Marc Guggenheim on 'Legends of Tomorrow,' 'Vixen,' and...'Spider-Man: Homecoming?'

This week on DC's Legends of Tomorrow, Kuasa was kicking ass and taking names all over 2042, and [...]

By Russ Burlingame

This week on DC's Legends of Tomorrow, Kuasa was kicking ass and taking names all over 2042, and while Ray Palmer mentioned that he had faced a simialr foe -- a reference to his role in the animated Vixen spinoff -- in the past, that was basically all the real estate it was given.

That was intentional, according to the showrunner, and the hope is that all of the interconnected story points of the Arrowverse more or less live up to the ideal of being satisfying to viewers who watch everything, but not exclusively to those viewers.

"The approach we take with the Arrowverse shows is, I think, very similar to the approach that Marvel does with their movies and TV shows," executive producer Marc Guggenheim told DC Legends TV. "The example that I always like to use is that you could have enjoyed Spider-Man: Homecoming without having seen Captain America: Civil War. You probably gain a slightly more in-depth or nuanced understanding of what's going on in Spider-Man, but they're very good about giving you all of the information you really need in the story that you happen to be watching, and we try to take the same approach. For example, with Kuasa, we knew from Vixen Season 2 that Ray Palmer has actually met Kuasa...but you won't have had to watch Season 2 of Vixen in order to understand or appreciate that reference."

It seemed from the episode as though Kuasa's revival in the previous episode of Legends may have changed her appearance somewhat; while Ray acknowledges having fought someone with similar powers before, he gets up close and personal with her in the episode and never says anything else.

"They're all designed to stand on their own, even though they do interconnect, and that's because we never want," Guggenheim said. "Especially as the universe grows bigger and bigger, we never want any of the shows or animated spinoffs to be required viewing. We don't want people to feel like they've got to do their homework before watching any of these shows, or any individual episode."

DC's Legends of Tomorrow airs on The CW, Tuesday nights at 9 p.m. ET/PT following new episodes of The Flash.

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