Luornu Durgo
Luornu Durgo | |
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Publication information | |
Publisher | DC Comics |
First appearance | Action Comics #276 (May 1961) |
Created by | Jerry Siegel Jim Mooney |
In-story information | |
Alter ego | Triplicate Girl |
Species | Carggite |
Place of origin | Cargg |
Team affiliations | Legion of Super-Heroes |
Notable aliases | Duo Damsel, Triad, Una, Duplicate Damsel, Duplicate Girl |
Abilities | Able to divide into three bodies Mastery of Trijitsu Basic hand-to-hand combatant |
Triplicate Girl (Luornu Durgo) is a superhero appearing in DC Comics, primarily as a member of the Legion of Super-Heroes in the 30th and 31st centuries. She has also had the aliases Duo Damsel, Triad, Una, Duplicate Damsel and Duplicate Girl.
Publication history
Luornu Durgo first appeared in Action Comics #276 and was created by producer Jerry Siegel and Jim Mooney.[1]
Fictional character biography
Original continuity
Luornu Durgo, codenamed Triplicate Girl, first appeared in Action Comics #276, written by Jerry Siegel.[2] A native of the planet Cargg, she could split into three identical bodies, as could all Carggites, due to the planet Cargg having three suns. She was the daughter of Humre and Silvou Durgo. Her costume consisted of a purple dress, orange cape and belt, and black boots.[3]
She was the fourth hero to join the Legion of Super-Heroes, and its first non-founder member.
One of her three bodies was killed by Brainiac 5's killer creation Computo, and she was thereafter known as Duo Damsel.[6][7] Her surviving two bodies continued to remember the trauma of experiencing her/their death, becoming reluctant to confront Computo again.
Duo Damsel later donned a unique half orange, half purple costume which could divide with her, leaving one body wearing an orange costume and one wearing a purple costume.[8] It was designed by a fan, Nick Pascale, who also plotted the story in which it appeared.[8] The costume originally appeared in Adventure Comics #403 (April 1971), and was initially designed to aid her in a mission on the planet Pasnic, but the character continued to wear "splitting" costumes such as this throughout all her continuity.
Duo Damsel left active Legion service to become a reservist after marrying fellow Legionnaire Bouncing Boy in Superboy #200 (February 1974);[9] after this she then appeared only sporadically.
In later years of the first Legion continuity she served as an instructor at the Legion Academy along with her husband. She suffered the death of one of her two remaining bodies battling the
During the "Five Year Gap" following the Magic Wars, Earth fell under the covert control of the
Zero Hour reboot
After the events of the Zero Hour: Crisis in Time! mini-series in 1994, the Legion's original continuity ended and their story began again from scratch.
This version's bodies possess distinct personalities, which is not common among Carggites and considered a defect. As such, her father left when she was a young child, and her mother degenerated into alcoholism and eventually committed suicide. She was raised by her grandmother, who secretly had the same "condition", but when she eventually died, Luornu was placed in an asylum, where she was tormented in an attempt to make her act normal. After she began to show signs of "progress", she was allowed into the garden, where she escaped by climbing over the wall at the first opportunity. She ran until, tired, hungry, and drenched by the rain, she ended up at a spaceport. Desperate for shelter, she tried to break into one of the ships there — and found R. J. Brande inside. Seeing she was in trouble, instead of handing her over to authorities, he took her to Earth and gave her a job in his office, the HQ of Brande Industries. When he found out about her treatment by the Carggites, he threatened to move several factories until they made him her legal guardian.[12]
When Brande was saved by three teenagers, and got the idea for the Legion of Super-Heroes from his extensive collection of superheroic memorabilia, it was Luornu who he sent to collect the three of them,[13] and she was co-opted as a member soon after, taking the codename Triad.[14]
Other than the year the Legion was disbanded — which she spent as Brande Industries head, while Brande supervised the construction of Legion World — she has remained one of the Legion's most consistent members.
"Threeboot"
In 2005 the Legion's continuity was restarted again. In this version, Luornu is the only inhabitant of Cargg, who does not remember her past and eventually populated the entire planet with duplicates of herself. When a United Planets craft arrives on Cargg, three of these replicates are sent out as emissaries. When they returned, the other replicates considered them "tainted" for experiencing things outside Cargg, and exiled them. Subsequently, the three joined the Legion as Triplicate Girl.[15]
The Lightning Saga and Countdown
During "The Lightning Saga" storyline of 2007, the
At the conclusion of the "Lightning Saga", a shadowy figure appeared to
Una and Karate Kid visit
While en route to seeing Blank, the train they are on is derailed by the vengeful Equus, who has also tricked the police into thinking the heroes are
The bodies of Una and Karate Kid are eventually discovered by the
Legion of 3 Worlds
In the final issue of the Final Crisis: Legion of 3 Worlds series, Luornu returns to assist the Legion in battle with the Legion of Super-Villains, revealing that she has gained the ability to create vast numbers of duplicate bodies, and now goes by the name "Duplicate Damsel". She and Bouncing Boy have just returned from their honeymoon. She also reveals that Una was the second and last of her original duplicates.[17] In subsequent New Earth appearances, she uses the name "Duplicate Girl".
DC Rebirth
In the "Watchmen" sequel "Doomsday Clock", Triplicate Girl is among the Legion of Super-Heroes members that appear in the present after Doctor Manhattan undid the experiment that erased the Legion of Super-Heroes and the Justice Society of America.[18] In Brian Michael Bendis' Legion of Super-Heroes reboot, the character is reimagined as possessing a pink/yellow/blue color scheme.[19]
Powers and abilities
Triplicate Girl has the ability to split into three identical bodies. When Triplicate Girl merges into one body, she gains the memories and knowledge that her divided selves obtained.[citation needed]
In post-Zero Hour continuity, Triad's separate selves can be physically identified by eye color, hair, and outfit — the integrated Triad (and Triad-White) have one orange and one purple eye, Triad-Orange has two orange eyes, and Triad-Purple has two purple eyes. In terms of personality, Triad-Orange tends to be shyer, and Triad-Purple is more aggressive, than Triad-White, with the integrated Triad behaving similarly to Triad-White. She tends to wear clothes which make it clear which of her is which, and also practices Tri-Jitsu, the fighting ability of strategic blows with three different bodies. The range of distance at which she can rejoin her bodies is variable based on the exact continuity, but is generally unspecified. In some cases it is suggested to be a considerable distance, which is part of what makes "Tri-Jitsu" so functional, as she can be fighting three different foes, join to dodge counter-strikes, while reappearing in a central location to strike a fourth opponent. [citation needed]
In the "Threeboot" continuity, the "prime" Triplicate Girl, who remained on Cargg, can divide into numerous bodies (100,000,000 copies). Her costume is reminiscent of her original portrayal (before the orange and purple design) and is identical on each of her three bodies. Early on in this series, no distinction between her different selves was apparent; however, that changed when two of her selves walked in on the third kissing Element Lad. Later issues have suggested that this relationship has continued.[20]
In New Earth Continuity, she has the ability to split into as many bodies as she chooses, with no determined limit.[citation needed]
Equipment
As a member of the Legion of Super-Heroes, Luornu is provided a Legion Flight Ring, which allows her to fly and protects her from the vacuum of space and other dangerous environments.
In other media
Television
- Luornu Durgo as Triplicate Girl makes a non-speaking cameo appearance in the Superman: The Animated Series episode "New Kids In Town".
- Luornu Durgo appears in Legion of Super Heroes (2006), voiced by Kari Wahlgren.[21] Primarily appearing as Triplicate Girl, this version sports Triad's white/orange/purple coloration. In the second season's two-part premiere "The Man from the Edge of Tomorrow", Durgo's white self is killed in a time anomaly, leaving the surviving pair to go by Duo Damsel. In the two-part series finale "Dark Victory", after the Legion defeat Brainiac, the timeline and Durgo's white self are restored.
Film
- Luornu Durgo as Triplicate Girl appears in Legion of Super-Heroes (2023), voiced by Daisy Lightfoot.[22][21] This version is a trainee of the Legion Academy who loses a third of herself while fighting Mon-El and the Dark Circle.
- The Legion of Super Heroes (2006) incarnation of Luornu Durgo / Triplicate Girl makes a non-speaking cameo appearance in the crossover film Scooby-Doo! and Krypto, Too!.[23]
Miscellaneous
- Luornu Durgo as Triad appears in Adventures in the DC Universe #10.[24]
- Luornu Durgo as Duplicate Girl appears in the one-shot comic Batman '66 Meets the Legion of Super-Heroes.[25]
Reception
Luornu Durgo was ranked 33rd in Comics Buyer's Guide's 100 Sexiest Women in Comics list.[26]
References
- ISBN 978-1-4654-5357-0.
- ISBN 978-1-4000-6866-1.
- ISBN 978-1-4012-1389-3.
- ^ Superboy #147 (May–June 1968).
- ^ As seen in Adventure Comics #369 (June 1968).
- ^ Adventure Comics #341 (February 1966)
- ISBN 978-1605490557.
- ^ a b Superboy #193 (February 1973)
- ISBN 978-0-7566-6742-9.
Bouncing Boy and Duo Damsel became the first Legionnaires to tie the knot. The wedding planners were writer Cary Bates and artist Dave Cockrum.
- ^ Legion of Super-Heroes (vol. 4) #42 (April 1993)
- ^ Legion of Super-Heroes (vol. 4) #38 (Late December 1992)
- ^ Legionnaires #24
- ^ Legion of Super-Heroes (vol. 4) #0
- ^ Legionnaires #0
- ^ Legion of Super-Heroes, vol. 5, no. 3 (April 2005). DC Comics.
- ^ Action Comics #864 (June 2008)
- ^ Final Crisis: Legion of 3 Worlds #5
- ^ Doomsday Clock #12 (December 2019). DC Comics.
- ^ Legion of Super-Heroes (vol. 8) #11 (January 2021). DC Comics.
- OCLC 213309017.
- ^ a b "Triplicate Girl Voices (Legion of Super Heroes)". Behind The Voice Actors. Retrieved March 10, 2024. A green check mark indicates that a role has been confirmed using a screenshot (or collage of screenshots) of a title's list of voice actors and their respective characters found in its opening and/or closing credits and/or other reliable sources of information.
- ^ Couch, Aaron (October 13, 2022). "DC's 'Legion of Super-Heroes' Sets Voice Cast With Meg Donnelly and Harry Shum Jr. to Star (Exclusive)". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved March 10, 2024.
- ^ "soranatus - Looks like in 2021 Digital eMation was working on a Scooby-Doo Meets Krypto DTV..." Tumblr. September 6, 2022. Retrieved March 10, 2024.
- ^ "Adventures in the DC Universe #10 - The Blobs (Issue)". Comic Vine. Archived from the original on June 20, 2023. Retrieved June 22, 2023.
- ^ "Batman '66 Meets the Legion of Super-Heroes #1 - Atomic Batteries To Power, Flight Rings To Speed (Issue)". Comic Vine. Archived from the original on August 18, 2023. Retrieved August 18, 2023.
- ISBN 978-1-4402-2988-6.