Marie Rose (Dead or Alive)

Marie Rose, also known as Wicked Lil' Servant, is a character from the Dead or Alive series.
== Charactah Account ==
Marie is Helena's new maid, hailing from Sweden and using the Russian martial art of Systema. From what little has been shown, she seems to be a very energetic, cheerful, gentle, teenage girl, and spoiled which given her youth, fits well but she is shown to be gutsy unlike many youngsters around her years.
She acts very childish, sometimes she acts like a drama queen, and doesn't seem to take losing lightly; she appears to be crying on the ground like a little girl when she loses a match, but if watched long enough, she lifts her face out of her hands before resuming her apparent fake crying. Judging by this, she seems quite aware of her cute appearance, and shows it through her win poses and taunts. Ironically, despite her often acting childish, Xtreme Venus Vacation reveals that she hates being compared to a child or treated like one. She also has little problem with wearing some revealing outfits, although she does have her limits, as during a Cover Girl photo op, even she was ashamed at having to show a significant amount of herself to Helena when she alongside Kasumi had to do a very suggestive "prayer pose" near the god statue, and she also objected to her Davi outfit's more revealing alternate form. She also at times tends to get distracted by other activities over obligations, as evidenced by how she got herself and Kasumi late for a meeting with the Owner to get a tan (with it being revealed later on that the Owner used that tendency of Marie Rose to do that in order to ensure both Kasumi and Marie Rose got enough of a tan to allow for the tan removal spa session to open without delays).
== Appearance ==
=== Video Games ===
* Alice Gear Aegis
* Azur Lane
* Dead or Alive 5
* Dead or Alive 5 Last Round
* Dead or Alive 5 Ultimate
* Dead or Alive 5 Ultimate Arcade
* Dead or Alive 6
* Dead or Alive Xtreme 3
* Dead or Alive Xtreme: Venus Vacation
* Destiny Child
* Idle Huntress
* Romance of the Three Kingdoms XIV
* Senran Kagura: Peach Beach Splash
* Shinobi Master Senran Kagura: New Link
* The King of Fighters 98 Ultimate Match Online
* The King of Fighters All Stars
* Warriors All-Stars
== Trivia ==
* In Marie Rose's Dead or Alive 5 Ultimate concepts, the lower left concepts suggest that they were reused for Honoka.
* Her nationality, birth date, as well as her physical appearance and, to a certain extent, her personality is suspected to be a response by Team Ninja in regards to Dead or Alive Dimensions being banned in Sweden due to it's content violating the country's child pornography laws.
* Marie Rose's birthday, June 6, is the same day as the National Day of Sweden.
** She is technically older than Misaki, who is born on July 7, which may explain her constant irritation at Misaki interacting with her as if she were a child (referring to her with the honorific "Chan", meaning the addressed subject is younger than the speaker).
** On that note, this also makes her the first character to have her birthday fall on a real-world holiday, followed by Misaki (who was born on Tanabata) and Nagisa (who is born on the Japanese holiday Children's Day on the Gregorian Calendar). Coincidentally, all three girls had their days have the same number as the month.
* In her tag battle intro with Honoka, Marie Rose reacts with a slightly irritated expression when the latter requests a practice round. This is because in the Japanese version, Honoka actually requested to borrow Marie Rose's chest, acting as a pun on both their radically different bust sizes and a common Japanese saying for requesting a sparring partner, derived from Sumo Wrestling, where it is believed a wrestler's power is derived from their chest due to the heart being located there. This tidbit was left out in localization due to the pun being untranslatable in the West.
* In Xtreme Venus Vacation as well as the Japanese version of Dead or Alive 5 Ultimate/Last Round, unlike other female characters, Marie Rose prefers to refer to herself with her name, "Marie (マリー)", and rarely uses "Watashi (私)", which is commonly used by children or younger girls to make it sounds cute. This trait was removed during localization in the overseas version of the latter games, where she instead refers to herself by the first person pronoun.
** Oddly, this trait was removed from the TGS 2018 demo for Dead or Alive 6. In fact, Honoka ends up undergoing the aforementioned trait at one point in the same demo.
* In the Japanese version of Dead or Alive Xtreme 3, Marie Rose's favorite color is stated as "紺色" (lit. "navy blue color" or "dark blue color"). However, the English version of the game, it was translated as "deep blue".
* Marie Rose was voted #1 in the Dead or Alive Xtreme 3 poll. This is due to this that Marie Rose (and Honoka in #2) is featured on the cover for the PS4 and Vita release. They also have special goods in each Collector's Edition for the PS4 and Vita releases respectively.
* Marie Rose is the first character in the series to be released as DLC. Ironically, Yosuke Hayashi had earlier mentioned during an interview at E3 that he had no plans on including DLC characters due to believing that DLC inclusion is unfair.
* In Warriors All-Stars, it is stated that she is the one who made her trademark maid dress. Whether this is canon to the Dead or Alive series is yet to be revealed.
** On a similar note, Warriors All-Stars indicated that she was familiar with oil massages due to her giving them to Helena several times.
* During the Dream of Holy Night event arc in Xtreme Venus Vacation, Marie Rose was shown to still believe in Tomte, which is the Swedish version of Santa Claus. This makes her the second character to directly reference cultural elements of a country outside Japan, after Leifang and her reference to Chinese New Years in one of her 2019 New Year login quotes (not counting birthdays).
* Owing to Marie Rose's status as a horror film fan, she was knowledgeable about various mythological creatures, such as the Jiangshi.
* Since 2017, Marie Rose has appeared in every single collaboration of Dead or Alive with other series (excluding re-releases, such as Monster Rancher 2), something no other character has done since then. She only wasn't present at first in Senran Kagura New Link, but was added in the second collaboration.
* Although not to the extent of her employer, it's implied in the ending to "Melting Venus Valentine ~ Bonding Festival Chapter ~" that Marie was religious, as when Fiona suggested making the Owner's earlier dream of making all the leftover chocolate into a statue of himself a reality, Marie Rose shot down the idea, citing that this was what the devil wanted in his dream.
== Gallery ==
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== External Links ==
* Marie Rose at Dead or Alive Wiki
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Category:Females
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