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The fourth series in the Arrowverse, Legends of Tomorrow was a Spin-Off to both Arrow and The Flash, focusing on a Ragtag Bunch of Misfits becoming an unofficial Time Police... to the ire of the actual Time Police.
Starring a rotating cast of characters drawn from all corners of the DC Universe, each season saw the Legends tackle a new temporal threat while generally making a bigger mess of things themselves with the looming threat of the Time Bureau and the Time Masters hanging over their heads.
The series premiered on January 21st 2016, and ran for seven seasons until March 2nd 2022. A month later, on April 29th 2022, the series was cancelled.
- Action Girl: Any female in the Legends but Sara Lance takes the cake.
- Actor Allusion: Arthur Darvill of Doctor Who fame plays a time travelling renegade, stopping monsters throughout time and recruiting ordinary humans as his companions.
- Baby Got Back: Sara Lance + skin tight suit = lots of Male Gaze shots of her big butt.
- Bad Present: At the end of Season 5, the Fates take over Earth.
- Badass Normal: Rip Hunter, Sara Lance, Leonard Snart, Ray Palmer and Mick Rory.
- Cliffhanger: The seasons tend to end on them but thanks to the show being cancelled, "Knocked Down, Knocked Up" becomes the Grand Finale. It ends with Mike, real name "Booster Gold", selling the Legends out to the Time Police and them all being arrested. And Sara's pregnant.
- Crossover Cosmology: Artefacts and figures from various mythologies show up.
- Denser and Wackier: By and far the silliest of the Arrowverse shows.
- Early Installment Weirdness: The first season was much more grounded and serious than the Denser and Wackier seasons that followed.
- Flanderization: Sara Lance is much more of a Lovable Sex Maniac than she ever was in Arrow.
- Groundhog Day Loop: Zari is trapped in one in "Here I Go Again". Except it's all a simulation.
- MacGuffin: The totems. It's most felt in Season 3.
- Magic A Is Magic A: Constantine's response to why he can't use his magic to save the day.
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: The biggest threat to the timeline? The Legends themselves.
- Reincarnation Romance: Hawkgirl and Hawkman.
- Spiritual Successor: Premiering in 2016, when Doctor Who took a gap year, the show has a lot of similarities to Doctor Who. It's even got former companion actor Arthur Darvill.
- Spotlight-Stealing Squad: John Constantine in Season 4.
- Superman Stays Out of Gotham: A more Justified example than others: half of the time, the Legends aren't even in the same time period as Oliver or Barry.
- Trapped in TV Land: "The One Where We're Trapped On TV".
- True Companions: The whole team. From the second you're in, you're family.