Dr. Raymond Carson "Ray" Palmer, also known by his superhero alias The Atom, is a fictional character in The CW's Arrowverse, where he is portrayed by Brandon Routh.

In season 5 of Legends of Tomorrow, Ray decides to leave the team and live a normal life with Nora Darhk.

On December 19, 2014, Ray is attacked by a time-traveling assassin called The Pilgrim, but is saved by Rip Hunter and Firestorm, who take him to the Waverider and remove his memories of the event.

Afterward, Ray meets with Felicity and asks her about the progress of the exoskeleton's chip but she says the ATOM would not bring back Anna, angering him.

Ray goes to the city's Assistant District Attorney Laurel Lance, who does not help him but gives up her secret identinty, Black Canary.

They eventually defeat Jake, and Ray mmets with Cisco to talk about the metahuman, discovering he was not in Central City during the particle accelerator explosion, so he obtained his powers elsewhere.

The former Time Master presents a proposal to form a team to eliminate Vandal Savage, a future dictator and immortal, before he can rise to power.

The other members are Sara Lance / White Canary, Carter Hall / Hawkman, Kendra Saunders / Hawkgirl, Leonard Snart / Captain Cold, Mick Rory / Heat Wave, Martin Stein and Jefferson Jackson.

[a] There, they meet with John Diggle, Jr / Connor Hawke / Green Arrow and help him defeat Grant Wilson / Deathstroke.

With the team reorganized, they go to Harmony Falls, Oregon, in 1958, were Savage is living under the alias "Gail" and does not recognize Kendra.

Kendra is overjoyed to be rescued and is eager to resume her old life, but Ray is hurt by what he perceives as a disregard of their relationship.

Hex tells them he knew of the existence of time travelers, and asks for help to defeat a gang that was terrorising the city.

With the assassins defeated, the Time Masters order The Pilgrim, an elite hunter, to initiate Omega Protocol, a process in which she will kill a past version of the offender, thus erasing them from existence.

Ray feels guilty about Kendra's capture and, along with Mick and Stein, creates a time beacon to summoned the Waverider.

The Legends receive a call from a time traveler who crashed in the 1860s during the American Civil War, where a zombie virus is spreading.

Ray and the team found out Darhk wants to kill U.S. President Ronald Reagan and the Soviet delegation, triggering a war using a bomb.

Working with Jonah Hex they fix it, and Ray takes some dwarf star alloy and remakes his ATOM suit.

When he is captured by aliens, Ray is placed in a fantasy reality, where he is friends with the Queen family, and in invited to Oliver's wedding to Laurel.

They return to the Waverider but it is revealed Martin is Eobard Thawne / Reverse Flash, who stole a part of a medallion that is able to locate the Spear of Destiny, in disguise.

Darhk is seeking the piece, and Ray fights and defeats him in a sword dual, while also capturing Rip, reforming him afterwards.

The Legends travel there and met with Nate's father Henry Heywood, who tells them the piece is part of Neil Armstrong's Moon flag.

When the Apollo 13 spacecraft has some issues, Ray goes to the ship and finds Thawne has hijacked it to land on the Moon and take the piece.

The Time Bureau is headed by Rip Hunter, who created it in 2012 to fix anachronisms without the extra damage the team was causing.

They capture Caesar and send him back to his time, but he steals a Roman history book and conquers the world.

Ray and the team encounter Darhk, who asks them for help save Nora from Mallus and gives them the Water Totem.

Afterwards, he decides to search for Nora Darhk and finds her in 2018, and takes her to the Waverider to help save a magic-wounded John because she has magical powers.

His machine works and finds Kate is the Paragon of Courage, J'onn J'onzz / Martian Manhunter of Honor, Barry of Love and Ryan Choi of Humanity.

An Anti-Monitor-possessed Lyla attacks them, and Nash Wells / Pariah sends the Paragons to the Vanishing Point, while Ray and the others are consumed by the anti-matter wave.

After the Paragons, with the help of Oliver Queen as powerful being Spectre, restart the Multiverse, Ray's memories of the old timeline are brought back by J'onn J'onzz.

[32] Some critics noted Ray bears similarities to the Marvel Cinematic Universe's character Tony Stark.