"Donkey Patrol," the second episode of Doom Patrol, somehow manages to top the first episode when it comes to sheer over-the-top lunacy. It does this with a modest amount of mayhem involving various oddball animals and a liberal does of fourth-wall breaking on the part of the series' antagonist/narrator, Mr. Nobody. From the moment he defines the audience as "Grant Morrison fans, Reddit trolls with DC Universe subscriptions and the three new fans who stuck around after the donkey fart," it is clearer than ever that this isn't your standard superhero show.

Picking up where the pilot episode ended, "Donkey Patrol" sees the town of Cloverton, Ohio devoured by a vast spiritual sinkhole, along with Crazy Jane and Dr. Niles Caulder. The three surviving members of Doom Patrol are left to deal with the disaster as best they can. In the case of Cliff "Robotman" Steele, this means chasing after an apparently magical donkey. In the case of Rita "Elasti-Woman" Farr, this means going home and just assuming someone else will deal with things instead of her. And in the case of Larry "Negative Man" Trainor, it means hopping on the first bus out of town and trying to get as far away from the weirdness as possible.

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Thankfully, the incident gets the attention of Victor "Cyborg" Stone - an honest-to-goodness superhero and friend of Dr. Caulder. Desperate for an escape from his controlling father and fondly remembering Dr. Caulder showing more of an interest in his life outside of his superpowers than his dad ever did, Vic makes his way to where Cloverton once was to get to the bottom of things. Unfortunately, though this isn't his first rodeo, this is all still way above Cyborg's pay-grade and things only get weirder after the donkey vomits up Crazy Jane. Here are all the questions that fans are asking in the wake of "Donkey Patrol."

7. What Are Mr. Nobody's Powers?

Eric Modern aka Mr. Nobody meets Niles in Doom Patrol

After two episodes, it is still unclear just what Mr. Nobody's powers are and what limits he has, if any. The Chief says that Mr. Nobody believes he can "control the story" which fits with his apparent ability to manipulate reality around him and the control he exhibits over Negative Man, Elasti-Woman and Cyborg when they enter into his dimension. He also seems to have some degree of omniscience, knowing all the details of the heroes' histories and their secrets, which befits his role as the show's narrator. Yet as Cyborg points out, if Mr. Nobody was completely all-powerful, he wouldn't bother trying to trap the team or warn them away from searching for the kidnapped Chief. And there are clearly limits to Mr. Nobody's ability to know things because the Chief was able to successfully evade Mr. Nobody until the events of his patients' day out showed up on the news in the pilot episode.

6. Who Is The Talking Cockroach?

Ezekiel The Cockroach prophesizes doom in Doom Patrol

As Cloverton, Ohio is sucked into the portal that Mr. Nobody opened in the opening scene of "Donkey Patrol," we are treated to an even stranger sight than a sinkhole in reality sucking up everything it can. A talking cockroach stands up on a trash can, screaming like a street preacher as all Hell breaks loose. The cockroach shouts to his god and asks to "be seated by your most holy side" before he too is seemingly drawn into oblivion. We later see his portrait among the gallery of Cloverton's citizens when Negative Man, Cyborg and Elasti-Woman enter into the other dimension.

While the character of Ezekiel the Cockroach certainly seems strange enough to have come from a Grant Morrison comic, he's a wholly original creation of Doom Patrol's showrunner Jeremy Carver, who was also a producer on Supernatural and Being HumanIn an interview with Collider, Carver revealed that he had tried working the idea of a doomsday prophet cockroach into other shows he had written in the past but always been shut down by the other producers. One wonders, in retrospect, how the Winchester brothers might have reacted to an insectoid evangelical prophet, but that's all water under the bridge now unless there's a Doom Patrol/Supermatural crossover in the future.

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5. What's The Deal With The Donkey?

Doom Patrol Mr. Morden and The Donkey

Another animal raising questions among Doom Patrol's viewers is the little white donkey that seems to serve as a herald of Mr. Nobody. We first saw the jackass in question in the opening scenes of the pilot, when Mr. Morden was guided to the Nazi who transformed him into Mr. Nobody. The first episode ended with the flatulent beast releasing a cloud of green gas which spelled out the words "The mind is the limit" just before Mr. Nobody "opened his big, fat hole" and started devouring Cloverton.

The second episode opens with Mr. Nobody describing how he "manifested his desire for chaos" through the donkey. Later, Cyborg discovers that the donkey's throat is the entryway into Mr. Nobody's dimension. Clearly, the donkey is tied to Mr. Nobody somehow, though it is unclear if it is his only physical conduit into the world or just how Mr.  Nobody chooses to manifest his physical essence.

Page 2: The Cheif and Mr. Nobody, Crazy Jane's Personalities, Cyborg, and Rita's Baby

Doom Patrol Mr. Nobody Alan Tudyk The Chief Dr. Niles Caulder Timothy Dalton

4. What Is The History Between The Chief and Mr. Nobody?

It is clear from the brief conversations between Mr. Nobody and the Chief in "Donkey Patrol" that the two have encountered each other before. In the pilot, Dr. Caulder immediately recognizes the signs of Mr. Nobody's presence and mutters the word "Paraguay" (the country where Mr. Nobody was created) before Mr. Nobody first appears. Mr. Nobody also addresses Dr. Caulder as "old friend" in a tone that suggests he is anything but a friend and delivers a cliched villainous rant about how Dr. Caulder has "slipped through my fingers for the last time." Presumably, we will learn something of their prior battles as the season continues.

3. What New Personas Does Crazy Jane Exhibit This Week?

Crazy Jane summons all her personalities in Doom Patrol

We see Crazy Jane cycle through a number of her personalities after escaping from Mr. Nobody's dimension in "Donkey Patrol." We also learn the names of several of them from the map of the Underground, which Robotman finds in Dr. Caulder's laboratory. However, very few of the personalities seen in this episode display a superpower and even fewer of them identify themselves by name.

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The first definitively named persona is Baby Doll - a childlike character taken directly from the comics, whose powers are undefined. Jane's hair styles itself into pig-tails when Babydoll is in control of her body and she loves Cyborg while being afraid of Robotman. On the opposite end of the spectrum is Flaming Katy, who dislikes being interrogated and manifests as a woman made of living flame.

Cyborg winds up falling prey to Lucy Fugue - a woman with an electric touch who is able to briefly taser him into unconsciousness. This is something of a change from the comics, where Lucy Fugue had transparent skin and radioactive bones. Finally, there is an unnamed personality who can make her words manifest as solid metal objects and reshape them into tangible forms, like swords.

2. How Was Cyborg's Origin Changed For Doom Patrol?

Cyborg standing in front of a set of stairs in Doom Patrol.

It has been known for some time that Cyborg was always planned to be part of the cast of DC Universe's Doom Patrol rather than part of their Titans series. It was unknown, however, which of Cyborg's origin stories the show would be utilizing in their continuity. Would Victor Stone's cybernetic enhancements be brought about by advanced human technology, as in the original New Teen Titans comics? Or would his body be rebuilt thanks to the wonders of alien technology, as in the modern comics or the Young Justice animated series?

"Donkey Patrol" reveals that its version of Victor Stone is set in the mold of the classic Cyborg, with Victor Stone left horribly mutilated following an accident in the lab of his scientist parents. The show puts a new spin on the classic formula, however, revealing that Victor was somehow responsible for causing the explosion that killed his mother. This puts a dramatically different spin on the original history and gives Victor an additional motivation for using his newfound powers to help others as a means of atoning for his past.

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1. Did Rita Farr Willingly Abandon Her Own Daughter?

April Bowlby as Rita Farr in Doom Patrol

When Negative Man, Cyborg and Elasti-Woman enter into Mr. Nobody's dimension, they each wind up tormented by some vision from their past. In the case of Rita Farr, she is on a movie set, playing a character in a film called Cupid Knocks Thrice, who is giving a dramatic speech about being abandoned by the man she loved and left with a baby "that's gonna grow up not knowing her daddy." The crew suddenly vanishes after Rita breaks character to respond to Mr. Nobody's taunts, leaving Rita alone with a baby carriage that she regards with some degree of horror as Mr. Nobody speaks about knowing "her whole story" and "what you did... what you're willing to do."

The implication is that Rita is playing herself and some circumstance left her as a single mother. This would have been a major scandal in the conservative times when she was a movie star and she would certainly have been expected to give up acting to focus on being a mother under the old studio system. Given how career-focused Rita has been portrayed in the series so far, it's completely believable that she would have her baby in secret and put her up for adoption rather than give up her status as a silver screen goddess, though a part of her would likely feel guilty about it.

One aspect of this idea that lends credence to the theory is that it would create a stronger connection between Elasti-Woman and the other members of the original Doom Patrol trio. Both Robotman and Negative Man had their backgrounds altered from the comics for the show so that they were now fathers before their respective accidents. Changing Rita Farr's background so that she too was forced to abandon her family by circumstance would be another way to build upon the show's core theme of outcasts and outsiders forming a new family with each other to replace what they lost.

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