The Doom Patrol sacrificed themselves to an explosion in order to save a small island from General Zahl and Madame Rouge. The Chief secretly erected a force field to save everyone except Elasti-Girl. Chief was curious if the explosion might have further mutated Elasti-Girl, but sadly it did not, and she seemingly perished.

(Teen Titans III #32 (fb, BTS)) - When Superboy Prime punched the walls of reality he caused havoc with spacetime. Elasti-Girl and the Doom Patrol were removed from time and forgotten by the world. The DP even forgot most of their own past.

(Doom Patrol IV #9 (fb)) - <six month ago> Hank Gambol sold the mutant ape Grunt to Rita an the Doom Patrol for scientific study. Nudge, Grunt’s handler, used her telepathic power to make sure the DP took her along with them so she could care for Grunt.

(JLA #94-99) - With Chief’s old enemies the Tenth Circle making a bid to return to Earth he sent Nudge and Grunt out as bait, knowing Crucifer was collecting metahumans for his vampiric lords to possess. Nudge and Grunt were sick of the DP, and since they were leaving anyway Chief placed trackers on them. Negative Man tried to stop one of the Tenth Circle’s abductions, but failed. Green Lantern John Stewart was also on the case, and he informed the JLA that the DP were also pursuing the Tenth Circle. Batman and the JLA went to the DP’s Key Mordaz hq to compare notes. Chief’s tech was able to find Atom in Manitou Raven’s telling stones, where he’d found a side-door dimension that Crucifer used for transporting his cultists. The JLA, Rita and the DP teamed up and confronted Crucifer in Barnes, Saskatchewan, where he prepared to transfer the souls of his vampire lords into the metahuman children he’d collected. The heroes drove him off, and Atom destroyed the vessel containing Crucifer’s heart he had stored in the side-door dimension. Crucifer was weakened enough for Superman to break Crucifer’s hold over him and destroy him.

(Doom Patrol IV #1, 2) - Rita and the Doom Patrol responded to a disturbance at the abandoned penitentiary where the Chief kept old DP villains. Wormhole had freed Barrage, Megalith, and Snake, and they allowed themselves to be possessed by vampire masters of the Tenth Circle and captured the Chief. The DP found themselves on the losing end of the battle until Faith and Nudge expelled the vampires from their host bodies and exposed them to sunlight, destroying them. The DP followed Wormhole to Crucifer’s mansion, where the JLA were waiting for the villain. They destroyed Wormhole by exposing him to sunlight, and the JLA destroyed Crucifer’s mansion.

(Doom Patrol IV #3, 4) - Inspired by the JLA Rita designed DP costumes. Chief sent the DP to the Soames Lake Project in the South Pole after the base was attacked by monstrous beings. The DP contended with more of the monsters that originated from the underground lake, but the monsters quickly died when exposed to the environment. Rita and Cliff went underground to examine the lake, but they lost radio contact with the Chief and found themselves surrounded by monsters. They found that the creatures were prehistoric, and having been made aware of surface life they’d created toxins to destroy humanity. Cliff knew they were vulnerable to environmental changes, so he released the waste toxins from his brain into the water, exterminating ever last creature.

(Doom Patrol IV #5, 6) - Nudge found a broadcast of an underground fight club using robots with human brains, and Chief sent her, Rita and Cliff undercover to infiltrate it. At the fight club Nudge used her telepathy to convince the operators that they were legit, and entered Cliff into battle Cliff into battled a number of champions, including Slice and Dice. Dr. Verdalian, who ran the club, recognized Cliff as the Chief’s handiwork and tried to kill him and Rita. The battle went against him, so he detonated explosives through the club and fled, seemingly dying himself in an explosion. After Negative Man encountered a dinosaur and Chief heard of worldwide dinosaur attacks, the DP had their next mission.

(Doom Patrol IV #7, 8) - Rita and the DP celebrated Christmas together, but the party was cut short when the Chief located Harbor City, Oregon as the center of the dinosaur attack. The DP went to Oregon and fought prehistoric creatures that had been devolved from a dog and pigeons. The Devolutionists devolved Rita and Cliff into mindless apes, and they turned against their teammates. Nudge used her telepathy to call the JLA for help, and Martian Manhunter responded, but was also devolved, but soon shook it off. Vortex captured two Devolutionists, and Manhunter pried the location of their master from their minds. While mot of the DP confronted an army of dinosaurs, Vortex and Nudge confronted the Devolutionists mater. Nudge was taken out of the battle, and Vortex killed the master, afterwards claiming he’d escaped. Negative Man spent too much time separated from Larry, and when the DP tried to send Negative Man back to Larry he found he couldn't rejoin his human form because Larry was seemingly dead.

(Doom Patrol IV #9-12) - Chief preserved Larry Trainor’s body, and put the Negative Man inside Rita until he could find a way to reconnect it with Larry’ body. As a favor to his old friend Simon Stagg the Chief sent the DP to West Texas, where Metamorpho was going on a rampage. Stag tried to increase Metamorpho’s power, but caused a runaway chemical reaction inside him that made him grow to gigantic portions and lose his senses. The DP battled Metamorpho, but had no luck halting him. Chief realized they needed to speed up his chemical reaction, so he exposed him to a number of chemicals until Metamorpho returned to normal. Rita’s body started to react negatively to having Negative Man inside her, so Chief relocated Negative Man to a containment pod until he could figure out how to reunite him with Larry. Nudge sent a red alert to the DP after locating Grunt, and they went to find her. The DP rescued Grunt and Nudge, who were being pursued by the police, and Nudge revealed her history to her teammate. Chief was attacked by his nemesis T’Oombala, who’d freed the DP villains Snake, Barrage, Megalith and Morass to do his bidding. The DP and Metamorpho defeated the villains, and Nudge’s ghostly friend Elihu stabbed T’Oombala.

(Doom Patrol IV #13, 14) - Chief’s robotic drones repaired his body, and he showed the DP an experiment that let a mouse’s mind travel back in time to inhabit its’ past body and apply its’ future learning. Cliff used this process to prevent his accident that made him Robotman. In the present day the Chief realized the damage Cliff had done and sent Rita back in time, but tethered her to the present so he could retrieve Cliff. Rita professed her love for Cliff, but she was still in her thirteen-year-old body, and the police became suspicious of Cliff’s relation to her and put him in jail, making him miss the race that made him Robotman and inadvertently creating a series of new timelines. The Justice League of an alternate timeline helped Cliff and Rita return to their rightful timeline, and Cliff made sure he was in the accident that made him Robotman. This eliminated the new timelines, and Chief decided to destroy his time machine. Rita reminded Cliff she’d been in love with him forever, and they spent the night together.

(Doom Patrol IV #15-18) - Cliff and Rita enjoyed a date in Sun City and they were mobbed by fans. Rita eluded the crowd by hrinking herself and Cliff down to miniature size. He was proud of her new use of her power, and told Cliff he’d been practicing. When they returned to normal size the S.C.U. alerted them to the appearance of Gregory Donovan, a newborn mutant whose energy sapping powers killed an entire maternity ward and prematurely aged him. Despite the DP’ best efforts to track him down, Donovan left a body count in his wake, and when they found him he’d exhausted his powers and was dead. Vortex took Nudge to Chief after she saw Vortex’ true face, and she seemed brain-dead, but soon revived with the five separate minds he’d absorbed when he amplified her powers with Boost possessing her body. She made short work of the DP, but Vortex’ people, who’d been looking for him, arrived and took her out of action. They determined that Larry’s Negative Man was one of their own. They accidentally merged with Negative Man, causing him to grow to gigantic proportion and burst from DP hq, before going to Florida’s mainland an sapping the lifeforce of its citizens. The DP rallied, and Rita grew to her maximum size to fight Negative Man, but was exposed to enough radiation to severely injure her. Cliff shared the life energy that powered his body to save her. Chief stopped the Negative Man’s rampage using a device that sapped chronomorphic energy, once again separating Vortex’ people, who returned to their own time with Vortex and Negative Man.

(Teen Titans III #32) - Elasti-Girl and the DP aided the Teen Titans and JSA in a fight against Superboy Prime, who was trying to kill Superboy and take his place. The rupture in spacetime that made the world forget about the DP closed, and the DP experienced a rush of memories as they too remembered their own past.

(Tales of the Sinestro Corps: Superman-Prime #1) - An army of Earth’s heroes, including Elasti-Girl and the Doom Patrol, appeared to take Superboy-Prime down during the Sinestro Corps invasion of Earth. The heroes focused on wrecking his armor, because after a year on Oa, and away from a yellow sun his Kryptonian body still wasn’t at full strength, and his armor collected sunlight. Superboy bragged that once the sun rose on Earth he’d be at full power. Superboy was battered by Wonder Girl and Wonder Woman, who blamed him for Superboy’s death, as well as Supergirl and Power Girl, who blamed him for the death of the Superman of Earth-2. As the fight went against him, Superboy broke down in tears. He tried to wipe them away, saying that it was impossible for boys to cry, and then whining that no one ever thanked him for sacrificing his Earth to save the multiverse. The battle lasted until dawn, and he flew into the sunrise. As he achieved full power he declared himself the one, true Superman. The Guardians arrived with Sodam Yat, the new Ion, and pitted him against Superboy-Prime.

(Doom Patrol V #1) - Chief reformed the Doom Patrol, operating out of, and working for the newly sovereign nation of Oolong Island. The DP were becoming emotionally unstable, and Chief made plans to mold them into what he wanted. Elasti-Girl was becoming both more vain, and more insecure. He hired Father Leslie Davis to be their chaplain, and to give him information on what was going on in his team's minds. Chief's first mission for the DP was to have them fly to Buena Suerte and destroy the lab of mad scientist Botfly, who was bioengineering a monstrous army. The team succeeded, but Nudge died during the mission, and Grunt was left behind in Suerte. Chief had Davis talk to them, but no one seems overly bothered by her death. Elasti-Girl told Davis she was jealous of all the attention her dead teammate was getting. Davis told Chief he was worried that his team had a death wish, and Chief responded that it was for the best if they didn't overly value their health if they were to be effective pawns for him. Chief was contacted by Dr. Ackerman, the mind behind the VULCAN collider. He told Chief the collider had created a miniature black hole, and it wanted to negotiate Earth's survival.

(Doom Patrol V #2, 3) - Chief told the Doom patrol he was sending them to the VULCAN Supercollider in Brandenburg to talk to the black hole. Cliff balked at the team going on another mission hours after their last debacle, but Chief made it clear it was their job, and they had no choice. The black hole had bonded to the supercollider workers, and attacked the Doom Patrol to gauge their abilities. After it called off hostilities it brought them to the supercollider and explained that once it achieved sentience it had become curious. It bonded ith people to learn about the human race, but the process ended up killing anyone it had tried it on. The Doom patrol were horrified to hear it say it needed to bond with millions of humans to completely understand the species. The black hole considered the Doom Patrol no threat, so it released them, and abandoned Brandenburg to continue its investigations. The DP followed him to the German village Cottbus. The black hole was annoyed that they were still trying to interfere with its plans, but the odds were stacked against the heroes, as it had possessed over 1000,000 people in the village. Chief was planning a way to neutralize the lack hole, and summoned Mento, demanding he possess Elasti-Girl and use his mental powers to disable the possessed humans. Mento lamely tried to deny his ability to perform such a feat, but Chief surprised him by letting him know he was fully aware that he possessed Rita in her sleep to satisfy himself. He was terrified because Rita would know he was manipulating her if she was conscious, but Chief bullied him until he complied. Mento, inside Rita's mind, sent out a psionic blast that rendered all but one of the black hole's host unconscious. The black hole agreed to return with the DP to Oolong Island to talk to the Chief, as their conflict was now a stalemate. Rita seethed over how she'd just been used.

Comments: Created by Arnold Drake, Bob Haney & Bruno Premani

Elasti-Girl received profiles in Who's Who: The Definitive Directory of the DC Universe #7 and Who's Who in the DC Universe #12.

Elasti-Girl had a cameo in Titans II #17.

JLA #94 initially rebooted Elasti-Girl and the Doom Patrol, removing their previous appearances from continuity, but Teen Titans later retconned this reboot explaining that everyone in the world, including the DP, forgot about the DP's history when Superboy Prime unleashed a continuity wave. This probably removed the flashback sequences (which gave a new origin for the Doom Patrol member) from Doom Patrol IV from continuity, unless they were false memories generated by the continuity wave. For the sake of completeness, here were Rita's flashback appearances in DP IV.

(Doom Patrol IV #12 (fb) <13 years ago> Rita witnessed her racecar idol Cliff Steele crash during a race, and although his body was destroyed, the Chief saved his brain. Seven year later Rita graduated cum laude from Harvard and Chief hired Rita Farr as an assistant, and he fell in love with Cliff for his mind.

(Doom Patrol IV #6 (fb)) - <nine years ago> Rita served as Chief’s lab assistant, and sided with Chief in an argument with his assistant Dr. Verdalian. Verdalian performed unsanctioned experiments, turning animals into cyborg, and wanted Chief to pursue his project with Cliff Steele’s brain further. The argument ended in Chief and Verdalian parting ways.

(Doom Patrol IV #5 (fb)) - <five years ago> Chief woke up Cliff Steele’s brain, and connected it to a voicebox. Rita knew Cliff fealt utterly disconnected, and taid to talk with him.

(Doom Patrol IV #2 (fb)) - <three years ago> Chief and Rita sent Larry Trainor into space in the Sunrunner, and Larry fell into hyperspace and returned to Earth with the Negative Man inside his body.

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