Speaking to Screen Rant at San Diego Comic-Con 2015, DC's Legends of Tomorrow executive producer and showrunner Phil Klemmer elaborated on the role Ray Palmer AKA Atom will play when the television series comes to broadcast on The CW next year.
Despite feeling heartbroken following the breakdown of his relationship with Felicity Smoak (Emily Bett Rickards), he's remained a positive, chirpy and funny character in Arrow's Starling City, and that's something that will remain the same.
Klemmer explained: "I don't think Ray is traditionally ambitious. I mean I think he would want to be a leader just because he's sort of that go-getter. I don't think he has any sort of like Game of Thrones... He's a guileless person. He plays his cards. He does not hold them close. I think when our team is assembled in this pilot, I think Ray is sort of like the cheerleader. Obviously Stein wants to travel in time because he's a nuclear physicist... I think Ray is the sort of guy who is... he's kind of like a Labrador retriever.
"It's just like if you throw a ball, he's going to run after it. And other members of the team are rightfully wart. They sort of recognise Rip's offer to just take a little trip back in the past and kill Vandal Savage and save the world. It sounds simple. It's clearly not going to be simple.
"But Ray is the sort of guy who will take people at face value because that's how he sort of goes through the world: choosing to believe."
Though Ray may not step up to the plate in leading the group, will anybody? With a lot of different personalities to play with, there's likely to be conflict on the cards for some of the more hot-headed characters.
DC's Legends of Tomorrow is expected to debut in the first half of 2016 on The CW.
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