Board Thread:Arrow discussions/@comment-31722073-20190526211105

So due to the likely massive changes the next season of Arrow will experience I figured it'd be nice to speculate wildly about the cast. I'll be ranking who I think is most likely to join, I'll note when it stops being people I actually think will join/rejoin/stay on and is just people that have a chance. So anyone else have thoughts on my rankings, their own or just some people they think will join the cast for the final year? 
 * 1) Oliver:Because well duh, he has a 0% of leaving.
 * Mia: Mia is almost as likely as Oliver, she seems to be the protagonist of the flash forwards which we have confirmation will return, it seems likely that much of that cast will join as a main next year, her being the most likely.
 * 1) William (Old): See above, but being IMO a tiny bit less important than Mia he is a tiny bit less likely
 * 2) Diggle: Since only six characters actually have any explicit arc left they would have told us if the same way as Emily by now, he's staying.
 * 3) Connor: JJ will recur, not much of a point without him staying on.
 * 4) The Monitor: He is the only character who could hang around Oliver, he's very likely.
 * 5) Lyla: This is surprising, but she's the Harbinger, in a Crisis arc we need her, and you know, Audrey deserves it.
 * 6) Zoe (Old):Same reasoning from Connor, Mia and William, except she's been the least important of the future, not much else.
 * 7) Rene/Dinah: They have excuses for not being in the next season, making them the first people I think have much of a chance to not return, but I don't see much of a reason to not hold out for ten episodes, and they have precisely equal chances.
 * 8) Laurel: Though she is on a different Earth, but same as above, and I think she would have left the main cast at the end of Lost Canary if she was planning on leaving.
 * Roy:Ditto as Laurel, replace different Earth with Lian Yu, it was a gut judgement and they are pretty interchangeable in chances.
 * 1) Alena: Just about 50/50, she could be tech support for Team Arrow in the present, could not, could return as a main in the future, could not.
 * 2) Turner:about 50/50 chance, could be a good guy in the present, but he's definitely dead in the future.
 * 3) Thea: Do I really think she'll return? No. But she has a chance if Willa wants back.
 * 4) Smallville!Clark:Tom Welling is likely joining the season, I imagine in a recurring or even special guest role, but he'll likely be playing Smallville!Clark and has a chance.
 * 5) Keven Dale:He's the main bad of the future, the likely cast is full and quite a few Arrowverse main villains were guests.
 * 6) Anti-Monitor:Hasn't appeared, no official confirmation he exists, but he seems to be the next main bad, though probably from the shadows.
 * 7) Tommy: Probably not, but he might be a hallucination for Oliver for awhile, Colin is finally free so that's why he's here.