Hank Heywood

Hank Heywood
Biological Information
Species	Human
Status	Deceased
Universe Information
Home universe	Earth-1
General Information
Affiliation	Neron Project Hades
Family	Unnamed (great-grandmother) Henry Heywood (father; deceased) Bettie Heywood (mother) Dorothy Heywood (wife) Nate Heywood (son)
Actor	Tom Wilson Dominic Purcell (spirit through Mick Rory's body) Patrick Lubczyk (young)

"They're my dad's, or they were. He was gone before I knew him."

"I'm sure he was sorry he left. My dad wasn't really there for me either but I knew he loved me. He, just, couldn't show me."

—Hank and Nate Heywood on their respective fathers^[src]

Henry "Hank" Heywood (1955 - April 8, 2019) was the son of the late Henry Heywood and Bettie 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 was later killed by Neron after telling the latter he was not needed anymore.

Biography

Early life

Hank Heywood meeting his future son Nathaniel in 1970

Hank was born in 1955 to Henry and Betty Heywood in Hackensack, New Jersey. Hank was raised by his mother after his father was reportedly killed in action when Hank 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.

The Pentagon and the Time Bureau

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Death

Hank was murdered by a person that appeared to be his ally. Nora sensed magic from this unknown person and broke out of her cell, knowing something was wrong. She entered the room only to find Hank's lifeless body, and to subsequently be discovered by Nate, leading him to assume that she'd been responsible for his father's death. Before she got a chance to explain however, numerous Time Bureau agents filled the room, weapons drawn, forcing Nora to flee.

Legacy

It was revealed that in a video that he left behind for his son to watch that he was training Magical fugitives for a theme park he wanted to open up for him, which he called 'Heyworld'.

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

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• 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.
• Skilled leader: As the person who provides funding for the Time Bureau, he is the primary decision maker and others listen to his orders.

Appearances

DC's Legends of Tomorrow

Season 2 "The Justice Society of America" (mentioned) "Compromised" (mentioned) "Moonshot" (1970) Season 3 "Welcome to the Jungle" (mentioned) "Beebo the God of War" (mentioned) "Necromancing the Stone" (mentioned) Season 4 "The Virgin Gary" "Witch Hunt" "Dancing Queen" (mentioned) "Tagumo Attacks!!!" "Tender is the Nate" "Hell No, Dolly!" (mentioned) "Legends of To-Meow-Meow" "Lucha de Apuestas" "The Getaway" "Séance & Sensibility" (corpse; spirit through Mick Rory)

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 DC's Legends of Tomorrow​​ 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 DC's Legends of Tomorrow​​ episode "Tagumo Attacks!!!", 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".