History Trivia / LegendsOfTomorrow

* IronyAsSheIsCast: In 'Blood Ties' Sara says she isn't much of a dancer, Creator/CaityLotz on the other hand is a trained professional.

** Raffi Barsoumian, who plays Bishop, is married to Tala Ashe, who plays Zari.

* RecycledSet: The exterior of Savage's 1975 mansion in the second part of the pilot is the same building used as Darhk's 2016 mansion in the episode of ''Arrow'' that aired a week before this episode.

* DarkhorseCasting: Before she was cast as Astra, Creator/OliviaSwann's sole acting credit was as a guest star in a single episode of British soap ''Series/{{Doctors}}''.

* FakeNationality:
** Creator/StephanieCorneliussen as Russian Valentina Vostok.
** Both halves of Firestorm are {{Fake American}}s. Jefferson Jackson is played by a British actor while Prof. Stein is played by a Canadian.
** Carter Hall is also a FakeAmerican as Creator/FalkHentschel is German.
** Danish Casper Crump as ancient Egyptian Vandal Savage.
** As in ''Series/{{The Flash|2014}}'', English-Australian Creator/DominicPurcell plays American Mick Rory.
** Canadian Kiefer O'Reilly plays [[FakeBrit English]] Jonas Hunter.
** The English Maisie Richardson-Sellers plays Amaya Jiwe with an American accent, although the character is from the [[{{Bulungi}} fictional African country of Zambesi]], similar to [[WesternAnimation/{{Vixen}} her granddaughter]].

* DirectedByCastMember: The reason why Sara is mostly absent in "[[Recap/LegendsOfTomorrowS5E5MortalKhanbat Mortal Khanbat]]" is because her actress, Caity Lotz, directed that episode.

** Creator/MelissaRoxburgh played Blake an high school friend of Thea in Arrow's season 1 and Betty Seaver in Legends Of Tomorrow season implying that was a case of an identical granddaughter.

* BillingDisplacement: Creator/ArthurDarvill, who plays TheLeader and provides the OpeningNarration of the first season, is only third billed behind Creator/VictorGarber and Creator/BrandonRouth.

** Melissa Roxburgh played Blake an high school friend of Thea in Arrow's season 1 and Betty Seaver in Legends Of Tomorrow season implying that was a case of an identical granddaughter.

** [https://twitter.com/tomazlance/status/1370836218485870595 There was a filmed kiss between Zari and Charlie].

** The writers wrote in a Zari/Charlie romance and the two were going to kiss at the end of [https://twitter.com/tomazlance/status/1370836218485870595 season 5]. Alass, it wasn't meant to be.

** '''Mona''' Wu is played by Ra'''mona''' Young.

** Both Creator/VictorGarber and Adam Tsekhman are Jewish, much like their respective characters Martin Stein and Gary Green.

** Gideon was originally played by Creator/MorenaBaccarin but is now played by Amy Pemberton, though it is heavily implied that the Gideon here is a ForeignRemake.

** Both Ciara Renee and Creator/FalkHentschel play every single {{Reincarnation}} of their characters. Casper Crump doesn't really count since his character is an [[{{Immortality}} immortal]] who can regenerate when "killed".

* ShipperOnDeck: Olivia Swan liked [[https://mobile.twitter.com/wrongchastra/status/1262034071288496128 this tweet]] regarding the Charlie x Astra ship.

** Maisie Richardson-Sellers played her usual version of Amaya and an older version of her in "Guest Starring John Noble". Then season 4 she went on to play the ShapeshifterDefaultForm of Charlie.

** Quasi-example: while Zari Tomaz and Zari Tarazi are ''technically'' the same person, just from different versions of history, their lives diverged so radically at such a young age that they're effectively different characters, and both played by Tala Ashe.

** "Guest Starring John Noble" had Creator/JohnNoble playing [[RealPersonCameo his real life self]] and voicing Mallus.

** When Maisie Richardson-Sellers switched from playing Amaya to playing Charlie, the new role was made an Englishwoman (or at least a millennia old being who ''became'' an Englishwoman), allowing her to use (something approaching) her native accent.

** More generally, [[WordOfGod Marc Guggenheim]] even acknowledged in [[http://ew.com/tv/2018/04/13/legends-of-tomorrow-season-4-spoilers/ a interview with EW's "Superhero Inside"]] that aired following the season 3 finale that the first season had problems, and that the goal when developing the last two seasons was specifically to avoid these problems.

* RealLifeWritesThePlot: Notably averted regarding the impact of the [[UsefulNotes/CoronavirusDisease2019Pandemic COVID-19 pandemic]]. ''Legends of Tomorrow'' is one the few CW (if not the entire broadcast television) shows ''not'' to get screwed over by the shutdown of filming plaguing the entire US showbiz, with its fifth season still going according to plan. This is because it managed to film the entire 15 episodes before the pandemic hit, meaning the show had completely entered post-production, as opposed to others (such as the rest of the ongoing Arrowverse, ''The Flash'', ''Supergirl'', and ''Batwoman'') which weren't able to film their entire season and as a result had to cut short. Ironically, ''Legends'' was previously screwed over when The CW postponed its fifth season premiere from 2019 to right after ''Crisis on Infinite Earths'' in direct opposition to its plan to air ''Crisis'' midway.
* RecycledScript: Season 5's plot of the Loom of Fate has a lot of similarities with Season 2's The Spear of Destiny. Both involve a powerfull artifact capable of altering reality itself, which has been broken up in 3 parts that are scattered across time. Both seasons have a SeasonFinale in which the villains get all pieces and reshape the world to their liking, with the Legends not remembering their old lives except for one of them (Mick in season 2, Zari in season 5), who then reunites the others to restore reality.

** Stephanie Corneliussen as Russian Valentina Vostok.

* NonSingingVoice: Ava's [[DaydreamSurprise (good)]] singing was not performed by Jes Macallan. Instead, it was dubbed in by Lola Kristine.

** Courtney Ford plays Nora Darhk and later also plays UsefulNotes/MarieAntoinette. Ray is the only one to note the resemblance.

** Carter was nicknamed "[[StalkerWithACrush Stalkman]]" due to his relentless hitting on Kendra [[note]] Ironically, he actually addressed it in his debut, saying him going after Kendra is NotWhatItLooksLike.[[/note]].

* RealLifeWritesThePlot: Notably averted regarding the impact of the [[UsefulNotes/CoronavirusDisease2019Pandemic COVID-19 pandemic]]. ''Legends of Tomorrow'' is one the few CW (if not the entire broadcast television) shows ''not'' to get screwed over by the shutdown of filming plaguing the entire US showbiz, with its fifth season still going according to plan. This is because it managed to film the entire 15 episodes before the pandemic hit, meaning the show had completely entered post-production, as opposed to others (such as the rest of the ongoing Arrowverse, ''The Flash'', ''Supergirl'', and ''Batwoman'') which weren't able to film their entire season and as a result had to cut short. Ironically, ''Legends'' was previously screwed over when The CW postponed its fifth season premiere from 2019 to right after ''Crisis on Infinite Earths'' in direct opposition to its plan to air ''Crisis'' midway. [[HoistByHisOwnPetard It ended up being the only Arrowverse show to complete the season on its own terms]].