A band heroes & villains traveling through time to battle the immortal Vandal Savage who has become rule of the entire world? Yes, please!
DC's Legends of Tomorrow, scheduled to premiere Jan 21, 2016, on the CW is a spinoff of The Flash and Arrow and brings several of the characters seen on those shows together united against a common enemy.
OK, first Vandal Savage. Savage started life as a caveman who, in the comics, was exposed to a glowing asteroid. The rest of the cavemen/cavewomen scattered when the asteroid crash to Earth but Savage went straight up to it. The asteroid, or mystery object so it is never found out what exactly was causing it to glow, gives Savage the power of immortality. Savage then spends his time traveling the globe, getting smarter, getting stronger, and quietly gaining power in the shadows of history. Now taking into account the world of comics, the Vandal Savage of the future is even more powerful and time travel is not unknown to him, along with the realms of magic and non-terrestrial objects & beings. In other words, this is an evil guy who is thousands of years old with a vast amount of knowledge & power.
Now if you've been watching both
Flash and
Arrow the rest of the characters in
Legends should be familiar to you.
Ray Palmer is "Atom", the brilliant scientist who bought Queen Enterprises and was dating Felicity. Atom is capable of shrinking in size thanks to an armored suit he created. White Canary is Sara Lance, the original 'Canary' trained by the League of Assassins before dying (and being brought back to life). The role of Black Canary has been taken up by Sara's sister. Captain Cold and Heat Wave are villains who have been a continual thorn to Flash. Captain Cold has shown he can be reasoned with while Heat Wave is chaotic. Firestorm is actually two meta-humans merged together into one physical body. Separately they are they brilliant Dr. Martin Stein and former star athlete Jefferson Jackson (replacing Ronnie Raymond who met an untimely death). When combined as Firestorm they can harness the power of nuclear energy. Hawkgirl and Hawkman are recent additions to the Flash/Arrow TV verse; they both harness the power of flight thanks to giant wings that they can hide from view and they both have incredible strength.
New to the mix of characters is Rip Hunter. Hunter has been in the comics verse for some time but, as of the time of this post, not yet introduced in the Arrow/Flash TV verse. Rip Hunter is a time traveller from the future who comes back in time to assemble a team to travel through time with him to a battle a time travelling Vandal Savage with the goal being of preventing a future Savage from taking over the entire world.
The team that Rip assembles? Heroes & villains who might not be well known today but will on to be known as "legends" to future generations.
That brings us to the first official trailer that has dropped for the show.
OK,
Doctor Who fans, did you notice the actor playing Rip Hunter? That's Arthur Devill who of course played Rory (of the Rory & Amy Pond duo) with the 11th Doctor (Matt Smith).
Anybody turn up the volume around the 1:38 mark? That is Savage saying "
I've seen 'men of steel' die and 'dark knights' fall." Yep, for the first time Superman and Batman are getting an indirect reference in the DC TV Flash/Arrow verse.
Legends will premiere in January but you really want to watch
Flash &
Arrow on Dec 1 of this year for when Savage is introduced to the verse which will ultimately lead to
Legends.
With the DC TV verse finally getting some cross-show continuity (with the exception of
Gotham which is being produced by Fox and not The CW), and the upcoming
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice introducing Wonder Woman, which will lead to her own movie which in turn will lead to DC's Justice League movie, DC might be finally catching up a little bit to the vast Marvel movie & TV verses.