Off the Hook

"Don't get cooked... Stay off the hook!"

- Off the Hook's catchphrase

Off the Hook (テンタクルズ Tentacles) is a pop idol duo in Inkopolis Square consisting of Pearl and Marina. They take over the Squid Sisters' duties from the first game as the hostesses of Inkopolis News at the start of the game, as well as Splatfest events.

List of songs

 * [[media:Splatfest Color Pulse.ogg|Color Pulse]] (ウルトラ・カラーパルス)
 * [[media:Splatfest Fest Zest.ogg|Fest Zest]] (フェスティバル・ゼスト)
 * [[media:Splatfest Ebb & Flow.ogg|Ebb and Flow]] (フルスロットル・テンタクル)
 * [[media:Splatfest Muck Warfare.ogg|Muck Warfare]] (レッド・ホット・エゴイスト)
 * [[media:Splatfest Acid Hues.ogg|Acid Hues]] (リップル・リフレイン)
 * [[media:Splatfest Now or Never! (Off the Hook).ogg|Now or Never!]] (イマ・ヌラネバー！)
 * [[media:Octo Expansion Nasty Majesty.ogg|Nasty Majesty]] (ナスティ・マジェスティ)
 * [[media:Octo Expansion Shark Bytes.ogg|Shark Bytes]] (ミッドナイト・ボルテージ)
 * [[media:Octo Expansion Fly Octo Fly ~ Ebb Flow (Octo).ogg|Fly Octo Fly ~ Ebb and Flow (Octo)]] (フライ・オクト・フライ 〜 フルスロットル・テンタクル(Octo))
 * [[media:Octo Expansion Into the Light.ogg|Into the Light]] (フレンド・フロム・ファラウェイ)

Octo Expansion
When the game starts up the first time in the 3.1.0. update, Pearl will put an Inkopolis Fashion Focus about a trend of "squidkids with weird hairstyles" which are actually Octolings. As the broadcast ends, Pearl says that that was the only best thing so she'll probably never do it again.

Off the Hook makes an appearance helping Agent 8 and Cap'n Cuttlefish by giving advice and commentary on Agent 8's tests. They meet the duo after Agent 8 passes Fake Plastic Station through Cap'n Cuttlefish's walkie-talkie as they were on Mount Nantai where the signal was the strongest, Pearl and Marina call themselves MC. Princess and DJ_Hyperfresh respectively. If Agent 8 loses all of their lives in a test at least twice, Marina will offer to use Agent 8's test data and hack the Kamabo Corporation's data base to trick the test into thinking Agent 8 passed. If Agent 8 has less than 2000 CQ Points, then Pearl will take money from her dad's wallet and Marina will transfer them into CQ Points, Cap'n Cuttlefish can then be talked to to pay them back by using the extra CQ Points after 3000 CQ Points.

After Agent 8 collects all the Thangs, Marina discovers it makes a blender and the Telephone that had them find the Thangs are intending on actually blending Agent 8 and Cap'n Cuttlefish. Before it can do so, however, Marina activates Agent 8's CQ-80's distress signal summoning Agent 3 and breaking the blender and phone in the nick of time. Marina then sees an unconscious Agent 3's employee model of the CQ-80 and tells Agent 8 that they can escape through the hole Agent 3 made. As Agent 8 escapes the facility, Off the Hook shows up with a fleet of helicopters to pick them up along with Cap'n Cuttlefish and Agent 3.

As Pearl raps with Cap'n Cuttlefish again, the platform Agent 8 was on rises up and turns out to be a statue with the phone known as Commander Tartar intending on destroying all Inklings and Octolings with his blast of primordial ooze. Marina analyzes the statue and discovers that the statue is charging up by sunlight and if they can cover it with ink with the help of her Hyperbombs that Agent 8 has to manually detonate then the statue will stop charging, Pearl will then finish it off with a "Hypersonic Battlecry" to destroy the statue. After Agent 8 detonates them all, the statue is going to fire anyway, prompting Pearl to drop on the platform below the helicopter and activate her special, a giant Killer Wail stylized in her color and crown. As the statue fires, Pearl lets out a giant Booyah and battles with the statue's blast before pushing it back and destroying the whole statue with pink ink. As the statue now collapses into the sea, Pearl and Marina celebrate and then watch the credits.

Live Performances

 * On 2018-02-10, Off the Hook had their first real-life debut in a concert called "Haikaraibu" (Japanese: ハイカライブ, translating to "Inkopolis Live"), held at Tokaigi 2018. They performed all of their songs, except for Fest Zest. New lyrics were also featured for most of their songs. They also collaborated with the Squid Sisters in the final song, Now or Never!.
 * On 2018-03-31, at the Splatoon European Championships at Polymanga in Switzerland, a second Splatoon virtual concert starring Off the Hook was held outside of Japan for the first time. It was an English version of the previous concert at Tokaigi 2018.
 * On 2018-04-28, another "Haikaraibu" concert was held at Chokaigi 2018. Their new song "Nasty Majesty' was performed live for the very first time.

Trivia

 * Off the Hook's Dutch, French, German, and Italian names resemble the English name for the Pokémon Tentacool.
 * They share similarities and have similar designs with the Squid Sisters.
 * They all have beauty marks.
 * They all wear gloves. The Squid Sisters wear white gloves and Off the Hook wear black fingerless gloves.
 * They all wear tights consisting of their main colors.
 * Pearl and Marie have light colored tentacles, and Marina and Callie have dark tentacles.
 * Pearl and Callie have a pink color scheme as Marie has a green color scheme and Marina's color scheme is teal (a combination of blue and green).
 * Pearl and Marie wear a dress, and Marina and Callie's outfits consist of shorts.
 * Pearl has golden eyes with plus-shaped pupils and Marina has eyelashes like the Squid Sisters.
 * They're both expressive and excitable like Callie, and sassy and sarcastic like Marie.
 * In their Japanese text, Pearl and Callie extend syllables with ー, while Marie and Marina extend syllables with ～
 * Marina and Callie are very kind-hearted compared to their co-host.
 * Marina's voice clips are similar to Callie's.
 * Callie and Marie's first song, Calamari Inkantation brought them success similar to how Pearl and Marina's first recording of Ebb & Flow brought them theirs.
 * In contrast to the Squid Sisters, Off the Hook produces their own songs.
 * The holes in their zippers are the shapes as their eye pupils, and the zippers are the same colors as thier eyes.
 * In the liner notes that come with Splatune 2, Pearl's lyrics are rendered in hiragana, while Marina's lyrics are in katakana. In an interview with Famitsu, Toru Minegishi says that this is because Marina sings in a different in-universe language. This is consistent with DJ Octavio's in-game text and some of her own text during the TV show (making it seem her text is said part in Inkling language, and part in Octarian).
 * Their outfits in the Octo Expansion resemble those worn by late rappers The Notorious B.I.G. (Pearl) and Tupac Shakur (Marina).
 * A previously unheard Off The Hook song (Nasty Majesty) was used as the music for the Nintendo Direct preview for Splatoon 2 Octo Expansion.
 * When looking at them long enough while zooming in Inkopolis Square, Marina will wave at the player with Pearl glaring before smiling with a pose.
 * When the player looks at them long enough while as an Octoling, Pearl will notice them first instead and both she and Marina will notice that they're Agent 8 from Octo Expansion and both of them will give the player a determined pose instead.
 * 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" re-recording of the chorus (with some different lyrics) 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.
 * Octo Expansion also reveals that until the events of the expansion, Pearl was unaware of Marina's true nature as an octoling. After being informed by Cap'n Cuttlefish, she remains protective of her bandmate, and reassures Marina that everyone will still love her.
 * The opening banter for the Squid vs. Octopus Splatfest still has Pearl unaware of Marina's true nature, suggesting that the Splatfest takes place before (or concurrently with) the expansion's events. The "Bonus Track" chat log reveals that Pearl had pulled an all-nighter "for the Splatfest" not long ago, supporting this theory.
 * The opening banter for the Squid vs. Octopus Splatfest still has Pearl unaware of Marina's true nature, suggesting that the Splatfest takes place before (or concurrently with) the expansion's events. The "Bonus Track" chat log reveals that Pearl had pulled an all-nighter "for the Splatfest" not long ago, supporting this theory.

Names in other languages
'''Don't get cooked... Stay off the hook!'''