Legends of Tomorrow: Easter Eggs and Other Things You Might Have Missed In Compromised

Just weeks before DC’s Legends of Tomorrow team up with the rest of the Arrowverse heroes to battle aliens in a story based on 1988’s Invasion!, the team traveled to 1987 this week to fight with…well, Damien Darhk.

And amongst themselves.

So yeah. Basically another week on board the Waverider.

To be fair, though, the episode was action-packed: Darhk and rogue KGB officers were plotting against President Reagan and Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev, all so Darhk could get his hands on an artifact of some kind.

It didn’t work out exactly that way, thanks in no small part to the intervention of an aging Obsidian, played here by Lance Henriksen.

Along the way? Well, we met quite a few familiar faces and blew a lot of stuff up.

So…what did we see? What did we miss?

Read on, and comment below.

MIAMI VICE

The opening sequence — a drug deal going down in Miami, with that soundtrack, the outfit Damien Darhk was wearing, and the red sportscar?

Yeah, that’s totally vintage Miami Vice.

We guess if you’re going to go ’80s…!

STEFOFF BEER

Feels like we’ve seen this beer before…

Either way, it’s likely named after Legends of Tomorrow (and The X-Files and Supernatural) producer Vladimir Stefoff.

DOC BROWN

Not “thinking fourth dimensionally” is the accusation leveled at Jax when he tells Professor Stein not to “go all Doc Brown on me.”

Stein, of course, misses the reference — which isn’t the only one to Back to the Future in this episode, not least of which being the multiple references to him as “Marty” so that they can use phrases like “Marty’s younger self.”

To be fair, when you do a time-travel show that moves to the ’80s, you pretty much have to make Back to the Future references, right?

CROSSING STREAMS

When there’s an explosion as a result of Heat Wave’s and Captain Cold’s guns crossing, it’s not only a callback to something that happened in an episode of The Flash, but the “don’t ever cross the streams” admonition is obviously a reference to another great ’80s genre comedy: Ghostbusters.

CARLIN AWARD

The Carlin Award in Physics, which Professor Stein has won at least five times, is named for longtime Superman (and short-time Justice Society of America) editor Mike Carlin.

Carlin, ironically, did have an award he used to give out — the Baldy Award, a postcard-sized recognition sent to Superman letter writers.

TRANSMUTATION

As far back as the ’80s, Martin Stein was apparently working on transmutation in his lab…

…something that he wouldn’t perfect until early 2016, when it happened at the end of Legends of Tomorrow season 1.

Of course, by then it would be using his powers as Firestorm.

WHAT’S IN THE BOX?!

What’s in that box Damien Darhk was trying to get his hands on?

We’re going to go ahead and guess that it’s Alan Scott’s Green Lantern ring.

No real evidence for it in the text of the episode, but given that the “relic” was in a ring box and the episode centered on Obsidian, the son of Alan Scott (who has been confirmed as the son of Alan Scott in this continuity).

Just a thought.