Legends of Tomorrow (film)

**DC's Legends of Tomorrow**, or simply, **Legends of Tomorrow** was a 2012 superhero action film based on DC Comics. The film is a spin-off/sequel of *Arrow: H.I.V.E.* and *The Flash: Earth-2*. The film starred . The film was released worldwide on July 30, 2012 and received mixed reviews but was a box office success, grossing $1.025 billion worldwide.

## Plot

Rip Hunter is a Time Master from the year 2162. In the year, the immortal Vandal Savage managed to completely take over the world. The other Time Masters forbid Hunter from leading a mission to go back in time to save the world. In turn, Hunter gathers a group of superheroes/villains from 2012 that do not go down in history to aid him in stopping Savage. He asks Ray Palmer/The Atom, Sara Lance, Kendra Saunders/Hawkgirl, Carter Hall/Hawkman, Jefferson Jackson and Martin Stein/Firestorm, Leonard Snart/Captain Cold, and Mick Rory/Heat Wave to join his team. After talking with Oliver Queen/Green Arrow about the offer, Ray is convinced to join. Sara tells her sister Laurel about the offer and Laurel tells her to become the White Canary. Stein and Jax disagree on whether to join the team. Stein drugs Jax to bring him aboard the team. Kendra and Carter decide to join due to being hunted by Savage throughout time and being killed by him constantly and reincarnating. Snart and Rory realize they have nothing better to do and join the team.

Rip leads them to 1975 to kill Savage. However, they learn that only Kendra and Carter can kill Savage due to being with him in Ancient Egypt when they all got their abilities, and they can only kill him with a knife that Savage possesses. Snart, Rory, and Ray go to collect the knife but accidentally set of the alarm, alerting Savage to their location. Rip leads the rest of the team to Savage's mansion but when Carter tries to kill Savage, he is not hurt. Savage reveals that due to being in contact with Kendra's first incarnation, Kendra is actually the only one that can kill Savage. Carter realizes his mistake just as Savage stabs Carter with the knife, killing him. Kendra is also stabbed but the team manages to get her to time ship, the Waverider, in time and she recovers.

The team follows Savage to 1958 where a meteorite similar to the one that crashed in Ancient Egypt, giving Kendra, Carter, and Savage their powers, is there. However, Mick betrays the team to Savage, wishing to see the world burn instead of saving it. Just escaping, a time pirate attacks the ship, forcing Rip to leave with just Stein, Jax, and Snart, who killed Mick. Ray, Kendra, and Sara are left stranded for two years. Ray and Kendra have been dating for that time until the team arrives and rescues them and Sara, who had rejoined the League of Assassins. However, they learn that Chronos escaped with Snart. Snart learns Chronos is actually Mick, who has survived and been found and trained by the Time Masters to be their bounty hunter. Chronos shows up in 1960 with Snart. The team rescues Snart and captures Mick, who they plan to reform.

The team goes to 2162 to stop Savage once and for all. While there, Kendra prepares to kill Savage only to discover Carter's reincarnated self as Scythian Torvill and is brainwashed by Savage. Kendra decides to keep Savage for now to save Scythian. Also, Rip discovers that Savage is using technology from the distant future, which Rip plans to show to the Time Masters so they can arrest Savage for manipulation of the timeline. However, on their way to the Time Masters, Savage escapes and gets Scythian, who remembers his life as Carter and saves Kendra and recaptures Savage. Rip gets to the Vanishing Point, the Time Masters' base, and tells them about Savage. However, they reveal that in 2175, the Thanagarians will invade Earth and Savage is the only one powerful enough to stop them. Sara and Snart rescue the other members of the team that were captured, including Mick for his failure. However, the Time Masters reveal that they are using the Oculus, a machine that can manipulate time, to manipulate events throughout Earth's history to orchestrate Savage's rise to power. The team destroys the Oculus, but at the cost of Snart's life.

Savage kidnaps Kendra and Scythian and returns to 2162. However, the team manages to rescue Carter and discovers Savage plans to use the three meteors that the Thanagarians sent since Ancient Egypt (1958, 1975, 2021) to erase time back to 1700, where he can rule. The team learns that the radiation of the three meteors can render Savage mortal and can be killed. The team splits into pairs to travel back to these three points in history to kill him. They manage to kill him and destroy two of the three meteors but the third is unstable and Rip is forced to use the Waverider to fly the meteor into the Sun. Afterwards, Sara discovers her sister's death and decides to join Rip in protecting the timeline now that the Time Masters are destroyed along with the Oculus. Kendra and Scythian leave the team to protect 2012 while Ray, Jax, Stein, and Rory join Sara and Rip in protecting the timeline.

In a mid-credits scene, the team is confronted by Rex Tyler in a future version of the Waverider, who warns the Legends of their impending deaths.

## Cast

* James Marsden as Ray Palmer
* Benedict Cumberbatch as Rip Hunter
* Olivia Munn as Sara Lance
* Scarlett Johansson as Kendra Saunders
* Zac Efron as Jefferson Jackson
* Wentworth Miller as Leonard Snart
* Dominic Purcell as Mick Rory
* Amy Pemberton as Gideon
* Martin Donovon as Zaman Druce
* Jason Momoa as Carter Hall
* Victor Garber as Martin Stein
* Mark Wahlberg as Vandal Savage

Christian Bale, Morena Baccarin, and Ben Browder reprise their roles as Oliver Queen/Green Arrow, Laurel Lance/Black Canary, and Quentin Lance from the *Arrow* film series.

## Reception

### **Box office**

The film grossed $1,025,467,110 worldwide, $334,191,110 in North America and $691,276,000 in other territories.

### **Critical reception**

*Legends of Tomorrow* recieved mixed reviews. The film currently holds an 58% on Rotten Tomatoes, and a 58 out of 100 on Metacritic.