Who is marv in sin city

Not friends in the strictest sense, Dwight got him drunk to get him riled up, something he felt 'sick about'. He then stormed the Lord Mansion with Marv running interference. Marv specifically went after Manute and beat his face into the pavement, eventually taking his eye. After Dwight got double crossed by Ava Lord and shot him out of the window, Marv managed to save him under Ava's gunshots. Marv did not mind to get back to Dwight's Mustang, but instead chose to steal Lord's Tucker.

Marv drove him to Old Town to get fixed up; on the way a biker cop tried to stop them for running, but Marv obliviously pushed him over the edge.

Then a police chopper and squad cars were after them as they passed through Little Saigon, until making their way to Old Town. The girls collected him and Marv went back to Kadie's. This would be their last encounter. Marv was sitting on the bar admiring Nancy once more, when Jim was trying to hide from a mysterious man. When Delia came behind Jim, he spilled his alcohol, to Marv's worry.

As the couple talked and hugged, Marv envied Jim, and then decided to finish the man's bottle himself. Having witnessed Nancy's downward spiral, Marv steps in and volunteers to help her kill Roarke.

They are attacked by a motorcycle gang, who Marv kills, but he leaves their leader for Nancy to finish off. The pair mount an assault on Roarke's compound, and Marv brutally slaughters Roarke's bodyguards while Nancy picks off the guards with a crossbow. Marv is wounded, and Nancy continues on to confront Roarke by herself. Marv as a rule avoided Old Town. He had nothing against prostitutes but he knew that none of the women there would trust him the way he looked.

So it must have come as a surprise when a beauty like Goldie came strolling into Kadie's looking like a million bucks and took him to bed with her. The first time in a long time that a woman had slept with him, Marv fell in love. Too bad when he woke up three hours after, Goldie was dead and he didn't remember a thing. The cops showed up alerting him to a set up, and he escaped, smashing a few cops up on the way. He swore revenge, swearing to Goldie that he would get the man who killed her and 'the hell I send him to will feel like heaven after what I've done to him'.

He went to Lucille's to get bandaged up and for his pills. She tries to talk him down but he got riled up. He left for one final stop on his errands before his rampage, his mother's house to pick up Gladys.

Then it was killing time. First, Marv went to Kadie's where he was picked up by some hit men. He tortured them for information, killed them after, and got another name. He worked his way up the food chain, killing and torturing, until someone fingered The Priest.

After the priest directs him to a farm outside the city and disrespects Goldie, however, Marv kills him. When he left the church he was attacked by Wendy , Goldie's twin sister, who he obviously mistakes for his lost love. She ran him over with her car and left him for dead, with Marv attributing the encounter to his condition kicking up. Afterwards, he heads for the Farm where he is ambushed by Kevin.

After being knocked out with a sledgehammer, Marv is tossed into the basement, where he finds Lucille who was brought in earlier. She tells him everything about Kevin, such as his killer dog and collection of women's heads on the wall, but even more disturbing, about how he ate her hand and made her watch.

After she calms down, Marv busts them out once Kevin leaves and they head for the woods when the police show up. Marv : Killing? No satisfaction. Everything up until the killing, will be a gas. Marv : That's the thing with dames, sometimes all they gotta do is let it out and a few buckets later there's no way you'd know. Marv : I'm on my feet for about ten minutes before the cops kick them out from under me.

They don't ask me any questions. They just keep knocking the crap out of me and waving a confession in my face. And I keep spitting blood all over it and laughing at how many fresh copies they come up with. Then along comes this worm assistant district attorney who turns the recorder off and says if I don't sign their confession, they'll kill my mom.

I break his arm in three places and I sign it. Marv : [Marv is walking in the back door to Kadie's]. Marv : Walk down the right back alley in Sin City Bouncer : [the bouncer throws someone out the door] Leave your hands off Nancy!

Marv : [voiceover] Bouncer : That coat looks like Baghdad. So does your face. Take off! Bouncer : Urrrghh Maeve : [watching the whole thing] He's new here, Marv, he didn't know.

Cardinal Roark : Kevin? Is that you? Marv : [holding up Kevin's severed head] What's left of him, anyway. The dog ate the rest. Marv : Is that the best you can do, you pansies? Marv : I love hitmen. No matter what you do to them, you don't feel bad. Cardinal Roark : What the hell do you know Marv : I know it's pretty damn weird to eat people. Wendy : [Marv has just easily shrugged off the ropes] You sat there and took it Marv : Sure, but I thought I might be able to talk some sense into you.

And I probably would've had to paste you one getting the gun. And I don't hurt girls. Marv : Wait a second. Why'd she call you Wendy? Wendy : Because that's my name, you ape. Goldie was my sister. My twin sister. Marv : I guess she was the nice one. Marv : [narrating] I don't know why you died, Goldie. Not to me. Sometimes I think he's retarded, a big, brutal kid who never learned the ground rules about how people are supposed to act around each other. But that doesn't have the right ring to it either.

No, it's more like there's nothing wrong with Marv, nothing at all--except that he had the rotten luck of being born at the wrong time in history. He'd have been okay if he'd been born a couple of thousand years ago. He'd be right at home on some ancient battlefield, swinging an ax into somebody's face. Or in a Roman Arena, taking a sword to other gladiators like him. They'd have tossed him girls like Nancy, back then.

Marv was born in The Projects and had a rough childhood. He was very protective of his doting mother, who eventually got sick forcing them to move to a better part of town. The Projects had already toughened him up, and left with it's residents as useful allies. In school his only friend was Chuck, a retarded kid who thought Marv was genius. He also got a. Once he went to camp, but since then he hated nature and trees. Trees and the creepy sounds of nature were the only things that scared him.

Some time after that Marv joined the army and went to an unnamed war heavily implied to be Vietnam where he probably developed his scars. He also would later suffer from a 'condition' that might have been Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.

He took pills for it, which he got from Claire, shrink Lucille's girlfriend. He always had a respectful fear of his 'condition' fearing he would turn into 'what they always said I'd turn into. A psycho killer'. However he always trusted his instinctual "cold thing", a feeling like a snowball in his stomach, something above his perception that told him that something was wrong for example, he felt it when he approached the Roark Farm.

Marv later made a name for himself on the streets by just doing what he did best: killing. A good guy at heart, he never had a problem beating in a few faces if they needed it. He made friends in low places this way and more than a couple enemies. Kadieof Kadie's Saloon gave him free beers whenever he needed them after he beat up some men who threatened her. He was also known to Kadie's patrons as Nancy Callahan's guardian angel after some guy tried to get fresh with her and he took care of him; allowing the petite dancer complete and utter safety when she danced.

She also helped him out when he needed it showing they had an understanding between them. Once he got himself rounded up and Lucille helped him as his parole officer.

Having no form of employment Marv still managed to get around. He went most places on foot, and stole the rest from other thugs. He also had a keen appreciation of trenchcoats, which he would take off his victims usually commenting 'That's one damn fine coat your wearing! He even asked one hitman, Stan, to remove the coat so he wouldn't bleed on it before interrogating him. Similar to the way Dwight McCarthy complained about blood getting on the upholstery of a car he was stealing from some hitmen.

Note: that Silent Night has not given a place in the timeline; it could had happened at a later time In a cold winter night in Sin City with snow replacing its iconic rain Marv goes to a back alley sleaze joint, under the cover of being an ugly pervert wanting to partake in the ugly pleasures offered in this particular sleaze joint: pre-teen girls.

After getting inside he killed the roomful of bodyguards and the owner, rescuing the girl speaking the only line of dialog in the whole piece "Your momma's been asking after you Kimberly.

Let's get you home. On the night John Hartigan met back up with Nancy, Marv found himself on a highway overlooking The Projects, surrounded by dead young guys, unable to remember how he got there. He lights one of the dead guys' cigarettes and thinks back; since it is Saturday, he deduces he must have been at Kadie's watching Nancy dance. Marv was rather depressed after seeing Nancy leave with Hartigan, as he'd always had an unrequited crush on her, so Josie gives him a bottle to drown his sorrow with.

He gets drunk and steps outside, only to find some preppy college kids trying to burn drunks and winos to death. After one shoots him calling him "Bernini-boy" he immediately kills one of them and chases the rest to The Projects, where along the way he destroys a police patrol car and hijacks another vehicle. The boys are heading for Sacred Oaks but Marv stops them. He also has a soft spot for children, suggested when he rescues a little girl from pimps in Silent Night, as well as for animals, as shown when he knocks out, rather than kills, Kevin's wolf, which he only does as a matter of necessity to maintain the element of surprise, since Kevin's wolf had otherwise done nothing wrong to him.

Throughout the story, Marv often shows a good-natured, humorous side, unresentful of even the worst fate throws at him and often showing a wry sense of humor at the absurdity of his situations. Marv was ranked as the 24th greatest comic book character in Wizard magazine. Empire magazine also ranked Marv as the 26th greatest comic book character of all time stating that Marv is a Frank Millar Grade A patsy, the fall guy, the hapless hero at the center of a conspiracy that he can't even begin to understand but with a traditional Miller tweak; Empire described Marv as a force of nature, cutting a path through the corrupt power-brokers of the city, until his pound of flesh and more has been exacted.

Also In , Empire Magazine also selected Marv as the 82nd greatest film characters stating that he ain't too bright, but it turns out that Marv, despite his seemingly indestructible if bandage-swathed exterior, has a soft center.

IGN also listed Marv as the 75th greatest comic book hero of all time stating that Sin City is a place where only the strong and sadistic can survive. Marv is a little of both, but he also has a noble streak and an unbreakable sense of loyalty towards those few people who can see beneath his craggy exterior and recognize the good man within.

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