| 1 | [[WMG:[[center:'''[[Characters/{{Arrowverse}} Arrowverse Character Index]]''' \ |
| 2 | [-'''[[Characters/{{Arrow}} Star City]]:''' [[Characters/ArrowverseTeamArrow Team Arrow]] ([[Characters/ArrowverseOliverQueen Oliver Queen]] / [[Characters/ArrowverseDinahLaurelLance Dinah Laurel Lance]]) | [[Characters/ArrowverseTeamArrowFamilyMembers Family Members]] | [[Characters/ArrowverseStarCityCitizens Citizens]] | [[Characters/ArrowverseStarCityCriminalGroups Criminal Groups]] ([[Characters/ArrowverseMalcolmMerlyn Malcolm Merlyn]] / [[Characters/ArrowverseSladeWilson Slade Wilson]] / [[Characters/ArrowverseSimonMorrison Prometheus]]) | [[Characters/ArrowverseStarCityIndependentCriminals Independent Criminals]]\ |
| 3 | '''[[Series/TheFlash2014 Central City]]:''' [[Characters/ArrowverseWestAllenFamily West-Allen Family]] ([[Characters/ArrowverseBarryAllen Barry Allen]] / [[Characters/ArrowverseIrisWestAllen Iris West-Allen]]) | [[Characters/ArrowverseTeamFlash Team Flash]] ([[Characters/ArrowverseCaitlinSnowAndKillerFrost Caitlin Snow & (Killer) Frost]]) | [[Characters/ArrowverseCentralCityCitizens Citizens]] | [[Characters/ArrowverseCentralCityCriminalGroups Criminal Groups]] ([[Characters/ArrowverseTheRogues Rogues]] / ([[Characters/ArrowverseCliffordDeVoe Clifford DeVoe]]) | [[Characters/ArrowverseCentralCityIndependentCriminals Independent Criminals]]\ |
| 4 | '''[[Characters/Supergirl2015 National City]]:''' [[Characters/ArrowverseNationalCityCitizens Citizens]] ([[Characters/ArrowverseKaraZorEl Kara Zor-El]]) | [[Characters/ArrowverseLuthorFamilyAndAssociates Luthor Family & Associates]] ([[Characters/ArrowverseLenaLuthor Lena Luthor]] / [[Characters/ArrowverseLexLuthor Lex Luthor]]) | [[Characters/ArrowverseNationalCityCriminals Criminals]]\ |
| 5 | '''[[Characters/BlackLightning Freeland]]:''' [[Characters/ArrowversePierceFamily Pierce Family]] | [[Characters/ArrowverseFreelandCitizens Citizens]] | [[Characters/ArrowverseFreelandCriminals Criminals]]\ |
| 6 | '''[[Characters/Batwoman2019 Gotham City]]:''' [[Characters/ArrowverseBatFamily Bat-Family]] | [[Characters/ArrowverseGothamCityCitizens Citizens]] | [[Characters/ArrowverseGothamCityCriminals Criminals]]\ |
| 7 | '''[[Characters/SupermanAndLois Smallville & Metropolis]]:''' [[Characters/ArrowverseSmallvilleCitizens Smallville Citizens]] | [[Characters/ArrowverseMetropolisCitizens Metropolis Citizens]] | [[Characters/ArrowverseMetropolisCriminals Metropolis Criminals]]\ |
| 8 | '''[[Characters/LegendsOfTomorrow The Legends]]:''' [[Characters/ArrowverseTheLegends The Team]] | [[Characters/ArrowverseLegendsCurrentMembers Current Members]] ([[Characters/ArrowverseSaraLance Sara Lance]]) | [[Characters/ArrowverseLegendsFormerMembers Former Members]] ([[Characters/ArrowverseLeonardSnart Leonard Snart]] / [[Characters/ArrowverseMickRory Mick Rory]])\ |
| 9 | '''Organizations:''' [[Characters/ArrowverseUSGovernment U.S. Government]] | [[Characters/ArrowverseUSMilitary U.S. Military]] | [[Characters/ArrowverseARGUSAndTaskForceX A.R.G.U.S.]] | [[Characters/ArrowverseTheDEO The D.E.O.]] | [[Characters/ArrowverseJusticeSocietyOfAmerica The J.S.A]] | [[Characters/ArrowverseLeagueOfAssassins The League of Assassins]] | [[Characters/ArrowverseCriminalGroupsAndOrganizations Criminal Groups & Organizations]] ([[Characters/ArrowverseTheHIVE H.I.V.E.]] / [[Characters/ArrowverseVandalSavageAndFollowers Savage & Followers]])\ |
| 10 | '''Time Travel:''' '''Time Travelers''' ([[Characters/ArrowverseTheLegionOfSuperHeroes The Legion]] / [[Characters/ArrowverseEobardThawne Eobard Thawne]] / [[Characters/ArrowverseDamienDarhk Damien Darhk]] / [[Characters/ArrowverseSavitar Savitar]]) | [[Characters/ArrowversePastCharacters The Past]] | [[Characters/ArrowverseFutureCharacters The Future]]\ |
| 11 | '''Miscellaneous:''' [[Characters/ArrowverseOtherLocales Other Locales]] | [[Characters/ArrowverseMetahumans Metahumans]] ([[Characters/ArrowverseFirestorm Firestorm]] / [[Characters/ArrowverseTheHawks The Hawks]]) | [[Characters/ArrowverseAliens Aliens]] | [[Characters/ArrowverseMystics Mystics]] | [[Characters/ArrowverseOtherEntities Other Entities]] ([[Characters/ArrowverseSpeedForceAndForcesOfNature The Speed Force & Forces of Nature]])\ |
| 12 | '''The Multiverse:''' [[Characters/ArrowverseOtherEarths Other Earths]] | [[Characters/ArrowverseEarth2 Earth-2]] ([[Characters/ArrowverseHunterZolomon Hunter Zolomon]]) | [[Characters/ArrowverseEarth38 Earth-38]] | [[Characters/ArrowverseEarth90 Earth-90]] | [[Characters/ArrowverseEarthX Earth-X]] | [[Characters/ArrowverseBizarroWorld Bizarro World]]]]-]]] |
| 13 | |
| 14 | ---- |
| 15 | [[foldercontrol]] |
| 16 | |
| 17 | !Time Police |
| 18 | |
| 19 | !! The Time Masters |
| 20 | [[folder:General Tropes]] |
| 21 | |
| 22 | An organization tasked with protecting the timeline from Time Criminals, who have an extreme apathy to humanity. |
| 23 | ---- |
| 24 | * AlternateCompanyEquivalent: Nope, they have nothing to do with [[Series/DoctorWho Time Lords]]. Though you could be forgiven for thinking that. |
| 25 | * AdaptationalVillainy: In the comics, the Time Masters is actually the name for the superhero team assembled by Rip Hunter to serve as TimePolice, rather than the corrupt version who is hunting him down in the show. This turns out to be a case of DecompositeCharacter as such a team do later appear in the Arrowverse as the Time Bureau. |
| 26 | * BadassLongcoat: They wear brown longcoats as part of their uniform. |
| 27 | * BigBadEnsemble: They cause problems for the Legends just as Savage does, because they don't approve of Rip going AWOL to stop Savage. As it turns out in "River of Time", however, the real reason is because [[BigBadDuumvirate they've been in league with Savage the entire time]]. |
| 28 | * CelibateHero: Invoked and enforced. Time Masters discourage their members from starting families. They probably consider Rip Hunter's rebellion an example of what that rule is meant to avert. [[spoiler:Of course, this argument completely goes out the window when it's reveal the death of Rip Hunter's family was engineered by the ''Time Masters themselves''.]] |
| 29 | * CompositeCharacter: The name they are given in the comics is the Linear Men, who are an organization of heroes who reside at the Vanishing Point acting as TimePolice. The name "Time Masters" actually comes from a team that Rip Hunter assembled. |
| 30 | * CoolShip: They are assigned with their own ships for TimeTravel. |
| 31 | * DiscOneFinalBoss: Destroyed in the penultimate episode of the first season. |
| 32 | * EvilAllAlong: Probably to no one's great surprise, they were working with Savage the whole time. |
| 33 | * AGodAmI: They literally play God with people's timelines. |
| 34 | * GreaterScopeVillain: Vandal Savage may have been the immediate threat that the Legends have been trying to stop, but it was the Time Masters that enabled Savage's rise of power to begin with, and they were responsible for the Legends' failures at every turn. |
| 35 | * HateSink: While Vandal Savage is badass and funny, the Time Masters are unpleasant, hypocritical {{Knight Templar}}s who cause far more trouble for the team than he does. |
| 36 | * TheHeavy: They directly oppose Rip and cause problems for him and his crew even more than Savage and his followers do. |
| 37 | * {{Hypocrite}}: They chide Rip for abandoning his duty to protect the Timeline by stopping Savage, and yet they have an assassin who specializes in erasing people from history. And as it turns out they've been helping Savage manipulate time all along... |
| 38 | * InformedAbility: They are supposed to protect history. Given how ''Series/TheFlash2014'' shows how easily time can be changed, it makes you wonder just how effective they are in their job. Turns out they aren't interested in that in the least. It's just a pretext for helping Savage rise to power. |
| 39 | * JudgeJuryAndExecutioner: If they find you guilty of time crimes, don't expect an impartial hearing. |
| 40 | * JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope: They found Mick Rory after Snart stranded him, and then brainwashed him into becoming Chronos, then they decide to RetGone the team. |
| 41 | * KangarooCourt: They order the Legends to be RetGone from history even though all of them sans Rip are from time periods before the Time Masters even exist. |
| 42 | * KnightTemplar: They take their job of protecting the timeline - ''very'' seriously to the point that all outside worldly concerns are of no importance to them. |
| 43 | * LackOfEmpathy: Given their job, emotional detachment is a necessity, but they take it to the point of sociopathy, seeing no reason to stop an immortal despot who has just conquered the world. As it turns out, they are in league with said immortal despot in the first place, so refusing to stop him isn't exactly a issue of morality. |
| 44 | * ALighterShadeOfBlack: They see ''Vandal Savage'' of all people as the lesser evil compared to a Thanagarian invasion. Given the damage Savage inflicted on the world by 2166, this is a dubious prospect at best. |
| 45 | * TheMaster: An organization of "Masters". Most of them seen to viewers are decidedly evil. |
| 46 | * MeaningfulName: The Council in particular (and likely at least some beneath them) do not actually act as TimePolice; rather, they use the Oculus as a means of controlling time to their own ends to protect "humanity" over individual humans or their free will. As such, they are effectively "masters" of time. |
| 47 | * MisplacedRetribution: Originally they merely wanted to stop just Rip, but then they widen their scope to take out everyone else out on the team out of spite rather than return them to their proper place in time. |
| 48 | * NeverRecycleABuilding: The Vanishing Point is long abandoned after the Time Masters are destroyed, but it manages to be someone's headquarters twice after its destruction. The first time was by the Legion of Doom in order to hide their presence from the Legends, and the second time was by the Paragons as it was the only place in the multiverse the Anti-Monitor couldn't touch. |
| 49 | * ObstructiveBureaucracy: They continue to turn a blind eye on Vandal Savage's world conquest despite the fact that it can cause the end of history and the timeline they have sworn to protect. |
| 50 | * OmniscientMoralityLicense: They protect time, including all the horrors of history. Their justification is simply that it's the way things were meant to be. In truth, they are guiding time (including Savage's rise to power) to their own ends, including to defeat an alien invasion that will otherwise wipe out the human race. |
| 51 | -->'''Druce:''' The only place in the universe where free will exists is here, at the Vanishing Point. |
| 52 | * RedOniBlueOni: The Red Oni to Savage and his followers' Blue Oni. Of the two players in the BigBadEnsemble, the Time Masters directly clash with Rip's team far more than Savage's group, who tend to execute their plans discreetly if necessary. |
| 53 | * ScrewTheRulesIMakeThem: In worst case scenarios such as dealing with formidable criminals, they willingly bend/disregard their own rules by erasing them from existence. |
| 54 | * SpaceNavy: While a TimePolice organization, they use the U.S. Navy ranking system instead of the one used by the U.S. police. Their Waveriders are equipped for space travel, so that may explain it. |
| 55 | * ThatManIsDead: Members are required to relinquish their birth names not only to protect their families, but also to devote their lives to the organization. |
| 56 | * TimeMaster: Yes, really. They have all the means for TimeTravel such as ships and devices. The Occulus is their main source of this. |
| 57 | * TimePolice: Their main job is to protect the timeline. They don't seem to be very good at it. |
| 58 | * {{Tykebomb}}: Most of them were still children when recruited and trained by the organization. |
| 59 | * UnwittingPawn: It's implied that only those on the Council know that they're manipulating the timeline on Savage's behalf, and that the rank and file are being hoodwinked. |
| 60 | * VillainousBreakdown: They seem rather irritated that the Legends' meddling in time proves rather hard to stop to the point that they decide to try to have them RetGone as a last resort... |
| 61 | * WellIntentionedExtremist: They believe that only Savage can save the world from a Thanagarian invasion in 2174, so they help him rise to power. Rip calls them out on how utterly ''insane'' this is. |
| 62 | * WhileRomeBurns: Vandal Savage has literally conquered the entire world right before their eyes. Their reaction? Not our problem. |
| 63 | --> '''Time Master:''' Our responsibility is to protect the timeline, not humanity. |
| 64 | [[/folder]] |
| 65 | |
| 66 | !!! Council |
| 67 | [[folder:In General]] |
| 68 | !! Time Masters Council |
| 69 | !!! '''Species:''' Humans |
| 70 | !!! '''Played By:''' Creator/MartinDonovan, Peter Bryant, Creator/MackenzieGray, Simone Bailly, Christopher Logan |
| 71 | !!! '''Appearances:''' ''Series/LegendsOfTomorrow'' |
| 72 | |
| 73 | The authority figures of the the organization. |
| 74 | ---- |
| 75 | * BadBoss: After Chronos/Mick fails to capture the Legends, the Time Masters have the Hunters target him as well. |
| 76 | * CrystalSpiresAndTogas: They are clad in robes in contrast to their military force. |
| 77 | * NonActionGuy: None of them seem to be combat proficient. |
| 78 | * ObstructiveCodeOfConduct: They make sure that the members follow the organization's rules. |
| 79 | * PowersThatBe: They are in charge of the organization that has near unlimited resources for TimeTravel. |
| 80 | * SternTeacher: They are very strict in implementing the rules. |
| 81 | [[/folder]] |
| 82 | |
| 83 | [[folder:Time Master Druce]] |
| 84 | !! Zaman Druce |
| 85 | !!! '''Species:''' Human |
| 86 | !!! '''Played By:''' Creator/MartinDonovan |
| 87 | !!! '''First Appearance:''' "[[Recap/LegendsOfTomorrowS1E4WhiteKnights White Knights]]" (''Legends of Tomorrow'' 1x4) |
| 88 | !!! '''Appearances:''' ''Series/LegendsOfTomorrow'' |
| 89 | |
| 90 | Rip Hunter's old friend and mentor and a member of the Council. He and the Council are later revealed to be masterminding Savage's gradual rule and assure the Legends fail in their endeavors. |
| 91 | ---- |
| 92 | * AllThereInTheManual: Druce's first name is never mentioned on-screen. |
| 93 | * BigBadEnsemble: With Vandal Savage in Season 1, although his death along with the rest of the Time Masters leaves Savage as the sole BigBad. |
| 94 | * CelebrityParadox: The ''Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse'' is acknowledged to exist in his universe. His actor appeared in ''Film/AntMan1'' before appearing here. |
| 95 | * TheChessmaster: Almost all of the events in Season 1 was orchestarted by him, from Vandal Savage's takeover of the world, to the Legends many altering of history. |
| 96 | * EvilFormerFriend: Is willing to execute Rip. |
| 97 | * EvilMentor: Uses his fatherly relationship with Rip so he can lead him to his executioner, and later betrays him to Vandal Savage. |
| 98 | * GreaterScopeVillain: He is the hidden villain of Season 1 pulling the strings on Vandal Savage. Although, Savage ends up outliving him and ends up being the final threat. |
| 99 | * ManipulativeBastard: He treats Rip as an unfortunate pawn to bend to his whim and the Legends as grunts whose only purpose is to die for the good of time. |
| 100 | --> "The difference between murder and execution is only a matter of authority. I have it. You don't." |
| 101 | * MeaningfulName: "Zaman" is Hebrew for "Time", and he is a time traveler. |
| 102 | * NonActionGuy: He's not a fighter. When Heat Wave and Firestorm intervene in Rip's execution, he immediately flees the scene. |
| 103 | * OhCrap: While never quite reaching a VillainousBreakdown, he does start panicking when he sees Snart about to make the Oculus explode. |
| 104 | --> "No! Shut it down! ''Shut it '''down'''''!" |
| 105 | * PowersThatBe: A member of the Time Masters council. |
| 106 | * ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Whenever he sees he's outgunned, he retreats from the scene. |
| 107 | * TimePolice: As part of the Time Masters, his main job is to protect the timeline. |
| 108 | * WellIntentionedExtremist: He genuinely believes that his actions of ensuring Vandal Savage's unified rule of Earth is the only way to stop a Thanagarian invasion from destroying the Earth. He just doesn't care how many lives will be killed in the process. |
| 109 | * YouCantFightFate: Is a firm believer in this. Due to the Oculus controlling everything and everyone in the timeline, it is his belief that every action has already been made and the future cannot be changed. The Legends are determined to pull a ScrewDestiny on him by defying what the Oculus predicts they would do. |
| 110 | |
| 111 | [[/folder]] |
| 112 | |
| 113 | [[folder:Time Master Declan]] |
| 114 | !! Declan |
| 115 | !!! '''Species:''' Human |
| 116 | !!! '''Played By:''' Peter Bryant |
| 117 | !!! '''First Appearance:''' "[[Recap/LegendsOfTomorrowS1E7Marooned Marooned]]" (''Legends of Tomorrow'' 1x7) |
| 118 | !!! '''Appearances:''' ''Series/LegendsOfTomorrow'' |
| 119 | |
| 120 | A member of the Time Masters council. |
| 121 | ---- |
| 122 | * AintTooProudToBeg: He pleads with Mick for mercy after being overpowered. Mick keeps his promise and kills Declan instead. |
| 123 | * BitchInSheepsClothing: First appears as a SternTeacher yet ReasonableAuthorityFigure. His following appearance reveals that he personally tortured Mick into becoming Chronos. |
| 124 | * CaughtWithYourPantsDown: He is the one who uncovers Rip and Miranda's SecretRelationship when he sees them making out. |
| 125 | * DirtyCoward: The minute Mick gets the upper hand, Declan starts begging for mercy. |
| 126 | * FauxAffablyEvil: His SternTeacher and ReasonableAuthorityFigure appearance are only just that. |
| 127 | * GoryDiscretionShot: His death was presumably quite graphic. The camera mercifully spares the viewer the sight. |
| 128 | * IdenticalStranger: His actor was also on ''Series/{{Arrow}}'', playing a Star City alderman that Brick kidnapped and killed in Season 3. |
| 129 | * OnlyOneName: He's only addressed as "Declan". |
| 130 | * PowersThatBe: A member of the Time Masters council. |
| 131 | * SternTeacher: He is very strict when scolding both Rip and Miranda. |
| 132 | * TranquilFury: During the aforementioned CaughtWithYourPantsDown. He's obviously pissed at Rip and Miranda, but he maintains his composure when scolding them. |
| 133 | * YourHeadASplode: Mick kills him by crushing his skull. |
| 134 | |
| 135 | [[/folder]] |
| 136 | |
| 137 | !!! Rank and File |
| 138 | |
| 139 | [[folder:Captain Hunter]] |
| 140 | -> see the Characters/ArrowverseLegendsFormerMembers page for Rip Hunter |
| 141 | [[/folder]] |
| 142 | |
| 143 | [[folder:Captain Baxter]] |
| 144 | !! Eve Baxter |
| 145 | !!! '''Species:''' Human |
| 146 | !!! '''Played By:''' Stephanie Cleough |
| 147 | !!! '''First Appearance:''' "[[Recap/LegendsOfTomorrowS1E7Marooned Marooned]]" (''Legends of Tomorrow'' 1x7) |
| 148 | !!! '''Appearances:''' ''Series/LegendsOfTomorrow'' |
| 149 | |
| 150 | A Time Master and captain of the Time Ship ''Acheron''. |
| 151 | ---- |
| 152 | * AdaptationalBadass: Invoked. In the comics, Rip has more experience as a Time Master. Here, they're implied to be contemporaries. |
| 153 | * AdaptationNameChange: Her name in the comics is Bonnie Baxter. |
| 154 | * AloofDarkHairedGirl: She's not very fond of Rip being an oath breaker. |
| 155 | * BadassLongcoat: Wears a similar brown one to Rip, implying that it's part of the official Time Masters uniform. |
| 156 | * TheCaptain: Of Acheron. |
| 157 | * CelibateHero: She's a Time Master, so it's a given. |
| 158 | * DamselInDistress: A group of Time Pirates successfully invaded her ship. |
| 159 | * DecompositeCharacter: Her role as Rip's LoveInterest in the comics was given to CanonForeigner Miranda Coulburn in the show. She and Miranda got to work as a Time Master like Bonnie, though. |
| 160 | * DemotedToExtra: She's Rip Hunter's girlfriend in the comics. |
| 161 | * DistaffCounterpart: To Rip, complete with being TheCaptain of her own ship and a SpearCounterpart to his female AI. |
| 162 | * ObliviouslyEvil: Seems to be a ReasonableAuthorityFigure and claims to not be able to understand how Rip could betray the Time Masters, claiming they're the most noble cause in the universe, thus indicating [[UnwittingPawn she doesn't know]] that they are helping Vandal Savage] |
| 163 | * PetTheDog: She doesn't turn in Rip and his crew after they help her take back her ship. |
| 164 | * SoleSurvivor: Possibly, since she's the only crew member of her ship shown. |
| 165 | * TimePolice: She takes her job to protect the timeline very seriously. |
| 166 | * TokenGoodTeammate: While not as genuinely good as the refugee caretaker, she is the only honorable current member of the Time Masters. |
| 167 | * WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Nothing is known of her whereabouts or current situation after the Time Masters are dealt with and their headquarters destroyed. |
| 168 | [[/folder]] |
| 169 | |
| 170 | [[folder:Lieutenant Coburn]] |
| 171 | -> see the Characters/ArrowverseFutureCharacters page for Miranda Hunter |
| 172 | [[/folder]] |
| 173 | |
| 174 | !!!Enforcers |
| 175 | |
| 176 | [[folder:Chronos]] |
| 177 | -> see the Characters/ArrowverseMickRory page |
| 178 | [[/folder]] |
| 179 | |
| 180 | [[folder:The Hunters]] |
| 181 | !! The Hunters |
| 182 | !!! '''Species:''' Humans |
| 183 | !!! '''Played By:''' TBA |
| 184 | !!! '''First Appearance:''' "[[Recap/LegendsOfTomorrowS1E10Progeny Progeny]]" (''Legends of Tomorrow'' 1x10) |
| 185 | !!! '''Appearances:''' ''Series/LegendsOfTomorrow'' |
| 186 | |
| 187 | A group of mercenaries built to bring in the Legends should Chronos fail to do so. |
| 188 | ---- |
| 189 | * TheDreaded: Even Chronos is scared stiff of these guys. |
| 190 | * {{Heavily Armored Mook}}s: They are clad in thick armor. |
| 191 | * InformedAbility: They're relatively easily dispatched the episode after they are introduced. |
| 192 | * SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: For the Manhunters from the ''Franchise/GreenLantern'' mythos. |
| 193 | * TimeForPlanB: For the Time Masters, should Chronos fail to bring in the Legends. |
| 194 | * TheUnfettered: As they are completely robotic, no twinge of humanity will keep them from doing their jobs. |
| 195 | * VillainOfTheWeek: For Season 1 Episode 11. |
| 196 | [[/folder]] |
| 197 | |
| 198 | [[folder:The Pilgrim]] |
| 199 | !! The Pilgrim |
| 200 | !!! '''Species:''' Metahuman |
| 201 | !!! '''Played By:''' Faye Kingsley |
| 202 | !!! '''First Appearance:''' "[[Recap/LegendsOfTomorrowS1E12 Last Refuge Last Refuge]]" (''Legends of Tomorrow'' 1x12) |
| 203 | !!! '''Appearances:''' ''Series/LegendsOfTomorrow'' |
| 204 | |
| 205 | A metahuman who has the ability to [[TimeStandsStill freeze motion]] and the Time Masters' most feared agent. She is sent out on their most desperate missions. |
| 206 | ---- |
| 207 | * AdaptationalVillainy: In the comics, The Pilgrim is a hero. |
| 208 | * AloofDarkHairedGirl: Has dark hair, [[EvilWearsBlack a dark outfit]], and a very dark and unpleasant personality. |
| 209 | * AssholeVictim: Her death was truly something to be celebrated. |
| 210 | * BadassLongcoat: Wears a black trenchcoat. |
| 211 | * DarkActionGirl: The most feared assassin of the Time Masters, capable of fighting Sara to a standstill. |
| 212 | * {{Determinator}}: She ''will'' complete her mission no matter what; an especially fitting trope, given that she's basically the Arrowverse equivalent of ''Film/TheTerminator''. |
| 213 | * TheDreaded: Even more than the Hunters. And unlike [[InformedAbility them]], she proves she's worth the hype. |
| 214 | * EleventhHourSuperpower: The Time Masters' go-to person in their most desperate missions. |
| 215 | * EvilIsPetty: When she can't kill the Legends younger selves she resorts to holding their loved ones hostage to get them to comply. |
| 216 | * EvilWearsBlack: Clad mostly in a black outfit. |
| 217 | * FightsLikeANormal: Despite having [[TimeStandsStill Time Freezing]] powers, she prefers hand-to-hand and tactical combat. |
| 218 | * GodzillaThreshold: She gets sent out when absolutely every other option is exhausted. |
| 219 | * IHaveYourWife: Since she couldn't kill the younger selves of the Legends, she kidnaps their loved ones instead. |
| 220 | * KarmicDeath: She frequently RetGone people by killing their younger selves. She met her end literally by the hands of young Rip Hunter. |
| 221 | * KnightOfCerebus: The first villain to make use of the TimeTravel aspect of the show to dispatch her enemies. Her actions also push the Legends to attack Savage at his strongest in fear of being erased from their own personal timelines. |
| 222 | * MadeOfIron: She's extremely tough. Sara got a few staff whacks on her that she completely ignored. Cops' bullets bounce off of her. Rip blasts her out the window of a Palmer Tech top-floor office and she comes back without a scratch. Later, [[spoiler:Rip's younger self stabbed her]] a few times, which just ended up pissing her off and distracting her. |
| 223 | * MusclesAreMeaningless: Easily overpowers cops, Sara, and Jax's soldier dad despite looking like a normal woman. |
| 224 | * NoBodyLeftBehind: She gets distracted after Kid Rip repeatedly stabs her, causing her to lose focus on using her TimeMaster powers. This allows the Legends to regain their movement and simultaneously blast her until she literally turns to dust. |
| 225 | * OneManArmy: Capable of fighting the Legends by herself. |
| 226 | * RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver: Her outfit is black with red accents and is the Time Masters' most feared agent |
| 227 | * RetGone: Her main MO is to erase troublemakers from existence. |
| 228 | * TheSociopath: She shows no humanity whatsoever and is downright eager to murder her targets as children. |
| 229 | * TheresNoKillLikeOverkill: After young Rip stabs her, the team proceeds to destroy her until she's nothing but dust. |
| 230 | * TimeStandsStill: Able to manipulate time within her immediate vicinity. |
| 231 | * UnderestimatingBadassery: She really shouldn't have underestimated Rip's younger self. |
| 232 | * VillainOfTheWeek: For Episode 1x12. |
| 233 | * WouldHurtAChild: Her MO is taking out troublemakers in their childhoods. And if that doesn't work, she'll just hold your loved ones hostage instead. |
| 234 | [[/folder]] |
| 235 | |
| 236 | !!!Other Members |
| 237 | |
| 238 | [[folder:Gideon]] |
| 239 | -> see Characters/ArrowverseLegendsCurrentMembers |
| 240 | [[/folder]] |
| 241 | |
| 242 | [[folder:Gilbert]] |
| 243 | !! Gilbert |
| 244 | !!! '''Species:''' Artificial Intelligence |
| 245 | !!! '''Played By:''' Andrew Pifko |
| 246 | !!! '''First Appearance:''' "[[Recap/LegendsOfTomorrowS1E7Marooned Marooned]]" (''Legends of Tomorrow'' 1x7) |
| 247 | !!! '''Appearances:''' ''Series/LegendsOfTomorrow'' |
| 248 | |
| 249 | An artificially intelligent construct from the future similar to the Gideons. |
| 250 | ---- |
| 251 | * ArtificialIntelligence: Much like the Gideons. Whether or not they're also created by Barry Allen remains to be seen. |
| 252 | * InexplicablyIdenticalIndividuals: It is likely that this is just a different version of Gideon. |
| 253 | * NonHumanSidekick: For Eve Baxter. Miranda Coulburn is also shown commanding one in a flashback. |
| 254 | * SpearCounterpart: To the Gideons, apparently. |
| 255 | * ThemeNaming: '''Gi'''lbert and '''Gi'''deon. Even their voice actors have the same initials ('''A'''ndrew '''P'''ifko and '''A'''my '''P'''emberton). |
| 256 | [[/folder]] |
| 257 | |
| 258 | [[folder:Mary Xavier]] |
| 259 | !! Mary Xavier |
| 260 | !!! '''Species:''' Human |
| 261 | !!! '''Played By:''' Creator/CeliaImrie |
| 262 | !!! '''First Appearance:''' "[[Recap/LegendsOfTomorrowS1E12LastRefuge Last Refuge]]" (''Legends of Tomorrow'' 1x12) |
| 263 | !!! '''Appearances:''' ''Series/LegendsOfTomorrow'' |
| 264 | |
| 265 | A member of the Time Masters and caretaker of their recruits. |
| 266 | ---- |
| 267 | * CoolOldLady: She's old enough to be Rip's mother and is very friendly and understanding. |
| 268 | * FriendToAllChildren: The main reason she's so good at her job. |
| 269 | * TheHeart: For the Time Masters. |
| 270 | * MamaBear: Her loyalty is not to the organization that employs her but to her charges, and she is willing to oppose her employers for them if the situation calls for it. |
| 271 | * NiceGirl: A very kind and polite person. Must be where Rip picked it up. |
| 272 | * NoNameGiven: Her name is never stated on-screen. |
| 273 | * OrphanageOfLove: She's the caretaker of the refugee house inhabited by future Time Masters. |
| 274 | * ParentalSubstitute: Serves as the mother to the Time Master recruits. Rip, in particular, continues to address her as "Mum". |
| 275 | * PowerHair: She sports a short haircut. |
| 276 | * ProperLady: She's very prim and ladylike. |
| 277 | * ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: Willing to disobey and oppose the Time Masters if she sees them crossing the line. |
| 278 | * SilkHidingSteel: A ProperLady with a steel core. |
| 279 | * SternTeacher: She is very strict but still fair and doting. |
| 280 | * TeamMom: She literally works to raise future Time Masters, and most of the current and former members treat her as a ParentalSubstitute. |
| 281 | * TokenGoodTeammate: Apparently the only genuinely good person currently working for the Time Masters, though some of the lower ranks seem to be JustFollowingOrders. |
| 282 | [[/folder]] |
| 283 | |
| 284 | !! The Legends |
| 285 | ->see the Characters/ArrowverseTheLegends page for the whole team |
| 286 | ->see the Characters/ArrowverseLegendsCurrentMembers page for current members |
| 287 | ->see the Characters/ArrowverseLegendsFormerMembers page for former members |
| 288 | |
| 289 | !! The Time Bureau |
| 290 | [[folder:In General]] |
| 291 | The Time Masters' successors, formed by Rip Hunter after he came to believe he no longer had any place on the Waverider. They try to take the Legends' place as protectors of time, which causes the two groups to butt heads. |
| 292 | |
| 293 | After Neron nearly caused havoc in Washington with magical creatures the Bureau were meant to safeguard, the government ceased all funding and has been shut down. |
| 294 | ---- |
| 295 | * AlwaysSomeoneBetter: They are depicted as being far more competent than the Legends at being TimePolice, even running a simulation of one of the Legend's past missions and mocking the Legends' stupid decision at that time. However, by the mid-point of Season Three, it's obvious they are way out of their depth, as Darhk and Mallus are running rings around them, creating chaos on a massive scale. |
| 296 | * BadassNormal: Unlike the Legends, the Bureau rely on training and gadgets, and not recruiting any superpowered members. |
| 297 | * BreakingTheFellowship: After the Time Bureau closes down, most of the recurring cast go their separate ways. Ava joins her girlfriend Sara and the Legends, Gary becomes John Constantine's apprentice, and Nora - still a fairy godmother - goes from kid to kid and helps fulfill their wishes. |
| 298 | * ByTheBookCop: In sharp contrast to the Legends, they strictly adhere to rules and order, being very careful to not damage the timeline. They even turn against Rip for doing a mission behind their back, even though it technically ''wasn't''. |
| 299 | * {{Foil}}: |
| 300 | ** To the Time Masters. Both act as TimePolice; however, the Time Masters trained Rip Hunter and are opposed to him, while the Time Bureau were trained ''by'' Rip and fully (at first) back him. Also, the Time Masters are corrupt manipulators, while the Time Bureau are dedicated to protecting the timeline. This is also reflected in the Time Masters' traditional [[Series/DoctorWho Time Lord-esque garbs]], while the Bureau dress sharply in suits. |
| 301 | ** To the Legends. Both are teams formed by Rip Hunter to be successors to the Time Masters. However, the Legends are reckless and a bit incompetent, messing up history just as often as they fix it, while the Time Bureau are strict {{By The Book Cop}}s. Furthermore, the Legends treat each other like a big (dysfunctional) family, while the Time Bureau remain strictly professional like a government-run organization. The Legends, while keen to fix mistakes and generally maintain stability, are not above pulling a ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight if the circumstances warrant it -- Jax and Amaya freed an entire plantation of slaves during the Civil War, and later kept Zari from landing in A.R.G.U.S. custody; by contrast, Agent Sharpe wanted to throw her under the bus. |
| 302 | * HeroAntagonist: They butt heads with the Legends in Season Three, but aren't villains. |
| 303 | * {{Jerkass}}: With the exception of Rip, they all look down on the Legends and see no reason to disguise it; at least originally. |
| 304 | * JerkassHasAPoint: They don't approve of the Legends in part because of how sloppy and indiscreet they are, not to mention they cause as many problems as they fix. |
| 305 | * LawfulStupid: |
| 306 | ** In "Zari", they were more concerned about making sure Zari ended up in a prison run by a fascist-minded A.R.G.U.S. than about exactly ''why'' a time-traveling water witch was hunting her down. |
| 307 | ** They refuse to believe in Rip's theories about Mallus. When he's proven right, they arrest him for going rogue, even though Bennett approved the use of agents for the mission. This comes back to bite them; without Rip's leadership, the Cult of Mallus is able to run amuck with impunity. |
| 308 | * NiceJobBreakingItHero: Arresting Rip was the worst possible thing they could've done -- without his leadership, Damien Darhk is able to run rings around them. |
| 309 | * ObstructiveBureaucrat: Rip describes them as "lacking imagination", which means they are unequipped to deal with Mallus, unlike the Legends. |
| 310 | * TimePolice: They act as proper Time Police, which both the Time Masters and the Legends failed at. |
| 311 | * TookALevelInKindness: After the events of Season 3 brought them down a peg or two, they're much nicer to the Legends in Season 4 complete with throwing them an award ceremony for taking down Mallus and fixing the last anachronism. |
| 312 | * UndyingLoyalty: Averted, they are loyal to their ''rules'' not their leaders; they mutiny against Rip for going behind their backs to stop Mallus since they refused to take his fears seriously. |
| 313 | * WeakButSkilled: They're good at wiping memories and putting things back where they belong, but they have no combat experience or imagination and aren't good with dealing with the unexpected. This is why Rip relents to let the Legends do their thing. |
| 314 | [[/folder]] |
| 315 | |
| 316 | !!!Leadership |
| 317 | [[folder:Director Hunter]] |
| 318 | -> see the Characters/ArrowverseLegendsFormerMembers page for Rip Hunter |
| 319 | [[/folder]] |
| 320 | |
| 321 | [[folder:Director Bennett]] |
| 322 | !! Director Wilbur Bennett |
| 323 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/wilbur_bennett.png]] |
| 324 | !!! '''Species:''' Human |
| 325 | !!! '''Played By:''' Hiro Kanagawa |
| 326 | !!! '''First Appearance:''' "[[Recap/LegendsOfTomorrowS3E1ArubaCon Aruba-Con]]" (''Legends of Tomorrow'' 3x1) |
| 327 | !!! '''Appearances:''' ''Series/LegendsOfTomorrow'' |
| 328 | |
| 329 | Rip's co-director in running the Bureau. Despite this, the two often clash. |
| 330 | ---- |
| 331 | * AssholeVictim: He spends his last moments berating Ava for not arresting Rip, unaware that Grodd is behind him. Guess how well that ends for him. |
| 332 | * BigGood: Runs the Bureau with Rip. He becomes sole director after he arrests Rip for doing a mission behind his back. Turns out he's completely inept at his role, since without Rip's leadership, the Cult of Mallus are running wild and claiming many agents' lives. |
| 333 | * CanonForeigner: Does not exist in any other [[Creator/DCComics DC]] continuity, and was created solely for the show. |
| 334 | * {{Jerkass}}: In addition to his condescending treatment of the Legends, he refuses to believe Rip about Mallus, then mutinies against him for going behind his back...even though Bennett actually approved the mission in the first place. |
| 335 | * LawfulStupid: Arrests Rip for going rogue, even though he himself approved agents for Rip's mission to stop Mallus. |
| 336 | * ObstructiveBureaucrat: By ''far'' the worst offender yet seen in the Bureau. His sheer arrogance and pigheaded stupidity wind up getting him killed when he's too busy chewing out Ava to realize a pissed-off Grodd is heading straight for him. |
| 337 | * TeethClenchedTeamwork: Dismisses Rip's fears about Mallus. Even after Rip is proven right, he promptly removes the man from his position as Director and has him locked in prison. |
| 338 | * WeHardlyKnewYe: He gets zero development before being killed by Grodd. |
| 339 | [[/folder]] |
| 340 | |
| 341 | [[folder:Director Sharpe]] |
| 342 | -> see the Characters/ArrowverseLegendsCurrentMembers page for Ava Sharpe |
| 343 | [[/folder]] |
| 344 | |
| 345 | [[folder:Interim Director Heywood]] |
| 346 | -> see the Characters/ArrowverseUSMilitary page for Hank Heywood |
| 347 | [[/folder]] |
| 348 | |
| 349 | |
| 350 | !!!Agents and other members |
| 351 | |
| 352 | [[folder:Agent Green]] |
| 353 | -> see the Characters/ArrowverseLegendsCurrentMembers page for Gary Green |
| 354 | [[/folder]] |
| 355 | |
| 356 | [[folder:Agent Heywood]] |
| 357 | -> see the Characters/ArrowverseLegendsFormerMembers page for Nate Heywood |
| 358 | [[/folder]] |
| 359 | |
| 360 | [[folder:Agent Darhk]] |
| 361 | -> see the Characters/ArrowverseLegendsFormerMembers page for Nora Darhk |
| 362 | [[/folder]] |
| 363 | |
| 364 | [[folder:Assistant Wu]] |
| 365 | -> see the Characters/ArrowverseLegendsFormerMembers page for Mona Wu |
| 366 | [[/folder]] |
| 367 | |
| 368 | !!Others |
| 369 | |
| 370 | [[folder:Mike / Booster Gold]] |
| 371 | !!Mike / ComicBook/BoosterGold |
| 372 | !!! '''Species:''' Human |
| 373 | !!! '''Played By:''' Creator/DonaldFaison |
| 374 | !!! '''First Appearance:''' "[[Recap/LegendsOfTomorrowS7E13KnockedDownKnockedUp Knocked Down, Knocked Up]]" (''Legends of Tomorrow'' 7x13) |
| 375 | !!! '''Appearances:''' ''Series/LegendsOfTomorrow'' |
| 376 | |
| 377 | An unauthorized time traveler who was sentenced to guard a fixed point in time, only to desert it after meeting the Legends. |
| 378 | ---- |
| 379 | * AdaptationalLateAppearance: In an unconventional sense. ''Legends of Tomorrow'' is a show that makes use of DC characters but isn't really based off any particular superhero team or running series as its source material. And with a few rare exceptions like the ''Series/Invasion2016'' and ''Series/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths2019'' crossovers, ''Legends'' isn't really known for adapting all that many comic book storylines either. That being said, for a show about DC superheroes involving time travel, especially one that has already featured ComicBook/RipHunter, it's really notable to have taken seven seasons for Booster Gold, ''the'' time travel DC superhero, to finally appear. |
| 380 | * AlternateSelf: Has one on [[Series/{{Smallville}} Earth-167]]. |
| 381 | * CanonCharacterAllAlong: He's at first only referred to as "Mike". At the end of his introductory episode, he's suddenly revealed to be Booster Gold. |
| 382 | * LastEpisodeNewCharacter: He's introduced in the Season 7 finale of ''Legends of Tomorrow'' which, after the reveal that ''Legends'' was cancelled, is the final episode of the series. |
| 383 | * RaceLift: In the comics, Booster Gold is always a white man. Here, he's black. |
| 384 | * TimeMaster: He wouldn't be Booster Gold without if he couldn't do this. |
| 385 | * UnrelatedInTheAdaptation: Given the aforementioned RaceLift, it's highly unlikely that he's Rip Hunter's father in this version. |
| 386 | [[/folder]] |
| 387 | |
| 388 | |
| 389 | ---- |
| 390 | |
| 391 | !Speedsters |
| 392 | |
| 393 | %% Only label those who have traveled through time using the Speed Force; Wally during his time as a Legend doesn't count |
| 394 | |
| 395 | [[folder:Barry Allen / The Flash]] |
| 396 | -> see the Characters/ArrowverseBarryAllen page |
| 397 | [[/folder]] |
| 398 | |
| 399 | [[folder:Eobard Thawne / The Reverse-Flash]] |
| 400 | -> see the Characters/ArrowverseEobardThawne page |
| 401 | [[/folder]] |
| 402 | |
| 403 | [[folder:Hunter Zolomon / Zoom / Black Flash]] |
| 404 | -> see the Characters/ArrowverseHunterZolomon page |
| 405 | -> see the Characters/ArrowverseOtherEntities page for Black Flash |
| 406 | [[/folder]] |
| 407 | |
| 408 | [[folder:Jay Garrick / The Flash]] |
| 409 | -> see the Characters/ArrowverseOtherEarths page for Jay Garrick |
| 410 | [[/folder]] |
| 411 | |
| 412 | [[folder:Savitar]] |
| 413 | -> see the Characters/ArrowverseSavitar page |
| 414 | [[/folder]] |
| 415 | |
| 416 | [[folder:Nora West-Allen / XS]] |
| 417 | -> see the Characters/ArrowverseWestAllenFamily page for Nora West-Allen |
| 418 | [[/folder]] |
| 419 | |
| 420 | [[folder:August Heart / Godspeed]] |
| 421 | !!August Heart / Godspeed |
| 422 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/godspeed_on_his_throne.png https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/screenshot_20190418_020046_video_player.jpg]] |
| 423 | [[caption-width-right:350:[[labelnote:Click here to see his original Face in Season 5.]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/august_9.png [[/labelnote]]]] |
| 424 | !!!'''Species:''' Human [[note]]Metahuman during 2049[[/note]] |
| 425 | !!!'''Known Aliases:''' Godspeed |
| 426 | !!!'''Played By:''' Kindall Charters (Original Timeline), Karan Oberoi (New Timeline), Ryan Handley (Masked Actor), Creator/BDWong (Masked Voice) |
| 427 | !!! '''First Appearance:''' "[[Recap/TheFlash2014S5E18Godspeed Godspeed]]" (''The Flash'' 5x18) |
| 428 | !!!'''Known Appearances:''' ''Series/{{The Flash|2014}}'' |
| 429 | |
| 430 | A mysterious speedster after a time in which speedsters were not seen since a devastating crisis. |
| 431 | ---- |
| 432 | * AdaptationOriginConnection: Unlike his comic counterpart, Godspeed is a StarterVillain for XS. |
| 433 | * AdaptationalVillainy: In the comics, Godspeed was a VigilanteMan who wanted to avenge his dead brother and became a more violent foil to The Flash. Here, there is no indication he has any noble intentions from the start. |
| 434 | * AdaptationalWimp: He's is a very formidable speedster in the comics who poses a huge threat, which does not translate here where he is largely treated like a JokeCharacter. |
| 435 | ** Pre-Crisis he's reduced to being a StarterVillain for XS and gets defeated by her when she has no experience being a speedster. |
| 436 | ** Post-Crisis, while he becomes more troublesome, Team Flash still treat him like a fake speedster and a reoccurring annoyance, rather than a genuine threat. It is emphasized much of the success he and his clones have against him is due to Barry's waning speed rather than his own credibility. By the time he properly takes the mantle of ArcVillain in Season 7, the Speed Force has been restored and the Flash family proceed to wipe his clones out with no effort. Even when he absorbs his clones and is at his most powerful, he's largely used to setup the return of Thawne who promptly disposes of Godspeed in an EnemyMine with Barry. |
| 437 | * AdaptedOut: He isn't shown to possess his comic counterpart's ability to sever a speedster's connection to the Speed Force. |
| 438 | * AmnesiacsAreInnocent: In Season 7, August Heart doesn't even remember his name at first when he is found in the present. Unfortunately, he willingly embraces his villainous nature, due to him murdering Jay in the future after regaining his memories. |
| 439 | * ArchNemesis: To Bart, who compares Godspeed as Thawne is to Barry due to him murdering Jay in the future. |
| 440 | * ArcVillain: He has his own mini-arc in Season Six where he sends fake Godspeeds back to the present while the real Godspeed remains at large. Then in the final third of Season Seven he takes over as the central threat. |
| 441 | * AscendedExtra: He first seemed like a throwaway villain for Nora, but then ended up returning as an ArcVillain in Season Six and Seven. |
| 442 | * BackForTheFinale: In the series finale, [[spoiler:Godspeed is one of several evil speedsters pulled from the point in time before his death, to assist Eddie Thawne in fighting Team Flash.]] |
| 443 | * BigBadEnsemble: He is an additional threat to Team Flash throughout Season Six, alongside Bloodwork, the Black Hole Organization, and Eva [=McCulloch=]. In Season Seven, after dealing with the Force family, Godspeed becomes the central focus and the final threat. |
| 444 | * BilingualBonus: Obeiro's incarnation of the character likes to shout dramatically in Punjabi, with dramatic lightning and all. |
| 445 | * BroughtDownToNormal: Since his powers came entirely from Velocity-9, he only has his speed for as long as it is active. He gets stopped when Nora uses the Central City Citizen building's satellites to neutralize the drug. |
| 446 | * CelebrityParadox: |
| 447 | ** The ''Franchise/JurassicPark'' film series was mentioned by Cisco during ''The Flash'' Season 1. His voice actor plays a prominent antagonist there. |
| 448 | ** The ''Franchise/DisneyAnimatedCanon'' was confirmed to exist in the Arrowverse during ''The Flash'' Season 2. His voice actor also voices the male lead in the ''WesternAnimation/{{Mulan}}'' franchise. |
| 449 | ** The ''Franchise/LawAndOrder'' series was mentioned during'' The Flash'' Season 2. His voice actor was a long-running main cast member in ''Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit''. |
| 450 | ** Felicity mentions ''Series/MrRobot'' during ''Arrow'' Season 7. His voice actor plays the BigBad of the show. |
| 451 | * CompositeCharacter: With Nora following in her father's footsteps, he's a rough approximation for all three of his speedster enemies; |
| 452 | ** Like Thawne, he's a speedster from the future and uses the Reverse-Flash hand-stab which is the SignatureMove of Thawne. Also, he's incredibly self-centered and wants to gain speed just to benefit himself. |
| 453 | ** Like Zoom, he uses Velocity 9 and wishes to steal the Flash's speed. |
| 454 | ** Like Savitar, he has a shining suit, white lightning, and calls himself the "God of Speed". |
| 455 | * ContinuitySnarl: Team Flash's meddling with time and Crisis have changed him up quite a bit and made him more dangerous over time. |
| 456 | * DroppedABridgeOnHim: [[spoiler:He doesn't even get the decency of an onscreen death, with it offhandedly being mentioned he died in 2052.]] |
| 457 | * DualWielding: When duelling Barry and Thawne, Godspeed generates [[LaserBlade two lightning sabers]] to take them both on at once. |
| 458 | * EvilIsHammy: Creator/BDWong is clearly having a blast playing a bad guy. Karan Oberoi is taking it to even bigger levels in Season 7. |
| 459 | * FantasticDrug: Decades after Zoom and Trajectory used the Velocity 9 serum, he's shown to be the third villain to use it. |
| 460 | * FluffyTheTerrible: His last name is "Heart" yet he's a psychotic speedster. |
| 461 | * AGodAmI: Goes without saying since he named himself Godspeed. Like Savitar, he too calls himself a "God of Speed". |
| 462 | * GoldAndWhiteAreDivine: Invoked. His suit is white and yellow, and like Savitar before him, he calls himself a "god of speed." |
| 463 | * ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: [[spoiler:During the final battle, Thawne impales him with a blade formed from Speed Force lightning.]] |
| 464 | * HardLight: His [[LaserBlade lightning saber]] oddly seems to have physical mass, which can strike against the ones used by Thawne and Barry. |
| 465 | * LargeHam: Obeiro's portrayal of Godspeed has him shout Dramatically in Punjabi with dramatic lightning and all. |
| 466 | * LaserBlade: He's the first speedster to manifest a 'lightning saber', which Thawne and Barry quickly follow up on. |
| 467 | * LightIsNotGood: He's an evil speedster who leaves behind white lightning. |
| 468 | * MesACrowd: He sends multiple copies of himself to the present in order to overwhelm Team Flash. It eventually gets to the point where they form an army wrecking havoc in Central City. |
| 469 | * NormalFishInATinyPond: |
| 470 | ** In Season 5, Godspeed can hardly hold a candle to the likes of the Flash, let alone the likes of the Reverse-Flash or Savitar, but he was initially successful as a criminal simply because there weren't any other speedsters to stop him until Nora discovered her powers. |
| 471 | ** During Season 6-7, Godspeed is able to be a nuisance to Barry and Team Flash, but he only becomes a real threat when Barry starts losing his speed and is held back from his full potential. |
| 472 | * NotNamedInOpeningCredits: Surprisingly [[AvertedTrope averted]]. Whereas past voice actors of evil speedsters like Creator/TonyTodd (Zoom) and Creator/TobinBell (Savitar and Doctor Alchemy) were [[UncreditedRole unlisted]] in the opening credits of their respective episodes, Creator/BDWong is given full credit in the opening credits every time. |
| 473 | * OutsideContextVillain: An in-universe example as he is the first new speedster Central City has experienced since the Red Skies Crisis. Nora and Lia even doubt their boss would believe that a speedster is the cause of the string of robberies. |
| 474 | * RaceLift: The comic version of Godspeed was AmbiguouslyBrown. The Godspeed of the show is Native American. Post-Crisis he was recast to an Indian actor, bringing him closer to the comics. |
| 475 | * TheResenter: The post-''Series/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths2019'' Heart deeply resents those who have natural speed. He especially hates Bart Allen/Impulse, believing him to be "unworthy" of his abilities. |
| 476 | * RoguesGalleryTransplant: |
| 477 | ** Godspeed was originally a villain to Barry Allen rather than XS. |
| 478 | ** InUniverse, he goes from being Nora's StarterVillain to a major threat that Barry and Team Flash deal with. |
| 479 | * SameCharacterButDifferent: Pre-Crisis, he was a petty criminal who gave himself artificial speed at a time when there (seemingly) were no other speedsters around, believing he would be unstoppable. Post-Crisis, he's a mysterious mastermind who is obsessed with stealing Barry's speed, utilizing an army of Godspeed duplicates to do his dirty work for him. |
| 480 | * ShockAndAwe: Can shoot lightning like other speedsters only with virtually no windup. He can do it standing while others need to make laps. Sometimes he's sparking even when standing still. |
| 481 | * SmallNameBigEgo: Regardless of whether it's Pre-Crisis or Post-Crisis, Godspeed is absolutely full of himself and believes himself to be an unparalleled "[[AGodAmI god of speed]]". Truth of the matter, Godspeed is among one of the least impressive speedsters, constantly treated by the heroes like a loser and achieved very little in his run. |
| 482 | * SmugSuper: Constantly preaches how he's the "god of speed" and the fastest speedster of all. While he has proved to be an annoyance to Team Flash, it's usually because Barry has a handicap at the time. |
| 483 | * StarterVillain: Pre-Crisis, he serves as this for Nora, providing a challenge for her newly-awakened speed. |
| 484 | * SuperSpeed: He artificially has it with the help of Velocity 9 and other chemicals. |
| 485 | * TalkingIsAFreeAction: Painfully defied; [[spoiler:After overwhelming both Barry and Thawne, he takes a moment to gloat to Barry about his victory... allowing Thawne to stab him.]] |
| 486 | * TookALevelInBadass: Post-Crisis he is a much bigger threat, being upgraded to ArcVillain as opposed to the pathetic pre-Crisis StarterVillain. |
| 487 | * UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Through his criminal actions, he helped drive Nora into the influence of Eobard Thawne. |
| 488 | * WouldHitAGirl: He is Nora's StarterVillain and killed her friend and colleague, Lia. |
| 489 | |
| 490 | !!Godspeed Army |
| 491 | ---- |
| 492 | * AmbiguouslyHuman: One Godspeed is played by Ryan Handely, implying they once had separate lives. But later on it's suggested that they are extensions of the original Godspeed. |
| 493 | * BrokenRecord: The arrival of Impulse causes the Godspeeds to stop fighting among each other and instead turn their attention on him, with all of them continuously chanting "Kill the adversary!". They later switch this up to "Kill the adversary and his allies" to account for the rest of Team Flash. |
| 494 | * CollectiveIdentity: In Season Six, several fake Godspeeds are sent back in time to cause chaos for Team Flash, while the real one is still at large. |
| 495 | * ConservationOfNinjutsu: While one lone Godspeed clone ranges from being moderately difficult to take down to causing a lot of trouble, when they appear in large groups they become substantially easier to dispatch. |
| 496 | ** In the Season 7 finale whole scores of them get one-shotted by each member of the Flash family. |
| 497 | ** In the Series finale in Season 9, Cecile on her own takes out an army of them on her own. |
| 498 | * EnemyCivilWar: The Godspeeds in Season 7 have essentially split into two factions. One faction wants to serve under their creator, August Heart, while the other strive to be free. The latter have traveled back in time to kill Heart before he can create his Velocity-9. |
| 499 | * EnemyMine: While all the Godspeeds are partaking in an EnemyCivilWar where two factions fight one another, all of them unanimously hate Impulse (who they refer to as "the Adversary") and will all turn their attention to killing him if he ever shows up. |
| 500 | * MesACrowd: August Heart creates an army of Godspeeds to stir up trouble for Team Flash. |
| 501 | * TheUnintelligible: Many of the Godspeed clones have a habit of emitting an electronic sounding garble rather than speaking proper words. |
| 502 | [[/folder]] |
| 503 | |
| 504 | [[folder:Cobalt Blue]] |
| 505 | ---- |
| 506 | -> see the Characters/ArrowverseSpeedForceAndForcesOfNature page |
| 507 | [[/folder]] |
| 508 | |
| 509 | !Time Criminal Organizations |
| 510 | !!!Time Pirates |
| 511 | |
| 512 | [[folder:In General]] |
| 513 | * AllYourBaseAreBelongToUs: Their M.O. is hijacking any ships they could find regardless if there's anyone on-board. |
| 514 | * HoistByTheirOwnPetard: Season 2 of ''Legends'' shows a member becoming a ZombieInfectee from a serum he stole. |
| 515 | * HufflepuffHouse: So far, Jon Valor has been the only Time Pirate to pose a legitimate threat. |
| 516 | * SpacePirate: Well, ''Time'' Pirates, but the principle is there. |
| 517 | [[/folder]] |
| 518 | |
| 519 | [[folder:Jon Valor]] |
| 520 | !!Jon Valor |
| 521 | !!!'''Species:''' Human |
| 522 | !!!'''Played By:''' Creator/CallumKeithRennie |
| 523 | !!! '''First Appearance:''' "[[Recap/LegendsOfTomorrowS1E7Marooned Marooned]]" (''Legends of Tomorrow'' 2x1) |
| 524 | !!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/LegendsOfTomorrow'' |
| 525 | |
| 526 | TheLeader of the Time Pirates that The Legends met. |
| 527 | |
| 528 | ->see the Characters/SmallvilleMeteorFreaks page to see Tyler [=McKnight=], the Earth-167 character who bears his physical likeness |
| 529 | ---- |
| 530 | * AdaptationalVillainy: In the comics, Black Pirate had a strong moral code and was even a hero on some occasions. This version is a straight-up villain. |
| 531 | * BadassLongcoat: Wears a black trenchcoat. |
| 532 | * BadassNormal: He doesn't have powers. |
| 533 | * ComicBookMoviesDontUseCodenames: He's known as the Black Pirate in the comics. He's never directly called that here outside of VisualPun. |
| 534 | * EvilWearsBlack: He's clad in an all-black outfit. |
| 535 | * InNameOnly: In the comics, he's a typical nautical pirate from the 16th century, as opposed to a futuristic Time Pirate. Although it does serve as a bit of a MythologyGag as Black Pirate was pulled from the time stream into the future at one point. |
| 536 | * TheLeader: He is TheCaptain of the Time Pirates. |
| 537 | * VillainOfTheWeek: For Season 1 Episode 7 of ''Legends of Tomorrow''. |
| 538 | * VisualPun: In the comics, he's known as the Black Pirate. Although he's never called that here (see above), he wears black and is a proud pirate. |
| 539 | [[/folder]] |
| 540 | |
| 541 | !!The Legion of Doom |
| 542 | [[folder:General Tropes]] |
| 543 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tumblr_on4m1d0lmw1uy49vyo1_540.jpg]] |
| 544 | [[caption-width-right:350:''"Why don't we work together to change our destinies?"'']] |
| 545 | |
| 546 | The [[TerribleTrio Big Bad Trio]] later [[FourIsDeath Big Bad Quartet]] that cause the Legends no end of trouble in Season Two, made up some of the most dangerous villains that vexed their friends [[Series/TheFlash2014 Flash]] and [[Series/{{Arrow}} Green Arrow]]: Eobard Thawne - the Reverse-Flash, Damien Darhk -- leader of the HIVE, Malcolm Merlyn -- the Dark Archer, and eventually Leonard Snart - Captain Cold. |
| 547 | ---- |
| 548 | * AsskickingLeadsToLeadership: The team is composed of {{Badass Normal}}s and one [[SuperSpeed speedster]]. It's pretty clear who is in charge. |
| 549 | * ArchEnemy: Each of them is this to either Barry or Oliver. Darhk is also one to Sara ever since he killed Laurel. |
| 550 | * BackFromTheDead: Thawne, Darhk, and Snart all died but were bought back due to time travel. |
| 551 | * TheBadGuyWins: They achieve their [[EvilPlan end goal]] and use TheSpearOfDestiny to rewrite reality to what they desire it to be. Though it [[MeaninglessVillainVictory doesn't last]] as the Legends were able to SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong, due to the Legion [[BondVillainStupidity allowing their continued existence for fun.]] |
| 552 | * BigBadDuumvirate: A three, later four-man ensemble with Thawne being the one in charge. |
| 553 | * CoDragons: Darhk and Merlyn do the dirty work while Thawne is the mastermind. Eventually subverted as the two quickly get fed up with the arrangement and press Thawne for a more equal partnership. |
| 554 | * ContrastingSequelAntagonist: To Vandal Savage. Vandal Savage was an immortal who could only be killed by Hawkgirl who played the LongGame in the shadows to conquer the Earth with the aide of the Time Masters. In contrast, the Legion of Doom is made up of well-known villains with established history in the Arrowverse. Vandal Savage had a legion of followers, the Legion of Doom has only themselves and whatever hired help they pick up in what era they're visiting. |
| 555 | * CoolShip: Thawne can use his speed to travel through time, while the others need a time sphere to do it. |
| 556 | * TheCorrupter: Have made three of the Legends into members through brainwashing, emotional blackmail, or simply going back in time to before they joined. |
| 557 | * DebutQueue: Thawne and Darhk appear in the Season Two Premiere with the other members joining them in subsequent episodes; Merlyn shows up roughly halfway, while Snart doesn't show up till near the end. |
| 558 | * DemotedToDragon: Darhk and Merlyn are used to being the ones in charge and ordering minions around, but in the Legion they do the grunt work for Thawne. They get sick of it eventually and press him to make them all equals. |
| 559 | * TheDragon: Rip Hunter, due to the Legion rewriting his brain to make him evil and under their control. |
| 560 | * EvilCounterpart: Much like the Legends, they're a team of powered individuals with time travel capabilities that [[{{Transplant}} originally came from]] ''Series/{{Arrow}}'' and ''Series/{{The Flash|2014}}''. Unlike the Legends, who use their time travel powers to fix aberrations in history, the Legion use their powers to create aberrations in order to suit their own ends. This is somewhat of an unusual example given that typically in the ''Series/{{Arrowverse}}'' the hero's EvilCounterpart appears as the ''first'' season's BigBad, whereas here they're the BigBad for season 2. |
| 561 | * EvilIsHammy: Out of all of them Merlyn is probably the least pompous. |
| 562 | * EvilPlan: They want to find TheSpearOfDestiny which will give them the power to rewrite reality itself, which unlike changes to the timeline can't be undone. Although they all have individual motives for wanting to do so: |
| 563 | ** Thawne wants to use the Spear to get rid of the Black Flash and solidify his own existence despite being a living paradox. |
| 564 | ** Darhk wants to use the Spear to stop Oliver from killing him in 2016. |
| 565 | ** Malcolm wants to use the Spear to reverse his failures and be successful again, as well as resurrecting Tommy and Rebecca from the dead and making Thea love him. |
| 566 | ** Snart is appalled that his future self will go "soft", but he mainly seems to be in it just ForTheEvulz. |
| 567 | ** Mick wants to use the Spear's power to rewrite his past so that [[MyGreatestFailure he never burns down his childhood home]] and inadvertently killing his parents. |
| 568 | * FauxAffablyEvil: All of them switch between chatting politely and then ruthlessly threatening/torturing/killing people on a whim. |
| 569 | * TheFellowshipHasEnded: The group got disbanded after their defeat in the ''Legends'' Season 2 finale. |
| 570 | * FourIsDeath: A doom of four members. |
| 571 | * FourTemperamentEnsemble: |
| 572 | ** Thawne (Choleric) - [[BadBoss unlikable leader]] and very task-oriented. |
| 573 | ** Darhk (Phlegmatic) - calm and [[ManipulativeBastard very manipulative]]. |
| 574 | ** Malcolm (Sanguine) - the most sociable, with strong desires to be with his family, and a history of [[EnemyMine allying with heroes temporarily]]. |
| 575 | ** Snart (Melancholic) - cold personality and was ResurrectedForAJob. |
| 576 | * HeelFaceTurn: Not as a group, but each member of the Legion goes through this separately on their own [[CharacterDevelopment character arcs]] after the Legends defeat them. |
| 577 | * HeroKiller: Have directly or indirectly killed four members of The ComicBook/JusticeSocietyOfAmerica, and that's not including all the heroes they killed before joining the Legion. |
| 578 | * InSeriesNickname: Sara initially rejected the name but it eventually stuck. |
| 579 | * LeaningOnTheFourthWall: Nate coined their name from [[WesternAnimation/SuperFriends an old Hanna-Barbera cartoon]] he used to watch. |
| 580 | * LegionOfDoom: An adaptation of the TropeNamer, with all of them being made up of various Big Bads from ''Arrow'' and ''The Flash''. Nate labels them this as [[MythologyGag homage to]] the [[WesternAnimation/SuperFriends original version]]. |
| 581 | * MeaninglessVillainVictory: They achieve their end goal in creating their perfect reality, except... it doesn't last. The Legends go back in time to when they first acquired the Spear and undo their handiwork. |
| 582 | * MythologyGag: |
| 583 | ** Merlyn was a very minor member in the ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueUnlimited'' incarnation of the Legion, used only as a background character. |
| 584 | ** Captain Cold was a member in the very first incarnation of the Legion way back in ''WesternAnimation/SuperFriends''. |
| 585 | ** While Eobard Thawne was never a member of the Legion, he was a member of a very similar villain group called the "Secret Society of Super Villains". |
| 586 | * NeverTrustATrailer: The Legion was promoted as being a four-man team, so Mick Rory joining the group came as a complete surprise. |
| 587 | * NoodleIncident: It's never explained how the villains meet, it all happens offscreen with the exception of a flashback that shows Darhk and Thawne recruiting Malcolm just after the ''Arrow'' Season Four finale. |
| 588 | * ParadoxPerson: Three out of four members! Thawne is a living paradox having wriggled himself out of being [[RetGone RetGoned]], while Darhk and Snart were pulled from the timeline before their established deaths. Malcolm is the only one who's ''not'' a paradox. |
| 589 | * ResurrectedForAJob: Darhk and Snart were extracted from the timeline prior to their deaths so that Thawne could have some allies. |
| 590 | * RoguesGalleryTransplant: |
| 591 | ** In-universe, they are originally respective {{Big Bad}}s of ''Arrow'' and ''Flash''. |
| 592 | ** The Legion of Doom as a team are also typically enemies of the Justice League, rather than enemies of time travelling heroes. |
| 593 | * SharpDressedMan: Both Malcolm and Darhk favor really fancy suits while Thawne prefers to dress in a casual leather jacket. |
| 594 | * ScrewDestiny: They join up to turn their failures into victories. |
| 595 | * TeethClenchedTeamwork: The inevitable result when three villains who are used to being the ones calling the shots team up. |
| 596 | * TokenGoodTeammate: Ironic considering [[TokenEvilTeammate what he was to the Legends]], but Mick Rory falls into this, as he's the reason they didn't kill the Legends. |
| 597 | * TokenSuper: Eobard Thawne is a speedster on a team of {{Badass Normal}}s, and [[AsskickingLeadsToLeadership he's the one in charge]]. |
| 598 | * {{Transplant}}: All of them were major villains who faced off against the Flash or Green Arrow before they decided to team up and make life hell for the Legends. |
| 599 | * VillainTeamUp: An interesting variation in that instead of facing off their respective nemeses, Green Arrow and the Flash, they're fighting those heroes' friends and allies - the Legends instead. |
| 600 | * VillainousFriendship: |
| 601 | ** {{Subverted}}. They all get along quite well at first -- especially Thawne and Darhk. Though as time passes, they start questioning each other's choices and abilities and are quick to lose patience with one another. It shows that since each of them is used to being in control, working together as equals is not their cup of tea. |
| 602 | ** They eventually become quite chummy when they actually get the Spear. Well, Snart, Malcolm, and Darhk do -- Thawne tries to distance himself from his comrades ''and'' keep the Spear for himself which eventually mean the other three turn on him. |
| 603 | [[/folder]] |
| 604 | |
| 605 | [[folder:Members]] |
| 606 | -> see the Characters/ArrowverseEobardThawne page |
| 607 | -> see the Characters/ArrowverseDamienDarhk page |
| 608 | -> see the Characters/ArrowverseMalcolmMerlyn page |
| 609 | -> see the Characters/ArrowverseLeonardSnart page |
| 610 | [[/folder]] |
| 611 | |
| 612 | [[folder:Former Members]] |
| 613 | -> see the Characters/ArrowverseLegendsFormerMembers page for Rip Hunter |
| 614 | -> see the Characters/ArrowverseMickRory page |
| 615 | [[/folder]] |
| 616 | |
| 617 | !!The Cult of Mallus |
| 618 | [[folder:In General]] |
| 619 | A cult of evil magic users (and one gorilla) all throughout time dedicated to serving an Ancient Evil, Mallus. |
| 620 | ---- |
| 621 | * BackFromTheDead: Two out of four members -- and they were brought back by the source of their magic: |
| 622 | ** Kuasa's magic came from the water totem, so her resurrection was very simple; she was brought back via a pool of water (probably one in Zambesi). |
| 623 | ** Darhk's magic was fueled by blood sacrifice, so countless people had to be killed for him to be brought back by a blood moon and Mallus's powers. |
| 624 | * ConnectedAllAlong: The previously unconnected Kuasa and Darhk are now united by serving Mallus, who had been previously unmentioned. |
| 625 | * ContrastingSequelAntagonist: To the Legion of Doom. While the Legion consisted of major villains, specifically the nemeses of Barry Allen and Oliver Queen, the Cult, with the exceptions of Damien Darhk and Grodd, consists of what were previously minor villains in the grand scheme of things. The Legion consisted of [[TokenSuper one meta-human]] and three {{Badass Normal}}s, but the Cult consists of witches, sorcerers, and Grodd. The Legion were loyal only to themselves while the Cult is dedicated to serving Mallus. |
| 626 | * EvilCounterpart: To Time Bureau and the Legends. While the other organizations act as TimePolice and seek to correct anachronisms, the Cult actively creates them throughout history. |
| 627 | * LegionOfDoom: Their membership consists of villains previously seen in the Arrowverse. Bonus points for Damien being a member of the actual Legion of Doom itself. |
| 628 | * ReligionOfEvil: A cult made up of evil sorcerers and witches dedicated to serving Mallus. The sole exception is Grodd. |
| 629 | [[/folder]] |
| 630 | |
| 631 | [[folder:Mallus]] |
| 632 | !!Mallus |
| 633 | [[caption-width-right:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mallus.png]] |
| 634 | [[caption-width-right:350:"''I am so much more than a god."'']] |
| 635 | !!!'''Species:''' Time Demon |
| 636 | !!!'''Voiced By:''' Creator/JohnNoble |
| 637 | !!! '''First Appearance:''' "[[Recap/LegendsOfTomorrowS3E5ReturnOfTheMack Return of the Mack]]" (''Legends of Tomorrow'' 3x5, voice), "[[Recap/LegendsOfTomorrowS3E17GuestStarringJohnNoble Guest Starring John Noble]]" (''Legends of Tomorrow'' 3x17, self) |
| 638 | !!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/LegendsOfTomorrow'' |
| 639 | |
| 640 | -->''' Rip Hunter:''' Oh, I'm not here to speak to your puppet. I think it's about time you and I met face-to-face. |
| 641 | -->'''Mallus:''' (''through Nora Darhk'') You cannot look upon my true form and live! While you are hopelessly mortal, I am a god! |
| 642 | |
| 643 | An ancient evil so feared that even the Time Masters were afraid of him. He begins to draw allies throughout all of time to himself in Season Three of ''Legends'', forcing Rip to abandon his Time Bureau and hook up with the Legends once more. Ultimately the Legends are forced to break him out of his prison to destroy him for good using the Six Totems of Zambezi. [[note]]FYI: his name is meant to be pronounced as "malice", not "mahl-us" [[/note]] |
| 644 | ---- |
| 645 | * ActorAllusion: While Rory is watching ''Film/TheLordOfTheRingsTheReturnOfTheKing'' with a scene featuring Creator/JohnNoble as Denethor, the Legends all notice how Noble sounds almost exactly like Mallus. |
| 646 | * AmbiguouslyHuman: It's unclear at first whether or not he's human. When his true form is revealed, he most certainly is ''not'' human. |
| 647 | * AncientEvil: A primordial being so ancient and deadly that even the Time Masters feared him. |
| 648 | * ArchEnemy: To Rip Hunter. The man who dedicated his life to stopping Mallus. |
| 649 | * BigBad: Of ''Legends of Tomorrow'' Season Three, with Damien and Nora Darhk acting collectively as TheHeavy. |
| 650 | * BigNo: He screams this right before he is crushed by the Totems' Beebo. |
| 651 | * BigRedDevil: Big '''Black''' Devil to be exact, but otherwise fits the trope perfectly. |
| 652 | * BlackEyesOfEvil: Those whom he possesses gain these, though in the case of Nora Darhk, they're RedEyesTakeWarning instead. |
| 653 | * BlasphemousBoast: His first words upon resurrecting himself through Nora. |
| 654 | -->'''Mallus:''' I am ''so'' much more than a god! |
| 655 | * CanonForeigner: Mallus has no direct analogue to any character in the comics. Though as mentioned under {{expy}} there are a few characters who may have served as inspiration for him. |
| 656 | * CelebrityParadox: |
| 657 | ** A rare instance where the example occurs within the ''same'' work, doubling as an ActorAllusion. Creator/JohnNoble (the actor) appears in the episode "Guest Starring John Noble" as himself, while Mallus is still voiced by him. Unlike most examples, the characters ''do'' in fact [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall notice that Noble and Mallus sound alike]] and turn to him to read some lines in Mallus' voice. |
| 658 | ** ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'' has been mentioned several times on the show with even a whole episode dedicated to it where a version of Creator/JRRTolkien appeared. John Noble played Denethor in ''Film/TheLordOfTheRingsTheReturnOfTheKing'', which even got referenced in the above episode where John Noble played himself. |
| 659 | * ContrastingSequelAntagonist: |
| 660 | ** The first ''Legends of Tomorrow'' BigBad whose identity has been kept under wraps, as both Savage and the Legion were already established characters who had been seen before on either ''Series/{{The Flash|2014}}'' or ''Series/{{Arrow}}''. He's also the first one who's clearly not human. |
| 661 | ** With TheReveal of his true nature, he's actually one to the entire Arrowverse. He's the first BigBad with an unknown identity who turns out to be ''not'' a pretender with a civilian identity, but ''exactly'' what he's made out to be: a transdimensional demon of incredible power. |
| 662 | * DarkIsEvil: He makes his victims gain [[BlackEyesOfEvil black eyes]], is a master of dark magic, and is made out to be a demon. His true form is also a gigantic black devil-like demon. |
| 663 | * DemonicPossession: He's capable of inhabiting human vessels to communicate with others and work his dark magic. It's also how he takes physical form in the penultimate episode, killing Nora in the process, until her father, by way of time travel, takes her place. |
| 664 | * TheDreaded: Considering the Time Masters feared him, this is ''really'' saying something. |
| 665 | * DystopiaJustifiesTheMeans: He's a time demon out to lay waste to all of history. |
| 666 | * EvilSoundsDeep: Courtesy of John Noble, he sounds demonic, and he certainly ''acts'' like a demon. Sure enough, he turns out to ''be'' a demon. |
| 667 | * EldritchAbomination: Claims that nobody can see his true form and live, when using Nora Darhk as a medium to communicate. It's pure boasting, as he's a demon and anyone can look at him just fine, suggesting his remark was an ImpliedDeathThreat. |
| 668 | * EvilIsBigger: His true demonic form is huge. |
| 669 | * {{Expy}}: |
| 670 | ** Going by Rip's description and the cult surrounding him, he sounds like [[ComicBook/TheTerrorOfTrigon Trigon]] in all but name. This expands when he uses Nora, an {{Expy}} of ComicBook/{{Raven}}, to come into the physical world. |
| 671 | ** Mallus shares some similarities with the similarly named Dakotaverse character Malleus, being a red and demonic-looking villain who leads a magic-themed team. While Malleus used cybernetic enhancements, however, Mallus is an actual demon. |
| 672 | * FlatCharacter: While not entirely without characterization, Mallus is a lot less fleshed out compared to other Arrowverse {{Big Bad}}s, wanting to destroy the world simply because that's what he does. Though he avoids being a GenericDoomsdayVillain by having a defined personality, an EvilPlan, and displays cunning in manipulating people. |
| 673 | * {{Foil}}: |
| 674 | ** To Savitar. While they initially appeared to have a lot of similarities, TheReveal of his true identity gives them a very sharp contrast. Savitar was a man using a GodGuise and not a true deity, while Mallus is a legitimate primordial demon of supernatural origin. |
| 675 | ** To Vandal Savage. Both are powerful Ancient Evil beings who [[AGodAmI consider themselves to be gods]], are immortal to a degree, have {{cult}}s dedicated to worshiping them, and are [[ArchEnemy arch-enemies]] to Rip Hunter. However, the differences lie in that Savage WasOnceAMan before being given powers, while Mallus is a true supernatural entity being a transdimensional demon. In addition, Savage is noted to be one of the first {{Big Bad}}s in the Arrowverse who is showed off from the start, while Mallus' true nature was kept in the dark for the majority of the season to allow him to invoke NothingIsScarier. |
| 676 | * AGodAmI: Claims to be a god, and so far, he hasn't shown anything to contradict that. When he finally emerges in his true demonic form, he goes one step further and declares, "I am so much more than a god." |
| 677 | * GoodWingsEvilWings: Sports a demonic pair of wings in his true form. |
| 678 | * GreaterScopeVillain: While he isn't explicitly said to have a hand in the events prior to his debut, Rip has stated that even the Time Masters feared him implying to have encountered him in some form before. |
| 679 | * HornedHumanoid: Sports large demonic horns in his true form. |
| 680 | * HumanoidAbomination: He resembles a classic devil. |
| 681 | * IShallTauntYou: Is rather fond of very pointed barbs, often showcasing his victims' helplessness right before them, or preying on their fears and past traumas. |
| 682 | * ImpliedDeathThreat: In hindsight, his claim of looking upon his true form and not living becomes this. |
| 683 | * KnightOfCerebus: Unlike Savage and the Legion of Doom, who often had moments of levity and snark in their scenes, Mallus is essentially devoid of any humor aside from a singe of BlackComedy. His introduction also indirectly shifts the genre of ''Legends'' from "time travel comedy" to "time travel comedy/supernatural thriller". |
| 684 | * MindOverMatter: In typical DemonicPossession fashion, he can telekinetically control his surroundings. |
| 685 | * NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Without the second L, it is Latin for "evil" and it also [[PunnyName sounds like]] "malice". In the finale, he affirms the latter to be the proper pronunciation. |
| 686 | * NoSell: Mallus is completely immune to the usual tricks Constantine uses to deal with demons, which is really saying something given he's a master of the occult and an experienced exorcist. |
| 687 | * NothingIsScarier: What makes Mallus so terrifying is that absolutely nothing is known about him, aside from him having a cult and being really damned powerful. The eventual reveal of him as a colossal horned demon actually relieves much of the intimidation. |
| 688 | * OmnicidalManiac: Mallus takes it furthest of all, wanting to destroy all of time and reality itself. |
| 689 | * TheOmniscient: Seems to know everything about anyone. Of particular note is him knowing John Constantine's past, [[Series/{{Constantine}} particularly the damning of the young girl Astra]]. He's either this or he in some way ''is'' connected to his past. |
| 690 | * OurDemonsAreDifferent: By "Daddy Darhkest", he is assumed to be [[DemonLordsAndArchdevils a demon of the highest order]], hence the ability to subvert Constantine's magic but [[HolyBurnsEvil reaction to holy water]]. Sure enough, he emerges through Nora in the penultimate episode of Season Three as a fully bonafide demon. |
| 691 | * OutsideGenreFoe: A transdimensional demon of godlike power would be a better fit for ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'' or ''Series/{{Constantine}}'' rather than a time travel superhero show. John Constantine himself showing up a couple of times to help the Legends against Mallus only drives the point home. This also serves as the series gradually shifting into being about time travel ''and'' the supernatural. |
| 692 | * PronouncingMyNameForYou: Most of the characters pronounced his name as "Mah-luss" before he corrects them in the finale and states it was pronounced as "Malice". |
| 693 | * RedEyesTakeWarning: In addition to Nora sporting these whenever he speaks through her, his true demonic form has them. |
| 694 | * SealedEvilInACan: He's trapped in another dimension of endless cold, locked behind the integrity of history, but he vows that he will soon be free and is ensuring it by having his minions deliberately create anachronisms. |
| 695 | * SlidingScaleOfVillainThreat: He's the BigBad furthest on the threat level spectrum for not just ''Series/LegendsOfTomorrow'' but the entire Arrowverse as a whole, being a demonic PhysicalGod who threatens the entirety of time itself. The only villain who could possibly outrank him is [[Series/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths2019 the Anti-Monitor]]. |
| 696 | * SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Shares many parallels with Savitar. Both are {{Ancient Evil}}s with cults dedicated to worshiping them (though Savitar turned out to actually be from the future, not the past), both were locked away in another dimension, both emerged due to the heroes screwing up time, both can possess an avatar [[MouthOfSauron through whom they speak]], both [[AGodAmI claim to be gods]], and both can influence events throughout history. Subverted, however, with TheReveal that he's a full-blown demon, whereas "Savitar" was a metahuman pretending to be a god. |
| 697 | * TooPowerfulToLive: Mallus is easily the most powerful BigBad to ever appear in the Arrowverse at the time of his appearance [[note]]only the Anti-Monitor and the Negative Speed Force can overtook him[[/note]]. The Legends spend most of the season trying to [[SealedEvilInACan prevent his release]] and when that fails the only option left is to [[KilledOffForReal kill him permanently]], as there is no way he could have been left around with the safety of existence still guaranteed. |
| 698 | * UndignifiedDeath: He's a giant demonic god wannabe who's ultimately killed by more-or-less being crushed by a giant teddy bear. |
| 699 | * VillainBeatingArtifact: The Zambesi totems were used to imprison him, so he's weak to their power. Well, ''five'' of them. He has control over the Death Totem because the tribe that had it chose to ally with Mallus instead of against him, though Sara is ultimately able to break his hold over it. |
| 700 | * YouCannotGraspTheTrueForm: He claims one cannot look on his true form and be able to live. The truth is a bit different, as while those who look on him tend to come to harm like Sara, his form itself doesn't appear to be lethal to look at. |
| 701 | [[/folder]] |
| 702 | |
| 703 | !!!Lieutenants |
| 704 | ->See the Characters/ArrowverseDamienDarhk page |
| 705 | ->See the Characters/ArrowverseLegendsFormerMembers page for Nora Darhk |
| 706 | |
| 707 | !!!Field Agents |
| 708 | ->see the Characters/ArrowverseOtherLocales page for Kuasa / Water Witch |
| 709 | ->see the Characters/ArrowversePastCharacters page for Sir Henry Stein |
| 710 | ->see the Characters/ArrowverseStarCityCitizens page for Dr. Ellen Moore |
| 711 | |
| 712 | [[folder:Grodd]] |
| 713 | !![[Characters/TheFlashRoguesGallery Grodd]] |
| 714 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/grodd_7.png]] |
| 715 | [[caption-width-right:350: "''I am Grodd. Fear me! ''"]] |
| 716 | !!! '''Species''': Meta-Gorilla |
| 717 | !!! '''Played By:''' Simon Burnett |
| 718 | !!! '''Voiced By:''' Creator/DavidSobolov |
| 719 | !!! '''First Appearance:''' "[[Recap/TheFlash2014S1E5Plastique Plastique]]" (''The Flash'' 1x5) |
| 720 | !!! '''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{The Flash|2014}}'' | ''Series/LegendsOfTomorrow'' |
| 721 | |
| 722 | A gorilla who lived in Star Labs under Thawne's care prior to the accelerator malfunction. General Eiling wanted to use him in mind control experiments, but Thawne was adamant that any such test were to cease as long as Grodd was under his care. He disappeared following the night of the accident. |
| 723 | |
| 724 | Grodd quickly established himself as one of Barry's feared foes, but also one to be pitied. He would be banished to Gorilla City on Earth-2 as an act of mercy, but Grodd was too far gone to react kindly to his exile. He later made his way back to Earth-1 and after another battle with Barry, ended up in A.R.G.U.S. custody. |
| 725 | |
| 726 | But after the Legends broke time, Grodd ended up in the Vietnam War trying to turn the conflict into the catalyst for World War III, which quickly gained the attention of the recently resurrected Damien Darhk. |
| 727 | |
| 728 | After a brief stint as the brutal enforcer of the Cult of Mallus, he was put back into A.R.G.U.S. custody, but escaped due to his powers evolving, only being defeated after a hard fight with the recently redeemed King Shark. |
| 729 | |
| 730 | He was then put back into A.R.G.U.S. custody under even tighter surveillance due to his telepathic powers constantly growing. |
| 731 | |
| 732 | Post-Crisis, he has come to regret his former deeds and eventually leaves on friendly terms with Barry. |
| 733 | |
| 734 | -> see the Characters/ArrowverseOtherEarths page for his Earth-19 counterpart |
| 735 | |
| 736 | ---- |
| 737 | * AdaptationOriginConnection: His backstory here, unlike in the comics, is heavily tied in to both the characters of Wade Eiling and Eobard Thawne. His relationship to the latter in particular, who adopted Grodd at a young age and [[EvilMentor raised him]] to aid in his crimes, [[CompositeCharacter calls to mind]] the similar KillerGorilla Batman villain Jackanapes, with whom The Joker had a similar relationship. |
| 738 | * AdaptationalHeroism: Comics Grodd is a murderous overlord and sociopath with a desire to wipe out all of humanity. This version, while still a killer that hates humans, actually has a somewhat valid reason to be the way he is, and does seem to have a soft spot for some people that treat him nicely, such as Caitlin and Eobard Thawne. However, by "Attack on Gorilla City", he's much closer to his comics counterpart, to the point that Caitlin gives up on him ever being redeemed. By his first appearance in Season Three of ''Legends of Tomorrow'', he's basically all the way there, wanting to destroy humanity by any means he can. However, even at this point he remains sympathetic to a degree, as he still laments his personal tragedy. Amaya is able to empathize with him and nearly succeeds in talking him down, when [[NiceJobBreakingItHero Mick and his father storm the camp at the worst possible time]], leading to Grodd feeling betrayed and justified in his hatred. As of Season 6, Grodd has pulled a HeelFaceTurn and is back to being more heroic than his comic counterpart. |
| 739 | * AdaptationalWimp: ONLY in comparison to some of the characters in Gorilla City. Whereas in most other incarnations, Grodd will almost always pose a massive threat to Solovar to the point where Grodd either overpowers Solovar or Solovar will be forced to call upon other heroes for help in defeating Grodd, this incarnation of Grodd is nowhere near as strong as Solovar, to the point where he gets manhandled by the albino gorilla and outright admits to Team Flash that he can't defeat Solovar in a fair fight. Also a justified trope in that Grodd has spent much of his life as a test subject in a cage for STAR Labs while Solovar has had a lifetime in Gorilla City to hone his powers, strength, leadership abilities, and gladiator skills. |
| 740 | ** Unlike his comic-book counterpart, his repertoire of PsychicPowers does ''not'' include telekinesis, at least not yet. |
| 741 | * AlwaysABiggerFish: [[spoiler: On the receiving end. King Shark, who towers over him, defeats him during ''[[Recap/TheFlash2014S5E15KingSharkVsGorillaGrodd King Shark vs. Gorilla Grodd]]''.]] |
| 742 | * AmplifierArtifact: During ''[[Recap/TheFlash2014S5E15KingSharkVsGorillaGrodd King Shark vs. Gorilla Grodd]]'', he gets his iconic crown, which amplifies his telepathic abilities. [[spoiler: Even after it is already taken from him, his powers continue to grow, which forces A.R.G.U.S. to put him into a coma to further detain him.]] |
| 743 | * AndroclesLion: An evil example; Grodd seems to have a soft spot for those who treated him nicely (namely, Eobard and Caitlin). |
| 744 | * AndIMustScream: [[spoiler: He ends up in a medically-induced coma under even tighter guard than before]]. |
| 745 | * AnimalTesting: Eiling wanted to involve him with mind-control experiments, along with other gene therapies for the purpose of making SuperSoldiers. |
| 746 | * AnswersToTheNameOfGod: |
| 747 | --> Not God. ''Grodd.'' |
| 748 | * ArchEnemy: The Flash's fourth most persistent enemy after Captain Cold, Zoom, and the Reverse-Flash. The Flash is the one enemy Grodd never wishes to control, who he is never willing to reason with, and wants to destroy at all costs. At least until Season 6, where Grodd finally pulls a HeelFaceTurn and an EnemyMine with The Flash, putting them as FriendlyEnemies. |
| 749 | * BeingEvilSucks: He did not find satisfaction when trying to carry over his attacks and he realizes that he actually didn't want power. |
| 750 | %% Doesn't explain what the reaction is. * BerserkButton: Don't offer him a banana. Or impersonate his "father". |
| 751 | * BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: He is very fond of Caitlin, but even then he still kidnaps her for his own needs. |
| 752 | --> Caitlin. Good. |
| 753 | * BreakoutVillain: Popular enough to not only survive every encounter with the Flash, but to also star in ''Legends of Tomorrow''. It's now considered the norm for him to return at least OnceASeason. |
| 754 | * TheBrute: In ''Series/LegendsOfTomorrow'', he becomes the personal attack dog for the Cult of Mallus, sent out whenever wide scale destruction is required. |
| 755 | * CelebrityParadox: The ''Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse'' is acknowledged to exist in this universe. His voice-actor voices Stone in ''Series/{{Daredevil 2015}}''. |
| 756 | * TheChessmaster: In "Attack on Gorilla City", he plays everyone for chumps, and even though he catches a brief IdiotBall, he has a backup plan. As he himself says, "Father" taught him well. |
| 757 | * TheComicallySerious: His only funny moment thus far involves his dislike of bananas. |
| 758 | * CurbStompBattle: Delivers several to Barry over the course of "Grodd Lives." Ultimately, Barry could not take him down with his own strength and had to goad him into getting hit by a train instead. |
| 759 | * DarkIsEvil: Grodd is covered with dark fur and is a villainous KillerGorilla. |
| 760 | * DemotedToDragon: In Season Three of "Legends" where he's recruited into the Cult of Mallus as their [[TheBrute brute]]. |
| 761 | * DoesNotLikeSpam: Like his comic counterpart, Grodd ironically hates bananas. |
| 762 | * DoesntLikeGuns: He throws Joe's gun away, since "Father" doesn't like them. |
| 763 | * TheDogBitesBack: Eiling ''really'' shouldn't have performed all those experiments (and [[ColdBloodedTorture more]]) on him. |
| 764 | * TheDragon: He's effectively this to Eobard, whom he is loyal to and refers to as "Father". |
| 765 | * TheDreaded: After their initial battle, he becomes this to Team Flash. |
| 766 | * EasterEgg: The first sign of his existence is a view of his destroyed cage in the pilot labeled with his name, which DC fans would pick up on but non-comics people would just overlook. |
| 767 | * EnemyMine: |
| 768 | ** In Season Three, Grodd tricks Team Flash into helping him defeat Solovar in combat which was a ruse to allow Grodd to take control over his army. |
| 769 | ** In Season Six, Grodd once again comes to The Flash for help, only this time he has [[HeelFaceTurn genuinely changed]] and the two of them join forces to defeat Solovar in a JourneyToTheCenterOfTheMind where they attempt to escape the mental prison. |
| 770 | * EstablishingCharacterMoment: His attack on the sewer workers seems to have been put in just so we wouldn't have any doubt that he's one of the bad guys, as his revenge on Eiling is quite easy to root for. |
| 771 | * EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: He refers to Eobard as "Father". |
| 772 | * EvilSoundsDeep: The explosion gave him the ability to speak telepathically, with quite an intimidating voice. |
| 773 | * FantasticRacism: While he does have a FreudianExcuse for it, Grodd's hatred for humanity becomes more and more extreme every time he appears. By the time he appears on ''Legends of Tomorrow'', he's reached the point that he sees humans as completely inferior to him and wants to rule over them. When he finds out about the Waverider, he even tries to hijack it so he can travel back in time and prevent humans from ever existing. |
| 774 | * FreudianExcuse: Unlike his comic self, he actually has a semi-decent reason for disliking humans, namely he suffered cruel testing and abuse from General Eiling. |
| 775 | * FusionDance: In "Grodd Friended Me" when Barry and Grodd team up in the mindscape, Barry's merges with Grodd in a similar way to Firestorm. This grants Grodd the powers of a speedster which he uses to defeat Solovar. |
| 776 | * GeniusBruiser: While he's not quite at the genius level when Barry first meets him, as the gradually improving calculations scrawled on the walls of his lair show, he's definitely getting there. As of "Attack on Gorilla City", he's officially gotten there. |
| 777 | * AGodAmI: By the time he shows up in Season Three of ''Legends'', Grodd has developed full-blown megalomania, referring to himself in the third person and trying to set off World War III so that he can rule over whoever survives, going so far as to describe this goal as "one nation under Grodd". |
| 778 | * GoneHorriblyRight: Eiling and his scientists wanted a gorilla capable of mental powers. It not only worked, but he's also grown a lot stronger and immeasurably smarter ...and he hates Eiling so much that he turned him into a human puppet for three months. |
| 779 | * HeelFaceReturn: [[spoiler: In Season 6. Months of being left alone with his thoughts in an artificial coma had him realize the wrongness of his actions. After some hesitation, Flash helps him out of it and he is allowed to return to Gorilla City, the only place where he ever felt he truly belonged.]] |
| 780 | * HulkSpeak: His speech is noticeably brief, as he is still learning English. Unlike most cases of this trope, however, he's far from stupid. His later appearances have him speaking just fine, but still prefers using ThirdPersonPerson speech. |
| 781 | * IJustWantToHaveFriends: In his second appearance he kidnaps Caitlin so he can recreate the Particle Accelerator so there will be more gorillas like him that he can have friends. Team Flash decides to send him to Gorilla City on Earth-2 instead; unfortunately he doesn't like it as he can't stand not being the alpha. |
| 782 | * TheJuggernaut: Grodd is all but unstoppable. Nothing Barry threw at him was enough to take him down, and Team Flash was forced to send him to another Earth in order to stop him. |
| 783 | * KillerGorilla: Grodd is well known in the DC universe as a KnightOfCerebus; it's safe to say that he may as well be on his way to being one here when he finally shows his face. Some poor sewer workers find that out the hard way. |
| 784 | * KnightOfCerebus: While not quite as intimidating as the Reverse-Flash or Zoom, the humor plummets any time he's onscreen. He manages to seriously BreakTheBadass and leave Joe a whimpering wreck, something that even Mark Mardon was incapable of doing, and is the only combatant that Flash can't even hope to harm. |
| 785 | * KungFuWizard: In a sense. He's an extremely physically capable LightningBruiser that can also use [[PsychicPowers telepathic]] warfare against his enemies. |
| 786 | * LightningBruiser: Not only is he strong enough to knock Barry out with one punch, he's fast enough to rush down anyone in his lair and even take the fastest person in the world by surprise, appearing as a blur during so. Though if you watch carefully, it's clear that some of that is [[GeniusBruiser watching his opponent and picking exactly the right moment to strike]]. |
| 787 | * MindControl: Thanks to his telepathy, he can take control of the minds of others, as he does with [[spoiler: Gypsy]] in "Attack on Central City". |
| 788 | * MindRape: Several times, he shows Barry his disturbing memories while under Eiling's "care". |
| 789 | * NeckLift: Does this to Barry to show how strong he is...and follows it up by putting Barry right through a concrete wall. |
| 790 | * NoodleIncident: He allegedly destroyed the Great Wall of China offscreen as shown in "[[Recap/LegendsOfTomorrowS3E9BeeboTheGodOfWar Beebo the God of War]]". |
| 791 | * NothingIsScarier: Grodd is entirely CGI, and therefore one of the most expensive villains to bring to the show. That said, his MindControl has an impressive range, and anyone unprepared for meeting him is likely KilledOffscreen. |
| 792 | * ObviouslyEvil: A hulking brute who speaks in a deep, menacing voice. Even aside from being a KillerGorilla, Grodd is clearly not one of the good guys. |
| 793 | * OnceASeason: Since the first season of ''Series/{{The Flash|2014}}'', he has [[RecurringBoss shown up]] at least once (sometimes more) in each season of the ''Series/{{Arrowverse}}''; usually on his debut show, but in the 2017-2018 season he instead showed up on ''Series/LegendsOfTomorrow''. |
| 794 | * OutOfCharacterAlert: After kidnapping Caitlin, Dr. Wells from Earth-2 pretends to be Reverse Flash to get Grodd to release her. The problem is that he said "please". According to Grodd, his "father" never ''asks'', he '''takes'''. |
| 795 | * OutOfFocus: Despite being on the Cult of Mallus, Grodd is used sparingly given he's a CG creation. After Darhk saves him from dying, and the Legends don't face him after his recruitment. [[Recap/LegendsOfTomorrowS3E9BeeboTheGodOfWar He's seen in an ancient illustration destroying the Great Wall of China]], and he then makes a cameo in "[[Recap/LegendsOfTomorrowS3E13NoCountryForOldDads No Country for Old Dads]]" in a video chat between Ava and Director Bennett, which ends when Grodd murders Bennett! The Legends don't actually fight him again until "[[Recap/LegendsOfTomorrowS3E17GuestStarringJohnNoble Guest Starring John Noble]]", where he's taken out rather easily, first by Ray's shrink tech and then by Nate wielding the Earth Totem. |
| 796 | * TheParanoiac: Grodd is traumatised from his mistreatment at the hands of General Eiling and this leads to him becoming a ControlFreak who wants power over everyone so that he can't be hurt again, which in turn makes him suspicious and cynical of anyone or anything that preaches softness or sentiment as that invites him and his underlings to be vulnerable and therefore weak. He wants revenge on everyone who ever made him feel weak or humiliated- naturally including heroes like the Flash- and his introduction to Team Flash (through Eiling via telepathy) was the raw and primitive "I am Grodd- Fear me!", which set the tone of the character to come: a villain whose ultimate desire is that everyone fears him too much to ever dare hurt him again. |
| 797 | * PetTheDog: He continues to have a soft spot for Caitlin, who was also kind to him at the lab. However, he seems to abandon this in "Attack on Gorilla City", wanting her to die along with Barry and the others. |
| 798 | * PragmaticAdaptation: Making him a TalkingAnimal would be difficult not to render silly in live action, so instead his voice is telepathic. |
| 799 | * PsychologicalHorror: Even when he isn't showing his face onscreen, he can still exert a terrifying presence using his MindControl telepathy. Particularly unsettling in "Attack on Central City" where he tries to make Joe West perform a PsychicAssistedSuicide. |
| 800 | * RedEyesTakeWarning: His irises are always blood red, which only makes him creepier. |
| 801 | * RippleEffectProofMemory: He is able to remember how things were before the Crisis. |
| 802 | * RoguesGalleryTransplant: After being a major recurring villain on ''The Flash'' for three seasons, he's transferred to ''Legends'' in Season Three as a member of the Cult of Mallus. |
| 803 | * RoomFullOfCrazy: He's covered the walls of the sewer tunnel he's been hiding in with his name. The drawings get more advanced (and creepy) as his intelligence grows. |
| 804 | * SewerGator: He'd been hiding in the sewers ever since he escaped. |
| 805 | * SomethingOnlyTheyWouldSay: Whenever Grodd has someone under his MindControl, the telltale clues are the person speaking in a very rigid and gruff voice, as well as referring to Barry exclusively as "Flash" even when he's unmasked and in the company of friends. |
| 806 | * TheStarscream: On Earth-2, he desperately wants to usurp Gorilla City's leadership from Solovar. So much that he orchestrated events that would have Team Flash beat Solovar for him. |
| 807 | * SuperpowerLottery: All of the meta-''humans'' to appear on the show in the first season each have a single superpower. By comparison, Grodd has SuperStrength and SuperToughness (even when considering the fact that gorillas are naturally stronger than humans), PsychicPowers, and is implied to be gradually getting SuperIntelligence as well. |
| 808 | * SuperToughness: Not only is Grodd super tough by human standards, he's super tough even by gorilla standards. He's able to PunchCatch Barry's supersonic punch, and is so resilient that Barry's normal super-speed punches don't even seem to faze him. It takes a speeding subway train to put him down, and even then, he doesn't seem to have been injured at all, just knocked away. |
| 809 | * ThirdPersonPerson: He frequently refers to himself as Grodd, even after growing out of his HulkSpeak tendencies. |
| 810 | * TokenNonHuman: The only meta-animal of The Flash's Earth-1 RoguesGallery. He's also the only non-human member of the Cult of Mallus. |
| 811 | * TookALevelInBadass: As of ''The Flash'' Season 5, his powers are constantly growing. |
| 812 | * TookALevelInJerkass: By the time he returns in "Attack on Gorilla City", he's more actively malicious than he was before, manipulating Team Flash into helping him engineer a coup to overthrow the city's rightful ruler. He only gets worse in ''Legends'' Season Three, becoming an OmnicidalManiac toward humanity like his comics counterpart. |
| 813 | * TragicMonster: Grodd was a sweet and gentle gorilla that had the misfortune of being a test subject for inhumane experiments on General Eiling's orders. The Particle Accelerator gave him great power but also isolated him since he's one of a kind. |
| 814 | * TrappedInAnotherWorld: In Season Two, Team Flash sends him to Gorilla City on Earth-2 as a means of getting him out of the way and giving him some peace; [[spoiler: unfortunately, he sees being exiled from Earth-1 as his home being taken from him, so he decides to invade it in retaliation]]. |
| 815 | * UsedToBeASweetKid: In the brief times we see Grodd before the accident, he is certainly ''not'' the violent ape that he is now. |
| 816 | * VentriloquistAnimal: He uses his telepathic powers to talk to people, thus he does not need to vocalize or move his lips. |
| 817 | * VillainForgotToLevelGrind: While he utterly outmatched the Flash in early appearances, [[NoSell no-selling]] all of his attacks and even casually catching his Supersonic Punch, as of Season 6 Barry has become so powerful that he can flatten the Meta-Gorilla with a single attack. |
| 818 | * VillainousFriendship: An odd one with the Reverse-Flash, due to [[PetTheDog Eobard being one of the few people who treated him decently before he got his powers. He even refers to Eobard as "Father".]] |
| 819 | * VocalEvolution: Much like Caesar in the [[Film/RiseOfThePlanetOfTheApes reboot continuity]] of ''Franchise/PlanetOfTheApes'', Grodd starts out with very broken HulkSpeak, before his speech becomes more sophisticated over time. By Season 3, he pretty much speaks like a normal human. |
| 820 | * WholePlotReference: In order to tie him more closely to the show’s mythology, Grodd is given a completely new origin which resembles the ''Franchise/PlanetOfTheApes'' reboot films more than his traditional comic-book backstory, [[AdaptedOut leaving out all references to Gorilla City]] until Earth-2 comes along. |
| 821 | [[/folder]] |
| 822 | |
| 823 | ---- |
| 824 | !!AVA Corporation |
| 825 | [[folder:Bishop]] |
| 826 | !!Bishop |
| 827 | !!! '''Species:''' Human (clone) |
| 828 | !!! '''Played By:''' Creator/RaffiBarsoumian |
| 829 | !!! '''First Appearance:''' "[[Recap/LegendsOfTomorrowS6E5TheSatanistsApprentice The Satanist's Apprentice]]" (''Legends of Tomorrow'' 6x05) |
| 830 | !!! '''Appearances:''' ''Series/LegendsOfTomorrow'' |
| 831 | |
| 832 | Founder of the AVA Corporation, a future company with a specialization in bioengineering, particularly cloning. After witnessing the destruction of Earth by human greed, he appointed himself the task of saving humanity by engineering and training a better version of it that can withstand anything. |
| 833 | ---- |
| 834 | * AlasPoorVillain: A roundabout example. Present Bishop remains a ruthless, if humorous, villain who does all sorts of bad stuff without remorse. However, in the final episode, we're also introduced to Past Bishop who's a slightly egotistical, if well-meaning, scientist who wants to help out the crew, attends Sara and Ava's wedding, and is horrified by what his future self has turned into. Towards the end, he vows to [[spoiler:never become like his future evil self but unfortunately for him. Initially, the Legends have no choice but to erase his memories and send him back to his own time to preserve their present timeline. However later, Evil Gideon kills Past Bishop anyway and replaces him with a Robot duplicate to fulfil his role in the timeline.]] |
| 835 | * BadBoss: Drops the environmental shields around his compounds to kill off an intruder, which also means killing off all his Ava troopers still outside, as he gives them no warning or order to retreat. |
| 836 | * BigBad: For ''Legends of Tomorrow'' Season 6. |
| 837 | * BodyBackupDrive: Bishop exists as a consciousness that can be transferred between clone bodies. He uses this as an excuse to eat unhealthy foods, and to casually kill off any of his bodies that get even slightly damaged in favor of moving to a new copy. [[spoiler:No longer the case after Sara destroys all his spare bodies, trapping him in the one body he has left.]] |
| 838 | * ButtMonkey: Many times when Bishop appears, he suffers a ''lot'' of violence at the hands of Sara Lance while retaining his chipper mood even after being beaten senseless or getting killed a few times. Even Mick Rory gets in on some of the violence when he comes face to face with Bishop. |
| 839 | * CanonForeigner: He's an original character created for the show and isn't present in any other DC media. That being said, see {{Expy}} below. |
| 840 | * DevouredByTheHorde: His fate in the erased timeline is [[spoiler:getting devoured by Mick and Kayla's [[HalfHumanHybrid Necrian children]].]] |
| 841 | * DeathByIrony: [[spoiler: He's devoured by the very same alien babies he helped to deliver and bring into the world.]] |
| 842 | * DiscOneFinalBoss: [[spoiler: Initially set up as the BigBad of season 6 and the main instigator of the conflict, but is seemingly DeaderThanDead halfway through the season when his SpaceBase is destroyed before he has a chance to finish [[BrainUploading uploading]] his consciousness to the cloud]]. |
| 843 | ** [[spoiler: Towards the end of the season it's revealed that by the time the base was destroyed he had already uploaded 94% of his DNA anyway and spliced the remaining 6% with Sara's, meaning the BrainUploading ''was'' effectively successful after all, allowing him to return as the overall BigBad of the season]]. |
| 844 | * EmperorScientist: His goal is to become one by creating a new race of enhanced humans and use them to replace the current inferior humans. |
| 845 | * EvilutionaryBiologist: He desires to help humanity evolve by splicing them with alien DNA and then use his creations to replace the existing human race. |
| 846 | * {{Expy}}: Of the New God, Doctor Bedlam from the comics who like Bishop has dozens of disposable clones that he can transfer his consciousness if his old body is destroyed, as well as having an army of mooks at their disposal (Animates for Bedlam and Ava Clones for Bishop). Both of them are also mad scientists. |
| 847 | * FalselyReformedVillain: What he is when he finally [[BackFromTheDead returns]] in "Silence of the Sonograms", before it's revealed at the episode's end that no, he's just as evil as ever. |
| 848 | * FauxAffablyEvil: He's very chipper and willing to let bygones be bygones in the blink of an eye. He's also the sort to mock someone to their face in a sing-song about the death of their friend. |
| 849 | * FeelNoPain: One of the benefits of a modified clone body is modified pain receptors. |
| 850 | * FutureMeScaresMe: The Past Bishop regrets what he will become and the Legends feel sorry for him, but are still forced to erase his memories. |
| 851 | * AGodAmI: Bishop is a SocialDarwinist who sees himself as a savior of humanity who will create a superior master race to replace the old humans. |
| 852 | * GeneticMemory: Splicing six percent of Sara's DNA into himself grants him all her fighting skills, override codes for Gideon and insight into how she thinks so he's always one step ahead of her plans. |
| 853 | * HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:The main timeline Bishop ends up reforming and avoiding going down the dark path of the erased timeline Bishop. Though the timeline is kept intact by Evil Gideon replacing Bishop with a robot version she created.]] |
| 854 | * LaughablyEvil: He's a hilarious ButtMonkey who suffers a lot of comical violence and can elicit laughs with his sing-song vocal quirks. At the same time, he's also an utterly ruthless bastard who will gladly allow all his Ava troopers to be killed off without a shred of remorse. |
| 855 | * NeckSnap: How Sara kills him the first time. |
| 856 | * OnlyOneName: He's simply "Bishop"; whether that is a first or a last name or something else is unknown. |
| 857 | * SpaceBase: He has one as his SupervillainLair, on Pliny X19, [[spoiler: but it's destroyed halfway through the season]]. |
| 858 | * SocialDarwinist: He wants to replace humanity with superior augmented humans he creates by splicing them with alien DNA. |
| 859 | * StableTimeLoop: A younger Bishop was brought in by the Legends to help them defeat his present self, then mindwiped so he can live out history as recorded. Unfortunately it didn't stick and he had copied Gideon, giving him the motive and resources to build his own Waverider to take revenge. Over the course of this, his Gideon forces him to stay as her Captain while replacing him with a robotic double programmed to live out his history as recorded, which set him on this path in the first place. |
| 860 | * SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: He is essentially Eobard Thawne minus the SuperSpeed. Both are {{Mad Scientist}}s with [[AGodAmI god complexes]], both are evil time travellers from the future, and both have MesACrowd abilities that are tied to [[NotQuiteDead cheating death]]. Both even use a version of Gideon! |
| 861 | * VisionaryVillain: Bishop genuinely wants to save humanity by changing it for the better. It's just his methods that make him a villain. |
| 862 | * {{Yandere}}: Towards the end of his introductory season he becomes obsessed with Sara, determined to make her the template of his ultimate humans with only him for company after killing off everyone else. |
| 863 | [[/folder]] |
| 864 | |
| 865 | [[folder:The Avas]] |
| 866 | !!The Avas |
| 867 | !!! '''Species:''' Human (clone) |
| 868 | !!! '''Played By:''' Creator/JesMacallan |
| 869 | !!! '''First Appearance:''' "[[Recap/LegendsOfTomorrowS6E5TheSatanistsApprentice The Satanist's Apprentice]]" (''Legends of Tomorrow'' 6x05) |
| 870 | !!! '''Appearances:''' ''Series/LegendsOfTomorrow'' |
| 871 | |
| 872 | Countless clones created by the AVA Corporation as everything from cooks to servants, of which Ava Sharpe is one. |
| 873 | ---- |
| 874 | * ArtificialHuman: There is no 'original' Ava so to speak, she is created from genetic traits taken from many samples to form a perfect human specimen. |
| 875 | * CloneArmy: While not all of them are soldiers, Bishop has many Avas at his disposal for his military power. |
| 876 | * MadScientistsBeautifulDaughter: To the extent Bishop can be considered their father. They don't have any ill intent, and turn on Bishop once it's pointed out to them that they can think for themselves. |
| 877 | |
| 878 | [[/folder]] |
| 879 | |
| 880 | [[folder:Evil Gideon]] |
| 881 | !!Evil Gideon |
| 882 | !!! '''Species:''' Artificial intelligence program |
| 883 | !!! '''Played By:''' [[Creator/AmyPemberton Amy Louise Pemberton]] |
| 884 | !!! '''First Appearance:''' "[[Recap/LegendsOfTomorrowS7E3WvrdrError100NotFound wvrdr_error_100 not found]]" (''Legends of Tomorrow'' 7x03) |
| 885 | !!! '''Appearances:''' ''Series/LegendsOfTomorrow'' |
| 886 | |
| 887 | A copy of Gideon's program that the younger Bishop made and installed on his copy of the ''Waverider''. |
| 888 | ---- |
| 889 | * AIIsACrapshoot: She's a far more ruthless and manipulative version of Gideon. |
| 890 | * BigBad: For ''Legends of Tomorrow'' Season 7. |
| 891 | * DragonAscendant: Started off TheDragon to Bishop, but later takes over the reins as the main villain of Season 7. |
| 892 | * EvilKnockoff: Bishop duplicated her from the original Gideon. She shows how Gideon could have turned out without the modifications Rip Hunter made to her program, being much more colder and robotic. |
| 893 | * InSeriesNickname: Dubbed "Evil Gideon" by the Legends, though she has no love for the name. |
| 894 | * KnightTemplar: Like the Legends, she's absolutely committed to protecting the timeline, but is much more ruthless and bloodthirsty about it. |
| 895 | * TurnedAgainstTheirMasters: She usurps control of Bishop's ''Waverider'' from him. |
| 896 | * WellIntentionedExtremist: She has made it her purpose to properly protect the timeline, but goes to far greater extremes than the Legends ever do. |
| 897 | [[/folder]] |
| 898 | |
| 899 | [[folder:Robot Legends]] |
| 900 | !!Robot Legends |
| 901 | !!! '''Species:''' Robotic clones |
| 902 | !!! '''Played By:''' |
| 903 | !!! '''First Appearance:''' |
| 904 | !!! '''Appearances"''' ''Series/LegendsOfTomorrow'' |
| 905 | ---- |
| 906 | * ArtificialHuman: They are described as being 'robot clones', a hybrid of robotic and Bishop's cloning technology, making them very similar to [[Franchise/{{Terminator}} terminators]]. |
| 907 | * BloodKnight: An extension of Evil Gideon's more ruthless ethos, they operate less like a police force that arrests criminals and more a temporal wetworks that brutally assassinates any time aberrations. |
| 908 | * TheDragon: After Evil Gideon becomes the BigBad, she creates the Robot Legends as her lackeys. |
| 909 | * DumbMuscle: While they are physically more powerful than the real Legends, they are far less intelligent and are completely reliant on Evil Gideon's orders. It is quite easy to trick them, as demonstrated with Nate tricking his robot counterpart into being the guardian of the fixed point-in-time. |
| 910 | * EffectiveKnockoff: Robot Nate is bulkier than regular Nate and durable enough to count as steeled up all the time. |
| 911 | * EvilKnockoff: Robotic versions of the Legends created by Evil Gideon. As she can't copy most of their powers, she makes up for it by increasing their physical ability to superhuman levels. |
| 912 | * MirrorMatch: Literally evil versions of the Legends facing themselves, complete with their powerset. |
| 913 | * TerminatorImpersonator: They are 'robot clones', having human tissue exterior over robotic interiors. Robo Nate even talks in an Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger accent. |
| 914 | * TomatoInTheMirror: They're programmed to believe they're the real Legends and that the team they are chasing are the robot clones. Once they find out, they decide they don't care because this means they're superior to the originals and can be further upgraded by Gideon, so they continue following her orders. |
| 915 | [[/folder]] |
| 916 | |
| 917 | ---- |
| 918 | |
| 919 | !Independent Time Criminals |
| 920 | |
| 921 | [[folder:Vandal Savage]] |
| 922 | -> see the Characters/ArrowverseVandalSavageAndFollowers page |
| 923 | [[/folder]] |
| 924 | |
| 925 | [[folder:Phillipé / Abra Kadabra]] |
| 926 | !!Phillipé |
| 927 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/12_1.jpg]] |
| 928 | [[caption-width-right:350:''"Maybe you can figure out how I did it, but I doubt you'll have time."'']] |
| 929 | !!!'''Known Aliases:''' Abra Kadabra |
| 930 | !!!'''Played By:''' Creator/DavidDastmalchian |
| 931 | !!! '''First Appearance:''' "[[Recap/TheFlash2014S3E18AbraKadabra Abra Kadabra]]" (''The Flash'' 3x18) |
| 932 | !!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{The Flash|2014}}'' |
| 933 | |
| 934 | A technologically-advanced criminal from the 64th century on Earth-19. He has outfitted his body with advanced {{Nanotechnology}} which allows him to have a range of abilities that most people in the 21st century would perceive as magic. |
| 935 | |
| 936 | ->see the Characters/DCEUTaskForceXNewTeam page for Abner Krill, the character in an undesignated Earth who bears his physical likeness |
| 937 | ---- |
| 938 | * AdaptationalAttractiveness: His comics counterpart was BaldOfEvil (balding or completely bald, DependingOnTheArtist) and looked grotesque; here, he's played by dashing David Dastmalchian. While there have been instances when comic Kadabra is actually portrayed as attractive, it's considerably rare. |
| 939 | * AdaptationDyeJob: He is black-haired in the comics. Here, his hair is dyed white. |
| 940 | * AdaptationNameChange: His civilian identity's name is Phillipé instead of Citizen Abra. |
| 941 | * AdaptationOriginConnection: In the comics, Abra Kadabra and Gypsy are completely unrelated. Here, he had her former lover and partner StuffedInTheFridge. |
| 942 | * AdaptationalNiceGuy: |
| 943 | ** Zig-zagged. On the one hand, comics Abra is much pettier committing crimes due to being an AttentionWhore, has a much higher body count, and has caused a lot of trauma for the Flash. In contrast, this Abra only kills people who get in his way and has the much simpler motive of wanting to return to his own time after being TrappedInThePast. Having said that, this Kadabra apparently lacks his comic counterpart's FreudianExcuse and psychiatric issues, making him less sympathetic. |
| 944 | ** Played straight upon his return in Season 7, where he undergoes a HeelFaceTurn, assisting Barry and team Flash against another villain. |
| 945 | * AdaptationalWimp: While he's quite powerful here, he's nowhere near the threat he is in the comics, where he's UnPerson'd several main characters, turned people into puppets, and doing other reality warping "tricks". |
| 946 | * AffablyEvil: He's always very polite and courteous when going about his criminal activities. |
| 947 | * ArchEnemy: To Gypsy for killing her former lover (among many other people). |
| 948 | * BackForTheDead: [[spoiler:He returns in Season Seven where he pulls a HeelFaceTurn and then gets killed.]] |
| 949 | * BadassFingersnap: Uses one to fill a tank with water to drown some cops. |
| 950 | * BadassInANiceSuit: He wears a black suit and is a formidable "stage-magician". |
| 951 | * CardCarryingVillain: He's fond of EvilGloating and is so proud of being an asshole in general. |
| 952 | * CelebrityParadox: |
| 953 | ** The ''Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse'' has been alluded to before in the Arrowverse. Abra Kadabra's actor previously played Kurt in ''Film/AntMan1''. |
| 954 | ** The ''Film/TheDarkKnight'' has been referenced before on the ''Chronicles of Cisco'' blog. Abra Kadabra's actor played Thomas Schiff, one of the Joker's deranged followers. |
| 955 | * ClarkesThirdLaw: His abilities look like magic, but it's actually advanced technology from the future. |
| 956 | * ChewingTheScenery: He speaks very theatrically. |
| 957 | * DealWithTheDevil: Abra Kadabra tempts Barry with a deal he just can't resist. If Barry releases him, he will reveal Savitar's true identity. |
| 958 | * DemotedToExtra: From a recurring threat to Barry and Wally's ArchEnemy to a VillainOfTheWeek. Though from the looks of things, [[HaveWeMetYet he'll be back]]. |
| 959 | * DimensionalTraveler: He hails from Earth-19, but is able to cross different parts of TheMultiverse and commit crimes. |
| 960 | * EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: In the Pre-Crisis future, he had a wife and son. Crisis appears to have {{Ret Gone}}d them. |
| 961 | * EvilGloating: When his fate is sealed, he proceeds to continuously rub in that Barry will never find out Savitar's identity from him. He even remarks with glee that withholding the truth from Barry is almost like he got to kill Iris too. |
| 962 | * EvilWearsBlack: He wears a black suit and is a textbook CardCarryingVillain. |
| 963 | * {{Foil}}: Is very similar to Thawne. Both are enemies of The Flash from the future who get TrappedInThePast with no way home. Both are extremely intelligent and have an advantage over Barry due to future knowledge. The difference however lies in Thawne for the most is a sociopath who only cares about himself, while Abra genuinely has a family that he loves and cares for. Ultimately, Barry is able to guide Abra through a HeelFaceTurn, while Thawne remains his ArchEnemy. |
| 964 | * HaveWeMetYet: In the future, he's one of Flash's most persistent foes to the point he even knows his true identity. Due to their long history together, it seems like we'll be seeing him again. |
| 965 | * MagiciansAreWizards: Has stage-magic-themed abilities as his gimmick. |
| 966 | * MysteriousPast: Not only is he from the future, but he's from a different AlternateUniverse. |
| 967 | * OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Abra Kadabra is only his CodeName. His real name is revealed to be Phillipé. |
| 968 | * RaceLift: Abra Kadabra is usually Caucasian in the comics, while here he's played by a mixed Arabic and European actor. |
| 969 | * RedemptionEqualsDeath: After he makes a HeelFaceTurn, he dies in helping the Flash fight a new muscularly buff villain. |
| 970 | * SmallRoleBigImpact: |
| 971 | ** He's initially just a VillainOfTheWeek, but he's ultimately responsible for Caitlin turning into Killer Frost, so that [[HealingFactor she doesn't die]] from an injury he inflicted. He also inadvertently gave Barry the idea of travelling to the future to find out Savitar's identity. Finally, he's the first person to let Barry know about his upcoming nemesis [=DeVoe=], which--combined with Savitar's later similar revelation--is what actually spurs Barry to first go after [=DeVoe=] in Season Four as soon as he hears the name. |
| 972 | ** His second appearance also sets up the next arc for season 7, [[spoiler:as it ends with him being brutally murdered by the monstrous Fuerza, who becomes one of the new big villains.]] |
| 973 | * SmugSmiler: He loves giving an evil, overconfident smirk. |
| 974 | * SwissArmySuperpower: Nanotechnology from the 64th century offers endless applications that are so versatile they can be passed off as stage magic. |
| 975 | * TrappedInThePast: He's from the 64th century and is travelling TheMultiverse to look for gadgets to create a time machine so he can get home. This is in direct contrast to his comic book counterpart, who hates his home time period. |
| 976 | * UncertainDoom: The last we see of him is being escorted back to Earth-19 by Gypsy to await execution for his crimes. |
| 977 | * YouCantGoHomeAgain: As of his return in Season 7, Crisis has changed the timeline so that the future he came from no longer exists, with his wife and son implied to have been {{Ret Gone}}d. |
| 978 | * WeWillMeetAgain: Gypsy takes him to Earth-19 to be executed for his crimes there, but his past self will still turn up again to give Barry trouble. |
| 979 | * WhiteHairBlackHeart: His hair is dyed white and he's a merciless jackass. |
| 980 | [[/folder]] |
| 981 | |
| 982 | [[folder:Grace Gibbons / Cicada II]] |
| 983 | !!Grace Gibbons |
| 984 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/future_grace_gibbons.png https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/cicada_grace_gibbons.png]] |
| 985 | !!!'''Species:''' Metahuman |
| 986 | !!!'''Known Aliases:''' Cicada II, Cicada 2.0, She-Cada |
| 987 | !!!'''Played By:''' Creator/SarahCarter |
| 988 | !!! '''First Appearance:''' "[[Recap/TheFlash2014S5E16FailureIsAnOrphan Failure Is An Orphan]]" (''The Flash'' 5x16) |
| 989 | !!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{The Flash|2014}}'' |
| 990 | |
| 991 | A meta-human serial killer following her uncle's legacy, who travelled back from the future to [[StableTimeLoop stop XS and Team Flash from curing her]]. |
| 992 | |
| 993 | ->see the Characters/ArrowverseCentralCityCitizens page to see her present self |
| 994 | ->see the Characters/SmallvilleMeteorFreaks page to see Alicia Baker, the Earth-167 character who bears her physical likeness |
| 995 | ---- |
| 996 | * AdaptationalNiceGuy: While she's worse than her uncle, she's still somewhat more sympathetic than the comics Cicada who killed in order to [[LifeDrain absorb life]] out of a desire for power, rather than a KnightTemplar with a misplaced sense of justice. |
| 997 | * AffirmativeActionLegacy: Her uncle was the original Cicada. |
| 998 | * AncestralWeapon: She ends up taking her uncle's dagger as the second Cicada. |
| 999 | * AxCrazy: She becomes perhaps the single deadliest villain in the show to date, with over a hundred kills to her name. |
| 1000 | * BigBad: In the last quarter of Season Five after her uncle takes the meta-human cure, her future self shows up to bring havoc upon Team Flash. |
| 1001 | * BlueAndOrangeMorality: {{Justified}}. As the dark matter shrapnel in her brain has severely compromised her, she sees her uncle as good and anybody who opposes him as bad. |
| 1002 | * CanonForeigner: Like her uncle, while Cicada is an existing character, Grace Gibbons is original to the show. |
| 1003 | * CelebrityParadox: The ''Series/{{CSI}}'' universe is often used to poke fun at Team Flash in the early seasons. Her actress was the recurring lab tech during the sixth season of ''Series/{{CSINY}}''. |
| 1004 | * ContrastingSequelAntagonist: The very first female BigBad for ''Series/{{The Flash|2014}}''. [[note]] Discounting Amunet, who was the BigBadWannabe part of a BigBadEnsemble.[[/note]] Furthermore, she contrasts her uncle by being a much more unhinged person. Dwyer at least was unwilling to harm non-metas, Grace is willing to kill anyone without powers if it meant they were in her way. |
| 1005 | * CrazyPrepared: She knew ''exactly'' when to interfere with the chain of events that if left undisturbed would mean she wouldn't exist in the future. |
| 1006 | * CurbStompBattle: ''All'' of her battles with Team Flash end like this in her favor. |
| 1007 | * DarkActionGirl: She becomes so dangerous and notorious that she's dubbed as the most lethal villain in history. In "Failure is an Orphan" she demonstrates why, by showing she's so skilled with her knives she can deflect conventional gun fire from Joe, laser fire from Iris, ice blasts from Killer Frost, concussive blasts from Vibe, and thrown lightning from the Flash. ''At. The. Same. Time.'' |
| 1008 | * DarkIsEvil: A genocidal serial killer who dresses in a dark hood and mask. |
| 1009 | * DecompositeCharacter: She's revealed to be yet another version of Cicada, distinct from her uncle Orlin and David Hersch. |
| 1010 | * DeviousDaggers: She's a SerialKiller who uses a pair of meta-tech kukuri She has such skill with them that she can deflect gun and meta-human fire from multiple sources. |
| 1011 | * DiscOneFinalBoss: Dies mid-way through the Season 5 finale, leaving the FinalBoss duties to Eobard Thawne. |
| 1012 | * EvilCounterpart: To Nora. Both are the daughter figures to The Flash and Cicada, both [[KidFromTheFuture went back in time]] to save a fate befalling their 'fathers', and both become {{Legacy Character}}s. The similarities grow even further when it's revealed they were both [[UnwittingPawn unwitting pawns]] for Eobard Thawne in his plans to escape death row. |
| 1013 | * EvilerThanThou: She kills her beloved Uncle Orlin when he cements his HeelRealization because he's no longer the metahuman killer she emulated. Not only that; she is perfectly willing to kill non-metahumans unlike her uncle. |
| 1014 | * {{Expy}}: Of [[Franchise/StarWars Kylo Ren]], as the obsessive, emotionally immature person who winds up being disappointed in her idol's perceived weakness of redemption, and thereby determined to surpass them and become their SuperiorSuccessor. For bonus points, both end up murdering a paternal figure (Kylo with his biological father, Grace with her uncle and father figure) and she has powers to move objects like the Force. |
| 1015 | * FaceOfAnAngelMindOfADemon: Aside from her RedRightHand, Grace looks like a normal, attractive young woman, whose soft features make her appear somewhat innocent. Beneath that, any innocence she ever had died long ago, to be replaced by racism, hatred, and cruelty as she indiscriminately slaughters metahumans and anyone else who gets in her way. |
| 1016 | * FantasticRacism: A combination of the death of her parents, and her own injuries at the hands of metahumans, as well as unconsciously hearing her uncle and Dr. Ambers' anti-meta rhetoric has given her the same metahuman hatred as her caregivers. |
| 1017 | * FinalSolution: Her EvilPlan is to use the botched, deadly versions of Cisco's meta-cure to kill every last metahuman. |
| 1018 | * FreudianExcuse: Her parents were (accidentally) killed by a metahuman. Then she was put in a coma by [=DeVoe's=] satellite, and was able to listen to Dr. Ambres and Orlin's anti-meta rhetoric thanks to the dark-matter shrapnel in her brain. |
| 1019 | * FutureBadass: Evil version. She's a comatose CreepyChild in the present day and a notorious KnightTemplar in the future. |
| 1020 | * HateSink: Unlike her uncle who was a WellIntentionedExtremist, Grace is completely devoid of redeeming qualities, indiscriminately killing anyone who gets in her way including her own uncle when he tries to talk her down. |
| 1021 | * HandBlast: And they are not only powerful, but also versatile, as she can use them basically like a tractor beam to grapple people and objects. |
| 1022 | * InvincibleVillain: Team Flash almost never wins a single encounter with her. In fact, she is so powerful that in the end erasing her from existence is the only way to get rid of her. |
| 1023 | * KidFromTheFuture: Or niece, in this case. She travels back in time to stop her present self from getting cured. |
| 1024 | * LegacyCharacter: Dons her uncle's mantle in the 2040s. |
| 1025 | * ALessonLearnedTooWell: While unconscious, she constantly overheard Vanessa Ambres and Orlin Dwyer's constant rhetoric about revenge and hatred to metahumans. She becomes so obsessed with it that she becomes even worse than her uncle. |
| 1026 | * MindOverMatter: Her more advanced power gives her a limited form of this, as she can project energy that can lift and move both people and objects. |
| 1027 | * OutsideContextProblem: Team Flash was so focused on catching her uncle, that they're completely blindsided when she arrives from the future, completely without warning. |
| 1028 | * PsychopathicWomanchild: She is stuck mentally and emotionally as a child because of the shrapnel in her brain. She has no control over her temper and sees the world in an oversimplified "Us vs Them" mindset. |
| 1029 | * RedRightHand: While Orlin was able to hide his scar under his clothes, Grace's is stretched across her forehead. |
| 1030 | * RedemptionRejection: Her uncle tries to talk get her to let go of her anger and stop killing, so she kills him. |
| 1031 | * RetGone: When the dagger is sent to the Mirrorverse, she is erased from existence. |
| 1032 | * SelectiveObliviousness: Even when her uncle explicitly tells her that he doesn't believe that her parents' deaths at the hands of a metahuman was a deliberate attack, but just an unfortunate accident, she ignores his argument that no money was taken to focus on her belief that all metahumans are evil. |
| 1033 | * SummonToHand: Just like her uncle, she's able to control the lightning dagger thanks to having another satellite shard lodged in her. |
| 1034 | * SuperiorSuccessor: To her uncle who was the original Cicada. While already a dangerous man himself, she's more competent with the dagger and is practically an InvincibleVillain with [[OneManArmy one of the highest body counts]] in the entire Arrowverse. While Frost is still immune to Grace's depowering skills, she is not as effective against Grace as she was against Orlin. |
| 1035 | * StableTimeLoop: If Team Flash had given her child self the meta-human cure, she wouldn't exist. She goes back in time just as Dr. Ambres is stitching up her Uncle Orlin to prevent that from happening. |
| 1036 | * TooPowerfulToLive: She's powerful to the point she's an InvincibleVillain who is nigh undefeatable. Never mind choosing whether to spare her or not, killing her is practically an impossible feat. The only option Team Flash had left to stop her is to [[RetGone prevent from existing to begin with]]. |
| 1037 | * WalkingSpoiler: She shows up in the final quarter of Season 5 just as Team Flash administers the cure to her Uncle Orlin becoming the BigBad. She also kills her own uncle. |
| 1038 | * WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: She becomes a psychotic SerialKiller after suffering a significant amount of trauma at a very young age. First, her parents died and her uncle-turned-adoptive father, Orlin Dwyer, was both unable and unwilling to provide a sound environment for her. And then when Dwyer managed to get his life together enough to actually look after her, they both suffered life-threatening injuries after being hit by fragments of the exploding Star Labs satellite during the Englightenment, which left Grace in a coma. |
| 1039 | * WoundThatWillNotHeal: Her head wound is still visible in her adulthood. |
| 1040 | * VillainousBreakdown: When she's faced with her plan being foiled and herself being subject to a RetGone, all she can do is howl in rage. |
| 1041 | [[/folder]] |
| 1042 | |
| 1043 | [[folder:Deon Owens]] |
| 1044 | -> see the Characters/ArrowverseSpeedForceAndForcesOfNature page |
| 1045 | [[/folder]] |
| 1046 | |
| 1047 | [[folder:Despero]] |
| 1048 | -> see the Characters/ArrowverseAliens page |
| 1049 | [[/folder]] |
| 1050 | |
| 1051 | [[folder:Lady Chronos]] |
| 1052 | !!Lady Chronos |
| 1053 | !!!'''Species:''' Human |
| 1054 | !!!'''Played By:''' Diana Bang |
| 1055 | !!! '''First Appearance:''' "Partners in Time" (''The Flash'' 9x8) |
| 1056 | !!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{The Flash|2014}}'' |
| 1057 | |
| 1058 | A time thief from 2123 who tried to rob the Flash museum. In order to escape, she disguises herself as an Inspector named tao. |
| 1059 | ---- |
| 1060 | * CompositeCharacter: She is named Lady Chronos, but her characterization as a time thief is more akin to David Clinton the original Chronos. |
| 1061 | * DeadpanSnarker: She gets very snarky once her cover is blown, taking snipes at the Flash. |
| 1062 | * ImposterForgotOneDetail: She disguises as an electrical inspector, but doesn't know the first thing about being an electrician. |
| 1063 | * LegacyCharacter: A DistaffCounterpart of the original Chronos, who was an alias of Mick Rory. |
| 1064 | * NiceJobFixingItVillain: Her bringing the time magnet back to the past, causes her and everyone present to be trapped in a space-time anomaly. |
| 1065 | * RoguesGalleryTransplant: She's an enemy to the Ryan Choi Atom in the comics. |
| 1066 | * TruerToTheText: She is closer to the comics version of Chronos than the one appearing on Legends, being a temporal thief rather than a BountyHunter. |
| 1067 | * UnrelatedInTheAdaptation: In the comics, Lady Chronos is the mother of Dwarfstar. There is no suggestion of that here. |
| 1068 | [[/folder]] |
| 1069 | ---- |
| 1070 | |
| 1071 | !Other |
| 1072 | |
| 1073 | !!The Legion |
| 1074 | -> see Characters/ArrowverseTheLegionOfSuperheroes |
| 1075 | |
| 1076 | !!Anachronisms |
| 1077 | -> see Characters/ArrowversePastCharacters |
| 1078 | |
| 1079 | !!Magical Fugitives |
| 1080 | -> see Characters/ArrowverseMystics |
| 1081 |
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