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| 3 | [[quoteright:995:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/the_regular_park_gang_1.jpg]] |
| 4 | [[caption-width-right:995:They're just a regular park crew. [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial Pay them no heed]].]] |
| 5 | The show's main cast consists of seven guys who are employees of an urban park: Mordecai, Rigby, Benson, Pops, Skips, Muscle Man and High Five Ghost (or Fives). And the majority of the show is centered on how insane and off the wall their lives can get with normal, mundane tasks and in just ''eleven minutes''. |
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| 10 | [[folder: The Park Crew in general]] |
| 11 | * AerithAndBob: They are evenly balanced with uncommon names (Pops, Skips and Hi-Five Ghost) and more common names (Mordecai, Benson and Rigby, which are relatively 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. |
| 12 | * BadassCrew: Episodes have shown that all seven are the last crew you want to mess with. |
| 13 | * 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. |
| 14 | * CharacterDevelopment: Most of them have their fair share of development. Benson becomes nicer to Mordecai and Rigby, Muscle Man acts more friendly towards the duo after they save his life, and the main duo themselves learn to grow up. {{Subverted|Trope}} with Skips, Pops, and Hi-Five Ghost, who have more of a HiddenDepths side. |
| 15 | * 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 their 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 the latter half of season 3, as they 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]]. |
| 16 | * VitriolicBestBuds: Some of them have their own rivalries with each other, notably Mordecai vs Rigby (though this one was {{friendly|rivalry}}), Mordecai[=/=]Rigby vs Benson, Mordecai & Rigby vs Muscle Man & Hi-Five Ghost, etc. However, they're still friends nonetheless and you can bet that they ''will'' be there for each other in dire situations. |
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| 18 | !!The Main Duo |
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| 20 | [[folder:Tropes about both of them]] |
| 21 | [[quoteright:246:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/b00cmd757e_22.jpg]] |
| 22 | [[caption-width-right:246:''"OOOOOOOOHHHH!"'']] |
| 23 | |
| 24 | Our two main protagonists, the slacker duo Mordecai and Rigby. |
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| 26 | * AttentionDeficitOohShiny: Both of them have their moments of sudden distraction, mainly Rigby. |
| 27 | * BigGuyLittleGuy: Mordecai is the easygoing Big Guy, while Rigby is the irritable Little Guy. |
| 28 | * BrilliantButLazy: Crosses over with BookDumb. The two are usually incompetent slackers, but it's been shown several times that they could pull off several amazing feats when they actually put their minds to it. [[spoiler: Not to mention how they became Space Rangers in season 8.]] |
| 29 | * BunnyEarsLawyer: When they aren’t slacking off, playing video games, or engaging in some stupid activity, Mordecai and Rigby can actually be pretty competent at their jobs. |
| 30 | * ButtMonkey: Both of them are put into a lot of unfortunate events while slacking off from their jobs. Rigby especially, though often it's his own fault. |
| 31 | * CharacterCatchphrase: |
| 32 | ** "[[BigYes OOOOOOOOH!]]" |
| 33 | ** Both of them usually refer to each other as "Dude". Moreso Mordecai, although Rigby does it pretty frequently as well. |
| 34 | ** Repeated "Hmm!" grunts and nods. |
| 35 | * CantGetAwayWithNuthin: The main element of a lot of episodes is Mordecai and Rigby attempting to shirk some responsibility and usually doesn't resolve unless they own up to what they've done. |
| 36 | * CharacterDevelopment: A major focus in the last third of the series is Mordecai and Rigby learning to grow up in multiple ways, most notably around their love lives. |
| 37 | * CheatedAngle: Both of them are almost never shown head-on. |
| 38 | * ChildhoodFriends: They have been best friends since they were kids. |
| 39 | * ClassicalAntiHero: Both of them are seen as aimless slackers who would rather waste away their life rather make progress in their lives. And while both have their jerkish moments, at the end of the day, they'll do the right thing (albeit more-so for Mordecai than Rigby). Both of their character arcs are about outgrowing this and maturing. |
| 40 | * DidNotThinkThisThrough: |
| 41 | ** Constantly. They usually come up with a lot of harebrained schemes that they don't really cover all the angles of, usually leading into a lot of the situations of the episode. That said, the hook of the show is bizarre weirdness materializing without warning and causing havoc, and the pair ''do'' have a pretty good track record for dealing appropriately with those. |
| 42 | ** A few episodes have them actually try to do their jobs, only to wind up causing the problem of the episode because they didn’t think it through, a good example of this being "Journey to the Center of the Crash Pit". |
| 43 | * TheDogBitesBack: Both rarely ever fight back against Benson, even when treated unreasonably by him. However, there are some occasions when they ''do'' retaliate. |
| 44 | ** In "Eggscellent", Benson's uncaring attitude regarding Rigby's coma earned him a punch and [[WhatTheHellHero reprimand]] by Mordecai. |
| 45 | ** In "One Space Day At A Time", Benson ends up unfairly blaming Rigby for their predicament, pushing him afterwards. This prompts Rigby to punch him back, causing both sides to start fighting. |
| 46 | * EveryoneHasStandards: Despite slacking off most of the time, they still do it under the condition that they go back to work eventually as seen in "Benson Be Gone". |
| 47 | * {{Flanderization}}: Episodes focusing on Benson that give him the SympatheticPOV tend to turn them into incompetent idiots even more lazy than usual, most notably in "Think Positive", where they try to water plants with ''soda''. |
| 48 | * {{Foil}}: Mordecai is considered the much cooler and more responsible part of the duo as he is naturally sociable and friendly, but he has a hard time expressing his feelings, especially when it comes to his romance life. Ironically, he has also been shown to be a ChickMagnet and has two main love interests in Margaret and CJ. Rigby, on the other hand, is considered the irresponsible ButtMonkey of the duo, being considerably more jerkish and anti-social yet more honest with his feelings. And as for romance, he has been shown to have mild interest in women but entered into a real relationship with Eileen. |
| 49 | * FriendlyRivalry: The relationship they have of almost brothers often leads them to try to one-up the other, with Mordecai being the one (at first) to give in when it seems like Rigby has gotten the best out of him. Some of the problems that Mordecai and Rigby face happen because of this, more so in the early seasons. |
| 50 | * GeorgeJetsonJobSecurity: Rigby even lampshades it in the last episode: |
| 51 | -->'''Rigby''': "We're not gonna get fired. Not for [leaving a hole in the wall], not for smashing up Benson's car, or ruining everyone's Thanksgiving dinner, not for releasing a demon into the park. We actually have our jobs for like, six years after this!" |
| 52 | * HeterosexualLifePartners: They are each other's best friends and enjoy spending time with one another. What makes them good friends is that they're both slackers who play video games, share catchphrases, have similar taste in music, and share the same opinion in some subjects. In the episode "Don", Mordecai even says that they're like brothers. |
| 53 | * HourglassPlot: Mordecai starts out as the (relatively) more mature and responsible of the duo, while Rigby is much more dysfunctional and abrasive. Over the course of the series, Mordecai becomes increasingly immature and self-centered, while Rigby becomes more responsible and kind. They both backslide at times, but generally wind up going in opposite directions [[spoiler:though Mordecai straightens out too by the end of the series.]] |
| 54 | * InterspeciesFriendship: |
| 55 | ** Mordecai (a blue jay) and Rigby (a raccoon) are each other's best and closest friend. |
| 56 | ** They also form friendships with Benson (a humanoid gumball machine), Skips (an immortal yeti), Pops (a humanoid lollipop), Muscle Man (an [[AmbiguouslyHuman ambiguous human]]), Hi-Five Ghost (a ghost), and Thomas (a billy goat). |
| 57 | * JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Both of them have less than admirable qualities, but are shown to be brave, selfless, and loyal... though Rigby works up to it over a few seasons. |
| 58 | * ManChild: Both of them are prone to behaving like rebellious teenage boys trapped in the bodies of full-grown adults. |
| 59 | * 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. |
| 60 | * RedOniBlueOni: Mordecai is the calm, level-headed Blue Oni to Rigby's hot-headed, rash Red Oni. |
| 61 | * TheScapegoat: Given their track record, it's not surprising that they get blamed for things and/or are assumed to be part of the problem when they arise. |
| 62 | * TheSlacker: |
| 63 | ** Early on, both of them will do ''anything'' to get out of work, Rigby more so. And while Mordecai starts establishing himself as the more responsible one from the beginning, taking "Just Set Up The Chairs" as a prime example, he often joins in with Rigby's escapades for the sake of rivalry or just for the hell of it. |
| 64 | ** By season 7 their dynamic gets flipped on its head. While Rigby was always the lazier of the two until then, he begins to put his mind towards self-improvement (initially to not be dead weight in his relationship with Eileen, then for its own sake). Mordecai, meanwhile, is literally [[DeconstructedTrope stuck in a rut with no idea what he wants to do with his life]], even as he responds competently to the ever-encroaching weirdness the show throws at them. The finale shows [[spoiler:that he finally followed through with pursuing a career in art]]. |
| 65 | * SupportingProtagonist: Both of them enter into this position in season 8, as it is [[spoiler:Pops' destiny to defeat his evil twin brother to save the world]]. |
| 66 | * TotallyRadical: They say "dude" and "man" a lot. |
| 67 | * VerbalTic: Both are prone to "Hmm"ing a lot with each other and saying "dude". |
| 68 | * VitriolicBestBuds: |
| 69 | ** Even though they insult and occasionally get violent with one another, Mordecai and Rigby are each other's best friend, surrogate brothers, and will always have each other's back. They develop the same dynamic with Benson and Muscle Man. |
| 70 | ** Deconstructed in a few episodes, where one of them will push the vitriol too far and genuinely hurt the other emotionally. |
| 71 | * WeirdnessMagnet: Both of them attract all manners of weirdness at least once a week. |
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| 74 | [[folder:Mordecai]] |
| 75 | !!Mordecai |
| 76 | [[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/250px_mordecai_character_original.png]] |
| 77 | [[caption-width-right:200:''"Ugh, we're so fired for this..."'']] |
| 78 | ->Voiced in English by: J.G. Quintel |
| 79 | ->Voiced in Latin American Spanish by: Arturo Cataño (Seasons 1-8 first half), Creator/EdsonMatus (Season 8 second half)\ |
| 80 | Debuted in: "Pilot"/Season 1, "The Power" |
| 81 | |
| 82 | A tall, art school drop-out blue jay who works with his friend Rigby at the park. Between the two, Mordecai is the more mature, although he will sometimes play along with the more enthusiastic Rigby's hijinks. |
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| 84 | * AccidentalMurder: In "It's Time". After getting rattled up all day by Rigby about him getting a date with Margaret and Mordecai not because of his shyness as well as his unwillingness to admit being jealous, Mordecai ends up pushing him out of [[ItMakesSenseInContext the tunnel they're going through]], killing him. He's remorseful afterwards. |
| 85 | %% Do NOT add AcrophobicBird. |
| 86 | * AffectionateNickname: "Mordy" by his mother and Uncle Steve. |
| 87 | * AlwaysSomeoneBetter: Mordecai's better than Rigby in most aspects: way more friendly with people, more of a case of wasted talent rather than a deadbeat like Rigby and considered more responsible than him. ''And he will always rub it on his face''. Eventually {{downplayed|Trope}} after realizing how this attitude has made Rigby resentful and insecure. |
| 88 | ** Ironically subverted in season 7, with Rigby becoming more successful than him, whether in romance or personal goals. |
| 89 | * AmbiguouslyJewish: Named after Jewish man Mordecai from the Purim story. |
| 90 | * AmicableExes: |
| 91 | ** [[invoked]] Played straight with [[spoiler:Margaret. When Margaret returns from college, there's very much some serious lingering feelings between the two, to the point where they share a kiss while Mordecai was with CJ. After Mordecai breaks up with CJ, he and Margaret play around getting back together, but ultimately decide that they're BetterAsFriends. They spent the rest of the season still hanging out as friends, and WordOfGod is that they still keep in touch after going their separate ways.]] |
| 92 | ** [[invoked]] Subverted with [[spoiler:CJ. While they're shown amicably breaking up, they never interact with each other afterwards, and WordOfGod is that CJ cut all ties with Mordecai and his friends.]] |
| 93 | * AttentionDeficitOohShiny: He has his moments when he gets distracted by something. |
| 94 | * AuthorAvatar: Besides being voiced by him, creator J.G. Quintel has stated that Mordecai is based on his own personality traits (what he'd do in any given situation). |
| 95 | * BabiesEverAfter: [[spoiler:He and Stef have three children (2 sons and 1 daughter) in the series finale.]] |
| 96 | * BadassDriver: Usually in high speed situations he's the one behind the wheel and can pull off some pretty gnarly tricks. |
| 97 | * BadassNormal: Mordecai normally goes against powerful beings and supernatural stuff, a lot of which are way more powerful than he is. And more often than not, he and Rigby always come on top, despite being simple groundskeepers. |
| 98 | * BarefootCartoonAnimal: Even if dressed for special occasions, he still doesn't wear shoes. |
| 99 | * BeardOfSorrow: |
| 100 | ** After [[spoiler:Margaret leaves, where it resembles longer feathers on his face. He shaves it off after the rest of the park help him get back to normal again]]. |
| 101 | ** He also had one [[spoiler:when he ran away to Dumptown, USA after CJ broke up with him during Muscle Man's wedding, although this time it’s brown human like hair]]. |
| 102 | * BerserkButton: |
| 103 | ** ''Don't'' call him a slacker. At least if you're not Benson. |
| 104 | ** ''Don't'' pick on his shyness towards Margaret or any of his girl troubles. [[spoiler:[[IllKillYou Rigby learned that one the hard way]] and Mordecai soon regretted what he did to him.]] Though this seems to have lessened throughout the series and now is just a casual annoyance. |
| 105 | * BettyAndVeronica: The "Archie" for Margaret's girlish, calm "Betty" and CJ's tomboyish, hot-headed "Veronica". At first, Mordecai is with Margaret but they break up because she got into her dream school and he eventually starts a relationship with CJ. Although, due to Mordecai [[MasterOfTheMixedMessage mixed signals]] which included him [[spoiler:kissing Margaret despite being in a relationship with CJ]] has led to her getting hurt over and over again. Finally, when he attempts to make a LoveConfession to [[spoiler:[[AmbiguousSituation CJ or Margaret]] at Muscle Man and Starla's wedding, they both decide to break up.]] And in regards to Margaret, both amicably agree they are BetterAsFriends. [[spoiler:And Mordecai finds love in a different person — a batwoman and fellow artist, named Stef.]] |
| 106 | * BewareTheNiceOnes: Mordecai can be a decent person most of the time, but he can be dangerous when pushed to his limits. He decked [[MeanBoss Benson]] in "Eggscellent" after the latter made a thoughtless comment towards a dying Rigby. |
| 107 | * BigBrotherInstinct: To Rigby. When Benson callously brushes off Rigby's possibly fatal coma as another one of their slacker's antics, he punches him in a fit of rage and pretty much tells him that he constantly makes everything about work and that he has no real friends. |
| 108 | * BirdsOfAFeather: With C.J. They both like to have fun, play video games, go to rock bands, etc. [[spoiler:This doesn't last, however.]] |
| 109 | * BlueIsHeroic: He's one of the heroes, is more level-headed and is even the blue Oni to Rigby's red Oni. Plus, he's a blue jay. |
| 110 | * 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. |
| 111 | * ByronicHero: {{Downplayed|Trope}} in every part, except when it came to romance and the future. In the earlier seasons, Mordecai would often angst and go to extreme levels to prove his life to not be a waste and that he wasn't a slacker in any sense. He would also be a hopeless romantic, sensitive and dreamy eyed about love, going into deep depression when he would screw up or hesitate. [[spoiler: Even recently, after moving on, he still has shades of this, like being torn between two possible love interests.]] |
| 112 | * CharacterCatchphrase: |
| 113 | ** "Awww, sick!" |
| 114 | ** "YAY-YUH!", the last of which is pretty much Quintel's own catchphrase. |
| 115 | ** Whenever Rigby's in danger or Mordecai's worried about him, he sometimes stretches out his wing and cries "Rigby!" |
| 116 | * CharacterDevelopment: |
| 117 | ** He gets better at talking to Margaret over time, and they've had romantic moments together even if they're technically never actually dating. This eventually leads to [[spoiler:her kissing him and vice versa, leading them to become a coupe until Margaret has to break up with him as she’s leaving town for college.]] |
| 118 | ** More noticeably, he appreciates Rigby more by the end of the first season or so (only punching him when he says or something stupid or insensitive instead of for no reason, for example). |
| 119 | ** He gets some more in "I Like You Hi". [[spoiler: Asking CJ out instead of beating around the bush like he did with Margaret once he realizes he does like like her.]] |
| 120 | ** 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 he had before. |
| 121 | ** Overall, as the series progresses Mordecai becomes more aware of his ClassicalAntiHero tendencies and tries to outgrow them, though it takes a while. Eventually resulting in his EarnYourHappyEnding in the finale. |
| 122 | * CharacterizationMarchesOn: |
| 123 | ** Yeah, he still punches Rigby in the arm once in a while when he says something jerkish or idiotic (though that fades as well), but he became less abusive towards Rigby in comparison to the earlier episodes (when's the last time you ever saw them play punchies?). |
| 124 | ** In season 1, Mordecai could be an almost unbearable {{Jerkass}} who was actively malicious and vindictive. From season 2 onward, Mordecai became far more laid back and was more InnocentlyInsensitive than anything. |
| 125 | * ChickMagnet: Surprisingly. |
| 126 | ** Margaret eventually started to reciprocate his feelings and stated that being in a relationship with him was most likely the best one she has ever had. |
| 127 | ** Starla was instantly smitten with him after he made a passionate speech about love in her debut episode, "Muscle Woman". |
| 128 | ** When Rigby signed him for online dating in "Yes Dude Yes", ''12'' girls responded that they wanted to go on a date with him... on the same day Rigby made him the account. |
| 129 | ** He immediately hits it off with CJ when they first meet in the above mentioned episode, with her quickly developing feelings for him and [[spoiler:they started dating after he broke up with Margaret]]. |
| 130 | ** When practicing his plan to kiss Margaret to win a bet in "Do or Diaper", he accidentally practices said kissing in front of another woman. Her response is to give him her phone number. |
| 131 | ** When he accidentally proposes to the mantis princess in "Lost and Found", she immediately accepts the proposal even though she had just met him. |
| 132 | ** [[spoiler:The way he and his future wife Stef first met implies LoveAtFirstSight.]] |
| 133 | * ClassicalAntiHero: |
| 134 | ** Most of the time, Mordecai is just content with his life and is just too laid-back to care to do any work or take responsibility about anything. He'll still do so if it's needed but has no aspirations for the future other than what he has at the moment. |
| 135 | ** Subverted in " Maellard's Package" when he's shown daydreaming about being a pilot. Later in the episode, he says to Rigby "What are we doing... No, with our lives man... then how are we ever going to own our own airline?" |
| 136 | ** Overall his CharacterDevelopment is about growing out of this, becoming more aware of being stuck in a rut in life and focusing on himself and his goals. [[EarnYourHappyEnding He officially outgrows this in the finale, pursuing a career in art and finding love.]] |
| 137 | * CloudcuckoolandersMinder: Mordecai is usually this to Rigby, if not a bit immature and eccentric himself. |
| 138 | * TheConscience: He's the voice of reason for Rigby, first and foremost. While he lacks the skills and experience of the other park workers, he has a relatively straightforward sense of morals and can generally rally the others to do the right thing. |
| 139 | * DeadpanSnarker: Occasionally, but when he does, it's usually towards Rigby. |
| 140 | -->'''Rigby''': ''(when applying his mom's cleaning formula)'' By the power of my mom, stain be gone!\ |
| 141 | '''Mordecai''': ''Hmm, maybe that's why your house is never clean.'' |
| 142 | * DidNotGetTheGirl: [[spoiler: For all of the focus on Mordecai's romantic turmoil, he doesn't end up with either Margaret or CJ. He does end up marrying a bat woman named Stef and starting a family with her.]] |
| 143 | * DoesNotLikeSpam: |
| 144 | ** {{Implied|Trope}}. When looking for food for Thomas in "Dead at Eight", Mordecai reacts in disgust when he sees that Death and his family have almond milk. |
| 145 | ** He mentions how much he hates mayo in "Picking Up Margaret". |
| 146 | ** It's shown in "Fries Night" that he strongly dislikes whole wheat pasta. |
| 147 | * DopeSlap: More like "Dope Punch", but it still qualifies. He tends to occasionally punch Rigby in the arm when he either says something stupid, insensitive or insulting in later episodes. |
| 148 | * 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 and fellow artist before marrying and 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]]. |
| 149 | * EasilyImpressed: Not as much as Rigby's case but still displays this a lot himself. |
| 150 | * 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, which she insists on playing everytime there’s some sort of get together. |
| 151 | * EyeScream: At the end of "Peeps", Mordecai has kept his eyes open for so long that he's become physically incapable of blinking, and trying to use eyedrops results in the stuff ''evaporating'' before it can even reach his eyes. |
| 152 | * FatalFlaw: His inability to be honest with his feelings and self doubt. It led to him accidentally killing Rigby, putting a strain on his relationship with Margaret at times, and a major part of the reason behind the messy, complicated LoveTriangle between him, Margaret, and CJ. |
| 153 | ** 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 art 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 especially CJ away from him. |
| 154 | ** His insecurity also negatively affected his friendship with Rigby at times. In Season 7, when Rigby was about to graduate high school and gain his diploma, Mordecai reacted negatively and accused Rigby of constantly depending on him. In the end, Mordecai revealed that he always enjoyed the idea of Rigby being a failure and a high school drop-out because it helped him feel better about himself, which Rigby calls him out on. Seeing Rigby return to high school and improve himself filled Mordecai with jealousy toward his friend, but luckily, unlike with CJ and Margaret, Mordecai was able to address this and let go of his negative responses to Rigby graduating. |
| 155 | * FeatherFingers: He's a humanoid bird with hands that look webbed. |
| 156 | * FourTemperamentEnsemble: The Phlegmatic/Melancholic — pretty much the StraightMan, but also extremely lazy and timid ([[spoiler:however he somewhat grows out of this]]). |
| 157 | * TheGadfly: Picks on Rigby. A lot. Though it's toned down from physical violence for no reason to verbal jabs and the occasional physical one when Rigby either insults him or says something really stupid or insensitive in later episodes. |
| 158 | * GentleGiant: Mordecai is very tall and usually easygoing. |
| 159 | * GoingCommando: The secret that Mordecai reveals in "Diary" is that "[he] likes going commando. A lot." Considering he goes around completely naked at all times, this much should already be obvious. |
| 160 | * HappilyMarried: [[spoiler:Not with CJ or Margaret, but with a bat-woman named Stef he met after becoming an artist. Given how they're seen in the 25 years park reunion, Mordecai finally found the one.]] |
| 161 | * HeavySleeper: How he ended up in Australia without noticing in "Mordecai and Rigby Down Under". Beyond that, out of the two, Mordecai is shown having trouble waking up immediately, only doing so when Rigby gently tugs him or when somebody screams like in "Ello Gov'nor". |
| 162 | * HeroicBSOD: |
| 163 | ** 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]]. |
| 164 | ** Then, after he manages to dynamite his romantic life, he spends at least two weeks in "Dumptown USA", only realizing it's been that long when ''Rigby'' goes to get him back. |
| 165 | * HiddenDepths: |
| 166 | ** "Mr. Maellard's Package" reveals that Mordecai has at least some interest in owning his own airline and being a pilot. |
| 167 | ** In "Slam Dunk", Mordecai apparently has enough knowledge in HTML coding for Margaret to ask him to help make her website. |
| 168 | ** In "Rigby in the Sky with Burrito" its revealed that he used to play the saxophone in high school when he was in jazz band. |
| 169 | ** Mordecai has repeatedly shown an interest in guitars. He mentions that he wanted to play guitar in jazz band but all the spots were taken, and after failing to learn guitar in "Mordecai and the Rigbys", later episodes like "This is My Jam" and "Return of Mordecai and the Rigbys" show that he can play well enough to improvise. [[spoiler:The finale also shows a guitar in the trunk of Mordecai's car when he leaves the park.]] |
| 170 | * {{Hikikomori}}: He becomes this whenever he's gone through a romantic disaffection, often staying the room listening to depressing music, not showering and letting fungus and beard grow. Seen in all of its glory in "Yes, Dude, Yes" and the montage in "Laundry Woes". Taken to its [[DeconstructedTrope logical conclusion]] in "Dumptown U.S.A.". |
| 171 | * {{Hipster}}: Several instances, but the quote "You can't touch music. But music can touch you" wraps it up. |
| 172 | ** "You gotta be in the know to know, ya know?" |
| 173 | ** Also the bit in "Grave Sights", where his movie of choice is a black-and-white foreign film. |
| 174 | ** Almost all the bands he and Rigby listen to are British Glam Metal bands, implying that they revere the British (which is common amongst American hipsters). |
| 175 | ** The entire episode, "[[Recap/RegularShowS03Ep07CoolBikes Cool Bikes]]", when he and Rigby shown to be cool bike riders and in fashion. |
| 176 | ** Mordecai lists the "annoying music" as one of the reasons why he doesn't like going to clubs, though Rigby comments that he likes the music. |
| 177 | * HisHeartWillGoOn: It takes him a bit, but he eventually moves on with his romance life. |
| 178 | * HisOwnWorstEnemy: Mordecai is a very decent person with enough smarts, looks and can be quite the ChickMagnet. However, in terms of his love life and future, Mordecai's insecurity, inability to be honest with himself and tendency to overcomplicate things keeps biting him in the rear. The other park members even jokingly refer to it as 'pulling a Mordecai'. |
| 179 | * HopelessSuitor: With Margaret. When he ignores her ([[ItMakesSenseInContext due to being mindless]]) in "Brain Eraser", she suddenly finds him attractive. Gets turned around in later seasons with Margaret eventually reciprocating his feelings. |
| 180 | * {{Hypocrite}}: |
| 181 | ** In "Eileen Flat Screen", Mordecai becomes annoyed when he learns Rigby has been hanging out with Eileen without him, when Mordecai has constantly ditched Rigby to hang out with CJ and Margaret. Rigby calls him out on it. |
| 182 | ** Despite hating being called a slacker, Mordecai is rather prone to laziness as much as Rigby. |
| 183 | * ICallItVera: He's the one who names "The Power" in the first episode, since he has always wanted to date a girl named like that. He calls his fists Steve and [=McQueen=] in the crossover comic. |
| 184 | * IWillWaitForYou: Deconstructed. Mordecai has pined for Margaret for so long that after they break up and Margaret leaves town, he holds onto the idea that they can get back together. Even after seemingly getting over her (twice), he still holds feelings for her, which causes him to put his feelings for CJ on hold, and later ends up ruining their relationship. |
| 185 | * IllKillYou: He yells this to Rigby in "It's Time". [[NiceJobBreakingItHero And he accidentally ends up going through with it.]] |
| 186 | * InformedAbility: In "Camping Can Be Cool" Mordecai mentions going to art school, but he never showed any artistic skills beforehand. This has since been subverted in subsequent episodes: |
| 187 | ** In "Bad Portrait", Mordecai has to make a replacement portrait of Benson, which ends up being well-received. It's also explained that he dropped out because someone reacted poorly to a commission of his, which gave him insecurities about his skills. |
| 188 | ** "I Like You Hi" shows Mordecai and CJ taking art classes at a community college. |
| 189 | ** In "Lunch Break", we actually see Mordecai during his time in art school. |
| 190 | ** [[spoiler:The finale shows that Mordecai became an abstract painter after quitting his job at the park.]] |
| 191 | * InnocentlyInsensitive: He can be very self-absorbed and self-pitying, but he doesn't intend on hurting anyone. |
| 192 | * 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).]] He’s also been shown on one time dates with human women and a few different bird species such as in "Yes Dude Yes" and "New Years Kiss". |
| 193 | * JackOfAllStats: Mordecai, compared to many of his friends is not the strongest [[SuperStrength (Muscle Man and Skips)]] but nor is he weak in anyway shape or form [[FragileSpeedster (Hi-Five Ghost and Rigby)]]. He's apparently a stringbean in build but has a good punch, and has physical potential that some training will bring out. Most importantly, he's clever and resourceful, with a good sense for when to go get help (usually from Skips) and how to resolve weird-ass problems on his and Rigby's own. |
| 194 | * JerkassBall: There are several episodes when Mordecai is unnecessarily mean towards Rigby. |
| 195 | ** In "Death Punchies", Mordecai enjoys playing punchies with Rigby because he can always take advantage of Rigby's weaker physical stature. The flashback sequence shows Mordecai clearly having fun while physically hurting Rigby. |
| 196 | ** In "More Smarter", Mordecai constantly ridicules Rigby for not having a high school diploma. When Rigby decides to turn to a special drink to become smarter, Mordecai instead starts drinking it himself so he can remain smarter than Rigby. |
| 197 | * LastMinuteHookUp: He falls in love with [[spoiler:and marries an fellow modern artist named Stef during the last few minutes of the series finale]]. |
| 198 | * LikeASonToMe: Margaret's father, Frank, refers to Mordecai as a surrogate son in "1000th Chopper Party". |
| 199 | * 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 (they also turn brown somehow), 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]]. |
| 200 | * LoveAtFirstSight: {{Implied|Trope}}. [[spoiler:While at an art convention, Mordecai bumps into his future wife, Stef, another fellow artist. The two gaze at one another before a TimeSkip happens — showing that they are married with three kids.]] |
| 201 | * LoveMakesYouDumb: Mordecai has a tendency to do this when he's around women. While Rigby is shown to have a better relationship with Eileen, Mordecai has problems with being honest and opening up about his feelings, especially with Margaret and CJ. Around them, he'll often hesitate and can't decide who to open up to and it eventually puts him in the middle of nowhere. Rigby even points out how he puts love before his best friend. |
| 202 | * MasculineLinesFeminineCurves: Downplayed with Margaret. They are both drawn almost the same way, but the feather patterns on their respective faces play this trope straight — Mordecai's are more sharp while Margaret's are more rounded. |
| 203 | * MasterOfTheMixedMessage: Mordecai's biggest problems in his romance life, is that he is never specifically clear on his actions, this making it hard for his love interest to really know if he's genuinely into them. This is lampshaded by Margaret in "Do or Diaper". |
| 204 | * MeaningfulName: His name is Hebrew for "warrior". He may need to be dragged into it, but he's always a useful man to have on your side when the fight starts. |
| 205 | * MyGodWhatHaveIDone: |
| 206 | ** In "It's Time" when he accidentally ''[[IllKillYou kills]]'' Rigby, and deeply regrets it. |
| 207 | ** In "Merry Christmas Mordecai", when he [[spoiler:accidentally kisses Margaret when he's currently dating CJ and deeply regrets it and also in the following "Sad Sax". Luckily he made up for it, and got back together with CJ]]. |
| 208 | * NeverMyFault: |
| 209 | ** While Rigby ''does'' convince Mordecai to ditch work, Mordecai does have a choice in it, but always puts the blame on Rigby. |
| 210 | ** [[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 of 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.]] |
| 211 | ** In 'It's Time', Mordecai blames Rigby for ruining his chances to go out with Margaret and [[GreenEyedMonster becomes increasingly jealous when Rigby keeps provoking him about going on his date with Margaret.]] However, as Rigby brings up, Mordecai did indeed have several chances to ask out Margaret, but froze up every time and planned on ditching Rigby so he could spend time with Margaret. As Father Time said, Mordecai chose to bottle up his feelings instead of being honest. |
| 212 | * NiceGuy: Though he isn't without his faults, he's mostly a well-meaning and amiable guy. |
| 213 | * NiceJobBreakingItHero: He and Rigby are (in)directly responsible for a ''lot'' of the really weird things that happen during the show. Though, unlike Rigby, he usually knows when to play and when to be serious when things hit the fan, quickly leaping to straighten things right if it's in his power. Perhaps the ''biggest'' example of this so far is during the episode "It's Time" when he accidentally kills Rigby and has to go back in time to save him. |
| 214 | * NobodyCallsMeChicken: He should know better, but rattle him too much and he will give. Especially in the early episodes, when Mordecai's lapses of judgement were often caused by dares or suggestions that he's a coward, afraid or simply doesn't know what he's doing. |
| 215 | * 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 infancy and 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 human hair, his mom being blonde and his dad a dark brunette. |
| 216 | * NotSoAboveItAll: While he's one of the more level-headed ones, he'll still go with some crazy plan and make his own set of bone-headed mistakes as well. |
| 217 | * OfficialCouple: Mordecai and Margaret eventually get together, but her having to move far away for school ended the relationship. After taking a while to get over her, Mordecai is officially with CJ [[spoiler:until they broke up in "Dumped at the Altar"]]. |
| 218 | * OnlySaneMan: He's usually the voice of reason to Rigby, although he zig-zags between this and NotSoAboveItAll very often. |
| 219 | * OutOfFocus: Downplayed in Season 7. After the last two seasons focused heavily on his love life, Mordecai takes a back seat to Rigby (who gets several episodes where he's the lead). There are still a bunch of episodes focusing on him and Rigby, but the only episode where Mordecai is the main character is "Just Friends", where he shares the role with Margaret. He also has minimal screentime in "The Lunch Club" and "Hello China", and a one line-only appearance in "Rigby Goes to the Prom". |
| 220 | * PersonAsVerb: "Pulling a Mordecai", which is [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HsREkcogF0Y described]] as "The act of never making a move, but at the same time, not knowing what to do with your hands". |
| 221 | * PinkGirlBlueBoy: The Blue Boy to Margaret's Pink Girl. Technically, she's bright red, but it in nighttime settings she does appear as a pink color. |
| 222 | * RageBreakingPoint: [[spoiler: In the Regular Show Movie, Mordecai's patience for Rigby's dishonesty runs out when he learns Rigby had been lying to him about him about being rejected from College University. He's understandably angry about this revelation, especially when two factors are considered. The first is that Rigby outright refused several times to confess the truth and only did so after Ross threatened to kill Mordecai. The second is that instead of apologizing or taking responsibility, Rigby justifies himself (claims he had to as Mordecai would've gone to College U without him), downplays his actions (saying it was 'only one lie), and says that it was a good thing (stating that even though they were both stuck in a dead-end job, at least they were stuck together). Finally having enough of Rigby's dishonesty and selfishness, Mordecai ends their friendship. It actually took his alternate future self's words for Mordecai to rethink this decision.]] |
| 223 | * RelationshipUpgrade: |
| 224 | ** [[spoiler:Starts dating Margaret after they their first (mutual) kiss in "Meteor Moves" and Mordecai asking her to be his official girlfriend in "Steak Me Amadeus". Unfortunately, she tearfully turns him down because she got into her dream school. Afterwards, they decide to stay friends.]] |
| 225 | ** [[spoiler:Asks out CJ in "I Like You Hi" but they break up in "Dumped at the Altar".]] |
| 226 | * ShaggyDogStory: For all of Mordecai's romantic drama with both Margaret [[spoiler:and later CJ]], he actually [[DidNotGetTheGirl ends the series not getting the former]] [[spoiler:or even the latter]]. [[spoiler:It's a fellow famous artist named Stef, who he married and has three children with.]] |
| 227 | * ShipperOnDeck: |
| 228 | ** For Rigby[=/=]Eileen, either when he convinces Rigby to kiss Eileen when the two are under the mistletoe or being genuinely happy at the news of the being together. |
| 229 | ** While attempting to make an awkward LoveConfession at their wedding, Mordecai states that Muscle Man and Starla were designed to be together. |
| 230 | * StraightMan: He plays this role to [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} Rigby]] as the moral compass. |
| 231 | * StrongAsTheyNeedToBe: He's among the stronger members of the park (though he's obviously outdone by [[TheBigGuy Skips]] and [[StoutStrength Muscle Man]]), but how much he actually is strong varies from episode to episode. Either he's strong enough to bash his way through doors, rip a shirt clean, or even break a broom in one punch; or he isn't able to keep up the pace of a fight despite putting up one at the start — and oftentimes falling as quickly as [[FragileSpeedster Rigby]]. |
| 232 | * StrongFamilyResemblance: Mordecai looks exactly like his parents, especially his father, as they both have brown hair (Mordecai did in his teen years). |
| 233 | * SurferDude: Has speech patterns like one. |
| 234 | * ATasteOfTheirOwnMedicine: In "Mordeby and Rigbecai", after accidentally exchanging body parts with Rigby, Mordecai gets beaten up by the latter. |
| 235 | * ToothyBird: He is drawn with a beak full of teeth. |
| 236 | * TwoTimerDate: PlayedForDrama and {{deconstructed|Trope}}. In "Yes, Dude, Yes", [[spoiler:Mordecai ends up inviting Margaret to a movie premiere, despite having invited CJ before. This confusion ends up infuriating both of them, with CJ actually HulkingOut in anger and almost killing everyone in a tantrum. After clearing things out, ''neither'' wants to go out with him]]. |
| 237 | * UncannyFamilyResemblance: Aside from having human like hair, his family members share a very strong likeness to him. |
| 238 | * UnskilledButStrong: If a fight breaks out and it involves him, he'll start swingin'. Mordecai clearly isn't a trained fighter, but while he's not as strong as [[SuperStrength Muscle Man or even Skips]], he can still put up a fight. |
| 239 | * VerbalTic: Aside from the aforementioned in the "both" folder, he has a tendency to stretch out words when excited. |
| 240 | * WhatTheHellHero: Every so often he will throw Rigby under the bus, "[[NeverMyFault Wall Buddy]]" and "[[FalseReassurance Lift With Your Back]]" come to mind, in which Rigby will call him out on acting like a jerk. |
| 241 | [[/folder]] |
| 242 | |
| 243 | [[folder:Rigby]] |
| 244 | !!Rigby |
| 245 | [[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/rigby.png]] |
| 246 | [[caption-width-right:200:''"STOP TALKING!"'']] |
| 247 | ->Voiced in English by: Creator/WilliamSalyers |
| 248 | ->Voiced in Latin American Spanish by: Creator/MoisesIvanMora\ |
| 249 | Debuted in: "Pilot"/Season 1, "The Power" |
| 250 | |
| 251 | A short raccoon, Mordecai's best friend since childhood, and his closest co-worker as a result. Being energetic and immature, he's usually the one who instigates any sort of trouble that Mordecai or the other characters get into. He is a high school drop-out who never received his diploma, and Mordecai thinks that's pretty funny.\ |
| 252 | \ |
| 253 | Has a [[BigLittleBrother very tall younger brother]] named Don, who is an accountant, who is favored by everyone. |
| 254 | ---- |
| 255 | * AdultsDressedAsChildren: Type A in "[[Recap/RegularShowS03Ep37FuzzyDice Fuzzy Dice]]". When the park workers need a kid to get inside a SuckECheeses center, they have Rigby wear a hoodie, a fanny pack, and a backward cap due to his size. |
| 256 | * AlliterativeName: Rigby the Raccoon. |
| 257 | * AllMenArePerverts: Zig-zagged. The only reason he didn't want to see "Pajama Sisters 2" is because "They're just gonna talk about their feelings — ''fully clothed''", yet in "The Unicorns Have Got to Go," he didn't see the appeal of having sexy women tearing a man's clothes off as seen in the Dude Time cologne commercial. He's also notably a better friend to Margaret than Mordecai, simply because he's able to treat her like a normal person. |
| 258 | * AloofBigBrother: One to his brother Don. Namely because Don was [[BigLittleBrother taller]], stronger and smarter than Rigby. He briefly crossed over into BigBrotherBully as well by [[BreakHimByTalking telling Don he wished he was never born]]. They patched things up, though. |
| 259 | * AmazonChaser: He frequently comments on how Eileen is attractive due to her smarts and survival skills. |
| 260 | * AmusingInjuries: Rigby has a very noticeable scar on one of his buttcheeks after a drunk incident where [[TheBigGuy Skips]] hits him so hard, he ends up hospitalized. This earned Rigby the EmbarrassingNickname of "One-Cheek Wonder". |
| 261 | * AntiHero: While Mordecai is more likely to be InnocentlyInsensitive, Rigby tends to have more {{Jerkass}} moments and is typically the one getting them into trouble, but make no mistake he still has his redeeming qualities and will stand up to do the right thing when motivated. |
| 262 | * AntiRoleModel: He's lazy, greedy, rude, selfish, smug and convinced he's a lot smarter than he actually is. |
| 263 | * AttentionWhore: The main reason why he resents Don? The latter got more attention than him. |
| 264 | * BabiesEverAfter: [[spoiler:He and Eileen have two daughters in the series finale.]] |
| 265 | * BackToSchool: After being mocked for never getting his high school diploma, Rigby briefly tried going back to school. His first attempt didn't last long, though he does try again and finally graduates a few seasons later. |
| 266 | * BadassAdorable: A small and feisty raccoon who can pull through in some seriously reality-defying situations. He's also a decent fighter for someone his size. |
| 267 | * BadassNormal: Just like Mordecai, Rigby is an ordinary groundskeeper who survives all kinds of extraordinary or even supernatural trouble. |
| 268 | * BadLiar: {{Downplayed|Trope}}. Rigby is perfectly capable of telling a convincing lie, but Mordecai is better than him at lying. The difference is that he's more ''willing'' to start lying. In fact, Benson notes in "Expert or Liar" that Rigby's lying has helped the crew several times. |
| 269 | * BerserkButton: He really dislikes it when Mordecai puts his obsession with his many girlfriends over his friendship between the two. |
| 270 | * BigBrotherBully: He wasn't nice to his younger brother Don at all, and in Don's debut episode, Rigby even says he hates him. When Don asks if he did something wrong, Rigby says [[BreakHimByTalking "Yeah! You were born!"]]. He gets better eventually and even goes to him for support whenever he's in a situation where no one has his back. |
| 271 | * BigEater: Rigby is definitely one of these. In "Rigby's Body" he eats so much junk food that his body literally quits on him, and in "Temp Check" he considers busyness to consist of having a meatball sub to eat. Many other episodes have him complain about being hungry. |
| 272 | -->''(Rigby's [[GrowlingGut stomach growls]])''\ |
| 273 | '''Mordecai''': Don't touch that cake.\ |
| 274 | '''Rigby''': It's a medical emergency!\ |
| 275 | '''Mordecai''': You just ate a sandwich! |
| 276 | * BigShutUp: "STOP TALKING!", which is one of his catchphrases. |
| 277 | * BoisterousWeakling: Rigby often is loud mouthed and hot-headed, but he isn't particularly strong in any way shape or form, as shown when he talks tough to those who are bigger than him but regrets it when he's outclassed. This often becomes a RunningGag during the episode "Death Punches", where he's clearly overpowered by everyone. However, once he gains any sort of power that puts him either above most people and makes him much stronger than he is, he becomes a BoisterousBruiser. |
| 278 | * BookDumb: He's a high school drop-out, and his recklessly stupid attitude only reinforces it. He gets better. |
| 279 | * BrattyHalfPint: A rare full-grown example. Nevertheless, he is one of the shortest of the cast and, fittingly enough, one of the most childish. |
| 280 | * BreakTheHaughty: If something goes wrong and it's because he started it, expect karma to slide in ''fast''. |
| 281 | * BrilliantButLazy: Or more accurately, "Competent But Lazy". He can actually be a more efficient worker than Mordecai when properly motivated. |
| 282 | * ButtMonkey: Possibly one of the best examples, every episode will result in some pain coming to him or even dying in some episodes. Add in his physical weakness where he can't retaliate and near everyone can beat him up and he's almost TheChewToy. Luckily, he has moments these days where he's successfully able to punch a guy back. |
| 283 | -->'''Benson''': First on the agenda is trophy talk. Who gets the trophy on what day? I think the schedule is more than fair.\ |
| 284 | ''(Everyone on the team is scheduled to have the trophy for two days each week, except Rigby who only has it one day.)'' |
| 285 | * CallingTheOldManOut: Rigby calls out his father for never supporting him. |
| 286 | * CantTakeCriticism: Subverted, since Rigby like many others, does not like being called out due to his constant belittlement from his father. |
| 287 | * CartoonyTail: Rigby's tail always points up when he's standing or walking. Real life raccoons keep their tails on the ground when standing, as their hind legs are usually too weak to support their bodies on their own. |
| 288 | * CharacterCatchphrase: |
| 289 | ** "Check it." |
| 290 | ** "STOP TALKING!" |
| 291 | ** He also has "Ah, what?" whenever Benson asks him to do anything (usually as punishment) and "Why?" when Benson threatens to fire him. |
| 292 | * CharacterDevelopment: While slower to develop than Mordecai, once he does so, he gets this ''hard'': |
| 293 | ** Rigby grows pretty close to Eileen over the course of the series. In "Yes Dude Yes", he eagerly suggests going to the movies with her, when previously he only accepted a date as a solid, and did everything possible to sabotage it. Later, it goes even further in "Diary", where he admits that she looks hot without her glasses on. In "Terror Tales of the Park", when his story has him transformed into a house, the living room has a photo of her. Seasons 4 through 6 have him spending time with her when Mordecai's unavailable, before eventually revealing to Mordecai (and the audience) that [[spoiler:he and Eileen had been dating for several months by the time of "Dumped At The Altar". The show's WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue reveals that they married shortly after the events of the finale]]. |
| 294 | ** In correlation to dating Eileen, he also strives to better himself for her sake and also himself down the line by completing his high school education, something he would have never done prior to dating Eileen. |
| 295 | ** Rigby also became [[ShipperOnDeck more supportive of Mordecai's crush on Margaret]]. He started off [[FriendVersusLover hostile of that aspect]] but eventually grew to trying to help Mordecai navigate his love life, showing a better understanding of Mordecai's relationships than Mordecai himself, pointing out problems and trying to help him solve them. |
| 296 | ** As seen in "Bank Shot", he now has a much better relationship with Don after working out his resentment towards him in "Don" and calls him for help when everyone else is mad at him at the moment. |
| 297 | * CharacterizationMarchesOn: |
| 298 | ** He was a lot less of his normal hyperactive, energetic self and more sulky in the Pilot (really noticeably when you compare how he acts with the new scenes added in the Director's Cut episode "First Day" and the pilot scenes). |
| 299 | ** Mordecai's character development is much more apparent and pronounced at the beginning of the show, but once Rigby's character development sets in, it ''really'' sets in. Later seasons have him [[spoiler:going back to high school and graduating, entering into a serious relationship with Eileen (and resultantly being able to give Mordecai good relationship advice), and gaining an overall better sense of self-esteem and self-discipline]]. |
| 300 | * CheatersNeverProsper: He will often cheat to get ahead of others and it will always never turn out well for him. In "Over The Top", he gets killed, and in "Bet to Be Blonde", he almost loses his friend and his life. |
| 301 | * TheChewToy: He's quite the ButtMonkey, though he brings it on himself sometimes. |
| 302 | * {{Claustrophobia}}: He displays this in "Terror Tales of the Park II" and in "Portable Toilet" and he doesn't think clearly when he's in closed spaces. |
| 303 | -->'''Rigby''': We're gonna starve before they find us! Why did you eat the whole sandwich?! You should've saved some just in case!\ |
| 304 | '''Mordecai''': Dude, that makes no sense.\ |
| 305 | '''Rigby''': [[NoYou You makes no sense!]] ''(pounds on the door and screams)'' [[HypocriticalHumor Help, I'm trapped in here with a crazy person!]] |
| 306 | * ClassicalAntiHero: He's as lazy as they can come, selfish, and [[{{Jerkass}} rude]], but Rigby is willing to stand up for something if interested enough and willing to do the right thing. His CharacterDevelopment is about growing out of this. |
| 307 | * {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: He'll come up with silly ideas out of the blue. |
| 308 | * CombatPragmatist: Rigby is small and weak, and to compensate he'll use every trick he can think of in a fight whether it be biting or attacking at the face. (Despite this, the only times he doesn't go down first are when he's not there.) |
| 309 | * CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Proven in the "Death Punchies" episode. |
| 310 | * DarkSecret: The Regular Show Movie shows one of Rigby's darkest secrets. [[spoiler: In high school, both Rigby and Mordecai sought to get into College University. Mordecai got in, but Rigby didn't due to his outright abysmal grades. Afraid of losing his best friend, Rigby forged a rejection letter and tricked Mordecai into thinking he got rejected from College University while he himself got in. When Rigby is forced to reveal this to Mordecai, the latter is rightfully angry at him for ruining his chance to go to the school he wanted and ends his friendship with Rigby. Luckily, Rigby apologizes to Mordecai in the end and the two reconcile.]] |
| 311 | * DeadpanSnarker: Not as much as Mordecai, but is able to hold his own. |
| 312 | -->'''Mordecai''': Come on, Margaret and I are just friends.\ |
| 313 | '''Rigby''': ''Yeah, friends without benefits.'' |
| 314 | * DeathIsCheap: Rigby has died at least four times (expelled from his own body, thrown into a time void, eaten by an ice monster, crushed during an arm wrestling match), being revived each time. Subverted for both of his future selves in "Mordecai and the Rigbys" and The Movie. |
| 315 | * DefrostingIceKing: Rigby was initially cold and mean to Eileen. Spending time with and getting to know her, makes him warm up to her considerably to the point she became his MoralityPet, [[spoiler:girlfriend, and eventual wife]]. |
| 316 | * DependingOnTheWriter: His skill and knowledge in regards to video games. Often, he's depicted as barely knowing the basics of whatever game he's playing and relies on randomly mashing buttons. However, there are also episodes where he's shown to be a very competent gamer with more knowledge about games than Mordecai. |
| 317 | * {{Determinator}}: Despite his slacker ways, when he's properly motivated, he can be surprisingly focused. For example, he stayed attached to Muscle Man's chest for ''eight solid hours'' in a mentor-harness just so he could keep his job. Did a pull up to complete a physical exam despite over-stimulating his muscles to the point he could barely move. Completed a literal back-breaking job he had taken to prove he wasn't lazy. Stopped a jerkass roommate of Eileen's from breaking her flat-screen. The whole of season 7 found him going back to high school to gain his diploma. And pushing Mordecai to see a final concert of Fist Pump when he has all but given up hope. |
| 318 | * {{Deuteragonist}}: To an extent in the first six seasons. While the show treats Mordecai and Rigby as the protagonists, Mordecai has a character arc regarding his love life that makes up a good deal of his starring roles, which really ramps up in seasons five and six, whereas episodes starring Rigby usually revolve around self-contained, spur-of-the-moment escapades. This is reversed in season seven, after Mordecai's arc has ended and Rigby gets his own arc about his relationship with Eileen and return to high school. |
| 319 | * DidNotThinkThisThrough: Rigby has virtually no self-control, and will do whatever he wants to do at any given moment, even after being told not to do that exact thing seconds prior, which is often the cause of the conflict in any given episode. |
| 320 | * DisappointingOlderSibling: {{Downplayed|Trope}}. He is generally compared to Don by his parents (mainly his dad) for his laziness, immaturity, and incompetence. However, Don himself actually looks up to Rigby; he even admitted to have tried to emulate the latter to look cool. |
| 321 | * DisneyDeath: In the episode "It's Time". [[BackFromTheDead He came back to life via time travel]]. |
| 322 | * DiurnalNocturnalAnimal: Is awake during the day -- and more to the point, shows no particular desire to be a night owl -- despite being a raccoon. |
| 323 | * DumbassHasAPoint: While he's an InsufferableImbecile, he still sometimes makes good points, e.g. calling out Mordecai [[YoureJustJealous for being jealous of him]] in "It's Time". |
| 324 | * EarnYourHappyEnding: Even more than Mordecai, having grown up a good deal. The season 7 finale had him [[spoiler:graduate and finally finish high school]] before the season 8 arc. After the adventures there, the end of the series has him [[spoiler:going separate ways with Mordecai and starting a family with Eileen. It's unknown if he has a job or if he is a HouseHusband, but is HappilyMarried to Eileen and raises a family. He also maintains close with the rest of the Park Crew, and the end touches off with him and Mordecai thinking back on Pops before searching for their old video games]]. |
| 325 | * EasilyImpressed: Gets dazzled by hilariously mundane things like 8-bit graphics despite all the crazy things that happen daily. |
| 326 | * EmbarrassingNickname: He got the nickname "The One-Cheek Wonder" when he had to have surgery on one of his buttocks after a game of punchies with Skips went awry. |
| 327 | * EveryoneHasStandards: Despite being very lazy and a messy individual, even Rigby was disgusted by the way everyone in Dumptown, USA were living their lives. |
| 328 | * ExpressiveEars: His ears droop when he's sad. |
| 329 | * FatalFlaw: |
| 330 | ** A mix of his inability to swallow his pride and stubbornness. He struggles to concede that he's not very good at something or that someone's better than him at something he likes doing and that if he wants to make a point, he will go to great lengths to prove said point. If he succeeds in proving himself, he'll take pride in it and brag about it to others, and if he fails, it bites his ass big time. |
| 331 | ** His constant incapacity to get his priorities straight and of course laziness. He prefers to do what he wants to do (slacking off, making himself look cool) rather than what he needs to do (doing work, obeying others). He slowly does grow out of this in the later seasons though. |
| 332 | ** He's also weirdly bad at taking advantage of his FragileSpeedster physique in any kind of physical conflict, and in general sucks at playing to his strengths. |
| 333 | * FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: The foolish sibling (a slacker who never graduated high school) to Don's responsible sibling (an accountant who owns his home). Although, Rigby does [[CharacterDevelopment get better]] by season 7. |
| 334 | * FourTemperamentEnsemble: The Sanguine/Choleric — he is extremely immature and rather hyperactive. |
| 335 | * FreudianExcuse: It's heavily implied that the reason he's such a slacker and incredibly irresponsible was due to his father belittling him in favor of Don (which is also why he was so cold to him at first). Season 7's ''Lunch Club'' has Rigby straight up say that he feels like there's no point in trying to turn his life around because everyone expects him to be a clown, on top of his dad telling him that he should go back to being a screw-up since Don is better than him. |
| 336 | * FunnyAnimal: He digs through trash and runs on all fours when in a hurry. |
| 337 | * FurryReminder: As with all raccoons, Rigby is basically a FragileSpeedster in addition to his relative size, which is a problem with the rest of the park members when they tried to give him TheChase in every occasion, right until he gets toppled over by smarter, stronger characters like Skips. |
| 338 | ** He also likes to dig through trash but unlike raccoons in real life; it's not for food, he just finds cool stuff in there. As he puts it: "[[{{Malaproper}} One man's trash is another man's pleasure.]]" |
| 339 | --->'''Mordecai''': Dude, you gotta stop digging stuff out of the trash. It's unnatural.\ |
| 340 | '''Rigby''': [[NoYou You're unnatural!]] |
| 341 | * TheGlassesGottaGo: Rigby seems to be a firm believer of this since he thinks [[spoiler:Eileen is hot without her glasses on, though he really doesn't care once they start dating.]] |
| 342 | * GreenEyedMonster: Most of his idiotic schemes and troubles are motivated by his jealousy of some thing or another. |
| 343 | * HairTriggerTemper: Whenever called out or trolled but mostly acts this way towards Mordecai who expects this from him. He can also be needlessly tempermental if he's pushed too far by someone who makes him angry. |
| 344 | -->'''[[CharacterCatchphrase STOP TALKING!!!]]''' |
| 345 | * HappilyMarried: [[spoiler:He and Eileen get married in the DistantFinale and even raise a family together, as seen in the 25 years park reunion.]] |
| 346 | * HeavySleeper: How he ended up in Australia without noticing in "Mordecai and Rigby Down Under". |
| 347 | * HiddenDepths: Much of his {{jerk|ass}}ish demeanor is a cover for his insecurity. |
| 348 | * HotBlooded: Can be easily angered whenever he's under a lot stress and will usually scream at the top of his lungs for no reason. He's also very impulsive since his recklessness often leads him to do extravagant things. |
| 349 | * HypocriteHasAPoint: In "Lift With Your Back", he made a very good point about how, even if he also has a tendency to do this, Mordecai also takes advantage of him regularly and never thanks him for all the stuff he has done for him. |
| 350 | * HypocriticalHumor: In "Bet to be Blonde", he makes fun of Mordecai and the Blonde Men for being blonde, but it's revealed that he used to have blonde hair during high school. |
| 351 | * IdiotHero: He is one of the main heroes alongside Mordecai, but is also dimwitted and careless, being responsible for most of the chaos in the park. However, he does [[CharacterDevelopment grow out of it]] as the series goes on. |
| 352 | * IndyPloy: Unlike Mordecai, who is at least concerned with how the rest of the day or week will turn out, Rigby basically doesn't plan ahead beyond the next few seconds and is pretty much defined by his impulsiveness. |
| 353 | * InferioritySuperiorityComplex: Although he acts arrogant and sometimes condescending, he's actually a vulnerable individual who's highly insecure about himself. |
| 354 | * InformedSpecies: Despite being a raccoon, he looks more like a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_American_coati South American coati]]. |
| 355 | * InnocentlyInsensitive: Frequently makes thoughtless or tactless remarks that makes Mordecai punch him or call him out. |
| 356 | * InsecureLoveInterest: Rigby comes to believe that he isn't smart enough for Eileen, so he goes back to high school while also keeping her in the dark about it. When Eileen finds out, she assures Rigby that she loves him regardless of his intelligence, but he decides to stay in high school not just for her, but also for his own self-improvement. |
| 357 | * InsufferableImbecile: He is often a lazy, selfish {{Manchild}} who makes rude/stupid comments (which Mordecai usually punches him for); he can't tell the difference between a square and a rectangle; and it's even mentioned several times that he's a [[BookDumb high school dropout]]. However, he eventually TookALevelInKindness later in the series. |
| 358 | * InterspeciesRomance: Rigby (a raccoon) is dating Eileen (a mole). |
| 359 | * IronButtMonkey: Despite always being the most physically abused and on the short end of the stick, he can sure get back up in no time. |
| 360 | * JerkassBall: Several episodes have him act much more petty and abrasive than usual. |
| 361 | ** In "It's Time", Rigby taunts Mordecai by flirting with Margaret in front of him ''for hours'' out of spite for refusing to watch a zombie movie with him. |
| 362 | ** In "Do Me a Solid", Rigby puts Mordecai through a bunch of humiliation stunts during their double-date with Margaret and Eileen. |
| 363 | ** In "Wall Buddy", Rigby orders the titular robot to send ''all'' of his junk to Mordecai's side of the room because he was too lazy to clean it himself. |
| 364 | * JerkassHasAPoint: While Benson couldn't have possibly foreseen that Mordecai and Rigby ordered the Death Sandwich, Rigby does make the (convincing) point that it was still a jerk move to eat their sandwich without asking them. Though they did do exactly that to Benson in [[Recap/RegularShowS01Ep07GrilledCheeseDeluxe "Grilled Cheese Deluxe"]]. |
| 365 | * JerkWithAHeartOfGold: One of the biggest in the show. He's more overtly callous than Mordecai and the "Jerk" part is more prominent than any other main character, especially prior to character development. In [[Recap/RegularShowS02Ep25FirstDay "First Day"]], his EstablishingCharacterMoment is wordlessly making fun of the size of Pops' head. However, he also takes his friendship with Mordecai more seriously than he does, and [[spoiler:is much better at romance than him]]. |
| 366 | ** In "Meat Your Maker", where Rigby truly seems to care for Mordecai after they both get trapped in the freezer. |
| 367 | ** In the episode "A Bunch of Baby Ducks", where Rigby insists on keeping the ducks, and calls them his. |
| 368 | ** At the end of "Do Me a Solid" where Rigby destroys the only video evidence of the humiliating solid he made Mordecai do. |
| 369 | ** The first Halloween special drives home Rigby's dependency on his friends. The characters all share a horror story for the group: Pops' idea of horror is a scary doll drawing on people's faces. Muscle Man's idea of horror is dying in a crash. Rigby's idea of horror? Everyone ''but'' him dying before finally being left all alone. He dies too, at the end, by means of a giant egg. This gets worse when you find out later he is deathly allergic to eggs. |
| 370 | ** In "Video Game Wizards", he was deeply heartbroken when Mordecai chose Skips as his partner instead of him. In fact, this happens a lot. Mordecai takes Rigby's friendship for granted, and then has to repair it after damaging it; by contrast, Rigby rarely ever does it to Mordecai. |
| 371 | * KarmicButtMonkey: He's a lazy, rude idiot who always looks for the easy way out, therefore most of his AmusingInjuries and humiliations come from that. |
| 372 | * KnowNothingKnowItAll: Particularly in "Rigby's Body" where, even after his body literally quits on him, he stubbornly insists that he was right about everything. |
| 373 | * LameComeback: He has trouble arguing without resorting to one of these. |
| 374 | * LargeHam: A big ham in a tiny body. |
| 375 | * LazyBum: Even more-so than Mordecai. Rigby would rather play video games and goof around than do his chores. "First Day" reveals he was too lazy to fill out his work application; Mordecai had to do so for him. At least up until his CharacterDevelopment, this generally reaches to the point of him becoming TheMillstone. |
| 376 | * LittleBigBrother: He's older than Don, but Don is much, ''much'' taller and more buff than him. Because of this, people apparently sometimes mistake Don for being the older one. |
| 377 | * LethallyStupid: Tends to instigate life-threatening anomalies from simple, mundane subjects. Like unleashing a destructive video game monster when he was warned not to cross the wires. |
| 378 | * LovableRogue: This is evidently how he sees himself, since in "Temp Check" he refers to his "lovable scoundrel shtick". |
| 379 | * MamasBoy: He's very close to his mother due to how his dad blatantly favors Don over him and is such a dick to him. |
| 380 | * TheMcCoy: Short tempered and emotional. |
| 381 | * MeanBoss: Acts as one towards a temp named Doug in the episode "Temp Check", where he just lounges around and gives Doug orders. |
| 382 | * TheMillstone: While Mordecai does cause his fair share of problems, it's typically Rigby's fault whenever something bad happens. More often than not, whenever he tries to fix things, he just keeps making it worse. |
| 383 | -->''"I can fix it! I can fix it!"'' |
| 384 | * MyInstinctsAreShowing: He’s addicted to eating things out of the trash, and admitted once that he thinks certain foods like donuts taste better in the trash. |
| 385 | * TheNapoleon: Somewhat small and quite rude. |
| 386 | * NeverMyFault: He will usually make some half-brained excuse for doing something irresponsible that almost nobody buys. |
| 387 | * NiceJobBreakingItHero: He and Mordecai are responsible for a ''lot'' of the weird problems that occur in the series. Though a good majority of the problems come from his end due to his immaturity. |
| 388 | * NonMammalianHair: While in the present and as a kid Rigby's hair has the same color and texture as his fur, as a high school he had bleached blonde hair. At twelve years old he was shown to have dark brown hair with thin mustache hairs on his upper lip. |
| 389 | * NoYou: Practically his catchphrase when he argues with someone. |
| 390 | * ObliviouslyEvil: While Rigby isn't purely evil, he's sometimes unaware that he's a jerk and could be known take other people's lives for granted without his own knowledge, thought, or reason(ing). |
| 391 | * AnOddPlaceToSleep: He sleeps on a trampoline with dirty clothes. |
| 392 | * OfficialCouple: In the episode "Dumped at the Altar", [[spoiler:Rigby reveals that he and Eileen have been dating in secret for a couple months]]. |
| 393 | * OnceDoneNeverForgotten: Not getting a high school diploma and sometimes being reminded that he only got his current job by Mordecai vouching for him. [[spoiler:He eventually does get his diploma, though.]] |
| 394 | * PingPongNaivete: Despite the AllMenArePerverts joke above, he doesn't understand "why people ''really'' go to concerts." |
| 395 | * ThePigPen: He sleeps in a pile of dirty clothes and reacted in disgust over taking a shower. Eileen also mentions in "Dumptown U.S.A." that he doesn't floss or brush his teeth, ''ever''. |
| 396 | * RascallyRaccoon: To an extent. He's pretty prone (especially in early seasons) to lying or cheating to accomplish his goals. "Terror Tales of the Park" even has him don a burglar costume for Halloween. |
| 397 | * TheResenter: Most of his insecurities stem from constantly being one-upped and disfavored in favor of other people. The two most prominent examples of this are his best friend Mordecai and brother Don. |
| 398 | * RunningGag: |
| 399 | ** He can never win at punchies. |
| 400 | ** As a {{Foil}} to the above gag, Rigby frequently wins against Mordecai in RockPaperScissors. |
| 401 | * RunningOnAllFours: Given that he is a RascallyRaccoon. |
| 402 | * ShesNotMyGirlfriend: Will deny any sort of feelings for Eileen despite spending almost all his time with her when not with Mordecai. [[spoiler:{{Subverted|Trope}} when it turns out he and Eileen were secretly dating for several months. He even admits to Mordecai that he's been really happy with her, and the two are eventually happily married.]] |
| 403 | * ShipperOnDeck: |
| 404 | ** For Mordecai and Margaret. At first it was zig-zagged, but then played perfectly straight until Margaret's departure in the Season 4 finale. |
| 405 | ** Played straight since the beginning when he switches to Mordecai and CJ. In "I Like You Hi", he flat out says to Mordecai, "Dude, CJ's way cooler than Margaret". |
| 406 | * SiblingRivalry: Hates his brother Don for being more popular than him, stealing his friends, and [[BigLittleBrother being mistaken for Rigby's big brother when ''Rigby'' is the older brother]]. |
| 407 | * SmartBall: Despite his tendency to be TheMillstone, Rigby gives surprisingly sound romantic advice to Mordecai. [[spoiler:Justified in that he was dating Eileen behind everyone's back, meaning that he knew how to approach many of Mordecai's potential issues due to experience.]] |
| 408 | * StrongFamilyResemblance: Rigby shares the exact same physical traits from his parents and brother, the latter of whom looks exactly like him, aside from the fact they’re all taller than him. |
| 409 | * TemporarilyAVillain: It [[DependingOnTheWriter depends on the writer]], though he has done some pretty mean deeds that could be considered villainous. |
| 410 | * TookALevelInKindness: |
| 411 | ** Towards Eileen. At first he was a jerk to her, but as the series went on he warmed up to her and began showing genuine compassion for her. The biggest example of this is "Eileen Flat Screen", where he offers to take her new flatscreen back to her home, and even plans to set it up and order pizza as a surprise. Mordecai is openly impressed, calling it the nicest thing he's ever done... before telling him to tone it down, because it's freaking him out. He also reveals he waters her plants for her when she's out of town, and that they do things like go to Renaissance fairs together. [[spoiler:The episode was basically foreshadowing for the reveal in the season 6 finale that the two have been dating for several months, to Mordecai's utter surprise.]] |
| 412 | ** Even disregarding Eileen, as the seasons progress, Rigby matures significantly, enough to [[spoiler:help Mordecai out of his depression after being dumped by CJ.]] |
| 413 | * TooDumbToLive: Once tried to eat a huge omelette to earn a free hat, despite being deathly allergic to eggs. |
| 414 | -->'''Rigby:''' I thought if I ate really fast, [[InsaneTrollLogic maybe I wouldn't notice]]. |
| 415 | ** Played for laughs at times. He also appears to have a knack for dousing life threatening fires with lighter fluid. |
| 416 | * {{Tsundere}}: A ''major'' Harsh type. He is a modern one to his friends in the park, and more of a classic example towards [[ImpliedLoveInterest Eileen]]. |
| 417 | * UncannyFamilyResemblance: When his extended family are shown in "Just Friends", they ''all'' bear a striking resemblance to Rigby. |
| 418 | * TheUnfavorite: {{Justified|Trope}}. Rigby's father definitely favors his young brother, Don. This has some merit since Rigby is a slacker who lies and does other things to get out of work while Don does the exact opposite. This also seems to be the case when it comes to anyone who isn't Mordecai or Eileen, which the latter two actually enjoy his company and don't ditch him for someone else. In rare cases, Mordecai has done this but will instantly regret it once he realizes how badly it hurts his feelings and learns not to treat him this way. |
| 419 | ** That said, once Rigby undergoes CharacterDevelopment and gains several amazing feats, his father comes to respect him significantly. |
| 420 | * UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist: Most of the time. He's reckless, selfish and immature, although [[CharacterDevelopment he does grow out of it at the end]]. |
| 421 | [[/folder]] |
| 422 | |
| 423 | !!Park Management |
| 424 | |
| 425 | [[folder:Benson]] |
| 426 | !!Benson Dunwoody |
| 427 | [[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/benson_0.png]] |
| 428 | [[caption-width-right:200:''"Get back to work or YOU'RE FIRED!"'']] |
| 429 | ->Voiced in English by: Sam Marin |
| 430 | ->Voiced in Latin American Spanish by: David Bueno (Seasons 1-most of 4), Luis Leonardo Suárez (some Season 3-4 episodes), Daniel del Roble (Seasons 5-8), Manuel Bueno ("Ringtoners" and current material) |
| 431 | ->Voiced in European Spanish by: Creator/JuanAmadorPulido\ |
| 432 | Debuted in: "Pilot"/Season 1, "The Power" |
| 433 | |
| 434 | An anthropomorphic gumball machine who is Mordecai and Rigby's boss. Although he generally seems mildly annoyed, at the worst he can get really pissed if Mordecai and/or Rigby have messed something up. |
| 435 | ---- |
| 436 | * AllDrummersAreAnimals: Subverted in "150-Piece Kit" when the audience finds out that the man behind Hair to the Throne's famous drum solo was ''Benson''. |
| 437 | * AnimateInanimateObject: He's a talking gumball machine. |
| 438 | * AntiVillain: [[DependingOnTheWriter Sometimes]], but when he is, he's a type IV (Villain In Name Only). Benson treats Mordecai and Rigby like crap most of the time, but he's just doing his job as their manager, although he's quite unreasonable. Though the duo tend to slack off a lot, they do nothing out of malicious intent. In truth, though, he can be NotSoAboveItAll at times and he's partially this way because his boss Pops Maellard is a ScatterbrainedSenior who is TheAllegedBoss, but delegates work to Benson, and a CluelessBoss who has NoSocialSkills and is InnocentlyInsensitive, which causes him no end of stress in addition to his FreudianExcuse for having a HairTriggerTemper. |
| 439 | * AxCrazy: When his HairTriggerTemper reaches its limits, he is shown with a psychotic behavior many times. |
| 440 | * BadassArmfold: His standard pose. Especially when he gets to have his own moments of greatness. |
| 441 | * BeleagueredBoss: He has to deal with [[TheSlacker slackers Mordecai and Rigby]] on a regular basis, Muscle Man's constant pranking, and even the others under his command have their moments of NotSoAboveItAll. On top of that, ''his'' boss Pops is a {{Cloudcuckoolander}}. It's no wonder Benson frequently gets mad, and needs the constant threat of GeorgeJetsonJobSecurity to keep Mordecai and Rigby in line. |
| 442 | * BenevolentBoss: |
| 443 | ** Despite his meanness, in a calm mood, Benson is ordinarily a nice guy who can show a softer side and reward his employees. Plus, he later befriends all of his co-workers. |
| 444 | ** He walks the talk -- he'll genuinely praise his employees, Mordecai and Rigby included, when he feels they've done a good job. The ending of the episode "Grave Sights" is a good example of this. |
| 445 | ** He's also fairly nice to Skips (who is hard-working) and Pops. He's also a bit strict with Muscle Man, but that's more because he's obnoxious (although he normally does his work). |
| 446 | ** The episode "My Mom" has Muscle Man calling him to request a break for lunch, which he allows to Mordecai and Rigby's surprise. Muscle Man then explains to them that if you ''tell'' Benson what you're up to instead of just being unaccounted for, he is reasonable. |
| 447 | * BerserkButton: |
| 448 | ** Getting prank calls, apparently makes him angry enough to damage the Park phone which is a piece of company property. |
| 449 | ** Whatever you do, ''do not throw trash at him''. He will go berserk without a second thought. |
| 450 | ** He starts out {{Angrish}} and screams in a rage while chasing Mordecai and Rigby when Rigby claimed he was "[[GeorgeJetsonJobSecurity all talk]]" in "A Bunch of Full Grown Geese" since most of Benson's threats to fire them had not been guaranteed. |
| 451 | ** Anything music related really works him up real badly since he had bad experiences in the music industry. So anytime there's a situation involving music he will become more angrier than usual. |
| 452 | ** But the most obvious one is [[TheSlacker slackers]]. When Mordecai and Rigby slack off on their jobs or accidentally cause something to cause a bunch of destruction due to their inexperience in dealing with the supernatural until working at the park, Benson really gets fired up. |
| 453 | * BigDamnHeroes: |
| 454 | ** In "Benson Be Gone", he returns to the park just in time to save it from Susan. |
| 455 | ** He arrives with his drum set at the last second in "Summertime Lovin'", [[PowerOfRock giving the cast enough music power to destroy the Summertime Lovin' cassette.]] |
| 456 | ** In "Stick Hockey", he arrives just in time to finish Mordecai and Rigby's stick hockey death match and is revealed to be a master at the game. |
| 457 | ** In "Cool Bikes", he saves Mordecai and Rigby's lives by attacking the judge that was sentencing them to death and aiding in their escape. |
| 458 | ** He got a small (yet awesome) one in "Karaoke Video". Mordecai and Rigby are attempting to steal the video of them dissing on their co-workers. Some brawls between the bars employees and them eventually turn into an all out bar brawl. Near the end it shows Benson hopelessly looking at the ridiculous warfare just as the tape lands in front of him. He picks it up curiously and the owner of the bar punches him in the face and orders him to give it back. He ''smashes the glorious crap out of the karaoke tape right into the owner's face'', knocking him out and destroying the tape in the process. He basically saved Mordecai and Rigby's necks from himself without even realizing it. |
| 459 | --->'''Benson''': You want it?! [[PreAsskickingOneLiner FINE! TAKE IT THEN!]] |
| 460 | * BigWhat: Screams this midway through "Country Club" when Skips caves in and tells him that Mordecai and Rigby went to the country club to get a golf cart back. [[ItsPersonal Turns out he's actually furious for a different reason.]] |
| 461 | * BirdsOfAFeather: With Pam, as both of them are {{workaholic}}s and love chicken wings. |
| 462 | * BothSidesHaveAPoint: |
| 463 | ** Benson and Pops often argue over the former's treatment towards the main duo. Benson isn't wrong that Mordecai and Rigby are often slackers who forgo their duties to laze off, so his anger towards this isn't unprovoked or uncalled for. [[SelectiveObliviousness It isn't helped by the fact that Pops never considers that fact and constantly holds Benson accountable for his temper while never once working to correct Mordecai and Rigby's behavior.]] However, Pops is right that Benson can let his temper get out of control; at best, he is generally mildly annoyed and simply yells at Mordecai and Rigby, but at worst, he can be unnecessarily harsh, potentially violent and prone to punishing them in rather severe ways. |
| 464 | ** In 'Eggscellent' Mordecai punches Benson in the face after he makes an insensitive comment while Rigby is in a coma. [[JerkassHasAPoint Benson's comment was badly timed, but he wasn't wrong that Rigby was a massive troublemaker and partook in a challenge that involved food he knew he was deathly allergic to, landing him in a coma in the first place.]] However, Mordecai calls out Benson on his insensitive attitude and that Rigby being in a coma was a result of him simply wanting to win a hat, not because he was causing trouble nor neglecting work. It also doesn't help that he said it while Mordecai was obviously in grief. |
| 465 | * BreathWeapon: Benson unleashes a torrent of pure, pent-up rage at Mordecai and Rigby during "Think Positive" in the form of [[WaveMotionGun a gigantic mouth laser]]. |
| 466 | * ButtMonkey: If bad luck isn't happening to Mordecai and Rigby, it's probably happening to him. Benson is rigid and stubborn, and can be a real jerk at his worst, but he's also a very lonely and insecure loser that hardly gets any respect by anyone, even his demanding boss. |
| 467 | * TheCaptain: He's the supervisor for the park's maintenance crew. |
| 468 | * CantHoldHisLiquor: Has a weakness for [[GRatedDrug chicken wings]]. |
| 469 | * CharacterCatchphrase: |
| 470 | ** "Get back to work!" and "Clean up this mess!" (both of which are usually followed by "Or you're fired!") |
| 471 | ** MORDECAI!!! RIGBY!!! |
| 472 | * TheCavalry: |
| 473 | ** The guys are losing to a physical manifestation of an EarWorm that they're battling by playing a counter EarWorm. When Benson arrives, Mordecai assumes he's there to yell at them for messing up the park with their battle. He is there to yell at them, but for forgetting each EarWorm needs a beat, which comes from the drums which he plays. |
| 474 | --->'''Benson:''' ''[[YouHaveGotToBeKiddingMe UNBELIEVABLE!!]]''\ |
| 475 | '''Mordecai:''' Look Benson, we didn't mean-!\ |
| 476 | '''Benson:''' You guys forgot the most important thing about writing a catchy song! ''(gets on top of the cart, then unveils a set of drums on top of it)''\ |
| 477 | '''Mordecai and Rigby:''' Whoooooahhh!\ |
| 478 | '''Benson:''' It's gotta have ''a beat''. |
| 479 | ** In "Country Club", he shows up with the rest of the park employees to help Mordecai and Rigby get the golf cart back and get revenge on the titular club for stealing their property over the years, which included his boombox. |
| 480 | * CharacterDevelopment: |
| 481 | ** He's noticeably more tolerant of Mordecai and Rigby after "Benson Be Gone", not getting as angry at them for when they mess up. It shows in "Jinxed" when he subverts his rant-inducing slight because they apologized for slacking off, where before he'd not have given them the time of day. He ''did'' lose it earlier in the episode when Rigby was intentionally enraging him trying to break his jinx, but Benson didn't take it out on Rigby and instead vented his rage elsewhere. Heck, whenever they aren't causing trouble, he can actually be a friend to them. |
| 482 | ** Starting with season 2, Benson has lead the group in downtime activities, like a weekly game night and paying for everyone at a bar, even Mordecai and Rigby. He also oftentimes pulls out a BigDamnHeroes on them, being the one who leads TheCavalry. |
| 483 | * ChickMagnet: Despite his [[LoveHurts bad luck]] when it comes to romance, Benson is pretty popular with the ladies -- there are his previously mentioned exes, Audrey, Pam, Roxy, and Bluray. Skips even lampshades how Benson became popular with the ladies after entering space. |
| 484 | * ColorMotifs: Red. Most of his body is colored red. Whenever he is angered, his face turns completely red. Lastly, the color can represent ''anger''. |
| 485 | * TheComicallySerious: He's serious most of the time, but his chewing out of Rigby and Mordecai is often played for laughs. |
| 486 | * ControlFreak: Normally, it's justified since he is the manager of the park. However, there are times when he oversteps his boundaries, such as when the park crew competed in a band for a new air conditioner. |
| 487 | * ADayInTheLimelight: "Benson Be Gone" was his first one, but "Think Positive" was more about ''his personality''. |
| 488 | * DeadpanSnarker: He sometimes leans on this, especially when the HaHaHaNo trope is used. |
| 489 | -->'''Rigby''': And we'll be all like "In your face!"\ |
| 490 | '''Benson''': ''[[SarcasmMode Haha]], and I will be all like [[SuddenlyShouting GET BACK TO WORK!]]'' |
| 491 | * DependingOnTheWriter: |
| 492 | ** Benson's characterization ranges from a cynical, but reasonable JerkWithAHeartOfGold to a full-blown {{Jerkass}} that [[HairTriggerTemper overreacts to everything]]. |
| 493 | ** He can also either be completely task oriented or much more relaxed and willing to go along with an adventure. |
| 494 | ** His relationship with Mordecai and Rigby. In some episodes, while he gets annoyed by their actions, he does admit that he respects them ("Busted Cart", "Cool Bikes"). In other episodes, he would look for any excuse to get them fired and even gloat about it ("Replaced", "Muscle Mentor", "Lunch Break"). |
| 495 | * DysfunctionalFamily: "Think Positive" revealed that Benson, of all people, was TheQuietOne in his family, and his father taught him to yell whenever he wanted something, which turned him into a big anger ball. |
| 496 | * EarlyBirdCameo: First appeared in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y894QNtX0VA&feature=fvwrel "2 in the AM PM'']], one of J. G. Quintel's first short films, in the gas station clerks' acid-induced hallucination. |
| 497 | * EmbarrassingLastName: In the Dome Experiment Special, the head scientist refers to Benson by his full name and boy it's made clear why he sticks with just Benson — it's ''Dunwoody''. |
| 498 | * EnragedByIdiocy: One of his [[HairTriggerTemper biggest triggers]] is Mordecai and Rigby's incompetence. |
| 499 | * EveryoneHasStandards: |
| 500 | ** Despite disliking Mordecai and Rigby's antics, he does actually care for them, and will help if they truly need it. |
| 501 | ** In TheMovie, Rigby was forced to read his rejection letter to College University by his former high school teacher. Instead of ripping into Rigby for his mess-up, Benson ''winces'' at what's said in the letter. Despite his willingness to call out Rigby for his flaws, at least he was ''upfront'' about why he gets angry. The rejection letter was so passive-aggressive that it makes the sting even worse. |
| 502 | * FatalFlaw: |
| 503 | ** His HairTriggerTemper causes him to easily lose his cool and causes a great amount of distress to the people around him, leading to moments of disrespect. |
| 504 | ** His pettiness. He always seems to take things way too far, that normal people would let slide. Examples include: eating both of Mordecai and Rigby's food multiple times for simply taking his one sandwich, attempting to spoil a TV show for them for not vacuuming the floors, giving them cruel punishments, and often threatening to fire them for very small mistakes and unimportant reasons. |
| 505 | ** Finally, his inability to let go of his insecurities from the past or within himself. This is mostly what fuels Benson's other flaws. |
| 506 | * {{Foil}}: To Rigby in many ways. |
| 507 | ** Both of them were considered the black sheep in their families (Rigby for his laziness and goofing off, Benson for his timidness). |
| 508 | ** Both of them had big dreams for the future (Rigby going to College University with Mordecai, Benson being a drummer for a rock band, Hair to the Throne), but something caused them to lose their dreams ([[spoiler: Rigby was rejected from College University due to his abysmal grades]], Benson was replaced by a drumming sound machine) that led both of them to have the jobs they do now while also having bitter and unhappy personalities. |
| 509 | ** Both of them are often a JerkWithAHeartOfGold who suffer from pride, stubbornness, short tempers and being absolute jerks at their worst, but show that they have kind sides to their personalities that pushes them to undergo CharacterDevelopment (Rigby learns to become more responsible and mature, Benson gains a better grip on his temper and learns to not make everything about his job). |
| 510 | ** While Rigby makes it no secret that he despises his job and is very lazy, Benson takes his job very seriously and is a {{Workaholic}}. |
| 511 | ** Rigby only has one love interest, Eileen, while Benson has several love interests before settling down with Pam. |
| 512 | * FormerTeenRebel: He was a drummer and underground stick hockey player in his adolescence. |
| 513 | * FourTemperamentEnsemble: The Choleric/Melancholic — has a short temper and is quite bitter too. |
| 514 | * FreudianExcuse: |
| 515 | ** [[DysfunctionalFamily His family yelled at each other all the time]], with [[AbusiveParents Benson's dad]] encouraging Benson's temper in childhood. Not to mention how he discouraged Benson's dreams as a drummer, [[KicktheDog to the extent of saying that he "had no talent".]] And that's not even getting into how Benson's dad apparently still yells at him in modern times. |
| 516 | ** Mr. Mallard acts as a mean boss to Benson. While this is eased up after "Benson Be Gone", there are still moments when Benson is forced to deal with Mallard's unreasonable antics. And this isn't even reaching the stress of dealing with all the crazy things happening in the park, as well as the others' mishaps. |
| 517 | ** Also, several other episodes show that Benson suffered quite a lot in his life. He has: [[MyGreatestFailure lost his dear friend Dave in a stick hockey match]], been kicked out of a successful band solely because [[GreenEyedMonster his bandmates were jealous]], was humiliated on national TV which also led to losing his hair as well as a chance for a fortune, and ended up being dumped by several women. |
| 518 | * TheFriendNobodyLikes: At times. Examples include "Eggscellent", where Mordecai outright tells Benson during a fight that everyone only hangs out with him because he's their boss (though he takes this back later), and "Return of Mordecai and the Rigbys", where his perfectionism in band practice irritates the other workers/band members. |
| 519 | * FriendToAllLivingThings: He has a soft spot for animals. It's established that he's a cat lover, and he's extremely loving to his new pet pig, Applesauce ([[spoiler:Leeroy]]) in "Benson's Pig". He also takes a liking to a bird in "The Dome Experiment Special". |
| 520 | * GeorgeJetsonJobSecurity: He threatens to fire Mordecai and Rigby on a daily basis. Rigby, at one point, flat-out tells him to his face that he's "all talk", to which Benson responds by screaming and chasing them down, as if ready to beat them up. |
| 521 | * GoodIsNotNice: He often threatens to fire Mordecai and Rigby, but all he's really doing is his job. He can be friendly when things aren't out of hand. |
| 522 | * GuiltByAssociationGag: Usually blames Mordecai and Rigby combined for a mishap even if it was only Rigby's fault. At times, he will also partly blame the duo and Fives for something caused by Muscle Man's idiotic actions. |
| 523 | * HaHaHaNo: Often done with sarcasm. |
| 524 | * HairTodayGoneTomorrow: In his younger years (apart from a flashback to his childhood) he was shown to have hair, but now claims to have lost it from genetics (when it was actually from being humiliated on a game show). However, he has been shown to grow a full head of hair like in "Sandwich of Death" or in "The Dome Experiment", and in the time skip in the finale he grows a full head of grey hair worn back in a pony tail. |
| 525 | * HairTriggerTemper: Has very explosive outbursts that often end with "...OR YOU'RE FIRED!!". His anger issues are so bad, it ends up with multiple people including his co-workers which are also among his best friends taking concern on how he manages his emotions. |
| 526 | * HiddenDepths: |
| 527 | ** Despite how he acts, Benson does eventually come to care about Mordecai and Rigby. Several episodes like "Blind Trust" and "Gamers Never Say Die" show this best. Likewise, he will show concern for the other park members as well, to the extent of spending 12 thousand dollars for Muscle Man when everyone thought he was dying in "The End Of Muscle Man". |
| 528 | ** It's revealed in "Stick Hockey" that he used to be a champion stick hockey player until ten years prior to the episode when his apprentice Dave was killed in the final round of a tournament. Now he sees himself as a loser who wasted his life on stick hockey and now he's wasted his life in a dead-end job. |
| 529 | ** "150-Piece Kit" reveals he performed a legendary drum solo for the band Hair to the Throne, one everyone thought was done by the band's drum machine. He then proceeds to perform said solo again in front of the whole park, proving he did it. The episode also has him turning down an offer to tour with Hair to the Throne to keep working at the park showing how much he loves the place. |
| 530 | ** "Expert Or Liar" has Benson show Rigby a tape of him being humiliated on national television (as Rigby had done earlier in the episode). Benson had to say 'bandanna' in order to win some prize money, which he was planning to use to quit his job at the park, which he hated. However, Benson accidentally says 'banana' instead. He mentions that he couldn't go out for years after that without someone throwing a banana at him, and it also explains why he kept working at the park. It becomes pretty obvious that Benson hates when people don't do what he says, because it puts his job on the line, and he can't afford to fail again at his age (having experienced plenty of failure and humiliation himself). |
| 531 | * HighPressureEmotion: His gumballs turn red when he's angry. "Think Positive" makes this trope literal. If he holds in his anger too long, he starts burning things at his touch and destroying everything until he's let it out. |
| 532 | * HisOwnWorstEnemy: Several episodes like "Benson Be Gone", "Party Re-Pete", and "The Dome Experiment Special" show that, if not for his own insecurity and temper, Benson could potentially be TheAce like Skips. |
| 533 | * HulkingOut: He grows as giant as the gumball guards in the ''Regular Show[=/=]WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'' crossover comic. And even then, at the highest pressure, [[GoldenSuperMode he turns flaming gold]]. |
| 534 | * HotBlooded: Not necessarily in mannerism, but the guy shows total dedication to everything he does in the moment, be it Stick Hockey, playing the drums, or his job. He is either constantly moving or not at all. |
| 535 | * InterspeciesRomance: |
| 536 | ** He, an anthropomorphic gumball machine, has had relationships with Audrey and Pam, two human women. |
| 537 | * {{Hypocrite}}: Makes a house rule saying "no yelling" but he yells all the time in the house or around the area, mainly at Mordecai and Rigby and yelled at them about 30 seconds after telling them the rule. |
| 538 | * JerkassBall: He has his moments of being downright cruel, ''especially'' in "The Best Burger in the World" and "Lunch Break". |
| 539 | * JerkassToOne: He's mainly a jerk to Mordecai and Rigby as they're the ones to push his buttons the most and on how often he threatens to fire them, sometimes for no reason at all. In fact, episodes like "Pie Contest", "Muscle Mentor", "Firework Run", and "Lunch Break" have him finding ways to fire the duo without hesitation. Even when an issue is presented in front of him, the first ones he blames are the duo for merely just being witnesses to the situation. |
| 540 | * JerkassHasAPoint: It's hard to blame his low temper towards Mordecai and Rigby since the duo rarely do their job and are almost ''always'' slacking off. [[JustEatGilligan You just have to wonder why he hasn't fired them for good yet, though.]] |
| 541 | * JerkWithAHeartOfGold: At his worst, Benson's temper can lead him into becoming irrational, extremely intense and overly aggressive. At his best, however, when he's in a good mood he'll treat his employees very well (even Mordecai and Rigby), and he considers all of his employees to be friends. On a couple of occasions, Benson has claimed that [[ToughLove he does something tough on Mordecai and Rigby out of concern for their future and wants to instill some sense of responsibility in a pair of rambunctious workers]]. He also gets along just fine with Skips and Pops, and only gets mad at Muscle Man (and Fives by proxy) when he acts obnoxious. |
| 542 | * KickTheDog: |
| 543 | ** In "The Best Burger 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. |
| 544 | ** In "Pie Contest", Benson puts the duo in charge of judging the pies for the pie contest after they insist so much, but he dedicates himself to be a huge prick about it and laughing at the prospect of firing them. Even when they save the park from [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext being eaten by a mutant pie]], [[UngratefulBastard he threatens to clean up the mess or he would fire them]]. |
| 545 | ** In "Lunch Break", when Mordecai and Rigby were running out of time on finishing their sandwich, Benson happily tells them that they better pack their things and that they'll never move out of their parents' house just to really twist the knife. When Mordecai and Rigby manage to honor their end of the deal, Benson [[SarcasmMode rewards them]] by making them run 50 laps and threatens to fire them if they fail. |
| 546 | * KindheartedCatLover: Zig-zagged. He has a love of cats -- owning one and becoming addicted to cat videos in "Cat Videos". In one episode, however, Benson gives up on cats and becomes a "pig guy" after adopting his pet pig, Applesauce. In the series finale, it's shown that [[spoiler:Benson and Pam, who are now HappilyMarried, are the happy owners of Applesauce and a couple of cats]]. |
| 547 | * KnightInSourArmor: He'll yell a lot, but he does care for the park's well being. |
| 548 | * LargeHam: Having a HairTriggerTemper does not help his case. He's even rowdier when intoxicated. |
| 549 | * LoveHurts: He has ''horrible'' luck with women. He has had many past girlfriends and got dumped by them all. |
| 550 | * MeanBoss: |
| 551 | ** He yells a lot and constantly threatens to fire his slacker employees, but it is fairly clear that he runs a tight ship. Furthermore, he claims that his aggressive attitude is him trying to [[ToughLove hammer a sense of responsibility into Rigby and Mordecai]]. Although he does make it pretty clear in an earlier episode that he has no respect for them when Mordecai ask why they are paid cash in a plastic bag instead of a check even though they had been working harder on their jobs. |
| 552 | ** Eventually becomes {{deconstructed|Trope}} in "Benson's Suit", where it is shown that constantly harping on Mordecai and Rigby may get results in the immediate moment but leaves them with a very low level of respect towards him from a long time of putting up with his temper. As if he were calmer with them rather than constantly losing his cool, they might do a much better job. |
| 553 | * NeverMyFault: A recurring flaw of Benson is to blame Mordecai and Rigby for his own mistakes. Several times Benson blames them for several problems he had caused, when Mordecai and Rigby were only tangentially related. The magnum opus of this is in "Benson's Car" -- Benson hires a bounty hunter from the future to find whoever took his car (unbeknownst that it was actually Mordecai and Rigby themselves). The bounty hunter ends up wrecking the house and accidentally destroying the car. Benson sticks Mordecai and Rigby with the tab, even though it was his idea to send in the bounty hunter in the first place. |
| 554 | * NiceJobBreakingItHero: He isn't so different from Mordecai and Rigby, thus he has his moments. |
| 555 | ** In "Guitar of Rock", he warns the duo not to touch Mr. Maellard's stuff while unloading the boxes, in which they obeyed. Later on, however, he accidentally breaks a guitar himself than was previously held by a famous rockstar. |
| 556 | ** It's brought up again in "Gold Watch", where he immediately blames Mordecai and Rigby after waking up in the desert because of his own drunken recklessness. The test pilots, though, call him out on this, and Benson is forced to take responsibility for his actions. |
| 557 | ** Another instance was in "Lunch Break", where he said it was okay for Mordecai and Rigby to pick whatever they wanted on the menu of the sub shop, he didn't even bother to research the prices, and he paid for the sandwich anyway just to give them a task where they can't succeed. While it was a dick move on their part, he still should've known better. |
| 558 | * NiceMeanAndInBetween: The brash, quick-tempered mean to Pops' nice and Skips' in-between. |
| 559 | * NoIndoorVoice: If you get him really mad, of course. What's even worse, the events of "Think Positive" made his voice loud enough to make Mordecai and Rigby go deaf! His parents taught him that. |
| 560 | * NoodlePeople: He has long, gangly arms and legs. |
| 561 | * NotSoAboveItAll: |
| 562 | ** '''OOOOOOOOOOOOOOH'''!! (when he's fired by Susan in "Benson Be Gone") |
| 563 | ** Calvin Wong's Formspring also spoiled (by accident) that he's a huge fan of rock music, in particular "Foghat, Hall and Oates, Asia, Toto, and Phil Collins". |
| 564 | ** As seen in his scene in the ending of "Mordecai and the Rigbys" where he nonetheless gives them both a standing ovation after their disastrous performance and Mordecai's speech. |
| 565 | ** Seen again in "This Is My Jam". He's initially angered by the omnipresent ear-worm...[[SkewedPriorities but only because the group forgot the beat]] — he willingly joins in on drums to help Mordecai's improvised band defeat it. |
| 566 | ** In "Carter and Briggs", he lets Mordecai and Rigby use the park cart for a contest where the price is a supporting role in their favorite cop show, on the condition that they wear the park's official shirts on TV if they win. |
| 567 | * OffscreenBreakup: [[spoiler:He revealed in "The Real Thomas" that he and Audrey both broke up months ago and he was depressed and all the park workers helped him through his slump but nobody can remember any of that happening.]] |
| 568 | * OnlySaneMan: In "Welcome to Space", he is the only one to be understandably upset at Mr. Mallard and the Dome scientists for sending them into space without their consent, as well as questioning the Space Bush's motives. To note, [[AngstWhatAngst the rest of the gang seem to have completely forgotten their troubles from the previous episode,]] including Skips and Eileen of all people. |
| 569 | * ThePerfectionist: Greatly implied in one episode, where he claimed that the grass Mordecai and Rigby had just mowed as being "an inch too tall". |
| 570 | * PermaStubble: According to the creators, his gumballs are supposed to resemble this, as a visual sign that he is over-worked. |
| 571 | * PerpetualFrowner: Rarely smiles, despite having a handful, if any, of episodes where he does, than he might otherwise, under the circumstances, whatever the occasion, it comes and it goes, naturally, at the very least. |
| 572 | * PrematurelyBald: A flashback revealed that a younger Benson was humiliated on a game show, and the stress was so intense that he instantly lost all of his brown hair. [[spoiler:He has hair back in the epilogue, seemingly happier with his life and job.]] |
| 573 | * PsychologicalProjection: A lot of his issues with Mordecai and Rigby stem from the fact that, most of the time, Benson projects his own personal problems onto them. He hates their slacker tendencies because he's an even ''worse'' slacker than them if given nothing to do, and he refuses to uphold the end of his bargain in "Stick Hockey" because a traumatic incident with it caused him to disown the game. |
| 574 | * RageBreakingPoint: Taken to its LogicalExtreme, if not ''[[ExaggeratedTrope beyond]]'', in "Think Positive", when Pops makes the mistake of telling Benson that he will be fired if he ever gets angry at Mordecai or Rigby, which results in Benson being so filled with rage, that if he doesn't find an outlet for it, he could end up destroying himself, the park, and life as we know it. Pops has no choice but to reverse his decision and allow Benson to tell Mordecai and Rigby off, and he gives them a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech in the form of a damn ''[[BreathWeapon beam]]''. |
| 575 | * ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Zig-zagged. Not quite at DependingOnTheWriter levels but how level headed Benson can be with his employees tends to vary from episode to episode. Usually he is stern and only yells when he's ticked off at the slightest things. At his worst, he is petty in his punishments, makes assumptions about what has been done, and will invoke NeverMyFault. At his best, he is willing to hear out employees and will adjust the schedule to accommodate personal troubles for them but it is rare to catch him in such a mood. |
| 576 | * TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: |
| 577 | ** Gives a gloriously intense one to Mordecai and Rigby in "Think Positive": |
| 578 | --->'''"RRRAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGHHH!!! YOU [[LazinessCallout LAZY, NO-GOOD SLACKERS]] [[BerserkButton DRIVE ME]] ''[[BerserkButton NUTS]]!!!'' CAN'T YOU JUST LISTEN TO ME ''ONCE'' IN YOUR WORTHLESS LIVES?!?! 'CAUSE IF YOU DID, YOU'D SEE THAT [[ToughLove I'VE BEEN TRYING TO TEACH YOU SOME SIMPLE RESPONSIBILITY, SOME PRIDE IN DOING A JOB WELL DONE]]!!! BUT YOU WOULDN'T KNOW A JOB WELL DONE [[TheSlacker IF YOU PAID SOMEONE TO DO IT FOR YOU]], AND EVEN THEN [[JerkassHasAPoint YOU'D SCREW IT ALL UP ON ACCOUNT THAT YOU CAN'T EVEN FOLLOW THE]] ''[[JerkassHasAPoint SIMPLEST]]'' [[JerkassHasAPoint INSTRUCTIONS, WORRYING MORE ABOUT LOOKING COOL THAN]] ''[[JerkassHasAPoint DOING YOUR JOB]]''!!!"''' |
| 579 | ** And another emotionally broken one in "Busted Cart": |
| 580 | --->'''Excuses, excuses! How am I supposed to trust you when ''all you give me are EXCUSES?!'' When are you two gonna learn that your actions have consequences?! Consequences that affect other people... ''like me''... Don't you two understand? I'm about to lose my job... You may not care about keeping your jobs, but I care about keeping mine, cause if I lose my job, I have nothing. Do you hear me? ''I have nothing!''' (he buries his face in his hands and sobs)'' Now if you'll excuse me, I need to take my last bathroom break as an employed man... |
| 581 | * RedBaron: [[spoiler:Benson was once known as the [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Death Dragon]] in stick hockey circles.]] |
| 582 | * RetiredBadass: He was formerly an expert Death Stick Hockey player, and a rock band drummer who played what is considered the world's greatest drum solo. |
| 583 | * SeenItAll: When [[MundaneMadeAwesome the usual daily crisis happens]], he tends to not question the fact that it's happening so much as how Mordecai and Rigby caused it. For example, when Mordecai and Rigby turn up with a [[HumanPopsicle thawed-out caveman]], he simply tells them to get rid of him because he won't be covered by the park's insurance. |
| 584 | * TheSlacker: If you can believe it, even more so than Mordecai and Rigby. In "Benson Be Gone", the two try to teach Benson it's okay to slack off a little as long as you get back to work, but Benson takes this as meaning it's perfectly fine not to work at all. If he doesn't have a constant stream of work, he won't work at all. Justified as he used to [[spoiler:spend his days as a stick hockey player which is not known for bringing in money. He was a drummer which is less of an example, but given what [[SexDrugsAndRockAndRoll rock does to a guy...]] Benson outright states he's wasted his youth]]. |
| 585 | * SoreLoser: |
| 586 | ** He takes dodgeball [[SeriousBusiness very seriously]]. He also doesn't take losing very well. |
| 587 | ** When Mordecai and Rigby succeed in finishing their sandwich in "Lunch Break" before their deadline, he decides to make them run 50 laps on the basketball court that everyone worked on while they were eating or else he'd fire them. |
| 588 | %%* TheSpock |
| 589 | * StraightMan: Subverted as he usually tries to keep his life all about business and improving himself with his job, but moreso often he ends up being so angry at times that he pretty much becomes an emotional wreck with little to no social skills. |
| 590 | * TalkingInYourSleep: In "Saving Time", Mordecai and Rigby notice him doing this while they break into his house. |
| 591 | * TeamDad: Despite his annoyance with the main duo and the rest of his employees at times, he's nonetheless very protective of them, evidenced in episodes such as "Benson Be Gone" or "Stick Hockey". He really just wants to beat some responsibility into them. |
| 592 | * ThrowTheDogABone: The guy really got jerked around romantically first by [[spoiler:getting dumped by Audrey offscreen, then getting dumped by Pam after being shot into space. However, the finale revealed that he wound up reuniting and settling down with the latter]]. |
| 593 | * ToughLove: Some episodes suggest his MeanBoss demeanor towards them is beacause all he wants to do is teach Mordecai and Rigby the meaning of doing a job and being proud of it. This is outright confirmed in "Busted Cart". |
| 594 | -->'''Rigby:''' Benson, why do you hate us so much?\ |
| 595 | '''Benson:''' ''*(sigh)*'' ...I don't hate you guys. I just hate some of the things you do. Okay, I really hate some of the things you do... I know you don't mean them, but I'm your boss and it's my job to push you to do better. |
| 596 | * TrademarkFavoriteFood: Benson has a huge love for chicken wings. |
| 597 | * UncannyFamilyResemblance: {{Implied|Trope}}. In "Skips' Story", Skips' old high school principal bares a striking resemblance to Benson — similar face, similar body type, and even the same voice. It's possible that Bennett is Benson's distant ancestor. |
| 598 | * UngratefulBastard: Even when Mordecai and Rigby save his life, he usually threatens to fire them if they don't clean up their mess. He eventually [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech gets called out for that]] in "A Bunch of Full-Grown Geese". |
| 599 | * VagueAge: The creators revealed that Benson is anywhere between the ages of 25 and 35. If [[https://twitter.com/cartoonnetwork/status/1662818952794329094?t=y-vUzzKzfPsQUHJq4gjtTQ&s=19 this Twitter post]] is to be taken as canon, he's 30. |
| 600 | * WhatTheHellHero: He constantly chews out Mordecai and Rigby for their constant pranks and slacking off, but "Country Club" has him angry at them for [[spoiler:not telling him that they were planning to basically raid the titular club to get a golf cart back, which he would gladly help with since they also stole his boombox]]. |
| 601 | * {{Workaholic}}: Benson is easily the hardest worker in the park, often staying after hours, having to be told by Skips to take time off, and having a meticulous schedule to get to work on time. This takes on a sad turn as more and more of his past is revealed; he used to have a very exciting life and hates (or used to hate) working at the park, but has lost so much that his job is the only thing he has left. |
| 602 | * WorkHardPlayHard: The guy lives to put in effort towards what he does, and that stands regardless of whether he's being paid to do it. |
| 603 | * YoungerThanTheyLook: See VagueAge above. |
| 604 | [[/folder]] |
| 605 | |
| 606 | [[folder:Pops]] |
| 607 | !!Pops Maellard / [[spoiler:Mega Kranus]] |
| 608 | [[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/pops_by_luna_sregulartales_d8sqr8h.png]] |
| 609 | [[caption-width-right:200:''"Good show, jolly good show!"'']] |
| 610 | ->Voiced in English by: Sam Marin |
| 611 | ->Voiced in Latin American Spanish by: Carlos Hugo Hidalgo\ |
| 612 | Debuted in: "Pilot"/Season 1, "The Power" |
| 613 | |
| 614 | The son of the park's wealthy owner who's been sheltered all his life. He's the group's PluckyComicRelief. |
| 615 | ---- |
| 616 | * AchievementsInIgnorance: When Pops tries to get on his favorite game show, "Win That Prize". He instead ends up becoming the man that brings a television company back on top even getting promoted up to Senior Senior Vice President. |
| 617 | * TheAllegedBoss: He's technically the boss of the park but rarely asserts his position and acts more like a co-worker. In a flashback, it's revealed that Mr. Maellard put Benson in charge ''specifically'' because he knows perfectly well that his son is way too scatter-brained to handle the responsibility of maintaining the park. |
| 618 | * AllLovingHero: Pops is a friendly and sweet person who never wants to harm anyone if he doesn't have to. |
| 619 | * AnimalMotifs: Butterflies. He likes chasing them and they become more prevalent to him in season 8. |
| 620 | * AnthropomorphicFood: A talking, walking lollipop. |
| 621 | * BadassAdorable: He's shown to be a skilled wrestler and has even [[spoiler:saved the entire universe in the finale]]. |
| 622 | * BadassPacifist: Despite becoming [[spoiler:a PhysicalGod by the finale, Pops defeats Anti-Pops for good with a CooldownHug, whereas previous attempts to fight him all ended with universe-destroying stalemates]]. |
| 623 | * BarbieDollAnatomy: Seen when naked Pops is falling down the cliff in "Brain Eraser". |
| 624 | * BenevolentBoss: |
| 625 | ** He's technically the head of the park, but he lets Benson run things and acts like any other worker. On the rare occasion he ''does'' feel the need to assert his authority, he treats everyone with kindness and respect. Just listen to how he speaks to Benson when he politely but firmly tells him not to yell at Rigby. |
| 626 | ** In the first episode, he unhesitatingly gives Mordecai and Rigby a raise when they ask for one (though he bestows it in lollipops, it's the thought that counts). He was also the one who thought of the idea to get Benson a gift in the episode "World's Best Boss", gathering all of the employees together to think of the perfect gift. |
| 627 | * BewareTheNiceOnes: |
| 628 | ** He's a very friendly sort who would rather get along with people than have conflict. But push him too much or hurt his friends and he can be surprisingly formidable. |
| 629 | ** Though he's usually a wimpy pushover, he gets genuinely ''pissed'' at Muscle Man's antics in "The White Elephant Gift Exchange", so much so that his anger drives him into getting Muscle Man a can of exploding, ''very'' expired clam chowder as a prank gift. |
| 630 | * BornInTheWrongCentury: Though, since he is from Lolliland, it's possible that his way of dress and behavior is normal where he's from. As seen in "Skips Vs. Technology", he's over 100 years old. |
| 631 | * ButterflyOfDeathAndRebirth: Butterflies are a major recurring motif with him, initially representing his airiness and innocence, but eventually [[spoiler:it's revealed that he and his EvilTwin are responsible for a cyclic destruction and rebirth of the universe, imbuing his butterfly motif with a strong sense of this trope]]. |
| 632 | * ButtMonkey: Downplayed slightly, but in a great deal of his major episode appearances as a main character, he's either badly injured, mildly traumatized, humiliated, or some variation of the three. He also has a nasty habit of hitting his head on things and getting knocked out. |
| 633 | * CampStraight: Displays very effeminate mannerisms, a fondness for the color pink, and typically "feminine" pastimes such as baking, poetry, and butterflies. Despite this, he ''seems'' to be attracted to women, if the excited look on his face when he sees the sexy dancers in "Party Pete" is any indication. |
| 634 | * CharacterCatchphrase: |
| 635 | ** "(Jolly) good show!" |
| 636 | ** Sometimes turns into "Bad show... very bad show" when he's sad. |
| 637 | ** "Mordecai and Rigby, ''hellooo!''" seems to be another one, said in his typical sing-songey voice. |
| 638 | * CharacterOverlap: He first appeared in one of two pre-''Regular Show'' sketches that J. G. Quintel made called [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsUyio0IKEk "The Naive Man from Lolliland."]] |
| 639 | ** In "Don", he believes lollipops are the same thing as money, and are therefore suitable for paying bills, which gets the park into some trouble. The exact same situation is the plotline for the aforementioned sketch. |
| 640 | ** In a nice bit of MythologyGag [[spoiler:during the final battle with Anti-Pops, he gets flung into said cartoon short much to his confusion. It's also, in a way, a BookEnds to his development cycle, bringing Pops full circle from JG's student film]]. |
| 641 | * CheerfulChild: Well, child isn't the right word, but he has the mentality of one since he's cheerful, positive and optimistic thanks to [[ChildhoodBrainDamage Mordecai and Rigby]]. |
| 642 | * ChildhoodBrainDamage: Mordecai and Rigby travel back in time and meet a younger Pops, acting lucid and sane, unlike the {{Cloudcuckoolander}} he is in the present. Later during a car chase, they accidentally hit Pops, who then starts giggling like present-day Pops. |
| 643 | * TheChosenOne: [[spoiler:To defeat Anti-Pops.]] |
| 644 | * {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Pops' flighty behavior is said to come from either getting run over by a cart or by a brain tumor from excessive cell phone use. |
| 645 | * 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. |
| 646 | * CoolCar: His schway [[FlyingCar flight capable]] ride, Carmanita. |
| 647 | * CoolOldGuy: Over 100 years old, one of the most approachable people from the main band and, at times, proves himself to be quite badass. In "Karaoke Video", Pops punches a guy while singing without even being fazed. |
| 648 | * CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: In "Really Real Wrestling", it turns out he used to {{wrestle|r In All Of Us}}. Turns out he's still really good at it too. Enough to beat a POLAR BEAR in "The Christmas Special". |
| 649 | * CuddleBug: Very openly affectionate with his friends, often expressing this affection with hugs. He even recited a poem about hugs in "Rap It Up". |
| 650 | * CulturedBadass: Surprisingly well-spoken/educated, and a formidable {{wrestler|In All Of Us}}. |
| 651 | * TheCutie: It's pretty rare that an elderly man can be this trope, but his amiable and somewhat timid personality, and his whimsical character design, make him very lovable. |
| 652 | * {{Determinator}}: Once he has his mind set on doing something, no matter how stupid, it's nearly impossible to talk him out of it. Case in point, "Catching the Wave", when a doctor tells him that he could get himself killed by surfing, Pops ignores his advice and learns how to surf anyway. Not to mention his sheer willpower to beat the milk challenge in "Guy's Night". |
| 653 | * DirtyOldMan: {{Implied|Trope}} in the episode "Party Pete". When a group of young, scantily-clad women start twerking around him, he looks thrilled to bits. |
| 654 | * EveryoneHasStandards: |
| 655 | ** Pops is friendly and kind-hearted to a fault, but even he can't tolerate Quips' terrible and insulting jokes. |
| 656 | ** He also loathes the Summertime Lovin' song just as much as everyone else, and is clearly upset at having to distract it on Mordecai and Rigby's behalf. |
| 657 | ** Even he was shown to be angry at Rigby once the raccoon reveals that he had foolishly bet the Park Strikers' souls for Death's soul ball in the episode "Skips Strikes". |
| 658 | ** Pops also can't stand Muscle Man's antics at the White Elephant Gift Exchange, and so willingly teams up with the rest of the Park crew to get revenge on him. |
| 659 | * FatalFlaw: Naivety. Pops spent most of his life being sheltered and had anything his heart desired. While he is SpoiledSweet and one of the show's nicest characters, he's rather naive of the ways of the world. He believes lollipops can be used as currency rather than actual money, which in one episode almost caused the park to be audited. [[SelectiveObliviousness He scolds Benson for his temperamental attitude towards Mordecai and Rigby (he did have some logical points about Benson needing to control his temper) while being blind to the fact that Mordecai and Rigby are often lazy slackers and does nothing to address their shenanigans.]] While he is technically in charge of the park, Benson often has to take the lead because Pops's naivety makes him a HorribleJudgeOfCharacter and an ExtremeDoormat. |
| 660 | * {{Foil}}: |
| 661 | ** To Benson. They're both in positions of authority at the park, but conduct themselves ''very'' differently. Whereas Benson is a generally respectable man who occasionally needs to manage his anger, takes his job very seriously, and rightfully calls out Mordecai and Rigby on their shenanigans, Pops is nearly the opposite. Pops is technically in charge but delegates most of his responsibility to Benson, he's friendly to the point of being an ExtremeDoormat, has his head stuck in the clouds a great deal of the time, and he's an absolutely HorribleJudgeOfCharacter who's almost completely oblivious to how bad Mordecai and Rigby are at their jobs (and was even the one who decided to hire them in the first place). Also, while Benson's head is the shape of a small gumball machine, Pops' head is the shape of a big lollipop. And the best part? They're both voiced by Sam Marin. |
| 662 | ** He's also a foil to his father, Mr. Maellard. While the both of them are obscenely wealthy, his father is rather selfish in how he squanders his wealth, yet he seems to be more level-headed and logically-thinking than his son. Pops on the other hand is usually pretty quick to buy ridiculously expensive gifts for his friends and is much more generous, although he's prone to making stupid decisions. |
| 663 | * FourTemperamentEnsemble: The Sanguine/Phlegmatic — He's gentle and reliable and is generally optimistic and upbeat. |
| 664 | * FriendToAllLivingThings: He loves butterflies and songbirds. According to Benson, Pops once helped a baby bird back into its nest. |
| 665 | * FunnyForeigner: He's ambiguously British, especially in earlier episodes, where he usually signed off by saying "Ta-ta!". |
| 666 | -->''"Oh, I ''adore'' Rock Paper Scissors! Except where ''I'' come from, it's called 'Quartz Parchment Shears'!"'' |
| 667 | ** A lot of his weirdness ''is'' a result of him being a foreigner. In the show's finale, [[spoiler:he finds himself in Lolliland, his birthplace, where all of the inhabitants are just as silly and odd as himself]]. |
| 668 | * GeniusDitz: His wrestling skills. Also, his cherry tart, which won the pie contest for ''ten years in a row''. |
| 669 | ** He has many "sophisticated" hobbies, such as playing the harpsichord (among other instruments) and improvising poetry on the spot (and according to Pops, he's won "many a competition" with his poems). His speech patterns also imply that he's very well-read. Apparently, he even published a lengthy book about etiquette. |
| 670 | ** In the episode "Win That Prize", he reveals himself to be ''extremely'' cunning and manipulative when he wants/needs to be. |
| 671 | ** He is a rather talented gardener, displaying an interest in the growing and tending of plants. Becomes a minor plot point in "The Dome Experiment", in which he's put in charge of growing food for the park employees when they settle into their self-sufficient ecosystem. |
| 672 | * GoOutWithASmile: [[spoiler:Dies content that he saved his friends and the universe as well as made up with his brother as the two plunge into a star.]] |
| 673 | * HappilyAdopted: [[spoiler:He turns out to be Mr. Maellard's adopted son, and despite the latter's personality, he and Pops had a loving relationship.]] |
| 674 | * TheHeart: Despite his many quirks, Pops is a sweet, gentle, childlike man who's the type to have a kind word for anyone when they need it, and to help a baby bird back into its nest. ''Everybody'' who works for the park loves and wants to do right by the guy, and messing with him is a collective BerserkButton. |
| 675 | * HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Saves the universe from Anti-Pops by hugging him and holds on, his positive energy weakening his brother. Pops acknowledges that if he let him go, Anti-Pops would just go right back to his murderous ways, and simply holds on as both of them fly into a star.]] |
| 676 | * HurlItIntoTheSun: [[spoiler:Sacrifices himself by hugging Anti-Pops, [[GoodHurtsEvil weakening him with positive energy]] enough for Pops to restrain him as both fall into a star and die.]] |
| 677 | * IAmVeryBritish: He is based off of stereotypes of English and Welsh people, uttering posh phrases such as "Jolly good show!" or "Ta-ta!" |
| 678 | * IncorruptiblePurePureness: [[spoiler:He's the good half of a PhysicalGod.]] |
| 679 | * InnocentBlueEyes: In the show's pilot, the irises of his eyes are shown to be baby-blue. The irises of his eyes are also shown to be pale blue during a brief moment in the party scene in the episode "Cheer Up Pops". |
| 680 | * InnocentlyInsensitive: For all of his virtues, Pops is a loony with NoSocialSkills and is dreadfully prone to making social faux pas. Examples include straight-up tackling Mordecai and throwing him onto the floor in "Really Real Wrestling" without knowing that Mordecai was just play-wrestling, and accidentally pelting handfuls of sand at beach-goers in "Catching The Wave". In "Win That Prize" he unintentionally ruins the cooking show of a Gordon Ramsay expy by running onto the set and eating all of the bacon, and he also came ''very'' close to making a borderline ableist remark about a makeup artist's prominent limp (though this is understandable, since the artist was dressed as a zombie). |
| 681 | * ItSucksToBeTheChosenOne: [[spoiler:He feels this way at first during his training with Earl. Everyone else comforts him that it's acceptable to be scared.]] |
| 682 | * {{Keet}}: Most of the time, he has a playful and cheery personality. |
| 683 | * KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:Sacrifices himself to save the universe from Anti-Pops by restraining his evil twin with a hug and allowing both of them to fall into a star. The final scene of the show is Pops in Heaven, watching a video tape showing the events of the series.]] |
| 684 | * KindheartedSimpleton: The guy's a total flake (and also a crybaby), but is easily the nicest character in the whole show. |
| 685 | * TheKlutz: Seems to be really prone to tripping over his own feet, bumping into things, and falling over. He usually just laughs about it. |
| 686 | * LetsGetDangerous: "[[PreAsskickingOneLiner ...who wants to wrestle?]]" Curbstomping ensues. |
| 687 | * LiteralMinded: Inverted hilariously. |
| 688 | -->'''Mordecai:''' That taxi's yellow!\ |
| 689 | '''Pops:''' Yellow? My taxi is no coward, I assure you! |
| 690 | * LovableCoward: Under the right amount of pressure[=/=]stress he proves himself to be quite badass; but this doesn't change the fact that, by default, he's usually quite a timid and very easily-frightened person. |
| 691 | * MadeOfGood: [[spoiler:The real reason he's so nice is that he's the living conduit of goodness in the ''Regular Show'' universe.]] |
| 692 | * ManChild: He's a (super-)centenarian with the mind of a small child. However, his vocabulary is very formal. |
| 693 | * ManipulativeBastard: Briefly becomes one in "Win That Prize", although a benevolent example, barring how he unwittingly caused a make-up artist to be fired from his job. |
| 694 | * MissingMom: We first see his mother in 1879 in "Skips vs. Technology". But in the present time, we never see his mother throughout the show. |
| 695 | * MoralityPet: To pretty much the entire Park crew, just see the lengths they go to get him his birthday present in "Fuzzy Dice". |
| 696 | ** To Benson in particular. Several episodes show Benson holding his hand or trying to protect him. And it's very rare that Benson gets legitimately angry at Pops, especially given their positions at the park. |
| 697 | ** To Muscle Man, apparently, according to the book "Muscle Man's Guide to Life". Muscle Man describes Pops as a "gentleman" and states that he needs to keep an eye on him so someone doesn't take advantage of him. |
| 698 | ** Also to Mordecai and Rigby, since they always have to be nice to him to not hurt his feelings. |
| 699 | ** To his father. Mr. Maellard isn't usually kind to anyone, but has a couple PetTheDog moments towards his son here and there. |
| 700 | * MundaneObjectAmazement: Pops can summon up an inordinate level of awe for even the most boring task or object. |
| 701 | * MusclesAreMeaningless: Much stronger than his lanky 100+ year old frame suggests. [[spoiler:This turns out to be foreshadowing of the fact he's actually an immensely powerful being.]] |
| 702 | * NearDeathExperience: Has one of these in the episode "Prankless", when a bed Muscle Man had taped to the ceiling falls on him and crushes him. |
| 703 | ** Happens near the beginning of "Catching the Wave". Due to his ridiculously top-heavy physique, he nearly broke his spine while surfing. |
| 704 | * NiceGuy: He is probably the single kindest and sweetest character in the entire show. Almost absurdly so. |
| 705 | * NiceMeanAndInBetween: The jolly, scatter-brained nice to Benson's mean and Skips' in-between. |
| 706 | * NiceToTheWaiter: Whenever he's shown paying for something, he pays (in his form of currency) what he describes as "more than enough". This originates from his first appearance in JG Quintel's student film, in which a butterscotch ripple lollipop seems to be the equivalent of a one hundred dollar bill when he's paying a tip at a restaurant. |
| 707 | * OutOfFocus: To an increasing degree in later seasons. He often appears and has a few lines when the park staff is gathered, but it's rare for him to have major amounts of screen-time. In season 5, he only has around two actual focus episodes, and none in season 6 (except for a segment of the HalloweenSpecial). To contrast, in the first season, he was featured much more prominently than for example Muscle Man. This is then ''drastically'' reversed in the FinaleSeason, where Pops essentially becomes TheHero of the final storyline while Mordecai and Rigby are {{Supporting Protagonist}}s. |
| 708 | * PapaWolf: Towards Mordecai and Rigby on occasion, coming to their defense in "Really Real Wrestling" and "Think Positive". |
| 709 | * PerformanceAnxiety: He's absolutely terrified of public speaking. |
| 710 | * PhysicalGod: [[spoiler:Is a god-like embodiment of goodness. He's so immensely powerful that he and his brother Anti-Pops' fights have always ended in ''universe breaking ties'', forcing the universe to reset.]] |
| 711 | * PointyHairedBoss: |
| 712 | ** He's extremely negligent and a more than a few episodes stem at least in part to him letting something happen or trusting Mordecai and Rigby too much. He also has a problem with failing to see how much Mordecai and Rigby fail as employees. He can't even maintain the park since he think candies count as currency when doing tax return. |
| 713 | ** {{Deconstructed|Trope}} in the episode "Think Positive," when Pops ''does'' assert his authority over Benson, which nearly destroys the park in the process. Pops seems to have enough self-awareness to admit that Benson is a far greater fit for a managerial position than himself. |
| 714 | * ThePollyanna: He is normally the most cheerful, positive and optimistic of the park crew. |
| 715 | * ProneToTears: A rare male example that isn't always played for laughs — in fact, seeing Pops cry is absolutely heartbreaking sometimes. Pops is very sensitive and it doesn't take much to make him cry. When someone ''does'' greatly upset him, his friends immediately come to his aid and stick up for him. |
| 716 | * PunnyName: His name is Pops, as in he's a giant lollipop, who is also an elderly man, like how "Pops" can be used as an affectionate nickname for older men. |
| 717 | * ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Zig-zagged; he tries to be one, at least, when the situation calls for it. His idea of conflict resolution usually involves calmly talking things out, but in a world like ''Regular Show'', this is usually pretty ineffective. Then again, on another occasion in which he was put in charge of the other employees, he attempted to lead them all in a dance rather than get any work done... |
| 718 | * RichInDollarsPoorInSense: A more benevolent example of this trope. Still, he isn't all that bright. |
| 719 | * SecretLegacy: [[spoiler:He's really the amalgamation of all the goodness in the universe destined to fight his brother, Malum-Kranus or Anti-Pops, who inherited all the negative traits for the fate of the universe.]] |
| 720 | * ShelteredAristocrat: He's lived in a first class community most of his life with little knowledge of the world. |
| 721 | * ShownTheirWork: His really real wrestling is actually fairly accurate. Notable moments include dropping Four-Armageddon with a single leg takedown, the Fire Marshall and Hissy-Fit with five-point throws, and finishing Four-Armageddon with a triangle choke. |
| 722 | * SmartBall: At times when he needs to assert his authority as one of the heads of the park and as one of Benson's bosses, a good example would be in "Think Positive". |
| 723 | * 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 one of the shows' Christmas specials, he managed to take on a polar bear and win. |
| 724 | * SupremeChef: His cherry tart was the best pie in the pie contest, and he's won said contest 10 years in a row. |
| 725 | * TakingYouWithMe: [[spoiler:Since he and Anti-Pops are ''too'' evenly matched and their fights will ''always'' end in universe destroying ties, he ultimately defeats him by hugging him and refusing to let go as the two of them fall into a star, killing them both.]] |
| 726 | * TeamMercyVsTeamMurder: Pops is averse to violence in general, which makes it very awkward that its woven into the prophecy of the universe that he is fated to fight his evil twin Anti-Pops to the death forever. After training for said fight, he brings up the idea of simply talking to Anti-Pops, which everyone in the park thinks is a bad idea and Pops should just prepare for the worst. Pops goes against the wishes of the park workers and meets up with Anti-Pops in secret, only to find he's just as awful as everyone says and tries to kill him. [[spoiler: It is a piece of ancient history that Pops is fated to fight Anti-Pops and reset the universe to repeat the cycle for all eternity. However, Pops recognizes that the only way to break the cycle of violence is to not be violent. He forces Anti-Pops into a hug, and fully aware that he would instantly go back to trying to kill him if he let go, flies directly into a star and kills them both.]] |
| 727 | * TenderTears: Frequently cries in emotionally charged moments. |
| 728 | * TogetherInDeath: [[spoiler:He and his brother Anti-Pops die while hugging each other as they fall into a star.]] |
| 729 | * TookALevelInBadass: Takes a ''huge'' one [[spoiler:while training to defeat Anti-Pops, where he becomes proficient in telekinesis, mind-reading, and many other abilities.]] Keep in mind that he was already able to one-shot professional wrestlers before this, and was on even keel with a friggin' ''bear''. |
| 730 | * TrademarkFavoriteFood: {{Implied|Trope}}. Whenever he gets his wallet, it always has a nice amount of lollipops in them. |
| 731 | * VocalEvolution: His voice was lower and more soft-spoken in "The Naive Man from Lolliland". It seems to become a little more high-pitched and screechy through each season. |
| 732 | * WellDoneSonGuy: He wanted to make his father proud in "Dizzy" with his public speech. |
| 733 | * WorthlessCurrency: One RunningGag of the show is his attempts to pay in lollipops, thinking they're legal tender. Makes you wonder how Pops actually buys the expensive stuff in episodes like "Tants" and "Catching The Wave". |
| 734 | * WrestlerInAllOfUs: He used to do wrestling when he was in high school[=/=]college. Almost 100 years later, [[CoolOldGuy he's still got it]]. |
| 735 | [[/folder]] |
| 736 | |
| 737 | !!Fellow Coworkers |
| 738 | [[folder:Skips]] |
| 739 | !!Walks "Skips" |
| 740 | [[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/skips_character_1.png]] |
| 741 | [[caption-width-right:200:''"I've seen this before."'']] |
| 742 | ->Voiced in English by: Creator/MarkHamill |
| 743 | ->Voiced in Latin American Spanish by: Creator/JavierRivero (Seasons 1-6), Raymundo Armijo (some Season 6 episodes), Mauricio Pérez (Seasons 7-8)\ |
| 744 | Debuted in: "Pilot"/Season 1, "The Power" |
| 745 | |
| 746 | A yeti who also works at the park. He seems the most tolerant of the crazies he works with, and is often quick to find a solution to any problem. |
| 747 | ---- |
| 748 | * TheAce: Most of the time. He's been adventuring and fighting evil for over 100 years. He even won an arm wrestling battle against TheGrimReaper. |
| 749 | * AchillesHeel: Unmanaged stress. This is the one singular thing that is shown to be lethal to Skips in spite of his immortality, with him needing the help of all his friends to be able to defeat it. |
| 750 | * BerserkButton: He is ''not'' fond of others who cheat in anything, believing that the truth is what matters most. Rigby learned that one the hard way in "Over The Top". |
| 751 | ** He also doesn't like being reminded of his past such as his former name Walks and the people from said "past" returning to haunt him. |
| 752 | ** A more minor one is usually when Mordecai and Rigby interfere with the supernatural. Often responding with the line "[[YouFool You fools!]]" when calling out their actions. |
| 753 | * BewareTheNiceOnes: Skips is hardworking and levelheaded, and the last person you'd want to mess with. |
| 754 | * TheBigGuy: The largest of the group of seven and physically the most powerful. He's more of a GentleGiant (plus [[GeniusBruiser really smart to boot]]), but woe be you if you screw with him. |
| 755 | * BigfootSasquatchAndYeti: A yeti. |
| 756 | * BloodKnight: In his younger days Skips used to relish the brawls he got into and loved fighting anyone who proved to be strong enough to face him. Now that he's older, he's pretty much dropped this attitude after losing Desdemona the love of his life, though he'll still participate in battles if provoked. |
| 757 | * BullyHunter: In "Skips' Story", he was the only one in school to stand up against Klorgbane and challenge him to a fight. |
| 758 | -->'''Walks:''' Walks never walks away from a bully. |
| 759 | * ByronicHero: In his younger days he was very temperamental, passionate and broody. Curiously enough, he went to school during the Romantic era (early 19th century). |
| 760 | * TheComicallySerious: He is always serious despite putting up with the loony stuff that happens in the park. |
| 761 | * ConfirmedBachelor: Of the "Lost Love Bachelor". While Skips has gone on a couple of dates with other women, with one episode focusing on him getting back in the saddle, he ultimately remains single in the series finale. |
| 762 | * CoolOldGuy: The oldest guy in the cast and quite a cool customer. |
| 763 | * CulturedBadass: Quite nice and polite, as well as being a good fighter. |
| 764 | * DarkAndTroubledPast: He was previously a BloodKnight that, upon finding the love of his life, swore to change his ways. Upon losing the love of his life, it turned him more stoic and [[PerpetualFrowner perpetually frowning]]. He doesn't like to be reminded of his past or to dwell on it, other than for the best moments he had. |
| 765 | * DeadpanSnarker: [[DownplayedTrope Not often]], but whenever he makes a remark, he'll do it jovially. Him saying it with a straight face is rarer. |
| 766 | -->'''Mordecai:''' Skips, how can we repay you?\ |
| 767 | '''Skips:''' You remember that stuff I said about why I skip?\ |
| 768 | '''Mordecai:''' Yeah.\ |
| 769 | '''Skips:''' ''[[LetUsNeverSpeakOfThisAgain No, ya don't.]]'' |
| 770 | * TheEeyore: Subverted. While he acts gruff and distant from everyone, Skips is actually a fairly nice guy who enjoys hanging out with the park crew and his other friends in his spare time. |
| 771 | * EveryoneHasStandards: PlayedForLaughs in "A Bunch of Full Grown Geese". When Mordecai and Rigby ask him for assistance with the aforementioned geese, he immediately elects to stay out of the situation, as even ''he'' doesn't want to mess with those things. [[PetTheDog He does recommend trying to utilize the natural rivalry between ducks and geese though]]. |
| 772 | * EveryoneWentToSchoolTogether: In "Skips' Story", he attended high school with Gary, the Guardians of Eternal Youth, and Klorgbane during the early 19th century (most likely the Regency/War of 1812 period). |
| 773 | * ExpelledFromEveryOtherSchool: "Skips' Story" reveals him to have been expelled from three high schools within a single year for constantly fistfighting. |
| 774 | -->'''Headmaster Bennett:''' Mister Walks. According to your permanent record you've been expelled from three schools this year alone. And this was due to fighting and pugilistic tendencies?! |
| 775 | -->'''Walks:''' Yeah, I might've done some of that. |
| 776 | -->'''Headmaster Bennett:''' Well, one fight at ''my'' school, Mister Walks, and that means expulsion. |
| 777 | -->'''Walks:''' Ooooh! [[SchoolIsForLosers School's ''worthless'' to an adventurer such as me!]] |
| 778 | -->'''Headmaster Bennett:''' This is your ''last'' chance to graduate, Walks. Do you wish to remain a scoundrel or better yourself? Gareth! |
| 779 | * FormerTeenRebel: Skips was a brawler and a bad boy in his teens before his love for Mona softened him, [[spoiler: and his guilt over her demise]] shaped him into the man he is today. |
| 780 | * FourTemperamentEnsemble: The Phlegmatic. He used to be more Melancholic/Choleric during his "Byronic" phase. |
| 781 | * GeniusBruiser: Given Skips' immortality, he has seen and heard of a lot of stuff that has happened over the years, making him very well-versed in the supernatural (which is probably why messing with it pisses him off). He is also [[MrFixIt the handyman of the park]], being capable of the repair tasks due to them requiring some thinking. At times, Skips seems to be able to improvise very quickly, as seen in "The Power" near the end. He does all this while also being the primary muscles of the park. |
| 782 | * GentleGiant: Is one of the nicer characters on the show, as well as the strongest in the park. |
| 783 | * HalfDressedCartoonAnimal: Rarely seen with a shirt on. |
| 784 | * HeroicBuild: Just look at the guy! He's pretty much built like a brick wall. |
| 785 | * HeroicWillpower: At the end of "Jinx", while notably nobody remembers their time as possessed revenants, Skips is fairly okay. He claims he remembers because his mind is "a steel trap", indicating it would take very long to break the guy. |
| 786 | * HypercompetentSidekick: Has literal centuries worth of experience working at the Park and can complete any sort of task given to him, yet he prefers to remain a simple worker who defers to Benson and Pops instead. |
| 787 | * IHatePastMe: {{Downplayed|Trope}} when he meets his teenage self in "A Skips in Time". Walks, before Skips changed his name, doesn't want to be like his present self because he believes he has become boring and refuses to change his name to "Skips". Skips was angry at first, but he understands that he is a teenager and will grow out of it. |
| 788 | * IKnowMortalKombat: Inverted; it's all but stated that Skips is an unmatched expert at the video games Mordecai and Rigby play because the controls for the PowerFist he periodically uses to fend of Klorgbane are exactly the same. This leads into a straight example of the trope where Mordecai and Rigby are experts at using the fists for the inverse reason. |
| 789 | * InterspeciesRomance: Him (a yeti) and Mona (a human). |
| 790 | * KryptoniteFactor: Even with his immortality, it turns out that an excess of stress without proper management can potentially kill him. [[spoiler:[[AnthropomorphicPersonification Unless he kills it himself.]]]] |
| 791 | * TheLancer: Will act as the more laid-back NumberTwo to Benson when it comes to park management. |
| 792 | * LeaningOnTheFourthWall: When Rigby gives him a hard time the first time he is ever wrong about something in "Sugar Rush", he claims that they ask for his help with a new problem every week. |
| 793 | * LightningBruiser: He's exactly as strong and agile as you'd expect a yeti who skips everywhere to be. |
| 794 | * MartialPacifist: Skips avoids seeking out fights in the present day, having grown out of his BloodKnight tendencies as a teen thanks to some conditioning from his lost love. That said, if you decide to harm him or any of his friends, he will ''end you''. |
| 795 | -->'''Skips:''' We tried it the nice way. [[PreAssKickingOneLiner Now we do it the Skips way.]] |
| 796 | * MeaningfulRename: He always skips rather than walking. It turns out this is because his original name is not Skips, but Walks. He changed it because he got tired of everybody asking him why he skips everywhere instead of walking. That turns out to be partially true in ''The Diary'', he reveals he likewise skips in memory of a girl he once loved but lost in the past. ''Skips' Story'' goes into more detail about this. |
| 797 | * MrExposition: With his SeenItAll nature, he usually provides info on whatever threat the park is facing. |
| 798 | * MrFanservice: He's a muscular built yeti who [[WalkingShirtlessScene wears no shirt]]. |
| 799 | * MrFixit: According to "Skips vs. Technology", he's been fixing things for literal centuries, and is in charge of basically any repair work needed around the park, a role he fills quite well... at least, for the most part. Fixing a malfunctioning computer seems to be a bit beyond him. Though he is capable of learning and adapting when needed. |
| 800 | * MusclesAreMeaningful: He is incredibly muscular and has the immense strength to back it up. |
| 801 | * MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Gets this in "Over The Top" after killing Rigby. He's so guilty that he puts his eternal soul on the line to win Rigby's soul back from Death. |
| 802 | * NiceGuy: One of the nicer people in the park (though not quite to the level of the loony Pops). Although [[TheStoic he's always serious]]. |
| 803 | * NiceJobBreakingItHero: |
| 804 | ** Killing Rigby in an arm-wrestling competition in "Over The Top". |
| 805 | ** Again in "Sugar Rush", a fact that Rigby chides him about. |
| 806 | * NiceMeanAndInBetween: The in-between to Pops' nice and Benson's mean; he's serious and often stoic, but has a pretty soft spot. |
| 807 | * NotSoAboveItAll: "Jinx" has Skips claim to a "jinxed" Rigby, who wrote to him in paper that he was jinxed, that "writing is talking" before punching him. |
| 808 | * NotSoStoic: |
| 809 | ** While Skips often doesn't care much for competition, his repeated losses against Rigby in arm wrestling rattle the guy so much, he gets ''pissed'' upon losing, and ends up killing Rigby by accident after learning that the latter was cheating. |
| 810 | ** In "Skips vs. Technology", Skips gets rather upset that he can't help Mordecai and Rigby fix a simple computer bug, and so throws himself into a class to learn how they work. |
| 811 | ** Though Skips generally tries to avoid violence if its unnecessary, he gets visibly angered when Carl [[DisproportionateRetribution punches him in the face to get back Mordecai and Rigby's karaoke tape]], and elects to take revenge on the man. This unfortunately results in the entire karaoke club devolving into mass violence. |
| 812 | ** In "Return of Mordecai and the Rigbys", Skips takes offense to Benson criticizing him for his bass playing and constant bossing. Later, he ends up fighting against the others, until they make up afterwards. |
| 813 | * OlderThanTheyLook: He made a deal in order to obtain eternal youth. |
| 814 | ** "Skips' Story" later reveals how he got his immortality, but doesn't reveal when exactly the story takes place. |
| 815 | *** He seems to have been born in the 18th century and witnessed the American Revolution, making him at least two-and-a-half centuries old. |
| 816 | * OnlySaneMan: Pretty much one of two only sane people who work at the park. Although even he has a tendency to slip up at times. |
| 817 | * PerpetualFrowner: Rarely seen smiling, [[NiceGuy but don't let]] it [[GentleGiant trick you]]. |
| 818 | * RageBreakingPoint: When Klorgbane had a hand in Mona's death, Skips sent him flying. Also when Rigby constantly beat him in arm wrestling by cheating, Skips ends up unwittingly killing him. |
| 819 | * ReasonableAuthorityFigure: He's willing to help Mordecai and Rigby with whatever problem they have to deal with at the time, but will often try to stop them if they mess around with the supernatural. |
| 820 | * RebelliousSpirit: In his younger days he cared not for rules or regulations and often hated being told what to do. Especially when the younger version of himself comes from the Timenado and pretty much disrespects his future self for being washed up and following someone elses rule. |
| 821 | * RomanticismVersusEnlightenment: Skips is the Romantic to Techmo's Enlightened, as lampshaded by "Skips vs. Technology". |
| 822 | * SeenItAll: Very few things seem to faze him and he somehow knows just how to deal with all the insanely weird things the park has to deal with. {{Justified|Trope}} due to being ReallySevenHundredYearsOld. |
| 823 | * TheSmartGuy: Fills this role whenever Muscle Man has TheBigGuy role. He can fix almost anything (except computers), and comes off as the wisest of the team. |
| 824 | * StealthPun: His name is Skips and he's very bulky, but is also a TopHeavyGuy, which ironically enough you could say is because he ''skips'' leg day. |
| 825 | * TheStoic: His default facial expression is rather solemn, and it takes a bit for him to crack. |
| 826 | * SugarAndIcePersonality: Gruff, quiet and sardonic. But fun if you get to know him. |
| 827 | * SuperStrength: Those muscles aren't just for show. He's able to lift heavy objects with ease and any punch that is thrown by him usually ends up in a knockout blow. |
| 828 | * TokenImmortal: The only member of the core cast to possess immortality, having been so for at least two centuries. |
| 829 | * TopHeavyGuy: He has a HeroicBuild and thin legs. |
| 830 | * TragicKeepsake: He still keeps the heart-shaped locket he gave to Mona after her death. |
| 831 | * UndyingLoyalty: Has this for his family and other loved ones in general. He always completes his tasks without question, and is always willing to drop everything to help out if things go wrong. This is especially highlighted in the WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue, where it's revealed that he and Benson are the only ones to still work at the park. |
| 832 | * UnstoppableRage: Skips may be a calm and collected person who keeps his emotions under control but there are times when making him angry is the worst thing you'll ever do. |
| 833 | * VocalEvolution: His voice was a lot more gruff in the pilot. |
| 834 | * WalkingTechbane: As shown in "Skips vs. Technology" he can fix almost anything, except computers. By the end of the episode, he's learned a bit more about them so he can at least assist them somewhat. |
| 835 | * WhoWantsToLiveForever: Subverted. [[spoiler:Skips accepts his immortality specifically because the one reason he wouldn't want to live forever already passed on before he gained it.]] |
| 836 | * YouFool: He sometimes does one when Mordecai and Rigby unleash the supernatural. |
| 837 | -->'''Skips:''' You fools! Destroyer of Worlds will kill us all! |
| 838 | * YourSizeMayVary: He was taller than even Mordecai in the first episodes (see the pilot and "The Power"). Later episodes scale them both to being similarly tall, although Skips is still among the tallest of the main cast. |
| 839 | [[/folder]] |
| 840 | |
| 841 | [[folder:Muscle Man]] |
| 842 | !!Mitchell "Mitch" "Muscle Man" Sorenstein |
| 843 | [[quoteright:174:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/reg_muscleman.png]] |
| 844 | [[caption-width-right:174:''"You know who ELSE has a character page? MY MOM!!"'']] |
| 845 | ->Voiced in English by: Sam Marin |
| 846 | ->Voiced in Latin American Spanish by: Manuel Bueno\ |
| 847 | Debuted in: "Pilot"/Season 1, "Just Set Up the Chairs" |
| 848 | |
| 849 | An ironically-named, short, out-of-shape guy, who has a hicklike lifestyle. |
| 850 | ---- |
| 851 | * TheAce: He's presented this way in "My Mom". He has a bunch of friends, Benson respects him, and he's an all-around cool guy to hang out with. |
| 852 | * AchillesInHisTent: In "Prankless", after one of his pranks nearly kills Pops. However, he brings himself out of the tent just in time to save the park. |
| 853 | * {{Acrofatic}}: There are times, especially during an episode's climax, where Muscle Man shows this. Despite his short and fat build, he is [[SuperStrength very strong]]. And as shown in "Slam Dunk" he's actually a good athlete, when he smokes Mordecai and Rigby at basketball. Several times. |
| 854 | * AmazingTechnicolorPopulation: He has natural green skin. |
| 855 | * AmazonChaser: He makes comments to Starla on how he thinks her wrecking stuff is "foxy". He also expresses admiration for her mud wrestling prowess in "Tent Trouble". |
| 856 | * AmbiguouslyHuman: Muscle Man looks more humanoid than anyone else in the regular cast (possibly except for Eileen, who has been identified as a mole, and Pops who is supposed to be a lollipop), but he's green, with pink eyes and superhuman strength. |
| 857 | * AmbiguouslyJewish: Has an Ashkenazi[[note]]Ashkenazi Jews are the ones who can trace their ancestry to the indigenous Hebrew speaking peoples of Canaan in South Western Asia, and migrated to non German-speaking areas, including Bohemia, Hungary, Poland, Belarus, Lithuania, Russia, Ukraine, Romania, and elsewhere between the 11th and 19th centuries.[[/note]] last name ("Sorenstein"), and in the Christmas Special, his sweater has a dreidel on it. In "Dumped at the Altar", he had a Jewish wedding (or at least included the ritual where the groom steps on the glass covered in white cloth). In "Christmas in Space", he goes skiing as a "Chanukah tradition". |
| 858 | * AnimalMotif: Pigs. Much of Muscle Man's character pretty much screams pigs. FatSlob? Check. Has a nose shaped like a pig's? Check. Has very poor manners and a BigEater? Check. Squeals like a pig during some moments in the show? Check. Is his home pretty much a pigsty? Check. |
| 859 | * ArtifactName: While his nickname Muscle Man is assumed to be [[IronicNickname ironic]] by Mordecai and other characters, it actually comes from the time he used to be a bodybuilder. |
| 860 | * AscendedExtra: Since season 2, he has had more regular appearances. |
| 861 | * AxCrazy: To say that Muscle Man is emotionally unstable and violent when pissed off is an extreme {{understatement}}. |
| 862 | * BabiesEverAfter: [[spoiler:While Muscle Man is in space, Starla gets pregnant and gives birth to their daughter, who he finally meets after he returns. By the series finale, she and him have had more children.]] |
| 863 | * BattleCouple: Whenever he and Starla are in a brawl, they make an effective fighting team. |
| 864 | * BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: His friendship with Hi-Five Ghost is revealed in "New Bro on Campus", as both of them met in high school and Muscle Man continually acted like a jerk to HFG out of jealousy of the latter's popularity. But, when HFG saves his life after the drag race went sideways, Muscle Man was grateful at the selfless act and declared them as best friends. |
| 865 | * BerserkButton: |
| 866 | ** Do ''not'' [[HypocriticalHumor make jokes about]] his [[YourMom mom]]. |
| 867 | ** Don't spill soda on him. It will most certainly lead to your DisproportionateRetribution, such as faking his death in order to get back at Rigby for accidentally spitting out an item he was choking on which landed in his soda which splashed in Muscle Man's face. |
| 868 | ** And whatever you do, don't ever prank him or else he will prank you back ten times worse than what he originally did. Plenty of people had learned this the hard way, but none more infamous than Gene. |
| 869 | * BewareTheSillyOnes: Muscle Man may seem like an idiot, but with the occasional bout of SuperStrength, a serious vindictive streak, and [[TheChessmaster Chessmaster]] level smarts at times, it's wise to avoid his ire. |
| 870 | * BigEater: Muscle Man is most often eating something in his hands or eating a large portion of a meal. |
| 871 | * BigFun: A stout, fat guy with a penchant for pranks and a lot of energy. |
| 872 | * TheBigGuy: One of the Park's main muscle as he often takes on the physically taxing jobs. This eventually leads him to quitting the park one time as he was tired of Benson giving him work that was way more difficult than normal because he knew Muscle Man was one of the stronger members who could handle it. |
| 873 | * BigManOnCampus: "New Bro on Campus" shows that Muscle Man used to be the most popular guy in high school. |
| 874 | * BoisterousBruiser: He's very tough, obnoxious, and loves to throw his weight around. Sometimes literally. |
| 875 | * BunnyEarsLawyer: Despite his goofiness, he is a fairly competent employee and has a lot of responsibilities at the park. |
| 876 | * CharacterCatchphrase: |
| 877 | ** "You know who else [[MadLibsCatchphrase __________]]? MY MOM!" |
| 878 | ** "[[OhCrap Oh no]], bro!" |
| 879 | ** Often says "LATER, LADIES!!" or "LATER, GRANDMAS!!" before exiting a scene. |
| 880 | * CharacterDevelopment: He becomes friendlier towards Mordecai and Rigby since season 3. |
| 881 | * CharacterizationMarchesOn: Earlier seasons had Muscle Man act a lot more antagonistic towards Mordecai and Rigby, to the point where he was a secondary antagonist. He later mellowed out into merely being an avid prankster, with his honesty and loyalty being put before everything else. |
| 882 | * CharlesAtlasSuperpower: Do ''not'' get Muscle Man mad. His strength increases to insane proportions when he does for some inexplicable reason. |
| 883 | * TheChessmaster: Surprisingly, Muscle Man is more than capable of pulling off a multilayer [[ThePlan plan]]. An example of this is in "Trailer Trashed", where he fakes out a false health inspector who's trying to get his trailer, by running an empty truck to the border. Turns out, the trailer was back at the Park, being guarded by Hi-Five Ghost. None of the other park employees were in on it, prompting Rigby to comment, "Remind me to never touch Muscle Man's stuff". |
| 884 | * DefiantToTheEnd: [[spoiler:When Muscle Man and Hi-Five Ghost is at the mercy of Anti-Pops in the series finale, he sneers one last "My Mom" joke at the EvilOverlord before being erased out of existence.]] |
| 885 | * DoesNotLikeSpam: He hates anything salad related. |
| 886 | * DrillSergeantNasty: Muscle Man becomes this to Rigby in "Muscle Mentor" in order to teach the latter, per Benson's instructions, to complete a task. And it actually works. |
| 887 | * DudeNotFunny: |
| 888 | ** Near the finale of "The End Of Muscle Man", all of the Park members are ''not'' pleased when Muscle Man makes them think he's dying when he was really doing a ritual to propose to Starla. |
| 889 | ** In "Guy's Night", the other employees have this reaction when Muscle Man starts jovially chanting "911! 911!" after Pops has passed out. |
| 890 | ** He gets really angry when someone insults his mom, despite doing so being his catchphrase. |
| 891 | * 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. |
| 892 | * EveryoneHasStandards: |
| 893 | ** He may be an avid prankster, but Muscle Man does not like to do things that can genuinely hurt people for laughs, or commit senseless violence in general. He was ashamed of himself when Pops nearly got killed after one of his pranks backfired (to the point of temporarily giving up his craft), and he later almost moved out of the park after his sleep-fighting caused him to attack his friends. |
| 894 | ** Early on in TheMovie, Benson asks Muscle Man if he orchestrated Future Rigby's crash-landing and subsequent story about the time-nado for a prank. While Muscle Man is somewhat flattered that Benson believes his skills are that good, he notes that the current situation is far too insane for him to conceive of and is genuinely concerned about how distressing it is for his friends. [[ComicallyMissingThePoint He also would never listen to orchestra music]]. |
| 895 | * FanDisservice: PlayedForLaughs. He is noted to be quite ugly due to his {{Gonk}} appearance, which gets amplified when he acts like a FatSlob. |
| 896 | * FatAndProud: He was once a bodybuilder, but he doesn't give a damn that he's a fat dude now, as evidenced by how he happily accepts a job showing off his stomach in "Gut Model". However, this trope may be {{downplayed|Trope}} since another episode has him mention being overweight when lamenting about his flaws. |
| 897 | * FatBastard: He's heavyset and can become like this when he's the episode's antagonist. |
| 898 | * FatBestFriend: To Hi-Five Ghost. |
| 899 | * FatIdiot: He's one of those characters that seems to think he's smarter than he really is. |
| 900 | * FatSlob: He's overweight, slovenly, lazy, and gluttonous. |
| 901 | * {{Foil}}: He could be considered one to Mordecai, since they were portrayed as being rivals early on. Mordecai is a tall, lanky, blue bird who is a mellow NiceGuy, but he's also irresponsible, is VitriolicBestBuds with Rigby, and has a disastrous love life centered around two girls. Muscle Man on the other hand is a short, fat green humanoid who can be an obnoxious {{Jerkass}}, but is nonetheless hardworking, rarely has beef with Fives, and is in a healthy relationship for most of the series. |
| 902 | * FourTemperamentEnsemble: The Choleric/Sanguine — A prankster with a short fuse. |
| 903 | * FriendInTheBlackMarket: Muscle Man knows a ''lot'' of people that can get unusual goods and services quickly. Sometimes the gang gets roped into doing shady jobs for them. |
| 904 | * FunPersonified: He absolutely [[ThePrankster lives for pulling pranks]] and will do so no matter what's going on, as evidenced by how he tricks Rigby into bumping into a butt shaped mug in "World's Greatest Boss" while the gang was at the mall frantically searching for a specific mug for Benson. He also loves making bets, spinning donuts, taking his shirt off and waving it around, and he goes streaking in "New Year's Kiss". |
| 905 | * {{Gasshole}}: According to Rigby in "Out of Commission", he "releases noxious fumes all the time". Displayed on-screen in "Trucker Hall of Fame" where he farts in the car while driving with Mordecai and Rigby, and in "Starter Pack" where he farts in Thomas's face. |
| 906 | * GenerationXerox: He's pretty much his father right down to his love of parks and working a menial job. [[spoiler:By the finale of the series, he even dresses like him.]] |
| 907 | * GeniusDitz: |
| 908 | ** "Exit 9B" shows that he's actually smart enough to lead a college lecture on quantum physics. Either that, or GBF Jr's brainwashing somehow increased his intelligence. |
| 909 | ** Invoked in the episode "Cube Bros", in which he wants to prove himself to be an intelligent individual capable of more than just brute strength. Turns out, he ''is'' capable of being intelligent. |
| 910 | ** PlayedForLaughs in the book "Muscle Man's Guide to Life", in which he mentions that he [[SmartPeoplePlayChess plays chess]] with Pops on a regular basis, then comments, "What — you didn't think I knew how?" |
| 911 | * {{Gonk}}: |
| 912 | ** {{Downplayed|Trope}}. He's the most consistently unattractive man in the cast, but its more owed to his slobbish behavior. When he actually [[HeCleansUpNicely dresses himself properly and combs his hair]], he more resembles a BigBeautifulMan. |
| 913 | ** InUniverse, he's the only park worker considered ugly enough to be affected by the black hole of ugliness in "Men in Uniform". |
| 914 | * GreenAndMean: He is a green-skinned man who can be quite violent, unpredictable, and petty. |
| 915 | * HappilyMarried: Starla and he were definitely made for each other so it's no surprise the two would be married, which indeed happens at the end of season 6. Even when he's shot for a time into space, Starla remains loyal to him and waits for his return [[spoiler:and with good reason, as she has his child while he's off in space, whom he meets three years later after they blasted off. The DistantFinale shows they're still married and now have many more kids]]. |
| 916 | * HeterosexualLifePartners: He and HFG have been best friends since high school, are always paired up together to do chores, and genuinely value the other's company. |
| 917 | * HiddenDepths: |
| 918 | ** In "Exit 9B", it's revealed that he's somehow qualified to teach quantum physics. |
| 919 | ** In "Killit Radio", he shows himself to be a rather good guitarist[=/=]songwriter. |
| 920 | * HotBlooded: He's usually very loud and boisterous whenever he does anything, but he also has a very short fuse being quick to temper at times. |
| 921 | * {{Hypocrite}}: Muscle Man loves pranking others, but can't stand being pranked himself (at least from people who aren't his dad), often retaliating to a much bigger extent. |
| 922 | * IWasQuiteALooker: Downplayed. Muscle Man has had a consistent physique over the years, but ''was'' a little cuter as a child due to it more resembling babyfat, and briefly entered a period of body building as a teenager where he had one ''heck'' of a muscular body if only offset by his mop of hair. |
| 923 | * InsufferableImbecile: In addition to being an obnoxious prankster who goes on rampages when enraged (though he does have a soft side, especially with women), he also thinks there's 400 days in a year. He sometimes [[TooDumbToLive endangers his life]] in episodes like "Dead at Eight". Though much like Rigby, he also eventually TookALevelInKindness. |
| 924 | * IronicNickname: {{Subverted|Trope}}. He seems to be anything but muscular. It turns out that he used to be [[MeaningfulName very muscular]], and even though he's fat now, he's still ridiculously strong. |
| 925 | * {{Irony}}: One episode shows that he was afraid of going bald. [[spoiler:By the finale, that's exactly what happens.]] |
| 926 | * JabbaTableManners: Almost everyone finds his eating repulsive, especially with chicken wings. In "Fancy Restaurant", he has to ''learn'' how to eat in an appropriate manner. |
| 927 | -->'''Muscle Man:''' ''(stuffing himself with chicken wings)'' Are you sure you guys don't want anything?\ |
| 928 | '''Mordecai:''' ''(grossed out)'' Uh, no thanks. Water's good. |
| 929 | * JerkassToOne: Originally, Muscle Man was much more of a {{Jerkass}} to Mordecai and Rigby than to anyone else, culminating in "My Mom". Afterwards, he usually picks on [[TheSixthRanger Thomas]] the most. It make sense, given how they came to work at the park after him. |
| 930 | * JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Although he's still an immature idiot, he's never mean towards women, or to Pops. Plus, he started to willingly work with Mordecai and Rigby and view them as friends. |
| 931 | * KavorkaMan: Despite his sloppy behavior and appearance, Muscle Man is surprisingly popular with the ladies. |
| 932 | ** First and foremost, there's his main love interest, Starla. And they are deeply in love with one another. |
| 933 | ** When he started flexing his pecs, many women (including Margaret and Eileen) were enamored by it. |
| 934 | ** During his high school years, a lot of girls were attracted to him. |
| 935 | * LargeHam: "WOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" |
| 936 | * LikeParentLikeSpouse: Like Muscle Man, Starla's parents are ill-mannered, good fighters, and love the chicken wings from Wing Kingdom. |
| 937 | * LookalikeLovers: He and Starla look almost exactly alike despite not being blood related. |
| 938 | * ManlyManAndSensitiveGuy: The... well... Manly Man to Five's Sensitive Guy. |
| 939 | * MeaningfulName: |
| 940 | ** He actually is very muscular, but it's covered by a thick layer of flab. |
| 941 | ** In "Power Tower" it's revealed that the nickname is from his bodybuilder days before he let himself get out of shape. |
| 942 | * {{Metalhead}}: Judging by the song he refers to as his "jam" in "My Mom", and the "ROCK ON!" poster seen in his trailer, it's a safe assumption that he's a fan of metal or rock music. |
| 943 | * MinorInjuryOverreaction: When Rigby accidentally spilled soda on him (twice), he goes ''[[UnstoppableRage ballistic]]''. |
| 944 | * MoralMyopia: PlayedForLaughs. He makes fun of his mother all the time, but when Mordecai and Rigby do so to him, he gets ''furious''. [[spoiler:Subverted when it turns out he was just pranking them.]] |
| 945 | * MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Muscle Man gets this in "Prankless" after a prank gone wrong nearly killed Pops, leading the former to swear off of pranking. This proves to be bad since a rival park restarted a VERY vicious prank war and Muscle Man is the only one who can easily defeat them. The guys snap him out of his slump when they trick him into thinking that the rival park hurt Pops in a prank as well. |
| 946 | * NWordPrivileges: Muscle Man is the only one allowed to make the "You know who else likes to [action]? My mom!" jokes. When Mordecai and Rigby tell him he's not saying it right and it's supposed to be "Your mom", Muscle Man makes it clear he doesn't like anyone else dissing his mom. |
| 947 | * NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: He is basically either Creator/DannyMcBride or Creator/JohnBelushi with green skin and "My Mom" jokes. |
| 948 | * NoIndoorVoice: Easily has the loudest voice of the main cast. |
| 949 | * OfficialCouple: With Starla, and the two are engaged and married by the season 6 finale. |
| 950 | * OhCrap: His catchphrase, "Oh no, bro!". When he's aware he messed up big time, he'll react like that. |
| 951 | * ThePigPen: Even ''worse'' than Rigby. Muscle Man hardly showers, [[JabbaTableManners doesn't know proper table manners]], and [[TrashOfTheTitans has a messy trailer]]. |
| 952 | * ThePrankster: "Prankless" puts him firmly into his prankster status. "Ugly Moons" has him become the best prankster in [[spoiler:the entire ''galaxy'']]. |
| 953 | * PsychopathicManchild: He enjoys pulling childish pranks on people, has horrible manners, and is prone to throwing violent temper tantrums when he doesn't get his way. |
| 954 | * RealMenWearPink: He's one of the most traditionally manly guys of the cast, but in "Operation: Hear No Evil", he's addicted to a soap opera called "Lazer Hunters". He even cries while watching it and expresses no shame in doing so. |
| 955 | * ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections: As one episode shows, Muscle Man has a lot of friends around town. Heck, a police officer chases after him just to tell him how awesome he is. |
| 956 | * SoreLoser: He will make someone's life an utter hell if he loses at something. |
| 957 | * StealthPun: Muscle Man is a [[AmbiguouslyHuman green-skinned humanoid]] who likes to mess with and torment the other characters. [[spoiler:He's a troll, both [[AllTrollsAreDifferent literally]] and [[{{Troll}} figuratively]].]] |
| 958 | * TheStoner: {{Invoked|Trope}} by his appearance. The green complexion, pink eyes, man boobs, chubby build, and Pink Floyd poster do point to signs that Muscle Man could be on drugs (most likely marijuana, since all of those are signs or traits associated with pot use), but nothing has been confirmed by the creators. |
| 959 | * StoutStrength: He doesn't look super strong, just really fat, but he's the second strongest guy in the park, next to Skips. |
| 960 | * SuperStrength: |
| 961 | ** His name isn't for show, you know. |
| 962 | ** In "[[Recap/RegularShowS02Ep21TheNightOwl The Night Owl]]", he defeats several guards by physical means and knocks out The Night Owl with a single punch. |
| 963 | ** Considering the fact that he can rip and throw trees, lift and throw boulders and (when angered enough) rip entire ''buildings'' out of the ground and throw them, all of them effortlessly, Muscle Man truly lives up to his name. |
| 964 | ** When angered, he's able to rip ''buildings'' out of the ground and throw them. |
| 965 | * TalkToTheFist: In "Night Owl", after returning to the past after the title character froze him, Hi-Five, Mordecai, and Rigby for several hundred years, the Night Owl starts chewing them out for ruining his plan. So Muscle Man knocks him out cold mid-rant. |
| 966 | * TearsOfJoy: [[spoiler:When he returns from space and Starla introduces him to his daughter for the first time]]. |
| 967 | * ThinSkinnedBully: He'll prank and tease others mercilessly, but he clearly [[{{Hypocrite}} can't take getting pranked or teased himself]] (unless it's his father), often going on a rampage in the process. |
| 968 | * ThoseTwoGuys: Muscle Man is often accompanied by Hi-Five Ghost. |
| 969 | * TokenHuman: Of the main characters. [[AmbiguouslyHuman Maybe.]] |
| 970 | * TokenMinorityCouple: He and Starla (along with their families) are the only short, green skinned people in the series. |
| 971 | * TookALevelInKindness: Especially in "The Night Owl" where he willingly works with Mordecai and Rigby to win an antique car and is willing to share it with the other three if they do win. Episode "Gut Model" takes this a step further. |
| 972 | * TrademarkFavoriteFood: Muscle Man is a BigEater in general, but he seems to have a particular affinity for Wing Kingdom chicken wings. |
| 973 | * TrashOfTheTitans: His trailer is an utter dump, as it contains old pizza boxes, used soda cans, dirty laundry, and other sorts of junk. |
| 974 | * UnstoppableRage: Whenever Muscle Man starts squealing like a pig it's a bad idea to stand in his way or someone might get hurt. |
| 975 | -->'''Muscle Man:''' YEAH! FRY IT UP, EVERYONE! FRY UP ''EVERYTHING''!!! |
| 976 | * VerbalTic: Muscle Man squeals whenever he's angry or when he's in trouble. |
| 977 | * ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend: {{Gender Inverted|Trope}}. ''No one'' harms and/or disrespects Starla in front of him. |
| 978 | * VocalEvolution: Muscle Man initially had more of a hillbilly-like voice in a few early episodes, especially "Rigby's Body". It quickly got deeper and more nasal over time. |
| 979 | * WhatTheHellHero: In "The End of Muscle Man", everyone, with the exception of Fives, was extremely angry with Muscle Man when they thought the latter was going to die by the end of the episode. It turns out this was an act to propose to his girlfriend Starla. She happily accepts. |
| 980 | * WorkHardPlayHard: Muscle Man is very hardworking during his shifts that require a lot of effort and strength. During his free time, he [[BigEater binges on junk food and soda]], plays with the golf cart, and goofs around with Mordecai and Rigby. |
| 981 | * YourMom: {{Inverted}} ''big time''. Muscle Man makes "My Mom" jokes instead of "Your Mom" jokes. Rigby and Mordecai even try to tell him that the "your mom" jokes work better. "Trucker Hall of Fame" reveals that the "My Mom" jokes were from his father's "My Wife" jokes. |
| 982 | * XanatosGambit: Some of the pranks he pulls off nearly require clairvoyance with their absurd specificity. |
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| 984 | |
| 985 | [[folder:Hi-Five Ghost]] |
| 986 | !!Hi-Five Ghost |
| 987 | [[quoteright:174:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/highfiveghost0467865.png]] |
| 988 | ->Voiced in English by: Creator/JeffBennett (debut), J.G. Quintel (rest) |
| 989 | ->Voiced in Latin American Spanish by: Alan Bravo (Season 1), Alejandro Urbán (Seasons 2-4), Eduardo Ramírez (Seasons 5-8)\ |
| 990 | Debuted in: "Pilot"/Season 1, "Just Set Up the Chairs" |
| 991 | |
| 992 | Muscle Man's perpetually nervous ghost-looking friend [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin who hi-fives him a lot]]. |
| 993 | ---- |
| 994 | * AffectionateNickname: His friends often refer to him as Fives. |
| 995 | * BabiesEverAfter: [[spoiler:He and Celia have a son together by the series finale.]] |
| 996 | * BigManOnCampus: "New Bro on Campus" shows that HFG became instantly popular at the high school he and Muscle Man attended. In fact, in one day, he became more popular than Muscle Man, who was this trope himself. |
| 997 | * BirdsOfAFeather: With Celia. They love the same coffee shop, down-tempo electronica, the same music album, watching animals in the aquarium, and they don't like the food in Wing Kingdom. But unfortunately, none of them had cellphones (or apparently anything like email addresses) back then. |
| 998 | * BoyMeetsGirl: How he meets Celia fits this trope nicely. |
| 999 | * ADayInTheLimelight: "The Postcard". Only took you five seasons, HFG! |
| 1000 | * DoesNotLikeSpam: HFG actually ''doesn't'' like chicken wings and most likely pretends to like them due to his friendship with Muscle Man. |
| 1001 | * DubNameChange: The Brazilian Portuguese dub changed his named to Fantasmão, which literally translates as "Big Ghost", but is also a pun with the words Fantasma (Ghost) and Mão (Hand). The dub of Season 3, [[InconsistentDub however]], referred to him simply as Fantasma, before reverting back in Season 4. Even more bizarrely, in "Gut Model", the name "Fantasmão" is used to refer to ''his brother''. |
| 1002 | * EveryoneHasStandards: While he's okay with most of Muscle Man's pranks, he doesn't like the pranks he pulls during "The White Elephant Gift Exchange" and he even goes along with the other park staff to get revenge on Muscle Man. |
| 1003 | * FourFingeredHands: Ironically, Fives has only four digits on each arm. |
| 1004 | * FourTemperamentEnsemble: The Phlegmatic/Sanguine — he doesn't do much aside from participating in Muscle Man's pranks. |
| 1005 | * HeterosexualLifePartners: He and Muscle Man have been best friends since high school, are always paired up together to do chores, and genuinely value the other's company. |
| 1006 | * HiddenDepths: "The Dome Experiment Special" reveals that he actually has a natural talent for being a leader. He's able to get the other park workers to do their jobs rather easily, moreso than [[BeleagueredBoss Benson]] most of the time. |
| 1007 | * IntangibleMan: At least when he wants to be. Usually demonstrated when someone tries to punch him. He'll let it pass through, then strike back. Oddly enough, he fails to escape after being gripped by the evil living pumpkin in "Terror Tales of the Park III", despite Mordecai even shouting out: "Fives! Just phase through, man!". Then again, the events were just a story made up by Muscle Man. |
| 1008 | * InterspeciesRomance: He (a ghost) and Celia (a human). |
| 1009 | * LightIsGood: HFG is a white ghost and is quite friendly. |
| 1010 | * ManlyManAndSensitiveGuy: The sensitive guy to Muscle Man's manly man. |
| 1011 | * MeaningfulName: As his name implies, he gives high fives and is a ghost. |
| 1012 | * MoralityPet: While Muscle Man is not above pranking Hi-Five Ghost, he is one of the few people Muscle Man shows his soft, kind side to. |
| 1013 | * MultiArmedAndDangerous: He (and his family) can apparently form extra arms when needed. He once appeared with ''five''. |
| 1014 | * NiceGuy: He's a decent and friendly person. |
| 1015 | * OnlySaneMan: One of the dome scientists specifically calls HFG the logical one among the Park members which is mainly attributed to each of the other members' central flaws — Mordecai's self-doubt, Rigby's laziness, Skips' checkered past, Pops' childlike tendencies, Muscle Man's poor hygiene, and Benson's insecurity. Thus specifying that he is literally the only normal person there who doesn't have any major life changing flaws. |
| 1016 | ** That said, this is mostly played for laughs, since HFG is normally more than willing to go along with Muscle Man's antics. |
| 1017 | * OurGhostsAreDifferent: It's not clear whether HFG is living or undead. His family also consists of ghosts, and they all live normal lives. |
| 1018 | * OutOfFocus: ''Oh, yeah''. He has a lot of episodes that just don't focus on him. In Season 3, however, he starts to get more screen time and he's actually talking more than usual. |
| 1019 | * PerpetualSmiler: He's usually seen with a huge grin on his face. |
| 1020 | * ThePromise: He and Celia both agreed to meet up again when she finishes her schooling and if they're both single by sending him a postcard to let him know she's back in the country. |
| 1021 | * TheQuietOne: HFG spoke only one full sentence in the entire first season. The episode "Muscle Woman" has Fives talk more than usual due to Muscle Man isolating himself, implying that he usually doesn't talk because Muscle Man just does all the talking for him. As one episode shows, apparently he doesn't talk because he's jinxed and Muscle Man will punch him if he ever talks around him. Rigby broke his jinx and afterwards he talks much more often. |
| 1022 | * SatelliteCharacter: |
| 1023 | ** Hi-Five Ghost is excluded from a lot of the park group's activities, serving mostly as an accessory to Muscle Man. [[http://calwong.tumblr.com/post/27389172738/tobyjones-hope-you-enjoyed-fancy-restaurant A cut gag from one ending storyboard lampoons this.]] "Exit 9B" actually had to have brand new scenes when his memory was restored, because he's so ancillary. |
| 1024 | ** "Struck by Lightning" reveals that Fives does have his own interests and hobbies but mostly just goes along with Muscle Man whenever he's at the park. |
| 1025 | * SiblingYinYang: With Low-Five Ghost. HFG is quiet and shy while LFG talks more often and is outgoing. |
| 1026 | * StrongFamilyResemblance: |
| 1027 | ** Aside from his older brother having stubble, having CoolShades, and wearing a hat, they look a lot alike. |
| 1028 | ** HFG has a strong resemblance to his father. The only difference being his father is visibly older with wrinkles and a beard. |
| 1029 | * VocalEvolution: When J.G. Quintel took over for Creator/JeffBennett, Quintel's voice zigzags between sounding like a pitched-up Mordecai and sounding like himself during the "embarrassing voice cracking" stage of male puberty. |
| 1030 | [[/folder]] |
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