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** After [[spoiler:Margaret leaves. He shaves it off after the rest of the park help him get back to normal again]].
** He also had one [[spoiler:when he ran away to Dumptown, USA after CJ broke up with him during Muscle Man's wedding]].

** He gets better at talking to Margaret over time, and they've had romantic moments together even if they're technically never actually dating. She's even let him kiss her.

* DidNotGetTheGirl: For all of the focus on Mordecai's romantic turmoil, he doesn't end up with [[spoiler:either]] Margaret [[spoiler:or CJ]]. [[spoiler:He does end up marrying a bat woman named Stef and starting a family with her.]]

* EarnYourHappyEnding: He does overcome his various flaws and insecurities in his romantic endeavors and the arts while maturing. The end of the series has him [[spoiler:going separate ways with Rigby and becoming a well-respected artist and falling in love with a batwoman before starting a family with her. He also maintains close with the rest of the park gang and the end touches off with him and Rigby thinking back on Pops before searching for the old video games]].

* EmbarrassingSlide: He always dreads going to his parents' place because of a VHS his mom has of "Mordy Moments" which consists of screw-ups made during his childhood.

** At the core of the related flaw above is his insecurity. Because of constantly being embarrassed by his mother growing up, not getting into the college he wanted, [[spoiler: which later turns out to be a lie]], and dropping out of community college, Mordecai is constantly insecure about himself. This contributes heavily to his inability to be honest with his feelings and his struggle with his self-doubt, [[MasterOfTheMixedMessage causing him to constantly send mixed signals to both of his love interests and making his love life far more complicated than it needed to be.]] Because he couldn't properly address his insecurity, he ended up driving both Margaret and CJ away from him.

* InterspeciesRomance: Mordecai (a blue jay) has dated Margaret ([[InformedSpecies a robin that looks like a cardinal]]), CJ (a humanoid cloud) [[spoiler:and Stef (a bat).]]

* LikeASonToMe: Margaret's father, Frank, refers to Mordecai as a surrogate son in "The 1000th Chopper Party".
* LooksLikeJesus: During his time at "Dumptown U.S.A.", he lets his hair and beard grow long enough to reach his back and his chest, besides only wearing a bathrobe as a sign of how much has he let himself decay. Just as comparison, he looks like [[Film/TheBigLebowski The Dude]].

* NonMammalianHair: Depending on RuleOfFunny. Typically his blue feathers are treated as hair, like when he needs a mullet to perform Death Kwon Do, or in Laundry Woes where his has his first BeardOfSorrow, and flashbacks to his childhood show this is his natural style. As a pre teen and teenager he had brown hair, presumably dying and cutting it, although he is sometimes he's shown to be able to grow brown human-like hair, either on his head or face, like in "Dumptown U.S.A." where he grows long unkempt brown hair and his second BeardOfSorrow, [[spoiler:and in the finale where at the park reunion he has a full brown beard]]. His parents notably each have a full head of hair.

Has a [[BigLittleBrother very tall younger brother]] named Don, who is an accountant.

* HeroicBSOD: Shown in the montage at the beginning of "Laundry Woes" [[spoiler:after Margaret leaves]]. He snaps out of it after [[spoiler:the entire park pulls together to help him]].

* AerithAndBob: They are evenly balanced with uncommon names (Pops, Skips and Hi-Five Ghost) and more common names (Mordecai, Benson and Rigby, which were considered common particularly in the early 20th century). There is also [[SixthRanger Thomas]] (another common name) whose real name is [[spoiler:Nikolai (a common Slavic name)]], and Muscle Man is somewhere in the middle as he is mostly referred to by his nickname but his real name is Mitch.

* LazyBum: Even more-so than Mordecai, to the point of becoming TheMillstone, at least up until his CharacterDevelopment. Rigby would rather play video games and goof off than do his chores. "First Day" reveals he was too lazy to fill out his work application; Mordecai had to do so for him.

* ButtMonkey: ''All'' of the park members has had bad luck crash on them at one point or another, but Mordecai, Rigby, Benson, and Pops - and also Thomas if you count him - are the "main" ones to receive the most often.

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: They pretty much cause much of the danger in the episodes due to not heeding warnings told to them or just doing something stupid in general - with the caveat that the scope of such danger is rarely apparent in advance. And in their defense, they do at least try to fix the problems they cause.

* BrilliantButLazy: He is much smarter than Rigby and holds a high school diploma - neither of which is really saying much, but he regularly demonstrates an aptitude for problem solving and cleverness.

* DiurnalNocturnalAnimal: Is awake during the day - and more to the point, shows no particular desire to be a night owl - despite being a raccoon.

* CluelessBoss: As the son of the man who owns the park, Pops means well, but he's woefully unaware of - or at least unconcerned with - how terrible Mordecai and Rigby are at their jobs.

* DumbMuscle: He has StoutStrength, but he's also rather dimwitted and lacking in street/book smarts. This is due to a lack of focus on his part - he's smart enough to teach a college class in "Exit 9B" - and he's known to pull off some physics-defying pranks on little notice.

* GutturalGrowler: Has an exaggeratedly deep, growling voice, in contrast with the light, high voice of Pops and the more monotonous, slightly nasal tone of Benson (all performed by Sam Marin).

** Both of them were the youngest in the family and were considered the black sheep (Rigby for his laziness and goofing off, Benson for his timidness).

* EveryoneHasStandards: Despite being very lazy and a messy individual, even Rigby was disgusted by the way everyone in Dumptown, USA were living their life.

--->'''Mordecai''': Dude, you gotta stop digging stuff out of the trash. It's unatural.\\

* StrongerThanTheyLook: Despite what his sensitive and delicate demeanor might tell you, there are times where he is shown to be quite tough. In a flashback in "Death Punchies", he punched Rigby hard enough to send him across the room, in "Really Real Wrestling", he managed to take down several much more muscular wrestlers and in the Christmas special, he managed to take on a polar bear and win.

!!Pops Maellardr / [[spoiler:Mega Kranus]]

!!Pops Maellard

* JerkassBall: He has his moments of being downright cruel, ''especially'' in "Best Burgers in the World" and "Lunch Break".

** In "Best Burgers in the World", Benson denies Mordecai and Rigby access to the legendarily delicious burgers and laughs at how they still have so much work to do before they can get them. Then, after the duo [[ItMakesSenseInContext destroy their paper clones]], due to them ordering the burgers before the work is done, Benson eats them in their faces and tells them to get back to work.

* StrongerThanTheyLook: Despite what his sensitive and delicate demeanor might tell you, there are times where he is shown to be quite tough. In a flashback in "Death Punchies", he punched Rigby hard enough to send him across the room and in "Really Real Wrestling", he managed to take down several much more muscular wrestlers.

* AerithAndBob: They are evenly balanced with uncommon names (Pops, Skips and Hi-Five Ghost) and more common names (Mordecai, Benson and Rigby, which could be considered common names in the early 20th century). There is also [[SixthRanger Thomas]] (another common name) whose real name is [[spoiler:Nikolai (a common Slavic name)]], and Muscle Man is somewhere in the middle as he is mostly referred to by his nickname but his real name is Mitch.

** Mordecai started off completely embarrassed about going to visit his mom for anything, given how she would embarrass ''him'' whenever he brought home a girl. Getting a WhatTheHellHero from [[ItMakesSenseInContext his past selves]] helps him realize that embarrassing moments happen and fade, how much of a jerk he was being to her, and remember that she is still a loving mother. And he goes to her for advice in "Sad Sax" [[spoiler:to discuss his cheating on CJ with Margaret and how to handle it]], without the initial anxiousness her had before.

* TrueCompanions: [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]] at first. At the beginning of the show, they're mostly VitriolicBestBuds; Benson is TheFriendNobodyLikes and only hang out with because he's they're boss, Muscle Man is ThePrankster that annoys almost everyone, and Mordecai and Rigby cause problems for the lot of them, but they have had their moments of this. Played straight starting from season 6, as they started to act more friendly towards each other, have more downtime activities together, attended Muscle Man's wedding and Rigby's graduation ceremony, and not only [[spoiler:helped Pops prepare for his fight with Anti-Pops, they even joined in! Eileen also counts since she was part of the crew in season 8]].

* TemporarilyAVillain: It [[DependingOnTheWriter depends on the writer]], though he has done some villainouspretty mean deeds that could be considered villainous.

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* ButtMonkey: A very {{exaggerated|Trope}} case. Out of the seven Park members (eight if you count [[TheIntern Thomas]]), '''four''' of them follow this trope (Mordecai, Rigby, Benson, and Pops). Five if you count Thomas.

* TrueCompanions: [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]] at first. At the beginning of the show, they're mostly VitriolicBestBuds; Benson is TheFriendNobodyLikes, Muscle Man is ThePrankster that annoys almost everyone, and Mordecai and Rigby cause problems for the lot of them, but they have had their moments of this. Played straight starting from season 6, as they started to act more friendly towards each other, have more downtime activities together, attended Muscle Man's wedding and Rigby's graduation ceremony, and not only [[spoiler:helped Pops prepare for his fight with Anti-Pops, they even joined in! Eileen also counts since she was part of the crew in season 8]].

** The entire episode, "Cool Bikes", when he and Rigby shown to be cool bike riders and in fashion.

** In "The Night Owl", he defeats several guards by physical means and knocks out The Night Owl with a single punch.

** [[spoiler: When Mordecai learns that Rigby lied to him about being rejected from College University, he blames all of his misfortunes and being stuck in a dead-end job on Rigby. [[JerkassHasAPoint Mordecai has every right to be angry at Rigby for such a betrayal and withholding the truth for so long,]] but he isn't blameless in his lack of development in his life. Despite being rejected from College University, Mordecai went to another college, where he dropped out of his own free will. Instead of actively working to improve himself since then, Mordecai instead lazes about as much as Rigby does. Mordecai would eventually acknowledge this near the end of the movie, admitting that he was wrong to blame all his troubles on Rigby.]]

* NeverMyFault: While Rigby ''does'' convince Mordecai to ditch work, Mordecai does have a choice in it, but always puts the blame on Rigby.