Introduction: "Doom Patrol", which was broadcast on DC's own streaming media DC Universe on February 15 this year, is a derivative drama of "Titans" that successfully tested the waters last year and not only inherited its The adult image style is also obviously influenced by the "Legion/Legion" next door in terms of story structure and narrative style. That's right, it's the "Huge Crowd" that dances if they don't agree with each other.
Origin-the history of plagiarism between DC and Marvel
Doom Patrol, first appeared in the 80th issue of My Greatest Adventure in June 1963. The initial members include The Chief (Niles Caulder), Robotman (Cliff Steele), and Elasti-Girl (Rita Farr) , And Negative Man (Larry Trainor). The X-Men in the shed next door was born in September of the same year. Robotman's compatriot, Iron Man, was born in March of the same year. The Fantastic Four including Mister Fantastic, the prototype of Elasti-Girl, was born in December 1961. Doom Patrol's strongest Crazy Jane debuted in February 1989, and the next door Legion was born in March 1985.
In this episode, it is not difficult to find Legion's shadow everywhere. Of course, the character setting itself Crazy Jane and David Haller (Legion) are twins, with the same multiple personalities, (almost) each personality has its own superpowers. Of course, the difference in order of magnitude is that Crazy Jane clearly has 64 personalities, and Legion has more than 1,000 personalities (too bully, although 10,000 is his freedom).
The success of the second season of "The Crowd", in addition to paying tribute to "Twin Peaks" everywhere in the narrative, Jon Hamm's wonderful opening and narration small theater also contributed (it can even be said to be the soul of the whole play). "Doom Patrol" also adheres to the principle of using it in DC history. Mr. Nobody (the big boss of the show) not only assumes the function of narration, but also uses Cthulhu-like pressure to write at will. The identity of the narrator that leads the story is conveyed to the audience, giving people a sense of despair and powerlessness that this damn can't fight, and the level of horror is not below the Shadow King (Amahl Farouk).
Composition-the broken life of a group of trash
In this drama, the character setting of the members of Doom Patrol has been rewritten to a certain extent. For example, Rita Farr’s ability has changed from a harmless, indecent telescopic body (such as the Fantastic Four’s Mr. Fantastic, The Superman’s mother, One Piece’s Luffy) to a slimy slime that can cause physical discomfort. , Of course, this is also a necessary measure to shape the character's character. Except for the Chief (who is a wheelchair person like Professor X) and Crazy Jane, who have not written much about his life at this stage (S01E07), the remaining three can be said to be fighters in the waste. The Doomsday Patrol is not a team, and they have not yet reconciled with themselves.
Robotman-Cliff Steele
Once a well-known racer, because of a traffic accident, Chief has transformed him into a tin man (extreme robocop) whose body only has his brain. Its ancient design style, even if it is put in Alice in Wonderland, it seems that there is nothing wrong with it. Physiologically, Cliff has lost everything that a person is a person, and a broken limb will cause phantom pain, not to mention the loss of the entire body. The loss of five senses and the panic of himself after the operation made Cliff have to be restarted again and again. It took Cliff more than ten years to regain the ability to walk freely by his own will. What can torture Cliff is not only the physical sense of nothingness, the regret that killed his wife and the guilt for his daughter, but also the mentally eroding Cliff's little sense.
The role of Cliff has long disappeared from mainstream vision. The former Hollywood action star Brandon Fraser (represented as the "Mummy" series). Once a strong young man, the author thinks that Fraser, who is most suitable to play the god Hydrake, has become the obese uncle now. Playing Cliff seems to be playing Fraser himself. Youth is gone forever. How to accept the reality of yourself and sell your steps forward is not only Cliff, but also an unavoidable topic in and out of Fraser's play.
Elasti-Woman-Rita Farr
For political correctness, Girl becomes Woman. Without digression, Rita is the character who has changed the most from comics to episodes. The face and body he was once proud of have become a muddy puddle like a joke, which means that his self-identity and image structure have completely collapsed. In the decades since he was picked up by Chief for treatment, Rita has been obsessed with what she used to be, and the walls are covered with posters and photos of her golden age. Because except for the movie star Rita Farr, she has no ego, that is her only human image, otherwise, she is just a pool of invisible mud. In the recent EP07, Rita finally made up his mind to say goodbye to the former Rita Farr, and reshape the new self as a member of Doom Patrol, who exists to help others.
Negative Man-Larry Trainor
The former ace test pilot suffered unidentified cosmic radiation during the test flight and failed to operate the aircraft. Only by combining with an unknown spiritual body could he survive the crash. However, he suffered extensive burns all over his body and was abandoned by the army and his family. In order to cater to the trend of the times, Larry in the play became gay, and his entanglement with his own sexuality has also become the biggest contradiction in Larry's own identity. Larry himself doesn't have any superpowers, it all depends on the unknown spirits that live on him. But he has been rejecting this uninvited guest from him over the years. So unless the two parties reach a reconciliation, a real Negative Man cannot be born. The role of Larry is the well-known Hollywood peacock Matt Bomer, who will only show his face in the flashback, and many female fans expressed strong dissatisfaction.
Creation-Grant Morrison
Speaking of Doom Patrol, we have to mention the new era of DC comics tycoon Grant Morrison. His strange and weird character creation, unconstrained, complex story structure, and even the philosophical speculation that it contains have greatly promoted Doom Patrol in 90 The spread of the age. Its seemingly nonsensical style is quite similar to Douglas Adams from the United Kingdom (represented as "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" (42 source)), especially his "Almighty Detective Agency" (2016-17 version of the drama recommendation). Both the Crazy Jane and the reshaped Mr. Nobody in the play are from his pen. During Morrison's lead writer Doom Patrol, the characters he created also included:
- Dorothy Spinner, a girl with a human ape face, has the ability to materialize a fantasy partner, much like the low-profile version of Project Moloch in the second season of "Almighty Detective Agency". In Morrison's comic "Happy!", the blue unicorn named Happy next to the protagonist was born from a similar ability.
- Danny the Street, a self-aware, transvestite street, has the ability to teleport and seamlessly blend into any neighborhood in the world. That's right, it's such a strange setting. Someone will definitely ask how the street is transvestite, that is, the architectural style and street decoration are very "that". Danny the Street basically exists as the base of Doom Patrol. After all, you can teleport wherever you want, just like TARDIS is to Doctor Who.
- Scissormen, a group of humanoid objects holding big scissors from the fantasy world Orqwith, are capable of cutting out any entity in the world of Doom Patrol from the real world. Personal understanding is similar to the appearance of 2D 3D entities, which is similar to Majin Buu’s ability to turn people into biscuits, and the ability of the person in my Hero Academia to turn people into marbles.
- Red Jack, believing that he is a combination of Jack the Ripper and God, must torture the butterfly every day, and sustain his life through the pain of the butterfly.
Push-Crazy Jane & Mr. Nobody
As mentioned earlier, the three ancestors of Doom Patrol are still in the recovery stage in this drama. The whole episode (at least this season) is their large group Therapy, so in 99% of the plot, these three are used as drag oil. The bottle exists. In addition, the Chief became Tang Seng as soon as he came up, and he has been in a state of being kidnapped. The only people who promote the development of the plot are Crazy Jane and Mr. Nobody.
Although it is not like David Haller of "Big Crowd" who was given the responsibility of the savior when he came up, he was drawn to the battle between good and evil, but as the only one on the square, Crazy Jane must not only take care of the three big babies, but also use his own power. Prop up the fashionable value of Doom Patrol. Otherwise, if you try to think about Doom Patrol, which has only those three living fossils, it really feels low even in the 80s. The personality abilities that Crazy Jane has demonstrated so far include: power-enhanced type (=Cliff), huge head with the sun, fire control, electricity control, teleportation (instead of Danny the Street), super persuasive power (primary mind control, X Professor or Killgrave's low-profile version), Yan Ling (substantiated voice and text metal, JOJO Hirose Koichi ACT2 low-profile version).
As the soul character of the show, Mr. Nobody not only guides the story at all times, supports the force of the whole show with his indescribable posture and ability, but also saves the world from time to time instead of the waste protagonists (such as the Decreator of EP4&5). The small bosses have to rely on the big bosses to fight, this shows the waste degree of Doom Patrol in this show. Mr. Nobody’s current capabilities include:
- A black hole erased the entire town where Doom Patrol was located, including all humans and surface structures, and the passage between the different world and the real world into which it was sucked was a donkey, which was so powerful, weird, and ironic.
- Rewrite history. Here I have to mention a philosophical speculation of Grant Morrison, that is, for "Superman", the way time is unfolded is not like a movie film being played, presented frame by frame before our eyes, but like a book. Like comics, all time points are laid out in front of us at the same time. Mr. Nobody is like the writer of a story, and can exist in all time and space at the same time. In order to defeat Decreator, he made Dr. Harrison (Mind Control), a personality of Crazy Jane decades ago, created a religion in the mental hospital, in order to summon a Recreator to contend with when Decreator appeared decades later. The physical appearance of Decreator is a huge eye in the sky, glaring at everyone (Turtle Speed Thanos). Recreator is also a big eye, responsible for staring back what Decreator hadn't stared at.
- Decades ago, the disco was put on a huge butt-shaped balloon and defeated the first Doom Patrol in the series.
- Dispatch Admiral Whiskers (General Longbeard) and bring Cliff to a downtime. The name is Admiral Fukyama, who is spoofing "The Crowd". It turned out to be a harmless little mouse who was driven to death by Cliff and became Inigo Montoya ( you killed my father , prepare to die ) by Mr. Nobody .
Concluding remarks
Under the seemingly ancient appearance of "Doom Patrol", what is beating is actually a convulsive heart. Although it doesn't look as good as "Big Group", the pungency is even higher. Recommend to friends who like "Big Group" or "Almighty Detective Agency".
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