Molly McGee

**Molly Suksai McGee** is the titular protagonist from *The Ghost and Molly McGee*. She is a 13-year-old Irish-Thai-American girl who meets a grumpy ghost named Scratch, who after a curse he tries to put on her backfires, ends up cursed forever by Molly's presence.

Role in the series

## Personality

Molly is an optimistic Thai-American girl, who lives to make the world a better place. She loves to give hugs and owns up quickly and tries to fix her mistakes, and is very imaginative. She is also energetic and caring to her friends, but also very clumsy, often tripping and slipping in most of her episodes, and is not really good at ice skating or softball (but then again, the rest of the team aren't good either). She shows a sense of naivety in "All Systems No" as well, still believing that wizards and unicorns are real despite already being a tween.

However, despite her caring nature, Molly can be sometimes selfish and pushy such as in "Mazel Tov, Libby!" where she transformed Libby's *bat mitzvah* into a blowout party and forces her to "come out of her shell," instead of respecting her friend's wishes and boundaries. At times like "Scratch the Surface", she can also get restless and overthink easily, making her prone to lying. Although generally gregarious, Molly does have some degree of savagery, mostly applied to bratty people namely Andrea Davenport, such as when Andrea stole her show in "Hooray for Mollywood!".

In "Saving Christmas", after failing to change the stubbornness of Mr. Davenport, Molly descended into a depression, losing her care for Christmas. This proves that Molly's optimism can be broken.

A major flaw of Molly is her tendency of getting too over her head and of feigning happiness, sometimes to the point of insanity. Out of pure desperation to enjoy the cold weather in "Ready, Set, Snow!", she plays in the snow alone, slowly losing her sanity in the process. Additionally, she seems to be unaware of her declining mental stability as she ironically claims she is trying to "maintain [her] composure" in the episode's song "Snow Day". In "The Don't-Gooder", Molly takes one-upping Andrea to such an extreme degree that it scares Scratch. Molly constantly lies about being homeless in "Home is Where the Haunt Is", claiming that "everything is totally normal." While singing "Everything is Normal", Molly attends various school clubs as a distraction, which ultimately leads to a mental breakdown in the middle of the song.

She also proves to be an excessive people-pleaser in order to hide her lack of self-confidence. This is displayed in "100% Molly McGee", when she struggles to accept her identity as a unique biracial individual after seeing her cousin Emmie speaking and understanding better in Thai in general, even going great lengths just to force herself to be more "Thai-like".

She tends to get upset when she thinks that she doesn't fit in such as finding out Libby and Andrea have their periods at an earlier age than her or when her family seem to be more in-tuned with her Thai heritage than her.

It is shown in Dance Dad Revolution that she gets her optimism and wanting to make a better place from her dad and possibly even the term “Enhappifying” from him too.