Jacob Marley Background information Feature films A Christmas Carol Television programs Video games Park attractions Portrayed by Portrayed by Animators Voice Gary Oldman Performance model Gary Oldman Designer Inspiration Honors and awards Character information Full name Other names Personality Cruel & selfish (in life) Worried (afterlife) Appearance A green misty ghost wearing chains with keys and chests Birthday Occupation Moneylender (in life) Affiliations Ebenezer Scrooge (in life) Goal To prevent Scrooge from suffering the same fate as he did Home Relatives Pets Allies Minions Enemies Likes Money (in life) Dislikes Scrooge's disobediance (afterlife) Powers and abilities Moving through walls and closed doors Weapons Chains Fate Already dead, spent his afterlife bound in heavy chains with keys and chests. Quote "In life, I was your partner Jacob Marley." "I am here to warn you, that you have yet a chance and a hope of escaping my fate." "You wil be haunted by three spirits."

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Jacob Marley is the long deceased business partner of Ebenezer Scrooge. He is a character from Charles Dickens' story A Christmas Carol and its many adaptations.

Role in the story

In life, Marley, like Scrooge, was a bitter, cruel and greedy man. When he died, he was damned to eternally wander the earth as a decrepit spirit, forever burdened by a mass of chains that represent his accumulated sins. On the 7th anniversary of his death, which falls on Christmas Eve, Jacob Marley's ghost visits Scrooge in his house, warning him that he will suffer the same fate if he does not change his ways and informing him that he will be visited by three spirits later that night. Marley was presumably made visible to Scrooge for this visit as part of the arrangement among the spirits to convince Scrooge to change his ways. Marley warns Scrooge to expect the first ghost when the clock tower strikes 1, the second the same night at the same hour, and the third upon the same night when the clock tower strikes 12. Because A Christmas Carol is a story involving time travel, all this could happen in one night.

Scrooge is initially against this idea, and unsuccessfully suggests that the three ghosts visit him all at once to get it over with faster as Jacob Marley leaves the room and disappears. When Scrooge is dragged towards the window, thanks to one of Marley's chains, he is horrified to see thousands of spirits who, like Jacob Marley, were all green, misty ghosts bound in chains.

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See also

• Goofy - Portrayed the role of Marley in Mickey's Christmas Carol, and also portrayed the role again in the Mickey Mouse Works short "How to Haunt a House"
• Jasper and Horace Badun - Portrayed the role of Marley in the 101 Dalmatians episode "A Christmas Cruella"
• Statler and Waldorf - Portrayed the role of Jacob and Robert Marley in The Muppet Christmas Carol. (Note: There was no Robert Marley in A Christmas Carol)