Mordecai

Mordecai is a 23-year-old blue jay. He is one of the main protagonists of the series, first appearing in a non-canon short as a human cashier, who then morphs into a proto-Mordecai character. He later makes his first official appearance in the pilot episode, where he was the first to say a line. His voice is provided by the show's creator, J.G. Quintel. Mordecai is the first character to speak in the cartoon (starting from the pilot episode.)

According to Cartoon Network's official page for Regular Show, ''Mordecai is a young blue jay with a burgeoning sense of responsibility, decency, and his own mortality. But that doesn't mean he doesn't like to have a little fun every once in a while--stupid fun.''

Appearance.
Mordecai is a 6'3 '' tall anthropomorphic blue jay. He is blue with a white chest and sports a black beak, teeth, chest line, as well as black stripes on his tail feathers and fingers, as well as two white stripes on his wings, or arms. Mordecai's white feathers variate throughout the cartoon, at times appearing pure white, sometimes appearing tinged blue.

Personality.
Mordecai would be best described as mild-mannered. Like Rigby, he lacks clothing, plays video games, and he drinks copious amounts of coffee and soda. Out of the duo, Mordecai displays far more patience and responsibility than Rigby. Even though almost every problem in every episode that was caused by the duo is Rigby's fault, Mordecai puts up with his laziness and immaturity, once filling out a job application for Rigby because he claimed it was "boring". Mordecai tends to be more sociable and friendly than Rigby, and has much more manageable relationships with others. Although Mordecai naturally despises work, he strives to keep a good reputation, once almost losing his life to avoid being labeled as a slacker, and vouching for extra work to pay for concert tickets. Mordecai's most obvious shortcoming is his inability to engage his love interests. Whenever he is around his crush, Margaret, he will often stutter or lose focus. In spite of this, he would often make up excuses to go to The Coffee Shop just to see her.

Abilities/Habits.
Mordecai has shown a variety of abilities and habits good and bad throughout the series.

Video Game Expert
Mordecai is an expert at video games. Anytime Mordecai and Rigby play against each other, Mordecai would win every time (except in It's Time and Jinx, where he lost to Rigby).

Educated
Mordecai is figuratively, if not literally, smarter than Rigby in every possible way. He has mentioned to have aquired not only a high school diploma which Rigby doesn't (More Smarter), but also a college education.

Skilled Liar
In Grilled Cheese Deluxe, Mordecai showed great aptitude for lying. He competed against Rigby to prove who was the better liar, and ultimately, emerged victorious.

Heavy Sleeper
Throughout the entire show, Mordecai is shown to be a habitual heavy sleeper, falling asleep very often. Also, he has to be forced awake (example, Ello Gov'nor and Really Real Wrestling)

Guitar Player
In This Is My Jam, he was shown to have increased his skill at playing the guitar, unlike in Mordecai and the Rigbys where neither Rigby or himself knew how to work the instrument.

Enhanced Strength
Mordecai has, on several occasions, bashed his way through locked doors. His enhanced strength allows him to easily beat Rigby in any physical test, most notable is a game called "punchies".

Coffee Drinker
Mordecai is often seen with coffee, more so than Rigby. In Free Cake, the episode starts with Mordecai supposedly drinking from a half full pot of coffee. In Mordecai and the Rigbys, Mordecai starts out with a cup of coffee in his hands when Rigby enters the Coffee Shop.

Speeches
Mordecai tends to persuade people when he gives talks and speeches, ex. Don, when Mordecai persuades Rigby to confront Don and mend their relationship, Rage Against The TV, when Mordecai tells Muscle Man and co. to help with beating The Hammer, Muscle Woman, when he talks to Starla, unintentionally infatuating her, and Mordecai and the Rigbys when Mordecai tries to tell the crowd about being tricked into lip-syncing.

Kind-Hearted
Mordecai posesses social skills that an immature Rigby doesn't. Mordecai has better relations with his friends, and has never really shown many harsh feelings toward them.

Truthful
Mordecai is not only a skilled liar but he is also very truthful for example, in The Power Mordecai instantly admitted what happened to Skips when Benson asked him. He also admitted that he was not an astronaut in Grilled Cheese Deluxe.

Rigby


Rigby is Mordecai's best friend (and pet peeve) since childhood. The two are virtually inseparable, always finding ways to forgive any breaks in their friendship. Mordecai is the tall, responsible, mannered one, while Rigby is the short, immature, energetic one in the duo.

Margaret
Margaret is Mordecai's crush. Mordecai is determined to visit her at the coffee shop daily just to see her. Rigby doesn't support this relationship, as it always deters Mordecai's attention from Rigby himself.



Benson
Benson is Mordecai's boss at the Park. Even though he curses at Mordecai and Rigby as a duo, even at Rigby alone, Benson has never gotten mad at Mordecai alone. Benson recognizes Mordecai's greater sense of responsibility and self-control, things Rigby doesn't have.

Eileen
Mordecai knows of Eileen's crush on Rigby and even said they'd make a "cute couple" as shown in Do Me A Solid. He also likes making fun of it by making Rigby angry.Mordecai shows friendship to Eileen for asking her and Margaret to go camping with Rigby and him.

Skips
Mordecai respects Skips due to Skips' ability to fix almost any problem Mordecai and Rigby cause. In Free Cake, Mordecai is the one to suggest throw Skips his first birthday party, and goes as far as to sacrifice the chocolate cake the duo longed for in exchange for keeping Skips alive. In Jinx, Skips and Mordecai agree to team up against Rigby when he is jinxed.

Trivia

 * Mordecai has several characteristics that differ him from genuine birds, in fact looking like a bird is the only thing Mordecai has in common with an actual blue-jay.


 * He appears to lack the ability to fly (Although there could be an episode about it in the future).


 * His beak sports a full set of teeth (so does Margaret).


 * Has two "toes" instead of the standard four.


 * Mordecai is one of the few characters who has not mentioned any relatives. The others are Benson and Skips.


 * It is mentioned in Don that he doesn't have a brother, but it might not mean that he's the only child(he might have a sister(s).


 * Mordecai's eyes are bigger then usual in Don.


 * According to the episode Don Mordecai has known Rigby since he was 6 (possibly earlier).

Gallery


The gallery for Mordecai can be viewed here.