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Monday, May 20, 2024

Scarecrow - Earth -52 - Batman: The Red Death

A longtime enemy of Batman, Scarecrow, aka Professor Jonathan Crane terrorised the people of Gotham City for decades, using their worst fears against them. When the skies turned red, he capitalised on the fear and destruction, killing citizens for fun. 

Cornering a couple in an alleyway, he threatened to kill them with his scythe. However, before he can come any closer he is torn in two by Red Death, his nemesis, now imbued with the Speed Force. 

The Couple - Earth -52 - Batman: The Red Death

A couple resided in Gotham City during the final days of Earth -52. They found themselves caught in a riot between The Mutants and The GCPD while attempting to flee Downtown, an area completely overrun by street gang violence. 

In an alleyway, the terrified couple were confronted by Scarecrow, who threatened to cut them down with his scythe. However, before Crane could carry out his threat, he was interrupted by the arrival of The Red Death. 

The Speedster struck with such force that he split Scarecrow in two with a single punch.


The Doom Patrol - Young Justice: Phantoms

While the entire Doom Patrol was believed dead after their final mission in 2015, Robotman's decapitated head was recovered from a riverbed sometime later. Reassembled and resuscitated, Cliff Steele became the only other known survivor outside of Mento, who had abandoned the team and gone into hiding, and Beast Boy, who was forbidden from joining the mission due to his age.

With his teammates and found family gone, Cliff Steele felt extreme survivor's guilt. Initially unable to process his emotions, Garfield Logan helped him find joy in life once more, allowing him to grieve. Cliff promised, in Rita Farr's memory, that he would watch over and care for her godson, Garfield Logan.

The Doom Patrol - Young Justice: Outsiders

Founded and led by Dr. Niles Caulder in 2011, the Doom Patrol was a team of heroes, outcasts and ostracised by the world due to their meta-human abilities. Its original members included Mento, Negative Woman, and Robotman. 

The following year, Rita Farr joined the team as Elasti-Girl. She and Mento (Steve Dayton) started a romantic relationship and eventually married. After her godson, Garfield Logan was orphaned by the Light, Farr became his legal guardian and adopted him. As his powers to morph into animals developed, the team helped him hone and control his skills. He eventually took up the mantle of Beast Boy and occasionally supported the team on relatively safe missions.

In 2015, after discovering an extremely dangerous threat, The Chief ordered the Doom Patrol to respond. Knowing the mission would likely be their last, Farr ordered Logan to stay behind while the others engaged the threat. Mento abandoned the fight and went into hiding, while the others perished.

Logan's already strained relationship with Dayton deteriorated further when Dayton reappeared months later, using his marriage to Farr to adopt Logan and turning him into a child star for fame and fortune. Logan resented his new life and his stepfather, eventually founding the Outsiders as a way to emancipate himself from Mento's control and create a new family, hoping to rebuild what he had lost with the Doom Patrol. 


Members: 

  • The Chief/Niles Caulder (Deceased)
  • Elasti-Girl/Rita Farr (Deceased)
  • Negative Woman/ Valentina "Val" Vostok (Deceased)
  • Robotman/Cliff Steele (Presumed Deceased)
  • Mento/Steve Dayton (Quit)
  • Beast Boy/Garfield Logan (Survived)

Robotman - Young Justice: Phantoms

During the Doom Patrol's final mission in 2015, Robotman, aka Cliff Steele, was killed alongside his fellow teammates when he was decapitated, his severed head sinking to the bottom of a deep river, where it remained for some time before it was eventually recovered. 

Scientists were able to revive his brain and rebuild his body, allowing Steele to have some semblance of the life he once had with the Doom Patrol. However, this mission was heavily traumatic, leaving him with intense feelings of survivor’s guilt.

Cliff Steele - Young Justice: Phantoms

Saved from death when his brain was transferred into a robotic body, Cliff Steele (bn 1987) struggled to adjust to his new life, believing that he had been cursed with immortality and robbed of his ability to touch and feel. 

Although he was already operating as the hero Robotman in 2011, as a founding member of The Doom Patrol, it wasn't until Garfield Logan and Rita Farr joined the team in 2012 as Beast Boy and Elasti-girl that he began to really throw himself into the work. Inspired by the young Logan's hope, optimism & love for his new teammates and adopted family, he began to embrace his mechanical body as a second chance at life, no longer seeing it as a metal prison as he once did. 

Killed in 2015 during a mission that could only be described as suicidal, Cliff was revived after his head was recovered from a riverbed. Grief-stricken over his teammates' deaths, he wanted nothing more than to end his life, feeling guilt at his survival. However, once again Garfield was there to help him through his pain and grief, convincing him to honour their memories and keep on living, treating each new day as a gift. 

He would start regular therapy sessions with Dinah Lance, the costumed hero Black Canary and the Justice League's resident counsellor.

In a last-ditch effort to help Logan break out of his destructive battle with depression and drug addiction, Cliff attended an intervention for his young friend on June 2nd, 2020, reminding him of all the good he had done for him in the past. However, Cliff's efforts were rudely dismissed, leaving him saddened by Logan's refusal to seek help and support. 

They have since reconnected and made amends, after Beast Boy finally started regular counselling with Dinah. 

Damian al Ghul - Young Justice: Phantoms

Born in 2018 to Talia al Ghul, Damian al Ghul was raised on Infinity Island alongside his mother, maternal grandfather, and their loyal inner circle of assassins. 

Talia vowed to do what she thought was best for Damian, keeping him close by and training him to continue the legacy of the al Ghul family name. 

This belief was openly mocked and challenged by Jade Nguyen-Harper, aka Cheshire, who believed it was better that they as parents distanced themselves from their children to keep them away from coming to harm or worse, following in their bloody footsteps. 

Merlin - Young Justice: Phantoms

The half-brother of Etrigan, the warlock Merlin cursed his half-sibling into servitude, forcibly binding him to the body of the occultist, Jason Blood.

This ritual caused great resentment between the two siblings, with the Demon furious that his free will was almost completely stripped from him.

Kashina - Dead Boy Detectives: Season One


















Kashina or "Kashi" for short is an immortal man who has lived countless lives, some that were positive, others not so much. Yet each one he lived was a new and thrilling adventure for him. For each of these experiences, he owns an enchanted ring, symbolising the triumphs and heartbreaks he endured as he reached a point of spiritual peace and harmony. He feels no trauma, regret, bitterness, or sorrow. Instead, he feels grateful to be given the gift of multiple lives, valuing every life as though it were his last.  

While on his travels, Kashina was in the waters around Port Townsend when he was swallowed by a gigantic sea monster. Waking up inside her stomach, he decided to make the most of this predicament, using the wreckage of ships to craft his own living quarters. 

When the Night Nurse was devoured by "Angie", he presumed that she was dead, only to be taken aback by her coming round hours later. Finding his belligerently positive attitude irritating, she tries to silence him, using her magic to delve into his mind. However, she is confused to find no negative emotions that she can draw upon to wield against him. Questioning how this is possible, since they were both trapped within "a fish", he calmly tells her about his personal experiences. 

As she continues to use brute force, to no avail, Kashi offers her counsel, seeing that she is burdened and trapped in a pursuit that is actively destroying her. Ignoring this offer, he continues to persist, highlighting that her job does not take into consideration that not every being in the universe is the same. Taking Edwin Paine and Charles Rowland as a good example, as she mentioned them earlier, he tells her that her hubris is what led to her current fate, doggedly following two boys who were far happier where they were than in any bureaucratically appointed afterlife that she had not even seen. 

Seeing he had made a small breakthrough, he kindly takes her by the hand and asks Angie to swim to the surface to let her out, promising the sea monster that she could return to her rest once she was out. He would remain and keep the great beast company. As she leaves, he gives her one of his rings, as a token of their time together, and hopefully, a reminder of what he had told her. 

While this encounter did not stop her pursuit of Edwin and Charles, the Night Nurse did begin to question whether it was indeed possible for mistakes and clerical errors to be made, leading to souls being trapped in the afterlives and planes of existence that they were not meant to be trapped in.