History Recap / LegendsOfTomorrowS4E5TagumoAttacks

** Garima shares a certain quality with a [[Film/TotalRecall particular character]] from Mars.

* ActorAllusion: Tom Wilson finally [[Film/BackToTheFuture gets the saying "Make like a tree and leave" right]], only for Nate to tell him that's still not it.

** It wasn't Ishiro Honda himself who had the idea for Godzilla, but producer Tomoyuki Tanaka, seeking to do a[[invoked]] FollowTheLeader on ''Film/TheBeastFromTwentyThousandFathoms''. {{Justified|Trope}} in that Mick basically altered history by [[BeenThereShapedHistory giving him the idea]].

* GenreSavvy: Mona instantly recognizes the magical creatures and knows how to handle them because she reads a lot.

* {{Kaiju}}: Tagumo, the giant squid monster.

* SpecialEditionTitle: The title card is done in Japanese characters - complete with English subtitles.

** Minus Mallus' influence, Nora has become a sweet-natured person who wants to avoid any threat of becoming evil again.

* YouSeeImDying: Turns out John was already dying before he gave his life force to save the kid at the summer camp.

** It wasn't Ishiro Honda himself who had the idea for Godzilla, but producer Tomoyuki Tanaka, seeking to do a FollowTheLeader on ''Film/TheBeastFromTwentyThousandFathoms''. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] in that Mick basically altered history by [[BeenThereShapedHistory giving him the idea]].

* DestructoNookie: Mick and Garima engage in some after the latter has killed Tagumo.

* {{Homage}}: To classic {{Kaiju}} films, specifically the original ''Film/Godzilla1954'' film. The Legends even get to meet Creator/IshiroHonda.

** It wasn't Ishiro Honda himself who had the idea for Godzilla, but producer Tomoyuki Tanaka, seeking to do a FollowTheLeader on ''Film/TheBeastFromTwentyThousandFathoms''. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] in that Mick technically altered history by [[BeenThereShapedHistory giving him the idea]].

** Ray suspects that Nora wouldn't have run very far despite the Time Stone he gave her due to this reason. Sara comes to the same conclusion, drawing a comparison between Nora and a criminal her father once arrested.

* ArtisticLicenseHistory: It wasn't Ishiro Honda himself who had the idea for Godzilla, but producer Tomoyuki Tanaka, seeking to do a FollowTheLeader on ''Film/TheBeastFromTwentyThousandFathoms''. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] in that Mick technically altered history by [[BeenThereShapedHistory giving him the idea]].
** The episode has Honda give a big impassioned speech about the horrors of World War II and the attack on [[UsefulNotes/AtomicBombingsofHiroshimaandNagasaki Hiroshima]], but there were two problems with this; first, Honda wasn't in Hiroshima when the bomb struck, he was in China as a POW of Imperial Military, with his family living in Tokyo at the time. Second; the horrors that he experienced were of his own country, during his service Ishiro Honda was manager of a "[[SexSlave Comfort Station]]" which was little more than a brothel established for soldiers, watched as the Japanese movie industry became an enterprise that would make [[UsefulNotes/NaziGermany Joseph Goebbels]] proud and was left with nightmares for the rest of his life.

* BaitAndSwitch: At first, everyone thinks the Kaiju is the magical fugitive, but Charlie dismisses it as mutant. The ''real'' fugitive is a magical journal and the Kaiju is an illustration drawn on its pages brought to life.

* BroughtDownToBadass: Even after Tagumo is shrunken down, he remains a threat.

* ForgotAboutHisPowers: Played straight at first; Nate apparently fails to realize that, after solving the crisis with the escaped magical creatures at the time bureau, he can simply use time travel to return to the exact moment he originally left the house. Thus, there's no need for Ava to stall time for him. Averted near the end of the episode when, at Ava's request, they do just that.

* OneDoseFitsAll: The fugitives imprisoned at the Time Bureau are kept at bay with tranquilizer. All of them get the same amount, and with all of them it wears off at the exact same time.

* ShellshockedVeteran: Honda is obviously very traumatized about his surviving of the Hiroshima bombing.

** The episode has Honda give a big impassioned speech about the horrors of World War II and the attack on [[UsefulNotes/AtomicBombingsofHiroshimaandNagasaki Hiroshima]], but there were two problems with this; first, Honda wasn't in Hiroshima when the bomb struck, he was in China serving in the Imperial Military, with his family living in Tokyo at the time. Second; the horrors that he experienced were of his own country, during his service Ishiro Honda was manager of a "[[SexSlave Comfort Station]]" which was little more than a brothel established for soldiers, watched as the Japanese movie industry became an enterprise that would make [[UsefulNotes/NaziGermany Joseph Goebbels]] proud and was left with nightmares for the rest of his life.