His head is a black sphere with only eyes for features. The style of these shoes resembles the Chuck Taylor All-Stars brand name, considered to be the "generic" or "standard" basketball sneaker. Marvin wears a Roman soldier's uniform, with basketball shoes. He is often accompanied by his dog "K-9", and sometimes by other creatures (one gag, first used in Hare-Way to the Stars (1958), being candy-sized "Instant Martians" that become full-size on addition of drops of water). Marvin hails from the planet Mars, but is often found elsewhere. Damon Jones (singing voice in The Looney Tunes Show, speaking voice in Looney Tunes: Rabbits Run).Eric Bauza ( The Looney Tunes Show, unfinished Marvin the Martian movie).Eric Goldberg ( Superior Duck, Looney Tunes: Back in Action).Joe Alaskey ( Tiny Toon Adventures, Bugs Bunny's Lunar Tunes, Another Froggy Evening, Marvin the Martian In the Third Dimension, Tweety's High-Flying Adventure, Duck Dodgers, Looney Tunes: Stranger than Fiction, Bah Humduck! A Looney Tunes Christmas, various video games).
Marvin was never named in the original shorts – he was called the Commander of Flying Saucer X-2 in The Hasty Hare in 1952 – but decades later, when the character attracted merchandising interest, the current name was selected. It demanded a kind of expressive body mechanics." But since he had no mouth, we had to convey that he was speaking totally through his movements. We thought putting it on this ant-like creature might be funny. "That was the uniform that Mars wore - that helmet and skirt. Marvin's design was based on a conception of the Roman god Mars. Marvin is the quietest of the Warner Bros.villains, and the most soft-spoken, and unlike most of the other villains, he is very clever and competent in general. cartoon villains, Marvin can be actually evil at most points, and not just daft although, like the others, he is also funny. Marvin the Martian was the result, and made his debut in 1948's Haredevil Hare. After Bugs Bunny had begun to outwit Yosemite Sam – the creation of the senior director, Friz Freleng – director Chuck Jones decided to create the opposite type of character, one who was quiet and soft-spoken, but whose actions were incredibly destructive and legitimately dangerous.