#duplicate boy

Publication Date: 7/84

Creators: Paul Levitz, Keith Giffen, Larry Mahlstedt

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Plot Summary:

Brainy and Blok protect Marte from assassins.

Jan and Gim continue their undercover work with Gigi and Shvaugn to find the SP mole. They discover that the entire UP Council has been blackmailed when the Council is attacked, and they find out that the tamperer is a civilian programmer and catch him before he can escape on a Dominion flight.

Thom and Nura go to Ventura for vacation and Nura sees a Legionnaire die.

Vi confronts Duplicate Boy about not calling Yera out

Mon and Tasmia discuss the Daxam repair effort

Notes:

Looks like Shrinking Violet and Timber Wolf are getting ready to go off on a mission with Chameleon Boy. You could be forgiven for assuming that's really Violet. It's not like we had any reason to suspect an imposter.

The first clue, in hindsight, was when the mission went bad and several Legionnaires were trapped on an asteroid. Colossal Boy confesses his feelings for Violet.

Why is she upset? Does she know something that she can't tell Gim?

When Shrinking Violet's longtime, long distance boyfriend Duplicate Boy finds out Violet is making time with Colossal Boy he flies off to confront them.

"Gim-- Who--" Odd that you don't recognize your own boyfriend, Violet.

But eventually Duplicate Boy calms down, and...

Yup, she's not the Violet you fell in love with. Luckily for her, Duplicate Boy goes away without any greater confrontation.

Then much later the Legion goes to Weber's World to confront the Emerald Empress.

Was Violet supposed to know the layout of Weber's World? Maybe.

But a Durlan Nerve-Cruncher move? That doesn't sound like our Violet.

But Shvaughn and Element Lad were already suspicious after the Duplicate Boy incident. With a little more research, they've pretty well figured it out. But if this isn't the real Shrinking Violet, then they need to find and save the real Violet without the imposter or the kidnappers figuring it out. A secret meeting takes place under Legion HQ.

After over a year, the whole plot is ready to be revealed.

In a Legion cruiser, on the way to respond to a supposed priority alert from Imsk, the fake Violet is caught out, and a psych-probe reveals the truth.

Yera, a Durlan actress has been tricked into helping the Imskian Liberation Movement without understanding that they had kidnapped Violet.

But the Legion is able to find the Movement and Violet.

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