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Legends of Tomorrow's next enemy is… Rip Hunter?!

Photo credit: Warner Bros.
Photo credit: Warner Bros.

From Digital Spy

DC's Legends of Tomorrow will face a battle with one of their own in the upcoming season.

Last time we left our budding superheroes, they were successful in preventing Eobard Thawne and his Legion of Doom from enacting the dark Doomworld timeline… but at a heavy cost.

When White Canary (Caity Lotz) discovered that the team had accidentally altered history themselves, the Legends were faced with the prospect of splitting up as a form of penance.

Photo credit: Bettina Strauss / The CW
Photo credit: Bettina Strauss / The CW

However, simply splitting isn't enough for their former leader Rip Hunter (Arthur Darvill), who has formed his own Time Bureau to protect the sanctity of history.

According to a new CW synopsis, both groups are headed for a showdown: "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 original timelines 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 traveling 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 Nate Heywood (Nick Zano), and Professor Martin Stein (Victor Garber) and Jefferson 'Jax' Jackson (Franz Drameh), who together form the meta-human 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."

Photo credit: Warner Bros.
Photo credit: Warner Bros.

While it appeared that Rip Hunter had been written out of Legends (again) near the end of the second season, executive producer Marc Guggenheim was quick to assure fans that Arthur Darvill would return.

"We've got plans for Rip for next year," he said. "It's just in a different capacity than him being a member of the team."

We just never expected "a different capacity" to be code for "the new Big Bad"...

Legends of Tomorrow will air on Tuesdays this autumn at 9pm, following all-new episodes of The Flash at 8pm on The CW in the US. Sky1 airs the shows in the UK.


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