Legion of Doom

Eobard Thawne founded and led a time-travelling syndicate, which consisted of Damien Darhk, Malcolm Merlyn, Leonard Snart, formerly Mick Rory, and formerly Rip Hunter under mind alteration.

It was nicknamed the Legion of Doom by Nate Heywood. They operated from a base of operations that they set up in the Vanishing Point. Their purpose was to locate the Spear of Destiny in hopes to change their destinies by rewriting reality. They succeeded, creating an alternate reality where they ruled, despite being opposed by the Legends. However, the Legends later traveled back in time and succeeded in erasing the Spear of Destiny from existence, leading to Eobard's death and Darhk, Snart, and Merlyn all being returned to their respective times.

Publication Information

Legends : Legion of Doom
Multiverse : Earth One
Version : The Legends Series
Known as : Time-travelling Syndicate
Base : Vanishing Point
Led by : Eobard Thawne : Formerly
Designation : Rewriting reality : Failed, succeeded in an erased
Season : DC's Legends of Tomorrow

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When Barry Allen ran back in time and created Flashpoint, he held Thawne prisoner for months thus unintentionally removing him from the timeline and ensuring his existence. When Eobard was finally released to reset the timeline, he began to notice that he was being pursued by a demonic speedster. The Speed Force had sent him to hunt Thawne as he was a temporal anomaly to be erased. In order to save himself, Thawne realized that he needed to change his ancestor's death and alter reality.

Origins of the Legion Eobard Thawne first sought out Damien Darhk in 1942. The two created an aberration where New York City was destroyed by an atomic blast. However, the Legends thwarted their plans and Eobard Thawne decided to move on. Eobard then made his way to Nazi Germany in search for the Askaran Amulet. He reached out to the Nazi leadership and organized a trade for the amulet with some super soldier serum. Though the Legends and the Justice Society of America reached it before he could, Eobard broke into the JSA headquarters and stole it after killing Rex Tyler.

Working with Al Capone's gang

Needing the "Askaran Amulet" to further their goals, the three decided to create a time aberration, to trap the Legends, by allying with crime lord Al Capone in 1927. Although Capone threatened to have the time travelers killed, after Eobard personally took down his goons before finishing a single sentence, the gangster was subdued. The Legion then entered into an alliance and gained the services of Al Capone's criminal empire. Telling Capone that he was going to be hunted down by the Prohibition agent Eliot Ness, Eobard had both the gangster and the Legends take bait, causing a minor aberration that would let Capone become a mayor of Chicago, defying the Prohibition by celebrating Oktoberfest there.

Capturing Captain Hunter

Using the medallion, Darhk and Merlyn found themselves in Hollywood in the year 1967. The two of them killed two motorists, one who was supposed to go on and create a new engine, thus creating an aberration which summoned the Legends. They tracked down Rip Hunter who was going by the name Phil Gasmer and was now a movie director. The two recognized him though found that Rip didn't seem to know who they were or who he really was. The Legends arrived and saw them with Rip and moved to stop them but ended up having to retreat when the police arrived.

Becoming equals

Back at their base, the two men once again argued, which led to a League-style sword fight. However, Rip convinced them to stop dueling and find a way to even the odds against Eobard. They went back to the bank, leaving Rip tied up. Eobard returned to the base and Rip informed him of where they had gone. Thawne confronted them in the vault, where they had retrieved a disk containing Rip's memories. Malcolm and Damien then locked the vault, trapping Eobard inside with them. Eobard threatened to kill them if they didn't let him out, slowly becoming more and more desperate, to his partners' puzzlement.

Hunting for the fragments of the Spear

His attack on Washington caused an aberration to lure the Legends. Eobard gave Rip the mission to use the British army in order to acquire their piece of the spear. They gave the British automatic rifles which they used to try to attack Washington before the Legends could try and save him. Rip then used an EMP device to disable the Waverider, Rory's heat gun, Ray's suit and Firestorm's quantum splicer. He then went and shot Sara before he had the British take Rory and Washington to be hung.

Rewriting reality

Thawne sent Malcolm Merlyn to search for the Calebros Manuscript as it would teach them how to use the spear. Rip informed the Legends that the Legion had set up a foothold in the Vanishing Point. Thawne was at the base and noticed too late that the Legends had robbed the vault and stole back the two fragments of the spear that they possessed. Thawne was furious and Damien Darhk mocked him that Thawne let the Legends steal the fragments but Thawne realized that now the spear was whole and since the Legends couldn't use it, they would either hide or destroy it which would give them a chance to snatch it from them. Darhk thought that was a reasonable plan but thought they had to change how they dealt with the Legends in order to put the odds back in their favor.

Legion disbanded

To undo what the Legion had done, the Legends planned to go back in time to 1916 to stop the Legion from ever getting the spear at all. They found the Waverider, shrunk down by Eobard Thawne who had acquired Ray's ATOM suit. They infiltrated into S.T.A.R. Labs to get it and reverse the shrinking, when they ran into Damien Darhk who had guessed that the Legends would be trying to reacquire Rip Hunter. He used his magic to choke both Jax and Ray and he told them that he thought Thawne should've killed them back at the reactor but was glad he didn't as it meant that he would be able to.

Sara took Damien Darhk back to Miami in 1987 where Thawne had recruited him. She was going to erase his memory of the Legion and the knowledge of his future in order to let him resume his timeline. Damien was wondering why Sara was letting him go after everything that he had done to her and her team but Sara knew that Darhk would be punished down the line in 2016. Darhk reminded her that if he went down his path he would eventually kill her sister but Sara told him that she knew that and she was okay with it, as was Laurel. Darhk was confused on how she could know that but rather than answer him, she went on and erased his memory.

Former members