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Lyla Oliver was born on 7 June 1950. She was a producer and writer, known for Madam Secretary (2014), Judging Amy (1999) and Chicago Hope (1994). She died on 18 April 2021.
- Producer, Writer, Additional Crew
- June 7, 1950
- Lyla Oliver
- April 18, 2021
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"Lyla?"
"Not anymore. I'm now a Harbinger of things to come."
—Oliver Queen and Lyla Michaels on her new identity
Lyla Michaels is the director of A.R.G.U.S., a former high-ranking agent of the organization under the codename Harbinger, and a former special forces veteran of the United States Army. She is the sister of an unnamed woman, the wife of John Diggle, the mother of Sara Diggle and John Diggle, Jr., and a close friend/ally to Team Arrow and Team Flash.
Lyla served with the army in Afghanistan, where she met John. After their divorce, she was recruited into A.R.G.U.S. by Amanda Waller and rose through the ranks to become her right-hand woman. Lyla reconnected with her ex-husband when helping him locate Deadshot, eventually becoming affiliated with Oliver Queen and his team, whom she aided in The Siege. After remarrying John, Lyla grew disillusioned with A.R.G.U.S. and resigned as an agent. However, after Waller was killed in an attack by Shadowspire, Lyla took over her post as director of A.R.G.U.S. and sought to reform the agency, though was occasionally forced to stoop to questionable means if she deemed necessary.
In the face of the impending Anti-Monitor Crisis, Lyla was recruited by Mar Novu and endowed with superpowers as Harbinger to help the heroes fight the catastrophe. However, she was instead exploited by Mobius to ensure the success of the Crisis, causing her to be killed by an antimatter wave that destroyed the multiverse. Lyla was returned to life along with the creation of Earth-Prime and her Earth-1 memories were restored. After attending Oliver's funeral to honor his sacrifice, Lyla and her family moved to Metropolis.
Original multiverse New multiverse
[[File:Harbinger explains plans for Earth-38 solar system.png|thumb|250px|Lyla, as Harbinger, explains plans for the Solar System on [[Earth-38].]] Lyla was returned to life with the creation of the new universe, where she is still married to her husband and the mother of her son John, with her pre-Flashpoint daughter Sara also restored. When Oliver's son William was kidnapped by John Byrne, Lyla assisted in finding William and later attended Oliver's funeral. After the funeral, Lyla and her family moved to Metropolis to start a new life. At some point in mid-2020, Lyla, along with her husband, gave a positive recommendation to Cisco Ramon for the position of Director of Technology and Science at A.R.G.U.S..
"But love, children, family - it's all just a distraction to people like us."
"They make us better, and give us something worth fighting for."
—Floyd Lawton and Lyla Michaels
Lyla is a good-hearted, caring, and intelligent woman. She is shown to care for her ex-husband John Diggle and is on good terms with Team Arrow, providing occasional backup, intel and support during their missions. She is a disciplined, capable and driven warrior with a sense of duty from both her time as a soldier and as an A.R.G.U.S. operative.
Lyla displays the personality of a realist. Though by no means immoral, Lyla has been shown to be at least partially compliant with Amanda Waller's brutality during operations, particularly the recruiting of dangerous criminals for Task Force X (Ben Turner, Floyd Lawton and Mark Scheffer) and ensuring their cooperation by installing explosives in their heads. Such actions have resulted in arguments with her ex-husband and his more principled personality. Lyla counters that some people "operate in the gray" saying that who are they to judge such people when they have taken lives in their line of work and living in the reality being "sometimes bravery isn't enough, sometimes the world requires us to be bold".
Ultimately, Lyla is true to her morals, more loyal to her principles and the individuals that she cares about than A.R.G.U.S. as an organization. She jumps into action to lead the drone away from Gholem Qadir's mansion sparing innocents and if Amanda had not called off the drone strike planned to bomb Starling City, Lyla most definitely would have gone through with killing her superior.
Former powers
•Cosmic-empowered human physiology: Lyla's physiology was altered when Mar Novu gave her his cosmic powers; Mobius' possession of her body also gave her the Anti-Monitor's powers. After the rebirth of the multiverse, Lyla went back to being the way she was before the Monitor's intervention. •Interdimensional travel: Harbinger possesses the ability to teleport herself and others to any desired location within the Multiverse by releasing a beaming light from her body that arranges the wave functions of chosen particles in preparation of a quantum tunneling event. Lyla had traveled to Mar Novu and then back to Lian Yu on Earth-1 using inter-dimensional travel. •Superhuman strength: While being possessed by the Anti-Monitor, Lyla wielded an extreme amount of physical strength that; allowed her to easily knock down Superman of Earth-96, who proved himself to be more powerful than Superman of Earth-38. •Energy projection: While being possessed by the Anti-Monitor, Lyla was able to attack the Monitor with a beam of energy; so powerful that it eventually overcame and killed him. •Energy absorption: While being possessed by the Anti-Monitor, Lyla absorbed the energy from the Monitor after having killed him; adding to the increasing power of the Anti-Monitor. •Superhuman durability: This was displayed when she barely flinched when Kate Kane punched her in the face in frustration.
Abilities
•Peak of human physical condition: As a former soldier and the director of A.R.G.U.S., Lyla is in top physical condition. •Expert hand-to-hand combatant/Martial artist: Lyla is a highly trained hand-to-hand combatant, having developed her combat skills during her time as a soldier. Lyla also displayed a dramatic increase in skill when she was possessed by the Anti-Monitor, such as when she beat down John and easily knocked down the Superman of Earth-38. •Expert markswoman: As a former soldier and the director of A.R.G.U.S., Lyla is accomplished in the use of firearms. •Expert knife-thrower: During her fight with Digger Harkness, Lyla was able to throw a few of Roy Harper's flechettes at him with great accuracy. •Bilingual: Lyla is capable of fluently speaking English and Arabic. •Network: As the director of A.R.G.U.S., Lyla has connections within the organization. •Culinary expertise: Lyla is a talented cook, with many of her family and friends praising her dishes.
Former weaknesses
•Mobius: As Harbinger, Lyla became vulnerable to the influence of Mobius which allowed him to brainwash and possess her to kill Mar Novu and absorb his essence into her body. Since Mobius is shrinking and Lyla not having powers these weaknesses aren't around.
Former equipment
•Harbinger suit: After accepting her destiny and becoming Harbinger, Lyla was granted a full-body, blue suit by Mar Novu.
ArrowThe FlashSupergirlBatwomanDC's Legends of TomorrowNovels•Since learning about Sara Diggle's existence prior to Flashpoint, Lyla admitted she sometimes wonders what her life would have been like raising a daughter instead of a son.
•This is no longer a worry for her ever since her new Earth-Prime life, with both children restored.
•In the DC Comics' main continuity, Lyla operated as a superhero known as Harbinger and was a central figure of the massive DC comic book event known as Crisis on Infinite Earths.
•On Arrow, Lyla uses the codename mostly during A.R.G.U.S. operations.
The season features flashbacks to Oliver's third year since he was presumed dead, where after escaping Lian Yu, he is forced to work for A.R.G.U.S. leader Amanda Waller ( Cynthia Addai-Robinson) in Hong Kong.
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