The Arrowverse is finally giving us the all-female superhero series we deserve

In the Arrowverse, the future is female. As Arrow winds down this Fall, the CW is already working on its next superhero series: All all-female team-up spinoff lead by some of our faves.

While those of us who love superhero stories have been grieving the end of Arrow for months, we’ve also been wondering, what’s next? The success of the CW’s flagship DC TV property has given rise to the Arrowverse shared television universe, spawned five spin-offs and introduced countless favorite comics characters to a new audience.

And now it looks like that legacy will live on once more, in a a whole new way.

According to TVLine, the CW is working on a new Arrowverse spin-off, to be introduced as a backdoor pilot during Arrow’s final season. And they’re finally going to give us the Birds of Prey-style all-female action series we deserve.

Sure, the network probably can’t call it Birds of Prey, given everything that’s going on with the WB big screen movie of the same name that’s coming to theaters next February. But it sounds like the premise is pretty darn similar.

Arrow stars Katie Cassidy Rodgers and Julia Harkavy, who play Black Siren and Black Canary respectively, are supposedly involved, along with series newcomer Katherine McNamara, plays Mia, the future daughter of Arrow’s primary OTP Oliver Queen and Felicity Smoak. The three women have already met one another in the future 2040 storyline currently unfolding on Arrow, and this makes a ton of sense from both a story and a production perspective.

Cassidy Rogers is one of the network’s most popular veterans, and fans have embraced former Shadowhunters star McNamara as the Green Arrow’s butt-kicking daughter. The show has already show us both Laurel and Dinah in 2040, as well as set up a group of vigilante female crime fighters known as the Canaries. And according to the TVLine report, Mia will formally take up her father’s moniker in this (apparently future-based?) series, becoming the Green Arrow for the next generation.

This premise not only allows us to keep some of favorites around after Arrow ends, but to keep a connection to the original series alive and well within the universe it created. There’s a certain lovely symmetry to all of this that feels both deserved and inevitable.

But tell me how this isn’t Birds of Prey lite? I mean, it’s not like this is the first time that the CW DC universe attempts to tell a story under a different name. (Looking at you, “Ghost Initiative,” which was 100% the Suicide Squad with the serial numbers scraped off.) But, ultimately, does it matter what we call it?

What’s really important is that this is the all-female team-up series we’ve been waiting years to see. In an on-screen universe that hasn’t always treated its female characters as well as it could or should have, this is a quite frankly remarkable evolution. It’s what we deserve, as viewers, and it should be so much fun to see where things go from here.

Arrow’s final season begins on Tuesday, October 15 on The CW.