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The Legends have a rotating roster, with changes happening even mid-season. These are the list of Legends who are (as of season 7) currently part of the team.

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see Arrowverse: The Legends for the main page and related characters
see Arrowverse: Legends - Former Members for a list of Legends who are no longer part of the team

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Founding Members

    Captain Sara Lance / The White Canary 
see the Arrowverse Sara Lance page

    Gideon 

Gideon

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"Right away, Captain!"

Species: Artificial intelligence program, Artificial Human

Known Aliases: Hard Drive (erased timeline)

Affiliations: The Time Masters, the Legends

Played By: Amy Louise Pemberton note 

First Appearance: "Pilot, Part 1" (Legends of Tomorrow 1x1, voice), "Land of the Lost" (Legends of Tomorrow 2x13, human likeness)

Appearances: Legends of Tomorrow | Invasion!note  | Crisis on Earth-X note 

A variant of the artificially intelligent construct that was (will be?) created by Barry Allen in the future. Unlike the one in the Time Vault, this model of Gideon comes with her own personality, often serving as the Legends' color commentator in addition to their loyal digital database.

see the Arrowverse: Team Flash page for the S.T.A.R. Labs, or "original", Gideon

  • Artificial Human: Once an AI with a digital hologram, a spell from Astra causes her to be reconstituted as a real human.
  • Artificial Intelligence: She was/will be created by Barry Allen at some point in the future.
  • Benevolent A.I.: The Waverider's helpful AI assistant.
  • The Big Damn Kiss: Her human avatar shares one with Rip in "Land of the Lost".
  • Cheerful A.I.: Gideon's voice pretty much only has one cadence, which can be best described as "mildly cheery". Less about her responses to things that happen and more the way she says them. When she starts sounding serious it's usually a case of O.O.C. Is Serious Business.
  • Covert Pervert: She's kept track of Nate and Amaya's sexual exploits, and can completely recreate Mick's smutty romance novel. Zari calls her out on it.
  • Deadpan Snarker: Gideon makes comments implying a snarky sense of humor. One suspects she's picking it up given the crew she's carrying around on the Waverider.
    Sara: I'm beginning to think our super computer is not so super.
    Gideon: I heard that. You try processing 1.2 zettabytes of data.
  • Foreign Remake: She's not so subtly implied to be a British version of Gideon, with the "original American version" being voiced by Morena Baccarin.
  • Funny Foreigner: She speaks with a British accent and has a snarky sense of humor compared to Eobard Thawne's Gideon.
  • Gender-Blender Name: Though she technically has no gender since she's an AI, she has a traditionally male name but a female voice. In "Land of the Lost", she appears in human form and is very feminine, to the point that both Jax and Sara find her attractive and reveals that she apparently has feelings for Rip.
  • Humanity Ensues: Astra's attempt to use a resurrection spell to reconstruct Gideon after she's been blown up fails and, completely unexpectedly incarnates her in a human body when the final word of the incantation is later spoken.
  • I Am Very British: This version of Gideon speaks with a RP accent.
  • Inexplicably Identical Individuals: It is likely that this is just a different version of Gideon, rather than the original.
  • Job-Stealing Robot: Played with. Hank asks why, if there's a fully autonomous AI who can do anything on the ship, she needs a crew at all. He doesn't get an answer, but it's been demonstrated several times that she needs people for repairs and maintenance, not to mention any excursions off the ship.
  • Last-Name Basis: Always addresses others by a formal title filtered by their surname such as "Captain Hunter" or "Dr. Palmer".
  • Mama Bear: To the Legends, on occasion. In particular when Ray is nearly killed in "Necromancing the Stone" after suffering multiple severe injuries.
    Gideon: If I was capable of rage, I would feel it. The saboteur must be punished.
  • Naked on Arrival: Upon first gaining human form, she isn't wearing a stitch.
  • Nice Girl: She's unflappably polite, even when she's being snarky, and is fiercely loyal to her Captain and, eventually, the rest of the team in their mission to protect the timeline.
  • Non-Human Sidekick: For Rip Hunter, and eventually the entire Legends.
  • Not So Above It All: She at times demonstrates amusement at the Legends antics, while throwing in the occasional snark herself. She can even use slang if promoted.
  • Precision F-Strike: She calls Ava (pre-character development) a "bitch" when she chews out Sara and tells her the Time Bureau will arrest the Legends next time they meet.
  • Raven Hair, Ivory Skin: Her physical avatar in Rip's mind depicts her as a hot chick with really dark hair. It's likely intentional, given that Rip's late wife also had these features.
  • Replacement Goldfish: Her physical avatar in Rip's mind has her overall appearance being similar to his late wife, Miranda.
  • Ridiculously Human Robots: This Gideon acts a lot more human than Eobard's Gideon, who was more mechanical and robotic. She's benevolent and doesn't show much sign of autonomy, but she demonstrates a lot of loyalty to Rip and the Legends, and during Rip's attempted Heroic Sacrifice, she admits that she doesn't want to die. By Season Two, it's clear she's developed genuine feelings for Rip.
  • Robot Girl: The possibility of her obtaining a robotic body has been hinted at repeatedly. In addition to having a human avatar in Rip's dreamscape, she manifests a holographic face in season 4, a full-body holographic avatar in one timeline of "Legends of To-Meow-Meow," and gains a full robot body in another timeline in the same episode.
  • Shipper on Deck: For Sara and Ava. She picks up a habit of teasing Sara whenever they call each other, and she even intentionally frames Zari's simulation dream in a way that will ensure she finds out about their attraction to each other, too.
  • Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer: She was absent in the teaser trailer, while only her voice was heard on the main ones.
  • Sitcom Arch-Nemesis: Has shades of this dynamic with Zari unsurprisingly, given that one is computer hacker and the other is a sentient computer. Later evolves into Vitriolic Best Buds after Gideon subjects Zari to a "Groundhog Day" Loop simulation to show her the importance of staying with the Legends.
  • The Smart Gal: Being an Artificial Intelligence, she's the group's main encyclopedia.
  • Spaceship Girl: A Benevolent A.I. built into the Waverider capable of piloting the ship, putting it into lockdown, serving as Auto Doc, and providing Info Dumps such as information about historical periods the Legends visit or timeline changes.
  • Theme Naming: For Time Master A.I.s. Gideon and Gilbert. Even their voice actors have the same initials (Amy Pemberton and Andrew Pifko).
  • Token Non-Human: She was one for the Legends until Charlie joins the team in Season 4.
  • True Companions: With Rip to the point that she comforts him when he pulls his Heroic Sacrifice in the Season Two premiere and later becomes his only reliable/non-corrupted companion in his virtual reality prison.
  • Undying Loyalty: To Rip and only Rip, which is helpful as, apart from him and her, nobody else can run the ship, which helps keeps the team in line. Unfortunately, she's loyal to Rip even when he's turned Brainwashed and Crazy by the Legion of Doom, but only because he invokes her override protocol. However in Season 3, Sara is able to subvert this via Loophole Abuse since Rip is no longer Captain she is, so Gideon is no longer honor bound to follow any of Rip's overrides. But "No Country for Old Dad", still proves that Gideon will do whatever Rip asks, as she deletes a secret file about Ava he doesn't want Sara to see without question. Her loyalty over time extends to the rest of the Legends.
  • You Are Not Alone: While he's brainwashed by the Legion and trapped within his own subconscious, Rip has only one trustworthy companion with him — Gideon. The only thing holding him back from returning to the real world after Sara and Jax enter his mind to get him back is her, as he doesn't want to leave her human avatar behind. She pushes him to go, since it isn't the real her, and even then, he can't leave her anyway — she will always be with him regardless. Back in the real world, Gideon reveals that not only does she remember kissing Rip in his subconscious, she enjoyed it.
  • You Called Me "X"; It Must Be Serious: When Rip is about to perform a Heroic Sacrifice and tells Gideon he would miss her, Gideon says she would miss him too, before she calls him "Rip" for the first time.

Joined in Season 4

    Behrad Tarazi 

Behrad Tarazi

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"We're kind of a 'fox' organization: adaptable, off the cuff."

Species: Human (Empowered via Air Totem; current timeline)

Known Aliases: B

Affiliations: Resistance against A.R.G.U.S. (former timeline), The Legends (current timeline)

Played By: Shayan Sobhian, Bodi Sabonghui (young)

First Appearance: "Hey, World!" (Legends of Tomorrow 4x16), "Necromancing the Stone" (Legends of Tomorrow 3x15; as a vision)

Appearances: Legends of Tomorrow

Zari's younger brother, brought back to life after the Bad Future the two originally lived in got changed. In this new timeline, he took his sister's place as a member of the Legends.


  • 11th-Hour Ranger: He joins the Legends literally minutes before the fourth season concludes.
  • Adaptation Origin Connection: In the comics, his power-granting amulet is part of the same line as the Captain Marvel family; here, his powers stem from the same source as Vixen's.
  • Adaptation Name Change: Named Amon in the comic books instead of Behrad. Also in-universe, as the Tomaz family name is now Tarazi in the new timeline.
  • Back from the Dead:
    • He was originally introduced as a Posthumous Character, but the Bad Future in which he was killed was negated, resulting in his revival and taking his sister's place as a member of the Legends.
    • Happens a second time in Legends Season 5. He is killed by Atropos in "Zari, Not Zari", then brought back by Charlie in "The One Where We're Trapped On TV".
  • Backstory Invader: Thanks to negating the Bad Future in which he was killed, he's the one who joins the Legends instead of his sister Zari. As the subsequent episodes show, it seems that Zari's status in the team has also been passed to him, e.g. Sara's nickname for Behrad is "B", recalling how she tended to call Zari "Z".
  • Blow You Away: He was the original possessor of the Air Totem before Zari took it after his death. In the new timeline, he is seen possessing it.
  • Can't Hold His Liquor: He doesn't drink both because of his religion (it's seen as haram, or sinful, by most Muslims) and because he simply can't handle it. Thankfully, the Quran doesn't mention any specifics on weed, acid, mushrooms, lyoga root, etc.
  • Comic-Book Movies Don't Use Codenames: In the comic books he goes by Osiris, but he is yet to be addressed as that.
  • Composite Character: He and Zari are loosely based of Adriane and Amon Tomaz. But Behrad's role as an aerokinetic Iranian makes him exactly like the Iranian meta-human hero Khalid aka Sirocco from the Comics.
  • Dark and Troubled Past: In the original timeline, he was raised in a dystopian police state and was later killed as a member of La Résistance. In the new timeline, he grew up as the often-overlooked "Dragon Girl's brother", who had to be careful about who he befriended, as some were only friendly to him to get close to his famous sister. Later, it's revealed that the family was also the focus of a reality show when he was young, leaving him feeling very exposed.
    "I have countless memories of cameras in my face every time I was scared! Rvery time I cried! You wanna know about the first time I ever failed?! Don't worry! "Keeping Up with the Tarazis" had a whole episode about it!"
  • Death Is Cheap: In "Zari, Not Zari", he gets killed by Atropos while trying to stop her from taking a part of the Loom of Fate. Zari makes Constantine swear to bring him back once the Loom is reassembled. Ultimately, however, it's Charlie who does the deed.
  • The Engineer: Possibly not to the extent of his sister, but at least enough of one to understand Gideon enough to figure out what's wrong with her.
  • Heterosexual Life-Partners: With Nate, as a nod to Zari being his love interest at the moment he replaced her in the new timeline.
  • In-Series Nickname: Echoing Zari, he is sometimes called "B" by his fellow Legends.
  • Last Episode, New Character: Played With. He's originally a Posthumous Character who's been mentioned, seen in photographs, and once appeared as a hallucination, but his official appearance is in the Legends Season 4 finale.
  • Nice Guy: He's a pretty friendly and fun guy.
  • Posthumous Character: In the old timeline, he died sometime before Zari's recruitment.
  • La Résistance: Was a member of a group of rebels fighting the now fascist-minded A.R.G.U.S. in the previous timeline; he joins the Legends after a Cosmic Retcon.
  • Promoted to Opening Titles: Shayan Sobhian gets upped to series regular starting with season 6.
  • Ship Tease: By "The One Where We're Trapped On TV", he is given a few with Astra. They later get more shipping moments in Season 7 and eventually become an official couple.
  • Sibling Rivalry: In the new timeline, his relationship with Zari isn't healthy at all, due to how she is a self-absorbed online celebrity who always prioritizes social media over family.
  • Stepford Smiler: Is revealed to have shades of this in Season 7, relying increasingly on his The Stoner persona to avoid showing his fears and anxieties, especially after dying and being resurrected. This actually goes back to when his family was the focus of a reality show thanks to his sister's fame, and every moment of weakness was broadcast for the public to see and comment on, so he had to develop ways to hide them as a means of self-protection.
  • The Stoner: Is seen with various drug paraphernalia (using his wind powers to clear away the smoke surrounding him) and asks Sara if she wants to get baked.
  • Tall, Dark, and Handsome: 6'3, raven-haired, and quite a good-looking man.
  • Unresolved Sexual Tension: With Charlie after they sleep together, due to her personal issues and Mayfly–December Romance being in play.
  • Walking Spoiler: The fact that he's a member of the Legends gives away the negation of the Bad Future in which he was originally killed which results in him replacing his sister as a Legend.

Joined in Season 5

    Ava Sharpe 

Ava Sharpe

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"I know what it's like to have people mess with you, and it doesn't make you crazy. It just makes you vigilant."

Species: Human (Clone)

Known Aliases: Roundhouse (erased timeline), "Captain Pantsuit"

Affiliations: Time Bureau, the Legends

Played By: Jes Macallan, Vanessa Przada (young)

First Appearance: "Aruba-Con" (Legends of Tomorrow 3x1)

Appearances: Legends of Tomorrow | Crisis on Infinite Earths

A genetically engineered clone from the future. She's recruited by Rip to serve as the "perfect" agent, as well as his right-hand woman in the Time Bureau, who is exasperated by both the Legends' antics and Rip's belief that they still have a role to play in protecting time. She eventually and ironically winds up falling in love with Sara and befriending her crew, becoming a frequent ally on their crazy endeavors. Her boss' rather gruesome death at the hands of Grodd allowed her to take over as Director of the Time Bureau from then on. Later they become entrusted with the containment and safekeeping of Fugitives, magical creatures that emerged after the Legends released Mallus to destroy him once and for all.

Unfortunately, due to events perpetrated by the demon Neron, the Time Bureau was indefinitely closed. So now Ava has taken refuge upon her girlfriend's timeship as she adjusts to her new life as the Legends' co-captain. They get married at the end of season 6.


  • Action Girl: Can hold her own against Sara in hand-to-hand combat.
  • Artificial Human: She's of a series of mass produced clones from the 23rd century engineered from desired traits sampled across the globe.
  • Badass Normal: Not just a Badass Normal, she's the Badass Normal. Being an Artificial Human genetically designed to be the peak of human perfection.
  • Badass in a Nice Suit: She can kick some serious ass, though the Legends have some questions about her fashion tastes.
  • Bad Boss: It's glossed over pretty quickly, but she mentions that she made Gary work overtime with no extra pay at least once. As she notes, that's illegal.
  • Belligerent Sexual Tension: She initially had an extremely antagonistic relationship with the Legends, and with Sara in particular. Even after Sara saves her life, the two of them make no secret of their hatred for each other and even have an intense one-on-one fight. Then they start making out.
  • The Big Damn Kiss: With Sara, on various occasions.
  • Birds of a Feather: With Sara. Both are strict but commendable leaders of organizations dedicated to protect the timestream. Both are awkward as all hell in normal dating settings, but come alive during combat. Indeed, The Big Damn Kiss comes when both of them realize they want the other to just be themselves.
  • Butt-Monkey: She's constantly on the short end of the stick due to how no one takes her straight-laced and strict attitude seriously.
  • Cannot Spit It Out: Towards Sara, even something that Gideon uses as a element for a simulation to combat Zari being in a coma.
  • Canon Foreigner: Does not exist in any other DC continuity, and was created solely for the show.
  • Can't Hold His Liquor: She gets blitzed during a mission after the Time Bureau is shut down. Then, during the Legends' afterparty from defeating the Fates, Mick finds her passed out on the toilet and she comes close to throwing up several times.
  • The Chains of Commanding: Every time she is put in charge of the Legends, she has a hard time being taken seriously.
  • Characterization Marches On: The unlikable Hero Antagonist who clashed with Sara and the Legends multiple times is all but gone midway through Season Three, once she and Sara get over their Belligerent Sexual Tension and start dating for real. From then on she becomes a Friend on the Force for the Legends to the Time Bureau. As of Season 5, she becomes a downright Butt-Monkey due to how socially awkward she can be.
  • Clingy Jealous Girl: Admits to being jealous when John Constantine mentions his past history with Sara. She also writes a nasty condolence card in regards to Oliver's death (Sara was once his mistress when he was dating Laurel). The only reason she doesn't give it to Sara is because she overhears how much Sara dislikes them.
    Ava: I didn't think my card was awkward.
  • Clone Angst: Once she finds out she's a clone and all her memories are false, she begins to doubt her sense of individuality. Being Ava #12 according to Rip doesn't make it any better.
  • Dark Secret: Rip is determined that Sara never finds out the "truth" about her. Turns out she's a clone from 2213 who's been given false memories.
  • Dating Catwoman: Downplayed, but it's there. Ava works for the Time Bureau and thus prefers to do things by the book. The woman she's in love with tends to toss that book out, ignore the rules and do whatever she needs to get the job done.
  • Defrosting Ice Queen: In the first half of Season 3, she is completely frosty and aloof to pretty much everyone around her. She shows hints of defrosting in the mid-finale of season 3 and mellows out completely by the time she starts a relationship with Sara.
  • Dreadful Musician: If "Miss Me, Kiss Me, Love Me" is any indication, at the very least when she's had plenty of drinks in her.
  • Et Tu, Brute?: She stands by and does nothing as Bennett arrests Rip. However, she comes to regret this when she hears proof from Sara that Rip was absolutely right to worry about Mallus, especially since his minions led by Darhk begin wreaking havoc.
  • Even the Girls Want Her: Or rather, even the gays want her. When Leo Snart calls her and Sara Lance both super hot, he responds to Sara's confusion by saying that he's "gay, not blind."
  • Expendable Clone: She's an Artificial Human that Rip purchased from the future, due to needing a top agent who was replaceable. Multiple Avas have already perished in the past, to which Rip brings in another Ava to replace her. The current Ava is the twelfth one.
  • Expository Hairstyle Change: As time goes on, she literally lets her hair down more often and starts acting a lot friendlier around the Legends.
  • Expy: Has a lot of similarities to Olivia Dunham from Fringe. The blonde hair, pants suit (in dour black with white shirt), and emotional distance (at least at first) are all comparable to Olivia.
  • Fair Cop: Especially when she lets her hair down.
  • Foe Romance Subtext: With Sara. It rather quickly stops being subtext and starts being just "text."
  • Foil: To Sara. Both are blonde LGBTQ Action Girls recruited by Rip Hunter, and both ended up replacing Rip Hunter as leaders of their respective groups. But where Sara subscribes to the Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! mentality that drove Rip to create the Legends in the first place, Ava believes in the ethics on which Rip built the Time Bureau.
  • Good Is Not Nice: Off the job, Ava is capable of being personable to the Legends, even if she doesn't agree with their methods of restoring the timeline. On the job, she is just as dismissive of the Legends as all the other Time Bureau agents, if not more so; even after Rip allows them to keep their ship, she's determined to get him to change his mind or, failing that, take them down herself. Though she agrees to leave them alone after they turn Rip over, she still calls them "a bunch of idiots". Things don't truly improve until she helps them until partway through season 3.
  • Green-Eyed Monster: She gets incredibly jealous when she finds out John Constantine shagged Sara once. In a mental institution. She already hated him before, but that clinches it. Sara even has to outright keep her partnership with Constantine in tracking magical creatures a secret from her, though it doesn't last long.
  • Happily Married: Very happily marries Sara in season 6.
  • Heroic BSoD: By season 5, she loses her job, her home, and her purpose in life. The best she can hope to do is help Sara and the Legends with whatever they ask of her.
  • Inspector Javert: Even after Rip allows the Legends to do their thing, she makes no secret of how much she wants to put an end to their hijinks.
  • Honorary Aunt: Mick's daughter Lita addresses her as "Aunt Ava" at least once, mainly because Ava was always with Mick when he used time-travel to be part of Lita's life, leading to Ava building a relationship with the girl as well.
  • The Lancer: Once she joins the Legends, she often serves as Sara's second-in-command, even filling in as Captain in a few episodes.
  • Lipstick Lesbian: Sure, she wears a suit, but she also wears heels and (most of the time) has a feminine hairstyle.
  • Married to the Job: She is more concerned in stopping problems affecting the timestream than dealing with her own problems. This causes her problems when she falls in love with and starts to date Sara, though the two eventually agree to sort things out and not let work get in their way.
  • Mean Boss: Her condescending treatment of Gary is one of the reasons he briefly joins Neron. She eventually apologizes for it.
  • Meaningful Name: AVA stands for Advanced Variant Automation.
  • No Social Skills: Being a clone recruited to be the perfect agent doesn't do her people skills any favors. She even admits as much.
    Ava: “Agent Sharpe lacks a delicate touch and is extremely deficient at relating to people." That is straight from my Time Bureau personnel review. Pretty harsh... I wrote that review.
  • Not So Above It All: The essence of her Character Development over the course of the seasons. When introduced in season 3, she's a no-nonsense government agent that is disdainful towards the Legends' wacky and somewhat lackadaisical approach to "fixing" the timeline, though she will work with them on occasion. In season 4 she's a Friend on the Force, and by season 5 she's a full blown Legend that barely shows any aspects of her former straight-laced demeanor.
  • Not Quite Human: While A.V.A.s have human DNA, they are made in a lab and already adults from the moment they are constructed.
  • Number Two: Rip's right-hand woman at the Bureau, at least until she allows Director Bennett to arrest him. Then after the Bureau is shut down, she becomes Sara's co-leader, though she has a hard time adjusting to the zany team dynamic of the Legends.
  • Odd Friendship: She develops one with Zari in season 5.
  • Official Couple: With Sara starting in late season 3.
  • Otaku: Ava has a very strong fascination with serial killers. Not only does she display encyclopedic knowledge of the killers and their victims, she also has a podcast where she discusses her favorites.
  • Pet the Dog: Despite her hostilities toward Sara, she does give the Waverider's captain her condolences upon hearing about Martin Stein's death. Later, she defies her own orders to go back and save Sara, and even says it was worth the risk, showing that she's becoming less hostile.
  • Promotion to Opening Titles: She's joined the regular cast list for season four.
  • Replacement Goldfish: She's actually the twelfth Ava to work for Rip. When one Ava dies, Rip just picks up another clone from the future.
  • The Rival: Quickly establishes herself as one for Sara — despite looking down on her and the team, she feels a need to outclass them in general and prove herself better than Sara in combat. She is actually able to fight her to a complete draw. A dynamic that ends up becoming very interesting once she and Sara develop an attraction for each other.
  • Second Love: She is Sara's Third Love, being her first serious relationship after Oliver Queen and Nyssa al Ghul.
  • Servant Race: A.V.A.s are mass produced in the future to fulfill a multitude of roles.
  • She Cleans Up Nicely: Not that she was unattractive before, but after she lets her hair down, she looks downright beautiful.
  • Smug Snake: Despite her extremely condescending and downright cruel attitude toward the Legends, she keeps getting in over her head with situations they end up resolving. She seems to get served a slice of Humble Pie in "Beebo the God of War", to the point of helping Sara against her own orders.
  • Tomato in the Mirror: She's actually a clone from the future, but she has no idea she's one. When she finds out, she promptly faints and subsequently flips out.
  • Took a Level in Jerkass: Towards the middle of Season 4, where she decides that magical creatures need to be captured regardless of whether they're a threat and it doesn't matter if Hank tortures and experiments on them. When Sara protests and tries to save a Kaupe from the Time Bureau, Ava breaks up with her. Subverted when she later admits to Sara that she doesn't actually condone hurting the magical fugitives, she just panicked at the thought of supporting it and got defensive, while being hurt that Sara lied to her. Subsequent episodes also suggest that this may have primarily been the result of More than Mind Control due to Neron's influence over the Bureau.
  • Took a Level in Kindness: She seems to have become less hostile in "Beebo the God of War", and sincerely tries to help the Legends, even defying her orders to go back and save Sara from Mallus. She keeps slowly defrosting from there.
  • Ungrateful Bitch: Being saved by Sara does not improve her opinion about the Legends. If anything, it makes it worse. This goes away as Season 3 goes on, though.
    Ava: "I've got to say, Ms. Lance, now that I've seen your team in action with my own eyes, you are even worse than I imagined."
  • Vitriolic Best Buds: She has a very vitriolic friendship with Mick Rory. One episode has them insult each other in the most offensive way possible, yet they still manage to work as a team in the end. In Season 5, she ends up becoming an Honorary Aunt to Mick's daughter Lita.
  • What Measure Is a Non-Human?: When she finds out she's just a clone designed to be the peak of human perfection, she starts questioning whether she real since her entire life has been a lie. Sara manages to convince her that clone or not, she's still the same Ava Sharpe, the badass Director of the Time Bureau.
  • You Are in Command Now:
    • With Bennett killed by Grodd, she becomes Director.
    • She's been occasionally given the reins as captain of the Waverider while Sara is away, notably in "A Head of Her Time", when Sara goes on leave to visit Star City.

    Zari Tarazi 

Zari Tarazi

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"I don't have any superpowers, unless you count my flawless eyebrows."

Species: Human (Empowered via Air Totem)

Known Aliases: Z, Dragon Girl, "Queen Cleopatra"

Affiliations: Z Nation, The Legends

Played By: Tala Ashe, Gracelyn Awad Rinke (young)

First Appearance: "Miss Me, Kiss Me, Love Me" (Legends of Tomorrow 5x2), "The Virgin Gary" (Legends of Tomorrow 4x1, as a child)

Appearances: Legends of Tomorrow

Several months after Zari Tomaz was removed from the timeline due to the impact of Heyworld significantly changing her future, the Legends meet Zari Tarazi, now a preppy internet superstar with a haughty personality. Despite being tricked on board the Waverider, she quickly makes herself at home and is allowed to stay for a while.

As time goes on, Zari experiences flashbacks of her original self and eventually meets her in person. When Behrad dies in a tragic turn of events, Zari makes it her goal to bring him back and becomes a more active member of the Legends, regaining her skill in using the Air Totem and becoming a surprisingly astute infiltrator.

see the Smallville: Other Major Villains page for Isis, the Earth-167 character who shares her comic background

  • Accidental Misnaming: She refers to Gideon as "Gidget".
  • Action Survivor: Contrasting her former timeline's counterpart being an Action Girl, but she eventually become one as well after taking up her brother's totem.
  • Adaptational Name Change: In-universe example, as she now goes by the surname Tarazi instead of Tomaz. Word of God is that the name change is a result of the events of "Hey, World" making the future more tolerant to religion and religious names, so the family was never forced to change it to Tomaz.
  • Amnesiac Lover: Of a sort. Even though he doesn't remember his relationship with the original Zari, Nate is initially interested to "continue" his relationship because of the message from Zari he found in the Waverider. Unfortunately, because the new Zari is so much different from the original and has no interest in him whatsoever, the sparks never fly. The possibility of them getting together is further dashed when Zari starts eyeing Constantine and vice versa.
  • Aloof Big Brother: In contrast to their relationship in the old timeline, which was implied to be loving, she is now this to Behrad.
  • Amnesiac Resonance: She experiences brief visions of her past life when doing similar things, like wearing flannel or eating donuts.
  • Blow You Away: She uses more basic abilities compared her former timeline self and Behrad.
  • Brother–Sister Team:
    • Initially subverted. Though she and Behrad are part of the Legends in the first half of Season 5, Zari stays on the Waverider as an Action Survivor, since she can't use the Air Totem and has no self-defense skills. The same episode she regains her ability to use the totem, Behrad is killed off, rendering any sibling teamup impossible.
    • Played straight after Behrad is resurrected in "The One Where We're Trapped On TV", then when the Totem is split into two so they can both use it.
  • Color-Coded for Your Convenience: She dyes her hair light brown, contrasting her with both Behrad's and her old self's jet black hair. It becomes useful when the old Zari starts appearing back in the show.
  • Be Careful What You Wish For: While it certainly beats her whole family being dead and living in a dystopia her "improved" timeline isn't quite the perfect life her old self thought it would be either. Her relationship with her family is strained due to her Influencer lifestyle, it's implied various people tried to take advantage of her fame growing up, most of her relationships in the "Z Nation" are shallow at best and she feels an empty void in her life that was filled in the original timeline by being a Legend.
  • Beta Couple: Despite their bickering when first meeting, she and John eventually get together as the show's secondary couple.
  • Desperately Seeking A Purpose In Life: The reason she's staying on the Waverider is because she wants to do something more meaningful with her life.
  • The Face: She can play normal people like a fiddle and is one of her greatest strengths when working with the Legends.
  • The Fashionista: She has her own line of clothing products and perfume.
  • Foreshadowing: In "Meet the Legends" one of the headlines on the news-crawl is "#Dragongirl is trending". Later, Behrad tells Sara, "Fame changes people."
  • Girliness Upgrade: Zari Tomaz was a rebellious Big Eater Gamer Chick hacker. Zari Tarazi is a fashionable Rich Bitch internet celebrity. Zari Tarazi even refers to her brief moments of Amnesiac Resonance as "being haunted by... someone who dresses like a teenage boy and makes me do awful things like eat donuts."
  • Hidden Depths: She's a genuinely talented actress and can recite Shakespeare by heart, which she shows off in "Romeo v. Juliet: Dawn of Justness". Also much like Tomaz, she is a wonderful singer.
  • Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Despite her animosity toward Behrad in this timeline, she still cares for him.
  • Just Friends: She and John attempt to maintain a no strings attached deal, but end up falling for each other.
  • Lovable Alpha Bitch: At least in personality, she's not exactly the most friendly socialite when introduced. However, she later proves to be every bit the kind-hearted person that Zari 1.0 was.
  • Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: As the rite of passage all Legends (even temporary ones) go through sooner or later, she causes problems with her own future. After discovering her perfume is slated to be a colossal failure, she takes Marie Antoinette's magic charm perfume to an expo and accidentally spills it, causing the nearby vicinity to be mesmerized by her presence.
  • Obfuscating Stupidity: Despite her flighty and airheaded personality, she's very shrewd and intelligent. She just chooses not to show it as she believes her fans don't care about her smarts.
  • Odd Friendship: After some back and forth, she and Ava begin to get along.
  • Rebellious Spirit: Carried over from the other version of her, she wants to stand out from everyone and follows her own rules.
  • Rich Bitch: She fits the stereotype quite well when she first appears.
  • Same Character, But Different: She's still Zari, but due to the timeline changes is effectively a completely different character with a completely different personality from her old self with virtually no knowledge of her past life aside from brief flashes.
  • Ship Tease: Starting with "The Great British Fake-Off", she and Constantine get several moments together teasing the two, which becomes official by the following season.
  • Socialite: Deconstructed when she tells Ava that she spends her time at galas and fundraisers because she doesn't know where she belongs.
  • Taking Up the Mantle: When Behrad is killed by Atropos in "Zari, Not Zari", she takes up the Air Totem into place as she did pre-Heyworld. Interestingly, Behrad is later resurrected, paving the way for a Brother–Sister Team.
  • Took a Level in Badass: Slowly trains herself with the Air Totem, until she grows as skilled as her original self.
  • Took a Level in Kindness: Season 5 of Legends is basically a chronicle of how the new Zari transforms from a shallow celebrity into the caring hero like she was before the Heyworld incident.
  • Unfazed Everyman: She is one upon joining the Legends, as she is unable to use the Air Totem. This continues until she takes a level in badass after "Zari, Not Zari".
  • Womanchild: She's in her late 20s-early 30s but acts like a preppy teenager.
  • Your Makeup Is Running: In "Zari, Not Zari", she mourns Behrad's death so hard that her makeup is visibly running when she confronts Constantine.

    Astra Logue 

Astra Logue

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"If you really want to win, it is not enough to be good at your own game. You also have to take out the competition."
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Species: Human (Empowered via magic)

Played by: Olivia Swann, Bailey Tippen (child; Constantine), Melody Niemann (child; Legends of Tomorrow)

First Appearance: "Non Est Asylum" (Constantine 1x1)

Appearances: Constantine | Legends of Tomorrow

The daughter of Natalie Logue, John Constantine's childhood friend. After her mother's untimely death, John attempted to resurrect her, only to have Astra taken to Hell as payment. For this act, Constantine's soul was damned for all eternity and he spent the next several years attempting to rescue her from her fate. He finally got his chance in 2019...

Unfortunately for him, her time in Hell took a toll on her. Taken in by Lachesis - one of the three Fates - and manipulated to express her negative emotions, Astra's hatred and anger prematurely aged her into an adult who was allowed to enter the demon hierarchy rather than be tormented.

With Neron defeated by the Legends, Astra sets the resurrected souls of the dead to torment the Legends and get back at Constantine, whom she still blames for her time in Hell and failing to bring her mother back. After a while, however, Astra realizes that Lachesis was just using her so she can get close to the Legends and therefore the Loom of Fate. As a result, she has an internal conflict regarding her allegiance and goals. When one of the Fates finds out about this and severely punishes her for it, she settles to side with the Legends for good.


  • Aborted Arc: Her original goal to rule over all of Hell ends up being forgotten after a few episodes once she learns that Constantine can save her and her mother from his mistakes.
  • Adaptational Badass: Comics Astra never became a villain and hence never acquired the powers that come with it.
  • Adaptational Villainy: In the comics, Astra was never corrupted by her time in Hell and indeed stayed a child until John finally rescued her. Here she's been corrupted and doesn't come around until much later.
  • Ambition Is Evil: Literally, she wants to rise in the demon hierarchy in Hell and with Neron out of the picture, she's free to do just that.
  • Anti-Villain: For all her villainous actions, deep down, she's still the scared, frightened child she was half a decade ago. Once Constantine vows to save her and bring her mother back, she begins to soften up. By the end of the season, she becomes an Anti-Hero like most of the other Legends.
  • Ascended Extra: Astra only served as a motivational part in John's backstory, while here she gets upgraded to a major villain and later (unlikely) hero in Season 5.
  • Back from the Dead: She is killed by Atropos in "I Am Legends". "The One Where We're Trapped On TV" reveals that, alongside Behrad, Gary, and Sara, she is resurrected using the Loom of Fate.
  • Bad Boss: In "The Great British Fake-Off", she stabs her demon assistant upon finding out that he failed to protect her coins. Though she claims that he will heal eventually.
  • Break the Cutie: Both Pre-Crisis and Post-Crisis.
    • Pre-Crisis: She had the misfortune to be possessed by a demon. And then John had the bright idea to summon Nergal to order the lesser demon away. Nergal did ...and took Astra with him.
    • Post-Crisis: She lost her mother at a young age. Then, when Constantine decides to bring her back, the deal was successful but Astra was taken in exchange. Her mother then took her own life anyway out of grief and guilt.
  • The Cameo: Bailey Tippen returns in the third season of Legends of Tomorrow for a brief voice cameo, when Mallus (while possessing Sara) glamours his voice to be Astra's in an attempt to manipulate Constantine.
  • Character Development: She starts out as a ruthless Arc Villain and even after she joins the Legends, she has a rough edge around her as a Token Evil Teammate for a while and sometimes has a hard time dealing with others. However, towards the end of the seventh season, she's come to genuinely learn the meaning of friendship and doesn't want to be parted from the other Legends, especially Spooner.
  • Chekhov's Gunman: She was originally just part of John's backstory the girl he couldn't save because of his own arrogance and the guilt driving him to redemption. Who would've thought she'd come back five years later as a villain?
  • Composite Character: The whole thing about her becoming a power-player in Hell seems to be loosely inspired by Ellie the succubus in the finale of Garth Ennis's run on Hellblazer, who has taken Astra's form and is apparently working with the First of the Fallen.
  • Cosmic Retcon: Crisis alters the events of her being sent to Hell. Rather than John summoning a demon as an attempt to show off, he summoned a demon in a bid to bring Astra’s mother back to life. However, the demon still ended up snatching Astra once the deed was done and she would go on to blame John for the predicament, so the end result was the same.
  • Dark Magical Girl: She learned magic while stuck in Hell, with Constantine telling her she inherited Natalie's affinity to it. She also fits the role personality-wise.
  • Despair Event Horizon: She's well past it once Constantine comes for her, with the second half of season 5 gradually getting her back out of it.
  • Disc-One Final Boss: She is the Arc Villain for a few episodes of Season 5, before she strikes a deal with Constantine to not kill him until he can reunite her family. Later it's revealed she was never the one running the show to begin with, as Lachesis had been pulling her strings from behind the scenes.
  • Disney Death: She's killed by Atropos, but revived by Charlie when the Fates use the Loom.
  • Dragged Off to Hell: Quite literally, in her case.
  • Enemy Mine: She helps John and Nora free Ray's soul from Neron's vault, because she needs Neron out of the way to further her own ambitions.
  • Evil Counterpart: To John, with both being occult masters who have dealings with demons and Hell, only Astra opposes the heroes. She gets better later on and garduates to Shadow Archetype.
  • Fate Worse than Death: She's a mortal who was sent to Hell while skipping the "dying" step, needless to say this qualifies.
  • The Friend Nobody Likes: Since she started out as a villain hunting them down, Astra obviously has difficulty fitting in with the Legends when she joins the group midway through season 5.
  • The Heavy: At first she seems like the Big Bad for Season 5 of Legends, due to her bringing back the damned souls she's restored to life. Later we find out she’s manipulated by Lachesis.
  • Heel–Face Door-Slam: Briefly, in "I Am Legends". After being forced to work with Lachesis and Atropos again, Gary manages to make her reconsider...only for Atropos to kill her. "The One Where We're Trapped On TV" reveals that she is resurrected by Charlie using the Loom of Fate and, like the Legends, put inside a TV show to prevent Lachesis and Atropos from harming her again, giving her a second chance to atone for her past actions.
  • Heel–Face Turn: After a few episodes being conflicted about her ideals and goals, she sides with the Legends for good in "The One Where We're Trapped On TV".
  • In the Blood: She inherited her late mother's talent for magic. This allows her to help the Legends destroy the Loom once it falls into the Fates' hands.
  • I Let Gwen Stacy Die: John blames himself for her eternal damnation, since he summoned the demon who abducted her to Hell as a child.
  • Manchild: She's prone to anger and engages in petty but deadly revenge against Constantine so he will be persuaded to resurrect her mother (i.e. a temper tantrum). Fridge Brilliance when you realize that Astra is still a child on the inside.
  • Murder Is the Best Solution: Thanks to being corrupted by Hell, Astra always prioritizes violence before everything else when it comes to conflict resolution. In "Freaks and Greeks", she attempts to gain control of a sorority by disabling their carbon monoxide detectors.
    Astra: I have an idea—
    Ava: No. One that doesn't involve any maiming.
  • Not His Sled: In the comics, John did manage to rescue her and send her to Heaven. Here she's been corrupted by Hell and refuses the chance to leave as spite for John failing her all those years ago. She does end up saved at the end, even joining the Legends.
  • Not Me This Time: Since Astra is a villain for some time, when she joins the Legends she is naturally a suspect whenever things go worse for the heroes.
    • In "The Great British Fake-Off", everyone suspects that Astra renegades her deal with Constantine when Encores start hunting him and Zari. Turns out it was Lachesis stealing the coins without her knowing.
    • And in "Ship Broken", she is the first suspect when the Waverider got sabotaged and fragments of the Loom went missing. Both are the results of Marchosias the hellhound being aboard the ship.
  • Race Lift: Astra is white in the comics but black in the show.
  • Redemption Equals Death: After being forced to work with Lachesis and Atropos again, Gary manages to make her reconsider... only for Atropos to kill her. Though it doesn't stick.
  • Reformed, but Not Tamed: Her first focus episode in season 6 has her making a deal with Aleister Crowley to regain her magic and trapping the Legends in the form of objects. Oh, and she still has at least some of those soul coins. However, she couldn't go through with using an Asshole Victim's soul to power an artifact.
  • Ship Tease: In "The One Where We're Trapped On TV", there's a bit with Behrad, who is arranged to be married to her in a Hightown Abbey production. She brushes him off, though. They later get more shipping moments in Season 7 and eventually become an official couple.
  • A Sinister Clue: She's a villain and is presumably left-handed based on the way she holds a knife and fork in "Miss Me, Kiss Me, Love Me".
  • Spared by the Adaptation: In a sense. Both her soul and body were damned in this series, so she isn't technically considered deceased. She does die near the end of the season but is promptly revived.
  • Statuesque Stunner: She is 5 feet 10 and additionally almost always wears heels.
  • Token Evil Teammate: Joins forces with the Legends after the first half of Season 5, but has obviously a very hard time fitting in. After Atropos kills her and Charlie brings her back using the Loom, however, she seems to have made up her mind to side with the Legends.
  • Used to Be a Sweet Kid: No innocent child is bound to do well in Hell, as she can attest to.
  • Walking Spoiler: A character from John's backstory who not only becomes evil, but the Disc-One Final Boss of Legends Season 5. Then joins the Legends proper in the finale.
  • Younger Than They Look: She was taken to Hell when she was only a little girl. But during her time there, her body has aged around two decades in five years' time.

Joined in Season 6

    Esperanza "Spooner" Cruz 

Esperanza Cruz

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"We're gonna keep killing aliens until you find Sara and I get some closure."

Species: Human

Known Aliases: Spooner

Affiliations: The Legends

Played By: Lisseth Chavez

First Appearance: "Ground Control to Sara Lance" (Legends of Tomorrow 6x1)

Appearances: Legends of Tomorrow

A woman who lives off the grid, she was visited by aliens as a child and has a device implanted in her that can understand other lifeforms. The Legends come to ask for her assistance in rescuing Sara, which she begrudgingly accepts.


  • Alternate Self: Has one on Earth-666 who is a drug dealer.
  • Blood Knight: She's a bit too gung-ho when it comes to killing aliens.
  • Canon Foreigner: Spooner doesn't exist in any previous DC comics and was solely created for the show.
  • Crazy-Prepared: She's spent the last couple decades being ready if aliens came after her again.
  • Cynicism Catalyst: She and her mother were abducted by aliens, but while she was returned, her mother never came back. She eventually told herself that she was never coming back until joining the Legends gave her a chance to find out what happened to her mom.
  • The Empath: One aspect of her power is that she is able to sense not just the presence of aliens but their emotions as well, especially if they are hungry or out for blood.
  • Emotion Bomb: Spooner learns that she can extend her psychic connection to others, specifically by inflicting waves of emotion that cause physical pain. She uses this on the oil men that killed her mother, forcing them to suffer the years of isolation and trauma that she had to endure all at once to the point they collapse on the spot.
  • Fish out of Temporal Water: The penultimate episode of season 6 reveals Spooner was an unknowing one; as a child she lived in Texas during the 1920s. After her mother was killed by a greedy oil baron she ran, stumbling across the Fountain of Imperium. The Fountain spirited her to safety and transported her to the future where she lost a large chunk of her early memories, left only with the traumatic feeling that her mother was taken from her.
  • Gadgeteer Genius: All of the weapons that she uses to ward off aliens were all designed and built from scratch.
  • Hidden Depths: "The Final Frame" shows she's a talented bowler. She explains one of her foster families took her bowling often as a way to keep her out of trouble.
  • Late Coming Out: Didn't come out as asexual until after she joined the Legends. Mostly because she had no idea asexuality was even a thing.
  • My Significance Sense Is Tingling: Spooner's main power is her ability to detect the presence of aliens and alien activity, which typically manifests as a ringing headache.
  • Naked People Are Funny: When the Legends are trapped in a reality show in Hell, Spooner proceeds to strip off her clothes and walk around naked the whole time as part of her strategy to win.
  • The Napoleon: Spooner is 5 foot 2, by far the shortest Legend, and is also rather hot-tempered.
  • Odd Friendship: Spooner has this with Astra. Spooner is a short, Hispanic woman with a history of UFO abduction and alien telepathy. Astra is a tall, black lady with a history of dealing with demons in Hell, having grown up there for much of her life, and becoming a Dark Magical Girl as a result. The two of them couldn't be more different but yet end up becoming close friends.
    • Also with Zari 2.0, where they originally struggle to connect but eventually bond over the wild circumstances of their lives and their love of talking smack about others.
  • Only Known by Their Nickname: The Legends only ever refer to her as Spooner, rather than her birth name of Esperanza.
  • Powers as Programs: The sixth season finale expands upon her powers as a result of her link to the Fountain of Imperium. Extending said link to her teammates Spooner discovers she is able to absorb their skills and superpowers and gift them to the other Legends at will. This even extends to ostensibly magical powers like Astra's spellcasting and the Tarazi siblings' use of their Zambesi Totems.
  • Small Girl, Big Gun: Spooner is a short woman and one of her main weapons is a rifle that is practically the size of a portable gatling gun.
  • Spicy Latina: The first Latine member of the Legends, and ticks off a number of the trope's hallmarks: Hot-Blooded with an attitude, action-prone and is a practising Catholic.
  • Telepathy: Spooner has a variety of this, limited only to extraterrestrial life-forms. However in "Bad Blood," she is able to telepathically communicate with Fernando, who is human, but this may be because like Spooner he was also granted powers by the Fountain of Imperium.
  • Tinfoil Hat: Admits that she used to wear tinfoil hats as a child to prevent aliens from finding her, and as an adult continues to do so by lining the inside of her hats with aluminum.
  • Touched by Vorlons: "There Will Be Brood" reveals the source of her powers: she encountered the Fountain of Imperium as a child, which is revealed to be a network of alien fungi that detects and defends the Earth from hostile otherworldly activity. The Fountain abducted young Esperanza and as a result bonded with her and forged a psychic connection that gave her the ability to sense other aliens and communicate with them.
  • Translator Microbes: Her "alien sense" allows her to understand extraterrestrials, even conversing with them in their native languages.
  • Twofer Token Minority: Is a Latina and comes out as ace to Zari 2.0 in The Fixed Point.

    Gary Green 

Gary Green

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"Parenting is about doing the crap work, no matter how degrading, and never, ever once hearing a word of thanks. But you'll know in your heart that they appreciate it, even if the thought never crosses their minds."

Species: Necrian in human disguise (Empowered via magic)

Played by: Adam Tsekhman

First Appearance: "Aruba-Con" (Legends of Tomorrow 3x1)

Appearances: Legends of Tomorrow | Elseworlds note 

A rather nebbish and bumbling former time agent who kept getting mixed up with the Legends. After a brief turn to the dark side for all his misfortunes, he requests his new fairy godmother, Nora Darhk, to make him Constantine's apprentice in exchange for her freedom and becomes a member of the Legends.


  • Alien Among Us: The opening of Season 6 reveals him to have been undercover to study humans.
  • Alliterative Name: Gary Green.
  • Anti-Villain: The only reason he turns on everyone is out of a desire to be appreciated.
  • The Apprentice: Before releasing Nora, he wishes to become Constantine's magical apprentice, which the latter begrudgingly has to accept.
  • Black-Hole Belly: This appears to be a trait of his species, the Necrians, who are roughly the same size as humans but can eat them whole without suffering any visible bulging. Gary himself eats four Ava clones in one scene but remains the same size.
  • Bumbling Sidekick: For both the Bureau and the Legends, Gary's job is to be the clumsy Butt-Monkey who messes up and on the receiving end of everyone's jokes.
  • Butt-Monkey: Might be the biggest one in the entire Arrowverse. Things never go right for him, no one holds any respect for him, and his only purpose seems to be the writer's punching bag.
    • Gideon even puts him in the trash compactor of Zari's simulation just because she thought it would be funny.
    • This gets a brutal Deconstruction in "Egg MacGuffin", where it's revealed he's well aware of his status and thoroughly hates it. Neron uses this - and his lost nipple - to tempt him over to his side.
  • Canon Foreigner: Does not exist in any other DC continuity, and was created solely for the show. This goes double for his true species, Necrian, an alien species that was also created specifically for the show.
  • Cerebus Callback: His mistreatment by the Bureau and Legends comes back to bite them near the end of season 4.
  • Cool and Unusual Punishment: He abducts his friends and coworkers... in order to let him into their book club that they halfheartedly even organize in the first place.
  • Dare to Be Badass: He has his moments, even managing to trick a god with his intermediate magic despite knowing he's way in over his head.
  • Dogged Nice Guy: To Ava, Mona, but apparently not Constantine.
  • Dude, Where's My Respect?: A significant reason for him making a deal with Neron to get his nipple back.
  • Easily Forgiven: He seems to get off the hook fairly easily after getting his revenge on the Legends, though likely due to his reasons for what he did and that being himself was punishment enough.
  • Failure Is the Only Option: He's unable to do anything right.
  • Fake Guest Star: He starts as a recurring character in season three, then appears in three quarters of the episodes of season four (after already appearing in half of the episodes of season three)note , yet still receives guest billing. Even a number of the regular actors have around the same number of appearances per season. This again similarly happens the following year in season five. Finally averted for season six, when Adam Tsekhman gets promoted to main character.
  • Geek: Is a huge geek, who wears Nerd Glasses and plays Dungeons & Dragons.
  • Guest-Star Party Member: He’s the Time Agent who most frequently finds himself getting tangled with the Legends’ adventures. Then after they talk him out of being Neron's minion, he becomes a Legend himself.
  • Heel–Face Revolving Door: In the last stretch of season 4. Neron is able to use his resentment of being the Butt-Monkey and the return of his nipple to seduce him to his side. After the Legends and Ava apologize for their crappy treatment of him, and him realizing that he just wants to have some respect and is bad at being evil, he returns to the right side again.
  • Heroic Wannabe: He's pretty ineffective in his field assignments; the Legends either have to bail him out or notice him when he's trying to be incognito.
  • Hidden Depths: He occasionally delivers very useful advice for the other Legends, such as to Mick when he was having trouble bonding with his daughter.
  • Ignored Enamored Underling: He alludes to having a crush on Ava while she's his boss multiple times, which she appears oblivious to. Although he still "ships" her and Sara.
  • Jewish and Nerdy: He's scrawny, he wears glasses, gets no respect and is also Jewish (although this last part is cast in doubt due to season 6's revelations about his true identity).
  • Minion with an F in Evil: Aside from a few petty things, he is absolutely unable to do genuinely bad things, which leads to him pulling a Heel–Face Turn very shortly after his Face–Heel Turn again.
  • Nice Guy: Annoying as he might be at times, the guy doesn't have a single bad bone in himself, which is also a big reason on why he fails so spectacularly as a villain.
  • Odd Friendship: With John Constantine all of people, possibly because of Strange Minds Think Alike. He even uses his Fairy Godmother to make him his apprentice, much to John's chagrin.
  • "Not So Different" Remark: Sara points out to him that, being a loser, he fits a key criteria of being a Legend that the others do as well.
  • Plucky Comic Relief: In an already silly show, he's there to be the butt of every joke.
  • Poke the Poodle: A majority of his actions when evil aren't exactly the most devious. The worst he does is hypnotize the entire Bureau... into liking him.
  • Professional Butt-Kisser: For Constantine after he joins him.
  • Rule of Funny: He shouldn't have been able to remember when Mick called him a "Time Dweeb" in Gideon's simulation for any reason except this trope.
  • Sharp-Dressed Man: He is usually seen wearing a nice suit in seasons 3 and 4, a foil to his personality. After the Time Bureau is disbanded in season 5 he stops wearing the suit jacket but still wears a business casual dress shirt and a tie.
  • Shipper on Deck: For Sara and Ava, as revealed in "I, Ava".
  • Took a Level in Badass: Downplayed example, but in season 5 he is training as a sorcerer under John Constantine, meaning he's one of the Legends' go-to characters on magic after Constantine, particularly after Nora leaves. While one might expect a comic-relief character like him to screw up often, his spells do surprisingly work correctly most of the time. He even dares to seal the rings from two very angry Fates, doesn't crack under the threat of torture and manages to make Astra reconsider going back to the dark side.
  • Trauma Button: He has a PTS-like reaction to the word "high school."
  • Weak-Willed: What does Neron use to turn Gary over to side? His lost nipple! That, and the promise of respect, but it was the sight of the nipple that sweetened the deal.
  • Who's Laughing Now?: Much of his motivation in going over to Neron's side is being treated as a Butt-Monkey by the Legends and the Time Bureau, and he even pointedly asks the Legends "Who's the joke, now?" while tormenting them with the Fairy Godmother's powers.

Joined in Season 7

    Gwyn Davies 

Dr. Gwyn Davies

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Species: Human

Affiliations: The Legends

Played By: Matt Ryan

First Appearance: "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad Scientist" (Legends of Tomorrow 7x5)

Appearances: Legends of Tomorrow

An eccentric scientist from the early 20th century.


  • Canon Foreigner: Like many of the later Legends, Gwyn was created specifically for the show.
  • Contrasting Replacement Character: He's basically the Anti-John Constantine. Constantine's all about magic, Gwyn's a man of science. Constantine's from Liverpool, Gwyn speaks with an upper class accent. Constantine will happily sleep with anyone who's even remotely attracted to men, Gwyn's a very sexually repressed closeted homosexual. Constantine is indifferent to religion to spite constantly being presented with indisputable proof of the Divine, Gwyn's a devout catholic. Constantine's happy to fight demons, have adventures in Hell or even make the occasional Deal with the Devil, Gwyn's biggest fear is going to Hell.
  • Gadgeteer Genius: Historically considered the pioneer of time travel technology, leading the Legends to seek him out to actually invent a time machine for them.
  • Gayngst: He's a gay man from the early 20th century who also happens to be very devoutly religious, and as a result, he believes he will never be acceptable in God's eyes. This is the reason he believes his quest to save the life of Alun, the man he loved, is a sacred one; the only way he can rationalize his sexuality to himself is by convincing himself that God is using his feelings for a higher purpose — but he also believes he and Alun can never be together, and that spending his life alone is his penance. Ava argues otherwise, telling him that she's sure that if there is a God, he, she, they or whatever pronoun they prefer would want him to experience love and be happy.
  • Identical Stranger: To John Constantine. Lampshaded, with the Legends remarking that he looks every other ex-Legend but Constantine. Only Zari 2.0 clocks it, and even that is in passing.
  • Non-Action Guy: He's more of a thinker than a fighter. Even his time during the military was more as a strategist than fighting on the frontlines.
  • Real Life Writes the Plot: Since John Constantine had to depart the team, his actor, Matt Ryan, got given a new character to play so he could stay a part of the cast.
  • The Smart Guy: As he was hired specifically for his scientific prowess, this makes him this for the Legends.
  • Smart People Wear Glasses: Dons a pair of specks to showcase his status as a genius scientist.

Alternative Title(s): Arrowverse Current Legends

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