Line #27 Recap/LegendsOfTomorrowS3E16IAva


1	The truth about Ava is revealed.
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4	!!Tropes:
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6	* AesopAmnesia: Amaya decides to screw the rules and outright travels back to 1992 to stop Benatu Eshu after Kuasa's death.
7	* AudienceSurrogate: Even more so than in previous episodes, Gary acts as a stand-in for the audience.
8	* BackToBackBadasses: Sara and Ava, when fighting the latter's clones.
9	-->'''Sara:''' Stay close, I don't want to lose you in this crowd.
10	* BadassBoast: When facing Amaya, Nate, Wally ''and'' Kuasa, a Mallus-possessed Nora tells them it is hardly a fair fight...for ''them''!
11	* BigDamnHeroes: Kuasa helps the Legends in their fight with Nora; though it's because of love for her grandma, not the rest of them.
12	* BroughtDownToBadass:
13	** Apparently, Ray has been working out off-screen, as he is able to fight off the Ava clones even without his suit.
14	** When Amaya lost her totem, it meant that Mari no longer became Vixen. Instead she became a vigilante without powers. Subverted as she ended up hospitalized attempting to rescue people from a fire.
15	* TheBusCameBack: Kuasa, having not been seen since "No Country for Old Dads".
16	* CosmicPlaything: Amaya states that she feels time itself wants her family to suffer.
17	* CurbStompBattle:
18	** When Mick calls Zari a bitch, she proceeds to show him how to properly use a totem. By way of kicking his ass up and down the room.
19	** Even Wally, Nate and Amaya combined are no match for the Mallus-possessed Nora. They only get away thanks to Kuasa sacrificing herself and Wally's superspeed.
20	* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Darhk is so depressed, he can't bring himself to torture Nate properly.
21	-->'''Darhk:''' I'm sorry, it's -- it's not you, it's me.\
22	'''Nate:''' I understand! You're distracted!
23	* EnemyMine: Subverted. Nate forms an alliance with Kuasa to help her protect Mari from danger. However, Kuasa is well aware of the danger that Nate's romance with Amaya poses to her and Mari's timeline, so naturally she uses the opportunity to have the Dharks kill him.
24	* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes:
25	** Kuasa is ''still'' Mari's sister, despite all the bad blood between them.
26	** Damien is very concerned about Mallus possessing Nora. He doesn't want to take over the world without her to inherit it. He's even willing to form an alliance with Nate to save her, which goes nowhere.
27	* EvilIsNotAToy: Damien Darhk learns this the hard way when he finds out his [[DealWithTheDevil alliance with Mallus]] means losing his daughter. And it's not something he can break off so easily.
28	* ForWantOfANail: Amaya losing her totem turned out to have consequences: Since she doesn't have it anymore, she could never pass it on to Mari, meaning that Mari became a vigilante without powers and got badly burned trying to save people from a fire. What's worse, this indicates that the changes to Amaya's timeline are starting to solidify, meaning that if Amaya doesn't get back to her own time quickly, Mari will cease to exist altogether.
29	* TheGhost: Mari is mentioned a lot, but we don't actually get to see her.
30	* HeelFaceDoorSlam: Just when Kuasa finally switches to the good side, she is promptly murdered by Mallus.
31	* IKnowYouAreInThereSomewhereFight: Kuasa tries this on the Mallus-possessed Nora. It doesn't work as Nora's too far gone.
32	* InnocentlyInsensitive: Mick keeps offering Zari food, not knowing or caring that it's the Muslim holiday Ramadan, a time of fasting; he's also unaware that Zari's faith forbids her to eat pork.
33	* InsistentTerminology: Wally proclaims himself to be the fastest man alive. Nate corrects this to "second fastest".
34	* IronicEpisodeTitle: "'''I''', Ava" is an episode that shows how there are hundreds of other Avas out there.
35	* ItIsDehumanizing: Sara refers to the Ava clones as "things".
36	* ItOnlyWorksOnce:
37	** After being surprised by Wally before, Mallus is now prepared for the speedster's power.
38	** Damien and Nate's attempt at faking the torture session to cover up their impromptu support group only lasts a short time before Mallus gets wise.
39	* ItsAllMyFault: Amaya blames herself for Kuasa's death. Because pushing her to be more like Mari is what got her killed.
40	* JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope: After seeing Kuasa die, Amaya decides to make amends by going back in time and saving her village from being razed by Eshu, consequences be damned.
41	* LaserGuidedAmnesia: Gary receives a mindwipe, due to him admitting he is terrible at keeping secrets, and Ava doesn't want her origins revealed.
42	* MundaneUtility: Mick uses the power of the fire totem to cook hot dogs and make popcorn.
43	* MurderIsTheBestSolution: Kuasa rightly sees Nate's romance with Amaya as threat to her and Mari's existence. Her solution is to have the Darhks kill him.
44	* NotSoDire: Variation: when catching up with Sara in Vancouver 2213, Ava confesses to her what she did after they broke up[[note]]got in contact with an ex in Vegas, made an [=UpSwipz=] account, and "went really overboard on the swiping"[[/note]]. While Ava is genuinely not happy with what she did, Sara had already learned that Ava's a clone and she has no knowledge of it, stuff that's [[{{Understatement}} a tad]] more concerning.
45	* PullTheThread: How Sara finds out Ava's "parents" are frauds. She keeps asking about the various photographs, until she catches them in a lie.
46	* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Amaya chews Kuasa out on how her selfishness is why she was never worthy to wield the Anansi Totem.
47	* RedemptionEqualsDeath: Kuasa chooses to side with the Legends over Mallus out of love for her grandma. Mallus promptly kills her for it.
48	* TheReveal:
49	** Ava is one of a million custom-designed clones from the future. Our Ava had no idea she was one.
50	** The Water Totem is what brought Kuasa back to life. Mallus rips it out and it promptly kills her.
51	* RunningGag: Once again, Damien has therapy session with a Legend he's holding captive.
52	* SecondaryCharacterTitle: The eponymous Ava Sharpe is not one of the lead characters in this show's EnsembleCast.
53	* SequelHook: The episode ends with Amaya taking the jumpship to go to 1992 to save her village from being torched from Eshu.
54	* ShipperOnDeck: Gary has, apparently, been shipping Sara and Ava "so hard".
55	* ShoutOut: On the billboard for the Ava clones, one of the taglines is "more human than human", which is a Music/RobZombie song.
56	* PaidForFamily: As part of the fake background story Rip gave Ava, he hired two actors to pretend to be her parents whenever Ava would visit her "home" or when people would come asking about her.
57	* TakeThat: While fighting the multiple Ava clones, Ray says "This is the second worst ''Film/AttackOfTheClones'' I've seen."
58	* ThereIsAnother: Turns out there are ''hundreds'' of Avas. She's a customed-designed clone from 2213.
59	* TomatoInTheMirror: Ava has no idea she's a clone, until she encounters another her.
60	* TheUnReveal: Why did Rip recruit a clone from the future, give her fake memories, and even hire a couple of actors to pretend to be her parents? We don't find out, but Ava and Sara are sure to make him talk.
61	* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: Sara briefly enters this belief, even going so far as to writing off everything she lived through with Ava as "fake" and part of her perfect design. She quickly changes her mind, though.
62	* WhatTheHellHero:
63	** Kuasa calls Amaya on not only abandoning her tribe, but on how her romance with Nate threatens her entire family's bloodline. Amaya's response is to call Kuasa out on her selfishness.
64	** Ray is offended when Sara insists on referring to the clones as things.

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