In many ways Robot Man of the Doom Patrol is the least and still the most human of the artificial heroes. Not encumbered an alienated doubt like Red Tornado, or overcome with confused self-loathing like the Vision, nor detached from his fellow men as was Professor Dunn before and after he became NoMan. Cliff Steele is human through and through in spirit and drive.
He afraid of what he's become, but always aware of the power it gives him. He feels like he cannot connect with the outside world and that's true to some extent, but he wants to do so in the most basic and fundamental ways. Cliff Steele knows what he wants and sometimes that means he doesn't want to be Robot Man. But rejecting what we are while at the same time embracing the potential is an all too human failing.
Surrounded by other so-called "freaks" Robot Man's body is disposable and replaceable. His mind is not, his brain is unique and totally human, full of the emotion and desire we all share. His soul is there in that body beneath the polished exterior. gleaming inside and out.
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