Legacies creator Julie Plec confirms that Landon’s Phoenix powers are not coming back any time soon in Season 3 — but that doesn’t mean he’ll be without superpowers for long.
When asked if Landon will get his Phoenix powers back, Plec told TVLine, “Landon is still not a Phoenix, but we’ll soon find he has developed a whole new skill set of physical abilities that Hope will find surprising — and will make him much better in a fight.”
Legacies creator Julie Plec teases fans that Landon is about to get a new superpower in Season 3, but it won’t be connected to his Phoenix past. WARNING: The following contains spoilers for Legacies Season 3, Episode 11, “You Can’t Run From Who You Are,” which aired Thursday on The CW.
Landon started exhibiting odd behavior that indicated there might be something more going on with him, and after dying and resurrecting, he learned he was, in fact, a phoenix.
What episode does Hope fear Landon?
Hope’s fear that Landon might not be himself arose in Season 3, Episode 11. In the episode, Josie, Wade and Landon battle a new monster from Malivore’s prison realm — a Berbalang-infected Hope.
Legacies creator Julie Plec confirms that Landon’s Phoenix powers are not coming back any time soon in Season 3 — but that doesn’t mean he’ll be without superpowers for long.
When asked if Landon will get his Phoenix powers back, Plec told TVLine, “Landon is still not a Phoenix, but we’ll soon find he has developed a whole new skill set of physical abilities that Hope will find surprising — and will make him much better in a fight.”.
SUSPICION– Hope’s (Danielle Rose Russell) suspicion is piqued after Wade (guest star Elijah B. Moore) shares some startling news with her. To uncover the secrets of a mysterious artifact, Alaric (Matthew Davis) must work with an enemy from his past.
Legacies creator Julie Plec teases fans that Landon is about to get a new superpower in Season 3, but it won’t be connected to his Phoenix past. WARNING: The following contains spoilers for Legacies Season 3, Episode 11, “You Can’t Run From Who You Are,” which aired Thursday on The CW. Legacies creator Julie Plec confirms …
What does Lizzie do with Landon’s resurrection powers?
She comes up with a different solution: Lizzie can use her siphoning powers to transfer Landon’s resurrection abilities into Rafael. This would make Landon mortal and he’s feeling strange about the prospect. He even tells Hope he thinks of his phoenix abilities as the most important part of himself.
In fact, it seems Landon no longer has any powers at all. He’s already a normal human. Landon reasons that when he was stabbed with the golden arrow, even though it didn’t ultimately kill him, it must have killed the supernatural phoenix part of him.
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Last season, it enabled Hope to magically link him to Lizzie to save her from her twin sister, Josie, when Josie, consumed by black magic, forced Lizzie to go through with the magical merge required by twins in their family. RELATED: Legacies Enrolls a New Witch to the Salvatore School Cast. So in “Goodbyes Sure Do Suck,” when it becomes clear …
But Landon doesn’t feel playing it safe is really a life, and given that’s exactly what Hope wants him to do, it seems their relationship is at a serous crossroads.
When Landon was initially introduced on Legacies, it seemed like he was just a normal human teenager. As a result, he wasn’t accepted into the Salvatore School, even after his foster brother Rafael, a recently turned werewolf, started attending. Landon started exhibiting odd behavior that indicated there might be something more going on with him, …
What powers did Landon lose?
This time, when resurrected, Landon lost the Phoenix elements of his powers, those being regeneration, immortality, fire wings, and a barely-used ability to levitate when he and Hope hook up (and presumably at other times).
It is impossible to know for now, but this atypical element of Landon’s makeup could well be that his part-golem, part-human DNA allows him to hold onto his powers as a Phoenix despite seemingly being stripped of them, thus explaining how he survived his tenure in the prison world.
As the spinoff Legacies emerges from the shadow of its predecessors The Originals and The Vampire Diaries, the question of “what exactly the show’s hero Landon is” still looms large now that his Malivore DNA has been revealed. Debuting in late 2018, Legacies is a supernatural teen soap and a spin-off from The Originals, …
These powers can’t be those of a Phoenix, as they were stripped from him by the Golden Arrow. However, the fact that Landon’s father is Malivore means that, like that Golem, he may be able to absorb the powers of other supernatural beings.
Debuting in late 2018, Legacies is a supernatural teen soap and a spin-off from The Originals, which was itself a spin-off of the CW’s earlier ‘00s hit The Vampire Diaries. Now entering its third season, so far Legacies has struggled to recapture the popularity of The Vampire Diaries and The Originals.
In thematic terms, this is the direction that could make the most sense for Legacies to take the character’s plotline in. Landon has been a disempowered dude in distress since the series began and only started showing a promising ability to fight his own battles in recent episodes.
