| rdfs:comment | - Marvin the Martian (or Marvin Martian) is a fictional character appearing in the Looney Tunes cartoons. Despite appearing in only five of the original shorts, Marvin has developed a cult following. Marvin's likeness appears in miniature on both the Spirit and Opportunity rovers on Mars.
- The Marvin the Martian has been released in the following 1/64 scale versions:
- Marvin the Martian is the voice of Mel Blanc and it's set for a Christmas release date. Not much is known about the film, other that it will be about Marvin attack during Christmas.
- Marvin the Martian is an alien who appears in the FBI lineup in The Springfield Files.
- An avid astronomer, Marvin desires the clearest view for his telescope, eliminating star systems and planets that obstruct his view, using his weapon of choice, the Eludium Pu-36 Explosive Space Modulator (this Earth-shattering device resembles a large firecracker). His support troops consists of a green dog (K-9), and a bottle of 1000 Instant Martians, to which he merely has to add water.
- Marvin the Martian is a fictional character that appears as Bugs Bunny's primary enemy in the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoons.
- Marvin the Martian is a villain in Kingdom Hearts II ½. He is one of the bosses in Looney Tune Land.
- Marvin the Martian is a character from the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoons. Marvin the Martian appears in two Drawn Together episodes: "Charlotte's Web of Lies" (where he is seen in Ling-Ling's Anger Management group with Hulk, Skeletor. He has also made an appearance in "Toot Goes Bollywood", in which he was waiting his turn to have a stiletto stuck in his butt for earth dollars.
- Marvin is actually quite a nice guy, that is if you don't anger him. Angering him is a bad idea because if he gets too anrgy he'll resume his plans to destroy Earth.
- Marvin the Martian was a member of the Last Brigade in the series Generic Quest.
- Animation director Chuck Jones noted that Bugs Bunny soon began to outwit Yosemite Sam (the creation of the senior director, Friz Freleng), so he decided to create the opposite type of character; one who was quiet and soft-spoken, but whose actions were incredibly destructive and legitimately dangerous. Marvin the Martian made his debut in 1948's Haredevil Hare. Marvin was never named in the original shorts (though he was called the Commander of Flying Saucer X-2 in The Hasty Hare in 1952), but decades later, when the character attracted merchandising interest, the current name was selected.
- Marvin the Martian only makes a few appearances on the show, with only one prominent role. Marvin appears with his protege, Marcia, in the Return to the Acme Acres Zone episode segment, Duck Dodgers Jr., also starring Plucky Duck and Daffy Duck. In the short, Daffy reprises his role as Duck Dodgers of the 241/2 Century, with Plucky serving as his trusty sidekick. Their mission is to stop a matter transmogrifier from sucking up the entire universe, which Marvin and Marcia are behind. While Daffy and Marvin fight over the universe, Plucky and Marcia go off to play together.
- As Marvin was not a major character in the original Looney Tunes shorts, he did not appear in any Christmas productions until the 2006 direct-to-video film Bah, Humduck! A Looney Tunes Christmas. In the film, he appears as an employee at Daffy Duck's "Lucky Duck Super Store". Marvin is homesick for his planet, Mars, and wants to go back for Christmas (though he does also mention that he is still planning to destroy the Earth). At first, Daffy refuses to let him take Christmas off, since he expects the employees to work on Christmas Day. After being visited by the abrasive yet well-intentioned Christmas ghosts, the reformed Daffy gives Marvin a rocket that will go faster than the speed of light, allowing him to make it to Mars by yesterday.
- Marvin hails from the planet Mars, but is often found elsewhere. He is often accompanied by his dog "K-9", and sometimes by other creatures (one gag, first used in Hare-Way to the Stars (1957), being candy-sized "Instant Martians" that become full-size on addition of drops of water).
- Marvin The Martian is one of the main antagonists of the Looney Tunes franchise, created, much like Yosemite Sam, out of the need to make a challenging foe for the ever-tricky rabbit known as Bugs Bunny. While Elmer Fudd was considered too dimwitted to be a threat, Wile E. Coyote was just a predator, Taz was overly ravenous, and Yosemite Sam was quickly becoming just as hopeless, the creators of Looney Tunes felt the time had come for Bugs Bunny to meet a new kind of villain altogether, a villain who is both very clever and who posed a true threat.
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| abstract | - Marvin the Martian (or Marvin Martian) is a fictional character appearing in the Looney Tunes cartoons. Despite appearing in only five of the original shorts, Marvin has developed a cult following. Marvin's likeness appears in miniature on both the Spirit and Opportunity rovers on Mars.
- The Marvin the Martian has been released in the following 1/64 scale versions:
- Animation director Chuck Jones noted that Bugs Bunny soon began to outwit Yosemite Sam (the creation of the senior director, Friz Freleng), so he decided to create the opposite type of character; one who was quiet and soft-spoken, but whose actions were incredibly destructive and legitimately dangerous. Marvin the Martian made his debut in 1948's Haredevil Hare. Unlike the other villains, Marvin can be actually evil at most points, and not just daft. However, he is a funny cartoon character like the other villains. Marvin is the quietest of the Warner Bros villains, and the most soft-spoken, and unlike most of the other villains, he is very clever and competent in general. Marvin's design was based on a conception of the Roman god Mars. "That was the uniform that Mars wore — that helmet and skirt. We thought putting it on this ant-like creature might be funny. But since he had no mouth, we had to convey that he was speaking totally through his movements. It demanded a kind of expressive body mechanics." Marvin was never named in the original shorts (though he was called the Commander of Flying Saucer X-2 in The Hasty Hare in 1952), but decades later, when the character attracted merchandising interest, the current name was selected.
- As Marvin was not a major character in the original Looney Tunes shorts, he did not appear in any Christmas productions until the 2006 direct-to-video film Bah, Humduck! A Looney Tunes Christmas. In the film, he appears as an employee at Daffy Duck's "Lucky Duck Super Store". Marvin is homesick for his planet, Mars, and wants to go back for Christmas (though he does also mention that he is still planning to destroy the Earth). At first, Daffy refuses to let him take Christmas off, since he expects the employees to work on Christmas Day. After being visited by the abrasive yet well-intentioned Christmas ghosts, the reformed Daffy gives Marvin a rocket that will go faster than the speed of light, allowing him to make it to Mars by yesterday. Marvin and his dog K-9 make a very brief cameo in The Looney Tunes Show episode "A Christmas Carol". During the closing song, "Christmas Rules", Marvin is shown using his space laser to generate a holiday-themed laser show.
- Marvin the Martian is the voice of Mel Blanc and it's set for a Christmas release date. Not much is known about the film, other that it will be about Marvin attack during Christmas.
- Marvin the Martian is an alien who appears in the FBI lineup in The Springfield Files.
- An avid astronomer, Marvin desires the clearest view for his telescope, eliminating star systems and planets that obstruct his view, using his weapon of choice, the Eludium Pu-36 Explosive Space Modulator (this Earth-shattering device resembles a large firecracker). His support troops consists of a green dog (K-9), and a bottle of 1000 Instant Martians, to which he merely has to add water.
- Marvin the Martian is a fictional character that appears as Bugs Bunny's primary enemy in the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoons.
- Marvin The Martian is one of the main antagonists of the Looney Tunes franchise, created, much like Yosemite Sam, out of the need to make a challenging foe for the ever-tricky rabbit known as Bugs Bunny. While Elmer Fudd was considered too dimwitted to be a threat, Wile E. Coyote was just a predator, Taz was overly ravenous, and Yosemite Sam was quickly becoming just as hopeless, the creators of Looney Tunes felt the time had come for Bugs Bunny to meet a new kind of villain altogether, a villain who is both very clever and who posed a true threat. So the alien menace known as Marvin The Martian was born, being a more calculating and dangerous opponent than those that came before him he nevertheless found himself defeated in the end by Bugs Bunny - though due to his popularity he returned and has stayed on as one of the Looney Tunes' most popular villains, appearing in many cartoons and films as well as countless merchandise, Marvin has even been adopted as the mascot of a few NASA vehicles among other things. Marvin is depicted as a strange humanoid dressed in a vaguely Roman-style suit with a pair of oversized sneakers, this designed was chosen due to Mars being the name of the Roman god of war and has served him well as it makes him stand out from the crowd as a distinctive villain. Chuck Jones, who directed most of his shorts, stated that he based Marvin's blank black face on black ants, which he found scary.
- Marvin the Martian only makes a few appearances on the show, with only one prominent role. Marvin appears with his protege, Marcia, in the Return to the Acme Acres Zone episode segment, Duck Dodgers Jr., also starring Plucky Duck and Daffy Duck. In the short, Daffy reprises his role as Duck Dodgers of the 241/2 Century, with Plucky serving as his trusty sidekick. Their mission is to stop a matter transmogrifier from sucking up the entire universe, which Marvin and Marcia are behind. While Daffy and Marvin fight over the universe, Plucky and Marcia go off to play together. He appears briefly as a spectator in the Wacko World of Sports episode segment, Bleacher Bummer, as Acme Looniversity's baseball team battles a cheating Perfecto Prep. Although Marvin does not appear in the episode, Hog Wild Hamton, his "just add water" Instant Martians from the Looney Tunes cartoon, Hare-Way to the Stars, do appear in one of Plucky's daydream sequences. In this sequence concocted by Plucky, the Instant Martians arrive at Hamton's door and take them to their spaceship by force. They do odd experiments on them (including switching around their body parts) and then release them. On their take-off (directly above Hamton's home), they accidentally destroy the home. They are thought up by Plucky as an excuse (to tell Hamton's parents when they arrive back from their second honeymoon) for the real reason of the house being completely obliterated by his neighbor, Egghead Jr. (for throwing a loud and reckless party and rudely disregarding Egghead Jr.'s notes on keeping it quiet so that he can concentrate on his work). An Instant Martian also appears in What Makes Toons Tick, in the segment Nothing to Sneeze At, where he is a closet monster looking for work.
- Marvin the Martian is a villain in Kingdom Hearts II ½. He is one of the bosses in Looney Tune Land.
- Marvin the Martian is a character from the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoons. Marvin the Martian appears in two Drawn Together episodes: "Charlotte's Web of Lies" (where he is seen in Ling-Ling's Anger Management group with Hulk, Skeletor. He has also made an appearance in "Toot Goes Bollywood", in which he was waiting his turn to have a stiletto stuck in his butt for earth dollars.
- Marvin is actually quite a nice guy, that is if you don't anger him. Angering him is a bad idea because if he gets too anrgy he'll resume his plans to destroy Earth.
- Marvin hails from the planet Mars, but is often found elsewhere. He is often accompanied by his dog "K-9", and sometimes by other creatures (one gag, first used in Hare-Way to the Stars (1957), being candy-sized "Instant Martians" that become full-size on addition of drops of water). Marvin wears a Roman soldier's uniform, with old-fashioned basketball shoes. The style of these resembles the Chuck Taylor All-Stars brand name, considered to be the "generic" or "standard" basketball sneaker. His head is a black sphere with only eyes for features. The curved crest of his helmet appears, with the push-broom-like upper section, to comically resemble an ancient Greek hoplite's or a Roman Centurion's helmet. The appearance of the combination of Marvin's head and helmet allegedly led to Bugs Bunny thinking he was a "bowling ball wearing a spittoon" in one Looney Tunes animated short. Marvin speaks with a soft, English aristocratic accent, and often speaks technobabble. The helmet and skirt that surround him are green and his suit is red (in a few of the original shorts, his suit was green). He is also known for his trademark quotes "Where's the kaboom? There was supposed to be an earth-shattering kaboom!", "Isn't that lovely?", and "This makes me very angry, very angry indeed." On numerous occasions, Marvin has tried to destroy the Earth with his "Illudium Q-36 Explosive Space Modulator" (sometimes pronounced "Illudium Pu-36"). Marvin always laboriously over-pronounces the name of the device, which resembles a mere stick of dynamite, in order to avoid any possibility of confusing it with some other similar technology Marvin attempts to destroy the Earth because, he reasons, "it obstructs my view of Venus"; he has been trying to destroy the Earth for more than two millennia, suggesting that members of his species, and possibly martian creatures in general, have extremely long lifespans. The original reference to "Uranium Pu-36" changed to "Illudium PU-36" in subsequent cartoons [1]. Marvin is consistently foiled by Bugs Bunny. He has battled for space territory with Daffy Duck, a.k.a. Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century. He has appeared in three animated shows on Cartoon Network — as a 3 year old toddler in Baby Looney Tunes, as a primary villain in the Duck Dodgers television series, and most recently in The Looney Tunes Show. In "Baby Looney Tunes", he is picked on by the other babies (except Taz) for being "weird", as he is too shy to speak to them, before they befriend him upon seeing how helpful he is, and later in songs. In "Duck Dodgers", he works for the Martian Queen, Queen Tyr'ahnee. This show reused his original name from The Hasty Hare (although the opening credits list him as Marvin playing Commander X-2, in the same way as Daffy is playing Duck Dodgers). Marvin the Martian appears in "The Looney Tunes Show" episode "Reunion" and appeared in the short "I'm a Martian", voiced by Eric Bauza. Here, he is described as a former classmate of Daffy's who has been plotting to destroy Earth since graduation. The episode also has a flashback, in which it is revealed that the yellow headdress on the top of his helmet is actually his hair, showing that in high school (before he started wearing the helmet) he kept it down. Over a decade prior to any of these, he guest-starred in a Tiny Toon Adventures segment titled "Duck Dodgers Jr.", where he was accompanied by an apprentice named Marcia the Martian. He was also in a Taz-Mania episode and did a cameo in The Sylvester and Tweety Mysteries ("What's the Frequency, Kitty?"). Marvin also made appearances on Animaniacs, notably in the Mindy and Buttons short subject, "Cat on a Hot Steel Beam" (which also featured the cute kitten Pussyfoot) and in "Star Warners", along with his dog K-9. Marvin has also appeared in a number of video games. He served as the main antagonist in both the Mega Drive/Genesis game Taz in Escape From Mars and the Super Nintendo game Daffy Duck: The Marvin Missions. He also appeared in Bugs Bunny Lost in Time for PlayStation where he was the boss of Dimension X, and in the final level of Sheep, Dog, 'n' Wolf. He was a common enemy in the Quantum Beep stages of Road Runner's Death Valley Rally for Super Nintendo. He also made a brief cameo in the 2003-2007 CN Fridays intro. Marvin was also cast as the referee in Space Jam (though he did not stay to referee the whole game due to Bupkus beating him up), and then later had a major villainous role in Looney Tunes: Back in Action where he was hired by the ACME chairman, Mr. Chairman (Steve Martin), to finish DJ (Brendan Fraser) and the gang at Area 52. In the film's climax, he reappears to bring the Blue Monkey diamond to the ACME satellite, but is thwarted by Bugs (who he duels in a parody of Obi Wan Kenobi and Jango Fett in Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones) and Daffy (who arrives as Duck Dodgers to save Bugs after he is exhausted from the battle), resulting in Marvin trapped in a bubble floating through space. Marvin appeared in the Looney Tunes version of A Christmas Carol, Bah, Humduck! A Looney Tunes Christmas as an employee at Daffy Duck's "Lucky Duck Super Store". Marvin was homesick for his planet, Mars, and wanted to go back for Christmas (but also mentions that he's planning to destroy the Earth as well). At first, Daffy doesn't let him take Christmas off, since he expects the employees to work on Christmas Day. After being visited by the abrasive yet well-intentioned Christmas ghosts, Daffy is redeemed, and as part of a surprise Christmas celebration, gives Marvin a rocket that will go faster than the speed of light, allowing him to make it to Mars by yesterday. In nearly all of his appearances, Marvin is shown using a small pistol that fires either bubbles of pliable plastic or energy beams. He is also apparently immortal or long-lived, since he mentions doing over two thousand years of research to create the Illudium Q-36 Space Modulator, and he is seen in Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century.
- Marvin the Martian was a member of the Last Brigade in the series Generic Quest.
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