- "Red ain't good."
- —Nate Heywood[src]
Nate Heywood is a robot who was created by Gideon to stop the Legends from damaging the timeline. He is the former leader of the Legends who replaced Sara after she was reset to be an assassin.
Nate was the last Legend to survive until being tricked by his real self becoming the fixer of the 1914 fixed point after Eobard Thawne was killed.
Biography[]
Creation[]
Nate was created by Gideon using the information she had over the real Nate Heywood. Unlike the original Nate, this copy is more muscular, has a beard, and has indestructible skin.
Nate alongside his team were programmed to believe that they are the real Legends tasked with chasing the "Robot Legends".[1][2]
Chasing the Legends[]
Learning the truth[]
Nate stops the soldiers from evacuating Chernobyl.
In 1943, Nate, along with the other Legends, attacked the Legends at McDougle Jemison Factory. Nate and the team personally took it upon themselves to assassinate Bishop, but the Legends escaped, however they decided to leave it at that as they won't be able to escape from them.[1] Once the mission was done they returned to the Waverider, with the dead bodies of Astra and Zari.
The Legends were informed on a mission in Chernobyl, to fix the timeline mistakes left by Gwyn Davies and the real Legends. As they were leaving, an alive Astra and Zari came. Once they arrived in the field, they started attacking the soldiers that were escaping, Nate used his big arms to attack them.
The Legends threaten Kalashnik.
Nate, Behrad, Spooner, and Gary waited for Sara to convince Kalashnik to tell all the townspeople to stay, however, they were upset that the townspeople were preparing to evacuate, so they threatened Kalashnik to make him leave. gave his announcement, and Nate threatened to kill him, but Kalashnik wanted to die, since he was going to die from the explosion.
Nate and the Legends discover that they are robots.
After Sara was taken to the Waverider due to a shot from Behrad, Nate and the others celebrated because Kalashnik convinced everyone to stay in Chernobyl. Nate and the team placed bets on how Sara would kill Irina Petrov. Shortly after, the Legends discovered the truth that they were androids, and that the Legends they were looking for were the real ones, and Sara tried to convince them to help them, but Zari intervened, to convince them to eliminate the real ones, something they all accepted, and they slept together. Sara to reprogram it. Nate was now put as the leader and sent Sara to finally kill Irina. Nate later did a commercial as Citizen Steel, ending in him being comically hit over and over by two kids taking turns at swinging at baseball bat at him.[2]
Confronting the Real Legends[]
Nate and the Legends in Sarajevo.
Since the real Legends prevented the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, Nate and his crew traveled to 1914, Sarajevo, to stop them. Nate, Sara, Behrad, Gary and Spooner watched the environment to search for their enemies until several time travelers appeared to confront them, however Nate and Behrad killed most of them until the real Legends stopped them and informed Gideon that They already found them. Nate and Sara found and killed Eobard Thawne. Nate was later summoned by the real Sara to a bar to talk without a fight, something he considered dishonorable.
Nate argues with Sara.
At the bar, Nate surprised Sara, since he was the captain of his Robot Legends, and argued with Sara about how his goal was to kill any time traveler who ruins history. In anger, Nate threatened to kill her and her friends, so they prepared for a fight. Nate changed his voice to the style of Arnold Schwarzenegger, but he liked his new voice and knocked out Sara, but she had mysteriously escaped, so he left the place. As the real Legends caused several aberrations, Nate and Robot Sara took it upon themselves to erase the memory of several townspeople, unaware that it was a trap orchestrated by Gwyn Davies to shut Gideon out.
Nate and Sara prepare to fight the Legends.
As the last survivors of the Legends, Nate and Sara returned to the bar to face real Sara to finish them off forever, but they would also fight real Nate, real Spooner, and Gwyn, who came to help real Sara. Before they could fight, Nate and Sara were tricked by the real Gideon into taking their CPUs, causing both robots to defeat.
Nate is tricked by his real version.
Due to real Sara becoming the new Fixed Point Guardian to prevent the death of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in an eternal time span, Nate was revived by real Nate, who was shocked, and learned that he could become the new Fixed Point Guardian due to Thawne's death. Believing that he would be the most powerful being, Nate took it and mocked the real Nate, but realized that he had been tricked, and was sent to protect the fixed point for all eternity.[3]
Weapon specifications[]
- Steel mimicry: Nate's physiology is unique even for a robot, as he is entirely made out of the same steel alloy his human self can turn into.
- Superhuman strength: Nate's strength surpasses any normal human or robot. He can overpower his opponents without breaking a sweat.
- Superhuman durability: Nate's steel body also grants him incredible durability, allowing him to survive attacks from bullets, blades, and other weapons.
Appearances[]
DC's Legends of Tomorrow[]
Season 7[]
- "A Woman's Place is in the War Effort!"
- "Paranoid Android"
- "Rage Against the Machines"
- "Too Legit to Quit" (mentioned)
Trivia[]
- Nate is the only Robot Legend still active after the final battle against the Legends.
References[]
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| Earth: Prime • Robot | ||||
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