Rose and Thorn/Tropes


 * Actor Allusion: Chloe Bennet vouces Melinca. She previously played a superhero who was friends with a Melinda.
 * Adaptation Distillation: The first season is based on the Neil Gillman comics, but the first episode adapts the National Comics one-shot.
 * Adaptational Nice Guy: Granted, Thorn is still someone you don't want to mess with, but she's far less violent than in the comics.
 * Adaptational Villany: Detective Curtis Leland is still crooked in this show, and dosen't regret his actions.
 * Ascended Extra: Skye and Melinda from the one-shot National Comics issue are given recurring roles in the series.
 * Freeze-Frame Bonus: Rose's room features plush toys of both major and minor DC heroes.
 * Foreshadowing: One of Rose's plushes is of Green Arrow, whom she and Thorn would meet later in the series.
 * Gilligian Cut: In episode 1, just as members from "The 100" claim nothing will stop them, the scene cuts to Rhosyn at school.
 * Jekyll and Hyde: Deconstructed. Thorn is initially presented as Rose's more ruthless side. However, this series potrays DID more realisticly, and, as the show goes on, it turns out that the two are not that different. Not only that, but DID is a copying mechanism for trauma, meaning that Thorn isn't really an evil person in the first place.
 * Mythology Gag:
 * Thorn's surname in this show is an homage to Rose's original surname, Canton.
 * Green Arrow's appearance on this show is an homage to a Chuckie Dixon storyline in the Green Arrow comics featuring Rose and Thorn.
 * Some of Thorn's gadgets are plant-themed, alluding to her Silver Age incarnation's plant-controlling powers.
 * In the second episode's Cold Opening, a criminal asks Thorn who she us, to which she answers "I'm Thorn". The scene is a nod to Batman's "I'm Batman" and "I'm vengeance" moments.
 * Rose and Thorn communicate with each other partly througth a diary, an homage to the text boxes from Neil Gillman's comics.
 * Role Reprise: Stephen Amell returns from the Arrowverse as Green Arrow.
 * Revenge Is Not Justice: Thorn's main arc througth the series is learning this.
 * Shout-Out: Green Arrow stealing from criminal and giving that money to poor people brings to mind Robin Hood.
 * Split Personality: As in the comics, Thorn is this to Rose.
 * Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: Rose isn't too keen in following Thorn's revenge plans since A) Having just learnt she even has an alter, Rose is still procesing the info, and B) Going on a revenge mission would destroy her life in more ways than one.
 * Tempting Fate: "Now, up to another wonderful day". Rose says this the day she finds out about Thorn.
 * Truer to Text: The series' lighthearted potrayal of Green Arrow is more faithful to the comics than the last time Amell played the character.