![]() Even Jane’s origin is said to have happened in “The 70s” although we haven’t seen that yet so who knows if it’s true. Rita was a movie star in the 50s, Larry was a test pilot in the 60s, Cliff was a race car driver in the late 80s. Most superhero stories roll everything up to the Present Day unless something is really tied in with a historical event (usually World War II), but the Doom Patrol are all from decades ago, and a little frozen in time by their accidents. One thing I really like is how the show sets up a long timeline of events. The effects to a decent job of conveying his ‘not all there’ design and I was surprised that they kept his origin pretty directly from the comics, nazi mad scientist and all. He complains about oversaturation of superhero TV shows, mocks cliffhanger conventions and even says “the critics are going to hate this show” outright. He does a good job as the bored, sarcastic presence looking in & giving the audience a space to vent their concerns about the series. The episode is narrated by Alan Tudyk’s Mr. And Cliff “Robotman” Steel, a race car driver whose brain was put in a Cyborg body after a crash, and who constantly complains about the lack of sensory stimulation, missing his old life and damages the new mechanical body at every opportunity in a vain attempt to feel something. ![]() Crazy Jane, with 64 different personalities most of which have their own superpowers, I’m not sure how the TV version differs from the comics but the trailer made it sound like the condition and powers were the result of an experiment instead of dissociative identity disorder caused by trauma from childhood abuse and then the powers came later when an alien invasion gave a random % of the world’s population superpowers because comics. Rita Farr the Elasti-Woman, an actress who swallowed some weird protoplasm and can shapeshift, traditionally by growing and shrinking but so far she can only turn into a blob and has to eat a lot to maintain human form. We have Larry Trainor, the Negative Man: A pilot with some kind of energy being (might be an alien, might be his soul) inhabiting his body that can act remotely but leaves Larry unconscious and dying, he’s also in bandages because his body is radioactive and decaying. The modern take favored by DC frontman Geoff Johns is basically the Munsters, so it’s a good fit for writer Jeremy Carver, the showrunner on Monster Roommate drama Being Human a few years back. To what extent depends a lot on how much the public is used to the Strange in a given superhero universe. The idea of the Doom Patrol that sets them apart is they’re disfigured by their powers. ![]() Even Superman’s very first appearance frames him as a figure of menace, smashing a car in front of a fleeing crowd. The jury’s out on whether X-Men or Doom Patrol was a knockoff one way or the other, but the idea of Weird Superheroes isn’t something one title holds any exclusive claim on. ![]() A group of bickering superhumans, too “strange” to be regular heroes, who live in a mansion in the woods, hiding from a world that hates and fears them and maybe being manipulated by their mysterious leader: A doctor in a wheelchair.
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