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The Doom Patrol

In General

• Action Dad: Larry is a father of two and a career soldier prior to becoming a Doom Patrol member, while both Niles and Cliff have a daughter.
• Adaptational Backstory Change: Each of their origins also happened in different decades: Rita's in The '50s, Larry's in The '60s, Jane's in The '70s, Cliff's in The '80s, and Cyborg's in the 2010s.
• Adaptational Upbringing Change: In the comics, Dorothy Spinner and Crazy Jane came from different families and were recruited independently of one another (Dorothy was recruited directly by the Doom Patrol, whereas Jane was brought to the Doom Patrol by Cliff.) In the series, Dorothy is the biological daughter of the Patrol's founder, Niles Caulder, and Jane is more or less Niles' adopted daughter, who is also unaware that he groomed her to be a replacement for Dorothy while the latter was confined. This creates a complicated relationship between Dorothy and Jane in season 2, where Dorothy is delighted at the idea of having a big sister, while Jane is torn between wanting put distance between herself and Niles but also feeling obligated to stay and protect Dorothy from him.
• Adaptational Wimp: In the comics, the Doom Patrol are a highly competent, if eccentric, superhero team who regularly save all of reality from total annihilation. In the show, they're a bunch of inexperienced fuck-ups whose attempts to do good are mostly ineffectual or make things worse, and it frequently requires a lot of effort from them to achieve anything remotely resembling a true victory.
• Adapted Out:
  • Beast Boy, who was a member of the team proper in the comics. Although he was part of the team in their Titans continuity, no reference is made to him in this continuity.
  • Regarding other members of the team from the comics, Karma and Scott Fischer are the sole members of the Paul Kupperberg era's roster to be left out, Negative Man never becomes Rebis like he did in Grant Morrison's run, Lucius Reynolds and Lotion the Cat from Gerard Way's run are omitted (leaving Casey Brinke the only member introduced in that era to appear in this continuity) and no one who was added to the team during Rachel Pollack^note Kate Godwin/Coagula, Charlie the Doll and the Bandage People George and Marion, John Arcudi^note Fever, Freak, Kid Slick and Fast Forward and John Byrne's ^note Faith, Nudge, Grunt and Vortex runs gets any representation whatsoever.
• The Ageless: This is explicitly a side-effect of Metahuman abilities in this setting; while some of the Doom Patrol have explicit handwaves relating to their powers (Cliff is in a robot body now, and Rita is a shapeshifter), most of them have no other explanation besides it just being a minor secondary ability they all possess. Niles discovered Slava, a still-alive cavewoman living in the mountains in the 1910s; he realized from tribal drawings that she had been around for centuries, and shortly after discovered she had metahuman powers (low-level Reality Warper able to bring to life 'imaginary' monsters) which likely led to it. He fathered a child with her that inherited her mother's abilities, and as a result is physically still a young girl, prompting him to start creating Metahumans for 'Project Immortus' in an attempt to gain similar immortality so he could protect her/the world from her.
  • The only exceptions are Mento and the original Doom Patrol, though it's implied this may be a result of the trauma Mr Nobody inflicted on their psyche causing their bodies to decay, indicating their physical health is linked to their mental state.
  • The members of the Sisterhood of Dada look physically the same between 1947 and the present day. Sachiko has "every power that no one has thought of", which means she presumably has every form of immortality that nobody has thought of.
  • In Season 4 it's confirmed that Rita, Larry, Cliff and Jane were all blessed with DNA from Immortus that preserved them. When the pieces of Immortus are extracted, they all begin to age.
• Age Lift: Due to the fact that Comic-Book Time doesn't exist (and many of the characters' origins here occurred in different decades), all the characters are much older than their comic book counterparts, especially Rita, who was in her twenties during the 1950s.
• Alternate Self: Crisis on Infinite Earths establishes that the Niles, Rita, Larry and Cliff have ones on Earth-9. Victor's Earth-9 counterpart would later appear in Season 4 of Titans.
• Anti-Hero: All of them have severe personal flaws and don't even want to be heroes most of the time, but they gradually become better people.
• Arbitrary Skepticism: Despite the team being made up of a brain in a robot, a woman who melts when distressed, a bandaged man with an energy being living inside of his body, and a woman with dozens of superpowered alternate personalities, the team is very skeptical of Kipling's (well-founded) doomsday assertions. Cyborg, the most normal member of the team, is ironically also the least skeptical of the group (which makes sense, since as a 'real' superhero, he's probably at least loosely acquainted with magic-using heroes).
• Big Fancy House: The Chief's house is huge, old-fashioned, and well-furnished.
• Body Horror: As detailed by Dysfunction Junction below, each member of the team is broken in every sense of the word.
• Broken Bird: They've got all kinds of hangups from child abuse to growing up in less accepting times.
• Broken Pedestal: Part of Mr. Nobody's plan to torment Niles appears to be to lead the Doom Patrol to discover the skeletons in his past to drive a wedge between them.
  • Cliff lost a lot of his respect for the Chief when he discovered he was lying about his daughter being dead.
  • Crazy Jane suffers this when she finds out the Chief's contingency plan if she had proven too dangerous: to lock her in a room at the same manor as the original Doom Patrol, so that Mento would keep her under his mental control in an illusory school for the metahuman youth.
  • Ultimately, the whole Doom Patrol loses faith in Niles when they discover he was behind the accidents that made them who they are now.
• Comic-Book Movies Don't Use Codenames: Rita and Larry aren't addressed by their codenames until the fourth season.
• Cursed with Awesome: Almost all the main characters are functionally immortal. They don't age, are hard to hurt/kill, and have other powers on top of that, like Super-Strength, energy blasts, or stretchy powers. Unfortunately, their powers are also the source of tremendous physical and mental pain. Rita has to constantly hold herself together or be reduced into a gelatinous blob. Larry's negative spirit disfigured him beyond recognition and actively torments him. Cliff's robot body can't feel anything, which means he doesn't even have a physical outlet (which he could escape to before his transformation) for all the emotional turmoil he's undergoing. And while they may have powers, they can barely use them properly, much less fight against the bizarre threats that are thrown their way.
• Dance Party Ending: Played for Laughs when they cameo in the epilogue for Crisis on Infinite Earths (2019). Anyone who has watched Doom Patrol would know that the team are far too miserable to just frolic around. Funnily enough, "Vacay Patrol" does feature a moment when the team dance together, but in context it's due to the team overcoming a grieving process and bonding.
• Dark and Troubled Past: Aside from Victor, who had a generally happy upbringing (even if his relationship with his father was tense) most of the Doom Patrol had dark childhoods that contributed to what they grew up to be.
  • Cliff's father was an abusive drunken deadbeat who would blow up at Cliff's mom over petty things, and then keep her around by apologizing every time.
  • Kay's father sexually abused her when she was a young girl.
  • Larry showed signs of being gay as a child, and his community treated him poorly for it, with his parents being more concerned about their social standing than what their son was going through.
  • Though not as bad as what the others went through, Rita's parents pushed her into being an actress at a young age, and were so insistent on it that when she got to meet her idol, her mom made her introduce herself by her stage name rather than her birth name. Though the mother put herself through some trauma too, sleeping with a producer to get Rita her first role. Rita happened to see this, giving her even more issues.
• Deadpan Snarker: Cliff Steele is the biggest one, but Larry and Rita all show shades of this as well.
  Larry: I thought you might like some fresh air.
  Cliff: I can't feel the air.
  Larry: Sucks to be you.
  Cliff: Hey, what was it like buried in a pyramid with your cat?
• Dysfunction Junction: The Doom Patrol are gathered together by this, but they were also already messed up BEFORE the accidents that turned them into freaks. To wit:
  • Caulder is confined to a wheelchair. Before he was crippled, he was already trying to attain immortality to eternally protect her daughter from the world (and the world from her), and actually caused the incidents that turned the rest of the team — sans Cyborg — into the freaks they are now]].
  • Cliff has no body of his own and has to live inside that of a cold steel robot, (including the sensory deprivation that comes with it). Before that, he was an adrenaline junkie, glory hog, and serial adulterer with daddy issues whose untimely accident ended up killing his wife and leaving his daughter fatherless, as he was a brain in a jar for years before being given his new body by Niles.
  • Larry's body is heavily charred and lethally radioactive. Before that, he was a closeted gay man during the homophobic early 60's, whose fear of his own sexuality and the consequences of it brought suffering to both his gay lover and his very not-a-gay-man wife.
  • Rita's physical form destabilizes according to her mood, and it takes intense concentration to not literally melt when under extreme emotional distress. Before that, she had a thoroughly controlling mother who pushed her into the ugly world of show business, turning Rita into a neurotic, cynical mess.
  • Kay has dissociative identity disorder, having as many as 64 different personalities. This is the result of a BRUTALLY abusive childhood under a sexually abusive father, followed by experimentation by the government.
  • Victor — similarly to Cliff — is a cyborg, although not a full-body one like Cliff and with better tech. Still, this thoroughly affects his self-image, not helped by his overly enthusiastic dad pushing him towards a superhero career. Before that, his father was the complete opposite, being a mostly absent father whom Victor never managed to please. Victor himself has a severe case of survivor's guilt from his mother's death, and also has resentment towards his dad for being unwillingly turned into a cyborg by him in order to save his life.
• Does This Remind You of Anything?: Each of the characters represents some form of severe mental illness or trauma.
  • Rita needing to constantly focus and control her mind in order to not literally melt into a pile of goo is akin to people suffering from anxiety disorders. Her previous need for constant validation and attention also implies some form of narcissism or deep-seated inferiority complex.
  • Larry and the negative being in his body are pretty much a metaphor for his image as a 'normal' straight man, and his secret, other, true self of being a gay man.
  • Cliff's wild swings from rage to depression to cheerfulness to guilt implies some sort of manic or bipolar disorder.
  • Crazy Jane has dissociative identity disorder, implied to have stemmed from sexual abuse by her father as a child.
  • Victor's relationship with his father implies some sort of mental or emotional abuse.
  • Dorothy's unusual face, lack of tact, and overly-trusting nature suggests some sort of developmental disorder.
    • Her first words in season 2 are "I know you don't like it, but it will be over quickly if you behave." While in context, she's trying to summon her beast Manny, when she later steps out of her cage after everyone else at the freak show has been slaughtered, she holds her hands protectively over her crotch...
• Failure Hero: While not explicitly true given they do manage to save the town of Cloverton from Mr. Nobody, the early adventures of the Doom Patrol in Season 1 emphasize they are not very good at heroics. In fact, they're not very good at going into town or trying to get to Paraguay. Victor is a Subverted Trope as he's entirely competent as a hero.
• Famed In-Story: With the exception of Jane, all the main cast were quite famous before their accidents. In Cyborg's case, even more famous after.
  • Rita Farr was a beloved actress of the 50s, whose movies are still looked at quite fondly today.
  • Cliff Steele was a famous racecar driver who brought enough fame and fortune to afford a nice mansion and a high class life for his wife and kids. He was famous enough to get cameos in soaps playing himself.
  • Larry Trainor was a famed, decorated fighter pilot and considered an American hero. He was potentially going to be one of the first men in space.
  • Though Victor Stone was already an up and coming student athlete before his accident, after becoming Cyborg he became a solid B-lister among the superhero community, and is regularly recognized and applauded. He's not quite A-list material yet, however, as he's said he's still five years away from joining the Justice League. His comparative modern-day fame is actually a problem for the Department of Normalcy when they capture him, as they're aware of the potential minefield they step into by targeting a superhero with his fame.
• The Fellowship Has Ended: The series ends with Rita declaring the Doom Patrol disbanded, stating that they need to branch out and rediscover themselves.
• Five-Token Band: The team is multi-ethnic and very versatile.
• Four-Philosophy Ensemble: Initially, Cliff is the Optimist, Jane is the Cynic, Cyborg is the Realist, Rita is the Apathetic, and Larry is the Conflicted. Of course, given the type of characters they are, expect to see them veer wildly between the other philosophies on a whim.
• Fun Size: The first season ends with the entire team sans Danny (who is reduced to a brick) and Larry stuck as inch-high versions of themselves.
• Hero with Bad Publicity: The people of Cloverton hate the Doom Patrol for wrecking downtown and bringing down the wrath of Mr. Nobody.
• Ironic Hell:
  • Cliff Steele was The Hedonist who lived for sex and drugs, and is now trapped in a robotic body that cannot feel, taste, or smell.
  • Larry Trainor was a gay man cheating on his wife with another man who suffered with the duality of his personas, and is now bound to another being whom he hates and can't connect with, but cannot survive without if separated.
  • Rita Farr was a bigoted actress who now transforms into an amorphous Blob Monster if she loses her composure.
• Karmic Transformation: Rita, Larry, and Cliff's various accidents are thematically tied to their character failings prior to them. That said, the sheer pain and horror that ensued (not to mention the collateral damage) are depicted as disproportionate to their misdeeds.
• Not Wearing Tights: With the exceptions of Casey Brinke, flashbacks to the heyday of the original roster of the team and fantasy sequences, no one in the Doom Patrol ever wears a costume.
• Odd Friendship:
  • Rita and Larry are closer to each other than they are with the others (though that's not to say they have no connection with the others). This is probably because of the fact that they were the first two that Niles saved. In the final episode of season 1, after the group splits apart upon learning what Niles did, Larry and Rita live together in a new house.
  • Therapy-loving optimist Cliff, who tends to avoid violence, is a very close friend of Jane's therapy-hating primary personality. According to one of her other personalities, she felt hope for the first time in a long time after meeting him for the first time.
  • In season 2, sweet-natured Dorothy shows a clear fondness for Jane, despite Jane being notoriously foul-mouthed and harsh. By season 4, Jane seems to have grown fond of her, too, as she gives Dorothy a hug when the latter suddenly returns to try and save the team from Orqwith.
• Older Than They Look: Applies to almost every main cast member. Justified in regards to the main cast, as their accidents were engineered in an attempt to grant immortality and are sustained by pieces of Immortus' longevity.
  • Niles Caulder, while still appearing visibly older, looks to be the same age during Jane's flashbacks to the seventies. It's later confirmed that he actually hasn't aged since some time in 1913. It's later clarified that he does age, albeit very slowly, and is granted increased longevity by a magical necklace.
  • Rita Farr still appears youthful despite being a young woman in the 1950s.
  • Jane still looks just as young as she did in the seventies.
  • Cliff can't exactly "look the part," being in a robotic body and all, but his mental capabilities don't seem to be any worse for the wear despite what his age should be. If one assumes that Cliff was about 40 before his accident, an elder statesman for an active NASCAR driver, he'd be in his 70s or 80s during the show's present day storyline.
  • Larry's burned body has not degraded at all since his accident in the '60s. It's stated that he's 95 during the present day of the first season.
  • Dorothy is over a century old, but looks and acts like an unusually-mature teenage girl.
  • Played with in the case the (original) Doom Patrol. After several episodes with the main cast, seeing Mento and his team still looking as young in the present as they did in the past seems normal, as non-aging just comes with having meta-human powers. Later, the team appear in their real forms and seem to have aged a lot. The youthful versions seen are simply psychic projections he creates after a traumatic battle, fighting against Mr. Nobody. However, it is then explained that the apparent age is actually the physical result of the same traumatic battle that caused the psychological issues.
• Ragtag Bunch of Misfits: They're a bunch of superpowered outcasts banded together to do good.
• Superhero Speciation: The team has Cyborg and Robotman, both of whom are Exactly What It Says on the Tin.
• Two Girls to a Team: The team has two female members, Elasti-Woman and Crazy Jane. Dorothy briefly joins the team in Seasons 2 and 3 while Madame Rouge becomes an official member in Season 4.

Founder

Dr. Niles Caulder / The Chief

Dr. Niles Caulder / The Chief

Species: Human

Played by: Timothy Dalton, Abi Monterey (child)

"I assure you, there are many monsters in this world, and none of them, not a one, is you."

The Leader of the Doom Patrol and a man surrounded with mystery.

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• Adaptational Backstory Change: It's revealed in "Portal Patrol" that Cliff Steele caused him to become a paraplegic through a Stable Time Loop, when in the comics General Immortus was responsible for crippling him.
• Adaptational Heroism: Zig-zagged. While he's far more affable than his openly-jerkass comic-counterpart, he's still a very morally dubious person. Just as in the comics, he's behind the incidents that created the Doom Patrol, but while the comic Niles did it for purely selfish reasons and later went in to full-blown supervillain territory, Show Niles did it in order to protect his daughter and grows to be wracked with guilt over it and becomes genuinely attached to the team as a father figure, seeing it as much a moral obligation and act of atonement as a pragmatic act. Another key difference being in his motivation for changing Rita: in the show she's considered a viable test subject along with all the other members of the team, while in the comic he did it solely to humiliate her and make her subservient to him. In short, Niles in the show is much more like a deeply flawed parental figure who is capable of genuine kindness and compassion than the manipulative sociopath he was in the comics.
• Adaptational Nationality: American in the comics but British in the show.
• Adaptational Nice Guy: Niles Caulder is portrayed initially as the beloved fatherly figure of the team, with hints of a more ruthless, pragmatic persona underneath, whereas his comic self was a far colder man who turned out to have been a complete sociopath. When it's revealed he was the cause of everyone's 'accidents', as in the comics, his motivation for doing so is far less selfish (motivated by a desire to protect his metahuman daughter) and he genuinely felt remorse for what he was doing.
• Adaptation Dye-Job: He's a redhead in the comics. Here, he's got Timothy Dalton's natural brown hair.
• The Ageless: Niles looked exactly the same in 1913 as he does in 2019. The second season reveals this is due to a pendant he wears that has prolonged his natural lifespan.
• Ambiguously Evil: The Chief is someone that is believed to be the Big Good of the setting as well as the beloved mentor for the team. However, the Chief has made many morally questionable decisions like lying to Cliff about his daughter being dead, allying with Mr. Nobody, and establishing an asylum that kept his former teammates in a Lotus-Eater Machine. Despite this, he usually has a justification for all of his actions.
• Anti-Villain: He is the ultimate antagonist of the Doom Patrol, being responsible for everything shitty that happened to them. But he also did this to protect his own daughter, and seems to have grown to love them as well.
• Arch-Enemy: Chief has a lot of enemies, most of which are likely dead or still out for his blood. His most notable one is Eric Morden aka Mr. Nobody.
• The Atoner: He's deeply wracked with guilt about causing the team's various accidents and much of his efforts with them can be seen as much as an effort to help them out of guilt as to serve his own goals. When Crazy Jane goes back in time to find him, Caulder is able to help her synchronize her identities.
• Broken Pedestal: He's seen as a father figure by the whole team but that image gradually disappears over the first season as they learn about his shadier side and is gone completely when they find out he was responsible for their accidents. In season two, they make it repeatedly clear that they will never regard him as they once did again.
• Can't Take Criticism: Played with. Niles can understand people's grievances with him... but only once he's forced to face those grievances. Before then, he'll cover-up his mistakes or outright ignore obvious failings on his part. Pressing on his Berserk Button in particular can result in his politeness vanishing in favor of anger. In season 2, Danny pointing out that Dorothy is more of a prisoner results in Niles immediately insisting that he would know if he was hurting his daughter, despite obvious evidence to the contrary.
• Composite Character: In an overlap with Decomposite Character, he is the one who ends up killing Red Jack in place of Rhea Jones, with Rhea Jones still existing in this continuity as a former member of the Doom Patrol who is now comatose.
• Control Freak: One of Niles' greatest flaws is his obsession with trying to control the world around him. His work for the Bureau of Oddities demonstrated an imperialist fixation on "solving" primitive worlds. While he grew out of that trait, he soon fixated on trying to become immortal, in order to protect Dorothy and/or the world from each other. No matter the cost to his trusted friends.
• Cross-Cast Role: The child version of the Chief is played by Abi Monterey, the actress who also portrays his daughter Dorothy.
• Death by Adaptation: Niles Caulder in the comics was revealed to have survived the heroes' apparent sacrifice to defend Codsville during Paul Kupperberg's run and continued living after being decapitated by the Candlemaker in Grant Morrison's run by becoming a disembodied head in Rachel Pollack's run, having been restored to having a body with no explanation ever since. In this series, he passes away from old age and, while once more resurrected as a disembodied head, dies for good when he sacrifices himself so that the zombified Doom Patrol can return to normal by eating his brains.
• Died in Ignorance: Niles Caulder spends the first two seasons of the show doing increasingly unethical things to try and prevent a fated battle between his young daughter Dorothy and the monstrous Candlemaker, who has vowed to battle her to determine the fate of all reality. Eventually, Niles' bad acts catch up with him and he dies just after Dorothy experiences her first period, triggering the start of the battle. Dorothy faces the Candlemaker alone... and wins, because she manages to out-think the Candlemaker and force him to surrender without violence. Niles destroyed the lives of multiple people to protect Dorothy because it never occurred to him that Dorothy might be able to protect herself.
• Genius Cripple: An intelligent scientist who's bound to a wheelchair.
• Genius Sweet Tooth: He's a brilliant scientist and inventor who really loves his chocolate.
• Going Native: With Oyewah, after being rescued by her.
• Good is Not Nice: He saves and harbors people thought to be doomed with his unconventional science, and ultimately wants to help humanity. This is much downplayed later on, but he still misled Cliff about his daughter's death.
• Hypocrite:
  • In 1949, he despises Laura De Mille, viewing her as a self-serving power-seeker who worsened the nobility of the Bureau of Normalcy's initial vision for the sake of her own goals. While he's revealed to have fairly strong evidence to believe as much, these are all descriptions that could apply to him, given his own willingness to ally with a corrupt organization like the Bureau for his own ends.
  • Early in season 2, he calls out the others for ostracizing Dorothy, but he regularly talks down to her, keeps her confined and out of the way whenever possible, and is constantly telling others how dangerous she is, and while Dorothy takes Cliff and Jane's insults with aplomb, she deeply internalizes her father's comments that she's dangerous and unstable, to the point that she tries to exile herself to another planet after killing Baby Doll and Flaming Katy in a rage.
• Incurable Cough of Death: After he gives up the amulet that granted him immortality in the second season, he starts coughing up blood on a more and more frequent basis.
• May–December Romance: When he was a member of the Bureau of Normalcy, he fell in love with a hairy cave woman named Oyewah, or Slava in 1913.
• My God, What Have I Done?: He outwardly doesn't show much remorse for the lives he ruined for his experiments. At least not till Cliff's. Though it wasn't so much because he destroyed Cliff's life (since as he noted, Cliff was supposed to die during the wreck on the race track) so much that he also caused Cliff's wife to die, leaving their daughter an orphan (and also wounded). This causes Niles to begin to question whether he's truly justified in all that he is doing.
• Mysterious Past: Niles has managed to make a lot of unusual friends and enemies over his life. The circumstances for only a few of these have been revealed.
• Older Than They Look: Niles was already an adult in 1913 suggesting he is well over 100 years old. Confirmed in season 2 where he tells the others he's at least 139 years old.
• Omnidisciplinary Scientist: He's exceptionally skilled in many different fields of science, having designed Cliff's robotic body, functioned as Jane's therapist, invented Larry's radiation-proof bandages, and built two working spaceships in the 1950s, both of which are still functional. However, The Brain points out its weird how many talents he has and speculates that some of his more impressive feats (such as designing Cliff's robot body) may be due to dabbling in the dark arts rather than legitimate science.
• Outliving One's Offspring: Subverted. He actively searches for means to live longer than his also ageless daughter so he can always be there to protect her, but he gives up his immortality to help the Doom Patrol.
• Papa Wolf: The reason he did all of these horrible things was to protect his daughter Dorothy, whom he sent to live with Danny and the Dannyzens to keep her safe. In season 2, his Papa Wolf side comes out more as he gets angry at the others if they yell at Dorothy or call her names.
  Niles: (to Cliff) What the hell is wrong with you?! You take your anger out on me, not an innocent child!
• Parental Substitute: He serves as this for the team, many of whom come from less than stellar backgrounds.
• Parents as People: Niles does love Dorothy and wants to protect her more than anything in the world. But this desire destroys innocent lives, creates more problems than solutions, and ultimately damages Dorothy most of all, a fact Niles is in denial about.
• Pragmatic Hero: How Kipling describes him, being a man who does what's needed and living with it. He destroyed the lives of 4 other people to use them as guinea pigs for finding methods of immortality all for the sake of making sure he will be there to take care of his immortal and eternally childlike daughter. Both for her sake, and for the world's...
• Related in the Adaptation: He's Dorothy Spinner's father in the show while they were simply on the same team in the comics.
• Teasing Parent: His parenting style contains a certain amount of teasing. A flashback shows him defusing a tantrum by Baby Doll (over him missing their weekly breakfast together) by marveling at how quiet his breakfast will be without a "certain little piggy snarfing up all the syrup", and another scene shows him and Dorothy watching a movie together and him stealing some of her popcorn and holding it out of her reach.
• Trademark Favorite Food: Chocolate. Chocolate anything, including chocolate chip pancakes.
• Wham Line: In "Penultimate Patrol" when he confesses to the Doom Patrol: "I was responsible, for everything that has happened to each of you."
• What the Hell, Hero?: The opening episodes of season 2 are basically one long string of these, mostly from Cliff.
• Your Days Are Numbered: In season 2, Niles' biggest story arc is the fact that he's now slowly dying and needs to find a way to extend his life if he wants to keep living alongside his daughter.

Current Members (Second Incarnation)

Rita Farr / Elasti-Woman

Rita Farr / Elasti-Woman/Gertrude Cramp

"I feel I should warn you I have certain abilities now, abilities I didn't possess as a child. Stretchy abilities. Blobby abilities. They're really quite something."

Species: Enhanced Human

Played by: April Bowlby, Lana Jean Turner (child)

Appearances: Doom Patrol (2019) | Crisis on Infinite Earths (2019)^note Cameo in the epilogue

"We’re going to save the world, or whatever, and then I will have a stiff Manhattan and go to bed."

A former actress from Hollywood's Golden Age who was mutated by a strange gas. She has to constantly maintain her composure to avoid melting.

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• '50s Hair: Rita has the "Hollywood curls" style ala Marilyn Monroe.
• Adaptational Attractiveness: Subverted. When composed and in control, Rita is quite attractive like her original character, but when her "abilities" kick in, instead of only shrinking or growing, she visibly blobs-out into a terrifying mess.
• Adaptational Backstory Change: Rita Farr's origin is almost completely intact, except instead of being able to grow and shrink at will, Rita found that her body began to distort and melt like a blob.
• Adaptational Badass: In comparison to her Titans (2018) counterpart, who struggled far more with controlling her powers.
• Adaptational Superpower Change: Played With; she has the same powers as her comic self, being a Rubber Man style shapeshifter whose "natural" form is a shapeless mass, but her comic self could control this well enough, allowing her to primarily use it for stretching, growing/shrinking, etc. In the show, Rita has severe Power Incontinence, and lacks the fine control needed to stretch or grow/shrink, causing her mostly to use her powers in a "turn into a giant blob" manner.
• Adaptation Name Change: Elasti-Girl in the comics. Probably changed to avoid confusion with Elastigirl in Disney / Pixar's The Incredibles franchise, which use the name with DC's permission. Justified somewhat given her powers don't resemble elasticity here. Her real name is also Gertrude Camp with Rita Farr being just her Stage Name.
• Adaptation Personality Change: A Nice Girl and the group's Team Mom in the comics, but more of a narcissistic former Hollywood diva here, who nonetheless has a sweet side to her as well. Gradually averted as Rita tries to take on a leadership position before admitting that the Doom Patrol are the closest thing to a family she has left.
• Adaptation Relationship Overhaul:
  • In the comics Rita died at the end of the Silver Age and stayed dead for decades afterwards, never having any relationship with Jane or Dorothy, who came later. In this version of the team, she is on the team with both of them, and even briefly tries to parent Dorothy.
  • In the comics, she was Happily Married to Steve Dayton. In this show, they dated briefly, and she does not like to talk about it.
  • In the comics, she never encountered the Brotherhood of Dada. In this show, she was a member of it, and even had a thirty-year relationship with Malcolm.
• The Alcoholic: In the finale when Rita dies, the team decides to try to bring her back, which requires an item of great significance to her. Larry's only dilemma is deciding which bottle to use. At her cremation, the team brings things she liked, the two who knew her the longest brought booze. They also attribute her drinking to her body being more flammable than they expected.
• Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: Rita's list of examples for why the world is 'garbage': "People lie, and they hurt each other, and they wear these things on their feet called crocs."
• Became Their Own Antithesis: In her previous Hollywood life, Rita was a bigoted narcissist who frequently betrayed others to the Hollywood system for the sake of maintaining her own status. This fades over the course of her growing improvement as a character and she expresses some regret for her life as "Rita Farr, Hollywood Diva." However, when living as the amnesiac "Bendy," she's a warm-hearted individual who never considers betraying her friends to the Bureau and embraces the Dada lifestyle that her previous self mocked. Even after regaining her memories, Rita still maintains her loyalty to the Sisterhood and fully rejects the Hollywood persona she used to adore. It's further cemented when Immortus turns out to be her rival Isabel Feathers, who displayed similar prima donna behaviour that made Rita see just how insufferable she could be.
• Be Careful What You Wish For: She occasionally expresses a wish to be rid the life of Rita Farr and find a new identity for herself. She gets her wish as the amnesiac Bendy, only to have her lover killed and her friends weaponized by the Bureau of Normalcy.
• Beneath the Mask: She has been living so long as Rita Farr, she is not sure that anything even exists beneath the mask anymore. But she knows she doesn't want to be Rita and everything that she was anymore.
• Big Eater: When Rita joins the others for dinner and introduces herself to Rachel, she piles her plate with a small mountain of food. Justified, since she says that she requires a lot of caloric intake to help maintain her form.
• Blessed with Suck: Compared to her comic counterpart, Rita's powers are pretty terrible. Unlike the comic where she is essentially Mister Fantastic, in the show she is essentially a giant blob of flesh in her neutral form. The only real benefit to this power is that she is able to move through very small openings, as she is super malleable. On the downside, she requires constant mental focus to maintain her physical form, any distractions or distress tends to cause her to grotesquely lose her form. It's clear that she hates her "power".
  • Season 2 has her slowly gain more control over her power, with her progress rising and falling depending on her mental state. Its clear she has the potential to become as powerful as her comics counterpart, if she can overcome her personal traumas.
• Blob Monster: Rita is introduced lying in bed as a formless blob and has to reshape herself when she awakens. This requires a conscious effort on her part and she has difficulty maintaining it, especially when stressed or emotional. After losing her longevity, Rita makes a habit of melting at will to treat her arthritis.
• Body Horror: Seeing her dissolve is... not a pretty sight.
• Celibate Hero: Heavily implied, and not by choice. She fears getting intimate with anyone will cause her to lose control of her shapeshifting, and turn her into a blob that will suffocate or crush the person she is with. Which has already happened once.
  • Season 2 adds new complications to this when Rita unlocks repressed memories of her mother sleeping around to get young Rita acting roles. It soon becomes clear that Rita internalized sex as something that would cost her power and control. Given the abovementioned incident and her failed relationship with Steve Dayton, Rita has numerous reasons to be uncomfortable with sex.
• Compact Infiltrator: Rita's habit of losing control of her Rubber Man powers and melting into a Blob Monster, while incredibly humiliating, actually comes in handy when the team need her to sneak into areas that solid people can't access. Among other things, in "Donkey Patrol", she's able to pour herself into the mouth of a donkey to reach an interdimensional portal, while in "Cyborg Patrol", Cliff is able to smuggle her into the Bureau of Normalcy via his hollow robot body, allowing her to infiltrate the complex without tripping any alarms.
• Cursed with Awesome: Season 3 confirms that the Blessed with Suck nature of her powers is entirely due to her own self-loathing. When suffering from amnesia and unhampered by her issues, she's just as powerful as her comics counterpart and a huge get for the Sisterhood of Dada.
• Custom Uniform of Sexy: Parodied. Back when her star was on the decline, Rita starred in a cheap sci-fi television series where her character wore a costume that flaunted her cleavage.
• Dies Differently in Adaptation: In the comics, she died in a Heroic Sacrifice, giving up her life to prevent the bombing of a small fishing village. She stayed dead for years before suddenly being resurrected. In the show, she relatively peacefully from old age and explicitly asks her friends not to try and bring her back.
• The Diva: Rita is The '50s-version of a diva.
• Dying as Yourself: Rita doesn't melt as soon as she dies, hinting that her powers faded at the end of her life...then the team cremates her and she inflates.
• Face–Heel Turn: In her pursuit of revenge against Madame Rouge, she unleashes the Eternal Flaggelation on the world, forcing the globe to confront their traumas. Including her friends.
• Fan Disservice: The opening credits show Rita in the shower. That isn't water running down her thighs.
• Fiery Redhead: Rita's an auburn-haired woman known for her pridefulness. She's the only member of the team who shows any interest in becoming leader after the loss of Niles.
• Freudian Excuse: She was raised by parents obsessed with stardom, to the point of keeping her from schooling and other kids her age. It explains a lot of her lack of social grace and self-obsession.
• Harmless Liquefaction: The same powers that allow Rita to mold and shape her body frequently result in her melting into a shapeless puddle of flesh if she can't maintain concentration, to the point that her default state first thing in the morning is that of a Blob Monster hiding under the blankets. Given that she can reform herself with sufficient willpower, the process is harmless to Rita - though it's definitely a dignity-stripper.
• Hospital Hottie: In a medical uniform, she wears it well and is no less a Ms. Fanservice in it.
• I Just Want to Be Special: Or, more accurately, adored. In season 2, she decides to try and channel this desire for good by becoming a superhero rather than a Hollywood star.
• It's All About Me: Played for drama; Rita's defining flaw is her need for attention and validation, and it only pushes others away. Best exemplified in the pilot after hearing a waitress tell her that Rita Farr movies helped her family through tough times — rather than simply take solace in knowing that she touched the life of someone else, Rita tries to get the woman to say more about the movies themselves and how great Farr was in them, in a desperate attempt to feel adulation again. When it fails, horribly, she begins literally falling apart from the stress. She starts getting better about caring for others, and as of now, wants to reinvent herself as a better person and leave her past as "Rita Farr" behind. Ultimately cemented when Immortus/ Isabel Feathers turns out to be a massive Attention Whore that provides a reflection for Rita.
• Lady Drunk: Rita loves a stiff cocktail. It's played for both comedy and tragedy that the Doom Patrol don't know her as anything beyond either this or her obsession with her looks.
• Large Ham: Her acting. Also, pretty much Rita in general. Larry comments that, in order to use her powers, first she has to "emote."
• Ms. Fanservice: Rita's a very attractive woman and is often shown sleeping in the buff. Enforced, as she's likely dressing as her film noir character "The Crimson Lady". Later she wears a medical outfit that still seems to compliment her well. Unfortunately, during a Superpower Meltdown, she most certainly is not.
• My God, What Have I Done?: In Rita's backstory she sustained her career by acquiring attractive young actresses for a Hollywood producer. When one of them ended up pregnant and committed suicide she finally realized what she had done... but then took the next role she was offered anyway.
• No Celebrities Were Harmed: A very subtle one of Katharine Hepburn with dashes of Joan Crawford.
• Non-Indicative Name: "Elasti" woman would imply her form naturally reverts back to its most compact state. Rita's body melts when she loses focus.
• Note to Self: When Rita travels back in time (and thus wipes her memory in the process), she brings a reminder note reading “Laura De Mille” and “Sisterhood of Dada.”
• Older Than They Look: Rita Farr used to be an old-timey actress, got her condition decades ago, and was institutionalized for much of that time. But her condition allows her to keep her appearance from back then. Losing her longevity seems to have drained her stamina, as she's no longer able to maintain her youthful appearance.
• Platonic Life-Partners: With Larry. They’ve been at the mansion the longest and have formed the closest bond as a result. She even accompanied him to go see his son. And when they leave the mansion for a few months after learning what Niles did to them, they live together in an apartment. Likely a Mythology Gag to the comics where Larry had unrequited feelings for Rita.
• Politically Incorrect Hero: In the past, Rita referred to an amputee crewman as an "eyesore" and had him fired rather than work with him. She's grown past it in the present day, for obvious reasons.
• Power Incontinence: What makes Rita more a "freak" like the others, she can't control her shapeshifting well. At first, it appeared to be that she had to concentrate constantly to appear as "Rita Farr", but while living as "Bendy", she lacked this issue outside of when the negative attention of the Bureau caused her to feel anxious, which infers that the "blob" form is a result of Rita's anxiety and self-loathing.
• Shapeshifter Longevity: Rita's aging process appears to have stalled following the accident that gave her Rubber Man powers back in the 1950s, and as such, she still looks the part of a glamorous Hollywood starlet. Unfortunately, thanks to her aforementioned Power Incontinence, she's spent most of the last seven decades in seclusion at Doom Manor, obsessively watching her old movies, struggling to use her abilities for anything remotely productive, and occasionally melting into a Blob Monster. Season 4 confirms that Rita's shapeshifting ability wasn't automatically linked to her youthful looks, because after her longevity is deprived Rita loses the ability to appear young.
• Silk Hiding Steel: She dresses and acts like a stuck-up actress but Rita is highly capable and resourceful. She stands up to numerous villains, including Mr. Nobody and Immortus, and eventually becomes the Doom Patrol's leader.
• Sleeps in the Nude: By necessity since she reverts to her Blob Monster state while she sleeps.
• Stage Mom: Rita's mother was very set on her becoming a famous actress. From a very early age she put Rita through acting classes and was perfectly willing to neglect normal school for that. As well as willing to sleep with producers to get Rita more parts.
• Stage Names: Rita Farr is a stage name. Her real name is Gertrude Cramp, even though she still seems to prefer being called Rita. At least she isn't totally ready to let that identity go, from both attachment and guilt.
• Team Member in the Adaptation: She is a member of the Sisterhood of Dada, when Rita in the comics was never affiliated with the Brotherhood of Dada due to both rosters being from after she was killed off and becoming defunct long before she eventually came back to life.
• Together in Death: When she ascends to the afterlife, Rita reunites with Malcolm/Agent !.
• Took a Level in Kindness:
  • After her mutation, she learns to be a bit less selfish. As the show goes on, she learns to be a lot less selfish.
  • She takes another level upon dying. Rita accepts her mortality and discourages Larry from trying to resurrect her. When the rest of the Doom Patrol undercut of her funeral with some thoughtless mementos, she appreciates their attempts anyway.
• Toxic Friend Influence: An unintentional example; early in season 2, she takes Dorothy under her wing, but her own self-loathing ends up rubbing off on Dorothy, making Dorothy's self-esteem issues worse.
• Unrelated in the Adaptation: Played with. She and Steve Dayton were never married in this continuity but they did have a brief relationship.
• Vitriolic Best Buds: With Madame Rouge/Laura, starting in Season 4. Rita holds an understandable grudge against Rouge for the events of the third season, but the two of them start to bond as of "Youth Patrol."
• White-Dwarf Starlet: Rita clings to her days of stardom. She tries to become a drama teacher and auditioned for a local play, but wasn't able to sustain either.
• Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: In "Therapy Patrol", Rita mentions multiple times that she does not like rats; even when she's trapped in the furnace she begs for there to not be any while she is down there.

Capt. Larry Trainor / Negative Man

Captain Lawrence "Larry" Trainor, USAF / Negative Man

"Maybe it's the universe telling us we need a break."

Species: Enhanced Human

Played by: Matt Bomer (voice & flashbacks/unsuited), Matthew Zuk (suited actor), Braxton Alexander (young)

Appearances: Doom Patrol (2019) | Crisis on Infinite Earths (2019)^note Cameo in the epilogue

"I hate that word. “Hero.” It’s dangerous. A title other people hang on you and you’re supposed to carry it around."

An Air Force pilot who was exposed to negative energy. The encounter caused Larry to crash his plane and left him permanently disfigured. Despite being married with two kids, Larry's a closet homosexual whose double-life ultimately alienated everyone he knew before meeting Niles Caulder.

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• Ace Pilot: Larry was a revered pilot in the U.S. Air Force prior to his accident.
• Action Dad: Larry is a father of two and was a career soldier prior to becoming a Doom Patrol member.
• Adaptation Dye-Job: He was blond in the comics before his accident. Here, he has Matt Bomer's natural black hair.
• Adaptation Relationship Overhaul: He becomes a couple with this continuity's Mr. 104 by the conclusion of the series, when in the comics they were never in any kind of relationship.
• Adaptational Backstory Change: Larry Trainor is still a test pilot who merged with the Negative Spirit in the upper atmosphere, but here, he also had a wife and two children...and he was cheating on his wife with another man.
• Adaptational Badass: A Zig-Zagged Trope. Larry doesn't have the time limit from the comics on how long the Negative Spirit is able to release, with the tradeoff that Larry falls unconscious for the duration. That lasts until the Bureau of Normalcy experiments on him, which ultimately leads to him gaining those limitations from the comics, and them both remaining conscious during separation. Played straight by the finale where he can directly channel the Spirit's power through himself without releasing it from his body.
• Adaptational Late Appearance: He crosses paths with Niles Caulder a little while after Mento, Celsius and Lodestone formed the first roster of the Doom Patrol, when he was a founding member of the team in the comics. It's also established that Valentina Vostok was associated with the Chief and became bonded with a negative energy spirit before his accident occurred, when Negative Woman in the comics made her debut as a female successor to Larry Trainor in the team's second roster.
• Adaptational Nice Guy: His design is heavily based on Negative Man's Rebis incarnation from Grant Morrison's run, but he's much more straightforwardly pleasant and helpful whereas his visual influence had a predilection for being obnoxious and aloof.
• Adaptational Personality Change: In comparison to his Titans (2018) counterpart, who was portrayed as far more joyful and warm than in Doom Patrol.
• Adaptational Sexuality: In the comics Negative Man was in love with Elasti-Woman and even in this adaptation he shows some attachment to Rita, albeit platonically (in addition, the start of Grant Morrison's run had him flirt with a female nurse shortly before he, the Negative Spirit and Eleanor Poole were merged into Rebis). This iteration of Negative Man is homosexual. He was cheating on his wife (who he already had children with) with another man. He's also not intersex like his Rebis iteration was.
• Armored Closet Gay: Larry married a woman and had two sons in a desperate attempt to convince himself and others that he was straight. It didn't take.
• Awful Wedded Life: "Subconscious Patrol" reveals that he never wanted to marry his wife, but was forced to do so by his parents after they learned about his sexuality.
• Babies Make Everything Better: Subverted hard. He had two sons with his wife, but not only did it fail to improve his marriage, it also caused him to pass on his neuroses to his sons, causing one to grow up to be a conspiracy nut and the other to become an outright authoritarian.
• Badass Longcoat: A constant attire for him, likely to conceal the bandages on his body.
• Bandaged Face: Larry's entire body is covered with radiation-absorbing bandages as a result of exposure to negative energy.
• Beauty to Beast: Larry was exceptionally handsome before the accident which left him covered in horrible third degree burns.
• Blessed with Suck: The Negative Spirit is very powerful and can phase through anything along with having other abilities and it not only makes Larry immortal but sustains him so he doesn't even need to eat or drink. Only problem is that when he's released, it completely knocks Larry out. This becomes remedied after the Spirit is forcefully removed from Larry's body. Larry is able to maintain consciousness for a period of time while separated from the Spirit after that. Only trouble is that now Larry also begins to slowly die while separated. When his longevity is removed, not even the Negative Spirit is able to sustain him.
• Body Horror: Larry's entire body is covered in horrific burns from the plane crash that followed his merging with the Negative Spirit.
• Broken Ace: He was revered pilot and a top choice to lead space missions but also struggled immensely with his closeted sexuality and the damaging effect it had on both his family and John, pushing both away.
• By the Power of Grayskull!: After Larry becomes able to control when the Negative Spirit is released, he does that by saying "Negative Spirit, release!".
• Calling the Young Man Out: Much of Larry's strained relationship with his son Paul involves pathetically accepting all of Paul's criticisms and attempted murder. Paul finally overstretches Larry's patience after allying with the Bureau of Normalcy, which leads to Larry telling Paul off and cutting him out of his life.
• Can't Live Without You: As much as he and the Negative Spirit hate each other, it's the only thing sustaining his body. If it leaves for too long, Larry will die. He has a better relationship with the Negative Spirit's offspring.
• Cool Shades: Larry wears them out of necessity as a result of the accident that disfigured him, even indoors and at night.
• Cure Your Gays: Flashbacks to his childhood show Larry's parents wanting to get rid of his homosexuality.
• The Cynic: Larry is understandably downtrodden and melancholic.
• Deadpan Snarker: Has a very dry and bitter sense of humor, usually about his appearance and general unhappiness.
• Did You Think I Can't Feel?: Paul's accusation that Larry never loved his kids becomes one of the final straws for Larry's willingness to tolerate his son's abuse.
• The Eeyore: Larry's the gloomiest of a gloomy bunch.
  Larry: I don't mean to be a wet blanket, but-
  Laura: "But it's my whole personality!"
  (Everyone laughs)
• Extreme Doormat: Larry tends to listen to whatever Niles tells him to do, mainly since he can't cope with his existence within the world. And as Niles mainly just tells him to stay in Doom Manor away from the rest of the world, he happily complies, happy for an excuse not to face other people. This extends to his dealings with the others in the Doom Patrol, to the point that when others come up with a plan, he's just assumed to be in favor of the majority opinion.
• Flying Under the Gaydar: Larry had a wife and two children, keeping his romantic trysts with John Bowers discreet.
• Freudian Excuse: Larry grew up in a time of intense and often violent homophobia in the Great Depression and knew that his secret getting out could destroy his family so he learned to keep his feelings hidden and simply did what was expected of him.
• Gayngst: Back before he was Negative Man, Larry felt like a monster because he was having an affair with another man, cheating on his wife. It's also worth noting that this episode in his life took place during the 1960s, a time when homosexuals were often portrayed as monsters and society was not as accepting, especially in occupations like the military.
• Good-Looking Privates: Larry was a Tall, Dark, and Handsome USAF captain. Any time he's shown in a restored state, Larry is shown wearing a tuxedo or an equally dashing outfit.
• Heroic BSoD: In "Dead Patrol", the sight of all of his friends dead makes him nearly insane with grief. By the time Dorothy finds him, he's trying to mummify their friends in order to preserve them for a "Cinco de Mayo" burial.
• I Was Quite a Looker: Larry was a strikingly handsome man before his accident.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Larry was not a great husband or father and even in the present, he's cynical and snarky but he's a got a good heart and can be very kind and caring to those who get close to him.
• Late Coming Out: Larry knew that he was gay way back in the 1950's, but stayed in the closet until 2019, when he was somewhere in his 90s.
• Military Superhero: Larry was a captain in the U.S. Air Force long before becoming a member of Doom Patrol.
• Mr. Fanservice: Not in his current iteration, no, but in flashbacks we get treated to Matt Bomer in a lot of steamy, barely clothed scenes with another really handsome guy.
• Mystical Pregnancy: Rare male example. In "Undead Patrol", Larry thinks he's dying because he's been vomiting blue liquid since morning. At the end of the episode, is revealed that Larry is pregnant.
• The Needless: In Season 3, Larry exposits that he doesn't actually eat or drink anymore. He can, apparently, but the Negative Spirit keeps him alive so he doesn't actually have any reason to; given he needs to be constantly wrapped in bandages, this is probably a good thing as it would be difficult to unwrap himself safely just to have a sandwich. Strangely, he later remarks that he does need to pee, however.
• Never My Fault: Larry accuses the Negative Spirit of ruining his life, forgetting that his inability to fully commit to either his wife and family or to his lover John (who was willing to stay by his side even after his accident while his wife left) was what pushed both of them away. In "Penultimate Patrol" he admits that his actions destroyed his family before the accident, and that his wife and sons deserved better than what he could give them.
• No Celebrities Were Harmed: Here Larry plays a stand-in for Chuck Yeager.
• Only Sane Man: He tends to be more grounded and less prone to drama and freak outs than the rest of the team, if only because he's too depressed to cause a scene.
• Outliving One's Offspring: In "Fun Size Patrol", his son Gary commits suicide at home.
• Parents as People: Larry did love his sons but the difficulty of keeping his sexuality a secret and being stuck in a loveless marriage meant he was far from the best parent, being distant to his family.
• Person of Mass Destruction: In "Ezekiel Patrol", we see he is a living, breathing atom bomb. Creating disequilibrium between himself and the Negative Spirit creates a hydrogen explosion from his body, powerful enough to completely wipe out Danny the Street. The only way the rest of the Patrol survive is by taking refuge inside the carcass of a cockroach.
• Platonic Life-Partners: Larry and Rita have been friends since he moved into the Doom Manor and are the two members of the Doom Patrol who are closest with each other. Season 2 has Rita encourage and assure Larry more, even refusing to leave him when he's captured by Red Jack and has his radioactive skin exposed.
• Ret-Canon: A therapy session in the Unstoppable Doom Patrol miniseries hints that the comic incarnation of Larry is a closeted gay man like his depiction here.
• Running Gag: Larry trying not to vomit in his bandages.
• Sharp-Dressed Man: Anytime Larry appears unburned, he's wearing a tuxedo or a similarly dapper outfit.
• Shipper on Deck: In "Dead Patrol", Larry can tell Edwin has romantic feelings for Charles and claims he only sees him as his mate.
• Sympathetic Adulterer: While Larry cheating on his wife is never portrayed positively, Larry isn't painted in a bad light either, instead presenting him as someone who is feeling trapped to live within society's demands/expectations.
• Tall, Dark, and Handsome: At least until the accident.
• Team Chef: Is the one to cook for the whole group and apparently a talented one at that.
• When He Smiles: "Danny Patrol" gives Larry an Imagine Spot where he's restored in a musical number. Larry spends the majority of the song positively beaming.
• Wound That Will Not Heal: The burns Larry sustained from re-entering Earth's atmosphere are permanent. Given he's radioactive, nobody with the knowledge to fix his skin can actually get close enough to Larry to perform any form of surgery.

Keeg Bovo / Negative Spirit II

Negative Spirit

Species: Otherdimensional Being

"Until this moment, every major event in my life was forced on me. Society forced me into my marriage. Chief pulled the strings to have me cross paths with the Negative Spirit. But if I let him in, it'll be my choice. And if it goes sideways, which it always does, then I'm the only one to blame."

—Larry Trainor

A baby Negative spirit left behind by the first Negative Spirit.

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• My Greatest Second Chance: Not only for the original Negative Spirit, but also for Larry's estranged son Paul. While Larry wasn't able to open up to Paul and resented the Negative Spirit for permanently derailing his life, he goes out of his way to really connect with Keeg.
• Nature Versus Nurture: Larry's attachement to Keeg seems to be partially fuelled by the fact that he carried him to term. Compare that to his more aloof approach when it came to parenting his sons.

Cliff Steele / Robotman

Clifford "Cliff" Steele / Robotman

"I was a shitty asshole, but I was the best goddamn shitty asshole there ever was."

Species: Enhanced Human

Played by: Brendan Fraser (voice & human form), Riley Shanahan (suited actor)

Appearances: Doom Patrol (2019) | Crisis on Infinite Earths (2019)^note Cameo in the epilogue

"I can’t feel pain. No matter how hard I hit, where I hit, what I hit, I can’t feel pain."

A professional stock car racer who had his brain transplanted into a robot body after a nigh-fatal crash.

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• Action Dad: Cliff has a daughter, whom he hasn't seen in 30 years and initially believes to be dead. He also acts as the team's muscle.
• Adaptational Backstory Change: Cliff Steele is still a race car driver, but now he has a wife (whom he was cheating on with the nanny) and a daughter. And the accident that turned him into Robotman happened with them in the car, crashing through a semi-truck, decapitating his wife Kate and damaged Cliff’s body beyond repair, leaving him and his daughter Clara as the only survivors of the crash.
• Adaptational Badass: Downplayed. While his super strength was rarely useful in the stranger iterations of the comics that the show is based on, the addition of more grounded goons in the program gives Cliff more things he can effectively punch.
• Adaptational Jerkass: Cliff in the comics was a hot-headed but otherwise Nice Guy Gentle Giant, and while he's still mostly this, he's a lot more prone to swearing and yelling, and his Jerk with a Heart of Gold nature is played up. Notably, he's given a backstory that makes him far more of a Byronic Hero, as he was cheating on his wife with their nanny (and got pissed when he thought she was cheating on him with his best friend), and this adultery is directly what caused the accident (and also lead to his wife's death).
• Adaptational Late Appearance: He joins the group decades after Rita Farr and Larry Trainor got involved with the Chief and after Mento, Celsius and Lodestone formed the first roster of the Doom Patrol, when in the comics Cliff, Larry and Rita were the founding members of the Doom Patrol, Mento was an additional member who debuted shortly afterwards, Celsius founded the second roster and Lodestone joined the second roster a short time after Paul Kupperberg's iteration received their own ongoing.
• The Atoner: Once he reconnects with Clara, one of his driving motivations is to be a better father (and later grandfather) to make up for how negligent he used to be. However, he often gets distracted from this.
• Audience Surrogate: Since Cliff's the character we're first introduced to, a lot of what goes on in the Doom Patrol universe is a first for him, and also the audience. Hence, Cliff uses his catchphrase probably almost as often as the audience does.
• Babies Make Everything Better: Deconstructed. In season 3, becoming a grandfather inspires Cliff to get his act together and become a better, more responsible person, but it doesn't fix any of his underlying character flaws, and in some cases, just gives him new excuses for those flaws (for instance, he starts abusing drugs again, but this time justifies the overindulgence because the drugs are supposedly curing his Parkinson's and thus ensuring that he lives to see his grandson grow up.)
• Badass Driver: Cliff was a former racecar driver and in one of his races, avoided an oncoming vehicle which won him the race.
• Bad "Bad Acting": He once guest-starred on a popular soap opera back when he was human, and from what little we see of the episode, he was an absolutely terrible actor.
  Cliff: There was some buzz about a Daytime Emmy for me.
• Baritone of Strength: He's a super strong robot with the deep vocals of Brendan Fraser.
• Been There, Shaped History: To Cliff's shock, it turns out he was the reason Niles Caulder lost the use of his legs thanks to a journey through time.
• Big Damn Heroes: Cliff has such moment during the first episode when he saves a school bus from Rita's blob.
• The Big Guy: Cliff's the biggest heavy hitter on the team.
• Blessed with Suck: He's frighteningly strong, extremely durable, is immune to mind control and doesn't need to eat, sleep or drink. He also has little agility, is unable to function in the real world, is unable to pursue almost any pleasures and deveops Parkinson's disease which causes him to go immobile at times.
• Book Dumb: Downplayed example, but Cliff apparently has no idea what the word "briefing" means (and laughs at Vic's use of "disseminate") in "Puppet Patrol," and is genuinely stumped by a high school-level math problem in "Cyborg Patrol."
• Brain in a Jar: Albeit, a nigh-indestructible one. At one point he gets switched with the Brain and for a time gets to inhabit a kaiju-sized robot.
• Bruiser with a Soft Center: While he's not really a "bruiser" and actually doesn't like fighting that much, he tends to get forced into this role due to his size and strength. The "soft center" part is definitely there, though. In the fourth season he refuses to fight a zombie until it attacks him, and he's later unable to destroy a zombie butt like he's supposed to, leading to the apocalypse.
• Celeb Crush: It's implied he has a thing for Jennifer Beals, as he admits to having recurring dreams about her and claims to have watched Flashdance 87 times.
• Character Catchphrase: Whenever something bat-shit crazy happens, he usually utters, "What the fuck?!"
• Composite Character: He takes the comic incarnation of General Immortus's role in crippling the Chief, with the fourth season episode "Portal Patrol" revealing that he inadvertently made Niles Caulder a paraplegic through a Stable Time Loop.
• Consulting Mister Puppet: Season four has him talk to the oven mitt with a face drawn on it that he's wearing over his hand to save his newly acquired sense of touch for the next time he holds his infant grandson Rory. The oven mitt claims to be Rory, but Cliff believes that it's more likely the talking oven mitt is a hallucination from his Parkinson's.
• Cyborg: A human brain inside a mechanical body. In "Zombie Patrol" Cliff succumbs to a zombie virus and is able to be cured by eating brains. At the start of Season 4 Silas Stone develops a new right hand that will help Cliff experience the sense of touch again.
• Daddy Had a Good Reason for Abandoning You: Being decapitated in a car crash and spending the next thirty years as a Brain in a Jar as a crazy old man builds a robot body for you is a fairly legitimate reason for not being there for your daughter.
• Daddy's Girl: Cliff loved his daughter dearly, and memories of her are what help him get through his transition as a robot, but it also haunts him because he can't bring himself to try and contact her.
• Dark and Troubled Past: Cliff cheated on his wife with the nanny, fell on hard times with drinking and drugs, and then a fatal crash leaves him, his wife, and their daughter dead, or so he believes in the last part.
• Deadpan Snarker: Often, most notably with Larry.
• Descent into Addiction: In season 3, Cliff becomes addicted to video games and online gambling as a result of Parkinson's medications degrading his impulse control, leading to him selling the others' personal belongings and eventually agreeing to sell his own blueprint design.
• Dies Differently in Adaptation: In the comics, he first perished at the conclusion of Arnold Drake's original run when he sacrificed himself to save the village of Codsville before being revived in Paul Kupperberg's run and subsequently going through a constant cycle of being destroyed and rebuilt. In this continuity, the series ends with him shutting down for good after visiting his daughter and grandson during the latter's first birthday.
• Disco Dan: Cliff's fashion sense has aged even worse than Rita's. Clearly he's not ready to admit that the 80s ended decades ago.
• Does Not Know His Own Strength: Even after getting used to his robot body for over a decade Cliff still has problems holding back his strength which habitually leads to things like accidentally breaking a plate by pressing down on a knife way too hard.
• Eye Lights Out: The final shot of the series is Cliff's eyes going dark as he fades away.
• Face Death with Dignity: When Cliff has a vision of his grandson Rory living a full life that culminates in meeting his own grandchild, Cliff finds peace and shuts down.
  Cliff: It's okay. It's okay. I made it home.
• Fatal Flaw: As good an influence as his daughter is on him, Cliff's fixation on the life he lost with her keeps him wrapped up in his own head and hampers his attempts to be The Heart for the team.
• Fate Worse than Death: None of the team have it easy but Cliff is stuck forever in a metal body with limited movement and is unable to feel or enjoy anything. Silas Stone develops a new right hand for Cliff that allows him to experience the sense of touch again. When Immortus traps everyone in an idealized world, Cliff's body is fully restored and he overindulges in every habit he was unable to try as a robot. That includes urinating.
• Forgot He Was a Robot: Cliff's only way of displaying emotion is through blinking.
• Fun T-Shirt: Cliff has a collection of these which he usually wears beneath his leather jacket, which are often suspiciously apropos of the situation in the episode in which he wears them.
• Gentle Giant: Cliff's massive and incredibly strong and a sweetheart once you get to know him and look past the layers of self-loathing.
• Hair-Trigger Temper: He was never the most even-tempered person to begin with, but his current circumstances have left him very quick to explode with expletive-ridden rage and frustration. This only gets worse after Niles' true motivations are revealed.
• Hand Wave: His original robot body was crushed at the end of Season 3, but the premier for Season 4 shows he's got a new robot body that looks exactly like the old one.
• The Hedonist: Cliff lived a lifestyle of sex and drugs before his accident. It's part of why being a robot is so hard for him - he went from feeling everything to nothing. In "Immortimas Patrol" Cliff gets his body back and spends the entire episode compulsively eating, touching things, masturbating and urinating.
• Hell-Bent for Leather: Cliff wears a sleeveless leather jacket with massive shoulder pads.
• Hypocrite:
  • Cliff berated his wife and best friend for having an affair with each other despite cheating himself.
  • In season 3, he calls out Niles' ghost for trying to hide from Dorothy, telling him it's cruel not to say goodbye to his own daughter. In season 4, after his own health declines, he procrastinates on going home to see Clara before he dies, and is called out by Dorothy for this. He finally does return to Florida after Immortus is dealt with, surviving just long enough to see his grandson's first birthday before succumbing to Parkinson's disease.
• I Just Want to Be Special: Deconstructed. Cliff's deepest craving is to relive the sensation of being a beloved celebrity and living like a king. However, he also feels like he doesn't deserve the praise, resulting in drowning himself in hedonism to ignore the pain. His subconscious self even suggests Cliff initially felt nothing towards his daughter, because the work of being a father isn't special.
• Immune to Mind Control: Cliff's immune to both Karen's "love spell" and Flex Mentallo's "orgasm attack" due to being a machine. He does however temporarily succumb to a zombie virus.
• Iron Butt Monkey: Cliff suffers a lot of abuse over the course of the show due to his metal body being immune to pain and nearly impervious to damage.
• Jerkass Realization:
  • He realized he was a crappy husband after narrowly dodging a racing accident and soon started making an active attempt to be better. Sadly, this was shortly before the actual car accident that forced his conversion into a cyborg, and the death of his wife.
  • In the first half of season 2, he's incredibly cruel to Dorothy, convinced that she's so cheerful all the time because she's a spoiled, sheltered brat who needs a cold hard dose of reality to cut her down to size. After finding out how badly her father treats her when he thinks nobody's watching and that Niles has basically ruined any chance she has of living a normal life, Cliff realizes that all he's accomplishing is bullying a child, and he is very uncomfortable with that.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Cliff is grumpy, foul-mouthed, and bad-tempered, but nonetheless has a good heart and actively attempts to be a hero compared to the others. Notably, in the first episode, he is the only one who wants to protect the town that the Chief says will be caught in the crossfire of whatever is coming for them; everyone else decided to leave with the Chief.
• Lantern Jaw of Justice: His jaw is very prominent.
• Limited Wardrobe: Cliff always wears the same leather jacket and t-shirt. Then again, it's not like a cyborg has to worry about body odor.
• Made of Iron: Literally as he has a body that is immune to pain, injury and (beyond the odd zombie virus and Parkinson's disease) illness.
• Magitek: Season 3 reveals that Niles employed magic as well as technology in constructing his robot body, which makes it impossible for someone lacking magical ability — such as The Brain — to reproduce the work. His second robot body is implied to be pure tech due to being built by Silas Stone.
• Manchild: Not quite as severe as other examples would have you think, but his crude demeanor and outbursts paint him as more of an unstable teen than a qualified hero.
• Mighty Glacier: He's enormous, weighs a ton, is immensely strong, and has the relative speed and grace of a steamroller.
• My God, What Have I Done?:
  • Cliff says this almost word-for-word after slaughtering a hallway full of Von Fuch's Nazi minions.
  • In "Portal Patrol", he is horrified to discover that he was the one who paralyzed Niles Caulder and drove him to start Project Immortus in the first place.
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: "Hope Patrol" has Cliff realize that he actually caused the Buttpocalypse the team thought they prevented by refusing to kill the last zombie butt and instead keeping him in the fridge, which he remembers was left open the last time he checked on it.
• Noisy Robots: His micro-movements create sounds.
• No Sympathy: Out of all the Doom Patrol, Cliff's probably the least empathetic towards Niles even after discovering his motivations. Justified as Niles killed his wife when he "created" him in addition to putting him in a body that can't feel, taste, or smell. Somewhat less sympathetically, he also is generally rather cold towards Dorothy, seemingly for little other reason than she's Niles' daughter, considering he's normally pretty nice to children. She is the reason Niles destroyed his and the others' lives, but she had no say in the matter either. He gets better about this after "Space Patrol", after hearing the Chief rant about her like she's just another one of his experiments.
• Parents as People: Cliff was most definitely not father of the year and regrets being more focused on his own hedonism than being present for Clara. But he does love her immensely and sincerely wants to be better now.
• Sense Loss Sadness: Cliff's main dilemma is the fact that he can no longer feel, taste, or smell anything anymore. In Season 4 his right hand is upgraded with an imitation of a nervous system.
• Series Mascot: The most recognizable full-fledged member (not counting Beast Boy, who's more associated with the Titans) and the only one to be in every iteration of the team.
• Sir Swears-a-Lot: Along with Jane, Cliff is the most swear-happy of the core cast. "What the fuck!?" is basically Cliff's Catchphrase.
• Super-Strength: His main ability. Cliff can lift massive weights with little issue and tear human beings in half like they're breadsticks.
• Team Dad: Cliff tends to take on this role with varying levels of success, especially to Jane. Ironically, he's canonically the youngest of the team with even Jane being a few years older than him.
• Top-Heavy Guy: Cilff's upper body is incredibly bulky, but his lower body is no larger than the average adult male. Presumably Niles gained more refined tech before giving Cliff legs.
• Weaksauce Weakness: Due to his metal body, Cliff can be rendered completely helpless by a sufficiently strong magnet.
• Wouldn't Hurt a Child: He doesn't kill or hurt children when Larry asks him to kill Shadowy Mr. Evans's baby.

Kay Challis / Crazy Jane

Kay Challis / Crazy Jane / Kaleidoscope

"When something wants to get us, it usually finds a way to get us. No use trying to stop it."

Species: Enhanced Human

Played by: Diane Guerrero, Skye Roberts (child)

Appearances: Doom Patrol (2019) | Crisis on Infinite Earths (2019)^note Cameo in the epilogue

"You all need more therapy than I do, and I’m the crazy one."

The dominant personality of Kay Challis, a young woman who developed over 60 personalities and received powers for each identity following a number of illegal lab experiments she was involuntarily subjected to.

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• Adaptational Attractiveness: A Downplayed Trope example as Grant Morrison designed her to be less voluptuous and sex bomb like than the majority of superheroines at the time. Notably, though, they designed her around Patti Smith. The show dresses down Jane but makes no secret that Diane Guerrero is gorgeous.
• Adaptational Backstory Change: Crazy Jane still has 64 different personalities and each personality has their own superpower, but since there was no gene bomb in this universe, her powers instead came from a drug she was injected with by the Bedlam House style mental hospital staff. The cause of her Dissociative Identity Disorder is still the same, however.
• Adaptational Diversity: Crazy Jane — who is white in the comics — is played by Latina actress Diane Guerrero. Season 3 also implies that the "Jane" persona is a lesbian.
• Adaptational Early Appearance: The rest of the Doom Patrol were created in the '60s, but Crazy Jane wasn't made until 1989. In this continuity, she's part of the team before Robotman came along.
• Adaptational Relationship Overhaul: She becomes a couple with Casey Brinke at the series' conclusion, when their comic counterparts were only acquaintances.
• Adaptational Jerkass: In the comics, Jane was seldom unhelpful. Here, depending on which personality is in control, she can go so far as to switch sides mid-fight. She's also a lot more angry, violent, and mean-spirited in general compared to her comics counterpart, whose base personality is very mellow and friendly. Most of her personalities are a lot more prone to violent outbursts, to the point where she's almost the Token Evil Teammate. Season 3 sees her move more towards her comic-book personality, as she and Kay become more integrated.
• Adaptational Sexuality: This version of Jane is a lesbian who is at most Platonic Life-Partners with Cliff, when her comic counterpart was more distrustful of men than not being attracted to them and was hinted to have romantic feelings for Cliff.
• Affirmative Action Girl: With Jane's addition, Elasti-Woman isn't the only woman on the team this time around. For added measure, she's also Latina and queer.
• Aloof Dark-Haired Girl: And depending on which personality is in control, she could either be distant, apathetic, snobby or downright antagonistic.
• Berserk Button: Asking her about her past. Cliff tends to push this button a lot.
• Beware the Nice Ones: Jane is capable of acting nice, but she's also just as capable of tearing someone a new one verbally if they piss her off.
• Big Sister Instinct: As much as she hates everyone else, the one person Jane genuinely cares for is Kay, who she often goes to in order to apologize for anything she's done that may have hurt the little girl. In season 2, she's also protective of Dorothy, which is one of the things that causes the rest of the Underground to start turning against her, as they don't particularly like Dorothy after she kills Baby Doll and Flaming Katy.
• Blessed with Suck: Jane looks normal compared to everyone else on the team. Unfortunately, she has a lot more problems when it comes to her mental interior.
• Broken Pedestal: Jane gradually loses her respect for Niles, who she regarded as a father figure and genuinely respected and cared for, over the course of the first season, even before she finds out he was responsible for everything that befell them. Of the whole team, she arguably takes it the hardest.
• Butch Lesbian: According to her actress, Jane herself is a lesbian. Thus explaining why she was more aggressive with demanding Jane keep Karen from sleeping with her "boyfriend". Over time she develops feelings for the equally tomboyish Casey Brinke.
• Casting Gag: Diane Guerrero is in another show with a Lemony Narrator and dramatic plot twists—though this time, it’s her character that’s named Jane.
• Character Development:
  • In season 3, Jane becomes more integrated with both the other personas and with Kay, and thus becomes a lot less angry and aloof. On the other hand, this also puts her in the middle of a festering conflict between Kay and the personas, as Kay wants more independence, whereas the other personas fear becoming obsolete.
  • Eventually Jane manages to fully synchronize all of her personalities so she may access all of their powers at once. With this new change, she feels the name "Crazy Jane" has become redundant and starts going by "Kaleidoscope", or "K" for short.
• Conscience Makes You Go Back:
  • When Cliff is the only one who chooses to stay to protect the town the team endangered while everyone else leaves with the Chief to save themselves, Jane is the first to want to turn around. She doesn't really give a damn about the town, but leaving Cliff to face whatever is coming alone makes her uncomfortable.
  • In season 2, she chooses to stay and help keep Niles alive, because she remembers seeing the room he prepared for her at the old Doom Patrol's asylum, and fears that Dorothy will face something similar if she's not there to advocate for her.
  "I'm generally opposed to putting little girls in cages."
• Cool Big Sis: In season 2, Dorothy idolizes her, much to her annoyance and bafflement.
• Dark and Troubled Past: All of her personalities stem from her years of being sexually abused by her own father.
• Dead Guy Junior: "Dead Patrol" reveals that Jane is named after Kay's beloved grandmother, whose dolls all inspired Kay's other personas.
• Deadpan Snarker: Crazy Jane is very sardonic and very foul-mouthed.
• Everyone Has Standards: In season 2, while Jane accompanies Cliff in hating and resenting the Chief for what he did to them, she is a lot more careful about not taking out her anger on Dorothy, because Dorothy's only a kid, and "being an adult doesn't give you a pass on being an asshole." When she finds out that the Chief is dying, she's also the first member of the team to suggest that the surviving members have an obligation to take care of Dorothy rather than just dumping her in the nearest shelter.
• Final First Hug: K hugs Cliff when he leaves the manor.
• Foul First Drink: In the third season, Kay Challis is briefly separated from her alternate personalities for the first time in decades, and having never experienced being a grown-up before, she asks Cliff for a beer. She takes one swig and immediately spits it out.
• The Gadfly: Jane does this quite often. This is done both as a sort of defense mechanism so she doesn't get close to others and for her own genuine amusement.
• Hair-Trigger Temper: While this could apply to many of her personalities, Jane is this especially, quick to get angry when something doesn't go right or bothers her.
• Hates Being Touched: Jane doesn't like being touched, but doesn't react as violently as Hammerhead. When she holds Casey's hand at the end of a musical number in "Immortimas Day", Jane is left perplexed.
• Hell-Bent for Leather: Jnae's go to outfit involves a rather ragged looking leather jacket.
• Hidden Depths: She reveals in "Cult Patrol" that she likes to knit. Everyone is a bit taken aback.
• Hot-Blooded: Jane gets angry very easily and is generally very emotional.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Jane is surly, foul mouthed and bad tempered most of the time but she does often show a softer and kinder side, mainly with the Chief and the rest of the team as well as the Underground, and often does try to do the right thing.
• Lady Swearsalot: Alongside Cliff, she's the most swear-happy of the core cast.
• Leitmotif: Whenever a new personality takes over, the music usually changes.
• Meaningful Name:
  • In season 2, it's revealed that when she became primary Miranda's boyfriend called her crazy so she responds by saying "You want crazy? Here's crazy" and punching him in the face. As she leaves she tells him her name is Jane as she drops the blanket around her and walks out naked.
  • When Jane fully synchronizes with the Underground, she adopts the name "Kaleidoscope". Victor suggests that she go by the initial "K", signifying that she's effectively become Kay Challis once more.
• Messy Hair: Jane's hair generally looks disheveled and untidy, but occasionally changes to something more stylized whenever another personality takes over.
• Ms. Fanservice: Described as being sexy in the casting call and she's played by Diane Guerrero, making her this by default. However, the one time Jane is shown having sex it's played for Fan Disservice as she's suddenly reminded of her abusive father.
• The Napoleon: She's just over five feet tall and very angry, volatile and confrontational.
• No Celebrities Were Harmed: Grant Morrison based her on Truddi Chase, who had as many as 92 different personalities.
• Not Afraid of You Anymore: Despite her fears of her abusive father, Jane confronted her Daddy personality (based on her abusive father) and tells him she's not afraid of him anymore after he nearly destroys Cliff in her mind.
• Older Than They Look: She was born in 1950, and got her powers in 1976 when she looked as old as she does now.
• Only Sane Man: Shockingly, she often plays this role to the Underground. While all of them fill various parts of Kay's needs, she's the one that actually needs to engage with the real world and behave at least somewhat sociably.
• Pint-Sized Powerhouse: She's easily the shortest of the main team at only 5'2 but is extremely strong and powerful, especially when Hammerhead is in charge.
• Playing with Fire: Several of her alters have fire-related abilities.
• Queer Establishing Moment: "Immortimas Patrol" gives the most tangible hint of Jane's sexuality when she does a muscial number with Casey that ends with the two of them holding hands, a gesture that Jane fixates on for the rest of the episode.
• Race Lift: In the comics she's white, but here played by Colombian-American Diane Guerrero.
• Rape as Backstory: While not stated outright it's very, very heavily implied that her father molested her as a child much like the comics.
  • Towards the end of Season 4, Jane does outright state it, as part of the healing process that allows her and all other personas to merge into Kaleidoscope.
• Rape Leads to Insanity: See above. That incident, or the subsequent implied molestations while she was experimented upon, made her alters tangible and now she has trouble leading a normal life.
• She Cleans Up Nicely: Crazy Jane had dishevelled hair, but K has immaculate hair and looks far gentler thanks to it.
• Significant Wardrobe Shift: As Jane becomes less volatile and more supportive, she starts to switch out the leather for more soothing sweaters.
• Soapbox Sadie: Implied, as she drops off buzzwords such as "Toxic Masculinity" (to Cliff) when angry.
• Spicy Latina: Jane is the only Latina member of the cast and is very short tempered and emotional.
• Split Personality: Crazy Jane's whole schtick is that she has multiple personalities (64 to be exact), with each of them having unique powers. See the entries for The Underground.
  • The alternate personalities of hers that are seen so far include: Jane^*baseline, no powers, Sylvia ^* "Spooky voice, a bit moody", The Hangman's Daughter ^* an artist , Hammerhead^*an asshole with Super-Strength, Babydoll^*acts like a child, Sun Daddy^*pyrokinesis & sizeshifting into a giantess, Katy^*made of fire, extremely antisocial, Lucy Fugue^*electricity powers, Silver Tongue^*can make her words solid metal, Flit^*can teleport, Penny Farthing^*lower-class English accent, extremely timid with a Speech Impediment, Dr. Harrison ^*psychiatrist with Compelling Voice, Karen^*love-struck psycho obsessed with 90's rom-coms with an ability to make people obey her and love her , The Sisters, Kit W' the Canstick, Scarlet Harlot^* a Lady in Red who is constantly in a state of arousal, Jill-In-Irons, Mama Pentecost, The Nun, Pretty Polly, The Secretary ^* A secretary who tries to keep the peace amongst the other personalities , Driver 8 ^* The conductor for the train in the Underground who looks just like Jane , Driller Bill, Jack Straw, Miranda ^* Was once one of the primary personalities for Jane, but then disappeared after going to the Well , Black Annis
• Split-Personality Makeover: Depending on the personality, Jane's appearance can change. She gains a tattoo on her chest along with darker eyeshadow as Hammerhead. A unibrow as The Hangman's Daughter. Pigtails as Baby Doll. Blonde hair as Karen. Blue eyes and a skunk stripe as Dr. Harrison. A long up-do pompadour with silver makeup as Silver Tongue. A giant with a sun for a head as Sun Daddy. Wreathed in Flames as Katy. Just to name a few. This also applies internally as some of her personalities are allergic to peanuts while others aren't, implying her biology can change as well.
• The Stoner: She enjoys a good joint, as shown in the first episode. Deconstructed when she falls deep into drug use as a coping mechanism for Chief's betrayal, costing the trust of the other personalities.
• Superpower Lottery: Crazy Jane was Blessed with Suck, but Kaleidoscope can access all of her alter ego's powers on command. Cliff suggests that she join the Justice League, but K would rather live a normal life.
• Took a Level in Kindness: Following the second defeat of Daddy, Jane becomes a much more empathetic individual. She forms a more genuine bond with her teammates, is more patient with Rita's quirks, and jokes with Cliff more frequently instead of brushing him off. Upon becoming Kaleidoscope she's become even more kindly.
• Troll: Half of the time she says or does something, it's usually done with the intent to troll someone; her target of this is usually Cliff.
• Unkempt Beauty:
  • Jane usually has messy hair, wears ragged clothes and generally makes little effort to spruce up her appearance or look attractive. None of this changes that she's still played by the stunning Diane Guerrero.
  • Upon becoming Kaleidoscope and regaining her youth, K's hair becomes straighter and glossier.
• Vitriolic Best Buds: Jane repeatedly chews Cliff out, but at the same time she spends the most one-on-one time with Cliff.
• We Used to Be Friends: After Chief reveals he's the reason Jane exists, she doesn't take any of his apologies and calls them bullshit, with her even outright saying in "Fun Size Patrol" that the two of them were no longer friends.

Victor Stone / Cyborg

Victor Stone / Cyborg

"Eccentrics? It's an upgrade from misfits."

Species: Enhanced Human

Played by: Joivan Wade

Appearances: Doom Patrol (2019) | Crisis on Infinite Earths (2019)^note Cameo in the epilogue

"I was trying to save an old friend, a guy named Niles Caulder. Then an omniscient bad guy put a viral thought in my head. What if I can't trust my own dad? Next thing, I was beating my old man to death."

A cybernetic superhero who calls the Doom Patrol together.

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• Adaptational Angst Upgrade: Inverted. Victor is still angsty over his Guilt Complex, blaming himself for his mother's death or his difficult relationship with his father, but when it comes to his body being mostly mechanical, while still emotionally affected by it, he doesn't has same inner conflicts about it like his comic counterpart. With this being told, he is also more easygoing.
• Adaptational Backstory Change: Cyborg's accident is much more mundane than usual. Instead of being injured by an extradimensional being or invasion, he is in a simple lab accident when he gets angry and throws a volatile chemical, which explodes.
• Adaptational Curves: Inverted. This Cyborg is notably leaner than the common portrayal of the character.
• Adaptation Origin Connection: Cyborg has no relation to the Doom Patrol in the comics, but here he walks into town and pushes them to work as an actual superhero team for the first time in order to rescue the Chief from Mr. Nobody. He and his father are also friends of the Chief.
• Alternate Self: His counterpart on Earth-1 was mentioned by the Flash of that reality in Crisis and his Earth-N52 self appeared in the tie-in comic.
• The Atoner: Unlike the comics, Victor's father doesn't appear to be responsible for his injuries as well as the death of his mother. As such, Victor blames himself rather than Silas. The truth is more complicated.
• The Baby of the Bunch: He is the youngest member of the team, being young man in his late teens or early twenties, whereas the others are Older Than They Look, being decades old.
• Black and Nerdy: One of the main tech guys of the DC universe, and is African-American.
• Catchphrase: Played with. The iconic "Booyah!!" only tends to show up in Imagine Spots or when something is getting weird.
• Character Development: After 4 seasons of trying to be taken seriously as a superhero, Victor settles for being assistant to his friend Deric and teaching tech students the skills needed to improve society so that they won't need superheroes.
• Chick Magnet: Despite his self-consciousness about his appearance, he not only manages to land a temporary love interest in Roni, but also attracts some attention from some of Jane's alternate personalities, including Kay.
• Chronic Hero Syndrome: He's constantly on the lookout for trouble and danger, not helped by the fact that Grid constantly keeps him apprised of any arising situations; when he's disconnected from Grid early in season 3, he gets ridiculously edgy.
• Cybernetics Will Eat Your Soul: Victor's greatest fear is that his cybernetic prosthetics will eventually take over him.
• Cyborg: It's in the name. He's a guy made of some of the most advanced technology there is.
• Death by Origin Story: Like in the comics, the accident that led to him becoming Cyborg also killed his mother. Or so it seems. In truth, both were critically injured and Silas made the sacrifice of saving his son while letting his wife die.
• Experienced Protagonist: Despite being the youngest of the Doom Patrol, Victor has the most experience of the group with actual heroics, having several years under his belt in comparison to the rest who actively avoided in engaging in the world with their powers. This gets invoked in his debut episode where Nobody tortures Rita and Larry with their secret desires, he knows that Vic is too experienced to give into that type of sentimentality and instead try to torture him with the day his mother died.
• Fake Memories: Played with. Silas is set up to have reprogrammed Cyborg's memories of the accident that killed his mother, but its revealed Silas only messed with Vic by repeating, over and over, that Mrs. Stone died instantly.
• Foil: Vic is one for Cliff in particular and the Doom Patrol in general. He's already experienced, incredibly capable, well-trained, possesses state of the art cybernetics, and is happy to be a superhero. This makes him a strong contrast to the Ragtag Band of Misfits who can barely muster any effort toward being heroes. Cliff in particular stands as a contrast, with his clunky Tin-Can Robot design being the opposite of Vic's sleek cybernetics.
• The Friends Who Never Hang: He and Dorothy lived in the same camp during Dorothy's early time on the team, but to date, their most significant interaction is a tea party with Baby Doll that happens off-screen. "Immortimas Patrol" actually does have them hanging out together, but she leaves the team again soon after.
• Genre Refugee: Much of the concept behind him, particularly early on, is that he's a character who seems to hail from a typical superhero series, occupying a series that is anything but.
• Heroic BSoD: The trauma of Nobody's manipulations and attacking his own father leaves Vic with severe PTSD for much of season 2.
• Informed Attribute: Victor is supposedly a seasoned superhero by the start of the series. Yet he is only marginally more competent than the rest of the Doom Patrol (and the only time we see him in action before joining the team is stopping a relatively mundane ATM robbery).
• Jock Dad, Nerd Son: Inverted with Victor and his dad, as per the comics. Silas Stone has always considered sports a waste of time for his child.
• Mythology Gag:
  • Him joining Doom Patrol is not really random, his best friend in the comics, Beast Boy, was part of Doom Patrol before joining the Titans.
  • He also got his "Booyah!" Catchphrase from the Teen Titans (2003).
• Only Known by Their Nickname: The Doom Patrol rarely refers to him as Victor and just call him "Vic".
• Only Sane Man: For a guy with a horribly traumatic backstory, Victor seems rather heroic and well-adjusted, and is the only established superhero in the Patrol. Subsequently, he becomes the voice of reason and moral support to his comparatively more dysfunctional teammates.
• Parental Issues: Victor clearly has some things he needs to work out with his father, Silas.
• Pubescent Braces: When de-aged into teenagehood in "Youth Patrol", he has braces.
• Resigned to the Call: Discussed. He eventually begins to wonder if he really wants to be a superhero or if it was pushed on him by his father.
• Robo Cam: His cyborg eye gives him this vision.
• Second Episode Introduction: Debuts in Episode 2, "Donkey Patrol".
• Sixth Ranger: Vic is the only member in Season 1 who wasn't living in Caulder's manor before becoming part of the team.
• Stage Mom: Victor's father has elements of this as he wants to make sure his son joins the Justice League like it's a sports team. Victor is somewhat nonplussed by this but mostly appreciative.
• Team Member in the Adaptation: Cyborg practically takes the place Beast Boy as the youngest member of the Doom Patrol. Normally Victor is more associated with the Titans or the Justice League.
• To Be Lawful or Good: A core part of his arc in the second and third seasons is his struggle with what being a superhero means. Frenzy accuses him of being part of the same institutional problems that led to the Bureau of Normalcy, while Roni challenges him to consider if sending someone to jail for a petty crime is really justice. Both arguments weigh on his mind and eventually make him even consider removing his tech entirely.
• Trauma Button: The season two premiere demonstrates that Mr. Nobody's become this to him, as he completely spirals at the (unwarranted) idea that Mr. Nobody could be doing damage to him again.
• Voice with an Internet Connection: Silas is constantly monitoring his son and giving unwanted feedback.
• "Well Done, Son" Guy: A surprising change from the usual comics. In this universe, Victor and his father have a decent relationship. Silas supports Victor's superheroics both financially as well as emotionally.

Laura De Mille / Madame Rouge

Laura De Mille / Madame Rouge

"The original mission relied on using my anonymity to spy on Niles Caulder and his creations, but unfortunately, I instead relied on Niles Caulder's creations to undo my anonymity, and effectively run a mission counter to the original goal."

Species: Metahuman

Played by: Michelle Gomez

"Well, yes, of course, I can turn into a cat. I can turn into anything I like. That said, I will not be turning into a cat. I will be turning into a bird ... Because Shelley's allergic to cats and neither of us could be fucked changing the title."

An amnesiac woman with shapeshifting abilities, who uses a time-traveling machine to reach the Doom Patrol in hopes of reaching Niles Caulder.

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• Actor Allusion: Jane calls Laura "Doctor Who" at one point. Michelle Gomez played Missy on Doctor Who.
• Adaptation Relationship Overhaul: When her backstory is finally revealed, she seems to have no connection to the Brotherhood of Evil and instead holds a history with the Sisterhood. Subverted when she betrays them and joins the Brotherhood.
• Adaptational Heroism: Her comic counterpart joined the Doom Patrol for a short time, only to eventually betray them by helping Captain Zahl kill them. In this continuity, she joins them due to genuinely wanting to make amends for how she wronged them.
• Adaptational Nationality: This version of Madame Rouge is Scottish rather than French.
• All for Nothing: Twice fold. Her betrayal of the Sisterhood of Dada for the sake of more power only results in getting fired by the Bureau. Later on, her scheme to kidnap Cliff and revive the Brotherhood of Evil results in the Brain betraying her and getting shoved off a cliff.
• Amnesiac Resonance: She firmly insists that she couldn't have been a bad person because that's not the sort of thing someone could forget. This proves to be more correct than she realizes in the sense that she refuses to recognize how she's hurt others.
• Amnesiac Villain Joins the Heroes: She's incredibly friendly with the Doom Patrol after losing her memory due to time travel, but Niles has apparently dealt with her before and speaks to her with only venom in his voice. It happens again in the season three finale, where she willingly erases her memory for a shot at redemption.
• Anti-Hero: Madame Rouge settles into this role by the end of the series, breaking into the Bureau of Normalcy and mass-murdering everyone with a flamethrower while grinning maliciously.
• The Atoner: Starting in Season 4, Laura is an actual member of the team and her arc follows her genuinely trying to mend things with Rita and become friends.
• Big Bad: Although she initially wants to help stop the Sisterhood of Dada's "Eternal Flagellation," as more is revealed about her past it becomes clear that she's the true villain of Season 3. She's responsible for the Sisterhood's radicalization due to betraying them to the Bureau of Normalcy in the past, and has arrived in the present to destroy Niles' legacy on behalf of the Brotherhood of Evil. Rita's quest for revenge consumes the backend of the season after the Sisterhood's altruistic goals are achieved.
• Casting Gag: Michelle Gomez plays another eccentric time traveler with ambiguous morality.
• Foil: To Rita. Both of them are over-dramatic, fashionable women desperately searching for a greater sense of personal identity. They both possess incredible abilities to change their forms; Rita has to control her ability at all times while Laura has complete control. And both of them lose their memories over the course of season 3, Rita in the past and Laura in the future. However, they end up hated rivals as Rita, while in the past, grows more empathetic and Laura grows colder. Laura in the future starts off concerned over outside threats though is not afraid to let the Doom Patrol know when they failed.
• Forgot About Her Powers: Enforced due to time travel, as traveling through time results in people becoming amnesiac.
• Good is Not Nice: Rouge breaks into the Bureau of Normalcy and blasts them with a flamethrower. Horrifying in any other context, but the Bureau were a mixture of cruel and incompetent, providing little benefit to the world.
• Heel–Face Revolving Door: It soon becomes apparent that Laura tends to ally herself with whatever group gives her power and control over the situations around herself, whether it be the Patrol, the Sisterhood, the Bureau of Normalcy, or the Brotherhood of Evil. In the Grand Finale, when the Doom Patrol disbands, she decides to become a free agent, and warns Victor that sometimes, she's going to do some not-so-good things.
• Mysterious Past: The truth behind her origins and her history with the Sisterhood of Dada form the Driving Question of season 3's storyline.
• Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping: She waivers between a Scottish and American accent, with it coming and going.
• Slowly Slipping Into Evil: Decades of working under the Bureau of Normalcy slowly decays her morality and affection for her Dada friends. She sells them out as weapons for more power.
• Spared by the Adaptation: The series ends with her still alive, when her comic book incarnation ultimately died fighting Beast Boy in New Teen Titans.
• Team Member in the Adaptation: This version of Madame Rouge is a member of the Sisterhood of Dada, when in the comics she had been killed off long before the first roster of the Brotherhood of Dada was formed.
• Then Let Me Be Evil: After getting fired from the Bureau, she completely abandons her justifications of morality and joins up with the Brotherhood of Evil for the sake of revenge.
• Voluntary Shapeshifting: She is able to manipulate her form to mimic the physical characteristics of people, objects or animals, as seen when she took on the appearance of Isabel Feathers, an ottoman and a bird in separate occasions.

Former Members (First Incarnation)

Steve Dayton / Mento

Steve Dayton / Mento

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Species: Metahuman

Played by: Will Kemp (young), David Bielawski (old)

Steve Dayton is the civilian name of the Doom Patrol member Mento. While working on this team in the 50s, Dayton wore a helmet that enhanced his natural psychic abilities.

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• Adaptational Early Appearance: He is affiliated with the Doom Patrol before Negative Man and Robotman came along, when in the comics he showed up sometime after the original roster of Negative Man, Robotman and Elasti-Girl was formed.
• Battle Trophy: He has a habit of collecting a piece of their defeated enemies' belongings as trophies.
• Broken Pedestal: Mento adored Rita and was falling in love with her when he read her mind and turned away from her in disgust due to something in her past.
• Demoted to Extra: He's one of the most prominent members of Doom Patrol in the comics whereas he's relegated to a former (yet still founding) member here.
• Disabled in the Adaptation: He is presently wheelchair-bound, when Mento in the comics has always been able-bodied.
• It's All About Me: Unlike Rita's, he thinks highly of himself and shows little care for his teammates and Niles when he thinks he destroyed Mister Nobody by himself in their final battle. This may be a side effect of what Mister Nobody did to him that made him mentally unstable.
• May–December Romance: He had a brief one with Rita in the old days.
• Mind Rape: He does this to Rita, Jane and Larry to force them to face their worst nightmares and regrets when they get on his bad side.
• Psychic Powers: Mento possessed these naturally and enhanced them with his helmet.
• Unrelated in the Adaptation: Played with. He and Rita Farr were never married in this continuity but they did have a brief relationship.

Arani Desai / Celsius

Arani Desai / Celsius

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Species: Metahuman

Played by: Jasmine Kaur (young), Madhur Jaffrey (old)

Arani Desai is the civilian name of the Doom Patrol member Celsius. After a psychotic break following a fight with Mr. Nobody in the 50s, she believed she was married to Niles Caulder.

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• Adaptational Early Appearance: She was affiliated with the first roster of the Doom Patrol, when her comics counterpart founded the team's second roster after the original team was supposedly killed off.
• Adaptational Modesty: Her costume in the comics left her legs bare, while here her uniform covers as much as those worn by her teammates Mento and Lodestone.
• All Love Is Unrequited: Her romantic feeling towards Caulder were never returned after the final battle with Mister Nobody.
• Demoted to Extra: Her comic counterpart was the founder of the Doom Patrol's second roster and remained with the team until she was killed off during the events of Invasion! (DC Comics). Here, she is established as a founding member of the original Doom Patrol and reduced to appearing on one episode where she is a shell of her former self in the present.
• An Ice Person: One of her main powers is to control ice.
• Playing with Fire: One of her main powers is to control fire.
• Please, Don't Leave Me: That's what she says in her reality created by Steven about Niles leaving her after the final battle against Mister Nobody. She never recovers from her depression and grief over Niles never accepting her feelings for him.
• Single-Target Sexuality: She appears to have only eyes on Nile Caulder and she never moved on with anyone.
• Spared by the Adaptation: While she suffered a psychotic break here, her comic counterpart was outright Killed Off for Real at the end of Paul Kupperberg's run, just prior to Grant Morrison's historic tenure on the series.

Rhea Jones / Lodestone

Rhea Jones / Lodestone

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Species: Metahuman

Played by: Lesa Wilson (young)

Rhea Jones is the civilian name of the Doom Patrol member Lodestone.

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• Adaptational Early Appearance: She is a member of the first roster of the Doom Patrol, when in the comics she joined the second roster shortly after they received their own ongoing comic.
• Alternate Self: Has one on post-Crisis Earth-2 as Bobbie Burman.
• Decomposite Character: The Chief in this continuity takes her role in killing Red Jack.
• Demoted to Extra: In spite of her counterpart in the source material being a prominent member of the Doom Patrol's second roster and having a significant role in Grant Morrison's run where she recovered from her coma and became a powerful being who subsequently sought to explore the cosmos, this version of Rhea Jones is reduced to appearing in one episode as a member of the original roster of the Doom Patrol who has since been reduced to a shell of her former self and being kept in isolation with the rest of her team by Niles Caulder after they lost to Mr. Nobody.
• Mind over Matter: She has ability to control metal objects with her mind.
• Minor Major Character: Despite being a important former member of Doom Patrol, she doesn't have many aspects or characteristics about her and she only spoke once.

Joshua Clay

Joshua Clay

Species: Metahuman

Played by: Alimi Ballard

Joshua "Josh" Clay is a Metahuman physician who looks after the Doom Patrol at their headquarters after they retired. Despite having powers, he refuses to use them.

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• Adaptational Hairstyle Change: He is bald and bearded, when Joshua Clay in the comics had a full head of hair and was clean-shaven.
• Alternate Self: Has one on Earth-666 as Dr. Liam Garrity.
• The Atoner: He took on his current role at the "Academy" to repent for some horrible actions he committed while working for the US Government in the Bureau of Normalcy.
• Broken Pedestal: Averted. He knows a very different Niles than the team does from their time in the Bureau of Normalcy together and is all too aware of the darkness Niles walks in but still has faith in him and encourages the team not to give up on him after they start discovering some of his less pleasant traits.
• The Caretaker: This is his role for Rhea, Arani and Steve. He obviously doesn't enjoy having to keep them in their current state, but knows that they're more of a danger to themselves and others if he doesn't. He also is fairly kind to Jane, trying to keep her at ease and even offers her a drug that would suppress her powers.
• Chekhov's Gunman: A seemingly ordinary man just trying to keep the original Doom Patrol safe. He turns out to be the one responsible for Larry's fusion with the Negative Spirit and likely aided the creation of Rita Farr's condition.
• Demoted to Extra: Joshua Clay in the comics was a prominent member of the second roster that was formed in the Paul Kupperberg era and continued to be associated with the team during Grant Morrison's run up until the Chief shot and killed him. Here, he only appears for two episodes and is never heard from again afterwards.
• Disabled in the Adaptation: Much like his Teen Titans: Earth One counterpart, this continuity's Joshua Clay wears glasses when his mainline comics incarnation does not.
• Ignorance Is Bliss: He admits to Jane in "Ezekiel Patrol" that he knew Niles wanted to put her here with the other Doom Patrol members but kept himself "willfully blind".
• Oh, Crap!: When he realizes Mento's illusions are slowly breaking down and he rushes off to make sure the old Doom Patrol members don't hurt anyone.
• Smart People Wear Glasses: He's a physician and wears a pair of squared glasses.
• Spared by the Adaptation: In the comics, he is shot and killed by the Chief. In the show, he is separate from the team and is still alive by his final episode.

Former Members (Second Incarnation)

Negative Spirit

Negative Spirit

Species: Otherdimensional Being

"There's something inside me. I wouldn;t say we're friends, but...there's definitely a connection there. For years I didn't know what it was or what it wanted, but now i think I might."

A being from another dimension that merged with Larry Trainor

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• Adaptational Badass: Can do much more than it normally can in the comics, with the implication that even Mr. Nobody can't fully stop it.
• And I Must Scream: Being merged with Larry is horrific for it, being described as torture by the Spirit itself.
• Berserk Button: It's mentioned to be rather sensitive but only really lashes out when Larry acts like he has the moral high ground when neither of them had any say in winding up as they did.
• Disproportionate Retribution: When Larry tries to lay down some ground rules (which is sensible, all things considered) with the Spirit, it decides to leave his body in the lab rafters.
• Energy Being: Like the comics it's made out of negative energy, resembling a humanoid made of electricity when it's active.
• Jumped at the Call: As Larry notes, it wants to be involved with whatever the madness Nobody brought into their lives entails.
• Laser-Guided Karma: Seems to hold this as a view when it comes to Larry. When he's hostile to it, it gets hostile right back, which is why Larry has nightmares when he's not awake. Once Larry starts treating it more kindly, it starts giving him nicer dreams and actually helps him get some closure with his issues.
• Light Is Good: In spite of its name it is actually a ball of white/blue energy that's certainly trying to get along with Larry and even drives him to heroics.
• Manchild: The Chief notes that it's very emotional and very sensitive, so it doesn't do a good job of actually communicating with Larry, favoring excessive responses to get its way or make a point. Especially when Larry unknowingly presses its Berserk Button.
• Not Helping Your Case: Larry pretty much hates and possibly fears the Spirit because, among other things, it tends to act however it wants regardless of Larry's wishes, leaves him in horrible nightmares while he's unconscious, and isn't really making any effort to communicate with him or change his views on it. It's at the point that he views it as actively malicious towards him personally, unaware of how things really are.
• Superpower Lottery: Has quite a few tricks it can use. It can move through walls with no trouble, it can fly, it's said to be from another dimension and can apparently move between dimensions at will, and has some degree of Psychic Powers, being able to interact with the minds of others. Larry is stricken with nightmares when he's unconscious because of this, it was able to send Cliff into the Underground to bring Jane back, and was able to reach out to Larry's old lover through a dream.
• The Symbiote: It is actually merged with Larry, to the degree that it can't simply depart and leave him be. Though this is hardly by choice.

Dorothy Spinner

Dorothy Spinner

Species: Metahuman

Played by: Abi Monterey

"With sunrise, another day begins. So let's be ready for today. No wicked words, no teeth, no claws. Only fun and laughs and play."

Niles Caulder's daughter, who, according to him, has the ability to cleave the world in two if she's not careful with her powers.

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• Adaptational Angst Downgrade: Her first period, while still having her initially fearing for her life due to her initial obliviousness towards what was happening to her body, is a much more pleasant experience for her than it was in the comics, where Rachel Pollack's run established that other children made fun of her for menstrually bleeding in front of them and was told to her face by Mrs. Spinner that she should've been aborted (which was especially cruel when John Arcudi's run later established that Mrs. Spinner was Dorothy's adoptive mother), in addition to Dorothy frequently expressing self-loathing over how her menstrual cycle made it difficult to keep her powers under control. In this continuity, she has her first period in the bathroom of a convenience store and the clerk is there to guide her through it and assure her that what she's experiencing is normal and a sign that she's entering adulthood, with no indication that her powers are affected by menstruation.
• Adaptational Backstory Change: Dorothy is the daughter of Nile Caulder and a cave woman, and her powers are inherited from her mother, whereas in the comics she was just a metahuman who first met the Doom Patrol when they and Power Girl were fighting a malevolent entity named Pythia outside her home, subsequently becoming an honorary member after she helped them defeat Pythia and eventually becoming more affiliated with the team full-time in Grant Morrison's run.
• Adaptational Nationality: In the comics, Dorothy's an American (specifically growing up in rural Kansas), but here she's British-Canadian.
• Adaptation Origin Connection: In this version Dorothy Spinner is Niles Caulder's daughter, whereas in the comics she has no familial connections to him.
• Adaptation Species Change: Dorothy was a standard metahuman in the comics; here, she's half some-kind-of-caveperson on her mother's side.
• Age-Appropriate Angst: In season 4, she's hit the "angry, aimless rebellion" phase, even talking back to Danny the Street.
  "I'm not a child anymore, stop hovering!"
• Age Lift: This version of Dorothy Spinner is a centenarian (i.e. someone 100 years or older in age) who initially has the physical appearance of an 11-year-old before gradually maturing after puberty finally catches up with her when she gets her first period in "Dad Patrol". In the comics, Dorothy's age was initially ambiguous (with some artists even drawing her in a way that she looked like an adult woman, such as Erik Larsen in her debut during Paul Kupperberg's run and Glenn Fabry in her depiction on the cover to the Vertigo Jam one-shot) before Rachel Pollack's run had Cliff imply that Dorothy was a minor in volume two, issue 68, subsequently clarifying that she was 14 years old by saying so in the recap page of volume two, issue 70^note said recap page being omitted in the Omnibus collection of Rachel Pollack's run and she was most likely at least 18 when she was Taken Off Life Support at the end of John Arcudi's run (since it was stated that the incident that led to Dorothy becoming comatose happened four years prior to the series' events).
• The Ageless: Dorothy hasn't aged at all since the 1910's, retaining the physical appearance of a child despite being over a century old. The show implied that she is immortal, even if she can be killed, but by the end of Season 2, with her period coming, is subverted. In the end, she is indeed growing up, just very slow because of her huge life span inherited from her mother.
• Artifact Name: There is little reason for this incarnation of her to have Spinner as her surname, given that this continuity omitted Mr. and Mrs. Spinner and made the change of Niles Caulder being her father with an immortal cavewoman named Slava filling the position of her unidentified birth mother.
• Beware the Nice Ones: She's one of the nicest members of the Doom Patrol, but also one of the most dangerous beings in the world when she's scared or hurt or angry, as Baby Doll and Flaming Katy learned the hard way.
  "I told you to be polite."
• Big Sister Worship: In season 2, she sees Jane as a big sister, due to her having been raised by Niles for much of her life. This is much to Jane's annoyance, as her feelings towards Niles are far more complicated.
• Calling the Old Man Out: In "Fame Patrol", she calls out Cliff for trying to hide his declining health from his daughter and refusing to let anyone help him, telling him from personal experience that his daughter would probably much rather have him around as a "burden" than not have him at all.
• Children Are Innocent: Acts like an innocent little girl and the Doom Patrol do their best to be as polite around her as they can. Unfortunately, it also leaves her unable to deal with the heavier traumas of the cast and Jane notes her immortality might mean that Dorothy will always be that way.
• Coming of Age Story:
  • Season 2's Myth Arc involves Dorothy Spinner's long-delayed exit from adolescence, expressed through neatly (and sometimes blatantly) metaphorical episodes involving changing body shapes, the passage of time, menstrual pain, and sexual awakenings, if the Candlemaker being a tulpa based around the imagery of birthday candles wasn't enough of a clue.
  • Season 4's "Casey Patrol" takes things a step further, with Dorothy hitting her angry teenager phase and having to learn how to deal with her new feelings in a healthy way.
• Curious as a Monkey: She has a somewhat tenuous grasp of the concepts of privacy and personal space; in "Fun Size Patrol", she finds Jane passed out on serum and thinks nothing of taking the syringe out of her arm, and she aggravates Cliff by constantly following him around and asking what he's doing. She's also the only member of the team who consistently keeps the door to her room open and unlocked.
• Daddy's Girl: As she's been eleven for so long, she thinks very fondly of her father and reacts poorly to the other characters' attempts at disabusing her of her belief that Niles Caulder is a good man.
• Dark and Troubled Past: Her mother died when she was very young, she only met her father after he finally found her in an abusive freak show, and then he locked her away for decades beneath Danny the Street, with only Danny, her imaginary friends and Candlemaker for company, only releasing her because Danny was no longer able to care for her after Mr. Nobody's rampage.
• Emotional Powers: Her "imaginary friends" are tied to her emotions, coming out when she's feeling incredibly happy, sad or scared. The Candlemaker especially.
• Expository Hair Style Change: Switches out from pigtails to letting her hair hang loose after refusing to fight the Candlemaker and forcing him to let her grow up without the cycle of violence.
• First Period Panic: In "Dad Patrol", Dorothy gets her first period at the gas station and runs into the bathroom in a panic as she doesn't know what's happening. Thankfully, the cashier gently talks her through it and assures Dorothy that she's just growing up.
• Five Stages of Grief: Denial. She refuses to accept her father is dying after he gives up his pendant that made him immortal. She even refuses to believe her father is a horrible person after Baby Doll told her the truth about him.
• Gosh Dang It to Heck!: Despite being around the other members of the Doom Patrol, she tries not to use "naughty words". Shown when she accidentally drops and breaks Danny.
  Dorothy: Oh... fudge.
• The Grotesque: She is, bluntly put, the least conventionally-attractive member of the team, with a hairy, wrinkled simian face and bad teeth, but she's also very sweet. Usually.
• Hearing Voices: She first mentions Herschel and Darling as voices inside her head, but it later becomes clear that they are her imaginary friends and that she's able to bring them to life.
• Last Episode, New Character: Is introduced in the first season finale "Ezekiel Patrol".
• Like Father, Like Daughter: She inherited some of Niles' intelligence; she figured out how to fly one of his spaceships, despite the thing running on black magic and apples. She also has his desire to help other people with their problems, but without any ulterior motive.
• Meaningful Name: A "friend of Dorothy" is a euphemism for homosexuality. Dorothy is adopted by the queer community that lives with Danny Street. Larry is also much kinder to her than Cliff or Rita.
• My God, What Have I Done?: After making a wish to Candlemaker to kill Baby Doll, once the deed is done, Dorothy realizes what has happened and quietly cries as she sees Jane's body covered in wax. She even runs away in the next episode knowing she broke the promise to her father.
• Mythology Gag: "Dead Patrol" has her encounter and team up with The Dead Boy Detectives, which is likely a nod to the roles they played in The Children's Crusade (Vertigo).
• Named After Someone Famous: Her name is a nod towards Dorothy Gale from The Wizard of Oz (a gale and a spinner are both windstorms), and she even dresses similarly to the character.
• Never Grew Up: She still looks like a young girl in spite of being over 100 years old, but that changes after she gets her first period in "Dad Patrol", with appearances after that point clearly showing her visibly maturing.
• Odd Friendship: She's very fond of Jane, despite their considerably different personalities. Jane, for her part, doesn't seem to hate her; Dorothy is one of the few people who's managed to hug her and not get punched.
• Older Than They Look: She looks like a little girl, but Niles had her hidden away for her protection for ninety years. In "Sex Patrol", she's 102 3/4 years old. It isn't until she gets her first period in "Dad Patrol" that puberty finally starts catching up with her.
• Poor Communication Kills: Much of the chaos of season 4 could have been avoided if someone had just told Dorothy that her father died of old age and that he didn't want to come back. Her misguided quest to resurrect him results in the Cult of Immortus getting its hands on a pendant containing the essence of their god. Worse, she actually did figure out that bringing her dad back didn't justify her actions, but because nobody told her what the pendant actually did, she handed it over to the cult willingly, thinking that she was doing the right thing by placating an army that was imperiling the Dannizens.
• Precision F-Strike: In "Casey Patrol", Dorothy, who up till that point had never cursed, delivers one after the villain of the week forces her to hand over her most valued possession in order to save her friends, telling him to go fuck himself.
• Puberty Superpower: Played with considering she already had superpowers in the form of her imaginary friends from a very young age. However, after she had her first period, the Candlemaker's power grew to the point that she wasn't able to contain it anymore.
• Really 700 Years Old: Dorothy looks like a preteen girl, in reality she is just over a century old. She starts visibly maturing after puberty eventually starts catching up to her near the end of the second season, but she still looks significantly younger than her true age for the remainder of her appearances.
• Rejected Apology: She refuses to forgive Baby Doll for murdering Manny. Grief-stricken, she unleashes the Candlemaker to follow Baby Doll in the Underground and kill her.
• Related in the Adaptation: This version of the character is Niles Caulder's daughter. They're unrelated in the comics.
• Revenge Before Reason: She forgets her promise to her father to never make a wish and in her grief over Manny's death, makes a wish for Candlemaker to kill Baby Doll.
• Roaring Rampage of Revenge: After Flaming Katy destroyed Manny, she makes a wish and has the Candlemaker kill Baby Doll (which also kills Flaming Katy in the process).
• Spared by the Adaptation: In the comics, as a side effect of the comic's tradition of cleaning house for every new roster of the team, John Arcudi's run had Dorothy's powers accidentally flare up, killing teammate Kate Godwin and putting herself in a near death vegetative coma, with Cliff later on taking her off life support. Here, she is still alive by her final appearance in the episode "Immortimus Patrol" and is presumably adjusting to life without the Doom Patrol after the team disbanded by the series' conclusion.
• Tomboy: As she grows up and her father's influence over her wanes, she trades her girly gingham dresses for slacks, sneakers, and jackets in addition to wearing her hair down instead of in pigtails.
• Took a Level in Badass: After subduing the Candlemaker in season 3, she becomes much more composed and assertive, standing up to a possessed Jane on her own and later helping Larry out of a Heroic BSoD and summoning the Dead Boy Detectives to help rescue the Doom Patrol from the afterlife.
• Troubling Unchildlike Behavior: For all her youth and lack of social skills, she is still Niles Caulder's daughter, and thus can be frighteningly intuitive. In "Finger Patrol", she figures out how to attack the Underground after only a minute or two of looking at the map in her father's office, and in "Space Patrol", she manages to steal a spaceship.
• Unseen No More: She was initially only shown from the back in the first season due to being played at that point by an uncredited body double, but would have her face shown starting with the second season after Abi Monterey was cast to play the character for the remainder of her appearances.
• Unwitting Instigator of Doom:
  • In season 2, she kills Baby Doll and Flaming Katy, unwittingly kickstarting a revolt in the Underground that ultimately leads to Jane being deposed as primary at the end of season 3.
  • She unwittingly sets off the events of season 4 by stealing the Immortus Pendant in the mistaken belief that it belonged to her father and would allow her to talk to him again.
• What Happened to the Mouse?: She leaves the mansion after "Immortimas Patrol" and takes Casey with her, but while Casey returns for the finale, she does not, and it's unclear what happened to her.

Casey Brinke / Space Case

Casey Brinke / Space Case

"Space Case is on he case!"

Species: Metahuman

Played by: Madeline Zima

Space Case is the titular hero of an old Silver Age comic of the same name. Having dedicated her life to fighting her evil father Torminox, Casey was pulled into the real world by Dorothy after Torminox and his army inexplicably invaded Danny the Ambulance. She can project beams of energy from her hands and has above-average strength.

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• Adaptational Backstory Change: Her comic counterpart was a comic book character who was created and brought to life by Danny the Street. In this continuity, her creator is Wally Sage and Dorothy Spinner brings her to life.
• Adaptation Relationship Overhaul:
  • After meeting Dorothy, she forms a close bond with her, when in the comics Casey did not make her debut until Gerard Way's run on the comic, which occurred long after Dorothy Spinner was rendered comatose and subsequently Taken Off Life Support.
  • She becomes a couple with Jane by the series finale, when they weren't particularly close in the comics.
• Adaptational Late Appearance: Not that she wasn't already a late addition to the team, but this continuity has her introduced after the Doom Patrol encountered and dealt with the Scants, when Gerard Way's run on the comic introduced her at the start and didn't have the Scants show up until six issues later.
• Adaptational Sexuality: This version of Casey is explicitly lesbian, when her comic counterpart swung both ways (sleeping both with the male Lotion the Cat and Mr. Nobody's daughter Terry None).
• All Love Is Unrequited: During Immortimas, she was given false memories of growing up with Jane and developing feelings for her. When the spell was broken, those feelings remained, but Jane doesn't feel the same way at first.
• An Arm and a Leg: She lost one of her legs in a battle with Torminox.
• Back for the Finale: After departing with Dorothy at the end of "Immortimas Patrol", she suddenly returns in "Done Patrol" to take Niles' old spaceship.
• Chronic Hero Syndrome: Literally the only things she knows how to do are fighting, saving people, and fixing things. In "Fame Patrol", with her war against Torminox and her quest to find her creator both now effectively over, she's so lost that when Dorothy gives her a vague "mission" to help the Doom Patrol, she clings to that and tries to "help" Jane by cleaning up her room for her, which naturally infuriates Jane.
• The Cutie: As a comic-book character brought to life, Casey has a sheltered view of the world. She's very perky and aside from her father doesn't have a bad word to say about anyone. As K can attest, the way she smiles also makes her very kissable.
• Daddy's Girl: While she was very cavalier about fighting Torminox in the comics, when brought to the real world, she hesitates, as she fears that she might really hurt or even kill him in the real world, and she hasn't forgotten that he used to be her dad.
• Death by Origin Story: Her backstory involves her mother sacrificing herself to try and stop Torminox.
• Disco Stu: She existed in a bunch of Silver Age comics, so her style of dress and vocabulary are several decades out of style.
• Expy: With her blue-red-yellow color scheme and energy powers, she vaguely resembles a retro version of Carol Danvers.
• First Kiss: With Crazy Jane's new identity, K.
• I Owe You My Life: As Dorothy brought her to life, she is profoundly loyal to her.
• Kind Hearted Cat Lover: Casey adopts a kitten (implied to be Lotion) with K in the finale.
• The Pollyanna: Deconstructed. As a comicbook character, Casey's mood was subject entirely to the whims of her creator, but after becoming real she's now afflicted with all sorts of emotions and sensations, some pleasant and others distressing.
• Primary-Color Champion: Her costume is blue, red, and yellow.
• Sad Clown: In the second half of season 4, her constant cheery facade is a mask for her grief at the loss of her father and guilt over her failure to save him. Best exemplified in "Fame Patrol", where even as she constantly tries to keep a smile on her face, she looks like she's on the verge of tears.
  Dorothy: How are you feeling, Casey?
  Casey: (cheery smile) Okie-dokie! (suddenly sinks into chair and looks like she's about to cry) I don't know-kie...
• Tulpa: She is a comic-book character come to life.

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