The character was created by Grant Morrison and Richard Case and first appeared in Doom Patrol #35 (August 1990).
[3] This has been discussed as part of Morrison's intention to "deconstruct notions of heroic masculinity" in Doom Patrol.
[4] Danny the Street appeared on the first three seasons of the Doom Patrol television series for DC Universe and HBO Max, portrayed as genderqueer, using "they/them" pronouns.
Critics have remarked on the positive portrayal of a non-binary character in a superhero show as emotionally fulfilling for viewers who identify as queer.
[5] Danny is a stretch of roadway that has long served as a home and haven for the strange, outcast and dispossessed.
[6] He possesses superpowers, including the ability to teleport by integrating into a city's geography; roads and buildings simply make room for him.
For example, he communicates with signs in his windows, messages on typewriters, and with letters formed from manhole vapor or broken glass shards.
Danny speaks English, heavily flavored with Polari, a largely antiquated form of slang spoken among certain British subcultures, including some of the LGBTQ community.
[1][10] Jones' obsession with normalcy and with enforcing his "1950s sit-com" worldview, made Danny an obvious target.
In addition to the Doom Patrol and the Perpetual Cabaret, Danny housed Flex Mentallo, protecting the hero during the mental breakdown that followed his first and only failure.
Danny eventually gains enough strength to become an otherworldly amusement park called Dannyland and manifests comic book character Casey Brinke into reality.
I'm pleased with characters like that, which seemed really bizarre and were, in a lot of ways, seen as unacceptable back in the day, and we couldn't even describe what we were doing.