Doctor Tyme

Doctor Tyme is a male comic supervillain who features in DC Comics.

Biography

Pre-Crisis

Percival Sutter

Dr. Tyme spent years perfecting his 4-X beam, and once it was finished he declared himself the master of time. He first used it to steal two million dollars worth of jewelry from Flagship 109. His next crime was stealing a factory's payroll, but Elasti-Girl observed his actions and trailed him back to Merwin's Folly. The Doom Patrol soon arrived at his castle and defeated him, but he had a trick up his sleeve. He revealed that the castle was rigged with a bomb that he already set to go off, and convinced them to let him go free and concentrate on saving themselves. (Doom Patrol v1 #92)

Post-Crisis

Following the Crisis on Infinite Earths, a new version of reality was created with a different history of events.

Eventually, he became a member of the Science Squad based on Oolong Island, a collaboration of other brilliant madmen dedicated to making crazy super-weapons. His suspension ray was instrumental in taking down Black Adam during a conflict. (52 v1 #46)

When the Doom Patrol based their new headquarters on Oolong, Tyme grew fearful that they would discover his secret identity, believing that he was their arch-nemesis. Selecting Father Davis as a go-between, Tyme assured the heroes that he no longer wished them any harm and simply wanted to work alongside them in peace. (Doom Patrol v5 #4)

Tyme was doing work with the Science Squad when power went out on Oolong. The Doom Patrol’s leader Chief sucked all of the power from Oolong’s energy grid for an experiment that gave him Kryptonian powers. (Doom Patrol v5 #14)

The Doom Patrol were kicked out of Oolong, and the country was taken over by M.S.E. and the Front Men. Tyme and the Science Squad made a fully automated Robotman as a tribute to the DP, and it went on a berserk rampage. The Front Men destroyed it, and informed the Science Squad that they’d follow M.S.E. orders or pay the price, and to illustrate their point they mutilated one of the scientists. (Doom Patrol v5 #20)

Notes

• Doctor Tyme was created by Arnold Drake and Bruno Premiani where he made his first appearance in Doom Patrol v1 #92 (December, 1964).

In other media

Television

• In Batman: The Brave and the Bold, Doctor Tyme made a cameo appearance in the animated television series episode "The Last Patrol" in a non-voiced role. He was shown in a montage sequence of the Doom Patrol's battles with supervillains over the years
• In Doom Patrol, Doctor Tyme appeared in the live-action DC Universe television series in the episode "Tyme Patrol" where he was portrayed by actor Brandon Perea and voiced by actor Dan Martin. Johnathan Tyme was a scientist who had conducted experiments in time travel. After having successfully obtained and engineered the technology to make full use of the substance called "continuinium", Doctor Tyme was stated to have traveled all across time and appeared and visited each and every era of human history. With him having ended up becoming particularly fascinated and fixated on the 1980's due to its Disco, music and culture. Although unspecified, Doctor Tyme's exploits was shown to have made him somewhat infamous. Having been seen to have attracted numerous people from across various era's and time periods into his pocket dimension who have all heard of his usage of Continuim and desire it for themselves only to end up being imprisoned into Tyme's disco skate ring instead. In dire need of a substance called "continuium", The Chief sent Cliff, Rita, and Jane on a mission to locate and extract the mineral from a "pocket dimension" that was occupied by Dr. Johnathan Tyme. Believing that the continuium was located in Dr. Tyme's "helmet", The Doom Patrol was instructed to remove his helmet and obtain the mineral. After a brief altercation between the team and Dr. Tyme, Cliff and Jane are hit by time blasts from Dr. Tyme's clock head and frozen in time. Rita tightly grips Dr. Tyme's helmet and slams him to the floor, shattering his head into pieces (unaware that the 'clock helmet' was his physiological head and not an actual helmet). The "helmet", having no user to command the time powers, starts shooting lasers in all directions. While watching in horror as Dr. Tyme's organs spill from the back of his head, Rita is quickly overcome with grief and guilt. In an effort to revive him, Rita moves the clockhand on his helmet counter-clockwise which suddenly starts reversing time in the pocket dimension. As time starts reversing, Dr. Tyme's brainmatter is relocated from the floor back into his clockhead, reviving him in the process. After regaining consciousness and immediately returning to his former self, he fiercely snatches Rita's wrist to stop her from moving his clock-face-hands. Dr. Tyme informs her that he feels insulted by her team's lack of manners and that they are "out of the party" before teleporting them back to the manor without the mineral.

Appearances

• Doom Patrol v1: (1964)
• 52 v1:

External Links

• DC Database Entry
• Comicvine Entry

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