151 Molly McGee

## Molly McGee

**Molly McGee** is one of two titular main protagonists (alongside Scratch) of *The Ghost and Molly McGee*. She is a 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.

## Appearance

### Physical appearance

Molly is a Thai-American teenage girl of medium height, medium-length brown hair, and dark brown almond-shaped eyes. She wears her hair up in a short ponytail with a pink hairband.

### Clothing

Molly wears a ripped jean vest with a teal pin, a white and black ringer shirt, a pink and purple skirt, and black biker shorts, and a pink hairband. She wears pink and yellow sneakers. She also has a purple spiral bracelet.

## Abilities

Molly is shown to be pretty athletic, scoring lots of stars as a Wilder-Scout. She's also one of the few characters in the series who isn't scared of anything that's horrifying.

Because of the curse, she can call and summon Scratch to her.

## 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.

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 forcing 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.

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.

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 mild degree of her mental instabilities and controlling tendency to start showing in "Ready, Set, Snow!", forcing her loved ones and then herself to play alone in the snow even when she’s getting envious of her family and friends being warm and having fun inside the house, adding that she believes that she should always feign her own happiness at the expense of her own well-being. However, she does learn how to compromise with others once being reminded of her bad habits, although not fully learning from them instantly.

## Background

Molly and her family relocate to Brighton, a sleepy little town. Molly has spent her life travelling throughout the country and has never had time to develop friends, so when she comes across a ghost named Scratch who is chained to her house by an impenetrable curse, she immediately names him as her best friend. Molly is afraid of stifling everyone around her, of being labeled as an outcast who will be shunned by anyone she attempts to connect with. She has previously failed to build meaningful ties with individuals.

## Trivia

* Molly originally had a beauty mark under her right eye, but it was removed due to it being hard to keep in place during animation and would commonly look as if it is moving around her face. It also did not work well with the expressive faces the characters in the show make.
* Molly is similar to Anne Boonchuy from *Amphibia*, another Disney animated series, being a Thai-American 13-year-old girl. Anne also shares Molly's dislike of durian as shown in the episode "The New Normal"
* The bottom of Molly's skirt was designed to mimic the bottom of Scratch.
* Molly is similar to Jake Long from *American Dragon: Jake Long* because both of them are Eurasians with a European father and an Asian mother as well as having a younger sibling. Unlike Jake Long, she doesn't have a dragon form.
* Molly has a catchphrase called "Sweet baby corn" that she usually says whenever she's overjoyed, sad or shocked.
* While Molly likes many things and is generally happy, there are few things she dislikes.
	+ Molly has a hatred of magicians, as she believes they are frauds and do not use actual magic.
	+ Molly hates Weird Larry with a burning passion, to the point she goes out of her way to actively avoid him, which Scratch points out is "Un-Molly McGee-ish".
	+ Molly doesn't like Maple Syrup because, according to Scratch, it tastes like "a tree's tears".
	+ Molly keeps a box full of things that make her unhappy in her bedroom, which she promised herself never to open unless it was an emergency. When such a time actually came (via needing to use her own sorrow as Sobgoblin bait) it was revealed that one of those items was a poster of a kitten hanging from a tree.
	+ Molly, while normally fearless, has things she's afraid of, like everybody else. Among those things are being alone, Darryl's pet tarantula Heidi Hairylegs, and the high possibility of Heidi having numerous spider babies. She also finds her childhood doll, Baby Jesse, unnervingly creepy, and wasted no time putting that particular toy into the donation bag the first chance she was given... and tossing that bag out the window.
		- Molly's fear of tarantulas hint she may have arachnophobia.
* Molly has type A blood though the Rh factor wasn't given.

## References

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1. ↑ Disney's The Ghost and Molly McGee Reveals New Name, Logo, and Cast. Retrieved on September 24, 2020.
2. ↑ https://www.instagram.com/p/CGVriRlBEJR/?igshid=yattkhgubpdp Ashly Burch "Bob and Bill, the lovely creators of the show, decided to model Molly's ethnicity off of whomever they cast to play her. So now she's half-Thai and half white, like me!"