Biography

Rhea Jones was the daughter of an Air Force officer who would spend long stretches from home because of secret missions. Her mother died from a fatal accident while her father was away on a mission. She stowed away on Air Force investigation plane to the Arctic, not believing both parents had perished.

She learned that the Arctic base's electromagnetic generator had severely malfunctioned and her father had volunteered to shut it down. Afraid of losing both parents, Rhea ran into the generator to stop him. The generator gave off a tremendous electromagnetic discharge that destroyed the building and killed Rhea's father.

The electromagnetic discharge affected her body's magnetic field and gave her super-human powers. The military gave her countless tests and examinations. She would later run away to a circus and be billed as "the strongest little girl in the world".

She would later join Celsius' version of the Doom Patrol. In that team she would developt ties with the other members like Scott Fisher, Karma and Joshua Clay and would face villians like Shrapnel, Garguax, Metallo, Pythia, General Immortus and the Animal Vegetal Mineral Man.

She would later lapse into a coma during the Dominion Invasion, as effect of the GeneBomb. That coma however was really a pupa state caused by a metamorphosis of Rhea's body and mind. This state attracted the attention of strange beings like: Red Jack, an extradimensional serial killer; and the Kaleidoscape and the Orthodoxy, two alien religious factions at war for thousand years.

When she awoke she had metamorphosized into a faceless being where her eyes were on chest and back and her ears were two lights. She awoke in a child like mind state, playful and easy to manipulate. At that point, she was abducted by the Kaleidoscape, who wanted to use her as weapon to break the status quo of the war. The Orthodoxy were late to stop them and recruited the help of the rest of the Doom Patrol to rescue their teammate. On arrival to the Orthodoxy and Kaleidoscape world, the Doom Patrol discovered than the plan of the Kaleidoscape was use Rhea to take down the Judge Rock, the supposed creator and controller of this world. Something than Rhea did easily and willingly but she refused to comply with the full plan of the Kaleidoscape leader, Huss, and give him the treasure of the Judge Rock, a flower which was a branch of the original Tree of Knowledge. Rhea gave the branch to Cliff Steele, who planted it and started to grow in the Judge Rock overflowing it with its power. There Rhea revealed than the Jugde Rock had created the world with a dynamic of conflict and nothing more. Now, the war had ended and a new social dynamic, cooperation, had been born.

With her task finished, Rhea chose to explore the universe, leaving her friends and earth ties behind. She pointed to a star and left to explore it. She has not been seen since then.

Powers & Abilities

Her demonstrated abilities allowed her to fly, give herself Earth reinforced super strength, create limited force fields, and attract or repel metallic objects like bullets. After her metamorphosis Lodestone's abilities are not fully known, however she exhibited far greater powers than her original form had.

Other Media

On the DC streaming show, Doom Patrol, Lodestone appears as a member of an alternative Doom Patrol made up of superhumans neglected by Niles Caulder.