Warning: SPOILERS for DC's Legends of Tomorrow Season 7 & Spider-Man: No Way Home
There are now three versions of Zari (Tala Ashe) in DC's Legends of Tomorrow, which means the Arrowverse doesn't even need the Multiverse to have its version of Spider-Man: No Way Home's trio of Spider-Men. No Way Home thrilled audiences by opening up the Marvel Cinematic Universe's Multiverse in live-action, which allowed Tom Holland's Spider-Man to team up with the web slingers played by Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield. While the Arrowverse has its own DC Comics Multiverse, Legends of Tomorrow doesn't even need it for its three versions of Zari to potentially meet.
Zari Tomaz joined Legends of Tomorrow in season 3 and she quickly became a key member of the time-traveling superhero team. The original Zari was a hacker from a dark 2046 timeline who tragically lost her younger brother Behrad (Shayan Sobhian). But with her family's Air Totem amulet, Zari joined the Legends and helped save the timeline several times. The second Zari is Zari Tarazi, who, while physically identical, has a completely different personality as an influencer and world-famous socialite. Zari 2.0 joined the Legends the original Zari's future timeline was changed, which resulted in Behrad replacing his sister on the team. Zari 2.0 even began a relationship with John Constantine (Matt Ryan). Meanwhile, the original Zari now lives in the Air Totem and has a romance with Nate "Steel" Heywood (Nick Zano). The two Zaris occasionally switch places in the Air Totem to allow the original Zari time to live in the real world.
However, Legends of Tomorrow season 7 introduced a third Zari, who is a robot built by evil versions of Gideon (Amy Pemberton) and Ava Sharpe (Jes Macallan). The robot Zari is part of an android version of the Legends to destroy the real Legends. The catch was that the robots believed that they were the real Legends and that their doppelgangers were the robots out to destroy the timeline. In Legends of Tomorrow season 7, episode 8, "Paranoid Android," the robot Sara Lance (Caity Lotz) learned that she and her allies were the real robots, and Zari was one of the alt-Legends she clued into the truth. Since the evil Gideon is the big bad of Legends of Tomorrow season 7, the robot Legends are on a collision course with the flesh-and-blood superheroes.
The Arrowverse fully embraced the Multiverse after The Flash opened the door to alternate Earths and realities. The epic Crisis On Infinite Earths crossover even expanded the Multiverse to include past DC movies and TV shows like Batman 1989, the 1960s Batman TV show, and the Superman movies directed by Richard Donner and Bryan Singer, before Crisis blew the Multiverse up and created it anew, with most of the Arrowverse's heroes now living together on Earth-Prime. While the Legends were affected by the Crisis, their own misadventures through time took precedent and they've been encountering alternate versions of themselves throughout the show's seven-season run. But the three Zaris existing in Legends of Tomorrow season 7 is perfectly timed to reflect how three versions of Spider-Man met in No Way Home.
Unlike the trio of Peter Parkers in Spider-Man: No Way Home, all three versions of Zari Tarazi/Tomaz are played by Tala Ashe. Remarkably, Ashe has created three distinct personalities for her trifecta of Zaris, and she sometimes plays Zari Tomaz and Zari Tarazi opposite each other in the same scenes. Although one Zari has to live in the Air Totem, Legends of Tomorrow has shown Zari Tarazi and Tomaz can exist together outside of the amulet's dimension for a limited time. This sets the stage for a potential triple-Zari team up in Legends of Tomorrow season 7, which could be the Arrowverse's nod to and version of Spider-Man: No Way Home's best moments.
DC's Legends of Tomorrow airs Wednesdays @ 8pm on The CW.