DC's Legends of Tomorrow

Series Similar to DC's Legends of Tomorrow

If you enjoyed DC's Legends of Tomorrow, these series share similar themes, tone, and quality. Each recommendation is scored on genre overlap, tonal match, and critical acclaim.

1. The Flash

   2014 · Drama, Action, Science-Fiction · ended

   Recommended for similar Action / Science-Fiction profile, also on The CW.

   After a particle accelerator causes a freak storm, CSI Investigator Barry Allen is struck by lightning and falls into a coma. Months later he awakens with the power of super speed, granting him the ability to move through Central City like an unseen guardian angel. Though initially excited by his newfound powers, Barry is shocked to discover he is not the only "meta-human" who was created in the wake of the accelerator explosion -- and not everyone is using their new powers for good. Barry partners with S.T.A.R. Labs and dedicates his life to protect the innocent. For now, only a few close friends and associates know that Barry is literally the fastest man alive, but it won't be long before the world learns what Barry Allen has become...The Flash!

2. Krypton

   2018 · Drama, Action, Science-Fiction · ended

   Recommended for similar Action / Science-Fiction profile.

   Set two generations before the destruction of Superman's home planet, Krypton follows Seg-El, the legendary Man of Steel's grandfather—whose House of El was ostracized and shamed. With Krypton's leadership in disarray, Seg-El encounters Earthly time-traveler Adam Strange who warns he's under the clock to save his beloved world from chaos. Fighting to redeem his family's honor and protect the ones he loves, Seg is also faced with a life and death conflict—save his home planet or let it be destroyed in order to restore the fate of his future grandson.

3. The Flash

   1990 · Action, Adventure, Science-Fiction · ended

   Recommended for similar Action / Science-Fiction profile.

   The Flash is Barry Allen, a police scientist, who was working one night during a terrible thunder storm when a bolt of lightning crashes through the lab window, electrocuting him. Barry survives and soon learns that he is now able to move at almost incomprehensible speed.

4. Cleopatra 2525

   2000 · Action, Adventure, Science-Fiction · ended

   Recommended for similar Action / Science-Fiction profile.

   It is the year 2525 AD, and most of mankind has been driven underground by huge flying mechanical creatures known as the Baileys. The team of Hel, Sarge and Cleo (a recently defrosted 21st century exotic dancer who was cryogenically frozen following complications during her cosmetic surgery operation) are guided by the mysterious "Voice" and aided by Mauser (a reprogrammed robotic enforcer) to fight a war to reclaim the Earth's surface.

5. Marvel's Jessica Jones

   2015 · Action, Crime, Science-Fiction · ended

   Recommended for similar Action / Science-Fiction profile.

   Haunted by a traumatic past, Jessica Jones uses her gifts as a private eye to find her tormentor before he can harm anyone else in Hell's Kitchen.

6. Marvel's Luke Cage

   2016 · Action, Crime, Science-Fiction · ended

   Recommended for similar Action / Science-Fiction profile.

   After a sabotaged experiment leaves him with super strength and unbreakable skin, Luke Cage becomes a fugitive trying to rebuild his life in modern day Harlem, New York City. But he is soon pulled out of the shadows and must fight a battle for the heart of his city – forcing him to confront a past he had tried to bury.

7. Supergirl

   2015 · Drama, Action, Science-Fiction · ended

   Recommended for similar Action / Science-Fiction profile, also on The CW.

   Supergirl is an action-adventure drama based on the DC Comics character Kara Zor-El, Superman's (Kal-El) cousin who, after 12 years of keeping her powers a secret on Earth, decides to finally embrace her superhuman abilities and be the hero she was always meant to be.

8. Arrow

   2012 · Drama, Action, Science-Fiction · ended

   Recommended for similar Action / Science-Fiction profile, also on The CW.

   After a violent shipwreck, billionaire playboy Oliver Queen was missing and presumed dead for five years before being discovered alive on a remote island in the Pacific. He returned home to Starling City, welcomed by his devoted mother Moira, beloved sister Thea and former flame Laurel Lance. With the aid of his trusted chauffeur/bodyguard John Diggle, the computer-hacking skills of Felicity Smoak and the occasional, reluctant assistance of former police detective, now beat cop, Quentin Lance, Oliver has been waging a one-man war on crime.

9. Legion

   2017 · Drama, Action, Science-Fiction · ended

   Recommended for similar Action / Science-Fiction profile.

   Legion introduces the story of David Haller: Since he was a teenager, David has struggled with mental illness. Diagnosed as schizophrenic, David has been in and out of psychiatric hospitals for years. But after a strange encounter with a fellow patient, he's confronted with the possibility that the voices he hears and the visions he sees might be real. He's based on the Marvel comics character Legion, the son of X-Men founder Charles Xavier (played by Patrick Stewart and James McAvoy in the films), first introduced in 1985.

10. Powers

    2015 · Drama, Action, Science-Fiction · ended

    Recommended for similar Action / Science-Fiction profile.

    Combining the genres of superhero fantasy, crime noir and police procedural, Powers is set in a world full of people with superhuman abilities and where all of those powers are just another catalyst for mayhem and murder. The series follows Detective Christian Walker, who is in charge of protecting humans like us and investigating cases involving the God-like men and women, referred to as Powers, who glide through the sky on lightning bolts and fire and who clash above cities in epic battle, oblivious to the mortals below.