Hank Heywood

Henry "Hank" Heywood (1955 - April 8, 2019) was the son of the late Henry Heywood and the father of Nate Heywood. He grew up without his father due to him vanishing in 1956 and was led to believe he died. As such he became a detached individual and also overprotective of his son especially when he was diagnosed with hemophilia. This resulted in them becoming estranged when his son had grown up. However, the two finally reconciled after Hank discovered Nate had been saving the world as a Legend.

Hank is later killed by Neron after telling the latter he was not needed anymore.

Early life
Born in 1955 to Henry and Betty Heywood, Hank was raised by his mother after his father was reportedly killed in action when he was only a month old. He eventually received his father's dog tags from the war that Rip Hunter delivered to him as a final request from his father. In 1970, he entered into a contest for getting a chance to see the Apollo 13 mission control, not knowing that the competition had been rigged by his father in the hopes that he could meet him. However, this never occurred as his father died before they could actually meet, he instead unknowingly met his future son. Nate noticed he was wearing the dog tags and Hank told him that they were his dad's though he never got the chance to know him and he mentioned how his own father hadn't really been around for him, but he assured that he believed both were sorry.

At some point in time, Hank married and had a son Nate who he later passed down his father's dog tags to and also told him bedtime stories of the battles that his father had fought in. Once, at the age of five, Nate scraped his knee causing him and his wife to become very overprotective as it was later discovered that Nate had hemophilia. However Nate noted that his father was emotionally closed off which led to their later estrangement in Nate's life.

Personality
Hank appears to be a detached individual. He is shown later to be patriotic noticing the magical creatures can be used in Project Hades.

Abilities

 * Singing: Hank had the impressive ability to sing. He sang to calm a Minotaur down.
 * Guitarist: He played a lute to lull the Minotaur to sleep.
 * Leadership: As the person who provides funding for the Time Bureau, he is the primary decision maker and others listen to his orders.

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Behind the scenes

 * In DC Comics, Hank Heywood is the name of multiple characters related to the Commander Steel legacy, among them a Hank Heywood III, whose father was reportedly killed during a war mission when he was only a few months old, similar to the ​​ version.
 * Interestingly, Tom Wilson, who portrays the present-day version of Hank Heywood, also portrayed Biff Tannen in the Back to the Future film trilogy. The majority of the first movie in this series is set in 1955, which happens to be the same year that Hank was born.
 * On a related note, in the ​​ episode, after they've dealt with the mythical creatures running loose in the Time Beauru, Hank says, "Let's make like a tree and leave." Nate then says that he's not sure if that's how the metaphor goes. This may be a reference to the Back to the Future trilogy and the numerous mixed metaphors mentioned throughout the series; in Back to the Future Part II, when 2015 Biff travels back to 1955 and interacts with his younger self, 1955 Biff tells 2015 Biff "Now why don't you just make like a tree, and get out of here!" 2015 Biff then corrects his 1955 self, saying that the term is "Make like a tree and leave".