The story begins with the Doom Patrol—a group of traumatized outcasts including , Negative Man (Larry Trainor) , Elasti-Woman (Rita Farr) , Crazy Jane , and Cyborg (Victor Stone) —accidentally traveling to the year 2042. What they find is not a utopia, but a desolate wasteland.
They encounter a future version of Victor Stone, who reveals a grim truth: the world ended because of something called the . Even worse, he informs them that they all died as "washed-up has-beens" who failed to stop the apocalypse. The Catalyst: The Rise of Immortus The story begins with the Doom Patrol—a group
faces the literal breakdown of his robotic body, his Parkinson's-like tremors worsening as his human brain begins to fail. The Turning Point: The Musical Nightmare Even worse, he informs them that they all
Returning to the present, the team is desperate to change their fate. They learn of a cult dedicated to resurrecting an ancient, god-like entity known as . This being has the power to rewrite history and grant eternal life, but at a terrible cost to the fabric of reality. They learn of a cult dedicated to resurrecting
