History Recap / LegendsOfTomorrowS1E16Legendary

* InSpiteOfANail: Rip tells even if they did save Laurel, she, along with Sara and their father would have been killed by Darhk regardless.

* HourglassPlot: In the season premiere, Jax was the one who wanted nothing to do with Rip's offer of adventure while Professor Stein JumpedAtTheCall. Here it's Jax who, with Clarissa's help, tells Stein to take up Rip's offer when Steinjst wanted to stay back home.

* BookEnds: In [[Recap/LegendsOfTomorrowS1E3BloodTies the third episode]], Rip reveals he hesitated to kill Savage before he can get his immortality. Once they get rid of said immortality and Kendra stabs him, he immediately hurls Savage toward a generator to finish him off.

* TheCameo: That [=WW2=] soldier? '''''ComicBook/SgtRock.'''''

* DidntSeeThatComing: 50s Savage makes it clear that Savage wasn't aware of the fact the meteor radiation would render him mortal.

** Rory gives a good one to 50s Savage before incinerating him.
--->'''Savage''': You can't kill me! I'm immortal!\\
'''Rory''': Guess you haven't heard the news.

--->'''Kendra''': [[IronicEcho Goodbye, my love.]]

* RealityBreakingParadox: Savage's plan comes down to this -- by [[EarthShatteringKaboom destroying the world]] in three different time periods, the timeline will collapse and rewind to AncientEgypt, allowing Savage to conquer the world from the get go.

** Mick calls Ray "Franchise/RoboCop."

* VillainousBreakdown: While obviously none of the Vandal Savages are very happy about their defeats, the 50s one has the most pronounced when Rory beats him in a fist fight, being left seething with fury and screaming about how he's immortal before being burned to death. At least the future Vandal Savage managed to get some painful last words to Rip.

-->'''Savage''': You're too late.\\
'''Sara''': [[ShutUpHannibal A Time Master's never late.]]

* CryCute: Sara did not take Laurel's death well.

* BroughtDownToNormal: Savage is stripped of his immortality ad long as he's in close proximity to the meteors and allows the Legends to kill him off.

* BadassArmFold : Rip does an epic one on top of the Waverider.

* BroughtDownToNormal: Savage's plan ultimately strips him of his immortality and allows the Legends to kill him off.

* DebutQueue: Rex Tyler makes his debut.

* EarthShatteringKaboom : Vandal's plan involves THREE of these, in different time periods.
* EleventhHourSuperPower: Both Ray and Jax show abilities that they never had before (Firestorm's transmutation and Atom's ShrinkRay), just in time to stop the meteors from going critical mass.

* TheFifties: The events of "Night of the Hawk" are revisited as part of Savage's plan, and the team's counter plan.
* TheForties: Savage drags Carter and Kendra back to WWII France in order to retrieve one of the meteors, and the Legends go back to save them.

* IDontWantToDie: Gideon [[WhatMeasureIsANonHuman tells Rip]] that she is not ready to die when they are hurtling toward the core of the Sun. [[HeroicWillpower He agrees with the sentiment.]]

** A straight example happens in the final scene where Ray wishes Kendra the best after she decides to live with Carter.

* LastEpisodeNewCharacter: Rex Tyler aka ComicBook/{{Hourman}} I makes his Series/{{Arrowverse}} debut.

* MythologyGag:
** After the Thanagarians were introduced last episode, the Hawks' backstory is tied into them through the meteor that started it. In the comics, they ''are'' Thanagarians. [[ContinuitySnarl Sometimes]].
** That [=WW2=] soldier? '''''ComicBook/SgtRock.''''' WeHardlyKnewYe!

* PutOnABus: Kendra and Carter leave the team and opt for a normal life now that Savage is finally gone.

* SanDimasTime: For Savage's plan to work he has to conduct the ritual simultaneously in ''three different time periods''. Similarly, the Legends have to stop him simultaneously in ''three different time periods'', leading them to split up into teams of two to take on each Savage - rather than all of them taking on one Savage, then going to the next time period as a group to take on ''that'' Savage, etc.

* TheSeventies: The weapons auction from part two of the pilot is also revisited.

* YouHaveFailedMe: Mick kills his temporary partner who was using the Cold Gun by using the Heat Gun on him for killing a cop for no good reason (they were almost escaped anyway).

* PutOnABus: Kendra and Carter leave the team and opt for a normal life now that Savage is finally gone. [[LampshadeHanging Mick lampshades that they would be back in three months.]]

** That WW2 soldier? '''''ComicBook/SgtRock.''''' WeHardlyKnewYe!

* LastEpisodeNewCharacter: Rex Tyler aka ComicBook/{{Hourman}} I makes his Franchise/{{Arrowverse}} debut.

* IronicEcho: Savage is constantly calling Kendra "My Love". Guess what she says just as she kills him.

---> '''Savage''': You can't kill me! I'm immortal!\\

---> '''Kendra''': [[IronicEcho Goodbye, my love.]]

* ShoutOut: Rip's rooftop fall fake-out and BadassArmFold are definitely a real-world reference to ''Film/BackToTheFuturePartII'', and very likely in-universe, too.

* ContrivedCoincidence: Kendra just happens to come across the sane exact WWII soldier who's helmet will end up in Rip's souvenir collection.

** Mick calls Ray "Film/RoboCop."

* EleventhHourSuperPower: Both Ray and Jax show abilities that they never had before (Firestorm's transmutation and Atom's shrink ray), just in time to stop the meteors from going critical mass.

* InternalReveal: Stein's wife finds out about what he's been up to.

* LateArrivalSpoiler: Laurel's death if you don't watch ''Arrow''. Or ''The Flash''.

* MythologyGag: After the Thanagarians were introduced last episode, the Hawks' backstory is tied into them through the meteor that started it. In the comics, they ''are'' Thanagarians. [[ContinuitySnarl Sometimes]].

* TheForties: Savage drags Carter and Kendra back to WWII France in order to retrieve one of the meteors, and the Legends go back to save them.
* TheFifties: The events of "Night of the Hawk" are revisited as part of Savage's plan, and the team's counter plan.
* TheSeventies: The weapons auction from part two of the pilot is also revisited.

* LateArrivalSpoiler: Laurel's death if you don't watch ''Arrow''.

* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: The Legends take advantage of Savage being rendered mortal to not just kill him, but kill him ''three times'' in three different time periods. In particular is Rory incinerating him and Kendra impaling him through the chest, then Rip throwing him into a transformer and electrocuting him.