Time Machine

"*The time machine is not an Uber. It is a crime fighting apparatus.*"
—Rita Farr[src]
The **Time Machine** is a device that is capable of traveling between space and time inside the Time Stream that was created by the Brotherhood of Evil to take revenge on Niles Caulder in the future, however, the Doom Patrol acquired the time machine and use to make heroic adventures.

## History

### Used by the Brotherhood of Evil

In 1917, Ultimax and his faithful assistant Monsieur Mallah copied the design of a mysterious machine that had arrived from the future, planning that it would be part of their world conquest, spending 30 years to complete a form. reverse to travel to the future. In 1949, the Brotherhood of Evil recruited Laura De Mille, who was recently fired from the Bureau of Normalcy, tasking her with traveling to 2021 to steal the creations of their mortal and sworn enemy, Niles Caulder.

Following the plan, Laura traveled to 2021, however, the effect caused her to lose her memory and forget about her mission, encountering Isabel Feathers, who fell into the hole made by the time machine, which Laura hid. to look for Niles, whom he didn't remember why he was looking for him. Laura headed to the Doom Manor, where she introduced herself to Niles' test subjects, stating that she traveled in the machine, taking it to the manor's garage, catching the attention of Rita Farr, who took a piece of the ship to prevent Laura from traveling to the past in search of Niles, which caused her to start living in the manor. While the team searched for the Sisterhood of Dada, Rita joined Laura to attach the piece to the machine, dancing and making friends along the way, but Rita's self-esteem dropped when Laura told her that she couldn't be one time traveler.

### Used by Rita Farr

Seeking to prove that she was bigger, Rita took the machine, listening to the artificial intelligence of the time machine, Shipley, who told the story of Rita and how she lost her memories during the trip, before Rita fell due to amnesia in 1917. Upon her arrival, Rita was captured by the Bureau of Normalcy, but Rita was able to hide the machine in the base of her new friends, the Sisterhood of Dada, talking to Malcolm DuPont about her strange reason for traveling through time, although Malcolm was happy to have her by his side.

After Malcolm's death and Laura's betrayal, Rita, after confronting her old friend turned Madame Rouge, infiltrated the Ant Farm to recover her time machine, listening to Shipley again and recovering all her memories, stopping in Codsville to bring about the death of his past self before Samuelson, allowing him to briefly reunite with Malcolm in the Afterlife. Returned in 2021, Rita hid the time machine in the Sisterhood's old base, reuniting with her friends to cause the Eternal Flagellation. Shortly afterward, Laura was able to find the time machine, which she attempted to use to return to 1949, but seeking redemption, she decided to travel back to the manor, briefly suffering from amnesia, and finally decided to make peace with the team, except for Rita, that he had an immense resentment towards him.

### Used by the Doom Patrol

After saving Cloverton, Niles' test subjects set out to become a team of superheroes, accepting their first mission to defeat a testicle-shaped monster, transporting themselves inside the new giant body of Cliff Steele, which connected with the time machine, driven by Rita, to head towards the Suez Canal and the team used papers with their names to remember who they were during the time travel. Eventually, Rita would discover that the jellyfish prevented amnesia, giving them to the team, officially known as the Doom Patrol, on every mission, except for Laura, who refused to use them. When Cliff regained his original body, Rita implanted the giant robot's head with the machine to facilitate her travels.

In 2022, the Doom Patrol used the machine to travel 3 minutes into the future at the Cloverton Credit Union to confront Codpiece, but during the fight, Laura was unaware of her role in the mission, and Rita remembered that she must transform into something to distract Codpiece. Since Cliff could feel in one finger again, the Doom Patrol convinced Rita to travel to Florida, spending time together in the time machine until they crossed paths with Isabel Feathers, whose encounter caused them to travel 20 years into the future, discovering from a future Vic that everything was devastated by the immense Buttpocalypse.

In her search for answers, Laura discovered that the future Doom Patrol tried to rebuild the machine, but was alerted by Vic that her future self was going to steal the machine for himself and alter its fate, before the Doom Patrol being forced to fight a horde of Zombies Were-Butts. Due to the majority of Zombie Butts, the Doom Patrol had to return to the time machine to quickly flee, seeing future Vic being devoured by the creatures and without words, the team returned to the manor, with a part of the machine destroyed.

## Capabilities

* **Time Travel**: Created from advanced technology in the 1940s, the time machine can transport the user to any era, however, the trip would cause temporary amnesia.

## Appearances

### Season 3

* "Possibilities Patrol"
* "Vacay Patrol"
* "Undead Patrol"
* "Dada Patrol"
* "1917 Patrol"
* "Bird Patrol" (mentioned)
* "Subconscious Patrol"
* "Evil Patrol" (mentioned)
* "Amends Patrol"

### Season 4

* "Doom Patrol"
* "Immortimas Patrol" (flashback)