- For other uses of the name Doom Patrol, see Doom Patrol (disambiguation).
- "Am I only one who is tired of letting the world label us? Misfit, eccentric, good, evil, weapon. It's time we choose to label ourselves. Who are we? What are we? Why are we? Maybe we are weapons, but a weapon is only a tool as dangerous as the hand that wields it. What if we choose to become weapons for good?"
- —Rita Farr[src]
The Doom Patrol were a group of superheroes active in the 50's and in the 2020s dedicated to protecting the world from bizarre and dangerous threats. The original team was led by Niles Caulder had many battles with the Brotherhood of Evil, before a disastrous fight with Mr. Nobody caused them all to go insane. And now some of them members of the Doom Patrol lived in a shared illusion created by Mento, with Joshua Clay as their caretaker.
After Niles' death and deciding to become superheroes, Rita Farr, an extravagant ex-actress with elastic powers, Larry Trainor, an individual with a powerful negative spirit, Crazy Jane, a young woman with 64 different personalities, Cliff Steele, a brain transferred in an indestructible robot body, Vic Stone, a former cybernetic vigilante known as Cyborg, and Laura De Mille, a former member of the Brotherhood of Evil, reformed the Doom Patrol, fighting different threats in defense of Cloverton, operating in the Doom Manor, and having missions under the temporary name Doom Force.
Having heroic adventures and protecting Cloverton, the Doom Patrol accidentally traveled through the Time Stream to 2042, where the world was devastated by the zombies Were-Butts and they died, so the team searched for a way to reverse their grim future, before becoming involved in the rise of the deity Immortus in the body of Isabel Feathers, costing the longevity of Rita, Jane, Larry and Cliff. The Doom Patrol and their allies did everything possible to stop Immortus without success, refusing to face Isabel because of her immense power, but with Rita on the brink of death, the Doom Patrol did everything possible to confront Immortus and the Butts, although the two threats were redeemed by their musical love. After Rita's death, the Doom Patrol regained their longevity and cremated Rita's body, agreeing to go their separate ways to improve their lives, ending the team.
History[]
The First Doom Patrol[]
Early Years[]
During the 50s, the Doom Patrol was a minor superhero team organized by Niles Caulder. They dueled frequently with the Brotherhood of Evil, specifically its leader Ultimax. Eventually, they managed to capture Ultimax's helm, though the Brain got away.
During this time Niles also met former actress Rita Farr after her cellular structure became completely unstable due to being exposed by a toxic gas in the Amazon. Niles took Rita to his mansion in order to help her with her situation, during this time Rita also became romantically involved with Mento but their relationship ended after he found out her secret.
Against Mr. Nobody[]
The Doom Patrol's final fight was against Mr. Nobody. On Memorial Day weekend, Nobody deployed a jukebox on a hot air balloon shaped like a butt into a crowded park. The jukebox played "Hot Diggity" by Perry Como on repeat, and within 20 minutes had driven anyone in earshot insane. When the police arrived on the scene, they were hit with a Transformer Ray, changing them all into Piñatas. The crazed crowd then ripped open the Piñatas, eating the candy inside. Arani Desai described this as the most horrible thing she'd ever seen.
When the Doom Patrol finally did arrive on the scene, they were met by Mr. Nobody and a horde of Vinyl Warriors, entities made of long-playing records. Mr. Nobody used the Doom Patrol's fears against them, causing them to turn on each other.
The Doom Patrol prepare to face Mr. Nobody.
In the aftermath of the fight, the Doom Patrol grew even more volatile, frequently lashing out using their powers. This lead Niles to decide that they were too dangerous to be kept free, so he placed them in their own house, where they inhabited a shared delusion created by Mento while they were kept sedated. Eventually, the Metahuman Joshua Clay was brought on board to live with look over the aging Doom Patrol, and he continued to look after the againg Doom Patrol after the Chief's disappearance.
Unexpected Guests[]
In 2019, the Doom Patrol continued to live their illusion, teaching various children to practice their powers at their headquarters until receiving an unexpected visit from Niles's patients: Jane, Larry Trainor, and Rita, who met Joshua. For her part, Rita reunited with Steve, reminiscing about their old love affairs while looking at their trophies for the team's victory and the defeat of the Brotherhood of Evil. Larry talked to Arani about Niles and his secret of having a daughter and being married to her, shocking Larry to remember that he was kidnapped by Nobody. Jane talked to Joshua about Niles wanting to give him a room at the Doom Patrol asylum, asking for answers and Steve and Arani claiming they beat Nobody.
The Doom Patrol in the reality of its illusion.
When Larry and Rita mentioned the return of Nobody, Steve freaked out, releasing Rita's fear of having done something horrible to a baby, Jane's fear of Arthur Challis, Joshua's fear of being forced to use his powers and Larry's fear of his past at the Ant Farm, before Rita removed Steve's helmet, and the trio discovered the truth of the Doom Patrol's defeat by seeing themselves as anions in reality. As soon as the group left, Steve, Rhea and Arani returned to their illusion to avoid their fictional world while being attended by Joshua in his retirement days for his sad defeat.
The Second Doom Patrol[]
A New Team[]
In 2021, Niles's patients had saved Cloverton from their friend Cliff Steele in his giant robot body and Rita brought the group together to talk about how they did something right by being useful, despite Larry's claim they nearly destroyed the town, though Rita stated that they had improved since the first time they went to town. Rita gave a motivational speech to choose who they were and why they were, suggesting becoming superheroes, making the group laugh for believing they weren't ready. However, Vic Stone agreed to join, Larry and his son, Keeg, also agreed, Cliff flatly agreed, Laura De Mille, a former member of the Brotherhood of Evil, agreed to unrise to reform and Jane finally agrees.
The new Doom Patrol watches the news of the Testicle Monster attack.
United as a true super-team, dubbed the "Doom Force" by Cliff, Rita and the others saw on the news about a "Testicle Monster" attacking the Suez Canal, deciding to stop it, but since Jane was passed out, the team used the body. Cliff's giant and combining with the Time Machine starting its journey towards the Suez, killing the monster. After their first successful mission, the "Doom Force" continued to making misions, beginning to be called the Doom Patrol, following the team's legacy. Rita served as team leader, Larry, Laura, Doctor Harrison, a personality of Jane, and Cliff, who got his old body back thanks to Silas Stone and Vic, as field agents, with Vic remaining as tech support. The Doom Patrol also faced off against Cell Phone Sylvia, whose phone was hacked by Vic to help the team deal with various Edgelords from the Phantom Zone.
Battle against Codpiece[]
The Doom Patrol confronts Codpiece.
The Doom Patrol then attached the robot's head to the machine to facilitate their mismatches and Rita gave her companions code names: she is Elasti-Woman, Cliff is Robotman, Harrison is Crazy Jane, Larry is Negative Man, Vic is "Cyborg "; and Laura received rude nicknames. When the criminal Codpiece assaulted the Cloverton Credit Union, Rita attempted to explain her plan to the Doom Patrol to defeat the villain, though the team refused to fight him and agreed, traveling to the credit union, using jellyfish to save their souvenirs. Facing Codpiece, the Doom Patorl attempted to attack him, taking a blast from his tech penis beam and being disgusted by his vulgar joke.
Rita ordered Cliff, calling him "Clifasaurous", to attempt to attack Codpiece, who attacked the team until Rita had to hold back his shots, asking Laura to make a quick distraction, before saving Vic from Stewart's cannon. Cliff attempted to attack Codpiece, but was stopped by his Parkinson's. Larry flew towards Codpiece, managing to hit him. Laura was ordered to imitate Codpiece, taunting him with her weapon on low, managing to provoke him, allowing Harrison to use his mind control so Codpiece surrendered along with Stewart, being imprisoned by the police and the Doom Patrol left the place. after completing his mission, returning to the Doom Manor.
The Terrible Future[]
Days later, the Doom Patrol gathered at the laboratory, where they saw Vic and Silas Stone give Cliff a new sentient arm, making everyone happy and thinking of celebrating, the team convinced Rita to take a trip to Florida for Cliff to touch his grandson Rory for the first time and they made the trip, playing games to pass the time. However, the trip had a slight hiccup when they crashed into Isabel Feathers, causing them to travel 20 years into the future, discovering a devastated Cloverton. The Doom Patrol headed to the destroyed manor, finding a snack on a plate, which Cliff touched, causing a cage to fall on them, realizing that the person who lived in the manor was a future version of Vic.
After freeing himself, Future Vic explained to the Doom Patrol about the destruction of the world, mentioning that it was devastated by the Buttpocalypse, an event caused by the zombified Were-Butts, stating that one was the cause of the virus, worrying the Doom Patrol, who went looking for future versions. Unknowingly, Future Vic and the Future Doom Patrol, who had died for the Butts, planned to steal the machine in order to change their tragic fate, although the Doom Patrol was able to discover their plans and prevent Future Vic's escape.
The Doom Patrol and Future Vic team up against the Butt Zombies.
When the Zombies Butts appeared, the team tried to confront the Butts, but when cornered, they were forced to flee, preventing Vic from helping his future version and they managed to return to 2022. Disturbed by the discovery of their fate, the Doom Patrol, with the time machine broken, returned to the manor without saying anything to try to digest what they learned. For her part, Laura tried to convince Rita to find a way to stop the Buttpocalypse, Larry tried to reconnect with Keeg because of his doubts that she showed him his future version, and Cliff postponed his meeting with Rory until his destiny changed.
Prevening the Buttpocalypse[]
The Doom Patrol discusses Laura's choice as leader.
Determined to change their destiny, the Doom Patrol, except for Laura, met in an office to discuss how the Buttpocalypse could have started, listening to Rita's suggestions to change things that possibly caused their deaths, choosing to be taller, Jane must wearing a new wardrobe and Cliff saying only 37 fucks an hour, however, Vic interjected into the idea, agreeing with the others to change leaders, choosing Laura. In the kitchen, the team argued over whether Laura should lead them, bothering Rita because they wanted to replace her, stating that they should go after Darren Jones, the last zombie Butt who could start everything and Laura took his files to lead the mission, angering Rita. On Laura's orders, the Doom Patrol decided to take a break before embarking on the mission and securing Jones' area.
Laura and Cliff are in charge of confronting Darren.
Secretly, Laura recruited Cliff to quickly eliminate Darren, taking a bicycle trip to Darren's location stopping so Cliff could look at an abandoned car, before seeing Darren singing on his tractor, so they followed him to his farm, wearing helmets to hide the stench of their brains. Confronting him, Darren asked Cliff to kill him, although Cliff did not want to because Darren redeemed himself by only eating tomatoes, however, Laura took off Cliff's helmet, forcing him to kill Darren when he attacked him, making Cliff feel the blood.
Vic and Jane steal the last zombie Butt from the hands of the Butt Hunter.
Furthermore, Vic was able to locate another Zombie Butt captured by the Bureau of Normalcy, recruiting Jane for the mission and leaving the argument between Larry and Rita to search for Keeg. Vic and Jane pretended to be undercover agents while talking about what they had seen in the future and Vic revealed to Jane that Kay Challis told him about her feelings, suggesting that she watch the interview he had done with her. The duo encountered Agent Butt Hunter, who had captured the last zombie Butt in a cooler, handing him over to Vic and Jane, who had to flee when the real agents arrived. Back at the manor, the Doom Patrol triumphed against the Buttpocalypse, but Vic and Jane became angry with Laura and Cliff for going on a solo mission without knowing about the last Butt. The team tasked Cliff with killing the last zombie Butt, but unbeknownst to his teammates, he actually hid the Butt in the refrigerator out of pity.
Rescue of Rita[]
Days after stopping the Buttpocalypse, the Doom Patrol relaxed until they were called by Laura, who decided to teach Jane, Cliff and Larry a team trust mission, asking everyone to go together to Rita's filmography at Cloverton Art House, mission which the trio denied, but accepted to support Rita, managing to convince Larry to go. The Doom Patrol watched Rita's film, Secret Rendezvous, but upon noticing that the dialogue was not the same, Laura deduced that Rita was trapped in the film, however, a mysterious gas arose in the room, trapping Larry, Cliff and Jane, letting Laura escape. Inside Secret Rendezvous, Larry met another prisoner, Mister 104, who warned him that they were trapped by Doctor Janus, offering his help to save Rita. Cliff and Jane were in The Haunting of White Manor until they were helped by Larry and Mister 104.
The Doom Patrol and Mister 104 find Rita in Spartacus 452.
Rita was transported to her lowest-grossing film, Spartacus 452, where the Doom Patrol and Mister 104 were able to find her until they were betrayed by Mister 104, who revealed her alliance with Janus, threatening Rita to burn her friends if she didn't speak out enough emotions in your magic necklace. Bravely, Rita crossed the bridge of fire to rescue the Doom Patrol, which finally completed the necklace of emotions that Janus took away, enacting before Rama that "Immortus Will Rise", disappearing from the place. When the bridge nearly collapsed, Rama opted to help the Doom Patrol, saving Rita until Keeg appeared, freeing everyone from the dimension, but merging with Rama. The Doom Patrol took care of the fainted Rita, rushing her to the manor, informing Laura and Vic about what happened.
Rise of Immortus[]
Turned into Teenagers[]
The Doom Patrol learns from Kipling about the existence of Immortus.
Because Rita did not wake up, the Doom Patrol worried about their leader until Willoughby Kipling appeared at the manor to ask for their help, gathering Jane, Vic, Laura and Cliff in the kitchen to warn them about what was happening. He and the Knights Templar discovered about the possible rise of a forgotten deity, Immortus, who was capable of destroying the universe, telling that parts of the deity's longevity were divided and one was put into a talisman that Niles obtained, using the others parts to give longevity to Rita, Larry, Cliff and Jane, being his Immortus Project. Kipling warned the Doom Patrol that if Immortus' allies managed to steal the team's longevity, Immortus would be about to rise and bring about the end of the world, but the team clumsily revealed that Rita had already lost her longevity at the hands of Janus.
The Doom Patrol and Kipling are affected by the spell of youth.
The Doom Patrol went to the laboratory, crossing paths with Rita who was trying to find something to reverse her old age, colliding with Cliff, causing the team to be hit by a Khepri youth spell that made them rejuvenate and make their personalities become those of a teenager. To search for a cure, Kipling and the Doom Patrol were able to track down Kipling's former mentor, Mrs. April, to help them, but Rita asked the team not to worry because they should take advantage of their youth, however, Kipling revealed that they should hurry. because the spell would turn them from children to babies until their death, and they set out on their journey to Toledo.
The young Doom Patrol arrives at the pool party.
On the trip, the team stopped at a gas station until Rita and Laura left for their troubles, before Jane and Cliff brought new friends who invited them to a party, convincing Kipling and Vic to go. The Doom Patrol began to have fun at the pool party, enjoying their adolescence until they transformed into children, although Vic had left and Cliff wanted to continue with the party. The young Jane and Kipling tried to prevent his death before Bunbury and the Knights Templar returned Kipling to his normal age, watching as Jane turned into a baby and Bunbury took advantage of his longevity. With his magic restored, Kipling transformed the Doom Patrol back to their normal ages and disappeared with the other wizards to protect Jane's longevity while Cliff took his friend back to the manor.
Travel to Orqwith[]
Leaving through a portal, Larry and Mister 104, who revealed to be Rama, arrived at the manor to meet with Cliff, who reported that Jane had lost her longevity, worrying Larry that he and Cliff would be the final pieces of Immortus, trying to gather the Doom Patrol to prevent the arrival of the deity, but Keeg betrayed Larry by throwing him into the portal and disappearing Rama. With the portal open, Vic and his best friend Deric Hayes entered the kingdom of Orqwith to save Larry.
Cliff and Jane watch Mister Invincible confront the Scissormen.
Later, Cliff and Jane decided to fight Immortus, despite Kipling's warning, they crossed the portal to help Mister Invincible fight the Scissormen, but the giant robot was destroyed, causing the Doom Patrol to be captured. The Doom Patrol was unable to move due to the threat of the Scissormen, coming face to face with the leader of the Agents of Immortus, Wally Sage, who was happy to have Cliff to extract his longevity, leading the team towards the Sacrarium. On the way to the sacrarium, Cliff was remembered for his glove, which he named "Rory", which left the refrigerator open, causing the last Zombie Butt to emerge.
Known Members[]
Former Members[]
- Rita Farr / Elasti-Woman (leader; deceased)
- Laura De Mille / Madame Rouge (retired)
- Kay Challis / Crazy Jane / Kaleidoscope (left to form a relationship with Casey Brinke)
- Victor "Vic" Stone / Cyborg (left to reform the Detroiticons with Deric Hayes)
- Larry Trainor / Negative Man (left to live a new life with Rama)
- Cliff Steele / Robotman (deceased)
- Steve Dayton / Mento (retired)
- Arani Desai / Celsius (retired)
- Rhea Jones / Lodestone (retired)
- Niles Caulder / The Chief (leader; deceased)
Known Allies[]
Former Allies[]
- Joshua Clay (caretaker of the original Doom Patrol)
- Danny the Street
- Willoughby Kipling
- Silas Stone
- Dorothy Spinner
- Shipley
- Rama / Mister 104 (former enemy)
- Casey Brinke / Space Case
- Deric Hayes
- Claire Delaire
- Jonathan
- Joy
- Doom Patrol (former enemies)
- Vic Stone (future) (deceased)
- Rita Farr (future) (deceased)
- Larry Trainor (future) (deceased)
- Doctor Harrison (future) (deceased)
- Cliff Steele (future) (deceased)
- Nicholas
- Margaret Yu
- Immortus/Isabel Feathers (former enemy)
Known Enemies[]
Former Enemies[]
- Immortus/Isabel Feathers (reformed)
- Zombies Were-Butts
- Theodore (reformed)
- Bureau of Normalcy (destroyed by Laura)
- Darren Jones (deceased)
- Butt Hunter
- Agents of Immortus
- Wally Sage (deceased)
- Doctor Janus (deceased)
- Richard Frank / Torminox (deceased)
- Scissormen
- Brotherhood of Evil (retired)
- Ultimax / The Brain (deceased)
- Monsieur Mallah (retired)
- Garguax the Decimator (reformed; deceased)
- Samuelson (runaway)
- Eric Morden / Mr. Nobody (missing in action)
- Rama/Mister 104 (reformed)
- Laura De Mille / Madame Rouge (reformed and joined the team)
- Testicle Monster (deceased)
- Cell Phone Sylvia (incarcerated)
- Codpiece (incarcerated)
- Stewart (incarcerated)
Appearances[]
Season 1[]
- "Paw Patrol" (mentioned)
- "Doom Patrol Patrol"
- "Therapy Patrol" (mentioned)
- "Frances Patrol" (mentioned)
- "Ezekiel Patrol" (mentioned)
Season 2[]
- "Tyme Patrol" (mentioned)
Season 3[]
- "Vacay Patrol" (photo and mentioned)
- "Amends Patrol"
Season 4[]
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Trivia[]
- Despite the name of the series, the team of protagonists did not take the name Doom Patrol, being called that several times by Mr. Nobody and Crazy Jane, until the first episode of the fourth season.
- According to their wall of stars, the Doom Patrol currently has 9 successful missions.