Given Doom Patrol once briefly and surreally rebooted the Justice League, a possible total DCEU reboot is more likely than you might think.

Doom Patrolcould be Warner Bros. most unlikely but not unprecedented opportunity to reboot the entire DCEU. The team has long been a name that lurks on the fringes of both the comics community and theTV community when it comes to DC - so much so that it's arguable it could only come to the forefront by doing something as bold as a total reset for the DCEU.

Though many fans are only aware of Doom Patrol as a result of Beast Boy being in the group in the comics, and Cyborg featuring in the show, there is a general lack of awareness of anything further than this when it comes to the franchise, despite Doom Patrol season 1's weird and wonderful ending being one of the most intriguing season endings in DC adaptations so far. And this is understandable, as one of the ultimate tragedies ofDoom Patrol is that it almost demands being kept in the background due to its surreal nature and meta storylines not matching the kind of content DC is typically expected to produce.TheTVadaptation of the Doom Patrol comics has been loyal to the weirdness of the comics, and this may explain why it too is a relatively obscure addition to the world of DC shows. In fact, it's possible that without the Titans show briefly featuring the Doom Patrol, very few would even be aware this hidden gem even exists.

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Though itmay seem a dramatic way to fix this, having the Doom Patrol reboot the entire DCEU or at least be involved in an overarching storyline that does so could be a clever way to put an underappreciated show on the map. And rather than being to the DCEU's detriment, this could be done while still benefitting the larger DC franchise overall by creating more variation in the multiverse, appealing to new audiences that otherwise may critically say thatthe DCEU is "too dark".

At first, it had appeared that DC would ignore the Marvel model (and avoid its continuity issues) and have theTV shows and film franchises be two separate entities, each following their own different path. But thanks tothe biggest crossover event in superhero adaptations, it has been made abundantly clear that much of the Arrowverse is now to be considered part of DCEU canon as a result of the establishment of the multiverse, which allows for different actors to still canonically be Batman or Cyborg (or other characters) by explaining they are merely in different universes.

TheCrisisevent actually also confirmed that Doom Patrol is officially a part of this multiverse, specifically designated Earth-21 (and not the same Earth as Titans despite early suspicions). That removal allows for themore eccentric franchise to exist on the edge of the multiverse without changing anything for any other show or film. Crucially, even despite its removal from the main Earth in the Arrowverse and from the DCEU itself, Doom Patrol exists adjacent to both.

Strictly speaking, the answer to whether the DCEU needs a reboot is a paradoxical yes and no. For all that it has been said that DC's foray into the world of film and TV has been fraught with issues,the structure of the universe has not because illegible. Balancing all the various events and timelines of both the DC films and shows isn't an easy task, and yet, as time has gone on, much of the DC universe has been made clearer to use,rather than more confusing and vague. This is doubly true since the DCEU utilized the multiverse ideafor its shows and movies, as this allows for everything to be canon, and yet not necessarily part of the same universe at the same time. Crucially, that means that crossovers are possible but not expected or necessary in the same manner as the MCU.

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