DC FanDome: Here’s what we know about DC’s Legends of Tomorrow Season 6

At DCFanDome, the cast and creators of DC’s Legends of Tomorrow Season 6 dropped a few hints about what fans can expect.

DC’s Legends of Tomorrow is the wackiest The CWVerse/Arrowverse show of them all. And if you thought you’d seen it all, wait till the show returns in 2021. While gathering online at DCFanDome, the cast and creators shared how DC’s Legends of Tomorrow Season 6 is going to be ‘bigger and zanier’ than its previous seasons.

Series stars Caity Lotz (Sara Lance/White Canary), Nick Zano (Nate Heywood), Matt Ryan (John Constantine), Tala Ashe (Zari Tarazi), Jes Macallan (Ava Sharpe), Olivia Swann (Astra Logue), Amy Louise Pemberton (Gideon) and Shayan Sobhian (Behrad Tarazi) joined executive producers Phil Klemmer, Keto Shimizu and Grainne Godfree to discuss the show at DC FanDome.

DC’s Legends of Tomorrow Season 6 will develop more character dynamics.

The Waverider crew are an eccentric bunch who often don’t see eye-to-eye. With Captain Sara Lance being abducted in the fifth season finale, the crew will be going ‘bonkers’. Sara is the most grounded character on the show and has a penchant for getting her team under control.

The only other person able to do that is Ava, but she’ll be taking Sara’s loss the hardest, leaving a power vacuum to fill. The writers hinted that unlikely characters will be filling in that leadership role in Sara and Ava’s absence.

However, Sara isn’t gone forever. The team just needs to battle some aliens first before getting her back. The writers hinted that DC’s Legends of Tomorrow Season 6 will lean into alien genres. While aliens have been featured in the Arrowverse, especially on Supergirl, these new ones will have a different look.

John Constantine and Astra will be living together in the next season. After suffering years of guilt for being the cause for Astra’s banishment to hell, John and Astra were finally able to restore their relationship. It seems that they’ll be taking up residence in John’s ancestral home in England.

That being said, Swann doesn’t think it’s possible for these two characters to live together peacefully. This is understandable since Astra spent the majority of the fifth season trying to kill John. But we can expect their father-daughter relationship to evolve in the next season.

John is at his happiest. Having saved Astra (from hell, the Fates and herself), he’s now found a new love in Zari 2.0. But Matt Ryan is afraid John won’t be happy for long; in fact, he’s certain John will be ‘unhappy about being happy’.

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DC’s Legends of Tomorrow Season 6 will also be acknowledging Nate’s many losses. Every time he gets close to someone, they either die or leave (his father died, his first girlfriend Amaya left to fulfil her destiny, the first Zari is stuck in a totem, and then his best friend Ray Palmer got married and left the ship). Will Nate catch a break?

One hopes so, as long as he’s not included in yet another romance. Nate’s romantic arcs have been the least interesting part of the show so far, and they keep dragging down the development of the incredible female characters he gets involved with.

Early on in DC’s Legends of Tomorrow Season 6, the show will explore Behrad and Zari’s sibling relationship. The pair have such contrasting personalities, but they’re now part of the same team. Behrad has lived his life in the shadow of his older sister, who ‘is amazing at everything’.

Being a Legend gave Behrad a boost over Zari, but she’s just as incredible a member of the team now.

Writer Keto Shimizu hinted that one episode will send the siblings into a specific time period that will explore their childhood. One can assume that the Waverider will drop them off in Zari and Behrad’s past and the siblings, with an undercover identity, will witness what they were like as children.

On this mission, Behrad will have the upper hand, teaching Zari a trick or two. The episode is giving the writers a chance to explore the sibling dynamic without the high stakes and ‘fraughtness’ of death.

The newest Legend to join the team, Esperanza “Spooner” Cruz (played by Lisseth Chavez), is an alien expert who doesn’t quite fit into the team. She sounds as eccentric as the rest of the team, but she’s not a ‘lovable loser’ like the other Legends.

Since the characters are what make DC’s Legends of Tomorrow such a fan-favourite, these glimpses into their character arcs just make us want to watch Season 6 even more.

DC’s Legends of Tomorrow Season 6 will be back in 2021.

Which DC’s Legends of Tomorrow Season 6 storyline are you most excited about? Let us know in the comments.