History Recap / LegendsOfTomorrowS1E13Leviathan

* AlwaysSaveTheGirl: Kendra choses to save Carter over killing Vandal Savage for good.
* AndThisIsFor: "This is for Carter" says Kendra when she confronts Savage.

* CruelToBeKind: Mick tells Kendra that she has to be ready to really kill Savage -- otherwise she will end up like Carter.

* EliteMooks: There was one particular laser gun mook who put up a very good fight against Kendra and her newly-magical mace. There's a good reason for that.

* ReverseThePolarity: Ray managed to grow large instead of shrink by do so with the time drive boosting the ATOM suit. Actually used appropriately for once!

* SpannerInTheWorks: A brainwashed Carter appears mere moments before Kendra was about to strike her final blow.

* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: Savage sends a gigantic killer robot to wipe out a few tents. Snart is later able to point thus out to Cassandra to show what a monster her father is.

* NotSoDifferent: Snart gets to Cassandra by telling them they both have really horrible fathers.

* EliteMook: There was one particular laser gun mook who put up a very good fight against Kendra and her newly-magical mace. There's a good reason for that.

* GiantMook: This episode has Savage's superweapon, a giant robot that trashes the rebel's base and brawls against Ray.

* IdiotBall: Hmm, Kendra... let's see now. An incarnation of your lover is so badly brainwashed that he's lost to you. The only person with the capability of restoring him -- or so he claims -- is a liar, and possibly the worst monster in all of history, who is desperately trying to save his own hide. This Carter is someone you don't actually even know, and he doesn't know you. Two obvious choices lie before you: spare Vandal Savage in the hopes of somehow persuading him to fix Carter (which he will never do because then [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness he will no longer be useful to you]] and he knows that full well)... or simply kill both of them, ridding the world of Vandal Savage once and for all, and [[MercyKill freeing Carter to move on to his next incarnation, in a world free of Savage.]] Nobody even ''thinks'' of the second option.

* MirrorMatch: The Leviathan is basically an A.T.O.M robot built on a giant scale. When fighting a giant Ray, it even takes a page out of his book and flies into the air to floor Ray with a photon blast.

* NoKillLikeOverkill: Savage sends a gigantic killer robot to wipe out a few tents. Snart is later able to point thus out to Cassandra to show what a monster her father is.

* TrashTheSet: The Waverider is literally thrown like a trash by the titular Leviathan.

** Played straight with Mick, who spears a {{Mook}} during the climatic battle.

* AdaptationNameChange: Savage's daughter in the comics is named Scandal, not Cassandra.
** Although he does also have a less well-known daughter called Kassandra Sage in the comics.

* CruelToBeKind: Mick tells Kendra that she has to be ready to really kill Savage - otherwise she will end up like Carter.

* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Played with. Vandal engineered the death of his wife and manipulated his daughter her entire life, but still wants to get her back from the enemy and has a quite conflicted look on his face when she turns on him.

* GiantMook: This episode has Savage's superweapon, a giant robot that trashed the rebel's base and brawled against Ray.

* IdiotBall: Hmm, Kendra... let's see now. An incarnation of your lover is so badly brainwashed that he's lost to you. The only person with the capability of restoring him--or so he claims--is a liar, and possibly the worst monster in all of history, who is desperately trying to save his own hide. This Carter is someone you don't actually even know, and he doesn't know you. Two obvious choices lie before you: spare Vandal Savage in the hopes of somehow persuading him to fix Carter (which he will never do because then [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness he will no longer be useful to you]] and he knows that full well)... or simply kill both of them, ridding the world of Vandal Savage once and for all, and [[MercyKill freeing Carter to move on to his next incarnation, in a world free of Savage.]] Nobody even ''thinks'' of the second option.

* InstantAwesomeJustAddMecha: The show definitely plays up the "sci-fi fun" tone the show is known for by introducing a giant robot--the titular Leviathan--as a weapon used by Vandal Savage in 2166.

* LaResistance: The team joins up with a struggling and all but defeated one.

* ReverseThePolarity: Ray managed to grow large instead of shrink by do so with the time drive boosting the ATOM suit.
** Actually used appropriately for once!

* ShoutOut: Ray's fight with the Leviathan, with his flashlights-turned-floodlights contrasted against Leviathan's sickly-green highlights, is a {{Homage}} to ''Film/PacificRim'', itself a homage to various HumongousMecha franchises. It's also an homage to the ''Franchise/UltraSeries'', particularly the shot of Ray growing being identical to the franchise's TransformationSequence and the fight scene having several line posts visible during the battle being a staple of that franchise.

* StrongButUnskilled: Ray is still something of an amateur in a fight. Jax had to coach him in the battle with the Leviathan, including reminding him that the A.T.O.M suit has "laser blasters" so he should use them.
* TrashTheSet: The Waverider is literaly thrown like a trash by the titular Leviathan.

* HumongousMecha: The titular Leviathan.

** Both Kendra and Rip rather bizarrely act like she'll lose Carter forever if she can't save this particular version.

* OneSteveLimit: Chay-Ara's 1940s incarnation is also named Kendra.

* TheScapegoat: It is made completely clear in this episode that Savage was the one to activate the virus, put the entire blame on Per Degaton to make him the equivalent of Hitler to the world, then killed him to make him appear as the savior of mankind.

* BrokenPedestal: Cassandra Savage thinks that her father is a good man. Snart shows her otherwise.

* DaddysLittleVillain: Cassandra, before her change of heart.

* EliteMook: There was one particular laser gun mook who put up a very good fight against Kendra and her newly-magical mace. There's a good reason for that...

* IdiotBall: Hmm, Kendra... let's see now. An incarnation of your lover is so badly brainwashed that he's lost to you. The only person with the capability of restoring him--or so he claims--is a lying liar who lies, and possibly the worst monster in all of history, who is desperately trying to save his own hide. This Carter is someone you don't actually even know, and he doesn't know you. Two obvious choices lie before you: spare Vandal Savage in the hopes of somehow persuading him to fix Carter (which he will never do because then [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness he will no longer be useful to you]] and he knows that full well... or simply kill both of them, ridding the world of Vandal Savage once and for all, and [[MercyKill freeing Carter to move on to his next incarnation, in a world free of Savage.]] Nobody even ''thinks'' of the second option.

** The {{Synchronization}} between Jax and Stein does not come into play when Stein is stabbed, nor when he is given a sedative by Gideon. To be fair, however, Stein himself didn't notice the first one, so it's understandable that Jax didn't either.

** The {{Synchronization}} between Jax and Stein does not come into play when Stein is stabbed, nor when he is given a sedative by Gideon.

* ShoutOut: Ray's fight with the Leviathan, with his flashlights-turned-floodlights contrasted against Leviathan's sickly-green highlights, is a {{Homage}} to ''Film/PacificRim'', itself a homage to various HumongousMecha franchises.