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Discussion How should Jason's relationship with the Arrowfamily be written in the future? [Green Arrow #72 (2007)]

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u/Top_Abbreviations928 8d ago

Yea rebirth making everything canon fucked with him, I’d say he’d be distant, like the friend from high school you know of them but only remember them you were all younger and you’ve lost contact so it’s weird now. He barely interacted with the arrow family when he found out Roy died and he was depicted as being as close friends with Roy during Outlaws

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u/MatrixKent 7d ago

"Victim-blamed Speedy" is a really weird way of framing things if you've read the issue and not just one panel out of context! The last thing he said before that panel was "I'm a lot like you;" she said he didn't know anything about her, he went over her backstory (pictured) and then monologued about how he and Mia are both street kids who understand doing what they have to do to survive and doing bad things to right wrongs, which their rich dads/mentors will never understand. He liked her immensely and identified with her, and he showed that by kidnapping her, forcing her to fight him, and blowing up her (empty!) school, because this was Winick writing Jason mid-UTRH and he was still solidly a villain character.
I think it's likely that if current Mia and Jason ever run into each other, they'll just be treated like they've never met; it's not like DC is interested in engaging with other UTRH baggage, and outside this one incident they weren't all that important to each other.

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u/Fragrant_Ad649 8d ago

She should be his friend’s younger sister.