Rip Hunter (Earth-1: Pre-Crisis)

"The name is Rip Hunter. I'm from East London. Oh, and the future."

- Rip Hunter introducing himself to the Legends

Captain Rip Hunter, formerly known as Michael, was a Time Master, the founder/former leader of the Legends and the former director of the Time Bureau.

Early life
In his childhood, Rip was a petty thief and was brought to The Refuge due to his older self joining the Time Masters.

As a Time Master
After Rip joined the Time Masters, he met Miranda Coburn and fell in love with her. However, that is against the Time Master rules and Miranda resigned.

In a mission, Rip went to Calvert and met Jonah Hex. After the mission was completed, Rip was unable to leave as he was obsessed with the need of heroics at that era. Eventually, Jonah gave Rip his jacket and Rip left, causing an accident to happen which gave Jonah a scar on his face.

In 1956, Rip acquired the Spear of Destiny. Frightened by the powers of the Spear, he split the Spear into 4 pieces and gave to the members of the JSA as well as sending them to different time periods. He also kept one piece in a secret compartment on Waverider and also hid this information from everyone including Gideon.

At some point, Rip built a Time Sphere and met Eobard Thawne who built another sphere.

In 2166, Rip already got married to Miranda and have a son named Jonas who was named after Jonah Hex.

Forming the Legends
By 2166, the Earth was under Vandal Savage's ruling. Knowing this is a dark future, Rip went back to 2166 to protect his family from Savage in London. However, all of his trials failed and they died in all timelines. Eventually, Rip traveled back to 1700 to try to kill a mortal Vandal Savage. After he once again failed, he was locked up in a dungeon and refused to tell Savage anything, which later called Rip "Gareeb" (meaning strange, outlandish, or foreign).

After failing over and over again, he decided to travel to 2016 and recruited those heroes and villains that are insignificant to the timeline. In Star City, Rip recruited Ray Palmer, also known as The Atom; in Tibet, he recruited Sara Lance, former member of the League of Assassins and formerly dead; in Pittsburgh, he recruited Jefferson Jackson and Martin Stein, who merges into Firestorm; in St. Roch, he recruited Kendra Saunders and Carter Hall, the latest reincarnation of Hawkgirl and Hawkman; in Central City, he recruited Mick Rory and Leonard Snart who are criminals.

Few hours after the recruitment, Rip brought them to a roof in Star City and showed them what will happen if they do not help him defeat Vandal Savage. Rip gave Martin a location and tell them to find him there if they wanted to go. A day later, they all arrived at the location and boarded the Waverider. They later executed a time jump to 1975,St. Roch for Aldus Boardman. After Aldus gave them a few notes on Vandal Savage, they all returned to the ship but was attacked by Chronos. Gaining enough time to escape back to the Temporal Zone, they were free from Chronos but Aldus was shot on the back and died oon afterwards.

Kendra later attacked Rip for causing Aldus' death, but stopped when Rip revealed his past as a Time Master and Chronos was sent to kill him. He also told them that none of them are Legends in the future like he told them, instead they were heroes and villains forgotten by history. Rip also accepted their opinion if they wanted to leave but they decided to stay to change their own fate.

Losing Carter Hall
After the team left 1975, Ray realized a part of his suit is missing. As Rip checks the timeline, it says that Vandal used the piece to develop technologies on conquering Earth. To prevent this alternate timeline from happening, they decided to return to 1975 to track Ray's suit with the help of young Stein's technology. Meanwhile, they discovered that an artifact is capable of killing Vandal Savage is also in 1975.

As the team splits into 2 group with Stein, Sara, Jax on finding the tracker and Ray, Snart, Rory on stealing an artifact that can kill Vandal Savage. However, the mission to steal the artifact went wrong and got them locked in a cage. While they were short-handed on rescuing them, Carter and Kendra brought the team to rescue them. During the fight, Carter was killed by Vandal and his energy was absorbed by the latter.

Carter's body was later taken by Vandal and used as a ritual for Vandal's cult members. Rip brought the team to the ritual and try to retrieve Carter's body. Even though they succeeded, the members of the cult already gained longevity.

Original timeline
After the Legends went to 1945, they met the JSA and worked together on fighting Damien Darhk's nuclear missile. However, they died on the mission and Mick called Rex Tyler to go back to 2016 and warn them.

Forming the Time Bureau
After the Legends defeated the Legion of Doom, Rip left the team and made Sara Lance the captain of the Waverider and the leader of Legends. Later, Rip went back to 2012 and formed the Time Bureau for five years.

Abilities

 * Expert leader: Rip is very skilled in leading a team and making them work efficiently. Even though the Legends has low efficiency, he is able to lead them well and succeeded in defeating Vandal Savage. Rip also can direct the Time Bureau to grow from a small project to federal agency. As mentioned by Ava Sharpe, the Time Bureau is a scalpel in fixing history.
 * Timeline knowledge: As a Time Master, Rip has learnt dozens of timeline rules and how to prevent them from happening. Rip also has knowledge of the future and often tells Legends about the consequences if they intervene the future events.
 * Bilingualism: Rip knows how to speak English as well as Arabic due to his knowledge on the League of Assassins.
 * Expert engineer: Rip is capable on repairing the Waverider and is familiar with all the compartments (including secret compartments) as well as the control system. No matter the damage, Rip is able to find a way to make the ship to work until the next repair.
 * Expert combatant: Rip is able to overpower Vandal Savage even though the latter has thousands of years of training. However, the quantity of the enemy affects his concentration and will be overpowered instead.
 * Expert marksmanship: Rip is highly familiar on using different firearms in different eras as he is capable of using a revolver in the 1870s, a laser pistol in the 22 century and a rifle in the 1860s.
 * Singing: Rip and Wally West is seen singing Careless Whisper in Tokyo 1992.

Former Equipment

 * Pistol
 * Stun Device
 * Jonah Hex's jacket
 * Time Courier
 * Memory Flasher
 * Waverider

Trivia

 * In the DC comics, Rip Hunter is a time traveler who is frequently seen as a man out of time and the future son of a time traveler Booster Gold.