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* AesopAmnesia: Past!Ava [[WhatTheHellHero scolds the Legends]] for trying to tamper with the timeline again, pointing out how it has always made things worse whenever they try it.
* AlternateTimeline: What the Legends are trying to do to prevent Sara's latest death. According to Future!Nate, it goes very, very badly.
* AlternateSelf: An alternate Nate appears, saying that the "explosive mannequin" plan backfires spectacularly, leading to him going undercover as Constantine and then traveling back to warn the Present!Legends.

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* AesopAmnesia: Past!Ava Past Ava [[WhatTheHellHero scolds the Legends]] for trying to tamper with the timeline again, pointing out how it has always made things worse whenever they try it.
* AlternateTimeline: What the Legends are trying to do to prevent Sara's latest death. According to Future!Nate, future Nate, it goes very, very badly.
* AlternateSelf: An alternate Nate appears, saying that the "explosive mannequin" plan backfires spectacularly, leading to him going undercover as Constantine and then traveling back to warn the Present!Legends.present Legends.



* ButterflyOfDoom: Past!Ava quickly finds the current Legends and warns them about changing the timeline for this exact reason.
* CharacterDevelopment: A slight example with John. He goes along with the plan to break time in order to get his powers back at first. He then listens to Past!Ava when she warns them of the consequences. At the end, he admits to Zari that while he is willing to do everything he can to get his magic back, he is also considering a life without it.

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* ButterflyOfDoom: Past!Ava Past Ava quickly finds the current Legends and warns them about changing the timeline for this exact reason.
* CharacterDevelopment: A slight example with John. He goes along with the plan to break time in order to get his powers back at first. He then listens to Past!Ava past Ava when she warns them of the consequences. At the end, he admits to Zari that while he is willing to do everything he can to get his magic back, he is also considering a life without it.



** When trying to think of a way to get Sara to come back on the Waverider, Behrad mentions the Fates from Season 5 coming back as well as her sister and dad needing her, before wondering if they're even still alive.
** Past!Ava mentions Charlie when pulling Past!Sara into the club. Charlie herself appears later on via recycled footage.
* DoWrongRight: Behrad thinks his friends have followed him to stop him from trying to change the timeline - but they are here to help him do it ''right''.
* EyepatchAfterTimeSkip: Future!Nate wears one when masquerading as Constantine in his time.

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** When trying to think of a way to get Sara to come back on the Waverider, ''Waverider'', Behrad mentions the Fates from Season 5 coming back as well as her sister and dad needing her, before wondering if they're even still alive.
** Past!Ava Past Ava mentions Charlie when pulling Past!Sara past Sara into the club. Charlie herself appears later on via recycled footage.
* DoWrongRight: Behrad thinks his friends have followed him to stop him from trying to change the timeline - -- but they are here to help him do it ''right''.
* EyepatchAfterTimeSkip: Future!Nate Future Nate wears one when masquerading as Constantine in his time.



* FantasticTimeManagement: Past!Sara's reasoning for not going with Behrad.

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* FantasticTimeManagement: Past!Sara's Past Sara's reasoning for not going with Behrad.



* HealingFactor: Sara's new body has this due to being part-alien.

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* HealingFactor: Sara's new body has this quickly heals wounds due to being part-alien.



** Sara learns about John and Zari being in a official relationship now.

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** Sara learns about John and Zari being in a an official relationship now.



** Nick tells Past!Ava that they're "celebrating the finale."

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** Nick tells Past!Ava past Ava that they're "celebrating the finale."



* MissedHimByThatMuch: Nate has a PottyEmergency and rushes to the comfort room, at which point a BadFuture version of himself shows up. The future Nate fades from existence just a split second before his present self returned.

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* MissedHimByThatMuch: Nate has a PottyEmergency and rushes to the comfort room, at which point a BadFuture version of himself shows up. The future Nate fades from existence just a split second before his present self returned.returns.



* OutOfFocus: While Jes Macallan appears throughout the episode, Present!Ava only appears in the beginning and end of the episode.
* PottyEmergency: Nate has one after eating too many curry dishes. It allows Future!Nate to warn the Legends about what their plan will lead to.

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* OutOfFocus: While Jes Macallan appears throughout the episode, Present!Ava present Ava only appears in the beginning and end of the episode.
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* PottyEmergency: Nate has one after eating too many curry dishes. It allows Future!Nate future Nate to warn the Legends about what their plan will lead to.



* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: In the alternate future, Nate reveals that the aliens just did a U-turn and came back for Sara after the fireworks went off. Because of course they're not going to be tricked by a dummy or easily scared off by fireworks.
* TemptingFate: While Behrad prepares his "explosive mannequin" plan, he has Spooner do recon inside the club, warning her not to interact with Sara. Spooner tells Behrad that she's never even ''met'' Sara. Cue Past!Sara appearing right next to Spooner at the bar.

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* %%* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: In the alternate future, Nate reveals that the aliens just did a U-turn and came back for Sara after the fireworks went off. Because of course they're not going to be tricked by a dummy or easily scared off by fireworks.
* TemptingFate: While Behrad prepares his "explosive mannequin" plan, he has Spooner do recon inside the club, warning her not to interact with Sara. Spooner tells Behrad that she's never even ''met'' Sara. Cue Past!Sara past Sara appearing right next to Spooner at the bar.
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* AesopAmnesia: Past Ava [[WhatTheHellHero scolds the Legends]] for trying to tamper with the timeline again, pointing out how it has always made things worse whenever they try it.

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* AesopAmnesia: Past Ava Past!Ava [[WhatTheHellHero scolds the Legends]] for trying to tamper with the timeline again, pointing out how it has always made things worse whenever they try it.



** Cisco gets a mention.

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** Cisco Sisqó gets a mention.
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* SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong: The Legends travel back to before Sarah was abducted to try to prevent it from happening, despite the paradoxes this would cause. Ultimately though they fail to change the past and Sarah makes her own way back.
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* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: In the alternate future, Nate reveals that the aliens just did a U turn and came back for Sara after the fireworks went off. Because of course they're not going to be tricked by a dummy or scared off by fireworks.

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* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: In the alternate future, Nate reveals that the aliens just did a U turn U-turn and came back for Sara after the fireworks went off. Because of course they're not going to be tricked by a dummy or easily scared off by fireworks.



* TomatoInTheMirror: While Sara is able to brush off finding out that she's a clone, she's much more hard hit by finding out that she's now an alien-human hybrid.

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* TomatoInTheMirror: While Sara is able manages to brush off finding out that she's a clone, she's much more hard hit harder by finding out that she's now an alien-human hybrid.

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* RealityEnsues: In the alternate future, Nate reveals that the aliens just did a U turn and came back for Sara after the fireworks went off. Because of course they're not going to be tricked by a dummy or scared off by fireworks.


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* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: In the alternate future, Nate reveals that the aliens just did a U turn and came back for Sara after the fireworks went off. Because of course they're not going to be tricked by a dummy or scared off by fireworks.
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* TomatoInTheMirror: While Sara is able to brush off finding out that she's a clone, she's much more hard hit by finding out that she's now an alien-human hybrid.

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* YouAlreadyChangedThePast: Together with StableTimeLoop, despite all efforts to save Sara from being abducted, all of the Legends' attempts only help keep the past events intact.
** This is also why Ava got so drunk she couldn't remember the previous evening in the season premiere.

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* YouAlreadyChangedThePast: Together with StableTimeLoop, despite all efforts to save Sara from being abducted, all of the Legends' attempts only help keep the past events intact.
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intact. This is also why Ava got so drunk she couldn't remember the previous evening in the season premiere.
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* EyeScream: The alternate timeline damages or outright destroys Nate's right eye, judging from the scar and the eyepatch.


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* RealityEnsues: In the alternate future, Nate reveals that the aliens just did a U turn and came back for Sara after the fireworks went off. Because of course they're not going to be tricked by a dummy or scared off by fireworks.
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* YouAlreadyChangedThePast: Together with StableTimeLoop, despite all efforts to save Sara from being abducted, all of the Legends attempts only help keeping the past events intact.

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* YouAlreadyChangedThePast: Together with StableTimeLoop, despite all efforts to save Sara from being abducted, all of the Legends Legends' attempts only help keeping keep the past events intact.

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* AchillesInHisTent: Ava, upon learning the truth in previous episode, is in mourning and refuses to do anything.
* AesopAmnesia: Past Ava [[WhatTheHellHero scolds the Legends]] for trying to tamper with the timeline again, pointing out how it has always made things worse in the past.

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* AchillesInHisTent: Ava, upon learning the truth in the previous episode, is in mourning and refuses to do anything.
* AesopAmnesia: Past Ava [[WhatTheHellHero scolds the Legends]] for trying to tamper with the timeline again, pointing out how it has always made things worse in the past.whenever they try it.



* BadFuture: Behrad eventually comes up with a plan to make a mannequin look like Sara, fill it with explosives, then use it in place of the real Sara. A future version of Nate eventually arrives to tell them that successfully completing the plan leads to the alien ship figuring things out immediately, turning around to grab Sara right afterwards. The aliens then go on to cause untold chaos through the timestream, resulting in most of the Legends dying and Nate himself going undercover as Constatine (except with an eyepatch) in order to use magic to fix things.

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* BadFuture: Behrad eventually comes up with a plan to make a mannequin look like Sara, fill it with explosives, then use it in place of the real Sara. A future version of Nate eventually arrives to tell them that successfully completing the plan leads to the alien ship figuring things out immediately, turning around to grab Sara right afterwards. The exploding mannequin then causes the aliens to then go on to cause untold chaos through the timestream, resulting in most of the Legends dying and Nate himself going undercover as Constatine Constantine (except with an eyepatch) in order to use magic to fix things.



* CharacterDevelopment: A slight example with John. He goes along with the plan to break time in order to get his powers back at first. He then listens to Past!Ava when she warns them of the consequences. At the end, he admits to Zari that while he is willing to everything he can to get his magic back, he is also considering a life without it.

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* CharacterDevelopment: A slight example with John. He goes along with the plan to break time in order to get his powers back at first. He then listens to Past!Ava when she warns them of the consequences. At the end, he admits to Zari that while he is willing to do everything he can to get his magic back, he is also considering a life without it.



** Sara mentions that she dies "once a year."

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** Sara mentions that she dies "once "about once a year."year".



* EyepatchAfterTimeSkip: Future!Nate wears one when masquerading as Constatine in his time.
* ExpendableClone: Sara considers her current body to be this. She orders one of the Avas to make her a fully human body, transfer her consciousness there, then escape back to Earth.

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* EyepatchAfterTimeSkip: Future!Nate wears one when masquerading as Constatine Constantine in his time.
* ExpendableClone: Sara considers her current body to be this. She orders one of the Avas to make her a fully human body, body so she can transfer her consciousness there, there and then escape back to Earth.



* GrandfatherParadox: Brought up multiple times. If the Legends prevent Sara's abduction, Spooner would return to her own life and never meet the Legends, while Constatine will have his magic back.

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* GrandfatherParadox: Brought up multiple times. If the Legends prevent Sara's abduction, Spooner would return to her own life and never meet the Legends, while Constatine Constantine will have his magic back.



** Sara tells Bishop that she dies "once a year." Not ''entirely'' accurate, but close.

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** Sara tells Bishop that she dies "once "about once a year." Not ''entirely'' accurate, but close."



** Zari instantly deduces that John would never say something like "I just love love.", meaning it has something to do with him - he also wants to change the timeline to get his magic back.

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** Zari instantly deduces that John would never say something like "I just love love.", love," meaning it has something to do with him - he also wants to change the timeline to get his magic back.



* TwinMaker: Bishop thinks nothing about killing himself and making a new clone of himself. Sara is perfectly willing to let herself die as long as she can make a new, "pure" clone of herself to send back to the Legends. When that plan didn't work out, Sara just replaces the now-deceased original Sara with only her and Mick knowing what she really is.
* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: When Astra, Nate, Spooner, John, and Zari travel back to 1977, none of the random partygoers seem to notice or care about the giant portal opening in the parking lot, or the four people walking through it.

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* TwinMaker: Bishop thinks nothing about killing himself and making a new clone of himself. Sara is perfectly willing to let herself die as long as she can make a new, new "pure" clone of herself to send back to the Legends. When that plan didn't doesn't work out, Sara just replaces the now-deceased original Sara with only her and Mick knowing what she really is.
* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: When Astra, Nate, Spooner, John, and Zari travel back to 1977, none of the random partygoers seem to notice or care about the giant portal opening in the parking lot, lot or the four people walking through it.


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** This is also why Ava got so drunk she couldn't remember the previous evening in the season premiere.
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* CharacterDevelopment: A slight example with John. He goes along with the plan to break time in order to get his powers back at first. He then listens to Past!Ava when she warns them of the consequences. At the end, he admits to Zari that while he is willing to everything he can to get his magic back, he is also considering a life without it.

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* AchillesInHisTent: Ava, upon learning the truth in previous episode, is in mourning and refuses to do anything.



* AlternateSelf: An alternate Nate appears, saying that the "explosive mannequin" plan backfires spectacularly, leading to him going undercover as Constatine and then traveling back to warn the Present!Legends.

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* AlternateSelf: An alternate Nate appears, saying that the "explosive mannequin" plan backfires spectacularly, leading to him going undercover as Constatine Constantine and then traveling back to warn the Present!Legends.



* BigDamnKiss: Sara and Ava finally get theirs, complete with fireworks in the background thanks to Behrad's explosive mannequin.

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* BigDamnKiss: BaitAndSwitch: Upon learning of Behrad's plans, the Legends intercept him in the Smell concert. He believes they're there to stop him, but the Legends are really there to ''help'' him.
* TheBigDamnKiss:
Sara and Ava finally get theirs, complete with fireworks in the background thanks to Behrad's explosive mannequin.



* HesBack: Sara finally returns and proposes to Ava.



* MissedHimByThatMuch: Nate has a PottyEmergency and rushes to the comfort room, at which point a BadFuture version of himself shows up. The future Nate fades from existence just a split second before his present self returned.



* ShesBack: Sara finally returns and proposes to Ava.
* ShoutOut: The title is this towards ''Film/BackToTheFuturePartII''.

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* ShesBack: Sara finally returns and proposes to Ava.
* ShoutOut: The title is this towards ''Film/BackToTheFuturePartII''.Towards ''Film/BackToTheFuturePartII''.
* SomethingWeForgot: Behrad wanted to replace Past Sara with a mannequin rigged with explosives, which he leaves behind because the plan falls through and Sara still gets kidnapped. He then has an OhCrap when Nate asks him what happened to the mannequin, only for it to blow up in the distance right as Sara and Ava had their reunion.


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* WelcomeBackTraitor: Gary officially rejoins the Legends.
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* OutOfFocus: While Jes Macallan appears throughout the episode, Present!Ava only appears in the beginning and end of the episode, crying over Sara's proposal video.
* PottyEmergency: Nate has one after eating too many pasta dishes. It allows Future!Nate to warn the Legends about what their plan will lead to.

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* OutOfFocus: While Jes Macallan appears throughout the episode, Present!Ava only appears in the beginning and end of the episode, crying over Sara's proposal video.episode.
* PottyEmergency: Nate has one after eating too many pasta curry dishes. It allows Future!Nate to warn the Legends about what their plan will lead to.



** Zari instantly deduces that John would never say something like "I just love love.", meaning it has something to do with him - he also wants to change the timeline to get hsi magic back.
** Past Ava quickly figures out that there are time travelling Legends about.

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** Zari instantly deduces that John would never say something like "I just love love.", meaning it has something to do with him - he also wants to change the timeline to get hsi his magic back.
** Past Ava quickly figures out that there are time travelling traveling Legends about.



* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: When Astra, Nate, Spooner, and Zari travel back to 1977, none of the random partygoers seem to notice or care about the giant portal opening in the parking lot, or the four people walking through it.

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* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: When Astra, Nate, Spooner, John, and Zari travel back to 1977, none of the random partygoers seem to notice or care about the giant portal opening in the parking lot, or the four people walking through it.



* YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre: Mick, of all people, gives Sara a speech.

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* YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre: Mick, of all people, gives Sara a this speech.

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* AesopAmnesia: Past Ava [[WhatTheHellHero scolds the Legends]] for trying to tamper with the timeline again, pointing out how it has always made things worse in the past.



* BigNo:
** Behrad, when Sara gets abducted by the aliens anyway.
** Bishop, when his BrainUploading fails.



* TheBusCameBack: Charlie, but only through recycled footage.



** Cisco gets a mention.



* DoWrongRight: Behrad thinks his friends have followed him to stop him from trying to change the timeline - but they are here to help him do it ''right''.



* FiveStagesOfGrief: Ava is on "Depression", going through a HeroicBSOD while watching the video of Sara planning to propose on a loop.



* HalfHumanHybrid: Sara's new body is half-alien.



* HeroicSacrifice: Kayla performs one to let Sara, Mick, and Gary get back to Earth.

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* HeroicSacrifice: Kayla performs one against the Zagurons to let Sara, Mick, and Gary get back to Earth.



* InternalReveal: John reveals to Zari that his magic truly is gone.

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* InternalReveal: InternalReveal:
** After she deduces it,
John reveals admits to Zari that his magic truly is gone.gone.
** Sara learns about John and Zari being in a official relationship now.
* ItsAllMyFault: Behrad, after him calling out for Sara is revealed to be what got her abducted.


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* NeverTheSelvesShallMeet: The Legends go the extra mile to make sure they never meet themselves.
* OnceMoreWithClarity: Sara's clone body creation is shown alongside flashbacks of previous episodes.


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* SadisticChoice: Sara is forced between choosing to let Bishop upload himself or being stuck with her new alien body. She chooses the latter.
* ShesBack: Sara finally returns and proposes to Ava.


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* SpottingTheThread:
** Zari instantly deduces that John would never say something like "I just love love.", meaning it has something to do with him - he also wants to change the timeline to get hsi magic back.
** Past Ava quickly figures out that there are time travelling Legends about.


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* YouAlreadyChangedThePast: Together with StableTimeLoop, despite all efforts to save Sara from being abducted, all of the Legends attempts only help keeping the past events intact.
* YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre: Mick, of all people, gives Sara a speech.
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* AlternateSelf: An alternate Nick appears, saying that the "explosive mannequin" plan backfires spectacularly, leading to him going undercover as Constatine and then traveling back to warn the Present!Legends.
* BackToTheEarlyInstallment: Nick, Astra, John, Zari, Behrad, and Spooner travel back in time to the Season 5 finale in order to save Sara before she gets abducted.
* BadFuture: Behrad eventually comes up with a plan to make a mannequin look like Sara, fill it with explosives, then use it in place of the real Sara. A future version of Nick eventually arrives to tell them that successfully completing the plan leads to the alien ship figuring things out immediately, turning around to grab Sara right afterwards. The aliens then go on to cause untold chaos through the timestream, resulting in most of the Legends dying and Nick himself going undercover as Constatine (except with an eyepatch) in order to use magic to fix things.

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* AlternateSelf: An alternate Nick Nate appears, saying that the "explosive mannequin" plan backfires spectacularly, leading to him going undercover as Constatine and then traveling back to warn the Present!Legends.
* BackToTheEarlyInstallment: Nick, Nate, Astra, John, Zari, Behrad, and Spooner travel back in time to the Season 5 finale in order to save Sara before she gets abducted.
* BadFuture: Behrad eventually comes up with a plan to make a mannequin look like Sara, fill it with explosives, then use it in place of the real Sara. A future version of Nick Nate eventually arrives to tell them that successfully completing the plan leads to the alien ship figuring things out immediately, turning around to grab Sara right afterwards. The aliens then go on to cause untold chaos through the timestream, resulting in most of the Legends dying and Nick Nate himself going undercover as Constatine (except with an eyepatch) in order to use magic to fix things.



** Nick brings up him dying in the Season 4 finale.
** All of the characters bring up how they were wasted in the premiere, with Nick in particular lamenting the loss of his Zari.

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** Nick Nate brings up him dying in the Season 4 finale.
** All of the characters bring up how they were wasted in the premiere, with Nick Nate in particular lamenting the loss of his Zari.



** When the gang head back to 1977 London, Spooner asks where they are. Astra replies "last year's finale." Nick then mentions they're usually pretty fun "except for the one where he died."

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** When the gang head back to 1977 London, Spooner asks where they are. Astra replies "last year's finale." Nick Nate then mentions they're usually pretty fun "except for the one where he died."



* PottyEmergency: Nick has one after eating too many pasta dishes. It allows Future!Nick to warn the Legends about what their plan will lead to.

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* PottyEmergency: Nick Nate has one after eating too many pasta dishes. It allows Future!Nick Future!Nate to warn the Legends about what their plan will lead to.



* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: When Astra, Nick, Spooner, and Zari travel back to 1977, none of the random partygoers seem to notice or care about the giant portal opening in the parking lot, or the four people walking through it.

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* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: When Astra, Nick, Nate, Spooner, and Zari travel back to 1977, none of the random partygoers seem to notice or care about the giant portal opening in the parking lot, or the four people walking through it.
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It’s not truly a reunion, since the original Sara is dead, and she’s actually technically meeting them for the first time as she’s really a clone.


* BigDamnReunion: Sara and Ava finally reunite at the end of the episode. She later reunites with the rest of the team.
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* HealingFactor: Sara's new body has this due to being part-alien.


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* TwinMaker: Bishop thinks nothing about killing himself and making a new clone of himself. Sara is perfectly willing to let herself die as long as she can make a new, "pure" clone of herself to send back to the Legends. When that plan didn't work out, Sara just replaces the now-deceased original Sara with only her and Mick knowing what she really is.
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* BackToTheEarlyInstallment: Nick, Astra, John, Zari, Behrad, and Spooner travel back in time to the Season 4 finale in order to save Sara before she gets abducted.

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* BackToTheEarlyInstallment: Nick, Astra, John, Zari, Behrad, and Spooner travel back in time to the Season 4 5 finale in order to save Sara before she gets abducted.
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* CloneArmy: What Bishop's main plan is. To make an army of clone Sara's merged with alien DNA and spread out across the universe.

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* CloneArmy: What Bishop's main plan is. To make an army of clone Sara's Saras merged with alien DNA and spread out across the universe.
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* BackToTheEarlyInstallment: Nick, Astra, John, Zari, Behrad, and Spooner travel back in time to the season 4 finale in order to save Sara before she gets abducted.

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* BackToTheEarlyInstallment: Nick, Astra, John, Zari, Behrad, and Spooner travel back in time to the season Season 4 finale in order to save Sara before she gets abducted.
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* BackToTheEarlyInstallment: Nick, Astra, John, Zari, Behrad, and Spooner travel back in time to the season premiere in order to save Sara before she gets abducted.

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* BackToTheEarlyInstallment: Nick, Astra, John, Zari, Behrad, and Spooner travel back in time to the season premiere 4 finale in order to save Sara before she gets abducted.

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With Ava a wreck, The Legends make a last-ditch effort to keep Sara from being abducted in the first place, even knowing that it will alter the timeline. Sara grapples with what she has just discovered about herself but is also shocked when Rory finds her on the mystery planet. With no time to spare, Sara, Mick and Gary devise a plan to help defeat Bishop. Meanwhile, Spooner envisions what her life would be like if she hadn’t joined the Legends.

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With Ava a wreck, The the Legends make a last-ditch effort to keep Sara from being abducted in the first place, even knowing that it will alter the timeline. Sara grapples with what she has just discovered about herself but is also shocked when Rory finds her on the mystery planet. With no time to spare, Sara, Mick Mick, and Gary devise a plan to help defeat Bishop. Meanwhile, Spooner envisions what her life would be like if she hadn’t joined the Legends.



* AlternateTimeline: What the Legends are trying to do to prevent Sara's latest death. According to Future!Nate, it goes very, very badly.
* AlternateSelf: An alternate Nick appears, saying that the "explosive mannequin" plan backfires spectacularly, leading to him going undercover as Constatine and then traveling back to warn the Present!Legends.
* BackToTheEarlyInstallment: Nick, Astra, John, Zari, Behrad, and Spooner travel back in time to the season premiere in order to save Sara before she gets abducted.
* BadFuture: Behrad eventually comes up with a plan to make a mannequin look like Sara, fill it with explosives, then use it in place of the real Sara. A future version of Nick eventually arrives to tell them that successfully completing the plan leads to the alien ship figuring things out immediately, turning around to grab Sara right afterwards. The aliens then go on to cause untold chaos through the timestream, resulting in most of the Legends dying and Nick himself going undercover as Constatine (except with an eyepatch) in order to use magic to fix things.
* BigDamnKiss: Sara and Ava finally get theirs, complete with fireworks in the background thanks to Behrad's explosive mannequin.
* BigDamnReunion: Sara and Ava finally reunite at the end of the episode. She later reunites with the rest of the team.
* BrainUploading: What Bishop does after Mick kills his latest body. His base is destroyed before he can upload to the Cloud.
* ButterflyOfDoom: Past!Ava quickly finds the current Legends and warns them about changing the timeline for this exact reason.
* CloneArmy: What Bishop's main plan is. To make an army of clone Sara's merged with alien DNA and spread out across the universe.



* HeroicSacrifice: Kayla does one.

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** All of the characters bring up how they were wasted in the premiere, with Nick in particular lamenting the loss of his Zari.
** Spooner brings up being attacked by Amelia Earhart and getting turned into a fork by Astra.
** When trying to think of a way to get Sara to come back on the Waverider, Behrad mentions the Fates from Season 5 coming back as well as her sister and dad needing her, before wondering if they're even still alive.
** Past!Ava mentions Charlie when pulling Past!Sara into the club. Charlie herself appears later on via recycled footage.
* EyepatchAfterTimeSkip: Future!Nate wears one when masquerading as Constatine in his time.
* ExpendableClone: Sara considers her current body to be this. She orders one of the Avas to make her a fully human body, transfer her consciousness there, then escape back to Earth.
* FantasticTimeManagement: Past!Sara's reasoning for not going with Behrad.
* GrandfatherParadox: Brought up multiple times. If the Legends prevent Sara's abduction, Spooner would return to her own life and never meet the Legends, while Constatine will have his magic back.
* GrandRomanticGesture: Sara ''finally'' gets to actually propose to Ava. She immediately says "yes," but Sara wants to read the speech she prepared beforehand first.
* HeroicSacrifice: Kayla does one.performs one to let Sara, Mick, and Gary get back to Earth.
* IAmAMonster: Sara considers her current body to be this.
* IAmWhatIAm: Mick convinces Sara to think like this instead.
* IChooseToStay: The various Ava clones stay behind on the mystery planet.
* InternalReveal: John reveals to Zari that his magic truly is gone.


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** Behrad wondering whether Laurel and Quentin are alive in this timeline is this considering Behrad himself is only alive by doing what he's trying to do now.
** Nick tells Past!Ava that they're "celebrating the finale."
* LetsSplitUpGang: Sara suggests this after meeting up with Gary, Mick, and the Ava clones in order to destroy all the Sara clones.
* OutOfFocus: While Jes Macallan appears throughout the episode, Present!Ava only appears in the beginning and end of the episode, crying over Sara's proposal video.
* PottyEmergency: Nick has one after eating too many pasta dishes. It allows Future!Nick to warn the Legends about what their plan will lead to.
* ShoutOut: The title is this towards ''Film/BackToTheFuturePartII''.
* TemptingFate: While Behrad prepares his "explosive mannequin" plan, he has Spooner do recon inside the club, warning her not to interact with Sara. Spooner tells Behrad that she's never even ''met'' Sara. Cue Past!Sara appearing right next to Spooner at the bar.


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* WhatHaveIBecome: Sara wants to make a fully human body due to believing this. Mick talks her out of it.
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** Nick brings up him dying in the Season 4 finale.


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* LeaningOnTheFourthWall:
** Sara tells Bishop that she dies "once a year." Not ''entirely'' accurate, but close.
** When the gang head back to 1977 London, Spooner asks where they are. Astra replies "last year's finale." Nick then mentions they're usually pretty fun "except for the one where he died."
* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: When Astra, Nick, Spooner, and Zari travel back to 1977, none of the random partygoers seem to notice or care about the giant portal opening in the parking lot, or the four people walking through it.
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** Ava is crying in bed while watching Sara's video from the season premiere.

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** Bishop found out about Sara from the start due to reading Rebecca Silver novels.
** Sara mentions that she dies "once a year."
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With Ava a wreck, The Legends make a last-ditch effort to keep Sara from being abducted in the first place, even knowing that it will alter the timeline. Sara grapples with what she has just discovered about herself but is also shocked when Rory finds her on the mystery planet. With no time to spare, Sara, Mick and Gary devise a plan to help defeat Bishop. Meanwhile, Spooner envisions what her life would be like if she hadn’t joined the Legends.
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