Information about Doop's origins, as with anything else about him, is difficult to verify. According to Captain America, the U.S. government created him in a secret Cold War weapons project, but that doesn't explain why he speaks an alien language (which somehow everyone understood anyway). Allegedly, he had a role in the fall of communism in the Eastern Bloc. At some point he met Wolverine. At some other point, during an affair with a woman, Doop ditched her to be with the private detective her husband hired to find him.^[1]

Doop joined the mutant team X-Force as their official videographer. Soon afterward, most of X-Force died, and the survivors (including Doop) became X-Statix. There was some suspicion that he had a hidden agenda; if so, nothing ever came of it. He became a popular member, whose line of official merchandise sold well.

In X-Statix's penultimate adventure, Doop's brain exploded. His teammates and the Avengers competed to find the scattered parts and reassemble them. Able to function with his secondary brain, Doop fought Thor for the last part and restored his primary brain.^[2]

Apparently, Doop died in a hail of bullets, as did the rest of X-Statix.^[3] A similar being (if not Doop himself) fell from space in Costa Rica, where it met Havok and Polaris, who called it Daap.

Doop was later called in to investigate crime on Utopia, new home to much of the world's mutant populace, but he revealed that no crime had occurred yet. Interrogating several X-Men, he was eventually attacked by Cannonball and then Wolverine, before the events were seemingly revealed to be a dream.

Powers and AbilitiesEdit

Powers

Doop's powers seemed to appear as needed. They could have been magical, psionic, or cosmic in nature.

Levitation: Doop could manipulate gravitons to float in place or to move quickly.
Cohesion: Doop could change his size and shape at will. He could also shift his form to "heal" wounds. When dispersed, parts of his body could reassemble themselves. For some reason, parts of his brain could not reassemble, possibly because of a redundant brain in his lower torso.
Dimension Gate: Doop could assimilate objects, usually by mouth, and send them into another dimension (Doop Land) for storage. Doop Land has significant differences from our dimension.^[4]
Psionic Blast: Doop could fire psionic blasts of unknown strength.
Psionic Shield: For a short time, Doop could protect himself and others nearby from telepathic probes.
Temporal Immunity: Doop could not be displaced in time.

Power Grid ^[5]

Abilities

Professional-level videographer.

Investigator.

Strength level

Class 100. He could survive a battle with Thor.

ParaphernaliaEdit

Equipment

Video cameras, microphones, relays

NotesEdit

The inspiration for this character seems to have come from a certain Slimer.
The following image began circulating in September 2001 as a guide to Doop's language.

TriviaEdit

Doop is one of Marvel's few openly bisexual characters^{[citation needed]}.

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Footnotes

↑ I ♥ Marvel: My Mutant Heart. The private detective's name was Chandler, a nod to Raymond Chandler, the hard-boiled fiction writer who created Philip Marlowe (The Big Sleep, Farewell, My Lovely, The Long Goodbye).
↑ X-Statix #21 and #25
↑ X-Statix #26
↑ X-Force #123
↑ Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe A-Z hardcover Vol. 3

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