With Neron now in full control of Ray, the Legends hunt him and a kidnapped John Constantine down to the infamous Donner Pass in the Ice Age.
Tropes:
- Achievements in Ignorance: Downplayed; Sara decides that, if the crew is going to die in the avalanche, they'd be better off dying warm, so she has Gideon crank the heat while the others chill out in the galley. As it turns out, this winds up melting the ice just enough so that the Waverider can break free.
- Adaptational Name Change: In the comics, Constantine's kingly ancestor is named Kon-stan-tyn; the show simplifies to the more conventional Konstantyn.
- An Arm and a Leg: John cuts off his ancestor's hand.
- Batman Gambit: Neron takes Constantine to the middle of the Ice Age and tricks him into using his magic, knowing that if he uses it the Legends will use it to track him down, and also knowing they will order the Waverider's cannons to fire on him. He teleports just in time, trapping the Legends in an avalanche.
- Black Comedy: When the Legends seem doomed to slowly freeze to death beneath Donner Pass, Charlie asks who they'll be eating first, remarking "shotgun, not".
- Body Horror: Gary's nipple turning into a hypnotic eyeball. Ava, Nora and Mona are all rightfully freaked out.
- Brainwashed and Crazy: Gary does this to all the members of the Time Bureau.
- But for Me, It Was Tuesday: John has met the mysterious Tabitha before and banished her before but he doesn't remember since he's banished so many demons and creatures. Turns it she's the Fairy Godmother of all people.
- Call-Back:
- Sara and Mick remember the day Rip recruited them all.
- The Legends' impromptu and near-fatal Star Wars homage back in season 2 comes up during the card game.
- Gary's nipple is eaten again. The main difference is that this time, he had it coming.
- Didn't Think This Through:
- Gary really should've concealed his ego. Letting every agent, including Ava, repeat that "Gary Green is all the man we need" was bound to draw suspicion.
- John just walking up to his ancestor, telling him that they are related and that he should help him fight a demon, without thinking of the possibility that Konstantyn, a Fantastic Racism zealot, might think that he is a magical creature out to deceive him.
- Dragged Off to Hell: In John's case, it's voluntarily to save Ray.
- Dwindling Party: Mick sadly laments that with Ray taken over by Neron, he and Sara are all that's left of the original Legends lineup.
- "Eureka!" Moment: After her brainwashing is broken, Ava puts together pretty much everything surrounding Gary's allegiance to Neron with astonishing speed.
- Everyone Can See It: The others all rather quickly pick up on the fact that Nate and Zari are sleeping together. Nate then stops pretending and admits it, much to the relief and cheer of everybody.
- Everyone Has Standards: Even John with his contempt of most magical creatures recognizes that Pucas are harmless and should be left alone.
- Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Neron and Tabitha are both very evil, but they clearly love each other.
- Evil Has a Bad Sense of Humor: Neron could have stranded the Legends anywhere in the Ice Age. Choosing the Donner Pass is almost certainly his idea of a joke.
- Evil Is Cool: In-Universe, Gary now that he's working for Neron.
- Evil Is Petty: A newly villainous Gary brainwashes the Time Bureau to aid Neron's plans, but he goes the extra mile of making them praise him as well, which sets off alarm bells for Mona and Nora.
- Eyes Do Not Belong There: Gary's restored nipple turns into an eye that lets him brainwash people.
- Fantastic Racism: King Konstantyn has a burning hatred for every magical creature, harmless or not.
- Friendship Moment: The team playing Ray's card game.
- Hell: Finally appears in the final moments of the episode, looking like a rundown city under a burning sky.
- Heroic Sacrifice: John is more than ready to sacrifice himself to save his team. At the end of the episode, he even willingly goes to Hell to rescue Ray, as he doesn't want any more people on his conscience.
- Hijacked by Ganon: Tabitha turns out to be the Fairy Godmother.
- I Am Not My Father: Or rather, John makes it clear that he is not like King Konstantyn.
- Identical Grandson: Constantine's fanatical ancestor King Konstantyn looks just like he does, only with longer hair.
- Idiot Ball:
- Nora really shouldn't have gone off alone to investigate Gary, since he was clearly doing something to make the other agents praise him.
- While killing him clearly wasn't an option, Constantine still probably should have done something to knock out or disable Neron before jumping into hell.
- Jerkass Has a Point: Mick's criticism that Sara tends to get caught up in her own thing, then blame the team when things go wrong, is not without merit. Sara is the Captain of the ship and leader of the team; they're her responsibility.
- Knight of Cerebus: Inverted; for all the dread surrounding her arrival, Tabitha turns out to be the Fairy Godmother, and her return brings some comedy back into a dark and horror-infused episode.
- Knight Templar: King Konstantyn is utterly convinced of the righteousness of his cruel deeds, defending them even after John cuts off his hand.
- Lampshade Hanging: Sara and Mick point out that they (and Ray) are the only original Legends left.
- Laser-Guided Karma: Neron is amused by the fact that John is about to be sent to Hell, as he banished many creatures there.
- Licked by the Dog: The Puca heals John's head wound, apparently sensing that he is not so bad.
- Limited Wardrobe: Snart apparently had dozens of identical parkas on the ship.
- Lured into a Trap: Neron teleports himself and John out of the way when the Waverider fires at them, causing the ship to be buried by an avalanche.
- Mercy Kill: How Mick justifies ordering the Waverider's cannons to fire on Neron — Ray's gone, so it's best to take Neron out as fast as possible.
- The Mole: Gary acts as Neron's in the Time Bureau, brainwashing agents for him.
- Never Tell Me the Odds!: Said word-for-word by Sara after Gideon warns the team of starting the ship with the low power supply left.
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Mick just recklessly ordering the ship to fire is what traps them under a wall of snow.
- Not Afraid to Die: 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.
- Oh, Crap!:
- Gary, when Mona transforms.
- The Legends, when they realize that Tabitha is the Fairy Godmother.
- O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Charlie, of all people, has to act as the voice of reason to get Sara and Mick to apologize to each other.
- Parental Substitute: Nate and Zari are eager to have the dragon baby inside the golden egg. Nate even gives it a name, Wickstable, named after a drawing he made in his childhood.
- Pun: Constantine has the perfect response to diving into Hell and seeing it resemble nothing so much as downtown L.A.Constantine: Bloody hell.
- Put Their Heads Together: Wolfie knocks Ava and Nora's skulls together. It snaps them out of the hypnosis.
- A Rare Sentence: Ava describes how Gary was brainwashing the Time Bureau as having "nip-notized" everyone. And she uses this terminology twice.
- The Reveal: Tabitha is none other than the Fairy Godmother. And she and Neron are a couple!
- Shout-Out:
- A Star Wars reference from all the way back in season 2 comes up as the Legends play Ray's card game, and the franchise gets two more references by the episode's end: Constantine duels an evil forefather in a fight that ends with a severed hand, while Gideon remarks that odds of escaping from the ice are 3720 to 1, with Sara responding in true Han Solo fashion.
- The title is one to NipTuck.
- Slashed Throat: Neron does this to himself in Ray's body to screw with Constantine, who instinctively heals him.
- Slasher Smile: Neron gets some frankly terrifying ones during his swordfight with Constantine.
- Smug Snake: Gary's newfound confidence lasts only as long as he's in control; as soon as Mona wolfs out, he's reduced to cringing in terror and screaming for help.
- So Proud of You: Ava towards Nora.
- Spanner in the Works: Wolfie is the main reason why Gary's attempt at brainwashing the entire Time Bureau falls apart.
- Take a Third Option: John sends himself to Hell so he can find and save Ray.
- Tap on the Head: Wolfie frees Nora and Ava from Gary's control by smacking their heads against each other.
- Third Line, Some Waiting: There are 3 separate plots. The first is about Neron trying to get Constantine to help him free Tabitha, the second one is about Mona trying to foil Gary's takeover of the Time Bureau and the third one is about the rest of the team trying to escape from being trapped under an avalanche.
- Took a Level in Badass: Played with; Gary certainly acts a lot more confident, and his nip-notizing ability makes him more of a threat, managing to brainwash Ava, Nora and the rest of the Time Bureau. However, he's still not as clever as he thinks he is; his change in demeanor and insistence that the brainwashed agents praise him set off warning bells for Mona, he failed to come up with a back-up plan in case there was anyone whom he couldn't brainwash, and once he loses that advantage, he's totally helpless in the face of a very angry Wolfie, Ava and Nora. All in all, Gary's Face–Heel Turn might have made him more sinister, but it didn't really make him any more competent.
- Vast Bureaucracy: Nora has to fill out a shit ton of forms before she can start the job.
- Villain Has a Point: Neron pointedly asks Constantine if everyone in hell truly deserves to be there. While Neron himself and Tabitha certainly do, he's not wrong that neither Ray nor Astra deserve the place (although his point is undermined by the fact that Neron is the reason that Ray's in hell to begin with).
- What the Hell, Hero?: Sara calls Mick and Charlie for being absent from the Waverider when Neron took control of Ray. Mick turns it on her by pointing out she was also absent from the ship — in fact she makes frequent shore leaves so why is it wrong that he and Charlie did the same? He also points out how Sara always finds a way to blame everybody else on the team when things so south but never herself. They both eventually apologize to one another.
- Wizard Duel: Between John and Neron. John wins, but relents from killing Neron, instead going to Hell to save Ray.
- You Are Better Than You Think You Are: The Puca delivers a non-verbal version of this to Constantine: as he laments about what a "bloody bastard" he is, she heals him, reflecting his inner goodness and cluing John in to the fact that he's not as bad as he thinks.
- You Are Not Alone: Wolfie scratches this message into a nearby wall to reassure Mona.
- You Have GOT to Be Kidding Me!: The Legends' (entirely understandable) response to finding out that Tabitha is the Fairy Godmother.
