MarzGurl
MarzGurl (Kaylyn Dicksion; the alias is a reference to Marvin the Martian and her gender) is one of three members of That Guy With the Glasses who tried out for The Nostalgia Chick position. While neither she nor That Chick With The Goggles won the position they were still kept on as entertainment for the site, with Marzgurl covering anime and anime-related news. Previously a videographer of anime conventions, MarzGurl has made several attempts and reattempts to reinvent herself, often failing, and often acknowledging her own failure. She finally seems to have found her voice with the Anime News Editorial, a serious commentary on current events in the medium, as well as with her The Land Before Time movie reviews.
This work provides examples of:
- Acting for Two: As herself and Juno the Sorceress.
- Action Girl: In both Kickassia and Suburban Knights.
- Author Tract/Author Filibuster: She opposes illegal scanlations and streaming of anime and would rather see those things to be available legally and for a small price. Whenever this is the topic of the ANE of the week, expect this to happen.
- Berserk Button: When An American Tail: The Treasure of Manhattan Island retcons Fievel Goes West.
- Big No: At the end of her Beauty and Warrior review.
- And during her Adaptation Terror of the Fist of the North Star live action film.
- Bile Fascination: Her compulsion to pick up 99 cent DVDs from bargain bins and watch them.
- BLAM Episode: The MarzGurl and Linkara crossover review of Cool World was one big one, considering the whole movie is just about a Big Lipped Alligator Movie.
- Brown Note: To put it bluntly, MarzGurl takes the One Piece Piss Take Rap quite well.
- The Cast Showoff: 'Marz Gurl sings'
- Oh my, yes. Her cover of "Golden Sky" is epic.
- Deadpan Snarker
- Fan Boy / Fan Girl: In her own words, "That's Marvin, think I'm in love with him" (see also this, around 6:25).
- Gentle Giant
- Genius Bruiser
- Go Mad From the Revelation: Had a real tough time reviewing Arcade Gamer Fubuki, and an even worse time with Cool World. Only Linkara managed to keep her from smothering herself with the second.
- Later she returns the favor for Linkara.
- Ha Ha Ha No: "Is it good? Ha ha... no, not really."
- Hard Work Montage: In her "A New Day" video, Marz Gurl attempts to satisfy fans by completely changing her personality and appearance. We're treated to a montage of her raging with determination to do whatever it takes to be a crowd-pleaser. Whether this worked or not is subject to personal opinion.
- Limited Wardrobe: Black jumpsuit and blue sneakers. Although her last few videos have had some different outfits.
- Macekre: Also discussed in Translation/Adaptation Terrors.
- Masochists Meal: One of her non-review videos showed her and two friends trying a 4 Horsemen burger, made with the hottest peppers known to man. None of them finish it.
- Mondegreen: For Gundam 0083's opening theme "The Winner".
- No True Scotsman: In her case, it's "no true anime fan".
- Political Correctness Gone Mad / Moral Guardians: Back when she first got started, MarzGurl made several cracks about how animation has been cleaned up and "sanitized" by concerned busybodies from the '60s on that looked like it would be a recurring "thing", but it never quite did.
- Retool: It took her many different attempts - while facing constant criticism from the viewers - to find her niche. Look back at her early videos and marvel at aborted series after aborted series.
- Sarcasm Mode: This Photo.
- Self Deprecation: She likes to poke fun at her acting skills, or lack thereof.
- Following her on Twitter can sometimes be very depressing. She often is publicly her own worst troll, about far more than just her acting.
- Sequelitis: She won the respect of quite a few viewers by actually sitting through and reviewing all 13 movies of The Land Before Time series, plus the TV show, with many commenters urging her to quit for her own safety.
- Ship Sinking: Shortly after the release of Kickassia, it emerged that Linkara was dating the blogger Iron Liz, with their relationship subsequently being incorporated into the continuity of AT4W & sinking any possibility of a Marzgurl/Linkara Crossover Ship.
- In the words of Marzgurl herself, "LOLOLOL, SUCK IT, LinkaraXMarzGurl slashers! - http://thefoundary.blogspot.com/2010/05/who-is-iron-liz.html#more"
- Ship Tease: With Linkara. ("I do love you, but I love Stalin more..." and "Take comfort in my masculine arms!", among others).
- "Linking up with Linkara". The fact that it's actually a threesome with The Nostalgia Chick makes it even better. That it turns out it never happened and the two women were playing a prank on him does not.
- The third of Angry Joe's "Hotel Awesome" sketches: he tries to chat up all the women of TGWTG that have gathered for Kickassia and knocks on her door. She rushes out eagerly, but is obviously disappointed to find Joe there. So who was she expecting?
- 8-bit Mickey?
- AND 8-Bit Mickey.
- Shoot Em Up: This first of the Translation Terror series described the Shoot Em Up series "Castle Shikigami".
- Shotacon: Was in "Matin' With Ma-Ti". As he pointed out, he's, like, 14 (and suffers from Dawson Casting).
- Victoria's Secret Compartment: She pulls a wad of bills from between her breasts in "Linking up with Linkara".