History Recap / LegendsOfTomorrowS1E5FailSafe

* MaleGaze: For all the female {{Fanservice}} this episode, Vostok provides one for the males by showing [[ShesGotLegs her legs]], decent cleavage shots and wearing a skin-tight leather outfit.

* ExtyYearsFromNow: The episode is set in 1986, exactly 30 years from the show's "present", and in the final scene they end up in 2046, exactly 30 years into the show's future.

* BaitAndSwitchComment: Mick Rory takes back what he said about "going ''Film/RockyIV'' on [Arkadin's] ass"... because [[ImpliedDeathThreat Ivan Drogo lived at the end of the movie]].

** Ronnie's [[NeverFoundTheBody apparent death]] and Jax's CareerEndingInjury both become a plot points.

** Koshmar, the gulag is the same one that appeared in the season 2 episode of Arrow "[[Recap/ArrowS2E6KeepYourEnemiesCloser Keep Your Enemies Closer]]."

** The Palmer building has now 'Smoak' as its logo.

* FanDisservice: Ray and Mick simultaneously provide a ShirtlessScene... during a torture session.

** While she seems destroyed, WordOfGod is that Vostok has been transformed into Negative Woman, a long-running character of the Doom Patrol (and her identity from the comics).

** Earlier Rip is on the receiving end from a Russian mobster

* OutOfCharacterAlert: Stein realizes that "Cisco" is not actually Cisco due to the way he dress and his mannerisms.

* ShirtlessScene: Used for both {{Fanservice}} and FanDisservice. For the {{Fanservice}}, it's Rip during the sauna. For the FanDisservice, it's Ray and Mick during their torture scene.
* ShoutOut: ''Film/RockyIV'' is brought up by Mick [[ContinuityNod once again]].

* ActorAllusion: Roy calls Ray "Boy Scout." One of the nicknames of Superman, whom BrandonRouth played in ''Film/SupermanReturns'', is "The Big Blue Boy Scout".

* TakeThat: The anti-LGBT laws of Putin's government (previously a big reason why the Series/{{Arrowverse}} crews were none too happy to be preempted for the Winter Olympics when Russia was hosting) take a big hit when Stein gives his "BreakThemByTalking" lecture about America winning the Cold War, and ends with the fact that in America people can "love whoever we want." It hits especially hard as Victor Garber is gay.

* AndZoidberg:
-->'''Rip:''' Savage knows that Stein created Firestorm, but if he finds out that he is Firestorm...
-->'''Snart:''' [[ArchEnemy Always Savage with you, isn't it]]? My partner's in prison, too.
-->'''Sara:''' And Ray.
-->'''Snart:''' Yeah, whatever.

* BreakingSpeech: Stein gives one to Vostok, telling her that the regime she is supporting is doomed to collapse on itself and that she is on the wrong side of history.

* TakeThat: The anti-LGBT laws of Putin's government (previously a big reason why the Series/{{Arrowverse}} crews were none too happy to be preempted for the Winter Olympics when Russia was hosting) take a big hit when Stein gives his BreakingSpeech about America winning the Cold War, and ends with the fact that in America people can "love whoever we want." It hits especially hard as Victor Garber is gay.

* WholePlotReference: The main plot has Creator/WentworthMiller breaking Creator/DominicPurcell out of prison. [[Series/PrisonBreak Yeah, we've seen that before]].

* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: [[Creator/WentworthMiller Leonard Snart]] makes his most blatant ActorAllusion in the Franchise/{{Arrowverse}} to date.

* TakeThat: The anti-LGBT laws of Putin's government (previously a big reason why the Franchise/{{Arrowverse}} crews were none too happy to be preempted for the Winter Olympics when Russia was hosting) take a big hit when Stein gives his BreakingSpeech about America winning the Cold War, and ends with the fact that in America people can "love whoever we want." It hits especially hard as Victor Garber is gay.

* ActorAllusion: Roy calls Ray "Boy Scout." One of the nicknamesame of Superman, whom BrandonRouth played in ''Film/SupermanReturns'', is "The Big Blue Boy Scout".

** Stein delivers the same speech he gave Eilling about not wanting his work used to perversion to Vostok.

* ExtyYearsFromNow: The episode is set in 1986, exactly 30 from the show's "present" and in the final scene they end up in 2046, exactly 30 years into the show's future.

** When Vostok is talking about the Soviet Firestorm project, she calls it "my dream of creating a nuclear man." "The Nuclear Man" is Firestorm's RedBaron in the comics, and has been the subtitle for most of Firestorm's various solo series ("Men", in the case of the 2011 series) .

* ActorAllusion: Roy calls Ray "Boy Scout." One of the nicknamesame of Superman, who Brandon route played in ''Film/SupermanReturns'', is "The Big Blue Boy Scout".

* NiceJobBreakingItHero:
** Sara and Ray casually reveal the Green Arrow's SecretIdentity to Leonard Snart and Mick Rory.
** Jax cutting a message into his arm let Vostok find out that Stein was the other half of Firestorm.

-->'''Arkadin:''' What are you doing!?
-->'''Ray:''' Nothing compared to what I did to your mommy last night.
-->'''Arkadin:''' You have quite a mouth on you!

* ContinuityCameo: Subverted. Cisco appears in the beginning as a hallucination of Stein's, but "Cisco" is actually Vostok.

** Jax cutting a message into his arm let Vostok find out that Stein was the other half of firestorm.

* TakeThat: The anti-LGBT laws of Putin's government (previously a big reason why the ''Franchise/{{Arrowverse}}'' crews were none too happy to be preempted for the Winter Olympics when Russia was hosting) take a big hit when Stein gives his BreakingSpeech about America winning the Cold War, and ends with the fact that in America people can "love whoever we want." It hits especially hard as Victor Garber is gay.

* TakeThat: The anti-LGBT laws of Putin's government (previously a big reason why the Frtanchise/{{Arrowverse}} crews were none too happy to be preempted for the Winter Olympics when Russia was hosting) take a big hit when Stein gives his BreakingSpeech about America winning the Cold War, and ends with the fact that in America people can "love whoever we want." It hits especially hard as Victor Garber is gay.

* TakeThat: The anti-LGBT laws of Putin's government (previously a big reason why the Frtanchise/{{Arrowverse}} crews were none too happy to be preempted for the Olympics) take a big hit when Stein gives his BreakingSpeech about America winning the Cold War, and ends with the fact that in America people can "love whoever we want." It hits especially hard as Victor Garber is gay.

* MythologyGag: When Vostok is talking about the Soviet Firestorm project, she calls it "my dream of creating a nuclear man." "The Nuclear Man" is Firestorm's RedBaron in the comics, and has been the subtitle for most of Firestorm's various solo series ("Men", in the case of the 2011 series) . While she seems destroyed, WordOfGod is that Vostok has been transformed into Negative Woman, a long-running character of the Doom Patrol.

-->'''Mafia Guy:''' If your friends are there, they must be insane, ruthless, animals.

-->'cuts to'

* DefiantToTheEnd: While he doesn't die, Mick keeps insulting his and Ray's torturer while being tortured.

* ContinuityNod: After his struggle across the prison yard, Jax sarcastically says "[[Series/TheFlash2014 Barry Allen]] who?"

* {{Eagleland}}: Prof. Stein and Ray makes few pro-American statements from time to time. Notably Stein recognizes the USA is by no means perfect, but he still considers that the benefits outweigh the disadvantages.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: Snart strongly disagrees with the thought of executing Stein. No matter what crimes he commited, he never betrayed any of his colleagues.

* FanDisservice: Ray and Mick provides a ShirtlessScene... during a torture session.
* {{Fanservice}}: Rip, Ray and Mick appear shirtless. Averted with Captain Cold who wears a bathrobe.

* MythologyGag: When Vostok is talking about the Soviet Firestorm project, she calls it "my dream of creating a nuclear man." "The Nuclear Man" is Firestorm's RedBaron in the comics, and has been the subtitle for most of Firestorm's various solo series ("Men", in the case of the 2011 series) .
** While she seems destroyed, WordOfGod is that Vostok has been transformed into Negative Woman, a long-running character of the Doom Patrol.

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Sara and Ray casually reveals the Green Arrow's SecretIdentity to Leonard Snart and Mick Rory.

* ShoutOut: The Palmer building has now 'Smoak' as its logo.

* TakeThat: The anti-LGBT laws of Putin's government (previously a big reason why the Arrowverse crews were none too happy to be preempted for the Olympics) take a big hit when Stein gives his BreakingSpeech about America winning the Cold War, and ends with the fact that in America people can "love whoever we want." It hits especially hard as Victor Garber is gay.

-->'''Torturer:''' What are you doing!?

-->'''Torturer:''' You have quite a mouth on you!

* BadFuture: The outcome of a Soviet Firestorm is America being conquered by the turn of the millennium. The last holdout is Star City. After the team fixes the past, Star City's destruction is postponed, but as the end of the epsode proves, it has still gone to hell by 2046.