Robotman (Doom Patrol)

Robotman (real name Clifford "Cliff" Steele) is a fictional character and main protagonist of the live-action series Doom Patrol with Elasti-Woman, Negative Man, Crazy Jane, Cyborg and Madame Rouge.
He is portrayed on set by Riley Shanahan and is voiced by , who portrays him as a human in flashbacks and other versions. Fraser also portrayed Link in , George in , Stu Miley in , and D.J. Drake in .
==Biography ==
===Early life ===
Cliff Steele had a difficult childhood under the upbringing of his father R.J. Steele and his mother, who often fought, traumatizing Cliff, who suffered bullying at his school and at six years old, Cliff was sent to a Catholic school, forming a friendship with his imaginary friend, Jesus Christ. In his teens, Cliff became popular, before becoming a race car driver, befriending Bump Weathers and falling in love with Kate, whom he was secretly cheating on with other women.
Cliff reached adulthood, proposing to Kate, who was giving birth to his daughter and forced by Kate, Cliff fought with his father not to go. The couple became married and raised their daughter, Clara, whom Cliff would leave in the car while he was having fun. Regularly, Cliff argued with Kate about not being a good father and her infidelity.
===The Accident===
In 1989, He also won a race, where Cliff acquired a gold watch. In 1989, Cliff had sex with Giselle, before a race, in which he discovered that Kate was having an affair with Bump and from the stress, Cliff almost crashed, but managed to save himself, winning the race, hitting Bump for revenge.
While continuing to be unfaithful, Cliff decided to reconcile with Kate and Clara, traveling by car to go get ice cream, promising that everything would change, however, Cliff ended up accidentally crashing the car into a truck, causing Kate to die, Clara to be orphaned and Cliff's body was destroyed, except for his brain. Feeling pity, Dr. Niles Caulder, the person responsible for the accident, took Cliff's brain to save his life as the last subject of the Immortus Project, taking his brain to the Doom Manor.
For several years, Niles worked on Cliff until he finally woke up in a robot body, placing his brain, confusing Cliff about the situation. Cliff still did not understand what was happening, discovering that it was the year 1995 and thanks to Rita Farr, another patient, he discovered that he now had a robot body without being able to feel or move. Cliff found out that Kate and Clara died in the accident while being guided by Rita and Larry Trainor, a man in radioactive bandages, through the manor. Encouraged by his family, Cliff began learning to walk while playing with his toy cars.
In 2019, Cliff met another patient Crazy Jane, a young woman with 64 powered alternate personalities, forming a close friendship with the girl to comfort her. After Niles left, Cliff and the group wandered through Cloverton as Cliff remembered his daughter's birthday, but Jane revealed that Clara was still alive, frustrating Cliff, before springing into action to save a group of children from a Rita's bus turned into mass.
===Search for Niles===
Returning home, Cliff argued with Niles for not telling him the truth, opting to protect the town from Niles' enemies, but they all refused, though Jane, Rita, and Larry returned to help him, before encountering a mysterious donkey, who he gasped saying "The mind is the limit" as a portal opened out of the ground, sucking in everyone in the city, including Jane and Niles. Cliff argued with Rita and Larry for not doing anything to help before going after the donkey for answers, running into Vic Stone, a cybernetic vigilante.
After Jane returned, Cliff tried to find out more about her, finding out about a place known as "The Underground" and trying to talk to Jane's various aggressive personalities and while Vic, Larry and Rita were inside the donkey, Cliff tried to support Jane, before the trio returned to start a quest to save Niles from Mr. Nobody. The group tried to travel to Paraguay without success while Cliff thought about contacting Clara. Cliff, Jane and Larry teleport to Paraguay, arriving at Fuchtopia, a laboratory of the Nazi Heinrich von Fuchs, an enemy of Niles who stole something important for him. When the von Fuchs descendants attacked, Cliff defended himself brutally, slaughtering everyone, traumatizing Jane, and the trio returned to leave with Rita and Vic at the manor, deciding not to call Clara.
==Powers and Abilities==
===Powers===
*Cybernetic enhancements: After his accident, Cliff was left with only his brain functioning, prompting Niles Caulder to build him a brand new body, the outer shell formed by multiple layers of special flexible ceramic metal.
**Enhanced strength: Due to his robotic physiology, Cliff is capable of lifting much more than an average human, which was demonstrated when he lifted up a piece of street in order to create a barrier against Rita Farr. He was able to overpower and tackle Cyborg through a solid wood wall. He has also shown to be able to throw and tear apart human bodies with ease and send a far larger animal than himself flying across the air, such as the rats when he was shrunk.
**Enhanced durability: Cliff’s robot body is highly durable, described by the chief as an "Indestructible Man" and does indeed seem to be resistant if not impervious to concussive force, so much so that he fell to earth from space and the only injury he received was his legs temporary malfunctioning hours later (and it's likely that this was actually his case of Parkinsons disease and completely unrelated to his long fall). Cliff's vulnerability is limited though to edged superior metals e.g. Cyborgs robotic finger projected by an explosion and Silver Tongue's words.
**Superhuman stamina: Due to his robot body, Cliff has no need for food or sleep and he does not tire.
**Psychic immunity: Cliff's robot body gives him at least some degree of immunity to mind control as he was able to resist Karen's ability to make others feel affection for her. He was also immune to Flex Mentallo's ability to make the rest of the team orgasm.
**Immortality: Cliff's robot body does not age for obvious reasons, and he will live indefinitely as a result.
**Disease Immunity: Cliff's robot body makes him immune to all diseases and toxins.
**Oxygen independence: Cliff’s Robot body has no need to breathe, and can easily endure the vaccuum of space.
===Abilities===
*Driving: Being a former race car driver, Cliff possesses finely honed driving capabilities.
*Dancing: Prior to his accident, Cliff watched the movie Flashdance a total of 87 times, and as a result is familiar with a variety of dances.
*Hand-to-hand Combat: Cliff has shown to possess moderate fighting skills, using his enhanced strength and highly durable robot body to his advantage. He was able to easily overpower Heinrich Von Fuchs' clones and tear them apart.
===Weaknesses===
*Loss of senses: Without an organic body, Cliff lost three of the human body's five senses: taste, smell, and touch. However, thanks to Vic's father, Silas Stone, Cliff was able to feel in one finger of his right hand.
*Reduced speed: Cliff is slower than an average human since his metal body weighs a substantial amount.
*Trauma: Cliff's experiences have left him very emotionally fragile and he still struggles greatly with the emotional toll of his accident, as well as losing his body and being unable to experience most of the typical human senses.
* Malnutrition: While being only a brain in a robot body makes Cliff effectively immortal, his brain still requires nutrition to stay alive. His body is fitted with a nutrient tank to keep him alive. Any disruption of that tank can cause him to go hallucinate, or worse, like having a stroke.
*Parkinson's Disease: For all his bad habits, Cliff ended up getting Parkinson's disease, causing him to become paralyzed during his fight against the imaginary Jesus Christ and Codpiece, and on some occasions, causing his hand to move out of control.
==Quotes==
== Gallery==
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==Trivia==
*In each episode of Doom Patrol, Cliff says: “What the Fuck?” as he is often confused and surprised by the strange situations the Doom Patrol find themselves in.
*Cliff dies in peace in the finale, having been given a vision of his grandson's life by Immortus.
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