Legends of Tomorrow quotes

Nate

You think I don't want to save the girl, spare the village, and be a hero for once in my damn life? I spent half of my childhood in a hospital, where it didn't even occur to me to dream about having superpowers. But guess what? I got them, I lost them, and now I really really need them and I can't get them back.

Ray

This isn't all about you! I worked for years, spent billions of dollars to develop the Atom suit. I nearly died learning to shrink! And now I need to teach you to destroy the very thing... the only thing that makes me a hero!

Nate

Wait. "Sematic overload" means "destroy the suit"?

Ray

Yeah, Nate. We can't beat the shogun while he's wearing the suit, so we have to blow the suit up. Your powers are within you. After today, I'll have nothing left. [walks away]

You remind me of my son.

Ray

Why? Was he a terrible teacher, too?

He was a great samurai. I built him the strongest and most formidable armor in all of Japan. Forged him a sword fit for an emperor.

Ray

What happened to him?

My son was popular with the men who served under him, and the shogun resented him for it. So he ordered to commence seppuku.

Ray

We will make sure that the shogun pays for what he's done to your family.

Maybe. Maybe not. But I ask you: would I rather hold my son again, or his armor?

Ray

Your son, obviously.

An armor's nothing but iron, leather and silk. It can be replaced. But a man who wears the armor is...

Ray

I get it. You're saying I don't need a suit of armor to defeat the shogun.

Don't be ridiculous. He'll kill you in seconds.

Nate

I know I have these powers inside me. I just can't figure out how to use them.

Does a child learn to laugh? Does he sit and practice laughing? No, he just does.

Nate

"Do or do not. There is no try."

Exactly! Where did you learn that?

Nate

From a great sensei from where I'm from. Yoda.

This master Yoda is very wise.

Mick

What are you staring at?

Amaya

I've figured you out.

Mick

Congratulations.

Amaya

You act like this selfish meathead, but secretly you're not so bad. You know, you might even have the makings of a hero.

Mick

That proves one thing. You don't know me.

Amaya

Perhaps not. [Throws a shuriken which embeds in Mick's sandwich on the table in front of him.]

Mick

Trying to kill me again?

Amaya

Trying to give you a present. In case you ever need proof you met an actual ninja.

Stein

This time period is replete with various perils. Perhaps it might be easier if you were to remain behind, and keep Doctor Palmer company.

Jax

Perhaps you should remain behind. [pause as Stein looks awkwardly sideways] No? Because you're not black? Because you think that me going back to 1863, I can't handle it?

Stein

That doesn't mean there's a need for you to subject yourself to the horrors that await you in that era!

Jax

Okay, now I get it might be difficult for you to understand this, but I've been black my entire life Gray. And honestly, I can't think of a time period we could go to where I wouldn't face some sort of racism. So don't worry, okay?

Ray

Nice job blowing the time pirate's escape pod. Put another win in the mission column.

Jax

Did you not see what happened next?

Ray

No, I took a break, had to go the bathroom. [Jax throws up his hands in frustration] You OK?

Mick

We were attacked by zombies. And somebody put sprouts on my sandwich.

Jax

According to this guy's mission papers, he was going to get in disguised as the help.

Amaya

You mean slave? [Jax looks at Amaya wordlessly] We could've helped her, we should have.

Jax

Look, I've been doing this time-travel thing for a little while now, and if I've learned one thing it's you never know what's gonna change history which can have massive consequences. You think this doesn't make me angry as well? But we have a job to do, and if we don't do it, we can make things a lot worse.

Jax

What the hell was that?

Amaya

Don't you know a breakout when you see one? [frees Jax from his chains]

Jax

Okay, good. Now let's free them [points at the chained-up slaves]

Amaya

I thought you said that if we didn't do our job, we could end up doing more harm than good.

Jax

Yeah, that's still a risk.

Amaya

So what's changed?

Jax

The way these people are being treated. That's the real aberration. I can see that now. This is the history that needs to be fixed.

Stein

Are you homesick?

Jax

You checking up on me Gray?

Stein

Given what you've witnessed, what you've endured, would that really be so bad? You know you just witnessed the very worst of humanity. We share a psychic connection, yet I still can't even begin to fathom what you must be feeling. Must be like your heart is broken.

Jax

Yeah, it is. But I saw something in those people's eyes I didn't expect to see. I saw hope, I saw dignity. Those men and women? They were treated worse than animals, but they never let anybody stop them from being people, ya know?

Stein

I suppose there will always be those who will seek to dehumanize us, but I believe there are more that cling to hope, despite the darkness.

Jax

Yeah, that is exactly how they were.

Stein

I was actually thinking of you Jefferson.

Amaya

Women actually wore these things in the Eighties?

Nate

Shoulder pads? Yeah, they're supposed to make women more imposing. More, I dunno...

Amaya

Manly?

Nate

Yeah.

Amaya

I'd hope that by this decade, women wouldn't need to use clothing to compensate for their status. Surely by now, men and women are considered equals.

Nate

[smiling] Never lose that optimism.

Mick

What'd I say about crossing streams?

Ray

You said we don't follow the rules.

Mick

That's the ONE rule! One rule we follow!

Stein

The truth is, this young man [points to his sleeping younger self] is like a stranger to me. Every time I encounter him, I can't imagine I was ever that person.

Ray

I think anyone would feel that way about meeting their younger self. I don't recognize my current self. Mick told me I need to be more like me. And he's right, which is rare.

Stein

Indeed.

Ray

Problem is, I don't know what being "me" means right now. I don't know if that makes any sense.

Stein

Of course it does. I think everyone struggles, at least on occasion, with who they are and what their place is in the world.

Ray

So what's the answer?

Stein

I have no idea. But... I suppose it's just to live. It's all any of us can really do. And hopefully, though the act of living, we discover who we truly are, and learn to grow from that.

Damien Darhk

You and I have met before. New York City, 1942. You haven't aged a bit. Lazarus pit? Oh, woman of mystery. I know that look in your eye, though. That's the look of someone that I've taken everything from.

Sara

Not everything. You haven't taken my soul. Which I've already lost, and I'm not eager to do again. And that's why... I'm sparing your life.

How merciful of you.

Sara

I'm sparing you to prolong your suffering. 'Cause I'm from the future, Damien, and I know how this all ends. Your Ark. Your grand vision. Just as you're about to accomplish everything you desire, your wife is murdered. The love of your life. And in total despair, you even try to kill your own daughter. An entire city rises up against you. And then you die. Defeated and alone.

Amaya

[to Nate] He loved to sing. Henry. Your grandfather. He had a beautiful voice. During long convoys or stakeouts, he would serenade the team. He made it his personal mission to get me to sing along, but... he never succeeded. But when the chips were down, and all hope seemed lost, we could always count on Henry to lift our spirits. That's the kind of man your grandfather was.

Where's Rip?

Sara

He's MIA.

Damn. How the hell did you miscreants manage not to get yourselves killed without him?

Amaya

Miss Lance has been serving as captain.

But she's a lady. You're a lady, right?

Sara

You know I can take your life as easy I saved it.

Oh, fiery. Whoever breaks her is in for a wild ride.

Mick

Too bad this filly's into other fillies.

You don't say.