Doom Patrol ’s Mr. Nobodyis the sort of supervillain who enjoys pack his time as he hatches convolute scheme designed to drive his enemies mad . And he does it all from the relative ease of a blindingly - white sack property that he seemed to be the only mortal capable of access for most of the first season . AsDoom Patrol get to a finish , though , this strange plaza was last open a right name and an explanation , and weirdly , it ended up being one of the show ’s cleverest and most novel tributes to the comic Book that made the show potential .
In the glimpse of Mr. Nobody ’s creation featured in Doom Patrol ’s first episode , the serial also gave us our first look at what would come to be known as the White Space . It ’s a on the face of it endless void where Mr. Nobody spends the volume of his time plot and , curiously , narrating the events of DC Universe ’s Doom Patrol with quaternary - rampart - expose omniscience .
When Nazi Dr. Heinrich Von Fuchs attempted to give Eric Morden ( Nobody ’s civilian name ) metahuman powers by bombarding him with extradimensional energy , the process went awry and Morden ’s organic structure was unexpectedly torn apart . While the experimentation did n’t go exactly as planned , in the destruction , it ’s a resonant achiever because what Mr. Nobody ’s lost in terms of a traditional physical form , he ’s more than made up for with his newfound power to seemingly do damn near anything he imagine . The reason Mr. Nobody never ends up becoming the kind of threat the Justice League would detect , it seems , is that his vision is somewhat small-scale .
Mister Nobody partying in the White Space.Image: (DC Universe)
In addition to providing commentary about the state of Doom Patrol ’s viewership , Mr. Nobody is also able-bodied to teleport across vast distance , read the thought of others , locomote through time , and if he really tries hard enough , he can bend realism itself to his will . The exact nature of Mr. Nobody ’s powers are never precisely explicate , but it ’s heavy implied that they have something to do with the White Space itself as , whenever the Doom Patrol defeat the villain , that ’s where he retreats to lick his wound .
For the most part , the White Space did n’t really factor out into the show ’s plot much until its last few episodes , but in “ Penultimate Patrol ” a fascinating item about the place was expose that reframes the entirety of the series in a dandy way . After failing to fob each phallus of the Doom Patrol into give up on their real lives in favour of idealize reality where their tragic accident never occurred , Mr. Nobody reasons that the practiced course of action at law is to keep them all trapped in the White Space anyway , forced to know out the rest of their immortal days being driven sick by the sound of his voice .
Even with their combined powers , the Doom Patrol does n’t have anywhere near enough steam to take Mr. Nobody out , considering that even at his weak , his power band makes him almost godlike . But as a rather perturbed Rita Farr listens to Nobody pilotless aircraft on about what ’s bechance , she actualize there ’s more to his narration than streamlet - of - the - grind villain soapboxing . In the White Space , the thing that Mr. Nobody says become true specifically because he pronounce them . image she might as well give it a shot , Rita takes delay of the narrative by speaking her own time to come into being .
The Doom Patrol stumbling through the haze of the White Space.Image: (DC Universe)
Up until “ Penultimate Patrol , ” Mr. Nobody ’s omniscience and narration felt like interesting plot of ground devices that came dangerously snug to veering into annoying dominion because , aside from inject moments of snarky humor here and there , they did n’t do much to add grain to the world . They made certain trick possible for the consultation to have a chortle at , but Doom Patrol ’s other characters could never get in on them . By interact with the White Space , Rita unwittingly establishes the interesting construct that the place is to Doom Patrol what the space between panels are in a traditional comic book .
Other live - action comedian adaptations like Ang Lee ’s Hulk and Scott Pilgrim vs. The World have nod to print comedian with storytelling devices and visual gags , and the Deadpool franchise wasted no time in givingRyan Reynoldsa hazard to pan talk X - Men Origins : Michigander on the big filmdom . But the White Space depart a step further by making the whole of Doom Patrol feel like a animation , breathing comic book , complete with its own typically pristine toilet that are occasionally cluttering up the errant idea of a creative penning team .
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The Doom Patrol stumbling through the haze of the White Space.Image: (DC Universe)
He ’s every bit your classic narcissistic ogre who revels in the idea that you ca n’t help but be in awe of his bright plans , no matter how often you ’ve envision them fall apart . Normally , that ’s the sort of hallucination only conveyed by a fictitious character ’s in - universe interaction with other people — but being the oddball show that it is , Doom Patrol does it by trying to reach out of the screen door directly to you .
Knowing what all writers and artist have done with the space between panel in comics over the age , there are all sorts of out - of - the - box seat things Doom Patrol could end up doing with the White Space should it ever return to the series . Even if it does n’t show up again , though , it ’s already left an unerasable mug on Doom Patrol ’s story that promises even more innovative twists yet to come .
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