In Legends of Tomorrow - 1x10 - Progeny just after the team arrives in the future, we get a prompt on screen of when and where we are for this episode.
In normal viewing speed, it appears to be gibberish until it settles on the correct place and time.
When viewed frame-by-frame, however, it looks like this:
(= their starting point from the previous episode),
,
,
,
,
,
,
, before finally settling on
(= their destination).
So the obvious question is, do these dates and places have any significance?
PS: As this is an Easter Egg, I'm including the dc-comics tag, since it probably hints to something in comic lore.
Edit:
Turns out they did this throughout the season whenever the effect appeared (which might help answer whether it is just random [plus I was curious, so I went through them all and this might actually be of interest to some]).
Edit 2: September 2017 - added Legends Season 2 and The Flash episode 3x22.
Episode Number of Place Year Event / Scene /
Number Appearance Context **SPOILERS**
of effect
in the
episode
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1x01 1 Amsterdam 2016 Attack on London
Moscow 2025
Cape Town 2050
Tokyo 2073
Star City 2094
New York 2127
Central City 2142
New York 2150
London 2166
2 Mumbai 2016 Picking up Sara Lance
Venice 2016
Seattle 2016
Hub City 2016
Madrid 2016
Los Angeles 2016
River City 2016
Geneva 2016
Tibet 2016
3 San Diego 2016 Picking up Firestorm
Vestal 2016
Bagdad 2016
Coast City 2016
Seoul 2016
Boston 2016
Opal City 2016
Bangkok 2016
Pittsburgh 2016
4 Calcutta 2016 Picking up the Hawks
Midway City 2016
Williamston 2016
Denver 2016
Karachi 2016
Starfish Island 2016
Houston 2016
Cincinnati 2016
St. Roch 2016
5 Helsinki 2016 Picking up the Rogues
Melbourne 2016
Dakota City 2016
Tulsa 2016
Florence 2016
New Orleans 2016
Chicago 2016
Happy Harbour 2016
Central City 2016
6 Manila 2016 Visiting Aldus
Krakow 2009
National City 2002
Tehran 1997
San Francisco 1993
Acapulco 1988
Bludhaven 1983
Peach Tree City 1981
St Roch 1975
7 Markovia 1975 I got a Nuke
Geneva 1975
Vienna 1975
Detroit 1975
Keystone City 1975
Belfast 1975
Cairo 1975
Chattanooga 1975
Norway 1975
1x02 1 Hong Kong 1975 Welcome to TerrorCon '75
Rome 1975
Port Washington 1975
Baton Rouge 1975
Nanda Parbat 1975
Portland 1975
Civic City 1975
Central City 1975
Norway 1975
2 Kansas City 1975 Visiting young Martin
Rome 1975
Budapest 1975
Nairobi 1975
Steel City 1975
Philadelphia 1975
Gateway City 1975
Algiers 1975
Ivy Town 1975
1x03 1 San Francisco 1700 BC Backstab Interruptus
Austin 1700 BC
Geneva 1700 BC
Tulsa 1700 BC
Paris 1700 BC
Metropolis 1700 BC
New York 1700 BC
Haddonfield 1700 BC
Ancient Egypt 1700 BC
2 Portland 1975 Going to the Bank
Boston 1975
Seoul 1975
Jakarta 1975
River City 1975
Detroit 1975
Burbank 1975
Steel City 1975
Leipzig 1975
3 Philadelphia 1975 Visiting Little Leonard
Cleveland 1975
Tokyo 1975
Seattle 1975
Crystal Lake 1975
Arkham City 1975
Chicago 1975
Manila 1975
Central City 1975
1x04 1 Chattanooga 1975 Raiders of the Pentagon Archives
Madrid 1979
Star City 1980
Lisbon 1981
Metropolis 1982
Coast City 1983
Atlanta 1984
Gotham City 1985
Washington, D.C. 1986
2 Atlanta 1986 Crash Landing
Stockholm 1986
Vancouver 1986
Central City 1986
Madrid 1986
New York City 1986
Star City 1986
Bern 1986
Soviet Union 1986
1x05 1 Boston 1986 Crash Site
Brussels 1986
Star City 1986
Chicago 1986
Tokyo 1986
Opal City 1986
Philadelphia 1986
San Francisco 1986
Soviet Union 1986
1x06 1 Moscow 1988 Mick Rory's Paradise
London 1989
Tokyo 1996
Emerald City 1999
Manila 2002
Norfolk 2008
Trenton 2011
Culver City 2023
Star City 2046
1x08 1 Heidelberg 2146 Hot Rod Racing
West Lafayette 2111
Manchester 2092
Nanda Parbat 2053
Edinburgh 2041
Markovia 2001
Peachtree City 1982
Winchester 1974
Harmony Falls 1958
1x09 1 Detroit 1958 Aaaaand.... they're gone...
Amsterdam 1958
Tulsa 1958
Star City 1958
Hong Kong 1958
Ivy Town 1958
Acapulco 1958
New Orleans 1958
Harmony Falls 1958
2 Harmony Falls 1958 League Business a.k.a. My-Time-Drive-is-still-a-bit-wonky-and-all-over-the-place
Boston 2011
Riverside 2055
Star City 2146
Perris 1975
Moscow 1975
Binghamton 1995
Steel City 1972
Nanda Parbat 1960
1x10 1 Nanda Parbat 1960 Kill or Capture?
Vestal 1977
Cincinnati 1989
Civic City 1999
Geneva 2022
Shanghai 2057
Venice 2098
Gotham City 2112
Kasnia Conglomerate 2147
1x11 1 Kasnia Conglomerate 2147 Yeeha...
Helsinki 2133
Markovia 2058
Keystone City 2014
Cairo 1991
Stafford 1962
Calvin City 1909
San Francisco 1899
Salvation 1871
2 Salvation 1871 The House is on Fire...
Boston 1899
Starfish Island 1909
Dallas 1929
Manila 1938
Portland 1943
Belfast 1965
Cleveland 1982
Central City 1990
1x12 1 Salvation 1871 The House is (still) on Fire... (Recap) / Rescuing young Mick
Boston 1899
Starfish Island 1909
Dallas 1929
Manila 1938
Portland 1943
Belfast 1965
Cleveland 1982
Central City 1990
2 Central City 1990 Rescuing young Sara
Chicago 1992
Paradise Island 1995
Austin 1998
Bangkok 2000
Seattle 2002
Hong Kong 2004
Memphis 2006
Starling City 2007
3 Starling City 2007 Rescuing slightly younger Ray
Denver 1996
Acapulco 2001
Burbank 1992
Algiers 2011
Seoul 2008
London 2000
Athens 2012
Star City 2014 [since the city was renamed in 2015 it should still be StarLING City in 2014 as well]
4 Star City 2014 Rescuing Baby Leonard ["Star City" is still incorrect]
Philadelphia 1989
Berlin 1987
Minneapolis 1985
Boulder 1982
Cairo 1980
Opal City 1977
Tehran 1974
Central City 1972
5 Central City 1972 Rescuing Baby Martin
Pasadena 1970
Kyoto 1967
Detroit 1963
Keystone City 1960
Sydney 1959
Bludhaven 1955
Buenos Aires 1952
Ivy Town 1950
6 Ivy Town 1950 Rescuing Baby Jax
Coast City 1962
Melbourne 1967
Baghdad 1970
Newark 1979
Florence 1983
Toledo 1988
Portsmouth 1990
Central City 1993
1x13 1 Tulsa 1996 Destination: London
Bern 2003
Gotham 2013
Boston 2034
Berlin 2049
Seoul 2062
Madrid 2094
Minsk 2125
London 2166
2 London 2166 A-Maze-ing Training
Ottowa 2113 [sic! apparently the Capital of Canada will get a vowel shift]
Star City 2092
Oklahoma City 2044
Bern 2001
Metropolis 1989
West Hills 1978
Los Alamos 1958
Iowa City 1941
1x14 1 London 2166 AD Jail Rip
Central City 2016 AD
Geneva 1776 AD
Sanam 1423 AD
Paris 1002 AD
Rome 522 AD
Maya City 683 BC
Timbuktu 1120 BC
Ancient Egypt 1700 BC
1x15 1 Central City On the roof again
Philadelphia
Maui
Moscow
Gotham City
Baltimore
Rome
Portsmouth
Star City 5 months ago
2 Star City 2166 Repairing the Jump Ship
Seattle 2111
Amsterdam 2093
Atlanta 2076
Metropolis 2055
Ivy Town 2043
Acapluco 2031
Nairobi 2028
Central City 2016
3 Central City 2016 Back to the Blitz
Los Angelas 2031
Bludhaven 2043
Chicago 2066
Baghdad 2088
Buenos Aires 2105
Midway City 2131
Florence 2145
London 2166
1x16 1 THE VANISHING POINT ... Hey, it's May!
Berlin 2213
Metropolis 2043
San Diego 1988
Morocco 2105
Paris 2309
New York City 1908
Madrid 2145
Star City 2016
2 Star City 2016 Mick's Heist
Vestal 2016
Washington, D.C. 2016
San Francisco 2016
Buenos Aires 2016
Bern 2016
Philadelphia 2016
Houston 2016
Central City 2016
3 Central City 2016 La Résistance
Memphis 2009
Coast City 2001
Phoenix 1989
Venice 1978
Shreveport 1966
New Orleans 1957
Markovia 1950
Saint-Lô, France 1944
4 Central City 2016 Vampire Vandal draws Blood
Charlotte 2007
Midway City 2003
Athens 1992
Happy Harbour 1977
Portland 1963
Newark 1953
Stockholm 1949
Saint-Lô, France 1944
5 Central City 2016 Runter von der Strasse!
Memphis 2009
Coast City 2001
Phoenix 1989
Venice 1978
Shreveport 1966
New Orleans 1957
Markovia 1950
Saint-Lô, France 1944
6 Saint-Lô, France 1944 Nice meeting Me
Mumbai 1946
River City 1947
Calcutta 1949
Tokyo 1951
Denver 1953
Helsinki 1954
Tehran 1957
Harmony Falls 1958
7 Harmony Falls 1958 Setting Up 2021 Bomb
Nairobi 1966
Ivy Town 1977
Budapest 1989
Seattle 1995
Pittsburgh 2000
Vienna 2003
Kansas City 2015
St. Roch 2021
8 St. Roch 2021 Setting Up 1958 Bomb
Atlanta 2016
Civic City 2007
Rio de Janeiro 1998
Acapulco 1992
Boston 1983
Steel City 1977
Portsmouth 1966
Harmony Falls 1958
9 Harmony Falls 1958 Setting Up 1975 Bomb
Minneapolis 1960
Coral City 1963
Bangkok 1966
Seoul 1968
Sydney 1969
Star City 1970
Alexandria 1971
Norway 1975
10 St. Roch 2021 For her...
Tulsa 2050
Steel City 2119
Lincoln 2018
Vatican City 1978
Cairo 2013
Geneva 2170
Kansas City 1871
Star City 2016
11 Star City 2016 Strip Club
Krakow 2188
Cuzco 1941
Fairbanks 1883
Tehran 1998
Johnson City 1977
Starfish Island 2199
Milan 1965
Central City 2013
12 Central City 2013 "Is this May 2016?" a.k.a. Man, what Hour is this?
San Antonio 2201
Baton Rouge 1911
Bludhaven 1986
Melbourne 2045
Maui 1966
Opal City 2142
Rome 1969
Star City 2016
2x01 1 Cairo 1142 Nate goes to meet Oliver
Sioux City 1908
Rome 1311
Coast City 1877
Algiers 1669
River City 1772
Vienna 1532
Helsinki 1499
Star City 2016
Atlantic Ocean 24 hours later
2 Star City 2016 Saving the King of France / Making out with the Queen
San Francisco 1988
Moscow 1969
Coast City 1872
Atlanta 1779
Markovia 1661
Geneva 1701
Tokyo 1699
France 1637
3 France 1637 Abducting Albert
Chicago 1678
Vatican City 1701
Nanda Parbat 1724
Koshmar 1745
Hub City 1803
Alcapulco 1855
Seoul 1909
New York City 1942
4 Star City 2016 Re-Collecting the Crew I: Ray
San Diego 1901
Baton Rouge 1778
Bludhaven 1486
Paris 1208
Venice 426
Opal City 233
Rome 169
South Dakota 70 Million Years Ago
5 South Dakota 70 Million Years Ago Re-Collecting the Crew II: Firestorm
Mesopotamia 1962
Alexandria 1776
Sparta 1467
Corinth 1221
El Kef 977
Arwad 512
Babylon 133
Tintangel, England 821
5 Tintangel, England 821 Re-Collecting the Crew III: Sara
Troy 742
Carthage 952
Athens 1004
Moscow 1233
Tehran 1386
River City 1557
Calcutta 1624
Salem 1693
6 Tintangel, England 821 Get the Einsteins!
Athens 978
Madrid 1273
Petra 1377
Troy 1463
Boston 1772
Rapid City 1833
Central City 1899
Columbia University 1942
2x02 1 Arlington 1942 Captured by the JSA
Edge City 1942
Karachi 1942
San Dimas 1942
Fabletown 1942
Bossier City 1942
JSA Headquarters 1942
2 & 3 JSA Headquarters 1942 Eobard arrives in Nazi-occupied Paris -- and so do the Legends
Gateway City 1942
Santa Fe 1942
Guernica 1942
Dakota City 1942
Krakow 1942
Binghamton 1942
Tokyo 1942
Paris 1942
4 Paris 1942 Killing SteroidNazi
Civic City 1942
Madrid 1942
Rio 1942
Denver 1942
River City 1942
San Diego 1942
Seoul 1942
Fontainebleau Forest 1942
5 Fontainebleau Forest 1942 Taking the JSA home
Cincinnati 1942
Happy Harbor 1942
Belfast 1942
Shanghai 1942
Dakota City 1942
Mumbai 1942
Cuzco 1942
New York City 1942
2x03 1 New York City 1942 Don't Fight in the Cargo Bay!
Whitchata 1902
Hub City 1859
Sao Paulo 1823
Venice 1812
Keystone City 1799
Athens 1747
Maui 1688
Kansai Region, Japan 1641
2x04 1 Kansai Region, Japan 1641 Zo-.. Zo-.. Zom-.. Stein can't say it...
Midway City 1673
Madrid 1682
San Francisco 1721
Houston 1772
Calvin City 1801
Budapest 1847
Cairo 1851
Mississippi 1863
2x05 1 Mississippi 1863 DaMiami Vice
Star City 1874
Algiers 1892
San Jose 1911
Baton Rouge 1934
Hub City 1944
Geneva 1956
Maui 1975
Miami 1987
2 Miami 1987 Tourists in the White House!
Bludhaven 1987
Rome 1987
Belfast 1987
Karachi 1987
National City 1987 [\S/]
Seoul 1987
Seattle 1987
Washington, D.C. 1987
2x06 1 Washington, D.C. 1987 Shooting the Time Pirate / Hanging Hex
Hub City 1965
Paris 1942
Brussels 1923
Santa Fe 1901
Star City 1894
Portland 1889
Newark 1881
Liberty, Colorado 1874
2x07 1 Liberty, Colorado 1874 Hangar/Hall (of Justice) Thing
Calvin City 1889
Madrid 1902
Bangkok 1929
Santa Barbara 1941
Bludhaven 1984
Atlanta 1999
Moscow 2011
Central City 2016
2 Central City 2016 Reverse Alien Abduction Attempt
Midway City 2008
London 1997
Rapid City 1989
Baton Rouge 1974
Helsinki 1969
Houston 1962
Vestal 1957
Redmond, Oregon 1951
3 Coast City 1955 Back to Invasion
Tokyo 1959
Rome 1963
Calvin City 1967
Shanghai 1979
Tulsa 1984
Denver 1996
Manila 2003
Central City 2016
2x08 1 Central City 2016 Al meets Legion
Salt Lake City 2009
Acapulco 1994
Rapid City 1988
Cuzco 1972
San Dimas 1965
Krakow 1956
Keystone City 1942
Chicago 1927
2 Chicago 1927 Hollywood Hunter
Cairo 1929
Nairobi 1935
Opal City 1938
Atlanta 1943
Manila 1948
Starfish Island 1952
Erie 1961
Los Angeles 1967
2x09 New York 6 months ago
1 Chicago 1927 The Sixties!
Brussels 1933
Bangkok 1934
Central City 1939
Seattle 1942
Athens 1947
Fabletown 1954
Tulsa 1963
Los Angeles 1967
2x10 Star City 8 months ago Collecting Malcolm
Present Day
1 Los Angeles 1967 Meeting Lily at Jitters
Amsterdam 1972
Johnson City 1977
Gateway City 1984
Cincinnati 1989
Calcutta 1995
Happy Harbor 2004
Newark 2011
Central City 2017
2 & 3 Central City 2016 Taking it to the Bank
Manila 2018
Hub City 2019
Tehran 2019
Buenos Aires 2020
Atlanta 2021
River City 2022
Guernica 2024
Zurich 2025
4 Zurich 2025 There Goes the 1$ bill ...
Dakota City 2001
Minneapolis 1982
Tokyo 1963
Phoenix 1915
Vienna 1877
New Carthage 1832
Cairo 1793
New Jersey 1776
Christmas Day
2x11 1 Zurich 2025 There Goes the 1$ bill ...
Dakota City 2001
Minneapolis 1982
Tokyo 1963
Phoenix 1915
Vienna 1877
New Carthage 1832
Cairo 1793
New Jersey 1776
Christmas Day
2 New Jersey 1776 Rescue George W.!
Coast City 1776
Florence 1776
Moscow 1776
Boston 1776
Paris 1776
Bludhaven 1776
Rome 1776
Pennsylvania 1776
Christmas Eve
2x12 1 Pennsylvania 1776 We're off to see the Wizard! (Well, she's a Witch)
Keystone City 1865
Miami 1990
Calcutta 2116
Belfast 2399
Tokyo 2543
Calvin City 2755
Seoul 2838
Detroit 3000
2x13 1 Camelot 507 Preparing for Launch (next episode)
Rome 879
London 1123
Florence 1322
Vatican City 1476
Boston 1663
Central City 1782
Atlanta 1896
NASA Flight Operations 1970
2x14 1 Camelot 507 Dropping off Grandpa
Rome 998
Fabletown 1103
Baghdad 1377
Boston 1632
Melbourne 1842
Steel City 1899
London 1921
Manhattan 1965
NASA's Manned Spacecraft Center
April 13, 1970
2x15 1 Houston 1970 Into the Trenches
Midway City 1965
Boston 1961
Madrid 1952
San Francisco 1948
Hong Kong 1937
Rapid City 1932
Sao Paulo 1924
France 1916
72 Hours Earlier
2x16 1 France 1916 Smoak Gunned Down (well more like Break a Neck...)
Los Angeles 1923
Belfast 1945
Vienna 1957
Maui 1969
Vestal 1977
Coast City 1999
Budapest 2004
Star City 2017
2 Star City 2017 Malcolm comes for a chat
Shanghai 2017
Moscow 2017
San Diego 2017
Denver 2017
Bludhaven 2017
Chicago 2017
Sydney 2017
Central City 2017
3 Central City 2017 Ray the Janitor's flat
Tulsa 2017
Seoul 2017
Pittsburgh 2017
Florence 2017
Midway City 2017
New Orleans 2017
Hong Kong 2017
Star City 2017
2x17 1 Star City 2017 Back to the Trenches
Chicago 2009
Melbourne 2001
Atlanta 1988
Bludhaven 1962
Florence 1957
Calvin City 1945
Calcutta 1923
France 1916
2 France 1916 Dropping off Snart
Pittsburgh 1929
Seattle 1936
Bangkok 1949
Cairo 1953
Kansas City 1976
Happy Harbor 1999
Acapulco 2008
Central City 2014
3 Central City 2014 Dropping off Dark
Alexandria 2011
Los Angeles 2008
Sydney 2003
Civic City 1998
Moscow 1995
Rome 1992
Steel City 1990
Miami 1987
Flash 3x22 1 Central City 2017 Fetching Snart from Season 1
Venice 2003
Happy Harbor 1989
Johnson City 1977
Madrid 1959
Fabletown 1934
Paris 1923
Los Angeles 1910
Siberia 1892
