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 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.

Tropes
Mordecai has shown a variety of abilities and habits 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).

Punchies Master
Mordecai has proven himself very capable at with skills close to rivaling Skips. In the episode, he was shown never to have lost a game of punchies to Rigby and increased his skill by learning Death Kwon Do moves. However, he let Rigby win one game due to jealousy.

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 hasn't as told in More Smarter, but also a college education. He has also gone to junior high.

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 shaken awake (gently) because saying his name doenst work. (examlpe, "Ello govenr" 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.

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.

Near-Death Experiences
In nearly every episode, Mordecai (and Rigby) has a near-death experience.
 * Mordecai almost dies of hypothermia and is nearly marinated and eaten by psycho hotdogs in Meat Your Maker.
 * Would have died by the antimatter in Grilled Cheese Deluxe.
 * Would have been scorched by lava in Death Punchies.
 * Mordecai could have been killed by Destroyer of Worlds in Just Set Up the Chairs.
 * Would've been crushed by the Moon Monster in The Power.
 * Could have been overrun by zombies had Muscle Man not brought his sports equipment.
 * He could've gotten crushed by Giant Susan if Leon didn't cut off her high heels.
 * Was pinned under cart in Skunked.
 * Almost ran over by British Taxi in Ello Gov'nor.
 * Nearly killed by Game Store Manager in But I Have A Receipt.
 * Nearly crushed by Starla in Muscle Woman.
 * Almost got beaten to death by Chong in Stick Hockey.
 * Almost got blasted in Bet to Be Blonde.
 * Almost lost his soul to Death in Skips Strikes.
 * Could have been killed by the car crash in Cruisin

Rigby
Mordecai's best friend and fellow park groundskeeper, Rigby has known Mordecai since the two were five/six years old (possibly earlier). 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 in many instances.

Very often, Rigby does something that makes Mordecai mad. In Meat Your Maker, Rigby's constant failure to fix the dilemma the two of them are in results in Mordecai's (temporary) resentment. In The Unicorns Have Got To Go, Rigby abandons Mordecai for a bunch of unicorn thugs. The most notable example is It's Time, when Rigby goes as far as to steal Mordecai's crush, Margaret, when he could not muster the courage to ask her out.

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 Rigby 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." Despite this, Margaret sees Mordecai, as well as Rigby, as her friend, and will defend him when someone (particularly one of her boyfriends) insults or teases him. She is a fan of the musical group Fist Pump, as well as horror films such as Zombie Dinner Party. The closest Mordecai has gotten to Margaret so far is in High Score, when Mordecai and Rigby score a world record high score in Broken Bonez, along the way earning a hug from Margaret. In Camping Can Be Cool, Margaret thanks Mordecai for taking her camping for her first time. In Slam Dunk, she calls Mordecai "hot", showing an increasingly romantic tension between the two.

Benson
Benson is Mordecai's boss. He considers both Mordecai and Rigby to be slackers, usually threatening them with an ultimatum 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 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. 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.

Skips
Mordecai respects Skips due to Skips' ability to remedy 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 never flied in the series despite the fact that he is a blue jay. (In Death Punchies it was the Death Jump that made him look like he was flying).


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


 * Rigby has his brother Don.


 * Muscle Man has his brother John.


 * High Five Ghost has his brother, Low-Five Ghost, and his father.


 * Pops has his father, Mr. Maellard.
 * Margaret has mentioned her dad bringing her to mini-golf in Do Me a Solid.
 * As seen in House Rules, Mordecai will be fat and his head feathers will be missing in the future.
 * He will also apparently not have Rigby in the future.