Fast Forward

FAST FORWARD

Real Name: Ted Bruder

Class: Human mutant

Occupation: Homeless, former superhero, supermarket employee

Group Affiliation: formerly Doom patrol

Known Relatives: None

Aliases: Negative Man II

Base of Operations: Delta City, formerly Jost Enterprises, Sacramento, California

First Appearance: Doom Patrol III #1 (December, 2001)

Powers: Fast Forward could originally see 60 seconds into the future. As his abilities increased, he gained the power to see far into any number of possible futures, as well as travel to them and back. Fast Forward had little control over his powers, and they made him mentally unstable.

History: Ted Bruder was picked by Thayer Jost to be on his corporate superteam the Doom Patrol. Ted was given the codename Negative Man, as a tribute to the founding DP member, and his own awful attitude.

(Doom Patrol V #16) - Ted Bruder went insane, and started taking medication that made him lose his metahuman abilities. He got a job in a supermarket when his medication stopped having an effect, and after his madness and abilities returned he was fired, he lost his girlfriend Ava and ended up homeless. Ted found that his powers were amplified; he could see far into numerous alternate timelines, and could travel to any number of them. He kept getting trapped in dystopias where various versions of the Doom patrol all ended up as monstrous villains. He was forced to defend his life, and ended up taking a life or two as well, which deeply scarred him. His powers went out of control, and he started dragging back people from the timelines he visited. On one jaunt he brought back a cannibalistic Elasti-Woman, and a Nazi version of the original negative Man, who teamed up to destroy Delta City. The current DP responded, and defeated their counterparts. Ted begged for help, and Robotman took him to Oolong Island, where the Science Squad induced a coma so he’d stop dimension hopping, and they’d get a chance to study him in hopes of curing him.

Comments: Created by John Arcudi & Tan Eng Huat.

Fast Forward had a cameo in Doom Patrol V #21.