Marle

Marle
Marle after being freed from Squares' influence Marle under Squares' influence Marle as she appears in Puyo Puyo Tetris 2
Name
Kana	マール
Romanization	Māru
IPA	/'mɑːrl/ (Mar-ll)
Other Names	The Will of the Worlds JP:時空の意志じくうのいし The Dimensional Parasite (While possessed) JP: 時空のバグじくうのばぐ Watcher of the Worlds 玛尔 (mǎ ěr) 瑪爾 마르 Marle Марль (Marl')
Personal Info
Gender	Female
Notable Appearances
First appearance	Puyo Puyo Tetris 2
Latest appearance	Puyo Puyo!! Quest
Voice Actor(s)
Japanese	Mirika Kawa
English	Megan Taylor Harvey
Puyo Puyo!! Quest information

Marle is a character introduced in Puyo Puyo Tetris 2. At first, she appears to be responsible for mixing the Puyo Puyo and Tetris dimensions. After Chapter 4, Marle becomes an ally of the group and reveals that she is a partial incarnation of the Will of the Worlds and a watcher of the worlds who ensures that all battles are fun.

Biography

Personal History

The Will of the Worlds watched over the various puzzle worlds for ages without a physical form; until one day, when they became self-aware and manifested themselves into Marle. Marle enjoyed watching over the various worlds, seeing everyone battling and having fun. However, she could not visit any of them. As she comprehends the worlds differently from others, it is her duty to not intervene, lest the worlds merge and become scrambled. As a result, Marle started to grow lonely. Eventually, her loneliness got to the point where she used some of her powers to create Squares: a friend who could keep her company, as well as someone she could depend on.

Appearance

During the protagonists' early encounters with her, Marle appears to be a young girl with short cut light yellow-green hair and half-lidded gold eyes. The upper tips of her hair are styled in a fashion similar to lightning bolts, and the back of her hair frays outward to points on both sides. Atop of her head is a black cloud with a cyan lightning bolt-like cowlick protruding out of it. Her bangs are cut irregularly and their shape resembles an "M", with the middle bang being round and the left and right ones being straight cut. Behind her are pieces of disjointed hair in rectangular pieces, resembling sunrays. She wears a pair of black gloves, an outfit primarily hued with black, red, and purple decorated with circle motifs, black stockings, and white-tipped shoes.

Upon being freed from Squares' control, her dress changes to a cyan color accented with orange and white. Her stockings, gloves, and cloud are now white, while her shoes are black. She has indigo-blue eyes, her cowlick turns blonde and curled, the lightning bolt-like horns that adorned the top of her head also become curls, and the disjointed parts of her hair reconnect into a chain of circles. Her curls seem to change along with her emotions, unfurling slightly when she's surprised, and taking on a lightning bolt shape when she is angry.

Outside of Adventure Mode, Marle's true form is the default when selecting her, while her mind-controlled form can be selected by pressing the button which would switch to her alternate voice on the character selection screen. Similar to how "extra" characters such as Red Amitie and Possessed Klug are selected in Puyo Puyo!! 20th Anniversary.

Personality

At first, Marle's personality appears to be playful, mischievous, and thrill-seeking, as she's seen explaining to Ringo her desire for everyone to have many battles so they can all have fun. She seems to speak politely but playfully, dragging out her vowels and often ending her sentences with music notes. She begins to show signs of distress throughout the game and becomes increasingly conflicted once the others challenge her thinking of "fun", with Arle assessing that she isn't doing anything of her own volition.

In reality, Marle is a polite, friendly, and thoughtful person. She seems to take her responsibility as a watcher of the worlds rather seriously, as she mentions that she and Squares refrained from directly interfering during the first merging of the worlds in Puyo Puyo Tetris. However, she seems inexperienced with her role and kept secrets from Squares during the second merging, resulting in the events of Puyo Puyo Tetris 2. Marle is also known to get lonely very easily, hence why she created Squares in the first place. She is extremely grateful for the heroes' efforts in freeing her from Squares's control and making him realize the error of his ways, and Ally's assistance as well.

Abilities

As a partial incarnation of the Will of the Worlds, Marle is able to observe and travel to different puzzle worlds as she pleases. She is also powerful enough to create another cosmological being, Squares, to become her companion.

In battle, Marle's spells include Annulus, Circular Dance, Pastel Orb, Shiny Bubble, and Heavenly Sphere, all of which are themed after circles. While under the control of Squares, her spells have a square-like element to their appearances. For instance, Heavenly Sphere depicts a cube instead of a sphere while she is under his control.

Relationships

Squares

Squares is Marle's creation, fellow watcher of the worlds, and younger brother. Ally notices that she cares for her brother very deeply in spite of what he had done to her.

History

Puyo Puyo Tetris 2

Marle is initially the main antagonist up to Chapter 4, where she is being controlled by Squares. Once she is freed, she becomes a primary protagonist for the rest of the game.

During the first couple of chapters, Marle's main motive is to spread fun to everyone and everywhere. However, it soon becomes clear that what Marle is doing isn't fun at all. As Ringo, Tee, and the others challenger her beliefs, she begins to grow very agitated, which soon leads to pain. Eventually, Marle's true self starts to come through, begging for the others to help her.

Once Marle is freed, she reveals that it was Squares who was controlling her this whole time. She travels with the others to the Edge of Spacetime, where Ringo, Tee, and the others help restore her lost memories, so that they can confront Squares. Eventually, Marle comes to realize that Squares needed guidance that she had neglected to give, and is able to get through to him by the end. Marle thanks everyone for helping her as she and Squares take their leave, with plains to explore other worlds together.

Trivia

• Her name is a corruption of the Japanese word for "circle", with the middle vowel drawn out.
  • While not kept in the English localization, the stylization of her name is likely a nod to her speech in Japanese text featuring drawn out words.
  • Her motifs represent the circular shape of Puyo to contrast with Squares' motifs, which represent the rectangular shape of Tetriminos.
• Marle is the first female antagonist that is not a doppelganger of a pre-existing character.
• Her title "Dimensional Parasite" during the first part of Puyo Puyo Tetris 2 is 時空のバグ (jikuu no bagu, lit. space-time bug) in Japanese, which refers to a computer bug or a glitch rather than an actual parasitic insect.
• Marle is the only character in Puyo Puyo Tetris 2 to have an alternate costume. Unlike the ones in Puyo Puyo!! 20th Anniversary, Marle's alternate is considered an alternate voice.
• While Marle is locked, her silhouette is that of her pre-Chapter 5 self. Once unlocked, her post-Chapter 5 self replaces that slot; her character select screen icon does not change when her alternate voice is selected.
• Marle's Dropset cannot be used within Fever, since her dropset hasn't appeared in a game that has that mode yet. The same situation happens with Squares, Sonic, Legamünt and Rozatte.
• Marle and Sonic are the only characters that were introduced within a Puyo Puyo Tetris game that default to Puyo Puyo instead of Tetris on the character Select screen.
• Marle has the biggest Fusion Dropset out of any character, consisting of a total of 18 Puyos.
  • Marle and Carbuncle also are the only characters whose Fusion Dropset have 2 Big Puyos in it. They also happen to have the O Tetrimino as their SP piece, which functions like a Big Yellow Puyo in its Puyo form, essentially granting them 3 Big Puyos in their Dropset.

Game Appearances

• Puyo Puyo Tetris 2
• Puyo Puyo!! Quest

Character Profiles

See the respective PPQ-namespace card pages of Marle for the character's in-game description in Puyo Puyo!! Quest.

Game	Profile
	"A watcher of the worlds. Ensure all battles in the cosmos are fun. Mysterious, but she has a gentle heart."

Character Specific Attributes

Puyo Puyo/Tetris

Game	Default mode

Dropset

Pieces																Total
1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16					Puyo
																10	0	3	3	44

Fusion

Puyo Pieces						Tetrimino
1	2	3	4	5	6	1	2	SP
								or or

Chants

Puyo Puyo Tetris 2

Player Chain

Chain	Dialogue
	Japanese	Romanization	Translation	Localization
Chain 1	ほら	Hora!	Here.
Chain 2	よーし	Yōshi!	Very good.
Chain 3	行きますよぉ！	Ikimasu yō!	Here I go!
Chain 4	えっへへへ〜	Ehhehehe~	*giggle*
Repeater	いかがですか？	Ikaga desu ka?	How's this?
Counter	楽しいですねぇ♪	Tanoshii desu ne?	Isn't this... fun?
Spell 1	アニュラス	Anyurasu	Annulus
Spell 2	ラウンドダンス	Raundo dansu	Round Dance	Circular Dance
Spell 3	パステルサークル	Pasuteru sākuru	Pastel Circle	Pastel Orb
Spell 4	シャイニーバブル	Shainī baburu	Shiny Bubble
Spell 5	ヘブンリースフィア！	Hebunrī sufia!	Heavenly Sphere!
Tetris Line Clear	テトリスですよー！	Tetorisu desuyo!	It's a Tetris!	Tetris!

Enemy Attack

Damage	Dialogue
	Japanese	Romanization	Translation	Localization
Light	いたっ！	Ita!	Ow!
Heavy	痛いですぅ...！	Itai desu...!	That hurts!

Character Select and Match Result

Result	Dialogue
	Japanese	Romanization	Translation	Localization
Character Select	楽しく勝負しましょうねぇ♪	Tanoshiku shoubu shimashou nē	Let's have a fun battle!	Time for a battle! Let's make this battle fun. (Evil / Alt. Voice)
Win	楽しい勝負でしたぁ♪	Tanoshii shoubu deshita!	That was a fun battle!
Lose	次は負けません...	Tsugi wa makemasen...	I won't! ...lose next time.

Endless Fever and Big Bang

Result	Dialogue
	Japanese	Romanization	Translation	Localization
Entered	楽しくなってきましたぁ！	Tanoshiku natte kimashita!	This is getting fun!
Success	楽勝ですぅ♪	Rakushou desu!	Easy victory. That was easy. (English Evil / Alt. Voice)
Failed	ダメでした…	Dame deshita...	That was no good...!
Big Bang	いっきますよぉ！♪	Ikimasu yo!	Here I come!	This should be really fun...!
Light attack	やあっ！	Yaa!	Yah! Hah! (English Evil / Alt. Voice)
Severe attack	どうですか？♪	Dou desu ka?	How about this?(!)
Win	ごめんなさいね♪	Gomennasai ne.	Sorry about that.	Did that hurt? Sorry about that... (Evil / Alt. Voice)
Light damage	うぇぇえん！	Uween...	*whine*	Nngh! *pain-suffering pant*
Severe damage	なんでですかぁ？	Nande desu ka?	Why... is this happening?!
Lose	そんなぁ…	Sonna...	No...

Swap

Result	Dialogue
	Japanese	Romanization	Translation	Localization
Match start	ぷよぷよです テトリスです	Puyo Puyo desu! Tetorisu desu!	Puyo Puyo. Tetris.
Swap	チェーンジですよぉ♪	Chenji desu yo!	Let's change.
Swap when in disadvantage	危ないところでしたぁ...	Abunai tokoro deshita!	That was dangerous...

Party

Result	Dialogue
	Japanese	Romanization	Translation	Localization
Power-up item	くれるんですかぁ？♪	Kureru n desu ka?	Is this for me?	Just for me.
Offensive item	あげちゃいますよぉ♪	Agechaimasu yo!	Here, take this!
Getting multiple items at once	まとめていきます！	Matomete ikimasu!	Take all of it!
Topped out	まだまだですよぉ♪	Madamada desu yo!	It's not over yet!
Win	楽しんでくれましたかぁ？	Tanoshinde kuremashita ka?	I hope you had... fun!
Be a runner-up	もう終わりですか？	Mou owari desu ka?	Is it over already?
Lose	負けちゃいました…	Makechaimashita...	I lost...!

Fusion

Result	Dialogue
	Japanese	Romanization	Translation	Localization
Mix Chain	ミックス連鎖です！	Mikkusu rensa desu!	Mix Chain.
Tetris Plus	テトリスプラスですね！	Tetorisu purasu desune!	Tetris Plus.
Chaining by a Tetrimino crushing Puyo	ツイてますね！	Tsuitemasu ne!	I'm feeling lucky!

Skill Battle

Activated Skill	Dialogue
	Japanese	Romanization	Translation	Localization
Unused	これはどうでしょう？	Kore-wa dou deshou?	How about this?
Heal	力になります	Chikaraninarimasu	Let me help.
Color Change	もっと楽しく！	Motto tanoshiku!	More fun!	Too much fun!
Assemble!	やっちゃってくださぁい！	Yatchatte kudasai!	Do it!	Let's give it our all!

System Startup

Result	Dialogue
	Japanese	Romanization	Translation
Boot Up 1	セガ!	Sega!
Boot Up 2	テトリス！	Tetorisu!	Tetris!
Title Screen	ぷよぷよテトリス2！	Puyo Puyo Tetorisu 2!	Puyo Puyo Tetris 2!

Online Greetings

Dialogue
Japanese	Romanization	Translation	Localization
「楽しい」勝負にしましょうねぇ♪	"Tanoshii" shoubu-ni shimashou ne!	Let's make this battle fun.♪
さあ、始めましょぉ♪	Saa, hajimemashou.	Now, let's get it started.	I'm ready when you are.♪
ああ......待ち遠しいですぅ♪	Aa, machidooshii desu!	*sigh* I can't wait.♪
勝負ができるって、嬉しいですねぇ♪	Shoubu-ga dekiru-tte, ureshii desu ne!	I'm happy to be able to have a match!	What could be more fun than battling?♪
ドキドキですね......♪	Dokidoki desu ne!	This is so exciting...♪

Gallery

Puyo Puyo Tetris 2

Marle

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  Character Select
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  Manzai - Idle
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  Manzai - Idle/Happy
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  Manzai - Idle/Worried
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  Manzai - Point/Determined
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  Manzai - Sad
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  Manzai - Mad/Exclaim
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  Manzai - Joyful
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  Manzai - Scared
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  Manzai - Angry
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  Spell 1 (Annulus)
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  Spell 2 (Circular Dance)
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  Spell 3 (Pastel Orb)
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  Spell 4 (Shiny Bubble)
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  Spell 5 (Heavenly Sphere)
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  Counter/Skill Use Cut-in
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  Damage Cut-in
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  Win Cut-in
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  Lose Cut-in
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  CPU Icon (From Spell 1 cut-in)

Marle - Alt.

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  Character select (Alt)
  [★6] Marle
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  Manzai (Alt) - Idle
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  Manzai (Alt) - Idle/Surprised
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  Manzai (Alt) - Mischievous
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  Manzai (Alt) - Holding head/Stressed
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  Manzai (Alt) - Holding head/Headache
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  Manzai (Alt) - Holding head/Aggrivated
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  Manzai (Alt) - Holding head/Angry
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  Spell 1 (Annulus) (Alt)
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  Spell 2 (Circular Dance) (Alt)
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  Spell 3 (Pastel Orb) (Alt)
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  Spell 4 (Shiny Bubble) (Alt)
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  Spell 5 (Heavenly Sphere) (Alt)
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  Counter/Skill Use Cut-in (Alt)
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  Damage Cut-in (Alt)
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  Win Cut-in (Alt)
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  Lose Cut-in (Alt)
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  CPU Icon (Alt) (From Spell 1 cut-in)

Puyo Puyo!! Quest

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  [★7] Marle
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  [★6] Light Marle
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  [★6] Light Marle Full Power Ver.
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  [★7] Light Marle
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  [★7] Light Marle Full Power Ver.
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  [★6] Lovestruck Marle
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  [★7] Lovestruck Marle
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  [★6] Lovestruck Light Marle
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  [★7] Lovestruck Light Marle

Concept Art

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  Concept Art of Marle and Squares
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  Concept Art of Marle and Squares
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  Concept Art of Puyo Puyo Tetris 2's Character Select Renders
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  Concept Art of Puyo Puyo Tetris 2's Character Select Renders

Other Media

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  Puyo Puyo Tetris 2 English Launch
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  Puyo Puyo Tetris 2 Japanese Launch
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  Wallpaper created for Puyo Puyo Tetris 2.
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  Wallpaper created for Puyo Puyo Tetris 2 (Mobile Device)
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  30th Anniversary Celebration from the Puyo Puyo Artwork Collection
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  Puyo Puyo!! Quest 9th Anniversary
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  4koma for Puyo Puyo Tetris 2