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* OlderThanTheyLook: 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.
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* OlderThanTheyLook: 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.
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* CharacterCatchphrase: Whenever something bat-shit crazy happens, he usually utters, ''"The fuck?!"''
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* CharacterCatchphrase: Whenever something bat-shit crazy happens, he usually utters, ''"The ''"What the fuck?!"''
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* SirSwearsALot: Along with Jane, Cliff is the most swear-happy of the core cast. "The fuck!?" is basically Cliff's CatchPhrase.
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* DeathByAdaptation: 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 [[LosingYourHead 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.
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* DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation: 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.
* AdaptationalSexuality: This version of Jane is a lesbian who is at most PlatonicLifePartners 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.
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%%** The ones seen so far include: Jane[[labelnote:*]]baseline, no powers[[/labelnote]], Sylvia [[labelnote:*]] "Spooky voice, a bit moody"[[/labelnote]], The Hangman's Daughter [[labelnote:*]] an artist [[/labelnote]], Hammerhead[[labelnote:*]]an asshole with SuperStrength[[/labelnote]], Babydoll[[labelnote:*]]acts like a child[[/labelnote]], Sun Daddy[[labelnote:*]]pyrokinesis & sizeshifting into a giantess[[/labelnote]], Katy[[labelnote:*]]made of fire, extremely antisocial[[/labelnote]], Lucy Fugue[[labelnote:*]]electricity powers[[/labelnote]], Silver Tongue[[labelnote:*]]can make her words solid metal[[/labelnote]], Flit[[labelnote:*]]can teleport[[/labelnote]], Penny Farthing[[labelnote:*]]lower-class English accent, [[ShrinkingViolet extremely timid]] with a SpeechImpediment[[/labelnote]], Dr. Harrison [[labelnote:*]]psychiatrist with CompellingVoice[[/labelnote]], Karen[[labelnote:*]]love-struck psycho obsessed with 90's rom-coms with an ability to make people obey her and love her [[/labelnote]], The Sisters, Kit W' the Canstick, Scarlet Harlot[[labelnote:*]] a LadyInRed who is constantly in a state of arousal[[/labelnote]], Jill-In-Irons, Mama Pentecost, The Nun, Pretty Polly, The Secretary [[labelnote:*]] A secretary who tries to keep the peace amongst the other personalities [[/labelnote]], Driver 8 [[labelnote:*]] The conductor for the train in the Underground who looks just like Jane [[/labelnote]], Driller Bill, Jack Straw, Miranda [[labelnote:*]] Was once one of the primary personalities for Jane, but then disappeared after going to the Well [[/labelnote]], Black Annis
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* SparedByTheAdaptation: The series ends with her still alive, when her comic book incarnation ultimately died fighting Beast Boy in ''The New Teen Titans''.
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* AdaptationalNiceGuy: His design is heavily based on Negative Man's Rebis incarnation, but he's much more straightforwardly pleasant and helpful whereas his visual influence had a predilection for being obnoxious and aloof.
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* AdaptationalBackstoryChange: It's revealed in "Portal Patrol" that Cliff Steele caused him to become a paraplegic through a StableTimeLoop, when in the comics General Immortus was responsible for crippling him.
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* ButchLesbian: According to her actress, Jane herself is a [[WordOfGay 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 Brinks.
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* ButchLesbian: According to her actress, Jane herself is a [[WordOfGay 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 Brinks.Brinke.
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* AdaptationalSexuality: 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).
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* AdaptationRelationshipOverhaul: [[spoiler: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.]]
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* AdaptationalNationality: This version of Madame Rouge is Scottish rather than French.
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* ConsultingMisterPuppet: 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.
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* NiceJobBreakingItHero: "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.
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* PubescentBraces: When [[FountainOfYouth de-aged into teenagehood]] in "Youth Patrol", he has braces.
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* AdaptationalLateAppearance: 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.
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* DeathByOriginStory: Her backstory involves her mother sacrificing herself to try and stop Torminox.
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* ComicBookMoviesDontUseCodenames: Rita and Larry are yet to be addressed by their superhero names.
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* ComicBookMoviesDontUseCodenames: Rita and Larry are yet to be aren't addressed by their superhero names.codenames until the fourth season.
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* AdaptationalAngstDowngrade: Her first period 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.
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* AdaptationalAngstDowngrade: Her first period 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.adulthood, with no indication that her powers are affected by menstruation.
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* AdaptationalAngstDowngrade: Her first period 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.
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* AdaptationalAngstDowngrade: Her first period 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.normal and a sign that she's entering adulthood.
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* AdaptationalAngstDowngrade: Her first period 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 expressed 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.
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* AdaptationalAngstDowngrade: Her first period 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 expressed 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.
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* {{Expy}}: With her blue-red-yellow color scheme and energy powers, she vaguely resembles a retro version of Characters/{{Captain Marvel|CarolDanvers}}.
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* {{Expy}}: With her blue-red-yellow color scheme and energy powers, she vaguely resembles a retro version of Characters/{{Captain Marvel|CarolDanvers}}.[[Characters/MarvelComicsCarolDanvers Carol Danvers]].
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* AdaptationalLateAppearance: 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 recieved their own ongoing.
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* AdaptationalLateAppearance: 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 recieved received their own ongoing.
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* {{Hypocrite}}: Cliff berated his wife and best friend for having an affair with each other despite cheating himself.
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* {{Hypocrite}}: {{Hypocrite}}:
** Cliff berated his wife and best friend for having an affair with each other despite cheatinghimself.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. [[spoiler: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.]]
** Cliff berated his wife and best friend for having an affair with each other despite cheating
** 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. [[spoiler: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.]]
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* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Cliff says this almost word-for-word after [[HallwayFight slaughtering a hallway full of Von Fuch's Nazi minions]].
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* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: MyGodWhatHaveIDone:
** Cliff says this almost word-for-word after [[HallwayFight slaughtering a hallway full of Von Fuch's Naziminions]].minions]].
** In "Portal Patrol", he is horrified to discover that [[spoiler:he was the one who paralyzed Niles Caulder and drove him to start Project Immortus in the first place.]]
** Cliff says this almost word-for-word after [[HallwayFight slaughtering a hallway full of Von Fuch's Nazi
** In "Portal Patrol", he is horrified to discover that [[spoiler:he was the one who paralyzed Niles Caulder and drove him to start Project Immortus in the first place.]]
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* ConscienceMakesYouGoBack: 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.
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* ConscienceMakesYouGoBack: ConscienceMakesYouGoBack:
** 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 heruncomfortable.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."
** 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
** 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.
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* CharacterDevelopment: [[spoiler: 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.]]
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* CallingTheOldManOut: 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.
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* AdaptationalWimp: 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.
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* AdaptationalWimp: 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.worse, and it frequently requires a lot of effort from them to achieve anything remotely resembling a true victory.
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* AdaptationalLateAppearance: 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.
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* AdaptationalLateAppearance: 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 [[AffirmativeActionLegacy a female successor to Larry Trainor]] in the team's second roster.
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* DecompositeCharacter: The Chief in this continuity takes her role in killing Red Jack.
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* CompositeCharacter: In an overlap with DecompositeCharacter, 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.
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* DeathByOriginStory: Like in the comics, the accident that led to him becoming Cyborg also killed his mother. [[spoiler:Or so it seems.]]
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* DeathByOriginStory: Like in the comics, the accident that led to him becoming Cyborg also killed his mother. [[spoiler:Or so it seems. In truth, both were critically injured and Silas made the sacrifice of saving his son while letting his wife die.]]
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* AdaptationalEarlyAppearance: The rest of the Doom Patrol were created in the '60s, but Crazy Jane wasn't made until 1989. She's evidently the first recruit into the team (her not being in ''Titans'' when Beast Boy leaves), and appears before original member Mento.
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* AdaptationalEarlyAppearance: The rest of the Doom Patrol were created in the '60s, but Crazy Jane wasn't made until 1989. She's evidently the first recruit into In this continuity, she's part of the team (her not being in ''Titans'' when Beast Boy leaves), and appears before original member Mento.Robotman came along.
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** 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 Creator/GrantMorrison's run, Lucius Reynolds and Lotion the Cat from Gerard Way's run are omitted and ''no one'' who was added to the team during Rachel Pollack, John Arcudi and Creator/JohnByrne's runs get ''any'' representation whatsoever.
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** 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 Creator/GrantMorrison's run, Lucius Reynolds and Lotion the Cat from Gerard Way's run are omitted and ''no one'' who was added to the team during Rachel Pollack, John Arcudi and Creator/JohnByrne's runs get gets ''any'' representation whatsoever.
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* AdaptedOut: Beast Boy, who was a member of the team proper in the comics. Although he was part of the team in their ''Series/{{Titans|2018}}'' continuity, no reference is made to him in this continuity.
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* AdaptedOut: AdaptedOut:
** Beast Boy, who was a member of the team proper in the comics. Although he was part of the team in their ''Series/{{Titans|2018}}'' continuity, no reference is made to him in thiscontinuity.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 Creator/GrantMorrison's run, Lucius Reynolds and Lotion the Cat from Gerard Way's run are omitted and ''no one'' who was added to the team during Rachel Pollack, John Arcudi and Creator/JohnByrne's runs get ''any'' representation whatsoever.
** Beast Boy, who was a member of the team proper in the comics. Although he was part of the team in their ''Series/{{Titans|2018}}'' continuity, no reference is made to him in this
** 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 Creator/GrantMorrison's run, Lucius Reynolds and Lotion the Cat from Gerard Way's run are omitted and ''no one'' who was added to the team during Rachel Pollack, John Arcudi and Creator/JohnByrne's runs get ''any'' representation whatsoever.
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* CompactInfiltrator: Rita's habit of losing control of her RubberMan powers and melting into a BlobMonster, 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 "[[Recap/DoomPatrol2019S1E02DonkeyPatrol Donkey Patrol]]", she's able to pour herself [[ItMakesSenseInContext into the mouth of a donkey]] to reach an interdimensional portal, while in "[[Recap/DoomPatrol2019S1E12CyborgPatrol 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.
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* ShapeshifterLongevity: Rita's aging process appears to have stalled following the accident that gave her RubberMan powers back in the 1950s, and as such, she still looks the part of a glamorous Hollywood starlet. Unfortunately, thanks to her aforementioned PowerIncontinence, 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 BlobMonster. Season 4 confirms that Rita's shpaeshifting ability wasn't automatically linked to her youthful looks, because after her longevity is deprived Rita loses the ability to appear young.
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* BecameTheirOwnAntithesis: 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, [[spoiler: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.]]
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* BecameTheirOwnAntithesis: 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, [[spoiler: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 [[spoiler: her rival Isabel Feathers]], who displayed similar prima donna behaviour that made Rita see just how insufferable she could be.
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* BlobMonster: 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 malting at will to treat her arthritis.
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* BlobMonster: 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 malting melting at will to treat her arthritis.
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* AdaptationDyeJob: He was blond in the comics before his accident. Here, he was Matt Bomer's natural black hair.
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* AdaptationDyeJob: He was blond in the comics before his accident. Here, he was has Matt Bomer's natural black hair.
* SharpDressedMan: Anytime Larry appears unburned, he's wearing a tuxedo or a similarly dapper outfit.
* WoundThatWillNotHeal: 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.
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* ActionDad: Cliff has a daughter, whom he hasn't seen in 30 years and initially believes to be dead.
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* MeaningfulName: 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.
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* AdaptationalWimp: 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.
* TheAgeless: Rita, Larry, Cliff and Jane stopped aging after their respective SuperHeroOrigin due to Niles [[spoiler:infusing them with the essence of Immortus]].
* TheAgeless: Rita, Larry, Cliff and Jane stopped aging after their respective SuperHeroOrigin due to Niles [[spoiler:infusing them with the essence of Immortus]].
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* AdaptationalBackstoryChange: Each of their origins also happened in different decades: Rita's in TheFifties, Larry's in TheSixties, Jane's in TheSeventies, Cliff's in TheEighties, and Cyborg's in the 2010s.
* AdaptationalUpbringingChange: 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.
* AdaptationalWimp: 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 thingsworse.
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* AdaptedOut: Beast Boy, who was a member of the team proper in the comics. Although he was part of the team in their ''Series/{{Titans|2018}}'' continuity, no reference is made to him in this continuity.
* TheAgeless: 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 RealityWarper 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 Janestopped aging after were all blessed with DNA from Immortus that preserved them. When the pieces of Immortus are extracted, they all begin to age.
* AgeLift: Due to the fact that ComicBookTime doesn't exist (and many of the characters' origins here occurred in different decades), all the characters are much older than theirrespective SuperHeroOrigin due to Niles [[spoiler:infusing them with comic book counterparts, especially Rita, who was in her twenties during the essence of Immortus]].1950s.
* AdaptationalUpbringingChange: 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.
* AdaptationalWimp: 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
* AdaptedOut: Beast Boy, who was a member of the team proper in the comics. Although he was part of the team in their ''Series/{{Titans|2018}}'' continuity, no reference is made to him in this continuity.
* TheAgeless: 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 RealityWarper 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
* AgeLift: Due to the fact that ComicBookTime doesn't exist (and many of the characters' origins here occurred in different decades), all the characters are much older than their
* ArbitrarySkepticism: 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).
* BigFancyHouse: The Chief's house is huge, old-fashioned, and well-furnished.
* BigFancyHouse: The Chief's house is huge, old-fashioned, and well-furnished.
* BrokenPedestal: 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.
** 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.
* CursedWithAwesome: 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 SuperStrength, 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, [[HowDoIShotWeb they can barely use them properly]], much less fight against the bizarre threats that are thrown their way.
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: 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...
** 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...
* FamedInStory: 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 [[AsHimself 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.
** 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 [[AsHimself 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.
* FourPhilosophyEnsemble: 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.
* IronicHell:
** Cliff Steele was TheHedonist who lived for sex and drugs, and is now trapped in a robotic body [[SenseLossSadness 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 [[CantLiveWithoutYou cannot survive without if separated.]]
** Rita Farr was a [[PoliticallyIncorrectHero bigoted actress]] who now transforms into an amorphous BlobMonster if she loses her composure.
** Cliff Steele was TheHedonist who lived for sex and drugs, and is now trapped in a robotic body [[SenseLossSadness 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 [[CantLiveWithoutYou cannot survive without if separated.]]
** Rita Farr was a [[PoliticallyIncorrectHero bigoted actress]] who now transforms into an amorphous BlobMonster if she loses her composure.
* OddFriendship:
** 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. [[spoiler: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.
* OlderThanTheyLook: Applies to almost every main cast member. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] in regards to the main cast, as their accidents were engineered in an attempt to grant immortality and [[spoiler: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.
** 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. [[spoiler: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.
* OlderThanTheyLook: Applies to almost every main cast member. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] in regards to the main cast, as their accidents were engineered in an attempt to grant immortality and [[spoiler: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.
* AdaptationalAttractiveness: 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.
* AdaptationalBackstoryChange: 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.
* AdaptationalBackstoryChange: 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.
* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: 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."
* NoteToSelf: 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.”
* AdaptationalBackstoryChange: 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 [[AdaptationalSexuality with another man]].
* ByThePowerOfGrayskull: After Larry becomes able to control when the Negative Spirit is released, he does that by saying "Negative Spirit, release!".
* AdaptationalBackstoryChange: 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.
* AdaptationalJerkass: Cliff in the comics was a hot-headed but otherwise NiceGuy GentleGiant, and while he's still mostly this, he's a ''lot'' more prone to swearing and yelling, and his JerkWithAHeartOfGold nature is played up. Notably, he's given a backstory that makes him far more of a ByronicHero, as he was cheating on his wife with their nanny ([[DoubleStandard 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).
* AdaptationalBackstoryChange: 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 BedlamHouse style mental hospital staff. [[AbusiveParents The cause of her Dissociative Identity Disorder]] is still the same, however.
* AdaptationalDiversity: 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.
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* AdaptationalJerkass: 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. Season 3 sees her move more towards her comic-book personality, as [[spoiler:she and Kay become more integrated.]]
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* AdaptationalJerkass: 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 TokenEvilTeammate. Season 3 sees her move more towards her comic-book personality, as [[spoiler:she and Kay become more integrated.]]
* CastingGag: Diane Guerrero is in another show with a LemonyNarrator and dramatic plot twists—though this time, it’s ''her'' character that’s named [[Series/JaneTheVirgin Jane]].
* FoulFirstDrink: 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.
* CastingGag: Michelle Gomez plays another eccentric [[Series/DoctorWho time traveler]] with ambiguous morality.
* AdaptationalBackstoryChange: Dorothy is the daughter of [[spoiler:Nile Caulder]] and a cave woman, and her powers are inherited from her mother, whereas in the comics she was just a metahuman.
* AdaptationOriginConnection: In this version Dorothy Spinner is Niles Caulder's daughter, whereas in the comics she has no familial connections to him.
* AdaptationSpeciesChange: Dorothy was a standard metahuman in the comics; here, she's half some-kind-of-caveperson on her mother's side.
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** Season2 is this for her, 2's MythArc 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.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.
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** 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.
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* PoorCommunicationKills: Much of the chaos of season 4 could have been avoided if [[spoiler: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.]]
* PrecisionFStrike: 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.
* PrecisionFStrike: 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.
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* BrokenPedestal: 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.
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* AdaptationalNiceGuy: 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.
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* AmbiguouslyEvil: The Chief is someone that is believed to be the BigGood 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 LotusEaterMachine. Despite this, he usually has a justification for all of his actions.
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* DiedInIgnorance: 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. [[spoiler: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.]]
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* AdaptationalLateAppearance: 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 recieved their own ongoing.
