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Coagula (real name
Kate Godwin, birth name
Clark Godwin) is a
fictional character and former member of
DC Comic's
Doom Patrol. Kate is a male-to-female
transsexual, one of the first transsexual characters in
comics, and remains one of the only transsexual
superheroines. The character was created by transexual
science fiction writer
Rachel Pollack. Pollack named Kate Godwin after Chelsea Godwin and transsexual writer/activist Kate Bornstein. Both trans-women are good friends of Pollack.
Fictional character biography
Kate gains her powers while working as a
prostitute. One of her customers is
Rebis, a
radioactive hermaphrodite; after Kate has
sex with him/her, she discovers she can
coagulate liquids and
dissolve solids at will. She first tries out for the
Justice League, but is rejected by them. She meets the
Doom Patrol while battling a villain called the Codpiece, who has devices such as a gun, a drill, and a spring-loaded boxing glove built into a special
codpiece he designed and built. Coagula dissolves the device.
Early on Kate is identified as a
lesbian, but as the series progresses it becomes clear she's
bisexual. She begins a romance with
Robotman.
The name Coagula comes from the
alchemical term "Solve et Coagula", meaning "dissolve and coagulate".
A while after the Doom Patrol split, Kate and Cliff take fellow teammate
Dorothy Spinner on a camping trip with the intention of telling her she's
adopted. However, after hearing this, Dorothy suffers a mental breakdown. This causes her to generate a powerful
psychic explosion, killing Kate and supposedly killing Cliff. Following this, Dorothy falls into a
coma.
Powers and abilities
After having sexual contact with Rebis, Coagula gained the power to turn solids into liquids, and to coagulate liquids into solid. She needs to be in touch with the object to make the change occur.
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