Marcy Wu is a major character in the Disney Channel animated series Amphibia. She is a 13-year-old Chinese-American human girl who originally resided on Earth, specifically California.
| “ | None of them were Marcy Wu, head of the chess club, master RTS player, straight-A student—except for gym, but only because I was reading in class, which only 'proves my point! | „ |
| ~ Marcy Wu |
Background[]
Marcy is friends with Anne when she was little, until they met Sasha after she fends off the bullies, and they became friends ever since. As she reaches 13 she discovers a book that contains the Calamity Box. A box that can travel to all other worlds, she finds it interesting and pictures it with her phone before her dad calls her. After a talk with her parents she runs away in tears as she discovers her dad has a new job and they are going to move to a new state, losing her friends she holds dear in the process. Devastated from this she stops at certain thrift shop and cries her heart out, until she looks on the glass window of the store and discovers that the Calamity Box is real all along. She uses this opportunity to leave her family and keep her friends forever by picturing the box and sending it to Sasha as the latter was calling her for a birthday present to Anne but not telling them the secret of the box. Once Anne steals the box and opens it the three girls are transported to Amphibia with Marcy arriving on Newtopia. After arriving at Newtopia she quickly became chief of the Newtopian Knight Guard serving directly under King Andrias.
Marcy is a friendly, geeky, resourceful, and intellectual girl; she's always shown intently researching various subjects and taking notes. She always received straight A's in school, implying her above average intelligence. She is also intuitive, but nonetheless back home, she's insanely clumsy and very oblivious. This causes her to be heavily reliant on her friends—Anne and even Sasha constantly feel the need to look out for her, and she relies on Sasha to make decisions for her. In Amphibia, she has learned to manage herself better, and make independent decisions on her own without any influence from other people, although she is still fairly clumsy and sometimes dependent on Anne. Marcy is an avid fan of retro video games. Prior to being teleported into Amphibia, she was seen with a game system similar to the Nintendo Switch. When she met the Plantars, she offered them a copy of a game called "Vagabondia Chronicles", and she also likes table top rpgs such as DnD. Back home she wanted Anne and Sasha to play a DnD like game called "Creatures and Caverns". Some of her character flaws include her obliviousness and her overconfidence, especially in her ability to strategize and utilize her intelligence; her obsessive focus and hyper fixations on her interests to the point of failing to notice when her friends or she herself are in danger; and her unwillingness to intervene in friends' arguments, ignoring them completely in the hopes that they will resolve it themselves.
Powers & Abilities[]
- Intelligence and Strategy: Marcy is a resourceful analyst who can quickly adapt to researching new environments, rapidly learning the science and society of Amphibia. She is a great strategist formulating a plan on her own the works effectively. Has some studying in magic.
- Crafting: Marcy can craft anything as long as she has the right resources in the environment within her. As she is seen reusing her school outfit to craft new wear and using her skills in Amphibian biology to defeat a group of Barbari-Ants which had invaded the outskirts of Newtopia.
- Super Repairing Skills: Marcy can construct and/or repair a damaged building as long as she has the right tool and materials.
- Archery: Marcy can use a crossbow with great precision and accuracy. She can throw potions and projectiles of any kind at her foes.
- Calamity Power of Wit: Her eyes glow when she battled the Queen Ant by letting the ant swallow her and using her intelligence to damage the creatures innards to save Sprig while the queen throws them up both. At full power she gains superhuman strength, speed, flight, and energy constructs with her imagination to defeat it's foes. It is connected to the Green Gem of Wit from the Calamity Box.
Equipment[]
- Portable Crossbow: A wrist-mounted range weapon that Marcy can put it on and off her right forearm when she came to Amphibia. Other than able to shoot different crossbow bolts, the crossbow helps Marcy to swing round for faster and smoother traveling similar to Marvel's Spiderman but with one hand only.
- Potions: Marcy carries a lot of potions she can use against her foes and help her friends. With a right resources and ingredients she can make lots of varieties of potions for everyday use.
Feats[]
Strength[]
- Can pierce rock and blast through stone walls with equipment.
- Broke a stone statue down on accident.
Speed[]
- Dodged light speed lasers in the first temple.
- Reacted to an arrow.
- Able to rebuild houses from ruins in mere seconds.
Durability[]
- Tanked an point blank explosion inside a small outhouse without injury.
- Took an explosion to the back and got up seconds later.
- Can survive large falls.
- Tumbled down flights of stairs and is fine.
- Was impaled through the chest by a laser sword and only fell into a coma.
Skill[]
- Manipulated Sasha and Anne to steal the Calamity Box from a thrift store and got them stranded in Amphibia.
- Became King Andrias' chief advisor and ranger.
- Lived in Newtopia for six months.
- Able to solve the Temple's puzzles that no other amphibian had ever beaten.
- Solved Newtopia's Barbariant threat.
- Helped Maddie Flour raise a flea from the dead.
- Intelligent enough to match Andrias in a game of Flipwart.
- Helped her friends fight Andrias when he revealed his true motivations.
- Saved Sprig from falling to his death just in time.
- Created a portal that allowed Anne and the Plantars to escape from Andrias and end up back on Earth.
- Escaped the Core's illusions alongside Lady Olivia and General Yunan.
Weaknesses[]
- Very Clumsy
- Absent-Minded
- Oblivious
- Overconfidence in her intelligence and abilities
- Careless to her allies and surroundings while focusing on a task.
- Very Fragile and Glass Cannon
- Due to inexperience she can't maintain her Calamity Form for prolonged periods unlike Anne.
Fun Facts[]
She is voiced by Haley Tju