Moira Queen

"I will burn your entire world to ashes."

- Moira threatening Malcolm Merlyn

Moira Queen (born 1964) is the wife of the late Robert Queen, the mother of Oliver Queen, and Thea Queen, and the wife of Walter Steele, 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. Moira is further questioned by Malcolm Merlyn who points out to her that the vigilante is going after the people on "the List". In "Betrayal", she burns the book that holds "the List". She is then later confronted by Arrow. She shot Arrow and nearly killed him. She then tries to leave The Undertaking. She then attempted to have Malcolm murdered by the Chinese Triad.

Malcolm charged Moira with discovering who tried to have him killed. When Malcolm seemed on the verge of being able to determine who paid the 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.

Personality
Moira is oftentimes ruthless, in an ends-justify-the-means sense. she had her own son kidnapped but 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, so that she would not be implicated and she and her children would not be killed. Malcolm, as the dark archer, killed Frank. Moira begged for the life of Frank's daughter after he was killed. Moira is up-set by the things she has done, but continues to do them she calims because she does not see a way out. she will sacrifice others, even innocents, to protect her own.

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

Trivia

 * Moira's true intentions through various actions she has displayed within the series remain unknown. This includes affiliating with Tempest and supporting the sabotage on the Queen's Gambit, almost causing the death of her husband and her son. it has been hinted through the series that Moira had something to do with sabotaging the Queen's Gambit or new a member of the organization Tempest sabotaged the Queen's Gambit and she didn't try to stop it.