So they are the Doom Patrol. Everything you just described is the Doom Patrol. This is before we get into how odd it is that X-Men debuted a few months after the Doom Patrol did, with the same tag line, same wheelchair bound professor, similar suits, etc.
The Umbrella Academy mirrors Morrison's Doom Patrol to a tee, especially the general oddities and the play on more typical superhero team tropes. It's such an overt and obvious connection, that Way actually wrote the most recent Doom Patrol comic run. One I enjoy quite a bit. None of this is shade or a complaint. I love having both Doom Patrol and The Umbrella Academy in my life. It was just a little fun, like pointing out how Lucas basically got Star Wars from Dune and Kurosawa. Also, only one show has Ellen Page.
Wow ! Thanks. I learned something there, I always thought Doom Patrol was a 70s comic, but you're right Doom Patrol is June 1963, and X Men starts in September 1963. Coincidence ? Probably not ! The main point of difference being that X Men's major theme is the issue of racial disharmony, because mutants are a metaphor - sadly it's an issue that seems to keep arising.
On that basis I have to agree with you that the comic is derivative of the Doom Patrol, rather than the X Men, although some of the characters are clear X Men tropes ( Diego - Wolverine) Vanya ( Dark Phoenix) rather than Doom Patrol pastiches.
The TUA comic is a bit more like Morrison's Doom Patrol, but not so much the show - why I say this is because in the show the characters have issues that ordinary people have, mostly daddy related ( e.g. Luther's need to gain daddy's approval, Alison's child custody problems, Diego's refusal to grow up, Vanya's book etc).
These are problems that real people in thr real world have - a big part of the show is them trying to put that crap aside and get on with saving the world, which is why they're so bad at it. Thats what I really like about the show. The Doom Patrol..... not so much, their problems are a bit more existential and weird.
Morrison's Doom Patrol is really out there ( e.g. the Painting that are Paris, the Brotherhood of Dada)
The DC show changes a lot of things, like Mr Nobody, but I think is reasonably faithful to the spirit of the comic.
I feel that the TUA show isn't as bizarre as Doom Patrol, in fact it's bit more grounded than the TUA comic, and for me that makes it more relatable and more enjoyable - although I wouldn't complain if the Eiffel Tower and Zombie Gustav Eiffel attacked.
Gerard Way's new song featured in the trailer:
