Mia Smoak


 * For The Flash: Season Zero issue, see Black Star .

"I need to find out the truth about everything... about who our family really is, what I'm meant to do with my life. I can't be held back anymore. I need to forge my own path."

- Mia Smoak

Mia Smoak, also known as "Blackstar", is a criminal and underground cage fighter who resides in Star City in the future. She is the daughter of Oliver Queen and Felicity Smoak the younger paternal half-sister of William Clayton, the granddaughter of Donna Smoak, Noah Kuttler, the late Moira Queen, and the late Robert Queen, and the niece of Emiko Adachi and Thea Queen.

Early life
In February 2019, Dr. Schwartz called Felicity Smoak to tell her that the results of her blood test revealed that she's pregnant with Mia.

Potential future
At some point, presumably in late 2019, Mia was born to Oliver Queen and Felicity Smoak.

Throughout her childhood, she was trained to fight by Nyssa al Ghul.

In 2040, Mia found out that her mother had secretly been acting as a vigilante so she ran away from home and went to Star City. Shortly after arriving, Mia got involved in underground cage fighting as a "stress release".

Also at some point, she came into contact with her mother and sold her technology to trigger bombs—although it’s unknown if this is actually true or just a cover so as not to reveal her true identity. When she first reveals this information to William Clayton, Dinah Drake and Zoe Ramirez, she claimed that she had no knowledge of Felicity's plan, but it’s later revealed that she does.

One night, Mia watched Emerald Archer: The Hood and the Rise of Vigilantism, a documentary about Oliver Queen that had been banned sometime before 2040. When Connor Hawke asked how she got a copy of it, she said she stole it. She then led Connor to the old Arrowcave. After arriving at the Arrowcave, they were interrupted by Roy Harper, Dinah, William, and Zoe. They tied them all up, while Mia interrogated the latter two as to why they were there, before she sought codes to activate the Archer program.

They were joined by Connor, who was supposed to be watching the others. Dinah and Roy entered the room, causing a fight. Mia got the upper hand on Dinah and held a knife to her throat. William then pulled a gun on her, threatening to shoot, before Mia revealed her identity as Oliver and Felicity’s daughter and his half-sister.

After revealing her identity, she tried to get the group to help her find her mother, but when they wouldn’t, she got upset and left to go find her mother on her own.

Later, William showed up at her office in the underground fight club. He and Mia talked about their parents and then Mia found a clue to finding Felicity in William’s Rubik’s cube: a mini cassette tape. William then told Mia they would find Felicity together.

Mia and William went to get a mini cassette player to play the tape Felicity left them, but ran into some trouble when William was swindled. They managed to get the player back after William faked a ”Canary sighting” to distract the SCPD. Mia and William struggled to decide whether or not to listen to the tape, but ultimately decided they would do it together. In the message, Felicity gave them coordinates of a location in the Glades. Felicity also told them not to come looking for her, but the siblings decided to ignore her and go to the Glades anyway.

Personality
"My mom once told me that all the starlight we see has so far to travel that the stars might not even exist anymore. Eventually, they all just fade to black, erased. That's where I want to be."

- Mia Smoak

As noted by her brother, William, and her mother, Mia shares many similarities with her father; she is tough and not afraid to use force and violence to get what she wants.

However, Mia is also compassionate and cares deeply for her mother and has also started to get close to her older brother William.

Abilities
"I don't lose."

- Mia Smoak

Mia is like her father in many ways; she is athletic, intelligent, highly trained in the martial arts, weapons and archery.


 * Peak of human physical condition: Due to being trained since childhood, Mia is in top physical condition.
 * Master combatant/Martial artist: Having been trained by Nyssa al Ghul in hand-to-hand combat since childhood, Mia would go on to become an undefeated cage match fighter, skilled enough to beat bigger opponents. She was able to overpower an older Dinah Drake in a duel. She is a scrappy yet stealthy fighter, as she was able to defeat a room full of Keven Dale's armed security.
 * Expert archer: Nyssa trained Mia to be a proficient archer like her father, Oliver Queen.
 * Expert knife-wielder: Mia is an expert at using a knife in combat as seen in her fight with Dinah, and can also improvise an arrow as a stabbing weapon.
 * Keen intellect: Mia was able to find the abandoned Arrowcave from hints in the documentary, Emerald Archer: The Hood and the Rise of Vigilantism. Felicity Smoak raised her to be an intelligent person, so smart that she could quickly solve a Rubik's Cube to demonstrate a cube within a cube within a cube, whereas her genius half-brother could only do two cubes.
 * Skilled markswomen: Mia was shown to be very proficient with firearms, managing to shoot one of keven dales security guards.
 * Expert archer: Nyssa trained Mia to be a proficient archer like her father, Oliver Queen.

Equipment

 * Knife: Mia pulled a knife on Dinah Drake during a fight with her.
 * Compound Bow: Mia uses a compound bow like her father.
 * Hunting arrows: Mia uses standard hunting arrows to fire from her compound bow or as an improvised melee weapon.

Trivia

 * Mia was named after her paternal grandmother, Moira Queen.

Behind the scenes

 * In the comics, the name "Blackstar" has been used by several different characters (both male and female), but most notably by Rachel Berkowitz, a girl from Poland who was raised by Nazis and grew up to be a brilliant scientist. She is an enemy of Supergirl.
 * The name Blackstar also resembles Nightstar, the daughter of Nightwing and Starfire in the Kingdom Come series set in the DC Universe's future.
 * In the Kingdom Come comics series that are set in an alternate future reality, Oliver Queen does have a daughter named Oliva Queen. Her mother is Dinah Lance and Olivia is second Black Canary in her universe.
 * Her name, Mia, may be a reference to Mia Dearden, who in the comics is better known as Speedy.
 * When her character was originally announced in the press, she was called Jessie Bowden, although this was later changed to Maya. The character was initially only referred to as "Blackstar", leaving her real name then-unknown.
 * "Jessie Bowden" was initially going to be "the rookie recruit in the Star City Police Department and is both athletic, comedic and intelligent. But underneath her youthful attitude, lies a woman who has had enough of vigilantes in Star City and is willing to get rid of them no matter what it takes.".
 * "Maya" was later described similarly as "A scrappy street fighter and thief from Star City who is a rookie recruit in the Star City Police Department. She is athletic, comedic and intelligent. But underneath her youthful attitude, lies a woman who has had enough of vigilantes in Star City and is willing to get rid of them no matter what it takes."