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The Doom Patrol
The Original Team
Niles Caulder / The Chief
- First Appearance: My Greatest Adventure #80 (June 1963)
- Abled in the Adaptation: His New 52 incarnation is able to walk and doesn't use a wheelchair.
- Abusive Parents: Pollack's run reveals his mother constantly belittled him and insulted his Geek Physique.
- Alternate Company Equivalent: He and Professor X are both wheelchair bound leaders of superhero teams composed of societal rejects who started off merely morally questionable, but retcons later turned both into raging assholes who promptly get disowned by their respective teams for what they'd done — including in Caluder's case, it's ultimately being revealed that he deliberately created the "accidents" that made the Doom Patrol and the Brain into what they are.
- Arch-Enemy: Of the Brain.
- Big Good: "Good" was eventually revealed to be slightly inaccurate, but he definitely fits this role as the leader of the team, often hanging back at base and controlling its workings.
- Control Freak: His portrait caption in the recap pages of Keith Giffen's run is "Master Manipulator" and as the title goes on it's clear he chafes at any compromises from what he sees as best for everyone.
- Dating Catwoman: With Madame Rouge. It wound up hurting everyone involved in the end.
- Evil All Along: Well, evil isn't exactly right, but he definitely had ulterior motives in the early years of the Doom Patrol, as Grant Morrison's run revealed he deliberately caused the accidents that created the original Doom Patrol in the first place and had been a duplicitous and manipulative dirtbag the whole time.
- Genius Cripple: One of the first examples in comic books of a character who is highly intelligent as well as physically handicapped.
- Genius Sweet Tooth: He's a very intelligent man and demonstrates a fondness for chocolate bars in Grant Morrison's run. This carries over into Rachel Pollack's run, where he demands chocolate milkshakes in spite of Cliff's objections that his being a disembodied head at that point means that drinking them will make a mess as a result of his head having no esophagus or stomach for the milkshakes to go down.
- Glory Days: During his probationary leader stint in Gerard Way's run, it becomes subtly clear that he's desperate to recapture the happiness he felt running the Doom Patrol in the Drake era. This includes dressing the team in their old outfits, calling Casey "Rita" by accident, and slipping back into his old manipulations. He can't understand why the team gets fed up with him so quickly.Niles: But... I had a plan.
- Handicapped Badass: The Chief's physical impairments didn't stop him from being a truly effective superhero.
- Heroic Sacrifice: The Chief and the rest of the original Doom Patrol sacrificed themselves to stop Zahl from destroying a Maine fishing village.
- Insufferable Genius: Under some writers, he tends to look down on those he considers to not be as intelligent as he is.
- Jerk with a Heart of Jerk: He's driven by a lust for knowledge and the all-consuming desire to see his ambitions for a better world realized. When scanned by Black Lantern Celsius, his own ex-wife whom he manipulated into an early grave, he only registers one emotion: greed.
- Jerkass Realization: His role in Unstoppable Doom Patrol largely consists of finally acknowledging the error of his ways and conceding that the team is better off with someone else's leadership besides his own.
- Late-Arrival Spoiler: Reading any Doom Patrol series post-Morrison will let you know the Chief was always more than just the Big Good.
- The Leader: The leader of the Doom Patrol in its earlier incarnations. In later incarnations of the team, he tends to be treated as a slightly mad uncle instead, though his legitimate genius means he occasionally leverages himself into something like a leadership role.
- Losing Your Head: He gets decapitated at the end of Grant Morrison's run, but continues living as a disembodied head for Rachel Pollack's run. John Byrne's run rebooted continuity and in effect restored him to having a body, with the Cosmic Retcon caused by Infinite Crisis reinstating the continuity of every series that preceded John Byrne's run and no explanation given for how he had his body restored.
- Manipulative Bastard: He's got a long manipulative streak, which becomes intolerable to the team when he takes it too far.
- Multiple-Choice Past: General Immortus was stated to be the one responsible for crippling him in the original 1960s series, but one of the ways John Byrne's run disregarded previous continuity was by establishing that the culprit was actually T'oombala, the shaman of a tribe the Chief once helped out during a plague who made the Chief unable to walk because he was jealous of his medical expertise.
- Retcon: In Drake and Kupperberg's era the Chief was a straightforward hero. Grant Morrison revealed he had grander plans in the vein of an Evilutionary Biologist and had actually caused the team's original accidents (this adds an amusing subtext to some of the more morally ambiguous things he does in the original run, too, like when he essentially manipulated the Mutant Trio into giving their lives to stop the comet they intended to use to destroy the Earth).
- Sanity Slippage: When his manipulations come to light and thus he loses his grip on the team, he desperately tries to regain control by self-experimenting to acquire the powers of a Kryptonian he'd been dissecting. After suffering an overload from his new senses, he regains his composure to maim his team as a demonstration and proceeds to disarm the entire world for proclaimed altruistic reasons before preparing for the inevitable response. The entire time intermittently rambling in Kryptonese.
- Sociopathic Hero: Even though his main prerogative is to create a better world and protect the innocent, he's committed some pretty heinous actions in the pursuit of those goals without a hint of remorse. For a start, he mutilated innocent people against their will to create his own personal superhero team.
- Took a Level in Jerkass: Under Grant Morrison's pen, the Chief was a cold, calculating intellectual vastly removed from the kind and emotional figure in previous works. This characterization has lingered with him in the decades since.
- Took a Level in Kindness: Averted; when Cliff and Larry restart Doom Patrol with Casey Brinke, the Chief offers to join them and claims that he's learnt to be a better man. The team puts him on probation when he regrows a new leg for Casey and does other things for them. However the Chief can't help but be the same manipulative bastard he always was. Casey's new leg turns out to be temporary unless she gets regular nutrient treatments from the Chief. The other gifts from the Chief are similarly loaded, so the Chief is fired.
- Well-Intentioned Extremist: When written by Grant Morrison. He is utterly dedicated towards making the world a better place, but willing to use or sacrifice anyone in his way, which includes members of the Doom Patrol.
Rita Farr-Dayton / Elasti-Girl/Woman
- First Appearance: My Greatest Adventure #80 (June 1963)
- Action Girl: Even in the Sixties (on account of being written by Arnold Drake, a supporter of second wave feminism) Rita was always quick to jump into action.
- Adaptational Late Appearance: While part of the team from the beginning, her New 52 counterpart first joins the Doom Patrol in the second roster formed by the Chief.
- Adopting the Abused: She and Mento took in Beast Boy as their adopted son after he was living under the care of his abusive guardian Nicholas Galtry.
- Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever: Rita's most consistent power is essentially to become a 50 Foot Woman, except she can grow to the size of the woman as depicted on the classic poster, which is a far cry more than 50 feet.
- Back from the Dead: Played With. After the death of the original Doom Patrol back in 1968, Cliff, Larry, and Niles were all found to be Not Quite Dead, but not Rita. Rita alone remained formally deceased until John Byrne's run launched a Continuity Reboot of the series where Rita was alive and well. This second version of Rita had no ties with the original until Superboy Prime's Cosmic Retcon in Infinite Crisis fused both selves, with Geoff Johns' run on Teen Titans providing an explanation for how she was resurrected.
- The Big Guy: Though Cliff filled the role in terms of personality, during the original run the team often solved problems via Cliff and Larry putting the villain in a position where Rita could grow big and clobber 'em.
- Blob Monster: In her Darker and Edgier portrayal following Infinite Crisis, alterations caused during her regrowing period (see From a Single Cell below) have caused Rita to lose her bones and other internal organs. In consequence she dissolves into a blob whenever she falls asleep and has to reshape herself each morning.
- The Bus Came Back: After the events of the Milk War, Rita Farr has retconned herself to be a part of the team again.
- The Chosen One: As someone who can change their body at will, Rita becomes the savior of Destiny Beach, as she is able to flex her entire body in ways the other bodybuilders can't.
- Cursed with Awesome: Rita Farr's original mutation was a problem when she first got it and couldn't control it, but by the start of the series, she had her transformations under control, rendering her mutation into a straight-up superpower.
- Early Installment Character-Design Difference: She and Larry Trainor initially wore solid green uniforms when the team made their debut in the 80th issue of My Greatest Adventure, but would later switch to the more familiar red-and-white costumes by issue 89 (three issues after the comic was rebranded as Doom Patrol volume one).
- Early-Installment Weirdness: Rita was actually called Elasti-Woman for the first handful of issues before it changed to Elasti-Girl.
- Fluffy Tamer: An early issue showed her in giant form cuddling and cooing over lions and tigers like they were housecats to de-stress. And then there's her adoptive son, who can shapeshift into any "Fluffy" he can think of.
- From a Single Cell: Not quite, but Rita's malleable form enabled her to regrow from a piece of her skull that survived Zahl's blast, though it took her years, and help from the Chief to return to human form.
- Happily Married: With Steve "Mento" Dayton in the pages of the original Doom Patrol run, which lasted until the death of the Patrol at the end of the run. When John Byrne brought her back in his run, he chose to reboot the history of the Doom Patrol and in doing so disregarded Rita's relationship with Dayton in favor of her instead being in love with Cliff. Her marriage to Steve Dayton would then be restored by Cosmic Retcon in Infinite Crisis, but their relationship after that point has been fraught with problems; they formally divorced before the start of the Keith Giffen run.
- Healing Factor: Rita can stretch herself out to heal any injuries to her mass.
- Heroic Sacrifice: She, Negative Man, Robotman, and the Chief all offered their lives to prevent Zahl from destroying a village in Maine. She was the only member of the Doom Patrol who truly died.
- I Just Want to Be Normal: Played with. Like the other two members of the original Doom Patrol, Rita originally just wanted to go back to normal and stay that way. But she repeatedly chose not to do so, because it felt like a betrayal of her friends and because she didn't want to give up being a hero.
- Informed Attribute: Rita's pariah status; when she first had her accident, she couldn't control her powers and would spasm back and forth between colossus and sprite, but by the time the Chief recruited her, she'd learned to control her powers, mitigating the very problem that made her such an outcast. Steve Dayton mentions this while trying to woo her, but she remains with the Patrol because she believes in Comes Great Responsibility.
- The Lost Lenore: The late Rita Farr became this for Steve Dayton in the pages of The New Teen Titans, back when she was still dead in the 80s and 90s. Eventually, the fact that both Steve and his adopted son Garfield (Beast Boy, that is) both loved Rita helped them bond.
- Minidress of Power: Wore a classic minidress in her early appearances. She later traded it in for a jumpsuit that covered her more completely.
- More than Mind Control: "One Year Later" saw Elasti-Girl come under the Chief's mental domination, as a result of his having helped raise her from the dead. She eventually broke free when her husband confronted the Chief about it.
- Ms. Fanservice: She frequently wears revealing or form-fitting costumes and is shown naked at least once in both John Byrne and Keith Giffen's runs.
- Older Than They Look: In Gerard Way's Doom Patrol, both Larry and Cliff (who's been given a human body again after the Milk War) look to be in their late 40s to early 50s. Rita took advantage of the end of the Milk War to retcon herself back into the story and being reborn this way has made her look to be in her early 20s.
- Official Couple: She is hooking up with Flex Mentallo as of Unstoppable Doom Patrol.
- Parental Substitute: To Garfield "Beast Boy" Logan, whom she and Steve adopted after they got married.
- Power Incontinence: While Rita's power seems the least maladaptive of the original team, originally, after her accident, she would have spasms of uncontrollable growing and shrinking. Other writers have gone for more Body Horror and have her entire body dissolve into a blob when she's not consciously shaping herself. One even indicated this would happen if she ever stopped smiling.
- Rubber Man: About halfway through Arnold Drake's original run Rita learned to grow individual limbs separately as well.
- Sizeshifter: She can grow and shrink. The growing seems to cost her more energy, however.
- The Smurfette Principle: The only female member of the team's original roster, with the Keith Giffen era going with a back-to-basics approach and again having her as the sole female member.
- Stepford Smiler: For a while, as seen in The Brave and the Bold. Wally West explained to his children that her attitude was overcompensating for some of the issues that came with her fall from grace before she learned to properly control her powers.
- Team Mom: Caring and affectionate, early Doom Patrol issues would have the men competing for her attention (Cliff and Larry with each other, Mento with the whole team, etc).
- Two Girls to a Team: While there was a third team member in Faith, she left early on, leaving Rita and Nudge the only two female members of the roster featured in John Byrne's run.
Larry Trainor / Negative Man
- First Appearance: My Greatest Adventure #80 (June 1963)
In the Morrison era, Larry and a doctor named Eleanor Poole were merged with the Spirit into the new alchemically intersex demigod Rebis, who is a whole other bag of cats.
- Adaptational Late Appearance: His New 52 counterpart joins the Doom Patrol in the second roster and after Negative Woman died when the first roster was wiped out, when in the original continuity it was the other way around.
- Adaptational Skimpiness: His New 52 counterpart has a jacket as his sole apparel besides his bandages.
- Back from the Dead: How Larry survived the Doom Patrol's original death was unexplained until the Giffen era. His body showed up, grievously injured, and the Negative Spirit transferred to Valentina Vostok of the second Doom Patrol. It eventually returned to Larry by itself and remade him as Rebis.
- Bandaged Face: His entire body must be wrapped in specially treated bandages to avoid irradiating others. Morrison gave him Cool Shades to go with it, making his costume evoke The Invisible Man (1933). The John Byrne era initially substituted the bandages for a dark facemask, but would have Larry don bandages once more after his facemask is misplaced in issue 12.
- Body Horror: In the Way run, he has three large holes in his chest which sometimes produce black protrusions of solid negative energy.
- Cast from Hit Points: He originally risked death if he projected the Negative Man for more than sixty seconds.
- Character Development: Larry has gradually made peace with his "affliction". The Negative Man itself has also gotten some of this, to the point where by the Way era it has a name (Keeg) and a personality of its own.
- Clone Angst: Larry's post-Codsville body was eventually revealed to be a clone body the Chief made, as the Negative Spirit had acted as a "lifeboat" after absorbing his own consciousness. A side-effect was leaving Larry with some severe identity issues, as he also remembers being everyone else the Spirit bonded with.
- Containment Clothing: His special chemically-treated bandages he wears protect others from the massive amount of radiation his body emits.
- Crazy Jealous Guy: The loss of the Negative Spirit to Valentina Vostok left him physically frail and something similar to The Soulless, which eventually drove him to desperation to retrieve it. This eventually led him to do things like let the supervillain Reactron out of prison in his gambits to retrieve it.
- Cursed with Awesome: Downplayed. Negative Man's powers are awesome, but they really do come with unpleasant side effects. These are:
- Leaving his body more than 60 seconds it's potentially deadly.
- His physical body is left unconscious and defenseless when his power is activated. It also irradiates tremendous amounts of harmful radiation.
- Early Installment Character-Design Difference: He and Rita Farr initially wore solid green uniforms when the team made their debut in the 80th issue of My Greatest Adventure, but would later switch to the more familiar red-and-white costumes by issue 89 (three issues after the comic was rebranded as Doom Patrol volume one).
- Energy Being: The "Negative Man" is composed of pure negative energy from another universe.
- Flight: His "Negative Man" projection can fly.
- Hand Blast: The "Negative Man" can projects blasts of energy, usually from the hands.
- Heroic Sacrifice: Appeared to die sacrificing himself to stop Zahl from destroying a village in Maine.
- Hypocritical Heartwarming: In a Challengers of the Unknown crossover that occurs in the 48th issue of their comic, Larry defends Robotman from "Rocky" Davis on the grounds that only Larry is allowed to insult Robotman.
- I Just Want to Be Normal: Like Robotman, Negative Man wanted to go back to normal pretty badly.
- Intangible Man: The "Negative Man" can phase through solid objects with ease, unless they're lead-lined.
- Meaningful Name: He had both power over negative energy and was a decidedly unhappy person.
- Power at a Price: Even more so than the rest of the Doom Patrol. Larry has to wear his bandages, which are treated with a special chemical compound developed by the Chief, in order to prevent his radiation from harming bystanders.
- Reluctant Hero: All of the Doom Patrol were reluctant heroes, but Larry was probably the most reluctant of the lot, desperately desiring to return to normal.
- Ret-Canon: His therapy session in Unstoppable Doom Patrol implies he's a closeted gay man like his counterpart in the live-action television series.
- Shock and Awe: The "Negative Man" by itself is a living energy entity that can irradiate/electrify an opponent by touch.
- Super-Speed: The "Negative Man" can move, fly and react exceptionally fast.
- The Symbiote: Originally, The "Negative Man" was Larry's own essence, now they are effectively symbiotes, though it seems Larry does worse out of the deal than the Spirit.
- Token Flyer: Of the original trio consisting of himself, Elasti-Girl and Robotman, Negative Man was the only one who could fly.
- X-Ray Sparks: A variation. Being exposed to radiation left his skin and muscle permanently translucent.
Cliff Steele / Robotman
- First Appearance: My Greatest Adventure #80 (June 1963)
- Abusive Parents: In her only appearance, Cliff's mom verbally berates Cliff as a failure and accuses him of considering him better than them because of his robotic form.
- Adaptational Late Appearance: His New 52 counterpart doesn't join the Doom Patrol until its second roster, when in the original canon he was part of the team from the very start.
- Alternate Company Equivalent: To The Thing. He's a strong guy who angsts over his bodily transformation and, despite having a volatile temper, is generally the grounded "everyman" team member.
- The Big Guy: In all incarnations of the team, Cliff is the muscle. Even when other members has been actually as strong or even stronger than him, he still fills the role, not just in terms of personality.
- Become a Real Boy: After the "Milk Wars", reality is partially reset and Cliff becomes human again.
- Brain in a Jar: With the caveat that said jar is now inside a nigh-indestructible war machine.
- Brain Uploading: When his original brain is destroyed by the Candlemaker in Grant Morrison's run, his consciousness is uploaded to a computer system, meaning he is completely a robot man. It takes him a while to get used to it, and it is eventually undone in Rachel Pollack's run when he is given an empty organic brain to store his memories in.
- Catchphrase Insult: He frequently says "Stuff it, Trainor" in Keith Giffen's run.
- The Chew Toy: To an extent in the original comics. A lot of the time the writer took advantage of the fact that he was a robot and his body could always be rebuilt to have Cliff get maimed in ways that never would've been allowed of a human character back in that era.
- Chronic Hero Syndrome: He develops this in The Weight of the Worlds, after receiving a new body that upgrades itself whenever he does a good deed. He becomes addicted to the upgrades to the point of becoming a mechanical planet and trying to consume the universe so that he can "save" everyone from their problems.
- Cyborg: Extreme example—he's a human brain trapped in an entirely mechanical body.
- Deadpan Snarker: The biggest one of the team. For example, Cliff gets in a crowded hospital elevator:Cliff: Fourth floor, pal. I'm here to complain to my plastic surgeon.
- Death Seeker: Whenever he's feeling really low, Cliff tends to become this. It's not helped by the fact that he's watched almost everyone else in the Patrol die at some point. (Even if some of them came back.)
- Depending on the Artist: In series after the original Arnold Drake run, Cliff is lucky if his robot body can keep a consistent design for longer than a few issues.
- Driven to Suicide: After the Milk Wars and becoming human again, Cliff goes to visit his mother. She completely rejects him, depressing Cliff. In his depressed state, he drives off a cliff. Of course, this leads to him becoming a cyborg again.
- Early-Installment Weirdness:
- Cliff was inconsistently called "Automaton" for the first handful of issues before settling on Robotman. Partially justified in-universe since the characters were named by the newspapers, but reading it clearly implies Drake hadn't settled on the latter name yet.
- The original 1960s series made it clear several times that removing Cliff's head from his body could kill him, when subsequent comics would establish that he can survive and will be right as rain as long as his head can be attached to a new body after removal (provided that reattaching his head to the original body is out of the question).
- Feel No Pain: Since he's in a robotic body, he is completely impervious to pain.
- Foil: Played as one to Cyborg in a New Teen Titans crossover, with Cliff's acceptance of his entirely mechanical state contrasting Vic's inability to cope with being part man and part machine.
- Full-Conversion Cyborg: His brain was the only part of his organic body preserved after his accident.
- The Heart: Of the Doom Patrol as a team, serving as father figure and mentor to the younger heroes. This made an ironic contrast with his entirely metal, inorganic, body.
- Hellbent For Leather: Wears a sleeveless leather jacket with massive shoulder pads, often over a t-shirt, when he bothers to dress at all.
- Heroic Sacrifice: Sacrificed himself, alongside Larry, Rita, and Caulder to stop Zahl from blowing up a village in Maine. He survived, thanks to his robotic form though his brain was severely damaged so they had to transfer his mind into his next robot body, but had no way of knowing this would be the case.
- Heroic Willpower: If he's got to save New York from being eaten by an Eldritch Abomination as a legless torso, then by God, he's going to save it.
- Hypocrite: When he learns Kate's a transgender woman, Cliff gets angry and feels she's a man even if she no longer has a penis. Understandably insulted, Kate asks if Cliff's still a man even though he doesn't a penis anymore. This serves as a Call-Back to when Cliff tried to navigate Crazy Jane's mind to help her, convincing Jane's alters he wasn't a man specifically because he had no penis or genitalia thanks to his robot body.
- Iconic Outfit: His apparel in Grant Morrison's run of wearing jeans as well as a leather jacket with shoulder pads made such an impression that he's depicted dressed that way in Gerard Way's run, the live-action TV adaptation and the Max revival of Young Justice (2010).
- I Just Want to Be Normal: Often suffers from wishing he could be in a human body again. In later runs, he gets over it.
- Immune to Bullets/Super-Toughness: Hi-caliber bullets ricochet off of Robot Man's body rather than hurting him, even some plastic explosives had prove to be ineffective against him.
- Innocently Insensitive: He pointedly referred to Rebis as "Larry," only ever viewing the person as simply a changed Larry Trainor and not a combination of Larry and Eleanor Poole. Come Unstoppable Doom Patrol, the restored Larry finally calls Cliff out on this when he tries to do the same thing to Starbro. Cliff is genuinely surprised that Larry was offended and apologizes.
- Legacy Character: Averted. The first Robotman, of whom Cliff is a Palette Swap, was a Golden Age character (known as Dr. Robert Crane when he was human) almost identical in premise and appearance, but the two characters have nothing to do with each other.
- Losing Your Head: One benefit of his robotic body is that he can survive decapitation and can recover as long as his head can be attached to a new body.
- Mental Time Travel: The 13th issue of John Byrne's run has him send his mind back in time to his original human body in an attempt to prevent the accident that led to the Chief saving his life by eventually putting his brain into a robot body.
- The Mentor: To a parade of younger Doom Patrol members.
- Mistaken for Pedophile: In the 13th issue of John Byrne's run, he uses Mental Time Travel in an attempt to prevent himself from undergoing the accident that led to him becoming Robotman, with Rita doing the same to try and talk him out of it. Robotman and Rita both see themselves and one another as their present-day forms, but find that they appear as a human man and a 13-year-old girl to onlookers, which gets Cliff in trouble when Rita confesses her feelings for him and he gets caught by his girlfriend and the police embracing what looks like an underage girl.
- My Greatest Failure: His failure to prevent Dorothy's coma and death weighed heavily on him.
- Only Sane Man: As the franchise evolved, Cliff wound up being one of the sole voices of regular reason among his increasingly mad team-mates.
- Politically Incorrect Hero:
- When Negative Man was part of Rebis, Cliff kept deadnaming them "Larry" — with he was finally called out on it in Unstoppable Doom Patrol, 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.
- In Rachel Pollack's run, he was initially dismissive towards Kate being a trans woman, but like with the situation regarding Rebis, he stopped it and owned up to his behavior after Kate called him out on it.
- Punny Name: A man named "Steele" becomes trapped in a metal body?
- Rage Against the Reflection: The backup story for Doom Patrol volume 1 issue 100 shows that Cliff broke the mirror in anger after seeing his robot body for the first time.
- Sense Loss Sadness: In later works, Cliff can't feel, taste, or smell anymore and he's less than happy about it. In the My Greatest Adventure incarnation of the Patrol, he had access to all five senses.
- Shoulders of Doom: Starting from the Morrison era, Cliff has taken to wearing jeans, steel-toed boots and a leather jacket. The leather jacket has a pair of armoured shoulder plates that give him a more intimidating look.
- Super-Strength: One of the benefits of being a robotic fighting machine is that he's significantly stronger than a human being.
- Status Quo Is God: Despite of all the reality-warping and superscience surrounding him, Cliff never gets out of being Robotman. Nor does his robot body get improved upon. The closest to this was Will Magnus creating a black body for him which has improved tactile senses and built-in weapon systems. This gets stolen by Mallah and the Brain, which then explodes because of Magnus's shoddy construction.
- In the Way run, he gets his human body back at the end of the "Milk Wars" event, but at the end of the very next issue he gets into a car crash after a very ugly encounter with his mother, and is reduced to a brain in a bot again.
- Theseus' Ship Paradox: Ever since his actual brain was destroyed at the end of Morrison's run and he survived by having his consciousness transferred to a computer system, and given all the times he had to be rebuilt even after he was restored to having an organic brain, it's been unclear if he's truly the original Cliff Steele, especially since the ghosts of deceased Doom Patrol members who haunt him in DC's Ghouls Just Wanna Have Fun include himself, with his death cited as occurring when the Candlemaker destroyed his original brain.
- Tomato in the Mirror: Partway through John Arcudi's run, what is thought to be Cliff Steele fades away after realizing he's actually an imaginary friend subconsciously brought to life by a comatose Dorothy Spinner, with the rest of the team having to find out what happened to the real Robotman. Turns out the real Cliff Steele had his body destroyed during Dorothy's meltdown years ago, so the rest of the current Doom Patrol dig up his head and hire a Russian immigrant scientist to rebuild him.
- We Can Rebuild Him: The whole point of the character and his powerset. No matter how many pieces you break Robotman into, he can be reassembled as long as his brain is okay. It's easy to make the case that doing dangerous things that would've instantly killed his teammates, more than his Super-Strength, was his real contribution to the team, because his destroyed body could always be replaced.
- Well-Intentioned Extremist: Cliff becomes this after going on a good-deed bender and becoming "Cliff Fixit". He continually upgrades and eventually becomes a planet that can assimilate other planets. All in the effort to do more good deeds and continue to upgrade.
- Worf Effect: As The Big Guy of a superhero team, he's kinda unimpressive and often loses badly against enemy muscle like The Brotherhood of Dada's Sleepwalker. In the Gerard Way Doom Patrol, Casey Brinke sees Cliff get smashed to bits by a garbage truck and notes that Robotman is much lighter and not nearly as durable as she expected. Justified in the Grant Morrison stories, when he was rebuilt by Will Magnus, Niles Caulder notes that Magnus is notorious for using cut-rate materials and doing shoddy craftsmanship.
Steve Dayton / Mento
- First Appearance: Doom Patrol volume 1 #91 (November 1964)
- The Ace: Classic Steve Dayton was a show-off at high society parties, balancing incredibly expensive vases on sticks and winning fights while he was doing so.Rita: Adventurer, financier, and research psychologist! Is there anything you can't do?
- Adaptational Jerkass: A frequent target. Mento tends to have his sparse redeeming features glossed over entirely.
- In his appearance in Teen Titans (2003), he's a cold results-obsessed jerkass and a borderline General Ripper throwing the Patrol headlong into danger.
- In the Teen Titans: Burning Rage series, he's a cold, rich jerkass. The villains of the first arc are actually his staff trying to take revenge on him for what a jerkass he's been.
- Adopting the Abused: He and Elasti-Girl adopted Beast Boy as their son after he was living under the care of his abusive guardian Nicholas Galtry.
- Alternate Company Equivalent: Marvel Comics definitely saw a character concept that they liked. Within a year of Dayton's arrival on the scene (1964), Professor X was using a "Mento helmet" to enhance his own psychic powers; not long after that, Marvin "Mentallo" Flum was enhancing his mutant telepathy with Science!
- Amplifier Artifact: Steve Dayton had some mild Psychic Powers of his own, but amplified them through the use of his helmet. He tried to enhance it with his company's super-metal, the quasi-infinite power source Promethium, but this ended up being a Deadly Upgrade.
- Beard of Sorrow: During his appearance in the New Teen Titans arc where Madame Rouge and Zahl were confronted for their hand in killing the original Doom Patrol, Dayton is shown to have grown a beard in addition to being a grieving widower over Rita's death.
- Big Fancy House: Huge Fancy House. Gar compares it to a small country. During the events of "One Year Later", he's apparently been hosting the Doom Patrol at Dayton Manor. According to New Teen Titans, the Dayton Estates existed in not two but three time zones.
- Brainwashed and Crazy: Following the deaths of the Doom Patrol, Steve Dayton went to hunt down their killer. He ended up getting sabotaged by the killers Rouge and Zahl, who tampered with his helmet and caused him to go insane. He spent the nineties as a villain called Crimelord.
- The Bus Came Back: He was absent from the main Doom Patrol title following the end of Drake & Premiani run in the sixties, and migrated to other titles, spending his time working with John Constantine and on occasion the Justice League, but returned to his origin title during the Giffen run circa 2009. Not unlike the case of Niles Caulder, any nobility of his was deep-sixed under the later writer. His brief return recast him as estranged from Rita after she discovered he'd been realizing his Power Perversion Potential on her in her sleep. When Caulder forced him to take over her mind again due to emergency circumstances, Rita hit a Rage Breaking Point and nearly broke every bone in Steve's body by throwing him out into the ocean. Following their final break up, he skulked off and out of the story and hasn't been seen since.
- Butt-Monkey: As much as he wanted to come across as The Ace, every time Steve teamed up with the original Doom Patrol he was the butt of the joke. He was constantly mocked and shown up by Cliff, Larry and Gar, and his attempts to argue Rita into a relationship frequently ended with her rebuffing him. After a little Character Development he became less of a jackass and Rita started to fall for him.
- Chest Insignia: Mento's classic custom superhero costume features an stylized lightning bolt-shaped "M" on the chest.
- Cool and Unusual Punishment: With an infusion of Cruel Mercy. At the end of the second arc in Titans: Burning Rage, Steve subjects the villain to this by using his Mento helmet as a Lotus-Eater Machine. He subjects Breuer, who absolutely despises him, to an illusion where Breuer is the head of Dayton's fortune and industry and free to kick around an illusion of Steve Dayton to his heart's content.
- Cool Helmet: Averted. Almost every version of the Mento helmet has looked ridiculous, psychic powers aside.
- Cool Plane: Mento's got his own private jet that he's used during his superheroics.
- Cuteness Proximity: In New Titans, Dayton is downright taken with Baby Wildebeest, and increasingly dotes on the destructive little infant to the point that it exasperates his domestic staff.
- Depending on the Writer: How much of Mento's powers rely on the helmet? In the Silver Age Doom Patrol, Mento needed the helmet to make his powers functional, but under Marv Wolfman's pen it seemed that the helmet itself had all the power (even Beast Boy could exhibit Psychic Powers if he wore it), but in Keith Giffen's run of Doom Patrol, Steve Dayton uses the helmet as a proxy and has access to his powers without it.
- Early Installment Character-Design Difference: His debut appearance gave him a yellow costume and had his helmet leave the top of his head uncovered.
- Fashion-Victim Villain: When Brainwashed and Crazy from his own helmet in Titans comics, Mento would put on this garish blue and lightning-bolt decorated outfit that even the Titans found silly In-Universe.
- Foreshadowing: Dayton had a mild "spider-sense tingle" as part of his power set, preventing him of incoming or unsuspected dangers.
- The Friend Nobody Likes: Cliff and Larry basically despised Steve at first, who despised them in turn.
- Gadgeteer Genius: Steve invented both his psychic helmet and Promethium, a powerful alloy; his company, Dayton Industies, is one of the largest biotech industrial companies in the world.
- Green-Eyed Monster: On the receiving end of it from Cliff and Larry - Cliff was conflicted about her leaving the team for Steve, and Larry had an unrequited crush on her. Caulder called them out on it and reminded them Rita was still a free woman, and in the end she made sure Steve would never make her prioritise him over her friends.
- Happily Married: To Rita Farr for a time in the original Doom Patrol. Ever since the original team was killed (and even after she was brought back to life), though, their relationship has been fraught with problems.
- Happy Ending Override: At the end of their appearance in One Year Later, the dysfunctional, manipulated Doom Patrol was on the road to healing, Mento had successfully thrown off the Chief's control and put him in his place, and his and Rita's relationship was healing. Then the Giffen run happened, and Mento apparently decided to become a perverted psychic stalker offscreen and his and Rita's marriage is destroyed.
- Heel–Face Revolving Door: Following the Doom Patrol's demise in Teen Titans.
- He was captured by Madame Rouge and General Zahl while he was searching for them to take revenge for the Doom Patrol's demise, and reduced to a half-insane wreck through starvation and drugs. When restored to his Mento helmet, Rouge and Zahl's programming drove him Brainwashed and Crazy until Raven was able to heal him.
- Afterwards, his experiments with the Mento helmet, especially after enhancing it with Promethium, started giving him brain hemorrhages, which drove him Ax-Crazy a second time and convinced him that his son Garfield was responsible for their deaths, but it wasn't until after John Constantine brought him along to fight the Brujeria with other mystical/magical heroes that he went Jumping Off the Slippery Slope and set himself up as the Chief of a second, imitation Doom Patrol called the Hybrid, a series of individuals modified with the super-metal Promethium, until Raven cleansed his mind again.
- Following the destruction of the Wildebeest Society and Titans Tower, he offered the use of Dayton Estates as a makeshift headquarters and home until the government picked up the slack and gave them Liberty Island. Later experiments with his psionic tech drove him insane and turned him into a cyber-supervillain named the Crimelord. He ended up lost in cyberspace until the events of Infinite Crisis put things back together.
- And then the Giffen run happened, and while it didn't quite make him a conventional villain, it made him a terrible creep.
- He comes back once more in Gerard Way's run during Weight of the Worlds, which appears to have disregarded the abuse that was revealed in Keith Giffen's run, as Rita doesn't bear any hostile feelings towards him.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: In the original Doom Patrol, Steve and his adopted son Gar were at each other's throats so much that the might as well have been each other's Sitcom Archnemesis, but despite their bickering, when he learned that Jillian Jackson's father was behind her turning Gar down, Steve correctly deduced the reason being a matter of bigotry and came down hard on the man.
- Lampshade Hanging: As part of his first attempt to woo Rita, Steve pointed out that she wasn't a "freak" in the same way that Robotman and Negative Man were, that she was beautiful and could control her powers.
- Mind Probe: He could read minds, having the Mundane Utility to make it work as a lie detector.
- Mind over Matter: Mento describes himself as having a "superior brain" during his introductory speech, but almost never acts without the helmet. Volume 5 confirms that he has his full powers even without the helmet.
- Odd Friendship: With John Constantine of all people, who brought him along for a war in Hell during Swamp Thing's "American Gothic" storyline.
- Overly Narrow Superlative: Downplayed—Dayton is often identified, by himself or the narrator, as the fifth richest man in the world.
- Parents as People:
- During his appearances in Teen Titans. Despite getting sucked repeatedly through the Heel–Face Revolving Door, he struggles with the loss of his wife, alcoholic tendencies, installing responsibility in his unruly son, and giving his tech a Deadly Upgrade. In the 90s he slides pretty cleanly into the Good Parents category, supporting Garfield through the death of several Titans; he's even the first to figure out what to do with Baby Wildebeest — feed him some milk.
- Parody Sue: In Arnold Drake's Doom Patrol, Steve was a parody of every Batman-like millionaire superhero. He was wealthy and absurdly talented at everything he tried. He was also a complete dick who was constantly shown up for a phony by working stiffs Cliff and Larry, treated superhero business like a rich man's hobby and coveted Rita even though she made her contempt for him clear. It wasn't until he got some Character Development and humility that the others began to accept him.
- People Jars: Unstoppable Doom Patrol shows him being kept inside a tank while immersed in an unknown liquid.
- Power Perversion Potential: He broke up with Rita in Keith Giffen's run after it was discovered that he used the psionic powers enabled by his helmet to make Rita indulge his carnal whims.
- Prince Charming Wannabe: Steve Dayton was this right alongside his Parody Sue status, with his high-handed and dramatic failures to woo Rita. She rejected him consistently until he finally started getting over himself.
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: Discussed during the Titans Hunt storyline in the 90s, where Steve Dayton is the Red Oni to Slade Wilson's Blue. Steve was too frustrated with the situation to be as clinical as Deathstroke, which only frustrated him further.
- Same Character, But Different: Every writer has had a slightly different take on Steve Dayton, meaning his personality is rarely consistent between eras.
- Arnold Drake wrote him as a Parody Sue, an arrogant millionaire action junky who was also an entitled jackass, but Rita's good influence and several helpings of Humble Pie helped him reform.
- After the death of the Doom Patrol, his appearances in Teen Titans showed him struggling with the death of the patrol and managing his unruly son Garfield, while also caught in the Face–Heel Revolving Door, frequently going mad from his experiences with his psychic powers, either from experimenting on his helmet or from being taken along for the American Gothic storyline in Alan Moore's Swamp Thing. Eventually he reformed and Took a Level in Kindness, only to be caught in one last Face–Heel Turn and become the Crimelord.
- Geoff Johns' Titans run, during the days of One Year Later, threw out the Crimelord development (blatantly Hand Waving it away as "a glitch in the helmet"), instead depicting Steve as a victim of the Chief's manipulation, convinced that Rita only loved the superhero Mento and effectively addicted to the helmet, though he eventually went cold turkey and took control of the Doom Patrol, rescuing it from the grip of the Chief.
- Then Keith Giffen's run revealed him as a dysfunctional and weak-willed pervert, easily manipulated by Caulder.
- Steve has mostly been ignored following the Continuity Reboot Flashpoint, but in his appearance in Teen Titans: Burning Rage, he appears as Garfield Logan's polite and well-meaning but emotionally distant father.
- Stalker with a Crush: Exaggerated with a retcon during the Giffen run, which made him a hideous pervert exploiting his Power Perversion Potential to manipulate Rita into falling in love with him and then using his powers to make her enact his fantasies while sleeping. This comes to a head when Caulder manipulates Steve into using the leftover traces of his psychic influence to sneak attack the villain du jour, which later results in the divorce between them.
- Superdickery: During his debut, no less. The cover would have you believe him a willing conspirator of alien invader Garguax, but in the actual issue he's tortured into joining Garguax and then mostly just stands around like a jackass until N-Man knocks him out with a headbutt in the guts.
- Took a Level in Kindness: In the early 90s, during "Titans Hunt" and afterwards, Dayton ends up growing into a more conscientious and kinder figure than he'd ever been before, supporting Gar following the deaths of the Titans, doting on Baby Wildebeest, and even counseling a wrathful Pantha.
Garfield Logan / Beast Boy
The Paul Kupperberg era
Arani Desai-Caulder / Celsius
- First Appearance: Showcase #94 (September 1977)
- Adaptational Early Appearance: The New 52 has her affiliated with the first roster of the Doom Patrol when she was originally the founder of the second roster.
- Awful Wedded Life: Niles found her living as a beggar woman, experimented on her, and tricked her into thinking they were husband and wife.
- Back from the Dead: She was brought back from the dead as an after-effect of Flashpoint, where after initially appearing to die with the rest of the first incarnation of the Doom Patrol in the New 52, she was later said by Lex Luthor to have faked her death to escape the Chief. This carried over into the Post-Rebirth continuity, as she was later shown in Doomsday Clock leading the Doomed, India's superhero team/version of the Doom Patrol, and is shown to be among the still-living Doom Patrol members who Robotman calls in DC's Ghouls Just Wanna Have Fun for advice on how to deal with the ghosts of deceased Doom Patrol members haunting him.
- Elemental Powers: She has power over fire and ice.
- Faking the Dead: In the New 52 continuity, Arani faked her death in order to get away from Caulder. This was one of the few aspects of the New 52 canon that was retained in the Post-Rebirth continuity, even though the point of DC Rebirth was largely to restore the DC Universe to how it was prior to the Flashpoint event.
- Start My Own: She essentially started her own version of the Doom Patrol, the Doomed, centered in India, during Doomsday Clock.
- Take Up My Sword: She tried to restart the Doom Patrol after the original team seemingly died.
- Unwitting Pawn: Arani was yet another victim of the Chief's manipulations, and after he revealed he faked his death he tricked everyone into believing Arani was an unstable woman who lied about being his wife, made all the easier since it was after she died.
Valentina Vostok / Negative Woman
- First Appearance: Showcase #94 (September 1977)
- Adaptational Early Appearance: In the New 52 canon, she is a member of the first roster of the Doom Patrol with Negative Man being affiliated with the second roster formed after the first roster was wiped out, when in the original continuity it was the other way around.
- Alliterative Name: Valentina Vostok.
- Back from the Dead: She was supposedly killed off during the events of Final Crisis, as she appeared as a Black Lantern in the Blackest Night tie-in of Keith Giffen's run. As of DC's Ghouls Just Wanna Have Fun, she is confirmed to be among the Doom Patrol members who are still alive when Robotman attempts to call her while she's on a mission.
- Bandaged Face: Just like Larry she needs to cover her body with bandages, although after losing the Negative Spirit she no longer needs to cover her face.
- Distaff Counterpart: She is essentially a female Negative Man.
- The Mole: DC's Ghouls Just Wanna Have Fun reveals she's working undercover investigating The Peoples' Heroes for someone, but who she's investigating them for isn't made clear. She just tells Cliff not to call her again out of fear he might break her cover.
Joshua Clay / Tempest
- First Appearance: Showcase #94 (September 1977)
- Adaptational Early Appearance: His New 52 incarnation is affiliated with the first roster of the Doom Patrol instead of the second roster.
- Backalley Doctor: He's just an ex-army medic and actually not qualified to be an MD, however he's got underworld contacts and they got him a license, so then he has a small practice that caters to rich hypochondriacs. Robotman is able to blackmail him about this.
- Back from the Dead: Dorothy uses a wish for the Candlemaker to bring Joshua back to life. He does, and then immediately kills him again.
- Faking the Dead: His New 52 counterpart initially appeared to be killed by the Crime Syndicate, but was later revealed to have faked his death to get away from the Chief. Unlike Arani's feigned demise, this did not carry over into the Post-Rebirth canon, as DC's Ghouls Just Wanna Have Fun shows him among the ghosts of deceased Doom Patrol members haunting Robotman, confirming he's still dead.
- Flying Firepower: His powers consist of flight and projecting concussive energy blasts
- Killed Off for Real: He doesn't survive Grant Morrison's run. Niles Caulder thought that Joshua discovered his plans to take over the world with nanites, so he gunned him down.
- Mutant: Being born with them is explicitly the reason why he has powers, making him one of the very few mutants in DC comics.
- Retired Badass: He quit the superhero business to work as a doctor, but even when he's just taking care of Dorothy and assisting Caulder with mission control, he still has his powers and his combat experience from 'Nam.
Rhea Jones / Lodestone
- First Appearance: Doom Patrol vol 2 #3 (December 1987)
- Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence: As a personification of the Earth's geo-magnetism, but the plots of space-manipulating aliens "free" her of the Earth.
- The Blank: As The Pupa, she has no face.
- Blank White Eyes: Her most notorious physical attribute while she was human was that her eyes had no pupils.
- Blue-and-Orange Morality: She's "capricious" and doesn't seem to care about anything except her present whims. She's a bit indifferent to her companions, without being in any way actively malicious.
- Full-Frontal Assault: She even appears nude on the cover! To be fair, she does have eyes on her chest and lower back, and she doesn't look like a human at all.
- Humanoid Abomination: After becoming The Pupa she has no face, two gigantic eyes appear on her chest and lower back (depending on the panel the eyes seem to be attached to space and not her body), seemingly infinite flowing red hair and light perpetually coming out of her ears. The surrealism influence hit her big time, basically.
- Magnetism Manipulation: Her original power before she became far more power, and inhuman.
- Power Floats: Is never shown actually walking after her transformation, preferring to leisurely levitate everywhere. This is contrasted in an interesting way to Rebis's levitation, which is more stiff and controlled.
- Physical God: strong contender for the most powerful member the Doom Patrol ever had, with powers probably on the cosmic levels.
- Psychopathic Manchild: Impatient, carefree and capricious but also incredibly powerful.
- Super-Strength
- The Lost Lenore: 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.
- The Pollyanna: After her transformation she becomes extremely cheerful and unbothered, even singing "La, la, la" all the time.
- Walking the Earth: She leaves to wander through the stars on a whim, but promises to visit the Patrol (this has yet to happen).
Wayne Hawkins / Karma
- First Appearance: Doom Patrol vol 2 #4 (January 1988)
- Adaptational Early Appearance: His short-lived New 52 counterpart was affiliated with the first roster of the Doom Patrol, when in the original continuity he joined the second iteration shortly after they graduated from Showcase to their own ongoing.
- Back for the Dead: Reappears on the Post-Flashpoint continuity to be killed by Johnny Quick of the Crime Syndicate.
- Delinquent Hair: He has a mohawk.
- Jerkass: He's a complete douche who spends nearly all of his time giving unwarranted insults to the other members. Even in death, he's a jerk, as his ghost does nothing but insult Cliff when he is haunted by the spirits of deceased Doom Patrol members in DC's Ghouls Just Wanna Have Fun. Cliff rather bluntly states he never even knew Karma was dead as he never particularly cared enough to learn where he disappeared to because he was such an ass.
- Jerkass Has a Point: In his brief Post-Flashpoint appearance during the Forever Evil event, he's still as rude and insulting as he was in Paul Kupperberg's run, but his criticisms of Niles Caulder using and abusing people after making them freaks are completely valid.
- Killed Off for Real: Pre-Flashpoint he was killed during a Suicide Squad mission in War of the Gods, and he's killed Post-Flashpoint during Forever Evil.
- Put on a Bus: Partway through Paul Kupperberg's run, he is forced to leave the team when criminal charges start catching up with him, subsequently joining the Suicide Squad.
Scott Fischer
- First Appearance: Doom Patrol vol 2 #6 (March 1988)
- Adaptational Early Appearance: He is part of the first roster of the Doom Patrol in the New 52, when the original continuity had him join the second iteration of the team shortly after they graduated from Showcase to their own ongoing.
- Back for the Dead: Just like Karma, he would appear on the Post-Flashpoint continuity to be killed by Atomica during Forever Evil.
- Blessed with Suck: A fiery kind of energy is constantly radiating from Scotty's skin, making physical contact with him extremely dangerous.
- Killed Off for Real: Killed Pre-Flashpoint during Invasion! by a Gene-Bomb detonated by the Dominators, which complicated his powers and made him die from his leukemia.
The Grant Morrison era
Rebis
- First Appearance: Doom Patrol vol 2 #19 (February 1989)
Morrison's spin on the Negative Man. A very different character from the original Larry both in nature and personality. After having left him to bond with Valentina Vostok, the Negative Spirit finds Larry Trainor again and once again bonds with him. In the process it also absorbs Eleanor Poole, an African-American nurse that had been taking care of Larry. The result calls hirself Rebis and claims to be a mixture of male, female and genderless. Rebis is explicitly an hermaphrodite that fuses the memories of all three beings that constitute hir but is a separate being to them all. The process also gives hir more abilities, such as immortality, flight, enhanced strength and the ability to stay conscious and independent while using the Negative Spirit (essentially meaning they could separate into two). Hir often speaks with Purple Prose and has an obsession with Matrioshkas. Hir is also notoriously different in personality, being a very cold and distant, but nevertheless well-meaning, being.The characters often use "hir" to refer to Rebis.
- Achilles in His Tent: While they're one of the most powerful and intelligent members the Doom Patrol has ever had, Rebis was prone to going on random walkabouts to brood and ponder, resulting in their being occasionally absent when the team needed them most.
- Badass Longcoat: Wears one.
- Cool Shades: Wears a pair of pointy sunglasses akin to the Invisible Man.
- Flying Brick: Moreso than the previous version of the character; Rebis has the standard superhero powers of super strength and flight and they seem notoriously difficult to manage.
- Forgotten Fallen Friend: It's a mix between this and Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence. Rebis travels off into the universe to reproduce. The next time the negative spirit is seen, it is back with Larry, and Rebis and Eleanor Poole are not mentioned again. Much later, during Gerard Way's run, there was a passing mention of Rebis and those that composed hir, meaning Eleanor, being released back into the universe anew.
- Fusion Dance: Rebis is composed of the fusion of Larry Trainor, the Negative Spirit, and the nurse who was tending them, Eleanor Poole.
- Humanoid Abomination: A fusion of male, female and genderless with a vaguely defied array of powers that reproduces hirself by a Mind Screw-y process.
- Merger of Souls: Larry Trainor, Eleanor Poole and the Negative Spirit are combined together in both body and mind. Each has shared memories of each other.
Fridge Horror sets in when it is shown Eleanor was chosen simply because she was closest and had no choice in the matter. Her husband is horrified at what she became. - New Powers as the Plot Demands: We can count Super-Strength, Flight, projecting the negative spirit, precognition, telepathy, immortality and others among hir powers.
- No Social Skills: Hir doesn't understand social norms and hir deattatchment causes hir to be sometimes obnoxious.
- Not So Above It All: Occasionally shows this. For example, when hir is having his bandages painted by Jane:Rebis: I've rediscovered vanity.
- Power Floats: Hir feet rarely touch the ground, preferring to levitate for movement.
- Purple Prose: Rebis' dialogue provides an opportunity for Morrison to flex their abilities, usually talking in poetic tirades filled with odd metaphors.
- Small Role, Big Impact: Rachel Pollack's run reduces hir presence to a couple of cameos, but one of these is a flashback to hir sleeping with Kate Godwin and the act resulting in Kate obtaining the power to dissolve and coagulate material.
- The Spock: Cold and rational, and hir role in the team with The Ego of Robotman and The Id of Crazy Jane. Hir is very logic-driven and calculating.
- The Unfettered: Hir has hir moments of weakness, but in front of other people hir remains perpetually stoic and unfazed no matter the crazy situation.
Kay Challis/Crazy Jane et al
- First Appearance: Doom Patrol vol 2 #19 (February 1989)
Kay Challis is a woman who suffers from multiple personality disorder. As the result of the meta-gene bomb, each personality gained their own distinct superpowers. The personalities refer to their body as "The Woman" and the personality in charge most of the time is Crazy Jane.
- Alternate Company Equivalent: As a Split Personality with matching powers and a connection to an established superhero team, she bears some similarity to Legion.
- Ax-Crazy: A few of her personalities are quite violent, such as Black Annis.
- Blush Sticker: Jane has these show up sporadically in her appearances, it's practically become a permanent thing in Gerard Way's stories. They're red circles, much like a certain other Kay's.
- Breakout Character: The most popular member of the team to have been introduced after the original run. Notably, she is included from the start in Doom Patrol (2019).
- Broken Bird: Many of Jane's personalities exist only to shoulder pain and suffering, such as Sylvia, the Shapeless Children, and Butterfly Baby.
- Brought Down to Normal: At the tail-end of Morrison's run, she comes to terms with her trauma and unites her identities... then a psychologist gives her electroshock therapy and splinters them again.
- The Bus Came Back: Was officially brought back to current comics during Giffen's Doom Patrol run as a supporting character alongside Danny.
- Companion Cube: Her stuffed lamb doll, Harry, back when she was still just Kay Challis. Her father threw Harry down the well on their farm as an example of what he'd do to Kay if she told anyone about the abuse. Jane finds him, years later, when she goes down the well on her own to finally face her demons.
- Composite Character: Jane's personalities slowly began to combine as a result of dealing with their trauma, to the point Baby Doll and Scarlet Harlot became Baby Harlot.
- Does Not Like Men: Black Annis is a proud misandrist. Cliff was the only guy she "didn't want to castrate," but that changed after Jane got traumatized by the Fifth Horseman.
- Driven to Suicide: The Miranda personality committed "psychic suicide" when she was raped by a homeless man, after enduring the shock of remembering her father's sexual abuse following years of blissful ignorance.
- Femme Fatale: The Scarlet Harlot identity acts this way, though she's more of a rampant nymphomaniac who goes around ranting about "Daddy" and screaming at people to fuck her.
- Flipping the Bird: She gives The Fog the finger in volume 2, issue 28.
- I Am Not Weasel: Crazy Jane is not Kay Challis's superhero name. Jane is the third dominant personality to manifest in the body of the woman called Kay Challis. The real Kay, now called "K-5" by the other personalities, has been sleeping in the depths of the Underground for years. The personalities tend to refer to their body as "The Woman" and not "Kay."
- Karma Houdini: She has a manic episode after returning to the church where she'd been assaulted, which ends with her attacking and injuring over a dozen police officers.
- Mad Artist: The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter personality can create paintings that briefly come to life. The Crazy Jane personality also has some artistic inclinations and is seen painting designs on Rebis's bandages at one point.
- One Head Taller: Her and Robotman when they were a couple.
- Only Sane Man:
- Among the Woman's personalities, Driver 8 comes across as the most rational and levelheaded, which makes sense since she's in charge of maintaining "The Underground," the layout of Jane's fractured mind.
- After Driver 8 came Liza Radley, a personality that emerged in response to the love and kindness Jane received thanks to Cliff. Liza attempted to have the other personalities merge to bring more coherency to the Underground and was the only one to argue they needed to face their trauma without relying on Cliff.
- Personality Power: Jane's personalities all gained powers based on what their names were. Flaming Katy has fire abilities, Sex Bomb explodes, the Weird Sisters are psychic, etc.
- Physical God: One of her personas has a sun for a head and is seemingly unbeatable.
- The Power of Love: What created Liza Radley, being the first of the personalities to emerge in response to positive love instead of sexual abuse or trauma.
- Put on a Bus: After the end of Grant Morrison's run, she remained on Danny the World and hadn't been seen in a comic until Geoff Johns' run on Teen Titans when she's glimpsed through a portal to Danny.
- Rape as Backstory: When we first meet her, we learn that she was raped by her father, which splintered her mind, and this is all we know aside from the personalities thing. We later find out she had a normal life as Miranda after leaving home, before a homeless man raping her splintered her mind again.
- Split Mind, Split Powers: Trope Codifier for DC comics. She has different powers depending on the personality that's in control.
- Split Personality: She suffers from multiple personality disorder caused by sexual abuse from her father. Years later, she lived under one main identity while the rest laid dormant in her mind until the day she was raped by a homeless man. The trauma of this event brought all of Jane's other personalities out, and then exposure to a meta gene bomb gave most of them superpowers and the ability to physically manifest when in control.
- Took a Level in Kindness: The Scarlet Harlot persona's one of the most openly hostile personalities, but becomes much more sweeter and less aggressive when she merges with Baby Doll to become Baby Harlot.
- Too Kinky to Torture: Scarlet Harlot and the Sin Eater personalities. The Sin Eater in particular believes she deserves to be punished, and is usually brought out as a defensive maneuver.
- Two Girls to a Team: In the Grant Morrison era, she and Dorothy Spinner were the only two female members of the Doom Patrol.
- Tsundere: One of her personalities acts this way towards Cliff.
Danny the Street
- First Appearance: Doom Patrol vol 2 #35 (August 1990)
- Beware the Nice Ones: Just because he's a sweetheart doesn't mean he's weak. When his friend Sara is badly injured during Darren Jones' attack, Danny's first response was to explode one of his windows in Darren's face while using the shards to spell "BASTARD!" Though his finishing move on Darren was much less violent and more... poetic.
- Big Good: Eventually becomes this, even when he's not directly involved with the Doom Patrol and is later reduced to just a brick. He's almost always a source of goodness and the other characters consider him worth protecting.
- Canon Discontinuity: In Way's run, Danny mentions last being a planet before becoming a brick, retconning his appearances in Scott Lobdell's Teen Titans out of continuity.
- Camp Straight / Camp Gay: Danny identifies as male (and a dad), though the question of sexual orientation may be a little... unnecessary for a piece of sentient geography. Either way, he's definitely camp - he speaks polari and redecorates some of his more masculine shops with decorative curtains. He also recolours his fire hydrants because red is too gauche.
- Creating Life: In Way's run he's evolved from housing people to creating his own. He's even made a few superhumans.
- Eldritch Location: A very rare positive example - Danny is a sentient wandering street... That also happens to be a heaven for marginalised people.
- Gayborhood: In addition to the very literal sense, the people Danny has made himself a sanctuary for are often LGBTQ+.
- Genius Loci: As the name suggests, he's a sentient street.
- Nice Guy: An utterly lovely guy, he's inviting to everyone who isn't a jackass and is possibly the most well-adjusted member of the Doom Patrol.
- Papa Wolf: He's extremely protective of the people he offers shelter to and doesn't take kindly to people harming his friends.
- Punny Name: He's named after famous drag artist Danny La Rue, only he's literally a street.
- Teleportation: His main use when he was on the team.
- Wholesome Crossdresser: Danny is possibly the sweetest, nicest fellow you could ever walk across. He also prefers frilly lace curtains and dainty decor.
Dorothy Spinner
- First Appearance: Doom Patrol vol 2 #14 (November 1988)
- Abusive Parents: Mr. and Mrs. Spinner kept her isolated on their farm because of her appearance, and Mrs. Spinner once said to Dorothy's face she should've been aborted. It later turned out Mrs. Spinner is Dorothy's adopted mother, who never once visited Dorothy while she was in her coma until Thayer Jost offered her a fortune for the rights to the Doom Patrol. When Cliff decided to have Dorothy's life support pulled, Mrs. Spinner couldn't be bothered to care about Dorothy's impending death.
- Adopting the Abused: She lived with Abusive Parents (who were retroactively established in John Arcudi's run to not even be her biological parents) before she got involved with the Doom Patrol, Rachel Pollack's run eventually having George and Marion become her more caring surrogate parents.
- And I Must Scream: The psychic explosion that killed Kate left Dorothy in a brain dead coma. However, the presence of the imaginary Robotman and Darling-Come-Home manifesting around her implied Dorothy was either trapped inside her mind, or she was deliberately keeping herself brain dead to punish herself or hide from punishment.
- Ascended Extra: Twice over.
- She first appeared as a minor character in the Paul Kupperberg run (debuting in issue 14 in a significant role where she helped the Doom Patrol and Power Girl defeat Pythia, subsequently having a cameo in issue 18 at Celsius' funeral), and was later added to the roster of Grant Morrison's run along with the introduction of her powers by issue 23. That said, she wasn't so much a member of the team as someone who was living with them, having little control of her abilities and tasked with watching monitors or running errands. Generally, she was more of a plot device thanks to her abilities, and is the instigator of the final arc when she unleashes the Candlemaker.
- It was during Rachel Pollack's run that Dorothy was given more agency as a character and a team member. She'd developed better control of her abilities to the degree she could weaponize her imaginary friends and she got a character arc exploring her personal trauma around her first period more detailed than Morrison had written.
- Back from the Dead: DC Pride 2022 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 ignored in Unstoppable Doom Patrol, where Dorothy is established to still be dead, with the miniseries' conclusion even having the villains unearth her body as part of their plan.
- Berserk Button:
- 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.
- She won't allow anyone to edit her past or tell her things happened any differently than they did. Her childhood was a nightmare, but being told lies about it offends her even more.
- Beware the Nice Ones: She is generally a sweet girl, but her powers make her very, very dangerous when she's angry.
- Big "YES!": Her response in creating Mr. Right-And-Cool to provide her imaginary friend Pretty Miss Dot with a boyfriend and seeing that he is an attractive, shirtless man is an enthusiastic "Yessss".
- Calling Your Bathroom Breaks: During a group therapy session in Grant Morrison's run, she abruptly states she needs to use the bathroom.
- Character Development: While she became somewhat assertive by the end of Grant Morrison's run, Rachel Pollack's the one who had Dorothy taking more initiative as a member of the Doom Patrol.
- Demoted to Extra: After becoming prominent in Rachel Pollack's run, poor Dorothy was degraded into a plot device used to destroy the team so John Arcudi could set up his roster. She spent the entirety of the Arcudi series in a coma and was killed off screen in the last issue.
- Depending on the Artist: Aside from the severity of her ape-like deformities varying (such as being depicted with a high forehead and a prominent brow when drawn by Erik Larsen, Dough Braithwaite and Tan Eng Huat), other notable discrepancies regarding Dorothy's physical appearance included whether or not she'd wear a dress or if she'd wear her hair in pigtails and whether or not she'd have hairy arms.
- Embarrassing Damp Sheets: Both Grant Morrison and Rachel Pollack's runs had an instance of her enduring the menstrual blood variant, with the 55th issue in the former and the Annual issue tying in to The Children's Crusade (Vertigo) in the latter both starting with her waking up to see that her bedsheets have been stained with period blood.
- Face of a Thug: She's a very sweet girl in spite of having a simian countenance.
- First Period Panic: A significant part of her past is that her first period came as an unpleasant surprise for her and that she was so unprepared for it that she initially believed she was dying.
- Friendless Background: As a child, she was ostracized for her appearance, and thus invented a legion of imaginary friends to keep herself sane. Later, when her powers developed, she started accidentally causing her imaginary friends to enter reality, which resulted in her becoming even more of an outcast.
- The Heart: She served as one in Rachel Pollack's run. Dorothy's the one who got Cliff and the Chief to agree to reforming the team, arguing none of them could function without the other. Dorothy also acted as the one to break everyone from the False Memory's control by getting through to Kate and having Alice Wired-For-Sound help Cliff.
- It's All My Fault: Her ghost in DC's Ghouls Just Wanna Have Fun is very upset about her hand in Kate Godwin's death and how Cliff is in grief over both their demises, blaming herself for Cliff's misery.
- I Wished You Were Dead: When recalling her past experiences with the Candlemaker, she voices regret at being indirectly responsible for the Candlemaker murdering her bully Bernard Muller when she was so angry at her tormentor that she wished he was dead, not knowing that doing so would encourage the Candlemaker to kill Bernard.
- Last-Name Basis: Her alternate future counterpart in the Doom Force one-shot uses her surname Spinner as her codename as a member of the titular team.
- Master of Illusion: In the alternate future shown in the Doom Force one-shot, her power has expanded to being able to make people see things that aren't really there.
- Menstrual Menace: She has trouble controlling her powers whenever she's on her period.
- Most Common Superpower: Her alternate future self shown in the Doom Force one-shot has rather prominent breasts.
- No-Sell: The False Memory's powers don't work on her. While Dorothy can receive falsified memories, she's gained a sense of twisted assurance in her traumatic childhood that allows her to automatically reject the False Memory's edits. Her childhood was so bad she refuses to let anyone trick her into thinking it happened differently.
- Nude Nature Dance: There is an arc in Rachel Pollack's run where she saves the day by performing a ritual that involves dancing topless while covered in pomegranate juice.
- Outliving One's Offspring: After being taken off life support at the end of John Arcudi's run, she is outlived by both her adoptive mother and her unseen birth mother.
- Parental Abandonment:
- Her parents essentially vanished from her life as soon as she joined the Doom Patrol. Mrs. Spinner only enters the picture again when offered the prospect of being paid a fortune for the Doom Patrol rights by Thayer Jost. She quickly disappears again and doesn't even give a shit when Dorothy's life support is pulled.
- We're never told what happened to Dorothy's birth mother or why she gave Dorothy up for adoption. She was at one point willing to meet Dorothy again, but no one could find her again when Cliff decided to pull Dorothy's life support.
- Period Shaming: Rachel Pollack's run established that she had her first period in front of other children who cruelly mocked her by calling her a "monkey on the rag", with her mother later telling her to her face that she should've been aborted (which was made worse in hindsight when John Arcudi's run later established that the Spinners were Dorothy's adoptive parents).
- Pervert Revenge Mode: When Junkin Buckley gropes her breasts during the tie-in to The Children's Crusade (Vertigo), she retaliates by punching him.
- Power Dyes Your Hair: While she ordinarily has brown hair, her alternate future self in the Doom Force one-shot has hair that's black on one side and white on the other, likely because of her powers expanding to the point that she is a Master of Illusion.
- Power Perversion Potential: At the beginning of the final arc of Rachel Pollack's run, she explores a more libidinous use of her powers when she creates a boyfriend for her imaginary friend Pretty Miss Dot whom she names Mr. Right-And-Cool, manifesting him as an attractive shirtless man and almost watching them canoodle before she hears Cliff calling for her and orders them to go away.
- Progressively Prettier: Zigzagged. Her simian features differed depending on the artist, but under Richard Case she started to appear uglier and suddenly developed noticeable buck teeth she didn't have before. When drawn by Linda Medley, Eric Shanower, and Matthew Clark she was much cuter.
- Purple Is Powerful: Her alternate future self in the Doom Force one-shot wears a purple costume and has become a Master of Illusion.
- Taken Off Life Support: Her final fate per the conclusion of John Arcudi's run is that she dies due to Robotman being unable to bear her being in a coma and requesting that her life support be unplugged.
- Too Good for This Sinful Earth: During the John Arcudi run, she was revealed to be comatose and brain-dead in a hospital. Robotman chose to cut off her life support.
- Took a Level in Badass: In Grant Morrison's run she barely used her powers and her imaginary friends tended to manifest themselves against her will. By Rachel Pollack's run, her control was more refined and she was able to summon multiple imaginary friends to fight for her, even creating brand new ones on the fly.
- Two Girls to a Team: She and Crazy Jane were the only two female members of the roster in Grant Morrison's run (counting the genderfluid Rebis), while the titular alternate future team of the Doom Force one-shot had her as the only female member besides Flux.
- Unwitting Pawn: She always had the sense the Candlemaker wanted something from her, but thought she could keep him under control. Dorothy didn't realize until it was too late he was only using her to break free into the real world.
- Younger Than They Look: She looks like a young woman Depending on the Artist 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 issuenote 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.
- Your Mind Makes It Real: She can make her imaginary friends tangible.
Flex Mentallo
- First Appearance: Doom Patrol vol 2 #35 (August 1990)
- Absurd Phobia: He mentions during Gerard Way's run that he's afraid of bicycles.
- The Big Guy: He's an extremely huge man with an absolutely ridiculous build and superhuman strength levels exceeding those of Robotman.
- Battle Aura: When he's gearing up for a fight, he'll generate an aura along with glowing words that says "Hero of the Beach".
- Carpet of Virility: He sure has a lot of body hair to further his manly man look.
- Charles Atlas Superpower: A parody. Flex trained so hard he became a Reality Warper.
- Heroic Build: His ultra-muscular body is a parody of this.
- Mr. Fanservice: His attire is only a leopard speedo that exposes his Greek God physique.
- Nice Guy: Being made from a lonely child's conception of a superhero, he's as kind-hearted as he is strong.
- Official Couple: He and Rita are an item as of Unstoppable Doom Patrol.
- Pec Flex: His Muscle Mystery power activates when he flexs, so expect him to go into body-builder poses during a fight.
- Reality Warper: Muscle Mystery gives Flex Mentallo a limited version of this, though it is strong enough for him to change the shape of the White House just by flexing.
- Real Men Wear Pink: Despite being very powerfull and a conventionally attractive man, he is also caring and polite and enjoys things like baking.
- Stripperiffic: A male case, he only wears a swimsuit as a costume.
- Tulpa: He's a thought entity brought to life by a psychic powerful enough to warp reality.
- Walking Swimsuit Scene: He almost always wears nothing but his leopard-print shorts, boots and armbands.
Willoughby Kipling
- First Appearance: Doom Patrol vol 2 #31 (April 1990)
An agent of the mystic Knights Templar, Englishman Willoughby Kipling is a powerful magician and misanthrope who enters the stage only when needed, manipulating people for the greater good. Kipling is constantly drinking, smoking, and cursing and is regarded a disgrace by his fellow Knights. Nevertheless, he has helped the Doom Patrol save the world from the Cult of the Unwritten Book and the Candlemaker.
- The Alcoholic: Just like how Constantine Must Have Nicotine, Kipling is usually seen with a drink.
- An Arm and a Leg: In the final battle with the Candlemaker, his arm is skeletonized.
- Anti-Hero: He is sarcastic, drunk, and morally flexible. Primarily on the side of the heroes.
- The Bus Came Back: After years of absence following a cameo in Pollack's run, he resurfaces in Unstoppable Doom Patrol.
- Flipping the Bird: In volume two, issue 61, Kipling shows defiance towards the Candlemaker by extending his middle finger in the monster's direction.
- Good Is Not Nice: As mentioned, he is sarcastic, almost constantly drunk and morally flexible. However, he always to helps out to save existence.
- Hero of Another Story: It is implied he has saved the world many times behind the scenes, and only relies on the Doom Patrol for things out of his control. Or when they almost cause it, such as accidentally bringing the Candlemaker into existence.
- Trenchcoat Brigade: He's a stand-in for John Constantine who was created because the creators were forbidden from using Constantine.
The Rachel Pollack era
Kate Godwin / Coagula
- First Appearance: Doom Patrol vol 2 #70 (September 1993)
- Back from the Dead: Twenty years after her death, Kate appears in two separate stories in DC Pride 2022. She's shown riding a float in a Metropolis Pride parade alongside Dorothy and Danny the Brick, and is then later seen at a conference on transgender issues in Gotham City bidding goodbye to Alysia Yeoh. The DC Book of Pride adds more confirmation that Kate is alive for good, as it lists Alysia as one of her allies. However, Dennis Culver's Unstoppable Doom Patrol disregards Kate's resurrection and still has her being deceased.
- Collateral Angst: Her body is atomized in an explosion caused by Dorothy's breakdown for the sake of resetting the Doom Patrol and so Cliff will have more to be depressed about.
- Cool Big Sis: She acted as one to Dorothy, making her death all the more tragic.
- Dark and Troubled Past: Subverted. Kate was bullied when she was younger and still called Clark, but hasn't let it affect her adult life. Later on, the False Memory tries to invoke this trope to stop Kate from asking too many questions and is disgusted to learn she was made to think she was raped because it would give her life "More meaning."
- Deadpan Snarker: Can be very snarky when she feels like it.
- Dropped a Bridge on Her: She's vaporized by Dorothy Spinner in John Arcudi's Doom Patrol run in order for Cliff to have more to angst over.
- Flipping the Bird: She gives Niles Caulder the finger in volume 2, issue 71.
- Forgotten Fallen Friend: 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. Her death finally received an acknowledgment in Unstoppable Doom Patrol, which was released after two attempts were made to bring her back in DC Pride 2022.
- Good Is Not Soft: She's a compassionate individual but that doesn't mean she'll take shit from anyone. Kate frequently came to blows with the Chief regarding his obnoxious apathy.
- Heart Is an Awesome Power: Her ability to dissolve and coagulate things can be used both offensively and defensively, and she has a secondary power through which she can use computers and monitors to access different planes of existence and hidden realities.
- If It's You, It's Okay: Kate makes it clear to people she's only attracted to women, and to Cliff. This also comes from the period where the two shared a body, so her feelings for Cliff are based on an emotional, platonic level instead of a physical one.
- Killed Off for Real: Sometime between the events of Rachel Pollack's run and the John Arcudi series, she is accidentally killed when Dorothy unleashed her psychic powers, obliterating Kate.
- Nice Girl: Is compassionate, easy going, and level headed.
- Only Sane Man: She functions as one during her time with the Doom Patrol, being less hampered by her past than Cliff, Dorothy, and Niles while less kooky than the Bandage People and Charlie the Doll.
- Punny Name: Mixed with Genius Bonus: Her name is a reference to the alchemical principle of "Solve et coagula", where you need to reduce an object to its components and later rebuild it to further understand it better.
- Rape as Backstory: Defied and invoked. Kate was never sexually abused at any point in her life, and this was during a period in comics when it was the norm to have trans characters who were assaulted at some point. Kate is made to think in one issue that she was dual raped as a teenager, but it's a lie, and she's outraged to learn these memories were meant to "explain" everything about her.
- Sexually Transmitted Superpowers: Coagula gained the power to turn solids into liquids and liquids into solids with a touch of her hand after sleeping with Patrol member Rebis, composite entity created from the lifeforces of Larry Trainor, Eleanor Poole, and the Negative Spirit Mercurius.
- What the Hell, Hero?: Kate gets pissed off when Cliff, having finally learned she's transgender, insists she's a man even if she doesn't have a penis anymore. Kate immediately points out Cliff doesn't have a penis anymore, so is he a man?
George and Marion / The Bandage People
- First Appearance: Doom Patrol vol 2 #67 (June 1993)
A couple of energy-based beings that are encased in bandages. They join the Doom Patrol as soon as they use the Rainbow Estates and have some power over the entities that haunt there. They have cheerful and quirky personalities and mostly act like an old-timey sitcom marriage. Their bandages are self-reproducing and can be used to quickly ensnare enemies or even making barriers. Eventually revealed to be result of experiments made by a conspiracy within the American government, with powers related to the metaphysical, chaotic beings named the Terisiae. Marion is sometimes scared between battles and George often acts protective of her, but otherwise they essentially act as The Dividual.
- Adopting the Abused: They essentially become surrogate parents to Dorothy Spinner, being far more caring toward her than Mr. and Mrs. Spinner ever were.
- Battle Couple: They live together and they fight together.
- Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: The last time they are seen, they are waving goodbye as Kate, Cliff and Dorothy drive away. Even after Dorothy and Kate die, they are never mentioned again, despite being friends with them. Their first acknowledgment in years consists of a flashback cameo in Unstoppable Doom Patrol, and after that Cliff calls them during his story in DC's Ghouls Just Wanna Have Fun.
- The Dividual: Rarely seen without the other.
- Energy Being: Under their bodies they are just made of invisible energy. The Builders only left them their eyes (So they could see), their hands (So they could work) and their mouths (So they could pass orders).
- Happily Married: They're apparently married (considering they call each other husband and wife) and are shown to be a very happy couple. The two are shown to be in what might be the healthiest relationship in the Doom Patrol's history and it's implied their sex life is just as satisfying.
- Identical Stranger: They look really similar to the Negative Man, which spawned lots of theories about them. In reality they are completely unrelated beings who also just happen to be covered in bandages.
- The Leader: Of the other Bandage People living in Rainbow Estates.
- Nice Guy: They both are extremely polite and kind, acting as Parental Substitutes for Dorothy, helping provide capital for the team and happily following orders.
- Parental Substitute: George and Marion essentially acted as parents to Dorothy, offering to take her on day trips and looking after her the way a real mom and dad would.
- The Pollyanna: Both are very cheerful and casual about being a part of a superhero team. Alongside Danny the Street, they are the nicest most stable members of the Doom Patrol.
- Sickening Sweethearts: Sometimes they can act like this.
- Silly Rabbit, Cynicism Is for Losers!: The two acknowledge it would be very easy for them to give into despair after everything they suffered through, but they'd rather focus on being happy and enjoying themselves.
- The Team Benefactor: They finance the team with an erotic hotline.
- Was Once a Man: They had their bodies stolen from them by the Builders and were reduced to energy beings wrapped in bandages.
- What the Hell, Hero?: In volume 2, issue 75, Marion rebukes her husband for making a transphobic "ex-man" pun while speculating on why Kate is able to use computer systems to access different planes of existence.
Charlie the Doll
- First Appearance: Doom Patrol vol 2 #67 (June 1993)
- Creepy Doll: While Charlie, a talking doll, is initially creepy, he vows to protect Dorothy and helps the Doom Patrol.
- Creepy Good: It looks sinister as hell, but it doesn't have a bad bone inside him.
- Early-Installment Weirdness: In his first appearances it was clear Charlie couldn't move, and needed to be carried by Dorothy everywhere. This was abandoned and Charlie was shown perfectly capable of movement up until his death.
- Heroic Sacrifice: In the final battle with an Della Reina, Charlie exhausts all his power and dies.
- Nice Guy: He gets along rather well with Dorothy and is generally shown to be personable and selfless.
- Was Once a Man: Charlie was once a powerful Tirisiae, until he was forced to transfer his remaining life force into the doll.
The John Arcudi era
Thayer Jost
- First Appearance: Doom Patrol vol 3 #1 (December 2001)
- Big Good: During Arcudi's run, Jost helped fund and support the Doom Patrol.
- Grand Theft Me: At some point, he is possessed by Mr. Somebody. After being released, he is left a drooling, traumatized mess.
- Honest Corporate Executive: He funds the 3rd incarnation of the Doom Patrol, and surprisingly has no ulterior motives.
- Not Himself: While he was possessed by Mr. Somebody, Cliff realized something was wrong with Jost and that he was acting differently.
- The Team Benefactor: He found and funded the 3rd version of the Doom Patrol. He was also paying hospital care to take care of Dorothy, who had become comatose.
Shyleen Lao / Fever
- First Appearance: Doom Patrol vol 3 #1 (December 2001)
A young girl with the power of pyrokinesis.
- Bare Midriffs Are Feminine: She and Freak wear midriff-baring outfits, in contrast to the male members Kid Slick and Fast Forward.
- Character Death: She was killed off in the first issue of Terror Titans when Ravager refused to finish her off at the Dark Side Club.
- Granola Girl: She's a vegetarian and gets pissed off when animals are harmed.
- Oblivious to Love: Whether or not she'd reciprocate, she never noticed Vic carried a torch for her.
- Power Incontinence: She can't control her ability to increase her body temperature when she's even a little aggravated; if she's really upset the air around her ignites in a fiery explosion.
- Naked People Are Funny: A recurring gag has her accidentally burning her clothes off due to her difficulty in controlling her powers; this is played for comedy, not titillation. In the final issue, she also isn't pleased that the robot body Robotman dreams Doc Magnus put her brain in has no clothes on and desperately tries to cover herself with her arms.
- Two Girls to a Team: She and Freak are the only two females of the John Arcudi run's roster.
- What the Hell, Hero?: As a ghost in DC's Ghouls Just Wanna Have Fun, she’s not happy that Robotman didn’t go to her funeral.
Ava / Freak
- First Appearance: Doom Patrol vol 3 #1 (December 2001)
An Indian woman who can manipulate her hair.
- Bare Midriffs Are Feminine: She and Fever wear midriff-baring outfits, in contrast to the male members Kid Slick and Fast Forward.
- No Full Name Given: Her surname is unknown.
- Prehensile Hair: Her hair moves like tentacles.
- The Quiet One: One of the reasons she’s so mysterious is that she just doesn’t talk much.
- The Symbiote: The source of her powers is some symbiotic organism living inside her
- Two Girls to a Team: She and Fever are the only two females of the John Arcudi run's roster.
- Violently Protective Girlfriend: It's never stated outright that they're a couple as such but she becomes very attached to Ted and has a few outbursts defending him. She eventually left him when his abilities became too much for him to control.
Victor Darge / Kid Slick
- First Appearance: Doom Patrol vol 3 #1 (December 2001)
A young man with the power to cover himself with a force field that reduces friction.
- Barrier Warrior: His power is protecting himself with a force field.
- Too Fast to Stop: A drawback of his powers — you can move really fast with no friction under your feet, but coming to a safe or controlled stop is another matter.
Ted Bruder / Fast Forward
- First Appearance: Doom Patrol vol 3 #1 (December 2001)
A young man who can see 60 seconds into the future.
- Bus Crash: He ends up in a coma during Keith Giffen's run and, while the possibility of recovering from the coma was brought up, is confirmed to have died off-screen in DC's Ghouls Just Wanna Have Fun when he appears among the ghosts of deceased Doom Patrol members haunting Robotman.
- Deadpan Snarker: He's a bit of a sarcastic grump, which has led to him being nicknamed "Negative Man" after Cliff's original Doom Patrol teammate.
- Dimensional Traveler: In Keith Giffen's run, his powers mutated into this after his medication stopped working. As with his precognition, he couldn't control it. He's put in a medically induced coma to keep him from dimension hopping.
- Leader Wannabe: He thought Jost had intended for him to be the leader of the team from day one, but this was just a temporary measure until they had what was assumed to be Cliff under contract. Ted still considers himself the leader from that point, especially after "Robotman" turned out to be a fake.
- Power Incontinence: After Cliff walked out on the team, Ted spent some time trying to look further into the future than just 60 seconds, and eventually started uncontrollably having visions of many potential distant futures. He ends up needing to take sedatives to live in the present, at the cost of having no precognition at all.
- Malicious Misnaming: "Robotman" and Vic call him Negative Man, which he hates.
The John Byrne era
Mi-Sun Kwon / Nudge
- First Appearance: JLA #94 (May 2004)
- Back for the Dead: The Keith Giffen run brings her back just to kill her off.
- Death by Origin Story: It's revealed in the tenth issue that she ran from home after her father died of a heart attack.
- The Runaway: Her backstory involves running away from home.
- Two Girls to a Team: She was the only female member of the team besides Elasti-Girl in the John Byrne run after Faith left early on.
- What the Hell, Hero?: Her ghost in DC's Ghouls Just Wanna Have Fun calls out Robotman for never going after Grunt when he ran off with her body.
Henry Bucher / Grunt
- First Appearance: JLA #94 (May 2004)
- Brain Transplant: His brain was removed from his body and surgically transplanted into the skull of a four-armed gorilla as some twisted experiment.
- Hulk Speak: He starts out barely able to say words, but eventually is able to speak in at least sentence fragments.
- Killer Gorilla: He's a four-armed gorilla with little self-control.
- Multi-Armed and Dangerous: He has four arms and is strong enough to punch Superman.
- What Happened to the Mouse?: Ran off with the body of Nudge at the start of the Giffen run, never to return.
Vortex
- First Appearance: JLA #94 (May 2004)
- Brown Note: Seeing his face apparently causes people to become insane.
- The Faceless: He wears an Expressive Mask and never has his actual face shown because doing so has the risk of driving people irreparably insane.
Faith
- First Appearance: JLA #69 (October 2002)
- Mysterious Past: Her background and real name are unknown. Batman might know, but he's not telling.
- Purple Is Powerful: Her costume is purple and she's one of the more powerful members of the Patrol.
- Put on a Bus: By the fifth issue of John Byrne's run, she leaves the Doom Patrol to go back to the Justice League.
- Transplant: She started out as a member of the Justice League before joining the Doom Patrol in the "Tenth Circle" arc of JLA (1997) that served as a Poorly Disguised Pilot for John Byrne's run.
The Gerard Way era
Casey Brinke / Space Case
- First Appearance: Doom Patrol vol 6 #1 (November 2016)
Introduced as an unassuming ambulance driver who just happens to be a Weirdness Magnet, she's actually a comic book character created by Danny to entertain his patrons. She somehow was given life and escaped, but still remembers her adventures as a comic character.
- Absurdly Youthful Mother: "Little girl", "little miss", "young lady", these are all the things that her son called her. She appears to be in her early to mid-20s while he's in his late 20s to early 30s (he's a warped incarnation of Superman).
- Archnemesis Dad: Invoked: Since she's an in-universe comics character brought to life, her dad Terminox is her "archnemesis"... that we've obviously never seen before and gets sorted out quite easily with a Heroic Sacrifice.
- An Arm and a Leg: When inside Danny the Street, one of her legs pops out of existence.
- Artificial Limbs: She replaces her missing leg with that of a Robotman possessing Niles Caulder's face.
- Badass Driver: She's known for driving like a crazy person, but always getting patients to the hospital on time.
- Dating Catwoman: She realizes her feelings for Terry None, the daughter of supervillain Mr. Nobody, while they concoct a scheme to destroy reality.
- Death by Origin Story: Her father was corrupted into an evil being in one of her darker comic stories.
- Extreme Omnisexual: She is only seen taking two romantic partners: Terry None, her roommate, after which Terry becomes magically pregnant as both Terry and Casey are women, and she also made out with her male cat Lotion, who was turned into a humanoid cat.
- Fragile Speedster: She's not much for taking hits, but she's fast enough to easily dodge an angry Kryptonian.
- Homosexual Reproduction: She got a similar woman, Terry None, pregnant. And their son is an adult Kryptonian.
- I Just Want to Be Normal: Initially, when Danny explains her backstory. She comes around in the end.
- Manic Pixie Dream Girl: She's noted for her upbeat attitude and perkiness.
- The Pollyanna: After the revelation of her origin, she loses her Manic Pixie Dream Girl zaniness and grows to be The Pollyanna. She's unflappable even when she's facing death with her son, Milky Milkman.
- Shock and Awe: One of her superpowers, which she can use to override machinery. According to the comics by Danny, she gained this power when she was in war between some alien races.
- Time Travel: Her main power is the ability to travel through time when she drives fast enough.
- Tulpa: She was thought into existence when Danny the Street developed Reality Warper powers and was under threat from aliens.
- Unfazed Everyman: Before the Doom Patrol appears in her life, Casey was largely unfazed by weird stuff happening around her. This includes Terry accidentally exploding Casey's roommate with her tap dancing and finding her cat Lotion transformed into a humanoid form, and having sex with him. She also has sex with Terry, which leads to Terry somehow becoming pregnant.
- Younger Than They Look: She appears to be in her twenties but she's created during the time when Danny the Street was attacked by the Vectra.
Valerie, Samuel and Lucius Reynolds/The Reynolds Family
- First Appearance: Doom Patrol vol 6 #1 (November 2016, Samuel Reynolds), Doom Patrol vol 6 #4 (March 2017, Lucius Reynolds), Doom Patrol vol 6 #5 (May 2017, Valerie Reynolds)
An estranged married couple and their teenage son. Four years ago, Valerie left to join a cult, runs by Jane's Dr. Harrison persona, leaving Samuel and their son Lucius behind. Samuel is a paramedic and meets Casey, who drives the ambulance. Lucius, meanwhile, feels ostracized and unwanted, and begins practicing occult magic. Lucius and Samuel have a strained relationship as well, due to Valerie leaving them both. Thanks to the Doom Patrol, Valeria is recovered from the cult's brainwashing and reunites with her family. All 3 are revealed to be part of a prophecy in the magical world of Una-Kalm called the "Reynolds Prophecy", as the inhabitants believe the Reynolds are destined to save their world from the evil overlord, Margoth.
- Badass Family: In Una-Kalm, all three literally level up: Valeria becomes an archer; Lucius becomes a mage; and Samuel becomes a tank.
- Brainwashed and Crazy: Valerie is controlled by Dr. Harrison to be part of the cult. Later, she reveals while Dr. Harrison kept her in the cult, Valerie initially joined under her own free will as she felt she was missing something in her life.
- Happily Married: Valerie reveals before joining the cult, she felt she was missing something in her life, which was why she left. After rejoining her family, she takes some time finding herself but eventually realizes she truly loves her husband and son.
- Hero of Another Story: While the Doom Patrol deals with their own shenanigans, The Reynolds' are brought into a magical world they are destined to save.
- Recessive Super Genes: Lucius' grandmother, Samuel's mother, reveals that magical potential skips a generation. This is why Lucius is adept at magic while Samuel is not.
- Then Let Me Be Evil: Lucius, thinking both of his parents don't want him, joins Mr. Nobody's Brotherhood of Nada as the magic wielding The Great Ludini, the Teenage Nothing. After some convincing, he decides to turn against Mr. Nobody.
Lotion the Cat
- First Appearance: Doom Patrol vol 6 #1 (November 2016)
Lotion used to be an ordinary male house cat, until Terry fed him pure $#!+ which transformed him into a humanoid, punk cat. He becomes Casey's roommate and sexual partner.
- Anthropomorphic Transformation: After being fed $#!+ by Terry, he is transformed into a humanoid talking cat.
- Bestiality Is Depraved: Surprisingly ignored. No attention is brought to the fact that he and Casey had sex despite being a human and a cat. Possibly justified in that she's a tulpa and he's a mutated humanoid cat, so it's a bit trickier to determine exactly if they're commiting bestiality at all.
- The Bus Came Back: Returns in Unstoppable Doom Patrol after vanishing after Way's run on Doom Patrol.
- The Quincy Punk: He dresses like this, complete with leather jacket. He even "smokes" cat nip.
- Talking Animal: After he was transformed, he is able to talk fluently.
- Who Names Their Kid "Dude"?: Casey's roommate thinks this about his name.
The Dennis Culver era
Kareli/Beast Girl
- First Appearance: Unstoppable Doom Patrol #1 (May 2023)
A runaway metahuman and the latest recruit for the new Doom Patrol.
- The Baby of the Bunch: The youngest member of the team due to being a teenage runaway.
- Cute Monster Girl: The fact she's a purple, furry creature doesn't prevent her from being adorable.
- Emotion Control: Can manipulate the amygdala to induce primal urges.
- Genki Girl: A very energetic and kind young lady.
- Non-Indicative Name: Downplayed. Her name would make you think she's a Distaff Counterpart to Beast Boy, but she actually has no relation to him besides being a Doom Patrol member. Aside from that, the name does fit, as she has a beastly appearance (including purple fur, large ears, sharp fangs, and a tail) and her powers let her manipulate people's "primal urges" (that is, their flight or fight response).
- Prehensile Tail: Sports a squirrel-like dextrous tale.
Degenerate
- First Appearance: Unstoppable Doom Patrol #1 (May 2023)
Degenerate's metagene was activated during the events of Lazarus Planet, and he tried to remove them with the help of Evil, Inc., who used him to farm his DNA to make bio-weapons. He was later rescued by the Doom Patrol and reluctantly joined the team.
- Appropriated Appellation: He calls himself "Degenerate" because that's what the people at Metagen called him.
- Dumb Muscle: His powers render him unintelligent.
- Deconstruction: Of the HULK MASH!-Up character. Because his powers only work when he's angry, he has to feel awful about himself constantly and be an asshole to anyone that could make him feel better.
- Hates Rich People: When confronting Brian McClane's robot double, he rants on how he especially hates people like McClane who think they know better just because they're rich.
- Jerkass: He almost always insults his teammates just because he can, and he has to be a prick for his powers to work, notably relishing that fact.
- Psychoactive Powers: A very tragic example, since his powers only work if he feels worthless and angry.
- Super-Strength: His strength is inversely proportional to his self-esteem.
- Super-Toughness: Same as above.
- Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: Exaggerated, he doesn't get along with the whole team.
- Would Hurt a Child: When Beast Girl first uses her power on him, he implicitly threatens to kill her if she ever tries it again.
Dr. Syncho and JERRY
- First Appearance: Unstoppable Doom Patrol #2 (June 2023)
A human psychologist possessed by five fifth-dimensional imps (Jxchn, Eylhym, Raz, Rez and Yzd) who acts as The Shrink for the team.
- All Therapists Are Muggles: Averted, they're a Humanoid Abomination who provides mental healthcare.
- Body Horror: They look quite uncanny when possessed, resembling various melting wax figures fused together.
- Continuity Nod: The nature of the imps brings to mind Grant Morrison's theories of the five dimension. It would be very long to explain, but it can fortunately be summed up in this moment of their run on Batman.Bat-Mite: Imagination is the fifth dimension.
- Creepy Good: They might look monstruous and are a Humanoid Abomination, but they're by far some of the nicest Doom Patrol members.
- Humanoid Abomination: Channeling 5 Eldritch Abominations inside them no less.
- Non-Linear Character: Since they're from the fifth dimension, JERRY doesn't percieve time like we do. For them, Degenerate already trusted them with their secrets, because they're already experiencing our future.
- Psychic Powers: As a result of being possessed by JERRY.
- The Shrink: Syncho and JERRY provide psychological help for the Doom Patrol.
- There Are No Therapists: Averted
- Token Good Teammate: For the fifth dimensional imps as a whole. While most of them are
Chaotic Neutral at best, JERRY are the first imps to be unambiguously heroic.
Villains
The Brotherhood of Evil
The Brain
- First Appearance: Doom Patrol vol 1 #86 (March 1964)
A former colleague of Niles Caulder's, this French scientist lost his body in an explosion that he holds Caulder responsible for. Transferring his brain into a robotic holding jar, the scientist survived and founded the Brotherhood of Evil, an army of societal rejects who became regular enemies of the Doom Patrol.
- Arch-Enemy: He is the most prominent and personal enemy of Caulder and the Doom Patrol as a whole.
- Bestiality Is Depraved: Deconstructed and ignored with his relationship with the Mallah. While both are villains, the only thing that's ever really discussed is that they're gay, and rarely, if ever, does the fact that that Brain is well, a Brain in a Jar and Mallah is a(n albeit evolved) gorilla come up.
- Big Bad: For most of the series existence.
- Brains and Brawn: He's the Brains (duh) to Mallah's Brawn.
- Brain in a Jar: The computer network that the Brain is plugged into is totally immobile.
- Breakout Villain: Brain has proven to be the most popular and prominent rogue of the Doom Patrol in media, perhaps due to the interesting factor of being a Brain in a Jar who is an Evil Genius. It's to the point he's appeared in way more works than even the team itself has. He was a Big Bad in Teen Titans (2003) and Doom Patrol (2019), a major recurring antagonist in Batman: The Brave and the Bold and Young Justice (2010), and even appears in works where the Doom Patrol are absent or only cameos like in Batman: The Brave and the Bold.
- Deal with the Devil: Garfield is forced to work with him in order to save his friends from Zahl; as part of the agreement Gar lets him walk away unpunished.
- Early Installment Character-Design Difference: While recognizable for having his brain encased in a skull-shaped tank, he did not have that when he was first introduced and originally appeared as a generic Brain in a Jar. It wasn't until Doom Patrol volume one issue 108 that he appeared in anything resembling the iconic skull-tank.
- Enemy Mine: Teams up with Garfield Logan in order to get revenge on Zahl. Notably, he doesn't take the opportunity to double-cross the team and actually takes them with him when he flees Zahl's collapsing fortress.
- Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Genuinely loves Mallah.
- Evil Counterpart:
- The Chief's first one. The Chief is a wheelchair bound genius who leads a group of heroic outcasts. The Brain is a mind in a jar who leads a gang of thugs and terrorists.
- Like Cliff Steele, he is a disembodied brain whose original body was destroyed in an accident that was later revealed to have been deliberately caused by the Chief, with one of the Doom Patrol's appearances in Geoff Johns' run on Teen Titans even revealing that the Brain's brain was originally intended for Robotman before Mallah rescued him from Caulder's lab and Caulder made do with Cliff's brain instead.
- Evil Cripple: Exaggerated. He's an immobile Brain in a Jar.
- Evil Genius: Brilliant and twisted.
- Faking the Dead: When the Brain and Monsieur Mallah resurfaced in New Teen Titans, it was explained that they survived their apparent deaths at the conclusion of the original Arnold Drake Doom Patrol series by going underground while leaving dummies in their place to get caught in the explosion that was believed to have killed them.
- Given Name Reveal: His real name was unknown for a long time, but his forename is revealed to be Ernst in the 44th issue of Red Hood: Outlaw.
- Gratuitous French: Lacks Mallah's accent, but shares his habit of throwing random French into his sentences.
- The Heavy: Drives the plot in most storylines.
- Irrational Hatred: Pre-Crisis, the Brain's hatred of Caulder was based on nothing save a refusal to admit that his experiment had been flawed. Grant Morrison decided, Post-Crisis, that the Chief should actually be responsible for it and retconned this out.
- It's Personal: With the Chief and Madame Rouge both.
- Joker Immunity: He and Mallah have both died repeatedly, but always return.
- The Leader: Of the Brotherhood of Evil.
- Mad Scientist: Classic comic book example of a deranged scientist who uses his knowledge for evil.
- My Brain Is Big: When he is put in a cloned body during Geoff Johns' run on Teen Titans, he has a big, bulbous head with a scar on his forehead, which leads to Cliff mockingly calling him "Frankenberry".
- No Full Name Given: Red Hood: Outlaw reveals his given name to be Ernst, but his surname presently remains unknown.
- Non-Action Big Bad: Brain is normally carried by Mallah and can do little actual fighting.
- Out of Focus: While he was established as the Doom Patrol's greatest enemy in the original run, subsequent series downplayed his presence, to the extent that he was a no-show in Paul Kupperberg, Rachel Pollack and Gerard Way's runs, only appears a handful of times in Grant Morrison's run, only appears in John Arcudi's run for a minor two-part story involving the current roster of the Doom Patrol having their minds end up in the bodies of the original roster, only appears briefly in John Byrne's run in an alternate timeline (specifically the Superman & Batman: Generations continuity) and only makes a flashback cameo in Keith Giffen's run (which, to be fair, was because he and Mallah had been killed off in Salvation Run).
- Pet the Dog:
- His relationship with Mallah is nothing short of respectful and sweet (And also bizarre).
- He actually takes the time to not only alert Garfield to Zandia’s collapse but also lets the Titans escape alongside him (it’s implied that he’s in good mood for Garfield killing Rouge)
- Super-Intelligence: The Brain was already an evil genius, but the supercomputer he's wired into bolsters in intellect to superhuman levels.
- Unholy Matrimony: He and Mallah are villains and a couple.
- Villainous Friendship: He and Mallah were initially established as good friends, but they eventually received a Relationship Upgrade and became a gay couple in Grant Morrison's run.
- Wetware CPU: Brain is wired into the supercomputer in his jar.
- Your Approval Fills Me with Shame: Congratulates Beast Boy for killing Madame Rouge. Beast Boy doesn't take it well at all.
Monsieur Mallah
- First Appearance: Doom Patrol vol 1 #86 (March 1964)
- Affably Evil: Usually written as quite polite.
- Bestiality Is Depraved: Deconstructed and ignored with his relationship with the Brain. While both are villains, the only thing that's ever really discussed is that they're gay, and rarely, if ever, does the fact that that Brain is well, a Brain in a Jar and Mallah is a(n albeit evolved) gorilla come up.
- Brains and Brawn: The Brawn to the Brain's, well, Brains.
- The Dragon: He is the Brain's most important underling and it is rare for him to not be at his side.
- Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Genuinely loves Brain.
- Faking the Dead: After it was initially believed he and the Brain perished at the conclusion of the original Arnold Drake series, they both resurfaced in an arc of New Teen Titans, the Brain explaining their survival by revealing that he and Mallah had gone underground and left dummies in their likeness to be destroyed in the explosion that was believed to have killed them.
- Funetik Aksent: Written with a phonetic French accent.
- Genius Bruiser: A gorilla with a genius IQ.
- Gratuitous French: Often adds French words to his sentences.
- Iconic Item: In most incarnations Mallah is easily identified by his red beret and bandolier.
- Intellectual Animal: A talking ape with a philosophical (if evil) outlook on life.
- Joker Immunity: He and Brain have died or seemingly died many times but always return.
- Killer Gorilla: A talking, intelligent gorilla with plans to Take Over the World.
- Signature Headgear: He's almost never seen without his signature red beret, which was gifted to him by Guevara himself.
- Stealth Pun: A gorilla who is an ex-guerrilla.
- Unholy Matrimony: He and Brain are a villainous couple.
- Uplifted Animal: Granted a genius IQ by Brain's experiments.
- Villainous Friendship: He and the Brain were initially just good friends, but they eventually got a Relationship Upgrade and became a gay couple in Grant Morrison's run.
- Wicked Cultured: Highly well-read in classic literature, politics and various fields of science.
Laura De Mille / Madame Rouge
- First Appearance: Doom Patrol vol 1 #86 (March 1964)
- Ax-Crazy: Violently insane and a danger to everyone—including herself.
- Big Bad Duumvirate: With Captain Zahl. She's more powerful than he is, but needs his army and his mind. While Rouge often acts like she's in charge, Zahl can play her like a fiddle and on some level she knows it.
- Chronic Backstabbing Disorder: Rouge worked out her loyalty conflicts by killing both the Doom Patrol and the Brotherhood of Evil. She was planning on killing her new partner, Zahl, as well at the time of her death.
- Dating Catwoman: With the Chief. It ended horribly for everyone involved.
- Dying as Yourself: Reverted to her original Laura persona when electrocuted and mortally wounded in battle with Gar.
- Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Genuinely loved the Chief and was outraged when Zahl killed him.
- Even Evil Has Standards: Is disgusted by Zahl.
- Evil Counterpart: To Elasti-Girl, right down to the actress background. Justified since Brain specifically selected her to be his answer to Rita.
- Gratuitous French: Frequently.
- It's Personal: With the Chief, the Brain, and then Robotman and Changeling/Beast Boy/Gar Logan following the murders of the rest of the Doom Patrol.
- Karma Houdini Warranty: The original run on the Doom Patrol ended in 1968, with Rouge murdering them all and making her escape. Fourteen years later, Gar Logan finally caught up with her in a 1982 issue of New Teen Titans and killed her.
- Killed Off for Real: Died in 1982 and stayed that way.
- The Mentally Disturbed: Rouge started out bipolar, developed a complete split personality, and eventually fractured completely, leaving behind only a bitter shell of a woman barely clinging to sanity.
- Pyrrhic Victory: Her "victory" over the Doom Patrol left her without a boyfriend, hunted by heroes and villains alike, dependent on Zahl, totally insane, and ultimately being killed by Gar Logan.
- Split Personality: Taken to unusually literal levels. When Brain and the Chief both staked claims on her soul, Rouge's stretching powers caused her to split into two separate bodies, one loyal to each man. In the end the good personality seemingly murdered the bad one... though this did not stop her from having a complete mental collapse shortly afterwards anyway.
- Unstable Powered Woman: She grew increasingly unstable as the run went on to the point of almost literally tearing herself in two as her good and evil sides fought for control. Eventually she recovered, only for Captain Zahl to reawaken her dormant evil as a lead-in to the final story, which had her kill her old Brotherhood allies and join him in killing the heroes.
- Woman Scorned: When she realized the Chief may have been more interested in hurting Brain than helping her, she lost her mind.
Jean-Louis Droo / Houngan
- First Appearance: New Teen Titans vol 1 #14 (December 1981)
Born in Haiti and educated in America, Jean-Louis Droo was working as a computer scientist for a large Silicon Valley computer company news of his father suffering a terminal illness reached his ears. Heading back to his home country, Droo found that modern medicine was unable to help his father and found himself turning to a local "houngan", a voodoo master.
After the Houngan cured his father, Droo became obsessed with the art of voodoo to the point of fanaticism. He mastered the art in two years, merging it with his knowledge of computer technology.
- Black and Nerdy: Houngan is of Haitian origin and was a computer scientist before he became a villain.
- Ethnic Magician: Droo is a Haitian voodoo witch doctor. Unlike most examples of this trope, he's also a Science Wizard.
- Evil Sorcerer: He's a villainous voodoo witch doctor.
- Magitek: Houngan an electro needle stylus and a computerized voodoo doll.
- Science Wizard: Houngan combines his skill in voodoo and computer science to create an unorthodox style of magic.
- Walking Shirtless Scene: His costume has no shirt.
Garguax
- First Appearance: Doom Patrol vol 1 #91 (November 1964)
- Bald of Evil: He's a bald alien and wannabe conqueror.
- Enemy Mine: Briefly worked with the Doom Patrol against the Alien Alliance during Invasion!. As soon as the invasion was repelled he went back to being their enemy.
- The Exile: It is brought up that he has been banished from his homeworld and can't return under penalty of execution by his home planet's authorities.
- Fat Bastard: Depending on the Artist. He is sometimes depicted as grossly overweight, especially in Paul Kupperberg's run.
- Genocide from the Inside: When he resurfaces in Paul Kupperberg's run, it's established that he destroyed his homeworld and is now the sole survivor of his race.
- Green and Mean: He's a green-skinned alien and as despicable as intergalactic conquerors come.
- Killed Off for Real: After Invasion! he once more tried to destroy the Doom Patrol, only for The Chief to call for a favor with the President to shoot a laser at Garguax's satellite, obliterating him. His death stayed until he was brought back as a villain in Shazam! (2023).
- Robot Master: Is an expert with android technology. Chief amongst his weaponry were a group of advanced androids called the Plastic Men, an army of superheated, super strong and invulnerable servants.
- Rogues' Gallery Transplant: Post-Rebirth, he appears as a villain in Mark Waid's Shazam series.
- Secondary Color Nemesis: His skin is green and his clothes are purple.
Otto Von Furth / Plasmus
- First Appearance: New Teen Titans vol 1 #14 (December 1981)
- Arch-Enemy: He hates Zahl for turning him into a monster and ruining his life. When Zahl bit the dust, Plasmus was angry because he wasn't the one to kill him.
- Asshole Victim: Following his death in Salvation Run, very few people would be shedding any tears for him given his crimes.
- Ax-Crazy: Full of rage and hatred, Plasmus is very violent and psychotic.
- Bald of Evil: He lost all his hair in his transformation. Not just head hair, all the hair on his body.
- Blob Monster: He was turned into a large purple, blobby creature covered in radiation.
- Blood Knight: He enjoys the fights he has with heroes, getting a rush out of them.
- Card-Carrying Villain: He openly brags about all the men, women, and children he's killed, reveling in causing pain and death.
- Evil Wears Black: The only clothing he wears is a pair of black trunks.
- Fate Worse than Death: How he views his existence. He's been transformed into a hideous monster who is forever covered in chemical burns due to radiation. Despite his body being altered, his pain receptors are still fully functional, meaning he is stuck perpetually suffering third degree burns all over his body and being forced to experience the pain.
- Freudian Excuse: He was a normal man before being kidnapped, put through heinous experiments, and transformed into a hideous monster left in a perpetual state of agonizing pain for the rest of his life. His new state left him full of rage, so he vents it by rampaging around and killing people. While this does not excuse his crimes, it explains his reason for performing them.
- Hate Sink: Freudian Excuse aside, there is nothing to like about him. He is a sadistic murderer who has killed over 75 people mostly unprovoked in horrible ways and refuses to show remorse.
- Jerkass: He is a sadistic Serial Killer who slowly kills people by melting them down with his touch. Never once does he show any remorse for his crimes, instead bragging about them. He is cruel and shows no mercy, murdering men, women, and children alike. While he has a truly horrific origin story, not once is he ever shown as being redeemable.
- Killed Off for Real: Died when he was used by Lex Luthor to power a teleportation device for the villains to use during Salvation Run, causing him to explode. Good riddance. He would eventually return in the New 52 continuity.
- Purple Is Powerful: His body is purple and he is powerful in the regard that he is able to kill just through a single touch.
- Rogues' Gallery Transplant: Also known as a foe of the Teen Titans and he faced Blue Beetle when he returned on the New 52 continuity.
- Sadist: He takes joy in murdering people, greatly enjoying their screams as they melt away. He states it's the only time he feels joy.
- Serial Killer: Claims to have murdered more than 75 people.
- The Sociopath: An example of a violent sociopath shaped into what they are as a result of abuse. He was subjected to cruel experiments and turned into an abomination that is constantly suffering pain. Now he is a violent and cruel being who seeks to make everyone around him suffer as much as he has. He is extremely violent, feels no remorse for any of the crimes he has caused, shows no empathy for anyone, and displays no standards or signs of a conscience.
- The Von Trope Family: His real name is Otto Von Furth.
- Touch of Death: His body is so radioactive that any touch will cause someone to slowly and gruesomely melt down into protoplasm. It doesn't happen instantly, which makes the process all the worse. There is no cure or treatment for the radioactive touch. Any touch will mean certain death for a normal human.
- Underwear of Power: Only wears black trunks.
- Would Hurt a Child: He brags about killing at least a dozen children and nearly killed Kid Devil by disemboweling him.
The Brotherhood of Dada
An absurdist team created by Mister Nobody after he was denied membership of the Brotherhood of Evil. Their goal is less about supervillainy and more about causing chaos and absurdity. There are two iterations of the team, with Mr. Nobody leading both versions. Later on, Mr. Nobody formed a spin-off group called the Brotherhood of Nada.
Brotherhood of Dada I
Mr. Morden / Mr. Nobody
- First Appearance: Doom Patrol vol 1 #86 (March 1964, as Mr. Morden), Doom Patrol vol 2 #26 (September 1989, as Mr. Nobody)
- Above Good and Evil: The Brotherhood of Dada sees their own bizarre existence as proof that "good" and "evil" cannot be real. Mr. Nobody specifically calls them "outmoded concepts for an antique age". Mr. Nobody considers himself above any morality, which is why he believes in absurdity and later on, pseudo-nihilism. In truth, he is shown to be an attention hog.
- Abusive Parents: He acts proud of his daughter Terry None, but uses her purely as a tool for his convenience.
- Affably Evil: Almost always happy and polite, even when bringing unimaginable chaos to the world.
- Alien Geometries: A two-dimensional Living Shadow in a three-dimensional world, and consequently is noted as being rather disorienting to look at.
- Anti-Villain: The Brotherhood of Dada, under his command, really aren't bad guys, just a group of very screwed-up and proudly insane people who just have very extreme ideas about how to make the world a better place. While their methods might be destructive and chaotic, they have very noble goals and almost all of them have very sympathetic backstories. They've teamed up with the Doom Patrol on multiple occasions, the second time especially emphasizing that they really didn't have to be enemies.
- Appropriated Appellation: Took his new name from what a horrified Dr. Bruckner gasped upon seeing him. "Herr Niemand. Mr. Nobody."
- Ascended Extra: He went from being a minor one-shot villain in the original series to becoming a more prominent antagonist when he resurfaced in Grant Morrison's run.
- Back from the Dead: Supposedly killed by John Dandy along with the second Brotherhood, he later returns in Doom Patrol #11, now pure white instead of black, calling himself "Mr. Somebody", and possessing the body of billionaire Thayer Jost.
- Being Tortured Makes You Evil: More like, "being tortured for days by ex-Nazi scientists makes you violently insane and turns you into a psychotic stick figure from Hell."
- Beware the Silly Ones: He's quite the wacky character, and much of his dialogue can be rather funny. Then he leads the Brotherhood in feeding Paris to a sentient multi-dimensional painting.
- Blue-and-Orange Morality: Mr. Nobody, and by extension the whole Brotherhood of Dada, definitely has a very strange look at the world, refusing to acknowledge the concepts of good and evil and seeking to liberate mankind from the "curse" of sanity.
- Body Surf: As Mr. Somebody he gains the ability to possess people, including Thayer Jost and Veronica Cale. After leaving their bodies, the minds of people he possessed become slightly unstable, as seen with Jost who becomes a drooling mess who can barely move.
- Brother Hood Of Evil: Mr. Nobody forms the Brotherhood of Dada, I and II, and later on the Brotherhood of Nada. However, Mr. Nobody would disagree on them being "evil".
- Brown Note: His appearance has been noted as rather disorienting to observe, where even if you're looking directly at him, it's still like you're looking at him out of the corner of your eye.
- Came Back Strong: When he returns as Mr. Somebody, he now has an additional power, the ability to Body Surf.
- Cheated Angle: Overlaps with his Brown Note entry insofar as he IS a cheated angle, rendered the same two-dimensional way regardless of where he's viewed from or what he's doing.
- Collector of the Strange: Both of strange objects and strange people. The stranger people make up his Brotherhoods of Dada and Nada.
- Cloud Cuckoo Lander: Oh boy. Where to begin? For starters, his Presidential campaign had him propose such policies as making it Christmas every day and adding another inch-and-a-half to rulers.
- Dada: The source of much of his inspiration, actions and quotations are sourced from this movement.
- Dangerous Forbidden Technique: When recounting his backstory, he uses almost these exact words to describe how Dr. Bruckner sold him on the experiment that would make him Mr. Nobody. Boy, was Dr. Bruckner right.
- The Dog Bites Back: His first action after escaping the experiment chamber where he became what he is? Kill the former Nazi scientist and all his men.
- Dream Walker: Has the power to enter the dreams of others.
- Enemy Mine: In both of his arcs, his Brotherhood finds themselves teaming up with the Doom Patrol.
- Evil Versus Evil: He's no friend of Monsieur Mallah and the Brain, both of whom have threatened to kill him if they ever see him again.
- Exact Words: While recounting his backstory, he admits that he should probably have asked Dr. Bruckner what "transforming him into a new man" actually meant.
- Go Mad from the Revelation: What happened to him when he was trapped in the White Void Room for three days.
- Gone Horribly Right: Dr Bruckner promised that the experiment would transform him into a new man. And it did, although what he became afterwards wasn't exactly a man anymore.
- The Heartless: One of his most iconic features is a small heart-shaped hole in his chest where his heart would be.
- I Choose to Stay: He is given the opportunity to become entertainment for reality shaping gods called Euonymus. He happily accepts to stay in their dimension.
- I Just Want to Be Special: In contrast to Cliff's longing to be human again, Mr. Nobody desperately clings to his bizarre uniqueness. When John Dandy turns him back to normal, he's left an inconsolable mess.
- Immune to Bullets: As a two-dimensional being, conventional weapons presumably have no effect on him whatsoever. During his backstory flashback, one of the Nazi scientist's men is shown desperately shooting at him to no avail.
- Light Is Not Good: As Mr. Somebody, he is colored white but still as evil as ever.
- Living Shadow: And a very weird and stylized depiction of one, at that.
- Mad Hatter: Leads an entire team of them, of which he is easily the most extreme.
- Meaningful Name: "Morden" is german for Murder.
- Mind Rape: He can literally drain the sanity out of someone's mind.
- Mysterious Past: Almost nothing is known about his life before joining (and then being thrown out) the Brotherhood of Evil, including his first name.
- Never Found the Body: Apparently killed by John Dandy, his body fades away to nothing after being returned to his human form.
- Non-Standard Character Design: Even for Grant Morrison's already freaky run, Mr. Nobody manages to look out of place everywhere he goes.
- Not Himself: As Mr. Somebody, his name, appearance, and motivations are the complete opposite of what he always fought for as Mr. Nobody.
- Pay Evil unto Evil: His first act in his new form is to slaughter the scientist who turned him into Mr. Nobody, along with all his men. Considering that the scientist was a former Nazi war criminal, and his men were presumably aware of this, no one will miss them.
- Power Born of Madness: Literally, he was locked in a White Void Room until he went crazy and became what he is, superpowers and all.
- Our Presidents Are Different: While he doesn't win, he campaigns for the office as a mixture of the Scheming, Buffoon, and Lunatic variations. Especially the latter one.
- Our Monstrous Superheroes Are Weirder: The entire Brotherhood of Dada, in both their incarnations. Mr. Nobody is actually one of their more conventional members.
- Start My Own: Thrown out of the Brotherhood of Evil on pain of death, later forms his own Brotherhood of Dada.
- Semantic Superpower: One of his many powers, he says that many lost and discarded objects find their way to him as they are things Nobody owns. This probably applies to things Nobody knows, which might be why he finds his teammates so easily.
- Straw Nihilist: Seeks to spread anarchy through the world because he believes the current social order is a bad joke. At one point during his Motive Rant, he makes the rather Macbethian remark that "the universe is a drooling idiot with no fashion sense."
- Stupid Jetpack Hitler: The scientist who subjected him to inter-dimensional, reality-altering experiments was a former Nazi war criminal. Quite convenient for when Mr. Nobody escapes and kills him and all his men.
- That Man Is Dead: "Mr. Morden was gone, wiped out like a chalk drawing on a slate."
- Transhuman Abomination: A 2D Brown Note Being with Blue-and-Orange Morality resulting from a bizarre experiment.
- Truly Single Parent: In the Gerard Way run, Terry None is revealed to be his daughter, having willed her into existence without a mother of any sort involved.
- Unexplained Recovery: Despite seemingly being killed by federal agent John Dandy, he reappears in Giffen's run, now pure white and with the power to possess others, as he is currently doing to billionaire Thayer Jost. As that run was Cut Short, how this happened isn't really gone into and is Hand Waved when he reappears next.
- Villain with Good Publicity: As Mr. Somebody, he creates the Front Men, a group of villains intended specifically for this purpose, to be seen publicly fighting the Doom Patrol and then cause the Patrol to look bad for fighting them.
- Vitriolic Best Buds: Affectionately refers to his followers as "My dear ludicrous friends, standing there like lost property no one wants to claim, with stupid names and even more stupid costumes."
- Was Once a Man: A guy named Morden and a former Brotherhood of Evil member, specifically.
- Well-Intentioned Extremist: He leads the Brotherhood in a quest to drive the world insane because he believes that the current social order is flawed, and a world with no order, logic, or boundaries would be far less oppressive for the poor and the downtrodden than the current one.
- White Gloves: Wears these as part of his odd, cartoonish design. In true cartoon character fashion, they're the only clothing he ever wears.
- White Void Room: Where he was subjected to torturous experiments that eventually drove him insane and turned him into what he is now.
- You Have Failed Me: When he was still Mr. Morden, he was thrown out of the Brotherhood of Evil after failing his first mission under unexplained circumstances and threatened with death if he ever tried to join them again.
The Quiz
- First Appearance: Doom Patrol vol 2 #26 (September 1989)
Born and raised in Japan, little else is known about the woman known as Quiz. The Quiz gained her powers - the unique ability to harness any power her opponents didn't think of - from the Gene-bomb. Mr. Nobody won her trust by giving her a filtered gown and gas mask to protect her from her fear, and she joined his group, the Brotherhood of Dada.
- The Bus Came Back: Unstoppable Doom Patrol has General Immortus forcibly extract her from the Painting that ate Paris to recruit her into his version of the Brotherhood of Evil.
- I Choose to Stay: She chooses to stay in the Painting that ate Paris as she is happier in it.
- Only Known by Their Nickname: The Quiz's real name has never been mentioned.
- Superpower Lottery: The Quiz possess every superpower her opponent hasn't thought of yet.
- Weaksauce Weakness: The Quiz loses a particular superpower the moment someone she is fighting against thinks of it out loud. Whenever she faces a new opponent, her complete powerset is restored — until the new foe starts thinking of superpowers.
- Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: The Quiz suffers from near crippling mysophobia: the fear of dirt.
Holly McKenzie / Sleepwalk
- First Appearance: Doom Patrol vol 2 #26 (September 1989)
- Headphones Equal Isolation: Constantly wears headphones that play Barry Manilow to prevent anything from waking her.
- I Choose to Stay: She chooses to stay in the Painting that ate Paris as she is happier inside it.
- Sleep Walking: She's always sleep walking and only wakes up when something is serious.
- Sleepy Head: Prefers to remain asleep at all times.
- Super-Strength: But only when asleep.
- Super-Toughness: But only when asleep.
- Unconscious Objector: As long as she's asleep, she packs quite a punch.
Lloyd Jefferson / Frenzy
- First Appearance: Doom Patrol vol 2 #24 (July 1989)
- Blow You Away: Lloyd Jefferson can become a living cyclone.
- I Choose to Stay: He chooses to stay in the Painting that ate Paris as he is happier inside it.
- Never Learned to Read: Lloyd is practically illiterate. He never received any formal schooling and, as shown in the letter he writes to his mother, can only write things out phonetically. At least he's able to spell his name and codename correctly.
- Spectacular Spinning: Spins at high speed to become a living cyclone.
Byron Shelley / The Fog
- First Appearance: Doom Patrol vol 2 #26 (September 1989)
- The Assimilator: He can absorb people into his fog, becoming split personalities of him.
- Mushroom Samba: He can turn into a psychedelic death fog that can absorb people.
- Named After Somebody Famous: Named after Lord Byron and Mary Shelley.
- Split Personality: The Fog absorbs the personalities of the people it absorbs. He has a hard time figuring out which personality is his original one. Absorbing Crazy Jane and all of her personalities proves too much for him and he spits them out. On the plus side, exposure to all of Jane's personalities traumatized the people inside of Byron into muteness.
Brotherhood of Dada II
Malcolm / Agent !
- First Appearance: Doom Patrol vol 2 #49 (November 1991)
Prior to being known as Agent "!", Italian citizen Malcolm had an unusual ability to blend seamlessly into any crowd, to the point where he became almost impossible to spot; he often referred to himself as a man "who comes as no surprise." Unfortunately, this ability was not one that he could consciously control, and this made it extremely difficult for him to make or maintain friendships or other social interactions. Particularly given the nature of his ability, he longed to know what it was like to surprise someone.
- "Eureka!" Moment: As he is dying, a small plane flies out of his chest, surprising his assailants, and showing Malcolm the element of surprise was inside him the entire time.
- Killed Off for Real: He is killed by government snipers.
- Perception Filter: Agent "!" seamlessly blends into any crowd, giving him the ability to go invisible while others are around.
- Power Incontinence: Agent "!" can't consciously control his powers; they just happen when he's around other people.
Alias the Blur
- First Appearance: Doom Patrol vol 2 #49 (November 1991)
Alias the Blur was created when Ilse Krauss, a German actress, fell in love with her own reflection. She became obsessed with the mirror and spent years gazing into it. In her madness, she perceived her own slow aging as her lover being replaced. Broken-hearted, she tried to "murder" the mirror by deforming it with battery acid. Distressed by the warped image this created, Ilse shot herself in the head, putting her in a permanent coma. The mirror, meanwhile, remained haunted and tortured. Placed in a junkyard, the mirror was roused from its slumber and devoured the time of a nearby child, immediately aging him, but empowering itself.
- Killed Off for Real: Alias the Blur is killed by Yankee Doodle Dandy.
- One-Steve Limit: In an earlier storyline Rhea Jones speculates that rather than being an actual angel, the Judge Rock may actually have been a mental projection of a woman named Ilse Krauss; there's no other apparent connection between the Judge Rock and Alias, so this may be a case of the writer recycling a scrapped idea.
- Rapid Aging: Alias the Blur can rapidly speed up the aging process of whoever looks in its mirror.
Bobby Charmichael / Love Glove
- First Appearance: Doom Patrol vol 2 #49 (November 1991)
Born and raised in Hull, Bobby Carmichael was a young man living a dissatisfied life on the dole when he began to have a dream about a mysterious whispering figure and a tree which grew gloves. One night, he put one of the gloves on his right hand, and when he awoke he found he had lost both his arms; in the place where his right hand should be, the glove from his dream hung in empty space. He obeyed the summons of the strange figure in his dream, which called him to Venice and the new Brotherhood of Dada.
- Floating Limbs: The Love Glove has invisible arms and the power to use magic gloves.
- Killed Off for Real: He is killed by government agents to stop Mr. Nobody's presidential campaign.
- Tricked-Out Gloves: The Love Glove is able to access an alternate dimension where the mysterious Glove Tree grows. He is able to pluck and wear these gloves on his missing left hand, and they grant him various abilities, such as super strength, technopathy, and painting very well.
The Toy
- First Appearance: Doom Patrol vol 2 #52 (February 1992)
The Toy was meant to be recruited into the Brotherhood of Dada on the day Mister Nobody unveiled his plan to merge the reality of the Painting That Ate Paris with the real world. Unfortunately, she arrived too late, and the entire Brotherhood was killed by Yankee Doodle Dandee before she'd even arrived. She is later recruited by Thayer Jost, actually possessed by Mr. Nobody, into his corporate team.
- The Cavalry Arrives Late: She constantly arrives late for any battles or appointments. This actually saves her life when the rest of the Brotherhood is killed off.
- Killed Off for Real: Much later on, she is killed by the Mr. Somebody possessed Thayer Jost.
- Mysterious Past: Her past and even her real name were never revealed.
Number None
- First Appearance: Doom Patrol vol 2 #49 (November 1991)
Number None is, essentially, bad luck. It is everything that gets in your way and causes you to stub your toe. Every cupboard door left open on which you smack your head. Though Number None was recruited into the Brotherhood of Dada, it is not necessarily anybody in particular.
Brotherhood of Nada
A group of "villains" brought together based on having nothing in common. They join Mr. Nobody in his quest to destroy reality. This also leads them to have a falling out with Mr. Nobody, as since they have nothing in common they had no reason to stay together either. Alice Debries / The Breeze
- First Appearance: Doom Patrol vol 6 #9 (January 2018)
According to Mr. Nobody, Alice was the best at anything she tried. She eventually became bored with being so good at everything, and became a villain to try something new.
- The Ace: Literally called that by Mr. Nobody, and the reason she went into supervillainy in the first place.
- Badass Normal: She has no explicit superpowers, and is instead just really good at everything.
- Good Is Boring: Though we don't know if Alice was ever "good", she was bored being the best at everything, leading her to try out villainy.
- Informed Ability: We are told that Alice is good at everything she tries, but during her stint on the Brotherhood of Nada she isn't shown to be anymore competent than any of her teammates. We don't even see her doing that much, which doesn't properly shown her abilities.
Hector Alvarez / Hector the Boy Detector
- First Appearance: Doom Patrol vol 6 #9 (January 2018)
According to Mr. Nobody, Hector was an ordinary boy who liked building sandcastles at the beach. One day, he found an alien metal detector and uses it to search out for adventure and loose change.
- Adventurer Archaeologist: Implied with his motif of using a metal detector to uncover adventure.
- Beachcombing: A mild-mannered boy, the young Hector Alvarez was building sand castles on the beach when he uncovered an alien metal detector which allowed him to detect anything, from loose change to adventure.
- Everything Sensor: Hector carries a metal detector of alien origin which can be used to detect any kind of corporeal object or abstract concept.
- Jet Pack: He flies with one, though it seems to be unrelated to the metal detector.
- Minion with an F in Evil: Of all the Brotherhood of Nada, he performs the least evil acts.
Daisy Langdon / The Brutalist
- First Appearance: Doom Patrol vol 6 #9 (January 2018)
According to Mr. Nobody, Daisy was a promising scientist who had an accident involving radioactive cement. She became a living brutalist sculpture, that feeds on the pain and misfortune of others while beating them to death.
- Emotion Eater: She feeds on the pain and misfortune of others.
- Living Statue: Is a living brutalist sculpture.
- Taken for Granite: Originally human, Daisy was fused with radioactive cement into a brutalist sculpture.
50% Chad
- First Appearance: Doom Patrol vol 6 #9 (January 2018)
According to Mr. Nobody, he is a "mysterious pair of oversized legs, feet, bits and a tush", with nothing else known. Even Mr. Nobody wonders where he came from or even if he is 50% of a larger being.
- Fan Disservice: He's nothing but a waist and legs, most character design would stop there, but 50% Chad gets much more vile than that. He has no method of putting on something that covers himself up, so he's left in underpants and socks, with his hairy legs visible and obvious small pee stains on his front.
- Humanoid Abomination: He is the bottom half, maybe, of an even larger being, or simply exists as he is. Either way, 50% Chad is one of the weirder members of the Brotherhood of Nada.
- Power Nullifier: His stench is so strong that being near him can weaken an opponent by 50%.
- Show Some Leg: He is a lower torso, starting from the crotch, and except for underwear and socks is otherwise naked.
- Who Needs Their Whole Body?: Appears to be the lower half of a much larger being.
Lucius Reynolds / The Great Ludini, the Teenage Nothing
Lucius is interested in things like the occult, which his father finds very strange. The two have a strained relationship after Lucius' mother left them to join a cult four years prior, leaving Sam to raise Lucius alone. He is approached by Mr. Nobody and given magical superpowers. Tropes related to him are above.
Other Villains
Captain Zahl
- First Appearance: Doom Patrol vol 1 #121 (October 1968)
A former Nazi U-Boat commander, turned criminal mercenary, Captain Zahl was left down an arm and confined to a neck and back brace after a confrontation with the Chief. Allying with Madame Rouge, Zahl destroyed both the Doom Patrol and the Brotherhood of Evil. Hunted down by Robotman, Zahl (now calling himself "general") died when his bullets ricocheted off of Cliff's steel shell and back at him, leaving him mortally wounded.
- An Arm and a Leg: Has only one arm.
- Badass Normal: No superpowers. Still one of the deadliest villains of the Silver and Bronze Ages on the basis of sheer evil.
- The Bad Guy Wins: The Silver Age Doom Patrol run ended with Zahl manipulating Rouge into helping him kill every single member of the Doom Patrol and then making good his escape, a victory that stood unchallenged until 1982, and was never fully undone in his lifetime (only Robotman had returned from the dead at the time of Zahl's own death).
- Bald of Evil: Under his officer's cap, Zahl's bald.
- Big Bad Duumvirate: With Madame Rouge. She's more powerful than him, but she needs his army and his intellect. She thinks she's in charge, in practice he pulls the strings.
- The Captain: Held the rank of captain in the Kriegsmarine.
- Commissar Cap: Always sported a green officer's cap.
- Diabolical Mastermind: The mind behind both a mercenary army and the destruction of the Doom Patrol.
- Dying Smirk: Died gloating to Robotman about having had the last laugh.
- Evil Counterpart: The Chief's second one. The Chief was a heroic genius trapped in a wheelchair. Zahl was a Diabolical Mastermind who could walk, but required a back brace.
- Evil Cripple: Zahl was missing an arm and had his spine held together by a brace.
- Evil Old Folks: Well into old age at the time of his death in the 1980s.
- Former Regime Personnel: A former Nazi naval officer and submarine commander, Zahl outlived the government that trained him by thirty-seven years.
- Four-Star Badass: Subverted. Zahl was a dangerous man, and he was calling himself "general" at the time of his death, but the rank was self-rewarded rather than genuinely earned. The highest rank he legitimately earned was that of captain, and in the German Navy (where the highest rank possible would be "admiral"), not the Army.
- Funetik Aksent: Sometimes written with a stereotypical German accent, sometimes not.
- Gratuitous German: Sometimes interspersed his English with random German.
- Handicapped Badass: Zahl was physically impaired, yet still incredibly dangerous.
- Hero Killer: Killed off the Doom Patrol and kept them that way for fourteen years, making himself into a feared figure in the hero and villain communities in the process. In reality only Elasti-Woman truly died
- High-Class Glass: His monocle evokes the classic image of the Nazi Nobleman.
- Hired Guns: Zahl was working as a freelance supervillain when he first battled the Chief.
- Hoist by His Own Petard: Killed by his own bullets rebounding from Robotman's armour and striking him.
- It's Personal: Zahl collects personal vendettas like some men collect stamps. His attempts at avenging himself on Caulder for crippling him earned him the very personal ire of not only Caulder himself, but of Robotman (for killing his friends), Gar Logan (for killing his adoptive mother), Plasmus (whom he mutated into a monster), the Brain and the Brotherhood of Evil (for helping Madame Rouge try to murder them), and his own partner-in-crime, Madame Rouge (for killing the Chief).
- Karma Houdini Warranty: For fourteen years, Zahl's murder of the Doom Patrol stood unchallenged and unanswered. Cliff eventually stopped him, but it was a hollow victory as Zahl died before he could face justice, like his fuhrer.
- Killed Off for Real: Zahl has been dead since 1982.
- Knight of Cerebus: Zahl finished Madame Rouge's journey to the dark side, and killed off the entire team. Most of them were eventually resurrected, but the Doom Patrol stories never returned to the light-hearted fare of the 1960s.
- Manipulative Bastard: Zahl makes a career out of manipulating Madame Rouge to his own ends.
- Non-Action Big Bad: Between his age, his lack of superpowers, and his physical condition, Zahl wasn't up to much in the way of actual combat—though that didn't stop him from carrying a gun and being prepared to use it.
- Psycho for Hire: Zahl took criminal jobs to satisfy his own sadism more than anything else.
- Sadist: To the point where it revolts his partner, Madame Rouge.
- Sadistic Choice: Gave the Doom Patrol the chance to save their own lives, or that of an innocent village in Maine. When they chose to save the villagers, Zahl blew up the Doom Patrol despite Madame Rouge's protests.
- Those Wacky Nazis: Still a dedicated Nazi, decades later.
- Villain Killer: He not only destroyed the Doom Patrol, but also the Brotherhood of Evil in his lifetime.
General Immortus
- First Appearance: My Greatest Adventure #80 (June 1963)
- Age Without Youth: Immortus' formula has kept him alive for millennia, but hasn't saved him from visibly aging. With the formula lost, Immortus is now aging in real time again, and the effects of his thousands of years of life are catching up to him.
- Bald of Evil: He has no hair and has been one of the Doom Patrol's enemies from day one.
- Bling of War: Immortus has worn some snazzy uniforms, replete with gold braid and medals.
- Chest of Medals: A feature of some of his uniforms.
- Elderly Immortal: Even when the alchemy is working, Immortus looks like an old man.
- Evil Old Folks: Immortus is ancient, and it shows on his face. Even when operating at the best of health, he still has the look of an elderly man.
- Fights Like a Normal: Immortus has no superpowers save his longevity. When forced into combat, he battles like any ordinary, elderly man—albeit one with thousands of years of experience under his belt.
- Four-Star Badass: When in good health Immortus can bring the fighting skills he has earned across thousands of years into play.
- Fusion Dance: Unstoppable Doom Patrol concludes with him merging with the Candlemaker into one being.
- Immortality Immorality: There's not much Immortus won't do to keep on living at this point.
- Immortality Seeker: His main motivation is to recreate or replace the Elixir of Life that was responsible for his unnaturally long lifespan and that he has lost.
- It's Personal: Immortus crippled the Chief, while the Chief has almost certainly ensured that this life will be Immortus' last. It's hard to get more personal than that.
- Klingon Promotion: The first issue of Unstoppable Doom Patrol ends with him organizing a coup to take over the Brotherhood of Evil by convincing Monsieur Mallah to destroy the Brain.
- Legion of Doom: Teamed up with the Brotherhood of Evil and Garguax for a while in the Sixties.
- Take Over the World: This is Immortus' endgame, though at the moment he is more distracted by the need to extend his life.
- Those Wacky Nazis: Worked with them for a time, though without really subscribing to their ideology. He still has one of the uniforms in his wardrobe and has donned it occasionally.
Percival Sutter / Doctor Tyme
- First Appearance: Doom Patrol vol 1 #92 (December 1964)
Doctor Tyme is a criminal who can control the flow of time. His helmet contains a device that can project a 4-X beam. The beam can slow down or speed up an object's personal time.
- Bald of Evil: Without his clock-shaped helmet he's shown to be bald.
- The Bus Came Back: He only made one appearance in the original 1960s series and vanished after that, but eventually resurfaced in 52 and Keith Giffen's run.
- Green and Mean: His clothes are green and blue.
- Mundane Utility: Uses his time-stopping powers to commit petty crimes.
- My Nayme Is: It's 'Time' but with a 'Y'.
- Small Name, Big Ego: He believes he is the Doom Patrol's arch enemy. In truth, they have mostly forgotten about him. He also believe the CIA is after him because his favorite show was canceled, and he believes they did that to attack him.
- Time Stands Still: This is how his time-ray works.
Sven Larson / Animal-Vegetable-Mineral Man
- First Appearance: Doom Patrol vol 1 #89 (August 1964)
Formerly a student of Niles Caulder, Swedish scientist Sven Larson gained powers when he fell into a vat of mysterious amino acids. His power is to transform any part of his body into a form of animal, vegetable or mineral; frequently he uses different combinations of all three for the most devastating effects.
- Freak Lab Accident: How he gained his powers.
- Full-Frontal Assault: He goes on a rampage in the nude in the seventh issue of Keith Giffen's run.
- Gender Flip: John Arcudi's run had an in-universe TV series based on the original team that depicts an interpretation of him dubbed "Morphex", who is Robotman's wife.
- Heel–Face Revolving Door: He presumably reforms at some point due to being a member of Celsius' new team The Doomed during Doomsday Clock. Come Unstoppable Doom Patrol, he's back to being a villain, with DC's Ghouls Just Wanna Have Fun confirming that Arani kicked him out of The Doomed for killing people.
- Shapeshifter Mashup: Frequently combines animal, mineral and vegetable components in his forms.
- Shapeshifter Weapon: He can transform his limbs to use as weapons.
- Sizeshifter: Animal-Vegetable-Mineral Man can switch between his regular human height and giant sizes, usually in conjunction with his transformations.
Arsenal
- First Appearance: Doom Patrol vol 1 #113 (August 1967)
An armored mercenary hired by Nicolas Galtry, former guardian of Gar Logan, to kill the boy so that Galtry might get his hands on the Logan fortune. He was soundly thwarted by the Doom Patrol and revealed to actually be of very small stature. In the end, Arsenal was defeated by the members of the Doom Patrol and arrested. His armored suit was taken into custody, but later stolen by Galtry, who used it himself for another try at Logan.
- Arm Cannon: One arm of the Arsenal armour is a gun.
- Blade Below the Shoulder: One arm of the Arsenal armour is a sword.
- The Napoleon: The original Arsenal was a near-midget wearing a giant suit of armour.
- One-Steve Limit: Has nothing to do with Roy Harper's second code name Arsenal.
- Powered Armor: Wears an armoured battlesuit.
John Dubrovny / Mister 104
- First Appearance: Doom Patrol vol 1 #98 (September 1965)
John Dubrovny was an average man, who was an average achiever throughout his life. He settled down with his wife and went about his daily routine of working as a molecular engineer. However, John wasn't happy with his average life, or his colleagues' perceptions of him. When all his colleagues had left for the night, John continued to work on his own side project, resurrecting the long thought dead science of alchemy. The device he created, however, worked in a different way to his expectations. When he was caught in the device's ray, he was transformed into an amalgamation of all the elements he wanted to manipulate. Dubrovny then found he could become one or any combination of the elements found in the periodic table.
- Artifact Name: His villain identity comes from the number of elements on the periodic table at the time of his debut back in The '60s. Even in his repeat appearances in the original run, he jumped from Mr. 103 to Mr. 104.
- Beard of Evil: Has a goatee.
- Freak Lab Accident: Source of his powers.
- Mad Scientist: A "genius bio-chemist who suffered a mental collapse", to use Niles Caulder's description.
- Meaningful Name: His villainous identity is the number of elements on the contemporary periodic table.
- Ridiculously Average Guy: Despite his genius as a molecular engineer, he was considered painfully average.
- Secondary Color Nemesis: His costume is green and orange.
- Voluntary Shapeshifting: One of Mister 104's powers. He can shape parts and portions of his body instead of the whole.
Ashok Desai / Kalki
- First Appearance: Doom Patrol vol 2 #1 (October 1987)
The father of Arani Desai (a.k.a. Celsius). Though born in poverty in Calcutta, India, Ashok Desai gained a science degree at Oxford University. He returned to India, determined to cure his country's social ills. Desai's wife died giving birth to their daughter, who would grow up to become Celsius of the Doom Patrol. Ironically, Desai's association with the Patrol's founder and leader - Niles Caulder - years before the groups founding, involved experiments that horribly mutated Desai's body, making him a living dimensional gateway. Believing himself to be the living incarnation of the Hindu god Kalki, deity of destruction, Desai amassed wealth and power before targeting the Doom Patrol and his own daughter Arani for revenge.
- Evil Cripple: Kalki's experiments with immortality left his body twisted and deformed. The containment suit he wears makes his deformities bearable.
- A God Am I: Ashok believed himself to be an incarnation of the Indian god Kalki, who was prophesized to bring about the destruction of Earth.
- Hellgate: Kalki’s body is a living dimensional gateway that opens up to a world populated with demons.
- Legacy Character: Possibly. During Doomsday Clock, a member of India's super-team The Doomed is listed with the codename "Son of Kalki". If there's a relationship between him, Ashok and Arani, it's never explored.
- Sinister Scythe: One arm of Kalki's containment suit ends in a serrated scythe blade.
Red Jack
- First Appearance: Doom Patrol vol 2 #24 (July 1989)
A powerful God-like entity that collects butterflies in a deathless dimension to feed on their pain. He claimed to be both Jack the Ripper and the Creator of the Universe.
- Butterfly of Death and Rebirth: 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, and when they're freed by Kay he almost immediately dies.
- Color Character: Red Jack.
- Demiurge Archetype: The DC universe has quite a few entities running around claiming to be God or an emanation thereof. But whether or not he is Red Jack fits the insane monster part of it given his Domain Holder abilities and the fact that evidence does point to him being ancient.
- Domain Holder: He causes all manner of traps and changes to appear to vex the Doom Patrol even changing the environment instantly to aid him in battle.
- Emotion Eater: He feeds on the suffering of others, and because Death Takes a Holiday from his realm he can keep the suffering going forever.
- Humanoid Abomination: While it's very unlikely he's the actual God, he's certainly one of the former, being an ancient creature who feeds on pain and rules over an Eldritch Location where Death Takes a Holiday.
- Sadist: How do you call someone who feeds on the pain of others?
- Shout-Out: To the Redjac used by a certain sci-fi series that also served as a mythological ripper stand-in.
- Spring-Heeled Jack: Another title Crazy Janes calles him before settling on Red Jack.
- Use Their Own Weapon Against Them: Rhea does this while half-awake, stabbing him with his own knife and actually turning the Curb Stomp of a fight the Doom Patrol was locked in into something actually winnable.
- White Mask of Doom: Covers what one assumes is his face, although he doesn't have a neck to speak of.
Shadowy Mister Evans
- First Appearance: Doom Patrol vol 2 #47 (September 1991)
The Shadowy Mr. Evans is one of the harbingers of the Apocalypse. He claims to be the original serpent of Eden.
- Bald of Evil: Has no hair on top of his head. Instead he has a periscope.
- Can't Take Criticism: He's been torturing some poor bastard for ages just because the guy criticized Evans' singing.
- Green and Mean: Wears a green robe.
- Faux Affably Evil: Jovial and bombastic, yet violent and cruel.
- Humanoid Abomination: He might look like a man in green robes with a periscope on his head, but is one of the harbingers of the Apocalypse and claims to be the serpent of Eden.
- Large Ham: He's something of a primadonna who tends to moan about his "sensitive health" and is rather eager to show off his singing abilities if asked nicely.
- Mister Seahorse: He seems to be giving birth to a floating baby still tied by the umbilical cord under that robe.
- Tom the Dark Lord: Shadowy Mister Evans.
- We Will Meet Again: He vows to return after his defeat, but hasn't been seen since.
- Would Hurt a Child: He's got a little boy servant named Clanky whom he constantly berates and kicks around.
The Scissormen
- First Appearance: Doom Patrol vol 2 #19 (February 1989)
- Diabolus ex Nihilo: They just sort of begin seeping into reality without warning and disappear equally fast.
- Humanoid Abomination: Tall creatures of cloth with scissors for hands who cut people from reality and bring them back to Orqwith.
- Knights and Knaves: The two priests of Orqwith.
- Reality-Breaking Paradox: In Orqwith there are two priests, one who lies and one who doesn't, awaiting for the question that will unmake 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 erasing Orqwith and the Scissormen with it.
- Red and Black and Evil All Over: Their bodies are mostly black with red.
- Shout-Out: To the Scissorman from Literature/Struwwelpeter.
- Orqwith is one to ''Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius.
- Sign of the Apocalypse: Their arrival is heralded by bizarre events, such as a shadow killing its owner or spotaneous combustion.
- Starter Villain: The first antagonist of Grant Morrison's run.
- Word-Salad Horror: Their speech resembles dada poetry.
The Candlemaker (Spoilers for the ending of Morrison's run)
- First Appearance: Doom Patrol vol 2 #51 (January 1992)
- Anthropomorphic Personification: Initially the Candlemaker was an egregore, created by unconscious tensions that surround historical crisis moments. In other words, it's the avatar of such possible menaces of the 20th century as World War III and the nuclear bomb.
- The Fourth Wall Will Not Protect You: The final arc of the Grant Morrison run has it seeping into the real world/Qwewq, also seen in Animal Man.
- Hijacked by Ganon: Just when the Chief was unleashing the nanobots, it used them to manifest itself onto reality.
- Humanoid Abomination: An Anthropomorphic Personification of the end of the world that looks like some sort of demon with a crown of candles and can't exist in the physical plane.
- Jackass Genie: Subverted. Every wish the Candlemaker grants doesn't have any bizarre twist. It killed the kid who bullied Dorothy, destroyed the Telephone Avatar, and revived Joshua Clay exactly as Dorothy wanted. Subverted, however, when it then kills Josh all over again after bringing him back.
- Omnicidal Maniac: Wants to destroy all of reality as part of its nature.
- Reality Warper: Seems to have this, which allowed it to tempt Dorothy with wishes.
- Sealed Inside a Person-Shaped Can: Candlemaker ended up trapped inside of Dorothy's subconscious and the only way he could be free is if she made at least three wishes.
- Summon Bigger Fish: The Candlemaker serves as a Deus ex Machina to stop the Telephone Avatar after everything else has proved unable to stop it.
- Tulpa: A being created by the fear of WW3.
Beard Hunter
- First Appearance: Doom Patrol vol 2 #45 (June 1991)
- Basement-Dweller: Franklin was 36 years old, lived with his mother and stuffed German shepherd named Sheba, and didn't have a girlfriend because he thought that women are total waste of time and money.
- Corrupted Character Copy: The Beard Hunter is a vicious parody of The Punisher, deconstructed such that he's really just an overgrown dweeb overcompensating for his colossal Freudian issues.
- Creepy Souvenir: Wears a belt made from the beards of men he has killed.
- Freudian Excuse: Became a Serial Killer because of his inability to grow a beard, and is implied to be overcompensating for other supposed failures of masculinity.
- High-Voltage Death: The Chief managed to electrocute Frank by making him step onto camouflaged electrized aluminium foil.
- Killed Off for Real: Did not survive his run-in with Niles Caulder.
- Laughably Evil: His over-the-top nature, hammy dialogue and absurd aversion towards beards easily make him one of the Doom Patrol's funnier villains.
- Monster of the Week: He was a one-shot antagonist who was killed off in his single appearance.
- Once Killed a Man with a Noodle Implement: He boasts that he knows 100 ways to kill a man using a box of matches and a TV remote control.
- Self-Made Orphan: Murdered his stepfather.
- Serial Killer: Targets men with beards.
- You're Not My Father: It's implied the reason he killed his stepfather is because he didn't see him as his real father.
Terry None
- First Appearance: Doom Patrol vol 6 #1 (November 2016)
A mysterious girl who tap dances into Casey Brink's life. She moves in with her and begins marketing a foodstuff called $#!+, which has reality altering properties. She also has sex with Casey and becomes pregnant very quickly. She is revealed to be Mr. Nobody's daughter and is key to the plan to use $#!+ to destroy reality, using her tap dancing powers. She is forced by Mr. Nobody to stay with him as entertainment for Euonymus.
- Daddy's Little Villain: The daughter of Mr. Nobody and his partner in his latest plot.
- Dating Catwoman: She is the Catwoman for Casey Brinke.
- Freud Was Right: The costume patterns in her crotch look very gynic, which adds to the psychosexual themes the Doom Patrol tends to touch.
- Magic Dance: She can tap dance and cause reality altering events with it. She accidentally causes Casey's roommate to explode (it's alright, he was moving out anyway) and uses $#!+ to almost destroy reality.
- Mystical Pregnancy: After having sex with Casey, she rapidly becomes pregnant. When she gives birth, the baby is a white void that almost destroys reality as well.
- Trapped in Villainy: To a certain degree. She willingly helps her father, Mr. Nobody, sell $#!+ and try to destroy reality. When Mr. Nobody forces her to stay with him in Outer Heaven as entertainment for Euonymus, she wants to leave but is forced by him to stay.
- Whole Costume Reference: Her costume is modeled after Dada, one of the most recognizable monsters from Ultraman.
The Disappointment/Haxxalon the Star Archer
- First Appearance: Doom Patrol vol 6 #4 (March 2017)
Haxxalon the Star Archer was originally a fictional character made for a comic and television series to sell toys. After it was discovered his toy products emitted a strange radiation, his toyline was cancelled and comic book banned. He became the Disappointment, a being that exists outside of continuity.
- Blank White Void: The Disappointment is this, being an all white being with a vague humanoid shape. Across his body is a label that reads "Withheld Due to Copyright".
- In Their Own Image: He kills Ahl, the God of Superheroes, and is able to usurp his position, using his new reality bending powers to give him the comic book ending he always wanted.
- Kill the God: He does this to Ahl, the God of Superheroes, using Ahl's only weakness: a brick that can think, which happened to be Danny the Brick.
Retconn
- First Appearance: Doom Patrol vol 6 #9 (January 2018)
A multiversal organization that hijacks and rewrites realities for the purpose of making entertainment. They instigate the "Milk Wars" to bring uniformity.
- Big Bad: Of the "Milk Wars" crossover event between the Young Animal series and Justice League series.
- Void Between the Worlds: Retconn exists beyond the normal universe. This allows them to affect continuity within the DC Prime universe.
Milkman Man
- First Appearance: JLA/Doom Patrol Special (March 2018)
One of the main antagonists of the "Milk Wars" crossover event. He is used by Retconn to transform the DC Universe into an ideal 1950s-style utopia. He is as strong and fast as Superman. He is actually the son of Casey Brink and Terry None, who at his birth was captured by Retconn and raised to enforce their rules. He carries brainwashing milk.
- Anti-Villain: He genuinely believes he is doing good by altering reality and milk-washing everything.
- Beware the Superman: He has all the powers and abilities, and seemingly none of the weaknesses, of Superman. If it wasn't for him being a nice villain, he could have obliterated the Doom Patrol and JLA.
- Brainwashed and Crazy: Not him, but the milk that is part of his schtick, as an enforcer of Retconn, can brainwash people and alter reality. People have to drink it to be brainwashed.
- Flying Brick: As a version of Superman, he seemingly has all of his powers, including flight and super strength.
- Superman Substitute: Enforced in universe. As he was born a blank, after he was abducted by Retconn they made him their Superman, including a similar backstory of being placed in a rocket and being Happily Adopted.
