Harry and Marv (Home Alone 1 & 2)

Harold "Harry" Lime and Marvin "Marv" Merchants, also called the "Wet Bandits"/"Sticky Bandits", are the main antagonists in the 1990 Christmas comedy film mh:greatestmovies:Home Alone and its 1992 sequel mh:greatestmovies:Home Alone 2: Lost in New York, played by Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern. They attempt robbing Kevin McCallister's house or chasing after him after Kevin's family had already left and had gone to Paris in the first film and again when Kevin was lost in New York when his family were in Miami in the 1992 sequel.

Why They Rock

 * 1) They serve as a perfectly enjoyable foil to Kevin by being villainous comic-reliefs we laugh at because of their sheer ineptitude, meanwhile Kevin is a young and snarky yet guileful and heroic trickster that we root for.
 * 2) Despite Harry also being a bumbling fool of a criminal along with Marv, he was shown to be pragmatic enough to present and disguise himself as a publicly protective officer in Home Alone 1 so that nobody would be suspicious about the underhanded & devious activities that he does with Marv at night.
 * 3) * Especially where Harry established how he has some stealthy tactics with keeping the neighborhood safe and quiet enough to raise no suspicion around them by not causing any notable problems (e.g telling Marv how a house they were robbing shouldn't be flooded in Home Alone 1) and in Home Alone 2; he was smart enough to remind Marv of Kevin's predictably sadistic traps as a brief moment of outsmarting some of Kevin's plans, being the brains of the duo shows this.
 * 4) With that said, Harry and Marv make up a perfect relationship in crime.
 * 5) Like Patrick Star: Marv may be dumb, but he presents his idiocy hilariously.
 * 6) Just like the titular trio from Ed, Edd, N Eddy: These two are gods of durability.
 * 7) * Speaking of which, Harry and Marv's slapstick humor pays an evident homage to The Three Stooges.
 * 8) These two have had the most timeless and memorably hilarious scenes because of their slapstick-induced buffooneries. The scene with Buzz's spider Axl on Marv's nose for example.
 * 9) They have the most memorable and funniest lines throughout both movies.
 * 10) With that said, Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern did an excellent job at portraying their characters.
 * 11) Harry and Marv may be comically and hilariously incompetent crooks, but they have had their moments of imposing a credible threat towards Kevin in both movies, especially in the second movie. This scene in particular, was where they had a moment of briefly outsmarting some of Kevin's plans.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) In Home Alone 2, they are still comedic villains that comically if typically fail at their plans out of sheer incompetence, but they had become more of a punching bag than ever before, especially when it came to Kevin's over-exaggerated plans to outsmart them and The Pigeon Lady torturing them with bird seed at the end.
 * 2) * In which Marv also became a lot more dumber and goofier than in the first movie, although this is somewhat understandable from all of those head injuries that he sustained in the first film (and/or additional head injuries that he might have sustained in prison). That scene where Marv was also thrown four bricks at by Kevin would make this more believable.
 * 3) * Marv had also received the worst of the slapstick violence than Harry ever had, even more so than he did in the first movie.
 * 4) Like Sylvester: Their rivalry with Kevin can be quite repetitive in Home Alone 2.
 * 5) Like Wile E. Coyote: The constant, running gag of Harry and Marv's sheer ineptitude at their rivalry with Kevin or anything unrelated to that can get a bit stale in Home Alone 2, in a way of the "beating a dead horse" category at times since we already know how inept they usually are.

Trivia

 * Many doctors and nurses in their reactions to both movies (such as the doctors featured in DistractifyYT) had pointed out how painful and how much treatment these two would've been actually had in real-life aside from their durability.
 * The clownish, cartoonish yet impactful slapstick that they were inflicted onto in Home Alone 1 was so memorable, many YouTubers such as Corridor Crew, Fame Focus, and Vsauce3 actually tested how realistic the injuries would've been like on professionally made dummies and other supplies. This video is a prime example out of the many.
 * Marv returns in Home Alone 4 and is portrayed by French Stewart and Harry's name was only mentioned.

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