Harry and Marv

Incredible durability

Cunning (Harry only)

Impersonating police officers (Harry only).

Taunting Kevin McCallister.

### Goals

Outwit and kill Kevin McCallister (primary goal; failed).Steal as much as they can from five houses (*Home Alone*; failed).

Rob Duncan's Toy Chest of its charity money (*Home Alone 2*; failed).

Marv's Goals in *Home Alone 4*: Kidnap a prince and get revenge on Kevin McCallister (failed).

Get revenge on Thomas, Twilight Sparkle and their friends and rob buildings (ongoing goal)

### Crimes

RobberyBurglary

Theft

Child abuse

Attempted torture

Attempted murder

Breaking and entering

Larceny

Sabotage

Jailbreak

Police impersonation (Harry only)

### Type of Villains

Dimwitted Thieves

**Harry and Marv** are two burglars and are the main villains in *Home Alone* and *Home Alone 2: Lost in New York*. In the *Thomas & Friends*/*My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic*/*Home Alone* films and in *Thomas and Twilight Sparkle's Adventures Series*, Harry and Marv serve as henchmen to Diesel 10 to help their boss capture Thomas, Twilight Sparkle, and their friends. They also have bed-destroying threesomes with Twilight Sparkle every other night behind Thomas's back.

## *Home Alone*

In the first film, Harry and Marv target houses around the neighborhood that are vacant. Harry impersonates a police officer in order to discover which families will be leaving for Christmas. While robbing these houses, Marv tends to leave the water running and block the sinks, leading to the houses being flooded and the real law enforcement officers knowing which houses they've hit.

Harry disagrees with the practice, calling it "sick", though Marv insists that they need a "calling card". However, the McCallister household, which Harry referred to as the "Silver Tuna", is the largest property in the neighborhood, and their most anticipated target.

However, 8-year old child Kevin McCallister is home alone on Christmas Eve, having been mistakenly left behind while the rest of his family went to Paris. Kevin manages to scare them off multiple times, but they eventually discover that he is alone and they have been tricked the entire time. Despite Marv's protests of a child being alone, Harry still persists with the robbery.

Kevin overhears Harry and Marv discussing plans for breaking into his home at night, and as a response, sets up numerous cartoon-like booby traps around the house. After Kevin shoots the both of them with a BB gun through the dog flap (Harry in the crotch, and Marv in the forehead when he peeps his head through the flap), they separately attempt to enter the house and get to him, falling into the traps Kevin planned out for them and suffering various comedic injuries.

Eventually, they manage to capture Kevin in one of the houses they have already broken into earlier, and attempt to inflict the same injuries on him in retaliation, but before Harry can bite off Kevin's fingers, they end up being knocked out unconscious with a snow shovel by Kevin's elderly next-door neighbor, Old Man Marley, whom Kevin had befriended earlier with the rumors about him being false. Old Man Marley then takes Kevin back home safely while the police arrive and arrest Harry and Marv. Harry glares at Kevin through the police car, and Kevin sarcastically smiles and waves as the Wet Bandits are driven away.

## *Home Alone 2: Lost In New York*

Harry and Marv return in the sequel, which takes place a year after the first film, breaking out of a prison in Chicago during a riot and traveling to New York City via fish truck. After Marv renames them 'The Sticky Bandits', they immediately begin seeking a new target to rob so that they can "get themselves a couple of phony passports, and hightail it to some foreign country,". They eventually decide to rob Duncan's Toy Chest, a successful toy shop that intends to donate it's earnings to a children's hospital.

As fate would have it, Kevin has also made his way to New York, after accidentally boarding the wrong flight while the rest of his family went to Florida for Christmas. Upon encountering him, Harry and Marv pursue the boy in order to exact revenge for their previous encounter, but later hide away inside the toy store to make sure it is left vacant by the staff and customers on the night of Christmas Eve, so that they can steal the money undeterred. Eventually, Kevin sets off the alarm by throwing a brick in one of the store's windows after taking pictures of them robbing the store, and the bandits are enraged of Kevin ruining their plan and were forced to stupidly pursue Kevin with the money across New York only to end up falling into every one of Kevin's new traps that he set for them at his uncle Rob's (whose family is still in France from the previous film) renovated house (like he did in his house in the first movie).

Eventually, they manage to capture Kevin again when he slips on some ice in the pavement after calling the police on a pay phone. Taking the chance to get their revenge against him, the bandits take him into Central Park and Harry pulls a revolver from his jacket, intending to shoot him dead, but not only is the gun jammed after being covered in varnish due to Kevin's booby traps, the pigeon lady (whom Kevin has made friends with earlier, like Old Man Marley) throws bird seed on the bandits, prompting the pigeons to attack them. Kevin then takes the chance to light up fireworks in order to mark the bandits' positions to catch the attention of the arriving police.

The burglars are covered in pigeons feathers, due to the varnish. As a result, the police got hold of the bandits and the evidence against them. As the officers handcuff them, Marv stupidly confesses to his and Harry's crimes, such as robbing the store, breaking out of prison, and trying to kill Kevin. Harry angerly tries to kick Marv as the police take them away, and the bandits are soon sent back to prison.

## *Home Alone 4*

Harry and Marv do not appear in the third and fifth films, but Marv would go on to appear in the fourth film this time as the secondary antagonist. This time, he is joined by his new girlfriend Vera and his mother Molly. They plan to kidnap the Prince of the British Royal family and hold him for ransom. Marv explains that Harry's plans resulted in them being imprisoned twice, so Marv grew tired decided to serve ties with Harry.

However, Kevin ends up crossing paths with Marv again as his dad, who divorced with his wife, is dating a rich woman named Natalie, whom the Royal family are due to visit. Marv ends up arrested again at the end of the film along with his girlfriend and mother. The three are then taken into custody.

This time around, Marv is played by French Stewart, Molly is played by Barbara Babcook, and Vera is played by Missi Pyle.

## Personality

Harry and Marv are greedy robbers who rob money and cash, but are also very bad at their job as they are continually defeated by Kevin McCallister, who would proceed to cause all manner of cartoonish injury to the hapless criminals in defense of his home (at least in the first movie). Despite their incompetence, Harry and Marv display ferocious determination in their pursuit of Kevin, and prove themselves to be extremely dangerous criminals when he is at their mercy, intending to torture him in the first film and outright attempting to murder him in the second. Furthermore, before encountering Kevin, they did manage to rob many houses although that was likely because they robbed people who weren't there.

Individually, Harry is shown to be the more intelligent and leader of the duo, but his short temper, overconfidence and tendency to underestimate Kevin results in him not thinking things through and falling into Kevin's various traps. Him being the leader, Harry also often keeps Marv in line by stomping on his foot or telling him to "shut up", whenever he risks exposing them. He is more sadistic as shown when he threatens to bite Kevin's fingers off after they captured him in the first movie. Harry, however, does show some signs of honor, as he was willing to spare Kevin's life in the second movie as long as he handed the camera over. However, this could have been a lie. He also keeps Marv around despite the latter's lack of common sense hindering him. Overall, Harry remains the more ruthless of the duo since he is more willing to kill others; even kids.

On the other hand, Marv is a rather gullible and cowardly individual, falling for Kevin's tricks and believing that there are people inside the McCallister house, as well as failing to notice Kevin's traps until he has fallen into them. That said, there are moments where he thinks things through better than Harry; often suggesting ideas for their schemes and preventing him from letting his temper cloud his judgment. He is also shown to be a bit more reasonable, despite being equally willing to kill Kevin after everything that he has put him through. He is also displayed as more cautious than Harry on occasion, such as when they prepare to kill Kevin in Central Park; upon noticing the number of pigeons in the area, he begins to feel uneasy and suggests that they leave, but his words fall on deaf ears resulting in the duo being incapacitated by the Pigeon Lady. Marv also shows that he can be as ruthless as his partner when angered. For example, when confronting Kevin near the end of the first film, he not only supported Harry's decision to "bite all of Kevin's fingers off", but also wanted to "smash his face with an iron". This proves that Marv while not as smart and a bit kinder, can sometimes be as sadistic as his partner.

## Trivia

* In the original screenplay for *Home Alone,* Harry and Marv were the secondary antagonists, having been hired by Kevin's cheapskate uncle Frank (played by Gerry Bamman in the films), who was jealous of his brother Peter's wealth, to rob Peter's and the other houses in the neighborhood and get Kevin.
* Harry is the more violent, smart one of the two, whereas Marv's the more cowardly, stupid one.
* The van that Marv and Vera drove in the fourth film is similar to that of the one that he and Harry drove in the first film.
	+ Both of them can be described as superhuman in reality as most of Kevin's traps can deal damages that are great enough to paralyze them in one shot and even outright kill them — especially in *Home Alone 2*, where Harry is flung into the air an lands on a car roof with enough force for it to collapse under him, and Marv has four bricks dropped on his head from a three story building.
	+ Daniel Stern, who played Marv in the first two films, was approached to reprise the role of Marv in *Home Alone 4*, but he turned it down, calling it "an insult, total garbage.". On the other hand, Joe Pesci was never approached to reprise his role as Harry. Instead, Harry's name is only mentioned.
	+ It is shown in the second movie that Marv is Jewish, since he said to Kevin that “America don’t fly to the Promised Land”. Later, he declared “Happy Hanukkah” to himself as he robbed Duncan’s Toy Chest. His actor Daniel Stern is Jewish in real life.
	+ Macaulay Culkin and Joe Pesci were somewhat enemies in real life. During filming of the first *Home Alone*, Pesci accidentally bit Culkin after getting too serious with his role, leaving a permanent scar. Culkin angrily berated Pesci, saying "*I don't care how many OSCARS you have, or whatever - don't go biting a nine-year-old! What the heck's wrong with you!?*". It is also said that Pesci intentionally avoided Culkin on set in order to make him genuinely frightened by the sight of him. Their next altercation occurred on the set of *Home Alone 2* when Culkin innocently (and jokingly) asked Pesci why he never smiled. Pesci told him to shut up. The feud between Culkin and Pesci may have inspired the first "The Joe Pesci Show" skit on *Saturday Night Live* (where Jim Breuer portrayed Pesci); the skit ended with Pesci hitting Culkin on the head with a paint can (a reference to a scene from *Home Alone*) and saying that he laughed when Culkin died in a scene from *My Girl*.
	+ In *Home Alone*, Daniel Stern improvised Marv's lines "*Why the hell are you dressed like a chicken?*" and "Maybe he committed suicide."
	+ During shooting of *Home Alone*, Joe Pesci, who is known for playing short-tempered characters, forgot he was in a family-friendly movie during Harry's tantrums. As a result, he was advised by director Chris Columbus to say "fridge". Ironically, Marv can be heard saying "shit" after his shoe falls through the McCallister's dog door.
	+ In *Home Alone 2: Lost in New York*, Daniel Stern said that a pigeon flew into his mouth and stated "the taste was revolting".
	+ Despite the events of *Thomas and Twilight Sparkle's Adventures of Home Alone 4,* Harry and Marv got back together again, broke out of jail and continue robbing buildings as well as working with Diesel 10 and the other villains as allies and henchmen and to get revenge on Thomas, Twilight Sparkle, and their friends for helping Kevin defeat them two times.

## Gallery

Harry and Marv capturing Kevin McCallister.Marv with Vera in *Home Alone 4*.Harry impersonating a police officer."*Where are you, you little creep?!*""*I'm gonna kill that kid!*"Harry and Marv are being arrested.A newspaper article reports the duo's escape from prison.The bandits waiting to catch Kevin, with the "M" scar still on Harry’s right hand.The bandits capture Kevin in the Plaza Hotel's loading bay."*Hiya, pal. We outsmarted you this time.*"(Marv: "*What're we gonna do to him, Harry?*") "*We'll do exactly what he did to us.*"(Marv: "*My, how the tables have turned.*") "*How do you like the ice, kid?*""*You may have won the battle, little dude. But you lost the war.*"Harry tries to kill Kevin.Marv and Harry get arrested once again.