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Doom Patrol
P remiering in 2019, “Doom Patrol” into a robot body following a car accident; and
reimagines one of DC’s most beloved Vic Stone (Joivan Wade) who was cybernetically
– and unusual – groups of superheroes. enhanced following an accident that killed his mother.
The members of Doom Patrol have each
suffered a horrible accident that gives Traumatized and downtrodden, they’re brought Intro Employees Communities Customers Content Suppliers Awards
them their superhuman abilities but also together into a surrogate family by Niles Caulder
leaves them disfigured and scarred. (Timothy Dalton), a medical doctor known as The
Chief, who gives them a home in his mansion to
There’s Crazy Jane (played by Diane protect them from the outside world. Called to action
Guerrero), a young woman with dissociative after The Chief is captured by Mr. Nobody (Alan Tudyk),
identity disorder caused by childhood a supervillain who can travel through dimensions and
trauma who has 64 distinct personalities, alter reality, this band of superpowered freaks – part
each with its own superpower. She’s joined support group, part superhero team – fight for a
by Rita Farr (April Bowbly) also known world that wants nothing to do with them.
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struggles to keep her body from collapsing With a diverse cast portraying an even more diverse
into a gelatinous form after being exposed team of superheroes, “Doom Patrol” is decidedly
to a toxin; Larry Trainor (Matt Bomer), a unpredictable and unapologetically weird. But as it
badly burned former Air Force pilot who engages the audience in each character’s journey
has an entity of negative energy living of self-discovery, it enables us to look past their AT&T D&I Annual Report 2019
inside him; Cliff Steele (Brendan Fraser), extreme differences and see the humanity we
a former NASCAR driver who becomes all share.
Robotman after his brain is transplanted
