Arrow: Easter Eggs and DC Comics References In The Man Under the Hood

Tonight’s episode of Arrow was a lot of world-building, and the end result was an episode that didn’t have a ton of time to linger on inside jokes, even if it did mark the first appearance of two stars from The Flash with metahuman stories of their own to (potentially) tell some day.That doesn’t mean there wasn’t some stuff to spot — including a name-drop of Dr. Arthur Light, which I missed but have been assured by readers did in fact happen…at some point in the episode.For the ones I did catch, read on…and for the rest, there’s the comments!The CentrifugeAt the heart of “The Scientist” and the earliest stages of Slade and Brother Blood’s Mirakuru plans was a centrifuge. Stolen by Cyrus Gold and intended to be used to mass-produce Mirakuru from Slade’s blood, the device was returned to its rightful owner — Queen Consolidated — when Gold was stopped.Of course, this epidoes, Team Arrow had to take it out because they feared that it was part of Slade’s plan, and part of the reason he wanted Queen Consolidated for Isabel.