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Zari Tomaz and Zari Tarazi
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Zari Tarazi: "Knocked Down, Knocked Up
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Created by
Based on
  • Adrianna Tomaz (seasons 5–7)
    by
    • Portrayed by
    Legends of Tomorrow
    FamilyNasreen Tarazi (mother)
    Nate Heywood (Zari Tomaz)
    DJ S'Moore Money (Zari Tarazi; formerly)
    John Constantine (Zari Tarazi; formerly)
    ReligionIslam
    NationalityPersian-American[2]

    Zari Tomaz and Zari Tarazi are

    Legends of Tomorrow, assisting them on their numerous adventures through season four. Due to the events of the season four finale, Tomaz's history is changed in a way that she never lived in a dystopian future; after she is erased from reality, a new alternate timeline version of Zari introduced in season five, Tarazi, is instead a socialite and social media influencer
    before joining the Legends.

    Fictional character biographies

    Zari Tomaz

    Zari Tomaz is introduced in

    Beebo, and succeed.[5]

    In

    Behrad Tarazi was never killed and Tomaz never acquired her totem, resulting in Behrad becoming part of the Legends instead of her.[14]

    In season five, it is revealed that, while she lives on in the World Between Worlds in the air totem, she can't co-exist with her other self for an extended period of time as the now-alive Behrad will die as a result of her timeline bleeding into the new one. In season six, she learns that she can switch places with her counterpart within the air totem allowing her to rejoin the Legends on a part-time basis. At the end of season seven, she retires from the Legends after they defeat Evil Gideon and save the life of Alun Thomas when Nate Heywood moves into the World Between Worlds in the air totem with her to maintain their relationship.

    Zari Tarazi

    In

    Atropos, Tarazi decides to stay by John Constantine until they get all the pieces of the Loom of Fate to resurrect him.[17]

    While Constantine tries using everyone's energy to summon the last piece of the Loom, a ring, he and Tarazi accidentally end up in 1918 when Constantine's house was a boarding house. Tarazi and Constantine check-in, and find several Encores (souls restored to life) sent by

    Lachesis are after the same ring. Tarazi and Constantine destroy the Encores, find the ring and return to the present.[18] After the Legends acquire the Chalice of Dionysus, which will make a drinker immortal for a day and allow them to help Charlie use the Loom, everyone but Tarazi does so, allowing them to finally use the Loom.[19] Tarazi also begins a relationship with Constantine; however, Atropos and Lachesis gain all pieces of the Loom and use it to rewrite reality,[20] causing Tarazi, a resurrected Behrad and the Legends to be trapped in various TV shows. Tomaz emerges from the air totem and possesses Tarazi's body. After the Legends manage to break out of their shows, Charlie splits Zari between her Tarazi self and her Tomaz self to gain control of the Legends, but to no avail.[21] Following Atropos and Lachesis' defeat, Tomaz realizes her existence is a temporal disturbance that endangers Behrad; her timeline where he dies, and Tarazi's timeline where he lives fight for control of Behrad's life, so she returns to the wind totem to save him.[22]

    In

    Bishop,[27] he makes a deal with a demon to return to Earth, where he gives Tarazi a key and decides to walk his path alone, away from her.[28]

    In

    Gwyn Davies, the founder of time travel and return home. During this time, she learns that the key Constantine gave to her gives her access to his pocket dimension in hell which is in the form of his manor and spends some time there getting over their breakup. After briefly switching places with Tomaz, she learns that they are being hunted by an evil version of Gideon. With help from Eobard Thawne, the Legends defeat Evil Gideon and take back the Waverider. After a brief retirement and a truce with the evil Gideon, she helps Gwyn save the life of his lover Alun Thomas with the Legends, altering a fixed point in time. When Nate chooses to leave the team, she gives her air totem to him, allowing him to move into the World Between Worlds in the air totem and allowing both him and her counterpart to retire from the Legends. When she returns to the Waverider, she is arrested by the Time Police alongside her team for breaking the timeline.[29]

    Development

    In June 2017,

    Adrianna Tomaz, a reworking of Thomas.[32] Zari was created by Phil Klemmer and Marc Guggenheim, who said it was "very important to me that certain elements from [The Secrets of Isis] were reflected."[33] Guggenheim explained that part of the motivation for adding Zari to the series was the "political climate" in the United States after the 2016 elections. He said another reason was his sister-in-law, a Muslim, once telling him about "how difficult it is to be a Muslim-American in the current political climate."[34] Gracelyn Awad Rinke portrays a younger Zari.[35]

    The producers decided not to give Zari the moniker Isis because of the

    Séance and Sensibility" explores Zari's romantic side, with Ashe explaining, "Given her tumultuous past and that she was always essentially fighting for the life of her and her family, love was on the back-burner. So we're going to see her start to grapple with that in a very big way." Like "Here I Go Again", it was also written as a Zari-centric episode, with Klemmer saying this was done because "she's such a tough nut to crack [...] She's not like [a] Jane Austen heroine, but she is like kind of defined by just how closely she guards her feelings."[40]

    The fifth season of Legends of Tomorrow introduces a different version of Zari,[41] a social media influencer whose last name is Tarazi.[16] Klemmer compared her to the Kardashian family because of how she runs her "giant media empire and personal brand", while her "brother's been running around secretly saving the world [...] all Zari 1.0 wanted was for her brother not to die and her parents not to die and her future to not be this terrible, intolerant place, and she succeeded at all those things, but despite all of the things she fixed, their relationship isn't as great as it is between many siblings. She was like a child star, effectively, and Behrad had to live under her shadow."[42] Ashe later said, "I had spent some time developing Zari 1.0 and really felt she had come a long way and had opened her heart at the end of the previous season, and then to lose her I think was hard for the fans [...] Even though I was excited, as an actor, by the challenge of playing such a different take on the character, I do feel like I resisted it for a little while [...] I feel like it took me a minute to find and accept and bond and submit to this new reality, and to the new Zari."[43]

    Skills and abilities

    Zari Tomaz is a skilled computer hacker.[44] While she does not have any inherent superhuman powers, her amulet gives her the "power to blast and manipulate the wind".[45] Zari Tarazi gains Tomaz's hacking skills through recollection of Tomaz's skills.[46]

    Reception

    Reviewing the episode "

    Zari" in which the character is introduced, IGN's Jesse Schedeen described Zari as a "pretty generic hacker anti-hero who just happens to have possession of a mystical amulet." He added that "Nothing about her personality or background makes her a particularly compelling addition to the team" and Ashe did not exhibit "the screen presence necessary to stand out alongside the colorful cast of Legends. It's probably a good idea to throw a new wild card into this now-familiar team dynamic, but Zari needs to bring more to the table than she does here."[47] However, The A.V. Club's Oliver Sava reacted more positively, saying, "Tala Ashe is a charismatic actress that sells the emotional moments of this episode's script, and she has strong chemistry with the rest of the group. She's intense, but not overly so, and she recognizes that this series doesn't demand an overly dramatic performance."[48] Den of Geek's Jim Dandy said "Here I Go Again" was a "delight at every second. The entire episode hinged on Tala Ashe's performance, and she nailed it".[49] Schedeen said that while the episode was not a high point for the third season, it was "nonetheless a solid bottle episode that provided some much-needed growth for the team's most recent recruit, Zari."[50]

    See also

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