(Doom Patrol V #1) - Doc Magnus and the Metal Men set up shop in a new neighborhood, and they faced hostile neighbors who worried that the Metal Men were a health hazard. The Metal Men became more emotionally unstable, and the team refusing to accept the presence of their new teammate Copper. A museum hired the Metal Men to recover the ruby of redemption from Brazil, but it was guarded by the animated idol Zummazumma. They managed to destroy Zummazumma, but Lead managed to lose the ruby. Copper was instrumental in the battle, but everyone still ignored her, and she tried to compensate by being subserviant. It took them 12 hours, but they finally found it and returned home.

(Doom Patrol V #2) - Doc Magnus hired out the Metal Men to fix a television satellite. Gold, Tina and Copper went into space in a rocket to get the job done, and Copper tried sucking up to the vain Gold to get him to notice her, but they forgot to bring along the repair manual. Doc as going to talk them through it, but Tina and Gold started bickering when Gold kept self-aggrandizing, and their scuffle led to the destruction of the television satellite and a nearby communications satellite, blacking out TV reception in 42 states. The blackout led to Douglas, Robot Hunter being cancelled.

(Doom Patrol V #3) - Doc downloaded driving protocalls into the Metal men, and brought them to the DMV to get driver's licenses so they'd fit in with their neighborhood. Tin's nerves failed him, and he crashed Doc's car during his test, causing the already hesitant DMV to tell the Metal Men to go home. The team had left Copper back home, forgetting about her once again, and she tried to win points by continuing Doc's good neighborhood program, fixing Miss Romero's fiber-optics. She wondered if the Metal Men were being mean to her, or if she had a really forgettable, boring personality. She encountered Leonard Ruttman, the actor who played Douglas, Robot Hunter. He'd lost his mind after his show was cancelled and was convinced he was Douglas, and wanted to wipe out all robots. He shot his prop gun at Copper, merely confusing her. He retreated just as the Metal Men returned home.

(Doom Patrol V #5, 6) - Tina sent Mercury, Tin and Magnus to the department store to get her birthday gifts. The three took a cab, and Mercury continued to berate Tin for crashing their car. Magnus made it clear that he thought the idea of celebrating a birthday for a robot was ridiculous. He confided in Tin that Tina’s interest in him was only her mimicking what she thought of as human love from the media she’d seen. The Clique, robotic mannequins who wanted to rule the world, were causing a disturbance at the department store, and the Metal Men went into action. Betty, the Clique’s leader, ripped off Tin’s head. The Clique forced Magnus to pick out clothes for them, and he managed to call the rest of the Metal Men, but it took them a bit to arrive because Tina was so excited to get a call from Magnus that she neglected to ask where he was. Tina was furious seeing Magnus consorting with other female robots, and attacked them. The Metal Men combined to form a wood-chipper that ground the Clique to dust, and then wondered about the implications of destroying other artificial life forms. Magnus talked to the military to convince them that Prof. Rumpus, creator of the Clique, was just a fan of his, and not a terrorist.

(Doom Patrol V #7) - The Metal Men fought Giganta, who was going on a rampage in Chicago. During the battle she had a wardrobe malfunction, and her chest popped out. She was mortified, and agreed to surrender when Tina and Copper offered to make her a metal bikini to hide her nudity. The Metal Men and Doc went back home, but their house exploded as they prepared to enter it. Douglas, Robot Hunter had broken in and laid explosives, but he accidentally blew himself up along with the house.