Eric Morden

* Mr. Nobody
* Pre-experiment

"*After thirteen pointless, meandering episodes of character-driven schlock, we can **finally** get to the show that everyone wanted to see in the first place... **a superhero show**! Right versus wrong... good versus evil... hero... versus villain... that's me!*"
—Mr. Nobody[src]
**Eric Morden** is a former member of the Brotherhood of Evil who underwent an experiment by an ex-Nazi in post-war Paraguay and through an accident caused by Niles Caulder became the nigh-omniscient being known as **Mr. Nobody**. He is the main antagonist of season 1. He is the sworn enemy of Dr. Caulder willing to do whatever he can to make life miserable for himself and his patients. Morden spent a lot of time breaking the fourth wall and making Niles's patients suffer, but the one who suffered the most was Cyborg.

When Niles's patients finally tried to confront him, Morden forced Caulder to reveal the truth. Soon after, Morden, Ezekiel and Admiral Whiskers formed a Brotherhood to make Caulder suffer, but Morden would be fired because Dorothy Spinner, Caulder's daughter, made Ezekiel and Whiskers giants. Ultimately, Morden helped the team by narrating to defeat his treacherous allies, but when the patients managed to escape, Morden and Ernest Franklin were trapped in a magic painting painting. Later, Morden managed to get out by participating in another show.

## Biography

### Early life

During the 1930s, Eric Morden was a member of the supervillain team named the Brotherhood of Evil. During the 1940s, he disappeared while in South America.

Eventually, Morden was fired from the brotherhood and replaced by Monsieur Mallah, a super-intelligent gorilla that could speak French. Following this, his girlfriend Millie left him, declaring that he would always be a Nobody. Through shady dealings, Morden was able to obtain the Longevity Talisman, a piece of the forgotten deity, Immortus.

In 1948, Morden arrived in Paraguay seeking the expertise of Heinrich Von Fuchs, a Nazi scientist infamous for his "theoretical experimentation" on human beings. Morden paid Von Fuchs a great sum of money to be subjected to those experiments. As they were conducting the experiment in a chamber, Von Fuchs instructed Morden to repeat "the mind is the limit" repeatedly as he exposed the man to an unknown energy source. The whole experiment was a success until Niles Caulder appeared and blew up Morden's machine, stealing the Longevity talisman. As a result, Morden's body was distorted as he gained destructive powers.

He would go on to torment a group of heroes known as the Doom Patrol, driving them insane and placing them in an institution. For years, Nobody spied on Niles and his test patients, who were creations for immortality, and learning their traumas. He began referring to them as "Doom Patrol".

### Kidnapped of Niles Caulder

Some years later, in 2019, Mr. Nobody went to Cloverton, Ohio to torment Niles Caulder. While there, he opened up a portal leading to the White Space that began to envelop a large part of the road. Nobody narrated what happened and the people being swallowed by his portal and Niles asked him who he was talking to, to which Nobody answered that he is talking with the fans, and Niles was surprised that Nobody still believes that he controls the story to which Mr. Nobody replied that he had escaped his hands for the last time transporting him and Niles to White Space.

### Tormenting the Doom Patrol

Upon entering the albino donkey, Nobody welcomed Larry, Rita and Vic showing them the people trapped on the donkey and gave them headphones to enjoy the ride. He teleported Rita into his life when she was an actress and was in front of a stroller with a baby giving Rita the opportunity to do what she couldn't do, then he teleported Larry when he was on the plane straight to the Negative Spirit and Larry saw his loved ones including John Bowers die of radiation, and finally, he teleported Vic to the explosion of the laboratory reviving him as his mother died, and they put the cybernetic parts on him and Vic screamed in pain who he was and Mr. Nobody answered him that his name is Mr. Nobody and Nobody tortures each one until the Negative Spirit stopped Nobody and freed everyone from the donkey and Nobody said goodbye to Vic and told him not to intrude on his way again and Larry, Rita and Vic and all the Cloverton citizens got out of the donkey.

#### Temporary alliance

Seeing how the Decreator is killing people, he gets angry that he could not be the main villain and Niles convinces him to work together and stop the creator and Nobody travels to the past and helps Jane in her personality, Doctor Harrison while Niles helped in the present, and they managed to get Dr. Harrison to create the cult of the rewritten book and create the Recreator. They saved the planet with the help of the team and Kipling. After Niles said goodbye to everyone, Mr. Nobody narrated everything that happened and talked to Niles and made Vic explode his robot arm. Later, Nobody traveled back in time to order Jane to search for the original Doom Patrol.

#### Creating Admiral Whiskers

6 episodes ago, he manipulated a little rat by offering to get revenge on Cliff for killing his mother and turned the rat into a villain and ordered him to enter Cliff's body to ruin his mind.

#### Interrogating Niles

Nobody spied on Niles' memories and learned of his presentation to the Bureau of Normalcy. Nobody then spoke with Niles and gave him a proposal that would leave him free to return to his friends at Doom Manor, but he would have to answer a question; why Dorothy Spinner was there. Niles rejected the offer. Doing so would result in Nobody continuing to torture the Doom Patrol.

#### Manipulating Cyborg

Nobody pretended to be Grid's voice, manipulating Vic and showing him videos of his father saying the worst things he could say to his face but "722" could hear him. After Vic almost killed his father, Nobody revealed himself to Vic, explaining that he was manipulating him all this time and that the videos were false and that Nobody wanted to bring this to Broadway as the great origin story of Cyborg. Nobody reminded him what he said when they first met. He then showed Vic what his actions caused. Vic cried for his father, and Nobody was glad for Vic's suffering.

Nobody camouflaged himself as a patient in the hospital and talked to Rita, who shared her feelings with him about everything. Rita felt that she was already well with herself and Nobody was happy for her, congratulating her and when Rita left, Mr. Nobody returned to his form, saying that Rita is ready to fight and realized that there were still parts of this episode missing. Nobody saw now how the Doom Patrol was prepared to face him in the final battle of good against evil and removed the image of Vic from his Doom Patrol poster. He was excited because after 13 long episodes, it will finally be what everyone wanted to see since the beginning of the whole series. Nobody then burned his poster and said that if the Doom Patrol wants the Chief, they should come for him.

#### Revelation

The Doom Patrol teleported to White Space, and Nobody sent each of them to the place before their accidents happened. They would stay there and live in peace and never meet Niles Caulder. But the Doom Patrol rejected Nobody's proposal and escaped. Rita arrived at the real White Space and stole the narration from Nobody, making him angry. Cliff and Larry also came and found the Chief. Nobody was impressed that they got this far and was ready to face them.

They saw Doctor Harrison demonstrate and speak with Nobody about his problems. Through that, they discovered that Nobody did it all because his ex abandoned him. Nobody got angry, exclaiming that he is superior and equal to no one. Vic then arrived and destroyed Nobody. The Doom Patrol along with Niles returned home, but it was all part of Mr. Nobody's plan. Presumably, a year passed from their defeat, and the Doom Patrol had become heroes and were facing the Brotherhood of Evil, though it was all false since Nobody used his robot to kill the Doom Patrol over and over again while Niles watched.

The Doom Patrol would come to discover that the Vic that arrived at the White Space was Mr. Nobody and the Vic that arrived at the Manor was the real one. Mr. Nobody was excited because they discovered him and ended the illusion, revealing that they never left White Space. He said that they could never defeat him, but that there is something that can; Niles must tell the truth. Niles revealed that he was the one who caused all their accidents, much to Mr. Nobody's pleasure, as the truth comes to light.

### Forming his new Brotherhood

After his victory, he celebrated in the White Space. After a while, he got bored and met Ezekiel and discover that he could take revenge on the Chief again using his daughter, who was hidden in Danny. They decided to recruit the Admiral Whiskers and become the Brotherhood of Dangerous Animals. They went to Horst Eismann and stole a magic painting with the power to swallow a city. They proceeded to retrieve Danny and lock Danny and Niles' daughter in the painting. The Brotherhood was also trapped, and the Dannyzens were saved by Flex Mentallo before they captured the painting. Nobody brought many beards of famous people and convinced Ernest Franklin to tell them where Niles's daughter was. They found her and scared her by making Niles's daughter use her powers, turning Ezekiel and Whiskers into giants. No longer needing Mr. Nobody due to their power, they expelled him from the Brotherhood.

### Helping the Doom Patrol

Nobody ran, and the Doom Patrol saw him flee from Ezekiel and enter the Perpetual Cabaret. They followed him. Nobody had beers on the sad shelf and talked to the Doom Patrol about everything that happened and how Niles' abomination daughter transformed the two treacherous plagues into giants. He also told how he captured Danny, how Niles got angry with Nobody, and how Vic made a plan with the team to rescue Niles' daughter from the painting. For part of the plan, Rita had to convince Nobody to help.

Nobody was venting to Rita, telling her that he was expelled from an evil organization by a rat and a cockroach. Nobody was angry because of this. Rita told him that they are both failures. Despite being defeated, it does not mean that it is the end of his story. Rita convinced him to return to the narrative and have a great comeback. Nobody was inspired by her words. While Ezekiel sang, Mr. Nobody interrupted him returning his narration and convinced Ezekiel that he was God, that he could survive anything, and that now he must destroy the world. Ezekiel then ate Vic.

After Ezekiel ate Niles, Jane, Rita and Dorothy, Larry told Nobody that Cliff is missing and Nobody said that to save him he would have to improvise. Nobody made Ezekiel and Whiskers fall in love. Ezekiel and Larry started the explosion, and Nobody said that the end of this epic story was now upon them. Ernest ran and asked Nobody how the Doom Patrol will survive inside Ezekiel. Mr. Nobody realized that they could not go out or do something, and before he could respond, the explosion reached them. After the explosion, Nobody and Ernest were trapped in the painting.

### The New Normal

After his defeat at the hands of Niles and the Doom Patrol, he and Ernest Franklin got trapped in a painting to serve as their prison for their crimes. However, by the times the Scants invade the Manor, the Doom Patrol find out from Ernest that Mr. Nobody is nowhere to be found, but Ernest revealed that Nobody got a role on another show.

## Personality

Before his transformation, Eric used to be a low profile member of the Brotherhood of Evil, not being considered a threat either physically or intellectually by them after they removed him from the team. What Eric did have (according to his girlfriend Millie) were big ideas that nobody believed in and that he himself failed to make them come true. After Millie left him, Eric sought to become powerful with Von Fuchs's experiments.

After Niles Caulder interrupted his experiment, Eric vowed revenge on the scientist at the same time that he began to grow more and more insane, he would go on to torment Niles from then on, even stopping the original Doom Patrol led by The Chief, leaving them psychologically scarred. As Mr. Nobody, Eric has all the freedom to let his ideas run wild, even devising a plan for Niles to reveal his secret in front of the people he tormented, Morden also seems to have a love for good stories and conflict with personal stakes, as he manipulated the events of the series to create a good revenge story.

Eric Morden also proves to be sadistic and psychotic, as he enjoys tormenting the residents of Doom Manor as well as Niles himself, this is demonstrated by the slow manipulation that caused Cyborg to beat his father until he was almost dead, only for Mr. Nobody to appear so he can mock him and have fun with the moment right after, on a similar note, Morden made Niles watch his team die over and over again in a fantasy to make him suffer before forcing him to reveal his secret. Despite this, Eric has an inferiority complex, as well as problems taking initiative, as shown when he did not know what to do after fulfilling his revenge against Niles, saying that he now lacked a purpose, so much so that he managed to be deceived by the cockroach Ezekiel while he was in that state.

## Powers and abilities

### Powers

* **Meta-human physiology:** As a result of Von Fuchs's procedure, Eric Morden was exposed to other-dimensional energy, mutating his biology and granting him otherworldly abilities.
	+ **Reality manipulation:** Mr. Nobody has a somewhat limited ability to bend and alter the fabric of reality as he wants, demonstrating the full extent of his power while inside White Space. He was able to create an alternate dimension inside of a donkey, create a buttocks-shaped balloon and turn police officers into piñatas. Mr. Nobody was also able to hack into Cyborg's mind and create fake memories and security footage for him to access using Grid so that he would slowly begin to turn against his own father.
		- **Vortex creation:** Morden had the ability to create a vortex of energy that drew the nearby surroundings into it, teleporting them to his dimension.
		- **Time travel:** Morden is able to display himself as a person or a narrator in any period of time by simply "combing through flashbacks".
	+ **Nigh-Omniscience:** Morden claims to be completely omniscient, as he serves as the narrator of the show. He further demonstrates this by revealing secrets about Rita Farr, Larry Trainor, and Cyborg when they are in his dimension.
		- **Fourth-wall breaking:** As the narrator, Morden is aware of the fact that he is a character in a show.
	+ **Longevity:** Morden has remained the same age since the 1940s.

## Appearances

### Season 1

* "Pilot"
* "Donkey Patrol"
* "Puppet Patrol" (photograph)
* "Paw Patrol"
* "Doom Patrol Patrol" (mentioned)
* "Therapy Patrol" (voice)
* "Danny Patrol" (mentioned)
* "Hair Patrol"
* "Cyborg Patrol"
* "Flex Patrol"
* "Penultimate Patrol"
* "Ezekiel Patrol"

### Season 2

* "Fun Size Patrol" (painting)
* "Tyme Patrol" (mentioned)
* "Space Patrol" (mentioned)
* "Dumb Patrol" (mentioned)

### Season 4

* "Youth Patrol" (mentioned)
* "Hope Patrol" (mentioned)

## Trivia

* Mr. Nobody is at least on par with Flex Mentallo in terms of powers; but not limited to needing to strike a pose/flex since Mr. Nobody can alter reality at a thought.

## Behind the scenes

* Eric Morden also served as the narrator for the first season of *Doom Patrol*.
* Since Season 2, Eric Morden is missing because he's doing an animated gig on another show. This is a reference to Alan Tudyk's roles (Clayface/The Joker) in another DC Universe animated webseries (gig) *Harley Quinn*.

## References

1. ↑ Becher-Wilkinson, Tamara, Farrell, Tom (writers) & Talalay, Rachel (director) (March 1, 2019). "Puppet Patrol". *Doom Patrol*. Season 1. Episode 3. DC Universe.
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Dingess, Chris (writer) & Rodriguez, Rebecca (director) (May 17, 2019). "Penultimate Patrol". *Doom Patrol*. Season 1. Episode 14. DC Universe.
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 Carver, Jeremy (writer) & Winter, Glen (director) (February 15, 2019). "Pilot". *Doom Patrol*. Season 1. Episode 1. DC Universe.
4. ↑ Becher-Wilkinson, Tamara (writer) & Manley, Christopher (director) (March 22, 2019). "Doom Patrol Patrol". *Doom Patrol*. Season 1. Episode 6. DC Universe.
5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Reynolds, Neil, Sachi, Shoshana (writers) & Downs, Dermott (director) (February 22, 2019). "Donkey Patrol". *Doom Patrol*. Season 1. Episode 2. DC Universe.
6. ↑ Sachi, Shoshana (writer) & Teng, Larry (director) (March 15, 2019). "Paw Patrol". *Doom Patrol*. Season 1. Episode 5. DC Universe.
7. ↑ Dietel, Eric (writer) & Richardson-Whitfield, Salli (director) (April 19, 2019). "Hair Patrol". *Doom Patrol*. Season 1. Episode 10. DC Universe.
8. ↑ Berens, Robert, Sachi, Shoshana (writers) & Banker, Carol (director) (May 3, 2019). "Cyborg Patrol". *Doom Patrol*. Season 1. Episode 12. DC Universe.
9. ↑ Dingess, Chris, Becher-Wilkinson, Tamara (writers) & Scott, T.J. (director) (May 10, 2019). "Flex Patrol". *Doom Patrol*. Season 1. Episode 13. DC Universe.
10. ↑ Becher-Wilkinson, Tamara, Dietel, Eric (writers) & Lowrey, Jessica (director) (July 23, 2020). "Dumb Patrol". *Doom Patrol*. Season 2. Episode 7. DC Universe & HBO Max.