As Ray and Nora prepare to leave the Legends, the team attempts to retrieve one of the pieces of the Loom from William Shakespeare.
Tropes
- Alcohol-Induced Idiocy: While drunk, the guys and Charlie trigger a bar fight, use their superpowers and future tech during said bar fight, and accidentally inspire Shakespeare to write plays about superheroes.
- An Aesop: Both Shakespeare, in regards to Romeo and Juliet, and the Legends, in regards to Ray, learn to accept that every good thing has to come to an end eventually.
- Artistic License – History: Shakespeare has trouble coming up with an ending for his beloved Romeo and Juliet. Romeo and Juliet was based on an Italian story, translated into English 35 years before Shakespeare's version premiered.
- Artistic License – Religion: Averted. As an observant Muslim, Behrad never drinks, even during Ray's impromptu bachelor party. On the other hand, he is seen nibbling on edible gummies...
- Bar Brawl: In true Legends fashion, a fight breaks out in the tavern where the guys and Charlie are attempting to retrieve the Loom piece.
- Book Ends: Begins with everyone in line to use the bathroom; ends with (almost) everyone rushing to the bathroom after drinking Ray's Green Juice.
- Brief Accent Imitation: Sara does a terrible British accent impression. Constantine is not amused.
- The Bus Came Back: Mona comes back for this episode.
- Call-Back: Many to previous Ray-featured episodes.
- Ray's keepsake case includes two versions of "Singin' in the Rain" (Season 3's "Phone Home"), several dinosaur figurines (Season 2's "Out of Time"), and what appears to be a chunk of either a meteor (Season 1's "Legendary") or dwarfstar alloy (Season 2's "Outlaw Country").
- Nate's excuse for why the team is late coming back from the mission was that the ring was stolen by "the Queen's dog," referring to when Ray was tasked with stealing a royal corgi in Season 4's "Dancing Queen."
- Sara's good-bye to Ray is, "I'm going to miss you, Ray, a lot," which (apart from the name swap) matches Guinevere's farewell to Sara in Season 2's "Camelot/3000," in which Ray gets knighted.
- At the end, when the Legends are toasting Ray, Charlie calls him "Rayge," her In-Series Nickname for him back in Season 4.
- Cross-Cast Role: During the Shakespeare play, Nate and Ava play gender-reversed roles. Fitting, given they're gender-reversed generally: Ava is Sarah's long-term romance and this episode is entirely about Ray and Nate dealing with their Bromance breakup.
- Cutting the Knot: While Nate rambles on about a dramatic and complicated plan to steal the Loom piece from Shakespeare's producer, Charlie just casually swipes it off the man's finger.
- Drowning My Sorrows: Nate after finding out that Ray is leaving, twice.
- Eating the Eye Candy: Charlie finds Zari very attractive when She Cleans Up Nicely.
- Evil Mentor: The Coin Maker is revealed to be this to Astra, having taken her off the streets of Hell as a child and raised her into what she's become. She also tries to manipulate her into not trusting Constantine and taking the Loom for herself.
- The Heart: Ray is mentioned to be this, with the Legends unsure on how to move on without his optimistic attitude.
- Hidden Depths: Several of the Legends show off some acting talent during their impromptu production of Romeo and Juliet. Mick gets passionately into his role (and later takes a liking to King Lear), Constantine gives a solid performance as the male lead, and Zari turns out to be a classically-trained actress.
- Internal Reveal: Everyone finds out about Mick's daughter.
- Large Ham: The entire cast, naturally, when they do the Shakespeare play.
- Manly Tears: Nate and Ray, during their respective goodbye and apology to one another.
- Mythology Gag: The episode title, also used in the episode, is one to Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice.
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: The Legends initially screw up history by inspiring Shakespeare to write a superhero story instead.
- Nobody Poops: Averted pretty humorously, when it's pointed out again that there's only one bathroom.
- Noodle Implements: During Nate's wild plan, he mentions something about picking up Wild Dog, before Charlie interrupts.
- Nothing Is the Same Anymore: The general feeling at the end of the episode after Ray and Nora officially departed.
- Platonic Declaration of Love: As they say goodbye, Ray and Nate declare their love for each other.
- Poke in the Third Eye: The Coin Maker persuades Astra to use her viewing pool to spy on Constantine and discover what the artifact he's after is. Constantine can sense her doing this though he doesn't know it's her, only that it's coming from Hell, and can look directly towards her viewpoint. He casts a spell that blasts her across the room into a wall.
- Put on a Bus: Both Ray and Nora leave the Legends in this episode, after their wedding in the previous one. As of this episode, Caity Lotz as Sara Lance & Dominic Purcell as Mick Rory are the only original Legends remaining. This was something they lamented ten episodes prior when they thought they were losing Ray to Neron.
- Put on a Bus to Hell: Literally; Marie Antoinette and what's left of Rasputin disappear from the Waverider and Sara figures that Astra recalled their souls to Hell to be tortured for their failures.
- Retirony: Somewhat hinted at given that Ray is doing "one last mission" and it would tie into the episode's title and central theme, but thankfully averted. Ray and Nora survive.
- Self-Deprecation: Shakespeare's take on the Legends contains a few digs at earlier seasons of the show.
- Shakespeare in Fiction: Almost retools all his famous works to base them on and craft around the Legends until the Legends themselves put on a performance of a more straightforward Romeo and Juliet.
- Single Tear: Gideon as she and Ray say their goodbyes.
- Spotting the Thread: John notices Astra spying on them from hell, though he inititally doesn't realize it is her.
- Stag Party: A belated one (or rather, two of them), since Ray and Nora already are married.
- Suspiciously Specific Denial: Mick, when Mona confronts him about the troll (his daughter) is quick to insist that it is not out of a desire to get love and he also slips up about knowing her gender.
- Take That!: Shakespeare's insistence on cramming as many of his characters as possible into his rewritten play seems like a dig at how overstuffed some people viewed Dawn of Justice, along with superhero movies like Spider-Man 3 and The Amazing Spider-Man 2, and botched cinematic universes like the infamous Dark Universe.
- What the Hell, Hero?: Nate is understandably quite pissed when he learns he's the last to know about Ray leaving, and not from him directly.
- You Are Better Than You Think You Are: Mona encourages Mick to go and talk to his daughter, saying that he made Mona's life better.
- You Cannot Grasp the True Form: Charlie claims that mortals would burst into flames if they saw the true form of the Loom.
