Doom Patrol

**Doom Patrol** is an American live-action web television series created by Jeremy Carver for DC Universe, based on the DC Comics' superhero team of the same name. It is a spin-off of the show Titans, which contained a titular backdoor pilot in season 1.

For season 2, the show moved to HBO Max, which premiered as a Max Original on June 25, 2020.

Season 4 was split into two parts, with part 1 releasing December 8, 2022 through to January 5, 2023. It is currently on hiatus awaiting the release of part 2.

On January 26, 2023, it was announced that **Doom Patrol** and its parent show **Titans** would both end with their fourth seasons.<ref>Forbes - ‘Doom Patrol’ And ‘Titans’ Cancelled Ahead Of The New DC Era/<ref>

## Premise

*Doom Patrol* follows the unlikely heroes of the eponymous team who all received their powers through tragic circumstances and are generally shunned by society. Most members of the team were treated by the Chief, a medical doctor who gave them residence in his mansion to help protect them from the outside world. Their name derives from an earlier Doom Patrol team that was formed by the Chief.

## Cast

* Diane Guerrero as Jane: The dominant personality of Kay Challis, a young woman who developed 64 distinct personalities from trauma she experienced as a child and received powers for each personality following an experiment she was involuntarily subjected to.
	+ Inside Kay's subconsciousness, Guerrero also plays Driver 8 and Karen, while Anna Lore plays Penny Farthing, Stephanie Czajkowski plays Hammerhead, Tara Lee plays Lucy Fugue, Chelsea Alana Rivera plays Silver Tongue, Hannah Alline plays Pretty Polly, Jackie Goldston plays the Secretary, Monica Louwerens plays the Weird Sisters, and Helen Abell plays Black Annis. Skye Roberts portrays Kay as a child (also her own form in her subconsciousness) and Leela Owen portrays the teenage Kay in her former primary personality of Miranda.

* April Bowlby as Rita Farr / Gertrude Cramp: A former Hollywood actress whose cellular structure was altered into a gelatinous state after being exposed to a toxic gas.
* Alan Tudyk as Eric Morden / Mr. Nobody: An omnipresent supervillain capable of traveling through dimensions and altering reality.
* Matt Bomer and Matthew Zuk as Larry Trainor: A former United States Air Force pilot with a negative energy entity living inside of him. Badly burned from the plane crash that ensued when he made contact with the negative spirit, he is covered in special bandages to prevent the spread of the radioactivity emitting from his body.
* Brendan Fraser and Riley Shanahan as Cliff Steele: A cyborg and former NASCAR driver whose brain was transplanted into a robotic body after an accident destroyed his own. Fraser voices the character and appears as the human version of Cliff, while Shanahan physically portrays him as a cyborg.
* Timothy Dalton as Niles Caulder / The Chief: A medical doctor responsible for treating the members of the Doom Patrol and giving them residence in his mansion.
* Joivan Wade as Victor "Vic" Stone / Cyborg:  A young, ambitious superhero who received cybernetic enhancements from his father Silas following an accident that lead to his mother's death.