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''This article is about the fictional comic book character. For the art magazine, see ''Coagula Art Journal'' '' Coagula (real name Kate 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 transsexual science fiction writer Rachel Pollack. According to the Comics Journal, Rachel Pollack based the character's civilian name on two friends of hers. The friends in question are transgender writer and actress Kate Bornstein and the transsexual activist Chelsea Goodwin.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 The Heroines of My Life: Interview with Rachel Pollack )〕 Rachel wanted to create a positive portrayal of a lesbian transsexual lady. ==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.〔(【引用サイトリンク】Comic Book Crap... The Codpiece of Terror!!! )〕 Early on Kate is identified as a lesbian, but as the series progresses it becomes clear she is 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 teammate Dorothy Spinner on a camping trip with the intention of telling her she is 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.〔Revealed in ''Doom Patrol'' vol. 3 #9〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Coagula」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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