Marx

Marx is one of the main characters in Voidmates, originating from the Kirby series.

He debuts in Chapter 1 of the first volume.

Appearance
Marx appears to be a small round creature with lavender colored fur. He's usually seen wearing a blue and red jester hat, but underneath it he possess 2 pointed ears. The rest of Marx's outfit consists of a red bowtie and brown shoes with lighter brown stripes.

Marx can pull out and retract two golden colored wings. These wings contain two claws on each wing, red hearts in the middle, and pointed heart shapes at the end. These wings also produce space like material. Marx has also shown the ability to only pull out the claws, which act like hands. These wings can also appear dull if Marx is sick or malnourished.

When partially corrupted, Marx's sclera turn a dark red, similar to how Cuphead's eye is. He gains pupils similar to Cuphead's as well. His bowtie turns sharp and becomes longer. He gains red horns, which break through his hat. The ends of his jester hat may also turn into appendages, as seen in Chapter 7.

Personality
Marx is shown to have a typical calm personality when not in danger. However, Marx is quick to anger, and will snap at people or things he sees as dangerous. Most of the times he does so is usually a situation where he tries to protect other people. However, along with this base personality, Star has stated that Marx also has depression, and regrets his past actions.

When corrupted, the previous personality is thrown out the window, and replaced with a feral mindset. Marx has been shown to fear this form.

Origins


Marx is originally from the Kirby series. He appears as a final boss in Kirby Super Star and Kirby Super Star Ultra, and also appears a a boss in Super Smash Brother Ultimate. Despite his past as a villain, he makes an appearance as a playable Dream Friend in Kirby Star Allies.

Known Abilities

 * Flight: Marx can summon his wings and is capable of flight. Star has stated that Marx's top flying speed is 100 MPH.
 * Teleportation: Marx is capable of teleporting small distances.
 * Portal creation: Marx can create portals that he can go through. It is currently unknown if other objects or people can go through these portals. (As seen in Chapter 3)
 * Quad Cutter: Marx can summon 4 crescent blades that can cut through things.
 * Vine summoning: Marx can summon vines at will (As seen in Chapter 3)
 * Electric arrows: Marx is capable of summoning electric arrows (As seen in Chapter 2)
 * Ice Bomb: Marx is able to spit out a sphere of ice that freezes any foe. However, the ice can't hold them for long, hence why Cuphead escaped the ice so easily in Chapter 1.
 * Mouth Laser: Marx can summon a giant laser from his mouth, which deals massive damage. Star has stated that whenever Marx does this, it hurts him.
 * Self Splitting: Marx can split himself in half with ease, however this will cause him to bleed out.
 * Dark Eyeballs: Marx can pop out his eyeballs with dark energy, and use them as homing attack.
 * Fiery Veins: Marx can summon veins that emit flames to burn his foes. Star said that this attack also hurts Marx.
 * Eye Lasers: Marx can expand his eyeballs and fire multiple lasers from this.
 * Explosive Bubbles: Star has stated that Marx can sneeze multiple bubbles that explode when popped. Marx cannot control this power.
 * Mirror summoning: Marx can summon a small mirror for any convenience.
 * Speedy Healing: Star has stated that thanks to his magic, Marx heals quite quickly.
 * Ribbon Attack: While corrupted, Marx can use the ends of his bowtie to attack.
 * Mirror Shield: Marx can summon a mirror like shield to defend himself against attacks.

Pre-Voidmates
Marx was born on March 21st, 1984. Star has stated that Marx's parents died in a fire when he was very young. Not much is known about Marx's life before Milky Way Wishes.

In 1996, the events of Milky Way Wishes, everything plays out similarly to the game. In the end, Marx is thrown into NOVA and dies in the explosion. Marx's body lays dormant in space until 2009, when his body absorbs the Galactic NOVA's magic, transforming him into Marx Soul. With help from Kirby, Marx returns to normal, and attempts to live a peaceful life. He helps Kirby here and there with saving Popstar, including an incident during the events of Planet Robobot, where seeing Star Dream sends him into a complete panic attack.

During the events of World of Light, Galeem allows Marx to search for Kirby, and even grants him some light powers. Later though, Marx is captured by Dharkon, who possesses his body with darkness and forces him to fight Kirby against his will. He lost his wings in the process, and was greatly traumatized by the events. Later, Marx entered a depressive state. Marx would hurt himself, and starve himself on purpose. He eventually reached the thought that everyone would be better off without him. Marx almost ended his own life by intentionally falling off a steep cliff, but he was thankfully caught by one of the Void Portals before he could hit the ground.

Volume 1
In Chapter 1, Marx meets a scared Bendy, who was running away from Cuphead. When Cuphead is about to hurt Bendy, Marx intervenes by freezing Cuphead. However, he escapes from the ice and hits Marx with a Nightmare Shot, which slowly starts corrupting him. Marx is almost killed by Cuphead, before Bendy stops the two from fighting. They call a temporary truce, and proceed to travel in a group.

In Chapter 2, Marx is awoken by the ongoing battle of Oswald and Sans against the giant blob. When Marx notices that Cuphead is missing, he starts to panic before Cuphead reappears. They trio proceeds to head towards the battle. Marx attempts to stop the giant blob on his own, yet is interrupted when the recently evolved Meicoomon finishes the blob herself. Mei spots Cuphead, which makes her panic, and teleport away with Marx.

In Chapter 3, Meicoomon explains to Marx that Cuphead is a dangerous beast that tried to attack her. This conversation is interrupted when Luci appears in Marx's hat, causing Marx to teleport a short distance away without his hat. Larimar walks up to them, and offers Marx his hat back, when a corrupted Ruffles flies by and snatches the hat, with Luci inside. The fear and sadness Marx feels causes him to become partially corrupted, which leads him to attack Ruffles. The only thing that stopped him was Meicoomon pleading him to stop. Marx deeply regrets his actions, as they reminded him of how he tried to hurt Kirby. When Cuphead finds the group, Marx was about to leave, when Cuphead yelled at him not to leave. This reaction prompts Marx to stay. Larimar explains to Marx that she had been in a similar situation with her previous corruption, and that she relates to him. Marx's corruption got worse, however, causing him to run away in fear.

Marx reappears in Chapter 7, in a more corrupted form. Marx was about to attack a curious Betty, when he was able to regain control. Betty sees the situation that Marx is in, and offers to help. Marx is extremely grateful for the offer, and allows Akumu to remove most of the corruption. Marx thanks the two, before remembering that he abandoned the others, and proceeds to try and find them with Betty.

Marx makes a minor appearance in Chapter 9. Betty asks him if he wants to help take down a corrupted creature, yet Marx politely refuses. Marx also seemed to be shocked when Alastor killed the creature in one hit.

Marx appears at the end of Chapter 10. It's presumed that he didn't see the battle of Cuphead against Super Sonic. When he appears, Bendy hugs Marx a little too hard when they reunite. Marx then asks the trio to follow him to reunite with the others.

In Chapter 11, Marx reunites with the others, who are all ecstatic to see Bendy. Marx then introduces them to the amnesiac Fleetway, which sends everyone except Alastor and himself into a panic. Marx states that he trusts Fleetway, and even cracks a joke about how they brought Cuphead along. His happiness doesn't last long though, as his body slowly starts to show signs of corruption once again. Fleetway points this out, but Marx insists that he's fine.

Marx can be heard in the beginning of Chapter 12, when he yells for Meicoomon to come help him and Luci in what seems to be a dangerous situation.

In Chapter 13, Marx was battling entities similar to the ones in Chapter 12. One of these entities shapeshifted into him, and seemed to have inherited his powers. Marx gets angered and starts becoming partially corrupted again, attacking his doppelganger. He's then hit by the second entity that shapeshifted into Meicoomon, and snaps out of it (not without his normal form gaining another corruption scar). Before Marx can get hurt even more, Luci activates his Voidcharm and saves him. Marx gets scared when he notices his Voidcharm starts losing color, yet again he keeps insisting to the others that he's fine. Marx notes at the end that if Luci can evolve into something that powerful, he's afraid of what he'll become.

Bendy
Marx seems to be good friends with Bendy. Marx has been shown to comfort Bendy whenever he's sad. He's also shown to be protective of him at times, especially when Cuphead is around.

Cuphead
Marx sees Cuphead as a threat. He attacked Cuphead in an attempt to protect Bendy in Chapter 1, but almost got killed in the process. Marx gets scared when Cuphead temporarily goes missing in Chapter 2, fearing that Cuphead will kill him and Bendy. Marx also didn't seem too pleased when he found Cuphead first in Chapter 10. Marx even made fun of Cuphead, hoping he'd hear that wisecrack.

In Non-Canon Material, Marx seems to have some sort of crush on Cuphead, even though they hate each other in the actual series

Meicoomon
Marx seems to be on good terms with Meicoomon. He even snapped out of his corruption when Mei pleaded him to stop.

Luci
It was previously unknown whether Marx is on good or bad terms with Luci at this point, since he was the reason Marx lost his hat in the first place. However as of Chapter 13, the two seem to be on good terms.

Larimar
Marx is on good terms with Larimar.

Betty
Marx seems to like Betty, as she and Akumu fixed his corruption temporarily.

Alastor
It's unclear what Marx thinks of Alastor, but he did seem to fear what Alastor did in Chapter 9.

Sans
Not much is known about the two's relationship at this point, but Marx is trusting enough to go on top of Sans in Chapter 11.

Oswald
Oswald and Marx have only been seen together in Chapters 2 and 11, but they have yet to interact.

Bill Cipher
As of now, the two have not interacted at all.

Super Sonic/Fleetway
Marx has not interacted with Super Sonic in canon Voidmates material.

However, Marx has interacted with Fleetway. Marx trusts Fleetway, as they seem innocent enough. Fleetway even showed concern for Marx when the corruption popped back up.

Kirby
Marx tried to kill Kirby during Milky Way Wishes, however after those events, Marx has been close friends with Kirby.

Magolor
Star has stated that Marx has been best friends with Magolor ever since the events of Return to Dreamland.

Meta Knight
In a lore drop, Star has stated that Marx grew closer to Meta Knight during the events of Planet Robobot, however the circumstances are unknown.

Trivia

 * Marx has been confirmed to be 2 ft. tall.
 * Marx is voiced by Star themselves in the comic dub.
 * Star also voices Marx in several memes and promotional material.
 * Ironically in the casting call, Star was looking for someone else to voice Marx, before deciding to voice him themselves.
 * Star has stated that Marx is their favorite character, alongside Meicoomon and Super Sonic.
 * In several statements, Star has said that Marx represents Faith.
 * Star has confirmed that Marx Soul is a Dark Evolution.
 * Marx has made appearances in Beta Voidmates material as a main character.
 * Marx seems to be more energetic in said material.
 * He also seems to be more depressed in the material.
 * Marx has his own ask blog run by Star, however its canonicity is questionable.
 * Marx's favorite foods are anything apple related.
 * Marx makes a cameo appearance in Star's latest project "Brian Dies: The Movie".
 * There is also another Marx that appears in the series, however Star has stated that these are two different Marxs.
 * There's also a continuity error where Demonchu, the series' antagonist, distracts Marx from that universe by claiming that Star needs them on the set for Voidmates. This is noted in the video, where Star jokes on how this is the wrong Marx.
 * Star also voices Marx in a scene that crosses over with Voidmates.
 * Marx has been confirmed to be Bisexual.
 * It was implied in the past that Marx and Kirby were a romantic couple, however Star has recently stated that it's no longer canon.
 * Marx makes a minor appearance in Super Sonic: Into the Multiverse.
 * Outside of Voidmates material, Marx seems to have a more bubbly personality.
 * Additionally, Star has said that they wish they had gave Marx more of this personality in the comic.
 * Marx has been stated to be, in Star's words, "A walking corpse"
 * This could be the reason why Marx doesn't have most of his bones in his body.
 * Marx has been shown in a teaser for an upcoming project.

Gallery
Marx (Gallery)