Originally, Miserable Marv's name used to be Backflippin' Barry. He used to travel around in the circus and no matter what he was doing he always did a back flip on a Pogo stick. His big trick was jumping off a 100 foot panel with a pogo stick, landing it, and then doing a back flip through a hoop fire while having a flaming bear attached to his back. One day the bear became extra infuriated by the trick since it had been doing it every day. The bear became so angry he started aggressively attacking Marv every time he was forced to do this trick. Marv refused to stop doing a back flip out of pride. After all, he was Backflippin' Barry. Eventually, he had no choice but to stop back flipping because the bear had managed to chew off both Marv's legs. 

However mangled, Marv was far from dead. Through a very intense surgery his legs were successfully reattached. Ashamed that he stopped back flipping Marv fell into a great depression. He decided to leave his homeland completely and head somewhere he wouldn't have to live in shame. That place was Pancake Paradise.

Marv felt he no longer had a reason to live and that Backflippin Barry was dead. So he renamed himself Miserable Marv and never wanted to face a pogo stick again. He looked it up online and saw Pancake Paradise was the only place on Earth that had never heard of the Hula Hoop. It was there in Pancake Paradise he decided to find a new beginning.