Legends of Tomorrow’s best historical encounters

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Continuing with the totem hunt, none other than the king of rock and roll, Elvis Presley, came into possession of the ominous death totem. The episode called “Amazing Grace” centered on his anguish following his brother’s death – who doesn’t think of ghosts when Elvis comes to mind? The Legends realized that an aberration had occurred that caused Rock music to never be conceived. They traveled to 1950’s Memphis and killed two birds with one totem, securing the last amulet and setting Elvis back on a musical track. The oddest part of the chapter is how Elvis’ songs both raised spirits from the dead and then managed to send them on their ghostly ways.

The Legends stopped over in the 1870’s Midwest when P.T. Barnum got a hold of a sabertooth tiger and planned to use it in his circus act. When the heroes from the future set the prehistoric beast free, Barnum then set his sights on Atom and Firestorm to exploit their powers in order to draw an audience. Of course, the other Legends didn’t let that happen and they left Barnum without any time displacements to wow the masses. Billy Zane portrayed Barnum as a shady businessman right around the time that Hugh Jackman contrastingly turned Barnum into a caring, misunderstood family man in the musical The Greatest Showman.

In 1930’s Hollywood, Martin Stein smoozed with actress Hedy Lamarr while the rest of the Legends dealt with the misplaced Helen of Troy (more on her shortly). Out of all the famous actresses of the golden age of Hollywood, Lamarr was selected because she developed a method to help transmit radio signals. This made her particularly interesting to the scientist of the group and Stein aimed to fix history so that she goes onto to be an inventor.