Matilda

In a voiceover of the Angry Birds Toons episode "Run Chuck Run", Matilda's voice actor Antti LJ Pääkkönen referred to her as Matilda McTilson. The canoncity of this fact is unknown. is a character that appears in the Angry Birds series. She is a chicken who can lay explosive eggs.In the Infinity Acceptance Center entrance, there is a certificate stating she is a "Free Rage Chicken", which is a play on words for "free range". She also has an explosive egg bomb ability in most of her game and media appearances.
Originally, Matilda lived on Bird Island, where she gave "anger management classes", a series of classes made to pacify birds with an unstable anger. Among those birds were Red, Chuck, Bomb, and Terence, the latter of whom eventually married Matilda and now has four children with her. Currently, Matilda lives on Piggy Island, taking care of the eggs she and her friends found there. 
==Appearance ==
Matilda classic.png|Matilda in the original Angry Birds
Classic-Toons Matilda.png|Matilda in the Year of the Dragon Short Movie
ANGRY BIRDS GO MATILDA CGI.png|Matilda in Angry Birds Go!
ABEpicMatilda.png|Matilda in Angry Birds Epic
AB2 Matilda.png|Matilda in Angry Birds 2
ABPOP Blast Matilda.png|Matilda in Angry Birds POP Blast
Originally, Matilda is an egg-shaped bird who was covered in white feathers. She has a large, oval beak, two small eyes, yellow spots on her cheeks, and three short, black feathers on her head and on her tail. This design was common until 2013, and it has become rare since then.
First seen in the Angry Birds Coca-Cola short, Matilda received a different design. While she keeps the white, egg-shaped body and the large beak from her previous design, her eyes are larger and completely round, and have small eyelashes on them. Her crest and tail feathers were modified as well, being black feathers with pink, round ends. In addition, she now has two feathers on her tail instead of three. The yellow spots on her cheeks were replaced with pink spots, which were implied to be make-up.Hand, Jeff (April 8, 2016). "Romance in a Bottle". Angry Birds Toons. Season 3. Episode 21.
In The Angry Birds Movie, Matilda was redesigned once again to be given an anthropomorphic body. Now, her torso is connected to her cone-shaped head without a neck. She now has four larger, more detailed feathers on her crest, and three ones on her tail. In addition, her tail also has three long, curled hair-like feathers. Other minor changes include her eyes being colored green instead of black, and her beak being smaller and with a different shape.
==Personality==
thumb|left|250px|Matilda's profile, from Toy Care's 3D Toothbrush product presentation.
Matilda is a very considerate, caring woman, with a great adoration for peace, and a great dislike for violence and destruction. With a maternal-like figure, she educates people with a reprehensible behavior, most notably ChuckPreddy, Richard (February 22, 2015). "Slow the Chuck Down!". Angry Birds Toons. Season 2. Episode 19. and the Blues.Carney, Ian; Guaglione, Eric (May 12, 2013). "Do as I Say!". Angry Birds Toons. Season 1. Episode 9. Sometime ago, she also gave "anger management classes", to calm down unstable people. However, she is also very firm, and can be somewhat bossy.
In addition, Matilda has a notable respect for nature and animals, talking to the latter and ignoring other people while doing so. She spends most of her time taking care of her garden and watering her plants and vegetables, an activity that she finds calming.Carney, Ian (June 9, 2013). "Gardening with Terence". Angry Birds Toons. Season 1. Episode 13. She is also a great fan of water gardens, and has wanted one for a long time.
Despite her peace-seeking persona, Matilda is very short-tempered, which is why other people respect and fear her. Whenever she is mocked, disobeyed, or someone does something she finds dislikeable,Dakin, Glenn (December 25, 2015). "Happy Hippy". Angry Birds Toons. Season 3. Episode 25. she will burst into anger, completely losing her peaceful mindset, and proceeding to fight them. This does not mean that Matilda is a hypocrite, but that she cannot control herself when she is angry. When she realizes that her anger has hurt one of her friends, which is against her normal persona, she will revert to her peaceful demeanor and find a way to apologize said person.Kenworthy, Stuart (November 24, 2013). "Clash of Corns". Angry Birds Toons. Season 1. Episode 37. Whenever she sees her own garden being destroyed, she is greatly hurt, leading her to cry or act incredibly furious. She is also very sensitive, bursting into tears when other people tell her, for example, that her food tastes awful.
==Powers and abilities==
Perhaps Matilda's signature ability is her being able to lay explosive eggs, which she can use to deal significant damage to structures and knock down enemies. The cause of this remains unknown. She is also known for her knowledge of magic and healing skills, which she can use to cure her allies and curse her enemies. Matilda can also play the saxophone quite well. However in the movie, she shoots violet fireballs instead of explosive eggs.
Strength: The eggs Matilda deploys deal great damage to glass and wood and medium damage to stone. Matilda herself, when corpsed after launching the egg, can cause additional damage to structures.
Weakness: The eggs only deal good damage if it hits the base of a building - if it impacts the top, it will only destroy that area. Also, if the egg isn't launched, then Matilda deals poor (but not Blues-poor as it can break 1 block of wood) damage.
==Relationships==
===Friends/allies===
*Angry Birds
**Bomb (love interest)
**Bubbles
**Chuck
**Hal
**Jake
**Jay
**Jim
**Red
**Stella
**Terence (husband)
*Blu
*Jewel
*Tony (cousin by marriage)
*Unnamed female white bird (former girlfriend)
===Neutral===
*Leonard
*Prince Porky
===Enemies===
*Piggy kingdom
**Chef Pig
**Corporal Pig
**Foreman Pig
**King Pig
**Minion Pigs
***Common Pigs
***Knights
***Ninjas
***Pirates
***Wildboars
*Nigel
*Marmosets
**Mauro
==Trivia ==
* Matilda's physical appearance seems to be based on an egg shape, due to the egg it encases inside her body. This was proven when her body would shrivel up once the egg was released, however, this feature has been removed since newer games and toons (though it still happens in Angry Birds Rio).
** Now, since newer updates, on Angry Birds, her body doesn't shrivel up when she drops the egg.
* Matilda is the second-largest playable bird in the flock, next to Terence, but third if Bubbles is in his inflated form, or fourth if you count the Mighty Eagle.
* Matilda, Hal, Silver, and Stella are the only birds to not have any form of Space counterpart for Angry Birds Space
* Matilda is the only bird to have projectiles.
* Birds and corpses are impervious to eggs. If the player drops an egg on a corpse or a bird waiting their turn on the slingshot, the egg will bounce off.
* Matilda, as well as Hal and Bubbles, are the only Plush Toys with openable beaks.
* In the Summer Pignic animated short when Matilda is on the slingshot, Hal accidentally trips and knocks over the slingshot causing her to fling in a different direction. But strangely when she reaches the ground, instead of releasing her explosive egg as she does in every other game she stars in, she explodes right on the spot thus, leaving a small but noticeable crater.
* An early version of Matilda's toons look from the Mighty Eagle wallpaper made her look exactly like a chicken, in Summer Pignic, this is soon changed to her game sprite form.
* In The Angry Birds PC version, Matilda has a sound file where she drops the egg and her grunts. This proves more than she is a female in the early stages of the game due to the voice actor being a girl doing a grunt, however, it was seen in the trailer and got removed in the final game.
* Originally, one of Matilda's cheeks became purple when she became a corpse (to look like a black eye). However, it was redesigned to look normal yellow.
* Matilda can play the saxophone, as seen in the Toonsepisode Epic Sax-Off. This makes her the 6th bird known to play an instrument, the others being Hal, Willow, Poppy, Dahlia, and Luca, in that order. She is followed by Red.
* Matilda was the first bird launched on a slingshot during the Great Egg War.
* Matilda has interacted friendly with the most out of the other birds, as seen in Epic-Sax-Off, Robo-Tilda and Cold Justice.
* Matilda, along with Red & one of the Blues, appear in the Angry Birds Toons episode Golditrotters, where she was slightly larger, had a larger beak with a buck tooth, & a broken head feather.
* Matilda can be seen fainting. Examples of this are in The Butterfly Effect & Angry Birds Comics Issue 9.
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