Rita Farr

DC Comics' character. She is a Doom Patrol member.

She is one of the components of the amalgamated giantess (merged) Janet Van Dyne.

Characteristics

 * Occupation: Hollywood actress, Doom Patrol member.
 * Height: 5ft. 6in. (1,6764 meters)
 * Weight: 135 lbs (61,235 kilos)
 * Hair: Brown
 * Eyes: Brown
 * Base: Midway City, Oolong Island

Origin
Rita Farr was a Hollywood actress, until she exposed to unusual volcanic gases while shooting a film in Africa. When Farr recovered, she discovered that she could grow or shrink her body at will from microscopic to hundreds of feet tall. She later gained greater control of her powers, enabling her to return to normal size. Considered a freak and a menace, her Hollywood career was over. Rita is then approached by the Chief, who made her member of Doom Patrol and given her the codename Elasti-Girl.

Silver Age / Earth-One
Rita was the founding member of Doom Patrol. Rita was in a love triangle between with Negative Man and Mento. But, ultimately, she chose Mento and married him. They both adopted Beast Boy, and made him a member of the team. Rita powers allowed her to stretch any part of her body to incredible lengths. She could grow to gigantic size, with an accompanying increase in mass and strength, and could also shrink to tiny, but not microscopic, proportions. She did not maintain her normal mass and strength when she shrank.

Reboot
After the Crisis on Infinite Earths, Rita's history is rebooted. In this new reality Rita is a former professional actress and a professional swimmer. She has a gold medal for swimming in the Olympics. Her shape-changing allows her to grow to the size of a skyscraper or shrink to microscopic size. Rita can selectively shrink or grow parts of her body while the rest of it remains in normal size (semi-giantess).

Retroboot
During the Infinite Crisis, Rita met Beast Boy, but she had no memories of him. That is until, Superboy-Prime broke out of the Phantom Zone. Which caused Rita to regain all her old memories of her family and her own death. Sometime later, Rita had changed her codename to "Elasti-Woman". She is tougher and colder, that was shown when she didn't care that she lost two of her teammates on her last mission.

The New 52 / Prime Earth
Elasti-Girl makes her first appearance in the newly reformed Doom Patrol led by the Chief alongside Robotman, Negative Man, and Element Woman. Her name is revealed to be Rita Starr, and after an exposure to a strange gas, her cellular structure was broken down. She fights alongside her Doom Patrol teammates in an effort to capture the Power Ring held by Jessica Cruz.

La muerte de Elasti-Girl
Then tragedy struck when the Doom Patrol's enemies, the Madame Rouge and General Zahl, threatened a small New England fishing village. The Patrol members elected to sacrifice themselves to save innocents and Elasti-Girl dies in the explosion.

Retroboot: Rita's Past is Revealed
One Year Later after Infinite Crisis, it is then revealed how Rita been resurrected. The Chief had salvaged the original Elasti-Girl's skull and used it to clone her a new body from a malleable form. This Rita is quiet and reluctant to question the Chief's treatment of her. She is very dependent upon the Chief, there are hints that he is controlling her due to her malleable form which hampers her thinking abilities.

Retroboot: I Married My Stalker
On a mission to a small town, Elasti-Woman's mind is taken over by Mento. In hopes of saving her team from been possessed by the town people. It discovered that Mento has being lurking around in Rita's head like a stalker. Rita already knows about this, as found in her personal journal "...in my head! He's been in my head all along! Perfect husband, perfect father, perfect pervert! He didn't even try deny it! Make all of my dreams come true? The way he looked at me. I've seen that look before: Gina's stalker. I married my stalker! The bastard's been in my head all along!!!" Rita confronts Mento over what he has done to her. He tries to use mind control, to make her love him, but she realizes this, grabs Mento, and almost kills him. Rita lets him go, and their marriage comes to an end.

Retroboot: Who is Rita?
Later the team finds out Rita is a shape shifting clone. It found that Rita must look at photos of the original Rita so she keep the appears of her. Rita also fought a savage clone version of herself, who ate people. Rita and her team are then kicked off Oolong Island and she met with her son Beast Boy, to see if she and her team could live with the Teen Titans.

Powers & Abilities

 * Elasticity: Elasti-Girl can stretch any parts of her body to incredible lengths.
 * Size Manipulation: Rita can grow to gigantic size with an accompanying increase in mass and strength. She could also shrink down to be very tiny. On a couple of occasions Rita has surpassed 1000 feet in height.
 * Duplication: Elasti-Woman has powers of shape-shifting and can regrow missing limbs

Trivia

 * In the Pixar franchise called The Incredibles, Elastigirl is directly inspired by Rita Farr, and it shows in her real name: Helen Parr.

Source

 * http://comicvine.gamespot.com/elasti-girl/4005-4088/