![]() ![]() When scanned by Black Lantern Celsius, his own ex-wife whom he manipulated into an early grave, he only registers one emotion: greed. Jerk With A Heart Of Jerk: He's driven by a lust for knowledge and the all-consuming desire to see his ambitions for a better world realized.Insufferable Genius: Under some writers.Heroic Sacrifice: The Chief and the rest of the original Doom Patrol sacrificed themselves to stop Zahl from destroying a Maine fishing village.Handicapped Badass: The Chief's physical impairments didn't stop him from being a truly effective superhero.He can't understand why the team gets fed up with him so quickly. This includes dressing the team in their old outfits, calling Casey "Rita" by accident, and slipping back into his old manipulations. ![]() Glory Days: During his probationary leader stint, it becomes subtly clear that he's desperate to recapture the happiness he felt running the Doom Patrol in the Drake era.This carries over into Rachel Pollack's run, where he demands chocolate milkshakes in spite of Cliff's objections that his being a disembodied head at that point means that drinking them will make a mess as a result of his head having no esophagus or stomach for the milkshakes to go down. Genius Sweet Tooth: He's a very intelligent man and demonstrates a fondness for chocolate bars in Grant Morrison's run.Genius Cripple: One of the first examples in comic books of a character who is highly intelligent as well as physically handicapped.Evil All Along: Well, evil isn't exactly right, but he definitely had ulterior motives in the early years of the Doom Patrol.It wound up hurting everyone involved in the end. Control Freak: His portrait caption in the recap pages of Keith Giffen's run is "Master Manipulator" and as the title goes on it's clear he chafes at any compromises from what he sees as best for everyone.Big Good: "Good" was eventually revealed to be slightly inaccurate, but he definitely fits this role as the leader of the team, often hanging back at base and controlling its workings.Alternate Company Equivalent: He and Charles Xavier are both wheelchair bound leaders of superhero teams composed of societal rejects who started off merely morally questionable, but retcons later turned both into raging assholes who promptly get disowned by their respective teams for what they'd done - including in Caluder's case, it's ultimately being revealed that he deliberately created the "accidents" that made the Doom Patrol and the Brain into what they are.Unable to engage in physical heroics anymore, the Chief recruited Elasti-Girl, Negative Man, and Robotman to act as his agents, saving the world in his stead. The actor is represented by AEFH and Dream Entertainment Management.The founder of the Doom Patrol, Niles Caulder was a genius inventor and adventurer crippled by one of his enemies. While Reed has previously appeared on such notable series as Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty, Colin in Black & White, This Is Us, Snowfall and Grown-ish, his Doom Patrol role will be his biggest yet on the TV side. ![]() Showrunner Jeremy Carver exec produces alongside Geoff Johns, Greg Berlanti, Sarah Schechter, Chris Dingess and Tamara Becher-Wilkinson. Reed will play Deric, a brilliant, community-minded robotics teacher who is unexpectedly pulled into the very different life of his former best friend, Vic Stone.īased on characters created for DC by Arnold Drake, Bob Haney and Bruno Premiani, Doom Patrol is produced by Berlanti Productions in association with Warner Bros. Faced with their imminent demise, the Doom Patrol must decide once and for all which is more important: their own happiness or the fate of the world? Season 4 opens with the team unexpectedly traveling to the future to find an unwelcome surprise. Part support group, part Super Hero team, the Doom Patrol is a band of superpowered freaks who fight for a world that wants nothing to do with them. 'Harry Potter' TV Series On Max: Everything We Know About The Cast, Release Date, What J.K. ![]()
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