Off the Hook

Off the Hook (テンタクルズ, Tentakuruzu^?, lit. Tentacles), is a fictional pop duo serving as a form of replacement for the Squid Sisters in Splatoon 2 as the hosts of Inkopolis News in their studio within Inkopolis Square. Their voice actors are Rina Itou (いとうりな) and Alice Peralta, respectively.

The duo consists of an Inkling and an Octarian, Pearl Houzuki (ホウズキ・ヒメ, Hōzuki Hime^?) and Marina Ida (イイダ＝マリネ, Īda Marine^?).

They return in Splatoon 3, after scouting new members while on a tour, they reformed as a new band name Damp Socks feat. Off the Hook (ビジー・バケーション feat. テンタクルズ, Bijī Bakēshon feat. Tentakuruzu^?, lit. Busy Vacation feat. Off the Hook). The band consists of Pearl, Marina, and three other members. They reappeared in the Side Order DLC.

Appearance[]

Normal[]

Pearl[]

Pearl is an Inkling with short, cream hair that has pink tips. She also wears a cream-colored crown on her head with pink at the tips. Her eyes are connected like most Inklings, and they are a golden color. She wears black finger-less gloves and has a white sleeveless dress with a high collar and golden zipper that is pulled all the way up. Pearl also has pink tights and white boots that, like her dress, have golden zippers that are pulled up. She also holds a microphone while singing.

Marina[]

Marina's hair looks like a longer variant of the hairstyle worn by most NPC Octolings. It is black like an Elite Octoling's hair instead of the usual red of a standard Octoling, with a light teal color at the edges. Like most Octolings, her eyes do not connect in the same way that Inklings' eyes do, but hers are a silvery color as opposed to teal as well as eyelashes. Marina also wears a pair of black and teal headphones on her head. She wears a black bra with a large silver zipper and an infinity symbol pulled all the way down, and black low-rise shorts and fingerless gloves. She wears teal tights under her shorts and has black boots that, like her bra, have their silver zippers pulled down. Her fingers and toes are tinted teal at the tips. When performing Color Pulse, her shorts light up.

Octo Expansion[]

Pearl[]

In Octo Expansion, Pearl, also known as M.C. Princess (or in the chat logs, MC.Princess) wears a hip-hop outfit instead, resembling the rapper The Notorious B.I.G. Pearl also wears grey shorts under her baggy hoodie.

Marina[]

In Octo Expansion, Marina, also known as DJ Hyperfresh (or in the chat logs, DJ_Hyperfresh) wears a hip-hop outfit instead, resembling the rapper Tupac Shakur.

History[]

Splatoon 2[]

Octo Expansion[]

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Splatocalypse[]

Upon the announcement of the final Splatoon 2 Splatfest, Chaos vs Order, also known as "Splatocalypse", Marina voices her concern about what would happen to Off the Hook depending on the outcome of the final Splatfest. Despite Marina's concerns, Pearl makes it clear that the outcome of the final Splatfest will affect Inkopolis.

When the results come in and Pearl's team, Chaos, won, Marina fears that Off the Hook is breaking up as a result, but Pearl reveals that Off the Hook is never breaking up, just breaking into new lines of music for their rep. Pearl would never part ways with Marina, they were best friends and bandmates for life, much to Marina's heartfelt relief and joy.

Splatoon 3[]

After Splatocalypse, Pearl and Marina took their group on the road to carry out what Pearl said they would do and look for new talent and music styles to increase their reputation. A teaser of their new band, Damp Socks ft. Off the Hook, has them performing one of their new songs they made during their travels, presumably soon taking them to the Splatlands and Splatsville, if the August Nintendo Direct Splatoon 3 DLC teaser is any indication of that. In the meantime, like how they succeeded the Squid Sisters hosting Inkopolis News back in Inkopolis, Off the Hook was succeeded with handling Splatfests and news segments in Splatsville by Deep Cut with their show Anarchy Splatcast.

Side Order[]

WAIT! Be careful! This article contains spoilers for Side Order!

In between forming their new band and their world tour, Marina was working on a new virtual reality project known as the "Memverse". However, the AI of the system, Order, went AWOL and captured her, dressing her in her Splatocalypse Splatfest outfit when she supported Team Order in the Final Fest, and turning her into a boss on the tenth floor of the Spire of Order, dubbed "Marina Agitando". After Agent 8 and Pearl in her drone form are able to force Order into releasing Marina from possessing her and return her to normal, it goes ballistic, blasts them out of the Spire, and transforms it into a much more dangerous gauntlet for Agent 8 to navigate while fighting the Jelletons to reach the top and stop it. As for Pearl and Marina, freed of Order's possession, Marina changes back into her Damp Socks Feat. Off The Hook outfit and returns Pearl to her normal appearance wearing her outfit for their new band, before explaining to everyone, including Acht, what happened and the threat Order poses to everyone not just in the Memverse, but in reality as well due to Order taking over the VR program. Thus, Pearl and Agent 8 take it upon themselves to navigate the Spire as many times as it takes to stop Order and save both reality and the Memverse from it. To help them, Marina is able to use her laptop to hack into the Spire and unlock permanent upgrades for Agent 8 to make future trips up the Spire much easier, such as extra lives, more armor, and even upgrades for Pearl in her drone form in exchange for Prlz that Agent 8 earns after each attempt up the Spire as the Membux and Palette Color Chips they earn are turned into Prlz to use upon leaving the Spire. The nearby lockers also provide additional Palettes for Agent 8 to use, among other items, including locker decorations and stuff for the Splashtag, along with entries for Marina's Dev Diary, but require keys that are acquired after beating the Jelleton bosses on floors 10, 20, and 30 respectively with each Palette. Marina provides three to begin, to ensure that Agent 8 unlocks one additional Palette from the first three lockers as Palettes are hidden randomly in the lockers, but are marked by glowing rings to show where they are.

Marina and Acht are also good friends as Acht remembers some of the good times she had with Marina while serving DJ Octavio in the Octarian Army. Despite her somewhat still sanitized state, and sporting bandages on her left hand and lower arm due to an injury that had not healed yet, Marina's Memverse was helping Acht remember her memories and thus undergo somewhat of a de-sanitization process, which was what Marina originally designed it as to help out all the sanitized Octolings in the Deepsea Metro.

Unfortunately, when they reach Order on the 30th floor, he transforms into Overlorder to fight Agent 8 after Marina tries to reason with him. Though he puts up a fierce fight, he is soon defeated. However, Overlorder refuses to give up so easily and carries out his endgame as Splatsville and Inkopolis begin to be drawn into his lifeless, orderly world. Marina desperately tries to override Overlorder's endgame with her laptop, but it appears she is too little, too late as she can't bypass the defenses as Acht rushes to her side just as Marina begins to disappear as Overlorder's endgame reaches its zenith...

However, Agent 8 manages to provide the means to not only stop Overlorder from succeeding, but it temporarily allows Pearl to return to her normal self from her drone form, Acht's wounds are healed and fully recover, and Marina soon provides a DJ station for her and Acht to really tune up the beats as Pearl cuts loose with her patented scream of "BOO-YAH!!!", shattering the top of the Spire of Order, and leaving Overlorder wondering how his endgame was stopped at the last second. As Pearl gives him the reason why his plan will still fail, she turns back into her drone form and recites Off The Hook's catchphrase. Overlorder is unmoved, believing his plan will still come to fruition, and goes back on the attack once more to try and stop them again, this time trapping all the Color Chips that Agent 8 collected, along with the rest of them, in his Jelleton portals to try and weaken them for the rematch. Agent 8 gives it their all in the rematch, and succeeds in recovering all the Color Chips, boosting their power drastically to the point where Pearl is able to unleash a powerful Color Chip powered Killer Wail attack against Overlorder. Unable to withstand his grayscale power being overridden and turned into the complete opposite full of color and chaos, Overlorder's body goes critical and explodes. When Agent 8, Pearl, Marina, and Acht can see again, to their surprise, Order/Overlorder is revealed to have survived, but is now a baby octopus called Smollusk, who complains of them ruining his plans, but gives up after Pearl offers him a chance to attend their next concert, convincing him to turn over a new leaf and accept their friendship. Nevertheless, with the Memverse safe with Smollusk's defeat, along with the real world in Splatsville and Inkopolis, an elevator appears to take Agent 8, Acht, and Off The Hook, back to the real Inkopolis Square, where Pearl and Marina return to their Inkopolis News studio and are wearing their old Splatoon 2 stage/Splatfest outfits again.

However, should Agent 8 return to the Memverse, Marina explains that the Palettes are bits of memory from some of the regular characters, like the Squid Sisters, Deep Cut, and Off The Hook, that Smollusk trapped in the Memverse, and in order to purify the Palettes to restore everything, Agent 8 will have to fight their way up the Spire again to the Control Room on the 30th Floor to fight Smollusk as Overlorder to complete that task. With each victory over Smollusk, the corresponding Palette is fixed, and the respective Order weapon is unlocked for multiplayer use, and Smollusk begins to lose more and more interest in still attempting to fulfill his world of order ideology with each defeat, until when Agent 8 comes up to fight him using the Octo Shot and their own Palette, Smollusk is disappointed that this might be their last battle against each other, but still transforms into Overlorder to make it worth while. After this defeat, Smollusk hopes that Agent 8 will still fight their way up the Spire again to fight him again as he enjoys it now.

Personality[]

Pearl[]

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Marina[]

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Location[]

Off The Hook is located to the left of the Shoal, inside their news studio, with the entrance to the Deepsea Metro located in the alley behind it near the shop where Spyke can be seen.

Music[]

Pearl and Marina's songs are a mix of the Octoling language and Inkling language. Though it is a common misconception that Off the Hooks songs have English mixed in, that is false as seen in the official lyrics released with the Splatune 2 and Octotune CD's.

Splatfest[]

Octo Expansion[]

Splatoon 3[]

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Trivia[]

• Pearl takes her Japanese name from the Northern pygmy squid (ヒメイカ Hime-ika), while Marina takes her own from the webfoot octopus (イイダコ Īdako).
  • Pearl's Japanese name also references her "pop princess" appearance, as 姫 (pronounced Hime) is the Japanese word for princess.
• Pearl and Marina have some similarities with the Squid Sisters:
  • Pearl shares Callie's magenta-colored scheme on her clothing.
  • Marina has a teal color scheme that is mistaken for green like Marie's green color scheme due to both duos being similar.
  • They're both expressive and excitable like Callie, and sassy and sarcastic like Marie.
  • If the player waits a few seconds while looking in at Pearl and Marina's studio, the two will notice them and give them their own friendly wave; Pearl gives the player a friendly smirk, while Marina waves both her arms at them.
• Pearl and Marina seem to be fans of the Squid Sisters, as Pearl was shocked upon hearing the news about Callie's disappearance, and she and her friend also hoped that the Squid Sisters will return.
• In Sunken Scroll #2, revealed that Marina and some Octarians were at the final boss battle of Splatoon and thought that it was a concert.
• In the Italian version, their names are changed to Alga and Nori, as a reference to "nori seaweed" in Italian.
  • The duo is called "Tenta Cool" in the Italian version.
• Marina's name is Marie's name in the Italian version.
• The Octo Expansion reveals that Ebb & Flow was Off the Hook's first song and has three reiterations of it in the Expansion.
  • Marina made a demo tape by herself with a half-broken keyboard on Mount Nantai before she met Pearl.
  • An "Octo" remix of the song plays when there's one minute left on Turf War on the NILS Statue.
  • A choral version of it plays when Commander Tartar is destroyed and Inkopolis is saved at the ending.
• Pearl and Marina's official Amiibo come with their outfits from the Octo Expansion, which can be equipped as Gear for the player's Inkling or Octoling to wear around Inkopolis Square or in multiplayer matches. The player can also take pictures of their Inkling or Octoling and Pearl or Marina while the chosen pop star is wearing either their stage outfit or their Octo Expansion outfit.
• For the April 2019 Splatfest, Hare vs Tortoise, as part of the Spring Fest theme, Off the Hook performed in Inkopolis Square in their Octo Expansion attire as MC.Princess and DJ_Hyperfresh instead of their regular stage outfits they are regularly seen in. This marks the first time in game, outside of the Octo Expansion and their Amiibos, that Pearl and Marina performed in their casual attire for a Splatfest.
• Off the Hook appeared as spirits in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate.
• For their live concert at Tokaigi 2019, Pearl and Marina debuted their Octo Expansion outfits for the performance, along with singing several more of their songs from the Octo Expansion, such as "Shark Bytes", "Into the Light", and "Fly Octo Fly". Pearl even busted out her custom Killer Wail she used against Commander Tartar, the Princess Cannon, for the performance as well.
• For the final Shifty Station, Pearl and Marina will appear on the stage in their Octo Expansion attire as MC.Princess and DJ_Hyperfresh, including having their equipment used against Commander Tartar appear on the stage, being Marina's hyperbombs and Pearl's customized Killer Wail, the Princess Cannon, respectively.
• For the final Splatfest, all of Off the Hook's songs would be randomly played during the stages, including those from the Octo Expansion, such as "Shark Bytes", along with those of the Squid Sisters as well, including "Calamari Inkantation", to help celebrate the final Splatfest of Splatoon 2.
• It is heavily hinted at, especially in Side Order, that Marina is most likely attracted to Pearl.
  • It is unknown if these feelings are requited.

Gallery[]

Main[]

Pearl and Marina in Sunken Scroll #2.

Official amiibo

Pearl and Marina's alternate colors for the Family vs. Friends Splatfest

Pearl and Marina's outfits for the "Mayo vs Ketchup" splatfest

Cake VS Icecream Promotional Art

Octo Expansion[]

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Splatoon 3[]

Pearl in the splatoon 3 expansion pass trailer Side Order

Marina in the Splatoon 3 expansion pass trailer Side Order

Off the Hook in Suffer No Fools.

Off the Hook in the Grand Festival promo.

Another promo picture of Off The Hook for the Grand Festival.

Off the hook in a promo.

Off the Hook performing during the Grand Festival.

Off the Hoom performing during the Grand Festival.

Grand Festival Concept art.

Off the Hook in We’re So Back.

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Off the Hook in Color Pulse 24’

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Off the Hook doing their pose in Color Pulse 24’

Off the Hook performing during the Grand Festival

Ditto but in their Grand Festival outfits

Off the Hook celebratory Photo