Disclaimer: Before anyone prepares to go at me with a knife or a verbal onslaught, this post is not meant to be malicious or bitter in tone or intent, but rather more playful mockery. I actually do like the Arrow show, this is simply my own special way of making clear my main criticism of the show, nothing more, nothing less.

So, with Season 3 already halfway done, I thought I’d take the time to predict what will happen in the fourth season of CW’s superhero show, assuming it gets renewed of course:

• Arrow will get his own spiff car with built-in weapons that he will drive recklessly and cause a lot of collateral damage with.
• The main villain of Season 4 will be Bane, who’s fight with Arrow will be a scene-for-scene cut-and-paste copy of Batman’s fight with Bane in TDKR that will end with Bane breaking Arrow’s back over his knee. Arrow will then have to get a person of questionable mental stability to replace him and defeat Bane before then having to defeat his psychotic would-be successor. This temporary successor will be Azrael Connor Hawke.
• Roy will get the crap beaten out of him by Deathstroke with a crowbar and then killed in an explosion. Arrow will keep his costume framed in his hideout and refuse to take on a new sidekick until Mia Dearden gets introduced. Roy will later come back via Lazarus Pit as the violent vigilante Red Hood Arrow.
• Mia will discover Ollie’s secret identity and then become his new protégé after saving his life from Two-Face Brick. Her father and Captain Boomerang will later kill each-other.
• Count Vertigo will return, and try and douse Starling City’s entire population with his drug with help from the League of Assassins (may happen in Season 3, in which case Ollie will fight Ras al Ghul on a train).
• Felicity will get shot by Slade and be confined to a wheelchair forever after. She will then form the Birds of Prey with Laurel and Huntress. Slade will also try to psychologically break Quentin Lance to prove that all it takes is "one bad day" to make someone go evil like him.
• Arrow will be trapped in a labyrinth by a secret society that has been running Starling City from the shadows since it’s inception, temporarily goes crazy, and then has to fend off this secret society’s seemingly unkillable assassins.
• New villains introduced in Season 4 besides Bane will include Copperhead, Maxie Zeus, Killer Croc, Black Spider, Zsaz, and Clayface. Arrow will also face a new villain who is psychotic, homicidal, obsessed with chaos, and tries to goad Arrow into killing him as a means of compromising his morality.
• Arrow will develop contingency plans to neutralize Flash, Atom, and Firestorm, in the event that they ever become evil. These plans will then be acquired by Ras al Ghul and used against the heroes, turning them against Arrow (may happen in Season 3).
• Arrow will learn that he has a psychotic, spoiled, and belligerent son with Nyssa after being drugged by her and takes this son as a protégé to keep him away from his crazy and villainous mother. His son will become his new Arsenal.
• Arrow will get cloned by Amanda Waller. The clone will come to have a sleek black and red costume and will be mentored by an older, retired, and bitter Oliver Queen, which will transition into a sequel show called “Arrow Beyond”.

What do you guys think? Do you think my (sardonic) predictions will come to pass? Anyone have any else they want to add?

Oh, and on an unrelated note: Happy New Year everyone!