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Bruce Wayne / Batman
Bruce Thomas Wayne / Batman
Species: Human
Billionaire playboy by day, dark protector of Gotham City by night.
- Crimefighting with Cash: The Trope Codifier. Cyborg even mentions that he's "rich on a different level".
- The Ghost: Only mentioned by various characters.
- Two First Names: "Bruce" and "Wayne".
The Flash
The Flash
Species: Metahuman
A superhero that Cyborg mentioned.
- Ambiguous Situation: Since his superhero name is the only one mentioned, it's unclear if this Flash is Jay Garrick, Barry Allen, Wally West, or Bart Allen. It's inferred him and Cyborg are acquaintances, but as this version of Victor hasn't made it to the Justice League, it's possible he's Wally West.
- The Ghost: His existence is only confirmed by Cyborg mentioning him.
- Super-Speed: Is a speedster.
Hawkman
Hawkman
Species: Unknownnote
A superhero that Robotman mentioned.
- The Ghost: He is only mentioned and never makes a physical appearance.
- Winged Humanoid: His primary distinguishing trait. He is named Hawkman, after all.
Superman
Superman
Species: Kryptonian
One of the most impressive members of the Justice League
- The Ghost: Only mentioned by Cliff.
Powered Individuals
Willoughby Kipling
Willoughby Kipling
Species: Human/Warlock
Played By: Mark Sheppard
A friend of Niles Caulder, and a practiced chaos magician.
- Anti-Hero: Sarcastic, drunk, and morally flexible. Ultimately, primarily on the side of the heroes.
- Ascended Extra: He appears far more frequently than his comics counterpart did, who had little appearances in Grant Morrison's run besides his involvement with the team's encounters with the Decreator and the Candlemaker (and, aside from a cameo in Rachel Pollack's run, never resurfaced until Unstoppable Doom Patrol, which was published during the show's final season). Here, in addition to playing a part in the television series' adaptations of the relevant arcs, he continues to show up as an ally to the Doom Patrol afterwards, to the extent that he appears in at least two episodes of all four seasons.
- Black-and-Gray Morality: Kipling has no doubt done some messy things, but its always against greater threats to the world. In Season 2, while not passing judgement, doesn't seem to approve of Nile's experimentation.
- Bunny-Ears Lawyer: Kipling is a fantastically powerful magician who is also a washed-up drunk and half-insane.
- Combat Pragmatist: The man's willing to break a lot of moral lines for the greater good. In season 2, he's of the position that Dorothy needs to be killed for the greater safety of the world.
- Deadpan Snarker: Every other line that drips out of his mouth is this.
- Experienced Protagonist: He is very experienced with all of the weirdness going around to the point that it no longer phases him and he has a plan for just about everything.
- Expy: Is one of John Constantine, naturally. In the Doom Patrol comics, Kipling was created because the creators were forbidden from using John in the series.
- Flaming Sword: When having to engage in some melee combat, he uses his magic to pull out a huge flaming sword. He does this twice when fighting many Cult of the Unwritten Book members and some of the Werebutts. He is seemingly able to handle it by the blade.
- Good Is Not Nice: On top of his aforementioned moral ambiguity, the Doom Patrol hate talking to him for just being a prick.
- Hero of Another Story: Off on more magical adventures than Niles.
- Hot Skitty-on-Wailord Action: It turns out that he has the hots for Baphomet, which is an issue because aside from the fact that she apparently doesn't feel the same way, she's just a horse head and neck, doesn't even have a torso.
- Manipulative Bastard: Pretends to go along with the Doom Patrol's plan, but backstabs Cyborg as soon as he can to go for his simpler Shoot the Dog plan. On a more playful note, in season 2, he only comes to Niles' aid after the other performs a song number with an umbrella.
- Occult Detective: Naturally, as a John Constantine Expy.
- Older Than He Looks: He was apparently born in the 15th century, his childhood imaginary friend was a Punch and Judy doll.
- Old Friend: Is this to Niles.
- Psycho Sidekick: Niles keeps him around to do things that Niles doesn't want to do. Like "taking care" of Dorothy after she hits puberty.
- Really 700 Years Old: He reveals that he was a child during the 15th century in "Wax Patrol".
- Secret-Keeper: He knows Niles was responsible for the Doom Patrol's "accidents".
- Shoot the Dog: Is willing to shoot and kill Elliot in "Cult Patrol" to save the world. Similarly, he is totally prepared to kill Dorothy to prevent the Candlemaker from emerging.
- Translator Buddy: Kipling can understand zombie languages when he acts as a translator for the undead Doom Patrol for Darren Jones.
- Trenchcoat Brigade: He's got the suit, the stubble, the accent, and the experience for it.
Valentina Vostok
Valentina Vostok
Species: Metahuman
Played by: Mariana Klaveno
A member of the Chief's space research team who made contact with a negative energy entity.
- Adaptation Dye-Job: This version of Valentina Vostok has brown hair, when she was a blonde in the source material.
- Adaptational Early Appearance: She was associated with the Chief and bonded with a negative spirit before Larry Trainor's accident, when in the comics she was a Distaff Counterpart to Negative Man who was introduced in the second roster Celsius formed after the original team was seemingly killed.
- Adaptational Modesty: She wore a uniform with a Navel-Deep Neckline in the comics even when she wasn't bandaged, while this incarnation wears a completely modest spacesuit.
- Alternate Self: Has one on Earth-Prime as herself and an undesignated Earth as Lara Lor-Van.
- Comic-Book Movies Don't Use Codenames: She is never called "Negative Woman".
- Chummy Commies: Despite having been recruited back during the Cold War and not being aware that it's long over, she is perfectly friendly to the Doom Patrol.
- Death of Personality: She is far more at peace with her negative spirit than Larry is with his, but it's come at the cost of much of her personality. She no longer sees herself as an individual but as a hybrid being, part human and part spirit.
- Demoted to Extra: She only appears for one episode in spite of being a prominent member of the team's second roster in the comics.
- Distaff Counterpart: She is a woman with the same abilities as Larry.
- Due to the Dead: In "Space Patrol", she returns to Earth in order to bury her companions, who died years ago and are only being kept mobile by alien spores.
Wally Sage
Wally Sage
Species: Metahuman
Played by: Daniel Annone
An Adman who can bring drawing to life.
- Adaptation Origin Connection: He is the creator of Casey Brinke instead of Danny the Street in this continuity.
- Adaptational Villainy: In the comics, he's just a mild-mannered metahuman that created Flex Mentallo. Here, he's Immortus' herald and The Dragon of Season 4.
- Art Initiates Life: Can bring anything he draws to life.
- Chekhov's Gunman: A flashback character primarily used to establish how Metahumans are treated in the 1910s. He returns in Season 4 as a major player in the the attempt to bring about Immortus.
- The Creator: Created Flex Mentallo, as well as Torminox.
- From Nobody to Nightmare: A pencil pushing nerd forced to become a weapon by the Bureau of Normalcy. In the present, he effortlessly orchestrates an attack on Danny the Street that assimilates the Dannyzens into an army and force Dorothy to cave to his demands.
- Unwitting Instigator of Doom: While working for the Bureau of Normalcy, he ends up shooting Malcolm in a panic. As a result, nearly all the problems of Season 3 emerged from his mistake.
- Well-Intentioned Extremist: He originally got involved with the Cult of Immortus because he was horribly broken after killing Malcolm and he thought that Niles' plan to use Immortus to create a safer world for Dorothy would be his way of atoning. Of course, this vision was not quite shared by his fellow cultists, and it turns out that Immortus doesn't much care about his intentions, either.
Danny Street
Danny the Street
Danny the Street
Species: Sentient Street
A sentient street who travels between cities, causing citizens to feel different emotions.- Adaptational Gender Identity: This interpretation of Danny the Street is non-binary, when the character was addressed with male pronouns in comics printed before this show was produced.
- Alternate Universe Reed Richards Is Awesome: On Earth-9, Danny Street is just an ordinary street that the Doom Patrol happen to live on. Here, Danny is fully sentient and magical.
- Becoming the Mask: They initially imprisoned Dorothy in exchange for some unrevealed favor from Niles (presumably involving protection from the Bureau of Normalcy), but over time, they grew to genuinely care about Dorothy, and by the 1960's had started to call out Niles for abandoning her.
- Camp: Though it might be a tad unnecessary debating whether a sentient street (let alone one that is non-binary) is gay or straight, they're definitely camp, like in the comics, where their effeminate mannerisms influence others.
- Composite Character:
- Word is that this version is inspired by both the Grant Morrison and Gerard Way versions of the character, as a sentient street with a vibrant personality that causes happy emotions for the residents regarding the former, and will let their personality seep into others regarding the latter.
- Their fate at the end of the first season reduced to a single brick is straight out of the Keith Giffen version of the Doom Patrol that Morrison's and Way's versions bracket.
- Deadpan Snarker: When Larry asks why the Bureau of Normalcy was after them, Danny responds with this:Danny: You know a lot of sentient, teleporting, genderqueer streets, Larry?
- Drag Queen: Danny influences one named Morris to becoming Maura Lee Karupt. There are also plenty of other Dannyzens who are drag queens.
- Emotion Eater: A heroic version. According to Maura Lee, Danny gains sustenance from the happiness and well-being of the residents, without draining them of it. They are either unwilling or unable to go full on Lotus-Eater Machine to achieve that.
- Genius Loci: Danny is a very warm, friendly, welcoming... place.
- Honor Before Reason: Their promises to the Chief keep the Doom Patrol in the dark and hampers the team's success. While Danny knows Niles' decisions aren't always the best decisions, they still support them out of misplaced loyalty. This shatters their relationship with Dorothy when she realizes Danny was often more of a prison than a friend.
- My God, What Have I Done?: Dorothy's reaction to their betrayal forces them to acknowledge their culpability in Dorothy's loneliness and that they weren't a good friend. It's this that leads Danny to decide that they can't be a street anymore and begins to take a new form.
- Nice Guy: They happily chat up and accommodate anyone, as long as they do not harbor clearly hostile intent.
- Non-Human Non-Binary: A sentient street who goes by they/them pronouns. Its unclear if being a street influences gender identity in any way, though they at least seem to be capable of experiencing orgasms so its probably not due to No Biological Sex.
- Shapeshifter: Danny can change their shape and generate matter. However, at the end of season 1 Danny remains a brick and seems unable to shift back without the Dannyzens throwing them a party.
- Talking with Signs: How Danny communicates with everyone.
- Teleportation: Their main power, and how they move around.
- Where Everybody Knows Your Flame: Danny is home to Peeping Tom's Perpetual Cabaret, a thoroughly fabulous 24-hour club with drag shows and karaoke.
Flex Mentallo
Flex Mentallo
Species: Metahuman
Played by: Devan Long
Flex Mentallo is a comic book superhero brought to life, having powers of altering reality by flexing. He is kidnapped by the Bureau of Normalcy, but rescued by the Doom Patrol.
- Adaptational Nice Guy: When he first got his powers in the comics, he not only beat up his childhood tormentors but cast aside his girlfriend because he felt she was crimping his style. Here, he's about as nice as he was when he joined the team.
- Break the Cutie: His imprisonment in the Ant Farm has destroyed most of his mind by the time the Doom Patrol encounters him.
- Bruiser with a Soft Center: May seem like a big muscular guy, but he's very sweet and gentle, beloved in his hometown and was in a loving and happy relationship with his wife.
- Canon Character All Along: He debuts in "Cyborg Patrol" as a long-haired, bearded prisoner of the Bureau of Normalcy who uses his cell number 722 as his name. The next episode reveals he's this continuity's interpretation of Flex Mentallo.
- Gentle Giant: He's 6'4, very well-built and he's a sweetheart, through and through.
- Happily Married: To his wife Dolores, with her being the reason why he allowed himself to be experimented on by the Bureau of Normalcy as they held her hostage. Unfortunately, their reunion doesn't last long.
- Heroic Build: He's swole.
- Mr. Fanservice: His regular clothes are just boxers and combat boots, leaving his chiseled features out in the open
- Mythology Gag: He first appears as a hairy, bearded man before his true identity is revealed, echoing his debut in Grant Morrison's run on the Doom Patrol comic book.
- Nice Guy: Can easily befriend anyone and repeatedly shows himself to be a kind and caring person.
- Older Than They Look: Doesn't look a day older today than he did in 1964.
- Pec Flex: His Muscle Mystery power activates when he flexes, so expect him to go into body-builder poses during a fight.
- Pre-Climax Climax: Causes one in Penultimate Patrol when he accidentally flexes the wrong muscle and as a result the entire Doom Patrol (except Cliff) and all the Dannyzens orgasm.
- Reality Warper: He seems to be able to do just about anything with his "Muscle Mystery powers" so long as he is able to use his muscles. Moving his chin is sufficient for telekinesis while a full body flex blacks out a city.
- Real Men Wear Pink: He's a buff bodybuilder who loves soap operas and happily gets into the swing of things when partying with Danny.
- Stripperiffic: A rare male example of this trope.
- Superpower Lottery: Just about anything can happen when he flexes. As stated above, while warping reality is one of his main abilities, as long as he can use his muscles, he has multiple powers that are a mystery even to him.
- Super-Senses: He can hear things that normal humans are flat out unable to, like the Negative Spirit or Grid inside Vic's software.
- Walking Shirtless Scene: He's mostly clad in his bracelets, boots and Underwear of Power.
- Weaksauce Weakness: His powers require him to be able to flex to do anything, so no flex means no go. The Bureau was able to hold him by using a device that kept him mostly immobile and even then what little movement he did have let him use his powers at a very low level. Certain effects require certain flexes so it is possible to get a misfire if he flexes incorrectly.
- The Worf Effect: He's rendered useless during the fight with the Shadowy Mr. Evans when the villain uses telekinesis to exploit Flex's aforementioned weakness.
Morris Wilson / Maura Lee Karupt
Morris Wilson / Maura Lee Karupt
Species: Human
Played by: Alan Mingo Jr.
A former agent of the Bureau of Normalcy-turned-crossdressing cabaret singer on Danny the Street.
- Accidental Misnaming: She mistakenly refers to the Candlemaker as "Candleman" and keeps getting Torminox's name wrong.
- Adaptation Name Change: She is loosely based on the comic character Sergeant Washington, a government agent who became a drag performer at Danny the Street's cabaret club Peeping Tom's under the name Lovely Louisa Washington at the end of the Men from N.O.W.H.E.R.E. arc.
- Ascended Extra: Her comic equivalent Sergeant Washington only appeared near the end of the Men from N.O.W.H.E.R.E. arc. In this continuity, she is a recurring character.
- Badass Normal: Despite having no superpowers, her former Bureau training has given her a knack for taking command of a situation. In "Casey Patrol", when she tells Torminox to shut up after he upsets Dorothy, he actually does it.
- Deadpan Snarker: She has a pretty sharp wit, ribbing Cyborg over his inability to comprehend non-binary gender and coming up with several unflattering nicknames for Torminox.
- Heroic Sacrifice: She attempts a non-fatal one in her first episode, suggesting that she willingly return to her former life as an agent of the Bureau of Normalcy so she can convince the Bureau to call off their hunting of Danny. Danny isn't having any of it and insists that Maura not give up being true to herself just to protect Danny.
- Punny Name: Her drag name is a play on the words "morally corrupt". She in fact chose her drag name as a deliberate middle finger at the Bureau of Normalcy.
- Wholesome Crossdresser: She is very friendly and welcoming, to the point that even Vic and Larry, two of the Doom Patrol's most uptight members, are on friendly terms with her.
Imaginary Friends
In general
- Adapted Out: Very few of Dorothy's imaginary friends from the comics appear, to the extent that the Candlemaker and Darling Come Home are the only ones from the source material used.
- Canon Foreigner: Manny and Herschel were created for the television series and neither exist in the comics.
Manny
Manny
Species: Imaginary Friend
Manny was an imaginary creature tied to the traditions of Slava's people.
- Mix-and-Match Critters: Sports the body of a bear, the head of a wolf with the fangs of a Smilodon, and the antlers of a reindeer.
- The Voiceless: The only one of Dorothy's imaginary friends not to talk.
Herschel
Herschel
Species: Imaginary Friend
Played by: Brian T Stevenson
One of Dorothy's imaginary friends who takes the form of a giant spider and seems fond of playing pranks on others.- The Gadfly: He seems to enjoy messing with others, jumping out at Niles and telling him a knock-knock joke and jump-scaring Dorothy leading her to accidentally drop Danny.
- Giant Spider: Herschel takes on this form.
- Imaginary Friend: He only appears for Dorothy, unless she's feeling incredibly happy or very scared.
- Intangibility: He has the ability to pass through solid objects as if they weren't there.
- "Knock Knock" Joke: He tells one to Niles when he tries to talk to Dorothy but won't answer the door.Herschel: Knock-knock!
Niles: (stuttering) Wh-who's there?
Herschel: Armageddon!
Niles: Armageddon who?
Herschel: Arma-gettin tired of hearing all of those knocks!! - Talking Animal: He's a giant spider that can talk.
Darling Come Home
Darling
Species: Imaginary Friend
Played by: Vanessa Cater (body), Kat Cressida (voice)
One of Dorothy's Imaginary friends who takes the form of a woman with a face out of a mirror, two lightbulbs for eyes and floating lips.- Adaptational Heroism: In the comics, she's an abusive monster inspired by Dorothy's traumatic upbringing. Here, she's just a creepy but mostly-friendly big-sister figure.
- Composite Character: She has more in common with Dorothy's imaginary friend Pretty Miss Dot than Darling Come Home's comic incarnation, being a benign big sister figure to her creator.
- Genki Girl: She's almost as chipper as Dorothy as she seemed excited at the prospect of Niles bringing back presents for them after his new trip. She also talked to Jane in a sing-song voice saying, "Our father is dying~!"
- Imaginary Friend: She only appears for Dorothy, however she does show up if the girl is feeling really happy or very scared.
- Not Quite Human: She looks fairly human like until you see her head and elongated fingers.
The Candlemaker
Candlemaker
Make a wish...
Species: Imaginary Friend
Played by: Lex Lang
One of Dorothy's imaginary friends who seems keen on her making wishes, and she appears to be afraid of him.
Organizations
SeX-Men
SeX-Men
Played by: Michael Tourek (Kiss), Tracey Bonner (Torture), and Michael Shenefelt (Cuddles)
The SeX Men are a team who deal with paranormal sexual situations.
- Adaptational Diversity: Their comic counterparts were all men, while Torture is reinterpreted as female and black.
- Adaptational Modesty: They are depicted wearing fully concealing jumpsuits here, when their comic book incarnations walked around in open jackets that revealed their bare chests.
- Adaptational Mundanity: This continuity's version of the group are depicted as nothing more than a trio of ordinary people with hi-tech equipment, when their comic counterparts were outlandish-looking men with blue skin who had lipstick markings on their foreheads and pyramid-shaped appendages on top of their scalps (and one of them was shown to survive decapitation).
- Bunny-Ears Lawyer: Their job and the beings they fight sound absolutely ridiculous on paper, but the fact that the threats they face actually have the potential to end the world, easily shows that their existence isn't a complete joke. They're decently good at it but understandably need some help from the super-powered Doom Patrol when things ramp up.
- Divergent Character Evolution: Their comic counterparts were all identical aside from their nametags and lacked distinctive personalities. In this continuity, they are ordinary people who are easily distinguishable, with Torture being a black woman and Kiss being bald and bearded to distinguish him from the team's other Caucasian male Cuddles.
- Expy: Blatant one to the Ghostbusters, being a group of people who use science to bust paranormal threats (namely Sex Ghosts in their case), wearing similar jumpsuit/coverall uniforms, and they even carry around pseudo-Proton Packs!
Dead Boy Detectives
The Dead Boy Detectives
Played by: Sebastian Croft (Charles Rowland), Ty Tennant (Edwin Paine), and Madalyn Horcher (Crystal Palace)
The ghosts of two dead children, Charles Rowland and Edwin Paine, who, rather than enter the afterlife, stay on Earth to become detectives investigating crimes involving the supernatural, they saved Crystal from Demonic Possession and have let her become a part of their group.
- Adaptational Sexuality: Edwin Paine in this continuity is established to be gay and harboring a crush on Charles Rowland, when Edwin was indicated to like girls in the crossover with The Books of Magic featured in the third issue of Vertigo: Winter's Edge as well as the 2014 series by Toby Litt.
- Batter Up!: Charles wields a bat that's proven to be effective against supernatural beings like them. According to him, the reason it's a baseball bat is because he's in the states. One can only guess what he carries around in his native country.
- Blank White Eyes: Crystal's eyes turn milk white when her powers activated, followed by an echoing voice.
- Cannot Spit It Out: It is heavily implied that Edwin has had unrequited love for his best friend, Charles, for years, but he can't bring himself to say it. Edwin justifies it by saying he doesn't want to ruin his long friendship with Charles just because he has romantic feelings towards him, but Larry still suggests he try to be more true to himself.
- Dark and Troubled Past: From the bits of their past revealed, the lives of the boys before their deaths were not pleasant ones and their deaths were particularly painful. Crystal herself was possessed for an entire year by a demon and forced her to watch as he committed untold atrocities.
- Deadpan Snarker: Edwin is the one who mainly dishes out quippy remarks, sometimes just so he can annoy the others around him.
- Dies Differently in Adaptation: Charles Rowland here died from getting hypothermia by staying in the ice cold water as his schoolmates stoned him, when in the issue of The Sandman (1989) that introduced him and Edwin Paine, he was murdered by the ghosts of the bullies Barrow, Cheeseman and Skinner.
- Gayngst: Growing up in the 1910s did not provide Edwin with the healthiest view of his sexuality, which Larry quickly picks up on.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: They're sarcastic assholes at the best of times, but they ultimately prove to be heroic friends and allies to the Patrol.
- Laser-Guided Amnesia: Crystal was rescued from Demonic Possession by the boys, but on its way out the demon removed all her memories of her parents.
- Platonic Life-Partners: Crystal is this towards her two ghost guy friends, Charles and Edwin. She only sees them as her best friends because they were the ones who saved her life from a demon named David.
- Ret-Canon: The 2022 Dead Boy Detectives miniseries that's part of The Sandman Universe has made it canon in the comics continuity that Edwin is secretly in love with Charles.
- Those Two Guys: Charles and Edwin have been best friends for four decades and they are always seen together.
Others
Slava
Slava
Species: Metahuman
Played by: Pisay Pao
An immortal primitive woman with whom Niles falls in love and the mother of Dorothy.
- Ambiguously Evil: Her involvement with the Candlemaker puts much of her character under question, but she still appears to have genuinely loved Niles and Dorothy.
- Canon Foreigner: She's exclusive to the live-action TV show, as Dorothy Spinner in the comics was raised by Abusive Parents who were later revealed to be her adoptive parents and little was revealed about her birth mother aside from her being unable to reunite with her.
- Mama Bear: She gave Manny to Dorothy to ensure that Dorothy would always have a friend and protector.
- Reality Warper: Dorothy gains her powers from Slava, although Slave's creations are far more focused on mythological creatures than Dorothy's imaginary friends.
- Sink or Swim Mentor: If Dorothy's visions and the Candlemaker is to be believed, she created the Candlemaker fully for the purpose of pushing Dorothy into adulthood so she could survive on her own.
- Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Her romance with Niles plays a heavy role in Niles' actions across the show's timeline.
Elliot Patterson / The Unwritten Book
Elliot Patterson / The Unwritten Book
Species: Human
Played by: Ted Sutherland |Marco Schittone (12-Year-Old) | Beau Hart (7-Year-Old)
Elliot, also known as the Unwritten Book, is destined to summon the Decreator and bring the world to disappear.
- Abusive Parents: His mother didn't care about him and she only thinks of him as a book to used him to summon the Decreator when he turns 18. Subverted with his father since does care for him deeply and the last thing he did was warn his son before being killed by his wife.
- Adaptational Hairstyle Change: He has a full head of hair when his comic counterpart had a shaved head.
- The Antichrist: He is destined to be read by the cult followers and summon the Decreator to bring the world to an end.
- Driven to Suicide: Elliot tries this but can't bring himself to do it, even to save the world.
- Human Notepad: The language for the book is part of his skin.
- Killed Off for Real: He is one of several people killed by the Decreator. He is implied to have stayed dead, since he did not return to the spot where he was decreated, compared to others the Recreator brought back to life. Larry seems to believe that he chose to stay dead, in the next episode.
- Named by the Adaptation: His incarnation in the comic book was unnamed.
- What Happened to the Mouse?: After Recreator restored everything back to normal, it is unknown if he's revived or permanent killed by the Decreator. However, in the next episode, Larry thinks Elliot chose to stay dead and he's never coming back instead of being revived by the Recreator.
Baphomet
Baphomet
Species: Metaphysical Oracle
Played by: Chantelle Barry
A magical being summoned by Willoughby Kipling to assist with magical issues. She is sentient horse head (and neck) that acts as an oracle to help find and predict disasters before they occur.- Beautiful Singing Voice: The first time (in the series) she is summoned, she sings the answer of where to find Elliot/the Unwritten Book, to the tune of A Horse With No Name.
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Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: As mentioned above, Baphomet sings the answer of where to find the Unwritten Book. When she is summoned subsequently, she does not sing again, making her initial singing out of place. - Seers: Baphomet is one and can predict events before they occur. She can pinpoint things to very fine details.
- Talking Animal: When summoned, she appears to be a horse head and neck.
Civilians
California
Sheryl Trainor
Sheryl Trainor
Species: Human
Played by: Julie McNiven
Sheryl Trainor is Larry Trainor's ex-wife.
- Awful Wedded Life: She had a very unhappy marriage since her husband, Larry rarely comes home and spend time with the family. This is one of the reasons why she left him and take the kids with her after his accident. We find out that she apparently did really care about him, as his apparent death broke her, and she and one of her sons fell into what the other son considered to be conspiracy theories when they heard rumors that Larry was still alive, for the rest of their lives.
- The Beard: She was married to Larry, who is a gay man. Despite the two's obvious struggles, they do seem to care for one another.
- Canon Foreigner: Larry Trainor was never married in the comics.
- Posthumous Character: Only appears in Larry's flashbacks. In "Frances Patrol", according to Larry, she died of cancer in 1989.
Gary Trainor
Gary Trainor
Species: Human
- Canon Foreigner: Larry Trainor did not have children in the comics.
- Posthumous Character: Like his mother, he only appears in flashbacks and Larry finds out about his death at the start of season 2.
Paul Trainor
Paul Trainor
Species: Human
Played by: John Getz, Fletcher Hammand (young)
One of Larry's sons and part of Larry's only surviving family.
- Betrayal by Offspring: Sells Larry out to the government, out of revenge for decades of bitterness.
- Canon Foreigner: Larry Trainor did not have children in the comics.
- Calling the Old Man Out: While trying to reconnect with Larry, Paul can't help but let his bitterness slip through in conversations, although he's quick to apologize. It sprawls into a much larger call out by the end of their relationship when his son got shot and he blames his dad even though all his dad did was pretty much self defense and he was trying to genuinely fix things between them.
- Foil: In many ways, he's everything Larry wanted to be. Paul is a military man with a long, successful career. He has a loving family and a close relationship with his son and grandson. Paul himself explains that he took the life path he did to honor Larry's death. Unfortunately, he's also inherited a lot of Larry's bitterness and rage and hides it much better than Larry.
- Laser-Guided Karma: Ends up joining the Bureau of Normalcy to piss off his father. Then he gets trapped in the Fog's trap, decaying his sanity, and requiring his father's help to save his life.
- Misplaced Retribution: His bitterness towards Larry drives him to join the Bureau of Normalcy; why is he bitter towards Larry? Because Larry wasn't there for him as a child...which was because Larry was basically kidnapped by the Bureau of Normalcy and spent decades in their 'care'. Possibly justified because Larry, even when defending himself, doesn't bring up this fact.
- Never My Fault: His son gets shot in the subsequent shoot-out between Larry and the government agents. Agents Paul brought to the house. He's last seen screaming about how Larry poisons everything even though it was his fault that his son got shot in the first place.
- Parental Abandonment: Getting kidnapped by the government didn't exactly allow Larry to be a present father figure. However, Larry also chose to avoid his family for decades out of shame.
- Rage Breaking Point: He had already sold out Larry, but getting confirmation that Larry could never love Sheryl the way she loved him drives him into a total breakdown.
- "Well Done, Son" Guy: Played with. Unlike Gary, Paul accepted that Larry was dead and tried to move on with his life. But he also dedicated his life to the military as a tribute to his allegedly deceased father.
Detroit
Silas Stone
Dr. Silas Stone
Species: Human
Played By: Phil Morris
Victor's father and a scientist who rebuilt him as a Cyborg.
- Alliterative Name: Silas Stone.
- Alternate Self: On an unnumbered Earth as himself and on Earth-167 as Jonn J'onzz.
- Composite Character: A mild case, but he mentions that he consulted with Caulder on building Cliff's body. In the comics, it was Will Magnus.
- Foil: With Niles Caulder. The two men are well-respected scientists who worked wonders to save lives and worked with the Bureau of Normalcy, so different degrees. But while Niles is friendly and affable, Silas is cold and distant. Both did risky operations of love for their children, but while Niles hurt numerous others to do so, Silas fights much harder to avoid crossing any moral lines. Silas even resents the implication that he and Niles are the same sort of man.
- Foreshadowing: His dismissal of the Doom Patrol as a bunch of "circus freaks" takes on a new light when it turns out he knew Niles was essentially using them as lab rats and likely feared that Niles was trying to use his son for his own experiments.
- Freudian Excuse: As he describes his own experiences in the Eternal Flaggelation, it becomes clear that much of his stern behavior and his push towards Vic's success as a superhero is a subconscious need to create a symbol of black heroism to fight against the racism he's experienced in his day-to-day life.
- Parents as People:
- He really does want what's best for his son, but his controlling nature and evasiveness push the two apart and make Vic susceptible to believe Mr. Nobody's lie that Silas programmed him with Fake Memories.
- After Cyborg's Heroic BSOD, he's stuck between respecting his son's wishes and encouraging him to get out into the world again.
- Poor Communication Kills: His evasiveness consistently does damage to his relationship with Vic whenever his secrets are exposed. This includes the hidden Sadistic Choice in Cyborg's origins, the darker funding problems that allowed Cyborg to exist, the fact that Silas was fired from S.T.A.R. Labs when Vic protected Roni, and the experimental synthetic skin technology that could have been used instead of cyber tech.
- Sadistic Choice: It turns out that his wife didn't die in the accident but once they reached S.T.A.R. Labs it was only possible to save one of them. Niles convinced him to save Vic.
- Second Episode Introduction: Debuted in "Donkey Patrol".
- "Well Done, Son" Guy: Has a strained relationship with Vic, and is probably the one more responsible for that distance.
- What the Hell, Hero?: He does not take kindly to Niles advising him to be warm to his son, considering it's coming from the man who's done as much damage to the Doom Patrol as he has.
- He's also furious when Vic allows Roni to escape from the police which would cost Silas his job.
Elinore Stone
Elinore Stone
Species: Human
Played by: Charmin Lee
Victor's mother, who died in the same accident that turned Vic into Cyborg.
- Alternate Self: Has one on Earth-Prime as Batina and one as herself on an undesignated Earth.
- Chekhov's Gunman: She knew about Niles's scheme to create the Doom Patrol and was disgusted enough to tell Silas.
- Dead All Along: Naturally, the twist being she died a little later than Vic was lead to believe.
- Deceased Parents Are the Best: Compared to his fraught relationship with his father, Vic image of his mom is that of perfection. When he briefly gets a chance to see her again in the afterlife, she's still nothing but gentle and encouraging to her son.
- Mama Bear: While she keeps it together around Vic, she's considerably displeased when she learns that her husband turned Vic into a "living weapon."
- Morality Chain: She keeps both Niles and Silas in line and expresses her anger when they choose to engage in various immoral scientific acts.
- Older Than They Look: She looked the same age in 1988 as she does 26 years later.
- Posthumous Character: Died before the start of the series.
Roni Evers
Roni Evers
Species: Human
Played by: Karen Obilom
A military vet that Vic encounters in a PTSD group therapy session.
- Adaptation Relationship Overhaul: Ronald Evers was best friends and later enemies with Cyborg in the comics. Now, as Roni, the two are lovers in the show.
- Dark and Troubled Past: Forced to join the military to escape the slums. Promised benefits she never saw in exchange for signing up for expensive, dangerous military technology. Committed many illegal operations for Quorum before the tech was removed. Now slowly dying of poisoning while experiencing PTSD, anxiety, and various pain. Roni has had it rough.
- Dating Catwoman: Deconstructed. Vic's loyalty to Roni, in spite of her violent acts, puts him under government watch lists and puts him at risk of being shut down. Roni herself isn't interested in spending any more time with someone who could betray her to the cops, leaving Vic the only one hurt in the end.
- Gender Flip: A new interpretation on Ronald Evers, one of Cyborg's personal enemies.
- Roaring Rampage of Revenge: When given access to advanced technology, Roni chooses to launch a violent terrorist campaign against Quorum for the damage they did to her with the time she has left.
- Your Days Are Numbered: The Quorum tech removed from her spine left several attachment points that are slowly poisoning Roni's organs. It's part of why she isn't initially interested in pursuing a long-term relationship.
Deric Hayes
Deric Hayes
Species: Human
Played by: Elijah R. Reed
Vic's childhood best friend.
- Badass Normal: After following Vic to Orqwith to save the Doom Patrol, he acquits himself surprisingly well against the Scissormen despite not having any formal combat training.
- Canon Foreigner: He was created for the television series.
- Chekhov's Skill: He used to design diagrams and schematics for the school robotics club, which comes in extremely handy in Orqwith, where any sufficiently detail drawing can become an actual object. He uses his drawing skills to create a functional replica of Vic's arm cannon as well as a battle robot.
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Kate Steele
Kate Steele
Species: Human
Played By: Katie Gunderson
Kate Steele was the wife of Cliff Steele.
- '80s Hair: A given since she appears in Cliff's flashbacks to 1988.
- Canon Foreigner: Cliff Steele was not married in the comics.
- Off with His Head!: She was decapitated in a car accident.
- Posthumous Character: She died before the start of the series.
Clara Steele
Clara Steele
Species: Human
Played By: Bethany Anne Lind (as an adult), Sydney Kowalske (as a child)
Clara is the daughter of Cliff and Kate Steele.
- All Lesbians Want Kids: Clara is a lesbian and marries her partner Melissa during the second season so they can raise their unborn son together.
- Baldness Means Sickness: Clara is fated to get cancer late in life. Juding by future Rory's tears soon after, she didn't make it.
- Calling Parents by Their Name:When Clara sees her father again, she calls him by his first name instead of "Dad". It is presumably because she sees her adoptive father as her real father rather than her biological father, Cliff. Subverted in "Dad Patrol".
- Canon Foreigner: Cliff Steele did not have children in the comics.
- Daddy's Girl: Clara loves her father very much in her early childhood.
- Hand on Womb: Clara put her hands close to her lower stomach when Cliff tries to give his daughter her late birthday gift. Cliff finds out his daughter is pregnant after he sees a bunch of baby shower gifts in her house.
- Happily Adopted: Adopted by Bumper Weathers after the death of her parents, and judging by what she said at Bumper's funeral, they had a very good relationship.
- Parental Abandonment: Her mother was killed in a car accident while her biological father was taken by a Mad Scientist and believed he died as well. She is also introduced in The Present Day during her adoptive father's funeral.
- Riches to Rags: She was born during Cliff's heyday as a racing megastar. But after her parents' deaths, she was adopted by Bumper, who has a more modest lifestyle.
- Sole Survivor: She is the only survivor after her parents were killed in a car accident.
Bump Weathers
Bump Weathers
Species: Human
Played By: Alan Heckner
Bump Weathers was a member of Cliff Steele's pit crew during his time as a racer. He had an affair with Kate Steele, and after Cliff's accident, became the adoptive father of Clara Steele.
- Canon Foreigner: He was created for the television series.
- Character Death: His funeral is being held in "Frances Patrol".
- Posthumous Character: He's dead in The Present Day and only appears in Cliff's flashbacks and hallucinations.
- Promotion to Parent: Adopted Clara Steele after the death of her parents, and judging by what she said at his funeral they had a very good relationship.
RJ Steele
RJ Steele
Species: Human
Played By: Michael Harney
Cliff's Dad.
- Domestic Abuse: From what we see of him in his flashback in "Therapy Patrol", his treatment of his wife was monstrous.
Rory Steele
Rory Steele
Species: Human
Played By:
Clara's son and Cliff's grandson.
- Canon Foreigner: As Cliff's daughter Clara was created for the television series and didn't exist in the comics, it's a given that Cliff doesn't have any grandchildren in the source material either.
- Generation Xerox: Rory will go on to make the same mistakes Cliff made in life, with his failed marriage being one noteworthy parallel. But he will have his daughter and eventual granddaughter to connect with.
- Inelegant Blubbering: Rory is understandably broken when his mother succubs to cancer.
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SSgt John Bowers
Staff Sergeant John Bowers, USAF
Species: Human
Played By: Kyle Clements (young) | Tom Fitzpatrick (old)
Staff Sergeant John Bowers was an Air Force mechanic who worked closely with pilot Larry Trainor who was also his secret lover.
- Canon Foreigner: He was created for the television series to give Larry a male lover as part of the show reinterpreting him as gay.
- Died in Your Arms Tonight: A variant. He died of old age besides Larry while they're catching up.
- Mr Fix It: He works as an Air Force mechanic.
- Scratchy-Voiced Senior: He had a very strong, forceful voice in the flashbacks when he is still young, but when Larry finally reconnects with him in the present, his voice has become thin and scratchy, the results of advanced age and illness.
- Subordinate Excuse: Larry was his commanding officer when they were having a Secret Relationship.
