Encores

Encores
Information
Function	Resurrected souls from Hell
Methods of use	Magic

The Encores, as coined by Mona Wu, are damned souls who Astra Logue freed from Hell. They were resurrected a brief time after their deaths (usually a few days or a couple of weeks), prompting the Legends to take action and send them back to Hell.

Among other potential nicknames for these resurrected evil souls were evil do-overs and villa-agains, suggested by Ray Palmer and Nate Heywood, respectively.

Aside from vendettas, Encores are charged with slaughtering and damning more souls to hell, where they become Astra and later Lachesis's property.

History

Prior to January 2020, Astra Logue freed eighteen damned souls from Hell.

Every one of them made their way back to their bodies and were resurrected a short time after their deaths. As the "Encores" that they are, they're immortal and virtually impossible to kill.

After using her shape-shifting to take advantage of Tiberius, Lachesis stole Astra's collection of soul coins and sent more Encores out of Hell to 1910 to retrieve the final ring that is part of the Loom of Fate. Astra learned what Lachesis did and goes to confront her after incapacitating Ava Sharpe, Gary Green, and Mick Rory. Astra also finds Atropos with Lachesis, who insist that the soul coins are becoming a distraction for Astra; she's content to rule hell, when she could rule to cosmos alongside them as a Fate. Astra pretends to take their offer so that she can get John Constantine's soul coin back from Lachesis.

Known Encores

Astra's Encores

• Grigori Rasputin (deceased)
• Benjamin Siegel (deceased)
• Kathy Meyers (original timeline)
• Marie Antoinette (deceased)
• Genghis Khan (deceased)
• Damien Darhk (deceased)

Lachesis's Encores

• "Jack the Ripper" (deceased)
• Bonnie (deceased)
• Clyde Barrow (deceased)
• Henry VIII (deceased)
• "Black Caesar" (deceased)
• Brutus (deceased)

Powers and abilities

Powers

• Immortality: As Encores, they cannot die as long as a chit of their soul is bound to Hell. Their immortality knows no bounds, as they can remain conscious even after each of their body parts are separated. Also, as demonstrated by Genghis Khan, they do not age.
  • Regenerative healing factor: With their immortality, Encores can also quickly regenerate any of their body parts, as long as they are within direct contact with it.

Weaknesses

• Hell weapons: Special fire from Hell that can be weaponized and fashioned into weaponry such as bullets or swords, and is capable of killing both the living and the dead, including Encores, despite their usual immunity to death. However, in spite of this, hell weapons can't kill Fates.
  • Hell compass:: A special compass capable of tracking anything.
  • Hell gun: Special gun capable of destroying anyone. Astra gives it to Bugsy when she resurrected him, but later John Constantine uses it to kill Bugsy and goes, leaving the gun into Hell. Different variations of Hellfire guns were given to Bonnie and Clyde and Black Caesar.
  • Hell sword: A special sword capable of destroying anyone. Astra gives it to Genghis Khan when she resurrected him, but later Charlie takes it and uses it to kill Genghis Khan. Then, Sara uses it against Damien Darhk, and Damien Darhk uses it to kill himself, Sara retakes it soon after.
• Soul token: Soul tokens which remain in Hell even after Encores are sent back to Earth still contain the souls of the Encores and permit to their master to draw them back into Hell if they don't fulfill their mission, as Astra later dragged Rasputin and Marie Antoinette back to Hell to torture them for their failures.

Appearances

DC's Legends of Tomorrow

Season 4 "Hey, World!" (soul tokens) Season 5 "Meet the Legends" "Miss Me, Kiss Me, Love Me" "Slay Anything" "A Head of Her Time" "Mortal Khanbat" "Mr. Parker's Cul-De-Sac" "Romeo V. Juliet: Dawn of Justness" (mentioned) "Zari, Not Zari" (mentioned) "The Great British Fake Off"

Trivia

• An encore refers to a repeated or additional performance of an item at the end of a concert, as called for by an audience, which is a fitting name that Mona coined, as these souls got a second lease on life.
• Damien refers to being "encored" as parole from Hell. If an Encore fails to keep their end of the deal, Astra will recall them and submit them to horrible torment.
• If an Encore is taken back to hell by Astra, their physical bodies on Earth also disappear.