Mythology Gag / Doom Patrol (2019)

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• The Tag Line "What doesn't kill you makes you stranger" was pronounced by The Joker in The Dark Knight.
• The poster for the first season (which is also the main page image) is based off the cover of the jacket of the hardcover omnibus collection of Grant Morrison's run, except Dorothy Spinner and Joshua Clay are respectively replaced with Rita Farr and Cyborg.
• At one point, during the flashback to Larry's origin, Mr. Nobody comments that he was "crawling from the wreckage" of his plane. Crawling from the Wreckage is the title of the first storyline of Grant Morrison's run on the Doom Patrol comic, so named because it concerned the team dealing with the aftermath of Invasion! (DC Comics).
• Cliff and Jane's 1st (official) meeting leads to word for word dialogue from their first meeting in the comics.
  The Hangman's Daughter: My painting's ruined, everything's gone wrong.
  (Beat)
  Cliff: Come in out of the rain.
• The pilot has Mr. Nobody refer to Doom Manor as "Dumb Manor" at one point, alluding to how he mockingly referred to the Doom Patrol as the "Dumb Patrol" in Gerard Way's run.
• When Cyborg shows up in the second episode, he tells Dr. Caulder that his father says in five years, he could be a part of the Justice League. In the DCEU, he is. The statement is also likely a nod to Cyborg being a founding member of the League in the New 52 and that same continuity establishing that the superheroes had primarily only been active for five years.
• Cyborg also uses an A.I. called "Grid" to track criminal or unusual activity. In the comics, Grid was Cyborg's Evil Counterpart from Earth 3, introduced during the Forever Evil (2013) event. Later episodes in season one show that, much like the comics Grid, it is capable of independent action against Vic's wishes.
• One of the news headlines in Cyborg's feed is about a Brazilian woman with glowing green eyes, which is a reference to the superhero Fire/Green Fury who could emit and control green flames.
  • When talking with Baby Doll (Jane's childlike alter), Cyborg comments on The Flash, apparently being acquainted with him. In the comics, Cyborg has been close friends with Wally West, the third Flash, since they were teenagers, and in the 2000s was a regular supporting character in his book. The DCEU Cyborg is similarly depicted as close with their Flash, Barry Allen.
• The logo for A.R.G.U.S. is the same one used in the Arrowverse.
• Mr. Nobody causing an entire city to be sucked into another reality, especially the part where - on the inside of this reality - Nobody entices the Patrol with paintings that contain further alternate realities, hearkens back to "The Painting That Ate Paris."
• When the town of Cloverton is swallowed up, Cyborg taps into a phone conversation between two government officials who cover it up and mention "the Ant Farm." The Ant Farm was a part of Grant Morrison's Doom Patrol run that involved a hidden basement in the Pentagon that was controlled by the Men from N.O.W.H.E.R.E. In the series, their eventual equivalents are the Bureau of Normalcy. Their mandate is still to exterminate the strange, but they're human, have been around since at least 1913 (at which point they were still the more benign Bureau of Oddities), and Darren Jones seems to be a relatively recent addition to their ranks.
• The X-Men parallels with Steve Dayton is similar to how in the comics, after Mento went mad, he formed a team of villains consisting of pastiches of the X-Men.
• Among the trophies in Steve Dayton's collection are Ultimax/The Brain's robotic jar and Garguax's robe and crown. Both are members of the Brotherhood of Evil, with the former being the leader.
• Dr. Harrison is the center of a cult just like her introduction in Gerard Way's run.
• One of the trophies shown in the room is a clock, presumably belonging to the Doom Patrol villain Dr. Tyme.
• And another trophy is Wonder Woman's "Godkiller" sword.
• The original Doom Patrol's fight with Mr. Nobody is a reference to issue #96 of the first Doom Patrol run, which also involved a jukebox and a large number of people going insane.
• Rita Farr and Steve Dayton's relationship fell apart when Steve used the Mento helmet to read her mind without her consent, which was also a significant factor of their breaking up in Keith Giffen's run.
• "Danny Patrol" has Cyborg read an issue of My Greatest Adventure, the comic the Doom Patrol originally debuted in during the 80th issue before the book was rebranded to focus exclusively on the team six issues later.
• During a flashback to Niles Caulder spending a few years in the arctic north, he is shown having a much thicker beard, more in-line with the one he sports in the comics.
• A flashback to Morden's past as a low-rent villainous henchman includes plans for a giant robot similar to the one he used in his first appearance in the comics. He also mentions the Brain replacing him on the Brotherhood with a French-speaking gorilla (presumably Monsieur Mallah, the Brain in a Jar's future lover).
• Niles picked all of the Doom Patrol characters for "Project Immortus." General Immortus was one of the earliest Doom Patrol villains in the comics.
• In "Dumb Patrol", Beard Hunter wears pink underpants, with the head of Beast Boy, Teen Titans Go! version, on his ass.
• "Vacay Patrol" shows the team vacationing (and meeting Garguax) in Codsville, which in the comics was a village the original Doom Patrol sacrificed their lives to defend at the conclusion of the very first Doom Patrol comic book.
• "Dead Patrol" has Dorothy Spinner summon the help of The Dead Boy Detectives and she joins them at the end of the episode, likely a nod to her having a role in The Children's Crusade (Vertigo), which was the first and only major crossover event of DC's Vertigo imprint and the first notable story Charles Rowland and Edwin Paine played a part in after their debut in the 25th issue of The Sandman (1989).
• Willoughby Kipling brings Niles Caulder back as a disembodied head after the latter dies during the fight with the Candlemaker in the third season, echoing the Chief's status in Rachel Pollack's run.
• In "Amends Patrol", Cliff names the team "Doom Force", which is a reference to the one-shot parody written by Grant Morrison which follows a team of anti-heroes who are heavily influenced by The Dark Age of Comic Books.
• "Butt Patrol"
  • Cyborg and Jane get a Butt captured by the Butt Hunter by impersonating a pair of Bureau of Normalcy agents whose surnames are Wolfman and Perez, a nod to Marv Wolfman and George Perez, co-creators of the New Teen Titans iteration of Teen Titans where Cyborg originated.
  • Jane refers to the Buttpocalypse as "Crisis on Infinite Ass", a nod to the DC Comics Crisis Crossover Crisis on Infinite Earths.

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