Mime and Marionette

"You want to go back out there while I hide in here? To lure the Comedian away? No. You are not going to leave me. You are not going to die so I can run. We are in this together. Do you understand me? You are the only thing that makes me smile in this dark place."

- Marionette to Mime, regarding their relationship.

Erika Manson and Marcos Maez, collectively known as Mime and Marionette, are major antagonists in the DC Comics storyline Doomsday Clock; a sequel to Watchmen. They are a husband-wife duo of supervillains who team up with Rorschach and Ozymandias in order to both find Doctor Manhattan and locate their lost son.

Past
Erika and Marcos were originally the children of two neighboring small business owners, Erika's father's store selling marionette dolls. The two formed a strong kinship with one another, only furthered when Marcos saved Erika from a group of bullies. Eventually, pressured by corrupt policemen who were extorting money out of him, Erika's father committed suicide, Marcos' parents also dying because of the policemen's actions. Enraged, Erika brutally attacked the policemen with Marcos' help. The two never left each other's side afterwards, adopting the personas of Mime and Marionette during their adulthood to commit crimes (Marcos also somehow gaining access to an arsenal of invisible weaponry and tools).

At some point in their criminal career, the two villains (or at least just Marionette) encountered the vigilante Rorschach, who threatened to throw her down an elevator shaft if he ever saw her again. During their last heist, the two held up a bank one mile from Empire State Plaza, putting on a show for the cameras while doing so. Mime then noticed a teller named Julia signal for the police, and, using a photo of her son on the desk, Marionette pressured her into revealing the man who could open the vault, Mr. Mangold. Mangold attempts to lie and state that the vault is on a time lock, but Julia is once again intimidated by Marionette and calls his bluff. Mangold begins verbally abusing Julia and her son in response, and, disgusted by this, Marionette used one of her wires to slice his finger off. Mangold then revealed that the vault ironically uses a hand scanner, and Marionette begins asking if anyone knows where the finger went in response.

Just then, Doctor Manhattan arrived to stop the robbery, his sudden materialization leaving Marionette in awe. Mime pointed his gun at Manhattan and the latter prepared to kill him, only for Marionette to step up, proclaiming that Manhattan must kill her too. Manhattan then noticed a second heartbeat coming from Marionette's chest, indicating that she was pregnant, and withdrew as the police surrounded the both of them. It was later confirmed that at least thirty-seven people had been killed during Mime and Marionette's crime spree.

Doomsday Clock
While a mass evacuation is enacted in response to the nuclear war inevitable between the US and Russia, Rorschach breaks into the prison in which Marionette is imprison and asks that she come with him. Marionette initially refuses, given her past history with Rorschach, but he then removes his glove, showing his darker skin and revealing that he is not the same Rorschach Marionette had known.

Trivia

 * Mime and Marionette are based on Charlton Comics villains, Punch and Jewelee.
 * Fittingly, Punch and Jewelee served as antagonists towards the heroes Captain Atom and Nightshade, who were the inspirations for Doctor Manhattan and Silk Specter respectively.
 * Coincidentally, in the television series Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug and Cat Noir, one of Hawk Moth's akumatized villains also uses the persona of "The Mime" and utilizes invisible weapons, just like Marcos does (however, unlike him, Miraculouses' Mime actually creates invisible weapons rather than just using them).