Legends of Tomorrow is an American television series, developed by Greg Berlanti, Marc Guggenheim, Phil Klemmer, and Andrew Kreisberg, based on several characters from DC Comics. The series premiered in the United States on January 21, 2016, for The CW television network, and it finished its first season on May 19, 2016. The second season premiered in October 2016 and ended in April 2017. The third season premiered in October 2017 and concluded in April 2018, while the fourth season premiered in October 2018 and wrapped up in April 2019. The fifth season premiered in January 2020 and finished in June 2020.
Legends of Tomorrows first season follows Time Master Rip Hunter (Arthur Darvill) in his mission to stop Vandal Savage (Casper Crump) from killing his wife and child and destroying the world. To help him, he forms a team of Legends consisting of Martin Stein (Victor Garber) and Jefferson Jackson (Franz Drameh) / Firestorm, Ray Palmer / The Atom (Brandon Routh), Sara Lance / White Canary (Caity Lotz), Kendra Saunders / Hawkgirl (Ciara Renée), Carter Hall / Hawkman (Falk Hentschel), Mick Rory / Heat Wave (Dominic Purcell), and Leonard Snart / Captain Cold (Wentworth Miller); with the A.I. Gideon (Amy Pemberton) providing assistance. By the end of the season, Snart sacrifices himself to save the Legends and Kendra and Carter depart following Savage's defeat.
The second season focuses on the remaining Legends fixing "aberrations" in time as well as confronting the Legion of Doom, composed of Eobard Thawne / Reverse-Flash (Matt Letscher), Damien Darhk (Neal McDonough), Malcolm Merlyn (John Barrowman) and a time-displaced Snart. Along the way, they are joined by historian Nate Heywood / Steel (Nick Zano) and Justice Society of America member Amaya Jiwe / Vixen (Maisie Richardson-Sellers). Though the Legends defeat the Legion, they accidentally destroy time and Rip disappears under mysterious circumstances.
The third season sees the Legends repairing anachronisms across the timestream. In addition, they also face opposition from Rip's Time Bureau and a demonic entity called Mallus (John Noble), whose disciple, Nora Darhk (Courtney Ford), has resurrected her father Damien and Amaya's future granddaughter Kuasa (Tracy Ifeachor). Though the team loses Stein and Jackson, they gain new allies in computer hacker Zari Tomaz (Tala Ashe), speedster Wally West / Kid Flash (Keiynan Lonsdale), and Time Bureau agents Ava Sharpe (Jes Macallan) and Gary Green (Adam Tsekhman). In the end, Rip dies fighting Mallus while Amaya and Wally depart following the demon's defeat.
In the fourth season, the Legends must capture a group of mythical creatures that were released when they freed Mallus. Along the way, they must also stop the demon Neron from unleashing Hell on Earth. The team is joined by occult detective John Constantine (Matt Ryan), shapeshifting fugitive Charlie (Maisie Richardson-Sellers), Kaupe Mona Wu (Ramona Young), and a reformed Nora. After changing the timeline while defeating Neron, Zari is erased from the team and replaced by her brother, Behrad Tarazi (Shayan Sobhian).
In the fifth season, the Legends track down and stop evil historical figures called "Encores" after they are resurrected by Astra Logue (Olivia Swann), whom Constantine accidentally sent to Hell. Along the way, they discover Charlie is actually Clotho of the Fates, who is being hunted by her sisters, Lachesis (Sarah Strange) and Atropos (Joanna Vanderham), for destroying the Loom of Fate. Though Mona leaves the Legends to start her writing career and Ray and Nora also leave after getting married, Ava and Gary join the team after the Time Bureau gets shut down, the new Zari from the changed timeline joins them, and Astra ends up joining the team after the Fates betrayed her. The team regains their memories of the old Zari when they learn she has been transported to the World Between Worlds in the Air Totem however she can't co-exist with her counterpart for too long as her timeline will bleed into the new one, risking Behrad's life. After defeating her sisters, Charlie departs to reunite with her old band.
In the sixth season, the Legends deal with rescuing Sara from the scientist human shapeshifter Bishop (Raffi Barsoumian) while dealing with alien creatures released by Sara in different times. The team is joined by alien hunter Esperanza Cruz (Lisseth Chavez). Zari Tomaz learns she can switch places with her counterpart in the Air Totem, allowing her to rejoin the team on a part-time basis and continue dating Nate. John and Mick depart following Bishop's defeat.
In the seventh (and final) season, the team fights their very own Waverider. After Bishop (pre-villain) is returned to his time with his memory wiped, he wakes with a hard drive containing Gideon. After removing her "humanity protocol" (installed by Rip Hunter), he creates "Evil Gideon" the antagonist of the season. After recreating the Waverider he and his "Ava 1.0" travel to the bridge between season 6 & 7 and destroy the Waverider marooning the legends in 1925. The team are forced to seek the help of Gwyn Davies, a scientist and World War One veteran who is also the inventor of time travel. He aids the team in their fight against Evil Gideon as he joins them after they make his time machine work properly. After defeating Evil Gideon, their robot clones and saving the life of Alun Thomas, Gwyn's best friend, who died during World War One, Nate and Zari Tomaz leave the team when Nate moves into the Air Totem with her. The rest of the team are double-crossed by the time-fixer, Mike who they met and they were all arrested by the Time Police, alongside Mike and Alun Thomas, for 'time crimes.'
The following is a list of characters that have appeared on the television series. Many are named for, or are based on DC Comics characters.
| Portrayed by | First appearance | Seasons | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | ||||
| Main characters | ||||||||||
| Martin Stein / Firestorm | Victor Garber | "Pilot, Part 1" | ||||||||
| Ray Palmer / Atom | Brandon Routh | |||||||||
| Rip Hunter | Arthur Darvill | |||||||||
| Sara Lance / White Canary | Caity Lotz | colspan="7" | ||||||||
| Jefferson "Jax" Jackson / Firestorm | Franz Drameh | |||||||||
| Kendra Saunders / Hawkgirl | Ciara Renée | colspan="6" | ||||||||
| Carter Hall / Hawkman | Falk Hentschel | |||||||||
| Gideon | Amy Pemberton | colspan="7" | ||||||||
| Mick Rory / Heat Wave | Dominic Purcell | |||||||||
| Leonard Snart / Captain Cold | Wentworth Miller | |||||||||
| Eobard Thawne / Reverse Flash | Matt Letscher | "Out of Time" | ||||||||
| Amaya Jiwe / Vixen | Maisie Richardson-Sellers | colspan="4" | ||||||||
| Charlie / Clotho | "Dancing Queen" | colspan="2" | ||||||||
| Nate Heywood / Steel | Nick Zano | "Out of Time" | colspan="6" | |||||||
| Zari Tomaz | Tala Ashe | "Zari" | colspan="5" | |||||||
| Zari Tarazi | "Miss Me, Kiss Me, Love Me" | colspan="3" | ||||||||
| Wally West / Kid Flash | Keiynan Lonsdale | "Aruba-Con" | colspan="4" | |||||||
| Ava Sharpe | Jes Macallan | colspan="4" | ||||||||
| John Constantine | Matt Ryan | "Beebo the God of War" | ||||||||
| Gwyn Davies | "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Scientist" | |||||||||
| Mona Wu | Ramona Young | "Dancing Queen" | colspan="2" | |||||||
| Nora Darhk | Courtney Ford | "Return of the Mack" | ||||||||
| Astra Logue | Olivia Swann | "Terms of Service" | colspan="3" | |||||||
| Mobius / Anti-Monitor | LaMonica Garrett | "Crisis on Infinite Earths: Part Five" | colspan="2" | |||||||
| Gary Green | Adam Tsekhman | "Aruba-Con" | colspan="2" | |||||||
| Behrad Tarazi | Shayan Sobhian | "Hey, World!" | colspan="2" | |||||||
| Esperanza "Spooner" Cruz | Lisseth Chavez | "Ground Control to Sara Lance" | colspan="2" | |||||||
| Recurring characters< | -- The following all appear in 4 or more episodes across one season, defined for this series as recurring. --> | |||||||||
| Vandal Savage | Casper Crump | "Pilot, Part 1" | colspan="3" | |||||||
| Miranda Coburn | Alex Duncan | colspan="6" | ||||||||
| Damien Darhk | Neal McDonough | "Pilot, Part 2" | colspan="2" | |||||||
| Zaman Druce | Martin Donovan | "White Knights" | colspan="6" | |||||||
| Lily Stein | Christina Brucato | "Outlaw Country" | colspan="4" | |||||||
| Malcolm Merlyn / Dark Archer | John Barrowman | "The Chicago Way" | colspan="5" | |||||||
| Henry "Hank" Heywood, Jr. | Patrick Lubczyk | "Moonshot" | colspan="5" | |||||||
| Tom Wilson | "The Virgin Gary" | colspan="3" | ||||||||
| Wilbur Bennett | Hiro Kanagawa | "Aruba-Con" | colspan="4" | |||||||
| Kuasa / Vixen | Tracy Ifeachor | "Freakshow" | colspan="4" | |||||||
| Amaya Jiwe's ancestor | Joy Richardson | "Zari" | colspan="4" | |||||||
| Mallus | John Noble | "Return of the Mack" | colspan="4" | |||||||
| Dorothy Heywood | Susan Hogan | "The Virgin Gary" | colspan="3" | |||||||
| Tabitha | Jane Carr | "Witch Hunt" | colspan="3" | |||||||
| Desmond | Christian Keyes | "Dancing Queen" | colspan="3" | |||||||
| Konane | Darien Martin | "Tagumo Attacks!!!" | colspan="3" | |||||||
| Mike the Spike | Paul Reubens | "Hell No, Dolly!" | colspan="3" | |||||||
| Wolfie | Sisa Grey | "Lucha de Apuestas" | colspan="2" | |||||||
| Ali | Lisa Marie DiGiacinto | "Slay Anything" | colspan="2" | |||||||
| Lachesis | Sarah Strange | "A Head of Her Time" | colspan="2" | |||||||
| Lita | Mina Sundwall | "Mr. Parker's Cul-De-Sac" | ||||||||
| Atropos | Joanna Vanderham | "Zari, Not Zari" | colspan="2" | |||||||
| Bishop | Raffi Barsoumian | "The Ex-Factor" | ||||||||
| Kayla | Aliyah O'Brien | "Bay of Squids" | ||||||||
| J. Edgar Hoover | Giacomo Baessato | "The Bullet Blondes" | ||||||||
Professor Martin Stein (portrayed by Victor Garber as an adult; main: seasons 1–3;[1] guest: season 7) (portrayed by Graeme McComb as a young man; guest: seasons 1–3) is a faculty member from Hudson University and nuclear physicist focused on transmutation, who is also half of the character Firestorm with Jefferson Jackson.[2] Stein is also Ray Palmer's former college professor. Initially time travels for intellectual pursuits and adventures with his wife Clarissa's blessing; however, after accidentally altering his own history resulted in his fatherhood in season two and becoming a grandfather following his daughter's pregnancy in season three, Stein discovers happiness that he and Clarissa had never experienced in the previous timeline and desires to be with his family, ultimately seeks to separate himself from the F.I.R.E.S.T.O.R.M. matrix, with help from Jax, Ray, Harry Wells, Cisco Ramon, and Caitlin Snow.
However, during the events of "Crisis on Earth-X", Stein is badly injured during the team's escape from Earth-X when he is shot by two Nazis and dies separating himself from the F.I.R.E.S.T.O.R.M. matrix. The Legends, Team Arrow, Team Flash, Supergirl, and Alex Danvers avenge Stein by defeating the Earth-X armies that are led by Overgirl and Dark Arrow and killing their leaders, though Eobard Thawne gets away.
Following Stein's death, his younger 1992 self is accidentally displaced in the Norsemen era with a Beebo toy, reveals details of Stein's change to his past during Hanukkah after his last encounter with his younger self in 1987 in the process. After taking his future self's advice, young Stein leads a fulfilling marriage with Clarissa following the couple's daughter Lily's birth, with him being a devoted father, therefore young Stein and his wife are living a much happier lives than what would have been without interfering Stein's destiny. The Legends end up saving him and getting him back to his own time with a replacement Beebo for his daughter. Becoming aware of his fate in 2017, young Stein decides not to learn the details of his impending death and avert it, knowing that he would die in the age of 67 hence a senior; he gathers that he would already lived his life to the fullest by then and even if he alters the event it would only bought himself a little time anyway due to being elderly. He resolves to treasure the life he has as a husband and father, and advises Jefferson to move on from his future self's death.
In season seven, Gideon encounters a memory of Stein at the time she suffers a virus.
The character was first introduced on The Flash. Garber left the series during season three, after his character's death during the "Crisis on Earth-X" crossover.[3]
Victor Garber also portrays Henry Stein, an ancestor of Martin living in London, 1895.
See main article: Ray Palmer (Arrowverse).
Dr. Raymond "Ray" Palmer (portrayed by Brandon Routh; main: seasons 1–5; guest: season 7) is a scientist, inventor, businessman, and CEO of Palmer Technologies. After losing his fiancée Anna to the Starling City Siege, Ray developed a power-suit to protect the people of Starling City and became a member of Team Arrow. After a lab accident that saw him captive for 6 months and the world believing him dead, he is now capable of shrinking and growing to immense sizes whilst wearing the suit.
During the first season, he develops a relationship with Kendra Saunders, but this ends when Hawkman is reincarnated as Scythian Torvil.
In later seasons, Ray forms a strong friendship with Nate Heywood and develops an attraction towards Nora Darhk. He later becomes the host of the demon Neron after surrendering his body in order to save Nate's life. He is eventually saved and resurrected by Constantine.
During season five, he marries Nora and leaves the Legends so they can live their lives together.
In season seven, Gideon encounters a memory of Ray at the time when she suffers a virus.
The character was first introduced on Arrow. In August 2019, it was revealed that Routh would leaving as a series regular during the fifth season.[4]
Rip Hunter (portrayed by Arthur Darvill; main: seasons 1–2; recurring: season 3; guest: season 7) is a roguish time traveler and leader of the team as well as former Time Master, who hides the strains of being responsible for history itself behind a façade of charm and wit.[5] His goal is to defeat Vandal Savage in order to save the world and his family. He and Savage are archenemies throughout the timeline. Aiden Longworth portrays a young Rip Hunter.
In season two, after giving himself false memories and identity for the sake of protecting the Spear of Destiny, Rip is captured and brainwashed into joining the Legion of Doom; he attempts to rewrite his and his family's fate with the Spear. He is also revealed to be an ally to a future variant of Barry Allen, whose younger self operates as the Flash in the present. By the end of the season, Rip regains his memories and leaves the Legends, feeling he has nothing left to teach them.
In season three, after leaving the Waverider for only 15 minutes in the Legends' time, Rip meets the team again in 2017. During the five years that have passed in Rip's time, he has set up the Time Bureau to replace the Time Masters and correct the anachronisms caused by the Legends. In the season finale, Rip sacrifices his life to stop Mallus. Darvill became a recurring actor for season three.[6]
In season seven, Gideon encounters a memory of Rip at the time when she suffers a virus. It was also revealed that Rip altered her programming so that she would interact with the Legends better.
See main article: Sara Lance.
Sara Lance (portrayed by Caity Lotz as an adult; seasons 1–7; Emily Murden as a young girl) is a Star City vigilante and former League of Assassins member who initially suffered from rage issues after being resurrected by the mystical Lazarus Pit.[7] After Rip Hunter's disappearance, she takes over as captain of the Waverider, and maintained the role even when he returned and left again to found the Time Bureau.
The character was first introduced on Arrow.
She is loosely based on the DC Comics characters Black Canary and White Canary.
A factory reset version of Gideon created a robot clone of Sara Lance (also portrayed by Caity Lotz; recurring: season 7) to make up the new Legends of Tomorrow with Gideon claiming that the real Legends of Tomorrow are robot clones. While suspicious of the sudden revivals of her Zari and Astra, Sara figured out the truth and enlisted her Zari to look into this. Gideon revealed the truth after convincing Zari that she has built them to be better than the Legends as Dr. Sharpe reprograms Sara with Robot Nate becoming the new captain. During the mission in 1914, Robot Sara was tricked into removing her CPU.
Jefferson "Jax" Jackson (portrayed by Franz Drameh; main: seasons 1–3; guest: season 7) was a high school athlete whose professional career was derailed by an injury who works as an auto mechanic.[8] [9] He serves as the other half of the character Firestorm with Martin Stein.[10] The producers decided to create Jax as the other half of Firestorm to have him be someone in his early 20s and different from Ronnie Raymond, the previous Firestorm, bringing comedy and camaraderie with Stein.[11]
In season three, it is revealed that with Martin's help, Jax has fulfilled his dream to enroll in college and finished it, and was admitted in a graduate program of engineering to earn his master's degree before he reunited with the Legends. The character was first introduced on The Flash. Drameh left the series as a main cast member in the middle of season three,[12] but returned for the season finale, where it is revealed that it had been five years for Jax since he left and during that time he had married and had a daughter.[13]
In season seven, Gideon encounters a British-accented memory of Jax at the time when she suffers a virus. He helps her, Astra, and Spooner combat the virus.
Kendra Saunders (portrayed by Ciara Renée; season 1) is a young woman who is just beginning to learn that she has been repeatedly reincarnated over the centuries as the Egyptian priestess Chay-Ara. When provoked, her ancient warrior persona manifests itself along with wings that grow out of her back.[14] [15] She chooses to leave the team at the end of season one.[16]
The character was first introduced on The Flash. Anna Deavere Smith portrays an older version in 1871,[17] known as Cinnamon.[18]
Carter Hall (portrayed by Falk Hentschel; main: season 1; guest: season 7) is the latest reincarnation of the Egyptian prince Khufu who is fated to reincarnate throughout time along with his soulmate Kendra, with powers similar to hers.[19] [20] [21] He chooses to leave the team at the end of season one. The character was first introduced on The Flash. Hentschel received guest credit in his subsequent appearances in season one after the character's death in "Pilot, Part 2."[22] After being killed by Savage in 1975, Carter reincarnated into Scythian Torvil, a soldier under Savage's rule in 2166 unaware of his past lives. After remembering, Scythian turns on Savage and aids the team in defeating him before returning with the Legends to 2016.
In season seven, Gideon encounters a memory of Carter/Scythian at the time when she suffers a virus.
He is based on the DC Comics character of the same name.
Gideon (voiced and portrayed by Amy Louise Pemberton; seasons 1–7) is the artificial intelligence of the timeship Waverider.[23] Pemberton portrays the physical representation of the character in the season two episode "Land of the Lost",[24] the season three episode "Here I Go Again",[25] the season four episode "Legends of To-Meow-Meow",[26] and throughout the majority of the seventh season.[27]
In the first and second season of the series, Legends of Tomorrow, Gideon does not have much of an active role more staying on the sidelines providing exposition. Her character is the artificial intelligence operating the Waverider. Starting in the second season Gideon takes more of an active role. In the episode "Land of the Lost" Gideon appears inside of Rip Hunter's mind, here it is implied that there is a romantic relationship between the two.[28] In the season three episode "Here I Go Again" she puts Zari Tomaz in a time loop. This convinces Zari to stay with the Legends.
In the fifth season episode "Swan Thong", Gideon was temporary removed from the Waverider and converted into the Loom of Fate. She is then reverted to her stand form in the Waverider by Zari Tarazi, Zari Tomaz, and Behrad Tarazi.
In the sixth season, Gideon did her usual job as the Legends searched for Sara Lance. She eventually located Spooner Cruz. Ava Sharpe removes Gideon from the Waverider. She is then installed into a television in John Constantine's house.
In the seventh season, the Waverider is destroyed, seemingly killing Gideon. However, Gideon is accidentally revived as a human and modified to interact with the Legends. Gideon becomes a proper member of the Legends and assists them with missions. Amidst the events, she starts a romance with Gary Green. Later Gideon convinces AI Gideon to not kill the Legends and instead let them retire. In exchange, Gideon would become the new time captain, and Computer Gideon would serve as her AI. Ultimately in the final mission with the Legends, the team along with Gideon is arrested by the Time Police for breaking the timeline.
An alternate version of the character appears in The Flash (voiced by Morena Baccarin) which is the artificial intelligence created by a future version of Barry Allen, which later comes into Eobard Thawne's possession.
A second alternate iteration appears during the crossover event Crisis on Earth-X. The Earth-X equivalent is the artificial intelligence aboard the Nazi's own Waverider ship this version is voiced by Susanna Thompson.[29]
Mick Rory (portrayed by Dominic Purcell; Mitchell Kummen as a teen;[30] seasons 1–6) is an arsonist, career criminal, and accomplice of Leonard Snart who, in contrast to his partner, uses a heat gun capable of burning almost anything.[31] [32] After being deserted in the past by Snart, he is recruited by the Time Masters and becomes the bounty hunter Chronos, who hunts the team for a brief period of time, eventually returning to the Legends team. Later, he is shown to have a talent in writing, and becomes a semi-popular romance novelist under the pen name "Rebecca Silver".
In season five, Mick reconnected with a high school girlfriend in 2004 and inadvertently conceived a daughter with her. By 2020, he discovered said daughter, Lita's, existence after she libeled his books and began making an effort to raise her so she turns out better than he did.
In season six, Mick works with an alien Necrian named Kayla to rescue Sara from aliens. While in space, they have sex and Kayla impregnates him. Bishop delivers 48 alien hybrid eggs through Mick's nose, which hatch and devour Bishop. Afterwards, Mick plans to leave the Legends with Kayla and his children. Before doing so, he borrows the Waverider's emergency Time Courier for a beer run, accidentally stranding the rest of the Legends in Texas when the Waverider is destroyed.
The character was first introduced on The Flash.
He is based on the DC Comics character Heat Wave, while the Chronos persona is based on the character of the same name.
Leonard Snart (portrayed by Wentworth Miller; main: season 1; recurring: season 2; guest: season 7) is the son of a corrupt police officer who turns to the quick and easy life of crime, and uses a cryonic gun to freeze objects and people on contact and his ability to plan strategically. He sacrifices himself to destroy the Occulus so the Time Masters will not manipulate the entire timeline. He later reappears as the member of the Legion of Doom,[33] after his past self is recruited to the time-travelling Legion before he can join the Legends.[34]
During the crossover event Crisis on Earth-X, Citizen Cold / Leonard "Leo" Snart (also portrayed by Wentworth Miller; recurring: season 3) the Earth X version of Captain Cold. This version is a hero who always supports the greater good. He is in a relationship with Ray Terrill. Following the deaths of Dark Arrow and Overgirl, Snart remains on Earth-1 where he helps the Legends cope with the loss of Martin Stein and to help thwart Damien Darhk's plot to have Leif Erikson's Vikings turn North America into New Valhalla. He later returns to Earth-X to fulfill his promise to Ray to be together.
In season seven, Gideon encounters a memory of Leonard at the time when she suffers a virus.
The character was first introduced on The Flash.
Professor Eobard Thawne (portrayed by Matt Letscher; main: season 2; guest: season 7) is a metahuman speedster from a future and the archenemy of Barry Allen / Flash. Once obsessed with the 21st-century superhero, Eobard replicated Barry's powers so he could become the Flash, only to learn through time travel that he was destined to become his greatest enemy. With this revelation, Eobard grew bitter with resentment and sought to prove his superiority as a speedster by killing the Flash, and became "Reverse-Flash". A temporal duplicate of the original villain inadvertently created by the Flash after he's brought into the "Flashpoint" timeline, this version travels through history and causes anomalies which the Legends must stop. Eobard is also being hunted by the Time Wraiths who send their undead black speedster to pursue him for his crimes against the Speed Force and status as a time remnant. Discovering that his ancestor Eddie Thawne killed himself upon learning Eobard's future existence and atrocious actions, he seeks to use the Spear of Destiny to cement his permanence in the timeline. He is a member of the Legion of Doom.
In season seven, Sara Lance encounters Thawne's temporal duplicate in the "Fixed Point" after having his speed removed by the Time Wraiths and re-educated to defend the "Fixed Point". Thawne agrees to help Sara out by delaying the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand for 40 minutes. He is later killed by the Robot Legends, though Nate tricks his robot clone into becoming the new guardian of the "Fixed Point" by having him wear the bracelet that Thawne gave to Sara.
The character was first introduced in The Flash.
Amaya Jiwe (portrayed by Maisie Richardson-Sellers; seasons 2–3) is the grandmother of Mari McCabe and a member of the Justice Society of America, who is able to magically channel the abilities of the animal kingdom thanks to the Anansi Totem she wears around her neck.[35] After the death of her former teammate and lover, Rex Tyler, she decides to join the Legends in their search for the killer. She eventually becomes romantically involved with Nate Heywood, but is ultimately obligated to return to her time to ensure that her family line still comes into existence; this conflict strains the relationship and leads to a temporary departure from the Legends after the Legion of Doom's defeat. Following some solo vigilantism, Amaya returns to the team to help them combat Mallus and his followers – which becomes personal when her granddaughter, Kuasa is resurrected as one of Mallus' disciples. After defeating Mallus, and some alterations to the timeline that prevent the destruction of her village in the future (and ensure both Mari and Kuasa becomes heroic holders of the Zambesi totem), Amaya returns to her time period to live out her life.
While Amaya Jiwe is an original creation for the series, her Vixen alias is a reference to the DC Comics character of the same name.[36]
Dr. Nathaniel "Nate" Heywood (portrayed by Nick Zano; seasons 2–7) is a historian whose grandfather was Henry Heywood, Sr. / Commander Steel, a member of the Justice Society of America.[37] [38] He is given an experimental serum in order to save his life, and develops the ability to transform his body into steel.
In season two, he begins dating Amaya, but they break up at the end of season three when Amaya returns to 1942 Zambesi. In season four, he joins the Time Bureau under Ava and his father Hank. He also begins dating Zari. After Neron kills Hank, Nate honors his father's dream by opening Heyworld, where he sacrifices himself to defeat Neron. In the afterlife, Nate meets his father again before the Legends revive him using Tabitha's magical staff, but this changes the timeline and replaces Zari with Behrad. In season five, Nate finds Zari (Zari Tarazi) again in the new 2042, but she doesn't remember him. However, the original Zari (Zari Tomaz) lives on in the Wind Totem, and by season six, the two Zaris are able to swap out from time to time, allowing Nate to resume his relationship with Tomaz.
In season seven, he makes plans to move into the Wind Totem. This happens after a trip to 1916 after mustard gas neutralized his powers as he was saving Alun Thomas, retiring from the team.
He is based on the DC Comics character of the same name.
A factory reset version of Gideon created a robot clone of Nate Heywood (also portrayed by Nick Zano; recurring: season 7) to make up the new Legends of Tomorrow with Gideon claiming that the real Legends of Tomorrow are robot clones. Unlike the real Nate, this version just has skin that is as hard as steel. He learns the truth from Gideon that they are to be an improvement of the real Legends of Tomorrow. After Robot Sara was reprogrammed, Robot Nate becomes the new leader of the Robot Legends of Tomorrow. During the mission in 1914, Robot Nate was briefly deactivated when his CPU was restored. Nate reactivated his robot clone and tricks him into becoming the new guardian of the "Fixed Point".
See main article: Zari Tomaz and Zari Tarazi. Zari Tomaz (portrayed by Tala Ashe; main: seasons 3–4; recurring: seasons 5–7) is a Muslim American computer hacker from the year 2042 who lives a double life with powers from a mystical source.[39] Marc Guggenheim explained that part of the motivation for adding a Muslim superhero to the series was the "political climate" in the US after the 2016 elections. "Representation is a really powerful thing," said Ashe. "When I was growing up watching television, I didn't see anyone who looked like me. When I think of the kid version of myself, I think it broadens your perspective. What I think is so lovely about this show is that the Legends are this tapestry that represent America today."[40] Gracelyn Awad Rinke portrays a young Zari from 2019.[41]
Zari holds a magical amulet, which grants her elemental air powers. The amulet was originally owned by her younger brother Behrad, who was killed by A.R.G.U.S. in a dystopian 2042. Though initially hesitant to join the Legends, wanting only to avenge her brother, she eventually joins the team and enters a relationship with teammate Nate Heywood. In the season four finale, the Legends' actions results in the dystopian 2042 being erased from history and a living Behrad joining the team instead of Zari, with only Nate sensing that something has changed.
In season five, it is revealed that, while she lives on in the World Between Worlds in the air totem, she can't co-exist with her other self for an extended period of time as the now-alive Behrad will die as a result of her timeline bleeding into the new one. In season six, she learns that she can switch places with her counterpart within the air totem allowing her to rejoin the Legends on a part-time basis. At the end of season seven, she retires from the Legends after they defeat Evil Gideon and save the life of Alun Thomas when Nate Heywood moves into the World Between Worlds in the air totem with her to maintain their relationship.
In season five, Zari Tarazi (portrayed by Tala Ashe; seasons 5–7) becomes a trendsetter until Nate starts to remember her, so he and Behrad reluctantly bring her onto the Waverider. While she is against Behrad using their family's totem, she comes to understand why he took it after he uses it to save her. Behrad later helps her reconcile with the spirits within their totem, including her other timeline self. After Atropos kills Behrad, Zari rejoins with the Legends to undo Behrad's death. When the Fates reclaim the Loom of Fate, Clotho splits Zari between her current self and her previous timeline self to gain control of the Legends, but to no avail. To save Behrad following Atropos and Lachesis' defeat, the previous timeline Zari returns to the totem.
She is loosely based on the DC Comics character Adrianna Tomaz.[42]
A factory reset version of Gideon created a robot clone of Zari Tarazi to make up the new Legends of Tomorrow with Gideon claiming that the real Legends of Tomorrow are robot clones. This version serves as an intelligence expert and hacker while sporting some tattoos. After her first body was shot, Dr. Sharpe transferred Robot Zari's backup data into another body while incinerating the destroyed body. When Robot Sara found out the truth about her group being robot clones of the Legends of Tomorrow, she enlisted Robot Zari to look into it. Robot Zari was later convinced by Gideon to not shut her down as Gideon tells the truth while revealing to the Robot Legends that they are an improvement over the real Legends of Tomorrow. Zari and her robot clone fought each other which ends with Zari deactivating her robot clone.
Wally West (portrayed by Keiynan Lonsdale; season 3) is a speedster from Keystone City who recently connected with his long-lost father Joe West, and sister Iris West. After acquiring metahuman abilities, Wally trained under his foster brother (later brother-in-law) and fellow speedster Barry Allen, eventually taking over the full-time responsibility of protecting Central City when Barry was trapped in the Speed Force. Wally and H.R. Wells learn that Wally was initially faster than Barry was at his stage. Upon Barry's return, Wally decides to leave Central City in order to forge his own path as a person and hero.
Lonsdale starred as the character on The Flash, and was promoted to a series regular in season three, starting in "The Curse of the Earth Totem" after previously making a guest appearance in "Aruba-Con" and "Here I Go Again".[43] [44]
Ava Sharpe (portrayed by Jes Macallan; main: seasons 4–7; recurring: season 3; Vanessa Przada as a young Ava) is the 12th in a line of clones from the year 2213, tricked into believing she was born in the late 20th century who became a special agent for the Time Bureau and initially had a strong dislike of the Legends. She later fell in love with Sara Lance.[45] [46] Macallan was promoted to series regular for the fourth season.[47]
Towards the end of the third season, Ava becomes the director of the Time Bureau, which she runs primarily throughout season four before its downfall in season five. Afterwards, she joins the Legends as co-caption alongside Sara, her girlfriend.
In season six, Ava works to find Sara after she is abducted by aliens. Upon her return, they get engaged and eventually get married.
In season seven, after another Waverider destroys the Legends' Waverider, Ava and Sara operate as the Bullet Blondes while working to get the Legends to Dr. Gwyn Davies. During the mission to save Alun, she learns that her wife is pregnant with her baby. When she returned to the Waverider after defeating Evil Gideon and saving the life of Alun Thomas, she was arrested by the Time Police alongside her team for breaking the timeline.
In season six, Bishop oversees a series of Ava Sharpe clones (also portrayed by Jes Macallan) that serve him and assist him with his goals. One clone works as a nurse while the others work as Bishop's soldiers. With help from Mick and Gary, the Ava clones turn against Bishop.
In season seven, the Bishop from 2214 perfects the Ava clone and begins his plot to strand the Legends in the 1920s and replace the untimely dead with robot clones. The Ava clone is later ejected into the timesteam by Gideon after she served her purpose. Gideon had a new robot clone of Ava made to serve the Robot Legends of Tomorrow where she tended to their bodies, uploaded backup data into them if their original bodies are destroyed, and reprogram any of them. When she and Robot Astra enter the pocket dimension upon having a drink that was spiked with food poisoning during a mission in 1915, Gary shoves them out the door into Hell.
See main article: Clotho. Charlie[48] (portrayed by Maisie Richardson-Sellers in Amaya Jiwe's form; seasons 4–5) is a magical shapeshifting fugitive who escaped imprisonment along with Mallus and many others. Charlie is a non-human entity who is found while she is posing as the lead singer (portrayed by Anjli Mohindra, "Just saw this mug on a toothpaste ad... I liked her smile.") of a punk rock band in 1977 London. When cornered by the Legends, Charlie shifts into multiple members of the team before John Constantine disables her abilities, leaving her trapped in Amaya Jiwe's form. She is taken prisoner aboard the Waverider. After forming a bond with Mick Rory, Charlie sides with the Legends in their mission on the condition she not be imprisoned further. Charlie slowly starts regaining her shapeshifting powers and by the end of the season appears to have almost completely regained them, though she remains in her Amaya Jiwe form when not using her powers. Charlie tells Zari that being trapped in one mortal form is causing her to age for the first time in centuries, meaning that her virtual immortality is at risk. When Charlie takes part in a raid to save magical creatures from the Time Bureau, she is captured by Neron and Tabitha, who use her shapeshifting powers to scare the public into fearing the creatures. She is eventually saved by Mick and Sara.
In season five, Charlie reveals she is actually Clotho of the Moirai and that she hid the Loom of Fate from her sisters to give everyone free will. Originally, she scattered the pieces across the Multiverse. After the Crisis and the formation of Earth-Prime, the pieces were returned to said Earth and she is now being hunted by her sisters. Following the mission involving Genghis Khan, Charlie comes clean about her identity. After losing her friends to her sisters, Charlie rejoins them and uses the Loom of Fate to subjugate the world. Following this, Clotho revives the Legends and traps them in TV shows to keep them safe, only for them to escape. Lachesis imprisons Clotho for this and makes her believe that she is responsible for humanity's failings. After Mick's daughter, Lita, helps her see that was not the case, Clotho helps the Legends defeat her sister, whom she reconciles with before leaving the Legends and returning to her old band as Charlie.
In season six, Charlie appears through archive footage.
Eleanor "Nora" Darhk (portrayed by Courtney Ford; main: seasons 4–5; recurring: season 3; guest: season 7; Madeleine Arthur as young Nora) is the daughter of Damien Darhk who revives her father upon becoming a follower of Mallus.[49] She gains magical powers by channeling Mallus. During the third season she also temporarily gains the powers of Zari and Amaya's totems. Following the death of her father and the defeat of Mallus, Nora voluntarily surrenders to the Time Bureau.
In season four, Nora begins assisting the Legends and the Time Bureau and eventually develops a romantic relationship with Ray Palmer. Nora gains the powers of a fairy godmother when Tabitha tricks her into taking over her powers as well as the burden of having to obey human charges.
In season five, Nora and Ray get married and leave the Legends after helping them obtain the first piece of the Loom of Fate.
In season seven, Gideon encounters a memory of Nora at the time when she suffers a virus.
John Constantine (portrayed by Matt Ryan; main: seasons 4–6;[27] recurring: season 3) is a chain-smoking, enigmatic and irreverent former con man who is now a reluctant supernatural detective, and an associate of Oliver Queen's who helps the Legends in their fight against Mallus. Ryan reprises the role from Constantine and Arrow.[50] Ryan was announced as being promoted to the main cast for the fourth season.[51] Following the fight against Mallus, Constantine joins the Legends to hunt down the magical creatures they unwittingly released throughout history, eventually discovering an old nemesis, the demon Neron, as the mastermind of a plot to take over the world. Constantine finally defeats Neron by tricking the demon into breaking his word, forcing him out of Ray's body, and then killing him.
In season five, Constantine works against an adult Astra Logue, the victim of a botched exorcism. He searches for the Loom of Fate, hoping to rewrite reality in order to give Astra and her mother, Natalie, happier lives. Constantine also begins a relationship with Zari Tarazi.
In season six, Constantine's magical abilities are sacrificed in order to stop Aleister Crowley. He searches for the Fountain of Imperium in hopes of regaining them, but to no avail. He comes across magical potions that temporarily grant him bizarre power, and becomes addicted to them despite the deadly effects on his health. Although Zari convinces Constantine to turn his life around, he is taken over by his "dark side" and works with Bishop to link with the Fountain. However, Bishop anticipates a betrayal from Constantine and poisons him, destroying the Fountain. He dies at Astra's and Zari's side, apologizing for his misdeeds. He is able to return from Hell, but remains damned. He parts ways with Zari and the Legends.
In season seven, Constantine's key is used by the Legends to open a portal to a pocket dimension in Hell that contains a duplicate of his mansion.
Mona Wu (portrayed by Ramona Young in human form and by Sisa Grey in Kaupe form;[52] main: season 4; recurring: season 5) is initially a delivery girl, but is later hired by the Time Bureau due to her knowledge of magical creatures.[53] During a struggle between two Time Bureau operatives and Konane, a Kaupe that she develops a burgeoning relationship with, Mona is accidentally slashed in the stomach. As a result, she gains the ability to turn into a Kaupe herself, with her new alter ego dubbed "Wolfie". After being fired from the Time Bureau, she is made an official member of the Legends team.
In season five, she leaves the Legends after Mick appoints her as his successor as "Rebecca Silver". After the Fates use the Loom of Fate to take control of the world, Mona returns to help Gary free the Legends from their control.
Behrad Tarazi (portrayed by Shayan Sobhian; main: seasons 6–7; recurring: season 5; guest: season 4) is Zari's younger brother who originally operated as a vigilante with a magical amulet before he was killed by A.R.G.U.S. in 2042. When the Legends accidentally change the timeline at the end of season four, Behrad is never killed by A.R.G.U.S. and Zari never gains possession of his amulet, resulting in Behrad becoming part of the team instead of her.[54]
In season five, Behrad assists the Legends in their fight against the Encores and helping Zari rejoin them. During her hunt for the Loom of Fate, Atropos kills Behrad, inspiring Zari to stay with Constantine and the Legends until they rebuild the Loom so she can save him. When the Fates regain control of the Loom, Behrad was revived in a Friends-type sitcom called Ultimate Buds. When the Legends regain their memories and get their shows cancelled, Behrad is temporarily reunited with Zari from the previous timeline until she returns to the wind totem after realizing her presence is killing him.
In season six, Zari Tomaz splits the Wind Totem into two so that he and Zari Tarazi could both use it. In season seven, he enters a relationship with Astra. When he returned to the Waverider after defeating evil Gideon and saving Alun Thomas, he was arrested by the Time Police alongside his team for breaking the timeline.
He is loosely based on the DC Comics character Amon Tomaz.
A factory reset version of Gideon created a robot clone of Behrad Tarazi (also portrayed by Shayan Sobhian; recurring: season 7) to make up the new Legends of Tomorrow with Gideon claiming that the real Legends of Tomorrow are robot clones. He has a militant personality and is in competitions with Robot Spooner. During the mission in 1914, Robot Behrad is taken down by Astra.
Astra Logue (portrayed by Olivia Swann; main: seasons 5–7; guest: season 4) was accidentally sentenced to hell as a young girl by Constantine during a botched exorcism. After being taken in by Lachesis, she was turned evil as she grew up. While she helps Constantine and Nora recover Ray's soul during season four, she secretly steals evil souls to give them a second chance at life and use them against the Legends during season five. When Astra tampers with Constantine's soul coin, he offers to use the Loom of Fate to change her mother's fate, so she relents. Astra later discovers that Lachesis and Atropos took her soul coins, so she convinces them to let her join them while secretly joining the Legends to get Constantine's coin back. However, Lachesis uncovers her treachery and kills her before she can help the Legends. When the Fates regain control of the Loom, Astra is revived and placed in a TV show before regaining her memories. Following Atropos and Lachesis' defeat, Astra moves in with Constantine and gives him his soul coin. Swann was upped to series regular for the fifth season.[55]
In season six, Astra learns magic under occultist Aleister Crowley, who eventually betrays her. In order stop him, she uses a spell by her mother Natalie that removes all magical abilities, including Crowley's and Constantine's. She starts over with Constantine, and also develops a close friendship with Esperanza "Spooner" Cruz.
In season seven, Astra inadvertently turns Gideon into a human while trying to rebuild the Waverider and enters a relationship with Behrad. After the factory reset version of Gideon in a robot clone body sets the Waverider to self-destruct in the timestream, Astra uses her magic to protect herself, Spooner, and human Gideon while successfully using her magic to pull the Waverider back together. When she returned to the Waverider, she was arrested by the Time Police alongside her team for breaking the timeline.
A factory reset version of Gideon created a robot clone of Astra Logue (also portrayed by Olivia Swann; recurring: season 7) to make up the new Legends of Tomorrow with Gideon claiming that the real Legends of Tomorrow are robot clones. This version serves as an intelligence expert with Robot Zari. When her original body was shot, Dr. Sharpe transfers the Robot Astra's backup data into another body while incinerating the destroyed body. After she and Dr. Sharpe enter the pocket dimension upon having a drink that was spiked with food poisoning during a mission in 1914, Gary shoves them out the door into Hell. A badly-burned Robot Astra re-entered the mansion and stabbed Gideon's human form before shutting down.
The Anti-Monitor (portrayed by LaMonica Garrett; season 5) is the polar opposite of the Monitor, an evil being dedicated to ending the multiverse.[56]
Gary Green (portrayed by Adam Tsekhman; main: seasons 6–7; recurring: seasons 3–5) is a Time Bureau agent and Ava Sharpe's subordinate. He is awkward, tentative and often the butt of jokes made by both the Legends and other workers at the Time Bureau. Eventually the impatience, carelessness and unkindness he faces leads to Gary being seduced by Neron into joining him in season four.[57] Gary eventually makes amends with the Legends and agrees to help them take down Neron before joining the team in season five. Tsekhman was promoted to the main cast in October 2020, ahead of the sixth season.[58]
In season six, it is revealed that Gary is an alien called a Necrian and that his Image Inducer glasses help cloak his true form. He was formerly engaged to his boss, Kayla.
In season seven, he enters a relationship with the newly-human Gideon. When he returned to the Waverider after defeating Evil Gideon and saving the life of Alun Thomas, he was arrested by the Time Police alongside his team for breaking the timeline.
A factory reset version of Gideon created a robot clone of Gary Green (performed by Chris Olson; recurring: season 7) to make up the new Legends of Tomorrow with Gideon claiming that the real Legends of Tomorrow are robot clones. Although he is mostly in his Necrian form where the other robot clones of the Legends can understand him and subtitles can translate his language, he can still eat his targets. During a mission in 1914, Robot Gary is tricked by the real Spooner into attacking her robot counterpart by passing off a Robot Spooner. He swallowed the real Robot Spooner who set off a grenade where both of them are destroyed.
Esperanza "Spooner" Cruz (portrayed by Lisseth Chavez as an adult; seasons 6–7; Dominique Lucky Martell as a young girl) is a "tough and self-sufficient" woman who "lives off the grid, devising ingenious tech for the detection of – and defense against – space aliens, and while some might call her paranoid, she calls it being prepared. A survivor of a childhood alien encounter, Spooner now believes she has the ability to communicate telepathically with aliens".[59] Esperanza was the survivor of an alien encounter and claims that a radio that they put in her head allows her to understand alien language. The Legends kidnapped her so she could help them find Sara in Space, but she eventually joins them full-time. She develops a close friendship with Astra Logue. During an incident with a Zaguron, Esperanza discovered that she can speak to aliens. It is later revealed that Esperanza used to live with her mother Gloria in 1925 Odessa, Texas, and that the Fountain of Imperium teleported her to the future in order to rescue her from her mother's murderers. The present Spooner learns this and reveals her identity to her mother and rescues her from her death.
In season seven, Esperanza works with Astra to help the Legends find a way back to the present. In the episode "The Fixed Point" (2022), Esperanza comes out as asexual to Zari 2.0;[60] [61] she is the first Arrowverse character to do so.[62] When she returned to the Waverider after defeating Evil Gideon and saving the life of Alun Thomas, she was arrested by the Time Police alongside her team for breaking the timeline.
A factory reset version of Gideon created a robot clone of Esperanza "Spooner" Cruz (also portrayed by Lisseth Chavez; recurring: season 7) to make up the new Legends of Tomorrow with Gideon claiming that the real Legends of Tomorrow are robot clones. She has a militant personality and is often competing with Robot Behrad. During a mission in 1914, Spooner posed a Robot Spooner in order to trick Robot Gary into killing his teammates. He swallowed the real Robot Spooner who set off a grenade where both of them are destroyed.
Gwyn Davies (portrayed by Matt Ryan; season 7) is a scientist and war veteran living in 1925 New York City who is responsible for the foundation of time travel after his boyfriend Alun Thomas was killed during World War I in Mametz Wood. The Legends seek him out in order to figure out how to return to the present after being stranded in 1925. When he returned to the Waverider after defeating Evil Gideon and saving the life of his love interest, Alun Thomas, he was arrested by the Time Police alongside his team for breaking the timeline.
This is a list of recurring actors and the characters they portrayed in multiple episodes, which were significant roles. The characters are listed by the order in which they first appeared.
Oliver Queen / Green Arrow (portrayed by Stephen Amell; seasons 1–3 & 5) is a former billionaire playboy and Star City politician who secretly operates as the vigilante "Green Arrow".[63] Amell also appears as the potential 2046 version of the character.[64]
Hath-Set / Vandal Savage (portrayed by Casper Crump) is an ancient Egyptian immortal who has manipulated leaders throughout history in an attempt to gain dominion over the entire world.[65] Savage hunts the various incarnations of Hawkman and Hawkgirl to prolong his life. He is later targeted by time traveler Rip Hunter after killing Rip's family in 2166. He is killed for good by Mick Rory in 1958, by Sara Lance in 1975, and by Kendra Saunders and Rip Hunter in 2021.
In season four, Vandal Savage appears in hell. He was originally sent by the Triumvirate to torture Ray Palmer, but they started talking and became friends instead. Savage is portrayed as cheery, mentioning he loves the "groovy" Legends.
The character was first introduced in two-part crossover of The Flash and Arrow, "Heroes Join Forces" as the major villain and is the main antagonist of season one. He is based on the DC Comics characters Hath-Set and Vandal Savage.
Damien Darhk (portrayed by Neal McDonough; seasons 1-3 & 5) is a former member of the League of Assassins whom the Legends first encounter (from their point of view) at a weapons auction in 1975 during season one. McDonough appears as the character in 2016 on Arrow, during its fourth season, as the leader of the clandestine group, H.I.V.E.[66] In season two, Darhk forms an alliance with Eobard Thawne / Reverse-Flash as a Legion of Doom member when he learns that Sara will kill him in 1987 as retribution for the murder of her sister in 2016. He is determined to find the Spear of Destiny and use its powers to avert the events that would lead to his death by the Green Arrow.
Though the events of his death remain unchanged, Darhk is eventually resurrected by his time-traveling daughter Nora and her master Mallus after his corpse has time displaced in Victorian London and he vows revenge against the Legends and their allies for his death. His resurrection and displacements also create a loophole that would allow Sara Lance to fulfill her vendetta against him without changing the timeline's course. However, horrified upon his daughter's actions Damien begins to feel remorse over his actions and eventually betrays Mallus. During the final battle, Damien sacrifices himself so that Mallus can possess him instead of his daughter.
In season five, Astra revives Damien to give him a second chance at life. He was supposed to cause misery, but he chose to see Nora instead. After learning she had become a fairy godmother and wanted to marry Ray, he was initially disappointed in her until Nora's charge wished the Darhks into her favorite TV show, Mr. Parker's Cul-De-Sac, to make them work out their issues. Following this, the Darhks reconcile and Damien allows Nora to marry Ray. After reconciling with Sara over him killing Laurel, he renounced his evil ways and borrowed Genghis Khan's hell sword to kill himself with it so Astra couldn't use him again.
Zaman Druce (portrayed by Martin Donovan) is a Time Master who is Rip Hunter's mentor. He reveals himself as an ally to Vandal Savage. Zaman dies after Snart destroys the Oculus that would manipulate time itself.[67]
Malcolm Merlyn (portrayed by John Barrowman) is a wealthy businessman and the former Ra's al Ghul. He is a member of the Legion of Doom. The character was first introduced in Arrow. Barrowman appears due to his deal that allows him to appear on all shows in the Arrowverse.[68] After the subsequent losses of his wife and son and his company, his daughter's alignment with the Green Arrow, and numerous defeats, Malcolm seeks to use the Spear of Destiny to rewrite details of his life to his own benefits.
Lily Stein (portrayed by Christina Brucato as an adult, Winter Lily White as a young woman) is Martin Stein's daughter who is conceived as a result of Stein encouraging his younger self from 1987 to show his wife Clarissa just how much he appreciates and loves her. Young Stein took his counterpart's advice and decided to focus on his family include impregnating Clarissa on her birthday, significantly changing his family history. Prior to the timeline change, Stein and his wife chose not to have a child due to Martin's fear of being a neglectful father; he had been focused on his work, and tended to neglect his wife. He is shocked to discover the alteration of his past and initially wants to restore the original timeline. After seeing Lily's scientific brilliance, Martin is proud to be her father. He discovers that he is actually a good father to Lily, and his life with Clarissa in the new timeline is much happier. Despite his mission to protect the timeline, Stein refuses to let Lily be erased. The Legends accept Lily out of their loyalty to Stein, and discover that her presence only causes minimal impacts in the timeline. Like her father, Lily is a scientist with an expertise in nanotechnology, having earned her degrees at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She occasionally aids the Legends. The character first appeared on The Flash during the "Invasion!" crossover.[69] In season three, she is revealed to be pregnant, by her boyfriend. After Lily's son is born, Stein names his grandson Ronald after Ronnie Raymond, his original partner as Firestorm.
Wilbur Bennett (portrayed by Hiro Kanagawa) is the director of the Time Bureau. After he is killed by Grodd, Sharpe replaces him as director.[70]
Kuasa (portrayed by Tracy Ifeachor) is the granddaughter of Amaya Jiwe, the sister of Mari McCabe and a follower of Mallus who once wielded the water totem of Zambezi which gave her the ability to control water. The water totem is eventually infused with Kuasa, allowing her to change her body into water for various purposes. Anika Noni Rose previously voiced Kuasa on the Vixen animated series.
Mallus (voiced by John Noble) is a mysterious entity that rises, exists, and dies throughout time and is an old enemy of Rip Hunter. He is the main antagonist of season three. To further its goals, Mallus has Eleanor revive her father while possessing her.[71] John Constantine identifies Mallus as a demon who can manipulate time and space. During the final battle in the Old West where Mallus uses Blackbeard, Freydís Eiríksdóttir, and Julius Caesar as pawns, Mallus is ultimately defeated and killed by the Legends using the Totems that cause them to turn into a gigantic Beebo.
See main article: Gorilla Grodd.
Grodd (voiced by David Sobolov) is a hyper-intelligent Gorilla with telepathic powers as a result of being experimented on. He is the former ruler of Gorilla City. When the Legends break the timeline, Grodd is time displaced to the Vietnam War. He tries to take over the Waverider before being knocked out and falling into a napalm fire caused by an air strike. However he is saved by Damien Darhk who persuades him to join him in Mallus' campaign. He first appeared on The Flash.[72]
Henry "Hank" Heywood, Jr. (portrayed by Thomas F. Wilson in the present, Patrick Lubczyk in the 1970s) is the father of Nate Heywood and the son of Henry Heywood, Sr. He is the primary funder of the Time Bureau, but secretly is also involved with something called "Project Hades". When a group of unidentified men attempt to kidnap a creature from the Time Bureau, Hank alters the security footage to attempt to hide their existence. He has also been shown in the company of the demon Neron, disguised as Desmond. When Hank attempts to break off the relationship, Neron kills him. Following his death, Nate discovers that Hank was actually trying to train the magical creatures for a theme park named "Heyworld", based on a drawing Nate had made when he was nine years old, believing it could unify the country. The Legends go on to realize his dream. After Constantine tricks Neron into killing Nate, Hank's ghost meets up with Nate's ghost stating how proud he is of him starting Heyworld. While stating that he loves his son, Hank gives Nate the push needed to bring him back to life.
The 1970 version of the character is encountered by the Legends in season two.
Hank was originally designed as season four's "big bad", an unrepentant antagonist who would torture creatures and turn them into super soldiers, but when the show's writers saw Wilson's performance and got to know him as a person, the character was rewritten as more sympathetic and likable.[73]
Dorothy Heywood (portrayed by Susan Hogan) is the wife of Hank Heywood and mother of Nate Heywood.
Konane (portrayed by Darien Martin) is a Kaupe, a magical fugitive that is detained by the Time Bureau. He develops a mutual attraction to Mona Wu, who is kind to him, but still struggles with his innately aggressive nature. When a group of unidentified men attempt to kidnap him from the Time Bureau, Mona interferes and helps him escape to Mexico City in 1961, where he becomes a professional wrestler. He is eventually discovered by the Time Bureau with one of its agents shooting him dead. As a result of Mona getting accidentally slashed by Konane, she develops the ability to transform into a Kaupe.
Desmond (portrayed by Christian Keyes) is a barkeep who is the lover of John Constantine. Due to Desmond becoming possessed by Neron as part of a deal to keep him from taking Constantine's soul, Constantine has no choice but to send him to Hell. Neron continues using Desmond's body until being lured out by Constantine and Nora Darhk. With Neron gone, Desmond wakes up, but leaves Constantine, upset about what he reluctantly did to him.
He is closely based on John's boyfriend Oliver from the comic book run Constantine the Hellblazer.
See main article: Neron (DC Comics).
Neron is a demon and enemy of John Constantine and the main antagonist in season four. Prior to the events of the season, Neron approached Constantine with the deed to his soul, looking for help in taking over Hell. However, when Constantine refused, Neron made a deal with his lover Desmond, who agreed to bind his soul to Neron's to protect Constantine. When Constantine sent Neron back to Hell, he was also forced to condemn his lover. Throughout the first half of the season, Neron torments Constantine and later begins appearing as Desmond, working alongside Hank Heywood. After killing Heywood, Neron is tricked out of Desmond by Constantine and Nora Darhk, which leads to him possessing Ray Palmer, who agrees to give him full control of his body in exchange for sparing Nate Heywood's life. Neron then forces Constantine to open a portal to hell, which he uses to bring back his lover Tabitha. Neron plans to open a larger portal, powered by fear, to unleash all of hell on Earth. However, Constantine and Nate trick him into breaking his word to Ray by killing Nate. Neron is ejected from Ray's body and killed by Constantine.
Tabitha (portrayed by Jane Carr) is a fairy godmother who is a magic fugitive hiding in Salem, Massachusetts during the Salem witch trials. Before being banished to Hell by John Constantine, the fairy godmother refuses his offer to become her new host, not wanting to anger the being that is after him. That being is later revealed as the demon Neron, while the fairy godmother is revealed as his lover whom the demon successfully frees from hell. She is forced to serve humans, granting them their wishes, until she manages to trick Nora Darhk into taking her place as the fairy godmother. Tabitha helps Neron in his plan to open a portal to hell and attacks the Legends with a dragon called Wickstable, which originally hatched in young Zari's possession. When young Zari regains control of Wickstable, the dragon eats Tabitha.
See main article: Lachesis. Lachesis (portrayed by Sarah Strange) is a member of the Moirai, or Fates, who made soul coins and took in Astra when she first came to Hell. She is the main antagonist in season five. After learning their sister, Clotho, joined forces with the Legends to retrieve the Loom of Fate, Lachesis and Atropos stole Astra's soul coins and sent Encores to stop them. They offered Astra a place in their ranks, and she seemingly agreed. However, Lachesis knew she intended to betray them, so she killed Astra before forcing Clotho to rejoin her and Atropos. After the Legends killed the latter and destroyed the Loom of Fate, Lachesis imprisoned Clotho in the Museum of Bad Ideas and used Gideon to create an app based on the Loom. Despite encoring several wax figures to help her combat the Legends, they were able to defeat them. Following the fight, Clotho forgave Lachesis and tells her to live her life after realizing she is effectively human without the Loom.
Lita (portrayed by Mina Sundwall as a teenager and young adult; seasons 5–6;[74] Emmerson Sadler at ages 5 and 7, Scarlett Jando at ages 8, 9, and 10) is a girl who wrote bad reviews of Mick's books. He and Zari confront her, only to learn that Lita is his and Ali's daughter. In an attempt to help Mick and Lita reconcile, Ava takes him to key moments in her childhood, but it fails to work.
In season six, a 2023 version of Lita is pregnant after she made out with a boy named Niko. While affected by this, Rory meets Niko and advises him to be a good parent for his future grandchild.
See main article: Atropos. Atropos (portrayed by Joanna Vanderham) is a member of the Moirai, or Fates, who control the destinies of every living being. After her sister, Clotho, took the Loom of Fate and scattered it across the multiverse to give everyone free will, she and Lachesis started a quest for vengeance against her. Atropos is described as "a ruthless killing machine with daggers made of bones. Wherever she goes, death follows."[75]
Debuting in "Zari, Not Zari", after Atropos learned Clotho became Charlie and joined the Legends, she attacked them to steal their Loom of Fate fragments. Despite killing Behrad, Sara and Clotho fought Atropos off. Following this, she joined forces with Lachesis to steal Astra's soul coins and use her Encores to impede the Legends' efforts to rebuild the Loom. After several fights with the Legends, Sara killed Atropos by throwing her into the Loom of Fate.
Bishop (portrayed by Raffi Barsoumian;[76] seasons 6–7) is a human clone who contracted Kayla to abduct Sara and other specimens. He is the creator of the Ava Sharpe clones who assist him in his goals to make a hybrid species of humans to live among the stars after witnessing when the destruction of Earth will happen. When Sara found him, Bishop saved her mind when she was succumbing to the Zaguron poison and placed it in a clone body that has Kriblix DNA in it. With help from Mick and Gary, the Ava clones help Sara to shut down Bishop's operation. Kayla later downloaded 94% of Bishop's genome into the Waverider so that he can create a new body. While kept prisoner, Bishop was able to override Gideon due to the other 6% of his genome coming from Sarah. He assisted in delivering Kayla's eggs from Mick's head declaring them the latest members of the Legends. Afterwards, Bishop returns to his confinement while secretly contacting him about helping to restore his magic. While Constantine didn't go with the deal, his dark side took Bishop's offer. He later double-crossed Constantine by spiking a potion he gave him with poison which also caused the Fountain of Imperium to start weakening allowing the Zagurons to invade Earth. With Spooner weakened as a side effect, the Legends got a younger Bishop from 2211 to cure Spooner. After the Zagurons were defeated upon the Fountain of Imperium taking action, Bishop was devoured by Kayla and Mick's offspring and young Bishop was returned to his own time after having his memories wiped.
In season seven, the younger Bishop recovers his memories of the Legends and wipes the memories of a copy of Gideon, intending on using her against them. He was responsible for the second Waverider, the stranding of the Legends in the 1920s, and the robot clones of J. Edgar Hoover and Thomas Edison. After the Gideon copy ejects the Ava clone and creates a robot clone of Bishop to run the company while becoming the Bishop that the Legends will fight, Bishop starts to doubt his campaign. When Gideon wants Bishop to destroy the Legends during the remaining days until the Chernobyl disaster, Bishop flees to the bathroom that Gideon can't view and exits on the ejector toilet. It lands him close to Gwyn Davies' time machine with him caught in its transportation. Later, he makes amends with the Legends and invents a device tied to Gideon's mind to take them to the present. Bishop sacrifices his life to buy the Legends time to escape the Legends' robot clones. He is the main antagonist in the series.
Kayla (portrayed by Aliyah O'Brien in human form[77]) - A Necrian species who is Gary's boss and ex-fiancé. She was the one who abducted Sara since her employer Bishop needs a quintessential human. When Sara freed Spartacus, Kayla devoured him when he tried to attack. Thanks to a tactic by Sara and Gary, Kayla was kicked into a wormhole to Earth at the cost of some containment pods carrying some aliens getting displaced in time. After Mick stepped on Lord Knoxicrillion much to the dismay of the Legends, Mick gathers what they learned from him and states that they should look for Kayla so that she can take them to Sara. She was later found in Cuba during the Cuban Missile Crisis where the Cubans mistook her for the United States' mutant soldiers. When she was freed by the Legends, Kayla put on her Image Inducer ring and agreed to take Mick to where Sara is. Kayla helps to rescue Sara and buys them time to get away from the Zagurons. It was later discovered that Kayla used her tentacles to lay eggs in Mick's ear. Kayla survived the Zaguron attacks and helps Mick and Gary fix the jump drive. Her severed tentacle attacks Gary and she does the Necrian love pinch on Mick upon learning about the eggs. She did that out of an allegiance to someone who helped her escape the planet. That turned out to be Bishop. During the Zaguron invasion, Kayla worked with the Legends to fight the Zagurons.
Hoover 1.0, Hoover 2.0, and Hoover 3.0 (portrayed by Giacomo Baesatto) are the robot clones of J. Edgar Hoover (also portrayed by Baesatto) created by an alternate Time Master Bishop using the Ava Corporation's cloning technology and an alternate Gideon's computer technology. They are created to protect the timeline from aberrations after Nate accidentally kills the real Hoover in self-defense. Newer versions are sent when the older ones are destroyed.
Hoover 1.0 shows up at the scene where Al Capone's men conspired to kidnap him. He annihilates Capone's men, but is then defeated and discovered to be a robot by Sara and self-destructs.
Hoover 2.0 appears in Chicago and finds the Legends at the Bullet Blondes' performance, where he is apprehended. Zari Tomaz interrogates him and learns that this robot was sent to replace the original, eliminate the Legends, and protect the timeline. When reprogrammed to steal Gwyn Davies' plans for a time machine back from Thomas Edison, he explodes, causing Edison to die of a heart attack, so the second Waverider deposits Hoover 3.0 and Edison 1.0.
The following is a supplementary list of guest stars, some recurring, who appear in lesser roles. The characters are listed in the order in which they first appeared.
Sisqó cameos as an animatronic of himself that sings "Thong Song" during the Legends' fight with the Encores in the Museum of Bad Ideas.
The following make uncredited cameos from their respective DC-based shows during the epilogue of "Crisis on Infinite Earths":