Marvin

Info: Marvin Marvin (formerly Mario Mario) is one of the main characters of the SML series. He is a middle-aged former adventurer and plumber and is the husband of Rose (formerly known as Rosalina), the adoptive father of Jeffy and Tony the Tiger, and the older twin brother of Luis (formerly known as Luigi) and Mama Luigi.

Marvin currently lives in Pensacola, Florida with his wife Rose, his adoptive son Jeffy, his friend/former rival Braxton (formerly known as Bowser), and his family plus Chef Pee Pee, the latter most of whom he shares the ownership of his current house with. He is a moody and perpetually unlucky version of his Nintendo counterpart who would love to live out his retirement in peace, but frequently finds himself at the helms of misfortune, from mischief at the hands of his adopted son Jeffy, relationship problems with Rose, and the struggles to pay off house payments to his and Braxton's landlord and archenemy, Mr. Goodman.

Personality: Marvin is a kind, intelligent, slightly-angered, but overall good person. He is one of the few SML characters who is made as the titular straight man, rather than made solely for laughs. Marvin's personality has grown overtime throughout the years.

Marvin is a responsible man, owning a house while supporting Duggie, Shrek, Mama Luigi (before he moved away), Woody, Tony the Tiger, Mr. Pig, Lil' T, Jeffy, Rose, Braxton, Junior, Chef Pee Pee, and temporarily, the Angry Birds before kicking them out.

As described on the original SML website in the 2010 version, Marvin is not portrayed as a funny or a comedic character himself, but mostly portrayed as a strict and stern character who just wants everything to always be normal. Most of the humor of Marvin's character comes from his reactions to his friends’ antics, rather than from his own behavior.

He is rather clever, being able to trick Braxton into letting him and his family move in with him. He also outsmarted him by finding out he put poison into his food.

Unlike most of the characters, he is one of the smartest and least stupid, along with Chef Pee Pee, Luis, Cody, and Penelope. He's the generic guy stuck in a house of morons and weirdos. However, despite mostly being pretty intelligent, he and Brooklyn T. Guy are often not very smart most likely due to their age. He is often shown to be very predictable, and he often states "1942" as an answer to some history questions about when an event occurred.

At times, he is shown to be as the idiot father cliché as he thought his grandfather was Jeffy because he had Jeffy's shirt on in "Jeffy Skips School!", and Brooklyn T. Guy said that in the next video Marvin will get eye surgery, but that never happened. However, this could possibly be attributed to his short height rather than his intelligence. In "Jeffy Gets Chicken Pox!", he thought that Jeffy turned into a chicken.

Marvin is also sometimes a bit of a pushover, letting people like Duggie and Shrek live with him when they drive him crazy, even though he could kick them out. In "Mario's Family Moves Out!", he admits that he doesn't know why Shrek, Duggie, Tony, Woody, and Toad live with him, showing that he doesn't really care about them.

When dealing with people's stupidity and recklessness, Marvin can get extremely erratic, violent and hot-headed. His anger has grown overtime because of the introduction of Jeffy, and the creation of the Human Puppets. He stands as the voice of reason in the house and often acts as a foil to people like Braxton, Mama Luigi, Black Yoshi and Tony.

Marvin has been shown to be depressed, such as in "Mario's Beautiful Date!", where he not only tries to kill himself due to having no one to love, but also constantly asking if the woman was attractive as his main concern, not thanking Braxton or Duggie or even Brooklyn Guy for getting him a "girl".

Marvin can also be pretty pretentious, for example, in "Mario's Christmas Tree Problem!", he, Brooklyn T. Guy, Simmons, and Karen tried to steal a Christmas tree just so he can impress Rose. In "Mario's Thanksgiving Problem!", he asked Braxton to steal a turkey from some house so he can impress Rose. He even kept Rose tied up just so she won’t run away.

Marvin has some form of PTSD over turtles, which was revealed in "Mario's Turtle Problem!" and "Jeffy Goes To The Zoo!". This is because of his past adventures with turtles involved.

Marvin has three flaws. His first one from 2011-2015 is that he's a pervert and a stalker towards women, as he kept whining about and stalking Peach, due to his loneliness. He even slept with Peach's thong. However, Marvin's loneliness and misery status finally came to an end when he and Rose met after Peach got a restraining order against him.

A second flaw of Marvin's is that he tends to get jealous when Rose pays attention to someone other than him, such as D-Money, Jeffy, Shrek, or her turtle. He has a very large dislike for Rose's exes and even considers divorcing her over them.

Marvin's third flaw is that he is shown to be greedy, selfish and extremely cold-hearted and cares less about others at times. Like in "Rich Mario!", where he sells Goodman's gold bars to get expensive stuff, and in "Mario Sells Jeffy!", where he sells Jeffy to Goodman to get $10 million, but Goodman returned Jeffy to him and reported the money as fraud. In "Jeffy's Paper Shredder!", he quickly becomes corrupted when wins the lottery $350 million and he is happy that he doesn't need Shrek, Duggie, Jeffy, or anyone else in that matter.

Marvin also complains and throws temper tantrums about little things, such as having to climb up three flights of stairs to get to the apartment in "The Warp Pipe!". He is also shown to be ungrateful sometimes. He can also be tempted into doing something he shouldn't, as he killed Rose's pet turtle, which she adored.

Marvin is also shown to be nice and generous, however, since 2016, he has been developing a cruel and uncaring side. He tried to abandon Jeffy at the park in "Where's Jeffy?", however he only does it from torture of him and in "Mario's Turtle Problem!", where he brutally kills Pee-Wee by setting him on fire and bashing him into a wall, causing him to crumble to bits (although the latter is due to trauma).

There were a few times where it's implied that Marvin has some prejudice towards African Americans just like Braxton. In "Rosalina's Ex-Boyfriend!", he meets D-Money, and he was shocked by the fact he's black. In "Jeffy Gets Glasses!", Jeffy brings up an event where he and Marvin had been driving through a predominantly black neighborhood and Marvin locked the doors and rolled up the windows. Marvin tries to deny it by lying about it being too sunny outside.

Marvin also has a cowardly side. In "Jeffy's New Toy!", he becomes extremely frightened by the electricity going out, whimpering and insisting that he needed a flashlight. In "The Secret Door!", he tries to avoid going in the secret door after Jeffy screamed going inside of it.

Marvin is shown to be both a good and bad father to Jeffy. He truly gets concerned about Jeffy's well-being, teaches Jeffy lessons when he misbehaves, and cannot live without Jeffy. However, Marvin tends to scolds Jeffy for minor things, can be hypocritical towards him, and wanted him dead prior to "Jeffy's Parents!".

Despite all of his negative personality traits, he is also shown to sometimes have a kind, warm heart and shown to be a better person, as is shown in "Jeffy's Parents!", where he agreed to adopt Jeffy because he felt sorry for him, and he lets Jeffy play his cat piano to his heart's content after that and in the end of "Jeffy Plays Minecraft!", where he talks to himself that he needs to learn to be a better parent and spends his time with Jeffy (even though he keeps struggling with him). But until "Jeffy's YouTube Channel!" and since, he’s shown to sometimes use Jeffy for his own personal greed. He could have possibly adopted Jeffy just to claim his one-million dollars. During "Jeffy's 16th Birthday!", he said "Just two more years and we get that money!", possibly revealing that he dislikes Jeffy, and broke his trust on being a good parent and just adopted him for money rather than being his caretaker. This was shown in "Jeffy's 18th Birthday!", where he set up a fake birthday party with empty presents and balloons just to make the party look real and get it done and dusted before he gets his money. After Jacques Pierre François (Jeffy's old father) reveals he faked his death so his paintings would be worth more money, he got really angry and then told Rose he would wrap up his birthday party and kick Jeffy out the house because he realized he wasn't getting any money. He thought Jeffy would share him some money as an apology for breaking things and causing trouble over the years. He still realized he loved Jeffy in the end and that the money didn't matter.

As of today, he continues to try to be a better father but does sometimes revert back to his selfish and greedy ways. Sometimes, he knows when not to be greedy, such as in "The Broken Crown!", when Brooklyn Guy sold Jackie Chu's family crown for money, Marvin didn't feel comfortable about what they did and returned the money to Jackie Chu after he found out about his family crown being sold.

Physical Appearance: His current puppet form boasts a somewhat similar design in a few superficial aspects but has several noticeable differences. Compared to his plush, his puppet form appears to be slightly taller and more clearly middle-aged with pronounced sags below his eyes, and a more visible bald spot. He also lacks a cap and gloves, wears blue trousers instead of overalls, and his red shirt is now short sleeved and paired with a blue work tie. His mustache used to be the right way, but it's now upside down.

Abilities/Superpowers: Fourth Wall Break: Standard to most characters, Marvin has shown the capability of breaking the fourth wall from time to time. In Happy Merry Christmas!, Marvin states that Jeffy was in 2 of his most disliked videos that year. And in Fat Jeffy, Brooklyn T. Guy proved to Marvin and Jeffy that they could float because they were held by hands and Brooklyn T. Guy is a puppet. Levitation: As seen in Fat Jeffy, Marvin has the ability to float. After Brooklyn Guy tells him he can float, Marvin is able to do it. Power-ups: Back when Marvin was Mario, he had the ability to use different power-ups from his games. He has used red mushrooms, 1-up mushrooms, fire flowers, mega mushrooms, wing cap and more. Although after the cease and desist from Nintendo, he has currently lost access of using most the power-ups, even though his brother didn't. Super Strength: He wrestled Brooklyn T. Guy in The Diamond! from the second floor to the front door. He kicked a burnt turtle so hard into a wall that it shattered into pieces in Mario's Turtle Problem!, and he has even had the strength to drag and beat Jeffy who is one of the strongest characters in SML, but it's possible that Jeffy is holding back. He's also able to carry Jeffy with ease shown in Jeffy's YES Day! where he threw and dunked Jeffy into a basketball hoop multiple times, despite Jeffy being much larger than him. Super Durability: Marvin has taken and survived a lot of beatings and injuries. He's fallen off the roof, been striked by Jeffy with a bat, had a door fall on him, got punched multiple times by D-Money and was still able to stand up (which D-Money stated no one has ever gotten back up on him after a fight), been bashed multiple times by Jeffy with a medieval hammer, which Jeffy was able to knock down Chef Pee Pee with just one hit, and he's been beaten up multiple times. Regenerative Healing Factor: Marvin has a great regenerative factor, shown as he quickly recovers from his many beatings throughout the series. He healed from getting shot in the leg by Brooklyn Guy in just a couple seconds (but it could just be that he has a good pain tolerance).