Board Thread:DC's Legends of Tomorrow discussions/@comment-9346948-20161028003025/@comment-2112031-20161031191850

Son of Nemesis34 wrote: Kir the Wizard wrote:

Kaestal wrote: I guess the fact that this is an alternate world with a different history from our own is ignored. Then why care about Lous XIV dying ("Oh no! Not the Golden Age of France!") or Nazis getting superweapons? Alternate world, man. Also, one way or another the Legends deliberately changed history for their convenience here. He didn't die before they ended up in his time period. I think the one with Louis XIV dying was because his death would've happened before he had sired an heir. But that's exactly what happened in the episode. Iemitsu's eldest son and successor, Ietsuna, was born in 1641. Assuming that his mother was already pregnant at the time the Legends killed his father, that still leaves a massive problem. Ietsuna was succeeded by his younger brother, Tsunayoshi, who was born in 1646. Subsequent Shoguns were descended from Tsunayoshi (up until the 8th Shogun Yoshimune, who was the grandson of Iemitsu's uncle).

What I'm getting at is that by killing Iemitsu in 1641, the Legends have seriously altered history, and they don't even seem to have noticed.