History Characters / Lackadaisy

-->'''Voiced by:''' Ashley Nichols

-->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/LisaReimold

* DoesNotLikeShoes: Frequently doesn't wear any shoes, which stands out in a world of anthropomorphic cats who mostly go around fully dressed.

* LittleBitBeastly: She has very little cat influence in her face, especially compared to Ivy, who is [[CatSmile very feline]] and also female. She even has tiny whiskers, while the rest of the cast have very long ones.

* MeaningfulName: Named after what Creator/GrouchoMarx's character in ''Film/ADayAtTheRaces'', also a horse doctor, was going to be called (before they changed it to Hackenbush after finding several real doctors of the same name).

* Foil: To Rocky, as outlined above, but also arguably with Mitzi. Both were plucked out of obscurity by Atlas and through their interactions with him, changed from their younger to their current incarnations (Mordecai went from an amateur criminal runaway to a sharp-dressing ruthless triggerman, and Mitzi went from playing in the band to Atlas' glamourous wife who holds her nerve during shootouts), but act as foils in their reactions to Atlas' death and their relationships with the remaining Lackadaisy crew: Mordecai wanted to physically force Viktor to retire and kneecapped him, then immediately left the Lackadaisy with the assumption it would stop operating so he could investigate Atlas' death/murder. Mitzi refused to let go of the Lackadaisy, and let Viktor keep working behind the bar. Both seem to want to keep Viktor safe but neither asks his opinion about it, Mordecai focusing on his physical state with Mitzi prioritising his mental well being in allowing him to keep working. They are also foils in how first appearances disguise their true selves - on first appearance Mordecai is cold and rational to a fault, but is much more driven by emotion than he would want to admit (repaying his debt to Atlas and trying to ensure he'll never have to outright kill Viktor himself by putting him out of harm's way) and Mitzi appears to be hanging onto Atlas' lost legacy but is willing to do increasingly immoral and cold things for the Lackadaisy's survival (potentially seducing Wick solely for his money, stealing from him later on, employing anyone she can get as her staff regardless of how competent they are).

* TheDreaded: Developed this at a pretty young age - when relating the story of an early job Viktor and Mordecai did for Atlas, Bobby refers to Mordecai as ''the other one''. This was when, as also described by Bobby, Mordecai wasn't much older than the [[PluckyGirl teenaged Ivy]].

* {{Foil}}: As a competitor for Mitzi's regard, Wick is everything that Rocky is not; well put together both materially and mentally, wealthy, self-assured...

* TotallyNotACriminalFront: By day, Mitzi and her employees run the Little Daisy Cafe. By night, they operate the Lackadaisy speakeasy in the caves beneath the restaurant.

* TotallyNotACriminalFront: By day, Asa Sweet and his colleagues run the Maribel Hotel. By night, they oversee the Marigold speakeasy contained therein.

* LegitimateBusinessmensSocialClub: By day, Mitzi and her employees run the Little Daisy Cafe. By night, they operate the Lackadaisy speakeasy in the caves beneath the restaurant.

* LegitimateBusinessmensSocialClub: By day, Asa Sweet and his colleagues run the Maribel Hotel. By night, they oversee the Marigold speakeasy contained therein.

* NoLoveForTheWicked: Justified. Mordecai has shown no interest in romantic or sexual interest in any women, mainly due to a combination of his Jewish upbringing ([[TruthInTelevision In very conservative Jewish communities, unrelated men and women do not touch each other or spend time alone.]]) and a NoodleIncident regarding a cranial injury.

* MasterOfUnlocking: He [[http://lackadaisy.foxprints.com/comic.php?comicid=151 picks the lock]] on the door of a pool hall hiding a speakeasy.

* JerkToOne: Downplayed, but he is this towards Wick. Notable even in the animated pilot where he seems to veer the car to damage the 'Sable Stone and Quarry Inc' sign on purpose and slaps him on the back particularly hard while passively aggressively calling him 'old sport'.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He's a toxic influence for Freckle and leads his cousin into a life of crime, but seems to legitimately care about him, and is kind to just about everyone (except Wick).

* WhenSheSmiles: Well, a real, non-SlasherSmile, non-TheUnsmile smile, that is. His small smile at the end of [[http://lackadaisy.foxprints.com/exhibit.php?exhibitid=433 "Lackadaisy Critique"]] after recalling a memory with his younger sister, Rose, is surprisingly sweet.

* PointyHairedBoss: Rather than ''being'' one half of a pair of enforcers as he was at Lackadaisy, Mordecai's new position as Asa Sweet's [[TheDragon right-hand man]] at the much larger Marigold gang has him managing a set of his own, overkill-happy bandits called the Savoys. He is depicted as being near-universally ''terrible'' at reining them in, with NoSocialSkills to judge when they'll steamroll him, or otherwise ignore his orders, a fact they readily {{Exploit|ed}} to do anything from hazing him to ''scarring'' him.

* PointyHairedBoss: Rather than ''being'' one half of a pair of enforcers as he was at Lackadaisy, Mordecai's new position as Asa Sweet's [[TheDragon right hand man]] at the much larger Marigold gang has him managing a set of his own, overkill-happy bandits called the Savoys. He is depicted as being near-universally ''terrible'' at reining them in, with NoSocialSkills to judge when they'll steamroll him, or otherwise ignore his orders, a fact they readily {{Exploit|ed}} to do anything from hazing him to ''scarring'' him.

* SelectiveSqueamishnessSuppression: Mordecai is an extremely fastidious and tidy person...who you first see in blood splattered underwear, having just chopped someone up with a hatchet.
* SesquipedalianLoquaciousness: Occasionally. It goes with the looks-like-a-bookkeeper territory, although an extra shows him being just as long-winded when he was younger.

* NoLoveForTheWicked: Justified. Mordecai has shown no interest in romantic or sexual interest in any women, mainly due to a combination of his Jewish upbringing[[note]][[TruthInTelevision In very conservative Jewish communities, unrelated men and women do not touch each other or spend time alone.]][[notes]] and a NoodleIncident regarding a cranial injury.

* BanteringBaddieBuddies: Mordecai and Viktor used to be partners in crime when they worked for Atlas May, though after the death of Atlas, Viktor stayed with his widow Mitzi whereas Mordecai joined the Marigold Gang. Mordecai is an eloquent, well-dressed WickedCultured assassin, whereas Viktor is large, intimidating and [[TheStoic stoic]]. In flashback scenes where we see the two of them working together, Mordecai sometimes goes into rants, to which Viktor responds with brief, snarky answers.

* BilingualBonus: ''[[http://lackadaisy.foxprints.com/exhibit.php?exhibitid=30 KUS VOLA! ZABIJEM T'A!]]'' (Translation: 'You piece of ox! I'll kill you!'; in Slovak, calling someone a 'piece of ox' is a common insult, similar calling someone a jackass or a son of a bitch in English.)

* DeathGlare: One of his primary expressions, and he wields it like a shotgun. Rocky thinks that his single eye lets him focus his emotions into a [[PowerOfHate hate-based]] [[EyeBeams eye-laser]], since he can just about etch plate steel with his glower power.

* DirtyBusiness: Implied. In a flashback, Viktor viciously kills several rival bootleggers and sets their cabin on fire. He's shown leaving the cabin with a melancholy look on his face, as if troubled by what he has become.

* FreudianExcuse: His upbringing was filled with plenty of hardships and tragedies, and it only got worse when being recruited by Atlas.

* HuskyRusskie: Well, he's not actually Russian, he's Slovakian, but the accent is similar enough when rendered in text, so the general effect is much the same. He's a large grizzled man whose spent his adult life fighting and killing, the visual aspect of the trope is starkly evident when [[https://www.lackadaisycats.com/exhibit.php?exhibitid=367 depicted without feline traits]] and there's even a comedic side comic that depicts him [[https://www.lackadaisycats.com/exhibit.php?exhibitid=487 punching a bear.]]

* MadeOfIron: He takes a shotgun to the chest fighting the pig farmers, but still manages to kill one of them (possibly barehanded) before collapsing. Though since then he's been on bedrest.

* NoBadassToHisValet: His relationship with Ivy in a nutshell. He may be a grizzled war veteran, a speakeasy hitman/employee, and all-around grump who can punch anyone who annoys him, but Ivy still considers him a friend of hers.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: "Lackadaisy Anodyne" features several moments in which the normally grim Viktor displays uncharacteristic emotions. [[spoiler:Viktor covers his left eye with his hand, then looks through his fingers at a photo of his daughter. It's the first time readers see fear in his eye. When he accidentally drops the photo on the floor and it falls between the floorboards, he looks uncharacteristically anguished. Viktor is so determined to retrieve the photo that he braves the basement stairs to locate it, despite his bad knees. When he answers the phone and speaks with Elsa, his facial expression is one of pain, sorrow, and relief at once.]]

* PerpetualFrowner: His default expression is frowning; Ivy is one of the only people to make him smile.

** During a siege on a rival gang's cabin, Mordecai drops his glasses. Viktor retrieves the glasses amidst the chaos and returns them to Mordecai afterwards.

* PutOnABus: He spends most of Volume 2 bedridden with pneumonia, since he was shot in the first Volume.

* RetiredBadass: Not quite retired. Viktor's got only one eye and bad knees, and his official job is as bartender. He can still hold his own in a fight though, and Lackadaisy's dire situation brings him out from behind the bar regularly.

Previously a member of Lackadaisy and Viktor's partner-in-crime, but left the gang on pretty bad terms after Atlas was killed (which he seems to know some truth about). He now works as a bootlegger and hit man for former rival Marigold, though he doesn't look too happy to be there either.

* BadassLongcoat: Occassionaly wears a long coat, he wears one rather prominently in the animated pilot that inceases his menace.
* BanteringBaddieBuddies: He and Viktor used to be partners in crime when they worked for Atlas May, though after the death of Atlas, Viktor stayed with his widow Mitzi whereas Mordecai joined the Marigold Gang. Mordecai is an eloquent, well-dressed WickedCultured assassin, whereas Viktor is large, intimidating and [[TheStoic stoic]]. In flashback scenes where we see the two of them working together, Mordecai sometimes goes into rants, to which Viktor responds with brief, snarky answers.

* CantHoldHisLiquor: The one time Mordecai consumed alcohol, it hit him like a freight train. After drinking Bunny Hugs (cocktails made from gin and absinthe), Mordecai was slurring his speech and fawning on Viktor. He hasn't touched alcohol since.

* DidntThinkThisThrough: Mordecai shot Sniffles because Sniffles was dripping mucus everywhere. Vitkor pointed out that shooting Sniffles made their vehicle even dirtier.

** In the animation pilot, he has a clear shot on Ivy as the Lackadaisy gang attempts to escape, but ultimately refuses to take it even though it means letting them escape with the booze.

** He assures Mitzi that he has told no one the story behind Atlas' death, since the circumstances were between Mitzi and himself.

* HatesBeingTouched: On several occasions, Mordecai has shown extreme discomfort at being touched. When Asa affectionately elbows him, he pulls away. He initially refuses to let Elsa treat his injuries, and only consents once she injects him with morphine. He's stiff as a board and visibly uneasy when a woman pressures him into dancing with her. When he first meets the Maitre Carrefour cult, he's uncomfortable when Zulie touches him. During a foray at Gracie Grumbach's speakeasy, he frowns and folds his arms when Gracie places a hand on his shoulder (and looks uncomfortable when Gracie pats him down during their first meeting).

* ImprobableAimingSkills: The animation portrays him pulling off some impressive shots, including one that would probably have killed one of the Lackadaisy trio if Rocky hadn't grabbed the wheel and nailing Freckle with one shot in a darkened area at night.

* JewishAndNerdy: Confirmed by Tracy to be jewish, and by far one of the smartest characters and a bookworm who prefers [[http://www.lackadaisycats.com/exhibit.php?exhibitid=398 doing matrix math on waffles rather than eating them]].

The residents and owners of a funeral home in Defiance, Missouri. The family consist of Bobby Bastian, British-born war vet of portly build, his lovely ex-nurse wife Elsa, and her brother Reverend Abelard Arbogast, who has yet to realize that he's a little late to the Second Great Awakening. They aid the Lackadaisy gang by using their unassuming hearse as a means for booze transport.

* HappilyMarried: For a couple who met after a horrible war, and are now living in a farm called [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Defiance]], they're pretty happy together.
* KnightOfCerebus: An unintentional example. Being the first people to cause an injury on Rocky which is ''not'' PlayedForLaughs resulted in a darker tone shift for the overall webcomic.

A former army nurse who lives with her brother and husband in Defiance and sells high quality booze to criminal orginizations with them.

* LonersAreFreaks: Averted. While Elsa has such a need for privacy and seclusion her entire family moved to the middle of nowhere for it, she proves herself to be one of the kinder and wiser characters in her brief appearance.

* TheStoic: Faced with all manner of danger and excitement Elsa's expressions can be generalized as world weary. This even extends to the extra with studies of her face rendered as human, where unlike other such pages which are full of amusing expression studies her expressions are [[https://www.lackadaisycats.com/exhibit.php?exhibitid=369 all very mild.]]

* FunetikAksent: Mostly [[AvertedTrope averted]] with Bobby, as there were few sign of his British background until his bio came out except his use of stereotypical Britishisms like "bloody", "blimey", "right proper", and "chaps". He does say "awright" though.

* GoodOldFisticuffs: Gracie holds his own against Nico during a fist fight. Nico's blows don't even slow him down.
* HiddenDepths: [[spoiler:"Lackadaisy Confessional" reveals that Gracie was in and out of trouble as a young man, and that his uncle was the only person who looked out for him. Gracie feels enormous guilt over his uncle's death, and nearly wept while recounting the story to Mordecai. He's heartbroken than all of his efforts and sacrifices as a federal informant have been for nothing, and wants something positive to come out of his actions.]]

* TheMole: [[spoiler:When Gracie was arrested for grand larceny, Revenue and Prohibition agents arranged for a plea deal. In return, they expected Gracie to give them information on his uncle's speakeasy and gambling ring.]]

* TheBartender: He tends bar at the speakeasy.

* {{Nephewism}}: She took in Rocky, while his mother was sick (and later on passed away) and his dad being nowhere to be found.

* ProperLady: She acts as such, to a degree that her son (and nephew) can be terrified of her, with Rocky refusing to let FlapperGirl Ivy meet her.

* TextileWorkIsFeminine: One comic displays her using sewing machine.

* VillainousWidowsPeak: Inverted; he's a treasurer with the FBI, and the worst thing he does is snarks.

A doctor that the Lackadaisy cast call on to help them when medical expertise is required, being much more discreet than a hospital--although pricey.

* DrJerk: He demands payment upfront when Ivy tries to call in a favor. (Apparently they owe ''him''.)

* PajamaCladHero: Well, a doctor; Ivy calls him out in the middle of the night. His character page on the site describes him as a "horse doctor by day and a pajama wearing gangster doctor by night".

Viktor's kindly, well-meaning and senile Slovak neighbour.

* EvilOldFolks: Tracy has jokingly said Mrs. Bapka is a hardened criminal - because she disposes of [[FelonyMisdemeanor food products down the sink drain]]. In reality she's a very sweet yet senile old lady.

* PassiveAggressiveCombat: While drinking at Lackadaisy, he repeatedly makes passive aggressive comments to Wick and Mitzi.

* OddFriendship: The deranged Virgil and smooth Zib somehow know each other. Virgil seems to like Zib. Zib pours his heart out to Virgil while intoxicated, shares some liquor out of a flask with him, then posts Virgil's bail when they're both incarcerated.

* AllJewsAreAshkenazi: Word of God states that Tzipporah and Isaac (Mordecai's parents) were German-Jewish immigrants to the U.S.

* DeathOfAChild: Hannah (Mordecai's infant sister who appears in an old photograph) who died in infancy, according to Tracy in a [[https://www.littledaisycafe.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=681&p=901232#p901232 forum discussion.]]

* SiblingRivalry: Esther and Mordecai exhibit this in "The Art of War". Esther sneaks up on Mordecai and smacks him with a feather duster, after which Mordecai holds her back with his hand. Esther reveals that she swept up spider webs with the duster and sprinkles spiders on him.

* HatesBeingTouched: On several occasions, Mordecai has shown extreme discomfort at being touched. When Asa affectionately elbows him, he pulls away. He initially refuses to let Elsa treat his injuries, and only consents once she injects him with morphine. He's stiff as a board and visibly uneasy when a woman pressures him into dancing with her. When he first meets the Maitre Carrefour cult, he's uncomfortable when Zulie touches him. During a foray at Gracie Grumbach's speakeasy, he frowns and folds his arms when Gracie places a hand on his shoulder.

* MeaningfulName: What a character of Groucho Marx was going to be called (before they changed it to Hackenbush). He was also a horse doctor.