Legends of Tomorrow’s best historical encounters

I’m smart and I want respect

If Legends of Tomorrow taught us anything it was that Albert Einstein was a player. The futurists encountered him in 1940’s Europe trying to pick up a few women. Mick and Martin Stein interfered with his flirtations to reveal the Nazis plans to use Einstein and his wife to build an atomic bomb. It took some convincing, but Einstein eventually believed them and the Legends had to rewind time once more to keep him and his wife safe.

In an effort to figure out how to separate Firestorm from himself, Martin Stein thought it would be okay to kidnap some scientists to aid with the process. One of them, Isaac Newton, was whimsically adventurous to the point where he bashed a mind-controlled White Canary in the head with a frying pan. Sir Isaac would have wanted to join the Legends, but they wiped his mind and sent him home instead.

This reason for this next interaction was quite a stretch… the Legends believed that the Spear of Destiny could be destroyed using the blood of Christ, but traveling to the year 0 was too risky for the timeline, so they decided to seek out the expert opinion of… J.R.R. Tolkien. In an episode called “Fellowship of the Spear”, Tolkien’s research on Sir Gawain led the team to the blood. The Legends, along with Tolkien, did some grave digging and then found themselves in the middle of a World War battlefield. Tolkien also appeared in a later episode where he saw the future Legends come face to face with themselves from the earlier episode. Trippy stuff.

The most outrageous person to be involved in the search for the Spear of Destiny was George Lucas. As a prop master, he had a fragment of the spear and Damien Darhk came looking for it. This time interference discouraged Lucas from filmmaking and as a result Ray and Nate temporarily lost their abilities since Star Wars and Indiana Jones didn’t exist to inspire them to be heroes. The Legends obviously convinced Lucas to get back behind the camera. “Raiders of the Lost Art” was also notable as the time that Rip hunter was a film student with amnesia. The poor guy has been through a lot.