Line #14 Recap/LegendsOfTomorrowS2E1OutOfTime


1	As the Legends protect time in lieu of the now nonexistent Time Masters, Mayor Oliver Queen receives a visit from a man claiming Ray and Sara are in danger.
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4	!!Tropes:
5	* AllWomenAreLustful: Sara gets quite a bit of action, being seduced by the wife of King Louis XIII and "corrupting" several village women of 1693 Salem.
6	-->'''Sara:''' In my defense, they were happily corrupted.
7	* AncientAstronauts: Rip and his team have made it into several historical records, including Egyptian hieroglyphs depicting the Waverider.
8	* ArtisticLicenseHistory:
9	** There's no historical evidence that Anne of Austria was lesbian or bisexual, though French aristocracy of the time did tend to turn a blind eye to this kind of thing. She also likely didn't have a modern-day French accent, being from Spain.
10	** While the workings of the atomic bomb were based on Einstein's theories, he was in no way involved in the practical application of those theories that actually produced the bomb. So kidnapping him (let alone Mileva Marić, who would know even less about how to build a bomb) would hardly be the best way for the Nazis to acquire an atomic bomb. It would be far more efficient to kidnap the scientists involved in [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattan_Project the Manhattan Project]], which began in the same year this episode takes place. Since the Nazis are being helped by a time traveler from the future, they should know this.
11	* ArtisticLicensePhysics: No one person could build a nuclear weapon from scratch, without any knowledge of how to do so. It took an entire team of theoretical and practical physicists and engineers, as well as a huge number of support staff performing mathematical calculations, several years to work out all the details.
12	* BadassInANiceSuit: Darhk per usual. He wears a nice gangster outfit in 1940s New York.
13	* TheBeard: The King and Queen of France are apparently this to each other. The former is only implied to be gay, but the latter is confirmed to be at least bi.
14	* BearerOfBadNews: Nate Heywood's introduction, where he tries to tell Mayor Queen that the Legends are ''possibly'' dead.
15	* BeenThereShapedHistory: Rip's team has made it into several historical records in 2016.
16	* BigBadDuumvirate: Darhk and Eobard Thawne have teamed up to mess with history for their own goals. Unlike with his Partners in HIVE, Darhk genuinely enjoys working with Thawne; this is most evident when Dahrk [[FirstNameBasis addresses Thawne by his first name]].
17	* BrokenPedestal: PlayedForLaughs when Stein meets Einstein. He expects Einstein to be a saintly professor, only to discover he's actually a DirtyOldMan. It also seems that his ex-wife is actually ''smarter'' than he is who really came up with many of the nuclear breakthroughs credited to Einstein. Just to twist the knife further, Einstein prefers ''[[DumbMuscle Rory]]'', of all people.
18	* BurnTheWitch: Averted. In keeping with the reality of the time period and location, the villagers of Salem want to ''hang'' Sara after accusing her of being a witch.
19	* CallBack:
20	** Sara wants to futilely kill Darhk for killing Laurel.
21	** Darhk fights Sara hand to hand, because he hasn't received his magic totem yet.
22	* ChewingTheScenery: Dahrk dials it up a notch, ''especially'' when he's yelling in German on the u-boat.
23	* ClarkesThirdLaw: Jax entertains a medieval English prince with his "magic mirror" (a smartphone).
24	* {{Cliffhanger}}: Just as the Legends are about to leave 1942, the Justice Society of America arrives and confronts them.
25	* ContinuityCameo: [[Series/{{Arrow}} Oliver Queen]] appears in two scenes just in case anyone forgets that this show is part of the Series/{{Arrowverse}}.
26	* ContrivedCoincidence: Sara has already been preparing herself to wage a campaign of revenge against Damien Darhk, and it just so happens the latest time-travel potential disaster is caused by him.
27	* CourtMage: Stein and Jax are ones for a spoiled prince in the Middle Ages.
28	* CurbStompBattle:
29	** After Mick gets woken up, he flies into a blind rage and attacks Nate and Oliver, only for the latter to quickly subdue him and threaten to break his arm.
30	** As good a fighter as Sara is she's really no match for Damien Darhk, a man with centuries of experience (the fact he hasn't become reliant on his magic yet also helps).
31	** The Nazi mooks on the sub are no match for Eobard Thawne.
32	* DareToBeBadass: When Heywood protests that finding the Waverider was just supposed to be a salvage mission...
33	-->'''Oliver:''' Who are you kidding? You've been waiting your whole life for this.
34	* DirtyOldMan: Einstein is just about to seduce two vastly younger women when the team gets to him.
35	* DramaticIrony: Nate tells Oliver that the latter's friends are causing anomalies in history. Nate is referring to the Legends, which is correct, but he does not know (or probably even aware) of [[Series/TheFlash2014 another friend]] of Oliver's who also contributed to it numerous times.
36	* EverythingsSexierInFrench: The Queen of France is certainly an eye-candy.
37	* {{Fan Boy}}: Stein is very excited to meet Einstein.
38	* {{Flynning}}: Ray engages in this while disguised as a musketeer.
39	* GirlOnGirlIsHot: Jackson thinks so, after he easily guess that Sara had sex with the Queen of France.
40	* GodwinsLawOfTimeTravel: For an episode that involves both time travel and the Nazis, surprisingly averted. Despite the Nazis getting their hands on a nuclear bomb ahead of the allies, and destroying New York City with it, they still lost World War II (which did however last 2 years longer in this timeline and resulted in 12 million more deaths).
41	* TheHeavy: Damien Darhk throughout the episode, though it ultimately turns out that the Reverse-Flash is TheManBehindTheMan.
42	* HowWeGotHere: The bulk of the episode is Mick telling the story about how the Legends got seperated to Oliver and Nate.
43	* {{Hypocrite}}: Eobard Thawne, the man who [[Recap/TheFlash2014S3E1Flashpoint has lectured Barry Allen about the dangers of messing with time]], proceeds to help Darhk and the Nazis blow up New York with a nuke apparently just for kicks. Part of this may be due to the fact that [[NiceJobBreakingItHero the Time Masters aren't around to govern history anymore thanks to the Legends' efforts last season]].
44	* InsistentTerminology: Einstein keeps correcting the use of the word "nuclear" to "atomic". This is accurate, as nuclear weapons really were called "atomic" at that time.
45	* ItRunsInTheFamily: It seems the Lance family has been in law enforcement for at least three generations - Laurel Lance was an Assistant District Attorney, her father Quentin Lance was a cop, and in this episode, Sara reveals that her grandfather was an FBI agent in the '40s. Although she may have been lying.
46	* LampshadeHanging: Nate Heywood's explanation for how he figured out Oliver Queen is the Green Arrow.
47	--> '''Nate''': It doesn't take a historian to see a calendar and figure out that a week after you came to this city, Robin Hood showed up.
48	* TheManBehindTheMan: The Reverse-Flash to Damien Darhk.
49	* MythologyGag: Sara telling a taxi driver, "Take me to [[Creator/GerryConway Conway]] and 5th."
50	* NeckSnap: The Nazi sub crew found themselves on the business end of one thanks to Thawne.
51	* NervesOfSteel: Darhk's reaction to a bunch of people with vastly advanced tech and superpowers attacking his men? Calmly turn his back on them and walking away. [[RunningGag It seems to be a side-effect of immortality]].
52	* PartyScattering: Rip created a program appropriately called "Time Scatter" which sends the Legends sans Mick (who possibly wouldn't survive due to his injuries, and put into stasis instead) and himself to different time periods.
53	* PiggybackingOnHitler: Darhk helps the Nazis get their hands on nuclear weapons technology three years before it's even invented.
54	* PrettyInMink:
55	** Anne of Austria is wearing a green robe, trimmed with ermine, when she propositions Sara.
56	** Sara's disguise in the 40s is a white party dress with a light brown mink stole.
57	* RecycledTitle: The name of the episode is the same as the fifteenth episode of ''[[Series/TheFlash2014 The Flash]]'', when Eobard Thawne finally came out of the shadows and uttered his true name for the first time.
58	* RevengeBeforeReason: Sara wants to kill Darhk both for revenge - at the cost of the team mission - and to save Laurel (which we know is a fruitless exercise as time will see to it that Laurel will die regardless of who kills her).
59	* RoyalBrat: The prince whom Stein and Jax work for as court wizards. He eventually orders them [[OffWithHisHead beheaded]] just because he got bored.
60	* SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong: Sara hopes to kill Damien Darhk in 1942, and thus prevent him from being around to kill Laurel in 2016, not realizing or caring that YouCantFightFate and that Laurel dies no matter what.
61	* TheSlowPath: The Waverider, and Mick Rory (in suspended animation aboard the ship) take this from 1942 to 2016, until being found by Oliver and Nate.
62	* SpotTheThread: Rip notices the Nazi kidnappers of Albert Einstein by immaculate (ie. German) stitching on their lapels, which isn't the sort of thing you'd expect on US GI uniforms.
63	* ThoseWackyNazis: The episode really hammers down how bad the Nazis were.
64	* TrappedInThePast: The "time scatter" Rip activates leads to this temporarily happening to all the Legends (sans Mick): Sara is trapped in 17th century Salem, Martin and Jax in England in the Middle Ages, and Ray in the Cretaceous Period!
65	* VillainousFriendship: Darhk and Thawne. As mentioned above, they're even on a FirstNameBasis.
66	* VomitIndiscretionShot: Slightly subverted; Dr. Heywood suffers a bit of time-travel sickness on his first trip. A bit of nastiness is seen drooling from his mouth for a moment, but the rest is offscreen.
67	* WhatTheHellHero: Ray gives Sara a dressing down for putting her vendetta with Darhk ahead of her teammates.
68	* YouHaveFailedMe: The Nazis try to pull this on Darhk after their mission fails. Reverse-Flash pulls it on them first.

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