Marquis Mark – Mark Wahlberg aka Marky Mark
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Marquis Mark is the biggest fruit exporter in the Spiral. He is a friend of Prospector Zeke, and cousin of Don Manzana. Shortly before your Pirate arrived on Skull Island, a shipment of Marquis Mark’s bananas was scattered across the entire world. Mark soon ran into his friend Zeke, and not long after Zeke introduced him to the Pirate, who agreed to find his Funky Bunch of bananas. Your Pirate found the bananas all throughout Skull Island and returned them to him. Marquis Mark tells your Pirate to say hi your mother.
“Hey Pirate, how’s it going? So you’re a pirate, right? I like that! I ship bananas. I’m the biggest fruit exporter in the Spiral. I got a problem. A shipment of my bananas got scattered all over the place, and they’re going rotten. Can you find them?” – Marquis Mark
Years later, Marquis Mark would be part of the group of Monquistans to settle Puerto Nuovo, the Shard of Novus which appeared over the isle of Sardineia and so was settled by both Monquista and Valencia. He encountered and spoke with your Wizard after they arrived in the Banana Jungle with Monsignor del Monte, before a Monquistan Soldier informed Manzana that their essential supplies had been stolen. Marquis Mark accompanied the Wizard to go hunt Banana Spiders and retrieve the supplies back.
After his career as a banana merchant in Novus went bust, Marquis Mark is appointed Ambassador to Wallaru. It is unclear what connection the Marquis has to Marquis Mark II, a boss wizards meet when attempting master Myth Weaving in Selenopolis. The Marquis is one of a select few NPCs to interact with both your wizard and your pirate
Mark Robert Michael Wahlberg (born June 5, 1971), formerly known by his stage name Marky Mark, is an American actor and former rapper. His work as a leading man spans the comedy, drama, and action genres. He has received multiple accolades, including a BAFTA Award, and nominations for two Academy Awards, three Golden Globe Awards, and nine Primetime Emmy Awards.
Wahlberg was born in Boston. As a youth, he took part in a number of violent and racially motivated attacks, resulting in a felony conviction. He gained fame as a member of the hip hop group Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch in the 1990s, with whom he released the albums Music for the People (1991) and You Gotta Believe (1992). Wahlberg made his screen debut in Renaissance Man (1994) and had his first starring role in Fear (1996). He received critical praise for his performance as porn actor Dirk Diggler in Boogie Nights (1997).
(U.S. Marine Corps photo by Sgt. Jorge A. Rosales)
In the early 2000s, Wahlberg ventured into big-budget action movies, such as The Perfect Storm (2000), Planet of the Apes (2001), and The Italian Job (2003). He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for playing a police officer in the crime drama The Departed (2006). Wahlberg was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor for portraying Micky Ward in the sports drama biopic The Fighter (2010); as co-producer, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture. During the 2010s, he landed successful comedy roles with The Other Guys (2010), Ted (2012), Ted 2 (2015), Daddy’s Home (2015), and Daddy’s Home 2 (2017). Wahlberg also starred in the Transformers franchise films Transformers: Age of Extinction (2014) and Transformers: The Last Knight (2017). He was the world’s highest-paid actor in 2017.
Wahlberg served as executive producer of five HBO series: the comedy-drama Entourage (2004–2011), the period crime drama Boardwalk Empire (2010–2014), the comedy-dramas How to Make It in America (2010–2011) and Ballers (2015–2019), and the documentary McMillions (2020). He is co-owner of the Wahlburgers chain and co-starred in the reality TV series about it. Wahlberg received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2010.
A 2008 skit on Saturday Night Live entitled “Mark Wahlberg Talks to Animals” features Wahlberg (played by Andy Samberg) walking around a farm talking to animals and repeatedly says “say hi to your mother for me.”
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