Coagula
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| character_name =Coagula
| publisher =[[DC Comics]]
| debut =''Doom Patrol'' vol. 2, #70
| creators = [[Rachel Pollack]]
| alter_ego =Clark Godwin
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| alliances =[[Doom Patrol]]
| aliases =Kate Godwin
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| powers = Solidify liquids and dissolve solids.
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'''Coagula''' (real name '''Kate Godwin''', birth name '''Clark 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 [[comic]]s, and remains one of the only transsexual [[superhero]]ines. The character was created by transexual [[science fiction]] writer [[Rachel Pollack]]. Pollack named Kate Godwin after Chelsea Godwin and transsexual writer/activist Kate Bornstein.{{Fact|date=March 2008}} Both trans-women are good friends of Pollack.
==Fictional character biography==
Kate gains her powers while working as a [[prostitute]]. One of her customers is [[Negative Man|Rebis]], a [[radioactive]] [[hermaphrodite]]; after Kate has [[sexual intercourse|sex]] with him/her, she discovers she can [[coagulate]] liquids and [[solvation|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.<ref>{{Comic book reference|Title = Doom Patrol|Volume = 2|Issue = 70|Date = (Sept 1993)|Publisher = [[DC Comics]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url = http://www.headinjurytheater.com/article59.htm|title = Comic Book Crap... The Codpiece of Terror!!!|accessdate = 2007-06-30|publisher = headinjurytheater.com}}</ref>
Early on Kate is identified as a [[lesbian]],{{Fact|date=February 2007}} but as the series progresses it becomes clear she is [[bisexuality|bisexual]]. She begins a romance with [[Robotman (comics)#Cliff Steele|Robotman]].
The name Coagula comes from the [[alchemy|alchemical]] term "Solve et Coagula", meaning "dissolve and coagulate".<ref>{{cite web|url = http://www.techgnosis.com/gaiman.html|title = The Gods of the Funny Books: An Interview with Neil Gaiman and Rachel Pollack|accessdate = 2007-02-04|last = Davis|first = Erik|publisher = Techgnosis (Reprint from Gnosis (Summer 1994)}}</ref>
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 [[adoption|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]].<ref>Revealed in ''Doom Patrol'' vol. 3 #9</ref>
==Powers and abilities==
After having sexual contact with Rebis, Coagula gained the power to turn solids into liquids, and to coagulate liquids into solid. She needs to be in touch with the object to make the change occur.
==References==
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[[Category:DC Comics superheroes]]
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[[Category:Fictional courtesans and prostitutes]]
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[[Category:LGBT superheroes]]