Harry and Marv (Home Alone 1 & 2)

Marv Merchants' (Daniel Sterns) and Harry Lime (Joe Pesci) are the titular antagonists to Kevin who attempt robbing his house after Kevin's family had already left and had gone to Paris.

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 himself as a protective officer so nobody would be suspicious about his underhanded activities 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 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 the first and second movies.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) In Home Alone 2, they are still villains that 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 and The Pigeon Lady torturing them at the end.
 * 2) * In which Marv became a whole lot dumber than the first movie, which is somewhat understandable where Marv was also thrown rocks at by Kevin to make this more believable.
 * 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.

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