Weirdness is a constant theme on DC's Legends of Tomorrow, but so is change. The Season 3 finale "The Good, The Bad, And The Cuddly" not only wrapped up the season-long quest to use the Zambezi totems to stop the time demon Mallus, but thanks to John Constantine's (Matt Ryan) appearance in the final scene, the Waverider is charting a new direction in Season 4: fighting magical demons.Legends is the most unique of the four superhero series set in The CW's Arrowverse. Supergirl, The Flash, and Arrow center around their titular heroes protecting their individual fictional cities from threats - with the occasional crossover their shared universe allows. Legends has no such limits of time or destination. Season 3, especially, was an absurd free-for-all across history where our blundering heroes embraced their mission to fix the timeline, which they themselves had broken. As they hunted "time anachronisms", the Legends encountered all manner of historical figures, including Julius Caesar, Leif Eriksson, Helen of Troy, Blackbeard, Elvis Presley, and even a young Barack Obama.Related: Legends of Tomorrow Moments Even Weirder Than Gorilla Grodd Trying To Kill ObamaThe series remained in a constant state of flux, however, as the heroes rolled with whatever insanity came their way - which they themselves usually caused. Throughout Season 3, a few beloved Legends left the Waverider, some new faces came aboard, and by the end of the season, the core mission of the show shifted again into a new direction.

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The Deaths And New Legends In Season 3

The roster of Legends of Tomorrow was designed to be fluid with characters constantly exiting and arriving. Much of the original Season 1 cast like Hawkman and Hawkwoman are gone. Since Season 2, the Legends have soldiered on and the core ensemble led by their captain Sara Lance/White Canary (Caity Lotz), Ray Palmer/The Atom (Brandon Routh), Mick Rory/Heatwave (Dominic Purcell), Nate Heywood/Steel (Nick Zano), and Amaya Jiwe/Vixen (Maisie Sellers-Williams) have gelled as a makeshift family. The newest Legend to board the Waverider early in Season 3 was Zari Tomaz (Tala Ashe). However, many more casting changes came throughout the season.

The desire of actor Victor Garber to return to Broadway to headline Hello, Dolly! meant that Firestorm departed the Legends, when his character Professor Martin Stein heroically died during the Crisis on Earth-X crossover event. The other half of Firestorm, Jefferson Jackson (Franz Drameh), soon followed, though a version of Jax from five years in the future returned to aid his friends in the season finale. Firestorm's replacement on the Waverider was Wally West/Kid Flash (Keiynan Lonsdale), the most underutilized character on The Flash, who quickly fit in with this motley crew. The series also benefited from a few episodes with Leo Snart/Citizen Cold (Wentworth Miller), the heroic Earth-X doppelganger of the deceased Captain Cold. Wally and Snart-X both brought cheerful presences aboard the timeship.

Although they were treated as fugitives and criminals by the Time Bureau, the new organization created by the Legends' founder Rip Hunter (Arthur Darvill), the Legends eventually became steadfast allies of the Bureau. This coincided with the burgeoning romantic relationship between Sara Lance and the Bureau's director, Ava Sharpe (Jes Macallan). Ava, who had to reconcile that she is just one of a legion of AVA clones engineered in 2046, is returning as a series regular in Season 4, along with perhaps the biggest character acquisition of the series: John Constantine. Constantine made several guest appearances in Season 3 and will join the cast full-time next season. This means Matt Ryan has now completed his remarkable leap from the star of a failed NBC series to becoming a weekly player in The CW's Arrowverse - while portraying the same character.

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However, the series continued to lose Legends in the season finale. Vixen left the main cast in the season finale - once Mallus was defeated, Amaya had to set her own history on its proper course, which meant sacrificing her romance with Nate - but Rip Hunter also made the ultimate sacrifice for his team; the beleaguered time warrior hasn't been a necessary component of the series since Season 1, but his redemptive sacrifice, giving his own life so that the Legends could flee Mallus, still stung.

But cast changeover is part of the show's fabric. There are bigger shifts coming.

How Legends of Tomorrow Season 3 Ended

The week-to-week shenanigans in Legends Season 3 were about the heroes fixing completely bizarre time anachronisms, which usually involved them cosplaying as cowboys, Vikings, pirates, etc. and encountering time-displaced historical figures like Gorilla Grodd becoming a warlord during the Vietnam War and plotting to assassinate President Lyndon Johnson (Grodd's unusual vendetta against U.S. Presidents continued when he later targeted Obama). The series was founded on the idea of time traveling across the Arrowverse, but magic and the supernatural were deftly woven into Season 3. This setup the series' new direction, which was cemented by the arrival of John Constantine.

The Big Bad of the season was the dreaded time demon Mallus (voiced by John Noble, who also appeared as himself in the episode appropriately titled "Guest Starring John Noble"). Mallus was an ancient supernatural beast who possessed a young Nora Darhk, the daughter of perennial Arrowverse Big Bad Damien Darhk (Neal McDonough). The adult Nora (Courtney Ford) magically resurrected her father and together, they sought the Zambezi Totems, six powerful elemental icons which are the only weapons that can stop Mallus. Vixen and Zari derive their powers from the Totem, all of which are tied to Amaya's African village of Zambezi.

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Much of Season 3 involved a race between the Legends and the Darhks to collect the totems, with Constantine's supernatural know-how laying the groundwork for who and what Mallus is and how he came to possess the young Nora. This being Legends, things usually got weird. This includes Constantine and Sara having sex in an insane asylum in 1969, and culminated with the Legends in the Old West as they combined the powers of the Totems ("like Voltron!") to create a giant Beebo doll to battle and kill Mallus, who manifested as a giant winged, horned demon, all while their friends Ava, Helen of Troy, and Jonah Hex cheered them on.

How Constantine Changes Legends of Tomorrow For Season 4

The season began and ended, fittingly, on the beaches of Aruba, the Legends' vacation destination of choice. Whereas the Legends' first visit to Aruba was to capture Julius Caesar, their new Season 4 castmate Constantine disrupted their rest and relaxation in the finale by throwing the severed head of a dragon on the sand, signaling their new mission: when they chose to release Mallus from his dimensional prison (in order to destroy him) they also inadvertently let loose any number of supernatural menaces. The Legends, with Constantine's expertise, now leave time anachronisms behind and must fight the forces of darkness in Season 4.

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With their new supernatural direction next season, Legends of Tomorrow becomes a spiritual successor to Angel. Like Joss Whedon's Buffy The Vampire Slayer spinoff, Legends is An Island of Misfit Toys - comprised of oddball characters who have seemingly become of little use in the other series - who find new life and prominence as part of a newfound family unit fighting evil. By chasing after mystical baddies, the Legends are now in an even more precarious position; they will face fear-inducing threats, allowing the series to explore horror movie elements with the same gusto they riff on movies and other pop culture. In Season 4, along with introducing President Trump, fans of Legends can look forward to the series getting scary as well as weird, with the reckless bravado of John Constantine leading the charge.

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