Intro. 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 Niles Caulder, 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.
The first members of the Doom Patrol to be introduced in the series are Jane, the dominant identity of a traumatized woman with dissociative identity disorder (64 Personalities in Underground, mental home of 64 Personalities in Jane's Mind); Rita Farr, who struggles to prevent her body from turning to a gelatinous state; Larry Trainor, who has an entity of negative energy living inside him; and Cliff Steele, whose brain was placed in a fully robot body following a car crash, The team is later joined by cybernetically enhanced superhero Vic Stone, shapeshifter Madame Rouge and Dorothy Spinner.