 This article is about a/an rider in Tri-Ranger's Snack Warriors.
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- "Snack Decoration! With Beauty and Excitement, Let's・La・Mix it All Up!"
- ―Bonbon's transformation announcement.[src]
Marinette Chalamet is a young confectioner who transforms into Snack Warrior Bonbon. She is also a student at Collège Françoise Dupont alongside the other Snack Warriors.
History
First Appearances and Transforming Into Bonbon
Marinette makes a brief cameo appearance in the first episode of the show, when she sees the vision of a lollipop in the sky after a Flavour Spark eruption at Strawberry Mountain. Her next short appearance is at the end of episode 4, when Theo accidentally bumps into her as he jumps excitedly , and she chuckles in response.
Theo, Céline and Jules then learn more about Marinette, who is extremely popular among their school peers and the townspeople and is rumored to be one of the most beautiful girls in the whole school. One day, while Theo attempts to pet the fabled "Three-Star Kitty", Marinette notices and is successfully able to pet him herself. She then slowly warms up to Theo. So much so, that the next day, Marinette takes him around town, first to a boutique where she tries on different outfits and then playing a crane game and looking at the different-colored lollipops among other things.
Theo notices something is up with Marinette whenever she sees them, so he suggests that Marinette stops by the Sweet Tooth Candy Shop later so they can make their own lollipops together. Céline and Jules are shocked to see her at the store as they, along with Theo, start making the lollipops. When they didn't turn out right, Marinette makes a batch herself, but they do not turn out right and didn't taste as well as they want it to. She then briskly makes another batch, and the finished products all looked cracked, so she tries to make yet another batch when Theo suggests decorating it to fix it, and she then does so for one of them, having it resemble a robot. Seeing it makes Marinette smile, but the celebration doesn't last long when Maquillon, a Flavour Spark Thief that would steal the energy from lollipops, appears and steals more from the ones they had already made.
The three Snack Warriors, wanting to protect them, transform to battle her but have a difficult time doing so. Just then, Marinette, wanting to defend the lollipops, stands up to Maquillon. As a result, the robot lollipop she held became a pair of Junkies and a Sweets Pact, allowing her to transform into Snack Warrior Bonbon for the first time. Using her newfound cat-like agility and strength, she is successfully able to defeat Maquillon, turning her back into her normal size and restoring the Flavour Spark she stole from all the lollipops.
Exposing Aurélie
When Marinette leaves for school, her grandmother stops her to bring up their upcoming tea time on Sunday. That evening, when everyone wonders what was wrong with her, Aurélie suddenly appears to ask if her problem is that everyone has their own special attribute at Sweet Tooth that they enjoy, while she does not. She is actually suspicious of Aurélie, so she pretends to trust her and even lies to her that she has an older brother.
After locating Aurélie surrounded by her unconscious fanclub and wasting no time transforming into Snack Warrior Bonbon after she teases her, she pretends to be sad when he brings up her "brother", but she reveals the truth that she is only using that lie to confirm her suspicions regarding Aurélie. She admits that while she does feel pain from her lifestyle at times, she blames nobody else for the path that she chose to walk, nor would she allow darkness to control her.
Overcoming Her Past
One day, Marinette is seen to be noticeably more troubled. Louis tries to encourage her to enjoy life, but she doesn't feel the same way. On her way delivering the matcha-flavoured candies, she encounters Daphné who absorbs the candies Flavour Spark and steps into the mirror that the latter had created. Inside the mirror, Marinette finds a wall of images that is about her childhood, and meets her child self. She then gets restricted and shocked by vines formed by a dark mist. Although Bonbon's child self tells her to give in to the darkness and that she admits that she will never be a good cheerful girl, she believes that there is light inside her as well. She then tells her younger self that when she is with others she is happier and things seem more interesting, that her world is more colorful now. Young Marinette cries out for her to stop, but Bonbon continues by saying enjoyment isn't something she can receive but that she has to make herself. Bonbon then embraces her younger self and says that she is her and that she loves her. Young Marinette starts to cry on Macaron's shoulder before turning into light and disappearing together with the mirror.
After receiving her cat-shaped glass statue, Marinette Sr. comments that her granddaughter is amazing and is glad that she has made such good friends. After baking some cat lollipops, Marinette says with a smile that they may not be perfect, but she likes them just the way they are.
Switching Bodies And Dealing With A Conflict
One day, when Marinette tries searching for the crystal cat, who has run off on its own, she learns from Keinosuke about the watering hole where the animals and fairies come to drink. Her crystal cat then accidentally bumps into her when it tries to frantically report something to her but she fails to understand its message, resulting in them switching bodies. However, instead of freaking out, Marinette finds herself being in the body of a cat interesting. After overhearing a conversation between the Three-star Kitty and his underlings, Marinette manages to tame them and learns from the Three-star Kitty that the cats are preparing to fight the fairies. When she gets suspicious of Diable being the culprit behind the conflict, Pikario, Pekorin and the other fairies try to negotiate with the cats by bringing them cat-friendly sweets, only to have Diable instigate a fight between the cats and the fairies. Although Marinette halts the fight, she then decides to have a duel between herself and Pikario, but then tells the cats that they should leave as well after she wins. She then resumes her fight with Pikario until both of them reach the edge of a cliff and she chooses to fall off, but the latter catches her and says he won't let her fall for them.
After leaving the cats and the fairies, Marinette figures out that her own prediction about Diable being the culprit is right. When her friends come to her and Gâteau's aid and get confined by Diable, Marinette decides to bump into her cat and they return to each other's original bodies. Together the Snack Warriors defeat the clones of Diable, and she looks at the Three-star Kitty enjoy his treat even though he is unaware that she is their former boss cat.
The Decision
With their graduations coming up soon, Marinette suggests organizing an end of school year party, which makes the others curious of her intentions behind such an idea. She later tells a white lie to Pekorin when being asked if she will stay with everyone forever, and bakes batches of lollipops with Keinosuke, though the others wonder why she is acting different than usual. However, when she later talks to her grandmother about her studies, it turns out that she has a hard decision to make.
At the graduation party, when the bakers give out their gratitude speeches to the guests, Marinette finally reveals her decision, which is to study abroad in the Kingdom of Confetto. It is because she wants to forge new experiences on her own and open up a whole new world of excitement by learning more about sweets and putting both the beauty of tea ceremony and sweets together. Although she encourages her friends that they will always stay together no matter how they are apart and they all successfully defeat Daphné. After the fight, everyone else (except for Louis) begins to cry over her upcoming departure and she soothes them hoping to make them feel better and never forget about her.
Epilogue
Following the final episode of the series, Marinette is shown to be exploring the world as an adult, looking offshore from a beach.
Personality
Marinette is a clever and refined lady with a fickle personality, who is prone to teasing others to get different reactions out of them, mostly out of being egotistical. She is quite perceptive, being immediately able to tell that something was off with Arsène. Spending time with Theo and the others and being a Snack Warrior makes every day an unpredictable experience, and this liveliness is something Marinette seeks. She also takes an interest in lollipops after her own first batches fail, and she likes the idea of having something she can work on improving.
As a child, Marinette kept on trying out new things in order to find anything she would feel passionate about, but she was not able to. Being seen as "perfect" becomes depressingly dreary to her, and nobody wanting to look beyond that "perfection" makes her feel lonely. Since enjoyment cannot be given to her, she realizes that she needs to create enjoyable situations herself. She embraces this and herself in episode 29, and admits she won't be able to erase her inner darkness and sadness, but being with her friends and surrounding herself with a "colourful world" makes her able to deal with it.
Powers and Abilities
Powers
- TBA
Abilities
- TBA
Weaknesses
- TBA
Forms
Lucky Lolly Form
- Rider Statistics
- Rider Height: 227.8cm
- Rider Weight: 860.2kg
- Ability Parameters
- Punching Power: 1.8t
- Kicking Power: 2.4t
- Maximum Jump Height: 1.2m
- Maximum Running Speed: 100m per 11 seconds
Lucky Lolly Form is Bonbon's lollipop-based primary form accessed by using the Lucky Lolly Junkie in the Sweets Pact.
Appearances: Snack Warriors Episodes 5-11, Justice Warriors All-Stars 3: The Never-Ending Blossoms, Snack Warriors Episodes 12-
Lucky Lolly (Gatling Flavour)
- Rider Statistics
- Rider Height: 227.8cm
- Rider Weight: 860.2kg
- Ability Parameters
- Punching Power: 1.8t
- Kicking Power: 2.4t
- Maximum Jump Height: 1.2m
- Maximum Running Speed: 100m per 11 seconds
The Lollipop Roller Junkie enhances Bonbon's Lucky Lolly Form with its Gatling Flavour attachment.
Appearances: Snack Warriors Episodes 5, 8, 11, 16, 22, 28, 35
Lucky Lolly (Cannon Flavour)
- Rider Statistics
- Rider Height: 227.8cm
- Rider Weight: 860.2kg
- Ability Parameters
- Punching Power: 1.8t
- Kicking Power: 2.4t
- Maximum Jump Height: 1.2m
- Maximum Running Speed: 100m per 11 seconds
The Lolly Cannons Junkie enhances Bonbon's Lucky Lolly Form with its Cannon Flavour attachment.
Appearances: Snack Warriors Episodes 5, 9, 13, 19, 25, 31
Subfreezing Sorbet Form
- Rider Statistics
- Rider Height: 195.5cm
- Rider Weight: 89.8kg
- Ability Parameters
- Punching Power: 2.6t
- Kicking Power: 6.6t
- Maximum Jump Height: 5.7m
- Maximum Running Speed: 100m per 6.8 seconds
Subfreezing Sorbet Form is Bonbon's ice cream-based super form accessed by using the Subfreezing Sorbet Junkie in the Sweets Pact.
This form is not exclusive to Bonbon as it can be used by any of the main five Snack Warriors as long as they have possession of their respective Subfreezing Sorbet Junkie.
Appearances: Snack Warriors Episodes 29, 34, 39Equipment
Devices
- Sweets Pact - Transformation device
- Junkies - Transformation trinkets
Weapons
- Lolly Gatling - Main solo weapon
- Candy Mixer - Team weapon
- Flavour Spark Creamer - Main weapon for the Subfreezing Sorbet and TBA forms
Vehicles
- To be added
Behind the Scenes
Portrayal
- Marinette is portrayed by Anna Cathcart. As Bonbon, her suit actor in the Gavv stock footage is Yuya Nawata (縄田 雄哉, Nawata Yūya).
Etymology
- Bonbon is the French word for "Lollipop/Candy" which makes sense as it matches the suits main motif.
Appearances
See Also
- Shoma - Kamen Rider counterpart in Gavv (Suit Basis)