally interrupts a meeting between Oliver Queen, John, and Helena, offering to hack into the FBI database. Oliver sharply tells her to leave, trying to prevent Felicity from becoming involved with Helena's vendetta. This fails, as Helena later breaks into the I.T. Department of Queen Consolidated and threatens Felicity into hacking the FBI to find the location of her father's safehouse. Thankfully, Felicity had been in the middle of a call to Oliver's voicemail when Helena showed up, so he immediately proceeds to Queen Consolidated when he hears it. He finds Felicity tied up under her desk, quickly freeing her and even almost killing John when he arrives seconds later. Felicity explains what happened and apologizes for giving Helena the information, though Oliver assures her that she did the right thing by placing her safety first. The attack persuades Oliver to go after Helena with no mercy, as she has crossed the final line by threatening Felicity.

In "Salvation", Felicity is in the Arrowcave watching the news regarding John Nickel, one of the people on The List. With the DA's office deciding not to indict Nickel for the fire that occurred the night before, Oliver decides to go after Nickel, to which Felicity gave "100%" support. However, someone else gets to Nickel first and broadcasts his interrogation of Nickel on his website. Felicity sends the broadcast link to Oliver and John, and upon seeing where the interrogation was headed, Oliver demands that Felicity track the signal it was coming from, only for Nickel to get shot on video. John contacts his friends in the NSA and discovers that the person who owns the website is a cyber-crusader called The Savior. Soon after, another video is linked onto The Savior's website, showing that Assistant District Attorney Gavin Carnahan had been kidnapped and strung up like Nickel had. Using information given away in the video, Felicity discovers that The Savior is Joseph Falk, a former employee of the Department of Transportation whose wife was killed in the Glades. Given ten minutes to find Carnahan, Felicity tries to find the location where the ADA is being held, but cannot pinpoint where the transmission is being sent from. She directs Oliver to two false locations, and as a frustrated Oliver tells her to find them faster, The Savior shoots Carnahan, shocking and upsetting Felicity. Later, when Oliver returns, she tells him she told John to leave in her loud voice and expresses guilt over her failure to find Carnahan. Oliver tries and fails to comfort her by telling them that, in their line of business, they sometimes lose a battle. Felicity then cites his policy on staying single as a good thing, saying she wouldn't know how to talk about the day she'd just had if she'd been dating someone.

In "Unfinished Business",

In "Home Invasion",

In "The Undertaking",

In "Darkness on the Edge of Town",

In "Sacrifice", After police technicians find a computer trail linked with the Vigilante's activities traces back to Felicity's computer at Queen Consolidated, Quentin Lance takes her into custody for questioning. Felicity is later released when Oliver Queen contacts Quentin to warn him of the pending attack on the Glades. Before leaving without blowing her cover, Felicity explains that she thought the vigilante was a bad person too, until she realized how much he's sacrificed for Starling City. She points out that makes him more of a hero than Lance gives him credit for. After stealing data from Merlyn Global, Felicity works with Quentin to disarm the earthquake device threatening the Glades, blowing her cover with Lance and revealing she's definitely in league with the Hood in order to prevent the Undertaking. Though successful in disarming the device, Felicity was stuck in Verdant as the back-up earthquake device was discovered and preceded to destroy half of the Glades area.

Season 2
In "City of Heroes", she and John travel to Lian Yu in order to find Oliver. In the process, she pukes after jumping out of a plane and steps on a land mine, which Oliver saves her from by using a rope arrow. She reveals information about a takeover of Queen Consolidated, in fear that she will be fired if it succeeds. She and John convince Oliver to come back as Oliver Queen and not The Hood. Later she, along with Oliver and John, meets Isabel Rochev about the company buyout. The meeting is interrupted by The Hoods. After Oliver is able to get Isabel out, he comes back for Felicity but one of The Hoods members points a gun at him and Felicity hits him with a bat. Oliver and Felicity escape through a window via a chain into another window floors below, escaping The Hoods. After the attack, Felicity confronts Oliver for not even trying to stop the Hoods, in which he responds about revealing his secret and the body count.

After Oliver finds out that The Hoods kidnapped Thea, she, Oliver, and John go to the upgraded lair. She helps him find out information about The Hoods, why they formed, and their location. She then gives Oliver a new bow. Back at the hideout after defeating The Hoods, they talk about a new way and name for The Hood.

In "Identity", Felicity vehemently protests on her new job as Oliver's exective assistant and despite Oliver's excuses, she stays, but she still hate her job. She manages to track where the Triads strikes next, only for The Arrow to get into an intese fight with Bronze Tiger. Back at the Arrowcave, Felicity called Oliver out on his attitude and told him he was so involved with himself, he didn't realise that John and Carly had broken up, partially because of him. At the end of the episode after missing a crucial fundraiser to be Arrow and being vilified by Blood (even though he was actually helping the hospital which inspired the fundraiser) Felicity made Oliver a single cup of coffee, stating the word "One" quietly implying it would be the only time she would get him coffee

In "Broken Dolls", Felicity helps Lance and Oliver with the Dollmaker case. Because of all the times she hacked the SCPD, they've outsource their evidence to a facility that she can't hack from the outside. Oliver and Lance break in and Felicity quickly retrieves and disseminates the information, leading to a break in the case. It turns out that all the women used a special type of lotion called Mermaiden. Lance is mystified that she can discover all of that with what little information she's been given in less than a minute, prompting Oliver to smile under the cover of his hood. She then volunteers to be bait for the Dollmaker, going to each boutique and buying Mermaiden. Lance points out that Felicity must trust Arrow a lot to be bait for a serial killer. Creeped out, and scared, she vows to never be bait again, right before she's attacked by the Dollmaker. Arrow and Lance scare him off, but not before Felicity is injured.

In "Crucible",

In "League of Assassins",

In "Keep Your Enemies Closer", she appears when Oliver and Isabel Rochev are having a conversation about meetings, letting Oliver know that Roy has information for him. She later goes with Oliver, John and unexpectedly Isabel to Moscow to rescue Lyla from prison. Unbeknownst to her, Isabel believes she's sleeping with Oliver, because of her abrupt job change. She sees that Oliver slept with Isabel and is visibly shocked by what happened. She confronts Oliver about why he slept with Isabel, implying that she has feelings for him, He replies that it didn't mean anything and that he couldn't be involved with someone that he could care about because of being the Arrow, implying that he may have feelings for her as well, but he won't act on them

In "State v. Queen", John becomes inexplicably ill and Oliver sends him home to get better. John instead goes to the Arrowcave, where Felicity discovers he has Vertigo in his system and he's suffering from severe withdrawal. The Count, who has broken out of prison, takes credit for the outbreak of Vertigo withdrawal among regular people. With Moira's trial in progress, Oliver is occupied. So Felicity works with an ill John to try to figure out why a random mix of people were infected. After plotting out the employment of each infected person, she finds a path and links that path to the free flu shots that were given around Starling City. Since John is out of commission and Oliver is at the trial, she goes to check on the immunization truck by alone and is abducted by The Count. Since she has her Queen Consolidated badge on her, Count Vertigo determines Arrow's true identity and uses Felicity as bait. When Count Vertigo threatens to kill Felicity via overdose, Oliver kills him. Later, Felicity thanks Oliver and then apologizes for putting him in a position where he had to choose to kill someone again. Oliver states that because she was in danger, there was no choice and Felicity shouldn't feel guilty about what happened.

In "The Scientist",

In "Three Ghosts",

Personality
Felicity is shown to be very intelligent, but is also socially awkward. She is confident in her abilities, but is always insecure about her position in the company. Despite being content with being just a mere geek and not looking for trouble, Felicity is not one to back away from danger, when there is a curiosity waiting to be sated. This is shown when Walter asks her to look into the Queen's Gambit's recovery and warns her that the last man who went looking, ended up dead, she accepts the task unfazed, saying that mysteries like these bug her. Despite Oliver often asking for her help in investigations of dubious and dangerous nature, among them being looking into a laptop riddled with bullet holes and a syringe containing drugs, using unconvincing lies while he is at it, she persists.

Despite being very poor in wording her thoughts, she talks a lot and often has strong opinions on things. She is also a kind person, exhibited when she rushes Oliver to the Arrowcave and aids John in patching him up, instead of alerting the authorities. Felicity and John stayed at his side until he awoke. She also offers her help in locating Walter, out of compassion and loyalty. True to her geeky nature, she upgrades Arrow's computers, stating that seeing a poorly set up system like his bugged her. She also hacked into the crime lab's computers and ordered the blood sample of Arrow, collected by the police when he was shot, disposed of to help Oliver cover his tracks.

While at first, she didn't approve of Oliver's methods, but the two ultimately came to an understanding after stopping The Savior. Even though both Oliver and Diggle refuse at times, Felicity has proven herself to be very brave in dangerous situations, as she went undercover in a Mob Casino, disguised herself as a delivery girl and played the "victim" to catch a serial killer, all to help them take down the criminals in the end.

She is afraid of heights, and she sometimes gets nervous and babbles, especially when around Oliver. Based on this and other actions, it's very likely that she has romantic feelings for Oliver. However in "The Scientist", She tells Barry Allen that she does not like Oliver but it is hinted that she may have developed slight feelings for Barry.

Abilities

 * Genius-level intellect: Felicity is an intellectual whizzkid, as evidenced by the crucial role she plays in The Arrow's team as well as her enviable skillset in tasks such as information retrieval, computer software and technology and the creation of customised techno devices, among other things. She determined Oliver's alternate identity expeditiously from a few random requests for help on cases ultimately connected to The Arrow, but did not expose his secret identity.
 * Computer expert: Being a member of the Queen Consolidated's IT department, Felicity has proven herself to be a highly skilled computer expert. She was able to recover valuable information, such as the blueprints of the exchange building where the Unidac Industries auction was being held, from Floyd Lawton's damaged laptop, despite the fact that it had sustained bullet holes. She was able to uncover that a teflon-coated titanium blade arrow was registered to a company called Sagittarius, as well as where and when it had been purchased from the company's records, and where the shipment was delivered. She analyzed a sample of the drug named Vertigo, and was able to source its manufacturing location in the city. She uses the computers from the Arrowcave, to locate people Oliver has a problem finding on his own.
 * Expert computer hacker: Felicity Smoak proved to be a highly skilled computer hacker, capable of hacking into any computer system, which made her a valuable asset to The Arrow's team. She was able to hack into the crime lab computers of the SCPD and order the disposal of Oliver's blood which had been lifted from a crime scene for analysis, risking exposure of Oliver's secret identity. She also managed to hack into A.R.G.U.S.'s databanks, and found out Deadshot had return to Starling City. The only computer system which proved invulnerable to her skills, was that of Merlyn Global Group, but this was remedied by a personal visit to their building and direct access to their mainframe, with the help of Oliver and John. She then proceeded to download the entire schematics from the Markov Device, and planted a Trojan in the system, so they would know what Malcolm was up to. She is more than able to bypass most firewalls.

Appearances
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Comics
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 * Arrow #20
 * Arrow #24

Trivia

 * In the Firestorm comics, Felicity Smoak is a manager of a computer software firm, and serves as a supporting character for the superhero Firestorm.
 * In, it is revealed that Felicity is Jewish when Oliver attempts to wish her a Merry Christmas.
 * Felicity Smoak is the fourth person to discover Oliver Queen's secret identity, The Arrow. She discovered this in.
 * In, Felicity reveals her middle name to be Meghan, and has used that as her alias in.
 * In, she mentions she is allergic to nuts.
 * She is the first and probably only person to break through Blackhawk Squad Protection Group's firewalls.
 * In, Felicity mentions she is not a natural blonde, having dying her hair. This is probably a nod to her character from the comics who wasn't a blonde.
 * As mentioned in, she is afraid of heights.
 * Felicity is the second person to join Oliver's team, after John Diggle.
 * In Season 2, Felicity is now Oliver's personal assistant.
 * Felicity is extremely similar to Smallville's Green Arrow's assistant; Chloe Sullivan, who was a blond computer science genius that helped Oliver and the crew in crime.