Legends Of Tomorrows Wonder Twins Reference Contradicts Crisis On Infinite Earths

Legends Of Tomorrow’s Wonder Twins Reference Contradicts Crisis On Infinite Earths

The Wonder Twins got a shoutout on Legends of Tomorrow but once the funny joke subsides, it creates the question of if they exist in the Arrowverse.

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Legends Of Tomorrows Wonder Twins Reference Contradicts Crisis On Infinite Earths

Warning: SPOILERS for DC’s Legends of Tomorrow Season 5, Episode 9.

The Wonder Twins got a shoutout in DC’s Legends of Tomorrow season 5, episode 9, “Zari, Not Zari”, but Nate Heywood (Nick Zano) and Behrad Tarazi’s (Shayan Sobhian) Super Friends reference seems to contradict the ending of Crisis On Infinite Earths. At the conclusion of “Crisis on Infinite Earths – Part 5”, the superheroes of the Arrowverse formed the Justice League and set up their STAR Labs hangar as their new headquarters. But inside the Hall of Justice was an empty cage labeled “Gleek” – a reference to the Wonder Twins’ blue space monkey. So, if Gleek exists in the post-Crisis Arrowverse, where, exactly, did Nate and Behrad pull the Wonder Twins reference from?

Introduced in the 1970s cartoon The All-New Super Friends Hour, the Wonder Twins – Zan and Jayna – are a teenage brother and sister superhero duo. The elfen siblings hail from the planet Exxor and can activate their powers by touching their fists; Zan can transform into any form of water and Jayna can take the shape of any Earth, alien, or mythological animal. Along with their pet monkey Gleek, the Wonder Twins were the Justice League of America’s superhero trainees. In the decades since the dynamic duo has crossed over into DC Comics canon, they have appeared in several DC Animated series, and the Wonder Twins guest-starred in Smallville where the live-action Zan and Jayna were played by David Gallagher and Allison Scagliotti.

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But in “Zari, Not Zari”, Nate and Behrad broke down the possibility that Zari now exists as a “dent” in the timeline the Legends accidentally created in the Legends of Tomorrow season 4 finale, “Hey, World!” Not knowing that Behrad actually replaced Zari in the new timeline they’re now living in, Nate and Behrad deduced that Zari and Behrad must have both been Legends in the old timeline and they shared the Air Totem like “The Wonder Twins!” – a conclusion they excitedly marked with a high-five. Nate has actually referenced the Super Friends on Legends of Tomorrow before. In the season 2 episode “Raiders of the Lost Art”, the Legends saved George Lucas and the future creation of Star Wars from the supervillain triad of Damien Darhk (Neal McDonough), Malcolm Merlyn (John Barrowman), and Eobard Thawne (Matt Letscher). Nate named the bad guys’ team “The Legion of Doom” after a Hanna Barbara cartoon he watched as a child. This was obviously a thinly-veiled and amusing shoutout to Super Friends, but this happened before Crisis On Infinite Earths.

So, if the Wonder Twins do exist in the post-Crisis Arrowverse and they weren’t in the cartoon young Nate watched, where did he and Behrad simultaneously pull the “Wonder Twins” reference from? It gets even more confusing when one considers Behrad; Zari’s (Tala Ashe) little brother is from the future and he was actually born in January 2020 (Behrad even saw himself as a newborn earlier in Legends of Tomorrow season 5). To get the Wonder Twins reference, did Behrad also happen to watch the same Super Friends cartoons Nate watched, even though they’d be several decades old? That could be likely; when he’s not on missions as a Legend, Behrad likes to smoke weed, watch TV, and play video games, so it’s possible he checks out old superhero animation in the Waverider’s archives.

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But now that the original Multiverse was destroyed by the Crisis, the Legends and the rest of the Arrowverse’s heroes live on an amalgamated world called Earth-Prime where their histories have been altered. The fact that there was, presumably, a monkey named Gleek at the end of Crisis teases a future appearance by the Wonder Twins. But if Zan and Jayna do, indeed, prove to be flesh-and-blood on Earth-Prime, would that also mean they didn’t appear in the Super Friends cartoon Nate enjoyed in his childhood? Perhaps there simply may not be a satisfactory answer to this strange conundrum surrounding how Nate and Behrad could know about the Wonder Twins, especially since the time-jumping, reality-bending Legends of Tomorrow has a habit of playing fast and loose with continuity in pursuit of a good joke.

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