Marcellus

“*Children are monsters. All of them.*”
―Marcellus[src]
**Marcellus** is a main character in the Netflix film Arlo the Alligator Boy and its upcoming sequel series, I Heart Arlo. He is a fish creature and member of Tony's crew who spent time locked up in an aquarium in North Carolina before being freed by Arlo, and is known for having a hatred and fear of children.

## Profile

### Appearance

Marcellus is a reverse merman -- having the upper half and arms of a fish and the body and legs of a muscly man. His fish half has light blue scales with darker blue fins on his back, and the skin of his body is pale, and wears a black speedo. His scleras are yellow unlike the others, and has bushy brows.

### Personality

He is very impatient, negative, and self centered. He brings more negative thoughts into the group and is generally rude and prideful. However he is passionate and sympathetic towards friends and is intelligent and insensitive.

## History

### *Arlo the Alligator Boy*

Marcellus was first mentioned by Tony some time after Arlo joins his rogue crew on their traveling bus, having been trapped in an aquarium for quite some time; Arlo is to rescue Marcellus should the gang wish to take him to New York City to reunite him with his birth father Ansel. The crew reach the Aquarium of the Carolinas, where Marcellus is held; Arlo breaks in and frees Marcellus in no time, despite all the security obstacles which lay ahead.

Once the whole crew is assembled and is setting off for New York, Marcellus calls a dance party to celebrate his rescue. However, the fun is cut short when Arlo brings up the aquarium and how fun it was, leaving Marcellus in a state of trauma. Later while taking a rest stop on a beach for the night, Marcellus tells of his trauma and how horrible it was to watch the visiting tourists constantly staring at him when locked up. He then brings up a hatred of children which presumably developed during said period.

While the group is turning in, Arlo is promptly surprised by Marcellus' way of sleeping with his eyes open, which is what fish like him do. Marcellus then thanks him for saving him from the tank, before fearfully warning him not to mention it again. Marcellus also participates in the "Follow Me Home" number along with Arlo and Bertie, before going right back to bed in a huff after being washed back to shore.

Eventually when the group reaches New York, Marcellus isn't at all impressed and scoffs it off as "just a city". While the group is exploring, Marcellus goes to Washington Square Park where he pops out of the fountain and scares away a boy, making him cry. It is also mentioned by Tony he went digging through the fountains to find money, only finding $27 total. Marcellus also joins Arlo as he heads off to Ansel's penthouse, showing annoyance at Arlo's singing in return.

While taking shelter at Seaside by the Seashore, the site of Ansel's next big project, Marcellus interrupts a moment between Arlo and Bertie, the latter reassuring the former after he gets rejected. Marcellus then promises to go to the Met Gala to help him confront Ansel under the condition there aren't any kids there. To his dismay, there *were* kid boys forming a dance group called "Kids Thing". Fortunately, Marcellus sticks around. Later while Arlo is confronting Ansel backstage, Marcellus purposefully throws a piece of shrimp at the middle Kids Thing member, giving him a black eye which he shrugs off.

Arlo is soon captured by hunters Ruff and Stucky, but Ansel, revealed to be a bird man, rescues him last minute and reveals the truth. Father and son reunite before Arlo turns down living with him in favor with the others. Ansel then lets Arlo and his crew move to Seaside by the Seashore and restore it to its pristine condition. During the restoration, Marcellus spots a strange pumpkin boy under the boardwalk when picking up trash, freaking him out; later when constructing Tony's Pizzeria and fixing up Alia's bus, Marcellus didn't seem to care about it, but did enjoy a moment of fun when getting splashed at the central fountain.

### *I ♥ Arlo*

Marcellus is one of the main characters in the series, which continue the adventures of Arlo after settling into Seaside by the Seashore after the events of the movie. In the show, Marcellus resides in the central fountain near Arlo and Bertie's house.

His contribution to the Seaside Community Garden is hosting barbecues.

## Relationships

*Click **here** to view the relationships between **Marcellus** and other characters.*

## Songs sung by Marcellus

* "Beautiful Together"
* "Marcellus Opera"
* "Coming Together"
* "As Long As We Got Each Other"

## Foreign voices

* Ilham Amin (*Arabic*)
* Charles Dalla (*Brazilian Portuguese*)
* Flemming Bang (*Danish*)
* Marcel Jonker (*Dutch*)
* Tuukka Leppänen (*Finnish*)
* Gilles Morvan (*French*)
* Stefan Gossler (*German*)
* Ioannis Kontellis (*Greek*)
* Fabrizio Pucci (*Italian*)
* Eli Lolai (*Hebrew*)
* Tsuyoshi Hirabayashi (*Japanese*)
* Kim Young-Sun (*Korean*)
* José Luis Orozco Flores (*Latin America*)
* Jair Campos (*Latin America, singing voice*)
* Henrik Horge (*Norwegian*)
* Przemysław Glapiński (*Polish*)
* Soraia Tavares (*Portuguese*)
* Luís Barros (*Romanian*)
* Chen Qigang (*Simplified/Traditional Chinese*)
* Juan Gabriel Jiménez González (*Spanish*)
* Kim Sulocki (*Swedish*)
* Tarlam Koç *(Turkish)*

## Trivia

* Marcellus has the same first name as Marcellus Washburn in *The Music Man*.