#while cliff and arani and them searched everywhere

[wanderingmind867]

My Doom Patrol Reinterpretation:

For me, everything pre-crisis on infinite earths remains canon about the Doom Patrol. They were founded by Niles Caulder, and the original team consisted of Cliff Steele, Rita Farr and Larry Trainor. Eventually Mento (Steve Dayton) and Beast Boy (Garfield Logan) got involved too. But eventually, the main four Doom Patrol members all die in Maine. Or well, they seem to die.

As Paul Kupperberg established with his New Doom Patrol, Niles Caulder had a wife. And she assembled a new version of the team to search for her missing husband. The new team consisted of her, robotman, tempest and negative woman. For years, they searched for the other members of the Doom Patrol (even teaming up with people like Superman along the way). But they never managed to find them. And when the crisis on infinite earths hits, they're no closer to finding them then they ever were.

But that's where I'd begin my new reinterpretation. Because Larry Trainor, Rita Farr and Niles Caulder all survived. But for years, they'd been trapped in the surrealist pocket dimension of Mister Nobody, formerly known as Eric Morden. After his first encounter with the Doom Patrol, Morden became a wanted man. Both by the cops and by the brotherhood of evil (for failing them). Desperate, he fled to south america. There, he underwent a dangerous medical procedure to give him superpowers. It worked, but it also drove him completely insane and made him a god amongst men.

Using his newfound powers, he manipulated events so that Madame Rouge would lure the Doom Patrol to Maine and kill them. After the Doom Patrol's bodies were left lying on the ground, Morden stepped in and used his reality bending powers to suck them into a newly formed universe of his own personal design. Robotman somehow managed to escape his trap, but all the others were lured into his fever dream of a dimension. Morden probably also used his powers to try and drive Mento mad, so that he wouldn't interfere with his plans. Knowing Mister Nobody (and also knowing Steve Dayton), it doesn't seem very unreasonable for this to have happened (and for it to have worked very easily).

During the second Crisis (when the Anti-Monitor again tries to earn respect from the Monitor and his prejudicial positive-matter beings), all realities begin to blur together. And it's during this time that the New Doom Patrol finally discover Mister Nobody's scheme. And while the Doom Patrol have their reunion and deal with Mister Nobody in his home ground, the Crisis goes on behind them. The Anti-Monitor is finally revealed as being not that evil, while the Monitor always demonized him and his negative universe to try and consolidate power for himself. And when earth's superheroes learn to help the Anti-Monitor, peace is brought to the universe. The multiverse is restored, and all ends well for the cosmos.

And everything ends relatively well for the Doom Patrol too. The old members and the new members reunite, and collectively decide to work together. And this would be where any new Doom Patrol series picks up. With all of these characters, ranging from Negative Man to Celsius. The one thing I think we could definitely explore here is how being trapped in a fever dream dimension for 10+ years has impacted Larry, Rita and The Chief. Because they've been out of the loop on society for years. They've probably got severe PTSD from whatever the hell Mister Nobody did to them, and I can't imagine that's something they can recover from too easily.

But in general, I think this would be a great way to bring the Doom Patrol back. Better than how they actually did it. Because my idea here has all of the Doom Patrol survive (from Rita Farr to Arani Desai), and it still leaves room for the introduction of characters like the ones Grant Morrison and others would introduce. So I prefer my concept, honestly. And it's the only one i'm willing to believe in. It's simply the only thing that makes sense to me.

[wanderingmind867]

My Doom Patrol Reinterpretation:

For me, everything pre-crisis on infinite earths remains canon about the Doom Patrol. They were founded by Niles Caulder, and the original team consisted of Cliff Steele, Rita Farr and Larry Trainor. Eventually Mento (Steve Dayton) and Beast Boy (Garfield Logan) got involved too. But eventually, the main four Doom Patrol members all die in Maine. Or well, they seem to die.

As Paul Kupperberg established with his New Doom Patrol, Niles Caulder had a wife. And she assembled a new version of the team to search for her missing husband. The new team consisted of her, robotman, tempest and negative woman. For years, they searched for the other members of the Doom Patrol (even teaming up with people like Superman along the way). But they never managed to find them. And when the crisis on infinite earths hits, they're no closer to finding them then they ever were.

But that's where I'd begin my new reinterpretation. Because Larry Trainor, Rita Farr and Niles Caulder all survived. But for years, they'd been trapped in the surrealist pocket dimension of Mister Nobody, formerly known as Eric Morden. After his first encounter with the Doom Patrol, Morden became a wanted man. Both by the cops and by the brotherhood of evil (for failing them). Desperate, he fled to south america. There, he underwent a dangerous medical procedure to give him superpowers. It worked, but it also drove him completely insane and made him a god amongst men.

Using his newfound powers, he manipulated events so that Madame Rouge would lure the Doom Patrol to Maine and kill them. After the Doom Patrol's bodies were left lying on the ground, Morden stepped in and used his reality bending powers to suck them into a newly formed universe of his own personal design. Robotman somehow managed to escape his trap, but all the others were lured into his fever dream of a dimension. Morden probably also used his powers to try and drive Mento mad, so that he wouldn't interfere with his plans. Knowing Mister Nobody (and also knowing Steve Dayton), it doesn't seem very unreasonable for this to have happened (and for it to have worked very easily).

During the second Crisis (when the Anti-Monitor again tries to earn respect from the Monitor and his prejudicial positive-matter beings), all realities begin to blur together. And it's during this time that the New Doom Patrol finally discover Mister Nobody's scheme. And while the Doom Patrol have their reunion and deal with Mister Nobody in his home ground, the Crisis goes on behind them. The Anti-Monitor is finally revealed as being not that evil, while the Monitor always demonized him and his negative universe to try and consolidate power for himself. And when earth's superheroes learn to help the Anti-Monitor, peace is brought to the universe. The multiverse is restored, and all ends well for the cosmos.

And everything ends relatively well for the Doom Patrol too. The old members and the new members reunite, and collectively decide to work together. And this would be where any new Doom Patrol series picks up. With all of these characters, ranging from Negative Man to Celsius. The one thing I think we could definitely explore here is how being trapped in a fever dream dimension for 10+ years has impacted Larry, Rita and The Chief. Because they've been out of the loop on society for years. They've probably got severe PTSD from whatever the hell Mister Nobody did to them, and I can't imagine that's something they can recover from too easily.

But in general, I think this would be a great way to bring the Doom Patrol back. Better than how they actually did it. Because my idea here has all of the Doom Patrol survive (from Rita Farr to Arani Desai), and it still leaves room for the introduction of characters like the ones Grant Morrison and others would introduce. So I prefer my concept, honestly. And it's the only one i'm willing to believe in. It's simply the only thing that makes sense to me.