Star-Crossed and Quantico actor Johnathon Schaech will return to play Jonah Hex in DC’s Legends of Tomorrow‘s second season, producers announced today at the show’s Comic Con International: San Diego panel.
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The character, a former Confederate soldier who would go on to become a notorious bounty hunter after the end of the Civil War, will appear in an upcoming episode of the time-travel series set in the Old West.
The CW’s take on Hex was much like the comics version — right down to having a background with time travel in the form of an existing relationship with The Waverider’s captain Rip Hunter.
Longtime DC Comics fans will remember that Jonah Hex is no stranger to time travel; despite spending most of his existence as a Man With No Name-style drifter and bounty hunter, at one point the character starred in a series simply titled Hex, in which he was kidnapped by a villain who transported him to a post-apocalyptic, 21st Century Seattle, where Hex operated for a while before being returned to his proper time. He also took place in the Crisis on Infinite Earths.
More recently, he’s interacted with present-day DC heroes and locales both in Blackest Night — Jonah came back as a Black Lantern — and in All-Star Western, where he encountered Booster Gold and ended up thrown into modern-day Gotham City before Booster could find him again and return him to his past.
Booster, of course, is the father of DC’s Legends of Tomorrow Time Master Rip Hunter; Booster and Rip also encountered Jonah during one of their early adventures as partners about ten years ago, when they enlisted his help to prevent the murder of a man whose descendants would one day prove essential to Superman’s survival.
Hex has appeared in a number of animated series, but is likely best known to casual fans as the title character of a much-maligned 2010 live-action movie in which the character was portrayed by Avengers: Infinity War villain Josh Brolin.
