50 Fun Facts About Doom Patrol

Which actor, later a Best Actor Oscar winner, voices Robotman in the TV series Doom Patrol?

Brendan Fraser voices Robotman and plays the human Cliff Steele in flashbacks, while Riley Shanahan wears the metal suit on set. Fraser won his Oscar for The Whale during the show's run.

Doom Patrol writer Arnold Drake suspected which Marvel team, launched months later, of copying it?

The X-Men, like the Doom Patrol, are shunned misfits led by a genius in a wheelchair. Drake believed word of his pitch had reached Stan Lee, though he later allowed it could be coincidence.

Which former James Bond plays Niles Caulder, the Chief, in the TV series Doom Patrol?

Timothy Dalton, who was 007 in two 1980s films, was a regular as the Chief for two seasons and came back as a guest in the last two.

In Doom Patrol, the sentient, teleporting haven for outcasts called Danny first takes what form?

A street is Danny's first form, and the name is a pun: drag star Danny La Rue's surname is French for the street. Danny later shrinks to a single brick.

Which rock singer relaunched the Doom Patrol comic as the flagship of his Young Animal imprint?

Gerard Way, the My Chemical Romance frontman who created The Umbrella Academy, wrote the relaunch himself with art by Nick Derington.

Monsieur Mallah, a genius Brotherhood of Evil foe of the Doom Patrol, is what kind of animal?

A gorilla whose IQ a scientist raised to genius level, Monsieur Mallah was educated for almost a decade and usually carries a machine gun.

Which part of Cliff Steele's human body lives on inside Robotman in the TV series Doom Patrol?

His brain was all the Chief saved, transplanting it into a robot body. Cliff cannot feel anything until an upgrade in the final season gives him a sense of touch.

Which unusual job does the villain Mr. Nobody give himself in the first season of Doom Patrol?

Narrating the show lets Mr. Nobody mock the heroes and steer events, because his powers make him aware that he is a character in a TV series.

In Doom Patrol's first season, which animal's mouth is the gateway to a swallowed town?

A donkey left behind by Mr. Nobody spits out Jane, then takes Rita, Larry and Vic into the dimension where the missing town is held.

Which actor voices Negative Man in Doom Patrol while Matthew Zuk wears the bandages on set?

Matt Bomer supplies the voice and plays the unbandaged Larry in flashbacks, a split between voice and body that the show also uses for Robotman.

Which Orange Is the New Black star plays Jane in the TV series Doom Patrol?

Diane Guerrero plays Jane and many of the alters who take over her body, and the part brought her an Imagen Award nomination.

Which Two and a Half Men alumna plays Rita Farr in the TV series Doom Patrol?

April Bowlby first played Rita in a guest spot on another DC series the year before, then kept the part for all four seasons.

Which actor plays the reality-bending villain Mr. Nobody in the first season of Doom Patrol?

Alan Tudyk plays Eric Morden, a third-rate crook remade by a rogue scientist into a being who can slip between dimensions.

Which actor plays Vic Stone, the half-machine hero Cyborg, in the TV series Doom Patrol?

Joivan Wade, an English actor, plays Vic, who joins the team because of his long friendship with the Chief.

Which Scottish star joined Doom Patrol in season three as the shapeshifter Madame Rouge?

Michelle Gomez plays Laura De Mille, who arrives in a time machine looking for the Chief but with most of her memory gone.

In the TV series Doom Patrol, Cliff Steele was a star of which sport before he became Robotman?

NASCAR racing replaced the comics' Indianapolis 500, where the original Cliff crashed. On TV the Chief takes seven years to finish his robot body.

Before a toxic gas changed her body, Doom Patrol's Rita Farr was famous in the 1950s as what?

A Hollywood actress of the 1950s, Rita was exposed to the gas while filming, and her body has struggled to hold a solid shape ever since.

Doom Patrol's Larry Trainor met the negative energy inside him while doing which US Air Force job?

Test pilot Larry met the entity mid-flight in the early 1960s, and the crash that followed left him disfigured.

Dorothy Spinner, the Chief's daughter in Doom Patrol, has the dangerous power to bring what to life?

Her make-believe friends include Herschel, a giant spider, and one of them is a wish-granting monster who nearly ends the world.

In Doom Patrol, Larry Trainor's head-to-toe special bandages protect other people from what?

His radioactivity comes from the negative spirit that shares his body, so Larry stays wrapped whenever he is near other people.

At the end of Doom Patrol's first season, the villain Mr. Nobody is left trapped inside what?

A painting is where the team step in to face him, and a blast unleashed by Larry seals Mr. Nobody inside it.

Which wish-granting entity tied to Dorothy Spinner menaces the world in Doom Patrol season two?

The Candlemaker urges Dorothy to make a wish and later seals the heroes in wax, until she wins the entity over instead of fighting.

Which government agency in Doom Patrol hunts down oddities and once experimented on Larry Trainor?

The Bureau of Normalcy began as the Bureau of Oddities, which studied strange beings before its mission changed to wiping them out.

Flex Mentallo, Doom Patrol's reality-bending muscleman, parodies the adverts of which bodybuilder?

Charles Atlas's long-running adverts were a fixture of American comics; his company later sued DC over the parody and lost on fair-use grounds.

Which occult detective and chaos magician asks the Doom Patrol to help stop a doomsday cult?

Willoughby Kipling was created as a stand-in because DC limited the use of John Constantine, the magician the comic's writer first wanted.

Ezekiel, who preaches the end of the world in Doom Patrol, is what kind of creature?

A cockroach voiced by Curtis Armstrong, Ezekiel swells to giant size in the first season finale and swallows the team whole.

In Doom Patrol, what is the name of the place inside Jane's mind where her many alters live?

The Underground has its own train, run by an alter called Driver 8, and a guarded well into which Jane is later pushed.

What secret about the Chief does Mr. Nobody force him to confess in Doom Patrol's first season?

He caused their tragedies on purpose, studying how they survived in the hope of living long enough to protect his daughter.

Which live-action DC series featured Robotman and Rita Farr a year before Doom Patrol began?

Titans gave the team a guest episode in 2018, but the two shows are set in separate continuities despite sharing three actors.

Doom Patrol's final season warns of an apocalypse spread by which zombie creatures?

Were-butts are exactly what they sound like, and a trip to 2042 shows the team a future in which the creatures have overrun their town.

Which comics writer's surreal run on Doom Patrol is credited as the main influence on the TV series?

Grant Morrison introduced Crazy Jane and Flex Mentallo, and co-creator Arnold Drake called it the only later run true to his original.

Doom Patrol premiered in 2019 as an original series for which short-lived streaming service?

DC Universe mixed shows with digital comics, but its originals later moved to HBO Max and the service became a comics-only app in 2021.

Which young DC hero, adopted by Rita Farr and Steve Dayton, made his debut in a Doom Patrol comic?

Beast Boy is Garfield Logan, whose skin turned green for good after an untested serum cured him of a rare disease as a child.

In Doom Patrol's last season, a villain's perfect-holiday illusion turns one episode into what?

A musical it is: the cast keep bursting into song, joined by the show's Sex Ghosts, until one of them recovers her real memories.

The Quiz and Sleepwalk belong to a Doom Patrol villain team named after which art movement?

Dada replaced Evil in the gang's name because its founder, Mr. Nobody, refuses to recognise the ideas of good and evil at all.

In Doom Patrol's first episode, an ex-Nazi scientist creates Mr. Nobody in which country?

Paraguay in 1948 is where Heinrich Von Fuchs runs the experiment, and the team later road-trip there in search of the Chief.

Before joining the Doom Patrol on TV, Vic Stone is already famous as the superhero of which city?

Detroit knows Vic as Cyborg; he heads for the team's town after seeing news footage of it being swallowed by a vortex.

Frances, the Florida predator Cliff fights for a treasured watch in Doom Patrol, is what animal?

An alligator named Frances had killed Bump, the man who raised Cliff's daughter, and the watch inside it was her keepsake.

In Doom Patrol, Jane and the other alters exist to protect which original identity, a young girl?

Kay Challis stays a child inside her own mind while the alters take turns running the body; when Kay does take control, she has a sonic scream.

In Doom Patrol, the bounty hunter Ernest Franklin tracks down his targets by eating what?

Their facial hair gives him the trail, hence his name, the Beard Hunter; he finds the Chief's whiskers in a sink drain.

The Quiz, a Doom Patrol villain with every power nobody has thought of, is terrified of what?

Germs frighten the Quiz so badly that the TV series keeps her sealed in a glass case, while her comics self never takes off a hazmat suit.

Sleepwalk, a Doom Patrol villain who is strong only when asleep, relies on which singer's music?

Barry Manilow and sleeping pills keep her asleep in the comics, while the TV series flips the gag and has her play him to stay awake.

Which entity does the Cult of the Unwritten Book summon as a giant eye in the sky in Doom Patrol?

The Decreator unmakes the world piece by piece until a rival cult summons its opposite number to put everything back.

Red Jack, a Doom Patrol comics villain who lives on pain, gets it by torturing which creatures?

Butterflies tortured in his windowless house supply the pain Red Jack lives on, and he believes he is both God and Jack the Ripper.

In Doom Patrol comics, tycoon Steve Dayton becomes the psychic hero Mento by building what?

A helmet that amplifies his mind was Dayton's way of impressing Rita Farr, and it worked: the two married in a 1966 issue.

Doom Patrol took over which DC anthology comic, which was renamed after the team six issues later?

My Greatest Adventure was an anthology of first-person adventure tales, and Arnold Drake recalled being asked for a feature to save it from cancellation.

How did writer Arnold Drake end the original Doom Patrol comic when DC cancelled it?

He killed off the heroes, who gave their lives to save a small fishing village, and the last issue asked readers to write in if they wanted them back.

In the Doom Patrol comics, Larry Trainor, his doctor and the Negative Spirit merge into which being?

Rebis keeps the memories of all three, refers to itself in the plural, and sheds its old body to give birth to a new self.

Which writer and tarot expert created the transgender superhero Coagula during her Doom Patrol run?

Rachel Pollack wrote the comic from 1993 to 1995, its first years under a mature-readers label, and was herself a trans woman.

Which former Supernatural showrunner developed Doom Patrol for TV and wrote its first episode?

Jeremy Carver ran Supernatural for four seasons before taking on the misfit heroes, and had earlier co-developed Being Human with his wife, Anna Fricke.