Marco (Meta Runner)

Marco is a supporting character of the Glitch Productions Science-Fiction webseries Meta Runner. He serves as a minor antagonist of Season 2 - Episode 3: Unreal Engines. Later on, he became a supporting character at the end of Season 2 and in Season 3. 
He is a deal maker that lives in the Rustworks to host tournaments of Turbo Crash 9 for Meta Runner arms. He is well known to be a good friend of Sofia Porter due to her expert hacking and deals that he made with her. On the other hand, he dislikes Meta Runners who are at upper echelons, especially Masa due to him cheating. However, he became an ally of MD-5 to aid them in their police chase.
He is voiced by Jason Marnocha, who also voiced Tea Knight Cookie from Cookie Run: Kingdom.
==Personality==
Marco is shown to be high, mighty, loud and boisterous. He had no trust in tech corporations due to Meta Runners being warped inside of Sheridan's server. He believes that power should only be earned instead of being given. After Marco rescued MD-5, he slowly began to warm up towards the team. He is also extremely strong in combat while fighting against Dr. Sheridan as he ended up electrocuting him to death.
==Biography==
In his past, it has been implied that Marco assisted Sofia Porter with her rolling cartridge gang while Sofia assisted him in the Luminous Gaming hack. 
At the Rustworks, Marco wins a game of Turbo Crash 9 against a losing player to give up their Meta Runner arm. Sofia arrives with Lamar and Masa, noticing Masa, Marco mocks Masa's past of being in TAS Corp. Sofia asks Marco for cybernetic implants due to not having enough money to purchase more. Lamar makes a deal with Marco by trading his Meta Runner arm for another arm for an entry fee to enter the tournament. In the game of Turbo Crash 9, Marco ends up losing against Masa and Lamar due to his cybernetic arms malfunctioning from Masa's meta bug. Due to Marco's loss, he calls out Masa for cheating in the game. However, Sofia and the others stepped in to give them their winnings since it was Marco's arena and rules.
MD-5 were fleeing from the police due to Masa being framed on Lucks' death. Marco ends up finding MD-5 in an alleyway. In the end, he would offer them a ride. 
After a week of the accidental murder of Lucks, Marco checks on MD-5 and prepares to give them judgement day. He handcuffs MD-5 due to Lamar and Theo's attempt to escape the Rustworks. Due to Masa implanting a meta bug on his arm, he thinks of what to do with MD-5. Marco offers MD-5 to join his gang to cancel their debts from the Meta Runner parts that they took. However, Tari rejects his offer since she doesn't want to be forced to work with anyone anymore after working with TAS Corp. Instead, Marco gives Tari one chance to beat him in a fair game of Turbo Crash 9 without cheating. Confidently, Tari accepts his offer. 
During the match, Sofia realizes that Tari and Theo are not warped in Turbo Crash 9 and the duo has ended up somewhere else. Marco commands one of his minions to give Sofia's laptop back and to watch over her. Sofia creates a firewall portal for Tari and Theo to free them from Evelyn, but Tari ends up in the game of Skybreakers after Evelyn stabs her.
In Skybreakers, Tari is found by MD-5 and rescues her while Evelyn attempts to get the remaining data fragments out of her. Marco decides to tag along with them if Masa was in the game, being told by Theo. Marco leads the ship to Vagabonds Landing to upgrade Tari by giving her better gear.
While helping Tari get better gear for her, he mentions that he invented his own Meta Runner arms without borrowing any other parts from tech corporations, which gave him the rights to look down on other Meta Runners. Suddenly, Evelyn attacks Marco, MD-5 and everyone else since she was able to attack other players in safe areas due to it being hacked by Sheridan. The heroes try to get back onto their ship, but the Cabin Boy ends up destroying it. However, Tari figures out a plan to claim another ship since she regained half of her Meta Runner vision back from Lucinia. Due to this, Marco congratulates Tari, giving her a chance to capture the new ship and naming it Bluejay.
The Bluejay crew travel to Scrapbeard's Fortress after Tari finds Sheridan's coffee cup to where Evelyn has the abilities to cheat. As they go through Scrapbeard's Fortress, Tari tells her friends to perform the death warp glitch by exploiting the angler's mouth. They succeed in performing the death warp glitch before Evelyn could get to them. However, Marco notifies Tari about Lamar being warped into Sheridan's server. 
Marco was alerted by one of his minions. Downstairs, he discovers several Meta Runners being paralyzed in pain while they were warped by Sheridan’s Global Warp Technology. Marco pokes one of them with his extra cybernetic arm, to which they call for help. To this incident, Marco commands his goons to stabilize the Meta Runner. He tries to use a drill on the Meta Runner, but it doesn’t work and needs Sofia's help. Marco comes back on Skybreakers as Sofia states that Sheridan warped every Meta Runner to his server. When the crew is about to reach the gateway, Evelyn begins to attack Tari and her friends again while she introduces her newly brainwashed recruits, Belle and Masa. However, Lamar surprises Evelyn with an attack and reunites with MD-5. In the end, MD-5 and Sher Corp prepare for battle.
Marco battles against the brainwashed Masa. While Lamar tries to reason with Masa, Sheridan prevents Masa's free will from increasing and ends up eliminating Lamar. Marco tries to fight back against Masa and Lucinia, but ends up getting eliminated as well. As Marco flips his keyboard in anger, he prepares to track down Dr. Sheridan. He commands one of his minions to watch over Sofia's monitor and to send Sheridan's location to him. He tells Sofia that Tari always gets out of impossible situations and is concerned about everyone else while plans change. In the stinger scene, it features Marco in Shipwreck Swamp sleeping beneath a tree.
Marco later finds Sheridan's hideout. While his minion checks around, Marco fights against Dr. Sheridan. Pinning Sheridan, he finds out about the meta bugs that the doctor was selling around for any cheater to buy. Marco implants several meta bugs on Sheridan, electrocuting him to death, and destroys Sheridan's server. As Marco and his minion were about to escape after killing Sheridan, Evelyn ends up getting disconnected and begins to yell at everyone for "ruining her life." Lucinia punches Evelyn, calling her out for her constant selfishness as Evelyn backs away cowardly, and Lucinia straps Evelyn to a chair. With Masa waking up, he asks Marco if he was going to settle the score. Since Masa lost his arm and defeated Marco in Skybreakers, Marco makes an agreement with him. Marco and the others escape from Sheridan's hideout before the police arrive. 
One of Marco's minions arrives at his office and reports about the Meta Runners recovering from Sheridan's cyberattack. The minion shows Masa's Meta Runner arm and asks if it should be put up on the market. As Marco says yes, he changes his mind to put Masa's Meta Runner arm in storage if anyone would ever want to rematch. In the credits scene, it shows Marco playing Skybreakers with his drone.
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