Legends of Tomorrow’s best historical encounters

BEVERLY HILLS, CA – AUGUST 02: (L-R) Executive producer Phil Klemmer, actors Brandon Routh, Caity Lotz, Tala Ashe, and executive producer Marc Guggenheim of ‘DC’s Legends of Tomorrow’ speak onstage during the CW portion of the 2017 Summer Television Critics Association Press Tour at The Beverly Hilton Hotel on August 2, 2017 in Beverly Hills, California. (Photo by Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images)

Throughout their time traveling escapades, the Legends of Tomorrow tend to run into many famous historical figures. Let’s take a trip down memory lane before a time aberration changes the timeline and rewrites history.

Over three zany seasons the team of unlikely heroes on Legends of Tomorrow seems to have visited almost every notable time period. Some of their more genre accurate encounters saw them meet up with superheroes of other eras; there was Jonah Hex from the Old West and the Justice Society of America in the 1940’s, and perhaps best of all was when they traveled to Star City 2046 and crossed paths with Old Man Ollie, the former Green Arrow, as well as the succeeding Green Arrow, Connor Hawke (John Diggle’s son).

If Legends of Tomorrow took itself more seriously, the group would mostly interact with meta-humans or guys wearing costumes and masks, however Greg Berlanti and the showrunners are on a mission to separate the series via it’s over the top haphazardness. For fans of the show, part of the fun is seeing what bizarre events will take place every week, which is definitely unique for the superhero genre.

So if you haven’t been keeping track of the Legends’ outrageous encounters of real historical figures in your time traveling record log, let’s use this break between Seasons 3 and 4 ofLegends of Tomorrow to revisit their 20 wackiest rendezvous, which are organized not by any ranking, yet by character types.

Make way for the bad guy

Remember the time when Al Capone joined the Legion of Doom? The episode directly followed the week of the ambitious four show alien invasion crossover with Supergirl, The Flash, and Arrow, so that occasion overshadowed the normal proceedings of some of the individual series. In “The Chicago Way”, Damien Darhk, Reverse Flash, and Malcolm Merlyn ganged up with Capone in Chi-town just for the heck of it. Messing with time almost led to Capone killing Eliot Ness (too bad Kevin Costner did not reprise his role from The Untouchables). Lucky for Ness, the Legends showed up in time to save him.

In the middle of the rat race for the totems, Blackbeard happened upon one when searching for treasure. This brought the Legends face to face with a pack of pirates as well as Damien Darhk, naturally. The Waverider, a futuristic time-traveling spaceship, was attacked by 18th-century cannonballs. Blackbeard and his men were held off by Sara and Ava, but he did return for the grand finale in the Old West. Familiar TV actor Jonathan Cake arghed it up as famed pirate Edward Teach – I guess Once Upon a Time’s Charles Mesure was too busy. Once upon a time they were both on overlapping episodes of Desperate Housewives.

From pirates to Vikings, Leif Erikson was less the villain than his warmongering sister Freydis. The Viking episode is most notable as the one where they worshiped the blue teddy bear Beebo as an anachronistic god. It is one of the sillier plot points on the show thus far as Freydis tried to kill members of the Legends for attempting to steal her god. They were really trying to correct religious history. Freydis also fought for evil in the season finale where a giant Beebo was conjured by the Legends to comical effect.