After the success of the Legion of Doom in DC's Legends of Tomorrow: Season 2, the upcoming season of The CW series will again be uniting a team of villains. This time, though, there will be a different sort of person in charge.

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"At the head of whatever you want to call our evil organization, it's different. Last year it was three characters from the three different shows that form this alliance. This is a non-human entity," executive producer Phil Klemmer told IGN at the 2017 TV Critics' Association summer press tour. "This is a much more supernatural, spooky vibe this season. We're dealing more with magic. It's less real-world bad guys."Klemmer was keen to leave that character a secret, but he did promise you will hear the character's name in the Season 3 premiere. Unlike previous seasons which are more science or time-travel focused, Season 3 of Legends will "be more in the world of the occult and monsters."Following behind this leader as his acolytes are familiar characters like Damian Darhk, who will have been brought back to life after his death on Arrow, as well as Gorilla Grodd. "Damian Darhk is going to be the leader of this group in the way Thawne was sort of the boss last year for the Legion of Doom. This group is distinctly led up by Damien," executive producer Marc Guggenheim told reporters. He added, "We have a fun way to bring him back that kind of plays into the season-long mythology."As for Grodd, Klemmer said, "It will be a version of him that we have not met yet on any of the shows. It will be the most evolved and powerful form of Grodd. We're actually breaking the episode now." This will be a post-Gorilla City Grodd. Legends will lean even more into Grodd's sympathetic and sad plight, and at least one of the Legends will "take the bait" for Grodd's side of things."We want to give you the sense of a group like we did last year, because that was a lot of fun," said Guggenheim to a group of reporters. "There'll be a little bit more rotation, also so we can give you a little bit more of a variety." He said he does have a name for this group of supervillains that he would "like to see referenced on the show."Unlike Season 2's "aberrations," Season 3 will deal with "anachronisms," where figures from throughout history appear in time periods not their own. An upcoming example of one of these: What if Helen of Troy turned up in 1940s Hollywood and started a studio war? The mysterious villain of Season 3 is "exploiting these fractures to sort of further their global evil purpose."Beyond a new lineup of villains, Season 3 is also welcoming a new Legend (or Legend-to-be): Zari. Tala Ashe plays the new character, based on the DC character Isis (though not going by that name for obvious reasons), and will bring a new point of view into the Waverider. In Legends of Tomorrow, Zari is a hacktivist from the year 2042 who pushes the Legends to think beyond just fixing aberrations and anachronisms and, instead, actively improving history.Upcoming storylines see the Legends visiting Ray's childhood where, Klemmer teases, the audience "sort of get underneath [Ray's] skin a little bit, and we sort of figure out the pathology behind [his] optimism. There's a bit of a sadness to [his] childhood, and we realize that you are hiding some darkness."Additionally, Paul Blackthorne is hoped to appear as Quentin Lance in Season 3, episode 5 (though that's not officially locked in), and Wentworth Miller is coming back as a "bizarro" version of Captain Cold. Klemmer confirms they're still actively campaigning for Matt Ryan's Constantine to appear on Legends of Tomorrow as well.The Arrowverse shows premiere the week of October 9th on The CW.

Terri Schwartz is Editorial Producer at IGN. Talk to her on Twitter at @Terri_Schwartz