Line #59 Trivia/LegendsOfTomorrow


1	* AccidentalDownerEnding: The series ended with the team captured by time police. It was supposed to be an end of season cliffhanger, but Creator/TheCW unexpectedly cancelled the show. [[AbortedArc And it didn't get resolved in the show it spun off from,]] ''Series/TheFlash2014'', either.
2	* ActingForTwo:
3	** Both Creator/CiaraRenee 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".
4	** Creator/VictorGarber plays Martin Stein and Eobard Thawne when the latter uses a non-fatal version of the DNA duplicator device (the one he used on the real Earth-1 Harrison Wells) on Stein. He also plays an ancestor of his in the Season 3 episode Return of the Mack.
5	** The Season 2 finale episode, "Aruba", has virtually all of the Legends actors playing two versions of themselves.
6	** "Guest Starring John Noble" had Creator/JohnNoble playing [[RealPersonCameo his real-life self]] and voicing Mallus.
7	** [[Creator/MaisieRichardsonSellers 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.
8	** Christian Keyes plays Desmond, a love interest of John Constantine. However, after the demon Neron takes Desmond's soul, he then assumes Desmond's identity to walk around in the earthly realm; thus, Neron is also played by Christian Keyes.
9	** Same deal for Creator/BrandonRouth when Ray is possessed by Neron. Brandon Routh later resumes his role as Superman from ''Film/SupermanReturns'' during the Crisis.
10	** Several actors get brief stabs at this once Charlie joins the show, thanks to her {{Shapeshifting}} into their characters.
11	** Creator/CourtneyFord plays Nora Darhk and later also plays UsefulNotes/MarieAntoinette. Ray is the only one to note the resemblance.
12	** 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 Creator/TalaAshe.
13	** Creator/AdamTsekhman gets to briefly play Zari when Zari goes on to put Gary's shape-shifting glasses.
14	** Almost all of them get to play this when they must do [[EvilKnockoff evil robot versions of the Legends]].
15	* ActorInspiredHeroism: Hank Heywood was meant to be one of the main antagonists of Season 4. However, the writers found his actor Tom F. Wilson so charming and likable, they felt compelled to change his character to being more foolishly misguided than outright villainous.
16	* ActorSharedBackground:
17	** Rip Hunter is British, much like his actor Creator/ArthurDarvill.
18	** Creator/VictorGarber is gay, and his character Martin Stein occasionally makes references to this (although Stein himself is heterosexual).
19	*** Stein caps off his speech about the fall of the Soviet Union by saying that in America people can "love whoever we want." Garber is gay, and had recently gotten married after country-wide gay marriage legalization.
20	*** Jefferson and Sara demolish Stein's rose-tinted view of the '50s, and he looks especially uncomfortable when Sara brings up how hard the period was for gay people.
21	** Courtney Ford and Creator/BrandonRouth are married in real life. During the show, their characters Eleanor "Nora" Darhk and Ray Palmer get married.
22	** Both Creator/VictorGarber and Creator/AdamTsekhman are Jewish, much like their respective characters Martin Stein and Gary Green.
23	** Zari Tomaz is an Iranian-American and fluent in Farsi, like her actress Creator/TalaAshe.
24	** 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.
25	** Dr. Gwyn Davies is Welsh, like his actor Creator/MattRyan (though ''un''like Ryan's [[ComicBook/JohnConstantine previous role]] on the show, who's from Liverpool).
26	* BillingDisplacement:
27	** Creator/ArthurDarvill, who plays TheLeader and provides the OpeningNarration of the first season, is only third billed behind Creator/VictorGarber and Creator/BrandonRouth.
28	** Even though Sara is made captain of the Waverider in season 2, Creator/CaityLotz doesn't get first billing until halfway through season 5, after Darvill, Garber, and Routh were no longer on the show.
29	* TheCastShowoff:
30	** Dancer, stuntwoman, and Parkour practitioner Creator/CaityLotz gets to lose the mask with her new outfit, making it even clearer that she does all her own fighting and stunts.
31	** Veteran Broadway star Creator/VictorGarber gets to sing on multiple occasions.
32	** In "Tender is the Nate", Tom Wilson gets to show off his guitar and singing skills.
33	** Tala Ashe (Zari) occasionally speaks fluent Farsi, her first language.
34	** In "Here I Go Again" Tala Ashe gets to show her talent with the violin.
35	* CreatorBacklash:
36	** Creator/CaityLotz, Creator/DominicPurcell and Creator/BrandonRouth have admitted in interviews and social media posts that they are not fans of the first season.
37	** Ciara Renee and Falk Hentschel have been open about how much they disliked the material they got, including saying that most of the material they were told about when they signed on either never happened or was cut if it got to the filming stage.
38	** As news of Creator/BrandonRouth and Courtney Ford's departure was released, both actors immediately made it clear on their Instagram and Twitter profiles that this decision was made by the writers, not them. Routh even retweeted comments criticizing the writers' decision, suggesting that he and Ford are as dissatisfied as the fans.
39	** The creators of this show thought that their take on ComicBook/VandalSavage was terribly underwhelming.
40	** More generally, [[WordOfGod Marc Guggenheim]] even acknowledged in [[http://ew.com/tv/2018/04/13/legends-of-tomorrow-season-4-spoilers/ an 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.
41	* TheDanza:
42	** Almost. Hawkgirl's real name is "Chay-Ara" (pronounced somewhere between "Shay-arra" and "Shee-arra"), and her actress has the similar first name "Ciara" (pronounced "See-arra"). Since Chay-Ara is a character from the comics, this is entirely a coincidence, presuming Ciara Renée wasn't hired for her name.
43	** '''Mona''' Wu is played by [[Creator/RamonaYoung Ra '''mona''' Young]].
44	* DarkhorseCasting:
45	** 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}}''.
46	** While he wasn't a complete unknown, Creator/ShayanSobhian had only appeared as an extra in a film and a guest star in two episodes of the Biblical drama ''The Chosen'' before he was cast as Behrad. ''Legends of Tomorrow'' was the first time he acted in any major role.
47	* DeletedScene:
48	** A behind the scenes feature featured the Flash asking Captain Cold how it felt to be a hero. This was never shown and indeed Barry himself never showed at all in the first season.
49	** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGALgnf68ZY A conversation between Sara and Snart]] was cut in the pilot.
50	** [[https://twitter.com/tomazlance/status/1370836218485870595 There was a filmed kiss between Zari and Charlie]].
51	* DirectedByCastMember:
52	** The reason why Sara is mostly absent in "[[Recap/LegendsOfTomorrowS5E5MortalKhanbat Mortal Khanbat]]" is because her actress, Caity Lotz, directed that episode. Lotz also directed the season 6 episode "[[Recap/LegendsOfTomorrowS6E5TheSatanistsApprentice The Satanist's Apprentice]]".
53	** Creator/DavidRamsey directed the episode "[[Recap/LegendsOfTomorrowS6E8StressedWestern Stressed Western]]", though it should be noted that he never appeared in a non-crossover ''Legends'' episode.
54	** Jes Macallan directed the episode "[[Recap/LegendsOfTomorrowS6E11TheFinalFrame The Final Frame]]".
55	** Maisie Richardson-Sellers directed the episode "[[Recap/LegendsOfTomorrowS6E14ThereWillBeBrood There Will Be Brood]]". Played with in that Richardson-Sellers had departed from the cast a year prior to her stint as director.
56	* FakeAmerican:
57	** Both halves of Firestorm are fake Americans. Jefferson Jackson is played by the British Franz Drameh, while Prof. Stein is played by the Canadian Creator/VictorGarber. In "[[Recap/LegendsOfTomorrowS2E14Moonshot Moonshot]]", to fool NASA, Jefferson briefly imitates an English accent, which is Drameh's actual one in real life.
58	** Carter Hall is also a fake American as Creator/FalkHentschel is German.
59	** As in ''Series/{{The Flash\|2014}}'', English-Australian Creator/DominicPurcell plays American Mick Rory.
60	** The English Creator/MaisieRichardsonSellers 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]]. Averted when she plays Charlie as the latter speaks with Maisie's real accent.
61	** Creator/OliviaSwann, who is English, plays Astra Logue, [[AdaptationalNationality who has been changed into an American in the show]] (the comics' Astra is English, like Constantine).
62	* FakeBrit: Canadian Kiefer O'Reilly plays [[FakeBrit English]] Jonas Hunter.
63	* FakeNationality: Danish Casper Crump as ancient Egyptian Vandal Savage.
64	* FakeRussian: Danish Creator/StephanieCorneliussen as Russian Valentina Vostok.
65	* IronyAsSheIsCast:
66	** In 'Blood Ties' Sara says she isn't much of a dancer, Creator/CaityLotz on the other hand is a trained professional.
67	** In 'Night of the Hawk,' Stein waxes nostalgia about how idyllic 1950s America was compared to 2016, prompting Sara to remind him only if one was "a man, and straight." Victor Garber is openly gay.
68	* NonSingingVoice: Ava's [[DaydreamSurprise (good)]] singing was not performed by Creator/JesMacallan. Instead, it was dubbed in by Lola Kristine.
69	* TheOtherDarrin:
70	** Gideon was originally played by Creator/MorenaBaccarin but is now played by Creator/AmyPemberton, though it is heavily implied that the Gideon here is a ForeignRemake.
71	** Kuasa was voiced by Creator/AnikaNoniRose, but is played in the flesh by Tracy Ifeachor.
72	* OutOfHolidayEpisode: The episode "Turncoats" was set on Christmas Eve, even though the episode aired in February.
73	* RealLifeRelative:
74	** Courtney Ford, who plays Nora Dahrk, is married to Creator/BrandonRouth, who plays Ray Palmer.
75	** Jax's photo of his daughter is the actor's actual infant daughter.
76	** Raffi Barsoumian, who plays Bishop, is married to Creator/TalaAshe, who plays Zari.
77	** Jes Macallan's fiance, Creator/NicBishop, appeared in two episodes in as General Kilgore and Levi Stapleton.
78	** Dominic Purcell's on-off girlfriend Creator/AnnaLynneMcCord also appeared in season six as Irma Rose.
79	* QueerCharacterQueerActor: Queer actress Creator/MaisieRichardsonSellers initially played the straight Amaya Jiwe (Vixen) in ''Series/LegendsOfTomorrow'' but in season 4, she got recast as pansexual demon Charlie.
80	* RealLifeWritesThePlot: Notably averted regarding the impact of the [[UsefulNotes/CoronavirusDisease2019Pandemic COVID-19 pandemic]]. ''Legends of Tomorrow'' is one of 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.
81	* 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 powerful 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.
82	* RecycledSet:
83	** 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.
84	** Kayla's spaceship in Season 6 is mostly recycled from ''Series/StargateAtlantis''. The cryo chamber pods are the most blatant giveaway.
85	* RenamedToAvoidAssociation: Zari Tomaz is an adaptation of a superheroine named Isis (who was originally from ''Series/TheSecretsOfIsis'' and then adopted as a ''ComicBook/BlackAdam'' character), but the "Isis" codename was dropped as by then the name was also used by a terrorist organization.
86	* SeparatedAtBirthCasting:
87	** Lovell Adams-Grey looks and sounds ''exactly'' like a young UsefulNotes/BarackObama.
88	** Actually threw a wrench in the works during season four because after casting Creator/ThomasFWilson as the father of Nate, Creator/NickZano's character, the writers found themselves having to change their plans after seeing the two of them together on set, including how much they did look like they could be related.
89	* ScrewedByTheNetwork: Or, more accurately, the network's new owners. Following the merger of Warner Bros. and Discovery, two Arrowverse shows were stated to not be making the cut. Despite being one of the most popular of the bunch, Legends found itself cancelled out of the blue along with ''Series/{{Batwoman\|2019}}''. Apparently, some bean-counter decided it was costing WB too much to store the ''Legends'' sets. (This turned out to be an early warning sign of the rather-unpopular [[TyrantTakestheHelm reign of David Zaslav as WB's owner]], which has seen several other projects been cancelled or scrapped for financial reasons.)
90	* ShipperOnDeck: Creator/OliviaSwann liked [[https://mobile.twitter.com/wrongchastra/status/1262034071288496128 this tweet]] regarding the Charlie x Astra ship.
91	* ThoseTwoActors:
92	** Aside from his ''Series/PrisonBreak'' brother Creator/WentworthMiller, Creator/DominicPurcell was with Creator/CallumKeithRennie in ''Film/BladeTrinity''.
93	** Both Creator/LauraMennell and Daryl Huttleworth, who played minor characters during TheFifties episode, were on ''Film/{{Watchmen}}'' together. Coincidentally, both of their characters in the film are connected to the same major character (Dr. Manhattan).
94	* ThrowItIn:
95	** Creator/CaityLotz and Creator/WentworthMiller had a ton of fun improvising little friendship bits in the early episodes, which the writing crew loved so much that they soon starting putting more in the scripts.
96	** Most scenes of the team together are full of adlibs, Creator/DominicPurcell almost never says anything that's written in the script.
97	** In "Meet the Legends", Sara sweeping Ava into a BigDamnKiss, followed by Ava fainting and Sara flashing a thumbs up at the camera? That was just the two actors goofing around between takes (luckily, since this was a DocumentaryEpisode, even the BreakingTheFourthWall moment could be kept in).
98	* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
99	** The original idea for the third Series/{{Arrowverse}} show was to simply give ComicBook/TheAtom his own series. But Creator/TheCW execs got cold feet after his lukewarm reception during Season 3 of ''Arrow'', so it was heavily retooled to be about an entire team.
100	** The team was going to be named the [[ComicBook/JusticeSocietyOfAmerica Justice Society]], but Creator/GeoffJohns nixed it so the real JSA could be saved for any future appearances.
101	** [[Franchise/GreenLantern Alan Scott]] was supposed to be the leader of the Justice Society, but DC prevented his usage; he was replaced by Hourman. They got as far as [[https://preview.redd.it/th5d4p9u77r51.jpg?width=924&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e9ca78eeb88d3bfc909432ee5524ba6644c10c44 concept art]].
102	** Creator/KeiynanLonsdale originally auditioned for Jefferson Jackson, but the showrunners decided he's better suited to play Wally West on ''Series/{{The Flash\|2014}}'' so he was cast as that instead.
103	** The creators originally wanted to have Creator/RobbieAmell reprise his role from ''The Flash'' as Firestorm, but Amell couldn't commit. They ended up killing the character off on ''The Flash'' so they could have a new Firestorm to use in ''Legends of Tomorrow''.
104	** Joseph David-Jones [[https://www.radiotimes.com/news/tv/2019-10-14/arrow-connor-hawke-legends-of-tomorrow/ revealed]] his character of Connor Hawke was originally supposed to become a series regular and join the Legends, but due to a combination of being unable to fit him in and the tone of the show changing to DenserAndWackier they scrapped the idea.
105	** Likewise, the creators wanted Creator/MegalynEchikunwoke to reprise her role as Comicbook/{{Vixen}} from ''Arrow'' and her [[WesternAnimation/{{Vixen}} animated series]], but this was scrapped because of scheduling issues. The new Vixen Amaya in Season 2 was created as a replacement.
106	*** It was announced that Megalyn was supposed to reprise her role as Mari in Season 3 and meet Amaya, but for some reason that never happened.
107	** The show originally planned on tackling Ra's Al-Ghul and Damien Darhk's [[WeUSedToBeFriends friendship and fallout]] but was scrapped for unknown reasons.
108	** [[https://twitter.com/james_eagan/status/1072358719839748096 Other names]] for [[Recap/LegendsOfTomorrowS4E8LegendsOfToMeowMeow Legends Of To-Meow-Meow]].
109	** "Wet Hot American Bummer"'s script was changed to remove Nate from the episode in order to give Creator/NickZano time off after his daughter was born and required surgery at a day old.
110	** Hank Heywood was initially going to be the BigBad of Season 4, revealed to be a MadScientist putting all the creatures the Legends brought back through horrific experiments, complete with Nate making a FaceHeelTurn. Then everyone found Tom Wilson so inherently likable that they decided this could never be believable (a bit odd, seeing as [[Franchise/BackToTheFuture his most famous role]] is a villain), so the story was tweaked to make him Neron's patsy.
111	** The season four finale was originally supposed to include Nate dying for real, but the writers ultimately couldn't bring themselves to do it and had him resurrected by the power of love.
112	** 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]]. Because Maisie Richardson-Sellers departed from the show at the end of season 5, the scene ended up getting cut.
113	** Per Caity Lotz, had ''Legends'' gotten an eighth season, the Legends would've been forced to work off their prison sentence training rookie time travelers in how ''not'' to time travel.
114	* WordOfGay: [[http://www.newnownext.com/wentworth-miller-on-legends-of-tomorrows-captain-cold-i-instinctively-feel-like-hes-pansexual/01/2016/ Wentworth Miller says he believes Snart is pansexual]], but that's yet to be seen in canon. At least for the Earth-1 version. ''Earth-X'' Snart, on the other hand, is in a committed relationship with Ray Terrill, aka The Ray.
115	* WritingByTheSeatOfYourPants:
116	** As noted above, Hank was originally written as an outright villain, but the incredible chemistry between his actor and Nate's encouraged the showrunners to make him a misguided AntiVillain instead.
117	** [[https://ew.com/tv/legends-of-tomorrow-season-6-gary-alien/ According to showrunner Phil Klemmer]], the revelation of [[spoiler:Gary being an alien]] in the Season 6 premiere is something that they only thought of when they began developing the story for that season.
118	* YouLookFamiliar: Time Masters councilman Declan is played by Peter Bryant, who also played an alderman in ''Series/{{Arrow}}'' Season 3. IdenticalGrandson perhaps?
119	** Vanessa Przada previously played Erika Morrison in ''Series/{{Supergirl}}'' and younger Ava Sharper in ''Legends of Tomorrow''.
120	** Creator/MelissaRoxburgh played Blake a 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.
121	** Creator/LauraRegan previously guest-starred on ''Series/{{Constantine}}'' as a character named Claire, then appeared on ''Legends Of Tomorrow'' as a woman named Jane.
122	** In somewhat of a meta RunningGag, Creator/JesMacallan's partner Nic Bishop guest stars in three separate episodes of season 6, each as a completely different character.

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