Violet Harper was what was termed a "bad girl", fomenting trouble both as a young girl and into her latter adolescence. This led to Harper and her boyfriend in o selling stolen goods in the European country of Markovia, until they were tracked down and murdered. An alien Aurakle, observing this event, merged its globe form with Violet’s human body. This created the new entity that became known as Gabrielle Doe, and her superheroine alter ego of Halo.
Marcie Cooper was a stereotypical “good girl”, and in her late teenage years first met a pair of mutants whom she and her sister Sharon double-dated. She initially dating Norda “Northwind” Cantrell, whom she later attended a music concert with that had been interrupted by the alien Chrona. Marcie later switched boyfriends and attached herself to Todd “Obsidian” Rice when Norda left America. Cooper was secretly an agent of the android Manhunters sent to infiltrate Infinity, Inc., encouraged by her grandfather Dan Richards who was recruited by the androids when he adopted their name for his superhero identity.
Although Violet never had a sibling, her counterpart Marcie’s aforementioned sister had a counterpart. This doppelgänger was the insidious contract killer known only as Syonide, who had initially slain Violet and was sent by her boss gang-lord Tobias Whale to finish the job with Gabrielle’s reappearance. In the end, it was Syonide who lost her life. Sharon was simply cut off from Marcie’s life when the latter became a Manhunter agent, as unlike her sister she sought an ordinary life away from the costumed careers of heroes and villains.
While Violet and the Aurakle/Gabrielle only shared Harper’s body, Halo redeemed the woman she formerly had been. The same could not be said for Marcie and Chroma, who never actually interacted during the one occasion where they were both present. However, Cooper’s amoral demeanor as the second Harlequin supervillainess lined up with Chroma’s, seeking to satisfy only her own desires at the cost of others.
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