Molly McGee is the titular protagonist from The Ghost and Molly McGee. She is a 13-year-old Irish-Thai-American girl who meets a grumpy ghost named Scratch, who after a curse he tries to put on her backfires, ends up cursed forever by Molly's presence.
History[]
Early life[]
Molly was born to Pete and Sharon McGee at some point in 2008.[5] Her family had to move to various places in the United States such as Oklahoma and Zuni, New Mexico, due to her father's job. For her, that has been quite hard as she has had to leave several friends behind and has not been able to establish meaningful bonds with people.[6]
Arrival in Brighton[]
In 2021,[5] Molly and her family relocate permanently in Brighton, a sleepy little town. Despite the poor appearance of her new house, Molly loves it instantly and the first thing she does is head to her room to get settled. While cleaning, she notices a ghost named Scratch, who has inhabited the house for many years. Molly instead of being scared is excited to see a real ghost, she tries to make friends with Scratch, although he refuses and tries to chase her away, but is unsuccessful. Scratch decides to put a curse on her, so that wherever she goes, he will be with her to torment her. Instead of scaring her, this makes her happy because Scratch will be with her forever, and Scratch realizes that instead of cursing Molly, he cursed himself. He goes with The Ghost Council to advise of how to undo the curse, and is told that the only way to break it was to scare Molly severely so that she would leave the house forever. Scratch, seeing that Molly is not scared of him, decides to scare the rest of the McGee family so that they will leave, but before he can succeed, Molly explains to her parents that Scratch is her new friend, and although reluctant at first, her parents accept Scratch. Later that night, her grandmother Nin tells her that in Thailand many houses have ghosts, and that to make them live comfortably, they were given a Sal Phra Phum (spirit house). Molly finds a dollhouse and gives it to Scratch, who accepts it.[6]
Appearance[]
Main article: Molly McGee/Designs
Physical appearance[]
Molly is a thin, olive-skinned Thai-American pre-teen girl of medium height, with almond-shaped dark brown eyes and medium-length dark brown hair, worn in a short ponytail with a pink hairband.
As a ghost, Molly has a bright gold color, which causes her to stand out amongst other ghosts, who look dark and gloomy. She also has pink eyes and a purple nose.
Attire[]
Molly wears a ripped jean vest with a teal pin, a white and black ringer shirt, a pink and purple skirt, and black biker shorts, and a pink hairband. She wears pink and yellow sneakers with green and white socks. She also has a purple spiral bracelet.
Personality[]
Molly is an optimistic Thai-American[7] girl, who lives to make the world a better place. She loves to give hugs and owns up quickly and tries to fix her mistakes, and is very imaginative. She is also energetic and caring to her friends, but also very clumsy, often tripping and slipping in most of her episodes, and is not really good at ice skating or softball (but then again, the rest of the team aren't good either). She shows a sense of naivety in "All Systems No" as well, still believing that wizards and unicorns are real despite already being a tween.
However, despite her caring nature, Molly can be sometimes selfish and pushy such as in "Mazel Tov, Libby!" where she transformed Libby's bat mitzvah into a blowout party and forces her to "come out of her shell," instead of respecting her friend's wishes and boundaries. At times like "Scratch the Surface", she can also get restless and overthink easily, making her prone to lying. Although generally gregarious, Molly does have some degree of savagery, mostly applied to bratty people namely Andrea Davenport, such as when Andrea stole her show in "Hooray for Mollywood!".
In "Saving Christmas", after failing to change the stubbornness of Mr. Davenport, Molly descended into a depression, losing her care for Christmas. This proves that Molly's optimism can be broken.
Molly going insane.
A major flaw of Molly is her tendency of getting too over her head and of feigning happiness, sometimes to the point of insanity. Out of pure desperation to enjoy the cold weather in "Ready, Set, Snow!", she plays in the snow alone, slowly losing her sanity in the process. Additionally, she seems to be unaware of her declining mental stability as she ironically claims she is trying to "maintain [her] composure" in the episode's song "Snow Day". In "The Don't-Gooder", Molly takes one-upping Andrea to such an extreme degree that it scares Scratch. Molly constantly lies about being homeless in "Home is Where the Haunt Is", claiming that "everything is totally normal." While singing "Everything is Normal", Molly attends various school clubs as a distraction, which ultimately leads to a mental breakdown in the middle of the song.
She also proves to be an excessive people-pleaser in order to hide her lack of self-confidence. This is displayed in "100% Molly McGee", when she struggles to accept her identity as a unique biracial individual after seeing her cousin Emmie speaking and understanding better in Thai in general, even going great lengths just to force herself to be more "Thai-like".
As a result, she tends to get upset when she thinks that she doesn't fit in such as finding out Libby and Andrea have their periods at an earlier age than her or when her family seem to be more in-tuned with her Thai heritage than her.
It is shown in Dance Dad Revolution that she gets her optimism and wanting to make a better place from her dad and possibly even the term āEnhappifyingā from him too.
Abilities[]
Molly is shown to be pretty athletic, scoring lots of stars as a Wilder-Scout.
Due to a curse, Molly could call and summon Scratch to her. Simply by saying his name, she could envelope Scratch in a pink aura that would forcibly drag him to wherever she was. However, as of "Home is Where the Haunt Is", the curse is no longer effective, though the two stayed together regardless.
After the curse was broken and Scratch got in trouble for choosing to stay with her, Molly discovered the means to become a wraith, a rare form of ghost that forms without the human body being dead, giving her access to the Ghost World in order to save her best friend. While in wraith form, she has a few of the most standard ghost abilities (most notably flying, intangibility, and the ability to take on a terrifying form when she is angry) and a bonus power no other ghost seems to have (yet if ever): everything she touches in the Ghost World literally turns into joy, as her relentless happiness manifests as flowers, tie-dye colors, fireworks, and butterflies. Her joy is so powerful that she weakened the Flow of Failed Phantoms enough to allow every soul in it to escape, and she dissolved the Chairman with nothing more than a playful touch.
She also has superficial knowledge in her Thai heritage.
Relationships[]
Main article: Molly McGee/Relationships
History
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Sightings[]
Foreign voice actors[]
| Language version | Actors | Notes |
|---|---|---|
 Spanish (Latin America)
|
Florencia Coianis | |
 Portuguese (Brazil)
|
Luiza Porto | |
 Czech
|
EliÅ”ka JirotkovĆ” | |
 German
|
Magdalena Hƶfner | |
 Danish
|
Thea Iven Ulstrup | |
 Arabic
|
Munda Mutasem | |
 Spanish (Castilian)
|
Ana De Castro | |
 Finnish
|
Seera Alexander | |
 French
|
Aaricia Dubois | |
 Hungarian
|
CsifĆ³ Dorina | |
 Indonesian
|
Tissa Agustina Putri | |
 Hebrew (Israel)
|
Hila Wizansky | |
 Italian
|
Emanuela Gabriela Ionica | |
 Japanese
|
Ahiru Ohira (大平ćć²ć) | |
 Korean
|
Kim Ja-yeon | |
 Malay
|
Azeera Nazir | |
 Dutch
|
Marlies Somers | |
 Norwegian
|
Silje Hagrim Dahl | |
 Polish
|
Ewelina KudeÅ-Nowosielska | |
 Portuguese (Portugal)
|
Mafalda LuĆs de Castro | |
 Romanian
|
Tamara Roman | |
 Russian
|
Yelizaveta Zaporozhets | |
 Swedish
|
Emelie Clausen | |
 Turkish
|
BegĆ¼m GĆ¼nceler |
Trivia[]
- Molly and Scratch are currently the only two characters to appear in every episode.
- Molly is the second Thai-American animated protagonist after Anne Boonchuy from Amphibia. Coincidentally they are both 13 years olds who befriended non human beings.
- Molly originally had a beauty mark under her right eye, but it was removed due to it being hard to keep in place during animation and would commonly look as if it is moving around her face. It also did not work very well with the expressive faces the characters in the show make.
- The bottom of Molly's skirt was designed to mimic the bottom of Scratch.
- Molly has a catchphrase called "Sweet baby corn" that she usually says whenever she's overjoyed, sad or shocked.
- "100% Molly McGee" revealed she, like her father Pete, has low spice tolerance.
- While Molly likes many things and is generally happy, there are a few things she dislikes.
- Molly has a hatred of magicians, as she believes they are frauds and do not use actual magic. In fact, she dislikes "being bamboozled" so much that she got mad at a rider when it is revealed his "unicorn" was really a horse dressed up to be travelling tourist attraction, hissing at him in quiet fury: "we'll have words later".
- Molly hates Weird Larry with a burning passion, to the point she goes out of her way to actively avoid him, which Scratch points out is "Un-Molly McGee-ish". In "The Internship", all the reasons for Molly to dislike Weird Larry were officially revealed: in addition to the fact he keeps pet skunks with their stink-glands still intact (Vera being his favorite "baby"), he also owns a pawn shop which she believes "happy memories come to die", a theory that isn't helped by the fact he collects junk and disassembles fully functioning, whimsical items for their rare parts. When Molly, as an intern, tells Weird Larry how she really feels about him and his store, however, he reveals what he uses those parts for, which helps her warm up to him and realize anyone can create joy... but she still isn't comfortable with the smell of skunks.
- Molly doesn't like Maple Syrup because, according to Scratch, it tastes like "a tree's tears" and dislikes the texture.
- Molly keeps a box full of things that make her unhappy in her bedroom, which she promised herself never to open unless it was an emergency. When such a time actually came (via needing to use her own sorrow as Sobgoblin bait) it was revealed that one of those items was a poster of a kitten hanging from a tree.
- Molly, while normally fearless, has things she's afraid of, like everybody else. Among those things are being alone, and spiders (both real and fake). She also finds her childhood doll, Baby Jesse, unnervingly creepy, and wasted no time putting that particular toy and tossing it out the window everytimes she sees it.
- Molly has type A blood though the Rh factor wasn't given.
- Molly shares some traits with 2 other Disney characters:
- Anne Boonchuy from Amphibia. Both are a Thai-American 13-year-old girls. However, unlike Anne, Molly is only half of Thai heritage (from Sharon), her other half being of Irish heritage (from Pete). Anne also shares Molly's dislike of durian as shown in the episode "The New Normal" and "The Best of Nin-tensions".
- Jake Long from American Dragon: Jake Long. Both of them are children of a European father and an Asian mother. They both also have a younger sibling. They both also fight with supernatural enemies.
- Molly has not had her period yet, as proved in "A Period Piece", when Mollyās dad was excited and ready to give Molly the talk when she discontinued her sentence about Libbyās period.
- Molly was originally supposed to have a little sister, but the idea was scrapped before the show was finalized.
- Despite quite a few promotional material and such describing Molly as a tween she is actually 13 making her a teen.
Gallery
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To view the various designs of Molly McGee, click here.
References[]
- ā "Disney's The Ghost and Molly McGee Reveals New Name, Logo, and Cast". Comicbook. Retrieved on September 24, 2020.
- ā by Kenny Star in Kenny's Falling Star
- ā 2m45s into 9 October 2020 promo "a thirteen-year-old optimist girl and a ghost"
- ā 29 July 2023 in All in the Mind Molly reads about "a curse to turn me from thirteen to thirty"
- ā 5.0 5.1 Motz, Bill [@inevitablybill] (November 27, 2021). "The show takes place in the present day. If we implied otherwise somewhere, that was a math error (Iāve never been great at math)." (Tweet). Twitter.
- ā 6.0 6.1 Bill Motz, Bob Roth (writers) and Stephen Heneveld (director) (October 1, 2021). "The Curse". The Ghost and Molly McGee. Season 1. Episode 1A. Disney Channel.
- ā https://www.instagram.com/p/CGVriRlBEJR/?igshid=yattkhgubpdp Ashly Burch "Bob and Bill, the lovely creators of the show, decided to model Molly's ethnicity off of whomever they cast to play her. So now she's half-Thai and half-white, like me!"