DC’s Legends of Tomorrow: Every character ranked from worst to best

7. Mick Rory / Heatwave

When DC’s Legends of Tomorrow made it clear that not all of the Legends would make it out of each adventure alive, Mick Rory was on the top of everyone’s “most likely to get killed” lists. And yet, he somehow lasted six of those seven seasons (until actor Dominic Purcell decided to leave) and grew into one of the show’s most beloved characters along the way.

When we first met Mick on The Flash, he was little more than Heat Wave, a violent criminal with an affinity for fire. But as he grew to call the Legends family (and lost his best friend Leonard Snart), he evolved a great deal. Seriously, if you look up character development, you’ll find Mick Rory.

Over the course of Mick’s run on the show, this fire-obsessed villain became a romance novelist, captained a vacation to Aruba, became a father, fell in love with an alien, fathered 48 human-Necrian hybrid babies and finally departed the Waverider upon deciding that he wanted to be there for them and raise them.

Mick was a gruff, uninterested, and perpetually angry addition to the team, but deep down, underneath all of that tough exterior, he was capable of caring. The Legends brought that out of him and, in turn, gave us perhaps the most evolved character in the whole Arrowverse.