History Characters / DoomPatrol

* IJustWantToBeNormal: Often suffers from wishing he could be in a human body again. In later runs, he gets over it.

* YoungerThanTheyLook: She looks like a young woman DependingOnTheArtist in Paul Kupperberg and Grant Morrison's runs (and especially looks mature for her age in her depiction on the cover to the ''Vertigo Jam'' one-shot), but Rachel Pollack's run makes it clear that she is a minor, with Cliff telling Dorothy that she is "too young" to know what's going on with the phone sex workers in George and Marion's home in the 68th issue and the recap page of the 70th issue[[note]]which is omitted in the Omnibus collection of Rachel Pollack's run[[/note]] explicitly stating that she is 14. It wouldn't be until her coma and eventual life support unplugging in John Arcudi's run that she'd canonically reach adulthood, as the incident that put her into a coma was stated to have occurred four years prior to the events of the comic's third volume, meaning that Dorothy was logically at least 18 years old when Cliff begrudgingly allowed her to die.

* YoungerThanTheyLook: She looks like a young woman DependingOnTheArtist in Paul Kupperberg and Grant Morrison's runs (and especially looks mature for her age in her depiction on the cover to the ''Vertigo Jam'' one-shot), but Rachel Pollack's run makes it clear that she is a minor, with Cliff telling Dorothy that she is "too young" to know what's going on with the phone sex workers in George and Marion's home in the 68th issue and the recap page of the 70th issue explicitly stating that she is 14. It wouldn't be until her coma and eventual life support unplugging in John Arcudi's run that she'd canonically reach adulthood, as the incident that put her into a coma was stated to have occurred four years prior to the events of the comic's third volume, meaning that Dorothy was logically at least 18 years old when Cliff begrudgingly allowed her to die.

* ForgottenFallenFriend: [[spoiler: Ever since her death Kate has been appallingly ignored in every following series about the Doom Patrol. While this may have something to do with the fact her stories were published directly under the Vertigo header and the continuity of those books was considered slightly wonky, her status and role in the team hasn't been acknowledged even in the Young Animal titles.]]

* ButterflyOfDeathAndRebirth: His lepidoptery motif, having a colossal collection of still living butterflies that are in constant agony under the pin and on display. He feeds on their pain, [[spoiler: and when they're freed by Kay he almost immediatly dies.]]

* KnightsAndKnaves: The two prists of Orqwith.
* RealityBreakingParadox: [[spoiler: In Orqwith there are two priests, one who lies and one who doesn't, awaiting for the question that will unnmake the world. Rebis asks the one who lies "Why is there something instead of nothing", which it answers by repeating the question, therefore indirectly claiming that there's nothing instead of something and ereasing Orqwith and the Scissormen with it.]]

* KilledOffForReal: in the backstory of the John Arcudi series, she is accidentally killed when Dorothy unleashed her psychic powers, [[NoBodyLeftBehind obliterating Kate.]]

* KilledOffForReal: She is accidentally killed when Dorothy unleashed her psychic powers, [[NoBodyLeftBehind obliterating Kate.]]

* BreakoutCharacter: The most popular member of the team to have been introduced after the original run. Notably, she is included from the start in ''Series/DoomPatrol2019''.

* PoliticallyIncorrectHero: When Negative Man was part of Rebis, Cliff kept deadnaming them "Larry" -- with he was finally called out on it in ''ComicBook/UnstoppableDoomPatrol'', with Larry pointing out that, despite it now being years after he was separated from Rebis, how much of an ass Cliff was being. To his credit, Cliff does realize he was in the wrong and apologizes for it.

* BerserkButton: She doesn't like it when people ask her to dance, because the last time she tried a bunch of kids made fun of her just before she had her first period right in front of them.

* BackFromTheDead: ''ComicBook/DCPride2022'' shows Dorothy attending a Pride parade in Metropolis alongside Coagula and Danny the Brick, twenty years after Dorothy and Kate were killed off. This was later [[ArmedWithCanon ignored]] in ''ComicBook/UnstoppableDoomPatrol'', where Dorothy is established to still be dead, [[spoiler: with the miniseries' final issue even having the villains unearth her body as part of their plan.]]

* TheLostLenore: What she functions as prior to awakening from her coma: a constant reminder of the dangers of superheroing. Of course, there´s more going on with her besides the damage of the explosion.

* EmbarrassingDampSheets: Both Grant Morrison and Rachel Pollack's run had an instance of her enduring the menstrual blood variant, with the 55th issue in the former and the Annual issue tying in to ''ComicBook/TheChildrensCrusadeVertigo'' in the latter both starting with her waking up to see that her bedsheets have been stained with period blood.

* YoungerThanTheyLook: She looks like a young woman DependingOnTheArtist in Paul Kupperberg and Grant Morrison's runs (and especially looks mature for her age in her depiction on the cover to the ''Vertigo Jam'' one-shot), but Rachel Pollack's run makes it clear that she is a minor, with Cliff telling Dorothy that she is "too young" to know what's going on with the phone sex workers in George and Marion's home in the 68th issue and the recap page of the 70th issue explicitly stating that she is 14.

** In his appearance in the ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'' cartoon, he's a cold results-obsessed jerkass and a borderline GeneralRipper throwing the Patrol headlong into danger.

* CanonDiscontinuity: In Way's run, Danny mentions last being [[spoiler: a planet]] before becoming a brick, retconning his appearances in Scott Lobdell's ''Teen Titans'' out of continuity.