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Quote1 Your pathetic skills can't outshine the brilliance of Doctor Light! Quote2
Doctor Light[src]


Doctor Light
Light
Real name Dr. Arthur Light
Aliases Sad little man (Raven), Skinny Dude (Beast Boy)
Place of Origin Unknown
Headquarters Jump City
Species Human
Affiliations (formerly) Brotherhood of Evil, Himself, Light Rocket (Himself (Doctor LIGHT), and Punk ROCKET)
Partners Psimon, Punk Rocket
Relatives Unknown
Powers & Abilities Photokinesis,
Invisibility,
Gifted Intellect in the Fields of Technology and Science,
Flight
Weapon His Suit,
Flash Grenades,
Force-Field Generators,
Bubble Entrapments
Goal To defeat the Teen Titans Justice League and light up the night
Voiced by Rodger Bumpass
First Appearance Nevermore

Doctor Light is a supervillain and enemy of the Teen Titans and Justice League.

Character History[]

In his first appearance, Doctor Light attempted to rob a gold transport. He ended up fighting the Teen Titans, where he 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 in deep state of shock.

However, even this trauma did not stop him from continuing his criminal career, although it did seem to reduce his ability to be an effective villain. 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 the apperance of this form, Doctor Light meekly surrendered.

Months later, Light attempted to steal money from the bank vault in the Bank of Perez, but was stopped just in time by the efforts of Robin, Starfire, Cyborg, Beast Boy, Raven, Bumblebee, and Aqualad.

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 the episode 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 on 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

Drlight

Doctor Light scared of Beast Boy as a bat

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 is also scared by Raven. Doctor Light could somehow be afraid of bats as seen in Birthmark.

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. However, he is physically very frail and poses little to no threat when his suit gets critically damaged.

Appearances[]

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