Marcie Ross was a Sunnydale High student who became invisible.
Biography
Marcie was a student at Sunnydale High School. She was not popular, had no friends and was completely ignored, even by the teachers. Her only real activity was to play the flute. After a while, she became invisible. Rupert Giles theorized that it was the result of the Hellmouth manipulating reality on the quantum level. Since people essentially perceived Marcie as being invisible, she literally became that way. Using this new "power", Marcie started assaulting the popular students Mitch Fargo with a baseball bat and Harmony Kendall by pushing her down a staircase, with Cordelia Chase as her main target.
The Slayer, Buffy Summers, found out what had happened to her, but when she tried to confront Marcie she and Cordelia were captured and Giles, Xander Harris and Willow Rosenberg were locked in a basement that Marcie subsequently attempted to flood with gas. Angel rescued the group in the basement because of his lack of a need to breathe (being a vampire), while Buffy managed to defeat Marcie by using her Slayer senses to knock Marcie into a theater curtain, thus rendering her visible.
She was taken away by federal agents Doyle and Manetti, who took her to a classroom full of invisible students like herself. As she arrived, the teacher began to to teach about "Infiltration and Assassination."
Behind the scenes
- She was portrayed by Clea DuVall.
- Dark Horse editor Scott Allie was surprised at the popularity of the one-shot character when several fans wrote to his letter column, requesting her inclusion in Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight.
- With the End of Magic, it is unknown if Marcie and her companions retained their invisibility; it is somewhat likely that they lost it.
Appearances
- "Out of Mind, Out of Sight"
- "Gone" (Only mentioned)
- "Storyteller" (Only mentioned)