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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Particle_Man" data-source="post: 2498618" data-attributes="member: 892">5. Doom Patrol (Original version)"    * The Chief: Dr. Niles Caulder was a paraplegic gifted with a genius-level intellect. Caulder used his scientific knowledge to develop numerous inventions and innovations that made him wealthy. It was Caulder who organized the Doom Patrol to protect the innocent and fight crime.    * Elasti-Girl: Rita Farr was an actress who was exposed to unusual volcanic gases while shooting a film in Africa. When Farr recovered, she discovered that she could grow or shrink her body from roughly 1 inch to 100 feet tall. Elasti-Girl later enhanced her powers to enlarge one limb at a time.    * Negative Man: Larry Trainor was a pilot who flew an experimental plane high into the Earth's atmosphere. Trainor was buffeted by unexpected cosmic radiation, and when he landed, he discovered that his body had become radioactive. Trainor was also able to release and control a silhouette form he called Negative Man from his body. Negative Man, who could fly and pass through matter, could only remain out of Trainor's body for 1 minute at a time. Caulder developed special bandages that masked Trainor's radiation and allowed him to freely interact with others.    * Robotman: Cliff Steele was a world-famous athlete who was nearly killed in a car crash during a race. Caulder successfully transferred Steele's brain into a robotic body that was resilient to harm and which possessed super-strength.The initial Doom Patrol, bitter from being isolated from the world, were motivated by Caulder to use their powers for the greater good."Oh what the hell, Beast Boy joined later (a kid who could change to any animal form, but was green (later became Changeling of the Teen Titans).  Most notable for their heroic sacrifice to save the lives of a tiny tribe that were held hostage by their arch-enemies, "The Brotherhood of Evil" (including The Brain (sort of an evil Robotman, but smarter and without, y'know, arms and legs), Monsieur Mallah (an intelligent gorilla), and Madame Rouge (a shapechanging stretchy woman with the worst french accent evar).There have been other versions of this team (I particularly liked Grant Morrison's version, although it is now no longer part of the DC universe).  The only character to be in every version is Robotman.</blockquote>

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