This causes the CEO's office of Palmer Technologies to explode, leaving Ray to be presumed dead. Ray however, survived the explosion, albeit shrunken to the size of an atom.
The next day, Ray implanted his nano-tech into his suit, which would allow it to miniaturize selected targets and reduce the scale of the suit itself. This caused this office to explode, leaving Ray to be presumed dead. However, he survived the explosion, though shrunken to the size of an atom.
Thankfully, the exit wasn't completely permanent. Routh has since returned as Ray Palmer for episodes of both The Flash and Legends (which celebrated its 100th episode last year with a big character reunion), alongside Ford, who returned as her character (and Ray's wife) Nora Darhk.
Post-Crisis, Ray helped the Legends fight the Encores such as Damien Darhk, who gave his blessing for Ray to marry Nora. After getting married, Ray and Nora chose to leave the Legends and focus on Nora's job as a Fairy Godmother.
Leo Snart from Earth X is gay. The actor pitched the character as being pansexual, but I don't know that there was ever a case where he actually acted that way.
Despite their feelings for each other, after Thea was mortally wounded by Ra's al Ghul, Ray and Felicity went through a mutual breakup, due to him ready to move on from his fiance Anna and her romantic feelings for Oliver.
In the alternate timeline created by the Reverse-Flash, Nora's dad was alive instead of her, which means Ray and Nora never got married. After the timeline was restored by the Flash, Nora was alive again remained married to Ray. She is now also pregnant, as she and Ray will start a family together.
She fights him but is defeated, and Ra's stabs her and leaves her dying in a pool of blood. Thea is first taken to the hospital, where it's determined she probably won't ever wake up again. The group then takes her to Nanda Parbat, where she is put into a Lazarus Pit.
Brandon Routh has been fairly candid about how his exit from the series was handled, and he revealed he wanted to explore more of the relationship between Palmer and his wife Nora Darhk, as played by Routh's real-life wife Courtney Ford.
She becomes CEO of Palmer Technologies and subsequently founds her own company, Smoak Tech. Her relationship with Oliver develops into a romantic one, leading to their marriage and to her becoming stepmother to his son, William, and later mother to their daughter, Mia.
Ray Palmer is a major protagonist in the Arrowverse. He is a supporting character in both Arrow and The Flash, and one of the main protagonists in the first five seasons of DC's Legends of Tomorrow.
Dead characters like Moira Queen, Quentin Lance, and Tommy Merlyn are now alive again thanks to Oliver's sacrifice; Team Arrow members John Diggle, Dinah Drake, Laurel Lance, and Rene Ramirez have new jobs and missions ahead of them; Roy and Thea are finally getting married; Mia Queen is safely back in the future and ...
Although Roy is believed dead by the general public and the superhero community, his resurrection is known to the Department of Extranormal Operations.
While everyone on Team Arrow received some sort of a happy ending, Mr. Palmer was seemingly killed unceremoniously in an explosion while tinkering with his Atom suit.
What happened to Ray Palmer at the end of season 3?
Did Ray just blow himself up? Don't worry, Ray (Brandon Routh) is alive and well. He's heading over to the upcoming Arrow/Flash spinoff, DC's Legends of Tomorrow, and that explosion in the final moments of the show was him working on shrinking himself down to the size of an Atom.
Felicity Smoak, by contrast, is a character original to Arrow. Thus, a big part of Arrow's decision to pair Oliver and Felicity rather than Oliver and Laurel comes down to the show's desire to tell its own story. Here's why Oliver ends up with Felicity and not Laurel in Arrow.
By killing off Felicity, Arrow finally brought her story to a satisfying conclusion. Rickards opted to leave the series after season 7 as she wanted a break from acting in television.
The big news: Felicity (Emily Bett Rickards) is pregnant with Oliver's (Stephen Amell) baby, and their daughter will grow up to become Blackstar (Katherine McNamara) in the future. What it means: This is obviously the news that “Olicity” fans have been waiting for ever since Oliver and Felicity got married.
She takes a liking to Snart and hangs around him most of the time. They play cards often and talk about things. Later on Snart tells Sara that he loves her, and Sara admits her feelings through a kiss just as Snart sacrifices himself and blows up the Oculus.
After Eobard Thawne was erased from existence, Snart was returned from where he had been plucked from history where Mick then erased his memory to keep his place in time intact.
