DC's Legends of Tomorrow: Easter Eggs and Other Things You Might Have Missed In "Outlaw Country"
DC's Legends of Tomorrow headed back to the Wild West today, and brought back Jonah Hex (as well [...]
JONAH HEX
Jonah Hex - Yeah, this is his epsode, so really he should get his own entry, but it's not as though there's any doubt people who have been watching Legends of Tomorrow right along remember Johnathon Schaech's outlaw/bounty hunter from what is arguably last season's most popular episode.
The massacre at Calvert and Hex's desire to fix it or punish Turnbull was dealt with in last year's episode -- although not as plainly spelled out as it is here.
QUENTIN TURNBULL
The closest thing Jonah Hex has to a nemesis, Quentin Turnbull appears in this episode — his second live-action appearance, after the fan-unfavorite Jonah Hex movie (where he was played by John Malkovich).
In the comics, Turnbull hates Hex and repeatedly tries to have him killed because he blames Hex for his son's death. When Hex was serving in the Confederate Army, he and Jeb Turnbull were best friends. After Jonah abandoned the Confederacy, saying he didn't believe what they were fighting for, he was captured by the Union Army, who were able to figure out where Jonah had come from, and use that information to surround and slaughter a Confederate Troop at Fort Charlotte.
That backstory is something Jonah Hex actor Johnathon Schaech talked with ComicBook.com about earlier this week.
COMMANDER STEEL COSTUME
Costumes aren't mandatory in the Old West, but they might come in handy in two weeks when the Legends face off against The Dominators.
Timeline-wise, that's probably why this week we got Nate's drawing of his costume, which is fairly familiar to fans of the Heywood family in the comics.
The version we see at the end of the episode is, as Ray Palmer notes, a bit different from the drawing...but it's the costume we've seen actor Nick Zano wearing in promos for the crossover.
DWARF STAR ALLOY
As noted in the episode, Dwarf Star Alloy is the element that allows The Atom to grow and shrink, among other things. In Arrow and DC's Legends of Tomorrow, its primary use is as a power source for the ATOM suit, allowing it to do all kinds of things, including shrinking, flight, energy projection, and more.
WATCH THE WORLD BURN
While it's hardly a unique phrase, plenty of DC fans will make sure to let us know if it seems like we missed Heat Wave saying that he likes to "watch the world burn."
That may or may not -- but in the eyes of many fans absolutely must -- be a reference to The Joker in The Dark Knight and that famous line from Alfred that some men just...well, you know the rest.
GRAVITY ROD
The screenshot above features Starman's Gravity Rod (seen at far right).
We wouldn't have noticed it if ComicBook.com's Russ Burlingame had not already spotted it (but failed to get a detailed photo) during a recent visit to the set of Legends of Tomorrow.
Ted Knight, the Starman of the Justice Society of America, got his powers from a "gravity rod" he designed, and used it to battle injustice for generations. After the years caught up with him, Knight retired, handing off the costume and cosmic rod to his son David.
David was killed on his first night of patrol, forcing Knight's other son -- Jack, who never really wanted to be a superhero and certainly wouldn't wear his father's costume -- to take on the role of Starman in order to avenge his brother's death. He did so with a "cosmic rod," another version of the gravity rod his father had never regularly used.
With the cosmic rod damaged early in the run, Jack used a larger, odder-looking Cosmic Staff, one of his father's earlier designs, during his time as Starman. It's the cosmic staff that he passed along to Courtney Whitmore upon his retirement.
Jack Knight's staff was seen on DC's Legends of Tomorrow -- in 1942, in the possession of Courtney Whitmore (Stargirl). The implication for many was that the Justice Society's star-themed hero had been Courtney and that the Knights weren't a part of the Starman legacy in the Arrowverse. Instead, though, this Easter egg seems to suggest that at some point -- perhaps after Courtney's retirement, or perhaps concurrent with Stargirl at some point? -- there was either a Starman, or Courtney herself used a simpler, more compact cosmic rod.
MORE POWERFUL THAN A LOCOMOTIVE
There's no explicit reference to that phrase -- "more powerful than a locomotive" -- but if you're a DC Comics fan, there's a better-than-even chance that the whole time Steel was trying to stop the train by brute strength and grit, you were thinking about Superman.
OUR FRIENDS IN 2016 NEED US
"Our friends in 2016 need us," Sara Lance tells her crew in the final moments of the episode.
And why wouldn't they? As we'll find out soon, Central City is being invaded by The Dominators, a race of aliens who have long been a thorn in the side of the Legion of Super-Heroes in the 31st Century.
The week of November 28, there will be a crossover between Supergirl, The Flash, Arrow, and DC's Legends of Tomorrow -- and it will be beased on the 1988 DC Comics event Invasion!, in which the Dominators and an armada of allied aliens attacked Earth becuase they perceived the world's growing metahuman community to be a threat.