Mordecai



Mordecai is a 23-year-old blue jay. He is the protagonist of the series. He made his debut in the short film 2 In The AM PM as an animated version of J.G Quintel his voice actor then morphs into the proto-Mordecai, later making his first official appearance in the pilot episode. His voice is provided by the show's creator, J.G. Quintel.

Appearance
Mordecai appears to be a common blue jay, and very tall standing at 6'. Like Rigby, he does not wear clothes. His color scheme is blue and white with two white stripes on each wing, and two black stripes on each of his fingers and tail feathers, and one on each thumb (however, in the episode "Don", during a flashback to when Mordecai was six, he lacked the black stripes). Unlike most actual birds, Mordecai has teeth. Benton Connor, a storyboarder, jokingly refers to them as "beek dentata". In the aforementioned flashback, Mordecai was shown to have buck-teeth. He also is not shown to fly but the Death Jump looks like flying. He is also seen with Rigby in Mad, another Cartoon Network show, on the episode "The Social Netjerk."His colour scheme is about the same as that as a regular blue jay.

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 friend Rigby. However, in the most recent episode "More Smarter", he acted as immature as Rigby, 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, "Caffinated 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 adapt 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 in this episode.

Skills/Habits
Mordecai has shown a variety of abilities and habits throughout the series:


 * Video Game Expert: Mordecai is usually 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 very bad points but eventually defeating 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.


 * 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.

Near-Death Experiences
 * 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, ex: Don, when he talks Rigby into forgiving Don. In "Mordecai and the Rigby's" 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).


 * Mordecai almost got marinated and eaten by the evil hot dogs. In the same episode, he also nearly died of hypothermia when Rigby broke the thermostate 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 monster of rock-paper-scissors.
 * He was badly beaten up by the Hammer.
 * He almost got burned by lava.
 * Mordecai could have gotten badly beaten up by the wrestler if Pops didn't come to help them.
 * He would have been eaten by Snowball the Ice Monster if he didn't write everything back to normal.
 * 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 collecter if the baby ducks didn't turn into a giant.
 * Could have been eaten by the zombies
 * He could've gotten destroyed by Susan if Leon didn't break her heels.
 * Almost got crushed by the moon monster.

Rigby


Mordecai's best friend and fellow park groundskeeper, Rigby has known Mordecai since the two were at least 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. 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. In addition, as previously mentioned, Mordecai accidently killed Rigby out of jealousy in the episode"It's Time", though his death was quickly undone by the powers of Father Time.

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.

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 series 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. 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".

Trivia

 * While a blue jay, Mordecai's cartoonishly 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.


 * Some people might call his kind (blue jays) as Mordecai jays as reference.
 * In Meat Your Maker he can't stay in really cold places or else he will go unconscious..
 * In "Don" it 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 not wearing clothes)
 * In "First Day" his face feathers variate due to the more updated clips, his face feathers didn't cover his eyes in the original pilot.
 * He has a crush on a robin named Margaret.
 * He thinks Wedgie Ninja is not funny.