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* NobodyHereButUsStatues: The Legends hide themselves in the museum in a display "dedicated" to them to ambush Lachesis. She turns it against them, however, when the other displays are actually Encores.



* NothingHereButUsStatues: The Legends hide themselves in the museum to ambush Lachesis. She turns it against them, however, when the other displays are actually Encores.

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* AntiClimax: Charlie goes to confront Lachesis... and instead of fighting her, forgives her and implores her to actually live a life rather than waste it trying to control everything.

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* AntiClimax: Charlie goes to confront Lachesis... and instead of fighting her, forgives her and implores her to actually live a life rather than waste it trying to control everything.



* BaitAndSwitch: When Charlie seems about to kill her sister with a knife, she instead forgives her.

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* BaitAndSwitch: When Charlie seems about to kill her sister Lachesis with a knife, she instead forgives her.



* BittersweetEnding: The Legends destroy the Loom and save the day. However, in the process, Charlie has been rendered mortal and possibly lost her shapeshifting powers, though she's embraced her freedom from her status as a Fate and is determined to enjoy her one remaining life. Worst, Original Zari is forced back into the Air Totem, likely forever, in order to preserve the new timeline where Behrad lives. And right at the end, Sara is abducted, seemingly by aliens.

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* BittersweetEnding: The Legends destroy the Loom and save the day. However, in the process, Charlie has been rendered mortal and possibly lost her shapeshifting powers, though she's embraced her freedom from her status as a Fate and is determined to enjoy her one remaining life. Worst, Original Zari is forced back into the Air Totem, likely forever, in order to preserve the new timeline where and so Behrad lives. And right at the end, Sara is abducted, seemingly by aliens.



** Charlie references [[Recap/LegendsOfTomorrowS3E11HereIGoAgain Napoleon almost killing the Legends because of an ABBA record]].

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** Charlie references mentions [[Recap/LegendsOfTomorrowS3E11HereIGoAgain Napoleon almost killing the Legends because of an ABBA record]].



* CutShort: Subverted; unlike the rest of the ''Arrowverse'' shows, which had their seasons end early due to COVID-19, ''Legends'' filmed far enough ahead to be able to complete their season.

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* CutShort: Subverted; unlike the rest of the ''Arrowverse'' shows, which had their seasons end early due to COVID-19, ''Legends'' filmed far enough ahead to be able to complete their season.



* DealWithTheDevil: [[InvertedTrope Inverted]]. John ''buys his soul back'' from Hell, as Astra hands it back to him in exchange for renting his house.
* DeathIsCheap: [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]]. As they watch the Smell perform, Behrad asks, "Weren't they dead?" Nate replies, "I mean, who ''hasn't'' died?"

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* DealWithTheDevil: [[InvertedTrope Inverted]].Inverted. John ''buys his soul back'' from Hell, as Astra hands it back to him in exchange for renting his house.
* DeathIsCheap: [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]].Lampshaded. As they watch the Smell perform, Behrad asks, "Weren't they dead?" Nate replies, "I mean, who ''hasn't'' died?"



* EasilyForgiven: Even after all the harm she caused, Charlie is willing to forgive Lachesis and giver her a shot at life.

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* EasilyForgiven: Even after all the harm she caused, Charlie is willing to forgive Lachesis and giver give her a shot at life.



* KarmicDeath: Atropos gets killed by / with the Loom.

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* KarmicDeath: Atropos gets killed by / with by/with the Loom.



* LegionOfDoom: In the finale, the Legends find themselves facing a small army of Encores.



* NothingHereButUsStatues: The Legends hide themselves in the museum to ambush Lachesis. She turns it against them, however, when the other displays are actually Encores.



** Charlie departs from the Waverider in this episode.

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** Charlie departs from leaves the Waverider in Legends this episode.



* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Astra takes Lachesis down a notch, calling her out on her actions and telling her that she doesn't need her anymore.



* WorldOfCardboardSpeech: Astra takes Lachesis down a notch, calling her out on her actions and telling her that she doesn't need her anymore.
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* TheBusCameBack: Courtney Ford returns to the show since "[[Recap/LegendsOfTomorrowS5E7RomeoVJulietDawnOfJustness Romeo v. Juliet: Dawn of Justness]]", though instead of Nora Darhk, she plays Marie Antoinette, who is last seen in "[[Recap/LegendsOfTomorrowS5E5MortalKhanbat Mortal Khanbat]]".

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* TheBusCameBack: Courtney Ford Creator/CourtneyFord returns to the show since "[[Recap/LegendsOfTomorrowS5E7RomeoVJulietDawnOfJustness Romeo v. Juliet: Dawn of Justness]]", though instead of Nora Darhk, she plays Marie Antoinette, who is last seen in "[[Recap/LegendsOfTomorrowS5E5MortalKhanbat Mortal Khanbat]]".
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* CutShort: Subverted; unlike the rest of the ''Arrowverse'' shows, which had their seasons end early due to COVID-19, ''Legends'' filmed far enough ahead to be able to complete their season.

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* AppropriatedAppellation: The Legends don't take much issue with being presented "villains" and "God Killers" in the Fate's museum. They rather take issue as only being ranked #2.
* AscendedFanboy: Gary and Mona are very excited to work with the Legends and knowing that they did so in the past too.



* BaitAndSwitch: When Charlie seems about to kill her sister with a knife, she instead forgives her.



* BigDamnHeroes: After being motivated by Lita, Charlie arrives with Hellfire weapons to help her friends against the unkillable Encores.



* BulletCatch: Behrad blocks several bullets with his wind powers.



* ContinuitySnarl: Apparently neither her old bandmates nor her fans question why Charlie now looks completely different than before.



* EasilyForgiven: Even after all the harm she caused, Charlie is willing to forgive Lachesis and giver her a shot at life.



* HeroicRematch: While she does need to be saved by her team in the end, Sara's second fight against Atropos is much more evenly matched.



* INeedAFreakingDrink: The entire team after the old Zari has to return back inside the Air Totem.
* ItsAllMyFault: Charlie is extremely guilt-ridden throughout most of the episode, blaming herself for destroying the Loom in the first place and refusing to consider the arguments from her friends in favour of free will. Lita finally manages to make her change her mind.
* KarmicDeath: Atropos gets killed by / with the Loom.



* MomentKiller: Old Zari and Behrad interrupt New Zari and John kissing over the radio.
* MotiveRant: Astra gives one to John, explaining on why she let Lachesis manipulate her.



* PoweredByAForsakenChild: The Fate Watches are powered by Gideon.



* TakeThat: The Fates' museum that demonizes history before their control includes a lot of petty exhibits, one of them being the Thong Song.
* VillainHasAPoint: Sara gets John to concede that the Fates are right to condemn cigarettes, since he died of lung cancer.

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* StarCrossedLovers: Poor Nate once again loses a woman he loves, as Zari has to return back inside the Air Totem.
* TakeThat: The Fates' museum that demonizes history before their control includes a lot of petty exhibits, one of them being the Thong Song. \n Among the "Bad ideas" are also notoriously ridiculous concepts like the "Flat Earth" theory.
* VillainHasAPoint: Sara gets John to concede that the Fates are right to condemn cigarettes, since he died of lung cancer.cancer.
* VillainousBreakdown: Lachesis has several over the course of the episode.
* WorldOfCardboardSpeech: Astra takes Lachesis down a notch, calling her out on her actions and telling her that she doesn't need her anymore.
* YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre: John, at two points in the episode, manages to convince Astra to do the right thing and believe in herself.
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* BeatThemAtTheirOwnGame: Sara kills Atropos by pulling out her life thread and destroying it, thus using her own trick against her.
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* OnlyOneFindsItFun: Nate is the only one disappointed when the Thong Song gets cut off during their climactic fight with the Encores.
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* DiscOneFinalBoss: Despite ostensibly being part of a BigBadDuumvirate, Atropos is killed in the first third of the episode, leaving Lachesis as the FinalBoss.
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* BackFromTheDead: The Smell. [[DeathIsCheap So many resurrections have happened so far this season, no one really questions this.]]

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* BackFromTheDead: The Smell. [[DeathIsCheap So many resurrections have happened so far on this season, show, no one really questions this.it.]]
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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: The Legends destroy the Loom and save the day. However, in the process, Charlie has been rendered mortal and possibly lost her shapeshifting powers, though she's embraced her freedom from her status as a Fate and is determined to enjoy her one remaining life. Worst, Original Zari is forced back into the Air Totem, likely forever, in order to preserve the new timeline where Behrad lives. And right at the end, Sara is abducted, seemingly by aliens]].

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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: The Legends destroy the Loom and save the day. However, in the process, Charlie has been rendered mortal and possibly lost her shapeshifting powers, though she's embraced her freedom from her status as a Fate and is determined to enjoy her one remaining life. Worst, Original Zari is forced back into the Air Totem, likely forever, in order to preserve the new timeline where Behrad lives. And right at the end, Sara is abducted, seemingly by aliens]].aliens.
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** The song Charlie and The Smell perform at the end is a punk rock cover of the ''Mr. Parker's Cul-de-sac'' theme song.
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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: The Legends destroy the Loom and save the day. However, in the process, Charlie has been rendered mortal and possibly lost her shapeshifting powers, though she's embraced her freedom from her status as a Fate and is determined to enjoy her one remaining life. Worst, Original Zari is forced back into the Air Totem, likely forever, in order to preserve the new timeline where Behrad lives. And right at the end, Sara is abducted, seemingly by aliens]].
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* HistoryRepeats: Once again [[Recap/LegendsOfTomorrowS3E18TheGoodTheBadAndTheCuddly]], Nate is separated, seemingly forever, from the woman he loves due to the consequences of time-travel...with the Original Zari having to return to the Air Totem in order to preserve the new timeline where her brother Behrad lives.

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* HistoryRepeats: [[Recap/LegendsOfTomorrowS3E18TheGoodTheBadAndTheCuddly Once again [[Recap/LegendsOfTomorrowS3E18TheGoodTheBadAndTheCuddly]], again]], Nate is separated, seemingly forever, from the woman he loves due to the consequences of time-travel...with the Original Zari having to return to the Air Totem in order to preserve the new timeline where her brother Behrad lives.
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* HistoryRepeats: [[Once again Recap/LegendsOfTomorrowS3E18TheGoodTheBadAndTheCuddly]], Nate is separated, seemingly forever, from the woman he loves due to the consequences of time-travel...with the Original Zari having to return to the Air Totem in order to preserve the new timeline where her brother Behrad lives.

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* HistoryRepeats: [[Once Once again Recap/LegendsOfTomorrowS3E18TheGoodTheBadAndTheCuddly]], [[Recap/LegendsOfTomorrowS3E18TheGoodTheBadAndTheCuddly]], Nate is separated, seemingly forever, from the woman he loves due to the consequences of time-travel...with the Original Zari having to return to the Air Totem in order to preserve the new timeline where her brother Behrad lives.
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* HistoryRepeats: [[Once again Recap/LegendsOfTomorrowS3E18TheGoodTheBadAndTheCuddly]], Nate is separated, seemingly forever, from the woman he loves due to the consequences of time-travel...with the Original Zari having to return to the Air Totem in order to preserve the new timeline where her brother Behrad lives.
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* CharacterDeath: Atropos is killed. Every other character, including [[FinalBoss Lachesis]], ultimately survives.
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* ClarkesThirdLaw: After Lachesis reconstructed her control over the world she took tighter control over everyone by dictating their fates to them through smartwatches, operated by time traveling supercomputer Gideon.

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* ClarkesThirdLaw: After Lachesis reconstructed her control over the world she took tighter control over everyone by dictating their fates to them through smartwatches, operated by time traveling time-traveling supercomputer Gideon.



* TheEvilsOfFreeWill: In the new world under Lachesis' control she turned the Loom Temple into a museum dedicated to demonizing the history before the Fates took control because of all the atrocities humans committed with free will.
* HappinessInSlavery: After the Legends destroyed the Loom everyone's memories of how the world was before was destroyed. Exploiting their panic to reestablish control, everyone much more happily and more closely follow Lachesis' commands.

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* TheEvilsOfFreeWill: In the new world under Lachesis' Lachesis's control she turned the Loom Temple into a museum dedicated to demonizing the history before the Fates took control because of all the atrocities humans committed with free will.
* HappinessInSlavery: After the Legends destroyed the Loom everyone's memories of how the world was before was destroyed. Exploiting their panic to reestablish control, everyone much more happily and more closely follow Lachesis' follows Lachesis's commands.



* NoOntologicalInertia: When Atropos is killed, Sara's sight is restored and she loses her precognitive abilities, as both states were caused by exposure to Atropos' full power.

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* NoOntologicalInertia: When Atropos is killed, Sara's sight is restored and she loses her precognitive abilities, as both states were caused by exposure to Atropos' Atropos's full power.



* TheSlowPath: A short-term example, as Charlie, Mick, Lita, Mona and Gary have to actually live through the four months that the rest of the Legends skip over after recovering the ''Waverider'' and escaping from the Loom temple.
* TakeThat: The Fates museum that demonizes history before their control includes a lot of petty exhibits, one of them being the Thong Song.

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* TheSlowPath: A short-term example, as Charlie, Mick, Lita, Mona and Gary have to actually live through the four months that the rest of the Legends skip over after recovering the ''Waverider'' and escaping from the Loom temple.
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* SelfDeprecation: Sisqo plays an animatronic of himself who's mostly there to take potshots on how terrible "The Thong Song" is.
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* CuttingTheKnot: While Original Zari is trying to hack into Gideon in order to shut down the new Loom program, New Zari ultimately just pulls the plug and cuts the power.


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* OhNoNotAgain: Marie Antoinette's reaction to her head getting knocked off again.

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* AntiClimax: Charlie goes to confront Lachesis... and instead of fighting her, forgives her and implores her to actually live a life rather than waste it trying to control everything.



* BrokenBird: Charlie, after four months of Lachesis using her as the centerpiece of why free will is wrong.



** Mick and Marie recognize each other from [[Recap/LegendsOfTomorrowS5E4AHeadOfHerTime their encounter earlier in the season]].



* ChekhovsArmory: Played for laughs when the Legends arm themselves with the displays in the Loom temple, which are [[ImprovisedWeapon random objects]] like shake weights.

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Played for laughs when the Legends arm themselves with the displays in the Loom temple, which are [[ImprovisedWeapon random objects]] like shake weights.weights.
** Played more seriously with the collection of Hell-forged weapons that the Legends gathered in "[[Recap/LegendsOfTomorrowS5E9TheGreatBritishFakeOff The Great British Fake Off]]", which Charlie brings to the team just in time for them to kill the Encores.


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* NoOntologicalInertia: When Atropos is killed, Sara's sight is restored and she loses her precognitive abilities, as both states were caused by exposure to Atropos' full power.


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* TheSlowPath: A short-term example, as Charlie, Mick, Lita, Mona and Gary have to actually live through the four months that the rest of the Legends skip over after recovering the ''Waverider'' and escaping from the Loom temple.

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* AlienAbduction: Sara experiences this near the end of the episode, presumably setting up Season 6.
* AsHimself: Sisqó guest stars as himself singing "Thong Song".



* TheBusCameBack: Courtney Ford returns to the show since "[[Recap/LegendsOfTomorrowS5E7RomeoVJulietDawnOfJustness Romeo v. Juliet: Dawn of Justness]]", though instead of Nora Darhk, she plays Marie Antoinette, who is last seen in "[[Recap/LegendsOfTomorrowS5E5MortalKhanbat Mortal Khanbat]]".



* CallBack: Sara talks about where the Legends were before becoming part of the team: [[Recap/LegendsOfTomorrowS2E1OutOfTime Nate having a kooky conspiracy theory]], [[Recap/LegendsOfTomorrowS1E9LeftBehind Mick being a temporal bounty hunter]], [[Recap/LegendsOfTomorrowS4E3DancingQueen Charlie being stuck in a disco outfit]] ...

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Sara talks about where the Legends were before becoming part of the team: [[Recap/LegendsOfTomorrowS2E1OutOfTime Nate having a kooky conspiracy theory]], [[Recap/LegendsOfTomorrowS1E9LeftBehind Mick being a temporal bounty hunter]], [[Recap/LegendsOfTomorrowS4E3DancingQueen Charlie being stuck in a disco outfit]] ...


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* HeroicSacrifice: Old Zari voluntarily reenters the Air Totem once she realizes that the longer she is outside the totem, the closer Behrad is to death.
* HumanityEnsues: After the Loom is destroyed, both Charlie and Lachesis turn into mortals. This is what ultimately motivates Charlie to forgive and spare Lachesis despite what she's done, telling her to live the one life she has.
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* DeathIsCheap: [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]]. As they watch the Smell perform, Behrad asks, "Aren't they dead?" Nate replies, "Who hasn't been?"

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* DeathIsCheap: [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]]. As they watch the Smell perform, Behrad asks, "Aren't "Weren't they dead?" Nate replies, "Who hasn't been?""I mean, who ''hasn't'' died?"

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* TheEvilsOfFreeWill: In the new world under Lachesis' control she turned the Loom Temple into a museum dedicated to demonizing the history before the Fates took control because of all the atrocities humans committed with free will.



* TheEvilsOfFreeWill: In the new world under Lachesis' control she turned the Loom Temple into a museum dedicated to demonizing the history before the Fates took control because of all the atrocities humans committed with free will.
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* CallBack: Sara talks about where the Legends were before becoming part of the team: [[Recap/LegendsOfTomorrowS2E1OutOfTime Nate having a kooky conspiracy theory]], [[Recap/LegendsOfTomorrowS1E9LeftBehind Mick being a temporal bounty hunter]], [[Recap/LegendsOfTomorrowS4E3DancingQueen Charlie being stuck in a disco outfit]] ...
** Charlie references [[Recap/LegendsOfTomorrowS3E11HereIGoAgain Napoleon almost killing the Legends because of an ABBA record]].
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* CallingTheOldManOut: Astra publicly confronts Lachesis for being a crappy surrogate mother.


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* DealWithTheDevil: [[InvertedTrope Inverted]]. John ''buys his soul back'' from Hell, as Astra hands it back to him in exchange for renting his house.


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* ImprovisedWeapon: The Legends grab various objects from the "Hall of Bad Ideas" (pogo sticks, shake weights, etc.) to do battle with the Encores.
* KillTheGod: Sara kills Atropos by entangling her life thread with the Loom of Fate and then blowing it up. This might indirectly count as killing Clotho and Lachesis, too, as destroying the Loom has rendered them mortal.
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* BackFromTheDead: The Smell. [[DeathIsCheap So many resurrections have happened so far this season, no one really questions this.]]


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* DeathIsCheap: [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]]. As they watch the Smell perform, Behrad asks, "Aren't they dead?" Nate replies, "Who hasn't been?"
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* ChekhovsArmory: Played for laughs when the Legends arm themselves with the displays in the Loom temple, which are [[ImprovisedWeapon random objects]] like shake weights.

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* ClarkesThirdLaw: After Lachesis reconstructed her control over the world she took tighter control over everyone by dictating their fates to them through smartwatches, operated by time traveling supercomputer Gideon.



* {{Magitek}}: After Lachesis reconstructed her control over the world she took tighter control over everyone by dictating their fates to them through smartwatches.


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* RealityBleed: Having two Zaris in the same timeline is slowly imposing Behrad's death from the original timeline onto him.
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* HappinessInSlavery: After the Legends destroyed the Loom everyone's memories of how the world was before was destroyed. Exploiting their panic to reestablish control, everyone much more happily and more closely follow Lachesis' commands.
* {{Magitek}}: After Lachesis reconstructed her control over the world she took tighter control over everyone by dictating their fates to them through smartwatches.



* SequelHook: At the end of the episode, Sara is abducted by aliens.

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* SequelHook: At the end of the episode, Sara is abducted by aliens.aliens.
* TakeThat: The Fates museum that demonizes history before their control includes a lot of petty exhibits, one of them being the Thong Song.
* TheEvilsOfFreeWill: In the new world under Lachesis' control she turned the Loom Temple into a museum dedicated to demonizing the history before the Fates took control because of all the atrocities humans committed with free will.
* VillainHasAPoint: Sara gets John to concede that the Fates are right to condemn cigarettes, since he died of lung cancer.
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Having freed themselves from TV, the Legends find themselves in a ''Literature/NineteenEightyFour''-like dystopia, where the world is controlled by the Fates and things aren't what they thought they would be. They must convince civilians to trust them and stand up for their right to choose, but the Fates don't make it easy by resurrecting the Encores once again.
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* ButNowIMustGo: With the trouble of her sisters dealt with, Charlie leaves the Legends to continue her band gig.
* PutOnABus:
** Charlie departs from the Waverider in this episode.
** Downplayed with Zari, whose old self returns to the Air Totem so Behrad's existence won't be threatened, but her new self is still aboard the ship.
* SequelHook: At the end of the episode, Sara is abducted by aliens.

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