Synopsis
Guardians Of The Galaxy (1990 series) #29 synopsis by
Rob Johnson
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The Guardians Of The Galaxy came from their future to the Earth-616 present to find that the Avengers are off in the Infinity War mini-series. Last issue they defended Avengers Mansion from a squad of Masters Of Evil sent by Dr Octopus. But Doc Ock himself sneaked in with 3 other villains and they now have as unconscious captives GOTGer Nikki plus Yellowjacket (Rita DeMara) who defected from the Masters to help our heroes.
Now Major Victory uses his seemingly encyclopaedic knowledge of old villains to identify Ock's backup as Gargantua, Puff Adder and Shocker. But Shocker and Gargantua team up to take down Charlie-27. Then Vance Astro tackles Puff Adder with Captain America's shield while Gargantua plays with Talon. The 2 females wake up in time to stop Shocker shocking the groggy Charlie.
Last issue Starhawk was distracted from the battle by encountering his evil Doppelganger (there's lots of them about in Infinity War). To avoid being absorbed he called on the help of his wife Aleta and they were successful. She shares their body with him but recently he's not been letting her have control. But now a replacement Dop appears and she refuses to help him again. And the Dop says the replacements will keep coming until he succumbs. Aleta reminds Stakar that when he was The One Who Knows he foresaw this event, but also that she would become the the more powerful 1 in their relationship. She demands that he let her take control.
Meanwhile Dops of the other heroes and villains start appearing. The real chars have to give up fighting each other to counter the worse threat. Gargantua is the 1st to defeat his Dop with a punch through the chest. Major Victory slams his Dop into Nikki's to take them both out.
Elsewhere Starhawk's internal conflict almost stops him from destroying his 2nd duplicate. But then #3 turns up and Stakar reluctantly hands over to Aleta. The Dop finds it can't merge with/absorb Aleta because it's not *her* Doppelganger. So she dispatches it with a warning to any others. Now free Aleta refuses to go back in the bottle and the internal conflict begins again. She screams ...
... and Vance Astro convinces himself he doesn't recognise the voice because he needs to concentrate on getting the heroes and villains to team up against the Dops. Doc Ock doesn't want to know but Charlie and Talon demonstrate the principle by throwing their Dops at Ock's causing all 3 to disappear. But then more copies port in. Otto Octavius agrees to the plan (but of course plans to double-cross them afterwards). Major Victory suggests taking on each other's Dops to confuse them (and avoid absorption). Ock starts the ball rolling by killing the Charlie-27-Dop. And so it goes.
Eventually the Dops stop coming (see why in IW#4). Ock tells his gang to turn on the Guardians. But his henchmen say the GOTG just saved them so they turn on *him*. They exit running. Jarvis insists the heroes help tidy up the mess.
CharactersGood (or All)Plus: Aleta (
Aleta Ogord), Charlie-27, Leviathan (
Gargantua), Nikki (
Niki Gold), Puff Adder, Starhawk (
Stakar Ogord), Talon, Vance Astro (
Vance Astrovik).