Apparently Plan Three is "Frontal Assault"

[james_davis_nicoll]

One where the heroes pose heroically to give the bad guy time to shoot them down.

"DC Nation Doom Patrol Preview" (Watch on YouTube)

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[jwgh]

Plan 4 involves painting targets on their chests and taking a nap.

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

Granted, the version where Robotman lands on General Immortus and slashes him into villain stew leaves them with 18 minutes of airtime to fill.

[doc-lemming.livejournal.com]

Hmmm. I never noticed before, but Doom Patrol Classic had no ranged attacks. (I might be wrong; the only thing I remember Negative Man doing is flying through things and being all scary because he's, you know, negative. Oh, the Wikipedia says the Negative Spirit could also make objects explode.) Only Steve Dayton had anything like a ranged attack. You'd figure the Chief would have noticed that.

So Robotman makes the jump, he hangs in the air for a page (in ICONS) or three seconds (in Champions), and General Immortus pings him with the Spiky Raybeams, which, in true comic book fashion, kill Robotman's momentum and make him drop straight to the ground.

Plan 1 probably should have been to put Negative Man behind an obstacle so his recumbent helpless body doesn't get whacked, have him attack at the same moment that Robotman jumps (because he can fly "very fast") and make Immortus' gadget explode while the General is dealing with Robotman.

You know, the longer I think about these guys, the more Morrison's explanation for the Chief's behaviour makes sense ("secretly wants to make the world a more interesting place").

[nelc.livejournal.com]

Scary? Or depressing?

[bruce munro (from livejournal.com)]

General Immortus - world's most dangerous Depends - wearer.

[tceisele.livejournal.com]

He reminds me of The Terror, who The Tick called "The greatest criminal mastermind of the 20th century! And part of the 19th, I think . . ."

[timgueguen.livejournal.com]

Someone needs to write a General Immortus versus Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy crossover.

[xiphias.livejournal.com]

Sure, Plan 3. Where heroes 1 and 2 get wiped out to make the villain overconfident, and hero 3 then does things. That's why it's Plan 3.

It's like Muhammad Ali's rope-a-dope. Get the snot beaten out of you in order to wear 'em down.

[andrewducker]

I'm not sure I can think of many superhero teams less suited to a children's TV show.

[doc-lemming.livejournal.com]

Well, there are a couple of characters from independent presses that would specifically be too odd. Grant Morrison-era Doom Patrol would specifically be too weird.

Rick Veitch (Brat Pack?) -- actually, anyone who has done Swamp Thing -- has done work that is not suitable for a children's TV show.

[andrewducker]

Sorry, yeah. I meant DC/Marvel in-universe. Although they got transplanted to Vertigo, so I'm not sure how much that counts.

[scott-sanford.livejournal.com]

They don't come much odder than Danny the Street, but he would certainly be a welcome addition to a TV show. Or to a group of PCs, though I'd hate to have to work up a character sheet for him.

[kithrup.livejournal.com]

I learn the strangest things here.

[fridgepunk.livejournal.com]

They were in the Teen Titans Go! cartoon - Beastboy and they reunited and the teen titans and doom patrol fought all the doom patrol enemies at the same time, including the french gorilla and his lover the brain in the jar.

[keithmm.livejournal.com]

The latter two had fairly sizable roles in "Young Justice", since we're speaking of shows certainly NOT meant for young kids.

[fridgepunk.livejournal.com]

There was a period in the 90s I think when Troma movies were getting turned into saturday morning cartoons - attack of the killer tomatos and toxic avenger being the two I can remember.

(before anyone asks: no, sgt kabukiman didn't get one.)

[bedii.livejournal.com]

Not a team, but the Michael Fleisher The Spectre and almost any version of The Punisher would be worse. Which brings to mind my favorite Amazing Heroes illo ever: Spidey on a kid's tie-in comic going "Hey, kids! I'd like you to meet a friend of mine!" "Crimson death spoke the guns of The Punisher!"

[awesomeaud.livejournal.com]

Ha! The two guys distract the villain with useless macho posing, while the little lady goes in for the kill!

[bruce munro (from livejournal.com)]

And being an Old White Guy, he finds macho posing entirely non-suspicious... :)