Legends of Tomorrow EP Compares the Team To Ralph Macchio in The Karate Kid
As a ragtag group of underachieving superheroes and -villains, DC's Legends of Tomorrow has often [...]
As a ragtag group of underachieving superheroes and -villains, DC's Legends of Tomorrow has often been compared to The Bad News Bears. This year, though, executive producer Phil Klemmer decided that the metaphor needed to be updated from the '70s to the '80s.
In comparing the relationship between the Legends and the Time Bureau, Klemmer now likens it to Daniel LaRussa squaring off with the Cobra Kai Dojo.
"Actually, I've modified it a little this year," Klemmer told ComicBook.com. "I've been using Johnny versus Ralph Macchio, but we are definitely not the cool kids anymore."
You can check out a short video in which Klemmer talks about this new challenge to the team below.
As a result, he said, the team is even offered the option of walking away and resuming their normal lives -- a choice that appeals to some of the team members, but not all.
Fans will have to see just what that dynamic looks like in October, when DC's Legends of Tomorrow returns to Tuesday nights on The CW.
After the defeat of Eobard Thawne and his equally nefarious Legion of Doom, the Legends face a new threat created by their actions at the end of last season. In revisiting a moment in time that they had already participated in, they have essentially fractured the timeline and created anachronisms – a scattering of people, animals, and objects all across time! Our team must find a way to return all the anachronisms to their originaltimelines before the time stream falls apart. But before our Legends can jump back into action, Rip Hunter (Arthur Darvill) and his newly established Time Bureau call their methods into question. With the Time Bureau effectively the new sheriffs in town, the Legends disband – until Mick Rory (Dominic Purcell) discovers one of them in the middle of his well-deserved vacation in Aruba. Seeing this as an opportunity to continue their time travelling heroics, Sara (Caity Lotz) wastes no time in getting the Legends back together.
We reunite with billionaire inventor Ray Palmer (Brandon Routh), the unconventional historian-turned-superhero Nick Heywood (Nick Zano), and Professor Martin Stein (Victor Garber) and Jefferson "Jax" Jackson (Franz Drameh), who together form the metahuman Firestorm. Once reunited, the Legends will challenge the Time Bureau's authority over the timeline and insist that however messy their methods may be, some problems are beyond the Bureau's capabilities. Some problems can only be fixed by Legends.
Based on the characters from DC, DC'S LEGENDS OF TOMORROW is from Bonanza Productions Inc. in association with Berlanti Productions and Warner Bros. Television, with executive producers Greg Berlanti ("Arrow," "The Flash," "Supergirl"), Marc Guggenheim ("Arrow," "Trollhunters," "Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters"), Andrew Kreisberg ("Arrow," "The Flash," "Eli Stone," "Warehouse 13"), Phil Klemmer ("The Tomorrow People," "Chuck") and Sarah Schechter ("Arrow," "The Flash")
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