RELEASED 21 Jan 201676h 38m · 110 episodes★ 7.2 TMDB
When heroes alone are not enough ... the world needs legends. Having seen the future, one he will desperately try to prevent from happening, time-traveling rogue Rip Hunter is tasked with assembling a disparate group of both heroes and villains to confront an unstoppable threat — one in which not only is the planet at stake, but all of time itself. Can this ragtag team defeat an immortal threat unlike anything they have ever known?
Why it matters in DC
A team drawn from heroes and villains turns time travel into an ongoing shared responsibility. The series broadens the Arrowverse by giving characters a setting outside their original missions, where preventing one future can create questions that ordinary crime-fighting cannot answer.
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4 titles to watch before DC's Legends of Tomorrow — 344h 58m in total.
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Story prerequisites are curated. Likely prerequisites are inferred from sequel numbering or explicit synopsis references. Recommendations are earlier stories in the same continuity; background picks are separate adaptations. Series lists cover whole shows, not an episode-by-episode watch order.
DC's Legends of Tomorrow is title 5 of 7 in our Arrowverse viewing sequence. Legends of Tomorrow gathers characters from the Arrowverse into a time-travelling ensemble series. Arrow and The Flash provide background for some of its original relationships, while its own seasons develop the team. A title-level list cannot fully represent the crossover timing, so this sequence is a starting overview rather than an episode schedule.
Caity LotzSara Lance / White Canary
Tala AsheZari Tarazi
Jes MacallanAva Sharpe
Olivia SwannAstra Logue
Adam TsekhmanGary Green
Nick ZanoNathaniel 'Nate' Heywood / Steel
Shayan SobhianBehrad Tarazi
Lisseth ChavezEsperanza 'Spooner' Cruz
Amy Louise PembertonGideon / Evil Gideon
Matt RyanDr. Gwyn Davies
