| “ | I don't care if we're no longer friends, I will protect the Earth and everyone on it! | ” |
―Mars, to Ganymede in The Battle of the Planets | ||
| “ | ...We get so lost in discussing the fun facts and science and how things are meant to work that we forget about what makes us... us! I think we should do both from now on. | ” |
―Mars, in The Rocky Planets | ||
| “ | Yo, it really worked! It really worked! It worked! It worked! It really, really worked! It worked! | ” |
―Young Mars, in The First Planets - Part 1 | ||
Mars is one of the main protagonists in SolarBalls and is the 4th planet from the Sun.
Design
Mars is the second smallest planet, orange in color with some dark and light areas. He also has eyes of different sizes.
In his youth he had more of a reddish color with thin light-orange stripes, which have disappeared over time.
Personality
Mars is generally outgoing and friendly and is shown to encourage and inform other celestial bodies. When he meets Titan, for instance, he lists off his geological features and admires him for his interesting physique, and he also encourages Mercury to stand up for himself when Venus bullies him. Despite his friendly demeanor, he can be quite ignorant and jumps to conclusions at times, not realizing why Earth could be acting the way he is even though they were best friends for some time. Mars is also more perceptive than his fellow rocky planets, as he is the only one who knows about the gas giants’ moons, Ganymede, Titan, and Europa. Mars also shows concerns for the gas giants a bit more than the other terrestrial planets such as in Search for Planet X - Part 1 as he asks Jupiter if he is OK.
Although Mars acts amicable most of the time, he sometimes mocks others, such as laughing along with Venus and Earth when they mocked Mercury's size. Mars can also be a little nosy, such as when he, Mercury, and the Moon demanded Astrodude the meaning of Venus's name. He can jump to conclusions when he automatically assumed that Ganymede and Europa not only were dating but that they didn't want to play cards in The Battle of the Planets.
In The Battle of the Planets, he is shown to be still protective of the Earth, even when they are no longer friends. When Ganymede and Europa attempted to convince him and Venus to join the Moon Revolution, they immediately refused upon hearing their objective, leading to the Galilean moons threatening them to join. A scuffle ensues between the planets and the moons. Despite their efforts, he and Venus were soon overwhelmed by the barrage of asteroids hurled at them by the outnumbering moons. Fortunately, Mars and Venus survived and were now recovering from the attack, shown in The Moon Revolution - Part 3. Mars and Venus now have fully finished recovering from the Moon Revolution attacks.
In What if the planets were ordered by SIZE? - Part 1, Mars can be seen ignoring Mercury, who was babbling endlessly, and revealing that he was worried about the Earth. He then decides to go argue with the Sun, causing Mercury to try and stop him, for he preferred their current orbits because he didn't need to be next to Venus. But no matter the amount of effort Mercury put in to stop him, Mars was still determined to go.
In The Rocky Planets, Mars reveals that he feels a secret superiority to everyone else, feeling that he always knows better than everyone due to his placement being next to Jupiter. He thinks that he's the more moral, and righteous person out of the others, but even tends to doubt himself, saying it probably wasn't true. Mars then apologizes to Earth for having abandoned him, then bringing on some playful banter by feeling sorry that he wasn't there to see them in the fight with the moons. In which Earth replies that he sucks at Asteroid dodge ball, to which Mars responds with laughter, and asks if they can be friends again, with Earth agreeing.
In Search for Planet X - Part 1, he had suspicions of Jupiter due to him struggling to answer his moons after they questioned if he ever did anything wrong in The Solar System Trials - Part 3. He then went on to question Jupiter about it and confessed to Jupiter that Mars looks up to him, thinks he's smart, super supportive, and good role model, before being interrupted by Saturn. He then spied on Jupiter and Saturn while they were having a private conversation, where he found out that Jupiter and Saturn were hiding something.
In The First Planets - Part 1, his younger personality was quite friendly and a little fear full as he got scared when Saturn came to see what Jupiter was yelling about after Mars was born and woke Jupiter up. He also tended to imitate the behavior of Jupiter and Saturn by joining in the dance with them and repeating “It worked”.
Also in the episode After The Crash - Part 1, he and Mercury restrained Venus from going to where Theia and Proto collided, stating it was too dangerous.
Trivia
- In early episodes SolarBalls, most of the time Earth, Venus, and Mars are drawn to be almost the same size, when in reality, Earth and Venus are much larger than Mars. In reality, Mars is only around half the size of Earth. Lately, in more recent episodes, while Mars' size is still not 100% accurate, he is drawn to be noticeably smaller than Earth and Venus.
- Mars is one of the oldest characters in the solar system being 4.6 billion years old referenced in "The Rocky Planets" thus Mars would be older then the Grand Tack which surprisingly he didn't make an appearance in the Big Bang - Part 2
- Mars is the first planet with differently-sized eyes and thus the largest planet whose eyes are different sizes and the second planet being Theia.
- Mars is the third celestial object Astrodude has landed on after Earth and Venus.
- Marstopher is the first celestial body to have facial hair.
- It is scientifically predicted that Mars may have thin rings in the future, when Phobos eventually approaches Mars' Roche Limit in 30-50 million years.
- Conversely, Deimos is slowly drifting away from Mars, and will likely eventually spiral away (leaving Mars with no moons).
- However, it is unknown whether this will happen in the series, given that the celestial bodies in the Solar System are alive.
- In the Mr-Spherical video titled "I'm giving away Mars! (MrBeast Parody)", Mars makes a cameo/appearance.
- Oddly at the end of the video, its revealed that there's aliens living on Mars. It is unknown if this is canon or not.
- Mars is the slowest of the rocky planets, orbiting the Sun at about 24 km/s compared to Mercury, Venus, and Earth's orbital velocities of 47.8, 35.0, and 29.8 km/s respectively.
External Links
- Mars on Wikipedia
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