Legends of Tomorrow (season 7)

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Legends of Tomorrow
Season 7
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Promotional poster
Starring
Country of originUnited States
No. of episodes7
Release
Original networkThe CW
Original releaseOctober 13, 2021 (2021-10-13) –
present (present)
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The seventh season of the American television series Legends of Tomorrow, which is based on characters from DC Comics, premiered on The CW on October 13, 2021 and will consist of 13 episodes. It is set in the Arrowverse, sharing continuity with the other television series of the universe, and is a spin-off of Arrow and The Flash. The season was produced by Berlanti Productions, Warner Bros. Television, and DC Entertainment, with Phil Klemmer and Keto Shimizu serving as showrunners.

The season was announced in February 2021. Principal cast members Caity Lotz, Tala Ashe, Jes Macallan, Olivia Swann, Adam Tsekhman, Shayan Sobhian, Lisseth Chavez, Amy Louise Pemberton, Nick Zano, and Matt Ryan return from previous seasons.

Episodes[]

Main article: List of Legends of Tomorrow episodes
Legends of Tomorrow, season 7 episodes
No.
overall		No. in
season		TitleDirected byWritten byOriginal air date [1]Prod.
code		U.S. viewers
(millions)
981"The Bullet Blondes"Kevin MockJames Eagan & Ray UtarnachittOctober 13, 2021 (2021-10-13)T13.232010.59[2]
A second Waverider destroys the original, stranding the Legends in 1925 Odessa, Texas. They pass the alien invasion off as a circus act, but Esperanza "Spooner" Cruz stops this in order to take pressure off of her mother Gloria. Astra Logue uses a spell to find a safe and learns that it was given to the sheriff, so Nate Heywood retrieves it by impersonating J. Edgar Hoover, but they find that Mick Rory took the safe's Time Courier for a beer run. Astra fails to reform the Waverider causing an explosion that alerts the real Hoover. Using John Constantine's key, they hide in a Hell pocket dimension with a duplicate of his mansion. Ava Sharpe reads about Gwyn Davies, the forefather of time travel, so Sara Lance suggests they travel to him in New York City while robbing banks to lure Hoover away. She and Ava form The Bullet Blondes and leave with Nate, Gary Green, and Behrad Tarazi while Zari Tarazi stays in the mansion. Nate accidentally kills Hoover in self-defense, so Gary eats the body. Astra inadvertently creates a human Gideon.
992"The Need for Speed"Alexandra La RocheMorgan Faust & Marcelena Campos MayhornOctober 20, 2021 (2021-10-20)T13.232020.52[3]
Sara's group catches a train to New York. Nate impersonates Hoover using a potion made by Gary while Sara and Ava return to the mansion. Ava helps Zari cope with her breakup and the two focus on identifying who destroyed the Waverider. As Nate struggles to come to terms with killing Hoover, the train is stopped by FBI agents intent on stopping a kidnapping. While pretending to coerce a Russian man into giving information, Nate realizes the train's destination has changed and that the FBI agents are fakes sent by Al Capone to kidnap him. Gary's potion wears off, so Nate's captors can't deliver him; this allows him to accept Hoover's death. The Bullet Blondes pay off Capone's men, but are caught by an aggressive Hoover robot and he self-destructs, suggesting that robots destroyed the Waverider. Back in Texas, Gideon acts erratically and is unable to speak. Spooner restores her speech and she states that they must reach Davies' time travel experiment in two weeks before Legends do, or else they will die.
1003"wvrdr_error_100<oest-of-th3-gs.gid30n> not found"Caity LotzPhil Klemmer & Matthew MaalaOctober 27, 2021 (2021-10-27)T13.232030.51[4]
Gideon struggles with making decisions and collapses. Astra and Spooner enter her mind and meet a memory of Jefferson "Jax" Jackson defending her subconsciousness. Astra and Spooner help Gideon recover lost memories of the Legends, which included Ray Palmer, Carter Hall, Leonard Snart, Martin Stein, Rip Hunter, Nora Darhk, and Zari Tomaz. Along the way, Gideon is attacked by a virus of herself who doesn't want to be human. It corrupts her memories, forces her to re-experience the deaths of several Legends, and reveals that Rip had reprogrammed her to protect them against her will. Jax, Astra, and Spooner uncorrupt the memories and show Gideon happier ones, convincing her to embrace her humanity and take control of the virus. She is comforted by all of the Legends and wakes up. In 2213 Vancouver, British Columbia, the younger Bishop has dreams of his future self and the Legends from the alien invasion in 1925. He finds a copy of Gideon that he downloaded and resets her memories, intending to use her against the Legends.
1014"Speakeasy Does It"Kristin WindellKeto Shimizu & Emily CheeverNovember 3, 2021 (2021-11-03)T13.232040.56[5]
Sara's group hides from another Hoover robot in a Chicago speakeasy. They raise money by selling the mansion's infinite drinks at the bar and give the rest of the sales to Eddie the bartender, but this violates Eddie's deal with his gangster landlord Ross Bottoni, so he takes the club back. Zari raises money for Eddie by holding a party in the mansion with a performance by The Bullet Blondes. Gary notices that Nate puts himself in doomed relationships so that he won't have to commit, motivating Nate to talk to Tomaz. Meanwhile, Spooner's group sneaks onto a train to Chicago with the help of a jazz band called the Masqueradies and their leader Maude Beaumont. Bottoni, her abusive boyfriend, forces her to sing at his club, but Spooner's group convinces her to cut ties from him. The Hoover robot finds Zari's party, but the Legends capture him. Spooner's group tries to catch up to Sara's to no avail as Gary has already boarded a train to New York with the rest of the Legends in the mansion. Zari swaps out with Tomaz in order to interrogate the Hoover robot.
1025"It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Scientist"Andrew KaschPaiman Kalayeh & Mark BrunerNovember 10, 2021 (2021-11-10)T13.232050.48[6]
Sara's group arrives in New York and discovers that Davies' time travel machine is missing one component. Gary finds it, but it is confiscated by Thomas Edison, who terminates Davies and takes his plans. Nate suggests Zari move into the mansion where she can coexist, but she wants them to live in the totem. They learn that the Hoover robot was sent to replace the original and eliminate the Legends. Behrad activates the machine, but this erases Ava and Gary. Davies agrees to help Sara if she helps him get his loved one back. Zari reprograms Hoover to steal Davies' plans back, but he explodes, giving Edison a heart attack, so the second Waverider delivers new robots for both of them. Davies activates the machine himself, restoring Ava and Gary. Astra's group nearly makes it to New York with the help of Erwin George Baker, but the car is stolen, so Astra short-circuits all of New York to stop the machine. They reunite with Sara's group and successfully time travel with a chip from the Hoover robot, but land in an unknown place and time.
1036"Deus Ex Latrina"Nico SachseRay Utarnachitt & Mercedes ValleNovember 17, 2021 (2021-11-17)T13.232060.50[7]
In 2214 Vancouver, Bishop builds his own Waverider with schematics from his Gideon. He and his Ava clone assistant become Time Masters, travel to 1925, and destroy the Legends' Waverider (against his Gideon's advice), and correct the resulting aberrations by using the Ava clone technology to build robot replacements. Gideon ejects the Ava clone into the timestream and creates a Bishop robot to live out his life so he can continue chasing the Legends, though he becomes reluctant after discovering his future story and the Legends’s involvement with it. Meanwhile, Davies' time machine breaks, so Astra and Spooner help Sara and Ava express their frustrations. Nate decides to move into the totem while Gary and Gideon bond over their experiences as humans. Davies tells Zari that he built the time machine to rescue his fallen lover Alun and allies from World War I. Behrad learns they're in 1986 Chernobyl on the day of the meltdown. Davies broadcasts an evacuation warning, which alerts Bishop's Gideon. The Legends repair the machine and escape, but Bishop escapes from his Gideon and enters the machine at the last second.
1047"A Woman's Place is in the War Effort!"Glen WinterMorgan Faust & Leah PoulliotNovember 24, 2021 (2021-11-24)T13.232070.50[8]
The Legends arrive in 1943 with Bishop and lock him in the mansion. They smuggle components out of a nearby airplane factory in order to repair the time machine. Astra is taunted by the racist boss Mr. Staples and accidentally freezes him. She takes over and integrates the factories, prompting most of the white Rosies to quit. Astra helps the remaining Rosies finish building the plane. Eleanor Roosevelt comes to the factory and applauds their work, prompting a thawed Mr. Staples to allow them to keep their jobs. Meanwhile, Zari swaps out with Tarazi, and Astra inspires Behrad to stop Bishop from mooching while he teaches Nate taarof in order to appease the ancestors in the totem. Bishop apologizes with a device that will allow Gideon to control the time machine. Eleanor asks Congress to integrate all factories (two years early), but this alerts the other Gideon who sends soldiers to attack. Bishop sacrifices his life to allow the Legends to escape. The soldiers are revealed to be robot clones of the Legends.
1058"Paranoid Android"[9]David GeddesPhil Klemmer & Marcelena Campos MayhornJanuary 12, 2022 (2022-01-12)T13.23208[10]TBD
1069"Lowest Common Demoninator"[11]Eric Dean SeatonJames Eagan & Emily CheeverTBAT13.23209TBD
10710"The Fixed Point"[12]Maisie Richardson-SellersMatthew Maala & Paiman KalayehTBAT13.23210TBD
10811"Rage Against The Machines"[13]Jes MacallanMark Bruner & Mercedes ValleTBAT13.23211TBD
10912"Too Legit to Quit"[14]Sudz SutherlandMorgan Faust & Leah PoulliotTBAT13.23212TBD
11013"Knocked Down, Knocked Up"[15]Kevin MockPhil Klemmer & Keto ShimizuTBAT13.23213TBD

Cast and characters[]

Main article: List of Legends of Tomorrow characters

Main[]

Recurring[]

Guest[]

Notes[]

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j This actor also portrays their character's robot duplicates, which are identified through software versioning.
  2. ^ Jes Macallan also portrays an Ava clone loyal to Bishop.
  3. ^ Amy Louise Pemberton also portrays a virus that corrupts Gideon and voices a factory reset copy of Gideon that tries to kill the Legends.
  4. ^ Despite being considered as part of the main cast, Matt Ryan is credited in the special appearance billing.

Production[]

Development[]

In February 2021, The CW renewed Legends of Tomorrow for a seventh season.[20] Paiman Kalayeh and Mercedes M. Valle joined the writer's room, while Leah Poulliot and Emily F. Cheever were promoted to staff writers. Phil Klemmer and Keto Shimizu return as co-showrunners.[21]

Casting[]

Main cast members Caity Lotz, Tala Ashe, Jes Macallan, Olivia Swann, Adam Tsekhman, Shayan Sobhian, Lisseth Chavez, Amy Louise Pemberton, Nick Zano and Matt Ryan return.[16] In February 2021, Dominic Purcell, who stars as Mick Rory / Heat Wave, indicated he would leave the series after the seventh season as it was the last on his contract.[22] However, two months later, he announced he would be leaving the series after the sixth season, but would return periodically in the seventh.[23] In July, it was announced that Ryan would be playing a new character named Gwyn Davies, rather than return as John Constantine, and that Pemberton, who voices Gideon, and who had occasionally played a human version of her character in past seasons, will be playing human Gideon full time.[24] In October, it was announced that former series regular Wentworth Miller would return for the 100th episode.[19] The following week, former series regulars Victor Garber, Brandon Routh, Courtney Ford, Arthur Darvill, Franz Drameh, and Falk Hentschel were also confirmed to return.[18]

Filming[]

Filming began on July 12, 2021,[25] and concluded on December 16.[26][27]

Release[]

The season premiered on The CW on October 13, 2021,[28] and will consist of thirteen episodes.[29]

Reception[]

Viewership and ratings per episode of Legends of Tomorrow
No. Title Air date Rating
(18–49)		 Viewers
(millions)		 DVR
(18–49)		 DVR viewers
(millions)		 Total
(18–49)		 Total viewers
(millions)
1 "The Bullet Blondes" October 13, 2021 0.1 0.59[2] 0.1 0.30 0.2 0.89[30]
2 "The Need for Speed" October 20, 2021 0.1 0.52[3] 0.1 0.37 0.2 0.89[31]
3 "wvrdr_error_100<oest-of-th3-gs.gid30n> not found" October 27, 2021 0.1 0.51[4] TBD TBD TBD TBD
4 "Speakeasy Does It" November 3, 2021 0.1 0.56[5] TBD TBD TBD TBD
5 "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Scientist" November 10, 2021 0.1 0.48[6] TBD TBD TBD TBD
6 "Deus Ex Latrina" November 17, 2021 0.1 0.50[7] 0.1 0.33 0.1 0.83[32]
7 "A Woman's Place is in the War Effort!" November 24, 2021 0.1 0.50[8] 0.1 0.34 0.2 0.85[33]

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