Legends of Tomorrow

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Name:	Legends of Tomorrow DC's Legends of Tomorrow
Abbreviation(s):	LoT
Creator:	Greg Berlanti, Andrew Kreisberg and Marc Guggenheim
Date(s):	January 21, 2016 – present
Medium:	live-action TV series
Country of Origin:	United States
External Links:	Wikipedia, IMDB, official Tumblr Legends of Tomorrow promotional image for season 1 Related Concepts, Fandoms, Terms, Fanworks See also Arrow, The Flash, Vixen, Constantine, Supergirl
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Legends of Tomorrow is an American television series that is a spin-off of Arrow and The Flash, and thus takes place in the same universe.

Canon

Rip Hunter travels back in time to the present day where he brings together a team of heroes and villains in an attempt to prevent Vandal Savage from destroying the world and time itself.

Main Characters

Actor/Actress	Character	Seasons
Victor Garber	Professor Martin Stein/Firestorm	Season 1-present
Brandon Routh	Dr. Ray Palmer/The Atom	Season 1-present
Arthur Darvill	Captain Rip Hunter	Season 1-2 main, Season 3-present recurring
Caity Lotz	Sara Lance/White Canary	Season 1-present
Franz Drameh	Jefferson Jackson/Firestorm	Season 1-present
Ciara Renée	Kendra Saunders/Hawkgirl	Season 1
Falk Hentschel	Carter Hall/Hawkman	Season 1
Amy Pemberton	Gideon	Season 1-present
Dominic Purcell	Mick Rory/Heatwave/"Cronus"	Season 1-present
Wentworth Miller	Leonard Snart/Captain Cold	Season 1, season 2-present recurring
Nick Zano	Dr. Nate Heywood/Steel	Season 2-present
Maisie Richardson-Sellers	Amaya Jiwe/Vixen	Season 2-present
Neal McDonough	Damien Darhk	Season 1-2 recurring, Season 3 main
Matt Letscher	Eobard Thawne/Reverse Flash	Season 2
Tala Ashe	Zari Adrianna Tomaz/Isis	Season 3-present
Matt Ryan	John Constantine	Season 3 recurring, Season 4 main
Jes Macallan	Ava Sharpe	Season 3 recurring, Season 4 main
Courtney Ford	Nora Darhk	Season 3 recurring, Season 4 main

Recurring Characters

• Hath-Set/Vandal Savage, Season 1 main antagonist
• Zaman Druce, Season 1
• Jonah Hex
• Lily Stein
• Malcolm Merlyn/Dark Archer, Season 2 recurring antagonist
• Justice Society of America team: Rex Tyler/Hourman, Henry Heywood, Sr./Commander Steel, Todd Rice/Obsidian, Courtney Whitmore/Stargirl, Charles McNider/Doctor Midnight, and Amaya/Vixen
• Gary Green

Guest Characters

• Dr. Aldus Boardman
• Valentina Vostok
• Connor Hawke/Green Arrow
• Lindsay Carlisle
• Rachel Turner

Various main and recurring characters from the other Arrowverse shows have appeared within Legends of Tomorrow - often as a guest or fairly recurring role. To name a few: Oliver Queen/Green Arrow, Laurel Lance/Black Canary, Quentin Lance, Felicity Smoak, Nyssa al Ghul, Ra's al Ghul, Talia al Ghul, Cisco Ramon, Caitlin Snow, Barry Allen/Flash, Kara Danvers/Supergirl, Wally West/Kid Flash and John Diggle/Spartan.

Various historical characters have appeared, including Julius Ceaser, George Lucas, King Arthur and Guinevere, J. R. R. Tolkien, and George Washington.

Fandom

Before the show aired, many speculated on how they were bringing Sara Lance back and on how the characters would interact with each other. However, it wasn't until the First Look/Trailer [1] was released that Tumblr exploded with gifs, picspams and some fans even started shipping characters already (see #Shipping section for information) which even led to some fanfics being created around those pairings. A few Tumblr blogs were created around the series, and even more were created after the series aired.

Vids are mainly posted to YouTube with only a few uploaded to Tumblr directly.

Fanfiction for the series is mainly located on Archive of Our Own and Tumblr, however FanFiction.net and Wattpad are also used although at a lesser context compared to the first two.

Beebo

Beebo was introduced in season 3 as part of the fictional "Cuddle Me Beebo" toy brand. The toy ended up as an anachronism, creating a time aberration of New Valhalla, where he was worshiped by the Vikings and replaced Christmas with "Beebo Day". Beebo quickly became popular within the fandom and had many editing him into history photos, wishing each other a happy Beebo Day on December 25 and generally using the phrase "Praise Beebo" as a positive affirmation. On April 1, 2018 the Arrowverse Wiki changed to the "Beebo Wiki" for its April Fools joke and Legends of Tomorrow did an official Instagram Takeover with Beebo.

Shipping

Since all of the characters (besides Rip Hunter) already appeared on Arrow and/or The Flash, many fans already shipped the LoT main characters with those characters, for example Leonard/Barry, Leonard/Mick, Ray/Oliver, Sara/Nyssa and Kendra/Cisco; interest in those pairings continued through the airing of LoT's first season. Carter/Kendra, had the comicverse canon background and star-crossed lovers/soulmates history, thus already had a following. Fanworks on AO3 often used the Legends of Tomorrow tag on the above ships since the First Look/Trailer was released.

The new ships with the First Look/Trailer release were: Kendra/Sara/Nyssa, Kendra/Sara, Ray/Kendra, Rip/Kendra, Kendra/Barry (at the time Kendra had yet to appear on The Flash), Sara/Leonard, Leonard/Ray, and Ray/Sara.

Since the pilot episode first aired, the pairings Leonard/Ray and Leonard/Sara took off, as well as the threesome or brot3 of Leonard/Mick/Sara. A couple other ships also later surfaced: Mick/Jax, Mick/Sara, Sara/Jax, Jax/Betty, Martin/Sara, Mick/Martin, Jax/Kendra, Sara/Lindsay, and Mick/Ray. By the end of the first season Rip/Miranda, Carter/Kendra, Kendra/Ray, Sara/Lindsay, and Leonard/Sara were canonized.

Season 2 added Nate Heywood and Amaya Jiwe to the Legends team which brought several new ships, including Ray/Nate, Amaya/Sara, Mick/Amaya and Amaya/Nate. Rip/Gideon also surfaced thanks to the appearance of Gideon's human form.

After the mid-season finale of season 3, Sara/Ava became very popular. Amaya/Zari, Sara/Constantine, Ray/Nora, and Constantine/Gary also gained traction.The crossover event highlighted Sara/Alex and Leonard/Ray Terrill.

Criticism

Spoiler Warning: This article or section may contain spoilers. If this bothers you, proceed with caution.

Season 1

• Lack of main female characters and characters of color - Sara Lance and Kendra Saunders are the only women on the team besides the female A.I., Gideon, and only Kendra Saunders and Jefferson Jackson are the POC on the team.
  • Fridged Rip Hunter's wife & son in the first episode
• Lack of Sara/Nyssa - many fans wishing for Nyssa to return or Sara to visit Nyssa - and having Sara have a new love interest (Lindsay Carlisle) in a future episode.
  • Though Sara is bisexual, there has been some criticism to fans for shipping Sara Lance with more male characters: Ray Palmer, Rip Hunter, and Leonard Snart than more female characters on the team.
• Martin Stein drugging Jefferson in the first episode.
• Failing the Bechdel Test in its second episode, although it managed to pass in the first
• Major Character death in the second episode

Season 3

• While not only contained to LoT, the crossover event "Crisis on Earth X" was criticized for being set on a Nazi Earth and having Nazi doppelgänger characters.
  • The major character death that happened within the crossover.
  • Sara/Alex sleeping together so soon after Alex/Maggie had broken up.

Connections with other Fandoms

The series makes many references to and have many similarities with Prison Break and Doctor Who.

Arthur Darvill played Rory Williams in Doctor Who, who played a human that traveled through time with the Doctor, in LoT he portrays Rip Hunter which is a character that can be described sort of like Captain Jack Harkness - a time traveler from the future. He's actually the third DW actor to appear in the Arrowverse - after Malcolm Merlyn (John Barrowman, portrayed Jack Harkness in both DW & Torchwood) and Dinah Lance (Alex Kingston, portrayed River Song in DW).

Dominic Purcell (Heat Wave) and Wentworth Miller (Captain Cold) are both originally from Prison Break, and Legends of Tomorrow often references it. Or some fans interconnect them. Victor Garber's previous role in Titanic was referenced in the series as was Brandon Routh's Superman Returns and Caity Lotz dancing ability (started her career as a professional dancer).

On December 25, 2015, Entertainment Weekly announced that Ali Liebert (actress known from starring roles in Bomb Girls, Harper's Island, and Lost Girl) will portray Lindsay Carlisle - a "intelligent lady who is the ideal picture of 1950s womanhood... she harbors a dark secret: she’s a lesbian" and a love interest to Sara Lance. Many fans compare it to her Bomb Girls character Betty McRae who was also a lesbian and from a similar time.

Jewel Staite, actress known for her portrayal of Kaylee Frye on Firefly/Serenity & Dr. Jennifer Keller on Stargate Atlantis, appeared on the series as Rachel Turner - "a tech genius and roboticist in the future".

Terminology

• Arrowverse is the official term that represents the shared universe between LoT, Flash, Vixen, Constantine and Arrow.
  • Legends of Flarrow is the fan term describe the universe of LoT, The Flash and Arrow, it also describes a crossover between them.
  • Legends of Superflarrow is the fan term to describe the crossover between Lot, The Flash, Arrow, and Supergirl.
• For a list of pairing names, see List of Arrowverse Relationship Names

Fanworks

Fics

• Soar by enkiindlethis, Sara wants to try flying, if only for a second (Kendra/Sara)
• fooled around and fell in love (well, sort of) by thebicanary, we’re superheroes and got drunk last night oh god what did we do au (Sara/Kendra & Teamfic as well as Leonard & Sara brotp)
• When Cold Can't Stand the Cold by Crimson1, Len hates being cold. Seriously. Hates it. But he can't ADMIT that. The fact that he and Sara are alone on Rip's spaceship, and Sara has the softest, warmest looking blanket ever known to man is just plain unfair. (Captain Canary brotp, possibly pre-relationship)
• this scene ends badly, as you might imagine, it's like one of those sex pollen fics, except it's the aftermath. the team tries to put together who banged. it's a mess. (Team Legends)

Fanart

• A girl with wings and a past lives complex. by prettypurpleflower (Kendra)
• AU. HawkWest picspams by joeswes (Kendra/Iris)
• Mick is always the one to carry the unconscious members. So my theory if Mick is ever unconscious. by thecottoncandyzombie (Mick & Sara)
• Vandal Savage, Rip Hunter by vclauart
• Legends of Tomorrow by reeeena
• Legends Of Tomorrow by jonathanserrot
• New White Canary piece for Heroes and Villains Fan Fest! by leannkimhill

Vids

• We'll Go Down In History by daniyalive
• Bad Guy Wins by Cantrous (Leonard Snart)
• Shadow Preachers by Sophia4jjdt (Carter/Kendra)
• You're worth the wait by nathawk (Carter/Kendra)
• Just Wanna Dance With You by daniyalive (Rip/Sara)
• The Last time by SayaxSama (Rip/Sara)
• Closer To Me by danniyalive (Rip/Sara)
• darkstar by Nuntucket Maybe (Kendra/Sara & Leonard/Ray)

Archives & Fannish Links

• Legends of Tomorrow works at AO3
• Legends of Tomorrow works at FFN
• DC Legends TV.com
• Legends of Tomorrow Fans, a LJ community
• The Flarrowverse Shipyard at Discord

Tumblr

• legends of tomorrow tag at Tumblr

General:

• fylegendsoftomorrow
• loftomorrowdaily
• dailylotgifs
• lotsource
• Incorrect Legends of Tommorow Quotes! - "dedicated to posting quotes from other media that LoT characters would say"

Characters:

• fyeahkendrasaunders (defunct)
• Kendra Saunders Daily

Shipping:

• lotships (any and all ships)
• dailycaptaincanary (Captain Canary)
• captainvcanary (Captain Canary)
• dailywhiteatom (White Atom)
• heatatom (Heatatom)
• acoldatom (Coldatom)
• dailyhawk (Hawkmates)
• DCTVPolyamShipWeek, a DCTV poly week challenge blog which includes LoT & Arrowverse