Five World War II-Era Superheroes Who Could Appear On Legends of Tomorrow

Two new casting announcements for the second season of DC's Legends of Tomorrow point toward a lot [...]

By Russ Burlingame

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Two new casting announcements for the second season of DC's Legends of Tomorrow point toward a lot of 1940s/World War II involvement in next year's time travel shenanigans, and seemingly bolster rumors that the "mystery hero" expected to appear on the Season One finale and chart next season's course will be Alan Scott, the Golden Age Green Lantern.

What wasn't made clear was just who those two new heroes joining the crew of the Waverider might be -- or who else with Golden Age ties might join them on the journey.

Well, we've got some ideas about that...!

SGT. ROCK

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Sgt. Frank Rock seems like an obvious choice, in part because he's already been alluded to in Legends of Tomorrow.

His helmet appears on board the Waverider, a part of Rip Hunter's study or whatever it's called, just off the ship's bridge.

He's also arguably DC's most notable participant in World War II. While the Justice Society and a number of other superheroes were active during that time, they remained at home, prevented by magic from participating in the war effort.

JAY GARRICK

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Jay Garrick is a name familiar to fans of the Arrowverse, of course.

Zoom had spent the first two thirds of this season of The Flash hiding in plain sight, pretending to be The Flash of Earth-2. And many fans are expecting the real Jay Garrick to be the Man in the Iron Mask at the end of the year.

Even if it isn't the man in the iron mask, it seems like Jay will appear in the real flesh at some point this season. And once that happens...what's next?

With Wally apparently developing powers, it seems unlikely we're going to want to have more than just two speedsters running around (no pun intended) next season on The Flash...but the fact that they've already got a pretty good sense of how to do speed effects could make him a solid candidate to appear at least briefly on Legends.

Especially if it really is Alan Scott who's driving the mission. Before Geoff Johns reinvented the JSA, the two big guns on the team that defined it for many fans were Alan and Jay.

LADY BLACKHAWK

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Lady Blackhawk comes to mind in part because she sounds like a good candidate to fill one of the casting vacancies -- that of a woman who was part of a paramilitary group.

She's also a character who isn't averse to time travel. During the events of Zero Hour, she was pulled from her usual place in the timestream and ended up briefly working at Warriors, a bar owned by former Green Lantern Guy Gardner.

She then went on to be a key player in Birds of Prey.

STARMAN

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We've seen a number of Starman villains on The Flash, plenty of mentions of Opal City on The Flash, Arrow, and Supergirl. Will we ever see Starman himself?

Well, don't be too shocked if he's the one they're casting who has a family member with World War II fame and service, and who's thrust into the hero world. It could be a ton of fun to see what these showrunners could do with any Starman, but especialy with Jack Knight.

IRON MUNRO

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Arnold "Iron" Munro is a superhero created in the '80s to help deal with some of the continuity errors created by Crisis on Infinite Earths.

Basically, he's a super-strong guy with leadership skills who stood in for Superman in a number of stories when the Man of Steel had to be retroactively removed from the continuity because he made his own first appearance in the late '70s or early '80s in post-Crisis continuity.

Iron Munro could be a cool way to integrate a really powerful character with Superman-like characteristics without having to use the Man of Steel himself, who's obviously off-limits. And he'd be a cool twist on what we usually see, since he'd be a superhero who presumably wasn't 19.

In the comics, he's also got family that includes the Kate Spencer Manhunter and Walter Pratt, her villainous father.

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