- “Hey, moron! I'm invisible! How are you gonna fight someone you can't see?”
- ―Marcie[src]
Marcie Ross was a Sunnydale High student who became invisible.
Biography
Becoming Invisible
Marcie Ross turns invisible during class which no one notices
Marcie was a student at Sunnydale High School. She was not popular, had no friends and was completely ignored, even by the teachers. On her yearbook the only thing people signed was "Have a nice summer" which was used when they had nothing to say. Even unpopular students like Willow Rosenberg and Xander Harris wrote this and didn't seem to know her even though they had shared four classes in the ninth grade. Marcie's only real activity was to play the flute.
After a while, Marcie became invisible during one of Ms. Miller's classes when she raised her hand up to provide answers but wasn't noticed. 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. After this, Marcie then took shelter above the school's ceiling, below the roof.
"Haunting" Sunnydale High
Six months after becoming invisible, Marcie started using this new "power" to assault the popular students. She first beat Mitch Fargo with a baseball bat in the boy's locker room, leaving the word "LOOK". She pushed Harmony Kendall down a staircase and tried to kill Ms. Miller by suffocating her with a plastic bag, leaving the word "LISTEN" written on the chalkboard. It then became clear her main target was Cordelia Chase, the most popular girl in school.
Marcie, about to stab Buffy
The Slayer, Buffy Summers, found out what had happened to Marcie and tried to help Cordelia when she discovered the connection between her and the other victims. They tried to trap Marcie by using Cordelia as bait but Marcie managed to capture herand knock out Buffy with a hypodermic needle. She also tried to kill Giles, Xander and Willow by locking them in the boiler room that she subsequently attempted to flood with gas. However, Angel rescued the group because of his lack of a need to breathe (being a vampire),
Marcie took Cordelia and Buffy to the Bronze, tying them to chairs with the word "LEARN" placed decoratively on the curtain with sparkles. Marcie planned on giving Cordelia a "make-over" by mutilating her face. Buffy managed to free herself but found it difficult to fight Marcie when she couldn't see her. Buffy used her Slayer senses to detect the sound of Marcie'
Marcie's destiny
s movements, and landed a prefect punch, flying Marcie into the curtain which fell on her, rendering her visible.
"Rehabilitation"
Marcie was then 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 instructed her to turn to page 54 of a textbook on to page titled "Infiltration and Assassination." Looking at the page, Marcie remarked "cool".
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)