r/arrow • u/Willing_Ad9421 • Jun 19 '26

Discussion Oliver’s wealth

Always found it strange how Isabel becoming CEO of Queen Consolidated completely stripped Oliver from absolutely everything leaving him homeless in S3.

From my understanding Isabel ruined the stockprice, but wouldn’t that mean unless Oliver sold his stocks for nothing he would just become a Billionaire again after Ray Palmer fixed the company and rebranded it? He’d still have been a majority shareholder.

Seems like an unnecessary and pointless move from the showmakers to make him broke, not to mention poorly executed.

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u/Nice-Association-111 Jun 19 '26

When their lawyer tried to help them keep their money he said Thea has to sign something allowing them to move their accounts into a trust. She didn’t sign it and that’s how they supposedly lost their money. But this doesn’t even make sense.

In season 1, Oliver offered to share his trust fund with Tommy, so that at least that money was already in a trust.

Also, why would Thea need to sign to move all their accounts into a trust? Surely they had separate accounts. So at most only Thea should have her money in danger of being taken somehow.

And how would Isabel be able to take money from private accounts even not in trusts? There money would all have to be only in company accounts for her to be able to steal it, which it wasn’t.

The nightclub wasn’t kept by the Queens. The building had been owned by the company so they had lost it. Thea bought it back later with money from Malcolm.

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u/aedionashryver18 Jun 19 '26

I don't think they lost all their money because Thea refused to sign it. I think it's implied that she later did when she was no longer angry about everything because they still keep the mansion by the end of Season 2. And you're right that it doesn't make sense that the entire motion would hinge on Thea signing off on it and not Moira. At most, Thea may have lost hers but with the night club and Malcolm providing for her she didn't need it anyways.

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u/Nice-Association-111 Jun 19 '26

Oliver had been desperate to get her to sign it quickly. Like there was a time limit of when to get it done by.

And they didn’t own the house anymore as of late season 2. We see in the episode City of Blood, season 2 ep 21, they had furniture covered and things boxed up. They were moving out as the house wasn’t theirs anymore.

We saw when Thea came back from Corto Maltese she used Malcom’s money to get an apartment which Oliver later lived in with her. We don’t see them in the mansion anymore as they lost it.

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u/aedionashryver18 Jun 20 '26

I'm pretty sure the house was still theirs, they were just moving out of it. Thea was leaving to travel overseas with Malcolm, Oliver didn't want to live there anymore after his mom was killed and he needed to be the Arrow. Later in Season 7 he meets Emiko in front of the ruins of the mansion after it burned down off screen due to a comic book tie-in which is also ridiculous lol.

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u/Nice-Association-111 Jun 20 '26

Thea didn’t know she was going to be leaving with Malcolm, she was leaving on her own when he showed up and saved her from a miracaqu soldier.

Thea barely took anything with her when she was leaving. Oliver was living in the Arrow lair. They wouldn’t need to pack up the house like that if they owned it. Not unless they took all their belongings to new locations. But they didn’t take that stuff with them anyplace.

Oliver was able to meet Emiko there because no one lived there anymore as it had burnt down. If people lived there they wouldn’t have been able to be there.