Rita Farr (in the comics, Elasti-Girl) is a Golden Age of Hollywood Starlet. It took Trainer 60 years to come to even a sort of resolution and closure over the incident, as he battles the entity within him always asking whey the entity wants to torture him, but in a seen in Parraguay and the entity echoing Trainer’s words back, is it possible Trainer is the one torturing himself and the entity is attempting wholeness and closure if only Trainer would accept? We can so easily forget how far we have come as a society and Trainer’s story shows the fear and inner turmoil he faced when the love of his life stated that he had resigned from the Air Force and wanted Trainer to come with him before the accident. A man with a wife and kids, a hero, but in 1935 as a child coming home from school his parents are in crisis because a teacher is saying their child is queer. Larry Trainer (in the comics, Negative Man) is a courageous test pilot who has cosmic radiation invest a spirit within him.
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Not only unpacking who the man was that gave them sanctuary and safety from the world, but also what it means to not only be a hero, but a full person. Each episode of season one unveils the traumas that the team must face in their search for Niles Caulder, the Chief. But let’s look at the other characters that now grace the television screen. Now think Morrison, and then Pollack was writing late 1980’s through mid-late 1990’s and a character like the gender-queer Danny the Street was created (yes a sentient street where all are welcome), but remember according to fan culture, comics are just stories with no other commentary (Gerard Way with the Young Animals Imprint would keep up this great style of Doom Patrol story telling). This is the fun dark style adventures that the television adaptation, Doom Patrol, has taken to the screens. Then, the wonderfully weird Grant Morrison took over the title, and shifted it into Mature Readers territory, and become part of the new sub-universe Vertigo and these heroes would truly shine. For more on the twisty-turn world of Doom Patrol, read here, with a grain of salt much like you enter their comic book world curated in the show by Mr. Gar Logan Beast Boy would go on to join the New Teen Titans as Changeling (and we shall not speak of the Titans television show and what they did with amazing source material–for shame). The Doom Patrol, which started as a band of quirky heroes in Great Adventures #80 (1963), ended their original run with an destructive nuclear blast on an island and Chief, Rita Farr, Larry Trainer, and Cliff Steele thought dead. It is a dark humourous ride into the soul of society using the vehicle of super heroes. Doom Patrol is a superhero show that turns it all on its ear.
Oh how we have missed the point of the medium! But this article is not about our own narrow minded echo chambers and an inability to think beyond the literal (I do detest how religious and political-ideological extremism has dumb downed our society in less than a generation). I always chuckle loudly (it escapes my inner monologue) when I see fanboys and girls of comics clamour that they were never meant to be societal commentary, meta-narratives or vehicles of social justice. Doom Patrol’s second season premieres June 25 on HBO Max.
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