Mordecai

Mordecai is one of the main protagonists of Regular Show, along with his best friend, Rigby. Mordecai is a 23-year old Blue Jay. He made his debut in a non-canon short as a human cashier, who then morphs into a prototype Mordecai-like character with a fanny pack. He later makes his first official appearance in the Pilot episode. Mordecai is voiced by the show's creator, J.G. Quintel who also plays the voice of High Five Ghost.

Appearance
Mordecai is about 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 vary throughout the cartoon, at times appearing pure white, sometimes appearing tinged blue. In the pilot, his forehead has more white feathers. In the episode Don when he was five or six, he used to have buck teeth, and didn't have the black stripes on his fingertips and his tail feathers.

Personality
Mordecai is mild-mannered and laid back. Like Rigby, he lacks clothing, plays video games, and drinks copious amounts of coffee and soda. Of the duo, Mordecai displays far more patience and responsibility than Rigby does. Although almost every problem caused by the duo is Rigby's fault and even if it's Mordecai's fault it's not work related. An example is in The Unicorns Have Got to Go when Mordecai tries to attract Margaret with DudeTime but ends up attracting a group of rude mannered, lazy, and non-serious unicorns that cause chaos. Mordecai puts up with his laziness and immaturity, once even 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 often makes up excuses to go to The Coffee Shop just to see her. He is a serious person and wants people to do the right thing.

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


 * Leadership - Mordecai has notable leadership skills.
 * Video Game Master - Mordecai is an expert at video games. Anytime Mordecai and Rigby play against each other, Mordecai would win every time (except in Bet to Be Blonde, when Rigby cheats and unplugs Mordecai's controller).
 * Educated - Mordecai is both figuratively and literally smarter than Rigby in nearly every possible way. He has mentioned to have acquired not only a high school diploma, which Rigby doesn't have (as mentioned in the episode 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 gently shaken to be awake by Rigby (examples, Ello Gov'nor, This is My Jam 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 - This greatly varies from episode to episode, though he has been consistently show to be stronger than Rigby, since that he aways easily beat him in any physical test, most notable is a game called "punchies". However, while not on Skips or Muscle Man Level, there are several evidences that Mordecai possesses well above average strength, as Mordecai has, on several occasions, bashed his way through locked doors (Just Set Up The Chairs). In fact he's so strong that he can break a broom with one punch and easily rip a shirt as shown in Mordecai and the Rigbys. However, his most recent and impressive feat of physical strength is show when he bashed Death Bear across a room and through a wall in the episode of the same name.
 * 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 in "Mordecai and the Rigbys," when Mordecai tries to tell the crowd about being tricked into lip-synching. Another example would be when Mordecai apologizes to C.J. to calm her down in "Yes Dude Yes." Also, he gave a protest speech to Margaret while being trapped in the Voice Messaging Control Center in Butt Dial, begging her not to play the message that contained song Mordecai made up about how it would be like if they were together forever. However, it did not work.
 * Kind Hearted - Mordecai possesses 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. He always tries to settle disagreements. He also admitted a certain secret to save his life.
 * 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.
 * Musician - Mordecai has shown on several occasions that he can sing very well. In the Mordecai and the Rigbys, Karaoke Video, and Butt Dial he sings nice and clear, although he tends to be off key.
 * Slacking Off - Mordecai and Rigby both have a tendency of slacking off from work. Benson then yells at them to stop slacking off. This is seen in almost every episode.
 * Skilled Fighter - Mordecai is very good at fighting others and is seen in many episodes(ex. Muscle Man and Hi Five Ghost in The Night Owl or Jeremy and Chad (possum) in Replaced).
 * Lousy Swimmer - It is seen in "Meat Your Maker" when the hot dogs put Skips, Pops, Benson and Mordecai to marinate, he was practically drowning.
 * Party Animal - In Party Pete, See You There, and some other episodes, it shows that Mordecai really likes to party.
 * Sanitation - Even though Mordecai is a party animal, he is good at cleaning up major parties. This is shown in Replaced, Butt Dial, Party Pete, etc.
 * Snoring - It is seen in Ello Gov'nor that he snores when he sleeps.

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. Every episode that has ever aired has always shown the two as a duo, let alone the two in the same episode. Mordecai usually punches Rigby and says Shut up, dude! when he gets mad at him.

Margaret
Margaret is Mordecai's crush, and is obvious she likes him too due to the duo kissing in Bad Kiss and all the other hints. 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. Ever since the episode Camping Can Be Cool, Margaret seemed to start liking Mordecai as well, and her interest in Mordecai really increased because at the end of the episode Slam Dunk, she told him he was hot while he played basketball. In Butt Dial, he accidentally sends her a song about them being together to her phone and she sets it as his personal ring tone for whenever he calls. In Yes Dude Yes, she gets jealous when she learns that Mordecai was dating CJ. In the same episode,he nearly gets to go to the movies with Margaret, but it is ended by CJ. In Access Denied, they finally dance with each other. In Death Bear he nearly kissed Margaret. In Bad Kiss, Mordecai and Margaret had their first kiss, but Margaret tells him about his bad breath. Embarrassed, he runs out of the car. He goes back in time to fix it, but with all the action happening, he forgot to take a mint, so when it was time, not wanting to screw up a second time, he dodges the kiss, and finds his wallet instead. Margaret was cool on the outside, but probably being upset or depressed on the inside.

Benson
Benson is Mordecai's boss at the Park. Even though he yells 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. In Eggscellent, Mordecai punches Benson in the face after he scolds him over Rigby's coma.

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 making Rigby angry. Mordecai shows friendship to Eileen for asking Margaret to go camping with Rigby so Mordecai and Margaret were getting really close in Camping Can Be Cool. Eileen and Rigby also thought that they would go on dates and eat corn dogs.

Skips
Mordecai respects Skips due to Skips' ability to fix almost any problem Mordecai and Rigby cause. They are great friends.

Pops
Mordecai is real good friends with Pops. Whenever they are seen together, they seem to get along and have no problems. Along with Rigby, they always help Pops. Like in Dizzy, they try to help him with his stage fright and in Rap it Up, they join him to go against CrewCrew when they call Pops a loser.

Muscle Man and Hi Five Ghost
Mordecai likes Muscle Man and Hi Five Ghost at times, but Mordecai doesn't approve of their immaturity, especially Muscle Man's "my mom" jokes, once even correcting him, but Mordecai had to face Muscle Man's brother John Sorrenstein. In season 3, they become nicer and friendlier to each other and help each other with problems.

Mordecai-Themed Content

 * Mordecai's Bed (Almost all of the episodes)
 * Mordecai's Guitar (This Is My Jam and Mordecai and the Rigbys)
 * Mordecai's Memories (Brain Eraser)
 * Mordecai's Outfit
 * Mordecai's Phone (Butt Dial)
 * Mordecai's Alarm Clock
 * Mordecai's Cool Outfits (Cool Bikes)
 * Mordecai's Throwing Knives (But I Have a Receipt)
 * Mordecai's Wallet (House Rules and Bad Kiss)

Quotes
See Mordecai/Quotes.

Trivia

 * The name Mordecai is of Hebrew origin. The meaning of Mordecai is "servant of Marduk" in Persian. In the Old Testament, Mordecai is the cousin and foster father of Esther.


 * 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.


 * Although Mordecai is a Blue Jay, he appears to not have the ability to fly as shown in A Bunch of Baby Ducks (this may be unknown because he could fly in a future episode).


 * His beak sports a full set of teeth (as does Margaret's).


 * He has two "toes" instead of the standard four.


 * Mordecai is one of the few characters who has not mentioned any relatives. Another person is Skips.


 * It is mentioned in Don that he doesn't have a brother, but it might not mean that he's an only child (he might have a sister(s)).
 * It is unknown if Mordecai is older or younger than Rigby, although Mordecai could be older because he's more mature, responsible, and mannered than Rigby. He may also be younger because just like Don, he just is more mature, responsible, and mannered than Rigby.


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


 * According to the episode Don, Mordecai has known Rigby since he was five or six years old.


 * It is noted that his chest is sometimes light blue, but its main color is white, like all the Blue Jays.


 * In Meat Your Maker, he nearly died of hypothermia when Rigby broke the thermostat.


 * It is revealed that in Meat Your Maker that he can't stay in places that are below 10 degrees or he will lose consciousness.


 * In Camping Can Be Cool, it is revealed that he went to Art College.


 * Mordecai, like normal Blue Jays, is an omnivore. He has eaten another bird twice in Dizzy and Under the Hood. He also ate a salad in Rigby's Body. In Eggscellent, he ate eggs, another food in a normal Blue Jay's diet.


 * Mordecai's favorite band is "Brain Explosion."
 * On a few occasions, Mordecai and Rigby have shown an interest in rapping (Ex. Party Pete).


 * He has a different appearance in The Pilot.


 * In Pilot and First Day, you can see Mordecai's head swishing around when he moves it.


 * In the episode Rap it Up, when Rigby was rapping, it revealed that Mordecai was crying when he saw a movie called A Very Happy Bride.


 * Some people call him Mordo, Mordecry, Wrongecai, Brodecai, and Blondecai.


 * Mordecai refers to Rigby as "Dude" in every single episode.


 * In Project Exonaut, him, Rigby, and Skips have their own exosuits.


 * In Fancy Restaurant, Mordecai is nicer to Muscle Man. He even helps him learn etiquette.
 * As seen in Diary, Mordecai has developed a fear for microwaves after what happened in It's Time.
 * As said in Diary, Mordecai's secrets are he likes to go commando alot, likes to sing along to bad pop music, sometimes when him and Rigby are supposed to clean the gutters they go to get coffee instead, and when him and Rigby bought beds he took Rigby's and stacked it under his and told him that they didn't bring it.
 * In Out of Commission we see him cry for the first time.
 * Mordecai is the only known one to finish and survive the Eggscellent challenge.
 * In the episode Bad Kiss, Mordecai and Margaret kiss.
 * It was revealed in Bad Kiss that Mordecai has his own Milkshakes called Mordeshakes.

Gallery


The gallery for Mordecai can be viewed here.