Dupligato

Dupligato
General Information Species: Yamineko Home World: Sekaiami Body: Humanoid Cat Powers and Abilities Abilities: Shadow Clones Shadow Travel Agility Details Classification: Fauna Motif: Black Cat Ninja Shogun (Titania Form) First Appearance: New X World

Dupligato is an alien from the series Tech Cross.

Abilities

Dupligato is an acrobatic cat ninja with the ability to travel through shadows and create shadow duplicates of herself.

Her claws are sharp enough to rend steel, and if necessary, she can use her tail as an extra limb to strike opponents with.

Weaknesses

Dupligato isn't particularly durable, relying more on her ability to dodge blows than any sort of ability to tank them.

CROSS Fusions

DupliKnight

DupliKnight is a fusion created with the CrossTrix using Dupligato as the base form with a Psioknight CrossKey inserted into the dial. The resulting fusion inherits the abilities of both species, adding psychokinesis to Dupligato's arsenal and enhancing her existing agility with super speed.

Titania

Dupligato's Titania form enhances her natural abilities a hundredfold, allowing her to travel between shadows thousands of miles apart and create an entire army of shadow clones as backup, with her enhanced agility allowing her to dodge just about anything. In this form, the CrossTrix is able to generate a pair of sashimono on her back that can be removed and used as staff weapons.

Appearances

• New X World (Debut)
• Survival X Fittest
• Happy X Birthday
• Truth X Morning (x2)
• Hero X Proxy (Fused)
• Dream X Nightmare (Evolved into Titania Form)

Etymology

• Dupligato's name is a combination of the English word "duplicate" and the Spanish word "gato", meaning 'cat'.
• The species name "Yamineko" is an anglicized combination of the Japanese words "yami", meaning shady or dark, and "neko", meaning 'cat'.
• The planet name "Sekaiami" is an anglicized portmanteau of the Japanese word "sekai", meaning 'world', and the aforementioned "yami".

Motif

Dupligato is based on associating the natural stealthiness and agility of a cat with that of a ninja.

Dupligato Titania's uniform is based on the armor of a shogun, especially that of Oda Nobunaga. Her ability to summon hundreds of shadow clones is meant to mirror a shogun's position as the leader of an army.

Trivia

• Dupligato's name was originally going to be "Duplicat", but it was changed to avoid looking like I was just misspelling "Duplicate" all the time.
• The fur on Dupligato's tail puffs up when she becomes startled or stressed, mirroring the behavior of housecats.

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