Marcy Wu is a major character from the Disney Channel animated series Amphibia, who is voiced by Haley Tju.
Background[]
She is a young Taiwanese-American teenage girl and the childhood best friend of Anne Boonchuy and Sasha Waybright.
When the three are teleported to the world of Amphibia through the magic of a music box, Marcy lands in Newtopia where her intelligence and ingenuity catches the attention of King Andrias and his people.
Marcy soon becomes the king's advisor, and an unknowing pawn in his plans for invading the world. After Andrias' treachery was revealed, Marcy became a host for the Core. She represents the emerald of intelligence on the Calamity Box.
Trivia[]
- Marcy is confirmed to be a gamer. She is shown playing a device that is shown to resemble a Nintendo Switch.
- Marcy's voice actress, Haley Tju, voiced Karmi on Big Hero 6: The Series. Interestingly, Tju is the only voice out of the main three human characters to actually be a teenager at the time of recording her dialogue. Both Brenda Song and Anna Akana are in their late 20s, early 30s at the time of recording.
- Tju played the younger version of London Tipton (Song's other role) in The Suite Life on Deck episode, "A London Carol".
- Marcy Wu is the only character to receive design changes between seasons.
- Early concept art showed that Marcy was at one point going to have long hair and big round glasses.
- Throughout season 2, Marcy has a butterfly motif. This is evident by the character's fondness for butterflies and moths.
- Marcy’s last name Wu is a dialect of Chinese spoken in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces and the city of Shanghai.
- Marcy's fate in season three is similar to Echo and Anakin Skywalker/Darth Vader from Star Wars due to:
- Gets injured to protect their allies (Presumed dead for Echo, war wounds for Anakin, stabbed for Marcy)
- Gets connected by wires by their enemies (CIS for Echo, Andrias for Marcy)
- Gets the villain to stab in the back (Andrias to Marcy, a common thing in Star Wars)
- Gets recovered and overseen by the bad guy. (King Andrias, Darth Sidious)
- Gets evil by the bad guy (Fallen to the Dark Side for Anakin, possessed for Marcy)
- At the very end of Marcy's Theme Song Takeover, she says, "Hope nothing bad ever happens to me," which proves to be a tempting fate as she is turned into a physical host for the Core by King Andrias.
- When possessed by the Core, the credits list her name as "Darcy", which likely refers to the name of her possessed form.
- The name "Darcy" is a pun on "darkness".
Gallery[]
