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Mia Dearden

Mia Dearden


Occupation	Former prostitute, Protege to Oliver Queen
Powers and Abilities	Skilled hand-to-hand combatant
Played By	Elise Gatien
Status	Alive
Appeared In	Crossfire, Disciple

"That's why you need me, to keep you in check." - Mia Dearden to Oliver Queen , Disciple

Mia Dearden is a martial artist being mentored by Oliver Queen.

1 Powers and Abilities
2 Season Nine
3 In the Comics
4 Notes
5 External Links

Powers and AbilitiesEdit

Skilled hand-to-hand combatant: Before her training with Oliver Queen, Mia was an exceptionally good fighter. She was quite nimble and fast. After training with Oliver, she was able to not only sneak up on him, but fight him as well until he put her in a choke hold.

Season NineEdit

"I'm not gonna go tell all my friends I use to train with the emerald archer." - Mia Dearden to Oliver Queen, Disciple

Mia was fighting in an underground fight club when she was suddenly forced to leave by an intimidating man named Rick. Oliver, who had witnessed Mia's fight, decided to follow her and discovered that she was a forced prostitute and that Rick was her handler.

Oliver sought her out, and made a proposal to make her a better fighter and get out of her life on the streets. At first she was reluctant to the idea, but ended up accepting. Oliver turned her into his driver and then, she stole his car to pay back Rick, but he was not willing to let her go.

Rick forced her to help him kidnap Oliver and inadvertently, Lois as well. Mia tried to do the right thing, and made a turnaround but in the end failed, due to intimidation. Mia went back to the streets after thinking she had lost Oliver's confidence, but then, Oliver came back for her and didn't give up on her.

Weeks later, Mia surprised Oliver for a training session but Oliver overreacted and nearly killed her. She became concerned about Oliver's reaction and began to distrust him. She appeared at the LuthorCorp office to talk with him and discovered that Oliver going over surveillance photos of the city. Mia wanted to help him solve who was responsible for attacking Lois as well as following him, but Oliver was very hostile and told her to leave and never return.

While walking the streets, she was followed by Vordigan, who kidnapped her. She was sent in a hedge maze and used as bait for Oliver to appear and then discovered that Oliver was the Green Arrow. Oliver and Clark managed to come to her aid and stopped the Dark Archer before he could hurt her. The next day Mia told Oliver that she would keep his secret, and then Oliver apologized to her. She then remained at Oliver's side as his disciple.

In the ComicsEdit

Mia Dearden is a teenage runaway who was abused by her father. Unable to survive on her own, she fell in love with a man who offered her food and shelter in exchange for sex and prostitution. Mia was soon rescued from this lifestyle by Green Arrow/Oliver Queen. He vowed after her rescue to take her under his wing, and make her his new ward. Mia continued to work with Oliver when she discovered his crossbow. Soon after, Mia began to train as an archer. She continually petitioned Green Arrow to allow her to serve as his sidekick, but Oliver refused, not wanting to put another teenager at risk.

Mia appeared in Green Arrow as a supporting character until 2004, when writer Judd Winick revealed that she was HIV-positive, a legacy of her prostitute past. With this knowledge, Mia redoubled her efforts to convince Green Arrow to let her become the second Speedy, and the Green Arrow finally relented. Mia takes up the mantle of Speedy, and subsequently Oliver decided that she would do well to join the Titans. In order to earn her spot on the team, had the new Speedy face off against Robin. While Robin beat Speedy, Mia proved herself to be a very skilled fighter and worthy Titan. Shortly after her first official mission with the Titans, she revealed to the team that she was HIV-positive. She left the team soon afterwards after a battle with the evil Superboy-Prime. Mia recuperated on a island with Green Arrow and his son Conner Hawke she was further trained by the two in new styles of fighting and healing.

Things became good for Green Arrow's family when he proposed to Black Canary however the wedding was attacked by a group of villains and Green Arrow was kidnapped and replaced by a shape-shifting villain named Everyman. Mia, Conner and Dinah managed to save Oliver but Conner was shot and put in a coma who was then kidnapped. As the family searched the world for him with the help of Batman and Plastic Man she met a young mercenary named Dodger whom she became attracted to.

After the rescue of Conner she goes to London to pursue a relationship with him but after learning he had an affair she returned to save Black Canary. Recently, the villain Prometheus made a move against the JLA, and attacked several of their home cities. The one hit hardest, however, was Star City, which was destroyed by the villain. Mia narrowly survived; unfortunately the first Speedy's daughter, Lian Harper, didn't.

NotesEdit

Like Clark and Kara, Mia always wore a color-combination that resemble her counterpart in the comics. She always wore red and yellow, as well as black and yellow to resemble her new costume.
Oliver called Mia Speedy the first time that they met.
Mia wasn't mentioned or referred to in any way after the character's final appearances in Season Nine.
In the comics, Mia's HIV-positive. Her HIV-status, in Smallville universe, was never adressed.
Mia is the third member of the Teen Titans from the comics to appear in Smallville, the first two being Bart Allen and Victor Stone .