Gem Antonelli

Copycat

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Real Name

Gem Antonelli

Current Alias

Copycat

Aliases

Gemma

Identity

Secret

Affiliation

Gen¹³
DV8

Universe

Wildstorm Universe

Characteristics

Gender

Female

Hair

Red

Status

Citizenship

American

Marital Status

Single

Origin

Creators

Jim Lee, Brandon Choi, J. Scott Campbell

First appearance

Gen¹³ Vol 2 7 (1995)

History

Gem Antonelli (aka Copycat) is a character from Wildstorm Comics and a member of the super human team DV8.

Gem Antonelli, a native of Los Angeles, was part of a series of experiments carried out by International Operations under the control of the director of the Department of Science and Technology, Ivana Baiul. As John Lynch broke into I.O. security to rescue a group of youngsters from her experiments, Ivana was forced to escape and moved her base to Isla Caballito to continue with her experiments on the frozen specimens she managed to carry with her. One of those gen-active kids frozen in liquid nitrogen was Gem Antonelli.

Gem is a neuro-dominator, able to temporarily control the bodies of others. After passing hard training she earned a place in DV8, Ivana's group of super-powered operatives. However, due to her weak stomach, she almost got eliminated (literally), but somehow got chosen by Threshold, Ivana's right hand, to be part of his team. Unlike her DV8 partners, Gem didn't take her activity so seriously and constantly fooled around.

Due to an incident involving Bliss, she had four spilt personalities in addition to her normal persona. This made her teammates very uneasy around her and lead them to believe she was quite insane and unstable. Her four extra personalities were:

• Soldier, a tough militaristic fighter
• Nihilist, a disobedient and mischievous personality
• Spy, a methodical thinker
• Little Gemma, a cute but often cowardly child like persona

Ivana and her teammates believed that this was a reaction to the booster drugs all DV8-members received to increase their powers.

When Threshold turned against DV8, he mentally attacked Copycat, putting her in a coma. Genma stayed in the coma for a long time and when she woke up something had changed; the link between Bliss and herself had been broken and her real mind slowly started to heal. The final trigger happened when she tried to possess her teammate Freestyle. Her mind was restored and her alternate personalities disappeared.

Shortly afterwards DV8 was disbanded and Copycat left with Frostbite and Sublime to try to live a normal life. They later joined up with Genevieve Cray, a female clone of Michael Cray, Sublime's father.

Character Powers and Equipment

Powers and Abilities Powers Possession: Gen has the ability to temporarily take control of others bodies by making contact or being within proximity to them. She has to mimic the actions she wants her victim to perform (like shooting with an imaginary gun if her victim is supposed to shoot with a gun). At first, she was only able to control one person at a time, but she overcome this limitation later in her career. Weaknesses Multiple Personality Disorder

Appearances, Images, and Quotes

• 46 Appearances of Gem Antonelli
• Images featuring Gem Antonelli

• Curated Character Gallery: Gem Antonelli

• Quotations by or about Gem Antonelli

Trivia

• Copycat has a diamond-shaped tattoo under her left eye and another one with number 77 on her right shoulder. She's number 16 in Ivana's files.
• Copycat used to suffer from dissociative identity disorder.