Your pathetic skills can't outshine the brilliance of Doctor Light!
- ―Doctor Light[src]
Doctor Light is a supervillain and enemy of the Teen Titans.
Character History
In his first appearance, Doctor Light attempted to rob a gold transport. He ended up fighting the Teen Titans, where he very easily defeated Cyborg, Robin, Starfire, and Beast Boy. Raven, however, became so enraged at him that her dark side manifested; she almost killed him when she attempted to drag him into the darkness under her cloak. While Raven was calmed down before any fatal damage could be inflicted, the event left Doctor Light severely traumatized.
However, even this trauma did not stop him from continuing his criminal career. In his next scheme, he attempted to drain the oil reserves on an abandoned drilling platform to supercharge his suit, overlooking the fact that the platform was in direct line of sight of Titans Tower. The Titans promptly responded, and when Raven chose to confront him again with her dark side (though this time she did not lose her temper), Doctor Light meekly surrendered.
Doctor Light later appeared as one of the recruits of the Brotherhood of Evil, but did not participate in any of the Brotherhood's plans, instead deciding to work on his own. He retreated to the Arctic Circle where he build an amplifying device to channel the power of the Northern Lights into his suit. When the Titans destroyed the synthetic diamond serving as the machine's collector, Doctor Light subsequently kidnapped Kole and used her crystal body as a replacement. While the machine did increase his powers to previously unmeasured magnitudes, he was defeated by the combined efforts of Gnarrk, Kole and Starfire, who damaged his suit critically, shedding its power.
Doctor Light made another appearance in Revved Up, where he was one of the villainous competitors in Ding Dong Daddy's race for Robin's most secret possession, but was taken out of the race by the mass crash triggered by Red X.
Just before the Titans' final confrontation with the Brotherhood of Evil, Doctor Light went off on his own again and robbed the Bank of Perez after the Teen Titans have returned from their battle. When he emerged from the bank, all the Titans and Honorary Titans were already waiting for him to take him down en masse.
Teen Titans Go!
Due to what happened to him in Identity Crisis, he did not make an appearance in Teen Titans Go! until Issue #30, where his plan is to steal Cyborg's battery to recharge his own power.
Personality
Doctor Light is a villain who likes to talk, and he considers himself the most accomplished, clever and mightiest bad guy around. He is always ready to prove his wit by teasing his opponents with idioms or puns relating to light. However, he usually fails to live up to his boasts, mostly because of his inherent overconfidence and a sheer lack of common sense. He seems to have developed the phobia against Raven, who often uses the advantage to achieve victories against the villain.
Despite all his comical nature, when angered, Doctor Light can be quite a formidable enemy against the Titans, just that it is very rare for him to maintain his seriousness for long time.
Powers and abilities
Doctor Light's supersuit serves as a collecting, focusing and amplification device for the visible frequencies in the electromagnetic spectrum, i.e. light. He is able to project light in various forms and even control it to a certain extend for the following effects:
- energy blasts
- solid light weapons such as blades, whips and shields
Doctor Light also carries odd technological devices with him, most notably force field generators and flash grenades.