Marcy Wu is a supporting character in Amphibia. She is a 13-year old human girl who is friends with Anne and Sasha and attended Saint James Middle School. She first discovered the Calamity Box and informed Sasha about it via text message. She was seen next to them when Anne stole the box and opened it subsequently. The Calamity Box then teleported her, Anne, and Sasha to Amphibia.
She was warped within the walls of Newtopia when she arrived in Amphibia, and after doing some work for the newts, she was promoted to Chief Ranger of the Newtopian Knight Guard, where she works directly for King Andrias of Amphibia.
In "True Colors", it is revealed that she had knowledge about the Calamity Box and its power and made a deal with King Andrias to preserve her friendship with Anne and Sasha, making her the responsible for sending the three girls to Amphibia. After Marcy ends up being tricked, she turns against Andrias and sides with Anne. In the heat of battle, Andrias stabs Marcy through her chest with a laser sword, though not before she uses the Box to send Anne and the Plantars to Earth.
Following the battle and Andrias' takeover of Amphibia, Marcy remained in a comatose state of recuperation to heal her injuries. She was freed by Lady Olivia and Yunan, but their efforts to rebel are ultimately in vain when Andrias captures them; and Marcy becomes the unwilling host of the Newtopian intelligence and the true master of Andrias: the Core.
Appearance[]
Body[]
Marcy is a Chinese-American teenage girl who is tall and slim. She has olive skin, short, shiny black hair, and dark brown oval eyes.
Clothing[]
In Amphibia, Marcy wears a faded gray hooded cape, complete with a white-furred collar which is held together with a brown shell. She also wears a brown metal chest plate, a stitched skirt, and grey winter snow boots which are wrapped with studded straps. Marcy has gray fingerless gloves on each of her hands; moreover, her signature primary weapon seems to be a hand-mounted crossbow (Can fold its two limbs plus hide an arrow when not in use) that is fitted onto her right forearm. Anne was amazed by Marcy's outfit and commented that it looks like an Amazon Warrior Queen.
Back on Earth, Marcy wears a school uniform as her everyday outfit. It consists of a grey-blue colored hoodie with a small "SJMS" (Saint James Middle School) emblem stitched across the chest as well as a bigger one on her back and a short green skirt and a pair of brown school shoes. She also wears a green barrette in her hair. She most likely wears an SJMS shirt under the hoodie similar to Anne and Sasha. Sometimes Marcy can be seen without her barrette.
Additional features[]
In the sleepover during the night in "The Sleepover to End All Sleepovers", Marcy wears a white T-shirt with the words "Roll Play" (a pun on "roleplay" and the rolling of dice in many roleplay games) plus a square picture of a person with a staff in front of a castle in different grey colors. She also wears a pair of gray green pants.
In the reunion in "The Dinner", Marcy wears a dress with long sleeves and a chain around her waist color greenish blue with a short cape from a grayish blue color being held by a seashell color pinkish brown.
Personality[]
Marcy is a friendly, geeky, resourceful, and intellectual girl; she's always shown intently researching various subjects and taking notes. She has always received straight A's in school, implying her above average intelligence. She is curious and takes interest in different cultures, being the one who discovered the Calamity Box. She is also intuitive, as she is seen reusing her school outfit to craft new wear and using her skills in Amphibian biology to defeat a group of Barbari-Ants which had invaded the outskirts of Newtopia.
Nonetheless, back home, Marcy was insanely clumsy and very oblivious. This causes her to be heavily reliant on her friends—Anne and even Sasha constantly feel the need to look out for her, and she relies on Sasha to make decisions for her. In Amphibia, she has learned to manage herself better, and make independent decisions on her own without any influence from other people, although she is still fairly clumsy and sometimes dependent on Anne. In Amphibia, her social obliviousness is shown to be detrimental, as in episode "New Wartwood" she constantly tries to make Wartswood like her, and falls victim to Toadsworths's manipulation into "reshaping" the town, only for it to be flooded as a result.
Marcy is an avid fan of retro video games. Prior to being teleported into Amphibia, she was seen with a game system similar to the Nintendo Switch. When she met the Plantars, she offered them a copy of a game called "Vagabondia Chronicles", and she also likes table-top RPGs such as DnD. Back home, she wanted Anne and Sasha to play a DnD-like game called "Creatures and Caverns".
Marcy considers farm culture under-appreciated and farmers like Hop Pop "the backbone of society". She continuously displays strong interest in every aspect of Amphibia, even trying to analyze the Plantars' family home.
Despite her positive disposition, Marcy has the capacity for selfishness, which manifests through her negative traits, particularly her obliviousness and her overconfidence. The self-focused nature of such holds sway over Marcy's grasp of sense and sympathy, having a hazardous effect on herself and those around her, as portrayed in "The First Temple", especially in her ability to strategize and utilize her intelligence; her obsessive focus and hyper fixations on her interests, to the point of failing to notice when her friends or she herself are in danger; and her unwillingness to intervene in friends' arguments, ignoring them completely in the hopes that they will resolve it themselves.
Apart from these actions, the most critical display of her tendency to put her interests before others came to pass in "True Colors"; Marcy not only knew about the Calamity Box, but was responsible for the girls' transference to Amphibia from the start, in order to keep her, Anne, and Sasha together forever. While having sympathetic intentions, genuinely treasuring her friends and not wishing to be alone, Marcy's one-track thinking, not taking into consideration how her friends felt and how she took them away from their own lives and families, led to her friends rejecting her. Even when she was called out on the deception, Marcy nearly failed to see the error of her ways, denying that her actions were selfish until this cost her the trust of both of Anne and Sasha.
Ultimately, Marcy's care for her friends brought her to her senses, with her last act being sending Anne back home and apologizing for everything she did to them.
Marcy's Pokémon[]
- Inteleon
- Breloom
- Quagsire
- Fearow
Trivia[]
- She is voiced by Haley Tju (who also voiced Karmi in Big Hero 6: The Series and Stella Zhau in The Loud House).
- Marcy shows signs of ADHD, though this has not been fully confirmed.
- Unfortunately for her, in the Season 2 finale (MAJOR SPOILER WARNING) she was literally backstabbed by one of her most trusted friends: King Andrias.
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