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Sunday, March 31, 2019

Dr Harrison - Doom Patrol (2019)

One of the 64 personalities of Kay Challis, Dr Harrison had the power to manipulate the minds of most people who could hear her voice, persuading them to do her bidding. As well as this, she could perform visual psychometric analysis on her targets, able to determine their fears, desires and flaws. Harrison first manifested in 1977 during an interrogation at the facility that Jane was a patient in, coming to Jane's aid when the abusive psychiatrist - Dr Bertrund - began to pry deeply into Kay's past to determine how she was created and who had caused her such trauma in her youth.

She fought back against him, breaking his facade of control before suggesting he repeatedly jam a pen into his eye, calling him a textbook misogynist and narcissist and shutting down his deflection of her shift in hair and eye colour as a means to hide his own insecurities caused by his mother. As he moved to comply, she remarked that his diagnosis of Kay was accurate if not crude in obtaining, stating that as Jane the world around her was "small" and she was "the monster" to be feared. Before this can be completed, she is interrupted by Mr Nobody freezing time and freeing her, telling her that together they were going to save the world.

Walking her through the plan to create another book for her followers to read, she is given a pamphlet, which she finds to be both unoriginal and weak. He counters this by suggesting that she take this opportunity to hone her abilities and see what she can do.

One by one, she began to influence the people in the hospital, from staff to patients with stories of the Recreator. Influencing them all, she soon built up a following, using their inspiration to begin writing the new book. Eventually, she would amass such a following that the plan succeeded, instructing her new apostles to dance when the Decreator appeared in the sky, biding time while her chosen one Marilyn travels to Nurnheim and awakens her memories to ring the bell and reveal the Book of the Rewritten's text.

Harrison was dragged out of her cell one evening by Burtrum, who had learned from the last encounter and now wore specialised earpieces to block out her voice. She struggled to escape as he told her that she was going to be taken to a private facility and lobotomised.

Secured in a van, she was driven away from the Sanitorium, where the driver revealed himself to be Niles Caulder. Allowing Harrison access to the key for her restraints, he told her that she was to come and stay at his house, a place where she would never again need to worry about her safety at the hands of the violent orderlies.

Whilst she sat in the back alone, expressing her surprise at how nice Caulder came across, Nobody contacted Harrison. He asked her to do one final task once the Decreator was successfully neutralised; find the original Doom Patrol.

With her memories triggered all those years later, she hugged Marilyn and thanked her for coming and showing her faith in her and the Recreator. With Marilyn's blessing, she was told to ring the bell whilst her chosen one confronted the Mother Archon, sacrificing herself so that Harrison could save the world.

Whilst in the Underground, Harrison fulfilled her promise to Nobody, informing Jane about the Doom Patrol and the "lead" that he had given to her in the hunt for the kidnapped Chief.

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