50 Fun Facts About Legends of Tomorrow

Which timeship does Rip Hunter steal to carry the Legends of Tomorrow through history?

The Waverider shares its name with a DC Comics superhero, Matthew Ryder, who can travel through time. On screen it is a stolen Time Master vessel.

Which talking children's toy do Vikings worship as a god of war in Legends of Tomorrow?

Beebo lands in Viking-age North America with a young Martin Stein, who was buying the toy for his daughter. The settlers take it for a deity.

Which film student is filming with an amnesiac Rip Hunter when the Legends of Tomorrow reach 1967?

George Lucas quits filmmaking after the scare, an aberration that costs Ray Palmer and Nate Heywood their specialities until he goes back to school.

Legends of Tomorrow reunited Wentworth Miller and Dominic Purcell, co-stars of which earlier Fox drama?

Prison Break earned Wentworth Miller a Golden Globe nomination before he and Purcell reteamed as a pair of DC Comics crooks.

Which Legends of Tomorrow star had played Superman on the big screen in a 2006 film?

Brandon Routh, the team's inventor Ray Palmer, put the cape back on for the 2019 crossover Crisis on Infinite Earths.

Which actor, the shipbuilder in the film Titanic, plays Professor Martin Stein in Legends of Tomorrow?

Victor Garber played Thomas Andrews in Titanic, and his Legends run ended when Stein was killed off in the Crisis on Earth-X crossover.

Which original Legends of Tomorrow member sacrifices himself near the end of season one to save the others?

Leonard Snart dies destroying the Time Masters, though a time-displaced version of the thief returns in season two as a villain.

Which code name does former assassin Sara Lance use as leader of the Legends of Tomorrow?

White Canary is her second code name: Sara Lance first went by The Canary, a translation of her League of Assassins name.

Which future US president do the Legends of Tomorrow save from Gorilla Grodd while he is a college student?

Barack Obama is the target in an episode titled Guest Starring John Noble, after the actor who voices the season's demon.

At which famous music festival do the Legends of Tomorrow confront a heart-eating unicorn in season four?

Woodstock opens season four's hunt for magical fugitives: the unicorn gores a festival-goer before John Constantine banishes it to Hell.

Which artificial intelligence runs the Legends of Tomorrow's timeship and gains a human form in the final season?

Gideon was mostly a voice until season seven, when Amy Louise Pemberton began playing a flesh-and-blood version for most of the run.

Which immortal tyrant murders Rip Hunter's wife and son, prompting the first Legends of Tomorrow mission?

Vandal Savage turns out to have the Time Masters on his side: they back his rule as a defence against a future alien invasion.

Which code name does arsonist and career criminal Mick Rory go by in Legends of Tomorrow?

Heat Wave spends part of season one hunting his own team as the bounty hunter Chronos, after the Time Masters recruit him.

Which hero name does inventor Ray Palmer use in a suit that lets him shrink, in Legends of Tomorrow?

The Atom can also grow to immense size in the suit, and Ray Palmer once spent six months as a captive while the world believed him dead.

Professor Martin Stein and mechanic Jax Jackson are the two halves of which hero in Legends of Tomorrow?

Firestorm pairs a nuclear physicist with a former high school athlete whose sporting career was derailed by an injury.

Historian Nate Heywood gains the power to turn his body into which material in Legends of Tomorrow?

Steel also supplies his hero name, Citizen Steel, though Nate Heywood first joins the team in season two as a historian with no powers.

Which code name belongs to Amaya Jiwe, who channels animal abilities through a totem in Legends of Tomorrow?

Vixen draws her power from the Anansi Totem worn around her neck, and she joins the Legends from the Justice Society of America.

Reverse-Flash, Damien Darhk and Malcolm Merlyn form which villain team in season two of Legends of Tomorrow?

The Legion of Doom gets its name from Nate Heywood, who borrows it from a cartoon he enjoyed as a child.

Which reality-rewriting relic do heroes and villains chase throughout season two of Legends of Tomorrow?

The Spear of Destiny turns up in fragments scattered through history, one of them hidden in the flag that Apollo 11 left on the Moon.

Which agency does Rip Hunter found to police history, firing the Legends of Tomorrow in season three?

The Time Bureau sacks the team for causing anachronisms, then has to let them back into action when agent Ava Sharpe is captured.

Which demon, seeking six mystical totems, is the main villain of Legends of Tomorrow's third season?

Mallus is served by a cult led by Damien Darhk's daughter Nora, and his true form stays hidden until the season's penultimate episode.

Which secret about her own origins does agent Ava Sharpe uncover in season three of Legends of Tomorrow?

She is a clone, mass-produced in the year 2213, and the twelfth Ava that Rip Hunter recruited as an agent.

Hacktivist Zari Tomaz wears a totem that commands which element in Legends of Tomorrow?

Air is the element of the totem Zari Tomaz brings from 2042; after the timeline changes, her brother Behrad wields it in her place.

Which Welsh actor plays occult detective John Constantine, who joins the Legends of Tomorrow in season four?

Matt Ryan first played the role in NBC's one-season series Constantine, then stayed with Legends in a new part, the inventor Gwyn Davies.

Which demon takes over Ray Palmer's body late in season four of Legends of Tomorrow?

Neron tries to seal the possession by making Ray murder someone he loves, and he also manipulates agent Gary Green into serving him.

Which magical job does reformed villain Nora Darhk take on in season four of Legends of Tomorrow?

A fairy godmother is what she becomes in the season when she and Ray Palmer fall for each other; the two later marry and leave the team.

Which device do Charlie's immortal sisters pursue her to recover in season five of Legends of Tomorrow?

The Loom of Fate was hidden by Charlie, really the Greek Fate Clotho, so that everyone could have free will.

Which name is given to the evil historical figures Astra Logue resurrects from Hell in Legends of Tomorrow?

Encores cannot be killed by traditional means, because a portion of each one's soul remains bound to Hell.

Which scientist has Sara Lance abducted by aliens so he can copy her DNA in Legends of Tomorrow's sixth season?

Bishop wants to build a perfect warrior by combining Sara's DNA and memories with those of aliens, claiming he has seen the end of the human race.

A duplicate timeship destroys the original and strands the Legends of Tomorrow in which US state in 1925?

Texas is the starting point of season seven, in which the stranded team heads for New York City to find a scientist said to have invented time travel.

Which US network aired all seven seasons of Legends of Tomorrow before cancelling the series in 2022?

The CW launched it in January 2016 as a spin-off built around characters introduced on Arrow and The Flash.

Which actress, once a backup dancer for Lady Gaga, plays Sara Lance in Legends of Tomorrow?

Caity Lotz toured with Avril Lavigne too, and she made her directing debut on an episode of the show's fifth season.

Which actor, formerly a Doctor Who companion, plays time-travelling leader Rip Hunter in Legends of Tomorrow?

Arthur Darvill played Rory Williams, companion to the Eleventh Doctor, and went on to appear as a vicar in the drama Broadchurch.

Which Band of Brothers actor plays the villain Damien Darhk in Legends of Tomorrow?

Neal McDonough brought the character over from the fourth season of Arrow, and he also played Dum Dum Dugan in Captain America: The First Avenger.

Which DC hero does Scrubs star Donald Faison play in the Legends of Tomorrow series finale?

Booster Gold first appears under the plain name Mike, a fixer who makes off with the team's ship.

Which alien race do the Legends fight alongside the Flash, Green Arrow and Supergirl in a crossover event?

The Dominators had landed on Earth once before, in the 1950s, and the crossover takes its name from a late-1980s DC Comics miniseries.

The Legends of Tomorrow episode Here I Go Again, which traps Zari in a time loop, pays homage to which film?

Groundhog Day shares the credit with Cause and Effect, a Star Trek: The Next Generation episode that also runs on a time loop.

Which Roman leader does Mick Rory capture in Aruba in the season three premiere of Legends of Tomorrow?

Julius Caesar steals a history book on the trip home and uses what he learns from it to conquer the world.

Which young singer do the Legends of Tomorrow convince to keep pursuing music in 1954 Memphis?

Elvis Presley's guitar turns out to contain the final totem, the Death Totem, and a ghostly presence follows it aboard the ship.

Into which animal is Zari Tomaz transformed when John Constantine rewrites his own past in Legends of Tomorrow?

A cat is what the change makes of her, which gives the following episode its punning title, Legends of To-Meow-Meow.

Which future fantasy author do the Legends of Tomorrow find at the Battle of the Somme in 1916?

J. R. R. Tolkien is sought out for his research on Sir Gawain, a knight said to have possessed some of Christ's blood.

Which Greek princess turns up displaced in 1937 Hollywood in Legends of Tomorrow's third season?

Helen of Troy refuses to go home because men die over her, and she later returns to fight beside the team in the Old West.

Which showman captures two Legends of Tomorrow for a circus that already exhibits a sabre-toothed tiger?

P. T. Barnum hears about the heroes' powers from a drunk Nate Heywood at his 1870 Wisconsin circus and decides to put them in the show.

Which historical figure, back from the dead in 1917 Russia, do the Legends of Tomorrow face as season five opens?

Grigori Rasputin was murdered by Dmitri Pavlovich and fellow conspirators, and the team first try, and fail, to talk him into taking revenge on his killer.

Which Old West gunslinger, an old acquaintance of Rip Hunter, do the Legends save from execution in 1874?

Jonah Hex is a former Confederate soldier who already knows about time travel when the team first meets him in the Dakota Territory.

The six totems of Legends of Tomorrow's third season come from which fictional African homeland of Amaya Jiwe?

Zambesi in 1942 is where Amaya Jiwe returns to live out her life at the end of that season, which ends her relationship with Nate Heywood.

Which conqueror, returned from Hell, tries to seize 1990s Hong Kong in Legends of Tomorrow's fifth season?

Genghis Khan plans to force Prince Charles to hand the city over to him, backed by a hell sword and the local Triads.

Which second career does arsonist Mick Rory take up under a woman's pen name in Legends of Tomorrow?

Romance novelist Rebecca Silver is his alter ego, semi-popular with readers, and he later appoints a successor to carry on the name.

Which heroine is Kendra Saunders, the reincarnated Egyptian priestess of Legends of Tomorrow's first season?

Hawkgirl is fated to be reborn through the ages alongside her soulmate Carter Hall, once the Egyptian prince Khufu.

Which device do the Time Masters use to manipulate the Legends, until the team destroys it in season one?

The Oculus had even orchestrated the murder of Rip Hunter's family, and setting off its self-destruct costs one of the team his life.