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They're just a regular park crew. Pay them no heed.

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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The Park Crew in general

• Aerith and Bob: 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 Thomas (another common name) whose real name is 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.
• Badass Crew: Episodes have shown that all seven are the last crew you want to mess with.
• Butt-Monkey: 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.
• Character Development: 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 with Skips, Pops, and Hi-Five Ghost, who have more of a Hidden Depths side.
• True Companions: Downplayed at first. At the beginning of the show, they're mostly Vitriolic Best Buds; Benson is The Friend Nobody Likes and only hang out with because he's their boss, Muscle Man is The Prankster 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 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.
• Vitriolic Best Buds: Some of them have their own rivalries with each other, notably Mordecai vs Rigby (though this one was friendly), 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.

The Main Duo

Tropes about both of them

"OOOOOOOOHHHH!"

Our two main protagonists, the slacker duo Mordecai and Rigby.

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• Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!: Both of them have their moments of sudden distraction, mainly Rigby.
• Big Guy, Little Guy: Mordecai is the easygoing Big Guy, while Rigby is the irritable Little Guy.
• Brilliant, but Lazy: Crosses over with Book Dumb. 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. Not to mention how they became Space Rangers in season 8.
• Bunny-Ears Lawyer: 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.
• Butt-Monkey: 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.
• Character Catchphrase:
  • "OOOOOOOOH!"
  • Both of them usually refer to each other as "Dude". Moreso Mordecai, although Rigby does it pretty frequently as well.
  • Repeated "Hmm!" grunts and nods.
• Can't Get Away with Nuthin': 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.
• Character Development: 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.
• Cheated Angle: Both of them are almost never shown head-on.
• Childhood Friends: They have been best friends since they were kids.
• Classical Anti-Hero: 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.
• Did Not Think This Through:
  • 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.
  • 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".
• The Dog Bites Back: Both rarely ever fight back against Benson, even when treated unreasonably by him. However, there are some occasions when they do retaliate.
  • In "Eggscellent", Benson's uncaring attitude regarding Rigby's coma earned him a punch and reprimand by Mordecai.
  • 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.
• Everyone Has Standards: 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".
• Flanderization: Episodes focusing on Benson that give him the Sympathetic P.O.V. 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.
• 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 Chick Magnet and has two main love interests in Margaret and CJ. Rigby, on the other hand, is considered the irresponsible Butt-Monkey 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.
• Friendly Rivalry: 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.
• George Jetson Job Security: Rigby even lampshades it in the last episode:
  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!"
• Heterosexual Life-Partners: 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.
• Hourglass Plot: 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 though Mordecai straightens out too by the end of the series.
• Interspecies Friendship:
  • Mordecai (a blue jay) and Rigby (a raccoon) are each other's best and closest friend.
  • They also form friendships with Benson (a humanoid gumball machine), Skips (an immortal yeti), Pops (a humanoid lollipop), Muscle Man (an ambiguous human), Hi-Five Ghost (a ghost), and Thomas (a billy goat).
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: 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.
• Manchild: Both of them are prone to behaving like rebellious teenage boys trapped in the bodies of full-grown adults.
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: 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.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: Mordecai is the calm, level-headed Blue Oni to Rigby's hot-headed, rash Red Oni.
• The Scapegoat: 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.
• The Slacker:
  • 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.
  • 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 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 that he finally followed through with pursuing a career in art.
• Supporting Protagonist: Both of them enter into this position in season 8, as it is Pops' destiny to defeat his evil twin brother to save the world.
• Totally Radical: They say "dude" and "man" a lot.
• Verbal Tic: Both are prone to "Hmm"ing a lot with each other and saying "dude".
• Vitriolic Best Buds:
  • 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.
  • Deconstructed in a few episodes, where one of them will push the vitriol too far and genuinely hurt the other emotionally.
• Weirdness Magnet: Both of them attract all manners of weirdness at least once a week.

Mordecai

Mordecai

"Ugh, we're so fired for this..."

Voiced in English by: J.G. Quintel

Voiced in Latin American Spanish by: Arturo Cataño (Seasons 1-8 first half), Edson Matus (Season 8 second half)
Debuted in: "Pilot"/Season 1, "The Power"

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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• Accidental Murder: 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 the tunnel they're going through, killing him. He's remorseful afterwards.
• Affectionate Nickname: "Mordy" by his mother and Uncle Steve.
• Always Someone Better: 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 after realizing how this attitude has made Rigby resentful and insecure.
  • Ironically subverted in season 7, with Rigby becoming more successful than him, whether in romance or personal goals.
• Ambiguously Jewish: Named after Jewish man Mordecai from the Purim story.
• Amicable Exes:
  • invoked Played straight with 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 Better as Friends. They spent the rest of the season still hanging out as friends, and Word of God is that they still keep in touch after going their separate ways.
  • invoked Subverted with CJ. While they're shown amicably breaking up, they never interact with each other afterwards, and Word of God is that CJ cut all ties with Mordecai and his friends.
• Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!: He has his moments when he gets distracted by something.
• Author Avatar: 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).
• Babies Ever After: He and Stef have three children (2 sons and 1 daughter) in the series finale.
• Badass Driver: Usually in high speed situations he's the one behind the wheel and can pull off some pretty gnarly tricks.
• Badass Normal: 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.
• Barefoot Cartoon Animal: Even if dressed for special occasions, he still doesn't wear shoes.
• Beard of Sorrow:
  • After 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.
  • He also had one 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.
• Berserk Button:
  • Don't call him a slacker. At least if you're not Benson.
  • Don't pick on his shyness towards Margaret or any of his girl troubles. 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.
• Betty and Veronica: 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 mixed signals which included him 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 Love Confession to 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 Better as Friends. And Mordecai finds love in a different person — a batwoman and fellow artist, named Stef.
• Beware the Nice Ones: Mordecai can be a decent person most of the time, but he can be dangerous when pushed to his limits. He decked Benson in "Eggscellent" after the latter made a thoughtless comment towards a dying Rigby.
• Big Brother Instinct: 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.
• Birds of a Feather: With C.J. They both like to have fun, play video games, go to rock bands, etc. This doesn't last, however.
• Blue Is Heroic: 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.
• Brilliant, but Lazy: 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.
• Byronic Hero: Downplayed 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. Even recently, after moving on, he still has shades of this, like being torn between two possible love interests.
• Character Catchphrase:
  • "Awww, sick!"
  • "YAY-YUH!", the last of which is pretty much Quintel's own catchphrase.
  • Whenever Rigby's in danger or Mordecai's worried about him, he sometimes stretches out his wing and cries "Rigby!"
• Character Development:
  • 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 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.
  • 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).
  • He gets some more in "I Like You Hi". Asking CJ out instead of beating around the bush like he did with Margaret once he realizes he does like like her.
  • 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 What the Hell, Hero? from 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" to discuss his cheating on CJ with Margaret and how to handle it, without the initial anxiousness he had before.
  • Overall, as the series progresses Mordecai becomes more aware of his Classical Anti-Hero tendencies and tries to outgrow them, though it takes a while. Eventually resulting in his Earn Your Happy Ending in the finale.
• Characterization Marches On:
  • 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?).
  • 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 Innocently Insensitive than anything.
• Chick Magnet: Surprisingly.
  • 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.
  • Starla was instantly smitten with him after he made a passionate speech about love in her debut episode, "Muscle Woman".
  • 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.
  • He immediately hits it off with CJ when they first meet in the above mentioned episode, with her quickly developing feelings for him and they started dating after he broke up with Margaret.
  • 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.
  • When he accidentally proposes to the mantis princess in "Lost and Found", she immediately accepts the proposal even though she had just met him.
  • The way he and his future wife Stef first met implies Love at First Sight.
• Classical Anti-Hero:
  • 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.
  • 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?"
  • Overall his Character Development is about growing out of this, becoming more aware of being stuck in a rut in life and focusing on himself and his goals. He officially outgrows this in the finale, pursuing a career in art and finding love.
• Cloudcuckoolander's Minder: Mordecai is usually this to Rigby, if not a bit immature and eccentric himself.
• The Conscience: 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.
• Deadpan Snarker: Occasionally, but when he does, it's usually towards Rigby.
  Rigby: (when applying his mom's cleaning formula) By the power of my mom, stain be gone!
  Mordecai: Hmm, maybe that's why your house is never clean.
• Did Not Get the Girl: 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.
• Does Not Like Spam:
  • Implied. 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.
  • He mentions how much he hates mayo in "Picking Up Margaret".
  • It's shown in "Fries Night" that he strongly dislikes whole wheat pasta.
• Dope Slap: 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.
• Earn Your Happy Ending: He does overcome his various flaws and insecurities in his romantic endeavors and the arts while maturing. The end of the series has him 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.
• Easily Impressed: Not as much as Rigby's case but still displays this a lot himself.
• Embarrassing Slide: 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.
• Eye Scream: 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.
• Fatal Flaw: 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 Love Triangle between him, Margaret, and CJ.
  • 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, 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, 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.
  • 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.
• Feather Fingers: He's a humanoid bird with hands that look webbed.
• Four-Temperament Ensemble: The Phlegmatic/Melancholic — pretty much the Straight Man, but also extremely lazy and timid (however he somewhat grows out of this).
• The Gadfly: 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.
• Gentle Giant: Mordecai is very tall and usually easygoing.
• Going Commando: 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.
• Happily Married: 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.
• Heavy Sleeper: 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".
• Heroic BSoD:
  • Shown in the montage at the beginning of "Laundry Woes" after Margaret leaves. He snaps out of it after the entire park pulls together to help him.
  • 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.
• Hidden Depths:
  • "Mr. Maellard's Package" reveals that Mordecai has at least some interest in owning his own airline and being a pilot.
  • In "Slam Dunk", Mordecai apparently has enough knowledge in HTML coding for Margaret to ask him to help make her website.
  • 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.
  • 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. The finale also shows a guitar in the trunk of Mordecai's car when he leaves the park.
• 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 logical conclusion in "Dumptown U.S.A.".
• Hipster: Several instances, but the quote "You can't touch music. But music can touch you" wraps it up.
  • "You gotta be in the know to know, ya know?"
  • Also the bit in "Grave Sights", where his movie of choice is a black-and-white foreign film.
  • 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).
  • The entire episode, "Cool Bikes", when he and Rigby shown to be cool bike riders and in fashion.
  • 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.
• His Heart Will Go On: It takes him a bit, but he eventually moves on with his romance life.
• His Own Worst Enemy: Mordecai is a very decent person with enough smarts, looks and can be quite the Chick Magnet. 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'.
• Hopeless Suitor: With Margaret. When he ignores her (due to being mindless) in "Brain Eraser", she suddenly finds him attractive. Gets turned around in later seasons with Margaret eventually reciprocating his feelings.
• Hypocrite:
  • 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.
  • Despite hating being called a slacker, Mordecai is rather prone to laziness as much as Rigby.
• I Call It "Vera": 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.
• I'll Kill You!: He yells this to Rigby in "It's Time". And he accidentally ends up going through with it.
• Informed Ability: He mentioned offhand in "Camping Can Be Cool" that he went to an art college, though initially didn't actually shown any real interest or talent in art (though that could just be a throwaway reference to his creator and voice actor, J.G. Quintel), though in "The Best VHS in the World", he did tell Button McButtonWillow that he should take life drawing classes because of how bad his fanart of The Best VHS in the World is. In "Fool Me Twice", Mordecai brings up attending art college again but Rigby reveals that he never graduated which may explain why he works as a groundskeeper. It becomes subverted in "Bad Portrait" where Mordecai paints a portrait and it's revealed that we never see him draw or paint is because of him struggling with doing portraits and his fear of people misinterpreting or getting offended by his artwork. He gets over it by the end, as he paints a painting that is incredibly well received and ends up hung in Benson's office and is seen taking an art class at community college with CJ in "I Like You Hi". The finale shows Mordecai becoming a successful artist in the future, with the pieces we see being done in abstract styles.
• Innocently Insensitive: He can be very self-absorbed and self-pitying, but he doesn't intend on hurting anyone.
• Interspecies Romance: Mordecai (a blue jay) has dated Margaret (a robin that looks like a cardinal), CJ (a humanoid cloud) 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".
• Jack of All Stats: Mordecai, compared to many of his friends is not the strongest (Muscle Man and Skips) but nor is he weak in anyway shape or form (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.
• Jerkass Ball: There are several episodes when Mordecai is unnecessarily mean towards Rigby.
  • 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.
  • 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.
• Last Minute Hook Up: He falls in love with and marries an fellow modern artist named Stef during the last few minutes of the series finale.
• Like a Son to Me: Margaret's father, Frank, refers to Mordecai as a surrogate son in "1000th Chopper Party".
• Looks Like Jesus: 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 The Dude.
• Love at First Sight: Implied. While at an art convention, Mordecai bumps into his future wife, Stef, another fellow artist. The two gaze at one another before a Time Skip happens — showing that they are married with three kids.
• Love Makes You Dumb: 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.
• Masculine Lines, Feminine Curves: 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.
• Master of the Mixed Message: 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".
• Meaningful Name: 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.
• My God, What Have I Done?:
  • In "It's Time" when he accidentally kills Rigby, and deeply regrets it.
  • In "Merry Christmas Mordecai", when he 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.
• Never My Fault:
  • While Rigby does convince Mordecai to ditch work, Mordecai does have a choice in it, but always puts the blame on Rigby.
  • 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. 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.
  • In 'It's Time', Mordecai blames Rigby for ruining his chances to go out with Margaret and 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.
• Nice Guy: Though he isn't without his faults, he's mostly a well-meaning and amiable guy.
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: 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.
• Nobody Calls Me "Chicken"!: 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.
• Non-Mammalian Hair: Depending on Rule of Funny. 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 Beard of Sorrow, 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 Beard of Sorrow, 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.
• Not So Above It All: 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.
• Official Couple: 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 until they broke up in "Dumped at the Altar".
• Only Sane Man: He's usually the voice of reason to Rigby, although he zig-zags between this and Not So Above It All very often.
• Out of Focus: 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".
• Person as Verb: "Pulling a Mordecai", which is described as "The act of never making a move, but at the same time, not knowing what to do with your hands".
• Pink Girl, Blue Boy: 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.
• Rage Breaking Point: 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.
• Relationship Upgrade:
  • 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.
  • Asks out CJ in "I Like You Hi" but they break up in "Dumped at the Altar".
• "Shaggy Dog" Story: For all of Mordecai's romantic drama with both Margaret and later CJ, he actually ends the series not getting the former or even the latter. It's a fellow famous artist named Stef, who he married and has three children with.
• Shipper on Deck:
  • 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.
  • While attempting to make an awkward Love Confession at their wedding, Mordecai states that Muscle Man and Starla were designed to be together.
• Straight Man: He plays this role to Rigby as the moral compass.
• Strong as They Need to Be: He's among the stronger members of the park (though he's obviously outdone by Skips and 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 Rigby.
• Strong Family Resemblance: Mordecai looks exactly like his parents, especially his father, as they both have brown hair (Mordecai did in his teen years).
• Surfer Dude: Has speech patterns like one.
• A Taste of Their Own Medicine: In "Mordeby and Rigbecai", after accidentally exchanging body parts with Rigby, Mordecai gets beaten up by the latter.
• Toothy Bird: He is drawn with a beak full of teeth.
• Two-Timer Date: Played for Drama and deconstructed. In "Yes, Dude, Yes", 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 Hulking Out in anger and almost killing everyone in a tantrum. After clearing things out, neither wants to go out with him.
• Uncanny Family Resemblance: Aside from having human like hair, his family members share a very strong likeness to him.
• Unskilled, but Strong: 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 Muscle Man or even ​Skips, he can still put up a fight.
• Verbal Tic: Aside from the aforementioned in the "both" folder, he has a tendency to stretch out words when excited.
• What the Hell, Hero?: Every so often he will throw Rigby under the bus, "Wall Buddy" and "Lift With Your Back" come to mind, in which Rigby will call him out on acting like a jerk.

Rigby

Rigby

"STOP TALKING!"

Voiced in English by: William Salyers

Voiced in Latin American Spanish by: Moisés Iván Mora
Debuted in: "Pilot"/Season 1, "The Power"

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.

Has a very tall younger brother named Don, who is an accountant, who is favored by everyone.

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• Adults Dressed as Children: Type A in "Fuzzy Dice". When the park workers need a kid to get inside a Suck E. Cheese's center, they have Rigby wear a hoodie, a fanny pack, and a backward cap due to his size.
• Alliterative Name: Rigby the Raccoon.
• All Men Are Perverts: 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.
• Aloof Big Brother: One to his brother Don. Namely because Don was taller, stronger and smarter than Rigby. He briefly crossed over into Big Brother Bully as well by telling Don he wished he was never born. They patched things up, though.
• Amazon Chaser: He frequently comments on how Eileen is attractive due to her smarts and survival skills.
• Amusing Injuries: Rigby has a very noticeable scar on one of his buttcheeks after a drunk incident where Skips hits him so hard, he ends up hospitalized. This earned Rigby the Embarrassing Nickname of "One-Cheek Wonder".
• Anti-Hero: While Mordecai is more likely to be Innocently Insensitive, 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.
• Anti-Role Model: He's lazy, greedy, rude, selfish, smug and convinced he's a lot smarter than he actually is.
• Attention Whore: The main reason why he resents Don? The latter got more attention than him.
• Babies Ever After: He and Eileen have two daughters in the series finale.
• Back to School: 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.
• Badass Adorable: 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.
• Badass Normal: Just like Mordecai, Rigby is an ordinary groundskeeper who survives all kinds of extraordinary or even supernatural trouble.
• Bad Liar: Downplayed. 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.
• Berserk Button: He really dislikes it when Mordecai puts his obsession with his many girlfriends over his friendship between the two.
• Big Brother Bully: 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 "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.
• Big Eater: 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.
  (Rigby's stomach growls)
  Mordecai: Don't touch that cake.
  Rigby: It's a medical emergency!
  Mordecai: You just ate a sandwich!
• Big "SHUT UP!": "STOP TALKING!", which is one of his catchphrases.
• Boisterous Weakling: 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 Running Gag 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 Boisterous Bruiser.
• Book Dumb: He's a high school drop-out, and his recklessly stupid attitude only reinforces it. He gets better.
• Bratty Half-Pint: A rare full-grown example. Nevertheless, he is one of the shortest of the cast and, fittingly enough, one of the most childish.
• Break the Haughty: If something goes wrong and it's because he started it, expect karma to slide in fast.
• Brilliant, but Lazy: Or more accurately, "Competent But Lazy". He can actually be a more efficient worker than Mordecai when properly motivated.
• Butt-Monkey: 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 The Chew Toy. Luckily, he has moments these days where he's successfully able to punch a guy back.
  Benson: First on the agenda is trophy talk. Who gets the trophy on what day? I think the schedule is more than fair.
  (Everyone on the team is scheduled to have the trophy for two days each week, except Rigby who only has it one day.)
• Calling the Old Man Out: Rigby calls out his father for never supporting him.
• Can't Take Criticism: Subverted, since Rigby like many others, does not like being called out due to his constant belittlement from his father.
• Cartoony Tail: 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.
• Character Catchphrase:
  • "Check it."
  • "STOP TALKING!"
  • He also has "Ah, what?" whenever Benson asks him to do anything (usually as punishment) and "Why?" when Benson threatens to fire him.
• Character Development: While slower to develop than Mordecai, once he does so, he gets this hard:
  • 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 he and Eileen had been dating for several months by the time of "Dumped At The Altar". The show's "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue reveals that they married shortly after the events of the finale.
  • 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.
  • Rigby also became more supportive of Mordecai's crush on Margaret. He started off 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.
  • 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.
• Characterization Marches On:
  • 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).
  • 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 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.
• Cheaters Never Prosper: 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.
• The Chew Toy: He's quite the Butt-Monkey, though he brings it on himself sometimes.
• 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.
  Rigby: We're gonna starve before they find us! Why did you eat the whole sandwich?! You should've saved some just in case!
  Mordecai: Dude, that makes no sense.
  Rigby: You makes no sense! (pounds on the door and screams) Help, I'm trapped in here with a crazy person!
• Classical Anti-Hero: He's as lazy as they can come, selfish, and rude, but Rigby is willing to stand up for something if interested enough and willing to do the right thing. His Character Development is about growing out of this.
• Cloudcuckoolander: He'll come up with silly ideas out of the blue.
• Combat Pragmatist: 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.)
• Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: Proven in the "Death Punch" episode.
• Dark Secret: The Regular Show Movie shows one of Rigby's darkest secrets. 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.
• Deadpan Snarker: Not as much as Mordecai, but is able to hold his own.
  Mordecai: Come on, Margaret and I are just friends.
  Rigby: Yeah, friends without benefits.
• Death Is Cheap: Rigby has died at least three times (expelled from his own body, thrown into a time void, crushed during an arm wrestling match), being revived each time.
• Defrosting Ice King: 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 Morality Pet, girlfriend, and eventual wife.
• Depending on the Writer: 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Did Not Think This Through: 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.
• Disappointing Older Sibling: Downplayed. 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.
• Disney Death: In the episode "It's Time". He came back to life via time travel.
• Diurnal Nocturnal Animal: Is awake during the day — and more to the point, shows no particular desire to be a night owl — despite being a raccoon.
• Dumbass Has a Point: While he's an Insufferable Imbecile, he still sometimes makes good points, e.g. calling out Mordecai for being jealous of him in "It's Time".
• Earn Your Happy Ending: Even more than Mordecai, having grown up a good deal. The season 7 finale had him graduate and finally finish high school before the season 8 arc. After the adventures there, the end of the series has him going separate ways with Mordecai and starting a family with Eileen. It's unknown if he has a job or if he is a House Husband, but is Happily Married 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.
• Easily Impressed: Gets dazzled by hilariously mundane things like 8-bit graphics despite all the crazy things that happen daily.
• Embarrassing Nickname: 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.
• Everyone Has Standards: Despite being very lazy and a messy individual, even Rigby was disgusted by the way everyone in Dumptown, USA were living their lives.
• Expressive Ears: His ears droop when he's sad.
• Fatal Flaw:
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • He's also weirdly bad at taking advantage of his Fragile Speedster physique in any kind of physical conflict, and in general sucks at playing to his strengths.
• Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling: The foolish sibling (a slacker who never graduated high school) to Don's responsible sibling (an accountant who owns his home). Although, Rigby does get better by season 7.
• Four-Temperament Ensemble: The Sanguine/Choleric — he is extremely immature and rather hyperactive.
• Freudian Excuse: 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.
• Funny Animal: He digs through trash and runs on all fours when in a hurry.
• Furry Reminder: As with all raccoons, Rigby is basically a Fragile Speedster in addition to his relative size, which is a problem with the rest of the park members when they tried to give him The Chase in every occasion, right until he gets toppled over by smarter, stronger characters like Skips.
  • 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: "One man's trash is another man's pleasure."
    Mordecai: Dude, you gotta stop digging stuff out of the trash. It's unnatural.
    Rigby: You're unnatural!
• The Glasses Gotta Go: Rigby seems to be a firm believer of this since he thinks Eileen is hot without her glasses on, though he really doesn't care once they start dating.
• Green-Eyed Monster: Most of his idiotic schemes and troubles are motivated by his jealousy of some thing or another.
• Hair-Trigger Temper: 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.
  STOP TALKING!!!
• Happily Married: He and Eileen get married in the Distant Finale and even raise a family together, as seen in the 25 years park reunion.
• Heavy Sleeper: How he ended up in Australia without noticing in "Mordecai and Rigby Down Under".
• Hidden Depths: Much of his jerkish demeanor is a cover for his insecurity.
• Hot-Blooded: 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.
• Hypocrite Has a Point: 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.
• Hypocritical Humor: 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.
• Idiot Hero: 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 grow out of it as the series goes on.
• Indy Ploy: 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.
• Inferiority Superiority Complex: Although he acts arrogant and sometimes condescending, he's actually a vulnerable individual who's highly insecure about himself.
• Informed Species: Despite being a raccoon, he looks more like a South American coati.
• Innocently Insensitive: Frequently makes thoughtless or tactless remarks that makes Mordecai punch him or call him out.
• Insecure Love Interest: 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.
• Insufferable Imbecile: 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 high school dropout. However, he eventually Took a Level in Kindness later in the series.
• Interspecies Romance: Rigby (a raccoon) is dating Eileen (a mole).
• Iron Butt Monkey: Despite always being the most physically abused and on the short end of the stick, he can sure get back up in no time.
• Jerkass Ball: Several episodes have him act much more petty and abrasive than usual.
  • 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.
  • In "Do Me a Solid", Rigby puts Mordecai through a bunch of humiliation stunts during their double-date with Margaret and Eileen.
  • 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.
• Jerkass Has a Point: 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 "Grilled Cheese Deluxe".
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: 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 "First Day", his Establishing Character Moment is wordlessly making fun of the size of Pops' head. However, he also takes his friendship with Mordecai more seriously than he does, and is much better at romance than him.
  • In "Meat Your Maker", where Rigby truly seems to care for Mordecai after they both get trapped in the freezer.
  • In the episode "A Bunch of Baby Ducks", where Rigby insists on keeping the ducks, and calls them his.
  • At the end of "Do Me a Solid" where Rigby destroys the only video evidence of the humiliating solid he made Mordecai do.
  • The first Halloween special drives home Rigby's dependency on his friends. The characters all share a horror story for the group: Pop's 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 and 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.
  • 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.
• Karmic Butt-Monkey: He's a lazy, rude idiot who always looks for the easy way out, therefore most of his Amusing Injuries and humiliations come from that.
• Know-Nothing Know-It-All: Particularly in "Rigby's Body" where, even after his body literally quits on him, he stubbornly insists that he was right about everything.
• Lame Comeback: He has trouble arguing without resorting to one of these.
• Large Ham: A big ham in a tiny body.
• Lazy Bum: 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 Character Development, this generally reaches to the point of him becoming The Millstone.
• Little Big Brother: 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.
• Lethally Stupid: 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.
• Lovable Rogue: This is evidently how he sees himself, since in "Temp Check" he refers to his "lovable scoundrel shtick".
• Mama's Boy: He's very close to his mother due to how his dad blatantly favors Don over him and is such a dick to him.
• The McCoy: Short tempered and emotional.
• Mean Boss: Acts as one towards a temp named Doug in the episode "Temp Check", where he just lounges around and gives Doug orders.
• The Millstone: 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.
  "I can fix it! I can fix it!"
• My Instincts Are Showing: 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.
• The Napoleon: Somewhat small and quite rude.
• Never My Fault: He will usually make some half-brained excuse for doing something irresponsible that almost nobody buys.
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: 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.
• Non-Mammalian Hair: 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.
• No, You: Practically his catchphrase when he argues with someone.
• Obliviously Evil: 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).
• An Odd Place to Sleep: He sleeps on a trampoline with dirty clothes.
• Official Couple: In the episode "Dumped at the Altar", Rigby reveals that he and Eileen have been dating in secret for a couple months.
• Once Done, Never Forgotten: Not getting a high school diploma and sometimes being reminded that he only got his current job by Mordecai vouching for him. He eventually does get his degree, though.
• Ping Pong Naïveté: Despite the All Men Are Perverts joke above, he doesn't understand "why people really go to concerts."
• The Pig-Pen: 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.
• Rascally Raccoon: 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.
• The Resenter: 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.
• Running Gag:
  • He can never win at punchies.
  • As a Foil to the above gag, Rigby frequently wins against Mordecai in Rock–Paper–Scissors.
• Running on All Fours: Given that he is a Rascally Raccoon.
• She's Not My Girlfriend: Will deny any sort of feelings for Eileen despite spending almost all his time with her when not with Mordecai. Subverted 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.
• Shipper on Deck:
  • For Mordecai and Margaret. At first it was zig-zagged, but then played perfectly straight until Margaret's departure on season 4.
  • 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".
• Sibling Rivalry: Hates his brother Don for being more popular than him, stealing his friends, and being mistaken for Rigby's big brother when ''Rigby'' is the older brother.
• Smart Ball: Despite his tendency to be The Millstone, Rigby gives surprisingly sound romantic advice to Mordecai. 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.
• Strong Family Resemblance: 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.
• Temporarily a Villain: It depends on the writer, though he has done some pretty mean deeds that could be considered villainous.
• Took a Level in Kindness:
  • 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. 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.
  • Even disregarding Eileen, as the seasons progress, Rigby matures significantly, enough to help Mordecai out of his depression after being dumped by CJ.
• Too Dumb to Live: Once tried to eat a huge omelette to earn a free hat, despite being deathly allergic to eggs.
  Rigby: I thought if I ate really fast, maybe I wouldn't notice.
  • Played for laughs at times. He also appears to have a knack for dousing life threatening fires with lighter fluid.
• Tsundere: A major Harsh type. He is a modern one to his friends in the park, and more of a classic example towards Eileen.
• Uncanny Family Resemblance: When his extended family are shown in "Just Friends", they all bear a striking resemblance to Rigby.
• The Unfavorite: Justified. 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.
  • That said, once Rigby undergoes Character Development and gains several amazing feats, his father comes to respect him significantly.
• Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist: Most of the time. He's reckless, selfish and immature, although he does grow out of it at the end.

Park Management

Benson

Benson Dunwoody

"Get back to work or YOU'RE FIRED!"

Voiced in English by: Sam Marin

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)

Voiced in European Spanish by: Juan Amador Pulido
Debuted in: "Pilot"/Season 1, "The Power"

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.

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• All Drummers Are Animals: Subverted in "150-Piece Kit" when the audience finds out that the man behind Hair to the Throne's famous drum solo was Benson.
• Animate Inanimate Object: He's a talking gumball machine.
• Anti-Villain: 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 Not So Above It All at times and he's partially this way because his boss Pops Maellard is a Scatterbrained Senior who is The Alleged Boss, but delegates work to Benson, and a Clueless Boss who has No Social Skills and is Innocently Insensitive, which causes him no end of stress in addition to his Freudian Excuse for having a Hair-Trigger Temper.
• Ax-Crazy: When his Hair-Trigger Temper reaches its limits, he is shown with a psychotic behavior many times.
• Badass Armfold: His standard pose. Especially when he gets to have his own moments of greatness.
• Beleaguered Boss: He has to deal with slackers Mordecai and Rigby on a regular basis, Muscle Man's constant pranking, and even the others under his command have their moments of Not So Above It All. On top of that, his boss Pops is a Cloudcuckoolander. It's no wonder Benson frequently gets mad, and needs the constant threat of George Jetson Job Security to keep Mordecai and Rigby in line.
• Benevolent Boss:
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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).
  • 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.
• Berserk Button:
  • Getting prank calls, apparently makes him angry enough to damage the Park phone which is a piece of company property.
  • Whatever you do, do not throw trash at him. He will go berserk without a second thought.
  • He starts out Angrish and screams in a rage while chasing Mordecai and Rigby when Rigby claimed he was "all talk" in "A Bunch of Full Grown Geese" since most of Benson's threats to fire them had not been guaranteed.
  • 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.
  • But the most obvious one is 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.
• Big Damn Heroes:
  • In "Benson Be Gone", he returns to the park just in time to save it from Susan.
  • He arrives with his drum set at the last second in "Summertime Lovin'", giving the cast enough music power to destroy the Summertime Lovin' cassette.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
    Benson: You want it?! FINE! TAKE IT THEN!
• Big "WHAT?!": 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. Turns out he's actually furious for a different reason.
• Birds of a Feather: With Pam, as both of them are workaholics and love chicken wings.
• Both Sides Have a Point:
  • 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. 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.
  • In 'Eggscellent' Mordecai punches Benson in the face after he makes an insensitive comment while Rigby is in a coma. 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.
• Breath Weapon: Benson unleashes a torrent of pure, pent-up rage at Mordecai and Rigby during "Think Positive" in the form of a gigantic mouth laser.
• Butt-Monkey: 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.
• The Captain: He's the supervisor for the park's maintenance crew.
• Can't Hold His Liquor: Has a weakness for chicken wings.
• Character Catchphrase:
  • "Get back to work!" and "Clean up this mess!" (both of which are usually followed by "Or you're fired!")
  • MORDECAI!!! RIGBY!!!
• The Cavalry:
  • The guys are losing to a physical manifestation of an Ear Worm that they're battling by playing a counter Ear Worm. 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 Ear Worm needs a beat, which comes from the drums which he plays.
    Benson: UNBELIEVABLE!!
    Mordecai: Look Benson, we didn't mean-!
    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)
    Mordecai and Rigby: Whoooooahhh!
    Benson: It's gotta have a beat.
  • 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.
• Character Development:
  • 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.
  • 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 Big Damn Heroes on them, being the one who leads The Cavalry.
• Chick Magnet: Despite his 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.
• Color Motifs: Red. Most of his body is colored red. Whenever he is angered, his face turns completely red. Lastly, the color can represent anger.
• The Comically Serious: He's serious most of the time, but his chewing out of Rigby and Mordecai is often played for laughs.
• Control Freak: 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.
• A Day in the Limelight: "Benson Be Gone" was his first one, but "Think Positive" was more about his personality.
• Deadpan Snarker: He sometimes leans on this, especially when the HA HA HA—No trope is used.
  Rigby: And we'll be all like "In your face!"
  Benson: Haha, and I will be all like GET BACK TO WORK!
• Depending on the Writer:
  • Benson's characterization ranges from a cynical, but reasonable Jerk with a Heart of Gold to a full-blown Jerkass that overreacts to everything.
  • He can also either be completely task oriented or much more relaxed and willing to go along with an adventure.
  • 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").
• Dysfunctional Family: "Think Positive" revealed that Benson, of all people, was The Quiet One in his family, and his father taught him to yell whenever he wanted something, which turned him into a big anger ball.
• Early-Bird Cameo: First appeared in "2 in the AM PM'', one of J. G. Quintel's first short films, in the gas station clerks' acid-induced hallucination.
• Embarrassing Last Name: 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.
• Enraged by Idiocy: One of his biggest triggers is Mordecai and Rigby's incompetence.
• Everyone Has Standards:
  • Despite disliking Mordecai and Rigby's antics, he does actually care for them, and will help if they truly need it.
  • In The Movie, 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.
• Fatal Flaw:
  • His Hair-Trigger Temper causes him to easily lose his cool and causes a great amount of distress to the people around him, leading to moments of disrespect.
  • 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.
  • Finally, his inability to let go of his insecurities from the past or within himself. This is mostly what fuels Benson's other flaws.
• Foil: To Rigby in many ways.
  • Both of them were considered the black sheep in their families (Rigby for his laziness and goofing off, Benson for his timidness).
  • 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 ( 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.
  • Both of them are often a Jerk with a Heart of Gold 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 Character Development (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).
  • 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.
  • Rigby only has one love interest, Eileen, while Benson has several love interests before settling down with Pam.
• Former Teen Rebel: He was a drummer and underground stick hockey player in his adolescence.
• Four-Temperament Ensemble: The Choleric/Melancholic — has a short temper and is quite bitter too.
• Freudian Excuse:
  • His family yelled at each other all the time, with Benson's dad encouraging Benson's temper in childhood. Not to mention how he discouraged Benson's dreams as a drummer, 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.
  • 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.
  • Also, several other episodes show that Benson suffered quite a lot in his life. He has: lost his dear friend Dave in a stick hockey match, been kicked out of a successful band solely because 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.
• The Friend Nobody Likes: 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.
• Friend to All Living Things: 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 (Leeroy) in "Benson's Pig". He also takes a liking to a bird in "The Dome Experiment Special".
• George Jetson Job Security: 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.
• Good Is Not Nice: 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.
• Guilt by Association Gag: 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.
• HA HA HA—No: Often done with sarcasm.
• Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow: 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.
• Hair-Trigger Temper: 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.
• Hidden Depths:
  • 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".
  • 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.
  • "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.
  • "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).
• High-Pressure Emotion: 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.
• His Own Worst Enemy: 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 The Ace like Skips.
• Hulking Out: He grows as giant as the gumball guards in the Regular Show/Adventure Time crossover comic. And even then, at the highest pressure, he turns flaming gold.
• Hot-Blooded: 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.
• Interspecies Romance:
  • He, an anthropomorphic gumball machine, has had relationships with Audrey and Pam, two human women.
• 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.
• Jerkass Ball: He has his moments of being downright cruel, especially in "The Best Burger in the World" and "Lunch Break".
• Jerkass to One: 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.
• Jerkass Has a Point: 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. You just have to wonder why he hasn't fired them for good yet, though.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: 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 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.
• Kick the Dog:
  • 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 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.
  • 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 being eaten by a mutant pie, he threatens to clean up the mess or he would fire them.
  • 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 rewards them by making them run 50 laps and threatens to fire them if they fail.
• Kindhearted Cat Lover: 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 Benson and Pam, who are now Happily Married, are the happy owners of Applesauce and a couple of cats.
• Knight in Sour Armor: He'll yell a lot, but he does care for the park's well being.
• Large Ham: Having a Hair-Trigger Temper does not help his case. He's even rowdier when intoxicated.
• Love Hurts: He has horrible luck with women. He has had many past girlfriends and got dumped by them all.
• Mean Boss:
  • 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 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.
  • Eventually becomes deconstructed 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.
• Never My Fault: 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.
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: He isn't so different from Mordecai and Rigby, thus he has his moments.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
• Nice Mean And In Between: The brash, quick-tempered mean to Pops' nice and Skips' in-between.
• No Indoor Voice: 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.
• Noodle People: He has long, gangly arms and legs.
• Not So Above It All:
  • OOOOOOOOOOOOOOH!! (when he's fired by Susan in "Benson Be Gone")
  • 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".
  • 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.
  • Seen again in "This Is My Jam". He's initially angered by the omnipresent ear-worm...but only because the group forgot the beat — he willingly joins in on drums to help Mordecai's improvised band defeat it.
  • 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.
• Offscreen Breakup: 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.
• Only Sane Man: 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, the rest of the gang seem to have completely forgotten their troubles from the previous episode, including Skips and Eileen of all people.
• The Perfectionist: Greatly implied in one episode, where he claimed that the grass Mordecai and Rigby had just mowed as being "an inch too tall".
• Perma-Stubble: According to the creators, his gumballs are supposed to resemble this, as a visual sign that he is over-worked.
• Perpetual Frowner: 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.
• Prematurely Bald: 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. He has hair back in the epilogue, seemingly happier with his life and job.
• Psychological Projection: 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.
• Rage Breaking Point: Taken to its Logical Extreme, if not 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 "The Reason You Suck" Speech in the form of a damn beam.
• Reasonable Authority Figure: Zig-zagged. Not quite at Depending on the Writer 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 Never My Fault. 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.
• "The Reason You Suck" Speech:
  • Gives a gloriously intense one to Mordecai and Rigby in "Think Positive":
    "RRRAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGHHH!!! YOU LAZY, NO-GOOD SLACKERS DRIVE ME NUTS!!! CAN'T YOU JUST LISTEN TO ME ONCE IN YOUR WORTHLESS LIVES?!?! 'CAUSE IF YOU DID, YOU'D SEE THAT 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 IF YOU PAID SOMEONE TO DO IT FOR YOU, AND EVEN THEN YOU'D SCREW IT ALL UP ON ACCOUNT THAT YOU CAN'T EVEN FOLLOW THE SIMPLEST INSTRUCTIONS, WORRYING MORE ABOUT LOOKING COOL THAN DOING YOUR JOB!!!"
  • And another emotionally broken one in "Busted Cart":
    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...
• Red Baron: Benson was once known as the Death Dragon in stick hockey circles.
• Retired Badass: 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.
• Seen It All: When 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 thawed-out caveman, he simply tells them to get rid of him because he won't be covered by the park's insurance.
• The Slacker: 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 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 rock does to a guy... Benson outright states he's wasted his youth.
• Sore Loser:
  • He takes dodgeball very seriously. He also doesn't take losing very well.
  • 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.
• Straight Man: 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.
• Talking in Your Sleep: In "Saving Time", Mordecai and Rigby notice him doing this while they break into his house.
• Team Dad: 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.
• Throw the Dog a Bone: The guy really got jerked around romantically first by 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.
• Tough Love: Some episodes suggest his Mean Boss 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".
  Rigby: Benson, why do you hate us so much?
  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.
• Trademark Favorite Food: Benson has a huge love for chicken wings.
• Uncanny Family Resemblance: Implied. 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.
• Ungrateful Bastard: Even when Mordecai and Rigby save his life, he usually threatens to fire them if they don't clean up their mess. He eventually gets called out for that in "A Bunch of Full-Grown Geese".
• Vague Age: The creators revealed that Benson is anywhere between the ages of 25 and 35. If this Twitter post is to be taken as canon, he's 30.
• What the Hell, Hero?: He constantly chews out Mordecai and Rigby for their constant pranks and slacking off, but "Country Club" has him angry at them for 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.
• 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.
• Work Hard, Play Hard: The guy lives to put in effort towards what he does, and that stands regardless of whether he's being paid to do it.
• Younger Than They Look: See Vague Age above.

Pops

Pops Maellard / Mega Kranus

"Good show, jolly good show!"

Voiced in English by: Sam Marin

Voiced in Latin American Spanish by: Carlos Hugo Hidalgo
Debuted in: "Pilot"/Season 1, "The Power"

The son of the park's wealthy owner who's been sheltered all his life. He's the group's Plucky Comic Relief.

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• Achievements in Ignorance: 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.
• The Alleged Boss: 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.
• All-Loving Hero: Pops is a friendly and sweet person who never wants to harm anyone if he doesn't have to.
• Animal Motifs: Butterflies. He likes chasing them and they become more prevalent to him in season 8.
• Anthropomorphic Food: A talking, walking lollipop.
• Badass Adorable: He's shown to be a skilled wrestler and has even saved the entire universe in the finale.
• Badass Pacifist: Despite becoming a Physical God by the finale, Pops defeats Anti-Pops for good with a Cooldown Hug, whereas previous attempts to fight him all ended with universe-destroying stalemates.
• Barbie Doll Anatomy: Seen when naked Pops is falling down the cliff in "Brain Eraser".
• Benevolent Boss:
  • 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.
  • 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.
• Beware the Nice Ones:
  • 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.
  • 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.
• Born in the Wrong Century: 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.
• Butterfly of Death and Rebirth: Butterflies are a major recurring motif with him, initially representing his airiness and innocence, but eventually it's revealed that he and his Evil Twin are responsible for a cyclic destruction and rebirth of the universe, imbuing his butterfly motif with a strong sense of this trope.
• Butt-Monkey: 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.
• Camp Straight: 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.
• Character Catchphrase:
  • "(Jolly) good show!"
  • Sometimes turns into "Bad show... very bad show" when he's sad.
  • "Mordecai and Rigby, hellooo!" seems to be another one, said in his typical sing-songey voice.
• Character Overlap: He first appeared in one of two pre-Regular Show sketches that J. G. Quintel made called "The Naive Man from Lolliland."
  • 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.
  • In a nice bit of Mythology Gag 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 Book Ends to his development cycle, bringing Pops full circle from JG's student film.
• Cheerful Child: Well, child isn't the right word, but he has the mentality of one since he's cheerful, positive and optimistic thanks to Mordecai and Rigby.
• Childhood Brain Damage: 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.
• The Chosen One: To defeat Anti-Pops.
• 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.
• Clueless Boss: 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.
• Cool Car: His schway flight capable ride, Carmanita.
• Cool Old Guy: 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.
• Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: In "Really Real Wrestling", it turns out he used to wrestle. Turns out he's still really good at it too. Enough to beat a POLAR BEAR in "The Christmas Special".
• Cuddle Bug: Very openly affectionate with his friends, often expressing this affection with hugs. He even recited a poem about hugs in "Rap It Up".
• Cultured Badass: Surprisingly well-spoken/educated, and a formidable wrestler.
• The Cutie: 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.
• 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".
• Dirty Old Man: Implied in the episode "Party Pete". When a group of young, scantily-clad women start twerking around him, he looks thrilled to bits.
• Everyone Has Standards:
  • Pops is friendly and kind-hearted to a fault, but even he can't tolerate Quips' terrible and insulting jokes.
  • 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.
  • 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".
  • 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.
• Fatal Flaw: Naivety. Pops spent most of his life being sheltered and had anything his heart desired. While he is Spoiled Sweet 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. 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 Horrible Judge of Character and an Extreme Doormat.
• Foil:
  • 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 Extreme Doormat, has his head stuck in the clouds a great deal of the time, and he's an absolutely Horrible Judge of Character 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.
  • 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.
• Four-Temperament Ensemble: The Sanguine/Phlegmatic — He's gentle and reliable and is generally optimistic and upbeat.
• Friend to All Living Things: He loves butterflies and songbirds. According to Benson, Pops once helped a baby bird back into its nest.
• Funny Foreigner: He's ambiguously British, especially in earlier episodes, where he usually signed off by saying "Ta-ta!".
  "Oh, I adore Rock Paper Scissors! Except where I come from, it's called 'Quartz Parchment Shears'!"
  • A lot of his weirdness is a result of him being a foreigner. In the show's finale, he finds himself in Lolliland, his birthplace, where all of the inhabitants are just as silly and odd as himself.
• Genius Ditz: His wrestling skills. Also, his cherry tart, which won the pie contest for ten years in a row.
  • 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.
  • In the episode "Win That Prize", he reveals himself to be extremely cunning and manipulative when he wants/needs to be.
  • 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.
• Go Out with a Smile: 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.
• Happily Adopted: He turns out to be Mr. Maellard's adopted son, and despite the latter's personality, he and Pops had a loving relationship.
• The Heart: 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 Berserk Button.
• Heroic Sacrifice: 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.
• Hurl It into the Sun: Sacrifices himself by hugging Anti-Pops, weakening him with positive energy enough for Pops to restrain him as both fall into a star and die.
• I Am Very British: He is based off of stereotypes of English and Welsh people, uttering posh phrases such as "Jolly good show!" or "Ta-ta!"
• Incorruptible Pure Pureness: He's the good half of a Physical God.
• Innocent Blue Eyes: 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".
• Innocently Insensitive: For all of his virtues, Pops is a loony with No Social Skills 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).
• It Sucks to Be the Chosen One: He feels this way at first during his training with Earl. Everyone else comforts him that it's acceptable to be scared.
• Keet: Most of the time, he has a playful and cheery personality.
• Killed Off for Real: 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.
• Kindhearted Simpleton: The guy's a total flake (and also a crybaby), but is easily the nicest character in the whole show.
• The Klutz: Seems to be really prone to tripping over his own feet, bumping into things, and falling over. He usually just laughs about it.
• Let's Get Dangerous!: "...who wants to wrestle?" Curbstomping ensues.
• Literal-Minded: Inverted hilariously.
  Mordecai: That taxi's yellow!
  Pops: Yellow? My taxi is no coward, I assure you!
• Lovable Coward: 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.
• Made of Good: The real reason he's so nice is that he's the living conduit of goodness in the Regular Show universe.
• Manchild: He's a (super-)centenarian with the mind of a small child. However, his vocabulary is very formal.
• Manipulative Bastard: 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.
• Missing Mom: We first see his mother in 1879 in "Skips vs. Technology". But in the present time, we never see his mother throughout the show.
• Morality Pet: To pretty much the entire Park crew, just see the lengths they go to get him his birthday present in "Fuzzy Dice".
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Also to Mordecai and Rigby, since they always have to be nice to him to not hurt his feelings.
  • To his father. Mr. Maellard isn't usually kind to anyone, but has a couple Pet the Dog moments towards his son here and there.
• Mundane Object Amazement: Pops can summon up an inordinate level of awe for even the most boring task or object.
• Muscles Are Meaningless: Much stronger than his lanky 100+ year old frame suggests. This turns out to be foreshadowing of the fact he's actually an immensely powerful being.
• Near-Death Experience: Has one of these in the episode "Prankless", when a bed Muscle Man had taped to the ceiling falls on him and crushes him.
  • Happens near the beginning of "Catching the Wave". Due to his ridiculously top-heavy physique, he nearly broke his spine while surfing.
• Nice Guy: He is probably the single kindest and sweetest character in the entire show. Almost absurdly so.
• Nice Mean And In Between: The jolly, scatter-brained nice to Benson's mean and Skips' in-between.
• Nice to the Waiter: 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.
• Out of Focus: 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 Halloween Special). To contrast, in the first season, he was featured much more prominently than for example Muscle Man. This is then drastically reversed in the Finale Season, where Pops essentially becomes The Hero of the final storyline while Mordecai and Rigby are Supporting Protagonists.
• Papa Wolf: Towards Mordecai and Rigby on occasion, coming to their defense in "Really Real Wrestling" and "Think Positive".
• Performance Anxiety: He's absolutely terrified of public speaking.
• Physical God: 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.
• Pointy-Haired Boss:
  • 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.
  • Deconstructed 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.
• The Pollyanna: He is normally the most cheerful, positive and optimistic of the park crew.
• Prone to Tears: 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.
• Punny Name: 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.
• Reasonable Authority Figure: 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...
• Rich in Dollars, Poor in Sense: A more benevolent example of this trope. Still, he isn't all that bright.
• Secret Legacy: 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.
• Sheltered Aristocrat: He's lived in a first class community most of his life with little knowledge of the world.
• Shown Their Work: 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.
• Smart Ball: 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".
• Stronger Than They Look: 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.
• Supreme Chef: His cherry tart was the best pie in the pie contest, and he's won said contest 10 years in a row.
• Taking You with Me: 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.
• Team Mercy vs. Team Murder: 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. 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.
• Tender Tears: Frequently cries in emotionally charged moments.
• Together in Death: He and his brother Anti-Pops die while hugging each other as they fall into a star.
• Took a Level in Badass: Takes a huge one 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.
• Trademark Favorite Food: Implied. Whenever he gets his wallet, it always has a nice amount of lollipops in them.
• Vocal Evolution: 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.
• "Well Done, Son" Guy: He wanted to make his father proud in "Dizzy" with his public speech.
• Worthless Currency: One Running Gag 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".
• Wrestler in All of Us: He used to do wrestling when he was in high school/college. Almost 100 years later, he's still got it.

Fellow Coworkers

Skips

Walks "Skips"

"I've seen this before."

Voiced in English by: Mark Hamill

Voiced in Latin American Spanish by: Javier Rivero (Seasons 1-6), Raymundo Armijo (some Season 6 episodes), Mauricio Pérez (Seasons 7-8)
Debuted in: "Pilot"/Season 1, "The Power"

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.

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• The Ace: Most of the time. He's been adventuring and fighting evil for over 100 years. He even won an arm wrestling battle against The Grim Reaper.
• Achilles' Heel: 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.
• Berserk Button: 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".
  • 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.
  • A more minor one is usually when Mordecai and Rigby interfere with the supernatural. Often responding with the line "You fools!" when calling out their actions.
• Beware the Nice Ones: Skips is hardworking and levelheaded, and the last person you'd want to mess with.
• The Big Guy: The largest of the group of seven and physically the most powerful. He's more of a Gentle Giant (plus really smart to boot), but woe be you if you screw with him.
• Bigfoot, Sasquatch, and Yeti: A yeti.
• Blood Knight: 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 Desdimona the love of his life, though he'll still participate in battles if provoked.
• Bully Hunter: In "Skips' Story", he was the only one in school to stand up against Klorgbane and challenge him to a fight.
  Walks: Walks never walks away from a bully.
• Byronic Hero: In his younger days he was very temperamental, passionate and broody. Curiously enough, he went to school during the Romantic era (early 19th century).
• The Comically Serious: He is always serious despite putting up with the loony stuff that happens in the park.
• Confirmed Bachelor: 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.
• Cool Old Guy: The oldest guy in the cast and quite a cool customer.
• Cultured Badass: Quite nice and polite, as well as being a good fighter.
• Dark and Troubled Past: He was previously a Blood Knight 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 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.
• Deadpan Snarker: Not often, but whenever he makes a remark, he'll do it jovially. Him saying it with a straight face is rarer.
  Mordecai: Skips, how can we repay you?
  Skips: You remember that stuff I said about why I skip?
  Mordecai: Yeah.
  Skips: No, ya don't.
• The Eeyore: 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.
• Everyone Has Standards: Played for Laughs 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. He does recommend trying to utilize the natural rivalry between ducks and geese though.
• Everyone Went to School Together: 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).
• Expelled from Every Other School: "Skips' Story" reveals him to have been expelled from three high schools within a single year for constantly fistfighting.
  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?!
  Walks: Yeah, I might've done some of that.
  Headmaster Bennett: Well, one fight at my school, Mister Walks, and that means expulsion.
  Walks: Ooooh! School's ''worthless'' to an adventurer such as me!
  Headmaster Bennett: This is your last chance to graduate, Walks. Do you wish to remain a scoundrel or better yourself? Gareth!
• Former Teen Rebel: Skips was a brawler and a bad boy in his teens before his love for Mona softened him, and his guilt over her demise shaped him into the man he is today.
• Four-Temperament Ensemble: The Phlegmatic. He used to be more Melancholic/Choleric during his "Byronic" phase.
• Genius Bruiser: 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 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.
• Gentle Giant: Is one of the nicer characters on the show, as well as the strongest in the park.
• Half-Dressed Cartoon Animal: Rarely seen with a shirt on.
• Heroic Build: Just look at the guy! He's pretty much built like a brick wall.
• Heroic Willpower: 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.
• Hypercompetent Sidekick: 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.
• I Hate Past Me: Downplayed 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.
• Interspecies Romance: Him (a yeti) and Mona (a human).
• Kryptonite Factor: Even with his immortality, it turns out that an excess of stress without proper management can potentially kill him. Unless he kills it himself.
• The Lancer: Will act as the more laid-back Number Two to Benson when it comes to park management.
• Leaning on the Fourth Wall: 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.
• Lightning Bruiser: He's exactly as strong and agile as you'd expect a yeti who skips everywhere to be.
• Martial Pacifist: Skips avoids seeking out fights in the present day, having grown out of his Blood Knight 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.
  Skips: We tried it the nice way. Now we do it the Skips way.
• Meaningful Rename: 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. Skip's Story goes into more detail about this.
• Mr. Exposition: With his Seen It All nature, he usually provides info on whatever threat the park is facing.
• Mr. Fanservice: He's a muscular built yeti who wears no shirt.
• Mr. Fixit: 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.
• Muscles Are Meaningful: He is incredibly muscular and has the immense strength to back it up.
• My God, What Have I Done?: 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.
• Nice Guy: One of the nicer people in the park (though not quite to the level of the loony Pops). Although he's always serious.
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero:
  • Killing Rigby in an arm-wrestling competition in "Over The Top".
  • Again in "Sugar Rush", a fact that Rigby chides him about.
• Nice Mean And In Between: The in-between to Pops' nice and Benson's mean; he's serious and often stoic, but has a pretty soft spot.
• Not So Above It All: "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.
• Not So Stoic:
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Though Skips generally tries to avoid violence if its unnecessary, he gets visibly angered when Carl 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.
  • 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.
• Older Than They Look: He made a deal in order to obtain eternal youth.
  • "Skips' Story" later reveals how he got his immortality, but doesn't reveal when exactly the story takes place.
    • 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.
• Only Sane Man: Pretty much one of two only sane people who work at the park. Although even he has a tendency to slip up at times.
• Perpetual Frowner: Rarely seen smiling, but don't let it trick you.
• Rage Breaking Point: 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.
• Reasonable Authority Figure: 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.
• Rebellious Spirit: 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.
• Romanticism Versus Enlightenment: Skips is the Romantic to Techmo's Enlightened, as lampshaded by "Skips vs. Technology".
• Seen It All: 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 due to being Really 700 Years Old.
• The Smart Guy: Fills this role whenever Muscle Man has The Big Guy role. He can fix almost anything (except computers), and comes off as the wisest of the team.
• Stealth Pun: His name is Skips and he's very bulky, but is also a Top-Heavy Guy, which ironically enough you could say is because he skips leg day.
• The Stoic: His default facial expression is rather solemn, and it takes a bit for him to crack.
• Sugar-and-Ice Personality: Gruff, quiet and sardonic. But fun if you get to know him.
• Super-Strength: 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.
• Token Immortal: The only member of the core cast to possess immortality, having been so for at least two centuries.
• Top-Heavy Guy: He has a Heroic Build and thin legs.
• Tragic Keepsake: He still keeps the heart-shaped locket he gave to Mona after her death.
• Undying Loyalty: 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 "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue, where it's revealed that he and Benson are the only ones to still work at the park.
• Unstoppable Rage: 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.
• Vocal Evolution: His voice was a lot more gruff in the pilot.
• Walking Techbane: 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.
• Who Wants to Live Forever?: Subverted. Skips accepts his immortality specifically because the one reason he wouldn't want to live forever already passed on before he gained it.
• You Fool!: He sometimes does one when Mordecai and Rigby unleash the supernatural.
  Skips: You fools! Destroyer of Worlds will kill us all!
• Your Size May Vary: 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.

Muscle Man

Mitchell "Mitch" "Muscle Man" Sorenstein

"You know who ELSE has a character page? MY MOM!!"

Voiced in English by: Sam Marin

Voiced in Latin American Spanish by: Manuel Bueno
Debuted in: "Pilot"/Season 1, "Just Set Up the Chairs"

An ironically-named, short, out-of-shape guy, who has a hicklike lifestyle.

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• The Ace: 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.
• Achilles in His Tent: 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.
• Acrofatic: There are times, especially during an episode's climax, where Muscle Man shows this. Despite his short and fat build, he is very strong. And as shown in "Slam Dunk" he's actually a good athlete, when he smokes Mordecai and Rigby at basketball. Several times.
• Amazing Technicolor Population: He has natural green skin.
• Amazon Chaser: 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".
• Ambiguously Human: 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.
• Ambiguously Jewish: 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. 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".
• Animal Motif: Pigs. Much of Muscle Man's character pretty much screams pigs. Fat Slob? Check. Has a nose shaped like a pig's? Check. Has very poor manners and a Big Eater? Check. Squeals like a pig during some moments in the show? Check. Is his home pretty much a pigsty? Check.
• Artifact Name: While his nickname Muscle Man is assumed to be ironic by Mordecai and other characters, it actually comes from the time he used to be a bodybuilder.
• Ascended Extra: Since season 2, he has had more regular appearances.
• Ax-Crazy: To say that Muscle Man is emotionally unstable and violent when pissed off is an extreme understatement.
• Babies Ever After: 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.
• Battle Couple: Whenever he and Starla are in a brawl, they make an effective fighting team.
• Because You Were Nice to Me: 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.
• Berserk Button:
  • Do not make jokes about his mom.
  • Don't spill soda on him. It will most certainly lead to your Disproportionate Retribution, 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.
  • 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.
• Beware the Silly Ones: Muscle Man may seem like an idiot, but with the occasional bout of Super-Strength, a serious vindictive streak, and Chessmaster level smarts at times, it's wise to avoid his ire.
• Big Eater: Muscle Man is most often eating something in his hands or eating a large portion of a meal.
• Big Fun: A stout, fat guy with a penchant for pranks and a lot of energy.
• The Big Guy: 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.
• Big Man on Campus: "New Bro on Campus" shows that Muscle Man used to be the most popular guy in high school.
• Boisterous Bruiser: He's very tough, obnoxious, and loves to throw his weight around. Sometimes literally.
• Bunny-Ears Lawyer: Despite his goofiness, he is a fairly competent employee and has a lot of responsibilities at the park.
• Character Catchphrase:
  • "You know who else __________? MY MOM!"
  • "Oh no, bro!"
  • Often says "LATER, LADIES!!" or "LATER, GRANDMAS!!" before exiting a scene.
• Character Development: He becomes friendlier towards Mordecai and Rigby since season 3.
• Characterization Marches On: 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.
• Charles Atlas Superpower: Do not get Muscle Man mad. His strength increases to insane proportions when he does for some inexplicable reason.
• The Chessmaster: Surprisingly, Muscle Man is more than capable of pulling off a multilayer 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".
• Defiant to the End: 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 Evil Overlord before being erased out of existence.
• Does Not Like Spam: He hates anything salad related.
• Drill Sergeant Nasty: 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.
• Dude, Not Funny!:
  • 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.
  • In "Guy's Night", the other employees have this reaction when Muscle Man starts jovially chanting "911! 911!" after Pops has passed out.
  • He gets really angry when someone insults his mom, despite doing so being his catchphrase.
• Dumb Muscle: He has Stout Strength, 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.
• Everyone Has Standards:
  • 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.
  • Early on in The Movie, 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. He also would never listen to orchestra music.
• Fan Disservice: Played for Laughs. He is noted to be quite ugly due to his Gonk appearance, which gets amplified when he acts like a Fat Slob.
• Fat and Proud: 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 since another episode has him mention being overweight when lamenting about his flaws.
• Fat Bastard: He's heavyset and can become like this when he's the episode's antagonist.
• Fat Best Friend: To Hi-Five Ghost.
• Fat Idiot: He's one of those characters that seems to think he's smarter than he really is.
• Fat Slob: He's overweight, slovenly, lazy, and gluttonous.
• 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 Nice Guy, but he's also irresponsible, is Vitriolic Best Buds 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.
• Four-Temperament Ensemble: The Choleric/Sanguine — A prankster with a short fuse.
• Friend in the Black Market: 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.
• Fun Personified: He absolutely 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".
• 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.
• Generation Xerox: He's pretty much his father right down to his love of parks and working a menial job. By the finale of the series, he even dresses like him.
• Genius Ditz:
  • "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.
  • 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.
  • Played for Laughs in the book "Muscle Man's Guide to Life", in which he mentions that he plays chess with Pops on a regular basis, then comments, "What — you didn't think I knew how?"
• Gonk:
  • Downplayed. He's the most consistently unattractive man in the cast, but its more owed to his slobbish behavior. When he actually dresses himself properly and combs his hair, he more resembles a Big Beautiful Man.
  • In-Universe, he's the only park worker considered ugly enough to be affected by the black hole of ugliness in "Men in Uniform".
• Green and Mean: He is a green-skinned man who can be quite violent, unpredictable, and petty.
• Happily Married: 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 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 Distant Finale shows they're still married and now have many more kids.
• Heterosexual Life-Partners: 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.
• Hidden Depths:
  • In "Exit 9B", it's revealed that he's somehow qualified to teach quantum physics.
  • In "Killit Radio", he shows himself to be a rather good guitarist/songwriter.
• Hot-Blooded: 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.
• 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.
• I Was Quite a Looker: 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.
• Insufferable Imbecile: 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 endangers his life in episodes like "Dead at Eight". Though much like Rigby, he also eventually Took a Level in Kindness.
• Ironic Nickname: Subverted. He seems to be anything but muscular. It turns out that he used to be very muscular, and even though he's fat now, he's still ridiculously strong.
• Irony: One episode shows that he was afraid of going bald. By the finale, that's exactly what happens.
• Jabba Table Manners: Almost everyone finds his eating repulsive, especially with chicken wings. In "Fancy Restaurant", he has to learn how to eat in an appropriate manner.
  Muscle Man: (stuffing himself with chicken wings) Are you sure you guys don't want anything?
  Mordecai: (grossed out) Uh, no thanks. Water's good.
• Jerkass to One: 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 Thomas the most. It make sense, given how they came to work at the park after him.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: 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.
• Kavorka Man: Despite his sloppy behavior and appearance, Muscle Man is surprisingly popular with the ladies.
  • First and foremost, there's his main love interest, Starla. And they are deeply in love with one another.
  • When he started flexing his pecs, many women (including Margaret and Eileen) were enamored by it.
  • During his high school years, a lot of girls were attracted to him.
• Large Ham: "WOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
• Like Parent, Like Spouse: Like Muscle Man, Starla's parents are ill-mannered, good fighters, and love the chicken wings from Wing Kingdom.
• Lookalike Lovers: He and Starla look almost exactly alike despite not being blood related.
• Manly Man and Sensitive Guy: The... well... Manly Man to Five's Sensitive Guy.
• Meaningful Name:
  • He actually is very muscular, but it's covered by a thick layer of flab.
  • In "Power Tower" it's revealed that the nickname is from his bodybuilder days before he let himself get out of shape.
• 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.
• Minor Injury Overreaction: When Rigby accidentally spilled soda on him (twice), he goes ballistic.
• Moral Myopia: Played for Laughs. He makes fun of his mother all the time, but when Mordecai and Rigby do so to him, he gets furious. Subverted when it turns out he was just pranking them.
• My God, What Have I Done?: 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.
• N-Word Privileges: 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.
• No Celebrities Were Harmed: He is basically either Danny McBride or John Belushi with green skin and "My Mom" jokes.
• No Indoor Voice: Easily has the loudest voice of the main cast.
• Official Couple: With Starla, and the two are engaged and married by the season 6 finale.
• Oh, Crap!: His catchphrase, "Oh no, bro!". When he's aware he messed up big time, he'll react like that.
• The Pig-Pen: Even worse than Rigby. Muscle Man hardly showers, doesn't know proper table manners, and has a messy trailer.
• The Prankster: "Prankless" puts him firmly into his prankster status. "Ugly Moons" has him become the best prankster in the entire galaxy.
• Psychopathic Manchild: 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.
• Real Men Wear Pink: 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.
• Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!: 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.
• Sore Loser: He will make someone's life an utter hell if he loses at something.
• Stealth Pun: Muscle Man is a green-skinned humanoid who likes to mess with and torment the other characters. He's a troll, both literally and figuratively.
• The Stoner: Invoked 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.
• Stout Strength: He doesn't look super strong, just really fat, but he's the second strongest guy in the park, next to Skips.
• Super-Strength:
  • His name isn't for show, you know.
  • In "The Night Owl", he defeats several guards by physical means and knocks out The Night Owl with a single punch.
  • 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.
  • When angered, he's able to rip buildings out of the ground and throw them.
• Talk to the Fist: 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.
• Tears of Joy: When he returns from space and Starla introduces him to his daughter for the first time.
• Thin-Skinned Bully: He'll prank and tease others mercilessly, but he clearly can't take getting pranked or teased himself (unless it's his father), often going on a rampage in the process.
• Those Two Guys: Muscle Man is often accompanied by Hi-Five Ghost.
• Token Human: Of the main characters. Maybe.
• Token Minority Couple: He and Starla (along with their families) are the only short, green skinned people in the series.
• Took a Level in Kindness: 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.
• Trademark Favorite Food: Muscle Man is a Big Eater in general, but he seems to have a particular affinity for Wing Kingdom chicken wings.
• Trash of the Titans: His trailer is an utter dump, as it contains old pizza boxes, used soda cans, dirty laundry, and other sorts of junk.
• Unstoppable Rage: Whenever Muscle Man starts squealing like a pig it's a bad idea to stand in his way or someone might get hurt.
  Muscle Man: YEAH! FRY IT UP, EVERYONE! FRY UP EVERYTHING!!!
• Verbal Tic: Muscle Man squeals whenever he's angry or when he's in trouble.
• Violently Protective Girlfriend: Gender Inverted. No one harms and/or disrespects Starla in front of him.
• Vocal Evolution: 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.
• What the Hell, Hero?: 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.
• Work Hard, Play Hard: Muscle Man is very hardworking during his shifts that require a lot of effort and strength. During his free time, he binges on junk food and soda, plays with the golf cart, and goofs around with Mordecai and Rigby.
• Your Mom: 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.
• Xanatos Gambit: Some of the pranks he pulls off nearly require clairvoyance with their absurd specificity.

Hi-Five Ghost

Hi-Five Ghost

Voiced in English by: Jeff Bennett (debut), J.G. Quintel (rest)

Voiced in Latin American Spanish by: Alan Bravo (Season 1), Alejandro Urbán (Seasons 2-4), Eduardo Ramírez (Seasons 5-8)
Debuted in: "Pilot"/Season 1, "Just Set Up the Chairs"

Muscle Man's perpetually nervous ghost-looking friend who hi-fives him a lot.

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• Affectionate Nickname: His friends often refer to him as Fives.
• Babies Ever After: He and Celia have a son together by the series finale.
• Big Man on Campus: "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.
• Birds of a Feather: 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.
• Boy Meets Girl: How he meets Celia fits this trope nicely.
• A Day in the Limelight: "The Postcard". Only took you five seasons, HFG!
• Does Not Like Spam: HFG actually doesn't like chicken wings and most likely pretends to like them due to his friendship with Muscle Man.
• Dub Name Change: 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, 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.
• Everyone Has Standards: 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.
• Four-Fingered Hands: Ironically, Fives has only four digits on each arm.
• Four-Temperament Ensemble: The Phlegmatic/Sanguine — he doesn't do much aside from participating in Muscle Man's pranks.
• Heterosexual Life-Partners: 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.
• Hidden Depths: "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 Benson most of the time.
• Intangible Man: 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.
• Interspecies Romance: He (a ghost) and Celia (a human).
• Light Is Good: HFG is a white ghost and is quite friendly.
• Manly Man and Sensitive Guy: The sensitive guy to Muscle Man's manly man.
• Meaningful Name: As his name implies, he gives high fives and is a ghost.
• Morality Pet: 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.
• Multi-Armed and Dangerous: He (and his family) can apparently form extra arms when needed. He once appeared with five.
• Nice Guy: He's a decent and friendly person.
• Only Sane Man: 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.
  • That said, this is mostly played for laughs, since HFG is normally more than willing to go along with Muscle Man's antics.
• Our Ghosts Are Different: It's not clear whether HFG is living or undead. His family also consists of ghosts, and they all live normal lives.
• Out of Focus: 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.
• Perpetual Smiler: He's usually seen with a huge grin on his face.
• The Promise: 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.
• The Quiet One: 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.
• Satellite Character:
  • Hi-Five Ghost is excluded from a lot of the park group's activities, serving mostly as an accessory to Muscle Man. 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.
  • "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.
• Sibling Yin-Yang: With Low-Five Ghost. HFG is quiet and shy while LFG talks more often and is outgoing.
• Strong Family Resemblance:
  • Aside from his older brother having stubble, having Cool Shades, and wearing a hat, they look a lot alike.
  • HFG has a strong resemblance to his father. The only difference being his father is visibly older with wrinkles and a beard.
• Vocal Evolution: When J.G. Quintel took over for Jeff Bennett, Quintel's voice zigzags between sounding like a pitched-up Mordecai and sounding like himself during the "embarrassing voice cracking" stage of male puberty.

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