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[[File:11340_20051122042316_large.jpg|frame|<small>Robotman desperately attempts to make sense of this issue's plot.</small> ]]
{{quote|'''Tempest''': You shot your imaginary friends? With what?
'''Dorothy Spinner''': An imaginary gun! What else?|''The Doom Patrol''}}
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[[Not Quite Dead|It didn't quite stick]]. Over a decade later, the team was relaunched, with all new characters reminiscent of the older ones... and it turned out Robotman survived because he was everyone's favorite anyway. The second version of the Patrol appeared in ''"Showcase''" #94-96 (August-December, 1977). Sales were not good enough to get them a new title, but they went on to become regulars of the DC universe, receiving guest appearances in titles featuring [[Supergirl]], the [[Teen Titans (Comic Book)|Teen Titans]], and [[Superman]].
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Since then there have been a few subsequent revivals which reverted the series back to a traditional superhero comic. John Arcudi wrote an unsuccessful series turning them into Corporation superheroes. John Byrne did a [[Continuity Reboot]] that was ill-fated to begin with and [[Canon
The team got [[A Day in the Limelight]] in ''[[Batman: The
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* [[All Just a Dream]]: Used as a [[Framing Device]] during the [[Grant Morrison]] run to introduce an [[Affectionate Parody]] ([[Pastiche]], really) of '60's ''[[Fantastic Four]]''.
* [[Artificial Limbs]]: Cliff Steele
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* [[Breaking the Fourth Wall]]: The final arc of the 2009 series is "resolved" when {{spoiler|[[Ambush Bug]] tells the villain of the arc that the book is being canceled to make room for [[The Flash|Flashpoint]] tie-ins.}}
* [[Captain Ersatz]]: Willoughby Kipling is one for [[John Constantine]].
* [[Compensating for Something]]: Oh, dear ''God'', the [https://web.archive.org/web/20131108020846/http://www.headinjurytheater.com/article59.htm Codpiece!]
* [[Cursed with Awesome]]: The whole point of the original team; each had a horrible disfigurement, or some other way in which their powers were supposedly as much a curse as a blessing. The problem is, this wasn't really true of Elasti-Girl; [[Word of God]] says this is the reason she was the only member of the original team not brought back for Morrison's run.
* [[Dark and Troubled Past]]: Subverted in Rachel Pollack's run. In #83, the False Memory gave Coagula fake memories of being joint-raped by her "husband and his friend". Kate spends the rest of the issue trying to figure out when it happened until Dorothy manages to bring her back to her senses. Kate is outraged that the False Memory believed she was giving Kate's life more "meaning" by making her think she was sexually violated when she was a teenager.
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** Mento falls here, too, especially if he's in one of his less-than-sane periods.
* [[Intangible Man]]: Negative Man (later Rebis) can make their "negative spirit" leave their body and do things. Except it can't leave for more than a minute, or else they will die.
* [[Kill'Em All]]: Almost every version of the Doom Patrol ends with almost all of the main team dead, in a coma, etc., as a way to make room for the next writer to do what he wants.
**Grant Morrison did not do this, however. Aside from the Chief, who had died already, everyone just walked into the sunset, so to speak.
* [[Knight of Cerebus]]: The Candlemaker, who, even in light of the many instances of [[Kill'Em All|mass character death]] and a truly wild [[Rogues Gallery]], remains one of series' most horrific villains ''ever''.
* [[Knights and Knaves]]: {{spoiler|The expansion of Orqwith can only be stopped by the solution to one of these puzzles.}}
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* [[Menstrual Menace]]: Dorothy Spinner's first menstruation causes her imaginary friends to try to force her to wear "red, bloody shoes." The comparisons to ''[[The Wizard of Oz (film)|The Wizard of Oz]]'' are all intentional, too.
* [[Mindlink Mates]]: Coagula and Robotman
* [[Name's the Same]]: Elastigirl from ''[[The Incredibles]]''.
* [[New Powers as the Plot Demands]]: Crazy Jane. [[Justified Trope|Justified]] in that she has 64 separate personalities with 64 separate powers. Not all the personalities are nice, either. One of the Doom Patrol's enemies, The Quiz, also has "Every power you haven't thought of," literally, so in order to fight her, people have to constantly think of and/or shout out a long list of all known superpowers. Unfortunately nobody can ever think of every superpower so the Quiz has yet to be defeated in a conventional battle (that we get to see).
* [[Order Versus Chaos]]: The Doom Patrol is normally on the side of Good Chaos and opposed to (kind of) Evil Chaos (the Brotherhood of Dada) and Evil Order (the Men from N.O.W.H.E.R.E.) However, {{spoiler|when the Brotherhood of Dada returned, though, the Doom Patrol didn't try to stop them}}.
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* [[Reality Warper]]: Dorothy Spinner
* A species of [[Retcon]] yet to be assigned taxonomy, inverting [[Remember the New Guy?]] and related to [[Multiple Choice Past]], in which Rachel Pollack retcons Crazy Jane out of existence through the introduction of a character called "The False Memory", who displays Crazy-Jane-like powers plus the ability to create false memories, and who instructs the protagonists to "remember me in the Doom Patrol all these years". The reference to "false memory syndrome" appears to [[Writer on Board|express Pollack's disgust]] with Jane's [[Dark and Troubled Past]]. This was such a widely decried dick move that Pollack [[Lying Creator|denied that this was her intent]].
** This move was so unpopular that it is apparently [[Canon
*** Was it really? From the way I read that issue, the False Memory had used her abilities to insert herself into the team and had just been screwing with Cliff's memories of Jane. In that same issue Cliff had finally explained the circumstances as to why he left Jane and Danny the World.
** A more obvious, if [[Mind Screw|wild]] example is the recontextualization of the group's origin by [[Grant Morrison]] at the end of his run.
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* [[Rubber Man]]: Elasti-Girl. Also their enemy, Madame Rouge.
* [[Serial Escalation]]: Especially Grant Morrison's run.
* [[
* [[Shout-Out]]: Danny the Street is named for Danny laRue (Rue is French for "street"), a well known British drag queen.
** Crazy Jane's "manager" personality is named Driver 8, after
* [[Signs of the End Times]]:
** As [[Rewriting Reality|reality begins to merge]] with [[Eldritch Location|Orqwith]] -
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* [[Split Personality]]: Crazy Jane has ''64'' of them.
** And yeah, Larry, Eleanor and the Negative Spirit do go through a bit of the same when they turn into Rebis. One scene shows him reading ''[[When Rabbit Howls]]''.
* [[Southern-Fried Genius]]: Flash Forward from the 2001 revamp is a poor kid from the rural parts of Alabama, who dropped out of school in the sixth grade. Though he's basically the smartest person on the team, and the others aren't exactly morons themselves.
* [[Stepford Smiler]]: Elasti-Girl is given this trait in a team-up story with [[The Flash]]. We're told that since she used to be a glamorous movie star, being turned into a "super-powered freak" was especially hard on her, and she smiles constantly in order to "look pretty" and keep others from being afraid of her. She has no idea that it actually has the complete opposite effect.
** This isn't brought up again in any other DP story; [[Word of God]] says that it took place during the team's early days (post-Byrne reboot) when Rita was still getting used to her new life.
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* [[That Man Is Dead]]: Rebis, who is a combination of Larry Trainor and a nurse. Cliff still refers to him/her as "Larry," even though Rebis denies being Larry Trainor anymore.
** Roughly played with in the Giffen series, which reveals Larry * has* been dead since the accident that turned him into Negative Man. Since then, it's been the N-Man entity in a variety of clones. But the N-Man isn't sure he's not Larry sometimes. Or something. The whole thing is sorta fuzzy for now.
* [[Took a Level
* [[
* [[Transvestite]]: Danny the Street
* [[Two Guys and a Girl]]: The original team, with Robotman and Negative Man as the two guys and Elasti-Girl as the girl
* [[Welcome to The Real World]]: It is heavily implied that the final issue of Grant Morrison's run takes place in the real world. Aside from the fact that this world apparently has no superheroes, it also has the same colour scheme as {{spoiler|the last issue of Morrison's [[Animal Man]]}}, which explicitly takes place in "our" world.
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