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* NiceGirl: Marcy, despite her flaws and [[spoiler: the severity of her actions]], isn't a malicious person. She's genuinely friendly, upbeat, and cheerful. [[spoiler: In fact when she first met Andrias, she kindly asks him if she can call him 'Drias' like his former friends once did but partially understands that it's too personal. Then after sqwirming her way into the giant newt king's pocket, she gives him a small roblox pin as a gift of friendship. This simple act of kindness deeply touched the large newt king, resulting in him seeing her as his first real friend in over 1000 years. Though she goes on a rant after her lie is revealed, she admits what she did was wrong and tries to make amends completely of her own accord. She becomes the complete opposite of this when under the Core's control.]].
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* NiceGirl: Marcy, despite her flaws and [[spoiler: the severity of her actions]], isn't a malicious person. She's genuinely friendly, upbeat, and cheerful. She us argueably the nicest person in the series. [[spoiler: In fact when she first met Andrias, she kindly asks him if she can call him 'Drias' like his former friends once did but partially understands that it's too personal. Then after sqwirming her way into the giant newt king's pocket, she gives him a small roblox pin as a gift of friendship. This simple act of kindness deeply touched the large newt king, resulting in him seeing her as his first real friend in over 1000 years. Though she goes on a rant after her lie is revealed, she admits what she did was wrong and tries to make amends completely of her own accord. She becomes the complete opposite of this when under the Core's control.]]. But soon breaks free and is more of the NiceGirl than she was before, as she shows that she still sees Andrias as her friend and is the most willing to show him forgiveness despite everything that he did to her. Showing that she doesn't hold a grudge against those who have wronged her, especially to those she sees as friends like Andrias and Sasha]].
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* BewareOfTheNiceOnes: Though a non malicious or violent example unlike the other characters in this trope. But while she is a Klutzy NiceGirl most of the time, her intelligence and ingenuity are a force to be reckoned with in combat. She also excels at archery, and can shoot enemies from a long distance. While Sprig was immediately suspicious of Marcy when he first met her, he learns that she is as nice as she appears. However, she also [[spoiler:knew what the Calamity Box can do, and she secretly tricked her friends into taking it so she wouldn't be separated from them, meaning that Sprig was RightForTheWrongReasons]].
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* BewareOfTheNiceOnes: Though a non malicious or violent example unlike the other characters in this trope. But while she is a Klutzy NiceGirl most of the time, her intelligence and ingenuity are a force to be reckoned with in combat. She also excels at archery, and can shoot enemies from a long distance. While Sprig was immediately suspicious of Marcy when he first met her, he learns that she is as nice as she appears. However, Despite that she also [[spoiler:knew what the Calamity Box can do, and she secretly tricked her friends into taking it so she wouldn't be separated from them, meaning that Sprig was RightForTheWrongReasons]].RightForTheWrongReasons. Even thought it was very shortsighted, Marcy is still a NiceGirl, and she did not do this out of malice as she was just scared of being torn apart from her two best friends, and she did not have any attentions to hurt them]].
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* SarcasmBlind: Marcy has few moments of these. Most noticeably is in "The Beginning of the End" where she info dumps some plot spoilers from "War of the Warlocks" with Anne and Sasha only pretend to be interested in the movie, and Sasha jokingly says "Spoiler Alert" after listening to Marcy's info dumping. Marcy apologizes for it, until Sasha clarifies that she was just joking.
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* NeverMyFault: Played with. [[spoiler:When Anne and Sasha call her out for betraying them by sending them to Amphibia against their will, not only separating them from their livelihoods but also endangering their lives in the process, she tries to justify herself by saying that her decision at least got them to improve upon themselves, only to immediately take it back and admit that they're right in how wrong she was.]]
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* InnocentlyInsensitive: Compared to Sasha's more straightforward nastiness, most of Marcy's meaner moments are either done by accident or because she doesn't know any better. [[AllThereInTheManual Marcy's Journal]] has her express at several point a completely detached view on the world around her, treating it more like a research project or roleplaying game than an actual living world wth surrounding danger.
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* InnocentlyInsensitive: Compared to Sasha's more straightforward nastiness, most of Marcy's meaner moments are either done by accident or because she doesn't know any better. [[AllThereInTheManual Marcy's Journal]] has her express at several point a completely few points a detached view on the world around her, treating it more like comparing some ongoing events to a research project or roleplaying game than an actual game. But she does care about Amphibia and the people living world wth surrounding danger.in it and does occasionally see the dangers of the DeathWorld.
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* TheDragon: She's King Andrias' second-in-command and leads all of his loyal troopers. [[spoiler:[[EveryoneHasStandards Even she isn't in support of his goals of multiversal conquest]], however, though rather than outright rebellion, she instead tries her best to keep Olivia safe during the fighting and look for the earliest opportunity to flee the room. Then, she officially resigns, only for her to get caught committing treason. She defects for good in "Yunan & Olivia"]].
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* TheDragon: She's King Andrias' second-in-command and leads all of his loyal troopers. [[spoiler:[[EveryoneHasStandards Even she isn't in support of his goals of multiversal conquest]], however, though rather than outright rebellion, she instead tries her best to keep Olivia safe during the fighting and look for the earliest opportunity to flee the room. Then, she officially resigns, only for her to get caught committing treason. She defects for good in "Yunan "Olivia & Olivia"]].Yunan"]].
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* SoiledCityOnAHill: The decaying structures in the city and its surroundings signify that as grand as it is at the start of the show, Newtopia has seen grander days[[spoiler:[==]: it's ultimately revealed that Newtopia was once the heart of a [[PlanetLooters planet-looting]] interdimensional empire, but it became the way it is today because its technology shut down when Leif took away the Music Box in an effort to circumvent an ''even more'' destructive version of this trope falling upon the city. Newtopia's legacy was subsequently forgotten over a thousand years]], although it's still a bustling and functional metropolis today. This trope gets played much straighter in "True Colors" and Season 3: [[spoiler:thanks to Andrias reactivating Newtopia's ancient technology and tearing the OminousFloatingCastle free, and thanks to Andrias' frobot army subsequently turning Amphibia into a {{polluted wasteland}}, Newtopia is reduced to a rotten-looking ruin, consumed by the resurgence of its own dark legacy. The castle itself is destroyed in "All In", and the final episode's credits show the castle and the old city have been left in ruins whilst the rest of Amphibia rebuilds]].
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* SoiledCityOnAHill: The decaying structures in the city and its surroundings signify that as grand as it is at the start of the show, Newtopia has seen grander days[[spoiler:[==]: it's days: [[spoiler:it's ultimately revealed that Newtopia was once the heart of a [[PlanetLooters planet-looting]] interdimensional empire, but it became the way it is today because its technology shut down when Leif took away the Music Box in an effort to circumvent an ''even more'' destructive version of this trope falling upon the city. Newtopia's legacy was subsequently forgotten over a thousand years]], although it's still a bustling and functional metropolis today. This trope gets played much straighter in "True Colors" and Season 3: [[spoiler:thanks to Andrias reactivating Newtopia's ancient technology and tearing the OminousFloatingCastle free, and thanks to Andrias' frobot army subsequently turning Amphibia into a {{polluted wasteland}}, Newtopia is reduced to a rotten-looking ruin, consumed by the resurgence of its own dark legacy. The castle itself is destroyed in "All In", and the final episode's credits show the castle and the old city have been left in ruins whilst the rest of Amphibia rebuilds]].
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* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: [[spoiler: When she first came to Amphibia, Marcy broke her leg after falling down a flight of stairs. Thankfully, Lady Olivia and the local newts took her in and healed her injuries. Marcy was deeply touched by the kindness they showed her, and was willing to honor Olivia's family oath to look after the land of Amphibia as well, which made Lady Olivia very happy]]. [[spoiler: Too bad that Amphibia becomes a ToxicWastland because of King Andrias]].
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* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: [[spoiler: When she first came to Amphibia, Marcy broke her leg after falling down a flight of stairs. Thankfully, Lady Olivia and the local newts took her in and healed her injuries. Marcy was deeply touched by the kindness they showed her, and was willing to honor Olivia's family oath to look after the land of Amphibia as well, which made Lady Olivia very happy]]. [[spoiler: Too bad that Amphibia becomes a ToxicWastland PollutedWasteland because of King Andrias]].
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* StockLightNovelHero: Out of the three girls, Marcy is the closest to being a stock hero in an [[TrappedInAnotherWorld isekai]] story. She is a highly intelligent but clumsy teenager with a love of fantasy games who was sent to a medieval-style fantasy world where she rapidly becomes a beloved hero who uses both common knowledge from her own world and her love of games and puzzles to rapidly advance aspects of their society. [[spoiler:This gets deconstructed in the season 2 finale "True Colors", where it is revealed that she ''knew'' the Calamity Box would send them to another world, and she sent herself along with the unwitting Anne and Sasha to Amphibia because [[DontSplitUsUp she didn't want to be lonely without them]]. This disgusts the two girls, who [[TheresNoPlacelikeHome want to go home away from the]] DeathWorld. Not to mention, the biggest friend she makes in Newtopia ends up betraying her and stabbing her in the back. Literally.]]
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* StockLightNovelHero: Out of the three girls, Marcy is the closest to being a stock hero in an [[TrappedInAnotherWorld isekai]] story. She is a highly intelligent but clumsy teenager with a love of fantasy games who was sent to a medieval-style fantasy world where she rapidly becomes a beloved hero who uses both common knowledge from her own world and her love of games and puzzles to rapidly advance aspects of their society. [[spoiler:This gets deconstructed in the season 2 finale "True Colors", where it is revealed that she ''knew'' the Calamity Box would send them to another world, world and she sent herself along with the unwitting Anne and Sasha to Amphibia because [[DontSplitUsUp she didn't want to be lonely without them]]. This disgusts the two girls, who [[TheresNoPlacelikeHome want to go home away from the]] DeathWorld. Not to mention, the biggest friend she makes in Newtopia ends up betraying her and stabbing her in the back. Literally.]]
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** [[spoiler:Both her and Sasha's betrayals towards the group are extremely similar yet executed rather differently. While Marcy never ''wanted'' to hurt her friends and only did what she did without considering the consequences (self-serving and reckless as it was), Sasha couldn't care less about hurting Anne as long as she was still in control.]]
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** [[spoiler:Both her and Sasha's betrayals towards the group are extremely similar yet executed rather differently. While Marcy never ''wanted'' to hurt her friends and only did what she did without considering the consequences (self-serving and reckless as it was), Sasha couldn't care less about hurting Anne and Marcy as long as she was still in control.]]
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* AntiHero: [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]] and ultimately [[SubvertedTrope subverted]].[[spoiler: Despite being a firmly NiceGirl, who only HatesBeingAlone , she’s still responsible for sending herself and her best friends into another world against their wishes. Though by the time of series finale, she realises how stupid she was and managed to fix her mistake.]]
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* AntiHero: [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]] and ultimately [[SubvertedTrope subverted]].[[spoiler: Despite [[spoiler:Despite being a firmly NiceGirl, who only HatesBeingAlone , HatesBeingAlone, she’s still responsible for sending herself and her best friends into another world against their wishes. Though by the time of series finale, she realises how stupid she was and managed manages to fix her mistake.]]
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The ruler of Newtopia and all of Amphibia who has a dark secret behind his seemingly jovial personality.
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For his tropes, see his [[Characters/AmphibiaKingAndrias character page.]]
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A mysterious entity that resides underneath Newtopia whom Andrias serves. Later revealed to be a collection of some of the greatest minds in Amphibia, they're now seeking a host.
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One of Anne's classmates, and a close friend of hers. She, along with Anne and Sasha, got transported to Amphibia after Sasha got Anne to steal a magic music box from a thrift store. Absent during the events of season 1, it's later discovered that Marcy ended up in the city of Newtopia and became a friend of its ruler, King Andrias. She represents the green gem of wit on the Calamity Box.
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A mysterious entity that resides underneath Newtopia whom Andrias serves. Later revealed to be a collection of some of the greatest minds in Amphibia, they're now seeking a host.
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* EleventhHourSuperpower: [[spoiler:In the GrandFinale, Marcy and Sasha regain their connections with their respective Calamity Gems, allowing them to fight alongside Anne to battle the Core in space.]]
* AbsentMindedProfessor: Marcy is brilliant but also quite clumsy and easily distracted.
* AcademicAthlete: Downplayed. She is shown to have gotten high grades in school, but she is also shown to be too clumsy for Physical Ed. When she gets to Amphibia, however, she [[TookALevelInBadass Takes a Level in Badass]] by training to be an athletic archer, and she still retains her high intelligence and coordination.
* AccidentalHero:
** [[spoiler:In the "Second Temple" while they were searching for Anne, Marcy shows the Plantars some cute animal videos on her phone while Anne's gemstone was still charging. Thinking they were in danger, Anne hastily takes back the gemstone just before it finished charging, leaving it only partially charged. This would later prove to be a good thing in "True Colors" when King Andrias drops Sprig to his death causes Anne to activate her Calamity form with Marcy taking advantage of the distracted King Andrias to save Sprig. Anne's connection with the gemstone saved herself and her family on a few occasions and Earth by defeating Andrias in their second duel. And finally, Anne's connection with the gemstone was the key to unlocking Sasha and Marcy's Calamity Powers and save Amphibia. Meaning that Marcy practically atoned her mistakes and saved Earth, Amphibia, and by extent the entire Multiverse by complete accident]].
** [[spoiler:Plus, as revealed in "All In" Marcy's cheerful, bubbly personality and kindness towards Andrias deeply moved him during their first meeting that he convinced the Core to spare her life by sending her and her friends on their temple quest to protect her from being killed. Both effectively saving her and unintentionally setting the prophecy in motion instead of undoing it like they wanted]].
* ActionGirl: She [[TookALevelInBadass Takes a Level in Badass]] upon arriving in Newtopia, and when the Plantars pay her a visit, she's almost on par with Anne.
* AffectionateNickname: She's sometimes called "Mar Mar" or "Marbles" by Anne and Sasha.
* AgentMulder: Ironically, despite being a logical and science-minded person who would traditionally fit the mold of an AgentScully, she definitely accepts the supernatural without question. Although, she admits she wasn’t sure that the tale of the Calamity Box was real, but she kind of hoped it was.
* AlienBlood: [[spoiler:Whatever the {{People Jar|s}} pumped into her to heal the stab wound that almost killed her, it appears to have turned her blood green, as seen when Sasha slices her chin while fighting Darcy. WordOfGod confirms that is was a result of whatever the Core did to her, but that it will eventually filter out of her system and her blood will turn red again.]]
* AllLovingHeroine: Despite her claims that she has trouble making connections with people, the people of Newtopia seem to love Marcy, as they've made a statue of her for the hard work she has done for them. Even the normally reserved Lady Olivia appears to be truly fond of and caring for her. As well as the Lone Wolf General Yunan grew to care about her by the end of the series [[spoiler: despite that she was reluctant to save Marcy in "Olivia and Yunan" at first. Even King Andrias admits that he likes her, but this doesn't stop him from manipulating her for his plans, literally and metaphorically backstabbing her, and then allowing his master to possess her body to further their plans.]]
* AllForNothing:
** [[spoiler: The entire reason that Marcy deliberately stranded her friends and herself in Amphibia was to make sure they wouldn't get separated because her family was moving away. However, it turns out the box sent them each to three different places in Amphibia, far from each other. While they do all get to come together at last, they get separated again in "True Colors", making her fail her goal twice.]]
** [[spoiler: The same could be said for her dreams about living in a fantasy world. Marcy thought traveling to Amphibia meant she would live in her own fantasy dream where she could have lots of amazing adventures. While she gets to live out her fantasy for a huge proportion of her stay in Amphibia, it eventually comes crashing down when her mentor figure King Andrias betrays her and reveals her DarkSecret to Anne and Sasha. When Marcy tries to make amends, he stabs her in the chest, saving her just to use her body as a host for his master. It's clear that her fantasy dream is thoroughly broken when she realizes all her experiences in Amphibia were nothing but a plan by Andrias.]]
* AmbiguouslyGay: Marcy is shown to be very touchy-feely with Anne and Sasha at times, and even their more normal interactions have a little subtext sprinkled in. Though Anne says that she used to help out her friends with break ups, it's possible that Anne was not referring to Marcy as she seems to have other mutual friends at home besides her and Sasha, and Marcy states that she struggles with making connections due to her hyperactive personality, which makes it unlikely she was ever in a romantic relationship with anyone. Plus, unlike Anne and Sasha, Marcy never shows any interest in boys her age. [[spoiler:In "Olivia & Yunan", when she is confronted by illusionary projections of Anne and Sasha in a simulated school hallway, a locker has a prom poster with "yes or yes" covered in hearts. When Projection Anne and Projection Sasha merge together, the Saint James escutcheon emblem on their now-shared torso inexplicably changes to being heart-shaped]]. [[spoiler:In addition, her [[{{Defictionalization}} real-life]] journal notes go into vivid detail of Anne's and Sasha's features in a rather admiring tone whenever she reunites with them. When Anne shows up in "Marcy at the Gates", she talks about Anne's athletic abilities and feats, and when Sasha shows up in "The Third Temple" and slays some of the lava worms, she gushes about her eyes and features, with hearts even drawn around her illustration of Sasha slaying one of the worms. She also refers to Anne and Sasha as "my loves", though whether its meant to be platonic or romantic in tone is not necessarily clear, but implied to be the latter, or at least somewhere in between.]]
* AndIMustScream:
** When she's possessed [[spoiler:by the Core]], her possessor reveals that Marcy's consciousness is "locked in a little room" inside her own mind. [[spoiler:{{Subverted}} in "All In", which reveals that Marcy has had an endless supply of puzzles in this confined room to keep her occupied and stop her from thinking too much about her situation]].
** Then later in "All In", Marcy gets subjected to a ''nightmarishly'' straight version of this trope: [[spoiler:after failing to manipulate her into being [[TheAssimilator fully assimilated]], the Core traps Marcy's consciousness inside a featureless black void, intending to leave her all alone in perpetual sensory deprivation until [[EmptyShell she completely loses her personality]]]].
* AnimalMotif:
** Butterflies seem to show up a lot when she's around. This is invoked in "Battle of the Bands", as she's dressed as one, because, as she puts it, "it's the personification of metamorphosis". In many cultures, butterflies are the symbols of souls, hope, and embracing changes, but also [[spoiler:[[ButterflyOfDeathAndRebirth death and rebirth]], foreshadowing her fate in the season 2 finale and her being possessed by the Core in season 3]].
** Newts, them being the species she first meets with in Amphibia and having the easiest time out of her friends fitting in owing to sharing their intelligence and preference for wit. [[spoiler:When taken over by [[BigBad The Core]] her helmet has several fins reminiscent of the gills from a salamanders tadpole state.]] [[spoiler:She also has a newt sticker on her notebook in the epilogue.]]
* AntiHero: [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]] and ultimately [[SubvertedTrope subverted]].[[spoiler: Despite being a firmly NiceGirl, who only HatesBeingAlone , she’s still responsible for sending herself and her best friends into another world against their wishes. Though by the time of series finale, she realises how stupid she was and managed to fix her mistake.]]
* TheApprentice: She becomes this to Maddie in the aptly named episode "Maddie & Marcy", hoping to learn some new tricks under the young frog witch's tutelage.
* AscendedFangirl: She's a fan of JRPGS and tabletop games on Earth, which is part of why she adapts so well to being in Amphibia. It's practically everything she's ever dreamed of.
* AsianAndNerdy: She's Taiwanese and a straight-A student who is obsessed with JRPGS and tabletop games, which are part of the reason that she adapts quickly to life in Newtopia. Her knowledge of fantasy tropes and her studies on the flora and fauna of Amphibia lead to her becoming a high-ranked soldier in the Newtopian guard.
* AttentionDeficitOohShiny: She can't seem to walk two steps without going off on a tangent. Her theme song takeover showcases that when she first arrived in Newtopia, she was so overwhelmed by actually being in another world that she ended up falling down a flight of stairs and breaking her leg mere minutes after being transported. [[spoiler:In fact, her impulses are pretty much what got Anne to Amphibia in the first place.]]
* AwesomenessByAnalysis: In her EstablishingCharacterMoment, she manages to identify that the Plantars are from Frog Valley based on the size of Hop Pop's head and the sediment on him, and determines that Polly will grow her legs in about two months by observing her through the sun.
* BadassAdorable: She's a cute and kind teenager-turned-ranger.
* BadassBookworm: Marcy is incredibly intelligent and, unlike Sasha and Anne, spent her time without the other studying Amphibia to learn all she could about it. This aids her a lot in fighting off monsters and other megafauna. She also has a perfect record on missions as an agent of Newtopia.
* BadassCape: Marcy wears a stylish cape as part of her soldier getup.
* BelievingTheirOwnLies: Marcy nearly falls for this [[spoiler:in All In as she nearly loses herself in the Core’s created fantasy of Anne and Sasha willingly wanting to do whatever she wanted, despite the two of them never showing any real interest to her passions before. This disconnect makes Marcy realize something was dangerously wrong.]]
* BeautyBrainsAndBrawn: Marcy's whole shtick is being the Brains to Sasha's Brawn and Anne's Beauty, and doubles as [[FreudianTrio the Superego to Sasha's Id and Anne's Ego]], as reflected by Newtopians being the Superego to toadkind's Id and the Wartwood frogs' Ego; examples of newts being the Brains include the "Triple B" analyst Newtopians (who remark that they "don't do field work"), King Andrias being a secret schemer in contrast to his casual demeanor, Newtopia's urban aesthetic, all Newtopia's geniuses having statues erected in their honor in Newtopia (one of which is of ''Marcy'' for her math skills and remodeling of the sewer system), and of course there's Newtopia University (Hop-Pop's favorite). [[spoiler:All of this is reinforced by the revelations about the Calamity Box in "A Day at the Aquarium", where the green gemstone represents the mind and is represented by the bow; in the same episode, Marcy asks Anne to follow her head and not her heart, only changing her mind at the end of the episode, much to her own displeasure.]]
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: [[spoiler:After finding out about her parents moving to another state, Marcy shows Anne and Sasha the Calamity Box, ''knowing'' what it will do and not telling them, so that she can stay with them. Unfortunately, the girls get whisked to different parts of Amphibia and don't get to see each other for quite some time. Not only that, Marcy was manipulated by King Andrias for his own evil purposes, and he literally and figuratively backstabs her, which would have ''killed her'' if not for his intervention so that her body could be used as the host for the Core.]]
* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: [[spoiler: When she first came to Amphibia, Marcy broke her leg after falling down a flight of stairs. Thankfully, Lady Olivia and the local newts took her in and healed her injuries. Marcy was deeply touched by the kindness they showed her, and was willing to honor Olivia's family oath to look after the land of Amphibia as well, which made Lady Olivia very happy]]. [[spoiler: Too bad that Amphibia becomes a ToxicWastland because of King Andrias]].
* BestFriend: "Marcy at the Gates" shows that Marcy appears to be more of a genuine friend to Anne than Sasha, displaying an overall friendly and warming personality despite her clumsy nature. They also knew each other long before they met Sasha.
* BewareOfTheNiceOnes: Though a non malicious or violent example unlike the other characters in this trope. But while she is a Klutzy NiceGirl most of the time, her intelligence and ingenuity are a force to be reckoned with in combat. She also excels at archery, and can shoot enemies from a long distance. While Sprig was immediately suspicious of Marcy when he first met her, he learns that she is as nice as she appears. However, she also [[spoiler:knew what the Calamity Box can do, and she secretly tricked her friends into taking it so she wouldn't be separated from them, meaning that Sprig was RightForTheWrongReasons]].
* BewareTheSillyOnes: While she tends to act goofy and childish most of the time in an endearing way, her intelligence and ability to use her crossbow perfectly makes her a formidable warrior indeed. [[spoiler: Gets taken up to eleven when the Core possesses her body, whose evil intentions with Marcy's silliness causes them to act as a PsychopathicManchild especially when they are fighting their enemies.]]
* BigDamnHeroes: Twice in "Marcy at the Gates":
** When Anne and the Plantars are attacked by the barbari-ants, she saves them by throwing a couple of oil bags and ignites the oil with a flaming arrow, scaring the ants away.
** She saves Sprig from being digested by the queen ant.
* BigEntrance: She tries to make a grandiose debut by shooting an arrow carrying a zipline to the Plantars and sliding down it while cloaked in darkness. The keyword being ''tries''.
* BirdsOfAFeather: She and Maddie get along swimmingly once the shock of their initial meeting wears off.
* BloodKnight: Has shades of this. She loves adventuring in Amphibia and usually faces its dangers with a smile on her face. Additionally, one of the conditions under which she will let others read her journal is "defeating [her] in battle".
* BodyMotifs: Eyes, [[spoiler:like Sasha]], but in a more outward way. Marcy is extremely intelligent and reacts with wide-eyed awe to everything and anything she sees. [[spoiler:She also knows more than she lets on, and is frequently seen glancing away whenever the topic of finding a way back to Earth comes up]]. Needless to say, [[spoiler:the helmet she's forced to wear when she gets possessed by the Core sports ''at least'' [[ExtraEyes thirteen]] [[RedEyesTakeWarning hellish eyes]], fitting for an eldritch being that's been alive for an eternity and is [[HiveMind a collective of Amphibia's brightest minds]].]]
* BornLucky: She definitely has shades of it, considering how she spent her first months in Amphibia. Whereas Anne ended up in a backwater town and spent her first days fighting for survival and Sasha was captured by hostile soldiers and had to claw her way to the top, Marcy ended up in the most advanced city on the continent, where she could use her particular skillset right away, and easily got into the good graces of a powerful authority figure who happily lets her do anything she wants. [[spoiler:This plays into her isekai-syndrome, as revealed at the end of season 2, where she's seemingly baffled as to why her friends wouldn't be happy about having an adventure in another world -- apparently not considering that their lives have ''not'' been as pleasant as hers.]] [[spoiler:It is also subverted hard-time in that same season finale, which reveals that Andrias was just playing the gracious host to manipulate her.]]
* BoyishShortHair: Her hair barely reaches past her ears, which reflects her being the most tomboyish of the three girls.
* BreakoutCharacter: Despite only coming to prominence midway through the show's second season, Marcy quickly became the show's most popular and beloved character. For just one example of her popularity, compare the view counts and number of likes of [[https://youtube.com/watch?v=mVSjc4JVULo Sasha's theme song takeover]] and [[https://youtube.com/watch?v=LYPGZ6zSNdw Marcy's theme song takeover]]. Which as of Oct, 29, 2022 has surpassed the view counts on [[WesternAnimation/BigCityGreens Alice Green]]'s Theme Song Takeover. [[https://screenrant.com/amphibia-the-best-characters/ She even made the number 1 spot on Screenrants Top 10 Best Amphibia Characters List]]. She's also set to get her own book, "Marcy's Journal", which goes into further detail into her experience in Amphibia.
* BreakTheCutie: [[spoiler:Marcy bonds so deeply with Andrias that when he reveals her secrets to her friends, she can barely keep herself together. It almost brings her to the point of a KillTheCutie scenario.]]
* BrokenSmile: [[spoiler:After her actions are exposed, she tries to explain it was all beneficial for her friendship with Anne and Sasha, all with a forced smile with tears in her eyes.]]
* BroughtDownToNormal: Charging her Calamity Gem also causes her to lose her connection with it, rendering her useless against Andrias and therefore unable to fulfill the prophecy to defeat him.
* BrilliantButLazy: Marcy's a legitimately talented and knowledgeable girl, but if what she's doing doesn't involve something that catches her interest, then don't expect her to use her intellect to its full potential. [[spoiler:In the DistantFinale of "The Hardest Thing", she ends up becoming a webcomic artist, if a fairly successful one, rather than a brilliant scientist who would solve world hunger or something like her principal surmised.]]
* BunnyEarsLawyer: She may be absent-minded and clumsy, but she also has a perfect track record as a Newtopian agent.
* CapeSnag: Marcy's cape is incredibly flammable, and it becomes a [[RunningGag Running Gag]] that it always gets caught on fire, even for no particular reason.
* CharacterDevelopment: [[spoiler:In "All In", she realizes how much she screwed up by forcing Anne and Sasha to travel to Amphibia with her, and rejects the Core's illusion of endless adventures with her friends because she knows that they don't share all of her interests, and she actually wants ''them'' instead of the mindless YesMan doppelgangers the Core tries to use to distract her.]]
* ChildhoodFriends: "The Third Temple" reveals that she's known Anne since they were little girls, even longer than Sasha has. ''Marcy's Journal'' expands on this and details how they met at the beach when they were 3.
* TheChosenOne: Of the green Calamity Gem, which represents the mind or wit.
** [[spoiler: On a darker note, she’s chosen by the Core to be its living host because she’s the most intelligent of the Calamity Trio]].
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: She can verge on this as part of her DitzyGenius personality. This is best exemplified in [[spoiler:her trial at the first temple, where she is more interested in using a game of Flipwart to finish her quest to the point of going overboard in strategy than the actual quest to charge her gem. Because this game involves her friends as players, this nearly kills them, much to her horror]].
* TheCuckoolanderWasRight: In Scavenger Hunt, King Andrias sends her a puzzle gram with various clues hidden in the city. In order to find them, she has to think on a different level than others while using her intelligence and attention to detail.
* CommonalityConnection: According to her journal, she and Andrias initially bonded over curiosity over their respective worlds, as well as their [[WellDoneSonGuy difficulties pleasing their strict fathers]]. [[spoiler:Though it's unlikely that Mr. Wu was as bad as Aldrich, the fact Marcy's guilt over ripping Anne and Sasha from their families doesn't seem to extend to her running away from her own doesn't paint him in a particularly positive light, and his poor handling of moving his autistic daughter away from her only friends was still the impetus for the entire show]].
* CuteClumsyGirl: She's an endearingly excitable nerd, but also the single most accident-prone character on the show. Even back in the human world, Anne preventing her from smacking her face into a locker door and slipping on a wet floor sign still led to her falling face-first into a garbage bin. Her theme song takeover shows that Anne was correct to be worried about Marcy being on her own, even before she TookALevelInBadass, in that she ended up falling down a flight of stairs and breaking her leg mere minutes after being transported to Amphibia because she was too fascinated and overwhelmed by being in another world to look where she was going.
* {{Cyborg}}: Marcy starts showing shades of this in the third season. [[spoiler:First, she is given some black armor that is likely being used to keep her alive after she was stabbed by Andrias. She is made more cybernetic after being subjected to UnwillingRoboticization and possessed by the Core.]]
* DarkSecret: [[spoiler:She's the reason why the three girls ended up in Amphibia in the first place, as she knew (although she was skeptical at first) about the Calamity Box's powers beforehand, and tricked Anne and Sasha into stealing it in a desperate effort to not get separated from them, as she was about to move because of her father's new job out of state.]]
* DeconstructedCharacterArchetype: Of the isekai heroine. A nerdy human girl TrappedInAnotherWorld ([[spoiler:on purpose]]) along with her friends ([[spoiler:so she won't be ever separated from them]]), going on dangerous adventures, under the guidance of a FoundFamily figure ([[spoiler:who stabs her InTheBack, at first metaphorically and then literally]]).
* DemonicPossession: [[spoiler:After her wounds are healed, her body gets turned into a vessel for Andrias' mysterious master, the Core, with it contorting her body in uncomfortable ways and issuing a SlasherSmile using her mouth. Marcy's state of mind isn't clarified, but between this and her near-death at Andrias' hands, she's clearly not in a good place, despite technically being safe and sound.]]
* DetrimentalDetermination: It's ultimately revealed that she's been having a big case of this since just before the series' inciting incident. [[spoiler:She was so upset in the face of the prospect of moving away from her two best friends and being "alone" that she manipulated Anne and Sasha into opening the Calamity Box and getting the three of them zapped to another world, in a desperate attempt to keep them together forever. Months later, when Anne plans to get the trio back to Earth, Marcy doubles down on keeping the trio together forever by [[DealWithTheDevil making a deal with Andrias]] to subtly get the fully-charged Calamity Box to him first so that he'll take the Calamity Trio with him to more alternate dimensions beyond Amphibia ''ad infinitum'' -- unfortunately for Marcy, Andrias has no intention of holding up his end of their bargain, and once he's gotten what he needs from her, he exposes Marcy's DarkSecret to her friends. Anne and Sasha are so appalled that Marcy intentionally got them TrappedInAnotherWorld that it all but drives them away from her, the very thing she's been trying to prevent this entire time]].
* DidntThinkThisThrough: [[spoiler:For all her good intentions in a desperate attempt to not be separated from her friends, she believed that Anne and Sasha would be amazed and delighted to venture into another world. Not only did she inadvertently get them and herself sent to different places in wildly different circumstances, the two were also thrown into perilous situations and she never considered telling them about her family moving. Later on, she recognizes that her actions were, in her own words, [[IdiotHero dumb]].]]
* DisneyDeath: [[spoiler:She's stabbed and practically fatally wounded by Andrias for defying him and helping Anne and the Plantars escape; he later revives her with the Moss Man's technology so her body could host the Core.]]
* DitzyGenius: Despite being incredibly smart, she's also incredibly oblivious to things around her. One time, she found out too late that marble and swamp don’t mix.
* DoesNotLikeSpam: A journal entry reveals that she dislikes eggs due to the texture, possibly because of sensory issues caused by her autism.
* DontSplitUsUp: [[spoiler:Basically, this is the reason why she, Anne, and Sasha are in the land of Amphibia in the first place. Marcy's father had recently gotten a new job out of state, meaning she and her family had to move away. Out of desperation, Marcy (with the help of Sasha) goads Anne into stealing the Calamity Box. To make a long story short, she selfishly tore her two best friends away from their lives without even thinking of the long-term consequences. Neither Anne nor Sasha are too pleased with her, to say the least, once they find out the truth. To add insult to injury, Marcy knew about how the Calamity Box worked all along and did it on purpose, but she didn't actually think the box would whisk them away to another world to begin with.]]
* DramaticallyMissingThePoint: [[spoiler: Marcy tries to justify her actions for bringing the girls to Amphibia as being so they wouldn't be apart. After Anne exclaims how much she's been missing her parents and home, Marcy goes further, claiming that Sasha and Anne have changed because they came here, so ''she'' gave them everything, while ignoring the irrationality of her decision. She finally cracks after this and admits she was doing it because she didn't want to be alone.]]
* ExpositoryHairstyleChange: When she entered Newtopia, her hair lost some of its volume and gained tendrils hanging by her ears. This makes her look more wild and carefree, symbolizing the her new freedom and adventurous lifestyle.
** In the Core’s simulation, her hair becomes even longer to symbolize how it's the world of fantasy with endless adventures she always dreamed of.
** Post Time-Skip, her hair goes past her shoulders, is noticeably messier, and has lost all its shine. This symbolizes the freedom she has found in her adult life, pursuing a career in the arts and having finally gotten over her toxic codependency with Anne and Sasha.
* ExhaustedEyeBags: [[spoiler: In "Olivia & Yunan", she spends most of the episode in a tired, confused, and out-of-touch state after Olivia and Yunan freed her from her healing tank.]]
* ExtremeDoormat: Though it's not shown, it's implied that Sasha pushes Marcy around the same way she does with Anne. Interestingly enough, Marcy rarely speaks out or voices her own opinions whenever she is around both Anne and Sasha at the same time and just simply goes along with whatever they want to do.
* EyeColorChange: [[spoiler:Just like Anne, there are moments where her eyes flash green. It drains out when her gem is charged.]]
* EyeObscuringHat: [[spoiler:The antlered helmet she wears when the Core takes possession of her completely obscures her entire face except for her mouth.]]
* EmeraldPower: She's [[spoiler:connected to the green Calamity Gem]], and is an ActionGirl on par with Anne and Sasha.
* FailedAttemptAtDrama: Her attempt at a dramatic introduction at the gates of Newtopia fails when she falls off mid-rail and into the water.
* FailedASpotCheck: When she "gets in the zone", she tends to block out the rest of the world to the point of obliviously putting herself and others in danger. She fell down a ''massive'' flight of stairs mere moments after being transported to Amphibia because she was too overwhelmed to clearly look in front of her.
* FamedInStory: By the time Marcy makes her debut in person, it becomes clear that she's quite the celebrated teenager in Newtopia.
* FatalFlaw:
** Her obliviousness. While she's very smart, whenever she's focused on something, she tends to get tunnel vision, making her unaware of the surroundings to the point of putting herself and everyone around her into danger. She broke her leg by falling down a ''very'' obvious flight of stairs mere minutes after getting transported to Amphibia because of this, and while she wised up over the intervening months, she's still prone to causing small-scale accidents.
** Her {{Pride}}. While she's not a bad person by any means, she puts too much faith in her intelligence, and tends to value logic over guts and emotions. It becomes a problem in "The First Temple", as her desire to win the tests puts everyone in danger, and she spends much of the episode being InnocentlyInsensitive towards Anne and Hop Pop's fight.
** As revealed in "True Colors", [[spoiler:in her own desperation to stay with her friends, she ignored their own safety and agency in order to drag them into an adventure in Amphibia. While she knew they wouldn't be pleased, her tunnel vision let her ignore the real damage this would do to their friendship]].
** Her InnocentlyInsensitive tendencies. [[spoiler: Even without the whole “trapping her friends into another world without their consent” business]], as shown in the series and in Marcy’s Journal, while she does care about others, she has the tendency to compare Amphibia’ citizens as [=NPCs=] from a videogame as well as the events surrounding them as series’ arcs.
** Catastrophizing. [[spoiler:The whole series ''started'' because she was terrified her friendship with Anne and Sasha wouldn't survive her moving away, and learning of the Toad Tower incident resulted in an irrational fear that Anne would fall out with her like she did with Sasha, which contributed to the "True Colors" debacle.]]
** [[spoiler:Marcy's WrongGenreSavvy nature, of all things, ends up becoming this. She believed that, after hearing about the Calamity Box, that her knowledge of fantasy stories and [=RPGs=] would allow her, Sasha, and Anne to travel the multiverse and explore to their liking, while never staying apart and living in denial that her father was moving. Anne describes how, on Earth, this dedication to fiction made her oblivious to the dangers of reality, including floor hazards. It also made her oblivious to the fact that Anne and Sasha wouldn't thrive in such a setting as she would, and they wouldn't want to just abandon their families like that, [[EvenEvilHasStandards not even Sasha]]. What's more, if she had simply ''talked'' to Sasha and Anne about this, it's likely the three of them would have found another solution.]]
* FateWorseThanDeath: [[spoiler:Marcy gets impaled near-fatally by King Andrias so she can be reborn as a vessel for his master.]]
* FighterMageThief: She's the Mage to Anne's Fighter and Sasha's Thief.
-->'''Marcy''': I just roleplayed like your typical artificer rogue, and the next thing you know, BOOM! I'm the chief ranger of the Newtopian knight guard.
* {{Foil}}:
** Her introduction and Sasha's couldn't be more night and day, with her going from gushing over Anne's new frog family to saving Sprig without a concern for herself. It's a shame the Plantars couldn't have met her first.
** What Marcy has in intelligence, Anne makes up for with social skills.
** Sasha intending to go back home no matter the cost runs counter to Marcy's awe and love of the world and people she's found herself encountering.
** [[spoiler:Both her and Sasha's betrayals towards the group are extremely similar yet executed rather differently. While Marcy never ''wanted'' to hurt her friends and only did what she did without considering the consequences (self-serving and reckless as it was), Sasha couldn't care less about hurting Anne as long as she was still in control.]]
* {{Foreshadowing}}: There are several hints throughout S2 toward the reveal that [[spoiler:she's the reason for the girls being sent to Amphibia so she wouldn't have to move]]:
** Once all the gems have been charged, Marcy fearfully insists they wait to see Andrias before going home.
** Marcy's rather nervous look as Anne announces they're leaving the day after "Battle of the Bands" shows she [[spoiler:doesn't want to leave and there's a lot more to come ahead]].
** Marcy [[spoiler:getting stabbed by Andrias' sword]] is vaguely foreshadowed in "Marcy at the Gates" when [[spoiler:Sasha mumbles to herself she could get killed if she's not careful]].
*** It's also foreshadowed in "The Sleepover to End All Sleepovers", when she looks in a mirror and a moth lands on her reflection, superimposed over her mouth. A moth [[spoiler:is a symbol of darkness and death, and also a symbol of rebirth after death]].
** In "Bessie & [=MicroAngelo=]" [[spoiler:when bringing up that they're going home soon to Anne, she asks her if she wants to "live the fantasy a little"]].
** In "The First Temple", when Anne questions whether they should go through with the flipwart game since it'll be dangerous, Marcy's response is "''You'' wanna get home, right? Then ''we've'' gotta play, or ''we'll'' never recharge the stone." [[spoiler:This foreshadows Marcy doesn't want to go back to Earth and had the box recharged with the intention of going on multiversal adventures forever.]]
** A rather subtle bit of foreshadowing toward [[spoiler:Marcy's possession by the Core: when the completed version of the S3 theme was released, Marcy's picture in the CrowdedCastShot was replaced with Domino.]]
** When Marcy is freed from her healing chamber, she is wearing a mech suit with an orange eye jewel on the chest. [[spoiler:This is a visual foreshadowing of what horrifying consequences are to come for her.]]
** The Amphibian text on Marcy's healing chamber translates to "Host", [[spoiler:hinting the Core is choosing her to be its human host due to her supreme knowledge.]]
* FreudianExcuse: {{Downplayed}}. While Marcy has a relatively healthy background, her family life is implied to be strict and stranded and the fact that Anne and Sasha constantly ignore her interests cause her to develop her tendencies.
* FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse: Discussed in "The Beginning of the End". Sasha tells Anne that she is right that they both ignore Marcy's interests, but that doesn't mean what she did is right and and should be forgiven that easily. Anne replied that while what Marcy did is indeed wrong and hard to forgive, both of them also made some terrible mistakes and they should give her a chance to to at least try and make things right between them.
* FromZeroToHero: She goes from being an outsider in Newtopia to a celebrity and one of King Andrias' most trusted soldiers.
* GamerChick: Back home, she is really into [=RPGs=] and video games.
* GenkiGirl: She's an adorable and energetic NiceGirl, even after she [[TookALevelInBadass takes a level in badass]].
* GentlemanAndAScholar: She is a BookSmart (if careless and accident-prone) teen who is very friendly and courteous.
* GoldColoredSuperiority: In ''The Hardest Thing [[spoiler:her [[SuperMode Calamity form]] gives her armour with gold accents, and is noted to be more powerful than the one Anne used prior.]]
* GoneHorriblyRight: [[spoiler:Her intention to bring her friends to Amphibia so they could stay together almost goes awry in "True Colors" once Sasha turns on the group and declares she's staying. Of course, this is prior to Anne and Sasha learning the truth of what Marcy did.]]
* {{Hammerspace}}: Despite only coming to Amphibia with nothing but the clothes on her back, Marcy has been shown to have a few of her possessions from home, including a Cynthia Coven book and even potato chips at some point. She also brings out a variety of items from her cape at times.
* HatesBeingAlone: [[spoiler:Marcy sent herself and her friends to Amphibia because she had just learned that her parents were moving to another state because of her father's new job, and she hoped that they could go on adventures together forever and never be separated. When this is revealed, she tearfully admits that she just didn't want to be alone.]]
* HealingVat: [[spoiler:In the season 3 premiere "The New Normal", after having been wounded by King Andrias' sword attack, Marcy is shown recuperating inside a healing vat.]]
* HeelRealization: [[spoiler:A {{downplayed|Trope}} example, as she was never evil nor came close to it before being possessed by the Core, but after Andrias reveals the truth to her friends, Marcy does come to realize how selfish and dumb her actions were, namely her decision to trap Anne and Sasha in Amphibia against their will.]]
* HeroOfAnotherStory: By the time Anne meets up with her again, she's managed to become well-known in Newtopia, directly working for King Andrias himself. Her theme song takeover elaborates on some of her offscreen adventures, such as fighting pirates and arming a village with a catapult to fight a giant cobra. [[spoiler: It's implied that Andrias partially {{Invoked}} this in order to earn Marcy's trust. He let her play out the fantasy of being a hero in a fantasy world, giving her all the resources she'd need to do so safely. Compare this to Anne and Sasha, who were dumped in hostile environments with no support structure and had to adapt or die. Marcy has only ever seen the good side of living in Amphibia and was never really challenged to undergo CharacterDevelopment like the other two were through facing uncomfortable truths about themselves, allowing her to become lost in the fantasy and making her willing to accept Andrias' proposal to give him the charged Calamity Box so she could remain being a 'cool hero' with her friends, rather than the nerdy weirdo she was back on Earth.]]
* HiddenDepths: Who'd have thought that the resident nerd would be an excellent drummer?
* {{Hypocrite}}:
** In "A Day at the Aquarium", she advises Anne to listen to her head and logic instead to her heart and emotions, [[spoiler:and yet the whole TrappedIntoAnotherWorld mess happened ''because'' of Marcy's personal feelings. In a moment of desperation at hearing the news of her family moving away from her friends, she tricked them into stealing the Calamity Box, setting in motion the entire series. Though, it's implied [[HypocrisyNod she's fully aware of this]], and that's the reason why she's so focused on using logic to get her friends home -- to make up for her impulsive mistake]].
** [[spoiler:Her first appearance features her asking Anne "why won't you just let me go?" in frustration when fighting barbari-ants, followed by promising her friend that she can survive in Amphibia without her... when she ''couldn't'' let her friends go and forced them to survive in Amphibia alone. It's implied this is due to her being InnocentlyInsensitive towards her friends and not getting that they don't feel the way she does about things and struggling to see things from their POV. In particular, thanks to Andrias' support, Marcy was actually protected from the worst aspects of the DeathWorld they found themselves in, unlike Anne and Sasha, and was able to fulfill her fantasies of becoming a StockLightNovelHero, leading to her getting annoyed when the more grounded Anne treats her like she's still the same klutzy nerd she was back on Earth and not realizing her hypocrisy in the heat of the moment]].
* IconicItem: A [=D20=] die, used in the tabletop roleplaying games she enjoyed on Earth, as seen in flashbacks. [[spoiler:Darcy uses it as a stimming toy, and it's one of the energy constructs she manifests when using her full calamity powers]].
* IgnorantOfTheirOwnIgnorance: [[spoiler: She doesn't understand that Andrias was using her from the moment she got into Amphibia, that it's a DeathWorld, and that her friends had a hard time and didn't want to stay forever in it until it's too late.]]
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: [[spoiler:She's stabbed through the chest by Andrias for saving Sprig and helping Anne and the Plantars escape to Earth.]]
* InnocentlyInsensitive: Compared to Sasha's more straightforward nastiness, most of Marcy's meaner moments are either done by accident or because she doesn't know any better. [[AllThereInTheManual Marcy's Journal]] has her express at several point a completely detached view on the world around her, treating it more like a research project or roleplaying game than an actual living world wth surrounding danger.
* IntergenerationalFriendship: She's over 1000 years younger than Andrias, and despite giving into the Core's wishes to use her, Andrias's fondness for Marcy was still genuine after she shows kindness and cheer towards him. Even after all the atrocities he committed on her and everyone else, she is the only person who doesn't show any anger or hatred towards the broken king and the two even have a bittersweet goodbye before Marcy leaves Amphibia for good.
* InTheHood: On Earth, she always wore her school hoodie and never once took it off. In Amphibia, her outfit features a hood that she occasionally has put up.
* IntoxicationEnsues: [[spoiler: In "Olivia & Yunan". After awakening from her coma, Marcy is a little loopy from whatever drugs are being pumped into the healing tank. Some adrenaline from the LotusEaterMachine helps her snap out of it for the most part, though she's still physically weak.]]
* {{Irony}}:
** [[spoiler: Marcy's main goal was to remain with her friends and never be split apart. In her desperation to escape the fact that she'd be forced to move away because her father got an out-of-state job, she failed to account for where each of her friends would end up when the Calamity Box warped them to the land of Amphibia, and they land in three separate spots. She thought they'd be together with nothing to separate them, but even when they finally reunite after months apart, they wind up split apart again when King Andrias manages to impale her and Sasha is too far away from the portal to escape. Not once, but ''twice in a row'' has she failed at her main goal so far.]]
** [[spoiler: Of the three girls, Marcy easily had the best time when she first arrived, given that she always wanted to be an explorer in a fantasy world, and the newts let her live out those fantasies. Meanwhile, Anne and Sasha started out living in a wet giant-bug-filled cave and in a toad dungeon respectively. In the end, though, Marcy got the worst out of Amphibia; while Anne gained genuine friends and loved ones and Sasha genuinely befriended Grime and became commander of the frog resistance, Marcy was manipulated by [[PsychopathicManchild King Andrias]], was exposed for her lies in front of her friends, stabbed, and forcibly turned into the host of a genocidal MindHive (and judging by her screams when the helmet was put on, it wasn't painless) that [[AndIMustScream locked her up in her own mind]]]].
** [[spoiler: She transported herself, Anne, and Sasha to Amphibia so they could explore a fantasy world together, but her theme song takeover and the various hints shown through the Plantars' time in Newtopia hints that Marcy has mainly remained in the capital city and not really explored much outside of it, save for when she journeys with Anne to find the temples. Anne and Sasha have actually explored more of the fantasy world than Marcy has. This ties into TheReveal about her in "True Colors", as Marcy has been receiving support and benefits from the powerful and connected Andrias from the start, whereas Anne and Sasha have had to overcome several hardships and [[CharacterDevelopment improve themselves]] with little to work with, facing the harsh dangers of the DeathWorld with only their wits, which contributed to how much each of them has changed when they all meet up again. Whereas Anne and Sasha recognize the harsh reality of the world they're in because their time there has never pulled any punches with them, Marcy was always protected from that by Andrias making things easy for her, leading her to trust him and give him the Calamity Box because she was [[CannotTellFictionFromReality lost in the fantasy]], which gets brutally torn down for her when Andrias reveals the truth.]]
** Despite being the smartest of the trio, [[spoiler:she ends up working as a webcomic artist in the WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue, while Anne and Sasha take up jobs in scientific fields as a herpetologist and a psychologist.]]
* JustWhistle: She can call upon Joe Sparrow by whistling.
* KidHasAPoint: [[spoiler:It's {{Downplayed|Trope}}, but she's right when she says that Anne, Sasha, and their CharacterDevelopment, including Anne meeting Sprig, happened because of her actions. She didn't have the right to trap her friends into another world without their consent, though.]]
* KillTheCutie: [[spoiler:{{Subverted|Trope}}. She's stabbed by King Andrias, leaving her barely alive, and placed in a healing tank to prepare her for the Core's possession. That said, she's then afterwards apparently left [[AndIMustScream trapped inside her own mind]] and powerless to stop the Core ''optimizing her mind'' to make space inside her head, implying that while she might be physically alive, if the Core's possession continues for much longer, [[DeathOfPersonality Marcy might cease to exist]] altogether. Andrias' flashback to his first meeting with Marcy in all her adorable glory in "All In" shows that the Core wanted to pull this on Marcy from the start, which Andrias [[EvenEvilHasStandards balked at]].]]
* TheKindnapper: [[spoiler:For all intents and purposes, she kidnapped Anne and Sasha by tricking them into getting TrappedInAnotherWorld with her. While her motives were selfish, not wanting to be separated from them no matter the cost, she also truly wanted to have a wonderful adventure with her two best friends, and thought they'd be happy once they got over the shock[[note]]which, in Anne's case, she ''was'', though she's still justifiably pissed when she finds out the truth[[/note]]. That being said, she had no idea the music box would actually work or that they'd be trapped when it did.]]
* TheKlutz: Marcy is one, mostly because she has a very limited attention span and rarely looks at where she is going. She also somehow lights herself on fire three times in her introduction (and one of those times, there wasn't any fire around). [[spoiler:Even after gaining the full power of her Calamity Stone, she ''still'' manages to trip over literally the ''only'' piece of space debris in the vicinity when going after the frobots seemingly attacking them. Luckily, they were there to help, but ''still''.]]
* LaserGuidedKarma: Marcy, along with Sasha, peer-pressured Anne into stealing a thrift store music box, which ends up transporting the three of them to Amphibia. {{Downplayed|Trope}}, however, as she loves being in Amphibia [[spoiler:and intentionally stranded her friends there]]. It's played extremely straight in "True Colors", when [[spoiler:Marcy is stabbed through the chest and seemingly killed for bringing her friends to Amphibia]].
* LateArrivalSpoiler: The fact that she was transported to Amphibia along with both of her friends, as well as the fact that she is now a warrior in league with Newtopia, isn't treated as much of a reveal in the season 2 trailer. [[spoiler:They're actually hiding the ''real'' reveals about her, which are shown in "True Colors".]]
* {{Leitmotif}}: "Marcy's Theme", an upbeat rock and roll theme which befits her tech-savvy side.
* LikeADuckTakesToWater: Her obsession with roleplaying games allowed her to quickly adapt to Amphibia's weirdness, moving up the Newtopian ranks to become one of their best agents. Her theme song takeover shows that, ironically, she struggled with introducing actual role-playing games to Newtopia.
* LockedOutOfTheLoop:
** Naturally, being insulated off in Newtopia, she is initially unaware of the events of the season one finale, namely that Anne had already found Sasha and that the two had gotten into a serious fight. Anne fills her in after they reunite in Newtopia.
** Since she wasn't around when [[spoiler:Hop Pop buried the Calamity Box]], Marcy has no idea why Anne and the old frog are arguing in the first temple, and doesn't do anything to defuse the situation.
** [[spoiler:Since she was saving Sprig from [[DisneyDeath falling to his doom]] when Anne unveiled her SuperMode in "True Colors", she's unaware of Anne's powers, nor that she and Sasha were also similarly empowered until they completed the temples -- something she could have reasonably figured out if she'd seen the evidence, but since Andrias' focus was on avoiding a confrontation with the girls until ''after'' they'd depowered themselves, he naturally {{invoked|Trope}} this on her and her friends.]]
** On a more series-wide note, Marcy seems to be unaware of the true dangers involved in living in [[DeathWorld Amphibia]], seeing it as a fantastical world full of wonders, exotic sights and mysteries, while remaining oblivious or unconcerned with the ''very'' deadly animals, monsters, or inhabitants that make the place their home, in part because she was teleported straight inside the civilized and uplifted city of Newtopia, which is markedly more cultured and accepting of somebody with her intellectual mindset than other parts of Amphibia, not to mention much safer. Whereas Anne and Sasha are well aware that living in this world could have potentially lethal consequences for them and is ''not'' the kind of fantasy adventure Marcy's read about in books, Marcy's cheerful obliviousness and confidence in her abilities ever since she came to a world that really allowed her to indulge in her nerdy interests makes her overlook how harrowing the experience has actually been for her friends, who weren't nearly as ready for an interdimensional adventure as she was. [[spoiler:This results in them falling out with her in "True Colors" once Andrias callously reveals her DarkSecret about willingly getting them all TrappedInAnotherWorld, since both girls have had a way harder time living in Amphibia than Marcy has, and she struggles to understand that because of how good the experience has been for ''her'' -- not helped by [[ManipulativeBastard Andrias]] intentionally making things easier for Marcy as a means of gaining her trust.]]
* LonelyAmongPeople: A flashback in "Beginning of the End" shows Marcy trying to watch a movie with Anne and Sasha, only for the latter two to fall asleep for what is confirmed to not be the first time, leaving Marcy to watch it alone. [[spoiler:Anne even admits that she and Sasha could have been better in regards to Marcy's interests and issues, and that if they had, maybe Marcy wouldn't have done something as crazy as using the Calamity Box to send them to Amphibia]].
* LovedByAll: For someone who considers herself bad at making connections, about everyone in Newtopia seems to absolutely adore Marcy. [[spoiler: Even Andrias, manipulative and callous as he is, is genuinely fond of her, and tried to persuade the Core to pick someone else to be its host.]]
* MadeOfIron: She often falls flat on her face and immediately bounces back up without a single scratch. She also gets slightly burned by Maddie's fire spell, but appears to be fine afterwards. [[spoiler: Too bad she's not LaserSword-proof.]]
* MeaningfulName:
** The name Marcy is of American origin, meaning warlike.
** Regina is the Latin word for "queen." Fitting as she managed to become good friends with King Andrias. Also, in a darker twist, fitting with how [[spoiler:she gets possessed by the Core, the true ruler of Amphibia, essentially making her the realm's queen throughout the possession]].
** [[spoiler:After getting possessed by the Core, she is renamed "Darcy", a pun on "dark Marcy".]]
* MindHive: [[spoiler:After the Core possesses her, Marcy -- or rather, Darcy -- always refers to herself in the plural.]]
* MoralLuck: Discussed in "True Colors". [[spoiler:When Anne is horrified to learn that Marcy got them all stranded in Amphibia on purpose, Marcy argues that Anne and Sasha have [[CharacterDevelopment grown so much]] from their time in Amphibia, and it's because of Marcy that Anne met Sprig and the Plantars in the first place. While it's true that some good has come out of the adventure, Marcy had no way of knowing any of it would happen when she deliberately tricked her friends into being TrappedInAnotherWorld without their knowledge or consent.]]
* MoralityPet: [[spoiler:Andrias states that he actually likes her as a friend, despite his villainy. That doesn't stop him from [[KickTheMoralityPet letting the Core upload itself to her]].]]
* MotiveRant: [[spoiler:A rare non-villainous and sympathetic example in "True Colors", as she explains why she sent herself, Anne, and Sasha to Amphibia on purpose]]:
-->'''Marcy:''' I did it for us... [[spoiler:The day we left, your birthday, they told me my dad got a new job out of state. They were making me move away. They were gonna tear us apart!]]\\
'''Anne:''' Marcy...\\
'''Marcy:''' [[spoiler:I...I found the box and I had no idea that it would actually work, but it did!]] And, and this sent us to a place where we never have to grow apart. Where the three of us could be friends forever together.\\
'''Anne:''' How could you?! [[spoiler:I've been missing my parents. My life!]]\\
'''Marcy:''' But, [[spoiler:look at how much fun we had! Look at how much you've both grown! Look at Sprig! I gave you this! I gave you everything! ''[{{beat}}]'' I just... didn't want to be alone...]]
* MotorMouth: She has a habit of constantly chattering away given the opportunity.
* MustMakeAmends: [[spoiler:After she's revealed to be directly responsible for her, Anne, and Sasha being stuck in Amphibia, Marcy tries to make it up to her friends by fighting back against King Andrias' forces. She even activates a portal to the human world to allow Anne and the Plantars to escape.]]
-->'''Marcy:''' [[spoiler:I-I'm sorry... for everything...]]
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: [[spoiler: In "Olivia & Yunan", when an illusionary amalgamation of Sasha and Anne appears, they call out Marcy for how she lied to them and betrayed them in favor of pursuing a fantasy adventure. Marcy can only fall to her knees and apologize, admitting that what she did was really "dumb". Notably, Marcy was ''aware'' that the whole thing was just an illusion, but she was so overwhelmed by her guilt that she was moved to tears in regret and got distracted apologizing to the facsimiles of her absent friends until Yunan helps snap her out of it.]]
* NearDeathExperience: [[spoiler: In Season 2 Finale, she’s stabbed in the back by Andrias’s LaserSword, for helping Anne and the Plantars escape from his wrath, using the Calamity Box to create a portal that would send them on Earth. The only reason she survived is because Andrias put her in a HealingVat, so he could use her as his master’s living host]].
* NeverMyFault: Played with. [[spoiler:When Anne and Sasha call her out for betraying them by sending them to Amphibia against their will, not only separating them from their livelihoods but also endangering their lives in the process, she tries to justify herself by saying that her decision at least got them to improve upon themselves, only to immediately take it back and admit that they're right in how wrong she was.]]
* NiceGirl: Marcy, despite her flaws and [[spoiler: the severity of her actions]], isn't a malicious person. She's genuinely friendly, upbeat, and cheerful. [[spoiler: In fact when she first met Andrias, she kindly asks him if she can call him 'Drias' like his former friends once did but partially understands that it's too personal. Then after sqwirming her way into the giant newt king's pocket, she gives him a small roblox pin as a gift of friendship. This simple act of kindness deeply touched the large newt king, resulting in him seeing her as his first real friend in over 1000 years. Though she goes on a rant after her lie is revealed, she admits what she did was wrong and tries to make amends completely of her own accord. She becomes the complete opposite of this when under the Core's control.]].
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Where do we begin? [[spoiler:The ''entire series'' only started because she was afraid of moving and found the Calamity Box as a desperate solution, eventually causing her friends to separate and end up at each other's throats.]]
* NiceMeanAndInbetween: She's the NiceGirl to Sasha's mean and Anne's in-between. Marcy is the nicest of the girls, and is also klutzy and naïve. "True Colors" and [[https://twitter.com/MrBabyMan/status/1396905001511915520 the writer' whiteboard]] reveals that, in terms of sheer morality, [[spoiler:Anne is the [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold Moral]] to Sasha's [[ItsAllAboutMe Immoral]] and Marcy's [[SecretlySelfish Amoral]]]]. [[spoiler:She becomes the mean one to Anne's nice and Sasha's in-between when possessed by the Core as Darcy.]]
* NoodleIncident: So far, the audience hasn't found out how exactly Marcy got to become the king's soldier in the first place. [[spoiler:That is, until the season 2 finale comes along, which reveals that he made her one as a pawn in his scheme.]] Her theme song takeover shows some events that occurred in the in-between period, such as her leading a bunch of newts to fight off a giant cobra with a catapult or fighting alongside Yunan on a pirate ship in appropriate gear.
* NoOneCouldSurviveThat: [[spoiler:In "True Colors", Anne and the Plantars witness Marcy get impaled by a giant sword. In the season 3 premiere, Anne refuses to believe Marcy could have died that easily when discussing it with Hop Pop. She does indeed survive thanks to the Moss Man's healing powers combined with the Shadow Moth, but only because Andrias saves her to make her the Core's human host.]]
* NoOneGetsLeftBehind: Marcy makes it clear that once they're able to get home, she refuses to leave without Sasha. This complicates things because Anne can't quite explain to Marcy that Sasha betrayed them. [[spoiler:This is deconstructed by "True Colors", given her refusal to let her friends go in more mundane circumstances. She very well would've lost them there.]]
* NoSocialSkills: PlayedForDrama. She has difficulty connecting with other people, including her friends. She doesn't understand that they may not have the same interests as her. [[spoiler:She decides to take them to Amphibia with her without consulting them first, failing to consider that doing so would affect them deeply. She is confirmed by the creators to be on the spectrum.]]
* NotSoSimilar: She and Sasha are shown pressuring Anne into opening the chest that transports them to this world in the first place. However, while Sasha is aware of her own pushy behavior, Marcy is shown to be InnocentlyInsensitive at worst and likely didn't intend to have Anne steal the chest. Ultimately subverted. [[spoiler:While Marcy ''is'' nicer, she is ultimately the reason they ended up in Amphibia, desperate and not knowing if the box would even work, and hoping to stay with her friends forever rather than having to move on from them.]]
* NotQuiteDead: [[spoiler:The season 3 intro reveals that Andrias kept Marcy alive after her near-fatal stabbing by putting her in a healing tank.]] We don't learn why until later -- turns out, [[spoiler:the Core wanted her for a [[GrandTheftMe host body]].]]
* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: She builds up a reputation in Newtopia as an agent with a flawless track record when it comes to missions long before she reunites with Anne.
* OlderThanTheyLook: {{Downplayed}} since they're all 13, but in contrast to popular belief, out of anyone, it's ''Marcy'' who's actually the ''oldest'' of the trio.[[note]]Although the girls' birthdays weren't revealed, their Zodiac signs were: Marcy is an Aquarius, Sasha is an Aries and Anne is a Gemini.[[/note]] It's hard to tell at first since appearance-wise Marcy is the shortest with Sasha and Anne noticeably taller than her, and personality-wise compared to the other two Marcy seems the most childish, the two (especially [[TheBabyOfTheBunch the actual youngest Anne]]) even having the [[BigSisterInstinct need to protect her]] due to her [[TheKlutz clumsiness]] and [[SkewedPriorities oblivious]] behavior, plus her [[HatesBeingAlone clinginess to her friends]].
* PeopleJars: [[spoiler: She spends the first part of season 3 in a healing tank recovering from her near-fatal stabbing.]]
* {{Pacifist}}: While Marcy is capable of asserting herself, she often does not intervene in her friends' arguments or use any sort of violence against anyone out of anger. [[spoiler: Even when Sasha reveals that she tricked her and Anne into helping her and Grime invade Newtopia, Marcy doesn't appear to be angered or enraged by her deceit like Anne, and even tries to resolve the conflict with Sasha and Anne peacefully]]. it turns out this is because [[spoiler:she's so terrified of losing her best friends that nothing else really matters to her]].
* RewatchBonus: [[spoiler:''Every single scene'' with her throughout the series takes on a different context when you find out that she's ultimately the reason for the girls all being TrappedInAnotherWorld out of a desire not to be separated from her friends. This even extends to the opening -- whereas Anne and Sasha are outright shocked and apprehensive towards the strange phenomenon occurring with the box, [[FreezeFrameBonus Marcy instead shows a more subdued curiosity towards it]] -- as it turns out, she knew the box had the possibility of traveling to other worlds, but didn't know if it would actually work or not.]]
* RoyalFavorite: It's quite clear from their interactions that King Andrias holds Marcy in high regard, even giving her a "proposition" at the end of "A Day at the Aquarium." [[spoiler:While it turns out he was manipulating her the whole time, he ''did'' genuinely like her -- he admits as much while letting the Core steal her body, regretting he couldn't get it to choose a different host]].
* TheRunaway: [[spoiler:Marcy did this after her parents revealed they were moving in "True Colors", and forced Sasha and Anne to become ones against their will too.]]
* RunningAwayToCry: In the flashback during "True Colors", [[spoiler:Marcy bursts out of her house in tears after her parents tell her they're moving out of state, and runs far enough to find the Calamity Box at the thrift shop]].
* RunningGag: In "Marcy at the Gates", whenever Marcy mentions how much she's changed, her cloak is pointed out to be on fire.
* ScarsAreForever: [[spoiler:According to [[Literature/MarcysJournalAGuideToAmphibia her journal]], she has a scar from where Andrias stabbed her.]]
* ScienceHero: Her knowledge lets her do alchemy on the spot using local ingredients. Her straight A's in chemistry probably help.
* SecondEpisodeIntroduction: She first appears along with Sasha in "Best Fronds", but doesn't have her first speaking role until the second season.
* SecretTestOfCharacter: To charge her gem at the first temple, [[spoiler:she willingly quits the Flipwart game for the good of Anne and the Plantars upon realizing the game is unwinnable]].
* SecretlySelfish: [[spoiler:"True Colors" reveals that on Anne's birthday, Marcy's parents told her that her father got a job in another state and that she would have to move away. After running out of the house in tears and anger, she eventually ended up at the thrift shop where the Calamity Box was being kept, and convinced Anne and Sasha to steal it so she and her friends would be teleported to another world to have adventures forever. While she initially tries to claim she did it for the group, only for a hurt Anne and Sasha to pull away from her, she ultimately admits that [[HatesBeingAlone she did it just because she didn’t want to be alone]].]]
-->'''Anne''': [[spoiler:How ''could'' you? I've been missing my parents! My life!]]\\
'''Marcy''': [[spoiler:But look at how much fun we've had! Look at how much you've both grown! Look at Sprig! I gave you this! ''I gave you everything!'']]
* SheepInSheepsClothing: We're led to believe that there is a darker, more sinister side to Marcy when we first see her, with Sprig flat-out saying that he doesn't trust her. Turns out, she's exactly as nice as she appears to be. [[spoiler:However, the season 2 finale reveals that Sprig was technically right about her hiding more than she let on, as she is the reason she and her friends were trapped in Amphibia, though she did it for reasons that were overall selfish though still sympathetic.]]
* SkewedPriorities: Back in the human world, there were many times where Marcy ''clearly'' shouldn't have been playing her video game in the moment (i.e. during a volleyball game, a school play, getting ice cream from a machine with Anne). This is an aspect of her being 'in the zone', which compounds Anne's worry throughout the First Temple that she'll be too focused on solving the temple's puzzles for her own good.
* SmartPeoplePlayChess: She was the head of the chess club back home, and [[spoiler:her final temple test involves her playing the Amphibian equivalent of chess]].
* StockLightNovelHero: Out of the three girls, Marcy is the closest to being a stock hero in an [[TrappedInAnotherWorld isekai]] story. She is a highly intelligent but clumsy teenager with a love of fantasy games who was sent to a medieval-style fantasy world where she rapidly becomes a beloved hero who uses both common knowledge from her own world and her love of games and puzzles to rapidly advance aspects of their society. [[spoiler:This gets deconstructed in the season 2 finale "True Colors", where it is revealed that she ''knew'' the Calamity Box would send them to another world, and she sent herself along with the unwitting Anne and Sasha to Amphibia because [[DontSplitUsUp she didn't want to be lonely without them]]. This disgusts the two girls, who [[TheresNoPlacelikeHome want to go home away from the]] DeathWorld. Not to mention, the biggest friend she makes in Newtopia ends up betraying her and stabbing her in the back. Literally.]]
* SuddenlyVoiced: After making a silent appearance in a flashback in season 1, Marcy finally has her first speaking role in "Marcy at the Gates".
* SuperGullible: Unfortunately, despite her intelligence, Marcy is just ''so'' naïve, and will end up falling for anything that's dangerous before realizing it. Unlike Anne and the Plantars, she easily falls for Sasha's forgiving façade, despite knowing about what she and Grime did at Toad Tower, as Marcy trusts her friends completely. [[spoiler:And then there's the unfortunate deal she has with [[BigBad King Andrias]]]].
* SuperMode: [[spoiler:Gains her own Calamity form in ''The Hardest Thing'', granting her armour with a green aura, in order to fight the Core controlled moon.]]
* TearsOfRemorse: [[spoiler:In "True Colors", she breaks down in deep regret over what she did to her friends.]]
* TeenGenius: Marcy may be a klutz and not have a lot of social skills, but she's incredibly smart with her schoolwork and GenreSavvy. She also apparently has "college-level geometry skills"
* TemptingFate: In her ''Theme Song Takeover'', Marcy gleefully sings [[spoiler:"I love it in Amphibia, so much adventure still to see! I hope nothing bad ever happens to me!", while King Andrias smiles and winks behind her.]]
* ThrillSeeker: Marcy is into the fantasy/[=RPG=] genre, and treats her time in Amphibia as a real-life adventure game. [[spoiler:This takes a darker turn when it's revealed she deliberately sent her friends to Amphibia. When she found out she was moving away, she stumbled upon the Calamity Box, which she had read about in the library. Seeing it was actually real, she took the opportunity to go on an adventure beyond her wildest dreams with her friends, where they would never have to be separated. Both Anne and Sasha are horrified by the revelation.]]
* TokenEvilTeammate: [[spoiler:She becomes this in a sense in season 3, thanks to the Core taking possession of her body.]]
* TokenGoodTeammate: Within their trio, Anne starts off as a JerkWithAHeartOfGold, and Sasha's the archetypal AlphaBitch [[spoiler: who uses her friends to invade Newtopia, but does care about them as well.]] Marcy? She's just a sweet bundle of energy. [[spoiler:This gets flipped on its head when her role in willingly sending the girls to Amphibia is revealed. Despite not intending for things to turn out quite so direly as they did, Marcy's actions [[NiceJobBreakingItHero ultimately doomed her friends and the entire multiverse]] [[UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom by complete accident]]. While Marcy is truly a NiceGirl without a malicious or violent bone in her body, this makes it clear that neither of the girls are the good teammate of the trio as they are all equally flawed.]] [[spoiler:She unwillingly becomes the TokenEvilTeammate once the Core takes possession of her.]]
* TokenHuman: Mirroring Anne as the only human in Wartwood and Sasha as the only human in Toad Tower, Marcy is the only human in Newtopia, at least until Anne and the Plantars arrive.
* TomboyWithAGirlyStreak: She may be a happy adventurer and strategic planner with BoyishShortHair and [[GamerChick a love for video games]], but her usual outfit in Newtopia consists of a makeshift skirt instead of pants. Also, when she and Anne reunite for the first time in months, Marcy is overjoyed and starts squealing with excitement in a [[{{Squee}} very girlish way]].
* TooDumbToLive: While she is very intelligent, she is also rather absent-minded and clumsy. She'll read a book while walking, nearly getting injured as a result. Sasha even claims that one day she would get herself killed. [[spoiler:Her impulsiveness in sending herself and her friends to Amphibia ends up with her being impaled through the heart]].
* TooGoodToBeTrue: [[spoiler:The perfect fantasy the Core created in her own mind scape starts to crumble when Marcy realizes that the fact that Anne and Sasha would willingly join her on her RPG activities is not even remotely possible in real life.]]
* TookALevelInBadass: Back on Earth, Marcy was a clumsy, oblivious, and somewhat nerdy girl who didn't mind her surroundings and spent most of her time distracted by video games and fantasy role-playing games. By the time Anne and the Plantars meet her, she is a fierce, gutsy, and formidable warrior who is Chief of the Newtopian Knight Guard. (However, she still has her oblivious moments.)
* TouchedByVorlons: Similar to Anne and Sasha, she seems to possess superhuman intelligence, which manifests as the green gem's glow in her eyes. When she recharges the gem, the glow drained, and she loses its powers along with it.
* ToxicFriendInfluence: Downplayed. While she still peer-pressured Anne into taking the Calamity Box alongside Sasha, Marcy comes across as a far friendlier and warm person than the latter. Given her quirkiness, her interest in the music box was more because she wanted badly to take a look at it, whereas Sasha wanted to encourage Anne to break rules. [[spoiler:Ultimately, Marcy's not one to control or influence her friends as much as she is to make decisions without considering them.]]
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Red Velvet cupcakes with ube frosting.
* ATragedyOfImpulsiveness: Marcy [[spoiler:was not in a good state when she found the Calamity Box, having just been told by her parents shortly before that they were moving away and leaving Marcy's old life behind, and made the rash decision that it was the solution to the problem of being separated from her friends]]. They all pay for it. It's implied that Marcy has basically realized this by the time she and Anne meet up again in Newtopia, as she cautions Anne about making decisions with her heart, rather than her head.
* TragicHeroine: At the end of the day, she's just a nerdy NiceGirl [[spoiler:who HatesBeingAlone and is willing to trap herself and her friends into another world so she won't be separated from them, without considering either their personal opinions or the not-so-nice implications of doing such a thing. Furthermore, her actions put the entire multiverse in danger, and she nearly gets herself killed because of it, with her last thoughts being of her DyingAlone and hated by her friends]]. [[spoiler:Things go FromBadToWorse after [[GrandTheftMe she’s turned into the Core’s living host]]]].
* TrappedInAnotherWorld: The music box brings her, Sasha, and Anne to Amphibia. While they were dumped in the valley with the toads and frogs, respectively, Marcy appeared right in the middle of Newtopia. [[spoiler:It's also somewhat {{subverted}}, as it's revealed that Marcy ''willingly'' entered the world of Amphibia and dragged Sasha and Anne along with her, with the only problem she has being that they got separated to different locations on arrival. By the time of "The Third Temple", it's fully {{averted}}, as the girls have completely charged the Calamity Box, and Marcy knows how to use it to open a portal home, but she intentionally decides not to in order to continue having adventures with Anne and Sasha.]]
* UnintentionallyKarmic: [[spoiler:She gets Sasha (alongside Anne) transported into Amphibia against her will, and while Marcy never meant any true harm, [[{{Jerkass}} Sasha]] nonetheless deserved it. Sasha even realized how it felt to be betrayed by someone after being just as guilty of such herself.]]
* UnwillingRoboticization: [[spoiler:Marcy is subjected to this in "Olivia & Yunan," being forced into a robotic body as the Core downloads its consciousness into her.]]
* UnwittingPawn: [[spoiler:King Andrias lied to her about his true intentions to use the Calamity Box to conquer the multiverse, instead playing on her desperation to stay with her friends by telling her that they would use the box to simply explore the multiverse, letting Marcy have adventures with her friends together forever.]]
* VirtuousCharacterCopy: She is this with one of her VA's Haley Tju previous role Darcy Wong from ''Series/TheThundermans''. For starters, they both have very similar names (even moreso when Marcy becomes Darcy/The Core), they are both intelligent young girls who's worst actions sometimes stem from moving angst. However, Darcy Wong is a mean spirited, rude, violent, and unlikable {{Jerkass}}, while Marcy Wu is a friendly, sweet, innocent, and loveable NiceGirl. Plus, Darcy clearly takes pleasure in what she does, like stealing other people's stuff, vandalizing personal property, and tormenting people and animals while showing no remorse for her mean, destructive, and violent tendencies, making it hard for anyone to feel bad for her, while Marcy has more sympathetic reasons for what she did and has a HeelRealization for the severity of her actions and does everything she could to make things right, making it much more easier to feel sorry for her.
* TheVoiceless: She only makes non-speaking appearances in season 1, and she gets her first speaking role in season 2.
* WalkingSpoiler: This is a given, considering she was the one who found the Calamity Box, as shown in a flashback from the episode "Reunion", and she has no appearances in the present until season 2. Considering everything that was revealed about her and happened in the season 2 finale, it's safe to say she definitely counts as this.
* WhatTheHellHero: [[spoiler:Both Anne and Sasha are infuriated at discovering that she's the reason why they were trapped in Amphibia, and even when she tries to explain her motivations to them, they have none of it.]]
* WildCard: Unlike Sasha or Anne, it's difficult to tell whether Marcy's a good guy or a bad guy, especially given how she drives herself by logic rather than emotions. [[spoiler:It turns out she's neither.]]
* WiseBeyondHerYears: As a child, she already had quite an impressive vocabulary, especially for someone her age.
-->'''Anne:''' Look, Mar-Mar, I'm an eagle!\\
'''Marcy:''' Cool! Well, I'm a twin engine seamax amphibious aircraft!
* TheWorldIsJustAwesome: She has this opinion of Amphibia, which, given it's a tried and true ''DeathWorld'', is a little suspect.
* WrongGenreSavvy: Due to being a fan of fantasy tabletop games and [=JRPG's=], [[spoiler:Marcy thought Anne and Sasha would be thrilled by (or at least learn to love) the opportunity to go on amazing adventures in another dimension. Unfortunately for Marcy, she's in a series with realistic consequences, and her friends are instead traumatized from being TrappedInAnotherWorld where EverythingIsTryingToKillYou with dubious hopes of ever getting home. What's more, they're horrified and disgusted by her willingness to drag them away from their families and lives without their consent]].
* YoungerMentorOlderDisciple: The Older Disciple to Maddie's Younger Mentor, since no matter what the equivalent age is in Amphibia, Maddie's clearly meant to be a kid no older than Sprig, while Marcy's a teenager.
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[[folder:General Yunan Longclaw]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"My name is General Yunan, scourge of the Sand Wars, defeater of Ragnar the Wretched, and the youngest newt to ever achieve the rank of general in the great Newtopian Army!"'']]
-->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/ZehraFazal
Scourge of the Sand Wars, Defeater of Ragnar the Wretched, aaaaand the youngest newt ever to achieve the rank of General in the great Newtopian Army. [[CharacterCatchphrase She's happy to cite these accomplishments to any who ask who she is]]. She's also ''very'' much capable of backing up her own boasting.
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* AbsentMindedProfessor: Marcy is brilliant but also quite clumsy and easily distracted.
* AcademicAthlete: Downplayed. She is shown to have gotten high grades in school, but she is also shown to be too clumsy for Physical Ed. When she gets to Amphibia, however, she [[TookALevelInBadass Takes a Level in Badass]] by training to be an athletic archer, and she still retains her high intelligence and coordination.
* AccidentalHero:
** [[spoiler:In the "Second Temple" while they were searching for Anne, Marcy shows the Plantars some cute animal videos on her phone while Anne's gemstone was still charging. Thinking they were in danger, Anne hastily takes back the gemstone just before it finished charging, leaving it only partially charged. This would later prove to be a good thing in "True Colors" when King Andrias drops Sprig to his death causes Anne to activate her Calamity form with Marcy taking advantage of the distracted King Andrias to save Sprig. Anne's connection with the gemstone saved herself and her family on a few occasions and Earth by defeating Andrias in their second duel. And finally, Anne's connection with the gemstone was the key to unlocking Sasha and Marcy's Calamity Powers and save Amphibia. Meaning that Marcy practically atoned her mistakes and saved Earth, Amphibia, and by extent the entire Multiverse by complete accident]].
** [[spoiler:Plus, as revealed in "All In" Marcy's cheerful, bubbly personality and kindness towards Andrias deeply moved him during their first meeting that he convinced the Core to spare her life by sending her and her friends on their temple quest to protect her from being killed. Both effectively saving her and unintentionally setting the prophecy in motion instead of undoing it like they wanted]].
* ActionGirl: She [[TookALevelInBadass Takes a Level in Badass]] upon arriving in Newtopia, and when the Plantars pay her a visit, she's almost on par with Anne.
* AffectionateNickname: She's sometimes called "Mar Mar" or "Marbles" by Anne and Sasha.
* AgentMulder: Ironically, despite being a logical and science-minded person who would traditionally fit the mold of an AgentScully, she definitely accepts the supernatural without question. Although, she admits she wasn’t sure that the tale of the Calamity Box was real, but she kind of hoped it was.
* AlienBlood: [[spoiler:Whatever the {{People Jar|s}} pumped into her to heal the stab wound that almost killed her, it appears to have turned her blood green, as seen when Sasha slices her chin while fighting Darcy. WordOfGod confirms that is was a result of whatever the Core did to her, but that it will eventually filter out of her system and her blood will turn red again.]]
* AllLovingHeroine: Despite her claims that she has trouble making connections with people, the people of Newtopia seem to love Marcy, as they've made a statue of her for the hard work she has done for them. Even the normally reserved Lady Olivia appears to be truly fond of and caring for her. As well as the Lone Wolf General Yunan grew to care about her by the end of the series [[spoiler: despite that she was reluctant to save Marcy in "Olivia and Yunan" at first. Even King Andrias admits that he likes her, but this doesn't stop him from manipulating her for his plans, literally and metaphorically backstabbing her, and then allowing his master to possess her body to further their plans.]]
* AllForNothing:
** [[spoiler: The entire reason that Marcy deliberately stranded her friends and herself in Amphibia was to make sure they wouldn't get separated because her family was moving away. However, it turns out the box sent them each to three different places in Amphibia, far from each other. While they do all get to come together at last, they get separated again in "True Colors", making her fail her goal twice.]]
** [[spoiler: The same could be said for her dreams about living in a fantasy world. Marcy thought traveling to Amphibia meant she would live in her own fantasy dream where she could have lots of amazing adventures. While she gets to live out her fantasy for a huge proportion of her stay in Amphibia, it eventually comes crashing down when her mentor figure King Andrias betrays her and reveals her DarkSecret to Anne and Sasha. When Marcy tries to make amends, he stabs her in the chest, saving her just to use her body as a host for his master. It's clear that her fantasy dream is thoroughly broken when she realizes all her experiences in Amphibia were nothing but a plan by Andrias.]]
* AmbiguouslyGay: Marcy is shown to be very touchy-feely with Anne and Sasha at times, and even their more normal interactions have a little subtext sprinkled in. Though Anne says that she used to help out her friends with break ups, it's possible that Anne was not referring to Marcy as she seems to have other mutual friends at home besides her and Sasha, and Marcy states that she struggles with making connections due to her hyperactive personality, which makes it unlikely she was ever in a romantic relationship with anyone. Plus, unlike Anne and Sasha, Marcy never shows any interest in boys her age. [[spoiler:In "Olivia & Yunan", when she is confronted by illusionary projections of Anne and Sasha in a simulated school hallway, a locker has a prom poster with "yes or yes" covered in hearts. When Projection Anne and Projection Sasha merge together, the Saint James escutcheon emblem on their now-shared torso inexplicably changes to being heart-shaped]]. [[spoiler:In addition, her [[{{Defictionalization}} real-life]] journal notes go into vivid detail of Anne's and Sasha's features in a rather admiring tone whenever she reunites with them. When Anne shows up in "Marcy at the Gates", she talks about Anne's athletic abilities and feats, and when Sasha shows up in "The Third Temple" and slays some of the lava worms, she gushes about her eyes and features, with hearts even drawn around her illustration of Sasha slaying one of the worms. She also refers to Anne and Sasha as "my loves", though whether its meant to be platonic or romantic in tone is not necessarily clear, but implied to be the latter, or at least somewhere in between.]]
* AndIMustScream:
** When she's possessed [[spoiler:by the Core]], her possessor reveals that Marcy's consciousness is "locked in a little room" inside her own mind. [[spoiler:{{Subverted}} in "All In", which reveals that Marcy has had an endless supply of puzzles in this confined room to keep her occupied and stop her from thinking too much about her situation]].
** Then later in "All In", Marcy gets subjected to a ''nightmarishly'' straight version of this trope: [[spoiler:after failing to manipulate her into being [[TheAssimilator fully assimilated]], the Core traps Marcy's consciousness inside a featureless black void, intending to leave her all alone in perpetual sensory deprivation until [[EmptyShell she completely loses her personality]]]].
* AnimalMotif:
** Butterflies seem to show up a lot when she's around. This is invoked in "Battle of the Bands", as she's dressed as one, because, as she puts it, "it's the personification of metamorphosis". In many cultures, butterflies are the symbols of souls, hope, and embracing changes, but also [[spoiler:[[ButterflyOfDeathAndRebirth death and rebirth]], foreshadowing her fate in the season 2 finale and her being possessed by the Core in season 3]].
** Newts, them being the species she first meets with in Amphibia and having the easiest time out of her friends fitting in owing to sharing their intelligence and preference for wit. [[spoiler:When taken over by [[BigBad The Core]] her helmet has several fins reminiscent of the gills from a salamanders tadpole state.]] [[spoiler:She also has a newt sticker on her notebook in the epilogue.]]
* AntiHero: [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]] and ultimately [[SubvertedTrope subverted]].[[spoiler: Despite being a firmly NiceGirl, who only HatesBeingAlone , she’s still responsible for sending herself and her best friends into another world against their wishes. Though by the time of series finale, she realises how stupid she was and managed to fix her mistake.]]
* TheApprentice: She becomes this to Maddie in the aptly named episode "Maddie & Marcy", hoping to learn some new tricks under the young frog witch's tutelage.
* AscendedFangirl: She's a fan of JRPGS and tabletop games on Earth, which is part of why she adapts so well to being in Amphibia. It's practically everything she's ever dreamed of.
* AsianAndNerdy: She's Taiwanese and a straight-A student who is obsessed with JRPGS and tabletop games, which are part of the reason that she adapts quickly to life in Newtopia. Her knowledge of fantasy tropes and her studies on the flora and fauna of Amphibia lead to her becoming a high-ranked soldier in the Newtopian guard.
* AttentionDeficitOohShiny: She can't seem to walk two steps without going off on a tangent. Her theme song takeover showcases that when she first arrived in Newtopia, she was so overwhelmed by actually being in another world that she ended up falling down a flight of stairs and breaking her leg mere minutes after being transported. [[spoiler:In fact, her impulses are pretty much what got Anne to Amphibia in the first place.]]
* AwesomenessByAnalysis: In her EstablishingCharacterMoment, she manages to identify that the Plantars are from Frog Valley based on the size of Hop Pop's head and the sediment on him, and determines that Polly will grow her legs in about two months by observing her through the sun.
* BadassAdorable: She's a cute and kind teenager-turned-ranger.
* BadassBookworm: Marcy is incredibly intelligent and, unlike Sasha and Anne, spent her time without the other studying Amphibia to learn all she could about it. This aids her a lot in fighting off monsters and other megafauna. She also has a perfect record on missions as an agent of Newtopia.
* BadassCape: Marcy wears a stylish cape as part of her soldier getup.
* BelievingTheirOwnLies: Marcy nearly falls for this [[spoiler:in All In as she nearly loses herself in the Core’s created fantasy of Anne and Sasha willingly wanting to do whatever she wanted, despite the two of them never showing any real interest to her passions before. This disconnect makes Marcy realize something was dangerously wrong.]]
* BeautyBrainsAndBrawn: Marcy's whole shtick is being the Brains to Sasha's Brawn and Anne's Beauty, and doubles as [[FreudianTrio the Superego to Sasha's Id and Anne's Ego]], as reflected by Newtopians being the Superego to toadkind's Id and the Wartwood frogs' Ego; examples of newts being the Brains include the "Triple B" analyst Newtopians (who remark that they "don't do field work"), King Andrias being a secret schemer in contrast to his casual demeanor, Newtopia's urban aesthetic, all Newtopia's geniuses having statues erected in their honor in Newtopia (one of which is of ''Marcy'' for her math skills and remodeling of the sewer system), and of course there's Newtopia University (Hop-Pop's favorite). [[spoiler:All of this is reinforced by the revelations about the Calamity Box in "A Day at the Aquarium", where the green gemstone represents the mind and is represented by the bow; in the same episode, Marcy asks Anne to follow her head and not her heart, only changing her mind at the end of the episode, much to her own displeasure.]]
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: [[spoiler:After finding out about her parents moving to another state, Marcy shows Anne and Sasha the Calamity Box, ''knowing'' what it will do and not telling them, so that she can stay with them. Unfortunately, the girls get whisked to different parts of Amphibia and don't get to see each other for quite some time. Not only that, Marcy was manipulated by King Andrias for his own evil purposes, and he literally and figuratively backstabs her, which would have ''killed her'' if not for his intervention so that her body could be used as the host for the Core.]]
* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: [[spoiler: When she first came to Amphibia, Marcy broke her leg after falling down a flight of stairs. Thankfully, Lady Olivia and the local newts took her in and healed her injuries. Marcy was deeply touched by the kindness they showed her, and was willing to honor Olivia's family oath to look after the land of Amphibia as well, which made Lady Olivia very happy]]. [[spoiler: Too bad that Amphibia becomes a ToxicWastland because of King Andrias]].
* BestFriend: "Marcy at the Gates" shows that Marcy appears to be more of a genuine friend to Anne than Sasha, displaying an overall friendly and warming personality despite her clumsy nature. They also knew each other long before they met Sasha.
* BewareOfTheNiceOnes: Though a non malicious or violent example unlike the other characters in this trope. But while she is a Klutzy NiceGirl most of the time, her intelligence and ingenuity are a force to be reckoned with in combat. She also excels at archery, and can shoot enemies from a long distance. While Sprig was immediately suspicious of Marcy when he first met her, he learns that she is as nice as she appears. However, she also [[spoiler:knew what the Calamity Box can do, and she secretly tricked her friends into taking it so she wouldn't be separated from them, meaning that Sprig was RightForTheWrongReasons]].
* BewareTheSillyOnes: While she tends to act goofy and childish most of the time in an endearing way, her intelligence and ability to use her crossbow perfectly makes her a formidable warrior indeed. [[spoiler: Gets taken up to eleven when the Core possesses her body, whose evil intentions with Marcy's silliness causes them to act as a PsychopathicManchild especially when they are fighting their enemies.]]
* BigDamnHeroes: Twice in "Marcy at the Gates":
** When Anne and the Plantars are attacked by the barbari-ants, she saves them by throwing a couple of oil bags and ignites the oil with a flaming arrow, scaring the ants away.
** She saves Sprig from being digested by the queen ant.
* BigEntrance: She tries to make a grandiose debut by shooting an arrow carrying a zipline to the Plantars and sliding down it while cloaked in darkness. The keyword being ''tries''.
* BirdsOfAFeather: She and Maddie get along swimmingly once the shock of their initial meeting wears off.
* BloodKnight: Has shades of this. She loves adventuring in Amphibia and usually faces its dangers with a smile on her face. Additionally, one of the conditions under which she will let others read her journal is "defeating [her] in battle".
* BodyMotifs: Eyes, [[spoiler:like Sasha]], but in a more outward way. Marcy is extremely intelligent and reacts with wide-eyed awe to everything and anything she sees. [[spoiler:She also knows more than she lets on, and is frequently seen glancing away whenever the topic of finding a way back to Earth comes up]]. Needless to say, [[spoiler:the helmet she's forced to wear when she gets possessed by the Core sports ''at least'' [[ExtraEyes thirteen]] [[RedEyesTakeWarning hellish eyes]], fitting for an eldritch being that's been alive for an eternity and is [[HiveMind a collective of Amphibia's brightest minds]].]]
* BornLucky: She definitely has shades of it, considering how she spent her first months in Amphibia. Whereas Anne ended up in a backwater town and spent her first days fighting for survival and Sasha was captured by hostile soldiers and had to claw her way to the top, Marcy ended up in the most advanced city on the continent, where she could use her particular skillset right away, and easily got into the good graces of a powerful authority figure who happily lets her do anything she wants. [[spoiler:This plays into her isekai-syndrome, as revealed at the end of season 2, where she's seemingly baffled as to why her friends wouldn't be happy about having an adventure in another world -- apparently not considering that their lives have ''not'' been as pleasant as hers.]] [[spoiler:It is also subverted hard-time in that same season finale, which reveals that Andrias was just playing the gracious host to manipulate her.]]
* BoyishShortHair: Her hair barely reaches past her ears, which reflects her being the most tomboyish of the three girls.
* BreakoutCharacter: Despite only coming to prominence midway through the show's second season, Marcy quickly became the show's most popular and beloved character. For just one example of her popularity, compare the view counts and number of likes of [[https://youtube.com/watch?v=mVSjc4JVULo Sasha's theme song takeover]] and [[https://youtube.com/watch?v=LYPGZ6zSNdw Marcy's theme song takeover]]. Which as of Oct, 29, 2022 has surpassed the view counts on [[WesternAnimation/BigCityGreens Alice Green]]'s Theme Song Takeover. [[https://screenrant.com/amphibia-the-best-characters/ She even made the number 1 spot on Screenrants Top 10 Best Amphibia Characters List]]. She's also set to get her own book, "Marcy's Journal", which goes into further detail into her experience in Amphibia.
* BreakTheCutie: [[spoiler:Marcy bonds so deeply with Andrias that when he reveals her secrets to her friends, she can barely keep herself together. It almost brings her to the point of a KillTheCutie scenario.]]
* BrokenSmile: [[spoiler:After her actions are exposed, she tries to explain it was all beneficial for her friendship with Anne and Sasha, all with a forced smile with tears in her eyes.]]
* BroughtDownToNormal: Charging her Calamity Gem also causes her to lose her connection with it, rendering her useless against Andrias and therefore unable to fulfill the prophecy to defeat him.
* BrilliantButLazy: Marcy's a legitimately talented and knowledgeable girl, but if what she's doing doesn't involve something that catches her interest, then don't expect her to use her intellect to its full potential. [[spoiler:In the DistantFinale of "The Hardest Thing", she ends up becoming a webcomic artist, if a fairly successful one, rather than a brilliant scientist who would solve world hunger or something like her principal surmised.]]
* BunnyEarsLawyer: She may be absent-minded and clumsy, but she also has a perfect track record as a Newtopian agent.
* CapeSnag: Marcy's cape is incredibly flammable, and it becomes a [[RunningGag Running Gag]] that it always gets caught on fire, even for no particular reason.
* CharacterDevelopment: [[spoiler:In "All In", she realizes how much she screwed up by forcing Anne and Sasha to travel to Amphibia with her, and rejects the Core's illusion of endless adventures with her friends because she knows that they don't share all of her interests, and she actually wants ''them'' instead of the mindless YesMan doppelgangers the Core tries to use to distract her.]]
* ChildhoodFriends: "The Third Temple" reveals that she's known Anne since they were little girls, even longer than Sasha has. ''Marcy's Journal'' expands on this and details how they met at the beach when they were 3.
* TheChosenOne: Of the green Calamity Gem, which represents the mind or wit.
** [[spoiler: On a darker note, she’s chosen by the Core to be its living host because she’s the most intelligent of the Calamity Trio]].
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: She can verge on this as part of her DitzyGenius personality. This is best exemplified in [[spoiler:her trial at the first temple, where she is more interested in using a game of Flipwart to finish her quest to the point of going overboard in strategy than the actual quest to charge her gem. Because this game involves her friends as players, this nearly kills them, much to her horror]].
* TheCuckoolanderWasRight: In Scavenger Hunt, King Andrias sends her a puzzle gram with various clues hidden in the city. In order to find them, she has to think on a different level than others while using her intelligence and attention to detail.
* CommonalityConnection: According to her journal, she and Andrias initially bonded over curiosity over their respective worlds, as well as their [[WellDoneSonGuy difficulties pleasing their strict fathers]]. [[spoiler:Though it's unlikely that Mr. Wu was as bad as Aldrich, the fact Marcy's guilt over ripping Anne and Sasha from their families doesn't seem to extend to her running away from her own doesn't paint him in a particularly positive light, and his poor handling of moving his autistic daughter away from her only friends was still the impetus for the entire show]].
* CuteClumsyGirl: She's an endearingly excitable nerd, but also the single most accident-prone character on the show. Even back in the human world, Anne preventing her from smacking her face into a locker door and slipping on a wet floor sign still led to her falling face-first into a garbage bin. Her theme song takeover shows that Anne was correct to be worried about Marcy being on her own, even before she TookALevelInBadass, in that she ended up falling down a flight of stairs and breaking her leg mere minutes after being transported to Amphibia because she was too fascinated and overwhelmed by being in another world to look where she was going.
* {{Cyborg}}: Marcy starts showing shades of this in the third season. [[spoiler:First, she is given some black armor that is likely being used to keep her alive after she was stabbed by Andrias. She is made more cybernetic after being subjected to UnwillingRoboticization and possessed by the Core.]]
* DarkSecret: [[spoiler:She's the reason why the three girls ended up in Amphibia in the first place, as she knew (although she was skeptical at first) about the Calamity Box's powers beforehand, and tricked Anne and Sasha into stealing it in a desperate effort to not get separated from them, as she was about to move because of her father's new job out of state.]]
* DeconstructedCharacterArchetype: Of the isekai heroine. A nerdy human girl TrappedInAnotherWorld ([[spoiler:on purpose]]) along with her friends ([[spoiler:so she won't be ever separated from them]]), going on dangerous adventures, under the guidance of a FoundFamily figure ([[spoiler:who stabs her InTheBack, at first metaphorically and then literally]]).
* DemonicPossession: [[spoiler:After her wounds are healed, her body gets turned into a vessel for Andrias' mysterious master, the Core, with it contorting her body in uncomfortable ways and issuing a SlasherSmile using her mouth. Marcy's state of mind isn't clarified, but between this and her near-death at Andrias' hands, she's clearly not in a good place, despite technically being safe and sound.]]
* DetrimentalDetermination: It's ultimately revealed that she's been having a big case of this since just before the series' inciting incident. [[spoiler:She was so upset in the face of the prospect of moving away from her two best friends and being "alone" that she manipulated Anne and Sasha into opening the Calamity Box and getting the three of them zapped to another world, in a desperate attempt to keep them together forever. Months later, when Anne plans to get the trio back to Earth, Marcy doubles down on keeping the trio together forever by [[DealWithTheDevil making a deal with Andrias]] to subtly get the fully-charged Calamity Box to him first so that he'll take the Calamity Trio with him to more alternate dimensions beyond Amphibia ''ad infinitum'' -- unfortunately for Marcy, Andrias has no intention of holding up his end of their bargain, and once he's gotten what he needs from her, he exposes Marcy's DarkSecret to her friends. Anne and Sasha are so appalled that Marcy intentionally got them TrappedInAnotherWorld that it all but drives them away from her, the very thing she's been trying to prevent this entire time]].
* DidntThinkThisThrough: [[spoiler:For all her good intentions in a desperate attempt to not be separated from her friends, she believed that Anne and Sasha would be amazed and delighted to venture into another world. Not only did she inadvertently get them and herself sent to different places in wildly different circumstances, the two were also thrown into perilous situations and she never considered telling them about her family moving. Later on, she recognizes that her actions were, in her own words, [[IdiotHero dumb]].]]
* DisneyDeath: [[spoiler:She's stabbed and practically fatally wounded by Andrias for defying him and helping Anne and the Plantars escape; he later revives her with the Moss Man's technology so her body could host the Core.]]
* DitzyGenius: Despite being incredibly smart, she's also incredibly oblivious to things around her. One time, she found out too late that marble and swamp don’t mix.
* DoesNotLikeSpam: A journal entry reveals that she dislikes eggs due to the texture, possibly because of sensory issues caused by her autism.
* DontSplitUsUp: [[spoiler:Basically, this is the reason why she, Anne, and Sasha are in the land of Amphibia in the first place. Marcy's father had recently gotten a new job out of state, meaning she and her family had to move away. Out of desperation, Marcy (with the help of Sasha) goads Anne into stealing the Calamity Box. To make a long story short, she selfishly tore her two best friends away from their lives without even thinking of the long-term consequences. Neither Anne nor Sasha are too pleased with her, to say the least, once they find out the truth. To add insult to injury, Marcy knew about how the Calamity Box worked all along and did it on purpose, but she didn't actually think the box would whisk them away to another world to begin with.]]
* DramaticallyMissingThePoint: [[spoiler: Marcy tries to justify her actions for bringing the girls to Amphibia as being so they wouldn't be apart. After Anne exclaims how much she's been missing her parents and home, Marcy goes further, claiming that Sasha and Anne have changed because they came here, so ''she'' gave them everything, while ignoring the irrationality of her decision. She finally cracks after this and admits she was doing it because she didn't want to be alone.]]
* ExpositoryHairstyleChange: When she entered Newtopia, her hair lost some of its volume and gained tendrils hanging by her ears. This makes her look more wild and carefree, symbolizing the her new freedom and adventurous lifestyle.
** In the Core’s simulation, her hair becomes even longer to symbolize how it's the world of fantasy with endless adventures she always dreamed of.
** Post Time-Skip, her hair goes past her shoulders, is noticeably messier, and has lost all its shine. This symbolizes the freedom she has found in her adult life, pursuing a career in the arts and having finally gotten over her toxic codependency with Anne and Sasha.
* ExhaustedEyeBags: [[spoiler: In "Olivia & Yunan", she spends most of the episode in a tired, confused, and out-of-touch state after Olivia and Yunan freed her from her healing tank.]]
* ExtremeDoormat: Though it's not shown, it's implied that Sasha pushes Marcy around the same way she does with Anne. Interestingly enough, Marcy rarely speaks out or voices her own opinions whenever she is around both Anne and Sasha at the same time and just simply goes along with whatever they want to do.
* EyeColorChange: [[spoiler:Just like Anne, there are moments where her eyes flash green. It drains out when her gem is charged.]]
* EyeObscuringHat: [[spoiler:The antlered helmet she wears when the Core takes possession of her completely obscures her entire face except for her mouth.]]
* EmeraldPower: She's [[spoiler:connected to the green Calamity Gem]], and is an ActionGirl on par with Anne and Sasha.
* FailedAttemptAtDrama: Her attempt at a dramatic introduction at the gates of Newtopia fails when she falls off mid-rail and into the water.
* FailedASpotCheck: When she "gets in the zone", she tends to block out the rest of the world to the point of obliviously putting herself and others in danger. She fell down a ''massive'' flight of stairs mere moments after being transported to Amphibia because she was too overwhelmed to clearly look in front of her.
* FamedInStory: By the time Marcy makes her debut in person, it becomes clear that she's quite the celebrated teenager in Newtopia.
* FatalFlaw:
** Her obliviousness. While she's very smart, whenever she's focused on something, she tends to get tunnel vision, making her unaware of the surroundings to the point of putting herself and everyone around her into danger. She broke her leg by falling down a ''very'' obvious flight of stairs mere minutes after getting transported to Amphibia because of this, and while she wised up over the intervening months, she's still prone to causing small-scale accidents.
** Her {{Pride}}. While she's not a bad person by any means, she puts too much faith in her intelligence, and tends to value logic over guts and emotions. It becomes a problem in "The First Temple", as her desire to win the tests puts everyone in danger, and she spends much of the episode being InnocentlyInsensitive towards Anne and Hop Pop's fight.
** As revealed in "True Colors", [[spoiler:in her own desperation to stay with her friends, she ignored their own safety and agency in order to drag them into an adventure in Amphibia. While she knew they wouldn't be pleased, her tunnel vision let her ignore the real damage this would do to their friendship]].
** Her InnocentlyInsensitive tendencies. [[spoiler: Even without the whole “trapping her friends into another world without their consent” business]], as shown in the series and in Marcy’s Journal, while she does care about others, she has the tendency to compare Amphibia’ citizens as [=NPCs=] from a videogame as well as the events surrounding them as series’ arcs.
** Catastrophizing. [[spoiler:The whole series ''started'' because she was terrified her friendship with Anne and Sasha wouldn't survive her moving away, and learning of the Toad Tower incident resulted in an irrational fear that Anne would fall out with her like she did with Sasha, which contributed to the "True Colors" debacle.]]
** [[spoiler:Marcy's WrongGenreSavvy nature, of all things, ends up becoming this. She believed that, after hearing about the Calamity Box, that her knowledge of fantasy stories and [=RPGs=] would allow her, Sasha, and Anne to travel the multiverse and explore to their liking, while never staying apart and living in denial that her father was moving. Anne describes how, on Earth, this dedication to fiction made her oblivious to the dangers of reality, including floor hazards. It also made her oblivious to the fact that Anne and Sasha wouldn't thrive in such a setting as she would, and they wouldn't want to just abandon their families like that, [[EvenEvilHasStandards not even Sasha]]. What's more, if she had simply ''talked'' to Sasha and Anne about this, it's likely the three of them would have found another solution.]]
* FateWorseThanDeath: [[spoiler:Marcy gets impaled near-fatally by King Andrias so she can be reborn as a vessel for his master.]]
* FighterMageThief: She's the Mage to Anne's Fighter and Sasha's Thief.
-->'''Marcy''': I just roleplayed like your typical artificer rogue, and the next thing you know, BOOM! I'm the chief ranger of the Newtopian knight guard.
* {{Foil}}:
** Her introduction and Sasha's couldn't be more night and day, with her going from gushing over Anne's new frog family to saving Sprig without a concern for herself. It's a shame the Plantars couldn't have met her first.
** What Marcy has in intelligence, Anne makes up for with social skills.
** Sasha intending to go back home no matter the cost runs counter to Marcy's awe and love of the world and people she's found herself encountering.
** [[spoiler:Both her and Sasha's betrayals towards the group are extremely similar yet executed rather differently. While Marcy never ''wanted'' to hurt her friends and only did what she did without considering the consequences (self-serving and reckless as it was), Sasha couldn't care less about hurting Anne as long as she was still in control.]]
* {{Foreshadowing}}: There are several hints throughout S2 toward the reveal that [[spoiler:she's the reason for the girls being sent to Amphibia so she wouldn't have to move]]:
** Once all the gems have been charged, Marcy fearfully insists they wait to see Andrias before going home.
** Marcy's rather nervous look as Anne announces they're leaving the day after "Battle of the Bands" shows she [[spoiler:doesn't want to leave and there's a lot more to come ahead]].
** Marcy [[spoiler:getting stabbed by Andrias' sword]] is vaguely foreshadowed in "Marcy at the Gates" when [[spoiler:Sasha mumbles to herself she could get killed if she's not careful]].
*** It's also foreshadowed in "The Sleepover to End All Sleepovers", when she looks in a mirror and a moth lands on her reflection, superimposed over her mouth. A moth [[spoiler:is a symbol of darkness and death, and also a symbol of rebirth after death]].
** In "Bessie & [=MicroAngelo=]" [[spoiler:when bringing up that they're going home soon to Anne, she asks her if she wants to "live the fantasy a little"]].
** In "The First Temple", when Anne questions whether they should go through with the flipwart game since it'll be dangerous, Marcy's response is "''You'' wanna get home, right? Then ''we've'' gotta play, or ''we'll'' never recharge the stone." [[spoiler:This foreshadows Marcy doesn't want to go back to Earth and had the box recharged with the intention of going on multiversal adventures forever.]]
** A rather subtle bit of foreshadowing toward [[spoiler:Marcy's possession by the Core: when the completed version of the S3 theme was released, Marcy's picture in the CrowdedCastShot was replaced with Domino.]]
** When Marcy is freed from her healing chamber, she is wearing a mech suit with an orange eye jewel on the chest. [[spoiler:This is a visual foreshadowing of what horrifying consequences are to come for her.]]
** The Amphibian text on Marcy's healing chamber translates to "Host", [[spoiler:hinting the Core is choosing her to be its human host due to her supreme knowledge.]]
* FreudianExcuse: {{Downplayed}}. While Marcy has a relatively healthy background, her family life is implied to be strict and stranded and the fact that Anne and Sasha constantly ignore her interests cause her to develop her tendencies.
* FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse: Discussed in "The Beginning of the End". Sasha tells Anne that she is right that they both ignore Marcy's interests, but that doesn't mean what she did is right and and should be forgiven that easily. Anne replied that while what Marcy did is indeed wrong and hard to forgive, both of them also made some terrible mistakes and they should give her a chance to to at least try and make things right between them.
* FromZeroToHero: She goes from being an outsider in Newtopia to a celebrity and one of King Andrias' most trusted soldiers.
* GamerChick: Back home, she is really into [=RPGs=] and video games.
* GenkiGirl: She's an adorable and energetic NiceGirl, even after she [[TookALevelInBadass takes a level in badass]].
* GentlemanAndAScholar: She is a BookSmart (if careless and accident-prone) teen who is very friendly and courteous.
* GoldColoredSuperiority: In ''The Hardest Thing [[spoiler:her [[SuperMode Calamity form]] gives her armour with gold accents, and is noted to be more powerful than the one Anne used prior.]]
* GoneHorriblyRight: [[spoiler:Her intention to bring her friends to Amphibia so they could stay together almost goes awry in "True Colors" once Sasha turns on the group and declares she's staying. Of course, this is prior to Anne and Sasha learning the truth of what Marcy did.]]
* {{Hammerspace}}: Despite only coming to Amphibia with nothing but the clothes on her back, Marcy has been shown to have a few of her possessions from home, including a Cynthia Coven book and even potato chips at some point. She also brings out a variety of items from her cape at times.
* HatesBeingAlone: [[spoiler:Marcy sent herself and her friends to Amphibia because she had just learned that her parents were moving to another state because of her father's new job, and she hoped that they could go on adventures together forever and never be separated. When this is revealed, she tearfully admits that she just didn't want to be alone.]]
* HealingVat: [[spoiler:In the season 3 premiere "The New Normal", after having been wounded by King Andrias' sword attack, Marcy is shown recuperating inside a healing vat.]]
* HeelRealization: [[spoiler:A {{downplayed|Trope}} example, as she was never evil nor came close to it before being possessed by the Core, but after Andrias reveals the truth to her friends, Marcy does come to realize how selfish and dumb her actions were, namely her decision to trap Anne and Sasha in Amphibia against their will.]]
* HeroOfAnotherStory: By the time Anne meets up with her again, she's managed to become well-known in Newtopia, directly working for King Andrias himself. Her theme song takeover elaborates on some of her offscreen adventures, such as fighting pirates and arming a village with a catapult to fight a giant cobra. [[spoiler: It's implied that Andrias partially {{Invoked}} this in order to earn Marcy's trust. He let her play out the fantasy of being a hero in a fantasy world, giving her all the resources she'd need to do so safely. Compare this to Anne and Sasha, who were dumped in hostile environments with no support structure and had to adapt or die. Marcy has only ever seen the good side of living in Amphibia and was never really challenged to undergo CharacterDevelopment like the other two were through facing uncomfortable truths about themselves, allowing her to become lost in the fantasy and making her willing to accept Andrias' proposal to give him the charged Calamity Box so she could remain being a 'cool hero' with her friends, rather than the nerdy weirdo she was back on Earth.]]
* HiddenDepths: Who'd have thought that the resident nerd would be an excellent drummer?
* {{Hypocrite}}:
** In "A Day at the Aquarium", she advises Anne to listen to her head and logic instead to her heart and emotions, [[spoiler:and yet the whole TrappedIntoAnotherWorld mess happened ''because'' of Marcy's personal feelings. In a moment of desperation at hearing the news of her family moving away from her friends, she tricked them into stealing the Calamity Box, setting in motion the entire series. Though, it's implied [[HypocrisyNod she's fully aware of this]], and that's the reason why she's so focused on using logic to get her friends home -- to make up for her impulsive mistake]].
** [[spoiler:Her first appearance features her asking Anne "why won't you just let me go?" in frustration when fighting barbari-ants, followed by promising her friend that she can survive in Amphibia without her... when she ''couldn't'' let her friends go and forced them to survive in Amphibia alone. It's implied this is due to her being InnocentlyInsensitive towards her friends and not getting that they don't feel the way she does about things and struggling to see things from their POV. In particular, thanks to Andrias' support, Marcy was actually protected from the worst aspects of the DeathWorld they found themselves in, unlike Anne and Sasha, and was able to fulfill her fantasies of becoming a StockLightNovelHero, leading to her getting annoyed when the more grounded Anne treats her like she's still the same klutzy nerd she was back on Earth and not realizing her hypocrisy in the heat of the moment]].
* IconicItem: A [=D20=] die, used in the tabletop roleplaying games she enjoyed on Earth, as seen in flashbacks. [[spoiler:Darcy uses it as a stimming toy, and it's one of the energy constructs she manifests when using her full calamity powers]].
* IgnorantOfTheirOwnIgnorance: [[spoiler: She doesn't understand that Andrias was using her from the moment she got into Amphibia, that it's a DeathWorld, and that her friends had a hard time and didn't want to stay forever in it until it's too late.]]
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: [[spoiler:She's stabbed through the chest by Andrias for saving Sprig and helping Anne and the Plantars escape to Earth.]]
* InnocentlyInsensitive: Compared to Sasha's more straightforward nastiness, most of Marcy's meaner moments are either done by accident or because she doesn't know any better. [[AllThereInTheManual Marcy's Journal]] has her express at several point a completely detached view on the world around her, treating it more like a research project or roleplaying game than an actual living world wth surrounding danger.
* IntergenerationalFriendship: She's over 1000 years younger than Andrias, and despite giving into the Core's wishes to use her, Andrias's fondness for Marcy was still genuine after she shows kindness and cheer towards him. Even after all the atrocities he committed on her and everyone else, she is the only person who doesn't show any anger or hatred towards the broken king and the two even have a bittersweet goodbye before Marcy leaves Amphibia for good.
* InTheHood: On Earth, she always wore her school hoodie and never once took it off. In Amphibia, her outfit features a hood that she occasionally has put up.
* IntoxicationEnsues: [[spoiler: In "Olivia & Yunan". After awakening from her coma, Marcy is a little loopy from whatever drugs are being pumped into the healing tank. Some adrenaline from the LotusEaterMachine helps her snap out of it for the most part, though she's still physically weak.]]
* {{Irony}}:
** [[spoiler: Marcy's main goal was to remain with her friends and never be split apart. In her desperation to escape the fact that she'd be forced to move away because her father got an out-of-state job, she failed to account for where each of her friends would end up when the Calamity Box warped them to the land of Amphibia, and they land in three separate spots. She thought they'd be together with nothing to separate them, but even when they finally reunite after months apart, they wind up split apart again when King Andrias manages to impale her and Sasha is too far away from the portal to escape. Not once, but ''twice in a row'' has she failed at her main goal so far.]]
** [[spoiler: Of the three girls, Marcy easily had the best time when she first arrived, given that she always wanted to be an explorer in a fantasy world, and the newts let her live out those fantasies. Meanwhile, Anne and Sasha started out living in a wet giant-bug-filled cave and in a toad dungeon respectively. In the end, though, Marcy got the worst out of Amphibia; while Anne gained genuine friends and loved ones and Sasha genuinely befriended Grime and became commander of the frog resistance, Marcy was manipulated by [[PsychopathicManchild King Andrias]], was exposed for her lies in front of her friends, stabbed, and forcibly turned into the host of a genocidal MindHive (and judging by her screams when the helmet was put on, it wasn't painless) that [[AndIMustScream locked her up in her own mind]]]].
** [[spoiler: She transported herself, Anne, and Sasha to Amphibia so they could explore a fantasy world together, but her theme song takeover and the various hints shown through the Plantars' time in Newtopia hints that Marcy has mainly remained in the capital city and not really explored much outside of it, save for when she journeys with Anne to find the temples. Anne and Sasha have actually explored more of the fantasy world than Marcy has. This ties into TheReveal about her in "True Colors", as Marcy has been receiving support and benefits from the powerful and connected Andrias from the start, whereas Anne and Sasha have had to overcome several hardships and [[CharacterDevelopment improve themselves]] with little to work with, facing the harsh dangers of the DeathWorld with only their wits, which contributed to how much each of them has changed when they all meet up again. Whereas Anne and Sasha recognize the harsh reality of the world they're in because their time there has never pulled any punches with them, Marcy was always protected from that by Andrias making things easy for her, leading her to trust him and give him the Calamity Box because she was [[CannotTellFictionFromReality lost in the fantasy]], which gets brutally torn down for her when Andrias reveals the truth.]]
** Despite being the smartest of the trio, [[spoiler:she ends up working as a webcomic artist in the WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue, while Anne and Sasha take up jobs in scientific fields as a herpetologist and a psychologist.]]
* JustWhistle: She can call upon Joe Sparrow by whistling.
* KidHasAPoint: [[spoiler:It's {{Downplayed|Trope}}, but she's right when she says that Anne, Sasha, and their CharacterDevelopment, including Anne meeting Sprig, happened because of her actions. She didn't have the right to trap her friends into another world without their consent, though.]]
* KillTheCutie: [[spoiler:{{Subverted|Trope}}. She's stabbed by King Andrias, leaving her barely alive, and placed in a healing tank to prepare her for the Core's possession. That said, she's then afterwards apparently left [[AndIMustScream trapped inside her own mind]] and powerless to stop the Core ''optimizing her mind'' to make space inside her head, implying that while she might be physically alive, if the Core's possession continues for much longer, [[DeathOfPersonality Marcy might cease to exist]] altogether. Andrias' flashback to his first meeting with Marcy in all her adorable glory in "All In" shows that the Core wanted to pull this on Marcy from the start, which Andrias [[EvenEvilHasStandards balked at]].]]
* TheKindnapper: [[spoiler:For all intents and purposes, she kidnapped Anne and Sasha by tricking them into getting TrappedInAnotherWorld with her. While her motives were selfish, not wanting to be separated from them no matter the cost, she also truly wanted to have a wonderful adventure with her two best friends, and thought they'd be happy once they got over the shock[[note]]which, in Anne's case, she ''was'', though she's still justifiably pissed when she finds out the truth[[/note]]. That being said, she had no idea the music box would actually work or that they'd be trapped when it did.]]
* TheKlutz: Marcy is one, mostly because she has a very limited attention span and rarely looks at where she is going. She also somehow lights herself on fire three times in her introduction (and one of those times, there wasn't any fire around). [[spoiler:Even after gaining the full power of her Calamity Stone, she ''still'' manages to trip over literally the ''only'' piece of space debris in the vicinity when going after the frobots seemingly attacking them. Luckily, they were there to help, but ''still''.]]
* LaserGuidedKarma: Marcy, along with Sasha, peer-pressured Anne into stealing a thrift store music box, which ends up transporting the three of them to Amphibia. {{Downplayed|Trope}}, however, as she loves being in Amphibia [[spoiler:and intentionally stranded her friends there]]. It's played extremely straight in "True Colors", when [[spoiler:Marcy is stabbed through the chest and seemingly killed for bringing her friends to Amphibia]].
* LateArrivalSpoiler: The fact that she was transported to Amphibia along with both of her friends, as well as the fact that she is now a warrior in league with Newtopia, isn't treated as much of a reveal in the season 2 trailer. [[spoiler:They're actually hiding the ''real'' reveals about her, which are shown in "True Colors".]]
* {{Leitmotif}}: "Marcy's Theme", an upbeat rock and roll theme which befits her tech-savvy side.
* LikeADuckTakesToWater: Her obsession with roleplaying games allowed her to quickly adapt to Amphibia's weirdness, moving up the Newtopian ranks to become one of their best agents. Her theme song takeover shows that, ironically, she struggled with introducing actual role-playing games to Newtopia.
* LockedOutOfTheLoop:
** Naturally, being insulated off in Newtopia, she is initially unaware of the events of the season one finale, namely that Anne had already found Sasha and that the two had gotten into a serious fight. Anne fills her in after they reunite in Newtopia.
** Since she wasn't around when [[spoiler:Hop Pop buried the Calamity Box]], Marcy has no idea why Anne and the old frog are arguing in the first temple, and doesn't do anything to defuse the situation.
** [[spoiler:Since she was saving Sprig from [[DisneyDeath falling to his doom]] when Anne unveiled her SuperMode in "True Colors", she's unaware of Anne's powers, nor that she and Sasha were also similarly empowered until they completed the temples -- something she could have reasonably figured out if she'd seen the evidence, but since Andrias' focus was on avoiding a confrontation with the girls until ''after'' they'd depowered themselves, he naturally {{invoked|Trope}} this on her and her friends.]]
** On a more series-wide note, Marcy seems to be unaware of the true dangers involved in living in [[DeathWorld Amphibia]], seeing it as a fantastical world full of wonders, exotic sights and mysteries, while remaining oblivious or unconcerned with the ''very'' deadly animals, monsters, or inhabitants that make the place their home, in part because she was teleported straight inside the civilized and uplifted city of Newtopia, which is markedly more cultured and accepting of somebody with her intellectual mindset than other parts of Amphibia, not to mention much safer. Whereas Anne and Sasha are well aware that living in this world could have potentially lethal consequences for them and is ''not'' the kind of fantasy adventure Marcy's read about in books, Marcy's cheerful obliviousness and confidence in her abilities ever since she came to a world that really allowed her to indulge in her nerdy interests makes her overlook how harrowing the experience has actually been for her friends, who weren't nearly as ready for an interdimensional adventure as she was. [[spoiler:This results in them falling out with her in "True Colors" once Andrias callously reveals her DarkSecret about willingly getting them all TrappedInAnotherWorld, since both girls have had a way harder time living in Amphibia than Marcy has, and she struggles to understand that because of how good the experience has been for ''her'' -- not helped by [[ManipulativeBastard Andrias]] intentionally making things easier for Marcy as a means of gaining her trust.]]
* LonelyAmongPeople: A flashback in "Beginning of the End" shows Marcy trying to watch a movie with Anne and Sasha, only for the latter two to fall asleep for what is confirmed to not be the first time, leaving Marcy to watch it alone. [[spoiler:Anne even admits that she and Sasha could have been better in regards to Marcy's interests and issues, and that if they had, maybe Marcy wouldn't have done something as crazy as using the Calamity Box to send them to Amphibia]].
* LovedByAll: For someone who considers herself bad at making connections, about everyone in Newtopia seems to absolutely adore Marcy. [[spoiler: Even Andrias, manipulative and callous as he is, is genuinely fond of her, and tried to persuade the Core to pick someone else to be its host.]]
* MadeOfIron: She often falls flat on her face and immediately bounces back up without a single scratch. She also gets slightly burned by Maddie's fire spell, but appears to be fine afterwards. [[spoiler: Too bad she's not LaserSword-proof.]]
* MeaningfulName:
** The name Marcy is of American origin, meaning warlike.
** Regina is the Latin word for "queen." Fitting as she managed to become good friends with King Andrias. Also, in a darker twist, fitting with how [[spoiler:she gets possessed by the Core, the true ruler of Amphibia, essentially making her the realm's queen throughout the possession]].
** [[spoiler:After getting possessed by the Core, she is renamed "Darcy", a pun on "dark Marcy".]]
* MindHive: [[spoiler:After the Core possesses her, Marcy -- or rather, Darcy -- always refers to herself in the plural.]]
* MoralLuck: Discussed in "True Colors". [[spoiler:When Anne is horrified to learn that Marcy got them all stranded in Amphibia on purpose, Marcy argues that Anne and Sasha have [[CharacterDevelopment grown so much]] from their time in Amphibia, and it's because of Marcy that Anne met Sprig and the Plantars in the first place. While it's true that some good has come out of the adventure, Marcy had no way of knowing any of it would happen when she deliberately tricked her friends into being TrappedInAnotherWorld without their knowledge or consent.]]
* MoralityPet: [[spoiler:Andrias states that he actually likes her as a friend, despite his villainy. That doesn't stop him from [[KickTheMoralityPet letting the Core upload itself to her]].]]
* MotiveRant: [[spoiler:A rare non-villainous and sympathetic example in "True Colors", as she explains why she sent herself, Anne, and Sasha to Amphibia on purpose]]:
-->'''Marcy:''' I did it for us... [[spoiler:The day we left, your birthday, they told me my dad got a new job out of state. They were making me move away. They were gonna tear us apart!]]\\
'''Anne:''' Marcy...\\
'''Marcy:''' [[spoiler:I...I found the box and I had no idea that it would actually work, but it did!]] And, and this sent us to a place where we never have to grow apart. Where the three of us could be friends forever together.\\
'''Anne:''' How could you?! [[spoiler:I've been missing my parents. My life!]]\\
'''Marcy:''' But, [[spoiler:look at how much fun we had! Look at how much you've both grown! Look at Sprig! I gave you this! I gave you everything! ''[{{beat}}]'' I just... didn't want to be alone...]]
* MotorMouth: She has a habit of constantly chattering away given the opportunity.
* MustMakeAmends: [[spoiler:After she's revealed to be directly responsible for her, Anne, and Sasha being stuck in Amphibia, Marcy tries to make it up to her friends by fighting back against King Andrias' forces. She even activates a portal to the human world to allow Anne and the Plantars to escape.]]
-->'''Marcy:''' [[spoiler:I-I'm sorry... for everything...]]
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: [[spoiler: In "Olivia & Yunan", when an illusionary amalgamation of Sasha and Anne appears, they call out Marcy for how she lied to them and betrayed them in favor of pursuing a fantasy adventure. Marcy can only fall to her knees and apologize, admitting that what she did was really "dumb". Notably, Marcy was ''aware'' that the whole thing was just an illusion, but she was so overwhelmed by her guilt that she was moved to tears in regret and got distracted apologizing to the facsimiles of her absent friends until Yunan helps snap her out of it.]]
* NearDeathExperience: [[spoiler: In Season 2 Finale, she’s stabbed in the back by Andrias’s LaserSword, for helping Anne and the Plantars escape from his wrath, using the Calamity Box to create a portal that would send them on Earth. The only reason she survived is because Andrias put her in a HealingVat, so he could use her as his master’s living host]].
* NeverMyFault: Played with. [[spoiler:When Anne and Sasha call her out for betraying them by sending them to Amphibia against their will, not only separating them from their livelihoods but also endangering their lives in the process, she tries to justify herself by saying that her decision at least got them to improve upon themselves, only to immediately take it back and admit that they're right in how wrong she was.]]
* NiceGirl: Marcy, despite her flaws and [[spoiler: the severity of her actions]], isn't a malicious person. She's genuinely friendly, upbeat, and cheerful. [[spoiler: In fact when she first met Andrias, she kindly asks him if she can call him 'Drias' like his former friends once did but partially understands that it's too personal. Then after sqwirming her way into the giant newt king's pocket, she gives him a small roblox pin as a gift of friendship. This simple act of kindness deeply touched the large newt king, resulting in him seeing her as his first real friend in over 1000 years. Though she goes on a rant after her lie is revealed, she admits what she did was wrong and tries to make amends completely of her own accord. She becomes the complete opposite of this when under the Core's control.]].
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Where do we begin? [[spoiler:The ''entire series'' only started because she was afraid of moving and found the Calamity Box as a desperate solution, eventually causing her friends to separate and end up at each other's throats.]]
* NiceMeanAndInbetween: She's the NiceGirl to Sasha's mean and Anne's in-between. Marcy is the nicest of the girls, and is also klutzy and naïve. "True Colors" and [[https://twitter.com/MrBabyMan/status/1396905001511915520 the writer' whiteboard]] reveals that, in terms of sheer morality, [[spoiler:Anne is the [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold Moral]] to Sasha's [[ItsAllAboutMe Immoral]] and Marcy's [[SecretlySelfish Amoral]]]]. [[spoiler:She becomes the mean one to Anne's nice and Sasha's in-between when possessed by the Core as Darcy.]]
* NoodleIncident: So far, the audience hasn't found out how exactly Marcy got to become the king's soldier in the first place. [[spoiler:That is, until the season 2 finale comes along, which reveals that he made her one as a pawn in his scheme.]] Her theme song takeover shows some events that occurred in the in-between period, such as her leading a bunch of newts to fight off a giant cobra with a catapult or fighting alongside Yunan on a pirate ship in appropriate gear.
* NoOneCouldSurviveThat: [[spoiler:In "True Colors", Anne and the Plantars witness Marcy get impaled by a giant sword. In the season 3 premiere, Anne refuses to believe Marcy could have died that easily when discussing it with Hop Pop. She does indeed survive thanks to the Moss Man's healing powers combined with the Shadow Moth, but only because Andrias saves her to make her the Core's human host.]]
* NoOneGetsLeftBehind: Marcy makes it clear that once they're able to get home, she refuses to leave without Sasha. This complicates things because Anne can't quite explain to Marcy that Sasha betrayed them. [[spoiler:This is deconstructed by "True Colors", given her refusal to let her friends go in more mundane circumstances. She very well would've lost them there.]]
* NoSocialSkills: PlayedForDrama. She has difficulty connecting with other people, including her friends. She doesn't understand that they may not have the same interests as her. [[spoiler:She decides to take them to Amphibia with her without consulting them first, failing to consider that doing so would affect them deeply. She is confirmed by the creators to be on the spectrum.]]
* NotSoSimilar: She and Sasha are shown pressuring Anne into opening the chest that transports them to this world in the first place. However, while Sasha is aware of her own pushy behavior, Marcy is shown to be InnocentlyInsensitive at worst and likely didn't intend to have Anne steal the chest. Ultimately subverted. [[spoiler:While Marcy ''is'' nicer, she is ultimately the reason they ended up in Amphibia, desperate and not knowing if the box would even work, and hoping to stay with her friends forever rather than having to move on from them.]]
* NotQuiteDead: [[spoiler:The season 3 intro reveals that Andrias kept Marcy alive after her near-fatal stabbing by putting her in a healing tank.]] We don't learn why until later -- turns out, [[spoiler:the Core wanted her for a [[GrandTheftMe host body]].]]
* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: She builds up a reputation in Newtopia as an agent with a flawless track record when it comes to missions long before she reunites with Anne.
* OlderThanTheyLook: {{Downplayed}} since they're all 13, but in contrast to popular belief, out of anyone, it's ''Marcy'' who's actually the ''oldest'' of the trio.[[note]]Although the girls' birthdays weren't revealed, their Zodiac signs were: Marcy is an Aquarius, Sasha is an Aries and Anne is a Gemini.[[/note]] It's hard to tell at first since appearance-wise Marcy is the shortest with Sasha and Anne noticeably taller than her, and personality-wise compared to the other two Marcy seems the most childish, the two (especially [[TheBabyOfTheBunch the actual youngest Anne]]) even having the [[BigSisterInstinct need to protect her]] due to her [[TheKlutz clumsiness]] and [[SkewedPriorities oblivious]] behavior, plus her [[HatesBeingAlone clinginess to her friends]].
* PeopleJars: [[spoiler: She spends the first part of season 3 in a healing tank recovering from her near-fatal stabbing.]]
* {{Pacifist}}: While Marcy is capable of asserting herself, she often does not intervene in her friends' arguments or use any sort of violence against anyone out of anger. [[spoiler: Even when Sasha reveals that she tricked her and Anne into helping her and Grime invade Newtopia, Marcy doesn't appear to be angered or enraged by her deceit like Anne, and even tries to resolve the conflict with Sasha and Anne peacefully]]. it turns out this is because [[spoiler:she's so terrified of losing her best friends that nothing else really matters to her]].
* RewatchBonus: [[spoiler:''Every single scene'' with her throughout the series takes on a different context when you find out that she's ultimately the reason for the girls all being TrappedInAnotherWorld out of a desire not to be separated from her friends. This even extends to the opening -- whereas Anne and Sasha are outright shocked and apprehensive towards the strange phenomenon occurring with the box, [[FreezeFrameBonus Marcy instead shows a more subdued curiosity towards it]] -- as it turns out, she knew the box had the possibility of traveling to other worlds, but didn't know if it would actually work or not.]]
* RoyalFavorite: It's quite clear from their interactions that King Andrias holds Marcy in high regard, even giving her a "proposition" at the end of "A Day at the Aquarium." [[spoiler:While it turns out he was manipulating her the whole time, he ''did'' genuinely like her -- he admits as much while letting the Core steal her body, regretting he couldn't get it to choose a different host]].
* TheRunaway: [[spoiler:Marcy did this after her parents revealed they were moving in "True Colors", and forced Sasha and Anne to become ones against their will too.]]
* RunningAwayToCry: In the flashback during "True Colors", [[spoiler:Marcy bursts out of her house in tears after her parents tell her they're moving out of state, and runs far enough to find the Calamity Box at the thrift shop]].
* RunningGag: In "Marcy at the Gates", whenever Marcy mentions how much she's changed, her cloak is pointed out to be on fire.
* ScarsAreForever: [[spoiler:According to [[Literature/MarcysJournalAGuideToAmphibia her journal]], she has a scar from where Andrias stabbed her.]]
* ScienceHero: Her knowledge lets her do alchemy on the spot using local ingredients. Her straight A's in chemistry probably help.
* SecondEpisodeIntroduction: She first appears along with Sasha in "Best Fronds", but doesn't have her first speaking role until the second season.
* SecretTestOfCharacter: To charge her gem at the first temple, [[spoiler:she willingly quits the Flipwart game for the good of Anne and the Plantars upon realizing the game is unwinnable]].
* SecretlySelfish: [[spoiler:"True Colors" reveals that on Anne's birthday, Marcy's parents told her that her father got a job in another state and that she would have to move away. After running out of the house in tears and anger, she eventually ended up at the thrift shop where the Calamity Box was being kept, and convinced Anne and Sasha to steal it so she and her friends would be teleported to another world to have adventures forever. While she initially tries to claim she did it for the group, only for a hurt Anne and Sasha to pull away from her, she ultimately admits that [[HatesBeingAlone she did it just because she didn’t want to be alone]].]]
-->'''Anne''': [[spoiler:How ''could'' you? I've been missing my parents! My life!]]\\
'''Marcy''': [[spoiler:But look at how much fun we've had! Look at how much you've both grown! Look at Sprig! I gave you this! ''I gave you everything!'']]
* SheepInSheepsClothing: We're led to believe that there is a darker, more sinister side to Marcy when we first see her, with Sprig flat-out saying that he doesn't trust her. Turns out, she's exactly as nice as she appears to be. [[spoiler:However, the season 2 finale reveals that Sprig was technically right about her hiding more than she let on, as she is the reason she and her friends were trapped in Amphibia, though she did it for reasons that were overall selfish though still sympathetic.]]
* SkewedPriorities: Back in the human world, there were many times where Marcy ''clearly'' shouldn't have been playing her video game in the moment (i.e. during a volleyball game, a school play, getting ice cream from a machine with Anne). This is an aspect of her being 'in the zone', which compounds Anne's worry throughout the First Temple that she'll be too focused on solving the temple's puzzles for her own good.
* SmartPeoplePlayChess: She was the head of the chess club back home, and [[spoiler:her final temple test involves her playing the Amphibian equivalent of chess]].
* StockLightNovelHero: Out of the three girls, Marcy is the closest to being a stock hero in an [[TrappedInAnotherWorld isekai]] story. She is a highly intelligent but clumsy teenager with a love of fantasy games who was sent to a medieval-style fantasy world where she rapidly becomes a beloved hero who uses both common knowledge from her own world and her love of games and puzzles to rapidly advance aspects of their society. [[spoiler:This gets deconstructed in the season 2 finale "True Colors", where it is revealed that she ''knew'' the Calamity Box would send them to another world, and she sent herself along with the unwitting Anne and Sasha to Amphibia because [[DontSplitUsUp she didn't want to be lonely without them]]. This disgusts the two girls, who [[TheresNoPlacelikeHome want to go home away from the]] DeathWorld. Not to mention, the biggest friend she makes in Newtopia ends up betraying her and stabbing her in the back. Literally.]]
* SuddenlyVoiced: After making a silent appearance in a flashback in season 1, Marcy finally has her first speaking role in "Marcy at the Gates".
* SuperGullible: Unfortunately, despite her intelligence, Marcy is just ''so'' naïve, and will end up falling for anything that's dangerous before realizing it. Unlike Anne and the Plantars, she easily falls for Sasha's forgiving façade, despite knowing about what she and Grime did at Toad Tower, as Marcy trusts her friends completely. [[spoiler:And then there's the unfortunate deal she has with [[BigBad King Andrias]]]].
* SuperMode: [[spoiler:Gains her own Calamity form in ''The Hardest Thing'', granting her armour with a green aura, in order to fight the Core controlled moon.]]
* TearsOfRemorse: [[spoiler:In "True Colors", she breaks down in deep regret over what she did to her friends.]]
* TeenGenius: Marcy may be a klutz and not have a lot of social skills, but she's incredibly smart with her schoolwork and GenreSavvy. She also apparently has "college-level geometry skills"
* TemptingFate: In her ''Theme Song Takeover'', Marcy gleefully sings [[spoiler:"I love it in Amphibia, so much adventure still to see! I hope nothing bad ever happens to me!", while King Andrias smiles and winks behind her.]]
* ThrillSeeker: Marcy is into the fantasy/[=RPG=] genre, and treats her time in Amphibia as a real-life adventure game. [[spoiler:This takes a darker turn when it's revealed she deliberately sent her friends to Amphibia. When she found out she was moving away, she stumbled upon the Calamity Box, which she had read about in the library. Seeing it was actually real, she took the opportunity to go on an adventure beyond her wildest dreams with her friends, where they would never have to be separated. Both Anne and Sasha are horrified by the revelation.]]
* TokenEvilTeammate: [[spoiler:She becomes this in a sense in season 3, thanks to the Core taking possession of her body.]]
* TokenGoodTeammate: Within their trio, Anne starts off as a JerkWithAHeartOfGold, and Sasha's the archetypal AlphaBitch [[spoiler: who uses her friends to invade Newtopia, but does care about them as well.]] Marcy? She's just a sweet bundle of energy. [[spoiler:This gets flipped on its head when her role in willingly sending the girls to Amphibia is revealed. Despite not intending for things to turn out quite so direly as they did, Marcy's actions [[NiceJobBreakingItHero ultimately doomed her friends and the entire multiverse]] [[UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom by complete accident]]. While Marcy is truly a NiceGirl without a malicious or violent bone in her body, this makes it clear that neither of the girls are the good teammate of the trio as they are all equally flawed.]] [[spoiler:She unwillingly becomes the TokenEvilTeammate once the Core takes possession of her.]]
* TokenHuman: Mirroring Anne as the only human in Wartwood and Sasha as the only human in Toad Tower, Marcy is the only human in Newtopia, at least until Anne and the Plantars arrive.
* TomboyWithAGirlyStreak: She may be a happy adventurer and strategic planner with BoyishShortHair and [[GamerChick a love for video games]], but her usual outfit in Newtopia consists of a makeshift skirt instead of pants. Also, when she and Anne reunite for the first time in months, Marcy is overjoyed and starts squealing with excitement in a [[{{Squee}} very girlish way]].
* TooDumbToLive: While she is very intelligent, she is also rather absent-minded and clumsy. She'll read a book while walking, nearly getting injured as a result. Sasha even claims that one day she would get herself killed. [[spoiler:Her impulsiveness in sending herself and her friends to Amphibia ends up with her being impaled through the heart]].
* TooGoodToBeTrue: [[spoiler:The perfect fantasy the Core created in her own mind scape starts to crumble when Marcy realizes that the fact that Anne and Sasha would willingly join her on her RPG activities is not even remotely possible in real life.]]
* TookALevelInBadass: Back on Earth, Marcy was a clumsy, oblivious, and somewhat nerdy girl who didn't mind her surroundings and spent most of her time distracted by video games and fantasy role-playing games. By the time Anne and the Plantars meet her, she is a fierce, gutsy, and formidable warrior who is Chief of the Newtopian Knight Guard. (However, she still has her oblivious moments.)
* TouchedByVorlons: Similar to Anne and Sasha, she seems to possess superhuman intelligence, which manifests as the green gem's glow in her eyes. When she recharges the gem, the glow drained, and she loses its powers along with it.
* ToxicFriendInfluence: Downplayed. While she still peer-pressured Anne into taking the Calamity Box alongside Sasha, Marcy comes across as a far friendlier and warm person than the latter. Given her quirkiness, her interest in the music box was more because she wanted badly to take a look at it, whereas Sasha wanted to encourage Anne to break rules. [[spoiler:Ultimately, Marcy's not one to control or influence her friends as much as she is to make decisions without considering them.]]
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Red Velvet cupcakes with ube frosting.
* ATragedyOfImpulsiveness: Marcy [[spoiler:was not in a good state when she found the Calamity Box, having just been told by her parents shortly before that they were moving away and leaving Marcy's old life behind, and made the rash decision that it was the solution to the problem of being separated from her friends]]. They all pay for it. It's implied that Marcy has basically realized this by the time she and Anne meet up again in Newtopia, as she cautions Anne about making decisions with her heart, rather than her head.
* TragicHeroine: At the end of the day, she's just a nerdy NiceGirl [[spoiler:who HatesBeingAlone and is willing to trap herself and her friends into another world so she won't be separated from them, without considering either their personal opinions or the not-so-nice implications of doing such a thing. Furthermore, her actions put the entire multiverse in danger, and she nearly gets herself killed because of it, with her last thoughts being of her DyingAlone and hated by her friends]]. [[spoiler:Things go FromBadToWorse after [[GrandTheftMe she’s turned into the Core’s living host]]]].
* TrappedInAnotherWorld: The music box brings her, Sasha, and Anne to Amphibia. While they were dumped in the valley with the toads and frogs, respectively, Marcy appeared right in the middle of Newtopia. [[spoiler:It's also somewhat {{subverted}}, as it's revealed that Marcy ''willingly'' entered the world of Amphibia and dragged Sasha and Anne along with her, with the only problem she has being that they got separated to different locations on arrival. By the time of "The Third Temple", it's fully {{averted}}, as the girls have completely charged the Calamity Box, and Marcy knows how to use it to open a portal home, but she intentionally decides not to in order to continue having adventures with Anne and Sasha.]]
* UnintentionallyKarmic: [[spoiler:She gets Sasha (alongside Anne) transported into Amphibia against her will, and while Marcy never meant any true harm, [[{{Jerkass}} Sasha]] nonetheless deserved it. Sasha even realized how it felt to be betrayed by someone after being just as guilty of such herself.]]
* UnwillingRoboticization: [[spoiler:Marcy is subjected to this in "Olivia & Yunan," being forced into a robotic body as the Core downloads its consciousness into her.]]
* UnwittingPawn: [[spoiler:King Andrias lied to her about his true intentions to use the Calamity Box to conquer the multiverse, instead playing on her desperation to stay with her friends by telling her that they would use the box to simply explore the multiverse, letting Marcy have adventures with her friends together forever.]]
* VirtuousCharacterCopy: She is this with one of her VA's Haley Tju previous role Darcy Wong from ''Series/TheThundermans''. For starters, they both have very similar names (even moreso when Marcy becomes Darcy/The Core), they are both intelligent young girls who's worst actions sometimes stem from moving angst. However, Darcy Wong is a mean spirited, rude, violent, and unlikable {{Jerkass}}, while Marcy Wu is a friendly, sweet, innocent, and loveable NiceGirl. Plus, Darcy clearly takes pleasure in what she does, like stealing other people's stuff, vandalizing personal property, and tormenting people and animals while showing no remorse for her mean, destructive, and violent tendencies, making it hard for anyone to feel bad for her, while Marcy has more sympathetic reasons for what she did and has a HeelRealization for the severity of her actions and does everything she could to make things right, making it much more easier to feel sorry for her.
* TheVoiceless: She only makes non-speaking appearances in season 1, and she gets her first speaking role in season 2.
* WalkingSpoiler: This is a given, considering she was the one who found the Calamity Box, as shown in a flashback from the episode "Reunion", and she has no appearances in the present until season 2. Considering everything that was revealed about her and happened in the season 2 finale, it's safe to say she definitely counts as this.
* WhatTheHellHero: [[spoiler:Both Anne and Sasha are infuriated at discovering that she's the reason why they were trapped in Amphibia, and even when she tries to explain her motivations to them, they have none of it.]]
* WildCard: Unlike Sasha or Anne, it's difficult to tell whether Marcy's a good guy or a bad guy, especially given how she drives herself by logic rather than emotions. [[spoiler:It turns out she's neither.]]
* WiseBeyondHerYears: As a child, she already had quite an impressive vocabulary, especially for someone her age.
-->'''Anne:''' Look, Mar-Mar, I'm an eagle!\\
'''Marcy:''' Cool! Well, I'm a twin engine seamax amphibious aircraft!
* TheWorldIsJustAwesome: She has this opinion of Amphibia, which, given it's a tried and true ''DeathWorld'', is a little suspect.
* WrongGenreSavvy: Due to being a fan of fantasy tabletop games and [=JRPG's=], [[spoiler:Marcy thought Anne and Sasha would be thrilled by (or at least learn to love) the opportunity to go on amazing adventures in another dimension. Unfortunately for Marcy, she's in a series with realistic consequences, and her friends are instead traumatized from being TrappedInAnotherWorld where EverythingIsTryingToKillYou with dubious hopes of ever getting home. What's more, they're horrified and disgusted by her willingness to drag them away from their families and lives without their consent]].
* YoungerMentorOlderDisciple: The Older Disciple to Maddie's Younger Mentor, since no matter what the equivalent age is in Amphibia, Maddie's clearly meant to be a kid no older than Sprig, while Marcy's a teenager.
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Scourge of the Sand Wars, Defeater of Ragnar the Wretched, aaaaand the youngest newt ever to achieve the rank of General in the great Newtopian Army. [[CharacterCatchphrase She's happy to cite these accomplishments to any who ask who she is]]. She's also ''very'' much capable of backing up her own boasting.
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* AmbiguouslyEvil: It's revealed in "Toadcatcher" that Toad Tower oppresses Wartwood and other areas of Amphibia on Newtopia's behalf. Yet, Hop-Pop's description of them paints a picture of wise leaders. It's hard to say if they even knew Toad Tower was extorting the frogs, let alone approved of that. That Grime is in hot water while Wartwood doesn't face any trouble after Toad Tower falls also makes things unclear. Grime is a wanted criminal to them, which could result from his extortion, but he only mentions that it's for abandoning his post rather than other questionable activity. On the other hand, Grime has been keeping the tax money for himself, and not giving any to Newtopia isn’t something the newts would approve of either. [[spoiler:"True Colors" removes the ambiguity for Andrias, and seemingly shows that his subjects aren't evil, and most of them were unaware of his true nature. Season 3 further shows that his newt subjects definitely were not in on his plans, not even his once-{{dragon}}, Yunan, and advisor, Olivia.]]
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* AmbiguouslyEvil: It's revealed in "Toadcatcher" that Toad Tower oppresses Wartwood and other areas of Amphibia on Newtopia's behalf. Yet, Hop-Pop's description of them paints a picture of wise leaders. It's hard to say if they even knew Toad Tower was extorting the frogs, let alone approved of that. That Grime is in hot water while Wartwood doesn't face any trouble after Toad Tower falls also makes things unclear. Grime is a wanted criminal to them, which could result from his extortion, but he only mentions that it's for abandoning his post rather than other questionable activity. On the other hand, Grime has been keeping the tax money for himself, and not giving any to Newtopia isn’t something the newts would approve of either. [[spoiler:"True Colors" removes the ambiguity for Andrias, and seemingly shows that his subjects aren't evil, and most of them were unaware of his true nature. Season 3 further shows that his newt subjects definitely were not in on his plans, not even his once-{{dragon}}, once-[[TheDragon dragon]], Yunan, and advisor, Olivia.]]
