Martha Kaply, also known by her avatar, Ruby Roundhouse, is one of the two tritagonists (alongside Bethany Walker) of the 2017 film, Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle, and one of the two main protagonists (alongside Spencer Gilpin) of it’s 2019 sequel, Jumanji: The Next Level.
She is a shy bookworm, a tough student who isn't afraid to tell what she thinks to others, is the girl Spencer Gilpin loves and admires a lot, her feelings reciprocated at the end of the film. She ended up in detention for rudely insulting the gym teacher and then she's sucked up with her friends inside her Jumanji.
She was portrayed by Morgan Turner as a human, and by Karen Gillan (who also portrays Amy Pond in Doctor Who and Nebula in Marvel Cinematic Universe) as her avatar. She was also briefly played by Jack Black (who also portrays R.L. Stein in the Goosebumps duology, Dewey Finn in School of Rock, Nacho in Nacho Libre, Johnathan Barnavelt in The House with a Clock on its Walls, Steve in A Minecraft Movie, Lenny in Shark Tale, Po in the Kung Fu Panda franchise, and Claptrap in Borderlands) as Professor Sheldon "Shelly" Oberon.
She is also voiced by Inori Minase in the Japanese dub of the films.
Personality[]
Martha is a brilliant student just like Spencer, but she is more courageous, determined, and sarcastic, she is not very good at talking to boys. She also has some moments of arrogance, she responds in a gruff and rude way when she thinks that things are not right for her, like with the gym teacher who tells her that sport is useless for a woman among men, also because she was unsure of her schoolwork. She doesn't even like getting tattoos, as she says that if her mother sees her wearing a tattoo of her she kills her.
During the adventure in the game, she proves very shy and with very little confidence and she learns to have a good relationship with others. In the end, however, she proves confident in herself and is with Spencer.
In the sequel, she became popular in college, and she texted all of her friends. When it becomes clear that Spencer isn't coming, Martha and her friends go his house, where they meet his grandfather, Eddie Gilpin, and his estranged friend, Milo Walker. Despite facing a lot of dangerous challenges in Jumanji, Martha has no problem getting back into the game to save Spencer, having grown braver and missed. Being Ruby Roundhouse and thinking that Spencer is Dr. Smolder Bravestone, she panics when she notices that Milo and Eddie are with her. But when she's with Spencer, Martha has maintained a good relationship, and she assures him that she will never leave him. When she was with Jurgen the Brutal, she was disgusted.
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Trivia[]
- Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 and Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle, both of which Karen Gillan starred in, came out in 2017.
- Avengers Endgame, Jumanji: The Next Level, and Spies in Disguise, all of which Karen Gillan starred in, came out in 2019.
- Coincidentally, both Jumanji: The Next Level and Spies in Disguise was released in December 2019.
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