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3While the series is unrepentant in its raunchy insanity, it isn't afraid to remind you that our characters are all very vulnerable, hurt, depressed and flawed people. Tugging the heartstrings by showing all the tragedies they have and will face.
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5!!Season 1
6[[folder:Pilot]]
7* Basically the origin story of ''all'' the Doom Patrol members. While it's established that they definitely weren't saints before their respective accidents what ends up happening to them is well undeserved.
8** Rita was a glamorous TheFifties star and TheDiva. She was arrogant and possibly racist/ableist but didn't deserve to have her entire body become an uncontrollable shape-shifting blob. Not only did she melt like a candle in front of the crew, but she also spent decades in an insane asylum afterward.
9** Cliff was also an arrogant douchebag cheating on his wife with the nanny, TheAlcoholic, and a narcissistic race car driver. Shortly before barely surviving a wreck, he discovers his wife's infidelity and tries to put back his marriage only to decapitate himself as well as his wife via car accident with his daughter in the back.
10** Larry was a closeted gay man in the 1960s US military (where it was illegal), trying to balance his life with his family as well as lover. He then burns himself horribly in a plane wreck he shouldn't have survived but leaves him a mass of scar tissue. His wife then left him, taking their kids, and he drove away his lover.
11** Victor was angry at being benched from his football career in high school when he knocked some chemicals off a table. This caused an explosion that killed his mother and left him the {{Cyborg}} he is today. [[UnreliableNarrator Except maybe not.]]
12* The entirety of the sequence in which Cliff remembers how he lost his family in the car accident and his utterly destroyed reaction.
13[[/folder]]
14
15[[folder:Paw Patrol]]
16* Elliot was raised to be a superhero and told he would save the world from the day he was born. It turned out, instead, he was TheAntiChrist and meant to destroy it. He doesn't even get to rule the world afterward as it'll be completely unmade along with the afterlife.
17[[/folder]]
18
19[[folder:Doom Patrol Patrol]]
20* The reveal that the original Doom Patrol have all had their minds broken by Mr. Nobody and have to spend their final days in a LotusEaterMachine because they are that much of a danger not only to other people but themselves as well. And Niles (who had thought about having Jane live with them, even if he didn't go through with it) doesn't even visit them, at least not very often.
21-->'''Jane:''' So he just abandoned them? Like broken toys?
22[[/folder]]
23
24[[folder:Therapy Patrol]]
25* Vic attempting to use the dating app. After being swamped with messages from Cyborg fangirls, Vic asks Grid to filter out the results of anyone searching for "Cyborg". He receives a match to a pretty young nurse and the two strike up a nice conversation. Then she asks him for a fresh photo, which Vic sends. The worst part is, Grid has hacked a camera feed showing Vic the girl responding in real-time, therefore allowing Vic to see her recoil in horror at the photo, which prompts him to delete his profile.
26* Larry's flashback to when he was a child. He just got back from school when he heard his parents' conversation about his sexuality. Larry's parents are ashamed and disappointed at Larry when his mother discovers from the school principal that he saw him by the swing sets "playing doctors" with another boy, and calls him a queer. What's worse, his parents don't accept him for who he is and this was one of the reasons why he has to hide his sexuality.
27* Larry's entire speech to the negative spirit. Talking about his fears of anyone finding out his sexuality, the thought of what he is ruining his life.
28* Jane's flashback to when she was just a baby. She is crying in her crib, and instead of her father coming in to calm his child he just watches for a minute before leaving her there to cry.
29* While it's later revealed that this is a result of Mr. Nobody (and a country mouse) screwing around with his mind, it's pretty hard to watch Cliff having a psychotic breakdown. Even without their help, Cliff is so angry about his daughter being raised by another man, having to live as a brain inside a robot and the fact that it was ''him'' that came back, that his brain is screaming because he can't really process all of it the way a flesh and blood man would.
30-->'''Cliff:''' Shit's the same! Same fights! Same apologies! Over and over; a vicious cycle! Maybe Clara's lucky! She got out! Maybe that's why I can't call Clara! 'Cause the second thing I'm gonna have to explain, after '''how the fuck am I alive''', is why it's '''me'''! Why is it me, not her mom, who came back?! [[SurvivorGuilt It should have been Kate!]] ''[[SurvivorGuilt Oh God, it should have been Kate!]]''
31* Cliff and Jane getting into it and giving each other a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech is pretty heartbreaking.
32-->'''Jane:''' You'll never be a father because you aren't even a ''man''!
33-->'''Cliff:''' ({{Beat}}) [[TranquilFury I'm the only one here who can stand you, and I only like one sixty-fourth of you.]]
34* Although PlayedForLaughs, watching "Admiral Whiskers'" mother being run over in front of them is pretty heartbreaking.
35[[/folder]]
36
37[[folder:Danny Patrol]]
38* While visiting Danny the Street, Larry is urged to get up on stage and sing. After some reluctance on his part, with encouragement by Danny, Larry steps up and gives an amazing performance, wowing the crowd, with Danny's magic seemingly transforming Larry back to his old self. This moment is probably the happiest we've seen Larry all season. Unfortunately, it's all revealed to be an imagination sequence by Larry, showing his deep pain at wanting to let go and be himself, but he cannot bring himself to do so due to his deep-seated self-hatred.
39[[/folder]]
40
41[[folder:Jane Patrol]]
42* Jane's breakdown in general; her talk with Cliff about giving up on herself:
43-->'''Cliff:''' You're on a table in the Chief's Lab. All of us are worried sick about you. Come back.
44-->'''Jane:''' I can't.
45-->'''Cliff:''' Why?
46-->'''Jane:''' Because I don't see the point in going back!
47* While it's unclear whether it's meant to be, Cliff tearing off his skin and declaring himself "not a man" can feel decidedly bittersweet. Yes, he's finally finding a way to help Jane... but to do so he has to actively mutilate his own self-image and sense of personhood.
48[[/folder]]
49
50[[folder:Cyborg Patrol]]
51* Vic's [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone horrified reaction]] after Mr. Nobody manipulates him into giving Silas a near-fatal NoHoldsBarredBeatdown. Joivan Wade really sells the final shot of the episode, which is of Victor weeping while cradling his dad's lifeless body.
52[[/folder]]
53
54[[folder:Flex Patrol]]
55
56* Flex Mentallo's reunion with his wife Dolly is equal parts touching and tragedy. As the Bureau of Normalcy has sadistically implanted a [[ExplosiveLeash flesh-eating parasite]] on her which kicks in when she reunites with her husband. The poor old lady is given a CruelAndUnusualDeath by slowly disintegrating in Flex's arms. You can easily feel Flex's misery as he show's his sorrow by flexing. Which would normally be {{Narm}}y but veers into NarmCharm by just how horrifying and sad the whole situation is.
57[[/folder]]
58
59[[folder:Penultimate Patrol]]
60* Silas' tearful confession about what ''really'' happened the night of Vic's accident. It turns out that Elinore actually survived the explosion, but, like Victor was critically injured. Faced with the SadisticChoice of saving either his wife or his teenage son, Silas allowed Elinore pass away, believing that saving Victor is what she would've wanted. Fearing that Victor would hate him for letting Elinore die, Silas then tampered with his son's memories, causing him to believe his mother died in the explosion.
61* Victor's reaction. Even if Silas was put in an absolutely horrendous situation and his motives were understandable, Vic's feeling of betrayal and anger at having been forced to believe he'd killed his own mother is heartbreaking.
62[[/folder]]
63
64[[folder: Ezekiel Patrol]]
65* The heartbroken looks on the Doom Patrol's faces after Niles admits that their "accidents" were all caused by him. Jane and the other personalities especially don't take this truth well ''at all''.
66--> '''Hammerhead:''' (''broken laughter with tears streaming down her face'') ''Liar''.
67* Having disbanded, the former team falls on hard times:
68** Larry and Rita have gone off to join the old Doom Patrol in their LotusEaterMachine, where Rita has settled for being a drama teacher whose class is full of bored students who only take the class for an easy A. Larry has found a new way of hurting himself, by trying to prolong the amount of time between the Negative Spirit leaving his body and him passing out.
69** Jane has taken to drugging herself into oblivion to completely shut down her powers. She's so out of it that the only reason she doesn't starve to death is because Cliff keeps buying food and bringing it to her.
70** Cyborg has become estranged from his father and seems to have become a shut-in, dedicating his time to fighting cyber-crimes so that he can avoid going outside.
71* A special mention should go to Jane and the other personalities who looked up to Niles as a father/friendly figure. Some of the personalities like Hammerhead and Sylvia nearly hurt Joshua in their rage until Jane manages to reign them back.
72--> '''Jane:''' Did you know?\
73'''Joshua:''' About what?\
74'''Hammerhead:''' (''climbs onto the table and grabs Joshua by the collar'') About what that sadistic ''fuck'' did to us? You ''fucking''-!\
75'''Baby Doll:''' No... No, no. He promised!! (''breaks down wailing'')\
76'''Sylvia:''' He was gonna cage us here. Cage us like the rest of them. Wasn't he? Seeking caged birdies with pretty feathers for the master to ''pluck''-!\
77(''Jane takes over in time to stop her outstretched hand from reaching Joshua'')
78* Kay wandering back to the well, seemingly forgetting who's waiting for her if she does. All Jane can do is weakly beg her not to go.
79* While they do manage to get back together to help Danny, Jane and the others make it clear that they're only doing this for Danny. In no way have they forgiven Niles for what he's done and it's likely he'll never regain their friendship ever again.
80[[/folder]]
81
82!!Season 2
83
84[[folder:Fun Size Patrol]]
85* Dorothy's summarizations of what she thinks of the group.
86* Cliff getting PTSD flashbacks of his "accident".
87* To get Dorothy to send all her friends away before they kill everyone, Niles is forced to threaten to lock her up again. Timothy Dalton's performance is devastating as he clearly despises himself for it on top of all his other sins.
88--> '''Niles:''' ''Don't make me lock you away again''!!
89[[/folder]]
90
91[[folder:Tyme Patrol]]
92* Secretary showing Jane the memory of Miranda's birth. Kay was being forced to "exorcise" her demons in a baptism ritual where she's shaking and calling her mother out for help but is ignored. As she's continually baptized, different personalities come out with varying reactions of anger, hurt and defeat.
93--> "I'LL TEAR YOUR FACE OFF!!" "Help me." "We deserve this."
94[[/folder]]
95
96[[folder:Pain Patrol]]
97* Cliff tries to reconnect with his daughter, Clara, but she doesn't believe or recognize him. It makes Clara feel very uncomfortable around him and she calls the police to make him leave. If Clara believes him, she doesn't want him back in her life again nor does she want him to see her grandchild.
98* Despite Larry's bad luck in protecting those around him, Rita remained by his side, no matter how hard he tried to push her away. As the two part ways to get some sleep, Larry pauses, walks over to Rita and gives her a hug that he likely really needed at the moment.
99[[/folder]]
100
101[[folder:Sex Patrol]]
102* Dorothy's discovery that Danny was her ''prison.'' While Danny truly cared for Dorothy, they still kept Dorothy locked up under Niles' instructions. Dorothy ends up so hurt that she nearly destroys Danny out of rage and fear that she'll be locked up again.
103-->'''Danny:''' Oh Dorothy, I ''wish'' that I could say that I was only your friend.
104* Maura Lee Karupt relates to Victor how she and the other Dannyzens spent time in the normal world, and encountered nothing but hatred and contempt.
105* Rita, tired from uncovering her repressed trauma, accidentally passes on her own image issues onto Dorothy in a moment of exhaustion. All Dorothy wanted was to hear was that she really was beautiful... only to be told to focus on "her other qualities." The episode ends with Dorothy more alone and insecure than ever.
106** What makes it sadder is that up to that point, Dorothy idolized and trusted Rita more than any of the others - she was "the fair princess", and Dorothy would likely have done anything for her approval. But on a night where Dorothy was already heartbroken about Danny lying to her, Rita's answer implies that ''she'' was lying, too, and thus Dorothy no longer trusts her. Whatever relationship they might have had, whether an IntergenerationalFriendship or a surrogate mother-daughter relationship, is gone, and it never really comes back. Worse, this is eerily similar to how Rita's relationship with her own mother was destroyed.
107[[/folder]]
108
109[[folder:Finger Patrol]]
110* After Niles coaxes Baby Doll to the surface, she is seen crying and screaming and trying to get as far away from him as possible, having remembered how he betrayed her and manipulated her for years. And yet all it takes is for him to calmly apologize and promise that he'll do better and she immediately jumps into his lap, even as she's still crying about how she hates him and how much the drugs hurt her.
111* It's subtle, but when Niles first introduces Baby Doll to Dorothy, Dorothy is in a protective stance, with her hands clasped protectively over her stomach. She only relaxes after Baby Doll's attention is no longer focused entirely on her.
112* Hammerhead accurately predicts that Baby Doll and Dorothy's friendship will fall apart, because kids fight and Niles will probably take Dorothy's side, and Baby Doll does not have the maturity to take that well.
113* Paul's betrayal.
114** Before Larry and Rita leaves, Paul tell his father that he is a curse of his family, after his son is heavily injured.
115* Despite Baby Doll apologizing to Dorothy about Flaming Katy destroying her friend, Manny, she won't forgive her. To her, Manny was the last reminder of her mother and now she has nothing left to remember her.
116* Baby Doll and Flaming Katy's death. It comes as a huge shock to everyone in the Underground and is where the episode ends.
117[[/folder]]
118
119[[folder: Space Patrol]]
120* Everyone in the Underground reacting to Katy and Baby Doll's death, even Polly is openly weeping as she stares at their bodies.
121* The Underground then hold a funeral procession for the two, with the Balladeer appearing and Jane asking Hammerhead if she exists to mourn if any of them died.
122* Jane then tries to reason with Hammerhead that maybe the two aren't truly dead since they're just personas.
123--> '''Jane:''' What does it mean if Baby Doll's dead?\
124'''Hammerhead:''' Less playtime, more adulthood, and that's fucking normal.\
125'''Jane:''' But she's one of the only ones who trusted men. Who wanted their affection.\
126'''Hammerhead:''' And look where it got her!\
127'''Jane:''' So that's it? We're just going to destroy that part of us? Forever?
128* Jane goes to find Kay and tearfully apologizes if she hurt her, and then asking what she was supposed to do.
129--> '''Jane:''' I'm responsible for this. I made us stay. But now I don't know how to fix it... Just tell me you're okay. Tell me I didn't hurt you. Please, what am I supposed to do?\
130'''Kay:''' (''calmly'') Knowing is your job.
131* Much of Cliff's resentment towards Dorothy was fueled by his belief that the same man who coldly deposited his brain inside a robot body was doting on Dorothy. Here, he gets to witness Niles' actual beliefs on fatherhood, consisting of a MotiveRant about how Dorothy is a selfish, ungrateful girl who has to be locked away for her own protection and the protection of everyone around her. And this is the exact moment that Cliff realizes that Dorothy is not the beneficiary of Caulder's experiments, but another victim. And he was helping to victimize her.
132-->'''Niles:''' What the hell was she thinking?! Does she have any idea what I've done for her? She thinks she can hide from me. I'll lock on to her coordinates. She takes ''my'' ship to get away... I BUILT THE DAMN THING! She's too dangerous to go traipsing around, pretending that her actions don't have any ''consequences!''
133-->(''long pause'')
134-->'''Cliff:''' ... [[HeelRealization No wonder she fuckin' ran.]]
135* As Baby Doll and Katy are deposited into the Well, Jane on the surface is [[BrokenTears crying in pain]].
136[[/folder]]
137
138[[folder: Dumb Patrol]]
139* Kipling apparently has a thing for Baphomet, but she doesn't return his feelings. Even the Scant Queen tells him his worst idea is thinking that he could love a torso-less horse.
140--> '''Kipling:''' You don't know that. You don't need a torso to have a heart.
141* While it may just be because she's worried about Scarlet's well being, Polly pacing around as she looks for Scarlet could be because the Underground had just lost Baby Doll and Katy, and she's afraid of losing more of her friends.
142[[/folder]]
143
144[[folder: Dad Patrol]]
145* Jane going on a mission to retrieve Harry because she's afraid of becoming obsolete and unwanted. So she's trying to prove to the others and herself that she still serves a purpose in protecting Kay.
146* The subtext of "Dorothy Day": Niles realizes that, one way or another, this will be his and Dorothy's last day together, and wants Dorothy to have fun before it ends.
147* As she goes to get Harry, Jane sees all that Miranda has suffered through to protect Kay, which includes being assaulted by Kay's father.
148* Jane being betrayed by Miranda who pushes her into the well after throwing Harry down there. As she hits the water Jane silently screams as she sees the bodies of Baby Doll and the missing Scarlet Harlot and Lucy Fuge.
149[[/folder]]
150
151[[folder: Wax Patrol]]
152* Cliff's imaginary friend Jesus being hurt that Cliff had abandoned him so soon after promising they'd always be friends. Cliff then admits that he never meant to hurt him, but his dad came back into his life and promised that things would be different this time and Cliff forgot about Jesus during his time with his dad. He then confesses that it wasn't worth it; his dad fell back on old habits and he was alone again.
153* Rita's reason for abandoning her imaginary friend Roxy: she had imagined Roxy with her mother's eyes, and after realizing that her mother slept with a producer in order to get her a role, she couldn't bear to look in those eyes any longer.
154* Miranda's flashback and how she ended up killing herself. She was in a happy relationship with someone, but when he invites others over to their home for an orgy party Miranda didn't know about, he gaslights her by saying that Miranda was just too uptight and didn't care for their relationship if she didn't want to participate. Although Miranda promises the Underground this would be good for all of them, she's in tears and is clearly not enjoying herself when she does engage in the orgy. Even more so when it triggers everyone's trauma and they see Kay's father.
155** This then leads to the other personalities surfacing, all but Scarlet Harlot panicking or lashing out violently. This causes Miranda to be pulled into the Underground where the others yell at her for triggering their trauma.
156--> '''Secretary:''' (''whispering'') You were supposed to protect us.
157** Then when she tries to apologize to Kay, the little girl is curled up in her room. She sees Miranda, and then shuts the door in her face. All of this culminates in Miranda going to the Well, falling in and then Jane surfacing as Primary.
158* Jane finding Miranda's necklace and her remains at the bottom of the Well.
159[[/folder]]
160
161!!Season 3
162
163[[folder:Possibilities Patrol]]
164* Dorothy manages to subdue the Candlemaker without violence, but emerges from his dimension to find that her dad has died.
165* A week after the Candlemaker's defeat, Jane is still comatose, and Niles' body is decomposing. Rita and Larry assume that Dorothy is refusing to bury it because she's deluding herself that he'll come back, but the reality is even sadder - she understands that her father is truly dead, and has already made plans for disposing of his body, but is waiting for Jane to wake up, because after everything else that's happened between them, she doesn't want to take away Jane's last chance to say goodbye to someone who Dorothy knows was important to her. Of course, there's only so long that one can preserve a corpse with only rudimentary cryogenics, so she ends at Jane's bedside, begging her to PleaseWakeUp.
166* Rita's hopes of reviving her acting career go up in flames after her grief causes her to lose control of herself during a dress rehearsal, causing everyone present to find out that she's the "Blob Lady" who terrorized their town.
167* The episode ends with Doom Manor mostly empty, as Dorothy finally takes her father's body away, Larry goes off to space, and Cliff and Victor both take trips - the former to meet his new grandson, the latter to try and stop Roni from blowing up the Quorum headquarters, leaving Rita and Jane as the manor's sole living occupants.
168[[/folder]]
169
170[[folder:Vacay Patrol]]
171* As a consequence of his trying to save Roni from being arrested, Cyborg has been remotely locked out of Grid, and he spends the whole episode BroughtDownToNormal and feels utterly powerless, made worse by the fact that for once, there's an actual supervillain right in front of him and he can't do anything about it.
172* Rita has reverted back to being a blob, having once more descended into self-loathing after her attempt at being the Beekeeper fell apart.
173* As much as she tries to deny it, Jane is feeling grief over the Chief's death, even after everything he's done.
174[[/folder]]
175
176[[folder:Dead Patrol]]
177* Larry's left in a bad way for most of the episode. He's been seemingly abandoned by the Negative Spirit, only to find his friends dead in crates on the doorstep. By the time Dorothy finds him, he's descended into complete SanitySlippage from the sheer loneliness and despair.
178** While Dorothy manages to keep it together for most of the episode for Larry's sake, she still arrived home from burying her father to find most of her friends dead and the only remaining adult half out of his mind. Before Rita suddenly makes contact, she's struggling not to break into tears.
179* The Dead Boy Detectives have some grim backstories. Edwin was killed in 1916 and spent decades in the afterlife before suddenly being returned to the land of the living. Charles died of hypothermia after some bullies forced him to take a dip in a freezing lake and never passed on. And Crystal was possessed by a demon for a year and forced to do horrible things before Charles and Edwin saved her, and lost all memories of her parents when the demon was banished.
180** For added angst Edwin is in love with Charles, but fears that Charles doesn't feel the same way.
181[[/folder]]
182
183[[folder:Undead Patrol]]
184* Victor learns that his father had developed an experimental artificial skin, and thus he could have been given a more normal appearance, but his father chose to give him enhancements instead.
185* Believing that the Negative Spirit has abandoned him and that he will die soon, Larry spends much of the episode preparing for his apparently-imminent death.
186* Cliff accidentally lets slip that Niles' ghost lingered on after his death, and thus Jane could have talked to him, but she was still unconscious at the time, and by the time she regained herself, Niles was being prepared for departure.
187* Jane finally gets another chance to say goodbye to the Chief, but she's a zombie and is overcome with hunger for his brains. He freely offers himself to her and the others as a final act of atonement for all he's done to them.
188** It's very telling that despite everything Niles put Jane through, part of her still felt deep affection for him as he was her surrogate father. And ''Jane'' was ''his'' surrogate daughter.
189-->"It's okay, Jane. I love you. I ''want'' you to eat me."
190[[/folder]]
191
192[[folder:Dada Patrol]]
193* Jane struggles to explain who she is while interrogated by The Fog, as she's spent so many years focusing on protecting Kay that she hasn't given much thought about what she herself wants.
194* Asked what he is by Sachiko, Cliff initially says that he's a robot, then backtracks and says that he's mostly a robot, but with a human brain... which he confesses is suffering from Parkinson's disease. He admits that he spent years totally prepared for death, but now that he knows that it's coming, he's scared because he has a family now and can't bear the thought of being separated from them. Sachiko sympathizes, as the nature of her powers means that they will run out, and she fears that her powers are the only thing keeping her alive at her age.
195* Cyborg's encounter with Frenzy and his interrogations about ''why'' he is still Cyborg despite knowing that he has choices leaves Victor more unsure of himself than ever.
196* As a consequence of her having been tempted by The Fog and allowing Kay to be "corrupted" by her, Dr. Harrison, Pretty Polly, and Hammerhead shut Jane out and lock Kay up, choosing to view Kay's newfound desire for independence as nothing more than a childish tantrum.
197[[/folder]]
198
199[[folder:1917 Patrol]]
200* Larry finds out why Paul ended up in The Fog; he's become so resentful of his father that he willingly joined the Bureau of Normalcy, and as it happens, was sent after the Sisterhood. Disgusted that his son would work for the people who tortured and imprisoned him, Larry finally declares that he's through with Paul, and tells him to leave.
201* Malcolm was in the Battle of Verdun, and his experiences were apparently so terrible that he traded his actual, physical heart away for a canary.
202* After a night of unbridled fun, Laura confesses that she knows that she can't protect her friends forever, foreshadowing the terrible decisions that she ends up making later.
203[[/folder]]
204
205[[folder:Bird Patrol]]
206* Dr. Harrison steals Kay's bike, causing her to lose her trust in the personas, and thus begins the collapse of the Underground.
207* By 1949, the Sisterhood of Dada has become a shell of its former self, as Lloyd and Sachiko are embittered by the fallout of World War II, and Laura has quit the Sisterhood and devoted herself to the Bureau of Normalcy's mission of weaponizing oddities.
208* The origins of the Eternal Flagellation: Laura De Mille sold out the Sisterhood of Dada to the Bureau of Normalcy in order to score a promotion, and during the ensuing roundup, Malcolm was killed. The surviving Dadaists spent the next seventy years enslaved by the Bureau and swore vengeance against Laura, unaware that she'd gone forward in time and had lost her memories. When Laura is confronted in the present by what she'd done, she is horrified.
209[[/folder]]
210
211[[folder:Subconscious Patrol]]
212* Each the Patrol is forced to relive some of the worst moments of their life as part of the Eternal Flagellation. Upsetting revelations quickly follow.
213** Larry is sent back to the day he got married, where we learn that his parents arranged the marriage for him and badgered him into going through with it.
214** Vic's subconscious memory? Getting threatened with arrest as a child because he was "damaging store property" by clumsily searching through the toys. Both Vic and his subconscious self mark this as the end of Vic's childhood.
215** Cliff's terrible memory is a day where he left Clara in the car to go do drugs and have sex with a stripper. When confronted by the others, he admits that he didn't care, that the drugs and the sex made him feel like a rock star while actual parenting made him feel like a schmuck.
216* While initially supportive of Kay's independence, Jane is left emotionally ''devastated'' when Kay reveals that she ''despises'' Jane and the others and wants them dead. She breaks out wailing in agony at the realization that she's not needed anymore.
217* Cliff emerges from The Fog to find out that he's still sitting in Clara's garage and chatting with Ginger. Except that now, Clara is standing right behind him.
218-->'''Clara:''' I dunno what's going on with you, but this ain't workin' anymore.
219-->'''Cliff:''' ... I know.
220[[/folder]]
221
222[[folder:Evil Patrol]]
223* Nobody (except Kay) is happy about Victor’s surgery to make himself look human again. Victor feels rejected and hurt that his friends don’t accept his current look and thinks they are jealous because he can have a normal life and not them.
224* During the bus ride, Rita confesses that she had forgotten the Doom Patrol when she time traveled and saw the life she had in 1917 as the best thing that happened to her. The reason she didn't bother to alter everyone's accident in the past is because she didn't want to give up and erase the life she had there, only to still lose it because of Madame Rouge. Once she got back to the present, she no longer felt at home at the manor and now sees the Doom Patrol as strangers to her. Larry, Jane, and Victor all look incredibly hurt about this.
225[[/folder]]
226
227[[folder:Amends Patrol]]
228* Having rendered herself amnesiac again after using the time machine to return to Doom Manor and start over, Laura is horrified when she reads the notes that she left for herself, telling her that she's a terrible person. She's also utterly terrified when Rita finds her and tries to kill her in a rage, having no memory of what she did to Rita.
229* In order to prevent the Underground from collapsing, Jane has no choice but to make peace with Dr. Harrison, which means having to make Dr. Harrison the new primary.
230[[/folder]]
231
232!!Season 4
233
234[[folder:Doom Patrol]]
235* If Dorothy's assessments of the Doom Patrol way back at the start of season 2 were condescending and insensitive, Dr. Harrison's assessments of the team at the start of this season are just plain cruel. She deems Rita a pathetic has-been who's only using leadership of the team to boost her own fragile ego, thinks Cliff is a complete moron, views Laura as a self-flagellating masochist, deems Larry as completely co-dependent upon the Negative Spirit, and sees Vic as just plain useless without his powers. And yet she stays with them, not out of any affection, but because she finds their flailing about to be ''fascinating''.
236* The team is accidentally sent into the future and learns what has become of them from their future selves. All of whom happen to be dead and stuck as ghost because there's nobody left alive to dispose of them, except for Vic, who's now a paranoiac, and Laura, who's disappeared.
237** Rita learns that the team died under her leadership.
238** Dr. Harrison learns that she got Kay killed.
239** Future!Larry is almost completely catatonic and tormented by an angry Keeg... who ends up merging with Present!Keeg, preventing him from returning to Present!Larry.
240* At the end of the episode, Jane finds Dr. Harrison in the Underground and promises to start doing her part to help find Kay... only for Dr. Harrison to suddenly crumble to dust, replaced by an angry Kay, who tells her to stop looking for her and then banishes her back to the Surface, cutting her off from the Underground.
241[[/folder]]
242
243[[folder:Butt Patrol]]
244* The origin of the butts: Back in 2016, the Bureau of Normalcy created a new species of swarm monster, and tasked Dr. Margaret Yu with figuring out how to control it. Dr. Yu discovered that the creatures were not as mindless as expected, and advised the Bureau that with proper socialization, the butts could be civilized. The Bureau chose to keep them feral and banished Dr. Yu to a dead-end job.
245* The team unanimously votes to make Rouge the new leader. After Rita spends the whole episode demanding that Larry explain why he voted against her, he tells her that his highest priority now is keeping Keeg safe, and he doesn't trust that her leadership will accomplish that. When she tries to appeal to their friendship, Larry bluntly tells her that she broke that friendship when she betrayed the team for the Eternal Flagellation, and everything she's done since - the micromanaging, the lectures, the gold stars and demerits - just reminds him that she's not the Rita he knows anymore. He also remembers her saying that they were ''strangers'' to her.
246* Rouge and Cliff track down Darren Jones, the zombie were-butt, only to discover that he's become a RetiredMonster. He knows he's a danger to everyone and has tried to isolate himself, but readily invites Cliff to kill him for the good of humanity. When Cliff hesitates, Rouge provokes Darren into attacking him, causing Cliff to instinctively slam Darren to the ground and crush his head... which he now has very mixed feelings about, because he could ''feel'' all the bone and brain matter coursing through his newly-sensitized fingers. Rouge also feels pretty terrible about it, because once again, she's turned someone into a weapon against their will.
247* Jane finds the video that Kay made during her time on the Surface, and learns that contrary to what she and the other personas feared, Kay ''wasn't'' going to dismantle the Underground, she was just going to change its purpose away from protecting her. Unfortunately, between Rouge's attack on the Doom Patrol and Dr. Harrison's machinations, Kay no longer trusts the other personas.
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250[[folder:Nostalgia Patrol]]
251* When Dr. Janus attacks the Doom Patrol, Laura instinctively flees the scene, the same way she's always done. She spends the rest of the episode drinking herself into a stupor, convinced that once again, she's completely betrayed her friends.
252* Vic's attempts to reconnect with his friends hit a snag when they come to the fact that he basically ghosted them for ''ten years''. While the audience knows why he disappeared - his father guilt-tripped him into becoming a superhero and dedicating all of his time to training - Derek and the others believe that he ditched them because he ''wanted'' to be a superhero, and think that he avoided reaching out to them because he thought he was too good for them, whereas the truth is he avoided them because he was self-conscious of how he looked with the implants and thought they would shun him.
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255[[folder:Casey Patrol]]
256* Dorothy is not in a great place emotionally in this episode. Her quest to bring back her dad ended when she couldn't bring herself to use his magic amulet to summon him (and likely would have failed anyway, as Kipling trapped Niles' spirit in his head, which was subsequently consumed by the zombified Doom Patrol), and it's now hitting her that her father is not coming back. And she is ''angry'', because she's realized just how little he prepared her for a life without him and she has no idea what to do with herself and it's reached the point where she's even blowing up at Danny and Maura Lee. By the end, when Torminox forces her to hand over the amulet in exchange for his sparing Danny and the Candlemaker, you can hear the anger pouring out of her.
257-->'''Dorothy:''' ([[SarcasmMode totally about Casey]]) She needs her dad! ''Fuck you'' for turning your back on that.
258** Danny is not doing so well, either. Becoming an ambulance gave them greater mobility, but far smaller capacity, and there are so many people in need of them now that they're running out of room.
259[[/folder]]
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261[[folder:Youth Patrol]]
262* Laura finally explains to Rita why she betrayed her and the other members of the Sisterhood all those decades ago; when she first developed powers, she didn't have a loving, supportive community to help her deal with them, and was ostracized. The Bureau of Oddities was the first place where she found a home, and when it warped into the Bureau of Normalcy, she was too afraid of being shut out of the only place she knew to resist them, even as the Bureau turned against her friends and locked them up. And then, of course, she lost her place anyway because Niles got her blacklisted. She then reveals what she now looks like under the curse - a scared little girl whose clothing suggests she is from a past far beyond even Niles Caulder. Even Rita can't stay angry with her after seeing this.
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265[[folder:Hope Patrol]]
266* Fearing that her days may be numbered, Jane goes and tries to throw herself at Shelley, hoping that she can at least spend her final days having some good sex. Except that she freezes up while trying to kiss Shelley, who gently tells her that while she cares for her, she's obviously not in the right frame of mind for a relationship, which Jane interprets as rejection.
267* Keeg finally shows Larry what he saw in the future that made him run away: Larry got turned by one of the zombie butts and Keeg was forced to kill him to stop the transformation from irradiating everyone. Keeg wasn't scared of Larry, he was scared ''for'' him, and thought that staying away and keeping him sidelined would protect him.
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270[[folder:Orqwith Patrol]]
271* Vic and Deric find Larry moping around in Orqwith, having no desire to fight because he's afraid Keeg will leave him again.
272* Jane watches helplessly as Cliff sells out to the Cult of Immortus based solely on a promise that they ''might'' be able to give him enough time to see Rory grow up. For an added kick, it's not even a particularly good future, as Rory's a little hellion and Cliff's relationship with Clara is strained because of his influence, but Cliff still wants it enough that he nearly destroys his relationship with Jane.
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275[[folder:Fame Patrol]]
276* The whole team starts the episode completely demoralized, as they completely failed to stop Immortus from rising and they're all too weak to stop her from lurching her way to Cloverton.
277* Jane is still pissed at Cliff and refuses to talk to him.
278* Casey's quest to save her father has well and truly failed and she's so desperate for a new mission that when Dorothy suggests that she try and help the other Doom Patrol members, she decides to try and help Jane clean up her room, which naturally gets her yelled at by Jane.
279* After misinterpreting Dorothy's offer of Niles' old wheelchair as an insult, Cliff accidentally lets slip that he saw Niles' ghost back when Dorothy was still living at the house and never told her. He immediately realizes what a shitty thing that was to tell her, but doubles down on it out of stubbornness, telling Dorothy that he's just an asshole and she should've expected that he do something like that.
280* After much prodding by Dorothy, Cliff admits that he doesn't believe that he deserves love or pity, because all he does is fuck everything up and it will be better for everyone if he just dies. Dorothy is actually livid at this, pointing out that his death would only be easy for ''him'', while everyone who loves him - his family, the Doom Patrol, and Dorothy herself - would grieve for him.
281[[/folder]]
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283[[folder:Immortimas Patrol]]
284* When Rita is broken out of the illusion, she bemoans the fact that she remembers being a monster again. Laura tries to cheer her up, saying that ''she's'' never seen Rita as a monster, to which Rita bitterly responds that that's because in their relationship, ''Laura'' was the monster.
285* While Immortimas (and the revelation that it was all a parallel dimension) was hard for everyone, Dorothy and Casey take it especially hard when it crumbles, as Immortimas was the first time Dorothy ever felt loved and appreciated and now she doesn't know if any of the others cared about her or if Immortus made them care about her. For Casey, it's just as bad, because she had feelings for Jane, but Jane's apparent reciprocation of those feelings was only part of the illusion. At the end of the episode, Dorothy and Casey both decide that they need to get away from Doom Manor for a while.
286[[/folder]]
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288[[folder:Tomb Patrol]]
289* This is easily the grimmest episode of the entire series, as each of the four main characters faces a ravage related to their former immortality.
290** Rita is stricken with painful arthritis that's driving her to actually surrender to her blob-like state simply to relieve the pain.
291** Larry's already-burned skin is breaking apart as his resistance to his own radiation degrades, causing bloody patches to appear on his bandages. On top of that, Rama has reluctantly abandoned him; unable to find a cure for his degeneration, Rama has chosen to return to Tamil Nadu, go for a swim, and then transmute himself into lead so that he'll sink far enough so that nobody will be harmed if he really does explode.
292** Cliff's joints are all locking up; he can't even drive safely anymore because his foot locks up on the accelerator. With no way to get to Florida, he's facing the prospect that he may die without ever seeing his family again.
293** Jane finally discovers why she's been unable to reach the Underground since losing her longevity - she has dementia and it's destroying the Underground and all the alters within; when she finally manages to access the station for a few seconds, she finds it abandoned, strewn about with the abandoned clothing of her oldest alters, like Pretty Polly and Mama Pentecost. Worse, without the Underground to control her memories, she's having vivid flashbacks to her abuse at the hands of Daddy.
294* Dr. Yu had formed a somewhat happy life with Nicholas, the last intelligent butt, but then his twin Teddy went and infected her, turning her into a were-butt. While she's perfectly fine with it, as she and Nicholas can now truly be together, Nicholas is horrified, as he fears for Margaret's safety now that she's no longer completely human.
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297[[folder:Portal Patrol]]
298* Sent back in time to 1996, Jane and Larry figure out what year it was because they find Cliff just standing in his room. Jane mentions that 1996 was the year that Niles told Cliff that his whole family was dead, and Cliff just literally shut down until 2004.
299* Sent back to the night that Niles stole the pendant of Immortus from Fuchtopia, Cliff accidentally throws Niles against a bar, paralyzing him below the waist, creating the conditions that would drive Niles to start Project Immortus and the Doom Patrol. Cliff is rightly horrified by what he's done, especially since he realizes that he's done to Niles almost exactly the same thing that he's long accused Niles of doing to him - preventing him from being with his daughter. And the worst part? Niles' memories of that night were not erased, so Cliff has to live with the knowledge that for all those years, Niles remembered what he'd done and never brought it up, never rubbed it in Cliff's face.
300* Laura bungles her mission when she encounters her past self and is filled with such self-loathing that she beats her other self with the "WEAPON" stamp, completely forgetting that she's there to steal part of Niles' pendant.
301* At the end of the episode, none of members managed to get part of their longevity back, so now they're all going into a final battle with Immortus and the butts only marginally better off than they were before.
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304[[folder:Done Patrol]]
305* Despite getting a second chance at longevity, the Doom Patrol weren't able to get to Rita in time. Rouge cries out in grief and Larry frantically tries finding a way to resurrect her. It's only when Rita's ghost tells him that she's accepted her death that he relents, but it's clear that Larry isn't taking this well.
306** Keep in mind that not only was Rita one of the few remaining tethers Larry had to his old life, but in the comics he had an unrequited attraction to her. While Larry does identify as gay in this continuity, [[AmbiguouslyBi keep in mind he still fathered children]].
307* Rita's ghost announces that the Doom Patrol is officially disbanded, having come to the conclusion that they've been codependent and need to find themselves.
308* At Rita's funeral, she's clearly hurt to find that her friends only knew her as an appearance-obsessed LadyDrunk.
309* Cliff decided to leave at the crack of dawn, not wanting to say goodbye to the others. K catches him and squeezes a farewell and a hug out of him.
310** As the ending reveals, K was right to be afraid of saying goodbye to Cliff. During his grandson's first birthday Cliff's Parkinson's flares up again. It's at this moment he realizes that even if his longevity's restored, that's not going to cure the Parkinson's, which he already had.
311--->'''Cliff:''' I thought I came here to live. But I think I actually came here to ''die''.
312*** The final scene is Cliff looking into a crystal that lets him see into the future. He has visions of his grandson Rory growing up, finding love, having a daughter, having his marriage fail and dealing with his mother Clara getting cancer. Once Clara dies, Cliff reminisces about the day she was born. When he looks back into the crystal, he sees Rory's now adult daughter holding a baby that she introduces as his grandson. Old Rory holds his hand out to the baby the same way Cliff was currently doing to baby Rory. Being able to witness his grandson becoming a grandfather - an achievement no other grandfather can hold claim to - [[FaceDeathWithDignity Cliff finally lets go]].
313--->'''Cliff:''' It's okay. It's okay... I'm home. (''the light in Cliff's eyes fade away as he dies'')
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