Marie

Marie Kanker is the middle sibling of the Kanker Sisters (older than May but younger than Lee). She has short blue hair that covers her right eye. She is in love with Edd, and many times he has been victim of the extreme love she has for him. She has a thing for automobiles. She wears a black sleeveless shirt, a pink belt and green pants. Her appearance takes on a slightly rocker chick edge. She is somewhat crafty and sneaky. Her teeth are yellow. She wears a sleeveless shirt and shorts for bed. She seems to be protective of her sister, May as shown in "Ed, Edd n Eddy's Hanky Panky Hullabaloo" and she also seems to be very jealous of Nazz in the episode "May I Have this Ed?" when she took Edd to dance. Marie seems to have a slight accent.

Marie the Menace
Marie, she of the blue barnet and matching eyeshadow is the in-yer-face tough-guy of the Kanker trio, she "likes cheaters" and definitely has an air of menace and trouble-maker about her as well as having a fuse even shorter than Sarah's. If Lee is the brains of the outfit and May is the secret specially-honed weapon then Marie is definitely the muscle and what's more she enjoys flexing it. Marie's voice isn't as loud as May's or as grating as Lee's but all the same it’s a signal to 'don't mess' - she has a mean streak as wide as the Bering Straits and she doesn't mind using it on her sisters when the Eds aren't available - take note of the delight she took in tweaking that hair out of Lee's arm - yeowch!

Although Lee is the apparent leader of the bunch, Marie can get her way by bossing her sisters around physically as well as verbally but despite her apparent thug n slug persona she can be quite rational too and she's not easily scared or given to flights of fancy like May is ie when the sleeping Jonny is lofted onto Lee who is flattened and can't move May won't touch him 'cos he's too weird but Marie will and she'll have a verbal dig at Lee while she's doing it to show she's on top of the situation - she's gonna make drill sergeant in no time and rub your nose in it along the way for good measure!

Marie the Mauler
Marie is the real tomboy of the group and sometimes a bit of a bully when she doesn't get her own way, just because Double D is her so-called boyfriend and she simpers "Hiya muffin" doesn't mean she's adverse to wiping the floor with him - or any of the others for that matter. Where did May's black eye come from? Courtesy of Marie of course! She also proves to be a dab hand at wrestling as the Eds soon discover in 'Tag Yer Ed' and her speciality is the 'purple nurple'. Sadly we don't actually get to see this infamous move but somehow this makes it all the more menacing and meanwhile poor naïve Edd still thinks it’s a strudel filling, I hope he's never illuminated! Mushed fruit was never as bruised as this!

However just like a strudel there's a soft centre to Marie too (only with less cinnamon) and even though its kept well hidden away, we get glimpses of it now n then in her original attitude towards the Eds when they fell into the Kankers' clutches - willing to bend over backwards to fix a snack, and in the fact that nine times out of ten she's genuinely pleased to see her "boyfriend" Double D. Goes to show there's a decent kid in there somewhere, maybe if she was on her own she wouldn't be so bad, who can say - but the proximity of her sisters seems to bring out the bad girl in her and also … well, she likes pounding people!

Marie a la Mode
Appearance-wise Marie is definitely verging on the Gothic/grunge end of the scale and with that eternal black sleeveless vest and her dark blue eyeshadow, its an awful strain to imagine her dolled up in ribbons and bows for Sunday afternoon tea at Auntie's. I half expect her to have an electric guitar stashed away under a pile of old oil filters & spare lawn mower parts and spend her evenings watching re-runs of the Crow while painting her nails that familiar rusty red again.

Yet of course her image perfectly compliments her characteristics, there's no middle ground with Marie Kanker, and no secrets either -what you see is what you get and while she may not be in the running for future prom queen she has a certain style that isn't wholly bad, and hey I admit it some of us actually used to dress like that!

Marie the Minx
Volatile Marie definitely seems more suited to the robust Ed or even the crafty Kevin than the delicate Edd, so why does it have to be Edd? Maybe its his very 'one puff of wind and I'll fall over' qualities that appeal to her, or perhaps he brings out her maternal side?

Perhaps its Edd because she knows he's very unlikely to disagree with anything she says or tells him to do thus making him the ideal boyfriend. In their 'Honor thy Ed' wedding, Ed is easily coerced by the promise of soda, Eddy remains bad-tempered & defiant but Edd has already resigned himself to wherever fate (aka Marie) is going to take him. She knows she only has to wear his confidence down and take advantage of those innate good manners and the rest will be easy - Edd does all the work for her!

The real reason she likes Edd is simply that she think he's a little cutie like so many of his fans do, and presto, that's the rub for all the 3 Kankers it's Marie that Edd's fans initially dislike the most. Maybe it's just that impression that she's going to get what she wants by whatever means it takes or maybe it's just because she's got her heart set on cute Edd?

[*= All of the above credit goes to Edtropolis.com]

Trivia/Goofs

 * Judging from the episode "Out with the Old, In with the Ed," Marie seems to adore Tater-tots.
 * She has a large crush on Double D.
 * Her actions in "A Twist of Ed" leads one to believe that Marie may be afraid of commitment.
 * In the episode "Ed, Edd n Eddy's Jingle Jingle Jangle" at the scene where the cracker exploded in the Kanker Sister's face, Marie was shown to have an eyepatch under her hair; which leaves questions about their home-life. Although, this could just have been an gag. But in season one all the times when you get to see both her eyes, she has no eyepatch on. She might have kept the eyepatch on from when she and her sisters where pirates.
 * She likes cheaters (said in in "Over Your Ed"), slobs (said in "Run for your Ed"), and she might like men with muscles (in "Honor Thy Ed" when she painted the drawing on the can).
 * Marie and her sisters played hookey for a short while until they were mysteriously seen in class again. It makes one wonder if they got caught.
 * It's obvious that Marie must have a basic knowledge of the arts to have referenced Vincent Van Gogh in the episode "Ed, Edd n Eddy's Hanky Panky Hullabaloo".
 * Big Jim Miller, the head storyboard artist for many of the episodes of Ed, Edd n' Eddy, thinks that Marie is the cutest girl out of the every female character. According to Animation by Mistake, he says she has a completely sultry half-lidded smirk and punctuated this by purring.
 * When people hit on Double D when Marie is watching, she gets very jealous, which is proven in "May I Have this Ed?".

Old Marie
In "Take This Ed and Shove It" Marie has grown into an ugly, morbidly obese senior citizen. She is still the toughest, trickiest Kanker, married to Edd and has one child.

FusionFall
Marie is one of the NPCs in FusionFall and is located in the Trailer Park in Peach Creek Commons (just outside the cardboard fortress). Marie commonly works on a "Trojan Hamburger" project which she, and her sisters, will hide in and the Eds will mistake for an actual giant hamburger & unknowingly let them in the Cul-de-Sac. She normally bullies the other kids into helping her work on it, or Lee when she isn't doing anything. She gives multiple missions but does not have a Nano.

In the future, she is absent from her normal location. and where that is, there is the Trojan Manburger sinking in a pit of fusion matter. In one mission, Eddy says that she & the Kankers "Aren't around anymore", so it is likely that they either were lost in the war or fled when Fuse gained the upper hand.