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| kanji = デュアル(モンスター)<ref group=Notes>The parentheses here specify what part is not shown on the cards' [[Type]]/[[Ability]] line.</ref>
| romaji = Dyuaru (monsutā) | japanese translated = Dual (monsterMonster)
| english = Gemini (monster)
| french = (monstre) Gémeau
| german = Zwilling(smonster)
| italian = (mostro) Gemello<br>Sometimes (Mostro) Gemello or (mostro) Gemelli
| korean = 듀얼 (몬스터) ''Dyueol (monseuteoMonseuteo)''
| spanish = (monstruo) Géminis
|chinese=二重(怪獸) ''Èrchóng (Guàishòu) / Ji6 cung4 (Gwaai3 sau3)''
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'''Gemini monsters''' (Japanese: デュアルモンスター ''Dyuaru monsutāDyuarumonsutā'' "Dual monsterMonster") are [[Effect Monster]]s with the [[ability]] "Gemini". They have [[card effect|effects]], but these effects must be "unlocked" by performing an additional [[Normal Summon]] on them while they are face-up on the field; until then, they are [[treated as a Normal Monster|treated as Normal Monsters]] on the field and in the Graveyard (everywhere else they are treated as Effect Monsters).
Whlie a Gemini Monster are on the field as a Normal Monster by their own effect, the player may declare a [[Normal Summon]] of it again so that it becomes an effect monster. If so, it is not treated as on the field during the [[Summon negation window|Summon Negation Window]]. But any [[Equip Card|Equip Cards]] equipped to the monster are not sent to graveyard, and remains equipped to the monster (They will be sent to graveyard if the Summon is negated, or it [[leaves the field]] during [[Summon response window]]). If a Level 5 or higher Monster would be Summoned this way, the player does not tribute monster for it. The process of the second Normal Summon is unofficially called "'''Gemini Summon'''" (or "'''Dual Summon'''" in OCG, not to be confused with "[[Double Summon]]")
