Just how much fun is DC’s Legends of Tomorrow, right? It’s a show that is at times left in the shadow of the bigger-name Arrow, The Flash, and Supergirl when it comes to the Arrowverse, but Legends has been an absolute blast for the past several years. For fans of this genre fave, we’ve got some bad news regarding one of your favourite characters, though.

The Season 3 finale saw Arthur Darvill’s Rip Hunter sacrifice himself in order to help save the day for the Legends team, and now we’ve heard that Rip definitely won’t be back for the impending fourth season.

In most shows, death is pretty much a permanent arrangement. Where Legends is concerned, however, that’s not always the case due to, y’know, time travel being such a prevalent part of the series. Seemingly they’ll be no time-travelling chicanery used to bring Rip back from the dead – for this season, at least.

Speaking to Digital Spy, showrunner Phil Klemmer explained, “I believe he’s done, for this season. But, I mean, Arthur Darvill is the greatest. We’ve got a terrible habit of killing the greatest people. It’s totally stupid.”

Throughout Legends’ three seasons to date, the Rip Hunter character has had quite the rollercoaster of a ride. From the all-out leader and creator of the Legends team, to a thorough bastard of a bad guy, to sporadic appearances to help out the group, to now giving his own life to help the ‘hero’ cause. From what Klemmer has said, it seems as if a return for Arthur Darvill isn’t being completely ruled out at some point down the line. Just don’t expect to see him in the upcoming Season 4.