Leo Dooley

**Non-bionic abilities:**
Peak Human Reflexes
Bravery
Peak Intelligence
Multilingualism
Wise cracking
Martial Arts
Skilled Firestaff Fighter
Leadership
**As Parallel Leo**:

* Electrical Generation
* Super Speed
* Super Intelligence
* Super Strength
* Geo-Leaping
* Martial Arts

**Leo Francis Dooley** is the overall main protagonist of the Disney XD television series, *Lab Rats*. He was the only son and eldest child of Tasha Davenport, the older half-brother of Naomi Davenport, the stepson and second-youngest child of Donald Davenport, the adoptive brother of Adam, Bree, and Chase Davenport, the step-cousin of Daniel and Marcus Davenport, grandson of Rose Dooley and step-nephew of Douglas Davenport. He was considered a social outcast and nerd, often teases for being the smart kid in school until he met his step-siblings, who become Leo's best friends. He proves himself in "Missin' the Mission," and Mr. Davenport promotes Leo to the team's Mission Specialist.

He was also the normal kid in the family until "You Posted What?" where Douglas implanted bionics in his arm after it was severely damaged. Leo's primary abilities are Laser Sphere Generation and Energy Transference.

Leo also serves as the protagonist of the "Who is Marcus?" shorts, which serves as a bridge between Season 1 and 2.

## Centric Episodes

### Season 1

* Crush, Chop and Burn
* Rats on a Train
* Exoskeleton vs. Grandma
* Bionic Birthday Fail
* Death Spiral Smackdown
* Can I Borrow the Helicopter?
* Back from the Future
* Drone Alone
* Air Leo
* Night of the Living Virus
* Concert in a Can

### Season 2

* Speed Trapped
* Spy Fly
* Missin' the Mission
* Robot Fight Club
* The Rats Strike Back
* Parallel Universe

### Season 3

* The Jet Wing
* Scramble the Orbs
* Which Father Knows Best
* You Posted What?!?
* Armed and Dangerous
* Alien Gladiators
* First Day of the Bionic Academy

### Season 4

* Under Siege
* Forbidden Hero
* Lab Rats: On the Edge
* The Vanishing

## Personality

Being a teenager in high school, Leo is still trying to find his place in it and in the world. At the beginning of the series, he was in still in his clumsy phase. However, Leo can be arrogant at times, though not as much as his stepfather, Donald.He is very close with his family and will do anything to protect them, as he went the distance to save the Lab Rats from dying in the future and his willingness to prove that Marcus and his father were evil and up to something. He could also be a rebellious teenager like he's mother Tasha was when she was younger and often disobeying his father Donald or his uncle Douglas.

In Season 3, Leo had begun maturing, and inventing things without breaking Donald's things, such as inventing orbs that he invented so they could protect Adam, Bree, and Chase from Douglas and Krane. Though the orbs went haywire, but Donald admitted Leo had a good concept going on. It is shown at this point, Leo was also willing to put the past behind himself and his enemies if they show change, as he did with Douglas in "Taken" and Taylor (S-1) in "One of Us." He willingly listened to what Douglas had to say about Victor Krane and agreed to a fresh start with Taylor, eventually becoming friends with both them.

Despite not having super intelligence, Leo was a smart teenager and was mentioned being the smart kid in school in the episode's premiere, mentioning it's not easy for him to Chase and the other Lab Rats. He is also quite intelligent, shown that he never liked Marcus even before it was revealed that Marcus was evil. Leo could also come up with plans for the missions, eventually becoming the team's strategic mission specialist. Like his brother Chase, Leo will sometimes remind people of the bigger picture, shown at least twice. The first time he reminded his siblings that they had to save Donald during the jet wing incident because he did the stupid stunt to give them the Lab back, causing Bree to realize their brother was right. Another time happened in "Which Father Knows Best?" where Leo told Douglas to get past his rivalry with his brother after Leo told him Donald couldn't fix Bree's chip when she broke it because Bree was more important. Additionally, Leo scolded his siblings for causing a blackout and fighting in "Rise of the Secret Soldiers." He also easily deduced that Douglas was behind cyberhacking Donald back when he was evil. Characters such as Douglas has said that Leo is a smart kid ever since the Marcus incident.

Ever since his mother married Donald, Leo remained supportive of her decision. After meeting his siblings, he wanted to become bionic like them, dropping hints to Donald. However, Douglas later gave Leo bionics to save his arm. The boy was excited but reckless with his bionics, something that caused Leo to connect Daniel with. Like his uncle and brother, Leo felt overshadowed by his older siblings, similar to how Chase felt when Adam and Bree are praised more than him in "Avalanche" and how Douglas felt with Donald all of his life. This is shown in "Lab Rats: On the Edge," where he expresses hope that his siblings don't see him as just their little brother. After saving Chase and taking charge, Donald realizes Leo is ready and levels him up to mentor, where Chase tells Leo he is proud of his little brother. He also expressed hope to Bree and Chase that he would see his brother and sister again.

## Physical Appearance

Leo is a teenage boy who is seen at the ages of thirteen and sixteen, with dark skin, dark brown eyes and curly black hair. Initially, he is fairly short, reaching up to Chase's shoulder, but overtime, he grew taller than Bree, and was nearly Chase's height. However, by season 4, Leo was the taller than Chase, becoming the second-tallest of the Lab Rats, reaching past Adam's shoulder.

Throughout the series, Leo's wardrobe changes. In Season One and Two, Leo wore colored shirts with pictures on it, but this more or less disappeared as it went on. Most notably in the second season, he wore long-sleeved shirts with short-sleeves over them. The only episodes he has not worn long sleeve T shirts is in Crush, Chop and Burn, and No Going Back, where he wore just a T-shirt instead. However, from Season 3 onwards, Leo mostly wore hoodies, long-sleeved shirts, and mostly shirts with button-up sweater with his sleeves rolled up. In "Rise of the Secret Soldiers," Leo gets a mission suit that is slightly different than Adam, Bree's and Chase's. Instead, he wears a black leather jacket that also has a hood. However, his right arm sleeve is red; Leo also has black pants with black pads on his knees and black combat boots.

## Powers and Abilities

### Powers

**Bionic Arm:**After Leo's right 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 gave 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 through walls of a cage he and his siblings were trapped in.
* **Laser Sphere Generation**: According to Douglas, Leo can create laser spheres in his fingers. A blast can take out anyone, including someone as powerful as Taylor or Victor Krane. Leo is initially a terrible shot but training from Douglas helped him aim better.
	+ **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. They did a successful P to destroy a safety lock on Donald's 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:** With both his bionic arm and leg, Leo has better durability with both artificial limbs.

## Similar Heroes

* Alex Russo (*Wizards of Waverly Place*)
	+ Troublemakers
	+ Often make fun of their older sibling (Chase and Justin) for being a nerd.
	+ Believe their powers are a shortcut to everything. (Bionics and magic, respectively)
	+ Have adventures while maintaining a normal life
	+ Despite appearing devious, Leo and Alex are good at heart)
* Ezra Bridger (*Star Wars Rebels*)
* Phoebe Thunderman (*The Thundermans*): Bionic superkids who are fourteen, have an enemy who is a relative and they become friends with. (Phoebe's twin brother, Max Thunderman and Leo's step-uncle, Douglas Davenport). They do well in school
* Gabe Duncan (*Good Luck Charlie*)
* Paige Matthews (*Charmed*)
	+ They were troublemakers when they were younger.
	+ Both are the youngest of the main four siblings
	+ They were reckless with their powers when they first got them. (Leo wanted to impress Janelle with his bionic arm and Paige abused the spells in the book of shadows) in both cases, it ended in disaster because Leo nearly kills his girlfriend and starting a fire in school and Paige used the book for personal gain and caused her breasts to enlarge
	+ The two are trained on their craft by another family member. Leo learns under Douglas and Paige learns over her sisters, Phoebe and Piper.
	+ They feel overshadowed by an older sibling because their abilities appear superior to their own (Paige's sister Prue and Leo's step-siblings, the Lab Rats)
* Mal (*Descendants*)

## Trivia

* Despite Donald saying Leo's body would never handle bionics, Leo ends up wielding it quite well.
* 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.
* In the beginning of the series, Leo was thirteen years old. He turned fourteen in "Bionic Birthday Fail" and is sixteen by season 3 and the beginning of season 4. He is (presumably) seventeen by the series finale.
* He was Tasha's only biological child until birth of her daughter and Leo's sister Naomi
* Leo's voice deepened in Season 3 due to Tyrel Jackson Williams going through puberty.
* Season 3 was about Leo becoming bionic. The episode "Parallel Universe" foreshadows him becoming bionic (anepisode 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.
* He is the last known individual who was turned bionic.
* Douglas was aware that Donald has killed nearly all of Leo's pets, which included Iggy, Leo's iguana.
* Adam killed his brother's pet goldfish, Beyonce.
* He was the only one suspicious of Marcus.
* Leo's middle name is revealed to be Francis, and despite telling his family that his name is Danger, and that it is spelled like F-R-A-N-C-I-S
* Leo got his arm after Taylor damaged it. Ironically, his bionic arm ended up causing permanent damage Taylor's eyesight, the same girl who gave him the injury that led to his bionic arm a year prior
* Leo called Taylor "Cupcake", an insulting name that Marcus called Bree and wanted to call her "Charlotte."
* 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.
* On Adam's website, it says he's the 8 year old mascot called Lee 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 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 was when they discovered her Vocal manipulation.
	+ However, 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 and called them out on their big ego and how they should just move past their petty grudge.
		- 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.
	+ He 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.