History Recap / LegendsOfTomorrowS2E17Aruba

* NeverTheSelvesShallMeet: The Legends ''try'' to avoid meeting their past selves, but inevitably wind up meeting. There's an immediate Time Quake when they do, and an even bigger one when they try to time travel together. Then suddenly there's dinosaurs in Los Angeles.

* AllOfTimeAtOnce: The Waverider crew have to steal a few things from their recent-past selves, all in 1916, because their actions have put them into a reality they didn't mean to create. They try to not bump into the versions of themselves, even though theoretically even meeting other members of the crew would affect...one of their realities. It's unsuccessful, and they have to explain why they'd break the first rule of time travel. Climax comes and all of the Future!Legends die by Bad Future!Reverse Flashes to help the versions of themselves in the reality they haven't screwed up yet escape and prevent the BadFuture. Of course, they now exist and not-exist at the same time from different realities in the same time and space. You can understand how the Present!Legends end up crashing through the time-stream into a 2017 with dinosaurs.

** Played with. When Merlyn first shoots Firestorm in the shoulder, this is enough to get him to fall and break up into Stein and Jax, with Jax still having the arrow in his shoulder. His future self them takes an arrow center mass and dies in a matter of seconds. Past!Jax then breaks off the arrow in his shoulder and seems fine afterwards.

-->'''Ray''': (aims blaster at Thawne) Give me back the blood vial!
-->'''Thawne''': (crushes vial) ...what vial?

** Thawne used Ray's suit to shrink the Waverider...''and didn't destroy the suit afterwards''.
** Zigzagged soon after: he destroys the vial of Christ's blood after Ray gets it ''and'' kills him...but doesn't kill the ''other'' Doomworld Legends. The other Legion members have no such reservations.
** Despite bringing back dozens of copies of himself in order to defeat the Legends, Thawne decides to attack every one of the Legends...except for Prime!Sara who is actually holding the spear at the time. It comes back to bite him hard.

* BrutalHonesty: Doomworld!Mick makes no attempt to whitewash what happens to Ray, Amaya and Stein in the future.

** Sara has little trouble with overwhelming Darhk, particularly after he killed Doomworld!Nate.

* EpicFail: Rip has Gideon open fire on Darhk...while the ship is still shrunk down.
-->'''Darhk''': (laughing as the shots [[NoSell do nothing]]) Isn't that adorable?

* GunshipRescue: Rip shows up in the Waverider to prevent Darhk from killing Ray and Jax...only to learn the ship is too small to do anything other than amuse him.

** Malcolm shoots Jax with an arrow after the latter [[TakingTheBullet protects Prime!Stein from him]].

** Snart shoots an ice spear through Doomworld!Mick's chest.
** Darhk runs Doomworld!Nate through with a sword.

* KarmicDeath: Thawne, whose favourite move to kill his enemies is speed-stabbing them in the chest, and who used said move earlier in the episode to kill Doomworld!Ray, is himself murdered by the Black Flash in the same way.
* KeystoneArmy: The Black Flash only kills the Doomworld!Thawne yet the rest of the Thawnes that he brought with him disappear with his death. This is likely because if Doomworld!Thawne is erased from time [[TemporalParadox he never would have recruited his younger selves in the first place]].

* TheLastDance: After the Prime Waverider crashes, the "Doomworld" Legends decide to face off against the Legions so that the Prime Legends can get to the other Waverider.
-->'''Doomworld!Nate''': This was always a one-way ticket for us.

** Rip had ''no idea'' the Waverider was shrunk until he saw a desk lamp. Instead of realizing he was on a desk in S.T.A.R. Labs, he thought he was in a hangar. It's unclear if Gideon was aware.

** Nate getting tripped up and delayed by seeing Amaya alive results in him, Rip and Mick getting stuck in the Waverider as their past selves return from the church.

* NoSell: Rip orders Gideon to unload all the Waverider's weaponry upon Damien Darhk, unfortunately due to the Waverider being miniaturised at the time, Darhk feels nothing but a ticklish sensation by the gunfire.

--->'''Both Rips''': Oh, bollocks!

* PassingTheTorch: After an entire season, Rip finally gets to officially pass captaincy of the Waverider to Sara, leaving the ship in her command as he departs.
-->'''Rip''': Permission to depart, Captain Lance?\\
'''Sara''': Permission granted.
* PlotHole: Prime!Sara somehow knows the incantation to activate the Spear despite the Prime!Legends having never seen the tome that contained it. Although you could probably {{handwave}} that by saying their Doomworld counterparts told them the incantation before they left the Waverider.

** Rip unleashes a full salvo of the still shrunken Waverider's lasers on Damien, which have no effect beyond tickling him. In the next moment, Damien gets taken out with a plain old sucker punch from [[CombatPragmatist Mick]].

** Doomworld!Sara's last words are a reference to ''Film/TheGoonies'', which Nate immediately lampshades.
--->'''Nate''': Really? ''The Goonies''?\\
'''Amaya''': [[FishOutOfTemporalWater What's a goonie?]]

* ASimplePlan: Doomworld!Mick tries to take command of [[TheCaper the theft of the Spear from their past selves]]. Immediately after they start, they run into the past Sara, throwing them off.

* TakingTheBullet: Doomworld!Jax does this for Prime!Stein when Merlyn shoots an arrow at him.
* TechnicolorDeath: Doomworld!Thawne's is [[SerialEscalation even more impressive]] than the [[Recap/TheFlash2014S1E23FastEnough last time]]!

** Doomworld!Ray saying that taking the vial of Christ's blood "was easier the second time around". Right after that, Thawne shows up to steal the vial and destroy it, before killing Ray.

-->'''Ray''': I can't believe we made it!\\
'''Sara''': Don't jinx it. (Thawne shows up)\\
'''Jax''': Aw, he jinxed it.

-->'''Thawne''': I'm not your Eobard. I'm from the future.\\
'''Darhk''': What else is new?
* UncertainDoom: While Doomworld!Thawne was erased from existence alongside every other version of him he brought from the past, it was never shown what happened to the original Thawne from 1916. Possibly justified, as he could have been among the army of time remnants who disappeared when Thawne was {{RetGone}}d.
* VillainousValor: ''Two'' separate sets of Legends (minus Stein and Amaya) equals ''fourteen'' characters, versus only four Legion members, two of whom are only [[BadassNormal Badass Normals]]. Sounds easy, [[TemptingFate right?]] [[note]]though Doomworld!Ray does die ''before'' the final clash, which means thirteen members[[/note]]

** At the end of the episode, The Legends decide to take Mick's suggestion to go to Aruba 2017...and then a timestorm causes the Waverider to crash land in Los Angeles 2017, [[TimeCrash with futuristic buildings and T-Rexes running amok]].
--->'''Sara''': Guys? [[{{Understatement}} I think we broke time]].
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: J.R.R. Tolkien vanishes from the narrative. And where did the Doomworld Legends leave ''their'' Waverider?

* YouHaveGotToBeKiddingMe: The mutual reaction of both Rips when they come face to face with each other, knowing [[RealityBreakingParadox exactly what this means]].