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Are the dates and places you see when freeze framing actually easter eggs referencing DC lore?
There are quite a few easter eggs in the city names, but I wasn't able to spot any easter eggs with the city-year pairing.
Easter Eggs
Note that pretty much any fictional city that exists in DC Comics ...
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How are the Vixens related?
According to an article on comicbook.com, the current Vixen is the granddaughter of the Legends Vixen.
Out of universe, the actress who played Mari McCabe was unavailable for filming Legends, so they ...
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Has the Atom ever gone atomic?
Ray Palmer was the first incarnation of The Atom with shrinking powers. As you can see from this page from Superman #302, August 1976, Ray used to routinely travel by calling someone at his target ...
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What is the full form of “A.T.O.M.”?
Advanced Technology Operating Mechanism.
From the companion show, Arrow:
RAY PALMER: But I’m kind of partial to A.T.O.M. Advanced Technology Operating
Mechanism.
Arrow, “The Climb”
Yes, this does ...
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Who are these speedsters in The Legion of Doom (Season 2 Episode 10)?
Top Row
Jesse Quick (Jesse Wells)
Jay Garrick Earth-3 (likely this image based on building in background)
Barry Allen
Zoom (Hunter Solomon)
The Rival (likely this image based on building in ...
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How do Hawkgirl and Hawkman reincarnate?
The numbers actually fit, depending on how generous you are with the variance.
Assumptions:
Hawkgirl and Hawkman have been doing this reincarnating thing for exactly 4000 years.
They have been ...
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Has the Atom ever gone atomic?
In DC Rebirth, Ray Palmer goes below subatomic into the Microverse.
Subsequently, in the DC Rebirth reboot, on Earth-0, Ray Palmer is by day, a professor at an Ivy League college , and by night, ...
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How do Stein and Jax merge to become Firestorm?
Paulie_D called it. Quantum Splicing.
As Caitlin explains it to Stein:
A quantum splicer, a fission device designed to bombard your atoms with as much energy as ...
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What does "If you can’t kill your enemy, weaken him. If you can’t cut off his head, take his heart" mean?
If you can’t kill your enemy, weaken him. If you can’t cut off his head, take his heart.
The sentence is from Sara Lance, aka White Canary, one of the heroes of the show.
The plot of Season 1 is to ...
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Why didn't Eobard Thawne phase through the Swiss bank vault walls?
Before the vault door fully closed on Black Flash, a grid of orange beams appeared, seemingly preventing his escape. Although the beams did not appear when Malcolm closed the door on Eobard earlier, ...
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What happened to Arrowverse Chas Chandler (Constantine's friend)?
I’ve seen all of the Arrowverse shows featuring Constantine, and so far there has been no significant mention of Chas.
This could mean he’s off doing adventures with Zed Martin (Angélica Celaya), ...
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Was Rip Hunter referring to Superman and Batman in an episode of Legends of Tomorrow?
Since Legends of tomorrow is part of DC universe and he is a time traveler AND since legends already met Kara Zor-el, its safe to assume that meeting Kara's brother, superman and his frenemy Batman at ...
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What does "If you can’t kill your enemy, weaken him. If you can’t cut off his head, take his heart" mean?
In most super hero situations it simply means kidnap Lois Lane/Mary Jane.
The traditional attack at the true weak point of a super hero is picking on those they love, attack the heart.
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What is this creature/character and what are its powers?
It's a bit hard to tell from your image, but this review indicates that he re-summoned the Pùca from Season 4.
He’s trying every mystical solution he can find - bringing back a pooka from last ...
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Does Gideon have cameras to see what goes on in DC's Legends of Tomorrow?
I think it's reasonable to assume that Gideon, the AI of the ship, has access to the electronics on the ship. And since the Waverider was designed for 1 person but has 36 compartments, a lot of these ...
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Where is the temporal zone located of DC's Legends of Tomorrow?
Per my understanding, the Temporal Zone can be considered the "space" between time and space. As a result, it doesn't really exist "anywhere" physically.
The Waverider goes through ...
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What happened to Chay-Ara at the end of season 1 of DC's Legends of Tomorrow?
She left, with Khufu/Torvil/Hawkman, at the end of Season 1, saying that they want to start a new life together now without the imminent threat of being hunted and killed, though they do plan to ...
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What is a metahuman?
In the D.C. universe they seem to use the word Metahuman instead of Mutant (like the Marvel Universe. The term "metahuman" seems to vary as well. Often times they refer to aliens (like Superman) as ...
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What happened to Rip Hunter's family in the end?
In the episode "Moonshot", there was this piece of dialog
Commander Steel: My wife has spent the past 14 years raising our son by herself.
And it is Captain Hunter's fault.
The man has a wife ...
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In Legends Of Tomorrow, are changes not yet done to the past already in the current timeline's past or not?
As Rip himself later says about changing the timeline:
It takes time for the timeline to set
I may be paraphrasing slightly, but you get the idea. When the heroes left 2016, after a while that ...
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What exactly is the job of the Time Masters and how do they do it?
Presumably, the Time Masters are more focused on preventing time aberrations, rather than fixing them. Their focus is stopping time criminals, not fixing the damage done by them. This is why, instead ...
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Is Reverse Flash from a different timeline than Rip Hunter?
In the Season One finale of the Flash, Eobard Thawne comments on the design of the pod designed to send him through the breach. He says ...
'Rip Hunter would be impressed'
...referring to the pod. ...
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