- For the DC's Legends of Tomorrow episodes, see "Zari" or "Zari, Not Zari".
- For her alternate timeline self, see Zari Tomaz.
- "Change is hard, but it can also be beautiful. It can be both."
- —Zari Tarazi to Nate Heywood[src]
Zari Tarazi[1] (born c. 2009/2010),[2] is a time traveler, member of the Legends, and one of the wielders of the Air Totem which is one of the Six Lost Totems of Zambesi.
At a young age, Zari became famous all over social media and was known as "Dragon Girl" for owning and taming the dragon Wickstable at Heyworld.[1]
After joining the Legends, she eventually developed a relationship with teammate John Constantine.[3]
Biography
When the Legends altered the timeline at Heyworld, Zari became famous, eventually becoming a socialite and an entrepreneur. When Behrad and Nate visited her family for her father's birthday, Zari began to grow suspicious when she noticed Behrad had the Air Totem and he and Nate hadn't aged a day since 2019. Before she could reveal the truth to her parents, Behrad transported Zari aboard the Waverider.[1]
Changing fate
Zari blamed Astra Logue for the mishaps that were occurring aboard the Waverider and sought proof that Astra should not be there. During her investigation, Zari hacked into the ship's cameras and watched the footage with Nate and Charlie. While watching each captured incident, the three realized that they had no memory of their actions. Soon they realized that Gary's dog was nearby barking whenever one of the three did something unexplainable. Later, Zari offered friendship to Astra, by offering her a tour of the Waverider, but Astra did not accept it.[4]
Zari is the only Legend who remains mortal
Zari became a founding member of the sorority Delta Chi Sigma in order to help the Legends "win" the Chalice of Dionysus. Drinking from the chalice would give the Legends the power of immortality for 24 hours which would allow them to work the Loom of Fate. When the plan was successful and the chalice was obtained, Zari did not drink from the artifact because she was practicing the month of Ramadan and disliked the taste of alcohol, thus not gaining the power of immortality for 24 hours like the rest of the Legends.[5]
This lack of immortality made Zari the most at risk when Atropos sent Zombies to attack the Legends during a Zombie Apocalypse. When she and John Constantine became surrounded, he cast a spell that temporarily stopped her heart, so that they could get a vehicle to help the other Legends get to London. Upon reaching London, Zari became extremely frustrated as the time courier that the Legends sought was uncharged and momentarily useless and she stormed off, causing Constantine to chase after her. After Zari and Constantine returned, the Legends found themselves fighting off a hoard of zombies, just as their power of immortality waned.[3]
Loomworld
When the Fates took over the world and made free will a punishable offense, Charlie granted Zari her wish by giving her a life with her brother; the drawback was that it was within the realm of a television show. After Behrad removed the Air Totem to use the bathroom, the spirt of Zari Tomaz was able to escape the totem and took over the body of Zari.
Later, in a bid to bribe Behrad to stay on his television show, Charlie ripped Zari's life thread in half. This caused Tomaz to have her own physical body separate from Zari. Zari quickly hugged her resurrected brother, happy to see him; however, as Nate held Tomaz, Behrad wondered if he now had two sisters.[6]
Having escaped their various television shows, the Legends separated into two groups, one to find the Waverider, and the other to destroy the Loom of Fate. Zari was on the latter team with Behrad, John, Astra, and Sara Lance. Zari and Behrad found the Fates in a ceremony where they granted the citizens their various desires. As Atropos attacked Sara, Zari and Behrad grabbed hands and both used the power of the Air Totem, which increased its strength. They used it to push the deity into the Loom. The group ran as the loom exploded and quickly boarded the Waverider and jumped to whenever and wherever they could, which was four months into the future.
Zari was surprised as Mick Rory, Lita, Gary Green, and Mona Wu all boarded the Waverider with anger as they had waited for the ship for four months. When they confronted her, she told them to see the other Zari and not her.
Eventually, both versions of Zari were assigned to disable Gideon as the A.I. had been turned into the new loom by Lachesis. While Tomaz tried to use her hacking skills to deactivate Gideon, Tarazi chose to grab the cord and unplug it, disconnecting the world from its computerized master.[7]
Tomaz's Farewell
With the Fates defeated, Behrad and Zari were hanging out on the bridge of the Waverider while Behrad was working on fixing Gideon. When Tomaz entered the bridge, Zari teased her because she could tell that she had been sleeping with Nate while Behrad teased Zari for liking Constantine. Suddenly, Behrad began to bleed heavily as his body could not handle the contradictory timelines that both versions of his sister represented. Tomaz had a meeting with the Legends because she decided to return to the totem in order to save Behrad's life and Zari was speechless and overcome with emotion as Tomaz said farewell.[7]
Personality
As a result of becoming famous at a very young age, as well as becoming a self-made millionaire by the time Zari was 19 years old; she was extremely arrogant, egotistical, selfish, rude, and disrespectful. Due to these traits of hers, she had a strained relationship with her younger brother, Behrad Tarazi. Zari didn't get along with her brother at all because she was jealous of him, as Zari believed their parents, Mr. Tarazi and Nasreen Tarazi, favored him over her.[1]
However, after joining the Legends, Zari started to become less arrogant, egotistical, selfish, rude, and disrespectful through the team's missions. She also started to repair her relationship with Behrad and began a friendship with Ava Sharpe.[8]
Powers and abilities
Powers
- Powers via Air Totem: Despite Zari never wielding the Air Totem in the current timeline, it still responded to her when she touched it due to an alternate version of her wielding it.[9] After Behrad's death, Zari began wielding the Air Totem.[10]
- Aerokinesis: The totem grants Zari the power to manipulate and generate the air.[9]
- Air blasts: The totem allows Zari to fire blasts of air from her hands.[9]
- Aerokinesis: The totem grants Zari the power to manipulate and generate the air.[9]
Abilities
- "You hack?"
"Not so much me, but another version of me that used to exist." - —Astra Logue expressing surprise at Zari's hacking skills[src]
- Genius-level intellect/Computer specialist/Master computer hacker: Zari has regained some memories of a version of herself from the previous timeline, who was a highly intelligent, experienced computer specialist and hacker. With these memories, she was able to easily hack into Gideon's mainframe on more than one occasion.[11][9] She is very observant as well, evident with her managing to quickly deduce that Marie Antoinette's enchantment wasn't her, but rather her perfume.[8]
- Bilingual: Zari is capable of fluently speaking English and Farsi.[1]
- Expert of deception/Manipulator: Zari has an exceptional understanding of how to blend in with society, particularly with the social elite, as seen when she was able to get herself and the Legends into Marie Antoinette's party. Zari is also fairly competent in manipulating individuals, coming up with a partially-successful plan to draw Marie Antoinette away from her own party.[8] Zari's skills even enabled her to pose as Cleopatra to a room full of "encores".[10]
- Eidetic memory: Zari possesses perfect memory recall, as she was able to instantly remember that she hadn't eaten a donut in exactly 1,743 days.[8]
Equipment
- Totem wristband: After Behrad’s death, Zari began wearing a special bracelet that allows her to bear the Air Totem.[10]
Former equipment
- Dragonusk: Zari had a brand of perfume known as Dragonusk, presumably since she is known as "Dragon Girl". The perfume turned out to block the user's olfactory sensors, which rendered them immune to the effect of Marie Antoinette's magical perfume.[8]
Appearances
DC's Legends of Tomorrow
Gallery
Promotional images
DC's Legends of Tomorrow
Season 5
Trivia
Behind the scenes
- In DC comics, Adrianna Tomaz is known as the superhero Isis. She is able to use a mystical amulet (identical to her totem on the show) to harness the Powers of Isis using the incantation "I Am Isis", granting her power over the elements. Isis also has a younger brother who becomes the superhero Osiris. Her amulet and her brother's powers were given to them by Black Adam, whom Isis was in a relationship with. The two eventually married and ruled Kahndaq.
- Andrea Thomas, the first character to be known as the superhero Isis, debuted in the TV series The Secrets of Isis portrayed by Joanna Cameron. Cameron also appeared as Andrea Thomas/Isis in several episodes of the TV series Shazam!.
- A version of Isis appeared in the Smallville episode, "Isis". In that episode, an amulet, which contained the spirit of the Isis, took over the body of Lois Lane.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 "Miss Me, Kiss Me, Love Me"
- ↑ "Hey, World!"
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "I Am Legends"
- ↑ "Ship Broken"
- ↑ "Freaks and Greeks"
- ↑ "The One Where We're Trapped On TV"
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 "Swan Thong"
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 8.4 "A Head of Her Time"
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 9.4 9.5 "Zari, Not Zari"
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 10.3 10.4 "The Great British Fake Off"
- ↑ "Slay Anything"