Martha

Martha, the Boss

**Martha** is the longest serving **boss** in *The Office Life*, and serves loosely as the series' protagonist.

## Physical Description

Martha is the tallest worker at the Office, standing at a staggering eleven feet and four inches. She has considered entering contests with her stagger height, which she would immediately win, but she felt this would be unfair. She has blue eyes and brunette hair, and often wears glasses. Martha's torso, though looking normal on the outside, is actually a squid named Horatio. Horatio is red and purple, and lays dormant for most of Martha's life. However, Horatio is never seen throughout the series, as he is expertly hidden.

## Personality

Martha is an assertive and cutthroat leader, as shown by her constant retaining of the role of the boss despite competing against Doug. As a former warlord, Martha is trained in giving persistent, intense, and unflinching leadership, demanding full loyalty from her subordinates. In Episode Two she asserts her title as boss by wearing a crown. She often times yells and can be frightening to be around, no matter the circumstances, and will do whatever is necessary to get what she wants. She excitedly fires Doug in Episode Two, purposely announcing it to the entire Office so as to embarrass him. Throughout Episode Four, she is constantly plotting **Tim's** downfall, eventually the one to lead the other workers into killing him.

Martha doesn't always deal well under pressure- when the legendary purple thumbtack goes missing in Episode Two, she has an intense panic attack. After to Office is put up for lease, she frantically writes code. She is also quite the gossip girl, her main gossip partner being Molly who she meets at the water fountain with every episode to talk. Despite her intense and controlling personality, Martha can sometimes be generous and even loving. Though she leads the group in killing him later, Martha happily awards Tim with the title of the boss. Martha is always very emotional, sometimes to the point of crying, whenever her workers have to leave at the end of the day. Though her and Doug were rivals for much of their careers at the Office, Martha works with him in the Finale to save the Office, and the two reconcile in the end and leave together.

## Abilities

Martha's ability mostly lie in her leadership and strategy skills. She is shown to not be entirely adept at hand to hand combat as she loses a fight to Molly in Episode Three, though Molly is an expert at combat. However, her abilities allowed her to run the Office and lead the workers through many important and deeply analytical meetings. Martha is a keen battle strategist from her days as a warlord, which she showed when orchestration the assassination of Tim. She appears to have a low amount of magic as she is easily susceptible to all of **Doug's spells**.

## Biography

### Before *The Office Life*

Prior to *The Office Life*, Martha was born in the Office and lived there in secret. Her parents were discovered and removed from the Office, which Martha was fine with because they were week. Martha defended the Office through all of the wars, giving her training in battle strategy and anarchy. When she was sixteen years old, she gathered her friends and started **Company Company**, which she ran smoothly up to and throughout *The Office Life.*

### During *The Office Life*

#### *Episode One*

Martha is the first character shown in *The Office Life*, as the first scene in the series is her waking up on the table. She then attempts to stop Doug from enters the Office by opening and closing the door on him, before he eventually forces his way through. She is the first to finish saying the pledge of allegiance. Early in the work day, she stacks plastic cups into a tower before knocking it down. Doug and Martha attempt to start a meeting at the same time, but Doug is overruled. In a brief clip, she plays hot crossed buns on boomwhackers with Doug and Molly.

At the meeting, she discusses how sales for the company of been declining. Next she has her first meeting at the water fountain with Molly, where Molly encourages her to kiss Doug. Later, Martha has a mental breakdown and cancels all of the Office's plans before storming out of the room yelling, "I will see you in court!" She then walks back in and screams. At the end of the day, she tearfully says goodbye to everyone and goes to sleep on the table. The next morning, **Mike** enters and catches Martha, who had not properly hid herself. She flees from the room.

#### *Episode Two*

Martha leads the workers in a march into the Office, this being the only episode that does not begin with her waking up in the Office as she was chased out by Mike earlier. She then tries to tape across the entrance, but Doug knocks the tape aside. At the start of the work day, Martha puts on a crown and establishes that it is her meeting, where she discusses how they had made six sales. When the interns enter, Martha calms all of the workers down and gives the interns their **stamps**. She then asks the questions for interns, giving Kate a strike in the process.

She then has a gossip sesh with Molly at the water fountain, where she reveals that is about to fire Doug. Martha fires Doug, but he resists and casts a spell that cause her to pass out. When she wakes up, she celebrates Doug's being fired while Doug sits right in front of her. During Kate's tapeworm revelation, she writes "TAPEWORM" on the board. Later, Martha runs the emergency meeting that ensues after Tim stole the purple thumbtack, where she herself is briefly accused by Doug of stealing it. At the end of the day, she goes to sleep, this time with Kate in the room. When Mike enters the next day, he is no longer angry and confused, so Martha is not provoked into running away.

#### *Episode Three*

Martha wakes up in the Office, this time Kate also having slept in the Office. She again refuses to let Doug in the door, prompting him to cast a spell that makes them switch places. As the workers work at their computers at the start of the day, Martha is seen looking at a picture of George Stephanopoulos. She aggressively runs the meeting when the workers discuss what to do for National Oven Mitts Day, eventually assigning all of them to their jobs. At the water fountain, she hatches a plan with Molly to get both of them fired by staging a fight, while Molly stipulates that Martha must kiss Doug first. While all of the workers engage in party activities, Martha famously says, "Alright guys, the party's in full swing." As the party continues, she sits under the stairs with Molly and watches all of them while making final plans. When she gets out from under the stairs, Molly finally forces her to kiss Doug. She calls Doug over and lightly kisses him on the hand, to which he responds, "WAAAAAAAH!"

At the big dance, her and Molly stage a fight, Molly claiming to have killed Martha's grandmother (which she did in fact do). Martha seems to lose the fight, but it is cut off to show Martha a long with the other workers bullying Tim into forgetting that he ever heard about Molly killing Martha's grandma. When the workers play a game where they circle around a tied up Tim, Martha makes Tim the boss when Tim is able to pick up his phone in his mouth while his arms are tied behind his back. This is considered the turning point of the series. At the end of the episode, Martha attempted to give Tim the privilege to stay as she normally does, but he declined and changed the rules to let Martha stay although she is not the boss. She then went to sleep on the table.

#### *Episode Four*

Martha wakes up to find that Kate is mysteriously gone missing. She again denies Doug entry, prompting him to run around the Office and enter through the back, startling Martha. For much of the episode, Martha lays low as she plans the downfall of Tim. She is seen listening as **Peter** taps his fingers on the Lemon Fisch, but for the most part she is only occasionally seen in the background sharpening a spear or staring menacingly at Tim. It's not until her daily meeting at the water fountain with Molly that Martha finally acts, telling Molly that they must kill Tim. She gathers the other workers to make plans, and joins them when actually killing Tim. At the end of the day inspirational talk after killing Tim, Martha catches Tim's coat that is thrown from an unknown source and says, "It's the ghost of Tim." Whether or not this is true remains to be seen. At the end of the day, she gets onto her table, says, "Goodnight, Kate," to a seemingly empty room, and goes to sleep.

#### *Episode Five*

Martha wakes up in the Office one final time, and looks to find Kate locked in a cabinet. When Doug approaches the door, Martha is making her rounds with her pickaxe. At first she does not let Doug in, but when Doug shows her the "For Lease" sign on the door, she finally opens the door for him. As the other workers enter and start work, Martha and Doug hastily work on the whiteboard in attempt to calculate what will happen to the Office. Doug stops Martha from frantically writing code and says that they have to both become the bosses so as to rally the workers, to which Martha obliges. At a meeting, Martha first encourages Doug to break the news to the workers, but when the workers become confused and don't understand what Doug is trying to say, Martha finishes a calculation and shows them what the situation means: the destruction of the Office.

When seeking donations, Martha accidentally calls Molly as Molly calls her, and the two unknowingly ask each other for donations. The workers reconvene, and Martha asks them what funds they collected, which amounts to nothing. Martha again tries to get them to gather up money, but **Tom** cuts them all off to say that it's over. She joins the other workers in chasing **Bach** upon his appearance, listens as he plays sad music, and pleads with Bach along with everyone else to save the company. After Bach tells them that there is no saving the company, Martha is seen gathering a stapler and a glue gun in a dust pan, and stands with her workers as they reminisce.

As the workers leave, she says goodbye and hugs Peter, Molly, and Doug. Once the usual workers have left and only her, Kate, and Bach, Martha tells Bach to stop playing sad music, and gets on her table for sleep. After the lights turn off, Doug suddenly re-enters and tell her that it's time to leave. He offers her an arm, saying, "Hey, we were both the bosses in the end," and the two leave with their arms around each other.

### After *The Office Life*

Martha would go on to be the CEO of Blood, making her one of the richest people on Earth. You get your blood from Martha. There's a lot riding on you having a positive relationship with her. Life is a tough ship, and the captain is Martha. Remember that.

## Trivia

* Martha's name is constantly called into question because Evan, the actor playing Doug, frequently calls Martha by Liza, her actor's name.
* Martha is the first character seen in *The Office Life*.
* Martha is the only character to quit in the series, though she immediately comes back.
* It is unclear whether or not Martha sleeps at night or during the day.
* Martha employs an optical illusion to make her look like the shortest person in the Office but she is actually extremely tall.
* Martha wears the same outfit in Episode Two and Episode Three