One of the first and few male-to-female transsexual characters in comics. Has unique abilites that inable her to dissolve any solid and coagulate liquids by touching them.
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.
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 fellow 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.
| Super Name: | Coagula |
| Real Name: | Clark Godwin |
| Aliases: |
Clark Godwin Kate Godwin |
| Publisher: | DC Comics |
| Gender: | Other |
| Character Type: | Radiation |
| 1st Appearance: | # |
| Appears in: | 12 issues |
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