Marnie Sunshine

Marnie Sunshine is the main protagonist of the 2018 German animated film, Spy Cat. Rotten spoiled cat since birth by her owner Rosalinde and never going out, Marnie has become so fascinated by television that she confuses real life with fiction. One day, Marnie embarked on a so-called investigation to stolen of her cozy nest and thus face the real world along with her unlikely new friends.
She was voiced by Alexandra Neldel in the German Dub and by Addison Rae in the English Dub.
== Appearance ==
Marnie is a small tabby cat with orange fur and protruding yellow eyes and she is also a bit plump. Her paws and the tip of her tail are white and around her neck Marnie sports a purple ribbon.
== Personality ==
Having spent her life without having the right to go outside because of her overly protective owner, Marnie only knows the world through television and imagines outside that everything will necessarily happen in a glitchy way like a car that can pass before a train, even if it means putting others in danger. Due to her life within four walls, Marnie is well-mannered and up to a certain standard when it comes to comfort.
She also developed a certain fanaticism for investigations and all that related to dint of watching too many detective series, that made Marnie self-proclaimed herself special agent and constantly trying to solve so-called investigation.
Despite being relatively smart at a cat, Marnie is too naive, like when Paul easily fooled her into thinking he was an agent when she almost unmasked him the first time.
Once Elvis finally made it clear to her that everything she believed was childishness, Marnie became very sad and stopped thinking she was who she never was. Yet once her friends freed her from the pound, Marnie decided to arrest Paul along with her friends, showing that she had some sense of justice.
With Paul and his accomplices defeated, Marnie joined with her new friends on a real world trip to continue to solve mysteries while claiming that being with them is doing her the most good.
== History ==
On one of the most mundane days, Marnie first watches her favorite series before embarking on a gamble investigation that leads her to the garden where Rosalinde scolds her for going out, although Rosalinde imagines Marnie disobeyed because she was hungry, so the human bakes her a cake. A few moments later, Paul the brother of her owner arrives to stay in the house because of his broken legs.
Three days later, Marnie spies on Paul while Rosalinde is away and discovers that his directory contains archives of thefts around the world. After finding a map of Drabville in the phone book, Marnie discovers at the same time that Paul is not injured and takes a picture of him to compromise him. Unmasked, Paul bamboozles Marnie with a spy lie claiming to be a secret agent stalking thieves around the world and then gives her a fake mission to meet a contact via a parcel trip and passwords saying "You have hairy ears". Unaware that this is a trap, an excited Marnie gathers her things in a cardboard box before being transported in a van bound for the North Pole. Luckily for her, her box falls from the moving van, leading her to believe that she is at the scene of her mission.
As she takes her things out of the box, Marnie meets Elvis, an anti-social dog escaped on a tractor whom she takes for her "contact" because of his hairy ears. At the same time, a zen rooster named Eggbert runs away from the hens and hides in the tractor. Once the hens are gone, Eggbert asks if he can come with Marnie and Elvis. Marnie is willing for a while due to her so called secret mission but she is interrupted by an enraged Elvis who has had enough of everyone invites themselves on his tractor. The argument ends when Elvis's owner begins to duck the trio, causing them to flee. Despite this being potentially fatal, Marnie isn't worried about constantly seeing misfit villains on TV, which worries Eggbert.
After the trio have lost farmer Mock, a somewhat stuck-up zebra named Mambo Debango asks them for a place on the tractor, which Elvis refuses despite Marnie being kindly requested to have him on board. When the tractor breaks down, Marnie introduces herself to the three males as Special Agent Marnie and she's investigating the Drabville break-ins, which amuses an Elvis who doesn't take her seriously. Marnie then notices that Mambo is wearing a stolen necklace as well as a bunch of other stolen jewelry. The so-called secret agent suspects the zebra to be in the game until Eggbert Mambo was unable to commit the thefts due to his poor intelligence. As Marnie ponders the point of ditching a stolen loot, Farmer Mock attacks again this time from a plane. Dodging the farmer's aerial shots as best they can, Marnie, Eggbert, and Mambo join Elvis in a car and flee the scene.
Hidden in the woods, Marnie wants to continue her investigation but Elvis mockingly points out to her that Mock is still chasing them so if she wants to face the threat, she is free to herself. Marnie resigns herself to staying in hiding for at least tomorrow. Once the vehicle is stashed in the barn, the group settles in for the night. Listening to the radio, Marnie thinks about blocking farms that have been broken into while praising the exploits of her favorite fictional heroine.
Not having the usual comforts of home, Marnie asks Eggbert and Elvis if she can snuggle up between them, which the rooster and dog initially decline, but end up giving in just before seeing Mambo pass a bubble through his rear end.
The next day, the hens invade the barn in search of Eggbert but do not find him so leave. In the box where Eggbert was hidden inside the van, Marnie finds the stolen paintings. Elvis agrees to take Marnie to the police station on the condition that after each take their own way. Unfortunately for them, the police mistakenly believe that they are the thieves, setting off a chase. Arrived in sight of a railroad and a fast approaching train, Marnie assures Elvis that he can pass in time by pretext that she has already seen many times on TV. Although escaping the police, the van crashes into the train and is thrown into the air before crashing into the haystacks.
Recovering from the accident, Marnie checks to see if everyone is okay only to then get harshly berated by Elvis for her idea based on fiction. Rain falls right after, revealing that Mambo is just a donkey named Anton having disguised himself because he doesn't believe people would like to see a donkey at the circus, although Marnie claims she would have loved it. After bandaging the scratch that Elvis made during the crash, Marnie convinces his new friends to help him prevent the next heist to prove their innocence.
Once they find out that the stolen paintings are very expensive and that Eggbert's farm is the next target, the four friends go there at dusk to corner the thieves. A single thief arrives in a flying vehicle, passes through the chimney and in resort with his loot. At the top of her friends forming an animal ladder, Marnie takes a picture of the thief and discovers with shock that it was Paul from the start. Anton finally gave in, knocking everyone else down and forcing them to hide. Paul captures Eggbert and vilely demands the photo or he will hurt him. Marnie gives the picture to the scoundrel who instead of releasing Eggbert, keeps it as a leverage against Marnie before leaving. Although distraught, Marnie attempts to form a plan to stop Paul but a nerve-wracking Elvis criticizes her for his inability to differentiate between the real world and the fiction that has endangered them from the start. After Elvis leaves, Marnie realizes the dog is right and begins to swallow up in tears for making so many mistakes. Anton tries to convince her that it is necessary to continue, only for the cat to tell him to leave. Now alone, Marnie is captured by the farmers and locked in a cage.
Locked up for 24 hours, Marnie is finally rescued by Anton, Eggbert who had managed to escape and Elvis who had a change of heart. Convinced by her friends to finish what they had started, Marnie forms a plan to bring Paul down.
The next day, the group first takes Paul out of Rosalinde's house with an indictable photo of him pasted on an advertising poster and then proceeds to call the police through dialogues from Marnie's detective series. Paul is then locked in the cave and the animals then wait hidden outside the arrival of the police. Their plan is compromised by the arrival of Rosalinde who discovers the misdeeds of her brother after having released him from the cave. Paul tries to flee with his flying wheelchair but Rosalinde clings to the back of the machine. To catch him, the animals take off in a plane but the gas tank starts to leak after Mock is tempted to shoot them down. Marnie managed to contain the gasoline by plugging the hole, then the group managed to catch up with Paul before crashing into a circus.
The police then disembark and almost stop the animals until Rosalinde reveals Paul's deception. Once Paul is out of harm's way, Rosalinde apologizes to Marnie for always treating her like a child, while giving her the evidence so that she can conclude her first investigation.
With their proven innocence, the quartruor is worthily thanked and rewarded by the entire Drabville. The four friends ultimately decide to stay together and travel the world to solve other mysteries.
== Gallery ==
Elvis Angry.jpg|Marnie being ordered by Elvis to get off his tractor.
Marnie Elvis.jpg|Marnie whispers the secret code to Elvis.
Hens Search Eggbert.jpg|Marnie and Elvis with the chickens.
Elvis Past.jpg|Marnie learn Elvis' past
Elvis Have Enough.jpg|Marnie shocked when Elvis makes her realize that she is not a secret agent.
Marnie Crying.jpg|Marnie is moping after realizing that she is nothing more than a house cat.
Marnie Water.jpg|Marnie in captivity.
Elvis Free Elvis.jpg|Marnie is rescued by Elvis and the others.
Spy Cat Crew.jpg|The team tries to corner Paul.
Elvis Gun.jpg|Marnie watches as Elvis shot the rope where Paul tries to escape.
Crew Reward.jpg|After Paul's arrest, Marnie and her friends are cleared and win a reward.
Spy Cat Ending.jpg|Marnie and her new friends leave Drabville for new adventures.
== Trivia ==
* As the animated film is partially based on Town Musicians of Bremen, Marnie is the cat's counterpart but unlike the latter who was an old male/female who attacked with his/her claws, Marnie is a young female who never uses her claws in the movies.
*Marnie was destined at her death to be stuffed like the other two cats that came before her, as there was already a plinth with her name on it on the bookshelf.
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