Legends

"I'm in here trying to figure out what my place is if I'm not this team's captain." "So you're saying you don't fit in. You're an outcast. A misfit." "Let's assume." "Sounds to me like you're a Legend."

- Rip Hunter and Sara Lance

The Legends are a team of individuals who operate to protect the timeline after the destruction of the Time Masters. They were initially recruited by Rip Hunter, each possessing a particular set of useful skills/abilities, while also having a minimal effect on the recorded timeline, in an effort to stop Vandal Savage from conquering the world by the year 2532. After succeeding in their task, the team's purpose was changed, with Rip Hunter intending to protect the timeline as a former Time Master. The team, dubbing themselves the Legends, then engaged on adventures to cleanse the timeline from the effects of aberrations.

Creation and hunting down Vandal Savage
Original timeline: It is unknown if the Legends existed in Eobard's timeline of origin. Probably, they will never exist because presumably Vandal Savage never ruled the world in 2532. But, Eobard implied that they existed in his timeline of origin (but it is still unknown whether Eobard was born in another timeline or in the future of the current timeline, more probably in another timeline)

Current timeline: After stealing the Waverider, Rip Hunter recruited eight men and women to join his mission. Rip told the team they were all considered legends in the future and showed them of the destruction Vandal Savage caused. Rip then gave them thirty-six hours to make up their minds. All but Jefferson Jackson agreed to join the team, the former of which was drugged by Martin Stein and brought to the Waverider.

The team traveled to 2333, just 24 hours prior to Dr. Aldus Boardman's death. Rip Hunter left to see Aldus Boardman with Martin Stein, Ray Palmer, Carter Hall and Kendra Saunders. Sara, Leonard and Mick left for a bar while Jefferson stayed behind. While meeting with Dr. Boardman, Martin Stein sensed Jefferson was in danger and the team rushed back to the Waverider. The team engaged in a brief battle with Chronos as Sara, Leonard and Mick returned. The team managed to escape but Aldus was critically wounded, later dying.

Rip later admitted that the eight weren't considered legends but were instead the exact opposite; Rip chose them specifically because their absence wouldn't have any significant impact on the timeline. While everyone began having second thoughts on the team, the eight eventually decided to join Rip Hunter, resolving to change their destinies and become true heroes.

When Carter was killed and Kendra was fatally wounded by Vandal Savage, the team was forced to retrieve from the battlefield for better measurement. Later, as Martin and Ray figured out how to stabilize Kendra, the rest divided into groups for different agendas; Snart and Rory, with Jax as the driver, visited Central City as part of Snart's attempt to change his own past, while Sara and Rip went to cripple Savage's fortune, only to find out his most valuable resource wasn't wealth, but something called the vessel, which turned out to be the corpse of Carter, Savage feeding his minions, such as Mr. Blake, with Carter's blood to give them increased strength and longevity. Snart's group aided Sara and Rip in time, and they managed to recover Carter's body. Afterwards, the team set a resting place for Carter and Aldus Boardman and said their goodbyes.

Tracking Savage in 1986 after infiltrating the Pentagon, the team learned that he was currently aiding the Soviet Union, working with scientist Valentina Vostok. Arriving in Russia, Ray attempted to make contact with Vostok to convince her that Savage was using her while Stein infiltrated her lab, but he soon realized that Savage's true goal – which Vostok fully supported – was to try and create his own version of Firestorm. With Stein, Ray and Rory captured, Hunter was forced to contemplate killing Stein to prevent Savage learning the key to making his own Firestorm, but despite Vostok managing to trigger a combination of her and Stein into a new Firestorm, Jax was able to help Stein break free of her, causing Vostok to blow up and destroy Savage's gulag while the team escaped.

When a subsequent attack by Chronos forced the Waverider to crash-land, the team found themselves in a desolated Star City in 2397, where various gangs ruled the streets led by the ruthless Grant Wilson, only opposed by Connor Hawke after Oliver Queen had "retired" following his defeat by Grant. Although Rory contemplated staying in this era, the rest of the team were able to rally Oliver to stand up and fight once again, defeating Wilson and prompting the gangs to disperse.

The team suffered a further blow when their attempt to get a data upgrade from an active timeship resulted in them being attacked by time pirates, with Rory nearly betraying the team when Hunter revealed during an argument that he had actually only recruited Rory because he and Snart were a package deal and he actually had no interest in Rory. When the team managed to drive the pirates away and get the upgrade, Snart arranged for Rory to be left behind in an unspecified time rather than kill him.

Their subsequent attempt to find a new lead on Savage in 2344 resulted in the Waverider being attacked by Chronos, forcing Hunter, Stein, Jax and Snart to take off without Sara, Ray or Kendra. Although Hunter was able to regain control of the Waverider after Chronos departed with Snart, Ray, Kendra and Sara were in the past for two years, resulting in Ray and Kendra developing a relationship while Sara returned to the League of Assassins out of a lack of anywhere else to go. When the team travelled to Nanda Parbat to rescue Sara, they were confronted by Chronos once again, but Snart revealed that Chronos was actually Rory, retrieved and brainwashed by the Time Masters to act as their agent. A subsequent trip to the future to try and alter the circumstances of Savage's final rise to power failed, although the team were able to rally themselves during a trip to 1870 Salvation in time to save the town from local bandits, as well as time assassins sent after the team. Faced with the threat of temporal assassin the Pilgrim, the team were forced to abduct a teenage Rory and Sara, along with the infant Stein, Jax and Snart, and take them to the orphanage where Rip was raised as a child, simultaneously working with Hunter's childhood self to take the Pilgrim by surprise and kill her.

With options exhausted, the team travelled directly to the time when Savage was just about to begin his plans for global conquest, allying themselves with Savage's daughter to infiltrate his plans. Although Palmer was able to defeat Savage's greatest weapon of a giant robot by reversing the polarity of his suit so that he could grow, Kendra abandoned a chance to kill Savage when she realized that one of his minions was the latest reincarnation of Carter Hall, Scythian Torvil, instead choosing to hold Savage prison while trying to break Torvill's conditioning. Learning that Savage's army was using technology from the future, Hunter tried to make another appeal to the Time Masters to sanction his mission, but was shocked to learn that the Time Masters were working with Savage, believing that only Savage could lead Earth against an alien invasion in the future. Despite the odds against them, the team were able to escape and sabotage the Time Masters' equipment, Snart sacrificing himself to save the others, culminating in them facing Savage's plan to perform a twisted ritual that would turn time back to 1700 BC so that he could rule the world from the beginning. Although the ritual required Savage to perform it in three separate timelines over a meteor fragment similar to the one that made him immortal in the first place, its radiation rendered him so vulnerable that anyone could kill him, allowing the team to split into three groups and kill him in all three time periods. While Kendra and Carter decided to 'retire' to 2389, the rest of the team decided to stay together to protect the timeline now that the Time Masters were lost. However, as they began to walk away, their ship reappeared, out of it coming a man who introduced himself as Rex Tyler, a member of the Justice Society of America. He warned them not to get on their ship, as well as to not travel to 1942.

Scattered throughout history
Heeding Rex Tyler's warning, they eventually found themselves in the château of King Louis XIII in France in 1637, intending to make sure King Louis and Queen Anne of Austria consummated. However, they were interrupted by assassins wielding future technology. While most of the Legends fought them off, Queen Anne seduced Sara. Once they were back on the Waverider, Rip lectured them on using superpowers, before letting them know of their next potential mission: an atomic bomb detonating in 1942 New York, rather than the historical explosions of 1945 Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Deciding to take the risk, despite Tyler's words of warning, they landed in 1942, Sara going off on her own side-mission to secretly find Damien Darhk, secretly followed by a miniaturized Ray. Leaving Jax on the ship, Rip, Mick and Stein all headed to a physics symposium, intending to kidnap Albert Einstein before Nazis could do so. He initially struggled, before Stein knocked him out. Back on the ship, they talked to Einstein, who revealed that his ex-wife Mileva was also a physicist and therefore could have aided the Nazis. They were able to find the Nazis, along with Darhk who was working with them. They managed to retrieve Mileva, but Darhk got away on a submarine. The Legends quickly followed behind on the Waverider. After launching the atomic bomb, Rip decided to speed up the ship, heading on course for the bomb before it could reach New York. In doing this, he subsequently sent all of the Legends randomly throughout time, away from the explosion. In order to protect Mick, who wasn't fit to time travel, he placed him in stasis, before recording a final message for his crew and the Waverider colliding with the atom bomb.

Reunited and Re-Organised
Years later, in 2389, Mick was found by historian Nate Heywood and Oliver Queen. Once they explained who they were, he sat down and told them the entire story. Oliver then returned to Star City, while Mick, aided by Heywood's knowledge of history, went to find the rest of the team. Ray landed in South Dakota, 70 million years ago; Jax and Stein in Tintagel, England in 821, where they had become "wizards"; Sara in 1693 Salem, where she was to be hanged as a witch. Once they were back on the ship, they asked Gideon if she could locate Rip. Unable to, she instead played his last message to them. Hoping to actually fix the timeline, Nate suggested they safeguard the Einsteins, travelling back to Columbia University in 1942, where they pretended to be OSS agents, instructing Albert Einstein to name Mileva as his collaborator on the Manhattan Project, forever disallowing anyone suspicious from ever going near her due to her fame. As they left the announcement, they were stopped by a group of heroes, introducing themselves as the Justice Society of America.

The confrontation became tense and then broke out into an all out fight which had the JSA victorious over the Legends. At first, the JSA had considered the possibility that the Legends were in fact Nazi agents but Nate Heywood revealed that he was Henry Heywood's grandson and had his own version of his grandfather's dogtags. The Legends met with Rex Tyler but he claimed to not know or even have met any of them before. The Legends then attempted to leave, but as they left 1942 Heywood realized that his grandfather's dog-tags had vanished, suggesting that the JSA was now about to die as history changed. Following the JSA to Germany on their latest mission, the Legends attempted to help out as Stein acted as the team's new leader, but when his actions saw some of the team being captured, Stein deferred to Sara as the new leader due to her superior tactical experience, allowing them to coordinate a new plan to defeat the Nazis' efforts to use a new super-serum. In the process, Heywood was seriously injured, but Ray Palmer saved his life with a modified version of the serum that also granted Nate the ability to transform into living steel.

After JSA member Rex Tyler was killed by Eobard Thawne and only able to reveal that he was killed by a time traveler before dying, his teammate Amaya Jiwe followed the Legends onto the Waverider in the belief that they were responsible. She targeted Rory believing him to be Rex's killer but was stopped when Nate unlocked his new abilities given to him by Ray's serum. After confirming their innocence Amaya decided to remain with the team to find Rex's killer as it seemed to be the time traveler responsible for the rash of time aberrations the Legends were following after. When an accident saw Ray and Nate being trapped in feudal Japan and Ray's armor stolen by a local warlord, the team were forced to destroy Ray's armor to save a village. Ray faced some doubt about his role in the team in the absence of his suit, but after the team prevented a 'zombie' outbreak in the American Civil War after a future virus was released in the past, Rory gave Snart's old cold gun to Ray so that he could act in the field. Investigating an aberration in 1987, the team faced Darhk as he attempted to acquire something during the American/Soviet nuclear disarmament treaty, simultaneously meeting Stein's past self and learning that Darhk was working with a speedster to more directly change history. Ray was able to use dwarf alloy salvaged during a later mission to rebuild his suit, as well as make a suit for Nate so that his clothing wouldn't be stretched out of shape when he used his powers. When the team returned to 2389 to help Team Flash and Team Arrow fend off an alien invasion by the Dominators, Stein learned that his actions in the past had resulted in him having a daughter with his wife, although he only shared this revelation with Jackson and asked that he conceal the daughter's status as an aberration from the rest of the team.

Facing the Legion
While investigating an aberration that resulted in the death of Elliot Ness before he could start the chain of events that led to Al Capone's arrest, the team discovered that Damien Darhk was now working with Malcolm Merlyn and an unidentified speedster. After this team was able to claim a mysterious amulet, investigating another aberration led the Waverider to 1967, where they discovered Rip Hunter, now with no memory of his real identity and working as a film student. They attempted to rescue Rip and restore his memory, but while dealing with an aberration that caused George Lucas to give up filmmaking- with the result that his films no longer existed to inspire Ray and Nate to follow their original career paths- Rip was captured by the other team, who Nate began to refer to as the 'Legion of Doom'. Discovering that the Legion were seeking the Spear of Destiny, which had once been held by Rip Hunter and possessed the power to rewrite reality, Stein deduced that the Legion's speedster was Eobard Thawne, now existing only as a time remnant after he was erased from history through Eddie Thawne's sacrifice and seeking to use the Spear to change this. Unfortunately, the team were unable to stop the Legion acquiring a recording of Rip's memories and 'editing' it so that they could restore Rip with a personality that would ally with the Legion, Rip creating an aberration by killing George Washington in 1776 so that he could lure in the team and force them to return the amulet. When they realized that Rip had given the other fragments of the Spear to the JSA and then scattered the team across time, the team attempted to find them, but they were unable to stop Rip from killing Doctor Mid-Nite in the year 3000, although they tracked Stargirl to Camelot in time to save Arthur from the Legion and capture Rip. Although Rip was able to disrupt Gideon's systems and force the Waverider to crash in the prehistoric era, Sara and Jax were able to restore him to normal by entering his mind and finding the part of his original consciousness that remained underneath the Legion's reprogramming while the others repaired the ship.

Rip managed to lead the Legends to 1965 where he left Commander Steel but he was now lost. They managed to track him to 1970 during the Apollo-13 mission and got his fragment of the spear that he had put on the moon. To get the other pieces of the spear, Rip took them to the Vanishing Point where the Legion had set up their base of operations. They managed to get by Eobard Thawne and retrieve the two fragments of the spear that they had. Back on the Waverider, they managed to assemble it and make the spear whole. They discovered that to destroy the spear, they needed the blood of Christ. Amaya learned about what happened to her village and the fate of her daughter and granddaughter which started to weigh on her mind. She began to be drawn to the spear to use its power to spare her daughter and granddaughter their heartaches as Rory was drawn to it to never have burned his parents alive.

Current members

 * Sara Lance/White Canary (current leader; stealth and field support)
 * Gideon (Waverider A.I. system)
 * Ray Palmer/The Atom (scientist and field support)
 * Firestorm (field support)
 * Jefferson Jackson (Sara's second in command; mechanical support)
 * Martin Stein (former leader; scientist; currently a scientist on Eobard Thawne's control in the altered reality)
 * Nate Heywood/Steel (historian and field support)
 * Mick Rory/Heat Wave (arsonist and field support)
 * Amaya Jiwe ( field support)

Former members

 * Carter Hall/Hawkman (field support; deceased)
 * Leonard Snart/Captain Cold (infiltration and field support; present self deceased, past self joins the Legion of Doom; returned to current timeline)
 * Kendra Saunders/Hawkgirl (field support and occasional tech support; left to purse a relationship with Scythian Torvil)
 * Scythian Torvil/Hawkman (field support; left to purse a relationship with Kendra Saunders)
 * Rip Hunter (founder; former leader; time travel support and field support)

Current allies

 * Eve Baxter
 * Kara Danvers/Supergirl (operating on Earth Thirty-Eight)
 * Jonah Hex (operating in 1874)
 * Lily Stein (operating in 2390)
 * Courtney/Stargirl (operating in 507)
 * J.R.R. Tolkien (operating in 1916)
 * Team Arrow
 * 2390
 * Oliver Queen/Green Arrow (leader)
 * John Diggle/Spartan
 * Quentin Lance
 * Dinah Drake
 * Curtis Holt/Mister Terrific
 * Rene Ramirez/Wild Dog
 * Felicity Smoak/Overwatch
 * Laurel Lance/Black Canary
 * Typhuss James Kira/Red Arrow
 * Chloe Sullivan/Watchtower
 * Lois Lane/Stiletto
 * Helena Kyle/Huntress
 * 2397
 * Oliver Queen/Green Arrow
 * Connor Hawke/Green Arrow
 * Team Flash
 * 2390
 * Barry Allen/The Flash (leader)
 * Cisco Ramon/Vibe
 * Caitlin Snow
 * Harrison "H.R" Wells
 * Iris West
 * Joe West
 * Wally West/Kid Flash
 * 2429
 * Barry Allen/The Flash
 * Birds of Prey
 * Barbara Gordon/Oracle
 * Helena Kyle/Huntress
 * Dinah Lance/Black Canary
 * Laurel Lance/Black Canary
 * Lois Lane/Stiletto
 * Chloe Sullivan/Watchtower
 * Caitlin Snow (alternate)/The Frost
 * Laurel Lance (alternate)/Black Siren

Former allies

 * Aldus Boardman (deceased)
 * Cassandra Savage (operating in 2532)
 * Thea Queen/Speedy (left for leave of absence; former member of Team Arrow)
 * Rory Regan/Ragman (left after his suit was broken; former member of Team Arrow)
 * Quentin Lance (former member of Team Arrow; currently in rehab)
 * Eliot Ness
 * Martin Stein of 2333 (briefly; in the future, he became a member of the team)
 * Justice Society of America (inactive)
 * Henry Heywood/Commander Steel (operating in 1970; deceased)
 * Todd Rice/Obsidian (retired )
 * Rex Tyler/Hourman (leader; deceased)
 * Charles/Dr. Mid-Nite (operating in 3000; deceased)

Current enemies

 * Time pirates

Former enemies

 * Legion of Doom (inactive)
 * Eobard Thawne/Reverse Flash (leader; deceased)
 * Damien Darhk (from 1987)
 * Malcolm Merlyn/Dark Archer
 * Leonard Snart/Captain Cold (from 2388)
 * Mikhail Arkadin (deceased)
 * Blake (operating in 1975)
 * Boris (deceased)
 * Al Capone (operating in 1931)
 * Daniel Collins (deceased)
 * Boris (KGB) (deceased)
 * Cornwallis (operating in 1776)
 * Per Degaton (deceased)
 * Tor Degaton (deceased)
 * Bud Ellison (deceased)
 * Rip Hunter (former member of the Legion of Doom under mind alteration; captured and saved from mind alteration)
 * Mick Rory/Heat Wave (former member of the Legion of Doom; re-joined the Legends)
 * Tokugawa Iemitsu (deceased)
 * Krieger/der Übermensch (deceased)
 * The Leviathan (destroyed)
 * Cassandra Savage (turned ally)
 * Vandal Savage (deceased)
 * Smith (reassigned to Antarctica)
 * Carmine Broome (deceased)
 * Scythian Torvil (turned teammate)
 * Quentin Turnbull (incarcerated)
 * Valentina Vostok/Soviet Firestorm (deceased)
 * Grant Wilson/Deathstroke (incarcerated)
 * Dominators (defeated)
 * Manhawks (defeated and cured)
 * Jeb Stillwater's Gang (inactive)
 * Jeb Stillwater (leader; deceased)
 * Billy Conlon (deceased)
 * Jon Valor's Time Pirates (inactive)
 * Jon Valor (leader)
 * Drake (deceased)
 * Time Masters (inactive)
 * Declan (deceased)
 * Zaman Druce (deceased)
 * The Pilgrim (assassin; deceased)
 * The Hunters (bounty hunters; deceased)