Thread 149155804

>was originally supposed to be as mean as Sasha
>Braly became enamored with her and turned her into an adorkable cinnamon roll instead

This is a sign of weakness, by the way. You should never let affection for a character prevent you from telling the story you set out to tell. Braly let his sentiments cloud his judgment and Amphibia as a show is worse off for it.

>>149155804 (OP)
You fags will have to actually discuss the show this time and not just hornypost

I would've preferred evil Marcy

>>149155804 (OP)
>You should never let affection for a character prevent you from telling the story you set out to tell.
This is terrible advice. Your "affection" could be instinct that the character is valuable for the story and should not be steered in the wrong direction. Imagine how breaking bad would've turned out if Jesse died in season 1 as planned.

I do wonder how she would've been viewed if she had been an ass instead of what we ended up getting. If she would be as popular or not.

>>149155804 (OP)
>Have a repeat of the same character archetype to lower how special the initial one is and have the newer one be a terrible copy
No. Muh cinamoroll autist who essentially kidnapped her friends so she can have fantasy adventures and almost getting them killed in the process is good actually.

>>149155804 (OP)
I’m not aware of any original plans for Marcy but I think it’s good that she’s a different kind of character from Sasha. She’s flawed in a different and more underhanded way that makes sense for her more intelligent and less assertive personality. She tries to get her way via manipulation rather than threats.

>>149155804 (OP)
Time again for me post my hindsight backseat showrunning!

>>134697451
>In hindsight, I think Matt could've split the difference between his original idea for Marcy and what she became because of her VA's performance. Like how she felt Anne staying with her instead of going back with the Plantars at the end of 2A "made the most sense," have her be overall nice, but make her sort of subconsiously condescending towards Anne in that "let's do things my way because I'm smarter than you" way. Only now Anne has the confidence to push back against it (again, not in a overtly hostile way), which starts generating friction between them. Things quietly build up until True Colors, where Anne and Sasha's rejection after the reveal pushes Marcy to the point of erupting.

Considered how people love Darcy (aka Evil Marcy), I would loved it too. Pretty sure most peoepl forget that it's The Core that handles Darcy rather than Marcy herself since they loved the idea of Evil Marcy a lot.
Specially when originally this conflict of the girls was a FFA among the girls rather than just Anne and Sasha.

>>149156070
Darcy was doing so Jokerman shit, mean Marcy wouldn't have acted the same. She'd likely just be snide and condescending
>Wow Anne, good job! Never thought you'd be able to figure it out. Like seriously. Never. Not you.
>Well, I expected you to survive in a forest, you people are good at that right?
>Uh, I think I should take care of it. You know, roles and all.

>>149156070
An evil Marcy would’ve fit in the storyline that we got. She doesn’t need to be evil right out the gate, have her become evil later on. The catalyst for this would be how her friends reacted to the news that she was the one who trapped them in Amphibia in True Colors. We can’t forget that Anne and Sasha basically unfriended her right then and there. Under those circumstances, and considering how desperate Marcy was to keep them, I can easily envision her lashing out over their rejection of her and siding with Andrias out of spite. This potentially would’ve led to her trying to enslave them.

>>149155804 (OP)
Have there ever been adorkable bully characters? I feel like that's something that could be interesting

Marcy was always the least developed character from Amphibia. That's why she got all those quirky slop cliche characteristics that normies npcs love so much. She is made to suffer and that's the only time when her character is actually good

>>149155804 (OP)
I think it's more likely that they changed her to make her character less like Sasha because the early concept wasn't that fleshed-out. They were just the two girls that bully Anne into stealing the box. So instead of Bully A and Bully B, they decided to make Marcy even more of a dork than Anne.

>>149157252
>Marcy was always the least developed character from Amphibia.
She can't help her genetics.

>>149155804 (OP)
So the Calamity trio were just a group of mean bitches at first huh?

>>149158709
Is she easy to convince to have date with you?

>>149156190
That's sort of what I envisioned progressing from >>149156028. The Core would still want Marcy as a host, though here it would be more of a genuine invitation to join them than forced possession. They entice her with the idea of getting revenge on the ungrateful ex-friends who rejected her totally reasonable motive and desires, but her thirst for payback works her into such a rage that she takes over the Core as the dominant personality.

Marcy deserves rape

>>149155804 (OP)
>you should never let characters evolve naturally from your big picture idea of them
Someone's never written a story before.

>>149158763
maybe not easy but I think she'd probably be the easiest of the three

>>149159976
Nah, easiest would be Sasha since she is a bislut. Anne would be the hardest since she is happy living a romance free life and devoting her life to frogs, waiting till marriage

>>149155804 (OP)
You can't have a girl trio with two Sashas. That just doesn't work. Sasha's whole thing is being a queen bee.

>>149160070
I figured based on her sneer when Anne was stealing the box, she'd be a loyal mean girl lackey to Sasha when Sash was around, but then soften up and be more nerdy with Anne when it's just the two of them.

>>149155804 (OP)
She was legit the weakest part of the show.

>>149160205
I expected fake friend will drop you at the dime of a hat bitch. Like she’d push Anne against Sasha. I thought she’d put them against each other and steal the box. That was my guess with the season 2 intro. I was guessing Sasha was going to try and be genuine with Anne who would’ve pushed her away because of Marcy, than season 2 would end with all three girls being separated from each other and season 2 would be Anne getting them all back together only for a demon frog from the music box to try and end them all and they’d work together to beat it and head home. I honestly expected a more of a mean girls ending where they all went their separate ways, but not having any kind of bad blood anymore. Needless to say I was wrong and figured that out fast when we met Marcy.

>>149155804 (OP)
It wasn't because he "became enamored with her" it's because the VA they hired gave her a more upbeat and friendly energy and they felt mean Marcy would just be an inferior/redundant Sasha.

>Marcy really changed when the actor Haley Tju was introduced to the equation. Haley brought such a positive, energetic, lovable vibe to this character. I'll be honest, she was originally written a little more cold and calculating... but as we were casting and as we started writing and really getting into the characters, that felt like a little bit of a repeat of Sasha. It felt like, "Well, let's do something different. Let's really create a character who brings something new and exciting and bubbly to the group dynamic."

https://www.cbr.com/amphibia-matt-braly-interview/

>>149160338
nta. So it's bad that it turned out the way it did?

>>149160443
Never said it was bad, but overall I think Marcy could’ve been done better. They basically fridged her.

>>149157692
It would've just been a more blatant ripoff of Magic Knight Rayearth (two bitchy rich girls and an average normie girl)

nuMarcy was so annoying. The shtick where she reacts like she's watching a TV show, yelling out about the cliches that are happening, was fucking annoying.

>>149160582
To be fair that's how a lot of terminally online, nerdy kids particularly girls like her act nowadays, trying to be all quirky and funny

>>149160421
Sauce on that art?

>>149158927
This, but lovingly

>>149155804 (OP)
Trvke. Amphibia cut a lot of corners at the end. Sasha is still the best character and deserved better

>>149160582
Now you know why she was so desperate to keep her friends around, they were the only people who could tolerate her.

>>149160025
Sasha is the one to wear the flags and stuff, Marcy would be the lowkey bi girl who'd do the same stuff but wouldn't be posting it on her socials every June.

>>149161504
Sasha does it for social clout, Marcy does it for experiment what it's like but she is heterosexual at the of the day, pussy never does it for her like tall bear mode guys do

I could think of countless different ways you could have created a character that had traits of both. The biggest and easiest way to accomplish this is after Marcy feels like the 3rd wheel at her own sleepover and then on top of that is told by her parents that theyre moving away to a state that isnt a ghetto shithole like LA, Marcy gets the box, sucks all of them into Amphibia but what you change near the end of S2 is that before Sasha betrays the squad have it so Marcy realizes that all Amphibia went and accomplished for all 3 of them was expose how Sasha has no goals or prospects in life and her being able to easily conquest Amphibia because she can made her realize she can get away with this more then she could get away with anything close to this in the real world. Anne and Sasha fight, Anne wins, they make up and then Marcy crashes out because she's again the 3rd wheel in an entire outcome that was orchestrated by her. Going to Amphibia and growing as a group was a moment the 3 of them were suppose to cherish together but what it really exposed is that despite being Anne's first friend, Sasha is Anne's best friend. I know that might sound like how they were basically forcing characters like Cat-Ra and She-Ra together despite the fact that Cat-Ra was still clearly evil for most of the remainder of the series but being a bad person is literally what Sasha is known for.

Sasha is a privledged girl who expects the best out of life despite coming from a broken home. She likes Anne because she doesnt see Anne as a person she see's her as a prize the same way Cat-Ra does She-Ra. So when you do the mutual companionship between the two of them is when you fully pull the trigger on Marcy have her realize that her parents were right. She's way too smart to be friends with 2 complete doofus's like Anne and Sasha. This is when Marcy realizes she shouldnt just take over Amphibia she should take over their dimension as well.

Scrap the Aldrich plot entirely.

>>149158927
She deserves the dipstick.

>>149162208

You can literally hear the sound of Pacifica sharpening her knife right before Marcy opens the door to her house.

>>149162208
Nice try but that never happens.

>>149155804 (OP)
Marcy should be even more manipulative, stubborn and obsessed, specially when all the plan is revealed. She shouldn't have jumped in to save Sprig, she would have stayed in the tower trying to stop Andreas and Anne from fighting, and ultimately sacrificed herself by blocking an attack from Andreas.
When mindcontrolled by Andreas's father, a part of her would agree with the plan to control the universes, still thinking that a world controlled by the salamanders and with her friends together its much better than the Earth.

>>149162355

The overarching point of Amphibia is that escapism isnt healthy and that you shouldnt wanna live in the world of Amphibia when a wage slave job is waiting for you back home and that's exactly what happened to the 3 girls. Anne became a tour guide at the reptile exhibit at the LA zoo, Sasha is a social worker...woman notorious for almost committing genocide twice is teaching children from broken homes about morals and ethics and Marcy literally makes all her money whoring herself out on Twitch

Yeah maybe Marcy should have been evil

People like to shit on Marcy for sending her friends to Amphibia, but I think that Sasha needed to be humbled and go through pain. Think about it, Sasha was heading down a path which would’ve led her to become an even more abusive queen bee than she already was. If Marcy never discovered the box, Anne would’ve been the main victim of Sasha’s downward spiral as Marcy would move away with her parents, thereby leaving Anne alone with Sasha and all of the consequences that would bring. It wasn’t Marcy’s intention to punish Sasha, but I like to think that Marcy sending her to Amphibia was karmic justice for all of the years of mistreatment that Marcy, as well as her best friend, had suffered as a result of Sasha’s iron grip on the two.

>>149162454

Sasha was unironically one more absence away from complete expulsion and now she's a social worker despite not even having a GED

Weird comparison but, in Transformer 3 when Shia's character is out job hunting they dont make a big deal of Shia saving the earth twice because he was there just as the moral support to the autobots since they work for the government meaning Shia isnt getting a job for free despite being present and available in the 1st two movies

Same goes for the girls. Sasha doesnt deserve shit in fact if anything she wasnt punished nearly as bad as someone like Andrias was.

Marcy, sucking penis

>>149160567
Fuu wasn’t bitchy, she was reserved and polite.

>>149155928
Anne would be seen as having terrible taste in firmed and Marcy would've been a worrying, burgening sociopath.

>>149157331
Well in the end, Marcy is more of an actual villain because she masterminded a plan to strand her friends in another universe on purpose. Whereas Sasha is just a middle school bully.

>>149156151
That's kinda just Glad0s
kinda hot in a weird way

>>149158927
Where the image of a tumblr post calling the core scene a pg rape scene.

>>149155804 (OP)
I agree that it was a bad decision because it made Anne’s skewed views on friendship in the beginning not make as much sense since Marcy was implied to be a good friend prior to having her steal the music box.

Did Marcy have protentional that was wasted and if so how would you fix it?

>>149164421
I'd play up her disassociation with reality.

>>149164381
>>149160786
Crazy Darcy is strangely hot to me. Worryingly so

>>149164509
The good ending

>>149164381
And that is much more interesting than 2 Sashas.

>>149164531
This makes me a bit weak in the morals.

>>149164509
Why is she more attractive in that outfit?

>>149164679
because it accentuates her otherwise non-existent curves

>>149164729
Personally I find the crazed smile hot.

i miss when mangamaster used to make amphibia content
it was so kino

Any news on the comic or whatever it was?
I have the art book and I also have the diary.

>>149162500
I don’t recall the show saying anything about Sasha getting expelled, and did you watch the show? Sasha’s whole character arc is getting humbled and learning she’s not always right. People cry about Marcy all the time when she had the best time out of any of the girls in Amphibia. Yes she got impaled but before that she was living her best life, hell her VR prison was so much fun to her that she didn’t even question it until right before she was freed, and after that she got to have anime powers. The real victim is and always has been Anne. Fuck your Marcy stans, she’s a bitch that constantly put Anne in danger and was just as selfish as Sasha nobody liked your stupid movie the first 5 times you brought it Marcy why would anyone want to watch it 20 more times? Also Sasha did go through pain she led the resistance for months against the tyrant Marcy gave power too.

>>149163230
>>149163973
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>>149167000
Did Sasha and Marcy have problems at home?

>>149167000
I'm pretty sure there was some video showing the difference between the three
>Marcy gets teleported to a kingdom, immediately taken care of by royalty and has a close relationship with him
>Anne spends some time in the woods but finds a frog family
>Sasha gets imprisoned and had to fight her way to the top of the toad food chain

>>149164584
*Runs from her*

>>149167000

Anne's GPA is the result of her spending too much time with Sasha. When Anne tells the principal "I like when things are easy because theyre easy" it shows that she's been spending way too much time with Sasha who actively doesnt care about school because she hates going home and having to deal with her parents. As someone from a broken home this is a very valid reason most people stop giving a shit about school. The only reason Sasha goes to school is cheerleading and playing pranks she doesnt actually go to class.

>>149167485
>Where do you think you're going?!

>>149167000
Sasha deserved all the pain and suffering that Marcy put her through.

>>149164729
Plus, you know, full body armor is just cool

>>149167557
Too bad that there's no way to do sexually activates with that outfit.

>>149167514
Marcy could’ve been a positive influence on Anne academically, unfortunately Anne just had to befriend Sasha.

Hard l take. Seeing how cute and adorable marcy is, it would take a lot of redemption for her to go from being mean to being liked by the audience. Marcy instantly became a hit with the fans for being as kind and soft as she is and we already have sash for that rough aggressor character growth.

Marcy's feet on my face

I have this Au where they stay in Amphibia, Anne and Sasha get pregnant from Sprig and Grime respectively and then Marcy's Autistic Ass is like "Uh! Uh! I want in on that too!" And she gets herself artificially inseminated with Andrias baby, which she also modifies into a Newt/human cyborg. And Anne and Sasha are like "WTF is wrong with you Marcy?"

the worldbuilding made no sense, Neither Sasha nor Marcy were bitchy enough to make the theft look possible. Anne herself is nowhere near being the troubled kid hinted at first. That's why you should always write everything first, change of hearts only create mush

>>149168219

Sasha would 100% shoplift the box but it needed to be Anne since Sasha is the enabler who had to peer pressure Anne into doing it to live more on the wild side and Marcy goad'd this because she was desperate about the legend of the box being real.

How would you guys rewrite the show?

>>149168321

Have Anne realize the only real friends she ever had were the Planters and the people she met in Amphibia and Newtopia. Really lean into the idea that just because the 2 people you knew might have been your first friends but that does not mean theyre your best friends.

Marcy and Sasha have their own selfish agendas.

>>149168321
Completely replace the LA arc with more frog content. Bring back Percy and Braddock. Make Yunan and Olivia even gayer.

>>149168321
Have a three-way conflict with the girls. The show as it is has Anne and Sasha butting heads while Marcy is off to the side. It would’ve been more interesting if Marcy’s desire to keep her friends with her in Amphibia was integrated into Anne and Sasha’s existing feud.

>>149168341
But that exactly what happened, Anne forgot about the 2 betrayers the moment she went back home and told to everyone's faces how Sprig is her best friend

>>149168352

No. You were already getting plenty of frog content why do you think have of the season took place in LA? I wanted more scenes of Darcy and Andrias declaring war on the population.

>>149168369

They did this intentionally because Marcy is aggressively non confrontational and didnt know that Sasha and Anne had been attempting to kill each other since they got here since that completely defeats the purpose of this being a bonding moment.

>>149168413

She also did this again right after Marcy got stabbed. Dont even fucking get me started on all the logisitical stupidity that came from that scene of Anne writing what looked to be a ransom note and leaving it outside of Sasha's Mom and Marcy's Mom's houses.

>>149155804 (OP)
no, anon, not as mean as sasha, just pragmatic and "detached" from her friends, cold. Then Braly got hard because the va was cute and her performance made MArcy cute and he changed everything about her

>>149168459
Wouldn’t have been too hard to push Marcy over the edge, even she has her limits. If Anne and Sasha had found out earlier that she sent them to Amphibia, that creates the ideal situation for conflict.

>>149168441
>No. You were already getting plenty of frog content why do you think have of the season took place in LA?
Except for Anne's parents I don't give one half of two fucks about any human character introduced in S3. I watch the funny frog show for funny frogs.

>>149168413
Pretty sure neither of them would have the confidence.
>>149168471
Never understood why neither shasha's and Marcy's parents confront Anne.

>>149168515

And you got that...in LA. That was the whole point of why that half of the season was made.

>>149155804 (OP)
She is best girl (fact)

>>149168523

I dont understand why the hell they never show up in the show or why Marcy and Sasha's mom's didnt immediately beat their children after coming home because how dare they run away from home. Marcy especially now her parents are really moving away for real this time.

>>149168504

It would have been funny that Anne and Sasha have been killing each other since they got here which completely invalidates the reason Marcy sent them there and then Anne and Sasha "make up" and Marcy is still not a factor in this.

See the issue is they needed to make Marcy more like Jerry from Rick and Morty who refuses to understand that just because he's family doesnt mean anyone has to tolerate his existence in the house. That is Marcy. She's the 3rd friend but never the best friend.

>>149168580
Which is sad since she knew Anne first. Weird how Marcy never had a problem with that but maybe she just is that non-confrontational.

>>149168603

Its because Marcy is boring. Anne has her own hobbies and Sasha doesnt have a care in the world. Marcy leaned all in with Int so she's a turbo nerd which really doesnt bode well with how her career path at the end of the series was "twitch streamer"

She does tricks for money.

Twitch slut

>>149167514
Pure headcanon shit posing as gospel. We don't know anything about Sasha's home life besides the fact that her parents are divorced. And we really don't know much about her academic performance and, in any case, the principal certainly didn't seem all that concerned about her future prospects. Anne's apathy is unique to her, both as a result of her personality and the fact that Sasha likes to take the reins, not because she's following Sasha's example in that matter.
>>149167661
Marcy didn't give a shit about school either, she was just "naturally gifted" or something. I bet, if given the opportunity, she'd just casually do Anne's homework for her instead of challenging her to improve.

>>149169910
how successful would her channel be?

>>149170225

Her father is a deadbeat and her mother is emotionally abusive because she's the HR firm of a huge company. Its in Marcy's Journal.

>>149168532
LA is boring as fuck. Anne adapting to Wartwood is endearing, but the reverse does not apply; the Plantars are significantly more interesting on their home turf or in Newtopia.

>>149170342
The fuck are you smoking? It doesn't say that anywhere.

>>149170345

Look im not saying I dont agree with you considering how Anne lucked into the fact how Darcy really wasnt doing all that much in regards to how they couldnt actually re-open the portal back into Anne's dimension so they were killing time sending robots thru aggressively smaller portals to drag Anne back with no success.

>>149170385

Yes it does, there is even a picture of it.

This girl has sucked over 20 dicks before she is 15

>>149167618
I mean get some lube on the latex and the thighs can work well.

>>149167618
That suit is the sexual activity, Darcy has installed all kinds of plug and play stuff in there

>>149170345
>LA is boring as fuck
I always liked how all the flashbacks to the human world made Anne's life look mundane as fuck.

>>149167514
You know you get cut from cheerleading if you’re failing right? Same with sports like tennis. I know we like the 2 Int Anne jokes but she had to be at least a C student.

>>149170399
Post the page.

Need Mar-Mar gf

Made for rape

PUTA

>>149172652
Is this a reference?

>>149175197
Wow, how new are you, 2 years?