Mordecai



Mordecai is a 23 year old blue jay, he serves as the main protagonist along with his best friend Rigby through the entire series. He made a brief appearance in the short film 2 in the AM PM, He later makes an official appearance in the Pilot episode, working as a groundskeeper of the park. He is voiced by J.G. Quintel.

Appearance
Mordecai appears as a common blue jay. He does not wear clothes, like Rigby. He is blue and has white all around his body and two white lines on his arms; he has two lines on his fingers and tail feathers. Its revealed in "Don" that when he was 5 or 6 he had buck teeth and didn't have the lines on his tail or fingers. As opposed to some actual birds, Mordecai has teeth. Benton Connor, a storyboarder, jokingly calls it "beak dentata".

Personality Traits
Mordecai's personality can be described as a level-headed person and an easygoing slacker. Mordecai is known to be a trouble maker and has a record of causing problems along with Rigby (although Rigby does more damage than Mordecai). However he tends to make up and fix the situation for what he has caused. Mordecai has a lot of common sense and knows what's right and what's wrong, he's known to slack off from work, however he does shows a lot of responsibility. In Just Set Up The Chairs, he wanted to prove to Benson that he(and Rigby) that they can set up the chairs without slacking off. In Caffeinated Concert Tickets, he asked Benson for overtime so he can earn enough money and get concert tickets for the Fist Pump concert (only to get closer to Margaret). In Appreciation Day, he wanted to earn an appreciation plaque to prove to Benson that he can be hard working and become less of a slacker. However he will do something to avoid doing important jobs as he is somewhat lazy. Mordecai seems to complain and whine a lot about doing important jobs and other things he's not cool with. In Rigby's Body he complains about how working at the snack bar is lame. In High Score he complained to Benson about getting the same sandwich bag of money. Also, in "Just Set Up The Chairs", he complained about setting the chairs up and told Rigby that if he wasn't trying to show Benson at how good he was at sticking to tasks, he would have quit. In It's Time, he has his first (and so far only) antagonist role because of him being jealous of and killing Rigby. He also has a poor sense of humor, too. He failed in telling Margaret a funny joke. He also seems to hesitate on asking Margaret out on a date. (This may be an example of his shyness towards Margaret). Mordecai will usually make the wrong choices, In The Unicorns Have Got To Go, he impulsively thinks that the "Dudetime" cologne will help him attract ladies, but doesn't realize it actually attracts male punk like unicorns, Rigby and Benson scolds him for this. He will also do other things that is unacceptable (mostly because Rigby conspires him to). Mordecai is mature, reponsible, and level-headed, but will become overconfident and impulsive sometimes even though he is 23 he acts like a wild teenager. In a way he is similar to Hobbes fom the comic stip Calvin and Hobbes. Both are the taller than there compaion, and both have more common sense but end up doing foolish things anyway.

Skills & Abilities
Mordecai is a balanced character as he contains both strength and speed, although he is still unable to catch up to Rigby as he is faster than him, However in It's Time, he manage to catch up to him while trying to prevent him from participating in date with Margaret, by taking all the clocks in the house and disposing them. In Death Punchies, it shows that he has never lost a game of punchies to Rigby and is always beating him (however he faked a loss after he felt guilty for bullying him and putting him through hardship, therefore he gave him the win). In Pilot he (supposedly) lost to Rigby in a game of "Rock, Paper, Scissors" (although he informed Rigby that he's gonna throw "rock"). In Rage Against the TV he lost to him again in a game of "Rock, Paper, Scissors" to see who gets to ask Muscle Man if they can borrow his TV. In Grilled Cheese Deluxe, he has proven to be a better liar as shown the ending, Rigby tells Benson the truth but he didn't believe him one bit, but Mordecai told him that they ran it over by accident which made Benson believe that they were telling the truth. Despite being a blue jay, Mordecai is incapable of flying, the reason why is because Rigby broke his left arm in a bike accident when they were both seven also in "Meat your Maker" he can't stay in really cold place or else he wil go unconscious and he cant swim either. Mordecai seems to be on and off at video games. In Just Set Up The Chairs he beat an entire stack of arcade games. In It's Time, he lost a game to Rigby while he was taunting him about his date with Margaret. In High Score he(and Rigby) managed to beat G.B.F.'s world record. In Rage Against the TV he along with Rigby maganged to beat "The Hammer". Also in "Brain Eraser" he beat Rigby in a video game and almost in strong johns. In the episode "Peeps" Mordecai can go long hours without blinking to defeat the giant eyeball (whose name is actually 'Peeps'). Although he had to go to the hospital because his eyes wouldn't blink anymore, even with eyedrops. He is shown to be a heavy sleeper have it's proven in "Ello Gov'nor" and "This is my Jam" and sometimes Rigby wakes him up by shaking him.

Rigby
Mordecai and Rigby are best friends and constantly get into trouble together. However, they have been known to fight once in a while, such as in "Pilot" when Mordecai and Rigby fight over who gets to keep a chair that was originally going to be thrown away by Pops, But however, Benson forced Mordecai and Rigby to throw the chair at the end on "Pilot". Having different personalities, Mordecai usually feels like proving to Benson that they could handle important jobs ("Just Set Up The Chairs", "Caffeinated Concert Tickets") while Rigby simply does not care. Even though Mordecai is much more responsible than Rigby is, he still gets in trouble and causes problems, but not as frequent as Rigby. They both enjoy snacking on food like chocolate cake, hate vainlla cake, and they both refer to each other as "dudes". Their friendship almost got ruined in "The Unicorns Have Got To Go" because Rigby treated him like garbage when he was friends with the unicorns. He also helps Rigby whenever he does something wrong, but occasionally Mordecai will finally snap from Rigby's stupidity, such as in "Meat Your Maker". In "Ello Gov'nor" he knows that Rigby will get scared from the movie and will have nightmares because once Rigby watched a horror movie, Mordecai had to walk him to the bathroom for a week sometimes Rigby attacks Mordecai for something he doesnt like or don't want to do and Mordecai will punch Rigby for something he does wrong or stupid. In "It's Time", Mordecai kills Rigby (but not on purpose). Things return to their regular state soon, though as Mordecai is given a do-over. In "Don" a flashback of Rigby's 6th birthday is shown, with Mordecai there, too. This reveals they had both known each when they were little kids. Also in "This is My Jam" they went to Junior High School together.

Margaret
At the beginning of the episode, "Caffeinated Concert Tickets", it was revealed that Mordecai has a crush on Margaret. Margaret seems to be friends with Mordecai, though is oblivious of his crush and does not see him in a particularly romantic way, however, in Brain Eraser, she wondered if if Mordecai has been working out, revealing a future plot point, but she said that as Mordecai ignored her, due to being a catonic state, hinting that she may like bad-boys or guys that ignore her. She cares for him, as seen at the end of "Caffeinated Concert Tickets" when Slasher (her ex-boyfriend) insulted Mordecai. Slasher does not appear in anymore episodes. At the end "Mordecai and the Rigbys", she obtains another boyfriend named "Angel". It is unknown if her and Angel are still in a relationship, but it seems to be a run-on joke (so to speak) that Margaret has complications with keeping boyfriends (obvious man troubles) whilst unaware of Mordecai (being the label: 'good guy' she probably needs) & his huge crush on her. In "Mordecai and the Rigbys", he dropped the box of t-shirts and stared at Margaret when she was putting the T-shirt on, & afterwards responded by telling Margaret that she "looked amazing" when she asked how she looked. In "It's Time" he wanted to take Margaret to see "Pajama Sisters 2" (a chick flick), then he immediately said he would help Margaret move out of her house and help her carry a box (which was really heavy). Also in "Meat Your Maker" while he was unconscious he dreamed of her and him on an island beach, where Margaret wears a hula skirt and a somewhat tiny seashell bra while Mordecai is muscular and dashing enough to win her heart. In "Peeps", Margaret is shown briefly having a conversation with Mordecai and Rigby, stating that their indie documentary was "cool" (though they were just being monitored by Benson from slacking off too much). In "Brain Eraser" it's realved that he thinks Margaret's boyfriends are really lame.

Benson
Mordecai and Benson seem to both hate each other, because Rigby and him slack off, though there are times when Mordecai agrees with Benson or sides with him and the other characters when it comes to Rigby's shenanigans getting out of hand ("Don" and "Meat Your Maker".) Mordecai would even be somewhat of a younger and semi-responsible version if not surrogate of Benson. Benson is still not tolerant, as any manager would be, given the situation, of both Rigby or Mordecai, though the latter doesn't get into that kind of trouble like the former.

Skips
As shown in "Free Cake", Mordecai respects Skips enough to tell Benson that Skips deserves a party, as Skips is the hardest working employee at the park. Throughout the series, Mordecai asks Skips to help solve their problems ("Rigby's Body and "This is my Jam".) They are friends to say the least, though the friendship seems to benefit Mordecai more.

Quotes

 * "You pissed me off." - Mordecai in "Meat Your Maker"
 * "HOLY CRAP, IT'S REAL!" - Mordecai in "Ello Gov'nor'
 * "You drillbit, what else did you send?" - Mordecai in "The Power"
 * "YEAH-YAH!" - Mordecai when something makes him extremely happy
 * "I'LL KILL YOU!' Mordecai in "It's Time"
 * "Ah, sick!" - Mordecai when something gross him out.
 * "Plus, the real Rigby would never hug me" - Mordecai in "Temp Check"
 * "Jinx!" - Mordecai in "Jinx"
 * "You better be glad I care about lady pecks." -Mordecai, in "Caffeinated Concert Tickets"
 * "Need more coffee! Need more Margaret!" - Mordecai in "Caffeinated Concert Tickets"
 * "Take me to the hospital" - Mordecai in "Peeps"

Deaths/Near Deaths

 * In "Meat Your Maker" he nearly died of hypothermia and almost got eaten by the evil hot dogs.


 * He almost got blown up in "Grilled Cheese Deuluxe".


 * In "Rage Against The TV" he got beat up badly by "The Hammer"


 * In "Brain Eraser" he almost fell to his death after he caught naked Pops.


 * Could have been killed by Darthon if it wasn't for quick thinking in "But I Have a Receipt".


 * He would gotten destroyed by The Destroyer of Worlds in "Just Set Up the Chairs"


 * In "Peeps" if he lost to Peeps his eyes would have been taken out, which is not death, but extremely hazardous to his future.


 * He would have been killed by Starla in "Muscle Woman" if Muscle Man didn't show up.


 * He would of got eaten by Snowballs the Ice Monster in "Appertication Day".
 * Could have become one of the demons in "Jinx".