The Arrow series finale quietly killed off Felicity Smoak (Emily Bett Rickards) in its final scene. Felicity, Oliver's wife and one of the show's most important characters, missed "Crisis on Infinite Earths" and hasn't been seen since the Arrow season 7 finale when she left Star City to peacefully raise her daughter, Mia. Felicity finally came back for Oliver's funeral, where she reunited with John Diggle (David Ramsey) and the rest of Team Arrow, and met her adult daughter (played by Katherine McNamara) for the first time.
When Felicity exited Arrow in the season 7 finale, her future counterpart in the flashforwards received an ending as well, though what it all meant was quite mysterious. In this scene, Felicity speaks with the Monitor (LaMonica Garrett), who says he's taking her to see Oliver (Stephen Amell). According to the Monitor, where they're going is a place she can never leave. Felicity, explaining that she's waited a long time to see Oliver again, accepts this and goes with the Monitor willingly. They leave together through a portal, and their destination remained a mystery -- until the Arrow series finale.
After Oliver's funeral, Arrow shifts to 2040, and shows the scene where the older Felicity meets the Monitor and goes through the portal. After passing through, her youth restored, Felicity finds herself in Moira's office, the place where Oliver saw her for the first time. Their conversation specifically reveals this place to be the afterlife, which means that Felicity is dead in the Arrowverse (as of 2040). Since Felicity was alive prior to talking to the Monitor, the Monitor essentially killed her in order for her to see Oliver again.
The scene is reminiscent of Earth-2 Superman's ending in the "Crisis on Infinite Earths" comic book miniseries, which saw the character get his happy ending after saving the universe and sacrificing himself. He was taken to a paradise dimension where he was able to live out the rest of his years with his Earth's version of Lois Lane. The difference between this and the Arrowverse's "Crisis" is that Oliver and Felicity's paradise isn't a pocket dimension, but the actual afterlife, because it's been confirmed that Oliver is indeed dead.
Though it's true that Felicity won't die for another twenty years, her death does hold a degree of weight, particularly since the show that would have been the most likely place to see her again, Green Arrow and the Canaries, is set in 2040. The Arrow series finale has brought her story to a close, and though it may have seemed odd for Felicity to willingly give up her life when she was still in her middle years, the scene does culminate in a long-awaited happy ending for both characters, that also helps make Oliver's ending an even more satisfying conclusion to the original Arrowverse series.
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