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Doorman (
DeMarr Davis) is a
fictional superhero in the
Marvel Comics universe who first appeared in the pages of the
Avengers West Coast in 1989.
Fictional character biography
Little is known of Doorman's life before he responded to
Mr. Immortal's advertisement for a hero team. This team would eventually become the
Great Lakes Avengers. It has been revealed however that he's a
mutant.
Before joining the Great Lakes Avengers, DeMarr Davis was an average American youngster. Sometime during his years in college, DeMarr's mother died. After completing four years of college and three years of graduate school, DeMarr decided to answer Mr. Immortal's newspaper ad asking "costumed adventurers" to join together and form a team. DeMarr, being a mutant and possessing his unique teleporting ability, is able to allow his teammates entrance into almost any structure, thus creating both a stealthy entrance as well as a surprise attack. He joined the original incarnation of the Great Lakes Avengers.
Doorman is however, the most cynical of the Great Lakes Avengers, constantly comparing the team to the real
Avengers, usually at the most inappropriate times, and feeling at times embarrassed by his friends. Nonetheless, DeMarr cares for them deeply, and values each and every member of the team. He was responsible for creating the fallen GLA'ers memorial at GLA HQ.
He also still blames himself for the death of one of their newest recruits, the
Grasshopper, who died in battle with
Batroc and his minions. Zaran (one of Batroc's henchmen) threw a
sai at Doorman, who quickly activated his powers, only for the blade to land directly in the head of Grasshopper (who was standing right behind him), killing him instantly. DeMarr feels that it's his fault that Grasshopper died and therefore sunk into a slight depression. During this time he also tried to scare another new member,
Squirrel Girl off of the team because he feared that she too would die while in service to the GLA.
Doorman himself has died as well, sacrificing himself so that Mr. Immortal could stop the
villain Maelstrom. He met with the other dead GLA'ers in the afterlife including Grasshopper who forgave him. Doorman was however intrigued by the absence of
Hawkeye. Shortly afterwards, he was summoned by the
cosmic entity
Oblivion, who declared that thanks to Doorman's connection to the
Darkforce dimension, Doorman could prove useful to him, akin to
Deathurge who had recently been captured by Mr. Immortal. Doorman therefore replaced
Deathurge and became Oblivion's new angel of death.
Taking Deathurge's place, Doorman took Maelstrom to the afterlife after he was tricked into killing himself by Mr. Immortal, and was able to return to the GLA. What other effects his new role as servant of Oblivion have had on him have yet to be revealed. Doorman continues to be a member of the GLA, although after he helped his friends save the world from Maelstrom, he understands the team's importance and has a newfound respect for them. However, a subpoena from the real Avengers forced the team to change their name to the Great Lakes
X-Men or GLX.
Some time after the battle with Maelstrom, Doorman was celebrating Christmas with the rest of the GLX when he informed the team that he'd to go and visit his father. Upon reaching his father's house, his father quickly complained that DeMarr was throwing his life away and needed to join the real world. He told his son that he'd "stupid powers" and "all the other heroes have better powers than you." Realizing that his own happiness was more important than his father's respect, DeMarr finally admitted the truth to his father: that he'd died and came back as the angel of death. He hadn't come back to visit his father but rather to collect his soul as he'd fallen off the roof while setting up Christmas lights and died. Ironically, the revelation of DeMarr's new role in the universe greatly pleased his father, who couldn't wait to brag to all his friends in heaven about how his son was the new angel of death.
Doorman and his teammates recently participated in a charity superhero poker tournament hosted by the
Thing, where
Flatman beat their host in the final round. Flatman's status as champion inspired the team to take the new name of the Great Lakes Champions, after being discouraged from affiliation with both the X-Men and the
Defenders by members of those teams present at the tournament, ignoring former
Champions of Los Angeles member
Hercules' protests.
Civil War/The Initiative
All of the Great Lakes Champions have registered with the United States government as required by the
Super-human Registration Act, as revealed when the mercenary
Deadpool mistakenly attempted to apprehend them for violating the Act, only to be defeated by the GLC and informed that they'd already registered.
DeMarr has been identified as one of the 142 registered superheroes who appear on the cover of the comic book #1.
Powers and abilities
Doorman is a class-10 teleporter, meaning that he's capable of teleporting someone anywhere, but with the limitation that it has to be in the next room. His mutant ability operates by tapping into the
Darkforce dimension, as several other Marvel Universe teleporters (such as
Cloak, the
Vanisher,
Silhouette, etc.) do. Originally, his all-black appearance was a costume of apparently conventional material, with stark white eyepieces in the mask as contrast. However, since becoming Oblivion's servant, his Doorman "body" seems to be an assumed shape rather than a simple costume, and he can transform at will from this form to his non-costumed self.
He also gained the ability to collect the souls of the recently deceased and deliver them to
Oblivion; while doing so, he appears visible only to the soul he's collecting, and possibly also his teammate Mr. Immortal, who could perceive the original Deathurge. What other new powers he's gained from his new position, if any, are currently unknown.
Appearance
After dying and being resurrected by Oblivion to become his new "angel of death", Doorman's appearance has changed, as he now possesses white gloves, skis and a cape: the trademarks of his predecessor, the
Deathurge; in fact, his only difference in appearance from Deathurge are the white "eyes" that were once the eyepieces of his original Doorman costume.
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