Her name is an in-joke referring to Dorothy Gale and how she arrived in Oz, by a tornado, or spinning wind.

Dorothy Spinner is a girl who was born with an ape-like appearance and subsequently adopted by a Midwestern couple.

Afterward, Dorothy struggles with the Candlemaker, a gestalt entity who seeks to enter the real world using her powers.

Dorothy eventually suffers a panic attack, causing a psychic explosion that kills Coagula and leaves herself comatose.

[4] However, she is retconned to be dead in Unstoppable Doom Patrol, where General Zahl uses her corpse to summon the Candlemaker.