- "The Brotherhood of Evil is old news. Evil, well, it's a complicated thing. Seventy years ago, I wanted to rule the world. After Caulder defeated me, I would have stopped at nothing to kill him and erase his legacy. But now, now all I want to do is take this metal body and live a life of indulgence in sunny Boca Raton."
- —Ultimax to Laura De Mille[src]
Ultimax, also known as the Brain, was the arch-enemy of Niles Caulder and the leader of the Brotherhood of Evil, until a fight with the Doom Patrol forced him to go into hiding. He is the main antagonist of season 3.
Years later, Laura De Mille came back and made Ultimax and Monsieur Mallah go back to evil. Ultimax stole Cliff Steele's robotic body and decided to retire to use the body for fun. Ultimax was eventually killed by Rita Farr alongside his robotic body.
Biography[]
Forming the Brotherhood of Evil[]
At some point, Ultimax formed the Brotherhood of Evil, a group of super villains dedicated to world domination. In the midst of his plans, Ultimax formed a rivalry with the scientist Niles Caulder, despising him for his use of magic in inventions.
A mysterious time machine[]
In 1917, Ultimax and a super smart gorilla named Monsieur Mallah observed a mysterious time machine, which Ultimax considered creating his own to follow his plan for world domination.
Firing Eric Morden[]
In 1949, Ultimax fired Eric Morden after all of his ideas and projects were rejected by the Brotherhood, replacing him with Mallah, but since all of Morden's ideas were rejected, filling his position with Mallah.
Hiring Laura De Mille[]
Ultimax and Mallah recruit Madame Rouge into the Brotherhood of Evil.
In 1949, Ultimax and Mallah met Laura De Mille, a former employee of the Bureau of Normalcy, who had been fired. Ultimax hired her to travel back in time with a copy of the time machine he saw in 1917 to steal Niles Caulder's inventions and bring them back in 1949. Ultimax also suggested De Mille to change her code name, "Nobody De Mille", asking her how attached she was to it. However, Mallah gave her the code name "Madame Rouge" before Ultimax had the chance, making him upset. Ultimax hired Laura for his plan.
Rita Farr's hunt[]
Ultimax and Mallah give Garguax an assassination mission.
Shortly after De Mille's departure to the future, the Brain found out that Rita Farr had used the original time machine to pursue her and that she would stop at Codsville. In order to stop her from interfering with the Brotherhood's plans, Ultimax and Mallah summoned their alien ally, Garguax. Ultimax explained his mission to Garguax and advised that the communicator warned them when the target was near and sent him and his minion Samuelson to Codsville to assassinate Rita.
The Brotherhood of Evil vs. Doom Patrol[]
Brain's helmet as a Doom Patrol trophy.
In the 1950s, Ultimax and the Brotherhood of Evil became frequent adversaries of the Doom Patrol, team led by Niles. In 1957, he was eventually defeated and his helm was taken by the Doom Patrol as a trophy, although his brain escaped.
Retired[]
With Ultimax and Mallah as the sole remaining members of the Brotherhood, they decided to retire and hide in a retirement home in Boca Raton, Florida.
Seven decades later, in 2021, the Brain found Cliff Steele's Robotman blueprints on eBay and bought them in order to study their design, as he was envious by the fact that he never could make a fully functional body for himself while Caulder could despite having less knowledge about technology than him. He then discovered that the reason the robotic body worked so well was because it had magical properties, which increased his interest in it.
Reuniting with Madame Rouge[]
Unbeknownst to Ultimax, the time machine he used back in 1949 caused amnesia to Madame Rouge when she travelled to 2021 but she regained her memories with the help of the Niles Caulder's creations and the Sisterhood of Dada. Realizing she had caused the death of Rita Farr's beloved in the past, making her her nemesis, she saw the whole Doom Patrol as a threat to her and ran back to Ultimax asking for his assistance to destroy them before they could kill her. Despite Mallah's reluctance, Ultimax agreed to give her their old weapons on the condition of her kidnapping Cliff Steele.
Stealing Cliff's body[]
Ultimax explains his plans to Cliff.
De Mille managed to sneak into the Doom Manor, knock out Cliff and take him back to Florida using a teleporting device provided by Ultimax. There, Ultimax told him about the magical properties of his body and his initial goal to switch Cliff's brain with himself, infiltrate the manor and destroy them from within with De Mille's help. However, he reveals that to be a lie by betraying De Mille and knocking her out.
He then goes through with the surgery and effectively takes over Robotman's body, putting Cliff's brain in a jar and taking him and De Mille to his van, telling her he's grown tired of his fight against the forces of good and now just wants to live a pleasant life in his retirement home with his new body. After sending Mallah off to dispose of them, Ultimax uses his new and functional body to dance and party with the other residents.
Ultimax is chased by Laura and Cliff.
The next day, Ultimax celebrated his new body in wonder while making new friends and flirting with old womans. Ultimax went for a walk as it was a good day for him, but to his bad luck, Laura and Cliff returned to confront him in Morden's old robot. A chase began, but Ultimax got angry that this couldn't happen to him until the robot crushed him, but thanks to the indestructible body, Ultimax survived with a few fewer parts.
Death[]
As he crawled back home, Ultimax saw Rita appear to confront him. He was upset that Garguax had failed in his mission. Ultimax was helped by Rita to get up. Ultimax read a letter of resignation from Mallah, who abandoned him in order to leave evil, something that made Brain very angry. Ultimax mentioned to Rita that now he only had things without grace since he has lost everything.
Ultimax is killed by Rita.
Ultimax realized that Rita wanted to kill De Mille, so he tried to convince her to help him so that they would both kill De Mille to form a new brotherhood. At first, Ultimax believed that Rita would help him transplant his brain into a better body, but in reality, Rita sought out a hot tea for Ultimax and despite her evil pleas, Rita poured the tea onto Ultimax's brain to assassinate him in a fit of spite.
Appearances[]
Season 1[]
- "Doom Patrol Patrol" (mentioned)
- "Penultimate Patrol" (mentioned)
Season 3[]
Season 4[]
- "Doom Patrol" (mentioned)
- "Hope Patrol" (mentioned)
- "Orqwith Patrol" (mentioned)
- "Portal Patrol" (mentioned)
Trivia[]
- Ultimax is highly incompetent.
Behind the scenes[]
- In the DC comics, Ultimax is more commonly known as the Brain, leader of the Brotherhood of Evil and enemy of the Doom Patrol. His first appearance in the comic was Doom Patrol #86 (March, 1964).
- Fans were disappointed in this version of the Brain, due to the previous television versions from Teen Titans, Batman the Brave and the Bold and Young Justice being competent villains.
- Ultimax being sexist about the Brotherhood of Evil was also part of his downfall; rejecting Madame Rouge lead to his downfall.