Harry and Marv (Home Alone 1 & 2)

Marv Merchants' (Daniel Stern)  and Harry Lime' (Joe Pesci) are the titular antagonists to Kevin in ' and ,'' who attempt robbing his house or chasing after him after Kevin's family had already left and had gone to Paris (Miami in the sequel).

Why They Rock

 * 1) They serve as a perfectly enjoyable foil to Kevin with being villainous comic reliefs while Kevin is a young and snarky yet guileful trickster.
 * 2) Despite Harry also being a bumbling fool of a criminal, he was smart enough to present and disguise himself as a publicly protective officer so nobody would be suspicious about the underhanded & devious activities he does with Marv at night.
 * 3) With that said, Marv and Harry make up a perfect relationship in crime.
 * 4) Like Patrick Star: Marv may be dumb, but he presents his idiocy hilariously.
 * 5) Just like the titular trio from Ed, Edd, N Eddy: These two are gods of durability.
 * 6) * In which Marv and Harry's slapstick humor pay an evident homage to The Three Stooges.
 * 7) These two have had the most timeless and memorably hilarious scenes because of their slapstick-induced buffooneries. These include the well-remembered flamethrower gag on Harry's head scene and the scene with Buzz's spider Axl on Marv's nose.
 * 8) They have the most comedic, memorable, and funniest lines throughout the movie.
 * 9) Marv and Harry may be comically and hilariously incompetent criminals, but they have had their moments of imposing a credible threat towards Kevin in both movies, especially in the second movie.

Bad Qualities

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

Trivia

 * Many doctors (such as DistractifyYT) in their reactions to both movies pointed out how painful and how much treatment these two would've been actually had in real-life aside from their durability.
 * The clownish yet impactful slapstick they were inflicted onto was so memorable, many YouTubers such as Corridor Crew and Vsauce3 actually tested how realistic the injuries would've been like on professionally made dummies and other supplies.

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