Mordecai

Mordecai is a 23-year-old blue jay. He is one of the protaganist (other being Rigby) of the series, first appearing in the short "2 in the AM PM" as a human cashier (cartoon form of J.G. Quintel), who then morphs into the proto-Mordecai. He later makes his first official appearance in the Pilot, where he was the first to say a line. His voice is provided by the show's creator, J.G. Quintel. He is actually the second person to say something overall in 2 in the AM PM (the first was Benson), but the pilot marked that Mordecai was the first to say a line on the show.

Appearance
Mordecai is a 6'3 tall blue jay. Like Rigby, he doesn't wear clothes, he plays video games, and he drinks "joe with his bro." He first appeared in 2 In The AM PM. He is blue and he has white stripes on his wings and black stripes on his legs and his tail. However, when he was five or six, he didn't have any stripes on his legs and tail and he also had buck teeth.

Personality and character traits
Mordecai would be best described as mild-mannered. Though a slacker and occasional troublemaker, he has shown far greater maturity and responsibility than his best friend Rigby. However, in the episode "More Smarter ", he acts as immature as Rigby does, where he went overboard with insulting Rigby for not having a high school diploma, and did whatever he could to prove that he was "more smarter" than Rigby. Like Rigby, Mordecai normally shows a natural aversion to anything resembling work. However, he resents being labelled as a slacker, and will do whatever is necessary to not be considered as one. In the episode "Just Set Up The Chairs", Mordecai wanted to prove to Benson that he and Rigby were fully capable of setting up chairs for a party without slacking off, which he proves by almost dying; and, in the episode "Appreciation Day", he hoped to earn an appreciation plaque to prove to Benson that he was hard-working. Also, in the episode, "Caffeinated Concert Tickets", Mordecai asked Benson for extra hours to earn money for a Fist Pump concert (only to be with Margaret). Mordecai's most obvious shortcoming is his inability to engage his love interests. Whenever he is around his current crush, Margaret, he will often stutter or lose focus. He shows jealousy towards his friend Rigby, as he far more adept at talking to girls, most notably in the episode "It's Time"; after failing to ask Margaret out on a date, Mordecai became enraged when Rigby seized the opportunity and asked her out himself; after a series of bizarre events, Mordecai unwittingly killed Rigby in his jealousy, though this was reversed by Father Time later on.

Skills/Habits
Mordecai has shown a variety of abilities and habits throughout the series:
 * Video Game Expert: Mordecai is highly skilled at video games. In the episode "Just Set Up The Chairs ", Mordecai proved his gaming superiority over Rigby after discovering several vintage arcade games in a park storeroom. Later, in the episode, High Score, he and Rigby worked together to set both the world and universe records for the arcade game, Broken Bonez, although originally had negative points but eventually defeated the champion Garrett Bobby Ferguson. Finally, in the episode, Rage Against The TV, Mordecai and Rigby managed to defeat The Hammer, a notoriously 'unbeatable' video game boss, much to the surprise of Muscle Man. Mordecai is beaten (only once so far), however, in It's Time, when he lost at a game to Rigby due to his frustration.
 * Punchies Master: Mordecai has proven himself very capable at punchies, with skills close to rivaling Skips. In the episode, Death Punchies, he was shown never to have lost a game of punchies to Rigby (until throwing a game to save their lives) and increased his skill by learning the 'Death Block', along with other Death Kwon Do techniques he stole from Sensei
 * Skilled Liar: In the episode, 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: In many episodes it shows that Mordecai is a heavy sleeper. In the episode Ello Gov'nor, This is My Jam and Really Real Wrestling, Rigby has to shake Mordecai awake.
 * Guitar Player: In the episode This is My Jam he was shown to have increased his skill at playing the guitar, unlike in Mordecai and the Rigbys, to which neither Rigby or himself knew how to work the instrument
 * Enhanced Strength: At one point in the episode, Just Set Up The Chairs, Mordecai bashed through a locked door with little difficulty but badly injured his arm. However this could have been just because of cartoon physics.
 * Speeches: Mordecai tends to persuade people when he gives talks and speeches, ei: Don, when he talks Rigby into forgiving Don. In "Mordecai and the Rigbys" when he talks about how lip syching wasn't cool, and convinced Rigby to give up lip syching. In "Muscle Woman", he infatuated Starla by telling her how he and 'possibly muscle man' felt about her leaving Muscle Man (though he did this by accident, not intentionally).

Near-Death experiences

 * Mordecai almost got marinated and eaten by the evil hot dogs. Earlier in the same episode, he also nearly died of hypothermia when Rigby broke the thermostat in the meat locker.
 * Like everyone else in the town, he would have exploded due to unstable antimatter.
 * He fell off a cliff and would have died if it wasn't for his quick thinking.
 * He was also almost eaten by the Rock, Paper, Scissors Monster.
 * He was badly beaten up by The Hammer.
 * He almost got burned by lava.
 * Mordecai could have gotten badly beaten up by the wrestler (who was punching him in the stomach) if Pops didn't come to help them.
 * He would have been eaten by Snowballs the Ice Monster if he didn't write everything back to normal.
 * He could've been killed by Rigby's Death Punch if he didn't know the Death Block.
 * He almost became one of the demons if they didn't send the evil demon back to the mirror.
 * Would have been killed by the duck collector if the baby ducks didn't turn into a giant.
 * Could have been eaten by the zombies if Muscle Man hadn't brought his sport stuff.
 * He could've gotten destroyed by Susan if Leon didn't break her heels.
 * He almost got crushed by the moon monster.
 * Nearly got choked to death by Rigby when he was sprayed by a Were-Skunk.

Rigby


Mordecai's best friend and fellow park groundskeeper, Rigby has known Mordecai since the two were five years old. A fellow slacker and troublemaker, Rigby lacks Mordecai's maturity and common sense and is almost always the cause of the many disastrous situations the two encounter. Though extremely close, the two often argue with each other. One instance has Rigby learning Death Kwon Do as a result of always being beaten by Mordecai (or anyone for that matter) at punchies. On one occasion, Rigby managed to make Mordecai mad due to his dishonesty and ineptitude in the episode Meat Your Maker. Later, in the episode The Unicorns Have Got To Go, Rigby nearly ruined their friendship after abandoning Mordecai for a group of unicorns.

Rigby is terrified of horror films, a fact Mordecai is painfully aware of. (Rigby once had to be "walked to the bathroom every night for a week" after watching a horror movie). In the episode Ello Gov'nor, Mordecai set out to cure him of his fears. In the episode "Grave Sights", Rigby was momentarily stunned by the film, nearly causing the movie idea to fail and ruining Mordecai and Rigby's chances for a paid day off.

In Skunked, it seems that Mordecai really cares about Rigby and is sure about getting rid of his inner Were-Skunk as he also drives into a wall and is almost crushed by the golf cart just for him. Mordecai will help him any way he can and he tells Rigby the cure.

Margaret
Margaret is Mordecai's love interest; he was first shown to have a crush on her in the episode "Caffeinated Concert Tickets". However, much to Mordecai's dismay, Margaret seems completely oblivious to his feelings for her.

A running gag throughout the first season is that Margaret normally has a new boyfriend in each of her appearances, usually muscular and intimidating, or with certain above-average skills. However, in the episode "Brain Eraser", she noted that Mordecai had been "working out."

She is a fan of the musical group Fist Pump, as well as horror films such as Zombie Dinner Party.



Benson
Benson is Mordecai's boss. He considers both Mordecai and Rigby to be slackers, usually threatening them with an ulitmatum ending in the phrase "...or you're fired!", though sometimes, he is impressed with their work. In the episode Benson Be Gone, after being demoted from his position as park manager, Benson came to appreciate Mordecai and Rigby's slacker lifestyle. Even though Benson gets angry with him and Rigby, there has never been a time where Benson's anger was solely directed at Mordecai (one partial exception in Jinx, when Benson called for Mordecai to clean up the litter they left unpicked). Benson also seems to trust Mordecai a little bit more than Rigby, recognizing his higher maturity level and (sometimes) higher work ethic.

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.

Trivia

 * Mordecai's cartoon-like long beak gives him the appearance of his kind's close relative, the crow. Some people would think he might be a cross between a jay and a crow, despite that this is not true. Several people believe that Mordecai is a stork.
 * In the episode "Don", it was revealed that he was naked when he was younger because Rigby was and thought it was pretty cool. Whether or not they still go by this trend is unknown (due to either of them normally wearing no clothes).
 * In the episode "Don" it is hinted that he's an only child.
 * In the episode First Day, Mordecai's face feathers would variate throughout the episode; in sections where the new artstyle is in place, his blue feathers cover his eyes, but in sections where the episode uses scenes from the pilot episode, his white feathers cover his eyes.
 * In the episode "Peeps" he is good at staring contests but he had to go to the hospital because his eyes couldn't blink even if he put the eye drops.
 * Whenever he faces a bad guy who is stronger than him, he will always get punched in the stomach like in "Rage Against the TV" and "Really Real Wrestling".
 * Mordecai knows that music is not something that can be touched physically, as is evident in "This Is My Jam".
 * Mordecai's voice actor is the creator of the show, J.G. Quintel.
 * In "Meat your Maker" it's show that Mordecai can't swim because he was in the giant plastic bag fill with sauce he had a hard time staying up.