Moira Queen

"I will burn your entire world to ashes."

- Moira threatening Malcolm Merlyn

Moira Dearden Queen (born 1964) is the 49 year old acting CEO of Queen Consolidated. She is also the wife of the late Robert Queen, the mother of Oliver Queen, and Thea Queen, and the ex-wife of Walter Steele, and and a former friend of both Malcolm Merlyn, and Frank Chen. After Walter was kidnapped by Malcolm, She becomes the new acting CEO of Queen Consolidated. In "Sacrifice". After her son Oliver convinces her to do the right thing, she holds a press conference, and confesses her involvement in a conspiracy to destroy the Glades and everyone in it, against her free will, and the mastermind of this conspiracy was Malcolm, after that she is arrested for conspiracy to commit murder.

Season 1
When her son returns, she is seemingly happy that he is alive. After Oliver is abducted, she voices concern over his safety, and hires John Diggle to be his bodyguard. However, at the end of "Pilot", She is shown to be the one behind Oliver's abduction after his arrival.

At the end of "Honor Thy Father", It is revealed that the yacht was actually sabotaged, which led to the shipwreck.

In "Lone Gunman",

In "An Innocent Man", Moira is further questioned by Malcolm Merlyn who points out to her that Arrow is going after the people on "The List".

In "Damaged",

In "Legacies",

In "Muse of Fire",

In "Vendetta",

In "Year's End",

In "Burned",

In "Trust but Verify",

In "Vertigo",

In "Betrayal", She burns the book that holds "The List". She is then later confronted by Arrow.

In "The Odyssey", She shot Arrow and nearly killed him.

In "Dodger", She then tries to leave The Undertaking. She then attempted to have Malcolm murdered by the Chinese Triad.

In "Dead to Rights", Malcolm charged Moira with discovering who tried to have him killed.

In "The Huntress Returns",

In "Salvation", When Malcolm seemed on the verge of being able to determine who paid the Chinese Triad, Moira betrayed her co-conspirator Frank Chen and set him up to be killed by Malcolm so that Malcolm would not discover she was the one behind the assassination attempt. She did beg that the life of Frank's daughter be spared.

In "Home Invasion", Moira welcomes Tommy and Laurel while they are hiding from the assassin. When she is talking to laurel later she admits that she likes who Oliver was when she was dating him.

In the flashbacks In "The Undertaking", Robert confides in Moira about the Undertaking and she tries to convince him not to do it. In the present she is online shopping with Thea when Oliver comes in to tell them that Walter was dead. She goes straight to Malcolm and begins to make a scene. Oliver hears her admit that she was part of the Undertaking and he finds Walter.

In "Darkness on the Edge of Town", Walter is distant from Moira as he realises that she was behind his kidnapping. He files a divorce. Later Oliver talks to her and they both get kidnapped by John disguised as Arrow. She admits because John punches Oliver.

In "Sacrifice", Oliver convinces Moira that she had to do something and she holds a press conference where she admits to the Undertaking in fear of her family's life, and after a statement before all the Starling City press, she is arrested for conspiracy of terrorism.

Personality
Moira is oftentimes ruthless, in an ends-justify-the-means sense. She had her own son kidnapped but tries justifies it as doing to so prove he knew nothing about the Undertaking, and thus save his life. She attempted to have Malcolm Merlyn killed, so that she would be out from under his thumb, she and her children would be safe, and to prevent the deaths of innocent thousands. When the attempt failed, she betrayed her co-conspirator, Frank Chen, to avoid her own implication and she and her children would not be killed. Malcolm, as The Dark Archer, killed Frank. Despite evident and prevalent flaws, it should be noted that Moira convinced The Dark Archer to spare Frank's daughter.

More than anything else, it becomes increasingly evident, as the series progresses, that Moira is in way over her head.

Robert Queen
Robert Queen was Moira's husband.

Walter Steele
Walter Steele is Moira's ex-husband.

Appearances
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Season 1

 * "Pilot"
 * "Honor Thy Father"
 * "Lone Gunman"
 * "An Innocent Man"
 * "Damaged"
 * "Legacies"
 * "Muse of Fire"
 * "Vendetta"
 * "Year's End"
 * "Burned"
 * "Trust but Verify"
 * "Vertigo"
 * "Betrayal"
 * "The Odyssey"
 * "Dodger"
 * "Dead to Rights"
 * "The Huntress Returns"
 * "Salvation"
 * "Home Invasion"
 * "The Undertaking"
 * "Darkness on the Edge of Town"
 * "Sacrifice"

Comics
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 * Arrow #1
 * Arrow #2
 * Arrow #5
 * Arrow #25 (flashback)

Trivia

 * Moira's true intentions throughout the series was unknown, until it was revealed in Dodger, that she's been trying to get out of the Tempest organization for years, and trying to find a way to stop The Undertaking.
 * Moira knew the Queen's Gambit was sabotaged after she recover the remains of the Queen's Gambit but did not report it to the police for some strange reason.
 * In "Darkness on the Edge of Town", Moira finally revealed what The Undertaking was, after Oliver set-up his and her kidnapping, when Arrow continuously beat him up, unaware that Oliver set the whole thing up, and he is Arrow, Moira also mentioned that Robert got involved in the Tempest organization, without her knowing, however it was very likely she was lying.
 * In "Sacrifice", after Oliver revealed how Robert really died, and how he sacrificed himself so Oliver could live, realizing she cannot live with the guilt of being an accomplice in killing innocent people, she calls for a press conference, revealed her involvement in a conspiracy, to destroy the Glades and everyone in it, and Malcolm Merlyn is the mastermind behind it, despite the fact that she was a accomplice in conspiracy to commit murder, against her will she still gets arrested, it is unknown how her relationship with her children will be now, it is also unknown how many years she is going to do in prison, or if she is going to be under house arrest.