Marcy Wu

Marcy Wu, also known as Mar-Mar and Darcy, is a character from the Amphibia series.
== Charactah Account ==
One of Anne's classmates, and a close friend of hers. She, along with Anne and Sasha, got transported to Amphibia after Sasha got Anne to steal a magic music box from a thrift store. Absent during the events of season 1, it's later discovered that Marcy ended up in the city of Newtopia and became a friend of its ruler, King Andrias. She represents the green gem of wit on the Calamity Box.
Marcy is a friendly, geeky, resourceful, and intellectual girl; she's always shown intently researching various subjects and taking notes. She has always received straight A's in school, implying her above average intelligence, except for Gym due to her reading during her class. She is curious and takes interest in different cultures, being the one who discovered the Calamity Box. She is also intuitive, as she is seen reusing her school outfit to craft new wear and using her skills in Amphibian biology to defeat a group of Barbari-Ants which had invaded the outskirts of Newtopia. Anne mentioned her being oblivious due to her being "un-aware of her surroundings."
Nonetheless, back home, Marcy was insanely clumsy and very oblivious. This causes her to be heavily reliant on her friends—Anne and even Sasha constantly feel the need to look out for her, and she relies on Sasha to make decisions for her. In Amphibia, she has learned to manage herself better, and make independent decisions on her own without any influence from other people, although she is still fairly clumsy and sometimes dependent on Anne. In Amphibia , her social obliviousness is shown to be detrimental, as in the episode "New Wartwood," she constantly tries to make Wartwood like her, and falls victim to Toadstool's manipulation into "reshaping" the town, only for it to be flooded as a result. The same episode also shows that she has a strong emotional desire for acceptance from other people, and will go through great lengths just to get them to like her and gets restless and impatient when they don't.
== Appearance ==
=== Cartoons ===
* Amphibia
* Amphibia Season 2
* Amphibia Season 3
* Chibiverse
== Trivia ==
* Marcy is the only girl in the Calamity Trio:
** To neither speak nor be shown at the present time in the first season. Instead, she was shown in a flashback in the opening and "Best Fronds"; pictured in the opening, "Best Fronds" and "Prison Break"; mentioned by Anne once each in four episodes; indirectly mentioned by Grime once; and mentioned by Sasha twice each in two episodes.
** To debut in a full-length episode.
** To not be the first one to say her surname.
** Whose school uniform is only shown in flashbacks.
** To never be seen in possession of a "BFFs" photo of her, Anne and Sasha.
*** The latter two, however, did occur in the Core's mindscape in "All In".
* In an interview with the website Medium, Matt Braly said that Marcy's parents never appeared physically on the show because the team was approaching max capacity when it came to characters and story elements to pay off, and unlike Anne with her parents, Marcy didn't really need them for her story and arc to be satisfactory.
* Marcy, Anne, and Sasha are the only humans to visit Amphibia.
** However, they are not the only humans to see Amphibia, as Mr. Boonchuy, Mrs. Boonchuy, Terri, Dr. Jan, Ally, Jess, Molly Jo, Humphrey Westwood, two elderly Thai women, Mr. X, Jenny and unnamed FBI agents witness the dimension through Terri's portal in "Escape to Amphibia".
* Marcy, along with Sasha and Anne, is featured in one of creator Matt Braly's first drawings for Amphibia; depicting the three at some point before they were sent to Amphibia, Marcy is seen sleeping on a couch in the image, with Sasha holding her and Anne close. Braly revealed the image stuck with him throughout the development of the whole show as a way to prove to himself that Marcy, Sasha and Anne "cared for each other no matter what they went through on the show". The words "Its complicated" were also featured on the image, which Braly revealed was a way to showcase how each of the three had played a role in making their friendship toxic, but each of the three would then play a role in reforming it.
* Clothing similar to Marcy's school uniform was shown by Carbon Costume for fans who want to cosplay as her.
* She played a video game console that's almost identical to the Nintendo Switch.
* When she saves Sprig from the Barbari-ant queen, her eyes briefly glow green for few frames, similar to how Anne's eyes glow blue and Sasha's glow pink.
* Marcy is shown to be ambidextrous.
* A running gag in the episode "Marcy at the Gates" is Marcy's cloak catching on fire and her panicking every time it happens.
** Another running gag which also started with "Marcy at the Gates" is Marcy falling on her face, sometimes down stairs. This applies even when she was possessed.
* Marcy lived in Amphibia for three months prior to reuniting with Anne.
* Marcy has shown traits of possibly having attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), but it hasn't been officially confirmed.
** When asked about if Marcy has autism in a Reddit thread, Matt responded, "She was not written with that intention but I think we get to know our characters better as we write them. In many ways they tell us who they are, not vice versa. I am so happy to see people identify with her in this way".
** The Amphibia crew later confirmed that Marcy is autistic.
* In one of her concept arts when Marcy is on Earth, she seems to play violin due to her left hand carrying a black violin case filled with different colored circles, squares and rectangles.
* Marcy is a self-proclaimed "master" of RTS (real-time strategy) games and has beaten King Andrias at the game Flipwart, which she describes as "chess to the max".
* Marcy is a straight "A" student in every class other than gym, which she is too busy reading to partake in.
* Marcy is said to be head of the Chess Club back as Saint James Middle School.
* In the Amphibiland pilot, Marcy had short hair, beady eyes, her hairpin was on the other side, she wore earrings, and she wasn't wearing a hoodie.
* Marcy loves red velvet cupcakes with Ube frosting.
* She is the only human to be possessed by the Core.
* Marcy appears to have green blood, shown when Sasha scratched their face with her sword.
** According to Matt Braly, her blood is stained green due to nanobot fluid from the rejuvination tank still circulating in her bloodstream. It may also be because the show could not show red blood in accordance with Disney's Television Standards and Practices.
== Gallery ==
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== External Links ==
* Marcy Wu at Amphibia Wiki
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