Leo Dooley

**Leo Francis Dooley**  is the protagonist of *Lab Rats*. Loyal, caring and intelligent, Leo is initially an outcast until he meets his step-siblings, Adam, Bree and Chase and shows them the real world for the first time, and they eventually become each other's best friends. His stepfather, Donald had a lack of trust for Leo due to his tendency to accidentally destroy things, but has started to change his opinion, making Leo the team's "Mission Specialist" after he steps up on a mission when the Lab Rats missed it after being stuck in detention.

Midway to Season 3, Leo becomes bionic after Douglas installs them to save his arm after it was crushed by a ceiling beam caused by Taylor when she blasted it on top of him and Donald put bionics in Leo's leg after it was crushed by a space elevator in Season 4. He and Adam stayed behind in Mission Creek to overlook the students' progress as superheroes while Chase and Bree joined the Elite Force in Centium City.

## Powers and Abilities

* **Bionic Arm:** After Leo's arm was crushed by a ceiling beam caused by Taylor when she was known as S-1, Douglas Davenport healed it with bionic components after learning his stepnephew would never be able to use his arm again. It have him secret abilities so Leo could have a defense skill.
	+ **Super Strength:** Leo has strength in his arm similar to his stepbrother, Adam Davenport, being able to lift a couch with his one arm and punch a dent in the wall.
	+ **Laser Sphere Generation:** Douglas gave Leo the ability to generate laser spheres in his hand. It is Leo's primary ability, and he uses it to knock out dangerous opponents, such as Victor Krane and Taylor (S-1)
		- **EMP:** Combined with Taylor's abilities, Leo and Taylor can create an EMP generation that can take out anything. The first time they did it blew out the electricity on Bionic Island and when they did it a second time, Leo accidentally caused her to go permanently blind. A third time, they were able to use the EMP ability to take out the safety lock that kept Donald and Leo's entire family locked in their self-driving car.
	+ **Energy Absorption:** Douglas unlocked this ability for Leo during the Battle of the Bionic Soldiers. It allows him to absorb energy from another source of power.
* **Super Durability:** Leo bionic arm and leg are more durable than his non-bionic limbs.

## Trivia

* Leo was the shortest member of the family, the only normal kid and the youngest (younger than even Chase).
	+ He is now the second-tallest, a bionic teenager since the Season 3 Episode, "You Posted What?" and second-youngest since the discovery of his cousin, Daniel ("And Then There Were Four").
* Leo is the overall main protagonist of the series.
* In the beginning of the series, Leo was thirteen years old.
	+ He turned fourteen in "Bionic Birthday Fail"
	+ According to Eddy, Leo is sixteen by season 3. (Three Minus Bree) and according to Adam, Leo is still sixteen in the beginning of season 4 ("Under Siege").
	+ He is (presumably) seventeen by the series finale.
* He was Tasha's only biological child until the birth of her daughter and Leo's sister Naomi. (*Lab Rats: Elite Force*)
* Leo shares some similarities with all of his siblings, such as having Adam's super strength (albeit in his arm and leg) and likes to use bionics to solve his problems like Bree.
	+ He appears to be more closer to his brother, Chase:
		- They are the youngest members of the four main siblings.
		- They are often teased by Adam and Bree, however, they both get along better with Bree than they do with Adam, who also teases them about their height.
		- At one point, they also snuck Douglas into Davenport's lab
		- Anti-social and both mocked for their intelligence.
		- They often feel overshadowed by their older siblings (Chase gets hurt by the lack of respect his team has for his intelligence, and Leo feels inferior to Adam, Bree, and Chase because they are all bionic humans.)
		- They also get annoyed by Davenport's big ego, because whenever Donald tries to improve something, he always lets his big ego get in the middle while he tries improving his younger sons' lives.
	+ Leo also shares some similarities with his cousin, Daniel:
		- They lived their whole lives without bionics.
		- Excited but feeling lost when in their family, the Davenports.
		- They get reckless with their bionics when they first got them.
		- They later became mentor and student.
* Leo went on his first mission in "Rise of the Secret Soldiers" and got his first mission suit in the same episode of the same name.
* He cannot handle high fiber cereal.
* Douglas implies he left a pen in Leo's bionic arm. (You Posted What?)
* On Adam's website, it says he's the 8 year old mascot called Leo Clooney (Rise of the Secret Soldiers).
* He was the only main character that wasn't originally a mentor at The Davenport Bionic Academy, he was a student. (First Day of Bionic Academy). He did eventually become one in "Lab Rats: On the Edge."
* Leo's voice deepened in Season 3 due to Tyrel Jackson Williams going through puberty, and his voice was notably getting sightly deeper in Season 2.
* Season 3 was about Leo becoming bionic. The episode "Parallel Universe" foreshadows him becoming bionic (an episode in Season 2) and the beginning where Perry tells the students, "Get to class before they shoot missiles from [Bree, Adam and Chase's] fingers]" in "You Posted What?"foreshadows Leo being able to shoot laser spheres from his fingers.