Wet Bandits

Origin: Home Alone. Occupations: Burglars. Powers/Skills: Burglary, Stealth, Incredible durability, Street knowledge, Cunning, (Harry only) Intelligence. (Harry only)

Goals: Outwit and defeat Kevin McCallister (primary goal). Steal as much as they can from five houses (Home Alone). Rob Duncan's Toy Chest of its charity money (Home Alone 2; all failed).

Marv's goals in Home Alone 4: Kidnap a prince and get revenge on Kevin (failed).

Harold "Harry" Lyme and Marvin "Marv" Murchins, also known as the Wet Bandits, and later the Sticky Bandits, or simply known as Harry and Marv, are the main antagonists of the 1990 Christmas comedy film Home Alone and its 1992 sequel Home Alone 2: Lost in New York. Marv later returns as one of the two secondary antagonists (alongside his wife, Vera) of Home Alone 4: Taking Back the House.

They are a duo of incompetent burglars who target rich and renovated houses, and later a toy store called Duncan's Toy Chest. They are the archenemies of Kevin McCallister.

Harry was portrayed by Joe Pesci, who also portrayed Tommy DeVito in Goodfellas, Nicky Santoro in Casino, and Russell Bufalino in The Irishman.

Marv was portrayed by Daniel Stern in the first two films, and by French Stewart in the fourth film.

Harry and Marv are rather greedy, as money is the reason behind their robberies. However, they are also quite dimwitted and naïve, as throughout both films, they greatly underestimate Kevin McCallister, who they see as nothing but an incompetent and helpless child who cannot do anything, but they are proven wrong both times after falling victim to his many traps. Despite their incompetence, they display ferocious determination in their pursuit of Kevin and prove to be quite dangerous when he is at their mercy, as they intend to torture him in the first film and outright attempt to murder him in the second.

Individually, while both bandits are rather bumbling as a whole, Harry serves as the brains of their team, as he plans out their schemes. Despite this, he is still far from the most intelligent, as his notably short temper tends to cloud his judgement, which results in him not thinking things through, not to mention the fact that he never made it to sixth grade. Even though he prefers to talk his way out of situations, he has no trouble resorting to violence if he finds it necessary or gets angry enough. Although he is friends and gets along with Marv, he often gets annoyed by the latter's incompetence.

As a burglar, Harry is more professional than Marv, as he arranges the thefts, cases the joints, and has the say on what actions to take. However, while he attempts to keep more of a low profile and subtle style than Marv, he is not much better than the latter, as he is happy to cause destruction and ham-fistedly gram items as quickly as he can.

On the other hand, Marv serves as the duo's lackey. He is rather cowardly and has a tendency to scream hysterically when he becomes frightened. He is also quite gullible, as he falls for Kevin's antics more easily than Harry. With that being said, there are instances where he thinks things through better than Harry. In the first film, he was repulsed by Harry's plan to rob the McCallister house even with Kevin inside and was hesitant about pursuing Kevin to his tree house via rope. In the second film, following an unsuccessful pursuit of Kevin, he is the one to point out that Kevin is in unfamiliar and potentially dangerous territory and successfully convince Harry to focus on their original goals, and when they recapture Kevin in Central Park, he suggests that they leave upon noticing all of the pigeons. Despite all of this, he can be just as ruthless as his partner when angered, as he became just as willing to harm Kevin after being put through all of his traps, even declaring that he will kill the child on one occasion in each film when the traps get too antagonizing.

As a burglar, Marv is rather inelegant, as in the first film, he does not even try to be subtle while robbing items from the houses that he and Harry break into, though he still attempts to be "one of the great ones" by flooding the houses and thus creating the duo's name and moniker, but this leads to their undoing, as it results in the police discovering which houses have been robbed by them. In the second film, he appears to have developed more finesse, as their are several instances where he effortlessly steals items from the public without them knowing. Even so, his overall burglaring technique has not improved, as during his and Harry's heist of Duncan's Toy Chest, he clumsily grabs armfuls of cash and shoves them into his bag while letting several bills fall out as he does so.

Biography Home Alone Harry and Marv Escaped Harry and Marv on a wanted poster. Harry and Marv target houses whose inhabitants are on vacation for Christmas. Harry impersonates a police officer to find out which houses' residents will be leaving. While robbing the houses, Marv tends to leave the water running and block the sinks, leading to the houses being flooded and the real officers knowing which houses they have broken into. Harry is repulsed by this act, calling it "sick" and reminding Marv that they need to keep a low profile, but Marv insists that they need a calling card because "all the great ones leave their mark". However, their primary target is the McCallister house, which is the largest property in the neighborhood and referred to by Harry as the "silver tuna".

However, eight-year-old child Kevin McCallister is home alone due to having been mistakenly left behind while the rest of his family went to Paris. He manages to prevent Harry and Marv from breaking into the house multiple times, but on Christmas Eve, they finally discover that he is alone and they have been tricked the entire time. Although Marv is slightly unsure about breaking into a house with only a child in it, Harry still persists with the robbery, declaring that the McCallister house is the sole reason they ended up robbing the neighborhood in the first place. Kevin overhears them discussing plans to break into the house that night, and so to defend both himself and the house, he rigs it with handmade booby traps. At 9:00 PM, Harry and Marv return to the house and attempt to manipulate Kevin into letting them in via the back door, but following the first trap that they experience in the list below, they split up and separately attempt to enter the house, springing the traps and suffering various injuries, including:

As they attempt to convince Kevin to let them in through the back door, he sticks a BB gun out through the dog flap and shoots Harry in the crotch. Marv sticks his head through the flap to see what happened and gets shot in the forehead. Harry slips on the ice-covered stairs leading to the front door, while Marv does the same on the ones leading to the basement, which are also coated with ice. After finally gaining his footing, Marv enters the basement and tugs on a light switch near the laundry chute, which is attached to an iron that falls down the chute and hits him on the face, leaving it with a mark in the shape of an iron. After finally managing to climb the stairs and reach the front door, Harry places his right hand on the doorknob, which has an electric barbecue starter on the other side, resulting in his hand getting severely burned, and although he cools it off in the snow near the stairs, it inflicts a permanent scar in the shape of an "M". Marv loses his shoes and socks as he climbs the tar-covered steps in the basement, one of which has a nail that he steps on. Harry returns to the back door to enter the house, but as he enters, a blowtorch sets his head on fire, which he puts out in the snow, melting his hat. After finally entering the house, Harry walks into a glue-covered plastic wrap just before a fan blasts feathers all over him. Marv abandons the basement entrance and instead uses a window to enter the house, only to step on several glass-made Christmas ornaments upon entering. After rejoining, they both slip on several micro machines that are placed near the stairs. As they attempt to pursue Kevin upstairs, he throws down a paint can. Harry dodges it, but it smacks Marv in the face, knocking him back down to the floor. Before Harry can pursue Kevin, the child throws down another paint can that hits him in the face, which not only knocks him back down to the floor, but also knocks out his gold tooth. As they pursue Kevin upstairs, Harry trips over a wire, briefly knocking him unconscious. Marv dodges the trap and grabs Kevin's leg, but Kevin spots his brother Buzz's pet spider, which he places on Marv's face, making him scream in horror, release Kevin, and throw it onto Harry. Marv then attempts to kill the spider with his crowbar, only for it to crawl away at the last second, causing him to instead hit Harry in the chest by accident, angering the latter and prompting him to hit Marv's left arm with the crowbar. As they attempt to cross a rope connected from the attic to Kevin's tree house, Kevin cuts the rope, causing them to fall to the ground and hit the side of the house. Eventually, Harry and Marv manage to ambush and capture Kevin in one of the houses that they have previously broken into, and decide to inflict the same injuries that they have sustained on him in retaliation once Harry was about to bite off all of Kevin's fingers one by one, but Kevin's elderly next-door neighbor, Old Man Marley (who befriended Kevin while he was home alone with the rumors about him being a serial killer was false) intervenes and knocks them out with his snow shovel. Shortly after Marley returns Kevin home, the police arrive and arrest Harry and Marv with Marv telling they are the wet bandits. As the bandits are driven away, Harry glares at Kevin through his window.

When Kevin's immediate family returns home on Christmas Day, Kevin does not tell them about his encounter with Harry and Marv. However, his father, Peter, finds Harry's knocked-out gold tooth on the floor, much to his confusion.

Home Alone 2: Lost In New York.

One year after the events of the first film, Harry and Marv break out of prison during a riot and make their way to New York City on a fish truck. After Marv changes their nickname to the Sticky Bandits, they begin seeking a new target to rob, after which they plan to acquire fake passports and flee the United States. They eventually decide to rob Duncan's Toy Chest, a successful toy store that intends to donate all of its earnings to a children's hospital.

Harry and Marv having capturing Kevin. As fate would have it, Kevin has also made his way to New York as a result of accidentally boarding the wrong flight while the rest of his family have gone to Florida for Christmas. Upon encountering him, Harry and Marv pursue the child to exact revenge for their previous encounter, but Kevin trips them with pearls from a necklace, allowing him to escape. A little later, Harry and Marv manage to succeed in capturing him after he gets caught for using a stolen credit card by the Plaza Hotel's staff and is forced to flee, with Marv revealing their plan to Kevin, who secretly uses his Talkboy to record it. Kevin slips away from the duo and flees into Central Park, but Harry and Marv refrain from chasing him, as they come to the conclusion that he will not be able to survive in the park by himself..

That night, Harry and Marv hide out in the store and begin their robbery once all of the staff and customers have left. During the heist, Kevin arrives and photographs them robbing the store before throwing a brick at the store's window, shattering it and setting of the store's alarm. Enraged, the bandits pursue Kevin to his uncle Rob's townhouse, where they fall prey to the booby traps that he has rigged throughout the townhouse, suffering numerous injuries, including:

As run out of the store to catch Kevin, Harry jumps on one end of Kevin's handmade seesaw before Marv jumps on the other, catapulting Harry into the air and onto a nearby car. Upon reaching the townhouse, Harry attempts to convince Kevin to throw down his camera so that he can erase the evidence against him and Marv, but instead, Kevin throws four bricks at Marv, which hit him in the head. As Marv attempts to enter via the front door, he finds that the doorknob is attached to a string, which, unbeknownst to him, is attached to a staple gun placed on the other side of the door that ends up firing a staple into his rear, groin, and nose. Harry attempts to reach the back door by grabbing the bottom rung of a fire escape, which Kevin has covered in Monster Sap Soap, causing him to fall to the ground. After removing the staples from his body, Marv kicks the front door open, but he fails to notice the large hole in the floor, resulting in him falling into the basement. After finally reaching the back door, Harry opens it, only to have a bag of tools dumped onto his head. After getting up from his fall, Marv steps into a puddle of Monster Sap Soap, causing him to fall on his back and slide into a large shelf of open paint cans that falls onto him, covering him in paint. He frees and attempts to clean himself with a nearby sink, but Kevin has attached it to an arc welder, electrocuting him and making him briefly appear as a skeleton. As Harry enters the bathroom, he pulls a light switch that is attached to a blowtorch, once again setting his head on fire, which he puts out in the toilet that has been filled with kerosene, causing an explosion in the bathroom and melting his hat once again. After recovering from the electrocution, Marv finds a rope that looks like a way out of the basement, but as he attempts to climb it, a large bag of cement that is attached to the rope falls and hits him in the head. After finally managing to climb out of the basement, Marv alerts Harry of Kevin's presence, prompting the latter to chase Kevin up a sawed ladder, which gives way as he does so, causing him to fall face-first to the ground. After rejoining, they nearly pursue Kevin upstairs, but due to Harry remembering the incident with the paint cans in the first film, they stand by to avoid being hit, but as they attempt to pursue Kevin once the paint cans have been released, he sends down a large, heavy pipe that hits them both in the face, knocking them down into the basement before Kevin cuts the ropes that are attached to the pipe, causing them to be hit by it again from an even greater height. Upon finally reaching the second floor, they find a door leading to the steps adjacent to the third floor, but when Harry pulls the doorknob, a string that is attached to it pulls down a tool chest that breaks the door off of its hinges and smashes them up against the wall. Upon finally making it to the townhouse's roof, they find that Kevin has climbed down a rope and attempt to do the same, but as they do so, Kevin lights it on fire, causing them to fall three stories to the ground and get covered in varnish. Kevin calls the police on a nearby pay phone before attempting to lure Harry and Marv into Central Park, but he slips on some ice, allowing the bandits to recapture him. Taking the chance to settle their score with Kevin, they bring him into the park, where Harry seizes the photos before pulling out his gun to shoot Kevin, but Kevin's new friend, the Pigeon Lady, arrives and tells the bandits to release Kevin, prompting them to turn their attention to her as she tells Kevin to run. As Kevin flees, Harry attempts to shoot the Pigeon Lady instead, but the varnish has jammed his gun. The Pigeon Lady pelts a bucket of birdseed onto Harry and Marv, which sticks to them because of the varnish and attracts a large flock of pigeons that swarms the duo. Kevin then takes the chance to light up fireworks to mark the bandits' positions and catch the attention of the arriving police. As the officers handcuff and arrest the thieves after discovering the photos and cassette that Kevin used as evidence, Marv blurts out information regarding his and Harry's heist of Duncan's Toy Chest and prison escape, angering the latter as the police escort them away and return them to prison with Marv telling the police that they are the sticky bandits, only for Harry to kick him in rage while being escorted by the police.

The police then return the money to the store and inform Mr. Duncan of what has happened. The latter tells them about his intention to donate the money to the children's hospital, which the police promise to handle for him. A detective gives Mr. Duncan a note tied to a brick and Mr. Duncan gladly accepts Kevin's apology note that is tied to the brick that he used to break the store's window, and as a reward for foiling the robbery and saving his store, he has a truckload of presents delivered to Kevin and his reunited family at the Plaza Hotel on Christmas morning. Just like before, Kevin remains silent about his encounter with Harry and Marv.

Marv returns in the fourth film as one of the two secondary antagonists (alongside his wife, Vera). They are also joined by Marv's mother, Molly. They plan to kidnap the prince of a visiting royal family and hold him for ransom. Marv explains that Harry's plans resulted in them being imprisoned twice, so Marv grew tired and decided to sever ties with Harry, implying that that both Harry and Marv separated on bad terms.

However, Kevin ends up crossing paths with Marv again as his dad, who is about to divorce his wife, is dating a rich woman named Natalie, whom the royal family are due to visit. Eventually, Marv is defeated once again, and he, along with his wife and mother, end up being arrested and sent to prison.