| 1 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tumblr_bfd03572e47ecc898c9ffe1e5345034e_b581c719_2048.jpg]] |
| 2 | [[caption-width-right:350:"I gave you this, and I can take it all away."]] |
| 3 | |
| 4 | -> When King Andrias approached Marcy, instead of a proposition, he asked her to follow him. There was something important he had to show her. |
| 5 | |
| 6 | -> What she saw led her down a path that would change her forever. |
| 7 | |
| 8 | -> Marcy gazed into the abyss. |
| 9 | |
| 10 | -> And the abyss gazed back with all thirteen of its eyes. |
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| 12 | ''A Moth to a Flame'' (also known as the Quisling!Marcy AU) is an AlternateUniverseFic for ''WesternAnimation/{{Amphibia}}'' by [[https://archiveofourown.org/users/MagicMan001 [=MagicMan001=]]] and [[https://archiveofourown.org/users/TheAllTimeGreatest [=TheAllTimeGreatest=]]] where lovable nerd Marcy Wu doesn't just betray her friends but sells out all of humanity. Where in canon she was kept in the dark about King Andrias's true plans, here she reveals a much darker side as her ancestors' past as conquerors are revealed, her obsession with being a hero and fear of abandonment consume her, and she descends down the path of madness. |
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| 14 | The fic can be read [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/31786669/chapters/78685435 here]] on Website/ArchiveOfOurOwn and [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13896528/1/A-Moth-to-a-Flame here]] on Website/FanFictionDotNet (It should be noted that the latter hasn't been updated since July 14th, 2021). |
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| 16 | The original proposal can be found [[https://www.deviantart.com/magicman001/art/Amphibia-AU-Quisling-Marcy-880549059 here]] and [[https://www.deviantart.com/magicman001/art/Amphibia-AU-Quisling-Marcy-A-Scenelet-880752970 here]] on Website/DeviantArt and [[https://magicman111.tumblr.com/post/652200993006682112/amphibia-au-marcys-betrayal-aka-what-if here]] and [[https://magicman111.tumblr.com/post/652296373291646976/amphibia-au-quisling-marcy-i-gave-you-this here]] on Website/{{Tumblr}}. |
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| 18 | !! This fanfic contains examples of the following: |
| 19 | [[foldercontrol]] |
| 20 | [[folder:A-I]] |
| 21 | * AbusiveParents: Grace Wu mentions to Anne that her mother used to beat her with a slipper when she was a child. |
| 22 | * AbusivePrecursors: |
| 23 | ** Not only were King Andrias' ancestors {{Multiversal Conqueror}}s, so were Marcy's too. Hell, even before they came to Amphibia, they were [[TheUsurper usurpers]], [[DragonInChief directly worked for dictators]], [[TheWarlord Chinese warlords]], [[EvilSorcerer witches]], [[CorruptPolitician politicians]] and assassins of other [[TheEmperor emperors]]. |
| 24 | ** The Core also contains some of Marcy's direct ancestors as well as the Newts. Although they present themselves as BenevolentPrecursors during their time in Marcy's subconsciousness while she's in a coma, they are ultimately grooming the young teen to be their new vessel. |
| 25 | * AccidentalPublicConfession: [[spoiler:After reaching her breaking point after they get caught in King Andrias' trap, Sasha shouts the horrible truth about Marcy... forgetting that some of the Wartwoodians next to her in the cage who were LockedOutOfTheLoop.]] |
| 26 | --> '''Sasha''': [[spoiler:[Marcy] and her ancestors have been screwing things up for hundreds of centuries, and now Andrias is gearing up for a MASSIVE INVASION! ALL BECAUSE I COULDN'T SEE THAT MARCY WAS A LITTLE SLIMY TRAITOR!]] |
| 27 | * AdaptationalAngstUpgrade: |
| 28 | ** Sprig has a massive example of this after arriving on Earth, due to Sasha and Marcy's betrayals giving him massive trust issues with the Boonchuys unlike in canon. [[spoiler:Marcy trying to kill him resulted in recurring nightmares of his death. One version has the Boonchuys ''kill the Plantars for dinner''. Discovering the Chili Curry Frog dish in the menu when working that Thai Go didn't help at all and he nearly breaks off with Anne as well.]] |
| 29 | ** Anne has a much harder time maintaining her secret keeping because of Marcy's betrayal. [[spoiler:Her constant mental episodes eventually results in her being periodically tormented by a hallucination of Marcy.]] |
| 30 | * AdaptationalAttractiveness: In the show, the Core's avatar form is Aldrich, King Andrias' father, an elder, giant newt. Here in story, the Core takes the form of a gorgeous woman of Chinese descent in a white dress (presumably one of Marcy's direct ancestors from Newtopia) in Marcy's MentalWorld. |
| 31 | * AdaptationalBadass: [[spoiler:The Core is able to enter Marcy's subconsciousness while she's in a coma. A power it didn't display in the show in its MechanicalAbomination form.]] |
| 32 | * AdaptationalContextChange: |
| 33 | ** Marcy calls out King Andrias for blowing up Toad Tower as in canon. Since here she was in on his plan, instead of answering with ILied, he responds with pointing out their plan won't work if her friends stand in their way, not believing they would join them in their EvilPlan. |
| 34 | --> '''Marcy''': Andrias, [[WhamLine this isn't what we agreed]]! [[EvenEvilHasStandards You said no one would get hurt]]! |
| 35 | --> '''[[SmugSmiler King Andrias]]''': No, [[ExactWords I said no one had to get hurt if they came willingly]], Marcy. [[ArmorPiercingQuestion Do you expect our vision to become a reality if they choose to stand in our way?]] Pfft! [[WideEyedIdealist C'mon kiddo]], use your head. |
| 36 | ** Marcy's confession like in "True Colors" mostly follows the reasoning and background of canon. Her famous desperate statement comes at the end of a confession that [[spoiler:she knew what the music box was capable of beforehand]]. While that is still the case in the fanfic, but while there it was the desperate, guilty plea about how she didn't want to lose her 2 best friends, here it comes at the end of the added delusional, self-centered ramblings where she's trying to convince Anne that [[spoiler:they can join together and conquer Earth, and that coming to Amphibia was destiny]]. |
| 37 | -->'''Marcy''': I gave you this! '''I GAVE YOU ''EVERYTHING!''''' |
| 38 | ** [[spoiler:King Andrias still stabs Marcy, but instead of doing it intentionally like in canon, here it was an accident. He tried to stab Sasha, who was right next to Marcy, only for her to dodge out of the way.]] |
| 39 | * AdaptationDeviation: |
| 40 | ** According to ''Literature/MarcysJournalAGuidetoAmphibia'', [[spoiler:Valeriana the Bizarre Bazaar vendor]] was the one that created the Calamity Box to unite the races of Amphibia. Here, the box was created by the Wu Clan, Marcy's ancestors, over many generations to perfect. Originally sought to assert their influence over other worlds; however, with the collapse of their influence on Earth, it became their last-ditch attempt at starting over from scratch, helping the Leviathan family, King Andrias' ancestors, build Newtopia. |
| 41 | ** ''Marcy'' is the one who [[spoiler: drops Sprig when Anne calls him her best friend]], out of jealousy rather than King Andrias' petty spite like in canon. |
| 42 | * AdaptationalExpansion: There is a section in Chapter 11 devoted to Anne's parents, particularly her [[DrowningMySorrows mother]], when they found out about their daughter's disappearance along with the subsequent weeks of them coping with her gone missing. |
| 43 | * AdaptationalIntelligence: The Core has a better understanding of Marcy's psyche than in canon, likely due to interacting for a month. It also understands the need to adapt with times of change to suit its goals. |
| 44 | * AdaptationalJerkass: Even before getting {{Mind Rape}}d by the Core, flashbacks reveal that Marcy was already worse than in canon, such as when she framed another student for bringing alcohol to school because she was jealous of her relationship with Anne. |
| 45 | * AdaptationalNiceGuy: |
| 46 | ** The Core treats Marcy ''much'' better than in canon. [[ZigZaggedTrope However]], the Core is acting as TheCorrupter to Marcy, twisting her so that she wants to join them in their dimensional conquest. At the very least, they consider her smart enough to join them and is a direct descendant of some of the MindHive. |
| 47 | ** Instead of grabbing her by the face as in canon, the Core takes her by the waist and cradles her gently into the seat. [[AffectionateGestureToTheHead It goes so far as to pet her on the head afterwards]]. |
| 48 | ** Downplayed for King Andrias. Many of his KickTheDog moments, e.g. destroying Frobo and attempted murder of [[spoiler:Sprig]] are given for [[TheDragon Marcy]] to do instead, albeit on his orders. [[spoiler:His stabbing of Marcy here was a genuine accident than deliberate, due to being on the same side. His concern for Marcy's [[FusionDance merge with the Core]] due to being UnfinishedUntestedUsedAnyway is both their sakes, not just his master's, only backing down Marcy tells him she's up for it.]] |
| 49 | * AdaptationRelationshipOverhaul: |
| 50 | ** Unlike canon, the Core also includes some of Marcy's direct ancestors in it's HiveMind. [[PointOfDivergence It's because of this change]], that sets up the whole plot of King Andrias and the Core taking a route in wrapping Marcy around their fingers, by turning her into their [[TheDragon Dragon]] and bringing her in on their EvilPlan instead of merely an UnwittingPawn via 'Proposition'. |
| 51 | ** Instead of treating her as an expendable UnwittingPawn, King Andrias treats Marcy as TheDragon to his BigBad now that she's accepted his WeCanRuleTogether deal with the Core and in support of becoming a MultiversalConqueror. |
| 52 | * AdaptationalVillainy: |
| 53 | ** Marcy is much more callous and antagonistic here, with her outright joining King Andrias' quest as his [[TheDragon Dragon]] rather than remaining an UnwittingPawn who repents the second King Andrias exposes the truth. Interestingly enough, her motivations don't actually change, but it's her moral compass that's much less stronger in this story. [[spoiler:Though it's partly implied to be the result of the borderline MindRape that she goes through at the Core's hand.]] |
| 54 | ** Mrs. Wu, despite only being fleshed out a bit in ''Marcy's Journal'' and being shown to actually care for her daughter, is portrayed here as being just as violent and destructive as her daughter in this fic, [[spoiler: attacking the Boonchuys when running into them at the store. A confrontation that also reveals and adds her being a racist bitch to them on top of that]]. |
| 55 | * AdmiringTheAbomination: When Marcy first meets the Core after being being initially terrified, she describes them as ''beautiful'' through TearsOfAwe, [[spoiler: though this is heavily implied to be due the Core's brainwashing 'making' her admire them]]. In chapter 14, when Marcy sees the MechanicalAbomination again, she practically bows down to them begging to be their host through more TearsOfJoy with a BrokenSmile included. |
| 56 | --> '''Marcy''': ''(BrokenTears) You're beautiful.'' |
| 57 | * AffablyEvil: The Core and King Andrias appear to be this to Marcy and vice versa to them. |
| 58 | * AffectionateGestureToTheHead: [[ManipulativeBastard The Core]] does this a lot in their human avatar form to Marcy in the form of actual head pats and stroking her face. They also do this in their machine form too before they merge. Marcy, who DesperatelyCravesAffection, appreciates this. |
| 59 | * TheAlcoholic: [[spoiler:Marcy's mother has become this since her daughter ran away from home.]] |
| 60 | * AllAccordingToPlan: King Andrias's smirk at the end of chapter 5 as Marcy attacks Anne, implies he purposely acted as a CardCarryingVillain beforehand to manipulate Marcy into a position where any attempt to justify her actions to her friends would fall flat to prevent ConflictingLoyalty and keep her on his side. |
| 61 | * AllegoricalCharacter: Marcy's corruption by [[TheCorrupter the Core]] can be seen as this for impressionable youth disatisfied with their lives that have been {{Brainwashed}} by {{Cult}}s or extremist groups. |
| 62 | * AmicableExes: Sasha's parents appear to be this, at the very least are able to be civil with each other. |
| 63 | * AncestorVeneration: Marcy does this with her ancestors in the [[AncientConspiracy Wu Clan]] after learning about their exploits in Newtopia, and practically treats the Core (which contains several of them in its MindHive) [[MachineWorship as her god]], literally bowing down to it. |
| 64 | * AncestralWeapon: Marcy views the Calamity Box as this, being a direct descendant of its creators. |
| 65 | * AncientConspiracy: The Core reveals that the Wu clan has been [[BeenThereShapedHistory shaping human history]] for over a thousand years. Their reach extended from ''Europe to Asia'', where they influenced Ancient China and the UsefulNotes/RomanEmpire from the shadows. Formed by [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Wu_of_Chu King Wu of Chu]] in 704 B.C., the Wu Clan was able to remain in power even when the UsefulNotes/QinDynasty rolled around and annexed Chu, working behind the scenes of subsequent major players until the collapse of the UsefulNotes/JinDynasty in 420 A.D. Meanwhile in Rome, they started the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ides_of_March Ides of March]] when Gaius UsefulNotes/JuliusCaesar became an obstacle to them, framed their assassination of UsefulNotes/MarkAntony and Cleopatra as a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Cleopatra suicide]] and installed the Emperors of Rome as their puppets until the fall of the Western UsefulNotes/RomanEmpire in 476 A.D. Even after all this, the Wus simply moved to their next plan 200 years later, which is the ''creation of the Calamity Box'' which [[spoiler:even made some of them ''join [[MindHive the Core itself]]'', effectively hijacking it from the newts]]. |
| 66 | * AngryAnimalisticGrowl: Marcy has been shown to do this when enraged, most notably when she holds Sprig out of the window and pulls a GoThroughMe [[spoiler:on General Yunan when she threats to attack the Core]]. |
| 67 | * AnnoyingArrows: Averted. Marcy destroys Frobot by firing an arrow from her crossbow with a Boomshroom attached to it. |
| 68 | * ApocalypticLog: To a certain extent, Marcy's journal acts as this when we get a look at in Chapter 17, and witness her descent into corruption and madness in her own words. |
| 69 | * ArmorPiercingQuestion: When Grace asks Anne if she intends to save and fix Marcy from the Core's brainwashing or kill her former childhood friend instead, the girl is left stunned and unable to answer. While Anne doesn't want to kill Marcy, despite everything she's done, she can't rule out the option that her EvilFormerFriend may have to be put down permanently for good for the sake of TheMultiverse. |
| 70 | * AscendedExtra: In the show, Marcy's parents are heard once but not seen and Sasha's parents don't make an appearance at all. Here in the story, they're named, given ADayInTheLimelight and act as {{Hero Antagonist}}s towards the Boonchuys and the Plantars as try to find their missing daughters. |
| 71 | * AsianAndNerdy: The Wu Clan were this, just like their descendants, albeit they're of Chinese ethnicity, instead of Taiwanese. [[spoiler:Many were deemed smart enough to join the Core's MindHive.]] |
| 72 | * AttentionWhore: [[EvilMentor The Core]] accuses Marcy of being this, with her [[GeniusDitz clumsy nature]] that puts her in harm's way is her subconscious desire for people to notice and care about her wellbeing. Marcy initially denies but ultimately relents that [[VillainHasAPoint the Core is right about her]]. |
| 73 | * AxCrazy: Thanks to the Core, Marcy reveals an incredibly warped, violent, and sadistic streak in the throne room fight, and being with the Core in her MentalWorld has only worsened her insanity and violent tendencies. |
| 74 | * BackingAwaySlowly: A disturbed Sprig does this when Marcy points to him as one of the good things that came of her stranding her friends in Amphibia during her MotiveRant. |
| 75 | * BadLiar: When interrogated by Detective Waybright on how Anne got the Music Box, the girl awkwardly tells her that Sasha bought it her as a birthday present. The policewoman bluntly tells her that she doesn't buy it for a single second, as she knows her daughter doesn't have that kind of cash and isn't known for saving money either, causing Anne to crack and admit to her shoplifting. |
| 76 | * BadassFamily: Marcy views her ancestors, the Wu Clan, as this, which include: gladiators, [[TheWarlord warlords]], [[EvilSorcerer sorcerers]], [[RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething nobles]], [[TheConqueror conquerors]], and the creators of the Calamity Box. She intends to live up to their legacy. |
| 77 | * BaitTheDog: When Lady Olivia grabs her arm and tries to get Marcy to pull a HeelFaceTurn, Marcy notes [[KickTheDog she could easily slap her hand away]], but [[SubvertedTrope Subverts]] this by gently brushing her hand off out of remaining fondness for her Newt friend... Then it gets [[DoubleSubvertedTrope Double Subverted]] when she spitefully tells her and General Yunan that the [[ThatManIsDead Marcy they knew]] '''[[ThatManIsDead is dead]]''', rendering her rescue attempt which put their lives on the line AllForNothing. |
| 78 | * BecauseDestinySaysSo: Marcy believes this trope is the case for her finding the Calamity Box and the trio coming to Amphibia to work with King Andrias to become {{Multiversal Conqueror}}s together forever, due to her own [[VillainousLineage ancestral connection]] to the Core (which was created by her ancestors in the [[AncientConspiracy Wu Clan]]) and her obsession with their [[DontSplitUsUp friendship]]. It's an {{Understatement}} to say Anne and Sasha [[YoureInsane aren't too keen on the idea]]. |
| 79 | --> '''Marcy''': ''(BrokenSmile)'' We were ''meant'' to find the Box, we were ''meant'' for this moment, right here, right now! This is our destiny! '''It always has been!''' |
| 80 | * BeenThereShapedHistory: Marcy's ancestors, The Wu Clan, did this for centuries, pulling the strings of civilizations from Ancient China to the UsefulNotes/RomanEmpire, before moving on to Amphibia to help build up its conquest-based society in partnership with the Newts, even helping to create the Core, with some of them joining its MindHive as a result. |
| 81 | * BenevolentBoss: The Core is this to Marcy, giving her a CoolDownHug when she's upset, explaining her heritage to her, teaching her new skills in her mindscape, even ''apologizing'' after losing their temper with her when they showed her a bad memory and at the end of Chapter 13 deeming her great enough to not only offer her to become one with them but allow her to be in control when they merge, even though they don't have to. Of course, this is all manipulation to keep her trust and make her a willing vessel. |
| 82 | * BerserkerTears: Marcy does this when emotionally worked up after being shown her bad memories in her MentalWorld by the Core. |
| 83 | * BeyondRedemption: After [[FallenHero Marcy]] declares that "The Marcy you knew... '''[[ThatManIsDead is dead]]'''", General Yunan takes her at her word, swearing that she'll stop her former friend. Anne similarly feels that Marcy can't be saved, only stopped. |
| 84 | * BigBadFriend: Marcy is this to the heroes. [[spoiler:Especially after she willingly merged with the Core.]] |
| 85 | * BigNo: |
| 86 | ** Just like in the show, Grime shouts this as he witnesses King Andrias blow up Toad Tower. Unlike canon, there's no indication that any occupants got out in time. |
| 87 | ** Marcy gives one when she sees Sasha using the Calamity Box to open a portal for the heroes to escape to Earth with. |
| 88 | * BothSidesHaveAPoint: Anne's parents call the Waybrights and Wus out for [[spoiler: their borderline PoliceBrutality when arresting them and their daughter (including Mrs. Wu strangling the teen)]]. However, the other parents aren't wrong in calling them out for knowing about the whereabouts of their missing daughters for months and didn't tell them, letting them fear the worst, and should be interrogated on why. |
| 89 | * BrainUploading: The greatest minds of Amphibia (both newt and human) and past monarchs learned to cheat death by managing to upload their consciousness to the [[MindHive Core]]. [[spoiler:They then transfer them them all into Marcy's mind, who is more than happy to go along with it.]] |
| 90 | * BreakUpBonfire: A platonic example. [[spoiler: After Anne returns home, she burns everything remotely connected to Marcy (sans the tennis racket) because they kept reminding Anne of her and giving her mental episodes. Sasha did pretty much the same without a fire back in Wartwood with the exception of a single hairpin, which she uses to escape a trap.]] |
| 91 | * BrokenPedestal: Marcy has become this to her former friends after her FaceHeelTurn is revealed to them. |
| 92 | --> '''Ivy:''' Marcy's... evil? |
| 93 | * BrokenSmile: Marcy has one of these as she desperately tries to convince Anne and Sasha that it was ''[[BecauseDestinySaysSo destiny]]'' that brought them to Amphibia, and that the three of them were ''meant'' to join King Andrias and become {{Multiversal Conqueror}}s ''together''. |
| 94 | * BrokenTears: Marcy does this with a BrokenSmile when she first meets the Core, during her MotiveRant after TheReveal and just before merging with the Core. These all showcase how unstable she has become. |
| 95 | * BrutalHonesty: The Core can be this sometimes with Marcy under the guise of ToughLove to guide her. They do not sugar-coat Marcy's flaws after showing the girl her WoundedGazelleGambit memory that she needs to overcome for their plan to succeed. |
| 96 | --> '''Marcy''': I'm a baby, aren't I? |
| 97 | --> '''The Core''': Yes, you are Marcy. |
| 98 | * BunnyEarsLawyer: This is Amanda Waybright's opinion on Mr. X: a weirdo who happens to be a really good FBI agent. [[spoiler:She is willing to work with him to find her out where her daughter is from the Boonchuys.]] |
| 99 | * ButterflyOfDeathAndRebirth: Or rather "Moth of Death and Rebirth" best describes Marcy here as she becomes progressively worse and [[ThatManIsDead considers her old self to be dead]] as she embraces the Core's vision. |
| 100 | * CallBack: When Sasha tries to warn Anne that Marcy [[FaceHeelTurn can't be trusted]], Anne [[CassandraTruth doesn't believe her]], hitting her with a blistering TheReasonYouSuckSpeech which concludes with an IronicEcho of Sasha's last words to her in "Reunion": |
| 101 | -->'''Anne:''' You were right; I am better off without you. We ''both'' are. |
| 102 | * CapeSnag: Sprig and Polly do this on Marcy in the throne room fight. She's forced to tear it apart to break free from their attack. |
| 103 | * CargoCult: Downplayed. Marcy doesn't worship the [[InterdimensionalTravelDevice Calamity Box]] itself but she holds it in high regard, like an irreplaceable family heirloom, due to being descended from the humans that created it. |
| 104 | --> ''Marcy savoured the moment. She caressed the Box, her birthright, allowing her bloodied fingers to trace the outlines of the intricate designs that decorated the exterior. The power that radiated from it was intoxicating. This must have only been a fraction of what her ancestors felt.'' |
| 105 | * CassandraTruth: |
| 106 | ** After discovering the mentions of the Wu Clan in King Andrias' mural, Sasha tries to tell Anne that something is wrong with Marcy. This just makes Anne angrier. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] as Sasha's [[ChronicBackStabbingDisorder credibility]] was shot thanks to all the previous betrayals (including her most recent one just hours ago) and Anne couldn't fathom [[LovableNerd Marcy]] of all people being a traitor. |
| 107 | ** [[spoiler:When Bee tries to explain to the Wus where their [[TrappedInAnotherWorld daughters have been for the past several months]], Marcy's mother is convinced he's lying.]] |
| 108 | * ChekhovsGun: |
| 109 | ** In Chapter 2, during her and Grime's brief takeover of Newtopia, Sasha is noted to have bonded with Joe Sparrow, having learned how to tame him from Marcy on the way from Wartwood. This comes in handy in Chapter 7, when [[spoiler: it's Sasha who flies Joe to save Sprig after Marcy throws him out of the flying castle]]. |
| 110 | ** Another case that spans those same chapters -- in Chapter 2, Sasha has several of her toad soldiers bring her all of Marcy's notes on the Calamity Box so that she can learn how to use it, which comes in handy in Chapter 7 when she's the one who opens a portal to Earth for Anne and the Plantars. |
| 111 | --> '''Sasha''': Copied your homework, Marcy! Just like old times, amiright? |
| 112 | ** Chapter 13 has Sasha note the hairpin that Marcy once gifted her, which is the one thing related to her that Sasha hasn't gotten rid of. At the climax of the chapter, [[spoiler: she has Ivy use it as a projectile to set off some boomshrooms in order to enable the captured Resistance fighters to escape]]. |
| 113 | * TheChooserOfTheOne: Like in canon, the Core chose Marcy as its human host. Unlike canon, Marcy is all for it. |
| 114 | --> '''King Andrias''': Our lord has craved [a host] for so long, and it wanted the best, the smartest... and then you, a Wu, arrived in Amphibia. When you beat me in Flipwart, that sealed the deal. |
| 115 | * TheChosenOne: King Andrias and the Core have convinced Marcy she is this, and is destined to restore Newtopia to its former glory. |
| 116 | * TheClan: The Wu Clan, Marcy's distant ancestors. |
| 117 | * ClingyJealousGirl: Marcy does ''not'' take it well when Anne refers to Sprig as her best friend "in this or any other world". [[spoiler: She drops Sprig to his intended death for it and later tries to kill the whole Planter family out of jealousy. Chapter 12 reveals that Marcy started a rumor about someone selling alcohol at her school and framed another friend of Anne's for the crime to keep her to herself.]] |
| 118 | * CoDragons: As far as the heroes are aware of, Marcy is TheDragon to King Andrias's BigBad. In reality, they are both working together for the Core. |
| 119 | * ContrivedCoincidence: Not only did Marcy happen to find the Calamity Box at a thrift store by chance and recognize it from a library book when she ran away from home after learning that her family was moving out-of-state, she just so happens to be [[VillainousLineage a direct descendant of the humans who created it and lived in Newtopia]]. King Andrias and Marcy believe this was fate, and it only fuels Marcy's [[BecauseDestinySaysSo obsessive belief that she's destined to use the Box for greatness]]. |
| 120 | --> '''Anne''': Cuz it turns out, [[VillainousLineage Mar-Mar's ancestors were super evil, interdimensional warlords]]! Who'd a thunk, right?! |
| 121 | * CorruptTheCutie: Marcy goes through a brutal corruption arc and [[SanitySlippage descending into madness]] due to the Core's influence. By the time of "True Colors", she has become a [[TheQuisling willing accomplice to King Andrias and intends to sell out her own planet in order to stay with her friends and rule it with them]]. Even willing to fight and hurt them to achieve it, [[FallenHero putting her on the side of evil]]. [[spoiler:Marcy gets even worse as she and the Core have one-to-one "therapy sessions" while she's recovering to make her more corrupted and brutal to become a more ideal vessel, something she happily agrees to once the Core switches its plans for her from DemonicPossession to acting as TheSymbiote.]] |
| 122 | * TheCorrupter: Not only is the Core responsible for molding King Andrias into the person he's become, it '''very''' successfully does this to [[FallenHero Marcy]], encouraging her issues of egomania and delusion, to make her an even worse version of herself, while making her believe they're helping her become a stronger person for the greatness that her ancestors began. It gets to the point of Marcy willingly becoming its host. |
| 123 | --> '''Anne''':I don't know what it was that Marcy saw in the castle basement, but whatever it was... ''it changed her.'' |
| 124 | * TheCorruptible: Marcy is this under the Core's sway. |
| 125 | * CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot: [[spoiler:Oum briefly ponders if they could have avoided the events in Chapter 16 if she had worked up the courage to call the Wus or Waybrights on their daughters' whereabouts during the months she knew the truth.]] |
| 126 | * CryIntoChest: |
| 127 | ** Marcy does this to the Core's avatar form after her fight with her former friends. The Core encourages this as CatharticCrying to gain a stronger hold on the teen. |
| 128 | --> '''The Core''': It's ok, little one. It's ok to grieve. It is important that you process your emotions. |
| 129 | ** Anne does this in her parents' embrace after explaining her traumatising experience during the events of "True Colors" at the end of Chapter 14. |
| 130 | * CuteAndPsycho: Marcy has turned into this thanks to the Core's brainwashing. |
| 131 | * DarkActionGirl: While not as physically adept as Anne or Sasha, Marcy manages to hold her own in a fight with both of her former friends (especially Anne in her Calamity form), even managing to get some solid hits in on them. |
| 132 | * DarkerAndEdgier: Since the fanfic's version of Marcy is not just an UnwittingPawn, but a willing collaborator of King Andrias, a lot of the more TearJerker moments are made much scarier and darker. Not to mention that Marcy's descent into villainous insanity makes her do things that even Sasha at her worst wouldn't have done in canon. |
| 133 | * DarkFic: This fanfiction goes in depth about the darker parts of Marcy's personality and really plays up her possessiveness and desperation. |
| 134 | * ADayInTheLimelight: |
| 135 | ** Chapter 13 focuses on Sasha and on how she processed Marcy's betrayal. |
| 136 | ** Chapter 15 focuses on the Waybrights and Wus receiving Anne's letter after the events of "Froggy Little Christmas". [[spoiler:They intend to work with Mr. X to find out what happened to their daughters, by interrogating Anne and her parents.]] |
| 137 | * DeadlyDodging: His fight with Anne having made his vision double, King Andrias attempts to stab Sasha, only for her to dodge and accidently stab ''Marcy'' instead. This wasn't intentional on Sasha's part either. |
| 138 | * DealWithTheDevil: Marcy gets on board with the TakeOverTheWorld plan which involves King Andrias and the Core promising to take Marcy and her friends to "spread the glory of Newtopia" to other worlds so they can have infinite adventures. Unlike canon, King Andrias plans to hold his part of the bargain in sharing the conquest with her, but didn't honestly expect the heroes to be convinced to join them, in contrast to Marcy. |
| 139 | * DeerInTheHeadlights: |
| 140 | ** Marcy momentarily becomes this when she realizes that she has to reveal her deception to her friends in less than ideal circumstances. |
| 141 | ** When [[spoiler:Marcy's mom]] confronts Anne at the supermarket, the poor girl becomes (at first) too terrified to flee. |
| 142 | * DelayedReaction: Anne does this in her fight with Sasha in Chapter 3, when the latter claims that not only is King Andrias EvilAllAlong but that [[FaceHeelTurn Marcy is working for him]]. |
| 143 | --> '''Sasha''': [[WhamLine I think Marcy's in on it]]. |
| 144 | --> '''Anne''': [[SarcasmMode Yeah, yeah!]] [[BlahBlahBlah Blah blah bla]]—[[WaitWhat what?]] |
| 145 | * DesperatelyCravesAffection: Marcy admits she always felt touch starved. [[ManipulativeBastard The Core]] takes advantage of this by giving her AffectionateGestureToTheHead plenty of times. |
| 146 | * DidntThinkThisThrough: |
| 147 | ** When Sasha tries to warn Anne that King Andrias is EvilAllAlong with Marcy pulling a potential FaceHeelTurn, Anne points out that she has no reason to believe her for ChronicBackStabbingDisorder with her latest one just over an hour ago. [[IdiotBall Sasha scolds herself for not taking a picture of the murals on her phone as proof]]. |
| 148 | ** When Anne sent the Christmas letters to Sasha and Marcy's parents, she didn't expect Sasha's mother, who is a policewoman, to figure out she sent them via handwriting. |
| 149 | * DisappointedInYou: King Andrias feels [[EtTuBrute legitimately let-down]] when he learns that Lady Olivia and General Yunan were never onboard with his plans for multi-dimensional conquest and tried to "rescue" Marcy from him. The young teen shares this sentiment. |
| 150 | --> '''King Andrias''': What a pity, Olivia. It's one thing to lose [[FourStarBadass one of my best generals]], but a [[LegacyOfService pillar of my court]]? Such a shame. I could've used your assistance in the [[OneWorldOrder new order]]. |
| 151 | --> '''Marcy''': ''(DisapprovingLook)'' [[WeUsedToBeFriends Yeah, what a shame]]. |
| 152 | * DissonantSerenity: Marcy calmly reassures a panicked Lady Olivia with a sincere smile that everything was going to be okay [[spoiler:as she's about to willingly become the Core's host. |
| 153 | ]]. |
| 154 | * DivineRightOfKings: Just like King Andrias, Marcy has been brainwashed to believe that because of her ancestors, she has the right to use the Calamity Box to become a MultiversalConqueror. |
| 155 | * DramaticIrony: [[spoiler:Grace Wu is convinced that Anne kidnapped her daughter, completely unaware that ''[[TheKindnapper Marcy]]'' was the one that essentially kidnapped Anne and Sasha.]] |
| 156 | * TheDreaded: The Wu Clan was this a thousand years ago. |
| 157 | --> '''King Andrias''': Where they were from, they were a truly terrifying force. Others trembled at the mere mention, nay, the mere thought, of their name. Everyone feared the Clan of Wu. |
| 158 | * DrowningMySorrows: |
| 159 | ** Chapter 11 reveals that Anne's mother took to drinking to help cope with her disappearance, until one day she had a total breakdown and her husband convinced her to see a therapist. |
| 160 | ** Chapter 15 shows that Marcy's mom has similarly turned to alcohol to handle things. |
| 161 | * DrunkOnTheDarkSide: Marcy tumbles headlong into this, especially when she starts [[spoiler:LaughingMad after she wipes out an entire army in her MentalWorld and GainingTheWillToKill and when she accepts the Core's merge into the MindHive with TearsOfJoy in her eyes]]. |
| 162 | * DudeWheresMyRespect: Marcy couldn't help but notice that the Core is bitter about the fact that very few people on Amphibia or Earth remember the Wu Clan and what they had done throughout both worlds' histories. Just like in canon, it hates being irrelevant. |
| 163 | * DyingDeclarationOfHate: [[spoiler:Marcy gives one after King Andrias accidentally stabs her before passing out.]] |
| 164 | -->'''[[spoiler:Marcy]]''': ''(to Anne)'' [[spoiler:I... hate you.]] |
| 165 | * EasilyForgiven: [[spoiler:Marcy doesn't hold any ill will towards King Andrias for accidently stabbing her, which allowed Anne and the Plantars to escape to Earth. Instead, she blames Anne and Sasha for rejecting her WeCanRuleTogether offer and sees them as {{Ungrateful Bastard}}s.]] |
| 166 | * EmptyEyes: Marcy gains these after coming out of the HealingVat, symbolizing her complete InnocenceLost after GainingTheWillToKill. |
| 167 | * EntitledToHaveYou: Marcy has this attitude towards Anne and Sasha by Chapter 5, especially Anne. She completely disregards their wants and needs in favor of what ''she'' wants for them, to rule TheMultiverse by her side and considers them {{Ungrateful Bastard}}s when they reject her. |
| 168 | * EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: |
| 169 | ** Even after all the stuff that happened, Marcy's ideal fantasy still has Anne and Sasha rule alongside her. |
| 170 | ** Given that she is all-in on his plan, King Andrias has a VillainousFriendship with Marcy, praising the girl for her role in getting the Calamity Box to him and finishing what her ancestors started. [[spoiler:After coming out of her coma, he is more patient and compassionate towards her, wanting to make amends as her mortal injury was his fault. Marcy in turn doesn't hold any ill will at all towards him.]] |
| 171 | ** Even the Core itself seems fond of Marcy, being the great-great-something-something granddaughter of some of the MindHive, acting as a parental figure and teacher to her. Whether this is a sincere case of AffablyEvil or FauxAffablyEvil mixed with PragmaticVillainy to control her has yet to be confirmed. [[spoiler:Though, considering that they're allowing to be in control as Darcy, when don't seem to need to, it seems to be more than just manipulation.]] |
| 172 | * EvenEvilHasStandards: Marcy calls out Andrias for blowing up Toad Tower, potentially killing its occupants, as she believed that they could have been convinced to join them peacefully. |
| 173 | * EveryoneHasStandards: [[spoiler:Marcus Wu is shocked and aghast by his wife violently assaulting Anne, a 13-year-old girl, and then her parents. [[PragmaticVillainy He points out that her actions aren't helping them find out the truth of their daughter's whereabouts from them either]].]] |
| 174 | * EvilCannotComprehendGood: Marcy simply can't understand why Anne and Sasha see 'fulfilling their destinies' to TakeOverTheWorld with her and Andrias as a bad thing, thanks to her brainwashing. |
| 175 | * EvilColonialist: The Wu Clan are a rare non-white, ZigZaggedTrope of this. While they appear to get along with the native Amphibians for the most part, even helping them build Newtopia, they did ultimately use them to become {{Multiversal Conqueror}}s alongside the Leviathan dynasty and helped create the Core. |
| 176 | * EvilFormerFriend: Marcy has become this to Anne and Sasha. |
| 177 | * EvilGloating: King Andrias does this when he gets his hands on the Calamity Box and when it's revealed to the heroes Marcy has been working with him for the past month. |
| 178 | * EvilHasABadSenseOfHumor: Despite having Marcy as TheDragon on his side, King Andrias takes pleasure in watching her tell her friends she got them TrappedInAnotherWorld on purpose to see their reactions of their former friend's betrayal. |
| 179 | --> '''King Andrias''': Now, was that so hard? [[ComplexityAddiction You humans make things]] ''[[ComplexityAddiction soooo]]'' [[ComplexityAddiction hard for yourselves!]] ''(EvilLaugh)'' |
| 180 | * EvilIsPetty: [[spoiler:Marcy dropping Sprig out of the castle's window after Anne called him her best friend certainly counts as this.]] |
| 181 | * EvilLaugh: [[spoiler:Marcy does this is chapter 13 after she brutally wipes out an army in her MentalWorld.]] |
| 182 | * EvilMentor: The Core acts as this to Marcy, being essentially the Palpatine to her Anakin Skywalker. They encourage her to have a darker mentality that consists of ItsAllAboutMe, NeverMyFault, EntitledToHaveYou, ThatManIsDead, and finally AGodAmI, turning her into a devout follower who is utterly dedicated to them and [[spoiler:willingly joins the MindHive]]. |
| 183 | * EvilSorcerer: Some of Marcy's ancestors are these. [[spoiler:It's unknown if they joined the Core.]] |
| 184 | * EyesAlwaysAverted: |
| 185 | ** In Chapter 5, while Andrias is doing his TheReveal of their big secret, Marcy spends a good portion of it looking at her shoes and rubbing her forearm with anxiety. [[TraitorShot And it's not just because she hated feeling the gaze of everyone on her.]] |
| 186 | ** Andrias does an ICantLookGesture twice out of shame to Marcy in Chapter 14, due to having a VillainousFriendship: First, when the teen remembers that he [[spoiler: accidentally stabbed her]] and second was when Marcy realizes he had planned for her to be the Core's host from the beginning. |
| 187 | * FaceHeelTurn: Marcy goes from a nice, if horribly misguided friend of Anne to an outright villain willing to do what it takes to keep her friends with herself on Amphibia whether they like it or not, all implied to be a result of [[spoiler:the Core's MoreThanMindControl]]. |
| 188 | * FaceOfAnAngelMindOfADemon: |
| 189 | ** The Core's human avatar takes the form of an innocent-looking, dainty woman that one could mistake for Marcy's loving mother. Make no mistake readers they're the BigBad that wants to conquer Earth and are responsible for centuries worth of of war crimes. |
| 190 | ** Anne now views Marcy as this after she learns of her betrayal, having an innocent-looking face who happens to be a possessive psycho. |
| 191 | * FacePalm: In Chapter 14, Andrias does this while taking a deep, calming breath when he realizes, Marcy was too out of it to hear what he was saying and had start again from the beginning. |
| 192 | --> '''King Andrias''': ''Patience, Andrias, she's been in a coma for weeks.'' |
| 193 | * FallenHero: Thanks to MoreThanMindControl by Andrias and the Core, [[LovableNerd Marcy]] is fully onboard with their plans to [[MultiversalConqueror conquer the Multiverse]], and is even willing to go as far to violently attack her friends when they defy those plans. |
| 194 | * FalseFriend: [[spoiler:It's revealed in Marcy's journal that she never considered the Plantars or the Wartwoodians her friends, and only put with them for Anne's sake.]] |
| 195 | * FamilialBodySnatcher: The Core contains some of Marcy's Amphibia ancestors and originally intended to assimilate her mind into their MindHive when they merge. [[spoiler:[[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] when they change their minds to become TheSymbiote for her instead.]] |
| 196 | * FamousAncestor: Marcy has a JawDrop moment when the Core reveals she's a direct descendant of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Wu_of_Chu King Wu of Chu]] from ImperialChina. |
| 197 | * FantasticRacism: Thanks to the Core's manipulation, her poor treatment by the Wartwoodians and jealously of the Plantars, Marcy has developed a ''very'' low opinion of Amphibia's frogs. |
| 198 | * FightingYourFriend: In Chapter 5, Marcy chooses to fight the heroes to ensure her and King Andrias's plan doesn't fail cementing her FaceHeelTurn in the story. |
| 199 | * FounderOfTheKingdom: Not only did King Andrias's ancestors, the Leviathan family, found Newtopia, but so did Marcy's ancestors, the Wu Clan. |
| 200 | * FreudianExcuse: Chapter 11 does reveal Marcy's clinginess to Anne and Sasha stems from ParentalNeglect from her parents whom were such {{Workaholic}}s that they only really noticed her either if she demonstrated academic excellence or was injured (which would also lead to her subconsciously using her clumsiness as a way to gain love and attention from her parents) with the two girls being a LivingEmotionalCrutch to her as the only ones on Earth who would give her the love and attention she needed. One time, Marcy even resorted to [[KickTheDog taunting another girl who was abandoned by her own mother]] just for the sole purpose of getting her own ass kicked by her posse, as getting injured was able to get her parents to ''pay attention to her''. |
| 201 | * AFormYouAreComfortableWith: |
| 202 | ** In Marcy's subconsciousness, the Core takes the form of a beautiful Asian woman in a white dress (presumably one of Marcy's direct ancestors from Newtopia) to put her at ease. They note that the girl would have freaked out if they started things with all thirteen eyes. |
| 203 | ** When Marcy rages at the Core for making her go through one of [[YourWorstMemory her worst memories]] and refuses to hear them out, their human avatar temporarily takes the form of a tar monster resembling their MechanicalAbomination form to silence her. |
| 204 | --> '''[[VoiceOfTheLegion The Core:]]''' '''Do not forget who you are talking to, girl.''' |
| 205 | * FuryFueledFoolishness: [[spoiler:Grace Wu's]] confrontation with Anne and her parents is definitely a case of this. The woman was so infuriated at Anne and the Boonchuys that she outright ''assaults'' them, while revealing that [[HiddenDisdainReveal she'd never considered Anne "good enough"]] to be a worthy friend for her daughter. |
| 206 | * GainingTheWillToKill: [[spoiler:The Core's final test for Marcy in the climax of Chapter 13 involves setting up an army to destroy her simulated "perfect world", and tasking Marcy with defeating it. She destroys the army with little to no hesitation, ending with an EvilLaugh.]] |
| 207 | * GigglingVillain: Marcy has become this at some points of the story. |
| 208 | * GivingSomeoneThePointerFinger: Bee does this to Amanda Waybright while [[WhatTheHellHero he's calling her out for setting up an operation to apprehend him and his family that resulted in them all getting hurt]]. He goes as far as to go up to her face and angrily poke her in in the chest. [[spoiler:One poke too many gets him arrested.]] |
| 209 | * AGodIAm: Just like in canon, the Core sees itself as a living god. Now, it's convinced Marcy she's this too after becoming its host. |
| 210 | * GoingNative: Marcy is a [[FallenHero dark version]] of this, rejecting her Earth origins for Newtopia. |
| 211 | --> '''Anne''': It's over, Marcy! We're going home! |
| 212 | --> '''Marcy''': ''([[RedEyesTakeWarning Eyes bloodshot with rage]])'' '''''I am home!''''' |
| 213 | * GreaterScopeVillain: |
| 214 | ** As far as the heroes are aware, it's apparent that King Andrias is the BigBad, having convinced Marcy to be TheDragon on his side, and are unaware that they are both CoDragons to the Core. After the throne room fight, it takes the role of EvilMentor to Marcy [[spoiler:until she becomes {{Brainwashed}} to the point she becomes a host for the MindHive]], signaling that the Core is the true overall villain of the story and responsible for Marcy's FaceHeelTurn. |
| 215 | ** The Wu Clan, Marcy's ancestors, were the ones that set up Newtopia's conquest society and helped create the Core with some members joining it over a thousand. Even before all that they had been manipulating populations in Eurasia for their own benefit. |
| 216 | * GroinAttack: When Bee tries to defuse the situation by explaining to [[spoiler:Marcy's parents where their daughter is and what she's done, Marcy's mother]] gives him this for his trouble. |
| 217 | * HappilyMarried: |
| 218 | ** Bee and Oum Boonchuy love each other very much. Even while dealing with their daughter's 5-month disappearance, their marriage remained strong supporting each other. |
| 219 | ** [[spoiler:This is becoming subverted with Marcus and Grace Wu, as the latter believes their marriage is on its last legs as she becomes more and more resentful towards her husband as him taking a new job out of state caused their daughter to runaway from home.]] |
| 220 | * HatesBeingAlone: The reason why Marcy trapped herself with her friends in Amphibia in the first place, which she tearfully admits to the Core. [[spoiler:Now that she's a willing part of the MindHive '''she never will be'''.]] |
| 221 | * HeadbuttOfLove: The Core, [[BigBad of all people]], does a platonic version of this to [[TheDragon Marcy]] at the end of Chapter 13 in their human avatar form after wiping out an entire army by herself for her final test, telling their apprentice before she wakes up from her coma that [[SoProudOfYou she's ready to carry out their vision]]. |
| 222 | * HealingVat: Marcy spends several chapters in one recovering from her stab wound, with the Core visiting her mind to mold her into the perfect vessel. [[spoiler:When she comes out of the coma, Andrias explains to Marcy it was originally created by their ancestors (the Leviathans and the Wus) to bring back warriors wounded in combat from the brink of death.]] |
| 223 | * HearingVoices: [[spoiler:After Marcy merges with the Core, she can the various voices of the MindHive almost immediately. [[DrunkOnPower She doesn't dislike it]].]] |
| 224 | * HellIsThatNoise: The Core's screech as it makes itself present to King Andrias, Lady Olivia, Yunan and Marcy in chapter 14. Only Marcy doesn't flinch from it. |
| 225 | * HeroAntagonist: [[spoiler:The Wus and the Waybrights aren't villains, they're just desperate parents trying to find their daughters. However, the way they went about it does not endear them to Anne or her family.]] |
| 226 | * HeroicBSOD: Sasha hits this in Chapter 13 when she and her team are caught in Andrias' trap, believing that there's no way out and they've lost the war. |
| 227 | * HiddenDisdainReveal: |
| 228 | ** When strangling Sasha while in the midst of a VillainousBreakdown, Marcy admits to '''''enjoying''''' it, mentally reflecting on how she's always [[TheResenter hated playing second fiddle]] to her for Anne's friendship. She also tries to outright kill the Plantars for "stealing" Anne from her feeling sick to her stomach as they have a GroupHug. And finally, with what she thought to be her last words, [[spoiler: after Andrias accidentally stabs her]], Marcy tells Anne she '''''hates''''' her, before passing out. |
| 229 | --> '''Marcy''': ''(To [[EvilMentor The Core]])'' I hate them. I hate them all. |
| 230 | ** [[spoiler:Later on, while fleeing from Marcy's mother as she's swearing up a storm at her, Oum remarks to herself that she honestly never cared for the woman very much.]] |
| 231 | ** [[spoiler:When Grace Wu confronts Anne about how she was LockedOutOfTheLoop on her daughter's whereabouts, she declares that she always thought Anne wasn't "good enough" to be Marcy's friend ([[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain and makes a racist remark about her Thai heritage as well]]).]] |
| 232 | ** [[spoiler:In Marcy's journal, it's revealed the girl greatly resented and despised the Plantars and the people of Wartwood for not only "stealing" Anne from her for their (initial) disrespect towards her for being an outsider respectively, believing they should be worshipping her for her heritage alone.]] |
| 233 | * HorrifyingTheHorror: |
| 234 | ** Despite pressuring her to do so in the first place, King Andrias admits that he found Marcy's erratic MotiveRant hard to watch. |
| 235 | ** After Marcy is out of her coma, Andrias is cautious around the girl's shaky and unhinged demeanor. |
| 236 | * HowTheMightyHaveFallen: Marcy's ancestors, the Wu Clan, were an AncientConspiracy of royalty, conquerors, and sorcerers who controlled Eurasia from the shadows for thousands of years, as well help build Newtopia. She finds her lineage going all that to being reduced to a struggling middle-class family in 21st-century Los Angeles a bitter pill to swallow. |
| 237 | * {{Hypocrite}}: Despite his low opinion on friendship, King Andrias all but considers Marcy his OnlyFriend. He also thinks humans have a ComplexityAddiction, despite he himself planning the LongGame for a thousand years. |
| 238 | * HypocriteHasAPoint: When Marcy reveals that she's willingly joined King Andrias, Sasha calls her out on how she ripped them away from their families and lives back on Earth and has thrown her lot in with a bad guy in the name of conquest. The fact that Sasha herself joined Grime to take over Newtopia doesn't undermine the rest of her point. |
| 239 | * IJustWantToBeSpecial: Part of how Andrias and the Core brainwashed Marcy into joining was appealing to this and her fear of having a boring, normal life. |
| 240 | --> '''The Core''': You are far more special than Andrias initially led you to believe. |
| 241 | --> '''Marcy''': I really am... aren't I? |
| 242 | * IKnowYoureInThereSomewhereFight: [[spoiler:Lady Olivia tries this on Marcy in Chapter 14. [[ThatManIsDead It doesn't work]].]] |
| 243 | * IfOnlyYouKnew: Marcy's father made sure she read about the history of Ancient China to ensure his daughter was aware and educated of her proud heritage. What Mr. Wu doesn't know is that their ancestors not only were running Eurasia over thousands of years, but invented the means to travel between worlds. |
| 244 | --> ''[Her] Old man had no idea just how right he was.'' |
| 245 | * IfYouWontIWill: After revealing his intentions, Andrias implies to Marcy that if she doesn't tell her friends why she conspired with him to ensure the Calamity Trio never returned to Earth, he'll tell them himself like he does in canon. Unlike in "True Colors", he gives Marcy the chance to reveal the truth herself... but even ''he'' gets uncomfortable as the girl becomes increasingly erratic and unhinged during her MotiveRant. |
| 246 | * IgnoredEpiphany: While she was in a coma going through her memories, [[WeUsedToBeFriends Marcy realizes that Anne is never going to take her back as her friend after everything she's done]]... so she decides she's not going to give her childhood friend a choice in the matter, as she becomes a MultiversalConqueror. |
| 247 | * ImperialChina: Where Marcy's Wu Clan ancestors originated from. |
| 248 | * InnocentlyInsensitive: |
| 249 | ** While Anne was more than happy to not shut up about Marcy's betrayal, she forgot about [[spoiler:Sprig's near death experience at the hands of the latter, which he didn't take well due to painting herself as Marcy's only victim]]. |
| 250 | ** Though she has no idea about it, Mrs. Boonchuy accidentally re-creates the scene of Andrias accidently stabbing Marcy InTheBack, during a play-fight that occurs between the Boonchuys in the shopping mall as they enact a ''Franchise/StarWars''-esque battle. Her plastic light-saber is even yellow to drive the comparison home. However, unlike canon, this triggers Anne's PTSD causing her to have a panic attack, run away in terror and almost {{Stress Vomit}}s. |
| 251 | * InsultBackfire: Unlike a devastated Marcy who falls into a VillainousBSOD after Anne calls [[ThisIsUnforgivable her evil]], King Andrias merely expresses mild annoyance just like in the show. |
| 252 | * IntergenerationalFriendship: Andrias is well over a thousand years older than Marcy, having personally met her ancestors. Unlike canon, he doesn't see her as a pawn and they have a VillainousFriendship, they have basically become an OnlyFriend to each other after "True Colors", having genuine fondness for each other. |
| 253 | * InternalReveal: |
| 254 | ** Chapter 13 has Sasha find out about Marcy's survival and rejuvenation. She also reveals Marcy's villainy to Wartwood in one of her rants by accident. |
| 255 | ** In Chapter 14, Anne reveals to her parents what happened during the throne room fight. |
| 256 | ** In Chapter 17, [[spoiler: the Wus and Amanda Waybright, and by extension her superiors at the LAPD, learn about Amphibia, what happened to Marcy, and the impending invasion. The heroes are also aware of the Core's existence and its role in Marcy's FacHeelTurn, thanks to the girl's journal]]. |
| 257 | * IronicEcho: Sasha's yell of [[spoiler: "END! OF! DISCUSSION!"]] to Anne in Chapter 7 to [[spoiler:let her fight Marcy alone]], which came from a place of genuine protection instead of manipulation. |
| 258 | * {{Irony}}: |
| 259 | ** When presented with her ideal fantasy, Marcy ''embraces'' the soulless puppets of Anne and Sasha here instead of thinking how wrong it is like in canon. |
| 260 | ** [[spoiler:When it is time to become Darcy, Marcy ''willingly'' joins the Core, even being in control rather than just a puppet for the MindHive.]] |
| 261 | * IToldYouSo: Sasha gives this look to Anne when Andrias reveals he's EvilAllAlong. |
| 262 | * ItsAllAboutMe: Marcy has been developing this attitude under the Core's influence. |
| 263 | * ItsPersonalWithTheDragon: With Marcy voluntarily working with Andrias and the Core, Anne and the others all understandably take [[WeUsedToBeFriends her betrayal]] ''much'' worse than King Andrias being revealed as EvilAllAlong. |
| 264 | * ItRunsInTheFamily: [[spoiler: Mrs. Wu turns out to be just as mentally unstable and violent as her daughter.]] |
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| 267 | [[folder:J-R]] |
| 268 | * JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope: Marcy spectacularly does this during her fight with her former friends. |
| 269 | * JurisdictionFriction: [[spoiler: Sasha's mother Amanda is the Commander of the LAPD and very reluctantly works with Mr. X during his investigation into the Boonchuys and Plantars, nearly coming into conflict with him over custody once they've been captured before coming to an agreement.]] |
| 270 | * JustBetweenYouAndMe: Once he has the fully-charged Calamity Box, Andrias then drops his façade of TheGoodKing and gives a MotiveRant explaining his true motivations and Marcy's legacy to Anne and the others rather than sending them home and preparing his invasion once they'd left. It's implied to be {{Invoked}} however, as Andrias only tells the heroes information that will demoralize them and cut ties with Marcy after her own confession on that he can keep the FallenHero to himself to rule with by his side, as evident by his smirk at seeing her attack Anne when the fight starts. |
| 271 | * KickTheDog: |
| 272 | ** On Andrias' orders, ''Marcy'' is the one that destroys Frobo with a Boomshroom attached to an arrow fired from her crossbow for protecting Polly from Andrias without any hesitation or remorse. And this is after Andrias calls Frobo a defect. |
| 273 | ** Marcy is left ''enraged'' hearing Anne call Sprig her 'best friend'. [[spoiler:Seeing this as an opportunity, Andrias gives her the go ahead to kill the young frog rather than spare him when the heroes have surrendered to him, so as to not only force them to experience the same pain of losing his friends, but to further burn bridges with Marcy in order to monopolize her loyalty further.]] |
| 274 | ** Marcy ends her fight with Sasha by viciously stabbing her in the leg causing her to collapse, screaming in agonizing pain, after refusing to stand down. She then proceeds to kick her aside with a SlasherSmile and not giving so much as a second thought, despite seeing her as one of her best friends. |
| 275 | * TheKingslayer: The Wu Clan sometimes had [[TheEmperor rulers]] of countries assassinated when they refused to play ball with them as their {{Puppet King}}s. |
| 276 | * KnightTemplar: Marcy has become this as of Chapter 5 thanks to King Andrias and the Core's brainwashing, being utterly convinced that their plans of multiversal conquest are for the greater good. What Marcy's motives boil down to is bettering the worlds, including Earth, they conquer by giving them technology, end wars and food for the starving. What Marcy doesn't see is that humanity wouldn't be keen on enslavement as apposed to being free with their current problems. |
| 277 | * LancerVsDragon: Sasha and Marcy briefly fight each other in the throne room. |
| 278 | * LaserBlade: Not only does King Andrias has his {{BFS}} like in canon, Marcy has a fiery, lightsaber-like CoolSword scaled to her size and a knife too. These were presumably given to her by Andrias for her loyalty. |
| 279 | * LaughingMad: [[spoiler:Marcy does this in Chapter 13 after she wipes out an entire army by herself in her mindscape.]] |
| 280 | * LegacyOfService: Marcy learns that her ancestors, the Wu Clan, served the Leviathan dynasty in Amphibia for centuries, along with [[TheGoodChancellor Lady Olivia's]] family. Before this, the Wu Clan also served various lines of [[TheEmperor emperors]] across Eurasia, including ImperialChina and UsefulNotes/TheRomanEmpire. Though in these cases the monarchs were all {{Puppet King}}s to TheClan. |
| 281 | * LiteralMinded: Downplayed. When Marcus claims that his mother would be rolling in her grave if she found out there was [[spoiler:an alcohol peddler at Marcy's school]], Grace reminds her husband she was cremated instead. He remarks he was speaking figuratively. |
| 282 | * LittleNo: Anne whispers this right before [[spoiler:Marcy drops Sprig out of the castle window]]. |
| 283 | * LivingDistantAncestor: Marcy views [[MechanicalAbomination the Core]] as this as the MindHive contains some of her ancestors. |
| 284 | * LongLostRelative: Marcy and the Core are technically this to each other, as the latter's MindHive contains the minds of several of Marcy's ancestors. |
| 285 | * LoveMakesYouEvil: Played with. It's not love that turns Marcy evil, but rather friendship, being desperate to keep her friends only to be rejected by them by her actions. Completely devastated by the loss of the 2 people she could trust most, she ultimately decided to follow through with Andrias' plans to take over the Earth. Andrias having experienced something similar with Leif and Barrel is also this. |
| 286 | -->'''King Andrias:''' That's the thing about friends, isn't it? The more you love them, the more it hurts when they go. Allow me to demonstrate. ''(Gives Marcy the go ahead to drop Sprig out of the window)'' |
| 287 | * MachineWorship: As part of her MoreThanMindControl, Marcy reveres [[MechanicalAbomination the Core]] like a deity. Most notable in Chapter 14 where she bows down in awe of it and takes a protective stance for it against Yunan. |
| 288 | * MadnessMakeover: |
| 289 | ** By the time she gets her hands on the Music Box in the climax of Chapter 7 to stop the others from escaping, Marcy, suffering from a total VillainousBreakdown, has MessyHair, [[RedEyesTakeWarning bloodshot eyes]], her [[ClothingDamage cape torn apart, smashed armor]], bruised face and a SlasherSmile, while LaughingMad, and being LimpAndLivid, showing how far she's fallen into villainous insanity. |
| 290 | -->'''Marcy:''' ''You're not going anywhere...'' |
| 291 | ** She has another case of this in Chapter 14. When Yunan tries to attack the Core, an angry Marcy goes to its defense, SuddenlyShouting at her to get away from her master. Her appearance involves [[EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette discolored skin]] and [[CreepyShadowedUndereyes sunken cheeks and eyes]], along with an AngryAnimalisticGrowl and a DeathGlare. Backing off, Yunan calls it a sight more haunting than [[MechanicalAbomination the Core]], and it drives Olivia to [[BrokenPedestal tears]]. |
| 292 | ** [[spoiler:LikeMotherLikeDaughter, Grace Wu has this in Chapter 16. She is LimpAndLivid, has MessyHair that [[HidingBehindYourBangs curtains half her face]], with the side showing [[OverlyNervousFlopSweat dripped with sweat]], making her [[YourMakeupIsRunning makeup run slightly down]] her [[EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette pale cheeks]] and has [[RedEyesTakeWarning bloodshot eyes]].]] The effect downright terrifies Anne as she is truly the spitting image of her insane daughter, except she towers over the teen. |
| 293 | --> '''[[spoiler:Grace Wu]]''': ''(QuizzicalTilt)'' ''[[TranquilFury Hello Anne]].'' |
| 294 | * MajorInjuryUnderreaction: During the big fight in King Andrias' castle in Chapter 7, Sasha bashes Marcy in the face with the Calamity Box several times, eventually doing enough damage that she spits out two of her molars. Marcy's only reaction is to quip that her parents know a good dentist. |
| 295 | * MamaDidntRaiseNoCriminal: Marcy's mother Grace ''violently'' denies any suggestion that her daughter might have done anything wrong, completely unaware of Marcy's FaceHeelTurn, pinning the blame for everything on her friends and that they are the problem — insisting that Anne and Sasha were ''NEVER'' good enough for Marcy! [[spoiler:After she is given proof in the following chapter, she breaks down into tears, trying to deny it.]] |
| 296 | * TheManBehindTheMan: The Core, the true BigBad of the story, is this to King Andrias as in canon. Marcy's ancestors were these to [[TheEmperor the emperors]] of Ancient China and Rome, using them as {{Puppet King}}s. This makes it all the more fitting that some of them joined the aforementioned MindHive. |
| 297 | * ManBitesMan: Marcy does this to Anne to break out of her NoHoldsBarredBeatdown. |
| 298 | * ManipulativeBastard: |
| 299 | ** Andrias and the Core take full advantage of Marcy's desperation to not be separated from her friends and her IJustWantToBeSpecial wish in order to get her into delivering them a charged Calamity Box. This is even more effective than canon as they not only eliminate the Trio's powers, which are some of the few things capable of stopping them, but bring one of them on their side. Andrias also encourages a livid Marcy to drop Sprig to his death once he notices her anger. |
| 300 | ** Anne and Sasha view Marcy as this with the latter seeing her as even more deceitful than herself. |
| 301 | * MaskOfSanity: Lady Olivia views Marcy having this come off in the throne room fight. [[spoiler:Chapter 17 reveals, she's not exactly wrong as those who have read her journal have discovered she went off the deep end long before Andrias revealed their true intentions.]] |
| 302 | * MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: It's unknown how the Core was able to turn Marcy from being terrified of it one second to calling it ''beautiful'' the next. Whether it's due to dark magic, technology or some mundane brainwashing techniques, it has yet be confirmed how it got Marcy to loosen her moral code and pull a FaceHeelTurn. |
| 303 | * MentalWorld: Marcy spends a good portion of the story in one of these while she's recovering in the HealingVat with the Core to interact with. One of the things the MindHive teaches her is how to be a VirtualRealityWarper here as they try to groom her to be a more ideal host. |
| 304 | * TheMillstone: [[spoiler:Mrs. Wu is this in Chapter 16 to the LAPD led by Mrs. Waybright, making the Boonchuys' arrest ''way'' more complicated and violent than anyone else wanted it to be.]] |
| 305 | * MindRape: [[spoiler: This seems to happen to Marcy in the first chapter, kick-starting her turn to villainy.]] |
| 306 | * MirthlessLaughter: |
| 307 | ** Marcy reacts this way upon finding out King Andrias and the Core planned for her to be the latter's host since the beginning... regardless of whether or not they were able to convince her to go along with it. [[spoiler:Despite that, she's still eager to go through it.]] |
| 308 | --> '''Marcy''': Guess you weren't exaggerating when you said you weren't being entirely honest with me, huh? [] So was that the plan for me all along? To be y... our master's vessel? |
| 309 | --> '''King Andrias''': ''([[EyesAlwaysAverted Looks away in shame.]])'' |
| 310 | ** Anne also does this when explaining the events of "True Colors" to her parents to try and calm herself down as she explains the AwfulTruth about Marcy. |
| 311 | ** Marcus laughs in disbelief after witnessing his wife having [[spoiler: sunken to beating up Anne, a teenager]]. |
| 312 | * MisdirectedOutburst: Marcy's mother, [[IronicName Grace]] Wu, does ''not'' take the news of Anne's reappearance well, taking out her anger and frustration over her daughter's disappearance on her and the Boonchuys (especially since Anne's been back for a month and they haven't told her where Marcy is). As Oum points out to Mr. Wu, Grace doesn't actually want to ''find'' Marcy; she just wants to take her anger out upon others. |
| 313 | * MistakenForGay: [[ImpliedTrope Implied]]. The Core tells Marcy her feelings towards Anne seem more than just friendship. The girl clarifies that she views Anne as a sister to her, not noticing their implications. |
| 314 | * MoneyDumb: According to Sasha's mother, her daughter isn't known for conserving her allowance money instead spending it as soon as she gets it. Which why she doesn't believe for a second of Anne's story that Sasha bought the music box. |
| 315 | * MoreThanMindControl: [[spoiler:It's implied that the Core did this in order to get Marcy to cooperate in its plans. They play on her obsessive desires for a [[IJustWantToBeSpecial special life]] and to give her a chance to keep her [[ToxicInfluenceFriend best friends Anne and Sasha with herself forever]]. Using those feelings, they manipulate her into being their [[TheQuisling willing ally in the conquest of Earth and beyond]], while encouraging her worst traits into bigger levels while she is healing. It succeeds as of Chapter 13, where Marcy's final test is to get rid of her hesitation and mercy by [[GainingTheWillToKill wiping out an entire army by herself, in which she gleefully does]].]] |
| 316 | --> '''Anne''': I don't know if this... thing she calls her '[[BigBad master]]' brainwashed her, or it just made her worse, but all I know is that the Marcy we knew... [[ThatManIsDead it isn't her anymore]]. |
| 317 | * MotiveRant: Marcy gives one in Chapter 5 when her and King Andrias' deception is exposed, trying to justify everything by detailing why she sees their plans of conquest as a good thing. She becomes progressively more unhinged as she speaks until she goes off the deep end. |
| 318 | * MultiversalConqueror: Not only were King Andrias' ancestors ruthless conquerors, Marcy's ancestors helped them do so, and the King of Newtopia plans to carry their legacy with the [[YoungConqueror teen girl]] he helped brainwash to be [[WeCanRuleTogether by his side on ruling all dimensions with the Calamity Box]] — ''starting with Earth''. |
| 319 | * MundaneUtility: King Andrias' Frobots may have been built to be war machines, but are also shown to be capable of non-combative tasks too. Such as medical examinations, clothing people, drying them off, and brushing hair, [[spoiler:as they do for Marcy when she gets out of the HealingVat]]. |
| 320 | * MyGodWhatHaveIDone: [[spoiler:King Andrias has this reaction after he stabs Marcy. Unlike in canon, this was an honest to god accident on his part.]] |
| 321 | -->'''Andrias:''' ...Oops. |
| 322 | * NamedByTheAdaptation: Unlike the show, Marcy and Sasha's parents are all given first names in the story. |
| 323 | * NasalTrauma: [[spoiler:Marcy's mother punches Oum's nose so hard the poor woman ends up bleeding profusely.]] |
| 324 | * NeverMyFault: Marcy has gained this attitude thanks to the Core's corruption of her. |
| 325 | * NiceJobBreakingItHero: Anne sends anonymous Christmas letters to the Waybrights and the Wus, assuring them that their daughters are safe, just like in the show. However, she didn't count on Sasha's mother, a commander of the LAPD, to deduce that she sent them via recognizing her handwriting. [[spoiler:This results in her and her parents being taken into police custody for questioning and the Plantars being handed over to Mr. X and the FBI.]] |
| 326 | * NiceJobFixingItVillain: At the climax of the throne room fight, Marcy has Anne and the Plantars dead to rights as she has the Calamity Box in her hands and is about to deactivate the portal back to Earth... [[spoiler:until a half-blinded King Andrias accidentally impales Marcy InTheBack while trying to attack Sasha, giving the heroes the chance to escape the castle]]. "Oops" indeed. |
| 327 | * NoodleIncident: When he catches Polly and Sprig about to help [[spoiler:Anne [[BreakupBonfire burn everything Marcy ever gave her]]]], Hop Pop reminds Polly that she's legally banned from handling fire after she apparently once burned down an orphanage. Anne decides she doesn't want more details than that. |
| 328 | * NotTheIntendedUse: The Core explains to Marcy that the Calamity Box was originally created by the Wu Clan to assert their influence over to other worlds to control; however, with the collapse of their influence on Earth, it became their last ditch attempt at starting over from scratch. |
| 329 | * NotSoInvincibleAfterAll: Despite being TheDreaded throughout Eurasia [[AncientConspiracy due to controlling most of it from the shadows for centuries]], the Core bitterly explains to Marcy that the Wu Clan's influence didn't last forever. The outside forces that the Wus couldn't control eroded away their influence, such as the barbarian tribes causing the fall of UsefulNotes/TheRomanEmpire and even their stronghold in ImperialChina faltering to a steady decline after the assassination of Emperor Gong. The split of the Northern and Southern Chinese dynasties would break their power irreparably and over the course of the next 200 years, all they worked for had eroded to nothing, causing some of them to pull a ScrewThisImOuttaHere and use the Calamity Box to move to Amphibia to start a new life there instead. |
| 330 | --> '''The Core''': Dear Marcy. No one [[TheEmpire empire]], no one [[TheClan clan]], can ever truly withstand the test of time, [[BadassFamily not even the Wus]]. That is the folly of being made of mere flesh, blood, and bone. Like those before them, [[VillainForgotToLevelGrind they fell victim to a changing world]]. |
| 331 | * ObliviouslyEvil: Marcy knows about the Core and is helping it and King Andrias's plans, even knowing it will involve TakingOverTheWorld. However, the fact the Core and its plan are evil is not something she realizes, and believes it is benevolent and trying to take over TheMultiverse for the greater good. Otherwise, Marcy can be as the friendly and LovableNerd as she is in the show. |
| 332 | * OhCrap: |
| 333 | ** Sasha and Grime when they unveil the murals of King Andrias' true nature and Marcy's ancestors. |
| 334 | ** Anne and the rest of the heroes when King Andrias reveals his and Marcy's ancestry before them. |
| 335 | ** Frobo has this just before Marcy blows him up. |
| 336 | ** Sprig has this after seeing how livid Marcy got when she heard Anne call him her best friend while she's holding her outside the window. |
| 337 | ** Marcy and King Andrias when they realize Anne still has her powers right after Marcy drops Sprig out the window and start getting the [[CurbStompBattle crap beaten out of them]]. |
| 338 | ** Anne has this reaction when [[spoiler:Marcy's mother]], with a MadnessMakeover that resembles [[spoiler:her daughter]], confronts her in the supermarket about the Christmas letter she sent her. |
| 339 | * OnlySaneMan: With Marcy's and [[spoiler:her mother's]] SanitySlippage, Marcus Wu has become this in his family. [[spoiler:He calls his wife out for assaulting the Boonchuys, pointing out that's not going to help them find their daughter.]] |
| 340 | * OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Anne knows Marcy to be the type of person where a surprise of the caliber that King Andrias revealing humans came to Amphibia before them just pulled would respond with ComicalOverreacting. Her [[DullSurprise quiet, subdued response]] makes Anne start to realize [[TheCassandra Sasha]] was telling the truth. |
| 341 | * TheOnlyOneICanTrust: King Andrias all but says this about [[TheDragon Marcy]] to Lady Olvia, [[spoiler:before she merges with the Core willingly]]. |
| 342 | --> '''King Andrias''': [[MyGreatestFailure Madness was allowing myself to put my trust in the wrong people]]! [[NeverBeHurtAgain A mistake I will never make again]], and to ensure this, [[FusionDance my master will finally receive its host]]. |
| 343 | * OpportunisticBastard: While it's not known if Andrias was going to let Sprig live after Polly compiled with his demand on putting back the stolen Calamity Box, [[spoiler:seeing Marcy's [[SuppressedRage reaction]] to Anne calling Sprig her best friend, he decides to give her the green light to drop him out of the window to make the heroes suffer a loss]]. |
| 344 | --> ''He truly relished these rare moments when things lined up just perfectly.'' |
| 345 | * ParentalSubstitute: In Chapter 2, Sasha catches herself mentally referring to Grime as "her old man", having a brief train of thought that indicates she's much closer to him than her own parents. |
| 346 | * PercussiveTherapy: Marcy does this more than once in her mindscape, including destroying replica of her home in the human world. |
| 347 | * PetTheDog: After being impressed at seeing Marcy pass the final test they gave her, [[spoiler:the Core decides to let Marcy be at the "helm" of the MindHive when they merge, acting as TheSymbiote, with no indication of any strings attached or ulterior motive]]. |
| 348 | * PoseOfSupplication: Marcy does for the Core as if it were her God. |
| 349 | * PossessiveWristGrab: Marcy does this to Anne in Chapter 5, during her MotiveRant. Unlike most examples, this isn't a display power or dominance but an act of erratic desperation trying to get her on board in her WeCanRuleTogether pitch with the Calamity Box and not lose her, too. |
| 350 | * PostSupportRegret: Anne feels this about trusting Marcy. Particularly as Marcy is not an UnwittingPawn here, but ''[[AdaptationalVillainy willingly]]'' pulled a FaceHeelTurn, even [[spoiler:dropping Sprig out the window]] due to being [[GreenEyedMonster jealous of the Plantars' bond with Anne]]. |
| 351 | * ThePowerOfHate: The Core manipulates Marcy in utilizing this in her mindscape. |
| 352 | * PragmaticVillainy: When Sasha and her rebel team are caught in his trap, King Andrias lets them know he doesn't plan to kill them. This isn't out of kindness but to instead parade them around in cages to MakeAnExampleOfThem to reduce the rebellions' morale. He also intends to deliver Sasha to Marcy when she wakes up her as an apology for stabbing her by accident, as well as to curry favor with the Core for his error. |
| 353 | * PrecursorWorship: Marcy does this with [[AncestorVeneration her ancestors]], the [[AncientConspiracy Wu Clan]], some of whom have joined [[MindHive the Core]]. As a result, she [[MachineWorship reveres the Core as a god]]. |
| 354 | * PredecessorVillain: The Wu Clan are this to [[TheDragon Marcy]] and [[BigBad the Core]], being the ancestors to the former that created the Calamity Box and having created the latter while creating Newtopia's conquest-based society. |
| 355 | * ProtagonistJourneyToVillain: This story is pretty much this for Marcy. |
| 356 | * PsychoKnifeNut: Marcy was given a LaserBlade knife likely by King Andrias [[spoiler:and during her VillainousBreakdown stabs Sasha in the leg with it with a SlasherSmile]]. |
| 357 | * PsychoPsychologist: [[EvilGenius The Core]] acts as a surprisingly benevolent version of this to Marcy, although [[PragmaticVillainy this is to mold her into a more ideal vessel than actually solve her legitimate psychological issues]], many of which it's responsible for in the first place. |
| 358 | * PsychoSupporter: Marcy has become this for [[BigBad the Core]]. Praising them like a deity [[spoiler:and all but begging to merge with the MindHive]]. |
| 359 | * PsychoticSmirk: The Core's human form does this once Marcy falls deeper into their clutches. Marcy also shares and exchanges this with them too. |
| 360 | * PunctuatedPounding: |
| 361 | ** Anne does this while repeatedly punching Marcy in the face, blaming her former friend for sending her to a DeathWorld for 5 months. |
| 362 | --> '''Anne''': [[WeUsedToBeFriends YOU'RE NOTHING BUT A LIAR]]! [[ManipulativeBastard A FILTHY]]! [[TheQuisling STINKIN']]! [[FallenHero STUPID]]! [[EtTuBrute BACKSTABBING]]!! '''''[[ConsummateLiar LIAR]]!''''' |
| 363 | ** Marcy later returns the favor when Anne tells her she didn't deserve to have her or Sasha as friends, hitting her HatesBeingAlone BerserkButton, and repeatedly smashes her face into the stone floor. |
| 364 | --> '''Marcy''': TAKE THAT BACK!! TAKE IT BACK!!! I SAID TAKE IT BAAACK!!! |
| 365 | * PuppetKing: King Andrias may appear to be the sole ruler of Newtopia to the heroes, but unknown to everyone (sans Marcy) we see him taking orders from [[MindHive the Core]]. It's entirely possible that the whole Leviathan dynasty was this to the Wu Clan when they came to Amphibia as they did this on Earth, before the Core was created. |
| 366 | * TheQuisling: The entire premise of the story is, rather than being an UnwittingPawn of King Andrias and the Core, Marcy is manipulated through MoreThanMindControl into an accomplice to [[WellIntentionedExtremist view their plans for Multiversal conquest as a good thing]], with them specifically promising her control of Earth afterwards, essentially sells out her entire planet in order to keep her friends to herself. |
| 367 | * RageAgainstTheMentor: Marcy does this to the Core for making her relive one of her worst memories. |
| 368 | * TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Anne gives one to Sasha in Chapter 3 about why she doesn't believe her claim that Marcy has pulled a FaceHeelTurn. |
| 369 | --> '''Sasha''': Anne. Please. |
| 370 | --> '''Anne''': ...How dare you. ''(Pushes Sasha away)'' [[SuperGullible I cannot believe I almost fell for that again]]! I mean, ''wow!'' [[WhatTheHellHero Seriously, Sasha?!]] You're gonna try and save your skin by throwing [[NiceGirl Marcy]] under the bus?! '''HOW DARE YOU!!''' ''(Pushes her again)'' Let me tell ya something, ''[[AffectionateNickname Sash]]! (Pushes her a third time)'' Marcy's been more of a friend to me than you ever have! [[ConsummateLiar Marcy hasn't lied to me]]! [[ControlFreak She hasn't pushed me around]]! And she definitely hasn't tried to ''[[KickTheDog kill my family]]!'' Unlike '''[[ToxicFriendInfluence YOU]]!''' ''(DeathGlare)'' She's not only a ''real'' friend, she's my ''best'' friend! And so help me, if you ever talk about her like that again, [[CurseCutShort I will personally stick this thing right in your]]— ''(Notices Toad Army approaching)'' [[CallBack You were right; I am better off without you]]. We ''both'' are. |
| 371 | * RedemptionRejection: In Chapter 14, Lady Olivia tries to convince Marcy to pull a HeelFaceTurn, pleading to the teen that her actions in the throne room fight wasn't the real her. Marcy instead coldly tells her [[ThatManIsDead the Marcy she knew is gone]] and she has fully embraced the Core's vision for Amphibia's future. |
| 372 | * RediscoveringRootsTrip: After finding out she's a descendant of the original humans that lived in Amphibia, Marcy sees her herself going through this with the Core guiding her. |
| 373 | * ReforgedIntoAMinion: The Core and King Andrias have implied to have done this to Marcy, albeit making her their [[TheDragon Dragon]] instead of another one of the {{Mooks}}. |
| 374 | * ResurgentEmpire: Marcy and King Andrias plan to turn Newtopia into this by being {{Multiversal Conqueror}}s. |
| 375 | * TheReveal: King Andrias reveals that Marcy's ancestors were the first humans to arrive on Amphibia over a thousand years ago and they were the ones who created and gave the Calamity Box to the Newts, working together with them to build Newtopia together. |
| 376 | * RichInDollarsPoorInSense: Sasha is this according to her mother. |
| 377 | * RightForTheWrongReasons: [[spoiler:Yunan and Lady Olivia intend to rescue Marcy because the latter believes the girl was only acting the the way she is has is because she's been {{Brainwashed}} by King Andrias. While it's heavily implied the Core did this to the young teen in the 1st chapter with further MoreThanMindControl while Marcy was in the HealingVat, King Andrias possesses no such ability or technology to do that. To be fair she had never heard of or met the Core until not long afterwards.]] |
| 378 | * RightfulKingReturns: King Andrias and the Core convince Marcy, a descendant of the Wu Clan, she is this after she helps get them back the Calamity Box after it was stolen a thousand years ago. |
| 379 | --> '''King Andrias''': And with its power, Newtopia shall finally return to its former glory! And who better to make this all possible than a daughter of Wu herself. |
| 380 | * RoyalFavorite: It's quite clear from their interactions that King Andrias is particularly fond of Marcy, holding her in higher regard than anyone else in his court. He heavily implies to Lady Olivia that he considers her to be the only one he can ''trust'' (sans his master), even going so far as to introduce her directly to the Core and explain their intentions, successfully bringing her in on their EvilPlan. This is due to her being a direct descendant of the original humans that lived in Amphibia and genuinely liking her. |
| 381 | * RuleOfSymbolism: Marcy has had her hairclip given to her by Sasha as a birthday present, that was destroyed by said girl in the throne room fight, replaced with a Newtopian one, symbolizing her embracing her Wu Clan heritage. |
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| 384 | [[folder:S-Z]] |
| 385 | * SanityHasAdvantages: [[spoiler:Had Grace Wu shown the same mental restraint as her husband and Mrs. Waybright, apprehending Anne and her family would have gone a lot smoother, and possibly getting to be more co-operative in telling them where their daughters are.]] |
| 386 | * SanitySlippage: |
| 387 | ** When the truth is revealed, Marcy doesn't slip into this trope so much as swan dive into it. [[spoiler:Those who read her journal find out she was in the process this long before the throne room fight.]] |
| 388 | ** Anne suffers from sporadic mental episodes due to Marcy's betrayal. [[spoiler:After a severe lack of sleep from trying to find a way back' to Amphibia, she regularly hallucinates Marcy taunting her and threatening her family. This results in her having imaginary fights in her head which results in very real injuries.]] |
| 389 | ** [[spoiler: Mrs. Wu's mental health has seriously declined over the months due to worry for Marcy's disappearance. When she learns that Anne is back, she jumps to the conclusion that [[DramaticIrony she kidnapped Marcy]], and after cornering her at [=SpendCo=] brutally assaults her when she doesn't "confess". Oum points out to Marcy's father that Grace doesn't just want to find her daughter, [[MisdirectedOutburst she also wants to lash out and take her anger out on other people]].]] |
| 390 | * SatanicArchetype: The Core can described as this with how it corrupts Marcy throughout the story, acting as the devil on her shoulder. |
| 391 | * SecretTest: Before King Andrias first introduces Marcy to the Core, he admits that he was testing her the whole time they met: The games of Flipwart, the missions he sent her on, the "secret library" with her friends, even going as far as luring the Barbari-ant colony to the city for her to drive off. He proudly states she excelled all his expectations and is truly worthy of the name 'Wu'. |
| 392 | * ShoutOut: |
| 393 | ** In the first chapter, Marcy imagined if she were a powerful sorceress, she would like to [[WesternAnimation/GravityFalls communicate with the spirits, raise the dead, and shuffle the orifices on her enemies' faces]], the last part like a certain one-eyed demon did. |
| 394 | ** When Marcy tries to convince her friends to join her and King Andrias in their WeCanRuleTogether offer, she tries to pitch conquering worlds (specifically Earth) as a way to end conflict and poverty, like what Omni Man said to Mark in ''WesternAnimation/Invincible2021''. Just like in the show, their response to that is YoureInsane. |
| 395 | ** When Sasha tells Marcy to stand down in their fight, she responds with [[Film/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger "I can do this all day."]] |
| 396 | ** In Chapter 13, Sasha gets Ivy to use Sprig's slingshot to rip open a bag of Boomshrooms and destroy the Frobots, similar to [[Literature/TheHungerGames Katniss destroying the careers' supplies]]. |
| 397 | * SkilledButNaive: Marcy may be a TeenGenius but The Core notes she lacks wisdom and maturity. |
| 398 | * SlasherSmile: Marcy sometimes displays this during her fight with heroes, showing just how disturbed she has become. Most notably when she stabs Sasha in the leg and has the Music Box in her hands. |
| 399 | * TheSmartOneTurnsTraitor: Again, Marcy is this. |
| 400 | * SmugSmiler: King Andrias does this quite a bit when Marcy crosses more lines. [[spoiler:Marcy adopts this trait after she comes out of her coma.]] |
| 401 | * SoProudOfYou: A dark, villainous example. The Core has this reaction when Marcy [[GainingTheWillToKill gains the will to kill]] saying she's ready before giving her a HeadbuttOfLove. |
| 402 | * SpannerInTheWorks: [[spoiler: Amanda Waybright's plan to corner the Boonchuys and Plantars and peacefully take them into custody spirals into chaos when an unhinged Grace Wu decides to storm in and violently confront Anne about Marcy's whereabouts, causing Anne's family to fight back.]] |
| 403 | * SpottingTheThread: [[spoiler: Rick Waybright receives Anne's Christmas letter letting him know Sasha is safe, his ex-wife, Amanda, compares it to one of Anne's old letters and notices they have the same handwriting. Needless to say, they aren't happy to realize that the Boonchuys got their daughter back, lied about knowing their daughter's whereabouts, and didn't tell them for months, [[PapaWolf fully intending]] [[MamaBear to confront them]].]] |
| 404 | * StaticStunGun: [[spoiler:Mrs. Waybright is forced to taser Mrs. Wu to stop her strangling Anne in Chapter 16.]] |
| 405 | * StealthHiBye: The Core's avatar form does this to Marcy more than once in her MentalWorld. This stops surprising her in Chapter 13. |
| 406 | * StunnedSilence: Everyone present, including Marcy and King Andrias, has this [[spoiler:when the former accidentally gets stabbed by the latter's sword]]. |
| 407 | * SuddenlyShouting: When Yunan tries to attack the Core, Marcy angrily screams at her to get away from her master so abruptly that the Newt jumps back, being more disturbed by the 13-year old human girl than the MechanicalAbomination. |
| 408 | * SuddenlySpeaking: In the first chapter, the Core is (somehow) capable of speaking to Marcy in its spherical body, whereas it could only speak through King Andrias' crown and Darcy's body in the original series. |
| 409 | * TheSymbiote: [[spoiler:Instead of the GrandTheftMe it pulls in canon as originally intended, the Core decides to take this approach with Marcy, since she became a more willing partner. Rather than [[DemonicPossesion take over her body]] and [[TheAssimilator assimilate her mind]], it instead merges with her in a more equal way, allowing her to be at the "helm", as King Andrias puts it.]] |
| 410 | * TeensAreMonsters: Marcy, of all people, has become this. |
| 411 | * ThatManIsDead: In Chapter 14, Marcy fully embraces the Core's, vision having [[MoreThanMindControl fallen so far under its sway]] that she declares to a shocked Olivia and disappointed Yunan that the Marcy that they knew is dead, [[UnwantedRescue rejecting their attempted rescue]]. Anne later comes to this conclusion about her as well. |
| 412 | --> '''Lady Olivia''': Marcy, whatever he's done to you, it isn't too late! ''([[TryingNotToCry Tearing up]])'' This isn't the girl I know! |
| 413 | --> '''Marcy''': Oh, Olivia. Don't you get it? ''([[DeathGlare Gives a malicious scowl]])'' The Marcy you knew... '''is dead'''. |
| 414 | * ThenLetMeBeEvil: Marcy seems to have this attitude in Chapter 14. |
| 415 | --> '''Marcy''': [[ImpliedDeathThreat If they won't see the light... I'll make them feel the heat]]. |
| 416 | * ThereAreNoCoincidences: King Andrias believes it was fate that Marcy, a direct descendant of the first humans that lived in Amphibia found the Music Box and came to Newtopia. |
| 417 | --> '''King Andrias''': Can't you see, Marcy? You didn't find the box by accident. You were always meant to. |
| 418 | * ThousandYardStare: Anne has this at the end of Marcy's MotiveRant. |
| 419 | * TheToothHurts: Sasha knocks out 2 of Marcy's molars after repeatedly bashing her in the face with the Calamity Box, [[MajorInjuryUnderreaction Marcy just quips she knows a good dentist after she spits them out]]. [[spoiler:She regrows new ones after her stay in the HealingVat following her accidental stabbing by King Andrias.]] |
| 420 | * ThroughTheEyesOfMadness: Reading through Marcy's Journal is pretty much this, seeing her descent into villainy. |
| 421 | * ToxicFriendInfluence: |
| 422 | ** King Andrias and the Core are this to [[CorruptTheCutie Marcy]], being ''much'' worse than Sasha could ever be. |
| 423 | ** Bee has this opinion on Sasha, saying he's not surprised at all to hear that she tried to lead a coup back in Newtopia. |
| 424 | * TragicVillain: Marcy can be seen as this, especially as she breaks down crying in [[TheCorrupter the Core's]] arms after failing to convince her friends WecanRuleTogether and instead see her as the enemy. |
| 425 | * TranshumanAbomination: Just like in the show, the Core's bizarre mechanical body is the shell for the minds of the geniuses of Amphibia's lost civilization, including the previous monarchs before King Andrias. [[spoiler:Extra bonus points in this story for having ''actual humans'' in its MindHive.]] |
| 426 | * TraumaButton: Anything that reminds her of her EvilFormerFriend Marcy is this for Anne. |
| 427 | * {{Troll}}: The Core admits to Marcy that they continue to pull StealthHIBye on the girl because they're amused by her ComicalOverreacting every time. Guess even a BigBad MindHive is NotSoAboveItAll. |
| 428 | * TwoLinesNoWaiting: After this fic's version of "The New Normal", the story shifts between Anne on Earth (barely) coping with what just happened and Marcy [[spoiler:in the rejuvenation tank conversing with the Core in her subconscious until the end of Chapter 13]]. |
| 429 | * UnfinishedUntestedUsedAnyway: King Andrias tries to tell Marcy that the BrainUpload device to transfer the Core's MindHive into Marcy hasn't been tested, so they'd be flying blind on it, which was why he'd been pushing for them to delay the process. To his surprise, Marcy insists on going through with it immediately. [[spoiler:It works.]] |
| 430 | * UngratefulBastard: Marcy sees her friends as this. |
| 431 | * UnPerson: By the story's beginning, the only one that knew of the Wu Clan's exploits on Earth and Amphibia was King Andrias and the Core until they brought Marcy in on their EvilPlan. They aren't happy about the fact their reputation was lost to the sands of time, with seemly their only proof existing in Amphibia were a mural hidden away and pictures of them in some old books. |
| 432 | --> '''Marcy''': [[HowTheMightyHaveFallen They'd lost everything they had on Earth]]... [[YouCantGoHomeAgain And when they finally came back]], [[StrangerInAFamiliarLand the whole world was so different]], [[DudeWheresMyRespect no one remembered who they were]]. [[ForgettableCharacter Like they never even existed]]. |
| 433 | * UnwantedRescue: Lady Olivia and General Yunan plan to rescue Marcy from King Andrias, believing her to be brainwashed. Marcy all but states that she doesn't want or need saving and wants to be by his side. |
| 434 | * UsedToBeASweetKid: Bee finds it difficult to believe the same Marcy that introduced him to her favorite video games, could be capable of selling out her planet and attempted murder. |
| 435 | * UltimateFinalExam: In the climax of Chapter 13, the Core seemingly presents one to Marcy before she wakes up. After summoning an army to wipe out her ideal world, they get the girl to get rid of her hesitation and mercy by wiping out an entire army by herself, in which she gleefully does in a CurbStompBattle in her favor ending with her LaughingMad, much to the Core's approval. |
| 436 | --> ''Marcy looked down at the village, seeing the army draw closer and closer. It was clear now that this was a test. The final test given to her by [[EvilMentor The Core]]. Everything that she had been thrown into, taught, and subjected to. It had all led to this very moment. Marcy knew that [[MindHive The Core, no longer the woman]], wanted her to make a decision; [[IDidWhatIHadToDo to do whatever it took to protect her perfect world]]. [[GainingTheWillToKill And Marcy did just that]].'' |
| 437 | * TheUsurper: The founder of the Wu Clan, King Wu of Chu, was crowned after he took the throne as Viscount of Chu from his brother Fenmao, as he did in real life. |
| 438 | * UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans: Marcy believes that Newtopia TakingOverTheWorld would be a good thing. |
| 439 | * VillainProtagonist: [[FallenHero Marcy]] is this, as she is still a major POV character in the story who happens to be evil and increasingly insane due to the Core's manipulations. |
| 440 | * VillainHasAPoint: [[spoiler:While her actions in Chapter 16 towards Anne and her parents are inexcusable, Grace Wu points out that the Boonchuys knew about her daughter's whereabouts '''''for months''''' and never informed her or her husband when they had every right to know. She also points out that for all they know Marcy could be dead for the past year. Oum and Bee have no counter-argument for this and can only look away in shame.]] |
| 441 | * VillainTakesAnInterest: The Core takes more of an interest in Marcy than in canon, due to her being a direct descendant of some of the MindHive. They are '''much''' more invested in turning her into their host and succeeding in getting her to join willingly. |
| 442 | * VillainousBreakdown: The whole throne room scene is a prolonged one for Marcy, as Anne and Sasha's rejection of her [[ManipulativeBastard manipulations]] and [[MultiversalConqueror plans]] causes her to snap into a berserker rage and attack them. By the end of the fight, she has had a MadnessMakeover, is willing to grievously harm her human friends to prevent them from leaving her, tries to kill her former non-human friends for "stealing" Anne from her and the last thing she says to Anne before she escapes to Earth is that she [[HiddenDisdainReveal hates her]] before passing out from her injuries. |
| 443 | * VillainousBSOD: Marcy has a brief one shortly before the above-mentioned VillainousBreakdown when Anne calls her evil for joining forces with King Andrias in being a MultiversalConqueror, collapsing to her knees crying. When the heroes take on King Andrias, Marcy screams like a banshee and attacks Anne with her LaserBlade sword. |
| 444 | --> ''[[WeUsedToBeFriends Those two words that came forth from Anne's lips]]. [[BreakTheCutie They destroyed her]]. [[FallenHero They ruined her]]. [[ThenLetMeBeEvil They gave way to the monster they'd made her out to be]].'' |
| 445 | * VillainousFriendship: Marcy and King Andrias are pretty much OnlyFriend to each other at this point. |
| 446 | * VillainousLegacy: Despite being forgotten to the sands of time, the Wu Clan shaped the course of human and amphibian history. Only [[Really700YearsOld King Andrias]] knew this until he told Marcy she was descended from them preventing them from being an {{Unperson}}, which she views as a SecretLegacy. |
| 447 | * VillainousLineage: It's discovered in the story that Marcy is descended from the Wu Clan, an AncientConspiracy that ruled Eurasia from the shadows for thousands of years, and also aided the Newts in their rule of Amphibia and [[MultiversalConqueror Multiversal Conquests]] after they created the Calamity Box. Anne and Sasha view Marcy's ancestors as evil inter-dimensional warlords that have been manipulating history to suit them. Marcy, on the other hand, thanks to King Andrias and the Core's [[MoreThanMindControl emotional and psychological manipulation]], sees it as a HeroicLineage and [[FallenHero she intends to live up to it]]. |
| 448 | --> '''Sasha''': I told you, Anne! She’s in on it! |
| 449 | --> '''Grime''': Her whole family's been in on it! |
| 450 | * VisionaryVillain: Marcy shows shades of this during her MotiveRant, as she sees conquering worlds (specifically Earth) as a way to end conflict and poverty. |
| 451 | * WeCanRuleTogether: King Andrias and the Core successfully get Marcy in on this. Marcy also tries this on Anne and Sasha. But of course, Anne and the others are not interested and are even more creeped out and aghast by Marcy's actions than in canon. So when the battle breaks out, Marcy is forced to fight against them. |
| 452 | * WeUsedToBeFriends: Obviously, learning the true extent of Marcy's betrayal destroys her friendships with Anne and Sasha. She also terminates her bond with Olivia after the latter tries to "rescue" her from King Andrias. As of now, King Andrias is her OnlyFriend and vice versa. |
| 453 | * WellIntentionedExtremist: Marcy genuinely believes that aiding King Andrias and the Core in becoming a MultiversalConqueror is for the greater good of TheMultiverse. |
| 454 | * WhamLine: King Andrias gives 2 more to the heroes than in canon in quick succession. |
| 455 | ** He reveals who created the Calamity Box. |
| 456 | --> '''King Andrias''': And these strangers made it all possible with this. ''(Gestured to the Box in his hand.)'' Honestly, it is truly amazing to discover what humans are capable of. |
| 457 | ** He gives another one letting them know he knew more than he let on. |
| 458 | --> '''King Andrias''': Tell me, Anne, did you and your friends truly believe that you were the first humans to visit Amphibia? |
| 459 | * WhatTheHellHero: |
| 460 | ** Both Anne and Sasha are infuriated and horrified at discovering that Marcy's the reason why they were trapped in Amphibia and is selling out their planet to King Andrias; even when she tries to explain her motivations to them, they have none of it. Unlike canon, Marcy doubles down and fights them. |
| 461 | ** Marcy's parents call out the Boonchuys for leaving them in the dark on their missing daughter's whereabouts for months. Oum notes they're not exactly wrong to be mad at them. |
| 462 | * WhyDidYouMakeMeHitYou: Marcy has this attitude towards Anne for rejecting her WeCanRuleTogether pitch and getting into a fight to stop her. |
| 463 | --> '''Marcy''': You think I wanted any of this, Anne? You think I want to do this to you?! You think I want to see you in so much pain?! |
| 464 | * WhyDontYouJustShootHim: When she and her team are captured in King Andrias's trap, she asks why he doesn't just kill them all. King Andrias explains her he plans to MakeAnExampleOfThem instead, while handing Sasha over to Marcy [[spoiler:as an apology for accidently stabbing her. This gives them enough time for an escape plan]]. |
| 465 | * WideEyedIdealist: Marcy is a darker, twisted version of this, believing that the Core's vision is for the greater good of TheMultiverse. |
| 466 | * WorshippedForGreatDeeds: Marcy looks up to her VillainousLineage, seeing her ancestors in the [[AncientConspiracy Wu Clan]] having taken down [[TheWarlord warlords]] like UsefulNotes/GaiusJuliusCaesar, formed entire [[TheEmpire empires]], including Newtopia and ImperialChina, and shaped the course of human history for centuries all as magnificent things that [[VisionaryVillain she needs to emulate]] to become a MultiversalConqueror. |
| 467 | * WouldHurtAChild: |
| 468 | ** Marcy threatens to drop Sprig out of the window of the floating castle if Polly doesn't put down the Music Box. [[spoiler: After Anne calls Sprig her best friend, [[GreenEyedMonster Marcy]] follows through with it anyway.]] |
| 469 | ** When Marcy goes into RageAgainstTheMentor mode after showing her YourWorstMemory, the Core resorts to [[NeckLift grabbing her by the throat]] to get her to shut up and listen. [[AffablyEvil To be fair, it did genuinely apologize after that]]. |
| 470 | ** [[spoiler:Grace, Marcy's mother shows herself just as brutal as Marcy, brutally assaulting Anne when she doesn't believe her story about where Marcy is. When she meets Anne again in cuffs, she admits she wants to punch her in the face.]] |
| 471 | --> '''Marcus''': You attacked a child. |
| 472 | * WreckedWeapon: When Anne goes SuperMode, she destroys Marcy's trademark wrist-mounted crossbow before she has a chance to fire it again. |
| 473 | * {{Yandere}}: Marcy is a platonic version of this, willing to do what it takes to keep Anne and Sasha to herself. |
| 474 | * YellowEyesOfSneakiness: The Core briefly shows an orange version of this trope as they [[ManipulativeBastard manipulate]] Marcy further down the path of darkness. |
| 475 | * YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre: The Core, of all people, says this to Marcy in her subconsciousness. |
| 476 | * YouHaveGotToBeKiddingMe: [[spoiler: Mr. X has this reaction when he hears from Mrs. Waybright that Mrs. Wu is screwing up the whole operation to apprehend the Boonchuys.]] |
| 477 | * YouMonster: |
| 478 | ** A tearful Polly angrily calls King Andrias and Marcy this after the former orders the latter to destroy Frobo with a Boomshroom. |
| 479 | ** Anne goes as far as to call King Andrias and Marcy evil for what they're trying to do with their EvilPlan. |
| 480 | * YoureInsane: |
| 481 | ** Anne says this to [[AdaptationalVillainy Marcy]] after the latter reveals that [[TheQuisling she's voluntarily helping King Andrias in his plans of conquest]] and expects her friends to eagerly join her. |
| 482 | ** Lady Olivia calls King Andrias mad for [[spoiler:allowing the Core to merge with Marcy and let her ''willingly'' become a part of the MindHive]]. |
| 483 | * YoungConqueror: Marcy aims to be this on a [[MultiversalConqueror multi-dimensional level]], alongside King Andrias. |
| 484 | [[/folder]] |
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