Oliver Will Find Out That Felicity Kissed Barry, Plus: More Vixen Talk

In a new interview at Assignment X, Arrow Executive Producer Marc Guggenheim revealed that Oliver will find out that Felicity and Barry Allen kissed in the Flash episode “Going Rogue” – which is something a lot of folks had been wondering about.

“There’s actually a question I’ve been getting on Twitter a lot – is Oliver [Stephen Amell] going to find out that Felicity [Emily Bett Rickards] kissed Barry [Grant Gustin]? That’s actually going to happen in the Vixen cartoon,” Guggenheim said.

What Vixen cartoon, you ask? You can find out more at KSiteTV. But for those who aren’t familiar, Guggenheim talks about what makes her character special. “Vixen’s such a great character, because first of all, she represents magic, which is an area that we haven’t explored on either of the two shows as yet,” Guggenheim said.

“One thing we’re always saying is, Flash is very different from Arrow, Arrow is very different from Flash. If Arrow is crime and Flash is science, Vixen has a big magic component. The other thing is, it’s a strong African-American hero who’s a former Justice Leaguer. It’s set in Detroit as a nod toward the Justice League stories. It’s done with the same love of the source material that we bring to everything. Two of writers on the project, Keto Shimizu and Brian Ford Sullivan, are every bit as geeky as I am. So look for a lot of things hopefully you’ve come to know and love from Flash and Arrow in Vixen. The Easter eggs, the winks, the nods and the cool action – one of the things we can do in animation is really push the envelope in a way that we can’t on either of the two shows. So there’s a much larger production value we’re taking advantage of [in] the animated form. That’s the other reason to do it,” Guggenheim explained.

Could Vixen ever become a live-action show? “One of the things we say is, ‘Never say never’,” Marc said. “If the character resonates with people, that would be wonderful. I would love to be in a position where CW said to us, ‘Hey, we want a Vixen live-action show.’ We’ll have to see how things play out, but we really want to produce the highest-quality animated series. We want people to come to this who don’t normally watch an animated show. We want fans of The Flash and fans of Arrow to come to CWSeed.com.”

Vixen will premiere on The CW Seed later this year. You can read Assignment X’s full interview with Marc Guggenheim here.