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Marty Mantle is a character in Riverdale and is introduced as Reggie Mantle's domineering, intimidating, short-tempered and physically and emotionally abusive father who owns a car dealership and was formerly a football star in High School and a former member of the Midnight Club.
He was portrayed by Matthew Yang King and by Charles Melton (who also portrayed his son), in flashbacks to high school.
Biography[]
Early life[]
Marty Mantle in 1988
Marty was born in the small town of Riverdale in 1974 or 1975 to unknown parents in the North Side of town. It is implied that his father started the Auto dealership Jamboree Luxury Cars and Mantle's Used Car Lot with Mr. Mantle apparently becoming so rich from it that he could get his shoes shined outside Pop's Chocke-Litte Shoppe. Marty attended Riverdale High when he became a teenager and over there, became a member and later Captain of the Riverdale Bulldogs and a fit and hyper-masculine, tall jock who bullied outcasts like Hiram Lodge (who got back at him by beating him up in 1988) for their poverty whilst also having the same behaviour like his son later on.
Chapter Thirty-Nine: The Midnight Club[]
Teenage Marty Mantle in 1991-1992 as captain of the American football team: The Riverdale Bulldogs
In his Junior Year in 1991-1992, Marty forced FP Jones to streak as a Bulldog tradition, when FP refused because of his arm cast, Fred Andrews stepped in and decided to help him with the 2 running naked outside whilst the others including Marty amusingly watched. Fred and FP were eventually caught by the teachers and sentenced to a week in detention by Principal Featherhead which later became 6 weeks. They were in detention alongside Alice Smith, Hermione Gomez, Sierra Samuels and Penelope Blossom.
Later, Marty, alongside Tom Keller, Hiram and Darryl Doiley started to play the board game Gryphons and Gargoyles and began to roleplay as characters from the game at school at midnight. One night, whilst they were roleplaying in school, they ran into FP, Fred, Alice, Sierra, Hermione and Penelope also roleplaying the game. Shocked at the similarities in their stories, the 10 formed the Midnight Club which consisted of roleplaying as characters and playing the game Gryphons and Gargoyles. Marty was dressed up and roleplaying as a samurai and on 1 day after the 10 of them found mysterious invitations in their locker rooms telling them to ascend to the next level of G&G by coming to Riverdale High at nighttime and drinking from the chalices and goblets laid out for them, Marty and the others arrived at night in Riverdale High and drank from the chalices and goblets following Penelope's instructions for the game before him, Tom, Darryl, Penelope and Hiram witnessed Fred, Alice, FP, Hermione and Sierra performing a concert of their rock band the Fred Heads for them. After that, everyone except Alice had some Fizzle Rocks drugs from Hiram which caused them to go high and their personalities to completely change for a little bit with the drugged Marty making out with Hermione. Unbeknownst to all of them partying drugged in the classroom, Principal Featherhead was outside it and was soon mysteriously murdered by a figure named the Gargoyle King.
The next day, all 10 of them and the whole school found Featherhead's dead body in the school closet. After that, Alice (who did not take the drugs), blamed them for murdering Featherhead whilst drugged however they responded by blaming her because they were in the classroom the whole time whilst she was the one who ran outside. After they realized however that more deaths could happen if they continued on playing G&G, all 10 of them made a pact never to speak of this moment of their lives again. So the Midnight Club also disbanded and everyone became complete outcasts to one another with Marty continuing on being the jock and captain of the Bulldogs.
Preceding Riverdale[]
Whilst he was still in high school and after he left the Midnight Club, Marty got into a serious relationship with a woman named Melinda and after graduating from high school, he married her and the 2 had a son named Reggie. Melinda focused more on her career than family however which caused a strain in the marriage and her and Marty eventually divorced. Marty was a car salesman and the owner of Jamboree Luxury Cars (alongside Mantle's Used Car Lot) in Riverdale. He was still friendly to most of the parents from high school including Fred however unbeknownst to anyone in town, Marty was a gambler and whenever he lost and was in debt or whenever he couldn't sell a car or debt or missed his wife, he took the anger out by physically and emotionally abusing Reggie, which caused him to be rebellious and a hyper-masculine jock just like Marty whilst also joining and eventually becoming the Captain of the Bulldogs.
Marty first physically appeared in Riverdale #5 where he watched Josie McCoy's concert and after, harassed and tried to make moves on her drunkenly, which caused Reggie to accost him physically and Marty to verbally and emotionally abuse him in front of everyone else.
Season 3[]
Marty Mantle in the present finishing G&G after 25 years to help finish the Gargoyle King
25 years after his pact that ended the Midnight Club, Marty viciously beats Reggie and gives him a black eye after Reggie asks him about the club. Later on, he is sent an invitation by the Gargoyle King to come to La Bonne Nuit Cafe where he reunites with the other former members of the Midnight Club who also got the same invitations and they all find out that the meeting was set up by Betty Cooper.
Betty asks them all about their involvement in the Club in 1991-1992 and explains that a recent string of murders (including Dilton Doiley, Ben Button and Darryl Doiley's, leaving only 9 members of the former Midnight Club alive), are being connected to the Gargoyle King, the deceased Warden Norton's connection to it and blue lip deaths with the growing popularity of the game Gryphons & Gargoyles (G&G) also playing a role in most of these murders and how they are all connected to Principal Featherhead's death from decades ago. Betty also mentions here that all the former members' sons and daughters are playing the game and makes it aware of Marty's abuse of Reggie which he tries to falsely deny but has to accept has been let out to the others.
In the end however, despite all the suspicions, murders and dangers, Marty and the rest of the former members of the club decide to deny their involvement in it due to their pact that they made years ago in 1992 and walk away from La Bonne Nuit disappointed with the meeting thinking that its wasting their time bringing the past up.
A few months later, Marty gets another invitation from the Gargoyle King alongside the other former members of the Midnight Club to come, ascend and play the game again otherwise more murders will happen of their loved ones. Realizing that it is the real Gargoyle King this time and that he might kill Reggie, Marty and the other former members regroup at the Five Seasons to plan and decide to finally finish G&G once and for all to stop more murders by drinking the cyanide poisoned chalices left for them 25 years ago and hopefully catch and defeat the Gargoyle King.
At Riverdale High at nighttime, Marty and the others drink Penelope's vials of antidote for cyanide laid out for them and later on decide to find the poisoned chalices. Marty goes with Fred to find the chalices and goblets in the trophy case, student lounge and closet where Featherhead died to help finish the game but they don't find any. After regrouping with Hiram, Hermione, Tom, Sierra, Alice and FP, they tell each other that they didn't find any chalices. Then, they all hear Penelope scream from a nearby classroom and see that the Gargoyle King left them a message on the board saying that the real reason he made them do this game in the present is to seperate them from their children so that they can die. Realizing the danger, Marty calls Reggie to pick him up from Riverdale High before any chaos happens and goes home with him, rescuing himself and his son from the Gargoyle King for a while.
Later, Marty gives Reggie some cars from the car lot to use for the upcoming MotorCade event in Riverdale.
Season 4[]
Marty appears at the Riverdale High Stadium witnessing the Bulldogs (including Reggie who is the Captain of the Bulldogs), practice American football to play in their next match. Reggie notices him looking angry and after he fails to catch a ball from Mad Dog/Munroe Moore, Marty angrily calls him and yells at him to do better whilst also chiding and insulting him for his horrible playing skills. After Reggie does worse at the practice, Marty beats him viciously at home and gives him another black eye which Reggie reveals to Veronica and Archie later on.
At the next practice, Marty appears once again and at the end of it, yells at Reggie angrily for failing to catch the ball from Mad Dog. Before Marty threatens to beat Reggie, Archie arrives and tells him to back off his son and tells Reggie that he has to stand up to his father if this is what he is doing to him. Coach Floyd Clayton and Mad Dog arrive to de-escalate the situation when Archie and Marty start to get into a fight and Reggie pushes Archie and tells him to go away before walking home with an even more angrier Marty.
At home, Reggie gets into a volatile argument with his father after Marty finds out that he broke his car. Reggie finally calls him out on his abuse which causes Marty to ignore him finally and stop coming to his practices.
Season 5[]
External Links[]
Marty Mantle on the Riverdale Fandom Wiki
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