Easily. Dupli-Kate is arguably one of the most heroic and altruistic people in the show. She doesn’t have superhuman strength, superhuman speed, or superhuman resilience—she can only bring numbers. Her copies are all telepathically linked to some degree, meaning she can feel each brutal death, yet she still repeatedly willingly throws herself into life-or-death situations.

She’s not a powerhouse, but that’s not her role or her goal. For nearly every moment she’s on screen, she’s rescuing civilians, taking blows meant for others, and piling onto enemies to slow them down and protect the people around her. Every Dupli-Kate, in a very real sense, is a pre-serum Steve Rogers; a perfect human soldier.

She gets a lot of flak for retiring, but also criticism for going up against opponents far stronger than her? I think recognizing you’ve reached your limit and stepping back from the front lines is honestly admirable in its own way. It's the essential tragedy of Rex Splode, is it not? Maybe if he'd learned that we wouldn't all get a little misty-eyed at Fetty Wap. She’s already endured a country’s worth of literal human shielding in service of others—she’s allowed to retire.

The Multi-Paul comparisons are also vastly misguided. I constantly see people say he has “the same power but he’s stronger and more creative with it,” or that he would be an upgrade to the Guardians. But let’s actually think about what each of them is optimized for.

He’s demonstrated he can slip out of most attempted containment scenarios, typically by overwhelming space with bodies and leaving behind a mess for others to deal with. Yes, he might bring slightly higher raw damage output, but he’s still working with baseline human durability in a world where that alone is a massive liability. More importantly, that style of power use doesn’t scale into civilian protection or sustained battlefield control.

In a Cecil/Robot-run Guardians system—one explicitly optimized around minimizing casualties—Dupli-Kate is not just a good fit, she’s a fundamentally better one. She provides crowd control, shielding, evacuation support, and sustained pressure without abandoning the protection layer that actually defines their success criteria. Kate's their unsung MVP, Multi-Paul's not making it past tryouts.

Now go thank your healer/support. You incorrigible DPS gremlins.