Dollies

DOLLIES

Class: Terrestrial clones

Known Representatives: Dollies 153-155, Head Dolli

Aliases: None

Base of Operations: NYC, New York

First Appearance: Firestorm: The Nuclear Man II #23 (May, 2006)

Powers: The Dollies were armed with various hi-tech devices, including foglet screens that rendered them invisible, smart dust to render an opponent helpless, glue guns that immobilized a target, neutralizer hoods that made met humans powerless, energy blades, ultrasonic weapons and electric gauntlets. Some Dollies used a jet-pack to fly, and some were nuclear-powered. One giant Dollie orbited Earth and was capable of immense energy storage and transference.

History: (Firestorm: The Nuclear Man II #26 (fb, BTS), 31 (fb)) - Tokamak cloned the cybernetic Dollies (named after the cloned sheep) as automatons for his schemes to create a near nuclear holocaust to frighten humanity away from arms races. Tokamak had researched cloning for an earlier program to create a new body to inhabit after a battle with the original Firestorm left him dying of radiation poisoning. He used Dollies to help him blow up nuclear plants, and a few of them gained nuclear powers as a result. Tokamak partnered up with the Pupil, and lent his Dollies to him to bedevil Firestorm.

(Firestorm: The Nuclear Man II #23, 24) - The Dollies assisted the Pupil in his quest for knowledge, and when professor Martin Stein learned of Tokamak’s plans he was kidnapped. Pupil had the Dollies follow Stein’s superhero-in-training Firestorm, and sabotaged a LexCorp weapons test he was responsible for monitoring. Dollies 153-155 were sent to Nevada to kidnap Firestorm. They observed Firestorm split his matrix and become Jason Rusch and Lorraine Reilly, and chose that moment to disable them, bind Jason, and drive off. Jason didn’t know what they wanted from him, but warned them about the instability of the Firestorm-matrix. They ignored him, and when he was a mile away from Lorraine the matrix was compromised, and he exploded in a nuclear blast. Two of the Dollies were destroyed, and the remaining one lost interest and teleported away.

(Firestorm: The Nuclear Man II #26, 27 ) - Firestorm learned where the Pupil was keeping Stein, and broke in. The Dollies surrounded Firestorm and defeated him, splitting him into Jason and Lorraine. The Pupil put an inhibitor hood on Lorraine, taking away her powers. He presented the dead Stein to Jason, saying he’d been too rough on him seeking information, and offered him the chance to form the Firestorm-matrix with a dead man. Jason tried to make the matrix, and found a small spark of life in Stein. Firestorm’s girlfriend Gehenna removed the hood from Firehawk, and she joined the matrix, enabling them to bring Stein back from the brink. The Pupil captured Gehenna, and recognized her. He wanted to know all her secrets, and started torturing her, but one of the Dollies stopped him. This Dollie had recently realized he could feel pain after fighting Lorraine, and had developed a sense of empathy. Firestorm revived, and the Pupil and Dollies were forced to flee.

(Firestorm: The Nuclear Man II #28, 29) - Tokamak built a new series of nuclear-powered Dollies and sent them to attack Firestorm, Firehawk and Pozhar at Professor Stein’s NYC apartment. The heroes defeated them by combining their powers, and Stein realized there was a connection between the Dollies, the Pionic Man and a monster Firestorm fought in Montana. He suspected that whoever created them was the mastermind behind the nuclear accidents occurring worldwide over the past year. He planned on working out the details, and the next day Firestorm, Firehawk and Pozhar traveled to S.T.A.R. Labs to see what they could learn from the Pionic Man. Tokamak put the finishing touches on a massive Dollie orbiting the earth.

(Firestorm: The Nuclear Man II #30, 31) - At Hewitt Industries Tokamak activated the giant Dollie, assembled all of his nuclear creations, and prepared to earn his name as the Human Reactor. Firestorm and his allies Pozhar and Firehawk finally put the pieces together and realized Tokamak was their foe. They confronted him at Hewitt while Tokamak was detonating explosives set in nuclear power plants around the world, and using the giant energy-collecting Dollie orbiting Earth to transfer the power to himself. Tokamak recapped his entire history and said he planned on bringing the planet to the brink of destruction with a nuclear blast from his own body to warn people against nuclear proliferation. The Dollies held off the heroes until Firestorm added Firehawk to the matrix, and Tokamak told them the nuclear energy flooding into him was keyed to his DNA, so even if they killed him he’d still win. Jason remembered that the Firestorm matrix had its own DNA, and hoped that Tokamak and his clone’s matrix did as well. Against Stein’s warning that it was unethical to use their power on a person he separated Tokamak, who was still dying of radiation poisoning after his final confrontation with the original Firestorm. He died in Firestorm’s arms, amazed that he’d been defeated.

(Firestorm: The Nuclear Man II #32) - During the final battle with Tokamak the Dollie that once saved Gehenna met Pionic Man, and they both realized even though they had powers they weren’t suited for superheroism or villainy. They skipped out of the battle and started looking for an apartment together in NYC. With no more Dollies the last one named himself Head Dolli. On New Year’s Eve Firestorm caught up to Dolli and Pionic Man in a diner and they told him their plans. He was convinced they were no threat to anybody, and Pionic Man told him to mind his business when he inquired if the duo were close friends or something more.

Comments: Created by Stuart Moore & Jamal Igle.