Legends of Tomorrow and Agents of SHIELD are still copying each other.
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Legends of Tomorrow Pays Agents of SHIELD Back For Season 7 Theft
Legends of Tomorrow's Sara Lance clone twist echoes Phil Coulson's LMD and repays how Agents of SHIELD season 7 become a time travel show like LoT.
BY JOHN ORQUIOLAPUBLISHED JUN 15, 2021
Warning: SPOILERS for DC's Legends of Tomorrow season 6, episode 6, "Bishop's Gambit".
DC's Legends of Tomorrow's latest twist that Sara Lance (Caity Lotz) is now a clone pays back
Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. season 7's swiping the Arrowverse series' time-traveling superheroes concept. Sara is still trapped on the homeworld of Bishop (Raffi Barsoumian), the insane space lord who is also the creator of Ava (Jes Macallan) and the legion of AVA clones. It appears Sara did die after being poisoned by an alien hybrid of Amelia Earhart (Jen Oleksiuk) and White Canary was unaware Bishop resurrected her.
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Legends of Tomorrow and
Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. are kindred shows with a lot in common since both are outliers within their respective universes, the Arrowverse and the Marvel Cinematic Universe. However,
Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. season 7 outright copied Legends of Tomorrow's core idea when the team led by Alphonso "Mack" Mackenzie (Henry Simmons) turned their ship, Zephyr One, into a time machine so they could go back into the MCU's 20th century and stop the alien Chronicoms from preventing S.H.I.E.L.D. from ever existing. Dropping into the 1930s all the way into the 1980s, with the appropriate cosplay and hijinks, reinvigorated
AoS in its final season, which was one of the show's best run of episodes. Meanwhile,
S.H.I.E.L.D.'s success with the format helped validate
Legends of Tomorrow's claim as the Arrowverse's most innovative show. Phil Coulson (Clark Gregg), who died at the end of
Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. season 5, was resurrected as a Life Model Decoy enhanced with Chronicom technology.
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Sara Lance reborn as a clone is
Legends of Tomorrow's spin on
Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.'s Coulson/LMD twist (a different Phil doppelganger who was an alien also allowed Coulson to return in
AoS season 6) and it balances the scales for
S.H.I.E.L.D. becoming a time travel show. After all, both superhero series have now killed their lead characters and replaced them with artificial versions The
Coulson LMD was aware he was a machine but he still retained the beloved agent's memories and personality. Likewise, Sara remains Sara even in her new clone body (which, as Bishop pointed out, is free of the scars from her years of battles), but Lance had no idea that she was a clone until Bishop dropped the bombshell on her.
But now that Sara knows she's a clone, it still doesn't seem like Captain Lance will be any different since she hasn't displayed any new abilities (yet), but she remains the same cunning fighter who was trained by the League of Assassins. Even Gary Green (Adam Tsekhman) didn't realize it wasn't exactly the same Sara. On
Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., everyone adjusted to their dead leader returning as an LMD, although Daisy Johnson (Chloe Bennet) had the hardest time reconciling her mentor
Coulson's resurrection.
Sara becoming a clone of herself creates some interesting new dilemmas for Captain Lance and for her loved ones, especially Ava. Sara has died many times throughout
Legends of Tomorrow but this is different since she always returned as herself before, but now it appears like her original body really is dead. Meanwhile, Ava was horrified that she is a clone and it still bothers her, although Sara never minded it. But how will Ava feel when she finds out Sara is now a clone like her? Will Ava reject this or will it bring her and Sara closer together? And what will this mean for Sara and Ava's eventual wedding?
After killing off Sarge, the pseudo-Coulson, in season 6,
Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. immediately brought back Phil Coulson as an LMD so that their lead character could be part of the show's final season. Meanwhile, the fact that
Legends of Tomorrow took a week off from Sara Lance's story to focus on the rest of her team on Earth allowed the show to play the necessary sleight of hand to switch Sara for the clone without fans noticing. It made for an effective and unexpected twist, although it's amusing that even though
Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. is canceled,
Legends of Tomorrow is now returning the favor for
AoS season 7 copying them.
?! Why are Yo-Yo & Mack treated like they were just supporting characters? They were core members of the team for 4+ seasons. I spit on this garbage! I'm talkin' that clear-your-chest-and-snort-a-few-times type of loogie. How pitiful 
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