Meggy

Meggy Spletzer is one of the two deuteragonists (alongside Luigi) of the SMG4 series, and the main protagonist of her own spin-off series, Sunset Paradise.

She is a highly competitive athlete in SMG4's Gang who protects herself and her friends from danger. Originally a citizen of Inkopolis, Meggy was obsessed with winning Splatfest, the top Inkling sports competition. Although she started on poor terms with Mario when she escaped from a paint can she was trapped in, they quickly became good friends when he participated in Splatfest with her. As of SMG4: Meggy Moves In, she has moved into the Mushroom Kingdom, now residing in Belmont, Mushroom City, joining SMG4's Gang as one of its most competent and level-headed members. Meggy also played a central role in the Anime Arc.

The arc ended with her being transformed into a human by The Ink Zuccer 2000, affecting her appearance in all subsequent episodes. For the next few episodes after her forced transformation to a human, Meggy practiced for the final Splatfest to honor Desti, while finding difficulty in being human in SMG4 Movie: Meggy's Destiny. Eventually, she and her Splat Squad successfully defeated Team Killer Ink, finally earning the trophy.

Due to the events in SMG4: War Of The Fat Italians 2020, her Inkling voice was changed, now being voiced by Lizzie Freeman (from 2020 to the 1st half of 2022) and later Elsie Lovelock (as of SMG4: DO NOT ENTER), affecting her voice in all subsequent episodes. In Season 10, while still a major character, her roles and appearances slightly decreased due to the presence of new characters, like Hal Monitor and JubJub Boopkins, and older returning characters, like SMG3 and Steve, but her appearances have increased since November after SMG4: Cooking with Mario & Bowser: World Tour. In My New Adventure., Meggy temporarily left the gang in Season 11 to vacation in Port Aurora to figure out what to do next in life.

This makes Meggy the first character in the SMG4 series to receive a proper spin-off series, as Tari was initially created as a teaser for Meta Runner before its release. She later returned to the gang in the episode She's Back! and had decided on becoming a PE teacher.

In Season 12, Meggy and Melony enrolled themselves into Omnia Academy, while she played an assisting role with the SMG4 Crew in the Cosmology Lore saga. Afterwards, she and SMG4 starred as the main protagonists in The Lawsuit Arc, involving Nintendo taking legal action against SMG4's content and channel with Meggy as SMG4's lawyer.

In SMG4: Grand Theft Mario, she officially became a sport coach after graduating from Omnia Academy. Tari, hoping to become braver, became her first student.

Following Western Spaghetti, she received a decrease in appearances, with SMG3 taking her place as one of the focuses of the series, as a leadup to WOTFI 2023.

Roles

She serves as the deuteragonist of the modern era. She is the tritagonist of Seasons 7 & 8, a major character in The Waluigi Arc, a supporting character in The Rapper Bob Arc, the main protagonist of Season 9 and The Anime Arc, the titular main protagonist of SMG4 Movie: Meggy's Destiny: An SMG4 Movie, a major character in Season 10, The YouTube Arc and Season 11, a cameo character in SMG4 Movie: 10th Anniversary Special and a major character in The Genesis Arc, the tritagonist of Season 12, a major character in The Revelations Arc, the tritagonist of The Lawsuit Arc, the deuteragonist of Season 13, the tritagonist of SMG4 Movie: IT'S GOTTA BE PERFECT, one of the two main protagonists (alongside Tari) of SMG4 Movie: WESTERN SPAGHETTI, one of three tritagonists in Season 14 and PUZZLEVISION (alongside with Tari and Luigi). Biography

Meggy is a female human, formerly an Inkling, who originates from Inkopolis. She is an active competitor in local Turf War battles and dreams of becoming a successful athlete. As such, she refers to herself as an "upcoming star." For that, she tries too hard and gets into lots of fiascoes when trying to be too competitive.

Sometime prior to SMG4: If Mario Was In... Splatoon in Inkopolis, a Splatfest battle took place between a squad and the legendary One Shot Wren, who splatted them. Watching from the grandstand, a toddler Meggy Spletzer rushed to meet him, only to be unknowingly saved when Wren kicked an Inkling who was about to splat him. Impressed by her bravery, he gave her his beanie, and telling her that she would be champion one day. This inspired the toddler Meggy to become just like him.

One day, Meggy was jumping around in her Inkling form and mistakenly jumped inside a orange paint can that was taken away by the Mushroom Kingdom Paint transfer co. while completely unaware, and eventually freed by Mario. Later, she dragged him into Inkopolis, where Mario joined her team, the Splat Squad to participate in the Turf War.

From that day forward, Meggy has appeared in many episodes, often now residing in the Mushroom Kingdom and hanging out more with Mario, SMG4 and Co; and has thus become a recurring major protagonist. By the events of The Anime Arc she was kidnapped by Francis and reconciled with her Octoling rival Desti, who was later killed by Sephiroth. At the end of The Anime Arc, Meggy was transformed from an Inkling into a human after getting all of her ink extracted by The Ink Zuccer 2000.

After she confronted all her trauma and grief, Meggy competed and won the last Splatfest to honor Desti, while learning the difficulties in being human. During the events WOTFI 2020, her Inkling vocals and accent changed by the YouTube Remote, courtesy of SMG3. She later suffers a existential crisis and decided going on a vacation to Port Aurora. She then returned back to the Mushroom Kingdom from vacation and has decided on becoming a PE teacher.

Meggy and Melony enrolled themselves to Omnia Academy, where they could further their studies in their preferred skills. Melony had already graduated after she mastered her Fierce Deity powers, while Meggy stated she'll also later graduate shortly after.

Afterwards, in The Lawsuit Arc, Funky Kong working on Nintendo's behalf as lawyer, issuing a copyright violation lawsuit against SMG4 to re-obtain her friend Mario. Later, SMG4 then stands for trial, with Meggy being the defendant's lawyer-in-training; and the court deemed SMG4's verdict not guilty, and his channel is saved.

After the events in SMG4 Movie: IT'S GOTTA BE PERFECT, she graduates from her studies and Tari became Meggy’s first student as she finally found her purpose as a Coach.

She later learns of her former idol’s whereabouts, and insists traveling there.

As an Inkling girl, Meggy has long orange tentacles, orange ink color, light skin, and pink/purple eyes (in her debut appearance, her eyes were green). Unlike other Inklings, she usually wears three pieces of head equipment as opposed to only one. They are the Studio Headphones, Pilot Goggles and the Short Beanie.

The rest of her gear set contains the Zink Layered LS and the Octoling Boots. The Studio Headphones is the only gear piece that appears to be retained throughout her other appearances where she wears different gear sets, although it has been removed once in SMG4: War Of The Fat Italians 2018 because of Mario. She usually uses the Splattershot, specifically the design from the original Splatoon, as her weapon of choice. However, she is shown using multiple main, sub and special ink weapons as well, the majority of which also comes from the original Splatoon.

Her overall design is now more saturated and vibrant. The goggles on her head don't have holes anymore and instead have evenly-spaced squares. Her headphones now have a black headband. Her sleeves and compression shorts are now black and her boots are a lighter shade of brown. Her hair, eyebrows and skin is also slightly lighter and more detailed, her freckles are less visible, and her eyes have pink highlights instead of red. Her eyelashes are now black instead of grey.

Her beanie and headphones have been worn by Mario in SMG4: Mario And The T-Pose Virus, Bob Bobowski in SMG4: The Splatfest Incident, Siren Head in SMG4: Mario VS Siren Head, and JubJub Boopkins in SMG4: Meggy's Part-Time Job.

Meggy is a jock who enjoys playing sports and going on adventures with Mario and the others. Her main sport of interest being a Turf War, in which her goal is to become the top athlete. She is very competitive as she is willing to take on any challenge that is thrown at her and also has a thirst for victory. An example is in The Mario Channel: MARIO'S CHALLENGE as she seems to care about winning than about the actual prize Mario is offering. She also wanted to win the Splatfest as she was focused on training for it hard and is determined on winning it as she finally gets to do in SMG4 Movie: Meggy's Destiny. She also seems to really like winning challenges as she tries her hardest to try to win them. She also appears to have a strong sense of justice as she graduated as a lawyer in university, and has a desire to fight crime after winning Splatfest.

She is brave, independent, level headed, competitive, enthusiastic, determined, caring, friendly, spunky, energetic, confident, competent, and smart.

Meggy is typically smarter than most characters and is typically levelheaded. An example being SMG4: Mario University where she is the only one who didn't go to university for money and instead thought of a job. Later, when she has to defend Mario because he is blamed for messing up the university, she suspected the flaws in Waluigi's tape, and managed to get the fact that the shady person threw away the spaghetti and managed to find out SMG4 ate the food, and doesn't go after SMG4, unlike the others. Another example being SMG4: The Mario Mafia, where she is unimpressed at Mario revealing he sprayed "pingas" at Bowser's car, only asking him "Really, Mario? Pingas?". SMG4: Final Fantasy Mario reveals her to be a quick thinker as well, as she uses SMG4 and Mario's powers to defeat Saiko. In SMG4: Smart Mario, where she, along with Luigi and Tari, simply tried to talk to Mario instead of beating him up like SMG4, Bob, and everyone else in the crowd. Another example being SMG4: Little Penguin Lost where she chastises Mario for kicking the penguin, and tells Mario before going the hill, that it's too dangerous, but Mario refused to listen and did so anyway.

However, just like every character she has a retarded side and can be trigger-happy, as shown in SMG4: Final Fantasy Mario where she goes trigger-happy when she sees Bob with a target on his t-shirt, eventually losing her sanity and shot it a lot of times. This action eventually gets her, Mario, and SMG4 noticed. Another example is in SMG4: Mario and the Bob Mansion... where she goes trigger-happy again when Bowser says the word "paint", causing her to go crazy yet again and throw a lot of ink bombs and paint all over the kitchen trying to paint the turkey as Bowser instructed, while Bowser is looking at her annoyed, eventually sending the kitchen and later the entire mansion on fire (albeit accidentally). In SMG4: Studying for Exams...But you're friends with Mario, this retarded side is also shown as she drank a bunch of energy drinks and learn through the night, thanks to her stressing out over the exam. If Meggy had been smarter, she would not have done that and taken more care of her sanity and slept.

Meggy is also very determined as she never gives up on her dreams and goals. She never gave up on winning Splatfest and was persistent on winning one. Desti notes that this is why she picked Meggy as her rival. Whenever she gets knocked down, she will always get back up.

However, she can go overboard over her Splatfest training, showing her to be over competitive. For example, in SMG4: If Mario Was In... Splatoon 2 after she met Desti for the first time, she wanted to train extra harder. Mario was reluctant to do so, but she was persistent in doing so. After getting into a huge fight with him, she became sad and said that if Mario wouldn't take Splatfest seriously just like her, then he can go leave. Another example is in SMG4: Meggy's Bootcamp where this is taken to the extremes unlike last time. She had a harsh, strict, and bossy mentor-like personality in the first few minutes. She set up hard training obstacles and yelled at her friends for not trying. She does apologize for this behavior, however.

Meggy can have a stubborn side to her too, most prominently in SMG4 Movie: Meggy's Destiny where she refuses the Ink Boi 3000, Professor E. Gadd gave her as a way to compensate for her human form. Due to thinking she doesn't need it, this has almost caused her to lose the Splatfest. Throughout the movie, she refuses to accept the fact that she needed the Ink Boi, even when others like Mario tell her to do so. She even throws the Ink Boi in the trash just because she thinks she doesn't need it. However, she grew out of it after making peace with her Inkling self. Another example being SMG4: Mario And... The Well, where Mario asks her about when she got the truck (she took it from Swagmaster6969696969, in which Swagmaster stole the fire truck from the government). Meggy refused to answer, lying about herself always being a firefighter, until Saiko Bichitaru bluntly tells them they stole it, in response, Meggy stomped her foot on top of the firetruck, saying that they "borrowed" it.

Meggy can also be helpful and loyal as she is willing to and tries to help her friends in any way, proving her to be a formidable opponent. She also tends to help Mario when he needs a lawyer or to get him out of trouble. This is shown in SMG4: Mario's Big Chungus Hunt where she tries to get the Chungus Tribe to not eat Mario, it eventually succeeds, but Mario is not grateful and sticks the middle finger at her instead.

Meggy appears to be aware of her own abilities and seems to have knack of taunting anyone who believes she's cheating although she isn't, usually by making taunting gestures. An example is in The Mario Channel: MARIO'S CHALLENGE where she shoots the bullseye and succeeds, thus earning a pass. This annoys Heavy to the point of trying to shoot the target multiple times only to get disqualified shortly afterwards. She does seem to enjoy stupidity-based jokes as she finds Mario's stupidity to be hilarious.

Despite usually enjoying his stupidity, she is usually more critical/acts aggressively when a situation is serious. As shown in SMG4: The Mario Mafia, where she was the only one to not laugh at Mario after he claimed he sprayed Bowser's car with the word "Pingas" on it, only saying "Seriously, Mario?! Pingas?" This is also shown in SMG4: Mario and The Diss Track, where she glares at Mario twice when he suggests to hit Bob with a baseball bat after dissing the gang. This is also shown in SMG4: Little Penguin Lost, where she angrily yells at Mario after he ordered pizza instead of calling for help. This side of hers is more prominent in SMG4: Studying for Exams...But you're friends with Mario, where throughout the entire episode, she rages at Mario whenever he interrupts her studying, and sees Mario as a districation, constantly getting angry at everything he does. This is also shown through its sequel episode, SMG4: Mario Goes To College, where Mario annoys her and everyone else throughout the episode with the Box Club, and it is more prevalent where while her training someone, he knocks down the person, and tells her to join the Box Club, Meggy is shown to be angered by this, and throws him to a trash can outside. Also shown in SMG4: If Mario Was Spiderman, where she rages in the background during one of the scenes where Mario acts like Spiderman.

Meggy also tends to feel sorry whenever she offends somebody/or is too strict to someone. An example being SMG4: If Mario Was In... Splatoon 2 where she trains for Splatfest with Mario harshly, and after Mario said "F-fine. I didn’t want to do this stupid crap anyways." She likely got really emotional, and after finding Mario, she says "Mario! I've been looking everywhere for you!" meaning she tried to find Mario desperately afterwards. Then right after Mario leaves, Meggy is desperate to ask Mario if he was going to stay on her team, from which both walk away to get lunch, showing her to get really concerned about losing Mario as a friend. An example is in SMG4: Meggy's Bootcamp where she harshly yells at her friends for failing the training for Splatfest, only to feel remorse afterwards when she realizes that she was being too harsh on them. She heartly apologizes to them for being "mean" to them and that winning Splatfest won't be important to her when she loses her friends along the way. This causes her to train her teammates with easier courses and a more friendly and supportive attitude. SMG4: Officer Meggy shows a somewhat inverted variation. She does show a dis AMOGUS!!!!! gust for Hal Monitor's ways to punish criminals (torture for example) and thinking it would be too far. Later on however, she is easily convinced by Hal Monitor that there's nothing wrong with that because it's "for justice". Overall, she does seem to a bit more willing to dialogue with criminals and is less prone to physical violence than him. For example, when she confronts the Shy Guy Leader on why he stole a bunch of monitors before taking action to arrest him, instead of just immediately giving out a punishment without further ado. However, in Sunset Paradise it is shown that she is more than likely to resort to violence when someone ticks her off. Another example is in SMG4: Meggy's Part-Time Job where she gets mad at JubJub Boopkins for being naughty and catching him in a cage, but then feels remorse for it due to her lack of babysitting experience.

Meggy can have an aggressive side at times, an example being SMG4 Christmas 2017: The XMAS Discovery where she becomes enraged at the realization that she had been scammed. Then Waluigi pops in front of her, and she uppercuts him to the roof. Wario gets scared and tries to run away, but she tries to catch him by using Christmas stars as shurikens in which he dodges. Later on, however Mario thought Wario was Santa Claus and catches him, causing Meggy to tie him up under a tunnel (off-screen). Another example being in SMG4: Food Wars where she tries to attack Mario by using a chainsaw because he knocked the candy off the ground. Another example being SMG4 Christmas Special 2020 where she becomes extremely angry at Fishy Boopkins and tries to burn his anime collection replacing it with normal Christmas decorations instead, Boopkins tries to fight back with using anime instead, in which they have a fight over which decoration is better, with both realizing they went too far and deciding to use both instead. this side is further shown in the revelations arc, when she becomes agitated my Mario's antics and subsequently attacks him.

Meggy seems to have an insecure and sensitive side to her, as she hates losing and loses her confidence whenever her best efforts fail or prove to not be good enough, however she seems to gain back her confidence fairly quickly thanks to Mario's confusing but well-intentioned advice.

Her sensitive side shows more in The Anime Arc where in SMG4: Meggy's Bootcamp where she cries and calls herself a failure and a disappointment and claims to be "losing sight of who she is" before bursting into tears. Like with the first instance above, Mario comforts her. In SMG4: Final Hours where she cries again where she believes that Desti died because of her and if she had been a little faster or a little better then she wouldn't have died. She then proceeds to cry afterwards, and her friends comfort her.

She became even more insecure to the point of having a self-loathing for herself, due to events such as Desti's death, her becoming a human, and her not being able to find a job she's good at, to the point where it created Shadow Meggy.

Outside of The Anime Arc, she shows this. Where, in SMG4: There's Something Up With Meggy... she goes crazy after Desti's death and proceeds to cry silently and says that she has no motivation to train. In SMG4 Movie: Meggy's Destiny she seems to be really insecure about Splatfest and cries heavily whenever she believed she lost Splatfest. Axol then proceeds to comfort her and says that it's okay and to have fun. Later on, when the Squid Sisters notify her that the other team was cheating, she gains her confidence back.

It returned a year later in SMG4: Mario VS Youtubers where Mario refuses to let her be her boxing coach, she becomes disheartened about it, and spends the entire episode trying to get him to accept her training. In the very next episode, SMG4: The Pursuit of Happiness where she becomes depressed even more after failing at all of her jobs. After receiving a ticket from SMG4 and crew, she gains back her confidence and takes a vacation, kickstarting Sunset Paradise.