Crazy Jane
Crazy Jane is a female comic character who features in DC Comics.
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Biography
Origin
Kay Challis
Doom Patrol
Robotman and Negative Man caught up with Crazy Jane, and since her life in Danny the World was gone, they readily welcomed her back as family. A dysfunctional family, but the only one they had. Chief wanted to talk to Crazy Jane, but Robotman warned her to stay far away from him. The villain Porcelain Doll arrived on Oolong, gunning for Chief under the orders of Mr. Somebody. The DP stopped her, but wondered about her motivations. She teleported away to Jost Enterprises, and Elasti-Girl followed her. She tried to teleport away to Jost Enterprises, but Elasti-Girl took her teleportation device and confronted Somebody’s henchmen., who took her captive. Crazy Jane led the remaining DP to Ambush Bug, Danny The Bungalow’s new resident, and asked for his help in returning Rita to safety. He teleported himself, Negative Man, and Robotman to Jost Enterprises. (Doom Patrol v5 #11)
The Doom Patrol were were kicked out of Oolong, and Mr. Somebody and the M.S.E. set up shop on the island with Somebody possessing President Cale. Ambush Bug, Crazy Jane and Dusty Marlow banded together, still having loyalty for the DP, and holing up in Danny the Bungalow. Crazy Jane still had full faith that the DP would save the day, she never doubted her dear Clifford. Ambush Bug showed his displeasure with Somebody by continually teleporting his super team the Front Men to Antarctica. The DP stormed Ooolong, destroyed the M.S.E.’s security devices, and defeated the Front Men. Mr. Somebody and the M.S.E. confronted the Doom Patrol, but Ambush Bug let Somebody know, using his cosmic awareness, that DC was cancelling the Doom Patrol comic, and the DC Universe was being remade after the company wide crossover Flashpoint. Somebody accepted that there was no point in fighting, and abandoned Cale’s body, and left the dimensional plane with the M.S.E. President Cale repatriated the Doom Patrol. (Doom Patrol v5 #22)
Post-Flashpoint
Following the Flashpoint, a new version of reality was created with a different history of events.
Overview
Personality and attributes
Powers and abilities
Among her alters included:
- Baby Doll :
- Black Annis :
- Flaming Katy :
- Hammerhead :
- No One :
- The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter :
- Baby Harlot :
- Blood of the Lamb :
Notes
- Crazy Jane was created by Grant Morrison and Richard Case where she made her first appearance in Doom Patrol v2 #19 (February, 1989).
In other media
Television
- In Doom Patrol, Crazy Jane appeared in the setting of the live-action DC Universe television series where she was portrayed by actress Diane Guerrero. As a little girl, Kay was sexually, physically, and emotionally abused by her own father. The experience caused her to develop dissociative identity disorder and manifest 64 different alters. In 1954 one night, Kay's father dragged her to a well at their farm to punish her for disobeying him. Her father forced her in the bucket so he could put her in the well. Kay attempted to apologize for disobeying and begged him not do it, but he kept lowering her into the well, anyway. While trapped in the well, Kay dropped her stuffed animal "Amelia” in the water during her attempts to escape due to her caving into her fear and thus falling into a panic. This trauma created the "Well" in a place called the "Underground" as the representation of her greatest fear and her father's abuse. As seen in her memories, Kay's alters had already seemingly formed during her early adolescence, and identified themselves immediately as separate people. Due to her inability to understand the psychological damage incurred to her daughter, Elena instead concluded that her daughter was possessed by "demons". This caused her mother to have her exorcised by the local town priest in a feeble attempt to have the "demons" removed from her daughter, This was done by having Kay being constantly dunked into a tub of holy water repeatedly until the "demons" left her body. The trauma of this event and her current alters inability to make them stop eventually resulted in the creation of a new alter, "Miranda", who after a brief argument with the other alters to keep Kay safe in their mind, successfully surfaced and proceeded to manipulate the priest and the church goers into thinking that she was "saved" and successfully convincing them that she was now "cured". After that, Kay permanently receded into the Underground and handed over full control of her body to her new "Primary". Later, Miranda proceeded to subtly threaten Elena to never do something like this again, lest she reveals to everyone what truly occurred in their home. Eventually, Miranda continued acting as the primary alter during middle school, where Miranda got into much trouble with her teachers due to her refusal to answer or be referred to as "Kay" and insisting on being called "Miranda".
Appearances
- Doom Patrol v2: (1989)
External Links
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