History Recap / LegendsOfTomorrowS1E10Progeny

* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: At the end of the episode Mick and Snart have a fistfight to decide what happens to the former. While they might have been evenly matched in 2016 Mick's training at the hands of the Time Masters lets him quickly take control of the fight and beat the daylights out of Snart. In addition Mick spares Snart and stays with the team not because he's realized the error of his ways but because the Time Masters have sent something worse than him to finish the job and there's safety in numbers.

* BadFuture: For starters, corporations now double as federal governments - ''even'' in Central City. And outside of Kasnia, the whole world is an overpopulated, poverty-ridden mess, with repeated mention of food riots. (And the only reason Kasnia is stable is because it's a PoliceState)

* BilingualBonus: Intentionally or not, Kasnia sounds similar to "kaźnia", old polish word for execution.

* ContinuityNod: Gideon mentions a dream Sara had about [[Recap/LegendsOfTomorrowS1E8NightOfTheHawk a nurse]].

* DownerEnding: The Legends failed to prevent Savage from using Per Degaton to advance his own power. If anything, they made matters ''worse'', as Savage manipulates Degaton into murdering his father, then uses his new influence over the Kasnian Conglomerate to unleash a deadly virus that devastates the world's population five years earlier than it had before the timeline changed. Besides which, the teams efforts to forestall Savage's rise to power didn't do a thing to change the timeline. On top of all that, with Mick having failed to capture the team, the Time Masters have dispatched an even deadlier group of assassins whose mission is explicitly to kill them.

* HardTruthAesop: Ultimately not killing Per Degaton proves to be more harmful; the Armageddon virus is released and most of the world is wiped out, which could have been avoided had they killed him.

* HitlersTimeTravelExemptionAct: Most of the team is ''deeply'' uncomfortable with killing an innocent child even if he's destined to be a dictator. However Per Degaton isn't that innocent thanks to Savage's teaching, he's like something out of a Nazi Youth Camp.

* ItsAllMyFault: Rip tries to get through to Mick by saying that he's responsible for bringing Mick along, and he shouldn't have any quarrel with Snart. Mick replies that he's just gonna kill both of them anyway.

* ShaggyDogStory: The team goes to 2147 to make sure Per Degaton doesn't help Vandal Savage's rise to power...unfortunately all they do is cement it.

--> '''Ray:''' He allowed my tech to be perverted by the defense industry. That is so Sidney.

* UnreliableNarrator: Rip tells the Team that 2147 was considered the pinnacle of human civilization. Yet later we learn that outside of Kasnia there are huge problems with famine and overpopulation, and that corporations are running most of the planet.

* YouWouldntShootMe: Per Degaton tells this to Rip at gun's point because Savage taught him to recognize a killer. He's right and Rip decides to spare him.

* TrailersAlwaysSpoil:
** A few weeks before the episode aired, the trailer for the second half of this season showed Per Degaton preparing to kill someone in their sleep (his father). This scene does not happen until the end of the episode, meaning that whilst watching, it was easy to guess [[ShaggyDogStory the result of]] [[NiceJobBreakingItHero the team's attempt to prevent the]] BadFuture.
** Additionally though, the title could also refer to Per Degaton, son of Tor Degaton.

* BelatedBackstory: We got to see the time during Kendra and Carter's incarnations as Prof. Boardman's parents, many episodes after the latter two's deaths.

* RealityEnsues:
** Rip's act of mercy, while affecting, doesn't do a thing to break Savage's influence over Per Degaton. As soon as they're alone together again, Savage manipulates Degaton into carrying out his will.
** At the end of the episode Mick and Snart have a fistfight to decide what happens to the former. While they might have been evenly matched in 2016 Mick's training at the hands of the Time Masters lets him quickly take control of the fight and beat the daylights out of Snart. In addition Mick spares Snart and stays with the team not because he's realized the error of his ways but because the Time Masters have sent something worse than him to finish the job and there's safety in numbers.

* SiblingRivalry: Turns out Ray has an identical twin named Sidney, and they don't get along.

* WeirdnessCensor: Rachel Turner is only mildly bemused that Ray looks ''exactly'' like a bust of the founder of her company.

** A few before the episode aired, the trailer for the second half of this season showed Per Degaton preparing to kill someone in their sleep (his father). This scene does not happen until the end of the episode, meaning that whilst watching, it was easy to guess [[ShaggyDogStory the result of]] [[NiceJobBreakingItHero the team's attempt to prevent the]] BadFuture.

** A few weeks ago, the trailer for the second half of this season showed Per Degaton preparing to kill someone in their sleep (His father). This scene does not happen until the end of the episode, meaning that whilst watching, it was easy to guess [[ShaggyDogStory the result of]] [[NiceJobBreakingItHero the team's attempt to prevent the]] BadFuture.

* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: What kind of father hires Vandal Savage S a personal tutor for his son!? This is apparently a family trait; Per Degaton refuses to believe that Savage would ever betray him. One imagines that his death came as something of a surprise.

* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: What kind of dad hires Vandal Savage be a personal tutor for his son!? This is apparently a family trait; Per Degaton refuses to believe that Savage would ever betray him. One imagines that his death came as something of a surprise.

* TheManBehindTheMan: Savage to Per Degaton, at least until Savage decides to step up to the front.

* RealityEnsues: Rip's act of mercy, while affecting, doesn't do a thing to break Savage's influence over Per Degaton. As soon as they're alone together again, Savage manipulates Degaton into carrying out his will.
** At the end of the episode Mick and Snart have a fistfight to decide what happens to the former. While they might have been evenly matched in 2016 Mick's training at the hands of the Timemasters lets him quickly take control of the fight and beat the daylights out of Snart. In addition Mick spares Snart and stays with the team not because he's realized the error of his ways but because the Timemasters have sent something worse than him to finish the job and there's safety in numbers.

* SelfMadeOrphan: Young Per Degaton killed his own father under Savage's suggestion.
* ShaggyDogStory: The team goes to 2147 to make sure Per Degaton doesn't help Vandal Savage's rise to power... unfortunately all they do is cement it.

* TheReveal: Mick reveals that since he failed to bring in the team, the Time Masters will have sent the Hunters - time traveling robots to erase the team from history.

* TrailersAlwaysSpoil: A few weeks ago, the trailer for the second half of this season showed Per Degaton preparing to kill someone in their sleep (His father). This scene does not happen until the end of the episode, meaning that whilst watching, it was easy to guess [[ShaggyDogStory the result of]] [[NiceJobBreakingItHero the team's attempt to prevent the]] BadFuture.

* BadFuture: For starters, corporations now double as federal governments - ''even'' in Central City. And outside of Kasnia, the whole world is an overpopulated, poverty ridden mess, with repeated mention of food riots. (And the only reason Kasnia is stable is because it's a PoliceState)
* TheBadGuyWins: At the end of the episode, everything works out in Savage's favour; he has control of the Kasnian Conglomerate and the Armageddon virus to aid his plans, he's well-positioned to rid himself of Per Degaton when he's outlived his usefulness, and he has a base of operations for his future campaign of world domination.

* BreatherEpisode: In the Series/{{Arrowverse}} as a whole, given that it airs the day after one of the most dramatic ''Series/{{Arrow}}'' episodes of all time, "Eleven Fifty-Nine". For that matter, it's this in the context of ''Legends'' as well, coming after a string of far more serious and dramatic episodes. That being said, [[DownerEnding the]] [[TheBadGuyWins ending]] isn't exactly sunshine and rainbows.
* TheBusCameBack: Carter and Prof. Boardman both return in flashback scenes.

* TheDreaded: The Hunters, which the Time Masters will now sent upon the Legends, are so terrifying that the only advice Mick is able to give the team is to ''run''.

** Tor Degaton, although he's the head of an oppressive PoliceState, flat out refuses Savage's suggestion of "[[TheSocialDarwinist culling the herd]]" (with the "herd" being the overpopulated outside world). This gets him assassinated by his own son.

* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: What kind of dad has Vandal Savage be a personal tutor for his son!? This is apparently a family trait; Per Degaton refuses to believe that Savage would ever betray him. One imagines that his death came as something of a surprise.

* FamilyUnfriendlyAesop: Ultimately not killing Per Degaton proves to be more harmful; the Armageddon virus is released and most of the world is wiped out, which could have been avoided had they killed him.

* BreatherEpisode: In the Franchise/{{Arrowverse}} as a whole, given that it airs the day after one of the most dramatic ''Series/{{Arrow}}'' episodes of all time, "Eleven Fifty-Nine". For that matter, it's this in the context of ''Legends'' as well, coming after a string of far more serious and dramatic episodes. That being said, [[DownerEnding the]] [[TheBadGuyWins ending]] isn't exactly sunshine and rainbows.

* DemotedToExtra: In the first two episodes, Creator/FalkHentschel's name was part of the main credits. Here, he's only billed in the guest star lineup, not with the [[AndStarring "Special Guest"]] citation like the guesting former cast members of the other Franchise/{{Arrowverse}} shows. Possibly justified since Carter only appeared in flashbacks.

* TrivialTitle: As written in TerminologyTitle above, the episode title refers to both Rachel Turner (Ray's great-great-great-great- niece) and Aldus Boardman (Kendra and Carter's son in their [[TwentiethCentury 20th Century]] incarnation). However, both are hardly the focus of the episode.

** Though the title could also refer to Per Degaton, son of Tor Degaton.

** The title can also refer to Per Degaton, son of Tor Degaton.

* GenreSavvy: After hearing Rip talk about his son, Per Degaton quickly realises that Rip brought him to an abandoned area to kill him, and, even when Rip has a gun aimed at him, figures out that Rip wouldn't actually kill him.

** Mick commented that there's nothing heroic about killing a child.

* HeelFaceTurn: With a hint of EnemyMine; since he failed to capture the Legends for the Time Masters, Mick is as much a target for the Hunters as they are, so he aligns with them to stay on the run and stay alive.

* AnalogyBackfire: For Vandal Savage, [[Theatre/OedipusTheKing the legend of Oedipus]] is an inspirational tale about a man who murdered his father to become a great and powerful king. He leaves out the fact that Oedipus killed his father by accident, won the crown of Thebes by defeating the Sphinx and especially that [[SurpriseIncest it didn't end well]] [[EyeScream for him]].

* BreatherEpisode: In the Franchise/{{Arrowverse}} as a whole, given that it airs the day after one of the most dramatic ''Series/{{Arrow}}'' episodes of all time, "Eleven Fifty-Nine". For that matter, it's this in the context of ''Legends'' as well, coming after a string of far more serious and dramatic episodes.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: Mick commented that there's nothing heroic about killing a child.

* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: What kind of dad has Vandal Savage be a personal tutor for his son!?

* WellIntentionedExtremist: Tor Degaton, while being the ruler over a police state, still seems to have some standarts and a sense of honour. It's what Vandal and his son see as a weakness.

* WouldHurtAChild: The main conflict of the episode.