Arrowverse: Legends - Former Members / Characters

The Legends have a rotating roster, with changes happening even mid-season. These are the list of Legends who (as of the end of Season 7) have left of their own volition and/or are deceased.

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Founding Members

Captain / Director Rip Hunter

Rip Hunter

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"There is a war coming, and history needs you [Sara] to be ready. You and the rest of the Legends."

Species: Human

Known Aliases: Michael (original name), "The Garib", "Phil Gasmer"

Affiliations: The Time Masters, The Legends, The Time Bureau

Played By: Arthur Darvill, Aiden Longworth (young)

First Appearance: "Pilot, Part 1" (Legends of Tomorrow 1x1)

Appearances: Legends of Tomorrow

A time traveling member of the Time Masters, who comes to the present to assemble a group of heroes and villains to fight against Vandal Savage, the man who murdered his wife and child and took over the future.

6 months after finishing this quest, Rip got lost in a time aberration caused by Eobard Thawne, which led to Rip losing his memories and later being captured and brainwashed by Thawne and his new-found Legion of Doom.

After his original self was finally restored and with the Legion defeated, Rip decided to leave the Captain's duties to Sara Lance at the end of the second season and started the Time Bureau, in an effort to fix the broken timeline in a better way than his former Time Master compatriots.

Sadly, it all ended with Rip losing control of the Bureau and him finally sacrificing himself against the demon Mallus in the third season.

Adaptational Angst Upgrade: This version gave him a dead family that he's trying to avenge, and the guilt of bringing along people for him to do it.
Adaptational Curves: Inverted. In the comics, Rip is more muscular, while in the show he's more lean.
Adaptation Dye-Job: He's strawberry or sandy blonde in the comics. Here, he's dirty blonde.
Alternate Company Equivalent: It's very difficult for him to not be compared with The Doctor, even though his comic counterpart actually predates said character. This Rip Hunter incorporates a lot more elements from the Doctor than his namesake, such as a fondness for trenchcoats, being part of a "Time-" organization before he went rogue, and stealing a time traveling Cool Ship. It certainly helps the comparison that his actor is fairly well known for playing one of the Doctor's companions.
And This Is for...: Says "This is for Miranda and Jonas!" before slashing Vandal Savage's throat in "Blood Ties". Unfortunately, doing this was a huge mistake as he accidentally reveals their names to him.
The Antichrist: Feared as "the Garib" by Vandal Savage's cult for his (unsuccessful) attempt to assassinate Savage shortly before his ascension to immortality. This is another similarity to the Doctor, actually, who is known by various epithets such as "the Oncoming Storm" to his enemies.
Every myth has its monster, and for those of our order, it's him. The Garib.
Arch-Enemy:
- Rip has a deeply personal grudge against Vandal Savage, who murdered his wife and child. His attempts to stop Savage's rise to power end up making the feeling quite mutual (it even convinces Savage to kill Rip's family in the first place).
- To Mallus. Rip has dedicated a large portion of his life to uncovering the truth about Mallus and stopping him from returning.
The Atoner: After burning his bridges with the Legends and Ava, he wants to make things up to them.
Authority in Name Only:
- Has some shades of this. He frequently tells members of his team not to mess with the timeline, but they tend to ignore him if they feel it's justified and he has no real way to make them stop. He's quite well aware that they tend not to listen to him and complains about it frequently. Even after his return in late Season Two, Sara, who's been acting captain of the Waverider in his absence, still gives orders to the team, which gives the two of them moments of butting heads about who should command what.
- Averted with the Time Bureau, where he is very much in charge, until "Return of the Mack" where they turn against him for going on a mission to stop Mallus behind their back that ended with several agents dead.
Badass Family: His wife and son were both Defiant to the End when Savage came to kill them.
Badass Arm-Fold: Does this when he's revealed to be alive on top of the Waverider after falling from a rooftop in the Season 1 finale.
Badass in a Nice Suit: He has a few moments of dressing formally, but really hits this trope in Season Three, where he starts dressing in a sharp blue suit as leader of the Time Bureau.
Badass Longcoat: He sports a brown trenchcoat, eventually revealed to be a gift from Jonah Hex. He goes without it for a time after forming the Time Bureau, but he retrieves it with Wally's help in "The Curse of the Earth Totem".
Badass Normal: He has no powers, only equipped with a high tech, futuristic revolver. Also, while not quite to the level of Sara, he is still quite an exceptional fighter and is able to beat Vandal in a straight up fight. He was also able to escape from a Time Bureau prison.
Battle Couple: It is revealed that his wife Miranda was a member of the Time Masters.
Beleaguered Boss: The Legends are initially led by the long suffering Rip, who is Authority in Name Only, as no one listens to his orders. Many instances suggest he regrets assembling them as they do more damage to the timeline than the repairs they make.
Belligerent Sexual Tension: It is revealed that he and Miranda were prone to squabbling before their marriage.
Big Good:
- One of the core forces of good in the Arrowverse, assembling a team of heroes and leading them into battle to stop a threat to the future.
- Becomes even more apparent in Season 3 where he leads the Time Bureau, the true Time Police that safeguards all of history. Until he's thrown out for doing a mission behind their back.
Big "NO!":
- In "River of Time", Rip screams three of these in succession after Savage taunts him yet again about murdering his family, with the difference that this time, there's nothing Rip can do to stop him.
- He has another one during the following episode when the Time Masters show him the Oculus and he sees a vision of Ray Palmer dying.
- And again in "Land of the Lost" when the evil versions of the Legends are about to kill Sara and Jax in his mind.
Big "OMG!": As the film student "Phil Gasmer", he squeals two in a row when he gets arrested by the police after the mess caused by a fight between the Legends and the Legion of Doom in front of his film set in "Raiders of the Lost Art".
Blatant Lies: Rip manages to recruit the team by telling them how they all are regarded as a Legendary Team in the future. He later reveals that it was a lie all along and he only recruited them because of their relative lack of impact on the future.
Borrowed Catchphrase: In "No Country for Old Dads", Rip uses the catchphrase of Gorilla Grodd of all people when he corrects Ava by saying "It's Grodd, not God".
Ava: Oh, my God!
Rip: It's "Grodd", actually.
Brainwashed and Crazy: The Legion brainwashed him during the middle of Season Two, and tasked him to kill George Washington among other evil deeds.
The Bus Came Back: Despite his death at the end of Season 3, Rip reappears for the 100th episode in Season 7, albeit only in Gideon's memories.
But Now I Must Go: After he realizes that he's taught the Legends all he can about time and that they function better under Sara's leadership than his own, he decides to leave the team at the end of Season Two.
The Captain: Gideon addresses him with this rank. Of course, Captain Cold has issues with it, and in Season Two, it leads to some confusion when he returns to the ship during Sara's time as captain, he eventually secedes the title over to Sara and it's made very clear that in Season 3 the Legends consider Sara their captain. Just before he dies, Sara addresses him as Captain, one final time.
Cassandra Truth: Nobody believes his fears about Mallus and his attempts to prove them end up blowing up in his face. But Agent Sharpe is forced to admit he was right, as without him leading the Bureau Damien Darhk is running rings about the Time Bureau.
Career Versus Family: It is not so subtly implied that the reason he fell out of favor with the Time Masters is because he started a family despite them discouraging the idea, and him clearly prioritizing them over the organization doesn't help.
Celebrity Paradox: Ray is a fan of Doctor Who and the show itself was referenced a couple of times in the shows. Rip's actor played Rory Williams, a companion of the Eleventh Doctor.
Character Tics: Has a habit of, when talking to someone, leaning and looking down, while still conversing with them.
Chekhov M.I.A.: After protecting 1942 New York, scattering the team and putting Mick in stasis to protect them, he stays on the Waverider while it takes the nuke to where it can harm nobody else. After this he goes missing, with the team having no indication of whether he is dead or alive. It's later revealed he's in 1967 Los Angeles, severely suffering from Loss of Identity.
Chekhov's Gunman: His name is mentioned in passing in The Flash Season One finale regarding a Time Sphere that would apparently impress him.
Chess Motifs: In "Fail-Safe", Jax uses this analogy for Rip to convince him to let him and Kendra out into the field.

Jax: You're playing chess without all your piece on the board.

Chronic Backstabbing Disorder: One of his defining character traits, unfortunately. Virtually every organization and team he's work with, he has betrayed: The Time Masters, the Legends, the Legion of Doom, the Legends again, and even the very organization he founded to clean up the Time Masters' corruption, the Time Bureau. After he backstabs both the Legends and the Bureau in his personal crusade against Mallus's cult, Sara has finally had enough and sells him out to Ava Sharpe and Director Bennett in exchange for free reign.
Composite Character: His animosity with Vandal Savage, and him summoning a team to fight him, is incorporated from the character called The Immortal Man.
- His real first name, Michael, is that of his father in the comics, Booster Gold.
Crazy-Prepared: He took DNA samples from each of the team just in case one of them lost a limb during the mission.
Create Your Own Villain: Thanks to a Stable Time Loop, him travelling back in time to try and kill Savage becomes the main reason why Savage targeted his family in the first place.
Crusading Widower: Savage killed his wife along with their son. This is what pushes him to relentlessly stop Savage.
Dark and Troubled Past: He was a street urchin and thief until the Time Masters picked him up for training.
Deadpan Snarker: Big time. To wit, his first words to the Legends when they're gathered on a rooftop: "I'm from East London. Oh, and the future."
Death Equals Redemption: For all his immoral actions in Season Three, Rip firmly proves he's one of the good guys by performing a Heroic Sacrifice to delay Mallus.
Defector from Decadence: He leaves the Time Masters since they're content to let Savage conquer the world and do nothing.
Demoted to Extra: He was a main member of the cast in Season One, but becomes a recurring character in Seasons Two and Three.
The Determinator: Once Rip has a goal in mind, nothing will stop him from achieving it. In Season Three, the Time Bureau arrests him, impeding his crusade against Mallus. His response? Break out of prison and track down Wally West to help him in his fight.
Doctor Whomage: While the comics version of Rip Hunter and the Time Masters debuted in DC comics years before Doctor Who debuted on TV and more than a decade before the British series introduced the Time Lords to its narrative. The Arrowverse version of Rip Hunter however borrows heavily from The Doctor more than his namesake did. Aside from being played by a former actor from the series, Rip shares the Doctor's British accent, love of Badass Longcoats, having a Cool Ship that travels through time (bonus points of having a female AI who he has a Ship Tease with), and being a Badass Normal who mostly relies on gadgets and wits.
Do Not Call Me "Paul": As Phil Gasmer, he keeps insisting others call him Phil instead of Rip.
Don't Call Me "Sir": After losing his title of "Captain of the Waverider" during season 2, he has to tell people not to call him "Captain" on several occasions throughout the season.
- Due to having lost his memory of being Rip Hunter, he tells Gideon to stop calling him "Captain" when he's brought onto the Waverider by the Legends in "Raiders of the Lost Art".
  Rip: Would you stop calling me that, please? I am not a captain. I'm just a regular guy.
- When the Brainwashed and Crazy Rip goes to the year 3000 to retrieve Dr. Mid-Nite's fragment of the Spear of Destiny in "Camelot 3000", he also says to him that calling him "Captain" is not necessary anymore.
  Dr. Mid-Nite: The future is full of marvels, Captain Hunter.
  Rip: Uh, I'm no longer a captain, I'm afraid.
- Finally, he tells Sara that she doesn't have to call him "Captain" since this title belongs to her now when he leaves the team at the end of the season.
  Rip: Ah, I'm no longer the Captain. You are.
Don't Make Me Destroy You: A Brainwashed and Crazy Rip tells Jax that he has no intention of hurting him while chasing him around the Waverider in "Turncoat". Jax doesn't buy it, considering he already tried to kill Sara.
Rip: I don't want to hurt you, Jax.
Jax: Yeah, says the guy who shot Sara!
Don't Touch It, You Idiot!: Once the team has gathered all the pieces of the Spear of Destiny in "Fellowship of the Spear" and they magically assemble before their eyes, Stein is so fascinated that he tries to touch it, but Rip stops him and forbids him from doing so because he knows the Spear can corrupt anyone who puts his hands on it.
The Dreaded: According to Jon Valor, every Time Pirate were afraid of "the great Rip friggin' Hunter" when he was a Time Master.
Jon Valor: There was a time when he had men like me running scared all along the timeline.
Dressing as the Enemy: In "Progeny", Rip dons the uniform of one of Per Degaton's bodyguards in order to approach and capture him.
Dude, Where's My Respect?: After Barry and Oliver, he's probably done more to protect the world from evil than anyone else, and gets zero respect for it. He was nothing but a pawn to the Time Masters, the Legends never listened to him, and even the Time Bureau showed little interest in his fears about Mallus and promptly removed him from command once he's proven right.
Early-Bird Cameo: Eobard Thawne gives a passing mention of him in The Flash (2014) Season One finale.
The Easy Way or the Hard Way: When a Brainwashed and Crazy Rip goes to Dr. Mid-Nite in the year 3000 to get his piece of the Spear of Destiny, he first attempts to simply manipulate him into giving it to him willingly. However, as Mid-Nite gets suspicious, Rip decides to do this "the hard way" and shoots him before interrogating him.
EMP: A Brainwashed and Crazy Rip uses some kind of EMP in "Turncoat", which is powerful enough to deactivate not only the Waverider's system, but also Mick's flamethrower, Ray's A.T.O.M. suit and Firestorm's powers.
Everyone Has Standards: Despite his willingness to travel to multiple different time eras, he's absolutely unwilling to return to the time of Jesus Christ's Crucifixion out of fear of the potential consequences for meddling in such a crucial event in history.
Evil Brit: After he was brainwashed by the Legion. Things he did under that time were kill George Washington (he gets better) and nearly killing Sara.
Evil Costume Switch: While brainwashed, Rip wears black versions of his old outfits.
Expecting Someone Taller: The Time Pirate Jon Valor was expecting Rip Hunter to be taller.
"Facing the Bullets" One-Liner: Gives one to Mallus in the Season Three finale:
Rip: Ironic isn't it? A time demon who's run out of time.
Fainting: As ordinary film student "Phil Gasmer", he doesn't believe in the existence of timeships, so he naturally passes out when he sees the Waverider in "Raiders Of The Lost Art".
Fatal Flaw: Rip is used to working on his own initiative and having the final say on what actions needs to be taken. Fitting, as he was trained as a Time Master, usually working solo to resolve situations. Unfortunately this leads to the side-effect of Rip being used to missions and objectives being resolved according to his intent. Not suitable for someone who is leading a team, which is why he left at the end of Season Two as Sara had easily taken over the role. Unfortunately this came back to bite him in the ass hard in Season Three. When Sara refused to risk Damien Darhk’s resurrection in order to trap Mallus, he betrayed her trust, locking down the Waverider and allowing Darhk to be resurrected to draw Mallus out. End result, multiple Time Bureau Agents are dead, Darhk escapes alongside his daughter, and Mallus gains a valuable asset. Thus, despite Rip being right regarding the threat of Mallus, he's destroyed any trust or goodwill he had from both the Legends and the Time Bureau, causing neither to act on it.
Faux Affably Evil: After being brainwashed by the Legion, he continues to act like his polite, snarky self, but there's a definite air of menace in everything he does, and he doesn't hesitate to attack or even coldly murder his former friends.
Forbidden Romance: He fell in love and started a family against Time Master rules. Savage killing them is what drives him to undo their deaths.
For Your Own Good: As revealed in the 100th episode, Rip has modified Gideon's protocol so that she could accept and adapt to the Legends. Gideon wasn't happy about this, but Rip justifies himself by saying it's for her own good, and the good of history.
Get It Over With: A Brainwashed and Crazy Rip goads Jax to kill him when he points a gun at him in "Turncoat", and even outstretches his arms to make it easier for him. As he expected, Jax cannot bring himself to shoot his former friend in cold blood.
Rip: I haven't got all day for this. If you're gonna shoot me, then, please, get on with it.
Going Native: After spending too much time in the Old West, Rip became too attached to the era and had to force himself to leave. As we can see from his modern attire (his Badass Longcoat, a gift from Jonah Hex, and his revolver-styled gun), he hasn't completely shed his fondness for that time. This occurred again due to his extended stay in 1967 Los Angeles, believing himself to be an American film director working on a science fiction film about his own life.
The Good Captain: His main Character Development is to show that despite how badly he wants to permanently kill Savage and protect history, he tries to think about the well-being of the people he brought in first.
Good Is Not Soft: He's dedicated to protecting history and fighting evil, but he will unashamedly lie and manipulate people to achieve whatever goal he has his mind; Sara loses faith in him because of it.
Gosh Dang It to Heck!: The closest he has ever come to cursing are "bloody hell" and "bullocks."
Grievous Bottley Harm: In "Return of the Mack", Rip and Sara have to infiltrate a gathering of the Cult of Mallus to rescue Nate, and Rip grabs a bottle to distract the guards by pretending to be drunk. Then, Sara proceeds to beat them up, and Rip uses his bottle to knock out the last of them.
Gun Twirling: After shooting Jeb Stillwater in their duel at the end of "The Magnificent Eight", Rif twirls his revolver before sheathing it.
Hand Gagging: Sara has to do this to him in "Raiders of the Lost Art" as he keeps calling for help when he sees the Legends, due to having erased his memory and having no idea who those weirdos are and what they want with him.
Heartbroken Badass: Savage killed his family and he spends all of Season One in mourning over them.
Hero of Another Story: In Season Three as Director of the Time Bureau, especially in his solo quest to take down Mallus. He later escapes prison and recruits Wally West to his cause.
Hero Antagonist: In Season Three, he's formed the Time Bureau to be the official successors of the Time Masters due to the Legends' penchant for causing chaos on even the simplest missions. Downplayed, though; unlike the Bureau, he is not antagonistic toward the Legends, treating them civilly and willing to ally with them every now and then.
Heroic Sacrifice:
- At the end of Season 1, Rip attempts to sacrifice himself by using the Waverider to take Vandal Savage's meteor to the Sun before it could destroy the Earth. Subverted, as a vision of his wife and son (plus Gideon telling him that she doesn't want to die) convinces him to make a time jump to save himself at the last moment.
- Rip sacrifices himself for real in the finale of Season 3 by using the Waverider's time drive to stall Mallus to give the Legends a fighting chance.
Hero Killer: Post-brainwashing, he's killed George Washington, Dr. Mid-Nite, and nearly Sara. Washington's death was averted thanks to time travel and Sara was saved by Gideon, but Mid-Nite wasn't so lucky.
Heroic BSoD: When he discovers that the Time Masters have been manipulating the team all along to help Savage conquer Earth.
He's Back!: After a lengthy absence in Season Two, Rip returns to the series, having ended up in 1967 Los Angeles where he has forgotten his true self and believes himself to be an American director. Not long after, he gets captured and brainwashed by the Legion of Doom and becomes their killing machine. The Legends finally manage to restore him to his true self and the real Rip makes his formal return to the crew proper in "Land of the Lost", Badass Longcoat and all.
Hurl It into the Sun: In the season 1 finale, Rip manages to get rid of the Thanagarian meteor about to destroy the Earth by carrying it to the Sun with the Waverider.
Hypocrite:
- He keeps warning his team about the dangers of changing the timeline despite the whole mission being to do just that. This is something the team calls him out on numerous times.
- In Season Three, he fires the Legends for causing a paradox, accusing them of causing too much damage to the time stream as rank amateurs. However, they caused the paradox to save reality due to Rip not destroying the Spear of Destiny when he had the chance. Basically, he used their actions against them when they were just cleaning up a mess he helped make.
I Am a Monster: In "Blood Ties", Sara tells him that she considers herself a monster because of her bloodlust since her resurrection, but Rip reassures her that she isn't one. He, on the other hand, is a true monster for not having killed Vandal Savage in Ancient Egypt.
Rip: You killing people doesn't make you a monster, Sara. But having the chance to avenge your family and not taking it? That does.
I Can Explain:
- Rip says this when Time Master Declan catches him making out with Miranda in a flashbask of "Marooned".
  Rip: Sir, I can explain.
  Declan: Don't bother, Lieutenant. Save it for your disciplinary hearing.
- When the Legends time-travel to a time they've already been in the season 2 finale and get caught by the past version of Firestorm who naturally mistakes them for impostors, Rip tries to tell him this right before he gets attacked.
  Rip: Mr. Jackson, I can explain...
  Firestorm: That you're the Legion in disguise? Yeah, I know!
Iconic Sequel Character: While he's the first main protagonist of Legends of Tomorrow introduced within that show, he does not appear in the Arrowverse until its fourth year.
If I Wanted You Dead...: He uses this argument to convince a Rebel Leader that he and the rest of the Legends are not working for Savage when they encounter a resistance group in "Leviathan".
Rebel Leader: How do we know you're not with Savage?
Rip: Because if we were, you'd be dead right now.
I Lied: In "Turncoat", a Brainwashed and Crazy Rip Hunter threatens to kill Sara unless Jax tells him where the piece of the Spear of Destiny is hidden. Jax tells him everything, but Rip breaks her neck anyway, much to Jax's horror.
Impersonating an Officer: Rip and Snart pretend to be FBI agents during the episode "Night of the Hawk".
Improvised Weapon: He uses a coat rack against Vandal Savage's Mooks during the fight at the bank in the episode "Blood Ties".
- A more humorous example happens in "Raiders of the Lost Art". As film student "Phil Gasmer", he doesn't recognize Jax and hits him with a roll of paper of his movie script, much to Jax's confusion.
  Jax: Dude tried to bludgeon me with this… non-lethal weapon.
I'm Standing Right Here: When Rip teams up with the Legends behind the Time Bureau's back to investigate Mallus in "Return of the Mack", Mick says that it's a mistake to trust him, and Rip reminds him that he can hear him as they're all on comms. Mick actually knew, he just didn't care.
I Need a Freaking Drink: With the threat of Mallus about to arise in the penultimate episode of Season 3, Rip sees Sara drinking and decides he could use a drink himself as well.
Informed Ability: Eobard mentioned in the Season One finale of The Flash that Rip can create time machines. He never displayed any signs of that skill throughout Legends's run. This could be a result of Thawne having changed the timeline by killing Barry's mother.
Intergenerational Friendship: Technically, as he is centuries younger than the other Legends and Jonah Hex. Or so it seems. When the team first visit the Refuge he was raised in, he tells them that the Time Masters fill their ranks with "orphans pulled from throughout the course of history" and later in the episode he describes his younger self as "a cut-purse since the age of five". "Cut-purse" seems quite an anachronistic term for a native of the 22nd Century to use, and it's used in Shakespeare. So it's more than possible that Rip (or rather Michael) was born centuries before the other legends or even Jonah Hex.
Interrogated for Nothing: After being captured by the Legion of Doom in Season 2, Rip is repeatedly tortured to make him reveal the location of the Spear of Destiny fragments, but they eventually realize that he can't tell them anything for the simple reason that all his memories about it have been erased.
Interspecies Romance: Shares a kiss with Gideon in "Land of the Lost".
In the Hood: Rip was wearing a hood to dissimulate his face when he tried to assassinate Vandal Savage in Ancient Egypt.
I Regret Nothing: In "Marooned", Rip makes it clear to Captain Baxter that he has no regrets about betraying the Time Masters. The only thing he does regret is that he wasn't able to save his wife and son.
Rip: For betraying the Time Council, I have absolutely no regrets. But failing to save my family? That is something for which I will never forgive myself.
Is This a Joke?: When the Legends find him after he had his memory altered to make him think he is a film student named "Phil Gasmer", they try to remind him that he is a Time Master named Rip Hunter, but he assumes they must be joking.
Martin Stein: Captain Hunter, you must listen to us.
Rip Hunter / "Phil Gasmer": Why do you keep calling me that? Is this some kind of joke?
It Has Been an Honor: He tries to tell this to the Legends when he's about to sacrifice himself by using the Waverider to get rid of the meteor at the end of season 1. Unfortunately, the communications break down before he can finish his sentence.
Rip: I must say, it's been an honor to serve as your cap...
It's a Long Story:
- After Chronos' attack on the team in the first episode, Kendra angrily asks Rip who he was and he replies with this trope.
  Kendra: Who attacked us?
  Rip: Something of a long story…
- When Jonah Hex comes to the Waverider in "The Magnificent Eight" and recalls the last time he saw it, the other Legends ask what he means but Rip uses this trope once again.
  Jonah: Nice. I didn't get to see it last time around.
  Ray: Last time?
  Rip: A long story, which we will not be telling.
- He says the same thing in "Fellowship of the Spear" when the Legends interrogates J.R.R. Tolkien to find out where is located the grave of the knight Gawain, who was buried with the blood of the Christ, and he asks them why they are so interested in it.
  Tolkien: Tell me, why do you seek the grave of Gawain?
  Rip: Eh... it's a long story.
  Tolkien: I enjoy long stories.
It's Personal: Again, he's understandably got issues with someone who personally murders his family.
It's the Only Way: Realizing that Rip is about to sacrifice his life by using the time drive to delay Mallus in the finale of Season 3, Sara contacts him and says there must be some other way, but Rip assures her that it's the only one.
Sara: There has to be another way!
Rip: No, there isn't.
I Want Them Alive!: A heroic example. After Sara has already killed most of Savage's Mooks at the bank in "Blood Ties", Rip orders her to spare the last of them because they need him alive for questioning.
I Warned You: Although he warned Sara several times that exploring Star City in the year 2046 was not a good idea, she goes anyway and is confronted by Grant Wilson, prompting Rip to tell her this.
Rip: Now is not the right time for me to say it... but please, remind me later to tell you that I told you so.
I Work Alone: Before going to recruit the future Legends in the first episode of season 1, Gideon mentions her surprise since he usually prefers to work alone, but Rip retorts that this time he needs a team.
Karaoke Bonding Scene: After becoming friends with Wally West in "The Curse of the Earth Totem", the two spend their night having fun stealing stuff from the Time Bureau, and they end up cementing their bond by singing the song "Careless Whisper" at karaoke together in 1992 Tokyo.
Karmic Nod: After revealing that he knew the town of Calvert would be attacked and still chose to leave it to its fate in "The Magnificent Eight", Jonah Hex punches him in the face. Rip admits that he deserved it.
Kid from the Future: He's from the future. If the show follows the comics' canon, then he's the son of Booster Gold.
Kinda Busy Here:
- He says this when Stein contacts him while he is in the middle of a fight against the time pirate Jon Valor in "Marooned".
  Stein: Captain Hunter? We're in position. Captain?
  Rip: Yes, yes! I'm a little bit busy right now!
- And again when Sara contacts him while he is making a Heroic Sacrifice to delay Mallus during the Season 3 finale.
  Sara: Rip?
  Sara: I'm a little busy at the moment, Sara.
- He gets much worse when he's brainwashed by the Legion of Doom, using a knife to eviscerate Dr. Mid-Nite to find the fragment of the Spear of Destiny hidden inside his body.
Knight of Cerebus: After being brainwashed into joining the Legion, Rip is one of the darkest villains seen on Legends. His personal connection to the team coupled with a newfound sadism and Lack of Empathy makes every scene he's in very threatening, which is driven home when he snaps Sara's neck in "Turncoat" (she gets better).
The Leader: He is the one who formed the team.
Leave Me Alone!: In "Blood Ties", the team gets stuck in 1975 and Kendra is severely injured, therefore Rip goes to isolate himself and look at a picture of his wife and son. Sara comes to see him, but he repeatedly tells her that he would rather be left alone.
- When Sara enters Rip's mind in an attempt to make him recover his memory in "Land of the Lost", she finds a cowering Rip in a cell who thinks she's one of his tormentors and angrily tells her to stay away from him.
Leave No Survivors: A Brainwashed and Crazy Rip leads a group of Redcoats to the Waveriders and orders them to kill all the Legends in "Turncoat".
Rip: Fan out! Kill anyone you find.
Loss of Identity: Being stuck in 1967 Los Angeles has turned Rip into an American-sounding film director.
Magnetic Hero: Averted; unlike Barry or Oliver he really can't inspire loyalty in his team, nor get them to respect his authority as leader. It's why Sara eventually ends up as Captain.
Meaningful Name: Time Travel in the show can be fairly described as going through "rips" in the fabric of time. He's also on a personal "hunt" for Savage.
Metaphorically True: During the Pilot, Rip tells the team that he is part of the Time Masters. When the team realizes that he actually defected from the Time Masters, which is why Chronos was sent after them, he explains that technically he didn't lie because time is relative and he was indeed a Time Master at one point. Sara is not amused.
Sara: I thought you were a Time Master.
Rip: As I've expressed, time's not a linear thing. At some point I was, in fact, a Time Master… [get punched by Sara]
Mundane Solution: Savage spent millennia wondering how Rip managed to escape from his cell in Ancient Egypt without leaving any trace. As it turns out, he simply bribed a guard with a pen in exchange for his release.
My Future Self and Me: Rip interacts with his child self in the episode "Last Refuge" and even requires his help to ambush the Pilgrim.
My Greatest Failure:
- He traveled back to before Savage became immortal and had a chance to kill him, but he failed.
- The events of "Return of the Mack", since his botched attempt to use Darhk as bait to catch Mallus results with good Time Agents dead and both the Bureau and the Legends no longer trusting him. He acknowledges as much to Wally.
Named by the Adaptation: His real name is never revealed in the comics. Here, it's Michael.
Never Found the Body: Just like Cold before him, is body isn't recovered after his sacrifice.
Never Got to Say Goodbye: Miranda and Jonas are already corpses when he finds them.
Never Say That Again: When he stabs a Vandal Savage rendered mortal at the end of Season 1 and the latter tries to taunt him about the death of his wife and son, Rip shoves him against a circuit breaker to electrocute him to death and says this.
Rip: Never speak their names again!
Never Tell Me the Odds!: After Rip removes the Waverider's time drive to use it against Mallus, Gideon attempts to warn him that there is a very low chance that he will make it out alive. Rip cuts her off by telling her that he is already aware of this.
Gideon: The odds of survival are 0.00...
Rip: I know.
Never Trust a Trailer: The teaser trailer suggests that Barry and Oliver helped him in forming the Legends. He did all the work.
Nice Guy: For all of his frustration with the team when they don't listen to him, Rip is very well-mannered and well-meaning and comes to care deeply about them, though events in Seasons Two and Three throw a big wrench into their bonding.
Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: An ill-timed "The Reason You Suck" Speech to Mick drives him to betray the team.
- He decides to go over Sara's head in "Return of the Mack", and tries to use Damien Darhk's resurrection as bait instead of taking him out once and for all. Not only does Damien come back fully powered, he massacres a sizable group of time agents, weakening the Bureau. His arrogance and obsession leads to one of history’s most dangerous mass murderers back into play. His betraying of the Legends leads to not only them severing ties with him, but also adds a valuable pawn to Mallus's cult.
No One Gets Left Behind: Rip refuses to abandon Ray when he tries to sacrifice himself to destroy the Oculus in "Destiny".
Rip: We are not leaving without you!
No Man Should Have This Power: According to Stargirl, Rip broke the Spear of Destiny and entrusted the JSA members to hide its fragments because he considered it too powerful for any man or woman to possess.
Noodle Incident:
- According to the Season One finale of The Flash, at some point, Rip had an encounter with (or at least was known by) Eobard Thawne. In Season Two of Legends, Thawne greets him in a familiar manner, but there are still no clues as to how they know one another (at the time, Rip was in no condition to give any answers and Thawne didn't seem interested in elaborating).
- Future!Barry is quite acquainted with him, even leaving a message for Rip on the Waverider; yet so far Barry and Rip have never met on screen.
No-Respect Guy: After the team's initial lost of trust in him, they will often ignore any of his warnings not to interfere with the time stream.
No Sense of Humor: As he admits himself at the end of season 2, his sense of humor isn't exactly on point.
Sara: Hey, you going on a trip?
Rip: Uh, yes, in fact.
Sara: I was joking.
Rip: Right. Yes, well, we both know that I don't have a sense of humor at times.
No Time to Explain: He gives this response verbatim when he travels through time to save a past version of Ray Palmer from the Pilgrim in "Last Refuge" and is asked who he is and what is going on.
The Oath-Breaker: Time Masters are not supposed to have families, but he fell in love and started one. Later, he reveals that he's a Rogue Agent out on a personal mission against Savage.
Oh, Crap!: As film student "Phil Garner", he sees the Legends in trouble against the Legion of Doom and decides to help them by taking back his Rip Hunter's coat and gun. He manages to get their attention, unfortunately his gun doesn't work, causing him to say this.
Rip: Oooh Crap.
Old Friend: Chronos refers to him as an "old friend" when he ambushes him and points his gun at him in "White Knights".
Outliving One's Offspring: Savage killed his son along with his wife. This is what pushes him to relentlessly hunt Savage.
Out of Focus: He goes missing in the Season Two premiere. The midseason finale shows he wound up in 1967 Los Angeles.
Papa Wolf: Part of the reason why he goes after Savage is to undo his family's deaths at his hands.
Pistol-Whipping: Rip hits Vandal Savage on the head with his revolver to knock him out and capture him in "Leviathan".
Playing Drunk:
- While infiltrating a party organized by Vandal Savage in "Blood Ties", both he and Sara pretend to be drunken guests to distract some guards and attack them by surprise.
- Rip suggests to Sara that they do the same thing when they go to a gathering of the Cult of Mallus in "Return of the Mack", with Rip picking up a bottle of champagne this time to look more convincing.
Please, I Will Do Anything!: When Damien Darhk prepares to torture an amnesiac Rip and threatens to gouge out one of his eyes in "The Legion of Doom", he tries to beg for mercy in this manner.
Damien: Right eye or left eye?
Rip: No, please! Please, don't! I'll do anything! I'll... I'll tell you anything you want to know! Even if I don't know it! Please, don't!
Prima Donna Director: He becomes a mean and demanding film student in 1967 Los Angeles.
Prison Escape Artist: Rip is remarkably good at breaking out of prison. He managed to escape from Vandal Savage's prison in 1700 B.C. by bribing a guard, the Brainwashed and Crazy Rip is able to get out of the Waverider's cell by overriding Gideon in "Land of the Lost", and he somehow manages to break out of the Time Bureau prison during Season 3.
- Even without his memory, he is briefly able to free himself when he is captured by the Legion of Doom in Season 2, though he is rapidly caught by Thawne.
Properly Paranoid:
- He was the one who found the Spear of Destiny and hid it through time. He did this of his own initiative as he believed the Time Masters or anyone else could not be trusted with it.
- He let the Legends have the Waverider, because he didn't trust the Time Bureau to stop Mallus. Considering they don't believe his fears and mutiny against him for going behind their backs to stop Mallus, he was right. However the reason they don't believe him has nothing to do with his paranoia, but with him screwing up and costing multiple agent's lives. However, once Darhk and his cronies start causing chaos at such a scale that the Bureau are overwhelmed they're forced to admit his point.
Pursued Protagonist: The Time Masters are after him.
A Rare Sentence: When Sara says she found peace with the League of Assassins in "Left Behind", Rip remarks that's probably the first time that sentence was ever said.
Reformed Criminal: He was a Street Urchin before the Time Masters took him in.
Revenge: His main motive in opposing Savage is to avenge his wife and son.
Revolvers Are Just Better: His weapon of choice is a futuristic gun that resembles a revolver.
Rogue Agent: No matter what, he will inevitably turn on whatever team he belongs to when they refuse to address his fears about whatever evil he's discovered. The Time Bureau arrests him for doing so.
Sacrificial Lion: He meets his end in the first few minutes of the season 3 finale.
Sarcastic Clapping: In the second episode, the Legends refuse to listen to Rip's advices and go to confront Vandal Savage during his auction. After they fail the mission and come back to the Waverider, Rip claps his hands and berates them for failing to stop Savage and leaving a piece of Ray's suit.
Say Your Prayers: Suggests his crew to do this when the Leviathan manages to catch the Waverider and prepares to crush it.
Rip: Now might be a good time to start praying…
Screw the Rules, I Make Them!: When Director Bennett comes to arrest him for causing the deaths of several agents during his crusade against Mallus, Rip protests that he created the Time Bureau in the first place so they cannot arrest him. However, Bennett replies that no one is above the rules, not even him.
Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!:
- He disobeys the Time Masters and goes back in time to stop Savage.
- He also goes behind the back of the Time Bureau to stop Mallus. They remove him from control.
Secret Message Wink: When Zari is captured by the Cult of Mallus in "Return of the Mack", she spots an undercover Rip among the followers during the ceremony to resurrect Damien Darhk and he winks at her to indicate that he has a plan in place.
Sherlock Scan: He engages in this in "The Return of Mack", in which he inspects a dead body on the streets of the Victorian London and manages to deduce the time, manner and place of death through simple details, in a way that is very reminiscent of the Trope Namer.
- Also, he quickly manages to identify some Nazi spies disguised as privates to infiltrate a physics symposium and kidnap Albert Einstein in "Out of Time" by noticing that the stitching on the lapels of their uniforms are wrong.
Shut Up, Hannibal!: After being stabbed by Kendra in the Season 1 finale, Vandal Savage uses his last breath to taunt Rip about his family's death, but Rip interrupts him by pushing him against a transformer that electrocutes him and tells him to stop talking about them.
The Snark Knight: He's a protector of time. He's also essentially a babysitter for eight incredibly difficult personalities. Dealing with them in addition to constantly being in danger from his former employers doesn't put him in the best of moods.
Start My Own: After the team cripples the Time Masters and kills Savage, Rip decides they should take up the duty of protecting the timeline. After he leaves the Waverider, he rebuilds the Time Masters organization in Season Three, though they're now christened the Time Bureau.
Suicidal "Gotcha!": During the season 1 finale, Rip is pushed from the roof of a building, only to reappear alive and well on top of the Waverider a few seconds later.
Surrounded by Idiots: He often seems to feel that way among the Legends.
- Even more so when he becomes a movie director in Season 2 and spends most of his time complaining that all of his crew members are idiots and don't do anything right.
Take Me Instead: When the Pilgrim threatens to kill the Legends' loved ones to force them to surrender to her so she can eliminate them in "Last Refuge", Rip offers to give her his own child self instead so she can eliminate him before he even created the Legends. Of course, this is all part of a plan to get rid of her.
Taking the Bullet: During the battle between the Legends and Vandal Savage in "River Of Time", Rip takes a shot intended for Kendra. This proves to Sara that he truly cares about the members of his team.
Team Dad: He is a rather begrudging one. He's essentially taking care of group of nine-year-olds who won't listen to him.
Temporarily a Villain: While Brainwashed and Crazy courtesy of the Legion, he carried out their dirty work of killing. Fortunately, the Legends manage to save him.
They Call Me MISTER Tibbs!: When he meets Ra's Al-Ghul in "Left Behind", the latter refers to him as "Mister Hunter", but Rip insists on being called "Captain Hunter".
They Knew the Risks: Rip remains unapologetic when Sara berates him for causing the deaths of several Time Bureau agents at the hands of Damian Darhk, saying this trope almost word for word.
Sara: Agents are dead because of you.
Rip: They understood the risks of their profession.
This Cannot Be!: At first, Rip refuses to believe it when Time Master Druce reveals that the Time Masters used the Oculus to manipulate the Legends into helping Savage to consolidate his power.
Druce: From the moment we realized only Savage could save the world, we've been using the Oculus to manipulate you.
Rip: That's impossible!
This Is No Time to Panic: Seeing how disturbed the Legends are at the prospect of the Pilgirm targeting their younger selves in "Last Refuge", Rip tries to persuade them not to panic, with little success.
Rip: Look, the important thing is not to panic.
Jax: Somebody's playing Russian roulette with our younger selves. Why would we panic?
Time Master: Puns aside, he has access to a Time Grenade which is able to freeze time temporarily.
Time Police: The organization he belongs to, the Time Masters, is tasked with protecting history itself. He later makes another organisation called the Time Bureau that serves this purpose and is loyal to the cause.
Time Stands Still: In Season Three, he's shown to have some sort of Time Grenade which can freeze his immediate vicinity. He uses it in "The Return of the Mack" during the fight with Mallus' cult.
Together in Death: He's very calm before his sacrifice to stop Mallus, noting how he'll finally be reunited with Miranda and Jonas.
Took a Level in Jerkass: In Season Three, once he forms the Time Bureau. He doesn't even bother to tell the Legends what he's been doing and sends them out to pasture without so much as asking them to join his new organization. Though unlike the rest of his agents, he still treats them with civility, if not quite respect. He eventually lets them do their thing on the Waverider because he knows he has no way to stop them and they are the best hope of stopping Mallus.
- Took a Level in Kindness: After his actions cause Sara to turn on him and call Ava Sharpe and the Time Bureau to arrest him, even though he was completely right about the danger Mallus poses, he realizes he went too far and vows during a conversation with Wally (who bluntly notes how much of a douche he was) to make amends.
The Tooth Hurts: When an amnesiac Rip is captured and tortured by the Legion of Doom, Damien Darhk cuts out one of his teeth and finds the account information of a security box marked on it.
Tranquil Fury: His attitude towards Savage, considering what Savage did to him.
Trapped in the Past: After time-scattering the team in the Season Two premiere, he undergoes a "self-induced amnesia" and sends himself to The '60s.
Two First Names: Per the DC Comics norm.
Tyke-Bomb: As a young Street Urchin, Rip was placed in a secret children's home whose purpose is to groom children to join the Time Masters' ranks. Unlike most examples of this trope however, he is very well adjusted because it was an Orphanage of Love with a firm but caring matron.
Voice with an Internet Connection: Nobody surpasses his authority over Gideon. Even while Rip was Brainwashed and Crazy and Gideon was instructed to ignore Rip, he managed to use Override Commands to take control of Gideon and cause havoc on the Waverider while he escaped.
The War Has Just Begun / A Storm Is Coming: During his arrest by the Time Bureau at the end of the episode "Return of the Mack", Rip tries to warn Sara that Mallus is coming and the war against him is just beginning.
Rip: Mallus is getting stronger, Captain Lance! Last night was only the beginning. There is a war coming. And history needs you to be ready. You and the rest of the Legends.
We Can Rule Together: When brainwashed by the Legion of Doom, Rip tries to convince Jax to help him find the Spear of Destiny by promising to use it to prevent his father's death in exchange. It doesn't work.
Well-Intentioned Extremist: The man will do anything to protect the world from evil. Unfortunately it means both the Legends and the Time Bureau turn against him because his measures are too extreme.
We Meet Again: After being captured and brainwashed by the Legion of Doom, Rip says this line to Mick Rory when he encounters the Legends again.
Rip: Mr. Rory, we meet again.
What the Hell, Hero?: Every time one of the previous Ava clones died, he got another one from the future. Even compared to some of his morally questionable decisions, that’s blatantly unethical. It's somehow worse that he admits it to the current Ava's face, and doesn't seem sorry about it.
Who Are You?: When Rex Tyler shows up on another Waverider to warn the Legends of their impending death at the end of season 1, Rip is the one who asks him who he is.
Rip: I'm sorry. Who exactly are you?
Rex Tyler: My name is Rex Tyler. I'm a member of the Justice Society of America.
- Having lost his memories of them, Rip has no idea who the Legends are when they find him in "Raiders of the Lost Art" and asks them this very question.
  Rip: Who the hell are you guys?
- Later in the same episode, Rip asks Professor Stein the same thing when he pretends to be his psychologist to get him out of custody.
Would Hit a Girl: Rip is not above fighting or killing women. Even as a child, he has no problem stabbing the Pilgrim.
- Even moreso during Season 2 when he's Brainwashed and Crazy, as seen when he shoots Sara and later breaks her neck in "Turncoat".
Wouldn't Hurt a Child: After some internal strife, Rip finds that he doesn't have it in him to kill the young Per Degaton, even knowing what the boy will grow up to be.
Write Who You Know: Played with In-Universe. It is made clear that the main character of the movie he's making in 1967 is supposed to be himself in his Dark and Troubled Past, but he's unaware of this.
You Fool!: The Brainwashed and Crazy Rip Hunter calls both his former self and the Legends a bunch of fools for wanting to protect the timeline.
Rip: The old Rip was a fool for believing that time is worth saving, and you were even bigger fools for believing him.
You Know What They Say: He says this in the final message he left for the Legends after scattering them throughout history in the Season 2 premiere.
Rip: Well, you know what they say, Captain must never abandon his ship.
You're Insane!: Calls the Time Master Druce mad for believing that working with Vandal Savage is the only way to save the world.
Rip: You are as mad as your friend Vandal if you think that he is the world's only hope.
You Are Better Than You Think You Are: He gives this kind of speech to Sara on several occasions, notably during the finales of the first two seasons.
- In "Legendary", he comforts Sara after the death of her sister by telling her that she is stronger than she thinks she is.
  Sara: Look, I can't... Can't do this without my sister. I can't.
  Rip: Yes, you can. You are one of the strongest people I have ever met, Sara.
- He later says something similar to encourage her in "Aruba" when she has doubts that she can use the Spear of Destiny to save the day because of the darkness inside her.
  Sara: There's too much darkness inside of me, I can't control it.
  Rip: I believe in you. You're stronger than you know.
You Wouldn't Shoot Me: When Jax threatens to shoot a Brainwashed and Crazy Rip after he nearly killed Sara in "Turncoat", Rip is unimpressed and tells him that he is not capable of doing it.
Rip: You haven't got it in you.

Ray Palmer / The Atom

Dr. Raymond Carson "Ray" Palmer

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"I'm Ray Palmer. I can science my way out of anything."

Species: Human

Known Aliases: The Atom, "Boy Scout", "Haircut", "Supersuit", "Hannibal Lecter", "John Wayne", "Colonel Cold", "Bob De Niro", Sir Raymond of the Palms

Affiliations: Team Arrow, The Legends

Played By: Brandon Routh, Jack Fisher (young)

Voiced By: Edson Matus (Latin-American Spanish), Tomokazu Sugita (Japanese)

Appearances: Arrow | The Flash | Legends of Tomorrow | Invasion!^note | Vixen | Crisis on Earth-X ^note(Legends of Tomorrow) | Crisis on Infinite Earths^note

A genius scientist and billionaire who uses a powered armor suit to fight crime as The Atom. Initially, he was a rival businessman to Queen Consolidated who seized the opportunity to take it over in Arrow Season Three. He later builds himself his A.T.O.M. Exosuit and tries to become a crimefighting superhero. Initially, he goes after Oliver, falsely believing him to be the murderer the public makes him out to be, before becoming a short-time member of Team Arrow himself.

After one of his experiments went wrong, he seemingly perished in an explosion. In Season Four of Arrow however, it was revealed that he was shrunken down and then captured by Damien Darhk and the H.I.V.E., who were interested in his technology. After being freed by Oliver and his team, Ray was later recruited by Rip Hunter and has since found his true calling as a time-travelling adventurer on the Waverider, putting his new-found shrinking powers to great use.

Over the course of the fifth Season of Legends, he marries Nora Darhk. On behalf of his father-in-law Damien, he decides to leave the Waverider (albeit with a heavy heart) to start a somewhat normal life with his wife.

see Arrowverse: Other Earths page to see his Earth-16 counterpart

see Batman (1966): Heroes for the Earth-66 character who bears his name and background

see Superman Film Series for Kal-El/Clark Kent, the Earth-96 character who bears his physical likeness

Academic Athlete: He was The Captain of his university's swimming team.
Achilles' Heel:
- When he and Oliver fight, Oliver's arrows can't pierce Ray's armour, but notices a blinking light on the A.T.O.M.'s hip that may be the power supply and it's not armored. Oliver was able to shut down the suit simply by throwing a flechette at that light and damaging it.
- After the suit falls into the wrong hands in "Shogun", Ray is forced to reveal a less obvious but more critical weak point to Nate that causes the suit to overload and blow up completely.
Action Survivor: Even outside of his Powered Armor he's no slouch when it comes to combat. He has quite a toned physique which is the result of working out and has taken Boxing Lessons for Superman to compliment his super suit.
Actor Allusion: A lot of nods are made to the fact his actor played Superman, with the character himself showing up in Crisis on Infinite Earths.
Actually Quite Catchy:
- When the baby Dominator uses his telepathic powers to make the NSA agents sing "Good Morning" in the episode "Phone Home", both adult Ray and his child self have a great time listening to them, to the point that Zari has to insist to make them leave before the song is over.
- The first time the team meets the Fairy Godmother in Season 4, Ray very much enjoys listening to her song and is even disappointed when Mick interrupts her before the end.
Adaptational Badass: The A.T.O.M. suit in the comics is traditionally used for infiltration and utility, and Ray otherwise Fights Like a Normal. In the Arrowverse, it gets immense combat capabilities rivaling that of Iron Man's suit.
Agree to Disagree: Says this to Nate when they have an argument about the historical accuracy of the Arthurian legends he grew up with in "Camelot 3000".
Almighty Janitor: He literally becomes a janitor in the reality created by the Legion of Doom at the end of Season 2, but he's still a genius capable of inventing a memory restoration gun.
All for Nothing: What he thinks of his wealth:
Ray: I died... or at least, people thought I did, and nothing happened. All the money, all the inventions, all the buildings (beat) and no one cared.
Alternate Company Equivalent:
- Seems to be filling in for Iron Man (see Adaptational Badass) although his closest Marvel counterpart is still Ant-Man.
- The parallels became even clearer in "Leviathan" when he reverses the polarity of the dwarf star matrix in his suit to become a giant. Something Hank Pym achieved many years ago and never looked back.
Alternate Universe Reed Richards Is Awesome: His Earth-96 counterpart is Superman.
Amicable Exes: With both Felicity and ultimately, Kendra.
And Show It to You: How Thawne kills him in "Aruba", phasing through his chest and extracting his heart out.
And Starring: Brandon Routh is always billed with the "Special Guest Star" citation until being Transplanted to Legends.
Annoying Younger Sibling: In "Progeny", we find out that Ray has a younger brother Sydney... who ends up taking of Ray's ideas and making them his own.
Apologetic Attacker: Ray always apologizes when he is forced to hit his friends.
- Believing her to be an impostor, Ray tells Sara he's sorry before punching her in the face during the season 2 finale.
- When Nate catches him freeing Damien Darhk and stealing the jumpship in the season 3 finale, Ray punches him in the nose and apologizes before leaving.
- When Ray's body is controlled by Neron during season 4, he brutally beats up Nate and apologizes while doing so.
Arbitrary Skepticism: Despite knowing for a fact that magic exists, he refuses to believe that The Bermuda Triangle really has any supernatural properties in "The Curse of the Earth Totem".
Are You Sure You Want to Do That?: He asks this to Felicity in "Public Enemy" when she's about to inject his untested nanomachines into his body to heal him, as she could be sent to prison for doing this and it could potentially kill him.
- After Jax has requested his help to find a way to break up Firestorm at the end of "Phone Home", Ray also asks him if he's sure of his decision at the beginning of the following episode.
Ascended Fanboy: As a kid, Ray was a great fan of the Arthurian legends. In the episode "Camelot 3000", he has the chance to live his childhood dreams by going to Camelot and fighting alongside the Knights of the Round Table. He even gets knighted by Queen Guinevere.
Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever: In "Leviathan," Ray has the power of the auxiliary time drive siphoned into his suit in order to reverse the polarity of the dwarf star matrix to make him grow big enough to fight the Leviathan robot hand to hand.
Attack on the Heart: Eobard kills Doomworld!Ray by literally tearing his heart out. And he even holds it up in front of him.
Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!: Ray can sometimes get distracted by minor things even during serious situations:
- He becomes excited when he thinks he has glimpsed an owl as the Legends are waiting for a monster to show up in "Wet Hot American Bummer".
  Ray: Guys! Guys! I think I see a Northern saw-whet Owl!
  Sara: Ray, focus!
- In the first Hour of Crisis On Infinite Earths, Ray takes a moment to admire Kate's batarangs before upgrading them while they're in the middle of a battle against the Shadow Demons, much to his companions' dismay.
  Ray: Oh, so cool. Incredibly balanced. Carbon fiber?
  Oliver: Hey, Ray! Focus!
Backstab: One method of fighting he has is to shrink down, fly behind an enemy and let them have it with a super-strength strike. This instantly knocks out all the foes he's used it on, including a feared cyborg enforcer.
Badass Bookworm: One of the greatest geniuses in the Arrowverse, but also one of the most powerful heroes.
Badass in a Nice Suit: Wore one in his stint as "Sheriff John Wayne".
Badass Normal: When caught out of the suit, Ray is far from defenseless. Unlike what his nerdy mindset suggests, he's built like a bodybuilder with a set of abs that could give Oliver a run for his money. He's also has Boxing Lessons for Superman and can fight just fine with guns or his fists.
Badass Preacher: It is revealed late in Arrow Season Three that he's a preacher. He weds Diggle and Lyla.
Bad Liar: Ray is a terrible liar, as he himself admits in the episodes "No Country for Old Dads" and "Dancing Queen".
Barehanded Blade Block: In the fourth part of "Crisis on Earth-X", Ray catches Thawne's scalpel while being microscopic, leaving Thawne befuddled until Ray returns to normal size and blasts him.
Becoming the Mask: In "Dancing Queen", Ray joins a punk band undercover in order to find out which one of the member is a magical fugitive. However, he eventually becomes more and more committed to the band to the point that he even gets a tattoo from them, which causes much concern to his companions, especially Mick.
Been There, Shaped History: While teaching a college class in 1960, he inspires his student William H. Gates to start calling his son William Jr. "Bill."
Beware the Nice Ones: After one too many cracks about his relationship with Kendra, Ray takes it on himself to beat down Vandal Savage with his bare hands.
- A kind and gentle guy most of the time, Palmer nonetheless has no qualms about using deadly force against bad guys. In one episode, he flies his shrunken form through a mook like a bullet.
- Not only that, but when Mick sells the team out to the time pirates, he gives Mick a chilling Death Glare and simply says "You son of a bitch." in a tone way lower and more angry than his usual manner of speaking.
The Big Guy: When raw muscle is needed rather than skill and finesse, Ray and his strength-enhancing suit take the lead. Even outside of the suit, he's one of the physically strongest of the Legends.
- Exaggerated when he uses his A.T.O.M. suit to become a 100 feet tall giant in the episode "Leviathan".
Big "NO!":
- Shouts this when Sara is about to kill Kendra in "Left Behind".
- He also yells two in a row when he sees Doomwolrd!Mick getting killed by Captain Cold in the Season 2 finale.
  Ray: Mick, no! No!!
- Not as big, but he has two others in the episode "No Country for Old Dads", first when Damien Darhk breaks the neck of his former boss Alan, and later when he shoots Dr. Vogel.
Big "OMG!": Ray has this reaction when he sees John Constantine suddenly coming back from the dead in the episode "Mortal Khanbat".
Big "YES!":
- Ray exclaims a loud "Yes!" while raising his fist when the torpedoes fired by the Waverider manage to hit Damien Darhk's submarine in the Season 2 premiere.
- He also yells another one when he manages to get the Waverider's power back on in the episode "Turncoat".
Birds of a Feather:
- Every bit as dorky and clever as Felicity is, which certainly helps bring them together. Oliver and Caitlin even joke about it at different points:
Oliver: There's a decent chance that you and Palmer are related.
Caitlin: Oh my God, there's two of them.
- He and Cisco get along splendidly. Cisco even says that Ray is the only other guy around who is good with the names.
- Naturally, Ray and Professor Stein get along very well, with both being the resident scientists on the team. Sara and Jax even refer to the two of them as the "nerd twins".
- Becomes best friends with Nate, the other nerdy Genius Bruiser on the team.
- When he goes to the DEO headquarters during Crisis On Infinite Earths, he shares a moment of complicity with Brainy since they both speak the same Technobabble language.
  Brainy: Finally, someone who speaks my language.
Blue Is Heroic: Majority of his Powered Armor is blue, and he's one of the most heroic characters in the entire Arrowverse.
Bound and Gagged: Happens to him when he's captured by the Darhks in the episode "No Country for Old Dads". Of course, the gag makes it more difficult when he tries to get out of it by activating his armor with voice commands.
Bomb Disposal: In "Compromised", Ray manages to defuse a Time Bomb placed in the White House by disassembling Snart's cold gun and using its components to overload the incendiary trigger.
Borrowed Catchphrase: Lampshaded when he uses the favourite expression of Professor Stein to describe Charlie's shapeshifting powers in "Dancing Queen".
Ray: Such rapid molecular transformation is, to quote an old friend, "Astonishing"!
- Before that, he also used the signature catchphrase of Team Flash in the episode "Guest Starring John Noble" when a young Barack Obama gets attacked by Grodd.
  Ray: Run Barry, run!
Boxing Battler: When he's not blasting his enemies, Ray's melee fighting is made up of boxing techniques. Justified as boxing is a simple but brutal martial art that he could be learned relatively quickly and would take full advantage of his suit's strength.
Brains and Brawn:
- Had this dynamic with Oliver, being the esteemed Science Hero with a Powered Armor to Oliver's trained warrior.
- Also gets this dynamic with Mick, whenever the two of them are teamed up, given that Ray is The Engineer while Mick is Dumb Muscle on the Legends.
Breakout Character: From a recurring cast member of Arrow Season 3 to a main character in Legends. Ray has become pretty much synonymous with the series, alongside Sara and Mick. Even after Ray departs from the Legends in Season Five, the writers still managed to find a way to bring him back on The Flash.
Broken Faceplate: The left part of the front glass of his A.T.O.M. suit's helmet gets broken during a beating from Deathbolt in "Broken Arrow".
Bromance: With Nate. The two are often seen hanging out, broing it up, and generally getting along like good mates. Behrad seems to have joined them as of Legends Season 5.
Brought Down to Normal: He loses the A.T.O.M. suit early in Legends Season Two, opting to destroy it after falling into the enemy's hands. Fortunately, he later gets his hands on a lot of dwarf star alloy and is able to recreate the suit.
The Bus Came Back:
- After leaving the show midway through Season 5, Ray comes back for the 100th episode in Season 7 of Legends of Tomorrow, albeit only in Gideon's memories.
- Ray later returns in the Arrowverse for real during the first part of "Armageddon" in Season 8 of The Flash.
Butt-Monkey: If something goes wrong, he's likely to be either the cause or the recipient of trouble.
The Cavalry: When Team Arrow fails to stop the League of Assassins's bomber from taking off in "This Is Your Sword," cue Ray flying in with his leitmotif and taking it out singlehandedly. Does it again with the rest of the Legends in the Crisis on Earth-X crossover, rescuing the heroes imprisoned in S.T.A.R. Labs by the Earth-X forces, with Ray being the one to personally prevent Kara from being operated on by Thawne.
The Cape: Ray embodies this trope, perhaps even more than Barry. He always maintains an eternally sunny disposition and wants to see the best in others, even in villains.
- Whereas Oliver started off as an Unscrupulous Hero and driven more out of wanting to atone for his father's mistakes, Ray's motivation in becoming a superhero is closer to Barry's in that it comes from a sincere desire to help people.
- On Legends of Tomorrow, he's the only one who joins up out of a wholehearted desire to save the world, the rest of his teammates being more driven out of a chance at redemption, danger to themselves or loved ones, a desire for adventure, or to steal stuff. He's also the one least likely to engage in morally questionable actions.
Cargo Ship: In-Universe. Ray's first reaction to recovering the A.T.O.M. Exosuit in "Aruba" is to kiss it on the faceplate and promises to never leave it again. Jax, who sees this, is notably weirded out.
Catchphrase: Ray spends most of the episode "Meet The Legends" searching for one and goes through a few losers before finding "Size matters".
Censorship by Spelling: Does this in "Daddy Darhkest" when Zari tells the young Nora Darhk that they're going to get her out of the mental hospital, and Ray tries to quietly talk her out of it by reminding her that she's possessed by Mallus. However, Nora can hear him just fine and knows exactly what he means.
Ray: We can't take her out of here. We're dealing with a... D-E-M-O-N.
Nora: I'm not five. I know how to spell "demon".
Chairman of the Brawl: Ray grabs a chair and hits one of the Time Bureau agents with it when they try to stop the wrestling match between El Cura and El Lobo in "Lucha de Apuestas".
Characterization Marches On: In Legends Ray is a lot more idealistic and kinder than his appearances on Arrow, whereas at first he was a lot more of an arrogant Jerk with a Heart of Gold. His sillier, geekier side has also been amplified to the point where he's basically a glorified nerd as opposed to a serious vigilante.
Chronic Hero Syndrome: He gets into a fight with the prison Alpha of a notorious gulag, just because the scumbag kept an old man from eating. He also saved Mick from getting tortured with a hammer beating, he took the beating instead.
Clothes Make the Superman: His proficiency is greatly, if not completely, reduced when he's not wearing his Powered Armor. ^note
Come with Me If You Want to Live: Says this word-per-word when he rescues teenage Mick from The Pilgrim. Bonus point for being a time-traveler.
Composite Character:
- Due to a case of What Could Have Been, his background heavily incorporates that of Ted Kord, being a cheerful genius billionaire who decides to become a superhero. His traditional shrinking power didn't make its debut until long after his debut in Arrow.
- The A.T.O.M. Exosuit was originally designated O.M.A.C. by Queen Consolidated and has no connection with Brother Eye.
Control Freak: Ray is stated to love doing dirty dishes. He also makes outrageous schedules to try maintain order around the Waverider which drives the other Legends crazy.
CPR: Clean, Pretty, Reliable: Downplayed. Kendra resuscitates Ray from cardiac arrest by slamming his chest in "Marooned", but when Ray wakes up he lampshades how Hollywood movies make this method look like a good idea.
Ray: I'd wish you please stop punching me in my chest... Why do they always make it seem like it's a good thing to do in the movies?
Crash in Through the Ceiling: The Atom does this at the end of the TV short Superhero Fight Club, not having noticed that there was an elevator.
Crazy Enough to Work: In "Guest Starring John Noble", Ray's plan suggestion to capture Nora Darhk is for him to shrink down, get inside her ear and pretend to be Mallus ordering her to go into the Waverider. Even though Damien finds this plan so unbelievably stupid that he thinks he's actually joking, Ray still goes through with it, and it works perfectly.
Death Flight: During the final battle of "Invasion!", Ray saves Spartan by grabbing the Dominator that was attacking him before flying up and dropping him from above.
Ray: See you later, Dominator!
Do I Really Sound Like That?: Ray seems to have this reaction when he brings Felicity a farewell letter before his departure to join the Legends and she jokingly imitates him and recites what must be its contents in a silly way. However, he actually rather liked her imitation.
Ray: Let me guess. It says: [she makes a silly voice] "Hey, Felicity. I hope you're well. I'm off to travel through time and fight an immortal bad guy."
Ray: Is that me?
Felicity: Yeah.
Ray: That was pretty good.
Felicity: Thank you.
Don't Ask: When Sara hears him call Eobard Thawne's supervillain team "The Legion of Doom" and asks about it in "Raiders of the Lost Art", he answers with this trope.
Ray: Well, why does the Legion of Doom want the medallion?
Sara: The "Legion of Doom"?
Ray: Don't ask.
Distracted by the Sexy: He lets his interest for a communist scientist working for Savage get the better of him.
Distressed Dude: After getting possessed by Neron, he lets him banish his soul to hell and take over his body to save Nate's life.
Ditzy Genius: Despite being a Gadgeteer Genius, Ray is really naive when it comes to things like stealth, infiltration, and espionage, which Snart calls him out on numerous times.
Do You Trust Me?: Ray asks this to Charlie when he tries to keep her safe from his teammates in "Dancing Queen".
Ray: Do you trust me?
Charlie: Of course. You're my friend.
Ray: We got to go.
Charlie: What? Why?
Ray: Because my friends don't trust me.
Dragged Off to Hell: After Ray makes a deal with the demon Neron in order to save Nate, his body's overtaken by Neron, effectively sending him to Hell. Nora and John eventually free him though.
Due to the Dead: After the death of Axl, Ray decides to arrange a funeral and invites Mick and Sara to participate, much to their dismay.
Electric Torture:
- He's subjected to this alongside Mick when they're imprisoned in a Russian gulag.
- When captured by the Cult of Mallus, it's implied Kuasa tortured him with a cattle prod.
Elemental Punch: He gave Chronos a combined uppercut/photon blast and it was this attack that really flattened Mick, who was previously a juggernaut.
Empowered Badass Normal: Initially, he's a guy who only fights with Powered Armor before he upgrades it in the Season Three finale of Arrow.
Expecting Someone Taller: Inverted. When he sees Mallus' true form, Ray comments that he's taller than he thought he'd be.
Facial Recognition Software: His suit carries a suite advanced enough recognize a masked Oliver.
Fake Guest Star: In Arrow, Routh appeared in 16 out of 23 episodes in one season. That makes him the most frequent special guest star the show has and has as much screen time as the regular cast.
Faking the Dead: It was months before Team Arrow rescued him from being accidentally shrunk, and after seeing the great job Felicity was doing with his company, he decided to let the world keep believing he's dead so he can be a full-time superhero.
Fiction 500: He throws around ten-figure expenditures pretty casually.
Fire-Forged Friends: After a tense start, he and Oliver appear to have formed a close friendship.
Fish out of Water: When imprisoned in a gulag in "Fail-Safe", Ray really doesn't grasp the severity of it, much to Mick's annoyance.
Flanderization: While Ray was usually a dorky nerd during his tenure on Arrow, these characteristics get raised to over-the-top standards after moving to Legends of Tomorrow.
- This becomes worse in season 3 and 4, as Ray is often caught without his armour and barely uses it, seems to have forgotten he's stronger than average and not incompetent in a fight, and often play the Distressed Dude.
Flat-Earth Atheist: Both he and Stein express disbelief that magic was involved in the origin of Savage and the Hawks, and instead comes up with the idea that the meteorites carried some sort of mutagen that altered the three. It should be noted that he's on a team with a woman who was resurrected from the death through magic and first appeared in the episode fighting an organization led by a magic user.
"Flowers for Algernon" Syndrome: In Season Two, after he loses his A.T.O.M. exosuit, Mick offers to let him be his new partner following Snart's death, and tries to make Ray into a replacement Snart. Of course it doesn't stick, as Ray is hilariously bad at being a crook. In the end, Mick realizes his mistake and convinces him that he's Ray Palmer who can "science [his] way out of anything."
Flying Brick: His standard method of combat is to take to the skies and shoot the enemy, but he also will tank enemy hits and punch people out as well.
Flying Firepower: His A.T.O.M. suit grants him flight as well as being capable of firing Hand Blasts.
Forced Friendly Fire: During the fight between the Legends and Vandal Savage at the end of "River of Time", the latter manages to grab the arm of Ray in his ATOM suit and uses it to fire hard light beams at Captain Cold and Heatwave before doing the same to Ray himself.
Forgot About His Powers: Having clashed with Reverse-Flash several times on Legends of Tomorrow Season Two, Ray apparently forgot about the nanites he made for Oliver to use in The Flash that were capable of disabling the same speedster.
Forgettable Character: Downplayed, but the other Legends tend to hardly notice when he is missing.
- When Ray gets captured by the Darhks at the end of "The Curse of the Earth Totem", the rest of the team don't realize his absence until the following day.
  Zari: Hey, when we see him, do we tell him we didn't even notice he was gone?
- In "Tender Is the Nate", Constantine comments that Ray could leave the Waverider and no one would care. Ray then proceeds to be absent from most of the rest of the episode, and none of his teammates seem to notice.
  John Constantine: You know mate, you could just walk straight off the ship and no none would even bleeding notice.
Forgotten First Meeting: Stein couldn't remember that Ray is a former student of his. Justified in that Stein is a seventy-year-old man and can't be expected to remember one student from one semester after close to fifty years of teaching.
Freeze Ray: Mick gives him the Cold Gun in order to make up for the loss of the A.T.O.M. suit and thanks him for saving him from being zombified.
Friendless Background: Was bullied as a child, but believed the bullies were his friends until he viewed the situation from the outside as an adult.
Fun with Acronyms: His pet project the Advanced Technology Operating Mechanism.
Gadgeteer Genius: He created his own Powered Armor.
Geek: Ray is easily the nerdiest Legend, only rivaled by Nate.
Geek Physique: Averted. Despite the being the nerdiest member of the Legends and possibly the Arrowverse, Ray has quite the muscular frame. This has not gone unnoticed.
Felicity: "It's like I'm dating Barry in Oliver's body."
Genius Bruiser: A brilliant engineer and scientist who gains the "bruiser" part when he dons the A.T.O.M. suit.
Geniuses Have Multiple PhDs: In "Suicidal Tendencies" the genius inventor-superhero Ray Palmer tells Felicity that he has an IQ of 140 and 3 PhDs in the same scene where he explains how he used his tech to uncover the Arrow's identity.
Genre Blind: He thinks that he's capable of seducing a Russian scientist with his Nice Guy act, but Snart proves him wrong by invoking his bad boy persona.
Get It Over With: In "Suicidal Tendencies", Ray fights Oliver, whom he believes to be a threat. Oliver manages to disable his A.T.O.M. suit and threatens him with an arrow, prompting Ray to tell him to kill him to prove to Felicity that he's nothing but a coldblooded killer. However, Oliver spares his life and offers him his hand, making Ray realize that he was wrong about him.
Oliver: The man you think I am, he'd kill you here and now! I told you to back off, and you didn't listen!
Ray: So kill me, go ahead. Show Felicity the kind of man you really are.
Glory Seeker: He likes to mention his contribution to a team effort first, then mention the other party's second.
Gentle Giant: He's really tall and is built like a tank, but is also a friendly, good-natured fellow who wants nothing more than to do good and help people.
Giver of Lame Names: Ray is not exactly the best when it comes to finding good names:
- When he tells Team Flash that his superhero name is "ATOM" in "All-Star Team Up", Cisco is less than impressed and asks if he really wants to stick to that name or if it's still possible to change it.
- He seems to have gotten better at this in "Broken Arrow", as when he gives the name "Deathbolt" to the super-powered criminal Jake Simmons, Cisco congratulates him and even says that he's the only person to be as good as him when it comes to finding supervillain names.
- When the Legends wonder what to call the fugitive magical creatures at the start of Season 4, Ray suggests "myth-teries", because they are mysteries involving mythical beings. They settle on "Fugitives".
- In Crisis on Infinite Earths, Ray says that shrinking the Anti-Monitor will send him in what he calls the "Atomverse". Ryan Choi prefers calling it "Microverse" instead, which even Ray has to admit sounds better.
- At the beginning of season 5, the Legends are trying to find a name for the villains who return from the dead throughout history, and Ray's idea is "evil do-overs". Everyone ends up voting for "Encores".
God Guise: In "Beebo the God of War", Ray suggests using disguises to pose as gods and order the Vikings to return where they came from, but both Sara and Nate dismiss his idea as stupid. However, Damien and Nora Darhk show up later and pretend to be gods to make the Vikings submit to them, prompting Ray to point out that his idea would have worked. In the end, Ray gets into a Beebo toy while being shrunk and flies it in front of the Vikings to pass off as a god and tell them to go home.
Going Native: He has a much easier time adjusting to building a new life in the 1950s than Kendra after they're stranded there, and is quite put out that when the team finally comes back for them, she's able to get right back to the mission like nothing happened.
Gonna Need More X: When Sara says that the Encores will be contained on the Waverider until they find a way to kill them for good in "Miss Me Kiss Me Love Me", Ray takes a look at the jars containing the remains of Rasputin and declares "We're gonna need a bigger pantry".
Good All Along: His seemingly amoral actions in Arrow Season Three were done with an end goal of becoming a hero like the Arrow in order to protect and help Star(ling) City.
Good Old Fisticuffs: Despite the use of power armor, Ray fights much like a normal person would, though he favors a boxing style form fighting.
Ground-Shattering Landing: In "All-Star Team Up", Ray comes to S.T.A.R. Labs with his A.T.O.M. suit to ask for help to upgrade it, but he has trouble flying with it and makes a lot of cracks on the ground when he lands.
Guest-Star Party Member: In late Season Three and early Season Four of Arrow, he was an on-off member for Team Arrow, usually called in when needing more firepower or when Oliver was out of commission.
Hand Blast: His suit fires, what he calls, hard light beams.
Have We Met?: When he's wired into a virtual world by the Dominators during the "Invasion!" crossover, he asks this to Sara when they meet at a dinner because she looks weirdly familiar to him.
Help, I'm Stuck!: In the episode "Tender Is the Nate", Ray shrinks down and hides inside an envelope sent to Nora, but he gets stuck inside it. When Nora, Ava and Mona open the envelope, he asks them for their help.
Ray: Uh, could I get some help? I'm a little stuck...
He's a Friend: When Sara attacks Nate the first time they meet, Ray calms the situation by informing her that he's on their side.
Ray: It's okay, he's with us.
Heterosexual Life-Partners: With Nate, who has been stated to be his best friend.
Heroic Self-Deprecation: He has really low self-esteem, which is largely why he feels no one cared when he died despite the contrary noted bellow. It's apparent that this stems from seeing his fiance killed by a member of the Blood Cult while he was powerless to stop it, and so doubts himself greatly, motivating him to make the world a better place. After he was thought to be dead and the only notable change to society accomplished was changing the name of a city, this got a lot worse.
Hero Stole My Bike: In "Phone Home", Ray and Zari steal some bikes to escape from the NSA agents. Child Ray protests that stealing is wrong, but his adult self convinces him to make an exception just this time.
Hidden Depths: Has these to his personality. Not only does he display a surprising violent streak when Savage taunts him over yet another failed relationship, and the second in a row where he ends up as the Romantic Runner-Up, but his speech to his younger self in "Phone Home" indicates that, despite how cheerful and optimistic he is and his denials of being a Stepford Smiler, he's well aware of how miserable a lot of his adult life has been.
Ray: I get that you're lonely and you're just trying to cope but, buddy, you can't live in a fantasy world forever. Look, trust me, I understand that it hurts to learn that the world isn't as perfect as you want it to be, but sooner or later you have to start facing reality. Otherwise you're gonna end up getting yourself killed.
Honor Before Reason: After shooting Nora Darhk with his anti-magic nanite gun and leaving her on the brink of death, Ray is so overwhelmed by the guilt, he later returns and cures her in exchange for the Darhks returning Amaya's totem. Keep in mind that not only is Nora a willing vessel for Mallus, the only reason Ray shot Nora in the first place was to keep her from killing Amaya in combat. As thanks, she doesn't honor their deal and tries to murder him.
Hot Teacher: He works a college professor when he, Kendra and Sara were stuck in The '60s.
How Do I Shot Web??: There’s quite a learning curve to the A.T.O.M. suit, which takes a visit to the Flash’s crew to iron out.
How Is That Even Possible?:
- Ray says this in "Progeny" when he discovers that he apparently has a descendant in the future, and starts wondering if his last girlfriend was pregnant with his child before he left 2016.
  Ray: How is it even possible that I'm someone's great-great-great-great grandfather?
- He also has this reaction in when he realizes that Quentin Turnbull's bullets have managed to injure Nate in his Steel form.
  Ray: How's that possible? He's made of steel.
Hunk: As Felicity surprisingly finds out.
Hypocrite: He lambasts Oliver, Laurel, and Ted Grant for being vigilantes after the imposter-murders made by the League of Assassins. But when the law can't help him, he goes straight to being one himself.
- He also is very hard on Barry, who changed the timeline, as Ray has tried to protect the timeline for the last eight months. However, he himself has influenced the past multiple times already.
I Always Wanted to Say That:
- Ray is delighted to have the opportunity to say "Come with Me If You Want to Live" to past Mick in "Last Refuge".
  Ray: Come with Me If You Want to Live! I always wanted to say that.
- Also, when the Legends go to the Wild West for the second time, Ray is annoyed that Sara gets a reason to say "This isn't my first rodeo" before he could.
I Can Explain:
- During his inspection of the Waverider in "Tender is the Nate", Hank Heywood questions the need for the high number of crew members on the ship, and Ray hastily arrives to answer with this trope.
  Hank: So, why does a ship formerly manned by a single person now need...
  Ray: ...Need a crew of six? I can explain!
- He tries to answer this in "The Eggplant, the Witch & the Wardrobe" when Constantine sees Nora Darhk and asks what she is doing in the Waverider even though she's wanted for the murder of Hank Heywood, but Nora interrupts him by saying the same thing followed by an actual explanation.
  Constantine: Nora? What are you doing here?
  Ray: Uh, I can explain…
  Nora: I can explain. I didn't kill Hank, it was a demon.
I Can't Believe I'm Saying This: Says this in "River of Time" when he realizes that Vandal Savage was telling the truth when he warned him that Kendra will always be in love with Carter, which means Ray can never be in a relationship with her.
Ray: I can't believe I'm saying it, but Savage was right. Loving you is like a curse.
- In "Slay Anything", the Legends go to a school reunion about to be attacked by an Encore serial killer and Ray is eager to eat some raw broccoli at the buffet. However, he changes his mind when he discovers the dead body of a police officer with his throat slit and says this trope.
  Ray: I never thought I'd say this, but I think I've lost my appetite for broccoli…
Iconic Sequel Character: Does not appear until Arrow Season Three.
Ideal Hero: He tries to be, not liking to do morally ambiguous things and wanting to save people as much as possible.
I Hate Past Me: Downplayed, but he gets annoyed when his child self refuses to listen to him in "Phone Home".
Ray: I can't believe I was this stubborn.
I Just Want to Be Special: He's devastated to learn "being the Atom is as insignificant as an actual atom," and resolves to stay on the mission to become more than a blip in history.
I Know Mortal Kombat: When he has to enter Kendra's body to destroy the dagger shards in "Blood Ties", he assumes that his experience playing Asteroids for years should come in handy.
- During the space battle against the time pirates in "Marooned", Ray decides to pilot the Waverider manually, saying that it's like a video game.
"I Know You're in There Somewhere" Fight: When Mallus takes over a young Nora Darhk's body in "Daddy Darhkest", Ray and Zari try to reach out to her.
Ray: Nora, we know you're still in there.
I'm Mr. [Future Pop Culture Reference]: Twice, Ray has resorted to using a random name from pop culture when he needs an alias, using "Hannibal Lecter" in 2147 (making this a historical pop culture reference), and "John Wayne" in the Old West. Even the others get in on it as Nate introduces him as "Bob DeNiro" in 1927 Chicago.
Immune to Bullets: The A.T.O.M suit is designed to resist bullets, arrows, and explosives, though this is inconsistent as sometimes a sword or knife can do damage to it.
Impersonating an Officer: He pretends to be a cop in the episode "Miss Me Kiss Me Love Me", as well as a CIA agent in "No Country for Old Dads".
Impossible Genius: Has an IQ of 140.
Improvised Weapon:
- When he becomes gigantic to confront the titular villain in "Leviathan", Ray rips out an electricity pylon and uses it to bash his opponent repeatedly.
- After being captured by Nazis to be forced to analyze and replicate Thawne's Super Serum in "The Justice Society of America", Ray asks to have his handcuffs removed since he's obviously not going to escape using the microscope. And then he proceeds to beat up the guards with the microscope, even expressing disappointment that Amaya helped him defeat one of them as he wanted to do it with just the microscope.
- In the following episode, Ray escapes from the Shogun's prison by using the chains with which his hands were tied to take down the guards.
- He uses a microscope once again in "Doomworld" to knock out Damien Darhk from behind during the battle in Thawne's laboratory.
- Ray also knocks out one of Dr. Vogel's guards with a toilet tank lid to save Nora Darhk in "No Country for Old Dads".
I'm Standing Right Here: When Mick refers to Ray and Nate as "those idiots" in the episode "The Chicago Way", Ray points out there're right here.
I'm Your Biggest Fan: When he meets Sir Galahad during the mission in Camelot, Ray tells him that he's a big fan of him. Unfortunately, Galahad has no idea what a "fan" actually is.
Incredible Shrinking Man: His A.T.O.M. suit allows him to shrink to very small sizes. He even gets stuck in his miniature form during the majority of the episode "Turncoat".
Incredibly Lame Fun: As revealed in "No Country for Old Dads", Ray loves to do the dishes, to the point he's ecstatic at the end of the episode when Mick tells him there are dishes that need to be cleaned.
I Need a Freaking Drink: To Mick's surprise, Ray pours himself a glass of alcohol after Rip's Heroic Sacrifice in the Season 3 finale, even though he usually never drinks.
Mick: You don't drink.
Ray: Yeah, well… We lost Rip.
Informed Flaw: He mentioned in the first part of the pilot that people never cared about him and his work despite the fact that Starling City was renamed "Star City" in his honor when the world thought he died and him being the focus of a huge media coverage throughout Arrow Season Three when he bought Queen Consolidated. That said, other than the new name, Ray's actions didn't do a great deal to actually help the city, with Damien Darhk's attacks making the situation there worse than ever.
Innocently Insensitive: He clearly has trouble realizing when the things he says and does cause others trouble or offence, which is primarily what causes him to look like such a douchebag.
In-Series Nickname: The Rogues call him "Boy Scout" for his clean-cut attitude. It's also both an Actor Allusion and a Mythology Gag to his actor, who previously played Superman aka The Big Blue Boy Scout.
- Gains a second one in the form of "Haircut", used exclusively by Mick. Seems to border on an Affectionate Nickname, considering it starts being used after Mick and Ray bond a little in a Russian gulag.
Insistent Terminology:
- He goes to some lengths to keep his suit's powers from sounding too silly.
  It doesn't fire lasers, that would be silly! It fires compressed hard light beams.
- He also insists on calling his Shrink Ray "Hyper Molecular Compressor".
- When he is captured by Baron Krieger who wants him to make more Super-Soldier serum in "The Justice Society of America", Ray first specifies that it's not exactly a "serum" but rather a "biomolecular enhancer". Krieger is not amused.
Interspecies Friendship:
- As a child, Ray's only real friend was a time-displaced baby Dominator he nicknamed "Gumball".
- Ray also develops a pretty good relationship with the shapeshifter Charlie during her debut episode.
I Regret Nothing: When he was stranded in the Cretaceous period, Ray ate one of the eggs of the Tyrannosaurus Gertrude, who relentlessly chases the Legends because of this. Nate calls him out on this, but Ray replies that he was starving and those eggs were full of protein so he has no regrets, even saying this trope word-for-word.
Is That the Best You Can Do?: During a scene in the first Legends of Tomorrow trailer, Ray says something like this after the Legends and Flash have defeated Vandal Savage's Mooks. Snart calls him out on it, as a giant robot naturally shows up immediately after.
Ray: If that's the worst Savage can throw at us, we got this thing nailed down!
Snart: Why did you say that?
[A giant robot's foot smashes through the ceiling.]
It Has Been an Honor: Ray says something similar to Rip Hunter when the latter attempts to sacrifice himself in the Season 1 finale.
Ray: It's been a pleasure, Captain.
It's a Long Story:
- When a new priest is needed to officiate the wedding between Diggle and Lyla in "Suicidal Tendencies", Ray reveals that he's a minister and says it's a long story.
- After Ray and Kendra have been stranded for two years in the 1950s in "Left Behind", the Waverider finally comes to pick them up and Ray asks Kendra if she wants to bring their "lucky water vase" to the ship. Stein asks what it is, and Ray answers that "it's a long but endearing story..."
- During his conversation with Nate in "Land of the Lost" in which he tries to convince him not to date Amaya, he tells him that she has an important destiny ahead of her and talks about what is going to happen to her Zambesi village and her family by saying this trope.
  Ray: It's a long story, but it ends with her village being destroyed and her granddaughter in foster care.
- In "Moonshot", Ray is forced to cooperate with Thawne to repair the LEM and calls his teammates to tell them "We're ready". They ask who's "we", and Ray simply answers "Long story".
- When Sara contacts Ray and Zari in "Phone Home", they inform her that they're about to go save the baby Dominator. She expresses her surprise, so Ray tells her it's a long story.
- He also says this to Sara when she returns to the Waverider and asks what's going on in "The Curse of the Earth Totem". However, Nate manages to summarize everything in a few words, which makes Ray realize that maybe it wasn't such a long story after all.
- In "Lucha de Apuestas", Sara leaves him in charge of the Waverider on the condition that he keeps the Kaupe locked up and keeps a low profile. After learning that he let the Kaupe participate to a wrestling match in 1961 Mexico City, she angrily calls him about it, but he says this trope once again and tells her to trust him.
- He also answers with this trope when Nora asks him why Charlie calls him "Rayge" in the episode "Séance & Sensibility".
It's the Best Whatever, Ever!: Calls Chester the "best handler ever" in Part 1 of "Armageddon" after he became his liaison at the Central City Tech Convention and set up a flawless schedule for him.
I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: Much as he loves Kendra, Ray ultimately steps aside, recognizing that Carter is her soul mate.
Jack of All Stats: While not as invulnerable as Nate when he steels up, the A.T.O.M suit makes up for it with flight and ranged weaponry. Likewise, while not quite possessing the raw firepower of Firestorm or Heat Wave's flamethrower, the suit affords Ray with enhanced durability to damage and survival in the vacuum of space. On top of that, the shrinking tech provides unique infiltration and spying capabilities.
Janitor Impersonation Infiltration: Ray and Snart infiltrate the Pentagon by posing as janitors in "White Knights".
The Knights Who Say "Squee!": Ray is practically beside himself with joy at getting to meet and even join the Knights of the Round Table.
The Lancer: He, Captain Cold, and White Canary share this role, as the three of them are usually the ones who take charge in occasions when Rip's not around or in some funk. However, he is the one assigned by Rip as acting captain over Cold and Canary when Rip has to leave the ship with both halves of Firestorm and Heat Wave. It helps that he's also Rip's very first recruit.
- He seems to think of himself as this when Sara takes a short leave of absence from the Waverider and has to appoint a temporary leader, Ray automatically assumes it to be him, only for Sara to say Amaya's in charge.
Laser Blade: When posing as a Knight of Camelot, Ray channels his suit's hard light through a sword, creating a lightsaber of sorts.
Lawful Stupid: Ray can't bring himself to do the Nazi salute even when it compromises his cover when confronted by an actual SS officer.
Leitmotif: Particularly notable as being utterly unlike any other piece of music on Arrow, sounding more like the theme from a classic '50s adventure serial.
Legacy Character: For one episode, after having lost his A.T.O.M. suit, Mick offers him Snart's Cold Gun and he tries to take up his mantle, dubbing himself Colonel Cold. He drops it by the end of the episode.
Let's You and Him Fight: His first outing as the Atom is to try and apprehend Oliver after the latter is framed by Ra's Al Ghul for a series of murders.
Lightning Bruiser: The A.T.O.M. suit affords flight and mobility like Firestorm with comparable firepower while granting Ray durability and physical strength on par with Steel.
The Load:
- Caught quite a lot of flack from fans during the first season of Legends due to frequent mistakes causing the team a lot of grief. End of the season, we learn the Time Masters have been using the Oculus to manipulate things and it's not even really Ray's fault.
- By Season Two, after losing his A.T.O.M. suit and forcing Nate to blow it up, Ray naturally feels like this. It is only after speaking with Mick that he gains Captain Cold's Freeze Gun. Later, he gains enough dwarf star alloy to recreate the suit.
The Lost Lenore: Members of Slade's army killed his girlfriend in front of him, causing him to develop the A.T.O.M. suit as a way to fight criminals himself.
Love Hurts: Has a dead fiancee, and despite being a genuine Nice Guy, he still ends up as a Romantic Runner-Up for both Felicity and Kendra. Even when he is traveling into the past or future, his love interests tend to be the Girl of the Week for him. Nora Darhk, however, is a different story and even then, she is a wanted time fugitive.
Loyal Phlebotinum: Probably because the first one was stolen by the titular Villain of the Week in "Shogun", Ray designed his second A.T.O.M. suit so that he could stop it on voice command. When Charlie takes the suit from him to fight the Legends in "Dancing Queen", Ray solves the problem by commanding it to disassemble, causing it to fall off her.
Made of Iron: He takes two No-Holds-Barred Beatdown in the gulag and even the guards were surprised that he's alive after the first one.
Making a Splash: Ray becomes the wielder of the Water Totem in the finale of Season 3 and uses its power against Mallus, though he's eventually replaced by Wally.
Master Swordsman: Ray is surprisingly good with a sword. He gives a pretty good katana fight against the titular villain of the episode "Shogun", and he even manages to defeat Damian Darhk in a duel in "Camelot 3000", which is something that King Arthur himself was unable to do.
Message in a Bottle: After Ray is captured by the Darhks in "No Country for Old Dads", they force him to hide a phone with a pre-recorded message saying not to try to save him inside a bottle and send it to the Time Bureau.
The Missus and the Ex: During this series, Ray was formerly in a relationship with Oliver's current fiancee.
Mistaken for Masturbating: In "Séance & Sensibility", Ray hides a fugitive Nora Darhk in his room on the Waverider and Charlie notices that he is acting suspiciously, but she assumes that he was just masturbating, which she is perfectly comfortable with.
Charlie: What are you hiding in there?
Ray: Hmm? What? Nothing!
Charlie: Ah, buffing the old bishop, was we? It's all right, mate. No judgment here, all right?
Moment Killer:
- In "Shogun", Ray walks into the Yamashiros' house just as Nate was trying to kiss Masako, much to his annoyance.
- He interrupts a tender moment between Sarah and Guinevere in "Camelot 3000". However, he makes up for it by encouraging Sarah to go and kiss her shortly after.
- In the following episode "Land Of The Lost", Ray also interrupts Nate and Amaya as they were about to kiss.
- During the Season 3 finale, Ray inadvertently interrupts Sara and Ava while they were discussing their love for each other when he enters the Salvation saloon to reunite with the Legends.
- When Sara and Ava are reconciling from a dispute in "Meet the Legends", Ray shows up just before they could kiss to warn them that their friends have been hypnotized. For his defense, he does apologize for ruining their moment this time.
- In Part One of "Armageddon", Ray crashes in Barry's and Iris's place just as they are about to make out, and they seem mildly annoyed with him at first (which he doesn't notice).
Motor Mouth: He talks a lot, often to the annoyance of others.
Mr. Fanservice:
- Very evident alongside Oliver such as when he works out in a Shirtless Scene.
- He gets another Shirtless Scene with Mick while in a Russian prison.
Musicalis Interruptus:
- When Ray starts singing his song to remember Nate's codes in "Guest Starring John Noble", he promptly gets interrupted by Sara.
- He also tries to sing "Sweet Child O' Mine" during Axl's funeral, but once again Sara shuts him down.
My Future Self and Me: Ray gets to meet his child self during the episode "Phone Home".
Mundane Utility: At the beginning of Crisis On Infinite Earths, Ray and Sara try to use their knowledge of time travel to win at bar trivia. Unfortunately, Ray realizes that they got their answers wrong because he inadvertently caused some changes in the past.
My God, What Have I Done?: After shooting at Nora Darhk with a nanite gun, Ray is horrified when he sees that it's killing her. He feels so guilty afterwards that he creates an antidote and comes back to give it to her, at the cost of getting captured in the process.
Naked First Impression: In season 4, Ray meets Nate's father for the first time without any clothes on because he just turned back into a human after Fairy Godmother changed him into a pig.
Nerds Are Sexy: He's a Tall, Dark, and Handsome Hunk who also happens to be a Gadgeteer Genius.
Nerds Love Tough Schoolwork: When he was a kid, Ray even thanked one of his teachers for giving the class a pop quiz.
Nice Guy: He's generally a well-meaning guy. Episode 4 reveals that he was even a Boy Scout. He's so nice that when Kendra and Carter get back together, Ray shows no resentment and wishes them well.
Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: In the long run, his choice to fight Vandal Savage while he's locked up in a prison cell not only results in the Big Bad escaping, and nearly killing the Legends all by himself
Noble Male, Roguish Male: Noble male to Mick's roguish.
Not Quite Dead: The explosion which destroyed the entire top floor of Palmer Technologies didn’t kill him; he was only miniaturized.
Not Me This Time: When the Waverider starts shooting at the jumpship while Stein is inside in "Marooned" and Gideon says that it was an order from the Captain, Stein starts blaming Ray for having made another mistake, as he was appointed acting Captain by Rip at that time. However, Gideon retorts that Ray has nothing to do with it, as it was actually an order from Rip himself.
"Not So Different" Remark: To Thawne, which the speedster lampshaded as they were both scientists who dedicated their lives to achieving the impossible.
No Waterproofing in the Future: As technologically advanced as his A.T.O.M. suit is, it really doesn't react well to water, as seen in the Flash episode "All Star Team Up" when Ray goes into the ocean to drown the robotic bees and it causes it to malfunction so badly that he has trouble flying and has to crash into Cisco and Caitlin's van.
Odd Friendship:
- After helping each other in the Soviet Union, Ray and Mick have become good friends of sorts. Ray even acts as the get-away man for one of Mick's heists, after Snart had died.
- He and John Constantine also grow quite close, despite John being mostly annoyed by his cheery attitude.
- His weirdest friendship has to be with Vandal Savage, who becomes a good Jenga playmate when they are both trapped in Hell at the end of Season 4, even though they used to be mortal enemies.
Offscreen Moment of Awesome: He doesn't make it to the battle royale against the Reverse Flash (due to being locked up at the time), but still manages a big contribution as Oliver loads his arrows with nanites Ray created to counter the Reverse Flash's powers.
Oh, Crap!:
- Ray says a variant when he encounters an aggressive rat in an air vent while being shrunken in the episode "Turncoat".
  Ray: Oh, rats!
- He also shares one with Nate in when they realize that Sarah and Amaya are working for Damian Darhk in the alternate reality in "Doomworld".
  Nate: Oh...
  Ray: ...Crap!
Oh, No... Not Again!:
- He is not happy about having to return to Nanda Parbat during Legends of Tomorrow.
  Ray: Oh, I can't believe I'm back here.
- He has an annoyed reaction when he is confronted to the hawk monsters for the second time in the season 1 finale.
  Ray: Really? These guys again?
- He also says this word-for-word in "Slay Anything" when his fiancée the fairy godmother Nora comes to see him in the Waverider and he realizes that yet another of the children in her care wished for a pony, much to her frustration.
  Ray: Oh no, not again...
  Nora: Oh yes, oh yes! It's the same thing every time!
Omnidisciplinary Scientist: Ray excels in numerous fields of science, having four PhDs and has showed proficiency in engineering (including his groundbreaking shrinking technology), physics, biochemisty (where he was able to 'tinker' a Super Serum to have a completely different effect), and computer science despite falling a bit short of Felicity in hacking skill.
On a Scale from One to Ten: When he's about to blow up the Oculus and Mick asks him how big the resulting explosion will be, Ray answers this:
Ray: On a scale from one to ten... a googolplex.
One-Steve Limit: Averted. He has the same name as fellow superhero Raymond "Ray" Terrill aka The Ray, with whom he teams up during the crossover Crisis on Earth-X. This causes some confusion more than once.
On Three:
- When a miniature Ray prepares to jump on the lever to reactivate the power in the Waverider during "Turncoat", he counts to three in reverse before jumping on.
- In "Doomworld", Ray starts counting to three before Mick uses the memory restoration gun on him, though Mick ends up doing it at "one".
Our Founder: In 2147, Ray sees a bust of himself in the lobby of the building that operates the A.T.O.M. robots, much to his horror. Subverted, as it eventually turns out to be a bust of his similar-looking brother Sidney.
Please Put Some Clothes On: Ray asks Constantine to put his clothes back on when he does naked yoga in front of Hank Heywood during his inspection of the Waverider in "Tender Is the Nate".
Ray: Yeah, you should really put some clothes on when we have guests.
Porn Stache: After finding out that Nora Darhk has a thing for men with mustaches, Ray grows one to appeal to her in "Hell No, Dolly!".
Positive Friend Influence: He's such a good person that even Mick begins to pick up some heroic traits when they spend time together. Ray even manages to get the cynical Zari to soften a little simply by being so nice.
Post-Stress Overeating:
- In "Last Refuge", Ray eats Rip's stash of sugary cereals because he's freaked out by the idea that the Pilgrim is trying to kill his past self. Kendra is mildly surprised, as she has never seen him like this before.
  Kendra: You know, we've been through a lot together, and you've never quite resorted to eating sugary cereals.
- After finding out that all their actions were engineered by the Time Masters from the beginning and that he's destined to die soon in "Destiny", Ray gorges himself on cupcakes in the Waverider's kitchen.
  Ray: If I'm gonna die, no sense watching my diet.
- Ray feels so guilty after Nora has supposedly killed Hank Heywood that he starts eating lots of candy during the funeral in "Séance & Sensibility", as Constantine notices.
  John: I hope you're not stress-eating, squire.
Primary-Color Champion: A hero whose Powered Armor is blue and red, not unlike another famous superhero role of Brandon Routh's.
Powered Armor: His primary arsenal. Originally codenamed O.M.A.C. by Queen Consolidated, Ray secretly acquires it and renames it to A.T.O.M. so that he can become a vigilante, too.
Power Nullifier: Creates one for The Reverse-Flash with his nanite technology and later creates another one to disable the Darhks' magical powers.
Punctuated Pounding: In "Turncoat", Ray does this when taking down some Redcoats.
Ray: MER—RY—CHRISTMAS!
Put on a Bus: Leaves the Waverider to settle down with Nora in Legends Season Five.
Ramming Always Works: How he takes out the League of Assassins's bomber in "This Is Your Sword." after his on-board weaponry fails.
Raven Hair, Ivory Skin: He has a noticeable pale skin and dark brown hair, making him a Rare Male Example of this trope.
The Redeemer: Ray is someone who's always willing to offer his enemies a second chance. Throughout seasons 3 and 4, he tries relentlessly to convince Nora Darhk to change her evil ways, and he ultimately succeeds. He even manages to get Vandal Savage of all people to become a better person when they meet each other in Hell.
Red Is Heroic: The secondary color of his Powered Armor after blue is red, and he's one of the most heroic characters in the entire Arrowverse.
Reed Richards Is Useless: Stated by Eobard Thawne. When Ray denies the two of them being alike as Ray was a hero who saved lives, Thawne counters that if he was really out to make the world a better place he could have used the dwarfstar alloy as a revolutionary renewable source of energy, but instead used it to perform heroics and make a name for himself in history books. However Thawne then adds that it's not a sin to try and be a Glory Seeker (of course, this being Thawne, it's best to take it with a grain of salt).
Related in the Adaptation: Since he marries Nora Darhk, Ray Palmer becomes Damien Darhk's son-in-law in this incarnation.
Remote Body: Upgrades his suit with a "neural link," allowing anyone wearing a special headset to control the A.T.O.M. suit. It gets put to use in Ray's second fight against Deathbolt, with Oliver operating the suit remotely in order to compensate for Ray's lack of combat experience.
Replacement Goldfish: Mick tries to get him to fill Snart's shoes, giving him the Cold Gun and trying to get Ray to act more like how Captain Cold would. It doesn't work for several reasons, as Ray just isn't very good at being Snart, and acting like Snart brings up painful memories for Mick. By the end of the episode, Mick realizes Ray is best being himself.
Reverse Polarity:
- In the episode "Leviathan", this is what he does to use his A.T.O.M. suit to become bigger instead of smaller, as he tries to explain to Jax.
  Ray: It's not that nuts when you consider the theoretical possibility that siphoning power from the auxiliary time drive should provide enough power to reverse the polarity of the dwarf star matrix.
- He also has to reverse the polarity matrix in order to sabotage the Oculus a few episodes later.
Sarcasm-Blind: Due to his naivety, Ray occasionally has trouble recognizing sarcasms, such as in "No Country for Old Dads" when Nora Darhk mocks his idea of helping the Doctor Vogel get to the other side of the Berlin Wall to join his family in 1962.
Ray: So all we have to do is just get him across the border, and then he'll talk, right?
Nora: Of course… Why didn't I think of that? We'll just mosey across the most heavily guarded border in all of history!
Ray: Yeah! ...Is that sarcasm?
Nora: No. No, that's not sarcasm... [She starts hitting him] Yes, it's sarcasm!
Science Hero: One of Ray's most defining traits is him utilizing science to solve problems. He used his scientific knowledge to craft the suit that makes him a hero to begin with. Even outside the suit, he constantly applies his knowledge to get the job done.
Mick: You're Ray Palmer. You can science your way out of anything.
Screw Destiny: He once says to Rip that he doesn't believe in fate, only choices.
Screw the Rules, I Have Money!: Since Felicity won't quit her job to come work for him, he spends $1.2 billion buying the holding company that owns her workplace.
Seen It All: When Charlie reveals to him that she's a shapeshifter in her first appearance, she's quite surprised that Ray doesn't even flinch.
Series Mascot: As the biggest name superhero on the team after Hawkgirl's departure, the Atom is usually used to represent the Legends as a whole in marketing materials despite several other characters having stronger claim to the leadership role.
Sexy Priest: Considering that he's both a Badass Preacher and Mr. Fanservice.
The Sheriff: He is appointed sheriff of Salvation in the episode "The Magnificent Eight".
Shock and Awe: In "Suicidal Tendancies," Ray hits Roy with a lightning blast from the A.T.O.M.'s gloves, strong enough to knock him unconscious and send him flying. This feature is never seen again after this episode.
Shooting the Swarm: He fires his hard light beams at Brie's swarm of robotic bees to attract their attention in the Flash episode "All-Star Team Up".
Ship Tease: With Nora Darhk. Nate even accuses him of "having the hots of her" (which Ray doesn't seem to completely disagree with) and a tendency to not clearly express himself about her. In real life, Brandon Routh and Courtney Ford are a married couple.
Shrink Ray: Out of the blue (though he does say he's been working on it offscreen), he gets one for the final episode of Legends of Tomorrow Season One. He uses it to shrink a Thanagarian meteor to such a small speck that its explosion is just a fart in a bottle instead of a planet-buster.
Skewed Priorities:
- When the Legends go back to 1988 to save an eight-year old Ray from being killed in "Phone Home", Ray's first thoughts are showing his friends all the attractions in his hometown.
- Also, when looking for a monster in "Wet Hot American Bummer", Ray is more excited over the fact that he sees a Northern Saw-whet Owl.
- When a giant Beebo rampages through the city in the final part of "Crisis On Infinite Earths", Ray takes the time to take a selfie with it.
Skipping School: In the episode "Phone Home", Ray is horrified to discover that his child self skipped school to take care of a baby Dominator.
Sickly Neurotic Geek: Downplayed. It doesn't come up very often, but Ray suffers from multiple allergies, including gluten, cats, dogs, sabertooth tigers, gorillas, and most other animals with fur. He's also by far the geekiest member of the team.
Sizeshifter: Through the use of his suit, he has the ability to shrink and later, embiggen parts of his suit.
The Smart Guy: As he is the Arrowverse's first tech-based hero, this is a given. He even builds nanite arrows specifically to cancel out Eobard Thawne's Super-Speed. He and Prof. Stein also share the role of their team's resident scientists.
Smoking Barrel Blowout:
- Played With. Once he has nearly finished making his nanite gun in "Daddy Darhkest", he mimes using it to shoot the Darhks and then pretends to blow the imaginary smoke off the barrel.
- Played straight in "Legends of To-Meow-Meow" when a version of Ray from an alternate timeline blows out the smoke of his laser rifle's barrel right after shooting a leprechaun.
So Proud of You: He is the one who acts as Nate's teacher to help him master his powers. When he finally manages to activate his powers at will, Ray tells him that he is "kind of proud" of him.
Spanner in the Works: In "The Eggplant, the Witch & the Wardrobe", Ray interrupts the spell to banish Neron, nearly killing Nora and allowing Neron to possess him.
Spit Take: After having precipitately left the dinner he had prepared for Nora due to the return of her villainous father Damien Darhk in "Mr. Parker's Cul-De-Sac", Ray spits out his drink when Behrad reminds him that he has hidden an engagement ring in the dessert.
Stepford Smiler: Played with in "Phone Home". Zari can't believe that he's actually as cheerful and optimistic as he seems to be and thinks he's pretending, while Ray claims that he really is this happy, as he's found that if he believes in himself, then things usually turn out okay.
Strong and Skilled: He was once firmly Unskilled, but Strong, relying on the superior power of his Powered Armor to overwhelm enemies, but skilled enough opponents like Oliver and Thawne were capable of bypassing his suit's powers and disabling it. So he ended up taking Boxing Lessons for Superman and gets rudimentary fight ability even when he's outside the suit.
Strong as They Need to Be: The power and durability of his suit is never consistent. Sometimes it borders on Nigh-Invulnerable, easily taking hits from super-powered people, explosions and the likes, while other times Badass Normals using swords or arrows can fight on par with it.
Strong Family Resemblance: Ray looks so much like his older brother Sidney Palmer that everyone mistakes Sidney's bust in 2147 for Ray's, including Ray himself. It's unclear if they're supposed to be twin brothers or not.
Super-Strength: His ability to alter his size also allows him to increase his strength when he grows.
Take Up My Sword: Thanks to losing his A.T.O.M. suit after Nate blew it up so history couldn't be tempted with, Ray becomes the successor to Captain Cold, complete with Snart's old Cold Gun (given to him by Mick in order for Mick to have a partner and Ray to feel needed). Though he goes back to his old Atom identity shortly after getting his suit back.
Taking the Bullet: In "Public Enemy", Maseo tries to shoot Felicity with an arrow, but Ray pushes her out of the way and gets hit in the chest instead.
Tall, Dark, and Handsome: He stands 6'3 and is acknowledged as a very good looking man.
Tears of Joy: During his last mission in "Romeo V Juliet Dawn Of Justness", he sheds a few tears while listening to Nate's plan to steal the Loom piece as he finds it so great.
Tempting Fate: In "Aruba", after the team goes back to the Battle of the Somme again, he says, "This is much easier the second time around.", at which point Eobard shows up and kills him.
Terrible Artist: When Ray draws a diagram of Mallus with the totems in "The Curse of the Earth Totem", neither Amaya nor Rory have any idea what it's supposed to be, with Rory guessing it might be a hemorrhoid.
That Came Out Wrong:
- When he comes to STAR Labs with Felicity to see Team Flash in "All-Star Team Up", Ray explains that he brought his A.T.O.M. suit to them because he is having trouble keeping it up. Realizing how that sounded, both he and Felicity then clarify that he is only talking about the suit, everything else works perfectly fine.
- In the Legends episode "Raiders of the Lost Art", Ray and Amaya go to see Nate to complain about his music being on at 3am, but Ray's wording causes some confusion.
  Ray: Amaya and I were trying to sleep. [Nate gives him a weird look] Um, not together...
  [Later]
  Nate: Sorry I woke you guys up.
  Ray: We... We weren't together.
  Amaya: He knows, Ray.
- Happens twice in a row in "Guest Starring John Noble" when he suggests ideas to prevent Nora from becoming Mallus in front of her father Damien Darhk. First when he volunteers to reason with her by saying that he had a "connection" with her back in Berlin, which earns him an angry glare from Damien, and then when he has the idea of "getting inside" Nora, which earns him an even worse glare.
That Man Is Dead: Played for Laughs in "Camelot 3000". After being knighted by Queen Guinevere, Ray demands to be called by his knight's name instead of his real name, but no one does it.
Ray: It's not Ray anymore. It's Sir Raymond of the Palms.
Nate: Yeah... I'm never gonna call you that, buddy.
They Call Me MISTER Tibbs!: A minor example, but he insists that Prof. Stein calls him "Doctor Palmer" rather than "Mister Palmer" during the Pilot of Legends of Tomorrow.
Stein: Thank you, Mr. Palmer.
Ray: Seriously? It's Dr. Palmer!
This Cannot Be!: At first, Ray can't believe it when Rip tells the Legends that the Time Masters have been controlling their actions throughout season 1.
Ray: That's... that's not possible. I-I refuse to believe that.
This Is the Part Where...: During an argument with Kendra in "River of Time", Ray accuses her of continuing to consider Carter as her soul mate and then says this:
Ray: That's the part in the conversation where you're supposed to say, "No, Ray, you're my soul mate."
Time-Shifted Actor: As an adult, Ray Palmer is usually portrayed by Brandon Routh, but when he appears as a child during Season 3 of Legends of Tomorrow he's portrayed by Jack Fisher.
Time-Travel Romance: He ultimately ends up with the future version of Nora Darhk. This unintentionally made an aversion of Age-Gap Romance, as Ray was born in 1981 while Nora in 2003.
To Make a Long Story Short: He tries to make it as simple as possible when he explains to the team what happened after he freed Damien Darhk to save Nora from Mallus's thrall in the Season 3 finale.
Sara: And what about Damien Darhk?
Ray: Long story short? Um, he sacrificed himself for Nora, and now he's Mallus's vessel.
Took a Level in Badass: After some practice with his suit, he becomes much more capable, such that he's a bona fide member of the team and able to hold his own alongside the rest in the first season of Legends. However, due to his many screw-ups (see The Load, above), he still came off looking incompetent. Early in the second season, the writers try to correct that and show Ray doing well both in and out of the suit (though with Chronic Hero Syndrome still biting him in the ass).
Took a Level in Dumbass: Ray's intelligence has taken a severe drop in Legends compared to how he was on Arrow. For instance, Ray shows how Genre Blind he is, as his other teammates comically correct him on his mistakes and plays around with the Idiot Ball a little too often. But the biggest, stupidest mistake would have to be when he gives in to Savage's manipulation and enters his prison cell to fight him one on one without his ATOM suit. This results in Savage beating the crap out of him and escaping to kill numerous more people, including his friend Rip's family (somewhat subverted on the last bit, because Savage would have been released by the Time Masters regardless).
Transplant: He was a major Recurring Character in Arrow during its third season and became a member of the Legends thereafter.
Trapped in the Past: He, Kendra, and Sara are trapped in the late 50s to the very beginning of The '60s in the middle of Season One. Happens again in the Season Two premiere after Rip time scatters the team, sending him to the Cretaceous period.
Trust-Building Blunder: Perhaps the most extreme example of this trope ever happens to him in "Phone Home". After convincing Mick to do the "trust fall" exercise in exchange for money, Mick falls over backwards into his arms but Ray disappears from the timeline, leaving Mick to fall to the floor.
Two First Names: As Sheriff "John Wayne".
Unrelated in the Adaptation: He was never married to Jean Loring in this continuity.
Unskilled, but Strong: Oliver tells him he relies too heavily on his tech. At one point Ray allows Oliver to take control of the suit remotely during a combat situation. The Legends series premiere trailer also lampshades this, saying he has a lot of powerful tech, but is too inexperienced to use it to its full potential.
Unusual Pets for Unusual People:
- We never actually see it, but Ray once mentions that his first pet was a Burmese python named "Sneaky".
- Not to mention the time a young Ray kept a time-displaced baby Dominator as his house pet.
Upgrade vs. Prototype Fight: Ray fights a trio of A.T.O.M. robots in 2147, which are based on his own exosuit. They prove to be much faster than his suit is so he ends up losing badly, making him feel obsolete.
- He also takes on the Leviathan in 2166, which is presumably made with the use of future technology related to A.T.O.M. exosuit. This time, Ray actually manages to win the fight.
Vigilante Man: As of late in Arrow Season Three, he has become one to some effect.
What the Hell, Hero?: Ray gives Sara a dressing down for putting her vendetta with Darhk ahead of her teammates at the beginning of Season 2.
Who Are You?:
- After he was appointed acting captain of the Waverider in the absence of Rip and some of the other Legends in "Marooned", he asks this when the time pirate Jon Valor contacts him to inform him that he has captured his companions.
  Ray: I'm Captain Palmer. Who are you?
  Jon Valor: I'm the man holding your crew hostage.
- When the Pilgrim time-travels to 2014 to assassinate a younger Ray before he becomes a Legend in "Last Refuge", he naturally has no idea who she is and asks her this exact question.
  Ray: Who are you?
  The Pilgrim: I'm no one. We have that in common.
- A few seconds later, the younger Ray asks the same question to Rip Hunter when he comes to rescue him.
  Ray: What is that thing? Who is she? Who are you?
  Rip: No Time to Explain!
- After reality has been altered by the Legion of Doom in "Doomworld", Ray doesn't remember the Legends, so he asks Mick and Nate who they are when they come to him for help.
  Ray: Uh, who are you guys, and, um, what are you doing here?
- When Ray goes to the Time Bureau to try to pay a visit to the incarcerated Nora Darhk in "Tender Is the Nate", Mona hears him and comes to offer her help. Realizing that he has never met this person, Ray asks her who she is.
  Ray: I'm sorry, who are you again?
With My Hands Tied: In "Shogun", Ray manages to beat several Mooks while his hands were tied with chains.
Worth It: After Ray's brutal fight with Deathbolt in "Broken Arrow", Felicity comes to hug him which causes him pain, but he declares it worth it.
Would Hit a Girl: Ray has fought women on several occasions. He even punched Sara in the face during the final episode of Season 2.
Wouldn't Hurt a Child: When the team debates about whether to kill the future dictator Per Degaton as a child, Ray is one of the most opposed to the idea of doing so, along with Stein.
Wrong Genre Savvy: He assumes Valentina is a Reluctant Mad Scientist that doesn't know Vandal is evil, she is actually evil, and him forcing Snart to save her gets him, Rory, Stein, and himself captured.
X-Ray Vision: Has what he calls a "high spectrum portable radiograph" built into suit's visor, one powerful enough to see through building walls, not unlike a certain other superhero movie role Brandon Routh is known for.
You Are in Command Now:
- In "Marooned", Rip appoints him as Acting Captain of the Waverider when he has to leave to explore another timeship, much to his joy. However, it is clear to everyone that Kendra is really the one in charge.
- When Ray goes to the sheriff of Salvation to offer his help against the Stillwater gang, the guy appoints him as the new sheriff before getting away.
- Sara leaves him temporarily in charge of the Legends during her absence in the episode "Lucha de Apuestas".
You Can See That, Right?: When the heroes assembled for the "Invasion!" crossover encounter a Dominator and it starts communicating telepathically with them, Ray asks if anyone else is hearing something in their head.
Ray: Did you guys hear that? 'Cause I heard it in my head...
Sara: Yeah, we heard it.
You Know What They Say: Ray tells Zari "You know what they say: Happy captain, happy ship" several times in the episode "Here I Go Again". She retorts that absolutely no one ever said that. Technically, the Ray who said that was actually a virtual copy created by Gideon, but it's supposed to be exactly true to the real version.
You're Insane!: Calls Vandal Savage this when he suggests they might be similar in regards to Kendra.
You Remind Me of X: After meeting Kara/Supergirl in the crossover "Invasion", he tells Felicity that she reminds him of his cousin for some reason.
Your Mom: When Ray and Mick are being tortured by a Soviet officer, Ray starts to insult the guy's mother so that he'll beat him rather than Mick.
Officer: What are you doing?
Ray: Nothing compared to what I did to your mother last night.
Officer: You have quite a mouth on you.
Ray: So does she.
You Shall Not Pass!: In "Phone Home", a young Ray tries to do this when Zari comes to his cabin to get the baby Dominator and he stands up to her armed with a toy sword, even saying this trope verbatim.
You Would Do the Same for Me: After Neron's defeat at the end of season 4, Nate thanks Ray for having sacrificed himself to save him, and Ray replies that he would have done the same. Having just been resurrected after losing his life so that Ray can reintegrate his body, Nate points out that this is pretty much exactly what he has just done.
Nate: I can't believe you went all the way to hell to stop Neron from killing me.
Ray: You would have done the same thing.
Nate: I kind of just did.
Ray: Yeah, you did.

Martin Stein / Firestorm (mind)

see the Arrowverse: Firestorm page

Jefferson "Jax" Jackson / Firestorm II (body)

see the Arrowverse: Firestorm page

Carter Hall / Scythian Torvil / Hawkman

see the Arrowverse: The Hawks page

Kendra Saunders / Hawkgirl

see the Arrowverse: The Hawks page

Leonard Snart / Captain Cold

see the Arrowverse: Leonard Snart page

Mick Rory / Heat Wave

see the Arrowverse: Mick Rory page

Joined in Season 2

Nate Heywood / Steel

Nathaniel "Nate" Heywood / Steel

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"Who needs an army when you've got Legends?"

Species: Metahuman

Known Aliases: Steel, "Colonel Sanders", "Eliot Ness"

Affiliations: The Legends, Time Bureau

Played By: Nick Zano

First Appearance: "Out of Time" (Legends of Tomorrow 2x1)

Appearances: Legends of Tomorrow | Invasion!^note(Arrow | Legends of Tomorrow) | Crisis on Earth-X ^note(Legends of Tomorrow) | Crisis on Infinite Earths

Dr. Nate Heywood is a historian, specializing in deductive historical reconstruction. Due to his skills, he was able to deduce that an aberration-created reality, one in which the Nazis bombed New York City in 1942, due to the machinations of Damien Darhk and Eobard Thawne, was starting to cement in timeline, supplanting the previous reality. With the help of Oliver Queen, he was able to locate the submerged Waverider in 2016, Dr. Heywood traveled through time, using his skills as a historian to find the locations and time periods in which different members of the Legends team were stranded. For his support and later being given the ability to transform into steel, Nate was made a new member of the team.

After two years on the team, Nate eventually left to join the Time Bureau as wanted to mature and move away from his old memories of Amaya. Eventually he develops a relationship with his former teammate Zari after the two fake being a couple for a mission, until circumstances caused her future to be permanently rewritten and replaced by her brother. Having rejoined the Legends for good after the Time Bureau was dissolved, Nate begins having visions of Zari, even though they technically never met in the new timeline. The Legends eventually reunite with Zari, but she has become a much different person, dashing Nate's hope to rekindle their relationship. After reuniting with the original Zari who was transported to the Air Totem, he retires from the Legends at the end of the seventh season and moves into the Air Totem with her after helping the team in stopping Evil Gideon and saving the life of Alun Thomas.

Abusive Parents: He and his father do not have the best relationship. According to Nate, it stems from his old man's Freudian Excuse for growing up with a Disappeared Dad. Downplayed in that his father is strict and demanding, but not outright abusive.
Adaptational Intelligence: In the comics he's a football star, while here he's a renowned historian with a doctorate.
Adaptational Job Change: In accordance with his Adaptational Intelligence, the comics version of Nathan Heywood is a former college football star, while here he's a historian and holds a doctorate.
Adaptation Name Change: From Nathan to Nathaniel. Also "Citizen Steel" to "Steel". However, see Composite Character below.
Adventurer Archaeologist: Well he's actually a historian, but he gets a lot more involved in on the action than anyone else in his career field.
Ambiguously Bi: Nate is definitely attracted to Amaya and Zari, but he frequently makes comments about the attractiveness of other men, especially Ray. At Hank's funeral, they even give each other a kiss on the cheek without thinking. He then also seems to have a crush on Dion, which Lita even points out.
Lita: Do you have a man crush?
Nate: No. It's unrequited. Shh.
And Starring: In the series OBB starting Season Two of Legends of Tomorrow.
Ascended Fanboy: A historian getting to travel through time.
Badass Bookworm: For a hemophiliac historian who claims that he couldn't do athletic activities when he was young, he is quite buff.
Birds of a Feather: Becomes best friends with Ray, the other nerdy Genius Bruiser on the team.
Brainy Brunette: He's a brilliant historian.
Bromance:
- With Ray, who he is best friends with. The two are often seen hanging out, broing it up, and generally getting along like good mates.
- Also has one with Wally, having apparently formed a friendship offscreen during the six months the Legends were forcibly retired by the Time Bureau.
- As of Season 5, he also has this with Behrad.
Bullet Catch: Accomplished this using his teeth, while steeled on of course.
Butt-Monkey: In the first episode alone he is tackled by Oliver's security and and knocked out by Sara.
Calling Parents by Their Name: He calls his father "Hank" because of their strained relationship.
Chrome Champion: After being injected with a Super Serum, Nate gains the ability to turn his skin into steel, which also grants him Super-Strength and cures his hemophilia. He starts calling himself "Steel", since his grandfather's hero name was "Commander Steel".
Commuting on a Bus: In Season 4, he leaves the Legends for good as one of the reasons he joined was because he was running away from his problems at home - but now that he and his dad have buried the hatchet he doesn't feel the need to stay anymore. However, he still shows up quite often as a Time Bureau agent, just not with the Legends. He returns to the Legends proper after his father is killed by Neron and then when the Time Bureau is shut down.
Composite Character: His backstory as the grandson of the first (Commander) Steel and him using the Steel superhero identity belongs to Hank Heywood III, but his civilian first name and powers belong to Citizen Steel.
Cunning Linguist: When Sara offers Nate one of the translating pills, Nate explains that he's fluent in English, German, French, Japanese, Italian, and Latin. He proves this in the next episode by speaking Edo-period Japanese without a translator.
Daddy Issues: Nate and his father, Hank, never got along, although they make a lot of progress towards repairing their relationship in Season 4; sadly their fixed bond doesn't last before he dies to Neron.
Did Not Get the Girl: His romance with Amaya ends on a bittersweet note. She leaves the team to go back to her village and marries somebody else, but chooses to preserve the memories of their relationship.
Dishing Out Dirt: Becomes the wielder of the Earth Totem in the Legends' final plan to stop Mallus.
Ditzy Genius: Almost as bad as Ray in this regard though in Nate's case, it's less of naivete and more of chronic Did Not Think This Through.
Emergency Transformation: After receiving a fatal injury, Ray has to inject him with a Super Serum with hopes that it will turn him into a metahuman with a Healing Factor. It worked, even gaining a bonus power.
Forgot About His Powers: Constantly. The show even acknowledges his tendency to do so.
Genius Bruiser: He's a skilled historian, often recognizing important historical events just as fast or before GIDEON, and thanks to the powers he gains after joining the Legends he's also able to throw down just as well as everyone else.
Has a Type: As he bitterly notes, he seems to have a thing for time-displaced women who eventually have to leave.
Healing Factor: Any injury he suffers before he "steels up" will automatically heal once he turns it off.
Heartbroken Badass:
- Suffers this in the beginning of Season Three after Amaya left him to return to her time period to preserve her family's timeline. Even after she rejoins the team, he's clearly still bitter about she dumped him. Naturally suffers this again when Amaya leaves the team at the end of the season.
- And then with Zari, when she has to return inside the Air Totem after she just got her and all the memories of her back.
Helmets Are Hardly Heroic: He barely wears his helmet when he's fighting crime while wearing his costume. Then again, he doesn't really need one with his powerset.
Heroic Sacrifice: He has John put a Glamour spell on him, making him look like the man, and tricks Neron into killing him, which causes the demon to lose control of Ray's body. However, he is quickly brought back to life by The Power of Love.
Heterosexual Life-Partners:
- With Ray, who was his best friend and was heartbroken when he announced that he and Nora were leaving.
- Also with Wally, with the two becoming bros after Nate's stay in Central City.
- After Behrad takes Zari's place in the timeline, Nate's unrequited romance with her was retconned into a bromance with her brother.
Honorary Uncle: He quickly takes a liking to Mick's daughter Lita, and the feeling is mutual.
Hot Librarian: A Tall, Dark, and Handsome historian who's always seen with books.
How Do I Shot Web?: It takes a while for him to be able to metalize at will. This bites him when he picks a fight with the Shogun's mooks and his powers don't activate.
Hyper-Awareness: Nate figures out that history is being changed just from minor differences in artifacts, and without knowing about time travel ahead of time.
I Choose to Stay: Joins the Time Bureau in Season 4, first to deal with getting over Amaya and then he chooses to stay for good since he no longer feels a need to hide from his problems by living on the Waverider.
Iconic Sequel Character: Does not join the Legends until Season 2 but is one of the few characters since then to still be on the team after all this time.
Immune to Bullets: When steeled on, bullets just ricochet off him. Unless the bullets are made from dwarf star alloy.
Informed Ability: Nate states he is fluent in English, German, French, Japanese, Italian, and Latin. Except unlike Oliver Queen, we never actually see Nate speak the foreign languages, since all the natives speak in "translated" English for the benefit of the viewers.
Informed Flaw: He mentions that his hemophilia prevented him from doing athletic activities. Yet for some reason, he is quite buff and even managed to repeatedly dodge Oliver Queen's security team during his introduction.
In Harm's Way:
- He objects to going with Mick on a time-traveling rescue mission for the other Legends, but Oliver sees right through him.
  Oliver: Who are you kidding? You've been waiting your whole life for a chance like this.
- In a more literal version of this trope, he itches to be on the front-lines with the rest of the team despite the risks his hemophilia brings. He later reveals that it comes from the cloistered upbringing forced on him by his condition, spending half his childhood in hospitals and forbidden by his parents to even go outside.
Lantern Jaw of Justice: He mentions that the Heywood men are known for their jawlines. That and the fact that he and his grandfather are superheroes.
Legacy Character: His codename Steel is derived from his grandfather's codename, Commander Steel.
Logical Weakness: Since metals are good heat conductors, steeling up won't protect him from hypothermia, as he learned the hard way when he fell into a cold river.
Made of Iron: Very literally. Bullets and blades barely tickle him when he's steeled on.
Military Brat: His father is a colonel (later posthumously promoted to brigadier general) in the U.S. Army working in the Pentagon and serves as a military liaison for the Time Bureau. His grandfather was a legendary soldier during World War II.
Mythology Gag: While thinking up a codename for himself, "Citizen Steel" is one of the names Nate contemplates, but ends up settling on "Steel".
Nerds Are Sexy: A Tall, Dark, and Handsome historian.
Nice Guy: The nicest member of the team next to Ray and likely why they get along so well.
Noodle Incident: Apparently became good friends with Wally West between the events of ''Aruba" and "Aruba-Con," the development of which happened entirely offscreen.
Odd Name Out: He is notably the only Heywood male who doesn't have an Alliterative Name.
Opposites Attract: He and Amaya develop feelings for each other, despite being polar opposites in personality. Amaya is an expert wilderness survivor who loves the outdoors and is strict on being professional in her hero duty. Nate is by his own admission, an indoors guy, has no formal training, and is more in it for the adventure of a lifetime.
Pop-Cultured Badass: Nate is the most versed in pop-culture out of all of the Legends, constantly referencing movies and TV shows.
Primary-Color Champion: His Steel costume adorned with the colors of the American Flag predominantly features red and blue.
Second Hour Superpower: Nate gains his steel powers after being injected with Ray's serum at the end of Episode 2x02, first displaying them in 2x03.
Second Love: For Amaya, with Rex being her first.
Sleeves Are for Wimps: His superhero costume is sleeveless. Justified in that, with his powers, he doesn't need to worry about his arms getting hurt.
The Smart Guy: Nate is a genius historian.
Stone Wall: Being Immune to Bullets, Nate often stays on the front lines to shield his team.
Tall, Dark, and Handsome: He stands 6 feet tall.
Time-Travel Romance: In his first season alone, he fell in love with women outside of his time, twice. First with Masako Yamashiro who is from the 17th Century, then with Amaya who is a contemporary of his grandfather during World War II. In Season 4 this becomes inverted, with Nate becoming romantically involved with Zari, who is from 2042 and still a child in his time. There was also a gag for an episode of Nate being attracted to Ray's mom when he meets her in a time period where she's around his age.
Token Super: As of Season 4, he is the only known metahuman working as an agent in the Time Bureau.
Took a Level in Jerkass: In Season 3, he's very bitter about Amaya breaking up with him as in — she left without saying goodbye. Even after they reconcile and she explains she only left to ensure Mari's existence, he's noticeably terse and goes out of his to flirt with women while Amaya's present just to make her jealous.
Unskilled, but Strong: Unlike most of the team, he has no combat training or prior vigilante experience, but the Super-Strength and durability from his steel powers more than makes up for it.
Wearing a Flag on Your Head: Mick makes fun of his costume, calling him "the Star-Spangled Idiot".
Wound That Will Not Heal: Truth in Television for a hemophiliac.
You Killed My Father: He's livid when confronting a captive Neron for killing Hank, to the point he almost gets tricked into letting him out.

Amaya Jiwe / Vixen

Amaya Jiwe

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"I've already lost one team. I'll be damned if my decision rips the Legends apart, too."

Species: Human (Empowered via Spirit Totem)

Known Aliases: Vixen I

Affiliations: The Justice Society of America, The Legends

Played By: Maisie Richardson-Sellers

First Appearance: "Out of Time" (Legends of Tomorrow 2x1)

Appearances: Legends of Tomorrow | Invasion!^note(Legends of Tomorrow) | Crisis on Earth-X ^note(Legends of Tomorrow)

A woman from the African village of Zambesi who inherited one of the village's six magical amulets, the Spirit Totem, which enables her to tap into the spirits of animals and wield their abilities. With the totem, she became the guardian of the village and later eventually recruited into the Justice Society of America. After the JSA leader Rex Tyler is killed by Eobard Thawne, Amaya joins the Legends to take revenge against Eobard. The name "Vixen" is a Legacy Character; while Amaya is the Vixen of The '40s, the title is currently held by Mari McCabe, one of her granddaughters.

A year later, she discovers that the villainous Cult of Mallus is searching for the other five Zambesi Totems. She works with the Legends to recover the Totems and prevent the Cult from misusing them, but is disheartened when she finds out that a member of the Cult, Kuasa, is also her granddaughter. She realizes that as long as she remains aboard the Waverider, Mari and Kuasa will never be born. After Mallus is defeated, she parts ways with the Legends to return back to 1940s Zambesi.

Action Girl: She's much more polished as a hand-to-hand fighter than her eventual successor Mari.
Aloof Dark-Haired Girl: She's also a lot more hostile compared to the similarly rigid Mari.
Ancient Artifact: Her powers stem from the Anansi Totem, a magical amulet passed down her family line. The necklace allows her to harness the life force of animals, in essence harnessing their abilities.
Animal-Themed Superbeing: A vixen is a female fox, and she has the ability to take on the abilities of any animal she can think of, such as the strength of an elephant or the flight of a bird.
Battle Aura: Whenever a user taps into the totem's power, the animal chosen briefly appears as an incorporeal or astral projection; it is blue for Amaya, purple for Mari.
Battle Couple: She and Hourman were this, though we never get to see them (let alone him) in action. She later forms one onscreen with Nate.
The Beastmaster: Her experience with the Anansi Totem has given Amaya a special empathy with animals, enabling her to understand and communicate with even a T-Rex.
Breakout Character: In a similar way to Tom Cavanagh's Harrison Wells/Eobard Thawne, Maisie Richardson-Sellers's performance as Amaya became exceptionally popular among both the viewers and the cast members. So despite Amaya being Put on a Bus, Maisie was allowed to remain on set by being given a new character in the form of Charlie / Clotho in Season 4.
Broken Pedestal: Amaya is one to Kuasa, her granddaughter. As a child, Kuasa idolized Amaya and dreamed of being just like her when she would inherit the Anansi totem. Learning her grandmother's younger self was a time traveler who did nothing to save Zambesi from Eshu the warlord sours Kuasa opinion of her hero. It later becomes a Re Built Pedestal, when Amaya makes Kuasa see that her ruthlessness and selfishness make her unworthy of her birth right.
Brought Down to Badass: Even without her totem, she is a very skilled martial artist, as the Nazis quickly discovered.
But Now I Must Go: After the Legends defeat Mallus, she leaves the team to go back to her village to have her daughter and ensure Mari and Kuasa's existence.
Canon Foreigner: While Vixen exists in the main DCU, Amaya Jiwe is an original character created for the show. See Decomposite Character below.
Celebrity Paradox: Star Wars has been mentioned several times in all the Arrowverse shows. Her actress plays a Sacrificial Lamb character in The Force Awakens. Appropriately enough, Amaya is integral during a Season Two Story Arc where the creation of Star Wars must be ensured.
Death Is Cheap: Amaya is killed by Snart in the altered reality in "Doomworld", where she is frozen by the Cold Gun, then shattered. She gets better thanks to time travel.
Chronic Hero Syndrome: Being a member of the Justice Society of America, she has the tendency to jump into action when she sees wrongdoing despite knowing that she could end up changing the timeline.
The Comically Serious: Noticeably loosens up in Season Three after spending so much time with the Legends.
Decomposite Character: In the comics, there is only one Vixen, Amaya's granddaughter Mari, who previously appeared in Arrow. Due to scheduling conflicts with Megalyn Echikunwoke, they couldn't use Mari, so Amaya was created as a previous Vixen that joins the Legends.
Defrosting Ice Queen: Initially dismissive of the Legends, she eventually warms up to them — especially Nate and Mick.
Doomed by Canon: According to Kuasa, she was killed by Eshu when he raided the village for the Anansi totem. However this is undone when the Legends stop Eshu's raid meaning she survives.
Fights Like a Normal: She does not need to rely on her totem powers to fight, being a skilled martial artist who can kick ass the old fashioned way if need be.
Fish out of Temporal Water: She's from the year 1942, a time where history hasn't been completely documented as well where technology is still developing. She often has to ask the other Legends about several facts on the time they go to and didn't believe ninjas existed (unless she was just trolling Mick).
Friend to All Living Things: Being an Animal-Themed Superbeing, she has a natural way with animals, being able to understand and communicate with them. She's even able to calm down a T-Rex and, briefly, a giant telepathic gorilla.
Good Is Not Soft: She has no mercy in the field, or when it comes to protecting her people and her village. Some Belgian Imperialists who tried to loot her village found that out the hard way.
Iconic Sequel Character: Does not join the Legends until Season 2.
It's Personal: Her primary motive for joining the Legends. She wants revenge on Rex's killer, the Reverse-Flash.
Kung-Fu Wizard: Downplayed since her magic is centered on enhancing her physical abilities, but she still fits this trope being the only magic-user on the team. Her familiarity with using mystical artifacts is why the team goes to her first with handling the Spear of Destiny.
The Lancer: She is essentially Rex Tyler's second-in-command in the JSA.
Laser-Guided Amnesia: She has her memories wiped when she leaves the Waverider so her feelings for Nate won't stop her from starting her own family. However, this is altered when she goes home in "The Good, the Bad and the Cuddly" and she stops Nate from erasing her memories.
Legacy Character: Mari McCabe is one to her in Vixen.
Literally Shattered Lives: In "Doomworld", Snart kills her by freezing her with the Cold Gun, then taps her frozen body and shattering it to pieces. But thanks to time travel, she is saved.
Living Legend: In "The Curse of the Earth Totem" she becomes known as "Dread Pirate Jiwe", a great pirate with the same fearsome reputation as Blackbeard.
Nerves of Steel: In Land of the Lost, Gertrude, an angry T-Rex, roars in Amaya's face, and she doesn't so much as flinch.
Nice Girl: If you can get past her stern professionalism, she's actually quite kind and compassionate, as Mick finds out.
Not So Above It All: She initially has a very poor opinion of the Legends given their sometimes dysfunctional team, and especially a low opinion of unapologetic criminal Mick. When she gets to play the bad girl in 1927 Chicago and hijacks a load of booze, she admits that being the bad guy for a change can be fun.
- She also decides to continue traveling though time rather than remain in the past. This puts her own granddaughter at risk and shows that she isn't that different from the Legends in the long run. However, she eventually realizes the danger to Mari and returns to 1942, only to encounter new problems that drive her to rejoin the team.
Not So Stoic: She breaks down crying after Hourman is killed.
Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping: On occasion, Maisie Richardson-Sellers' natural British accent slips out; this is particularly noticeable during the Crisis on Earth-X crossover.
Only Sane Woman: In Stein's absence, Amaya is probably the closest thing the Legends has to adult supervision. She's calm, professional, rational, and almost always thinks things through before charging in.
Opposites Attract: She and Nate develop feelings for each other, despite being polar opposites in personality. Amaya is an expert wilderness survivor who loves the outdoors and is strict on being professional in her hero duty. Nate is by his own admission, an indoors guy, has no formal training, and is more in it for the adventure of a lifetime.
Paradox Person: At the end of Season Two, she opts to stay with the Legends rather than go back to 1942 — even though she knows that, by doing so, she's putting her future granddaughter's existence at risk.
Plot Armor: At least where Kuasa is concerned. Justified as she is her grandmother and if Kuasa kills her, she'll end up dying as well.
Put on a Bus: She returns to Zambesi at the end of Season 3.
Sassy Black Woman: Of African decent and always finds time to make smartass remarks.
Screw Destiny: Late into Season Two, she finds out about the eventual fate of her village and Mari's existence; in the finale, she opts not to go back to 1942, wanting to keep helping the team for as long as she is able.
The Stoic: She's generally very serious and straightforward, but she proves capable of loosening up.
Time-Travel Romance: Pretty much her and Nate's Story Arc. As much as they love each other, they both know they can't be together since they're from different eras. Amaya's younger granddaughter especially is an important hero in The Present Day.
Took a Level in Badass: By Season Three, she can use the totem to summon multiple animal spirits at once, and not even have to fight.
Unknown Rival: For her, It's Personal that she finds Hourman's murderer. Said murderer, Eobard Thawne, doesn't give a crap about her or anyone else.
What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?: She mocks Ray for not having any real superpowers and for needing to rely on his ATOM suit. However, she takes it back after he sacrifices his chance to gain said powers in order to save Nate.

Joined in Season 3

Zari Tomaz

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"You saved the world? Then why does it still suck?"

Species: Human (Empowered via Air Totem)

Nicknames: Z, Khaahar, Zari 1.0

Affiliations: Resistance against A.R.G.U.S., The Legends

Played By: Tala Ashe, Gracelyn Awad Rinke (young)

First Appearance: "Zari" (Legends of Tomorrow 3x3)

Appearances: Legends of Tomorrow | Crisis on Earth-X ^note(Legends of Tomorrow)

A hacker from 2042 who happens to wield one of the Zambesi totems, the Air Totem. Her entire family were killed by A.R.G.U.S., who had taken over the United States sometime in the future and imposed a totalitarian regime. As a result, Zari joins the Legends to prevent her family's tragic fate. The Air Totem originally belonged to her younger brother Behrad.

After a year and a half with the Legends, she starts a romance with Nate Heywood and they end up discovering a way to change her future for the better. However, she was erased from history and replaced by a different incarnation at the end of the fourth season. While she lives on within the Air Totem, she can't co-exist with her other self long enough as the now-alive Behrad will die as a result of her timeline bleeding into the main one. She soon learns she can switch places with her counterpart in the sixth season, allowing her to rejoin the Legends on a part-time basis. She retires from the Legends properly in the seventh season after they defeat Evil Gideon and save the life of Alun Thomas when Nate Heywood moves into the Air Totem with her.

see the Smallville: Other Major Villains page for Isis, the Earth-167 character who shares her comic background

A Day in the Limelight: "Here I Go Again" is entirely dedicated to her and bonding with the rest of the Legends.
Action Girl: Another female Legend who's more than capable of kicking ass.
Adaptational Modesty: The Mythology Gag superhero costume she wears in Legends 3x04 is far more modest than her midriff baring outfit she had in the comics.
Adaptation Name Change: The name "Zari" is an invention of the show. Every other incarnation outside of the Andrea Thomas incarnation used Adrianna as her given name.
Adaptation Origin Connection: In the comics, her power-granting amulet is part of the same line as the Captain Marvel family; here, her powers stem from the same source as Vixen's.
Age-Gap Romance: As with Ray and Nora, she and Nate are far apart in age enough to be father and daughter if not for time travel.
Aloof Dark-Haired Girl: Cynical and used to keeping people at arm's length as a result of growing up in a dystopian future version of America.
Ambiguously Bi: Is attracted to Nate and Jonah Hex, but also stated that Amaya was hot. When Charlie asks if she's straight, she doesn't give an answer.
Ancient Artifact: Her powers stem from the Air Totem, bestowing the user with the ability to manipulate air.
The Atoner: For not being able to save her brother.
Bad Future: She comes from one where A.R.G.U.S. has taken over and turned America into a Police State.
Back from the Dead: In "The One Where We're Trapped On TV", by splitting Zari's chain of fate into two, the original Zari is brought back from nonexistence by Charlie and allowed to exist with the new Zari.
Big Eater: Likely due to how she grew up after joining the Legends if it's not a fight. Z is more often than not chowing down on something (usually junk food).
Blow You Away: She possesses the Air Totem, enabling her to manipulate air for flight and blasts of wind for offense.
But Now I Must Go: At the end of the season, she retreats back into the Air Totem when she discovers she can't exist without her timeline slowly killing Behrad.
Civvie Spandex: Doesn't wear a costume, opting for a series of simple jackets instead. The first time she does wear an outfit that resembles the original Isis superhero costume from the comics and 1970s TV series is on Halloween in the 80's ... and she finds it both stupid and impractical to wear. In Crisis on Earth-X, however, she gets a gold and black uniform that's similar to Amaya's.
Comic-Book Movies Don't Use Codenames: An Enforced Trope in which Real Life Writes the Plot. In the comics and original Secrets of Isis TV series, her moniker is "Isis" — named after the Egyptian Goddess of Magic. Unfortunately, in 2017 most people associate the name with the terror group ISIS, therefore the producers of the series chose to not give her a superhero name (especially given this version of the character is Muslim-American).
Dark and Troubled Past: Has quite the rap sheet, which impresses Mick. However, since she lives in a Police State, we can assume that either most of those crimes are exaggerations or done fighting against ARGUS.
Deadpan Snarker: Like Mick, she tends to resort to sarcasm and blunt honesty to communicate feelings.
Defrosting Ice Queen: Coming from a dystopia time period, she's naturally quite frosty, but eventually mellows out revealing an extremely adorable personality.
Driven to Suicide: In "Here I Go Again", she breaks down from watching the Legends die over and over again in a "Groundhog Day" Loop and tries to shoot herself. Fortunately, the gun isn't loaded and even if it was, there was no chance of her dying, since she was just in a simulation.
Elemental Powers: The mystical Totems of Zambezi grants its user control over a different element of nature, with Zari's being the Air Totem.
The Engineer: Shares this role on the Waverider with Jax due to her technical expertise and later inherits it entirely after his departure from the team.
Fish out of Temporal Water: Not to the same degree as Amaya, but a fair amount of 20th century pop culture icons like Billy Joel and Groundhog Day are unfamiliar to her.
Forced Transformation: She was transformed into a cat in multiple timelines (also a puppet in another) in "Legends of To-Meow-Meow".
Flanderization: She becomes associated with wearing red flannel shirts much more often after being replaced with Zari Tarazi.
Gamer Chick: Likes to play video games in her downtime. She also once brought a copy of "Legend of Zelda" off the black market.
Genre Refugee: In-Universe. When the fates trap the Legends in TV shows, she escapes from the Air Totem, and does not fit into the Friends-esque TV world she emerges into.
"Groundhog Day" Loop: Gets put into one in "Here We Go Again" thanks to Gideon as part of a Secret Test of Character to make her bond with the Legends.
Head Butting Heroes: Really doesn't get along with Sara at first, due to chafing under her authority and Zari's insistence on changing history to help people instead of preserving the timeline. It becomes bad enough to eventually drive Zari off the team, but luckily, she gets over this after Gideon's endless time loop simulation shows her that she and the Legends need each other.
Heroic Sacrifice: In "Swan Thong", she learns that she and Behrad can't exist at the same time without harming the latter. As a result, the old Zari decides to return to the Air Totem, content with being an eternal prisoner if it means her brother will be able to stay alive.
Hollywood Hacking: The resident hacker of the team and previously used it to fight ARGUS.
Hidden Depths: She relaxes by listening to heavy metal.
In Name Only: Rather than having the powers of an Egyptian goddess as is the case with the original 1970s character and later 2000s reboot, Zari Adrianna Tomaz wields one of the totems common to most Arrowverse magic and doesn't go by Isis. As a result, the character is nearly completely unrecognizable beyond the name.
In-Series Nickname: She's commonly referred to as "Z" by pretty much everyone.
Knight in Sour Armor: Zari's a legitimately good person, but she's also very cynical and snarky, with little faith in or patience for sentiment.
Leaning on the Fourth Wall: While stuck in the Ground Hog Day Loop and under too much stress, Nate suggests she take a break and have some fun. A montage is then shown of Zari goofing off and enjoying herself with no consequences. She later goes back to Nate and tells him she already did the "fun montage".
Leeroy Jenkins: She was often chastised for being reckless and not following orders, at least until "Here I Go Again" where she had a Heel Realization thanks to Gideon.
Living MacGuffin: Her first episode is about the Legends trying to save her from Kuasa — she joins the Waverider because she's safer there then in 2042.
Loophole Abuse: Her speciality. She always tries to find possible ways of changing history for the better without breaking time.
The Mentor: Becomes the reluctant totem mentor to Mick when he is to be trained in using the Fire Totem.
My Greatest Failure: Her failure to prevent her brother's death, revealing that when A.R.G.U.S. agents came for her family, she ran away in fear.
Mythology Gag: At one point, she's reluctantly persuaded to wear an outfit resembling her costume in the comics, though she dislikes it and prefers civilian clothes.
Not Wearing Tights: Only wears a superhero costume once for the Crisis on Earth-X crossover.
Odd Friendship: She has one with Ray, the perpetual optimist. Mainly because they both have similar interests and hints that Ray is not nearly as naive as he seems. She later develops another one with Jonah Hex in ''The Good, the Bad, and the Cuddly," despite Zari being initially uncomfortable around an ex-Confederate solider, but he eventually wins her over with his unflinching politeness and respect towards her. It's strongly implied that he has a crush on her and by the end of the episode, possibly mutual.
Other Me Annoys Me: She is pretty annoyed by her post-Heyworld self, who is (or used to be) a shallow, uptight internet celebrity who prioritizes fame over family.
La Résistance: Was a member of a group of rebels fighting the now fascist-minded A.R.G.U.S.; she joins the Legends after she discovers what remained of her family were slaughtered.
Race Lift: The original version of the character, created for the 1970s series The Secrets of Isis and later featured in a comic book spin-off, was Caucasian and of Anglo-Saxon ancestry with the surname Thomas and played by Colorado-born actress Joanna Cameron. The Legends version is Muslim, has the surname Tomaz, and is portrayed by Iranian-born actress Tala Ashe.
Rebellious Spirit: Though all of the Legends qualify to varying degrees, Zari really stands out when she joins with her general disregard with the team's duty to protect the timeline and issues accepting Sara's authority. It makes sense, considering she's grown up under fascist, authoritarian regime that's outlawed all religion and imprisons metahumans.
Ret-Gone: Her fate at the end of Season 4. Due to the Legends altering the timeline, causing her Bad Future to be prevented, she never joined the Wave Rider crew and is somehow replaced by her brother. It's later revealed that the original Zari didn't actually disappear, but rather became trapped inside the Air Totem. Eventually undone in "The One Where We're Trapped On TV", when everyone remembers her.
Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!: Is less committed than the other Legends about preserving history and exploits loopholes in history to help people. Notable examples include dropping Helen off in Themyscira instead of returning her to Troy and encourages Jax to use such a loophole to warn 1992!Stein about his future death.
Sealed Good in a Can: Her ultimate fate following the Heyworld incident is this, as she's "trapped" inside the Air Totem that is now used by the revived Behrad and ultimately her alternate timeline counterpart, Zari Tarazi. While certain dire situations can cause her to reappear in the real world or communicate with the Legends, she needs to stay inside or her native timeline in which her brother died will gradually creep over into reality, thus slowly killing Behrad.
Second Love: For Nate, with Amaya being his first.
Ship Tease: She has one with Jonah Hex of all people, then with Nate, which quickly turns official.
Sitcom Arch-Nemesis: Has shades of this dynamic with Gideon unsurprisingly, given that one is computer hacker and the other is a sentient computer. Later evolves into Vitriolic Best Buds after Gideon subjects Zari to a "Groundhog Day" Loop simulation to show her the importance of staying with the Legends.
Star-Crossed Lovers: Her relationship with Nate turns to this when it becomes clear that the only way to stop Neron is for them to alter history to such an extent that she never joined the Legends, ergo never meeting Nate.
Taking Up the Mantle: Behrad was killed by A.R.G.U.S. shortly before the events of her debut, leaving Zari to take his Air Totem and time travel to the present day.
The Bus Came Back: After her Heroic Sacrifice in Season 4, it's eventually revealed that she still exists within the Air Totem. In Season 6, Zari Tarazi discovers that the two can swap places inside the totem, allowing both to exist (albeit still not simultaneously) and letting Zari Tomaz rejoin the Legends. She retires from the Legends properly at the end of Season 7 when Nate moves into the Air Totem with her, giving her character a final exit from the team.
Time-Shifted Actor: Her young version appears during Season 4 and she finds the dragon egg.
Time-Travel Romance: In Legends Season 4 she becomes romantically involved with Nate, who is from the mid 2010s and is old enough to be her father in her own time.
Token Religious Teammate: Is explicitly Muslim and adheres to practices like not consuming pork or alcohol and observing Ramadan.
Unresolved Sexual Tension: With Jonah Hex.

Leo Snart / Citizen Cold

see the Arrowverse: Earth-X page

Wally West / Kid Flash

see the Arrowverse: West/Allen Family page

Joined in Season 4

John Constantine

John "Johnny" Constantine

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"I'm not a bad guy. A little hardscrabble, sure, but...uh...I'm on the side of the angels, mate. At least when they're not busy trying to screw me over."

Species: Human (Empowered via magic)

Known Aliases: Master of the Dark Arts, El Diablo, "Johnny Moore", Johnny C.

Affiliations: The Newcastle Crew, Team Constantine, Team Arrow, The Legends

Played by: Matt Ryan, Knox Hamilton (young)

Appearances: Constantine | Arrow | Legends of Tomorrow | Crisis on Infinite Earths^note(Batwoman | The Flash)

Constantine: Well, you know, if we were in each other's shoes right now, then you'd be giving me some rubbish speech about how "you don't have to shoulder the burden myself when I have friends around me to help me carry it". Not that I believe you for a second, but... that doesn't mean it's not true.
Sara: Thanks. Even if you're just lying to make me feel better.
Constantine: Oh, I definitely am. Hope it worked, though.

— In "The Getaway"

Exorcist, Demonologist and Master (''Petty Dabbler'': he's getting new cards made) of the Dark Arts. All trench coat and arrogance, John is the mystical "jackass-of-all-trades" you call when you want some supernatural evil killed or general protection from the forces of darkness. A loner to the bone, on very rare occasions he's willing to work with others for the greater good.

He has quite the checkered past to say the least: Having lost his mother shortly after childbirth and constantly abused by his father who blamed him for her demise, he grew up wanting to see her again and practicing magic. He met a kindred spirit in a girl named Natalie and the two became part of the "Newcastle Crew" (and his former punk band, Mucous Membrane). Eventually, she moved to New York to start a family while John remained in England to work on his sorcery. Some time later, Natalie lost her life in a tragic accident. In an act of arrogance, he decided to perform a ritual to resurrect her.

He succeeded... but it came at a price: namely Natalie's daughter, Astra Logue. Astra was taken to Hell in exchange for her mother, who became so despondent that she killed herself, rendering John's ritual all for naught. To top it all off, Constantine's soul was also eternally damned as a result. Redeeming himself for this act has been his driving force ever since, and in that quest he's made more than a few enemies: The fallen angel Manny, the mysterious Brujeria, Damien Darhk, Baron Reiter, countless demons, and the enigmatic and dreaded demon Neron, whom even the denizens of hell fear at the thought of.

At one point he ended up in Lian Yu and ran afoul of Reiter, where Oliver Queen saved his life. John repaid that favor by restoring the soul of Oliver's friend Sara Lance. Two years later, John found himself working with Sara as he was pulled into the crazy world of the Legends as they called up his expertise to help them fight the time demon Mallus. However, when the Legends smashed through the temporal prison holding back Mallus in a Hot-Blooded attempt to put an end to the demon, they also ended up unleashing every other supernatural horror that was imprisoned alongside him. Despite his loner nature, Neron wanted John dead so he could claim his soul for all eternity, and the Legends were in need of a mystical expert to lock the supernatural fugitives back up. Self preservation triumphed so he very reluctantly joined the team of misfits.

Shortly before defeating Neron with their help, he had been given a chance to save Astra and took it. Unfortunately for him, she was now an adult and blamed him for ruining her family. Rising up the ranks of Hell, she resurrected various evil souls across time to cause misfortune for him and the Legends. Eventually, he confronted her and made a vow to fix what he had broken. While he didn't entirely succeed in the end, she would still come around and make steps to forgive him.

While searching for the Loom of Fate, he begins a romance with Zari Tarazi and, following the defeat of the Fates, he loses his magic and starts to use blood which received from a vampire which can give magical abilities. He soon becomes addicted and his dark side starts to take over. Searching for the Fountain of Imperium to regain his magic, he is poisoned and killed by Bishop who double-crosses him. He is resurrected by the denizens of hell and given back his magical abilities. Knowing he had gone too far into his dark side, he breaks up with Zari and leaves the Legends to once again walk his own path.

He also at some point had a very interesting/disturbing encounter with a Beebo doll that would "make your toes curl".

see Smallville: Clark's Allies for the Earth-167 character who bears his name and background.

Abusive Dad: His father would hit him when he was drunk as well as put out cigarettes on his skin, and never passed on an opportunity to call him "killer" since his mother died in childbirth.
Accidental Misnaming: He has difficulty remembering Gary's name when they first meet in "Necromancing the Stone".
John: You are a bloody genius, Barry!
Gary: Gary.
John: Gary, right.
Action Survivor: He's no Squishy Wizard but he's still not trained for physical combat like Oliver and his team are, so he resorts to being a Combat Pragmatist.
Adaptational Badass: While still a badass, the comic book John was accustomed to solving problems through his wits and magical abilities, rather than through force. This version of John has "a mean right hook" by his own admission, shown in the Arrow episode "Haunted", when he manages to disarm a trained soldier, then quickly knock him out with one punch. In the same episode, he also manages to hold his own in a swordfight with a demonic ninja (on another plane of existence).
- That itself seems to be a change from the Constantine series proper, where the few times John gets into scuffles, he throws an average punch and is quickly overwhelmed. Legends keeps to this portrayal, as outside of some powerful magic he genuinely can't put up a fight worth a damn.
Adaptational Nice Guy: His addiction to magic and meddling with forces mankind was not meant to know is downplayed; instead, the focus lies exclusively on the Newcastle Incident as his motivation. This version of John is The Atoner and wants to make up for his crimes (as well as avoid damnation) versus the John who is a rebel without a cause. This isn't that far from some comic portrayals of John, albeit significantly Lighter and Softer. He also comes off better in dealing with Gary Lester. In the comic, he doesn't give Gary the chance to refuse to be sacrificed; he also doesn't sit by Gary's side to keep him company while he's being eaten alive. However, by the time he joins the cast of Legends, we do get to see his more morally reprehensible sides.
Addiction Displacement: After quitting smoking in Season 5, John tries chewing on sunflower seeds instead.
The Alleged Car: While John is in or near Atlanta, he drives an old Chevy pickup truck. While the truck looks beat up, it seems to run just fine; he even takes the truck from Atlanta to Birmingham.
And I'm the Queen of Sheba: When Ava says that Sara isn't damaged in "Necromancing the Stone", Constantine replies "And I'm the bloody Pope."
And This Is for...:
- In "Witch Hunt", the Fairy Godmother seals his mouth with her magic to prevent him from using spells. When he is released after she loses her host and her magical powers at the end of the episode, John uses a spell to bind her while saying this.
  John: And that is for taking my mouth, you silly old bat!
- During the mission to take down the Encore Bugsy Siegel in "Miss Me, Kiss Me, Love Me", John has an affair with his girlfriend Jeannie Hill but she ends up getting killed because of him. At the end of the episode, a very pissed John says this trope before shooting Bugsy with a Hell Gun.
  John: This one's for Jeannie.
Anti-Hero: He's an asshole who doesn't shy away from doing very questionable things, but he is truly trying to make a difference in the world.
And Starring: Is given the credit "Special Guest" in Legends, even as a main character.
Apologetic Attacker:
- He tells Zari that he's sorry after turning her back into a cat in the episode "Legends of To-Meow-Meow".
- He also apologizes to Mona turned into Wolfie after casting a spell to bind her in "The Getaway".
  John: I'm sorry about that, love.
- In "Meet the Legends", he also says to his friend the demon Masher that he's sorry about it before exorcising him from the body of a young boy.
Arch-Enemy: Despite having less screen time than the other heroes, he has several:
- The First of the Fallen by virtue of being the Greater-Scope Villain behind the Legions of Hell.
- Papa Midnite, a Voo-Doo crime king and John's primary nemesis and Evil Counterpart in magic, though he's something more akin to The Rival too; the two will work together when it suits them.
- Subverted with the demon Nergal, who took Astra to Hell. He blames himself entirely for that blunder.
- The demon Neron, for taking his lover Desmond to Hell and tormenting him about it and then spending Legends Season 4 going after the Legends just to twist the knife in further.
Are You Sure You Want to Do That?:
- In "Daddy Darhkest", he asks this question to Sara when they are stuck in 1969 and she wants him to summon Mallus in her so that she can channel his powers to bring them back to the present.
- He also asks this when Barry, Mia and Sara come to him for help to find a functioning Lazarus Pit to resurrect Oliver in Hour Two of "Crisis On Infinite Earths", as he's aware that those pits are no laughing matter.
The Atoner: Haunted by Astra's eternal damnation, his basic reason for helping people is to make up for that one mistake. He's also haunted by the death of his mother, who died while giving birth to him. He spent most of his teenage life learning magic, trying and failing to find a spell to conjure her.
Badass Longcoat: Skulks and snarks in a pretty sweet beige trench coat.
Badass in a Nice Suit: He's a Sharp-Dressed Man even without the aforementioned trench coat.
Beta Couple: He and Zari Tarazi, of all people, end up together at the end of season 5 as the secondary relationship behind Sara and Ava.
Better to Die than Be Killed: When Astra makes him contract stage 4 lung cancer, he speeds up his mortality with poison so he could meet with her quickly and cut a deal to spare him if he can help save her and her mother.
Big "NO!":
- Yells this in "The Eggplant, the Witch & the Wardrobe" when Ray walks in while he and Nora are in the middle of fighting Neron's true form.
  John: Ray, no!
- And again in the following episode when Gary puts back his nipple brought from Hell by Neron.
  John: Gary, no!
Blessed with Suck: One of the few benefits of having a damned soul is that he gets completely ignored the zombies of Atropos during "I Am Legends".
Boyfriend Bluff: When Damien Darhk comes back from the dead as an Encore in Season 5 and finds Nora in Constantine's house, John is forced to act as her boyfriend to hide the fact that she has made a Heel–Face Turn and is in a relationship with Ray Palmer. John even ends up having to ask her to marry him.
Break His Heart to Save Him: In order to stop Desmond from being possessed by Neron and ending up in Hell, John goes back in time in "Hell No, Dolly!" and brutally ends the relationship by saying he never loved him and used a love spell on him to get him in bed. Unfortunately, this has the effect of creating all kinds of messed-up timelines and having all these memories at once causes damage to John's brain, forcing him to travel back in time once again to erase Desmond's memory of their breakup and restore their relationship.
Breakout Character: Constantine was a largely unknown DC character before this version of him appeared on screens, but his popularity immediately pole-vaulted to fan favorite status. With the cancellation of his show, both fans and the cast looked for a new home and found one by integrating him into the Arrowverse, at first with single episodes guest appearances before he becomes part of the main cast of Legends of Tomorrow as of Season 4. Ever since this depiction of him, Constantine has been heavily featured in other media including Justice League Dark (with Matt Ryan reprising his role) as well as a part of the cast of Justice League Action.
Break the Haughty: Whether he had the audacity to summon a demon for an exorcism or to perform a human resurrection, there's a reason why John insists he's no longer a "Master of the Dark Arts", merely a "Petty Dabbler".
The Bus Came Back: After a Long Bus Trip since "Haunted" he came to the 'verse in Legends first as a recurring character in Season 3 and then as a main character in Season 4.
But Not Too Bi: In his own series. While the occasional nod was made to his canon sexuality, John was never once shown with a man. Legends of Tomorrow threw this out the window, however, and he was shown falling in love (as well as having flings) with men and women.
Canon Invasion: His appearance on Arrow retroactively puts his ill-fated show into the Arrowverse.
Character Check: Ever since John began appearing in Legends, he hasn't done any of the morally questionable or outright dick things he's known for in the comics or indeed his own show. But in "Dancing Queen", he does something very questionable and extremely dickish — he effectively lobotomizes Charlie by using a spell to take away her shapeshifting powers, completely unrepentant simply because he hates shapeshifters.
- In "Hell No, Dolly", he works with Charlie to change his past so that Desmond doesn't get possessed by Neron, not giving a damn about the changes to anyone else's future. However, he's also the one to suffer the most from the changes as his memories become saturated with all the timeline alterations to the point of driving him mad.
- In "Hey World", upon learning that Ray's deal to let Neron posses him is conditional on the fact that Neron not kill Nate, Constantine immediately suggests to the Legends that they trick Neron into killing Nate, something with Sara flat-out balks at. However after the Legends' original plan to defeat Neron fails, Nate has Constantine put a Glamour on him to disguise him as John so Neron will kill him thereby nullifying the deal and allowing John to permanently kill the demon once and for all.
Character Development: His time with the Legends make him slightly less cynical about his status as a Doom Magnet, and interacting with Charlie and his Celtic ancestor also make him reexamine his Fantastic Racism towards magical creatures.
The Charmer: John often flirts with girls, or guys, he comes across referring to them as "love" or "sweetheart".
Chekhov's Gag: The quirk about him being a chain smoker is what will cause his premature death of lung cancer by 2030. After being put at death's door by Astra speeding up the clock, she resets it only when he promises to save her family.
Childhood Friend Romance: He grew up with Natalie, Astra's mother, but they went their separate ways after some time.
Cold Ham: He rarely raises his voice outside of bouts of anger or casting spells, but still manages to chew the scenery with his accent and cadence.
Combat Pragmatist: He's not an Action Hero like Team Arrow or most of the Legends, so he uses clever methods to fight.
Cosmic Retcon: The circumstances of Astra's damnation are vastly different after Crisis, but the end result of her hating him for it remains the same.
Couldn't Find a Lighter: In "Necromancing the Stone", John lights his cigarette with a fireball that Mick created with the Fire Totem.
Crazy-Prepared: Has a tape with exorcism spells in dozens of languages on the off chance he gets possessed.
The Cynic: In the fourth episode of his series, he outright says that while people may be able to change overall, there comes a time when they no longer can. He refuses to bring along people who he feels can be a liability, instead of letting them make up for past failures. When Zed asks him how he can be so cynical though he knows that angels exist, he says he's Seen It All.
Dark and Troubled Past: That's putting it mildly. Between his mother dying giving birth to him, his dad's abuse, his childhood friend dying, said friend's daughter and himself being damned, John hasn't had it easy at all.
Deadpan Snarker: Basically everything out of his mouth is snark. If he goes long enough without doing it, it means bad news.
Decoy Getaway: When Hank Heywood chases the Legends after they stole a van and kidnapped President Nixon in "The Getaway", John uses a spell to create an illusion of their van to make Hank follow it while they go in a different direction.
Deuteragonist: Following his inclusion to main cast member in the fourth season of Legends, his own (unfinished) storyline has quickly taken center-stage. In fact, Neron is targeting him specifically, with the Legends being in Neron's sights just as a way to mess with John further. This continues in season five, where Astra Logue becomes a major character.
Dragged Off to Hell: John voluntarily jumps into a doorway to Hell to rescue Ray at the end of "Nip / Stuck".
The Dreaded: He's this to many former friends (e.g. Fennel, the medium), considering Newcastle, with Chas as the exception. His name is also infamous among the supernatural.
Dressing as the Enemy: Seeing that a large number of Encores have been sent to a boarding house in 1910 to search for the last piece of the Loom of Fate in "The Great British Fake-Off", John captures Jack the Ripper and steals his clothes to impersonate him and approach the others.
Doom Magnet: Constantine's adventures often have huge body counts, despite his best efforts — and it often means he loses his friends one by one in the process. He was initially unwillingly to join the Legends because of it.
Earn Your Happy Ending: Season 5 ends John's Myth Arc since Constantine on a fairly high note. While he failed to bring back Natalie for good, he managed to save Astra from Hell, allowing her to live a normal life (which she decides to spend as a Legend). As a bonus, she offers him his own soul coin in exchange for letting her live in his home, so now he's no longer damned.
Everyone Has Standards: His time on Legends of Tomorrow is "weird, even for [him]." In the fourth season's mid-season finale, he is utterly mortified that the Legends have turned into puppets and the show itself became a children's educational sing-along musical.
"What the- [...] Fraggle Rock is going on here?"
- John has nothing but contempt for most magical creatures and is even willing to send shapeshifters straight to Hell without evidence that they have harmed anyone. However, even he recognizes that Pucas are harmless and is appalled that his ancestor Konstantyn would try to send one to Hell.
Experienced Protagonist: He has quite an arsenal to fight the supernatural, and his conversations with old partners and Chas indicate he had done a fair bit of magic before the series started. However, he still considers himself just a "petty dabbler" in his work. Even moreso in Legends as he's had several years of adventures under his belt.
Fake Guest Star: He's credited as a guest in Season 4 of "Legends" onward, despite being a main character and appearing in nearly every episode since^note. Justified as, at least in his words, John's only with the team to help with the occult.
Fantastic Racism: To shapeshifters - he performs an unreversible spell that takes Charlie's powers simply because unlike the Legends, he refuses to acknowledge the possibility she might not be evil.
Fingertip Drug Analysis: When the Legends go to Los Angeles in 1947 to take care of an Encore in "Miss Me, Kiss Me, Love Me", they find a pile of ashes in a detective office. John tastes some, much to the disgust of Sara, which allows him to identify that they are the ashes of a victim burned by Hellfire.
Fourth-Wall Observer: The claymation special, "John Con Noir" has John trying to find two missing writers to prevent the cancellation of Constantine.
Friend to All Children: Despite his snarky attitude, John's fond of children and is usually nicer to them than to adults. Chas's daughter calls him "Uncle John" and Nora as a child takes a liking to him.
Get It Over With: After being brought to the Ice Age by Neron possessing Ray's body in "Nip / Stuck", a freezing John asks him to hurry up to kill him. However, Neron has other plans for him.
John: Ah right, you're gonna get rid of me in some dramatic fashion. Get on with it, will you?
Going Commando: Because of his well-known Wild Card nature, Sara had tracking nanites put in his underwear to keep tabs on him. Once Charlie tells him about that, he ditches wearing underwear altogether.
Good Is Not Nice: Willing to help anyone (though it's mostly for atonement for past sins), but is often an arrogant prick while he does it.
Grandfather Paradox: He attempts to deliver a swift kick to the bollocks against his father when meeting him before he was conceived. Of course, as Zari points out, if he did so, he wouldn't even be there to kick him. So what results is John blipping out of existence for half a second and falling on the ground twice.
Grievous Bottley Harm:
- When some Time Bureau agents come to stop the wrestling match between El Cura and El Lobo in "Lucha de Apuestas", Constantine takes a beer from a random spectator, drinks it and then smashes the empty bottle on the head of the nearest agent.
- In "Terms of Service", John is attacked by demons in a strip club of Hell and uses a broken bottle to defend himself.
Guest-Star Party Member: Largely keeps to himself, but helped out Team Arrow once and later the Legends.
Guilty Pleasure: As revealed in the 100th episode, Constantine is a Harry Potter fan but keeps it secret from the other Legends.
Haven't You Seen X Before?: He asks Oliver this question the first time he uses magic in front of him in Arrow.
John: What? You've never seen magic before?
Headbutting Heroes: During his first episodes with the Legends, he really had a hard time getting along with Mick Rory.
Hero of Another Story: Until he joins the Legends. Although even then, season 5 shows he still has other adventures outside of them.
Heroic Sacrifice:
- After failing to save a boy whose life force was drained by the Shtriga in "Wet Hot American Bummer", John decides to use a spell to give him his own life energy because he refuses to lose another child under his care. This leaves him in a very serious condition, and he probably would have died without the intervention of Nora Darhk in the next episode.
- In "Nip / Stuck", he was fully prepared to give his life for the Legends to have a clear shot at Neron and he later even goes to Hell to save Ray.
Heroic Self-Deprecation: Insists that he's a mere dabbler, rather than a Master of the Dark Arts. This has a lot to do with Astra, at which point he had decided he isn't nearly as good as he believed himself to be.
Hidden Depths: As revealed in "Lucha de Apuestas", Constantine is a fan of Lucha Libre and Mexican cinema, to the mild surprise of Sara Lance. According to him, the writers of Mexican monster movies from the 60's had a better handle on magic than Hollywood "toss-pots".
Hollywood Exorcism: The restoration ritual he does on Sara Lance gives off these vibes.
Hypno Pendulum: Constantine can hypnotize people by swinging a watch in front of them. In "Wet Hot American Bummer", he uses this at the summer camp in 1995 to get information out of some kids over their missing friends, unfortunately they don't know anything useful.
I Am Not My Father: Or rather, John makes it clear that he is not like his Knight Templar ancestor King Konstantyn.
I Can Explain: Says this when he is found in the young Nora Darhk's room by Dr. Moore and she threatens to call the authorities in "Daddy Darhkest".
Dr. Moore: Sir! I don't know how you got in here, but I have contacted the authorities and will press charges!
John: Yeah, yeah, yeah. All right, love. I can explain.
Identical Grandson: Aside from having shorter hair and lacking scars, John's face is pretty much identical to that of his ancestor Konstantyn who lived in 55 BC.
"I Know You're in There Somewhere" Fight: When Neron has taken control of Ray's body and threatens to cut off his arteries, John tries to reach out to Ray to get him to regain control.
John: Hey, big man. Come on, I know you're in there. Snap out of it, eh?
- Defied by Astra when John comes to see her in Hell in the Season 4 finale.
  Astra: What do you want, John? And please tell me you're not here to make some sad, sappy plea for me to remember who I really am.
I Lied: In Hell, John promises a demon prostitute a flask of Holy Water as protection in exchange for informations. She tells him what he wants to know, but he keeps the flask and reveals that it was just whiskey.
I Need a Freaking Drink: Happens several times.
- A good example is when he realizes the Legends have been turned into puppets in the episode "Legends of To-Meow-Meow".
  John: I think I need a drink…
- Upon returning from Purgatory with Diggle and Mia, he asks if Barry's team managed to stop the antimatter cannon. Upon hearing they did, but only after the multiverse was all but destroyed, he merely sighs and says he needs a drink.
- Also, both times he goes to Hell in the episode "Miss Me, Kiss Me, Love Me", the first thing he does when he comes back is to ask for a drink.
I Never Told You My Name:
- After capturing the Fairy Godmother in "Witch Hunt", John proposes to become her new charge so that she can help him get rid of a demon. However, the Fairy calls him by his full name, much to his surprise, and reveals that she knows exactly who he is and which demon is after him.
- When he finds himself in Hell later in the season, John is startled to hear an unknown demon prostitute call him by name.
In the Blood: Just like in the comics he comes from a long line of sorcerers — the earliest known one was the ruler of a Celtic tribe, King Konstantyn.
I Owe You My Life: Is grateful for Oliver for saving his life from a booby trap which is why he restores Sara Lance's soul as a favor to Oliver.
It's Quiet… Too Quiet: After following Mona's trail to a diner in "The Getaway", John and Sara are surprised to see that there is no one around and John mentions that this silence is a bad sign. Two seconds later, a crowd of people shows up running away from Mona's alter ego Wolfie.
John: Yeah, I know this kind of quiet and it never means anything good.
I Warned You: Subverted in "The Getaway". Sara expected John to say this when he came to talk to her after her break-up with Ava, but he doesn't, much to her surprise.
Sara: Go ahead. I know you've been dying to say "I told you so", so just do it.
John: Uh, it's quite the opposite, actually. It's… I wanted to see how you're holding up.
I Work Alone: Says he prefers to work alone on his guest appearance in Legends, which implies that Chas and Zed are no longer with him. When Sara asks him to join the team in Season 4, he outright refuses, believing he'll only bring misery to the team.
Jack of All Trades: Papa Midnite calls him a "jackass of all trades" because he dabbles in magic from every tradition, picking and choosing what works for him. According to Midnite, this has the downside of Constantine not having as much power as someone who specializes in one tradition like he does in Voodoo.
Jedi Mind Trick: John can perform these on civilians when he wishes his presence not to be known.
Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He can definitely be a dick, but he's still willing to help people without asking for anything in return.
Karmic Nod: When he meets Desmond's ancestor Marie Laveau in "Hell No, Dolly!", he tells her that he is willing to accept any curse from her because that's all he deserves for failing to protect her descendant from the demon Neron.
John: Just go ahead and curse me all right? 'Cause I bloody deserve it.
Kick the Dog:
- Taking away Charlie's ability to shapeshift out of personal hatred for Shapeshifters (and this is downgraded from trying to send her to hell) was low even for him.
- When he's dying from lung cancer, he treats Ray and Gary poorly despite them just trying to help him. He does apologize near the end, even if it's not entirely sincere.
Kung-Fu Wizard: He's a sorcerer who primarily relies on his skills and knowledge of the occult, but he's not helpless when it comes to traditional fighting either.
Large Ham: The accent and the delivery of his lines will make it hard for you to not notice him.
Last-Second Chance: A variant. After opening a doorway to Hell for the Fairy Godmother at the end of "Witch Hunt", he offers her one last chance to let him become her charge so she can help him in his fight against Neron. Unfortunately for him, she still turns him down without the slightest hesitation.
John: This is your last chance, Granny!
Fairy Godmother: There's no helping you, deary. You're more damned than I.
Leitmotif: The opening theme song of his short lived series becomes used as his theme music.
Limited Wardrobe: He wears the exact same clothes in both the present day scenes and flashbacks; occasionally he'll switch out his red tie for a black one. Legends shows that he can change into other outfits...but most likely has to be dragged kicking and screaming into them. He lasted all of half an episode dressed up as a summer camp counselor before immediately switching back into his iconic ensemble.
Not to the extent of Mick, but he flirts and has hooked up with many people and when Nate introduces him to his dad, he is practicing naked yoga.
The Lost Lenore: Sending Desmond to Hell after he became possessed by Neron crushed his spirits severely. Even after rescuing him, Desmond coldly leaves him, which John had anticipated as everyone besides the Legends have done the same in the past.
Malicious Misnaming: His last name is pronounced Constan-teen, not that it stops Neron or Lucifer from mocking him by pronouncing it Constan-tyne, a Mythology Gag for the pronunciation used in the Hellblazer comics.
Manipulative Bastard: True to form, Constantine is exactly the sort of guy who'd put other people in danger to save his own hide. When Neron momentarily possessed him it was enough to get him to join the Legends - just one episode earlier, he curmudgeonly stated he'd rather slash his wrists than join a team. All the same, he willingly went behind the team's back to try and blackmail the Fairy Godmother to be his own personal miracle-maker. Unfortunately for him, she knew exactly who was after him and promptly chose to go to hell instead.
Master Swordsman: Surprisingly enough, John proves to be pretty skilled with the sword, being able to hold his own and even gain the upper hand against a member of the League of Assassins in the spirit world, his ancestor King Konstantyn, and the demon Neron in their sword duels.
Mistaken for an Imposter:
- In season 4, John goes back in time behind the Legends' back to break up with Desmond before he gets possessed by Neron. However, this has some harmful consequences, so he eventually decides to go back in time again to fix things with him. Upon finding out that there are three John Constantines at the same time, the Legends mistakenly believe that two of them must be shapeshifters and go after them.
- When John meets his Identical Ancestor King Konstantyn in "Nip / Stuck", the latter assumes he must be some kind of face-stealing monster and captures him to send him to Hell.
Mr. Fanservice: Blond, stubbly, tattooed, aloof, and frequently shirtless. Also, that accent. Thea Queen got attracted to him in an instant.
Mundane Utility: When Sara comes knocking at his apartment at the end of the season 4 premiere, he uses a spell to open the door without having to move from his seat.
Musical Number Annoyance: When John meets the "Puppets of Tomorrow" in the episode "Legends of To-Meow-Meow", he quickly gets fed up with their constant singing and stops them when they start to sing about drinking.
My Greatest Failure: Losing Astra is his. He will do anything in his power to right this wrong, including damning a friend's soul in a heartbeat if he had to.
My Greatest Second Chance: Saving Nora is his, which he sees as a way to atone for failing to save Astra. Not only does he succeed, but he eventually saves Astra as well.
My Skull Runneth Over: When he and Charlie change history so he can save Desmond and she can retain full use of her powers, changing the timeline turns him into a mental mess after the first attempt. Then they do it a dozen more times... * Naked First Impression: In "Tender Is the Nate", Hank Heywood is introduced to Constantine while the latter is practicing naked yoga in the Waverider's library. John's a pretty good sport about it.
Noodle Incident: Given just how weird and insane his life is, Constantine's chock full of these:
- He never really went into detail why he broke up Mucous Membrane, but something occult had to do with it.
- Something happened between him, Chas, a succubus, and a derailed train in Philadelphia that caused both of them to have an outstanding warrant.
- Oliver at one point comments that Constantine was literally in hell. By Constantine's own admission, it's impossible to escape hell.
- He was seen chasing around a chicken in his office with a hatchet for an elderly Latina woman that has something to do with her son getting married.
- He keeps a dismembered bare foot in his coat back pocket.
- The creepy apartment he's currently living was apparently won through a "duel."
- He once put a spell on a Beebo doll to make it talk, saying some unsavory things according to him.
- Has some prior history with a "Swamp Thaaaang".
- Crisis on Infinite Earths reveals he has traveled The Multiverse before and is the one who apparently got Mazikeen out of hell as a favor for Lucifer Morningstar, a fact that the Devil is not happy about but indebted all the same.
No-Sell: As shown in "I Am Legends", Constantine is pretty much invisible to Atropos's zombies because his soul is already damned.
Not Afraid of Hell: In "Nip / Stuck", Neron tries to scare John on what awaits him in Hell. John is unfazed since he's already made peace with it since his soul's been damned for some time. But what does scare him is having to face those he couldn't save like Ray or Astra.
Not So Above It All: He's the first in the room to mock Gary for playing D&D. Cue him at the end of the episode inviting Gary and his whole party to his office for a game at the end of the episode.
Occult Detective: A practitioner of the occult who is generally called in to investigate incidents involving the supernatural.
Odd Friendship:
- With Gary from the Time Bureau of all of people, possibly because of Strange Minds Think Alike.
- With Ray Palmer, the perpetual Wide-Eyed Idealist, who becomes something of a Morality Pet for John.
- With Damien Darhk after his resurrection as an Encore in Season 5. The two get along splendidly due to their shared interest in magical artifacts, to the point that Damien expresses a desire to have him as his son-in-law.
Oh, No... Not Again!:
- Says this in "Hell No, Dolly!" when a weird guy in New Orleans blows some powder in his face to put him to sleep and capture him.
  John: Ugh. Not again…
- He is flabbergasted when the Legends are transformed into puppets for the second time in "Mr. Parker's Cul-De-Sac".
  John: Are you bloody kidding me? Puppets? Again?
One-Steve Limit: With John Diggle. Good thing they normally both go by Last-Name Basis and star on different shows.
Oop North: Speaks in a working-class Northern English accent, considering he's from Liverpool, though with a distinct Welsh twang, due to Matt Ryan being Welsh himself. Overall, it's a strikingly distinct combination that especially stands out when he acts alongside actors playing more common British accents.
Pistol-Whipping: At the end of "Miss Me, Kiss Me, Love Me", John hits the Encore Bugsy Siegel in the face with his own Hell Gun to wound him and use his blood to go to Hell to talk to Astra.
Pretending to Be One's Own Relative: When he meets his ancestor Konstantyn in "Nip / Stuck", he claims to be a distant cousin of his to explain their facial similarities.
Put on a Bus: After restoring Sara's soul he ends up in Oliver's words in "literal Hell", though he gets out and puts Oliver in contact with a shaman, and he doesn't show up again until two years later in Legends of Tomorrow ^note
Perma-Stubble: He has a noticeable 5 o'clock shadow.
Playing with Fire: Carries his engraved lighter at all times and has a habit of using spells that involve fire. Including setting his own hands on fire.
Politically Incorrect Hero:
- He uses the term "Gypsy" — it's a slur against Romani people and seems to hold their magic in special contempt.
- He's also prejudiced against the Irish; when a magical anomaly suspect is Irish, John suggests he's a Leprechaun.
- He doesn't care for shapeshifters at all, hence trying to take away Charlie's shapeshifting powers with a spell.
Promotion to Opening Titles: After his guest spots in Season 3 of "Legends" he's made a regular in Season 4.
Rage Against the Reflection: At the end of "Séance & Sensibility", Constantine angrily smashes the mirror through which Neron, shapeshifted like him, was taunting him. It takes a while for the mirror to fully crack so Neron can continue the taunt a bit longer.
Really Gets Around: Has been involved with numerous women (and men), whether sexually and/or romantically:
- Constantine: Anne Marie Flynn, Zed Martin, Judith (if the script for "Final Girl" is canon), and a few one-night stands.
- Legends: Natalie Logue, Sara Lance, Gary Green, Desmond, Jeanie Hill, and Zari Tarazi.
The Red Mage: Uses several kinds of magic from different traditions rather than committing to a single tradition like Papa Midnite, which makes his magic weaker than if he stuck to one tradition.
Relative Error: When Zari finds John in a pub in 1977 talking to a waitress with a smile on his face, she naturally assumes that he is hitting on her. Turns out the waitress is actually his mother, whom he's never had the chance to meet before.
Remember the New Guy?: Oliver has history with him, even though he never appeared on the show or was mentioned prior to his first appearance. That being said the same episode did show their first meeting in a flashback, so it mitigates the trope somewhat.
Running Gag: Constantine often tries to light up a cigarette like his comic book counterpart, but someone will snuff it out before he succeeds. This is because of the network's Practice & Standard, which forbid showing a TV character smoking.
Serial Homewrecker: On a couple of occasions, Constantine been seen being chased out of the house by some other guy's wife - he also has the courtesy to remember their names.
Shoot the Dog: And he's not afraid to pull the trigger if it means saving others.
- In "Daddy Darhkest", he tells Ray in private that, should Sara become completely corrupted by Mallus, he should kill her.
- When Ray's soul is taken to hell, he decides to pick Astra's soul over his when given the choice. This backfires on him when Astra refuses to go as payback for sending her there in the first place.
- He tells the Legends that the best way to free Ray from Neron is for him to kill Nate so that he breaks his contract. Ironically, Nate himself agrees and allows Neron to (briefly) kill him while disguised as John.
Skewed Priorities:
- In "Haunted", he has Felicity find a peacock feather because he needs it to scratch an itch on his back.
- In "Daddy Darhkest", he seems more concerned with finding a way to light his cigarette than being stuck in 1969.
- In "Necromancing the Stone", he's more concerned with locating a severed foot instead of helping Ava find a way to locate the Waverider to help Sara. Subverted when it's revealed he needed the foot to help track the ship.
- In "Meet the Legends", he is called to perform an exorcism on a young boy possessed by a demon, but when he enters his room he is more bothered by the fact that said boy is wearing matching pajamas than by him crawling on the walls and turning his head 180 degrees.
- In "A Head of Her Time", he reveals that he decided to revive Natalie because he wanted to prove to her that he was right in his decision to choose magic over her.
Small Role, Big Impact: Appeared on Arrow exactly once, but he both made Legends of Tomorrow possible and gave Oliver the magic mark that would allow him to beat Damien Darhk as well as getting him in touch with the woman who taught him to use it. Averted in the third season of Legends of Tomorrow where he has a more sizable role, and becomes a main character in future seasons.
The Smart Guy: Serves this role once he joins the Legends, being the resident occult and mystical expert, especially given he is lacking in physical fighting ability.
Smoking Is Not Cool: Season 5 of Legends reveals that his addiction will make him succumb to lung cancer some ten years down the line. Astra uses this to accelerate his death in order to take his soul.
Smug Super: Heavily implied to have been previously very smug about his skill, hence why he attempted to summon a higher demon (pre-Crisis) or bring Natalie back (post-Crisis): just to prove he could do it. After that point, however, with the horrible failure it was, he stopped believing he was a "Master of the Dark Arts". Though his arrogance frequently sneaks in anyway, and he's consistently called on it.
Squishy Wizard: Despite being an expert in the mystic arts, his physical combat skill is very lacking so he leaves the combat to other heroes.
Straight Man: Basically his role on "Legends". His grim seriousness is in direct contrast to the wacky anarchy of his teammates.
Sure, Let's Go with That: During the mission in 1947 Los Angeles, a mysterious woman goes to the office of the private investigators "Webb and Moore" to see Webb, but she finds the Legends instead and assumes that John must be "Moore". He decides to play along with it.
Jeannie Hill: You must be Moore.
John: [with an american accent] ...Sure, that's me. Johnny Moore.
Take That!: He did not waste time to insult NBC, the network that screwed his show, upon appearing in Arrow.
That Liar Lies: When Neron taunts him through a mirror in "Séance & Sensibility" and accuses him of having deliberately left Desmond and Astra to be sent to Hell because he didn't want to end up there alone, John angrily calls him a liar and futilely tries to strike him.
The One That Got Away: The Legends episode "A Head of Her Time" reveals he and Astra's mother were close as children, but they drifted apart when he decided to dedicate himself to practicing magic instead of starting a family with her.
This Is Unforgivable!: By accidentally damning Astra to Hell, John damned his own soul in the process; no matter how many demons he kills or send back to the pit, sending an innocent to Hell is the one thing the Almighty won't forgive. Likewise, after she changes, Astra doesn't forgive him for tearing her family apart until the end of season 5.
Token Wizard: He is the only actual sorcerer to be a member of the Legends for most of Season 4, at least before Nora Darhk officially joins the team.
Took a Level in Jerkass: Constantine becomes much more obnoxious and selfish in Season 6 when he loses his powers and tries to regain them, even putting the Legends' lives in danger.
Tragic Keepsake: During season 4, John carries a magic medallion that was given to him by Desmond before he was possessed by Neron and sent to Hell.
Transplant: He was on another DC show from another network, but everyone (showrunners and actors alike) in the Arrowverse didn't want to waste an interesting character with potential like him, so he was retroactively incorporated into this universe. He eventually becomes a main cast member in Legends Season 4.
Trash Landing: When John arrives in Hell in Season 4, he lands in an open garbage dumpster that softens his fall.
Trespassing to Talk: In the season 4 premiere, John breaks into Ava's apartment to find Sara and talk to her about the magical creatures that have escaped from Mallus's time prison. Naturally, Sara and Ava are not too happy that he did this.
Trojan Prisoner: To enter Neron's vault in Hell and retrieve Ray's soul in the Season 4 finale, John poses as a prisoner that Astra is bringing in to be locked up.
Two First Names: Per the DC Comics norm. Bonus points for also applying to his actor.
What the Hell Is That Accent?: He has a Liverpudlian accent, but many have commented on how all over the place it is, jumping between several British dialects.
- Justified somewhat as this apparently happened in the comics as well. Flashbacks depicted John as having a typical Liverpudlian accent when he was a teenager (an American says he sounds just like Paul Mccartney) but an older John is said to sound like a typical Londoner after he's been living in the city for the better part of two decades.
Wipe That Smile Off Your Face: Happens to him during the episode "Witch Hunt". When he tries to use a spell to stop the Fairy Godmother, her host Prudence makes a wish for him to stop talking. John is left with his mouth sealed until the Fairy is eventually defeated, rendering him effectively powerless since, as he himself explained at the beginning of the episode, "spells are a verbal game".
Wizard Duel: He has two of these against fellow sorcerer Damien Darhk in "Mr. Parker's Cul-De-Sac", though both are interrupted before either of them could win. The first by Nora pretending to her father that John is actually her boyfriend, the second by Nora's charge Pippa making a wish.
The Worf Effect: Even somebody as experienced and well-versed as Constantine is powerless against whatever Mallus is. None of John's usual tricks and seals work against Mallus in "Daddy Darhkest".
Would Rather Suffer:
- His answer when Sara invites him to join the Legends in the Season 4 premiere. He eventually changes his mind after an attack from Neron, though.
  John: See Sara, I would rather top myself than move in with you lot.
- A more serious example happens in the episode "Nip / Stuck". After capturing John, Neron pulls out a big knife and orders him to open a doorway to Hell to bring back his beloved Tabitha, but John refuses to be intimidated.
  John: I'd sooner be filleted than do your bidding!
You Can't Make an Omelette...: He justifies asking Ray to kill Sara if she ever succumbs to Mallus in this way when Ava calls him out on it in "Necromancing the Stone".
John: Eggs and omelets, love. And extreme measures.
You Fool!: He calls Gary a fool when he sees that he is about to take back his lost nipple that Neron brought from Hell.
John: It's cursed! Now back away from it, you bloody fool!
You Have GOT to Be Kidding Me!:
- Says this verbatim in "Wet Hot American Bummer" when Sara forces him to take off his raincoat and tie and to stop smoking to pose as a camp counselor.
- And again in "Mr. Parker's Cul-De-Sac" when he sees that some of the Legends have been turned into puppets yet again.
You Say Tomato: When referring to Birmingham, Alabama on the scary map, he uses the British pronunciation instead of the American pronunciation.
Your Days Are Numbered: He's fated to die from lung cancer in 2030, which still seems set in stone as of the end of Legends season 5.
You Won't Feel a Thing!: He says something like this to "Emily" (actually a young Nora Darhk) just before starting her exorcism in "Daddy Darhkest".
John: All right, love. This might sting a bit…

Charlie / Clotho

Clotho

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""Did what I had to. Shapeshifted into whatever monster would keep the others off my back. You know exactly what it's like. Pretending to be something worse than you are to survive.""

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Species: Human ^note

Known Aliases: Charlie, "Queen Elizabeth II", "Marilyn Monroe", "Richard Nixon", "Rebecca Silver"

Affiliations: The Fates, The Legends

Played By: Maisie Richardson-Sellers (as Amaya Jiwe, default after Shapeshifter Mode Lock), Anjli Mohindra (debut form)

First Appearance: "Dancing Queen" (Legends of Tomorrow 4x3)

Appearances: Legends of Tomorrow

Ray: She definitely isn't Amaya.
Mick: No, but I do like her!

A punk-rock shapeshifter recently freed from a mystical prison who finds herself joining the Legends and taking the likeness of one of their departed members, Amaya Jiwe. She is at first a reluctant member, as she has a grudge against humans for hunting magical creatures like her. However, she comes to realize that the Legends are more than the average hunters she was accustomed to. As part of the Legends, she makes it her goal to free entrapped magical creatures and turn humans' opinion around.

It is later revealed that Charlie is actually Clotho, one of the three Fates who used to control humans' destiny. She scattered the Loom of Fate, the device used by the trio, across the multiverse after she decided that humans deserve to carve their own fate. She informs the Legends that, thanks to the Crisis, pieces of the Loom are now rounded up in Earth-Prime and her sisters are coming for her. The Legends eventually succeed in stopping the Fates from changing history, destroying the Loom in the process. Charlie attends a final music concert with the Legends before parting ways with them, choosing to settle down as a punk-rocker.

Ascended Extra: Clotho is a very minor character in the DC Universe first debuting in the obscure DC comic Arak, Son of Thunder in 1982. She also always appears with her sisters, usually to give prophecy to humans and is generally a neutral force (though the Fates served as villains in The New 52 crossover Forever Evil: A.R.G.U.S.).
Birds of a Feather: With Mick, naturally as they both bond over their love of booze and their time in the lockup.
Boxed Crook: Her arrangement with the Legends; she gives them intel about the magic creatures who were freed as long as they don't keep her locked up in a cell on the ship.
Brought Down to Normal:
- In a particularly cruel move even for him, Constantine stripped her of her powers permanently — basically the mystical equivalent of a lobotomy simply, because he hates her kind that much. The spell seems to be wearing off as the season goes on, as Charlie's shapeshifting powers seem to be slowly returning, although they're less than reliable at times.
- She and Lachesis appear to lose their powers for good after the Legends destroy the Loom of Fate.
Brown Note: Apparently hearing her real voice would destroy a mortal's ears, and seeing her true form would cause their eyes to explode.
But Now I Must Go: After the defeat and depowering of the Fates, including herself, she decides to rejoin her punk rock band and bids farewell to the Legends.
Cain and Abel: She's the Abel to two Cains: Atropos and Lachesis.
Canon Character All Along: She was originally thought to have no comic counterpart until it was revealed that she is really Clotho, the spinner, one of the Fates, who debuted in the DC Universe back in The '80s.
Damsel in Distress:
- Very briefly during the Season 4 finale, being forced by Neron and Tabitha to transform into Tagumo to strike fear into people's hearts.
- In "Swan Thong", she's held captive at a museum created by her sisters about the horrors of free will and cited as the worst example of it (the Legends only being second worst). Only this time, she willingly accepts her position until her friends snap her out of it.
Forgiveness: She forgives Lachesis for her villainy at the end of season 5, believing that becoming human after the Loom's destruction will give her sister the much-needed humility she had received from the Legends.
Freaky Fashion, Mild Mind: The "mild" part is buried beneath her punk attitude, but deep down, the oddly dressed Charlie proves to be a good person who only seeks to improve society, albeit in her own unique way.
God Was My Co-Pilot: Season 5 reveals that she is a Greek deity adventuring with the Legends; specifically, the Greek Fate Clotho.
Good Thing You Can Heal: She can use her shapeshifting to remove any damage, allowing her to extend her life indefinitely.
Heroic BSoD: After the Legends break out of the TV reality she stuck them in to keep her sisters from killing them, the other Fates punish her for this by telling her she's the fault of all humanity's sins as a result of free will. This breaks her for several months until she's found.
Humans Are Bastards: Has a low opinion of humans due to some of them locking her up because they were scared of her abilities and often chastises the Legends for always assuming that magical fugitive is evil and locking them up.
Hypocrite: Charlie's Humans Are Bastards attitude makes her prone to assuming the worst of any humans involved in the Legends' latest misadventure while chastising her crewmates for making similar assumptions about magical creatures. Thankfully, Character Development on all sides is helping to moderate the views of everyone involved.
Irony: Despite being a shapeshifter, Charlie's a rather poor actor.
It's All About Me: Charlie helps Constantine shatter the timestream to get her powers back, and is willing to stop Constantine and Zari from returning the resulting cuckoo stew back to normal to keep them. After realizing she can't have her powers and her friendship with the Legends at the same time, she gives up the former.
Mayfly–December Romance: She and Behrad have a one-night stand and it's implied she's trying to avoid falling in love for this reason, in addition to now having to worry about the Loom being reformed and her sisters coming after her.
Morality Chain: A big part of why she decides to give up her powers over her friendship with the Legends is that without her they all become zealous, monstrous hunters that kill magical fugitives on sight.
Nerf: She eventually does regain her shapeshifting powers after they're taken, but they're not as powerful as before, requiring her to keep focus to maintain shape.
Not Evil, Just Misunderstood: She's not actually malicious, she was just locked up by fearful humans who didn't quite understand her. When she's freed she uses her powers to engage in a little punk anarchy in the UK, not realizing the exact consequences when she goes too far by impersonating the bloody Queen (luckily the Legends stopped this).
Odd Friendship: Despite being an anarchist punk rocker, she hits off pretty well with the rule-abiding "Boy Scout" Ray.
Real Life Writes the Plot: The real life reason she was permanently given the form of Amaya is because the crew loved working with Maisie so much they wanted her to stay on the show, even though Amaya had to be Put on a Bus so that Mari McCabe's existence wasn't threatened.
Shapeshifter: Her powers. Until Constantine got his hands on her and had her Brought Down to Normal.
Screw Destiny: Millennia ago, she scattered the Loom of Fate because she came to believe that humans deserve to carve their own fate.
Shapeshifter Identity Crisis: She's changed forms so many times she's forgotten her true form — she picked her current one (before the mode lock) based on a toothpaste ad. "Mortal Khanbat" reveals that she was lying; she still remembers her true form, but it will make mortals' heads explode.
Shapeshifter Mode Lock: She's stuck looking as Amaya because she took that form to guilt the Legends into not banishing her to Hell, but a pissed off Constantine took the moment to strip her of her powers permanently, out of sheer spite anyway.
Charlie: What did you do to me, you arse!?
Constantine: It's a lobotomy of sorts. Your shapeshifting days are over, sweetheart.
Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: Her relationship with the Legends is extremely turbulent to say the least and completely justified. They wanted to banish her to Hell, but when they came to their senses, Constantine stripped go her powers out of sheer spite, and then they kept her locked in a cell for days until they realized she had valuable intel and gave her some freedom in exchange for that intel. Needless to say she's very unhappy with her current situation and is very vocal about it.
Time Abyss: As a Fate, Charie was responsible for the fate of the multiverse. As a result, she's probably as old as it.
Token Good Teammate:
- To the other magical beings who are either dangerous monsters like the Unicorn or sadistic beings like the Fairy Godmother. Charlie is just somebody who is rebellious and free-spirited. This is ultimately subverted over time though as the rest of the magical creatures introduced are revealed to be Not Evil, Just Misunderstood like her and the Unicorn and Fairy Godmother are outliers.
- Also the case with the Fates, compared to Lachesis and Atropos.
Token Minority: A justified example. Charlie is played by a black actress, while Lachesis and Atropos are played by white actresses. However, all of them are shapeshifters; they simply took the form of a human (in the case of Charlie, she took Amaya Jiwe's). Their real form is a bright light that destroys the brain of mortals who see it.
Token Non-Human: Notwithstanding Gideon, who doesn't do field work, Charlie is the first non-human Legend.
Unresolved Sexual Tension: After sleeping with Behrad, the two become awkward when confronting one another. Although for Charlie, the idea of starting a relationship could prove difficult given her immortality.
Well-Intentioned Extremist: In "The One Where We're Trapped On TV", she traps the Legends inside TV shows and forces them to follow her script. Not because she's being mean to them, but to keep them in her clutches so her sisters will not be able to harm them again. Nevertheless, upon learning about their predicament, the Legends call her out on this and decide to leave the TV.
White Sheep: The only genuinely heroic member of the three Moirai.
You Cannot Grasp the True Form: She reveals in "Mortal Khanbat" that her original form as a Fate would make one's head explode. Hearing her original voice falls under the same category, a la Dogma.

Mona Wu / Wolfie

Mona Wu

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Species: Human/Kaupe Hybrid

Known Aliases: Wolfie, "Rebecca Silver"

Affiliations: Time Bureau, The Legends

Played by: Ramona Young, Sisa Grey (as Wolfie)

First Appearance: "Dancing Queen" (Legends of Tomorrow 4x3)

Appearances: Legends of Tomorrow

A former food delivery girl who got promoted to being the Bureau's offical creature handler. Through a number of tragic events, she later finds herself joining the Legends.

After Mick Rory, AKA Rebecca Silver, takes a sabbatical from his novel writing, he passes the mantle onto Mona due to her passion for romance. She then leaves the Legends, hoping to prove herself.

Berserk Button: Anything that tarnishes her perception of her favorite authors. When she met Jane Austen she was depressed that her romantic optimism was dismissed by her as unrealistic foolishness and outraged when the notion was agreed with by Zari. Mona wolfed out and almost mauled Jane until she talked her down with an optimistic but still realistic compromise. When she felt that Charlie was impersonating her other favorite author Rebecca Silver (and possibly doing it for the money) she was on the verge of wolfing out again as she demanded to know where the real Rebecca was.
Break the Cutie: Poor Mona suffers a horrible ordeal when Konane gets murdered and she in turn transforms and kills the agent responsible for it.
But Now I Must Go: She decides to leave the Legends after Mick entrusts her to be his successor.
Canon Foreigner: She has no comics counterpart and was created specifically for the show.
Commuting on a Bus: In Legends Season 5, despite officially leaving the Waverider, she occasionally revisits the team. She appears in four out of the season's fifteen episodes, one in the beginning, one in the middle, and two in the end.
Genki Girl: She is quite lively and very easily excited, even in the face of potential dangerous creatures.
Hidden Depths:
- She doesn't have the best relationship with her parents, who disapproved of her career choice. Her mother, in particular, seems to have a tendency of talking about Mona as if she's not even in the room.
- If Wolfie's aggression is anything to go by, Mona has some deep-seated anger issues that she normally keeps very well hidden.
Hulking Out: After getting scratched by Konane, she is shown transforming into a very Kaupe-like creature in a fit of rage, after Konane is murdered. She ends up dubbing her Kaupe self "Wolfie", and the two eventually start to develop distinct personalities.
Interspecies Romance: With Konane, though they sadly end up as Starcrossed Lovers and then Konane gets murdered.
Legacy Character: To Konane, as he passes on his Kaupe abilities to her before escaping the Bureau. Also to Mick when she takes up the "Rebecca Silver" pen name to continue his work when he retires from writing.
Nice Girl: Mona may as well be an angel with how openhearted, gentle, and upbeat she is. The only time she isn't sugary sweet is when she's standing up against the mistreatment of someone.
Orwellian Retcon: In "The One Where We're Trapped On TV", she's given a desk job rewriting history books so they conform to the Fates' standards.
Our Werewolves Are Different: She's not technically a werewolf, but her abilities as a Kaupe are largely consistent with traditional werewolf lore. When the Legends are briefly featured on a reality show in the Season 5 premiere, her self-introduction consists of her telling the audience that she is "basically like a werewolf".
Passing the Torch: After deciding to focus on his duties as a Legend, Mick lets her become the next Rebecca Silver.
Shipper on Deck: Is very giddy on trying to get Ray and Nora together.
Ship Tease: With Gary, but more prominently with Konane the Kaupe.
Thinks Like a Romance Novel: Mona is a firm believer in The Power of Love as spelled out by the works of Jane Austen, often to the point of unrealistic expectations or naivety.
You Are Better Than You Think You Are: Encourages both Nora and Ava, telling them what great women they are and that they shouldn't be so hard on themselves.

Nora Darhk / Fairy Godmother

Nora Darhk

"I can't keep running. You want me to be free? Repentance is my path to freedom."

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Species: Human (Empowered via magic)

Known Aliases: Madame Eleanor, Emily, Fairy Godmother

Affliations: The H.I.V.E., The Cult of Mallus, Time Bureau, The Legends

Played by: Courtney Ford, Tuesday Hofmann (child, Arrow), Madeleine Arthur (teenager, Legends of Tomorrow)

First Appearance: "Dark Waters" (Arrow 4x9)

Appearances: Arrow | Legends of Tomorrow

Damien Darhk's daughter, who was with him in Star City when he tried to bring his "Genesis" Plan to fruition. That ended in failure and her parents being killed, leaving her an orphan.

Being shipped to a foster home and becoming a host for Mallus, she was recruited into his cult and became skilled in dark magic, which proved handy when her master wanted her to bring back her dear old dad.

But after going through the horrors that came with being Mallus' vessel and losing her dad once again, Nora decided to repent for her sins, ultimately being asked to join the Time Bureau by Ava. After being tricked into becoming a Fairy Godmother by Tabitha, Nora spends most of her time with children in need, if not needing a well-deserved nap on the Waverider.

After marrying Ray, she and her husband decide to leave the Legends on behalf of her father, to live a somewhat normal life.

Actor Allusion: The fact that adult Nora and Ray fall in love and marry is a reference to the fact that their actors are married in real life.
Age-Gap Romance: Nora ends up with Ray, who is chronologically 22 years her senior. Her present-day self, as seen in Arrow, is still a young teenager. Since time travel is involved, however, Squick is averted (adult Nora is from 2039, so she is 36 years old when she debuts in Legends Season 3, the same age as Ray's).
Affectionate Nickname: Her father calls her "Nora-doll".
Ascended Extra: A very minor character in Arrow Season Four, she becomes a major villain in Legends of Tomorrow Season Three and a main character in Season Four.
The Atoner: Genuinely wants to make up for her evil deeds during Legends Season 4.
Badly Battered Babysitter: Her Fairy Godmother shifts often result in these.
Becoming the Genie: The Fairy Godmother tricks her into carrying her curse when she tries to save Mona.
Big Bad Duumvirate: As Mallus is sealed away, she and Damien serve as the main antagonists of season three before his release.
Bratty Teenage Daughter: Despite being an adult, her arguments with her resurrected father in "No Country For Old Dads" are rife with this dynamic.
Canon Foreigner: Given Darhk's Adaptation Expansion in Arrow, Nora was created to flesh out that Damien had a family that he loved. By the time she appears on Legends of Tomorrow she seems to have elements of Raven integrated into her.
Children Are Innocent: It seems she knows nothing about what her parents actually are or what they want for the world, and for the most part acts as a normal little girl. As an adult, she is not so innocent.
Create Your Own Villain: It is the actions of Oliver Queen and Anarky in Season 4 which lead her to become a villain when she grows up. Then again, her dad surely wouldn't have been a positive influence either way.
Daddy's Little Villain: In Legends Season Three, where she resurrects her father and works besides him in their mutual service of Mallus.
Dark Is Not Evil: After her Heel–Face Turn.
Dark Magical Girl: As an adult, where she specializes in necromancy and communicating with the dead.
Dating What Daddy Hates: At first, she thinks her father will think this about her relationship with Ray, to the point she tries to hide it from him.
Evil Counterpart: To Sara Lance, which she actually invokes in a "Not So Different" Remark. Both girls have an inner darkness and experienced heavy death in life, as well as being involved with resurrection of someone from death. It's no wonder Mallus chose to prey on both of them.
Exorcist Head: Mallus does this to her younger self in "Daddy Darhkest".
Expy: Her connection to Mallus and demonic Black Magic paints her as one to Raven.
Face–Heel Turn: She appeared unaware of the evil her parents did as a child, not so much as an adult.
Freudian Excuse: Seeing her mother killed by Anarky and her father by Oliver is what set her down the wrong path.
Damien Darhk: That's the thing about daughters. When they see you die at the hands of one self-righteous hero, they really don't want to see it happen again.
From Nobody to Nightmare: From a seemingly innocent and helpless child to a chilling villain in her own right.
Good Feels Good: Spending time with children as the fairy godmother and helping them makes her admit this.
Happiness in Slavery: Despite being tricked into the job, she actually likes being a fairy godmother. Mainly because helping needy kids helps her work through her own issues.
Heel–Face Turn: After her father sacrifices himself for her, she comes to the Legend's aid when it is most needed. She later even joins the Time Bureau.
I See Dead People: She can do this as an adult.
Kid from the Future: To Damien in Legends Season 3. Downplayed in that Damien already knew that he had a daughter, since he was around until Nora was a teen. She merely grew older.
Lady of Black Magic: A sadistic, smug woman with a calm and composed air, and thanks to being the vessel of Mallus she can perform great feats of Black Magic, including siphoning life-forces, telekinesis, and casting dark energy.
Last Girl Wins: She's the last of Ray's love interests after Anna, Felicity and Kendra and the one who eventually marries him.
Living Prop: In the same vein as Oliver's son William, before her transfer to Legends.
Loss of Identity: Nora loses herself as Mallus takes more control of her. In fact, when Mallus escapes his prison, she disappears and Mallus takes her place in the physical plane.
Love Redeems: Falling for Ray's kindness ultimately sets her on the path of redemption.
Morality Pet: Subverted, at first. Damien was fully prepared to nuke the world and her along with it, which he rationalized as an act of fatherly love to spare her the pain of growing up without her mom. That being said, when she's an adult in Legends of Tomorrow, Damien will do anything to keep her alive.
- Played straight with her relationship with Ray Palmer. Ray is the only person apart from Damien Darhk who actually cares about Nora, ever since meeting her as a child. He saves her life a number of times, even when she didn't deserve it, and he provides her with a method of escape when she is arrested by the Time Bureau. Eventually, Nora ends up caring for Ray as much as Ray cares about her, even marrying him in the fifth season.
Mouth of Sauron: Mallus uses her as a medium to speak to others, in the same way Savitar spoke through Alchemy.
Necromancer: Bringing people back to life seems to be a specialty of hers. She brought back Damien and is implied to be the one who brought Kuasa back as well.
"Not So Different" Remark: Tells this to Sara due to both having to deal with inner darkness through vast portions of their lives and both being preyed upon by Mallus.
One-Steve Limit: As a child, she shared the same given name as Barry Allen's mother, Nora Allen.
Plot-Relevant Age-Up: Is an adult by the time of Legends Season 3 because she time traveled from the future.
Pragmatic Villainy: Stops her father from killing a captive Ray in "No Country for Old Dads," but only because they have to get a German scientist's cold fusion formula and the quickest and most efficient way to earn his trust is give him someone who can "speak nerd."
Put on a Bus: Leaves the Waverider to settle down with Ray.
Red Eyes, Take Warning: Whenever Mallus speaks through her, her eyes turn a very creepy shade of red and black.
She Is All Grown Up: After growing up in Legends Season Three.
Ship Tease: With Ray Palmer, who is played by her real-life husband. They later hook up under the spell of Kamadeva.
Soap Opera Rapid Aging Syndrome: Ages significantly between her last appearance on Arrow and the appearance of her younger self on Legends despite not even 2 years having passed (although it should be noted that time travel played a part in the events depicted, to say nothing of the possible justification of Flashpoint changing things so Damien had a child earlier).
Tainted Veins: When Mallus' control of her grows stronger, she gets some seriously creepy black veins.
Time-Shifted Actor: A child in Arrow, a grown woman in Legends.
Time-Travel Romance: With Ray. Her adult self is from 2039 and time traveled to the "past", as in the present day. Unlike most examples, the romance sticks and the two settle down in the present.
Took a Level in Badass: From innocent child to full-fledged sorceress.
Tragic Villain: Not only does she lose both her parents as a child, but the resulting grief and loneliness also made her a prime target to be possessed by an evil demon, and then only continued to be his servant in order to resurrect her father.
Transplant: From Arrow to Legends.
Ungrateful Bastard: After Ray saves her from death from his own anti-magic weapon because his conscience wouldn't allow it, she thanks him by draining the life force out of him.
Used to Be a Sweet Kid: Especially in Legends 3x10, where the tragedy of her situation is laid bare.
Womanchild: She's well into her 30s, but her time as a pawn in Mallus' plans and having Damien Darhk as a father did her maturity no favors.
What Happened to the Mouse?: We don't know what became of her after her parents died...until Legends Season Three, where she resurfaces as an adult. "Daddy Darhkest" reveals that she was placed in the foster care system, but then landed in an insane asylum when Mallus came after her and was subsequently obtained by the Order to be raised as a monster.

Characters / Arrowverse: Legends - Former Members

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Founding Members

Rip Hunter

Species: Human

Known Aliases: Michael (original name), "The Garib", "Phil Gasmer"

Affiliations: The Time Masters, The Legends, The Time Bureau

Played By: Arthur Darvill, Aiden Longworth (young)

First Appearance: "Pilot, Part 1" (Legends of Tomorrow 1x1)

Appearances: Legends of Tomorrow

Dr. Raymond Carson "Ray" Palmer

Species: Human

Known Aliases: The Atom, "Boy Scout", "Haircut", "Supersuit", "Hannibal Lecter", "John Wayne", "Colonel Cold", "Bob De Niro", Sir Raymond of the Palms

Affiliations: Team Arrow, The Legends

Played By: Brandon Routh, Jack Fisher (young)

Voiced By: Edson Matus (Latin-American Spanish), Tomokazu Sugita (Japanese)

Appearances: Arrow | The Flash | Legends of Tomorrow | Invasion!note (The Flash | Arrow | Legends of Tomorrow) | Vixen | Crisis on Earth-X note (Legends of Tomorrow) | Crisis on Infinite Earthsnote (Supergirl | Batwoman | The Flash | Arrow | Legends of Tomorrow)

Joined in Season 2

Nathaniel "Nate" Heywood / Steel

Species: Metahuman

Known Aliases: Steel, "Colonel Sanders", "Eliot Ness"

Affiliations: The Legends, Time Bureau

Played By: Nick Zano

First Appearance: "Out of Time" (Legends of Tomorrow 2x1)

Appearances: Legends of Tomorrow | Invasion!note (Arrow | Legends of Tomorrow) | Crisis on Earth-X note (Legends of Tomorrow) | Crisis on Infinite Earths

Amaya Jiwe

Species: Human (Empowered via Spirit Totem)

Known Aliases: Vixen I

Affiliations: The Justice Society of America, The Legends

Played By: Maisie Richardson-Sellers

First Appearance: "Out of Time" (Legends of Tomorrow 2x1)

Appearances: Legends of Tomorrow | Invasion!note (Legends of Tomorrow) | Crisis on Earth-X note (Legends of Tomorrow)

Joined in Season 3

Zari Tomaz

Species: Human (Empowered via Air Totem)

Nicknames: Z, Khaahar, Zari 1.0

Affiliations: Resistance against A.R.G.U.S., The Legends

Played By: Tala Ashe, Gracelyn Awad Rinke (young)

First Appearance: "Zari" (Legends of Tomorrow 3x3)

Appearances: Legends of Tomorrow | Crisis on Earth-X note (Legends of Tomorrow)

Joined in Season 4

John "Johnny" Constantine

Species: Human (Empowered via magic)

Known Aliases: Master of the Dark Arts, El Diablo, "Johnny Moore", Johnny C.

Affiliations: The Newcastle Crew, Team Constantine, Team Arrow, The Legends

Played by: Matt Ryan, Knox Hamilton (young)

Appearances: Constantine | Arrow | Legends of Tomorrow | Crisis on Infinite Earthsnote (Batwoman | The Flash)

Clotho

Species: Human note previously believed to be a shapeshifter; formerly a Deity until mid-2020

Known Aliases: Charlie, "Queen Elizabeth II", "Marilyn Monroe", "Richard Nixon", "Rebecca Silver"

Affiliations: The Fates, The Legends

Played By: Maisie Richardson-Sellers (as Amaya Jiwe, default after Shapeshifter Mode Lock), Anjli Mohindra (debut form)

First Appearance: "Dancing Queen" (Legends of Tomorrow 4x3)

Appearances: Legends of Tomorrow

Mona Wu

Species: Human/Kaupe Hybrid

Known Aliases: Wolfie, "Rebecca Silver"

Affiliations: Time Bureau, The Legends

Played by: Ramona Young, Sisa Grey (as Wolfie)

First Appearance: "Dancing Queen" (Legends of Tomorrow 4x3)

Appearances: Legends of Tomorrow

Nora Darhk

Species: Human (Empowered via magic)

Known Aliases: Madame Eleanor, Emily, Fairy Godmother

Affliations: The H.I.V.E., The Cult of Mallus, Time Bureau, The Legends

Played by: Courtney Ford, Tuesday Hofmann (child, Arrow), Madeleine Arthur (teenager, Legends of Tomorrow)

First Appearance: "Dark Waters" (Arrow 4x9)

Appearances: Arrow | Legends of Tomorrow

Alternative Title(s): Arrowverse Former Legends, Arrowverse Ray Palmer, Arrowverse John Constantine

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Appearances: Legends of Tomorrow | Invasion!^note(Legends of Tomorrow) | Crisis on Earth-X ^note(Legends of Tomorrow)

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